[
          {
            "id": 1001,
            "title": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ib",
            "author": "J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré (Illustrator)",
            "date": "09/28/04",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Magic, Childrens, Adventure, Audiobook, Middle Grade, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy",
            "characters": "Sirius Black, Draco Malfoy, Ron Weasley, Petunia Dursley, Vernon Dursley, Dudley Dursley, Severus Snape, Rubeus Hagrid, Lord Voldemort, Minerva McGonagall, Neville Longbottom, Fred Weasley, George Weasley, Percy Weasley, Ginny Weasley, Colin Creevey, Filius Flitwick, Gilderoy Lockhart, Lucius Malfoy, Pomona Sprout, Arthur Weasley, Molly Weasley, Cho Chang, Cornelius Fudge, Remus Lupin, Sybil Trelawney, Stan Shunpike, Bellatrix Lestrange, Alastor Moody, Rita Skeeter, Luna Lovegood, Nymphadora Tonks, Dolores Umbridge, Dobby, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Padma Patil, Parvati Patil, Kreacher, Dean Thomas, Seamus Finnigan, Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Lavender Brown",
            "synopsis": "\"There is a door at the end of a silent corridor. And it’s haunting Harry Pottter’s dreams. Why else would he be waking in the middle of the night, screaming in terror?Harry has a lot on his mind for this, his fifth year at Hogwarts: a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher with a personality like poisoned honey; a big surprise on the Gryffindor Quidditch team; and the looming terror of the Ordinary Wizarding Level exams. But all these things pale next to the growing threat of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named - a threat that neither the magical government nor the authorities at Hogwarts can stop.As the grasp of darkness tightens, Harry must discover the true depth and strength of his friends, the importance of boundless loyalty, and the shocking price of unbearable sacrifice.His fate depends on them all.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1002,
            "title": "The Book Thief Opor Opor",
            "author": "Markus Zusak ",
            "date": "03/14/06",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Young Adult, Historical, Classics, War, Holocaust, World War II, Books About Books, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Liesel Meminger, Hans Hubermann, Rudy Steiner, Rosa Hubermann, Max Vandenburg, Tommy M�¼ller, Ilsa Hermann, Frau Holtzapfel",
            "synopsis": "\"Librarian\u0027s note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereIt is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will be busier still.By her brother\u0027s graveside, Liesel\u0027s life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger\u0027s Handbook, left behind there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordian-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor\u0027s wife\u0027s library, wherever there are books to be found.But these are dangerous times. When Liesel\u0027s foster family hides a Jew in their basement, Liesel\u0027s world is both opened up, and closed down.In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.(Note: this title was not published as YA fiction)\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1004,
            "title": "J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings",
            "author": "J.R.R. Tolkien",
            "date": "09/25/12",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Classics, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Young Adult, Literature, Magic",
            "characters": "Frodo Baggins, Gandalf, Bilbo Baggins, Gollum",
            "synopsis": "\"This four-volume, boxed set contains J.R.R. Tolkien\u0027s epic masterworks The Hobbit and the three volumes of The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King).In The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins is whisked away from his comfortable, unambitious life in Hobbiton by the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves. He finds himself caught up in a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon.The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo Baggins and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the wizard; the hobbits Merry, Pippin, and Sam; Gimli the dwarf; Legolas the elf; Boromir of Gondor; and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider. J.R.R. Tolkien\u0027s three volume masterpiece is at once a classic myth and a modern fairy tale—a story of high and heroic adventure set in the unforgettable landscape of Middle-earth\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1006,
            "title": "Wuthering Heights",
            "author": "Emily Brontë, Richard J. Dunn (Editor), David Timson (Narrator), Charlotte Brontë (Commentary), Robert Heindel (Illustrator)",
            "date": "10/28/02",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Romance, Gothic, Literature, Historical Fiction, 19th Century, Novels, Classic Literature, Historical",
            "characters": "Heathcliff, Catherine Earnshaw, Edgar Linton, Isabella Linton, Hindley Earnshaw, Ellen (Nelly) Dean, Mr. Lockwood, Hareton Earnshaw, Catherine Linton, Linton Heathcliff",
            "synopsis": "\"You can find the redesigned cover of this edition HERE.This best-selling Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1847 first edition of the novel. For the Fourth Edition, the editor has collated the 1847 text with several modern editions and has corrected a number of variants, including accidentals. The text is accompanied by entirely new explanatory annotations.New to the fourth Edition are twelve of Emily Bronte\u0027s letters regarding the publication of the 1847 edition of Wuthering Heights as well as the evolution of the 1850 edition, prose and poetry selections by the author, four reviews of the novel, and poetry selections by the author, four reviews of the novel, and Edward Chitham\u0027s insightful and informative chronology of the creative process behind the beloved work.Five major critical interpretations of Wuthering Heights are included, three of them new to the Fourth Edition. A Stuart Daley considers the importance of chronology in the novel. J. Hillis Miller examines Wuthering Heights\u0027s problems of genre and critical reputation. Sandra M. Gilbert assesses the role of Victorian Christianity plays in the novel, while Martha Nussbaum traces the novel\u0027s romanticism. Finally, Lin Haire-Sargeant scrutinizes the role of Heathcliff in film adaptations of Wuthering Heights. A Chronology and updated Selected Bibliography are also included.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1008,
            "title": "Alice\u0027s Adventures in Wonderland \u0026 Through the Looking-Glass",
            "author": "Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel (Illustrator), Martin Gardner (Introduction)",
            "date": "12/01/2000",
            "genres": "Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Childrens, Young Adult, Literature, Adventure, Novels, 19th Century, British Literature",
            "characters": "The Hatter (Lewis Carroll), The Queen of Hearts (Lewis Carroll), The Cheshire Cat (Lewis Carroll), The White Rabbit (Lewis Carroll), Humpty Dumpty (Lewis Carroll), Tweedledum and Tweedledee (Lewis Carroll), The Dormouse (Lewis Carroll), The Red Queen (Lewis Carroll), The White Queen (Lewis Carroll), The White Knight (Lewis Carroll), The Mock Turtle (Lewis Carroll), The Jabberwock (Lewis Carroll), The Caterpillar (Lewis Carroll), Alice (Lewis Carroll), Dinah (Lewis Carroll), The March Hare (Lewis Carroll)",
            "synopsis": "\"\"\"I can\u0027t explain myself, I\u0027m afraid, sir,\"\" said Alice, \"\"Because I\u0027m not myself, you see.\"\"When Alice sees a white rabbit take a watch out of its waistcoat pocket she decides to follow it, and a sequence of most unusual events is set in motion. This mini book contains the entire topsy-turvy stories of Alice\u0027s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, accompanied by practical notes and Martina Pelouso\u0027s memorable full-colour illustrations.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1010,
            "title": "Divergent",
            "author": "Veronica Roth ",
            "date": "02/28/12",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Dystopia, Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Adventure, Teen, Post Apocalyptic, Action",
            "characters": "Albert, Drew Leighton (Divergent), Eric (Divergent), Beatrice Prior, Peter, Caleb Prior, Natalie Prior, Molly Atwood, Christina, Jeanine Matthews, Marcus Eaton, Tobias Eaton",
            "synopsis": "\"In Beatrice Prior\u0027s dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is—she can\u0027t have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are—and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she\u0027s chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she\u0027s kept hidden from everyone because she\u0027s been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1011,
            "title": "Lord of the Flies",
            "author": "William Golding",
            "date": "10/01/1999",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Young Adult, School, Literature, Dystopia, Read For School, Novels, High School, Adventure",
            "characters": "Ralph, Piggy, Roger, Jack Merridew, Simon",
            "synopsis": "\"At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate; this far from civilization the boys can do anything they want. Anything. They attempt to forge their own society, failing, however, in the face of terror, sin and evil. And as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far from reality as the hope of being rescued. Labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, even a vision of the apocalypse, Lord of the Flies is perhaps our most memorable novel about “the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart.”\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1012,
            "title": "Romeo and Juliet",
            "author": "William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine (Editor), Barbara A. Mowat (Editor), Paavo Emil Cajander (Translator)",
            "date": "01/01/2004",
            "genres": "Classics, Plays, Fiction, Romance, School, Drama, Read For School, Literature, High School, Poetry",
            "characters": "Romeo Montague, Juliet Capulet, Tybalt, Mercutio, Benvolio, Friar Lawrence, Paris, Escalus, Montague, Lady Montague, Abram, Balthasar, Capulet, Lady Capulet, Sampson, Friar John",
            "synopsis": "\"In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a violent world, in which two young people fall in love. It is not simply that their families disapprove; the Montagues and the Capulets are engaged in a blood feud.In this death-filled setting, the movement from love at first sight to the lovers’ final union in death seems almost inevitable. And yet, this play set in an extraordinary world has become the quintessential story of young love. In part because of its exquisite language, it is easy to respond as if it were about all young lovers.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1013,
            "title": "The Alchemist",
            "author": "Paulo Coelho , Alan R. Clarke (Translator), James Noel Smith (Illustrator)",
            "date": "04/15/14",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Philosophy, Novels, Spirituality, Literature, Self Help, Inspirational, Adventure",
            "characters": "Santiago, Alchemist, Melchizedek",
            "synopsis": "\"Paulo Coelho\u0027s enchanting novel has inspired a devoted following around the world. This story, dazzling in its powerful simplicity and soul-stirring wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried near the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest. No one knows what the treasure is, or if Santiago will be able to surmount the obstacles in his path. But what starts out as a journey to find worldly goods turns into a discovery of the treasure found within. Lush, evocative, and deeply humane, the story of Santiago is an eternal testament to the transforming power of our dreams and the importance of listening to our hearts.Illustration: Jim Tierney\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1014,
            "title": "Crime and Punishment",
            "author": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky, David McDuff (Translator)",
            "date": "12/31/02",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Russia, Literature, Russian Literature, Novels, Philosophy, Crime, 19th Century, School",
            "characters": "Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, Porfiry Petrovich, Sofia Semyonovna Marmeladova, Avdotya Romanovna Raskolnikova, Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov, Dmitri Prokofich Razumikhin, Katerina Ivanovna Marmeladova, Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin, Pulcheria Alexandrovna Raskolnikov, Semyon Zakharovich Marmeladov, Andrei Semyonovich Lebezyatnikov, Alyona Ivanovna, Lizaveta Ivanovna, Zossimov, Nastasya Petrovna (“Nastenka, ” “Nastasyushka”), Ilya Petrovich (“Gunpowder”), Alexander Grigorievich Zamyotov, Nikolai Dementiev (“Mikolka”), Polina Mikhailovna Marmeladov (“Polya, ” “Polenka, ” “Polechka”)",
            "synopsis": "\"Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute, can offer the chance of redemption.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1015,
            "title": "City of Bones",
            "author": "Cassandra Clare ",
            "date": "03/27/07",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Vampires, Supernatural, Angels, Magic",
            "characters": "Alexander \"\"Alec\"\" Lightwood, Jonathan \"\"Jace\"\" Wayland, Valentine Morgenstern, Isabelle \"\"Izzy\"\" Sophia Lightwood, Magnus Bane, Jocelyn Fray, Luke Garroway, Clarissa \"\"Clary\"\" Fray, Simon Lewis",
            "synopsis": "\"When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder― much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It\u0027s hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing―not even a smear of blood―to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?This is Clary\u0027s first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It\u0027s also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace\u0027s world with a vengeance when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1016,
            "title": "Ender\u0027s Game",
            "author": "Orson Scott Card, Stefan Rudnicki (Narrator), Harlan Ellison (Narrator)",
            "date": "09/30/04",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Young Adult, Fantasy, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy, Dystopia, War, Audiobook, Adventure",
            "characters": "Dink, Bernard, Valentine Wiggin, Peter Wiggin, Mazer Rackham, Alai, Hyrum Graff, Andrew Wiggin, Petra Arkanian, \"\"Bean\"\", Major Anderson, Bonzo, Major Imbu",
            "synopsis": "\"Andrew \"\"Ender\"\" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more desperate. The result of genetic experimentation, Ender may be the military genius Earth desperately needs in a war against an alien enemy seeking to destroy all human life. The only way to find out is to throw Ender into ever harsher training, to chip away and find the diamond inside, or destroy him utterly. Ender Wiggin is six years old when it begins. He will grow up fast.But Ender is not the only result of the experiment. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway almost as long. Ender\u0027s two older siblings, Peter and Valentine, are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. While Peter was too uncontrollably violent, Valentine very nearly lacks the capability for violence altogether. Neither was found suitable for the military\u0027s purpose. But they are driven by their jealousy of Ender, and by their inbred drive for power. Peter seeks to control the political process, to become a ruler. Valentine\u0027s abilities turn more toward the subtle control of the beliefs of commoner and elite alike, through powerfully convincing essays. Hiding their youth and identities behind the anonymity of the computer networks, these two begin working together to shape the destiny of Earth-an Earth that has no future at all if their brother Ender fails.Source: hatrack.com\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1017,
            "title": "Anne of Green Gables",
            "author": "L.M. Montgomery",
            "date": "05/06/2003",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade, Historical, Audiobook, Canada, Coming Of Age",
            "characters": "Marilla Cuthbert, Matthew Cuthbert, Diana Barry, Gilbert Blythe, Rachel Lynde, Anne Shirley, Jane Andrews, Ruby Gillis, Josie Pye, Prissy Andrews, Mr. Phillips, Mrs. Allan",
            "synopsis": "\"As soon as Anne Shirley arrives at the snug white farmhouse called Green Gables, she is sure she wants to stay forever . . . but will the Cuthberts send her back to to the orphanage? Anne knows she\u0027s not what they expected—a skinny girl with fiery red hair and a temper to match. If only she can convince them to let her stay, she\u0027ll try very hard not to keep rushing headlong into scrapes and blurting out the first thing that comes to her mind. Anne is not like anyone else, the Cuthberts agree; she is special—a girl with an enormous imagination. This orphan girl dreams of the day when she can call herself Anne of Green Gables.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1018,
            "title": "Charlotte\u0027s Web",
            "author": "E.B. White, Garth Williams (Illustrator), Rosemary Wells (Illustrations)",
            "date": "10/01/2001",
            "genres": "Classics, Childrens, Fiction, Young Adult, Fantasy, Animals, Middle Grade, Juvenile, School, Chapter Books",
            "characters": "Fern, Avery, Charlotte, Wilbur, Templeton",
            "synopsis": "\"This beloved book by E. B. White, author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic of children\u0027s literature that is \"\"just about perfect.\"\" This high-quality paperback features vibrant illustrations colorized by Rosemary Wells!Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. These are the words in Charlotte\u0027s Web, high up in Zuckerman\u0027s barn. Charlotte\u0027s spiderweb tells of her feelings for a little pig named Wilbur, who simply wants a friend. They also express the love of a girl named Fern, who saved Wilbur\u0027s life when he was born the runt of his litter.E. B. White\u0027s Newbery Honor Book is a tender novel of friendship, love, life, and death that will continue to be enjoyed by generations to come. This edition contains newly color illustrations by Garth Williams, the acclaimed illustrator of E. B. White\u0027s Stuart Little and Laura Ingalls Wilder\u0027s Little House series, among many other books.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1019,
            "title": "Of Mice and Men",
            "author": "John Steinbeck",
            "date": "01/08/2002",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, School, Historical Fiction, Literature, Read For School, Novels, High School, American, Classic Literature",
            "characters": "George Milton, Lennie Small, Candy, Curley, \"\"Curley\u0027\u0027s Wife\"\", Slim, Crooks, Whit, Carlson",
            "synopsis": "\"The compelling story of two outsiders striving to find their place in an unforgiving world. Drifters in search of work, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie have nothing in the world except each other and a dream - a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch in California’s Salinas Valley, but their hopes are doomed as Lennie, struggling against extreme cruelty, misunderstanding and feelings of jealousy, becomes a victim of his own strength. Tackling universal themes such as the friendship of a shared vision, and giving voice to America’s lonely and dispossessed, Of Mice and Men has proved one of Steinbeck’s most popular works, achieving success as a novel, a Broadway play and three acclaimed films.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1020,
            "title": "Dracula",
            "author": "Bram Stoker, Nina Auerbach (Editor), David J. Skal (Editor)",
            "date": "05/12/1986",
            "genres": "Classics, Horror, Fiction, Fantasy, Vampires, Gothic, Paranormal, Literature, Audiobook, Supernatural",
            "characters": "Jonathan Harker, Lucy Westenra, Abraham Van Helsing, John Seward, Quincey Morris, Arthur Holmwood (later Lord Godalming), R.M. Renfield, Mina Harker, Quincey Harker, Peter Hawkins, Samuel F. Billington, Herr Leutner, Mr. Swales, Mr. Westenra, Mrs. Westenra, Lord Godalming (elder), Patrick Hennessey, Thomas Bilder, Sister Agatha (Dracula), Dr. Vincent, Thomas Snelling, Joseph Smollett, Sam Bloxam, Billington Junior, Attendant Hardy, Captain of the Demeter, Abramoff (Demeter Crew), Olgaren (Demeter Crew), Mate of the Demeter (Roumanian), Second Mate of the Demeter, Rufus Smith, Mr. Mackenzie, Mr. Steinkoff, Captain Donelson, Immanuel Hildesheim, Petrof Skinsky, Lady Godalming, Mrs. Seward, Dracula",
            "synopsis": "\"You can find an alternative cover edition for this ISBN here and here.A rich selection of background and source materials is provided in three areas: Contexts includes probable inspirations for Dracula in the earlier works of James Malcolm Rymer and Emily Gerard. Also included are a discussion of Stoker\u0027s working notes for the novel and \"\"Dracula\u0027s Guest,\"\" the original opening chapter to Dracula. Reviews and Reactions reprints five early reviews of the novel. \"\"Dramatic and Film Variations\"\" focuses on theater and film adaptations of Dracula, two indications of the novel\u0027s unwavering appeal. David J. Skal, Gregory A. Waller, and Nina Auerbach offer their varied perspectives. Checklists of both dramatic and film adaptations are included.Criticism collects seven theoretical interpretations of Dracula by Phyllis A. Roth, Carol A. Senf, Franco Moretti, Christopher Craft, Bram Dijkstra, Stephen D. Arata, and Talia Schaffer.A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are included.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1021,
            "title": "Brave New World",
            "author": "Aldous Huxley",
            "date": "09/01/1998",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Literature, Novels, School, Fantasy, Philosophy, Science Fiction Fantasy",
            "characters": "John (Brave New World), Bernard Marx, Lenina Crowne, Helmholtz Watson, Mustapha Mond, The Warden, Pope, Linda (Brave New World), Fanny Crowne, The Director, The Arch-Community Songster",
            "synopsis": "\"Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, inhabited by genetically modified citizens and an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society which is challenged by only a single individual: the story\u0027s protagonist.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1022,
            "title": "The Catcher in the Rye",
            "author": "J.D. Salinger",
            "date": "01/30/01",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Young Adult, Literature, School, Novels, Coming Of Age, American, High School, Read For School",
            "characters": "Holden Caulfield, Robert Ackley, Stradlater, Phoebe Caulfield, Allie Caulfield, D.B Caulfield, Sally Hayes, Holden Caufield, Robert Ackley, Stradlater, Phoebe Caulfield, Allie Caulfield, D.B Caulfield, Sally Hayes",
            "synopsis": "\"The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children\u0027s voices, adult voices, underground voices-but Holden\u0027s voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep. J.D. Salinger\u0027s classic novel of teenage angst and rebellion was first published in 1951. The novel was included on Time\u0027s 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. It was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has been frequently challenged in the court for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality and in the 1950\u0027s and 60\u0027s it was the novel that every teenage boy wants to read.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1023,
            "title": "The Princess Bride",
            "author": "William Goldman",
            "date": "07/15/03",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Classics, Romance, Humor, Young Adult, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, Comedy, Fairy Tales",
            "characters": "Buttercup, Westley, Prince Humperdinck, Inigo Montoya, Fezzik, Vizzini, Count Rugen, Miracle Max, The Dread Pirate Roberts, Ty Cobb",
            "synopsis": "\"What happens when the most beautiful girl in the world marries the handsomest prince of all time and he turns out to be...well...a lot less than the man of her dreams?As a boy, William Goldman claims, he loved to hear his father read the S. Morgenstern classic, The Princess Bride. But as a grown-up he discovered that the boring parts were left out of good old Dad\u0027s recitation, and only the \"\"good parts\"\" reached his ears.Now Goldman does Dad one better. He\u0027s reconstructed the \"\"Good Parts Version\"\" to delight wise kids and wide-eyed grownups everywhere.What\u0027s it about? Fencing. Fighting. True Love. Strong Hate. Harsh Revenge. A Few Giants. Lots of Bad Men. Lots of Good Men. Five or Six Beautiful Women. Beasties Monstrous and Gentle. Some Swell Escapes and Captures. Death, Lies, Truth, Miracles, and a Little Sex.In short, it\u0027s about everything.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1024,
            "title": "The Lightning Thief",
            "author": "Rick Riordan ",
            "date": "03/01/2006",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Mythology, Fiction, Middle Grade, Adventure, Childrens, Urban Fantasy, Greek Mythology, Magic",
            "characters": "Annabeth Chase, Grover Underwood, Luke Castellan, Zeus (God), Dionysus (mythology), Ares (god), Hades, Poseidon (God), Chiron, Percy Jackson",
            "synopsis": "\"Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found herePercy Jackson is a good kid, but he can\u0027t seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse - Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him. When Percy\u0027s mom finds out, she knows it\u0027s time that he knew the truth about where he came from, and that he go to the one place he\u0027ll be safe. She sends Percy to Camp Half Blood, a summer camp for demigods (on Long Island), where he learns that the father he never knew is Poseidon, God of the Sea. Soon a mystery unfolds and together with his friends—one a satyr and the other the demigod daughter of Athena - Percy sets out on a quest across the United States to reach the gates of the Underworld (located in a recording studio in Hollywood) and prevent a catastrophic war between the gods.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1025,
            "title": "The Secret Garden",
            "author": "Frances Hodgson Burnett",
            "date": "09/01/1998",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Childrens, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade, Literature, Fantasy, Historical, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Mary Lennox, Colin Craven, Dickon Sowerby, Martha Sowerby, Ben Weatherstaff, Archibald Craven, Susan Sowerby, Mrs. Medlock, Dr. Craven",
            "synopsis": "\"\"\"One of the most delightful and enduring classics of children\u0027s literature, The Secret Garden by Victorian author Frances Hodgson Burnett has remained a firm favorite with children the world over ever since it made its first appearance. Initially published as a serial story in 1910 in The American Magazine, it was brought out in novel form in 1911.  The plot centers round Mary Lennox, a young English girl who returns to England from India, having suffered the immense trauma by losing both her parents in a cholera epidemic. However, her memories of her parents are not pleasant, as they were a selfish, neglectful and pleasure-seeking couple. Mary is given to the care of her uncle Archibald Craven, whom she has never met. She travels to his home, Misselthwaite Manor located in the gloomy Yorkshire, a vast change from the sunny and warm climate she was used to. When she arrives, she is a rude, stubborn and given to stormy temper tantrums. However, her nature undergoes a gradual transformation when she learns of the tragedies that have befallen her strict and disciplinarian uncle whom she earlier feared and despised. Once when he\u0027s away from home, Mary discovers a charming walled garden which is always kept locked. The mystery deepens when she hears sounds of sobbing from somewhere within her uncle\u0027s vast mansion. The kindly servants ignore her queries or pretend they haven\u0027t heard, spiking Mary\u0027s curiosity.  The Secret Garden appeals to both young and old alike. It has wonderful elements of mystery, spirituality, charming characters and an authentic rendering of childhood emotions and experiences. Commonsense, truth and kindness, compassion and a belief in the essential goodness of human beings lie at the heart of this unforgettable story. It is the best known of Frances Hodgson Burnett\u0027s works, though most of us have definitely heard of, if not read, her other novel Little Lord Fauntleroy.  The book has been adapted extensively on stage, film and television and translated into all the world\u0027s major languages. In 1991, a Japanese anime version was launched for television in Japan. It remains a popular and beloved story of a child\u0027s journey into maturity, and a must-read for every child, parent, teacher and anyone who would enjoy this fascinating glimpse of childhood. One of the most delightful and enduring classics of children\u0027s literature, The Secret Garden by Victorian author Frances Hodgson Burnett has remained a firm favorite with children the world over ever since it made its first appearance. Initially published as a serial story in 1910 in The American Magazine, it was brought out in novel form in 1911.\"\" \""
          },
          {
            "id": 1026,
            "title": "A Thousand Splendid Suns",
            "author": "Khaled Hosseini ",
            "date": "06/01/2007",
            "genres": "Fiction, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Novels, Historical, War, Adult Fiction, Adult, Drama, Literature",
            "characters": "Laila, Mariam, Rasheed, Tariq",
            "synopsis": "\"A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan\u0027s last thirty years—from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding—that puts the violence, fear, hope, and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a tale of two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep of war, where personal lives—the struggle to survive, raise a family, find happiness—are inextricable from the history playing out around them.Propelled by the same storytelling instinct that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once a remarkable chronicle of three decades of Afghan history and a deeply moving account of family and friendship. It is a striking, heart-wrenching novel of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love—a stunning accomplishment.-front flap\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1027,
            "title": "A Wrinkle in Time",
            "author": "Madeleine L\u0027Engle",
            "date": "11/07/2017",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Classics, Young Adult, Science Fiction, Childrens, Middle Grade, Time Travel, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy",
            "characters": "Meg Murry, Charles Wallace Murry, \"\"Calvin O\u0027\u0027Keefe\"\", Dr. Kate Murry, Sandy Murry, Dennys Murry, Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, Mrs. Which",
            "synopsis": "\"It was a dark and stormy night.Out of this wild night, a strange visitor comes to the Murry house and beckons Meg, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O\u0027Keefe on a most dangerous and extraordinary adventure—one that will threaten their lives and our universe.Winner of the 1963 Newbery Medal, A Wrinkle in Time is the first book in Madeleine L\u0027Engle\u0027s classic Time Quintet.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1028,
            "title": "A Game of Thrones",
            "author": "George R.R. Martin",
            "date": "08/28/05",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Adventure, Dragons, Audiobook, Epic",
            "characters": "Brandon Stark, Catelyn Stark, Tyrion Lannister, Daenerys Targaryen, Eddard Stark, Theon Greyjoy, Robb Stark, Arya Stark, Jaime Lannister, Joffrey Baratheon, Robert Baratheon, Tywin Lannister, Lysa Arryn, Petyr Baelish, Sansa Stark, Viserys Targaryen, Varys, Hodor, Beric Dondarrion, Thoros of Myr, Sandor Clegane, Samwell Tarly, Pyp, Tommen Baratheon, Stannis Baratheon, Grenn, Mace Tyrell, Septa Mordane, Jon Snow, Cersei Lannister, Jorah Mormont",
            "synopsis": "\"Here is the first volume in George R. R. Martin’s magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, George R. R. Martin’s stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction.A GAME OF THRONESLong ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom’s protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens.Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; and a determined woman undertakes the most treacherous of journeys. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.source: georgerrmartin.com\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1029,
            "title": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn",
            "author": "Mark Twain, Guy Cardwell (Notes), John Seelye (Introduction), Walter Trier (Ilustrator)",
            "date": "12/31/02",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literature, Young Adult, Adventure, School, Novels, Read For School, American",
            "characters": "Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, Jim Upton, Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer, Jim Upton",
            "synopsis": "\"A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down the river with a runaway slave, encountering a family involved in a feud, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer\u0027s aunt who mistakes him for Tom.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1030,
            "title": "The Lovely Bones",
            "author": "Alice Sebold",
            "date": "09/01/2006",
            "genres": "Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult, Contemporary, Fantasy, Crime, Adult, Adult Fiction, Drama, Novels",
            "characters": "Susie Salmon, Clarissa, Holly, Jack Salmon, Abigail Salmon, Lindsey Salmon, Buckley Salmon, George Harvey",
            "synopsis": "\"\"\"My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973.\"\"So begins the story of Susie Salmon, who is adjusting to her new home in heaven, a place that is not at all what she expected, even as she is watching life on earth continue without her - her friends trading rumors about her disappearance, her killer trying to cover his tracks, her grief-stricken family unraveling. Out of unspeakable tragedy and loss, The Lovely Bones succeeds, miraculously, in building a tale filled with hope, humor, suspense, even joy.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1031,
            "title": "Where the Wild Things Are",
            "author": "Maurice Sendak",
            "date": "10/28/00",
            "genres": "Childrens, Picture Books, Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Adventure, Young Adult, Animals, Kids, Monsters",
            "characters": "Max Cannon",
            "synopsis": "\"Max, a wild and naughty boy, is sent to bed without his supper by his exhausted mother. In his room, he imagines sailing far away to a land of Wild Things. Instead of eating him, the Wild Things make Max their king.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1032,
            "title": "Green Eggs and Ham",
            "author": "Dr. Seuss",
            "date": "10/28/88",
            "genres": "Childrens, Picture Books, Classics, Fiction, Poetry, Fantasy, Humor, Kids, Food, Young Adult",
            "characters": "Sam-I-Am",
            "synopsis": "\"“Do you like green eggs and ham?” asks Sam-I-am in this Beginner Book by Dr. Seuss. In a house or with a mouse? In a boat or with a goat? On a train or in a tree? Sam keeps asking persistently. With unmistakable characters and signature rhymes, Dr. Seuss’s beloved favorite has cemented its place as a children’s classic. In this most famous of cumulative tales, the list of places to enjoy green eggs and ham, and friends to enjoy them with, gets longer and longer. Follow Sam-I-am as he insists that this unusual treat is indeed a delectable snack to be savored everywhere and in every way. Originally created by Dr. Seuss, Beginner Books encourage children to read all by themselves, with simple words and illustrations that give clues to their meaning.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1033,
            "title": "The Odyssey",
            "author": "Homer, Robert Fagles (Translator), Bernard Knox (Introduction)",
            "date": "11/30/06",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Poetry, Mythology, Fantasy, School, Literature, Adventure, Read For School, Historical Fiction",
            "characters": "Odysseus, Penelope (wife of Odysseus), Helen of Troy, Achilles (Greek hero), Telemachus, Minerva, Polyphemus, Agamemnon",
            "synopsis": "\"Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turnsdriven time and again off course, once he had plunderedthe hallowed heights of Troy.So begins Robert Fagles\u0027 magnificent translation of the Odyssey, which Jasper Griffin in The New York Times Review of Books hails as \"\"a distinguished achievement.\"\"If the Iliad is the world\u0027s greatest war epic, then the Odyssey is literature\u0027s grandest evocation of everyman\u0027s journey though life. Odysseus\u0027 reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces, during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance. In the myths and legends that are retold here, Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homer\u0027s original in a bold, contemporary idiom, and given us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery.Renowned classicist Bernard Knox\u0027s superb Introduction and textual commentary provide new insights and background information for the general reader and scholar alike, intensifying the strength of Fagles\u0027 translation.This is an Odyssey to delight both the classicist and the public at large, and to captivate a new generation of Homer\u0027s students.-Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, presents us with Homer\u0027s best-loved and most accessible poem in a stunning new modern-verse translation.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1034,
            "title": "Life of Pi",
            "author": "Yann Martel",
            "date": "08/29/06",
            "genres": "Fiction, Fantasy, Classics, Adventure, Contemporary, Novels, Literature, Magical Realism, India, Philosophy",
            "characters": "Pi Patel, Richard Parker",
            "synopsis": "\"Life of Pi is a fantasy adventure novel by Yann Martel published in 2001. The protagonist, Piscine Molitor \"\"Pi\"\" Patel, a Tamil boy from Pondicherry, explores issues of spirituality and practicality from an early age. He survives 227 days after a shipwreck while stranded on a boat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1035,
            "title": "A Tale of Two Cities",
            "author": "Charles Dickens, Richard Maxwell (Editor/Introduction)",
            "date": "10/28/03",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literature, Historical, Novels, School, Classic Literature, 19th Century, British Literature",
            "characters": "Sydney Carton, Charles Darnay, Lucie Manette, Madame Therese Defarge, Dr. Alexandre Manette",
            "synopsis": "\"After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror, and they soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1036,
            "title": "Water for Elephants",
            "author": "Sara Gruen ",
            "date": "05/01/2007",
            "genres": "Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance, Historical, Adult, Adult Fiction, Contemporary, Book Club, Novels, Animals",
            "characters": "Jacob Jankowski, August (Water for Elephants), Rosie Noah, Camel, Uncle Al, Kinko/Walter, \"\"Marlena L\u0027\u0027Arche\"\", Rosemary (Water for Elephants)",
            "synopsis": "\"Winner of the 2007 BookBrowse Award for Most Popular Book.An atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932, by the bestselling author of Riding Lessons. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, drifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there that he meets Marlena, the beautiful young star of the equestrian act, who is married to August, the charismatic but twisted animal trainer. He also meets Rosie, an elephant who seems untrainable until he discovers a way to reach her. Beautifully written, Water for Elephants is illuminated by a wonderful sense of time and place. It tells a story of a love between two people that overcomes incredible odds in a world in which even love is a luxury that few can afford.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1037,
            "title": "Slaughterhouse-Five",
            "author": "Kurt Vonnegut Jr.",
            "date": "01/12/1999",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Science Fiction, War, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels, Time Travel, American, Fantasy",
            "characters": "Billy Pilgrim, Kilgore Trout, Eliot Rosewater, Roland Weary, Paul Lazzaro, Edgar Derby, Robert Pilgrim, Valencia Merble, Barbara Pilgrim, Howard W. Campbell Jr., Montana Wildhack, Bertam Copeland Rumfoord",
            "synopsis": "\"Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time, Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world\u0027s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim\u0027s odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we fear most.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1038,
            "title": "Frankenstein: The 1818 Text",
            "author": "Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Charlotte Gordon  (Introduction)",
            "date": "03/08/2018",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Gothic, Fantasy, School, Literature, Novels, 19th Century",
            "characters": "Elizabeth Lavenza, William Frankenstein, Robert Walton, Henry Clerval, Alphonse Frankenstein, Caroline Beaufort Frankenstein, Ernest Frankenstein, Justine Moritz, Agatha, Felix, Victor Frankenstein, The Monster, De Lacey, Safie",
            "synopsis": "\"Mary Shelley\u0027s seminal novel of the scientist whose creation becomes a monsterThis edition is the original 1818 text, which preserves the hard-hitting and politically charged aspects of Shelley\u0027s original writing, as well as her unflinching wit and strong female voice. This edition also includes a new introduction and suggestions for further reading by author and Shelley expert Charlotte Gordon, literary excerpts and reviews selected by Gordon and a chronology and essay by preeminent Shelley scholar Charles E. Robinson.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1039,
            "title": "The Giver",
            "author": "Lois Lowry ",
            "date": "01/24/06",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Fiction, Classics, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fantasy, School, Childrens, Middle Grade, Read For School",
            "characters": "Rosemary (Lois Lowry), Jonas (Lois Lowry), The Giver (Lois Lowry), Gabriel (Lois Lowry), Asher (Lois Lowry), Fiona (Lois Lowry), Mother (Lois Lowry), Father (Lois Lowry), The Chief Elder (Lois Lowry), Lily (Lois Lowry)",
            "synopsis": "Twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal world. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver does he begin to understand the dark secrets behind this fragile community."
          },
          {
            "id": 1040,
            "title": "Catch-22",
            "author": "Joseph Heller",
            "date": "09/04/2004",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, War, Historical Fiction, Humor, Literature, Novels, Unfinished, American, Historical",
            "characters": "Yossarian, Chaplain Tappman, Milo Minderbinder, Nately",
            "synopsis": "\"The novel is set during World War II, from 1942 to 1944. It mainly follows the life of Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 bombardier. Most of the events in the book occur while the fictional 256th Squadron is based on the island of Pianosa, in the Mediterranean Sea, west of Italy. The novel looks into the experiences of Yossarian and the other airmen in the camp, who attempt to maintain their sanity while fulfilling their service requirements so that they may return home.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1041,
            "title": "Dune",
            "author": "Frank Herbert",
            "date": "10/01/2019",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space Opera, Audiobook, Novels, Adventure, Adult",
            "characters": "Stilgar, Vladimir Harkonnen, Duncan Idaho, Leto Atreides, Paul Atreides, Alia Atreides, Lady Jessica, Shaddam IV, Gurney Halleck",
            "synopsis": "\"Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the “spice” melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness. Coveted across the known universe, melange is a prize worth killing for...When House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul’s family will set the boy on a journey toward a destiny greater than he could ever have imagined. And as he evolves into the mysterious man known as Muad’Dib, he will bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and unattainable dream.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1042,
            "title": "The Stand",
            "author": "Stephen King , Bernie Wrightson (Illustrator)",
            "date": "05/01/1990",
            "genres": "Horror, Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Post Apocalyptic, Thriller, Dystopia, Apocalyptic, Audiobook, Classics",
            "characters": "Stuart Redman, Glenn Bateman, Nick Andros, Tom Cullen, Nadine Cross, Fran Goldsmith, Harold Lauder, Joe/Leo Rockway, Mother Abigail Freemantle, Randall Flagg, Trashcan Man, The Anti-Christ, Judge Farris, Larry Underwood, General William Starkey, Major Len Creighton, The Rat Man, Captain Trips, Charles D. Campion, Lucy Swann, Lloyd Henreid, Julie Lawry, Ralph Brentner, Dayna Jurgens, United States Military, American Law Enforcement, Kojak",
            "synopsis": "This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides - or are chosen."
          },
          {
            "id": 1043,
            "title": "Watership Down",
            "author": "Richard Adams",
            "date": "06/28/75",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult, Animals, Childrens, Adventure, Literature, Novels, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Bigwig, Fiver, El-Ahrairah, Hazel, Pipkin, Blackberry, Dandelion, Hyzenthlay, Frith, Silver (Watership Down), Kehaar, General Woundwort",
            "synopsis": "\"Librarian\u0027s note: See alternate cover edition of ISBN13 9780380395866 here.Set in England\u0027s Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage and survival follows a band of very special creatures on their flight from the intrusion of man and the certain destruction of their home. Led by a stouthearted pair of friends, they journey forth from their native Sandleford Warren through the harrowing trials posed by predators and adversaries, to a mysterious promised land and a more perfect society.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1044,
            "title": "Great Expectations",
            "author": "Charles Dickens, Παυλίνα Παμπούδη (Translator), Marisa Sestino (Translator)",
            "date": "10/28/98",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Literature, Historical Fiction, School, Novels, 19th Century, Classic Literature, British Literature, Victorian",
            "characters": "Miss Havisham, Philip \"\"Pip\"\" Pirrip, Joseph \"\"Joe\"\" Gargery, Abel Magwitch, Herbert Pocket, John Wemmick, Dolge Orlick, Jaggers, Estella, Compeyson",
            "synopsis": "\"\u0027In what may be Dickens\u0027s best novel, humble, orphaned Pip is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman — and one day, under sudden and enigmatic circumstances, he finds himself in possession of \"\"great expectations.\"\" In this gripping tale of crime and guilt, revenge and reward, the compelling characters include Magwitch, the fearful and fearsome convict; Estella, whose beauty is excelled only by her haughtiness; and the embittered Miss Havisham, an eccentric jilted bride\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1045,
            "title": "Little Women",
            "author": "Louisa May Alcott",
            "date": "04/06/2004",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Romance, Historical, Literature, Childrens, Classic Literature, Novels",
            "characters": "Marmee, Meg March, Beth March, Amy March, Laurie Laurence, Mr. Laurence, Professor Bhaer, Mr. March, Hannah Brown, Aunt March, John Brooke, Jo March",
            "synopsis": "\"Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcott’s most popular and enduring novel, Little Women. Here are talented tomboy and author-to-be Jo, tragically frail Beth, beautiful Meg, and romantic, spoiled Amy, united in their devotion to each other and their struggles to survive in New England during the Civil War.It is no secret that Alcott based Little Women on her own early life. While her father, the freethinking reformer and abolitionist Bronson Alcott, hobnobbed with such eminent male authors as Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne, Louisa supported herself and her sisters with \"\"woman’s work,” including sewing, doing laundry, and acting as a domestic servant. But she soon discovered she could make more money writing. Little Women brought her lasting fame and fortune, and far from being the \"\"girl’s book” her publisher requested, it explores such timeless themes as love and death, war and peace, the conflict between personal ambition and family responsibilities, and the clash of cultures between Europe and America.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1046,
            "title": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows",
            "author": "J.K. Rowling",
            "date": "07/21/07",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Magic, Childrens, Adventure, Audiobook, Middle Grade, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy",
            "characters": "Sirius Black, Draco Malfoy, Ron Weasley, Petunia Dursley, Vernon Dursley, Dudley Dursley, Severus Snape, Rubeus Hagrid, Lord Voldemort, Minerva McGonagall, Neville Longbottom, Fred Weasley, George Weasley, Percy Weasley, Ginny Weasley, Colin Creevey, Filius Flitwick, Lucius Malfoy, Pomona Sprout, Arthur Weasley, Molly Weasley, Cho Chang, Remus Lupin, Sybil Trelawney, Peter Pettigrew, Oliver Wood, Fleur Delacour, Viktor Krum, Bellatrix Lestrange, Alastor Moody, Bill Weasley, Luna Lovegood, Nymphadora Tonks, Dolores Umbridge, Dobby, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Padma Patil, Parvati Patil, Kreacher, Narcissa Malfoy, Horace Slughorn, Rufus Scrimgeour, Dean Thomas, Aberforth Dumbledore, James Potter, Lily Potter, Xenophilius Lovegood, Seamus Finnigan, Garrick Ollivander, Katie Bell, Griphook, James Sirius Potter, Teddy Lupin, Hugo Weasley, Albus Dumbledore, Lily Luna Potter, Albus Severus Potter, Rose Weasley, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Lavender Brown",
            "synopsis": "\"Harry Potter is leaving Privet Drive for the last time. But as he climbs into the sidecar of Hagrid’s motorbike and they take to the skies, he knows Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters will not be far behind.The protective charm that has kept him safe until now is broken. But the Dark Lord is breathing fear into everything he loves. And he knows he can’t keep hiding.To stop Voldemort, Harry knows he must find the remaining Horcruxes and destroy them.He will have to face his enemy in one final battle.-jkrowling.com\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1047,
            "title": "Outlander",
            "author": "Diana Gabaldon ",
            "date": "07/26/05",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction, Time Travel, Historical, Historical Romance, Adult, Audiobook, Scotland",
            "characters": "Jamie Fraser, Ian Murray, Claire Randall Fraser, Jonathan Randall, Dougal MacKenzie, Colum MacKenzie, Geillis Duncan, Jenny Murray, Frank Randall, Laoghaire MacKenzie, Murtagh Fraser",
            "synopsis": "\"The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of Our Lord...1743. Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life, and shatter her heart. For here James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire—and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1048,
            "title": "My Sister\u0027s Keeper",
            "author": "Jodi Picoult ",
            "date": "02/01/2005",
            "genres": "Fiction, Contemporary, Chick Lit, Young Adult, Drama, Adult, Adult Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Family, Novels",
            "characters": "Anna Fitzgerald, Sara Fitzgerald, Kate Fitzgerald, Brian Fitzgerald, Jesse Fitzgerald, Campbell Alexander, Julia Romana",
            "synopsis": "\"Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate—a life and a role that she has never challenged... until now. Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to question who she truly is. But unlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister—and so Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable, a decision that will tear her family apart and have perhaps fatal consequences for the sister she loves.A provocative novel that raises some important ethical issues, My Sister\u0027s Keeper is the story of one family\u0027s struggle for survival at all human costs and a stunning parable for all time.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1049,
            "title": "Matilda",
            "author": "Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illustrator)",
            "date": "06/01/1998",
            "genres": "Childrens, Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Humor, Audiobook, Magic, Juvenile",
            "characters": "Matilda Wormwood, Miss Honey, Miss Trunchbull",
            "synopsis": "\"Matilda is a little girl who is far too good to be true. At age five-and-a-half she\u0027s knocking off double-digit multiplication problems and blitz-reading Dickens. Even more remarkably, her classmates love her even though she\u0027s a super-nerd and the teacher\u0027s pet. But everything is not perfect in Matilda\u0027s world. For starters she has two of the most idiotic, self-centered parents who ever lived. Then there\u0027s the large, busty nightmare of a school principal, Miss (\"\"The\"\") Trunchbull, a former hammer-throwing champion who flings children at will and is approximately as sympathetic as a bulldozer. Fortunately for Matilda, she has the inner resources to deal with such annoyances: astonishing intelligence, saintly patience, and an innate predilection for revenge.She warms up with some practical jokes aimed at her hapless parents, but the true test comes when she rallies in defense of her teacher, the sweet Miss Honey, against the diabolical Trunchbull. There is never any doubt that Matilda will carry the day. Even so, this wonderful story is far from predictable. Roald Dahl, while keeping the plot moving imaginatively, also has an unerring ear for emotional truth. The reader cares about Matilda because in addition to all her other gifts, she has real feelings.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1050,
            "title": "The Color Purple",
            "author": "Alice Walker",
            "date": "12/10/2019",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Feminism, Historical, LGBT, African American, Literature, Novels, Adult",
            "characters": "Nettie, Albert, Celie, Shug Avery, Miss Millie",
            "synopsis": "\"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Alice Walker\u0027s iconic modern classic is now a Penguin Book.A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance and silence. Through a series of letters spanning twenty years, first from Celie to God, then the sisters to each other despite the unknown, the novel draws readers into its rich and memorable portrayals of Celie, Nettie, Shug Avery and Sofia and their experience. The Color Purple broke the silence around domestic and sexual abuse, narrating the lives of women through their pain and struggle, companionship and growth, resilience and bravery. Deeply compassionate and beautifully imagined, Alice Walker\u0027s epic carries readers on a spirit-affirming journey towards redemption and love.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1051,
            "title": "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn",
            "author": "Betty Smith",
            "date": "05/30/06",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Coming Of Age, Historical, Literature, New York, Novels, Book Club",
            "characters": "Francie Nolan, Neeley Nolan, Katie Nolan, Johnny Nolan, Mary Rommely, Sissy Rommely, Eva \"\"Evy\"\" Rommely Flittman, Thomas Rommely, Sergeant McShane",
            "synopsis": "\"The beloved American classic about a young girl\u0027s coming-of-age at the turn of the century, Betty Smith\u0027s A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a poignant and moving tale filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, crowded with life and people and incident. The story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet formative years in the slums of Williamsburg has enchanted and inspired millions of readers for more than sixty years. By turns overwhelming, sublime, heartbreaking, and uplifting, the daily experiences of the unforgettable Nolans are raw with honesty and tenderly threaded with family connectedness - in a work of literary art that brilliantly captures a unique time and place as well as incredibly rich moments of universal experience.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1052,
            "title": "A Clockwork Orange",
            "author": "Anthony Burgess",
            "date": "05/21/19",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Literature, Novels, Horror, Thriller, Crime, Modern Classics",
            "characters": "Pete, Alex Jacobi, Georgie, Dim",
            "synopsis": "\"In Anthony Burgess\u0027s influential nightmare vision of the future, criminals take over after dark. Teen gang leader Alex narrates in fantastically inventive slang that echoes the violent intensity of youth rebelling against society. Dazzling and transgressive, A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom. This edition includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first edition, and Burgess’s introduction, “A Clockwork Orange Resucked.”\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1053,
            "title": "The Road",
            "author": "Cormac McCarthy",
            "date": "10/02/2006",
            "genres": "Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Post Apocalyptic, Classics, Horror, Literature, Novels, Apocalyptic, Contemporary",
            "characters": "The man, The boy",
            "synopsis": "\"A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece.A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1054,
            "title": "The Brothers Karamazov",
            "author": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)",
            "date": "06/14/02",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Russia, Literature, Russian Literature, Philosophy, Novels, 19th Century, Classic Literature, Religion",
            "characters": "Dmitri Fyodorovich Karamazov, Ivan Fyodorovich Karamazov, Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov, Pavel Smerdyakov, Agrafena Alexandrovna Svetlova, Katerina Ivanovna Verkhovtseva, Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, Father Zosima, the Elder, Ilyusha, Nikolai Krassotkin",
            "synopsis": "\"The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons―the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, is social and spiritual striving, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian culture.This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky remains true to the verbalinventiveness of Dostoevsky’s prose, preserving the multiple voices, the humor, and the surprising modernity of the original. It is an achievement worthy of Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1055,
            "title": "Angela\u0027s Ashes",
            "author": "Frank McCourt",
            "date": "10/03/2005",
            "genres": "Nonfiction, Memoir, Biography, Classics, Ireland, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, History, Irish Literature, Historical",
            "characters": "Frank McCourt",
            "synopsis": "\"Imbued on every page with Frank McCourt\u0027s astounding humor and compassion. This is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic.\"\"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.\"\" So begins the Pulitzer Prize winning memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank\u0027s mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank\u0027s father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages. Yet Malachy- exasperating, irresponsible and beguiling- does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story. Frank lives for his father\u0027s tales of Cuchulain, who saved Ireland, and of the Angel on the Seventh Step, who brings his mother babies. Perhaps it is story that accounts for Frank\u0027s survival. Wearing rags for diapers, begging a pig\u0027s head for Christmas dinner and gathering coal from the roadside to light a fire, Frank endures poverty, near-starvation and the casual cruelty of relatives and neighbors-yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence, exuberance and remarkable forgiveness. Angela\u0027s Ashes, imbued on every page with Frank McCourt\u0027s astounding humor and compassion, is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1056,
            "title": "Vampire Academy",
            "author": "Richelle Mead ",
            "date": "08/16/07",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Fantasy, Vampires, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Supernatural, Paranormal Romance, Magic",
            "characters": "Vasilisa \"\"Lissa\"\" Dragomir, Dimitri Belikov, Christian Ozera, Mason Ashford, Victor Dashkov, Mia Rinaldi, Janine Hathaway, Natalie Dashkov, Edison \"\"Eddie\"\" Castile, Ellen Kirova, Rosemarie \"\"Rose\"\" Hathaway, Camille Conta, Stan Alto, Jesse Zeklos, Tatiana Ivashkov",
            "synopsis": "\"ONLY A TRUE BEST FRIEND CAN PROTECT YOU FROM YOUR IMMORTAL ENEMIES...Lissa Dragomir is a Moroi princess: a mortal vampire with a rare gift for harnessing the earth\u0027s magic. She must be protected at all times from Strigoi; the fiercest vampires - the ones who never die. The powerful blend of human and vampire blood that flows through Rose Hathaway, Lissa\u0027s best friend, makes her a dhampir. Rose is dedicated to a dangerous life of protecting Lissa from the Strigoi, who are hell-bent on making Lissa one of them.After two years of freedom, Rose and Lissa are caught and dragged back to St. Vladimir\u0027s Academy, a school for vampire royalty and their guardians-to-be, hidden in the deep forests of Montana. But inside the iron gates, life is even more fraught with danger... and the Strigoi are always close by.Rose and Lissa must navigate their dangerous world, confront the temptations of forbidden love, and never once let their guard down, lest the evil undead make Lissa one of them forever...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1057,
            "title": "The Poisonwood Bible",
            "author": "Barbara Kingsolver",
            "date": "07/05/2005",
            "genres": "Fiction, Historical Fiction, Africa, Classics, Historical, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels, Religion, Adult Fiction",
            "characters": "Orleanna Price, Ruth May Price, Rachel Rebeccah Price, Leah Price, Nathan Price, Dr Bud Wharton, Adah Price, Reverend \u0026 Mrs. Underdown",
            "synopsis": "\"The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it - from garden seeds to Scripture - is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family\u0027s tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1058,
            "title": "The Golden Compass",
            "author": "Philip Pullman",
            "date": "04/16/96",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Adventure, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Steampunk, Middle Grade, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Lyra Belacqua, Pantalaimon, Lord Asriel, Iorek Byrnison, Iofur Raknison, Marisa Coulter, Lee Scoresby, Roger Parslow, Serafina Pekkala, Hester, Farder Coram, John Faa, Billy Costa",
            "synopsis": "\"Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal-including her friend Roger. North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world.Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra: a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want-but what Lyra doesn\u0027t know is that to help one of them will be to betray the other.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1059,
            "title": "Don Quixote",
            "author": "Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, John Rutherford (Translator), Roberto González Echevarría (Introduction)",
            "date": "02/25/03",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Literature, Spanish Literature, Adventure, Novels, Historical Fiction, Spain, Humor, Classic Literature",
            "characters": "Sancho Panza, Don Quijote de la Mancha",
            "synopsis": "\"Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances that he determines to become a knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, his exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote\u0027s fancy often leads him astray—he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants—Sancho acquires cunning and a certain sagacity. Sane madman and wise fool, they roam the world together, and together they have haunted readers\u0027 imaginations for nearly four hundred years.With its experimental form and literary playfulness, Don Quixote has been generally recognized as the first modern novel. The book has been enormously influential on a host of writers, from Fielding and Sterne to Flaubert, Dickens, Melville, and Faulkner, who reread it once a year, \"\"just as some people read the Bible.\"\"\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1060,
            "title": "Atlas Shrugged",
            "author": "Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff  (Introduction)",
            "date": "08/01/1999",
            "genres": "Classics, Philosophy, Literature, Politics, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Economics, Novels, Audiobook, Fiction",
            "characters": "Prometheus (mythology), Atlas, Dagny Taggart, John Galt, Hank Rearden, \"\"Francisco d\u0027\u0027Anconia\"\", James Taggart",
            "synopsis": "\"This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world and did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators?Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies, but against those who needed him most, and his hardest battle against the woman he loved? What is the world’s motor — and the motive power of every man? You will know the answer to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the characters in this story. Tremendous in its scope, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life — from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy — to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction — to the philosopher who becomes a pirate — to the composer who gives up his career on the night of his triumph — to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad — to the lowest track worker in her Terminal tunnels. You must be prepared, when you read this novel, to check every premise at the root of your convictions.This is a mystery story, not about the murder — and rebirth — of man’s spirit. It is a philosophical revolution, told in the form of an action thriller of violent events, a ruthlessly brilliant plot structure and an irresistible suspense. Do you say this is impossible? Well, that is the first of your premises to check.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1061,
            "title": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban",
            "author": "J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré (Illustrator)",
            "date": "05/01/2004",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Magic, Childrens, Adventure, Middle Grade, Audiobook, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy",
            "characters": "Sirius Black, Draco Malfoy, Ron Weasley, Petunia Dursley, Vernon Dursley, Dudley Dursley, Severus Snape, Rubeus Hagrid, Minerva McGonagall, Neville Longbottom, Fred Weasley, George Weasley, Percy Weasley, Ginny Weasley, Colin Creevey, Filius Flitwick, Pomona Sprout, Arthur Weasley, Molly Weasley, Cho Chang, Marjorie Dursley, Cornelius Fudge, Remus Lupin, Sybil Trelawney, Peter Pettigrew, Poppy Pomfrey, Stan Shunpike, Oliver Wood, Cedric Diggory, Dean Thomas, Seamus Finnigan, Rolanda Hooch, Katie Bell, Ernie Prang, Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger",
            "synopsis": "\"Harry Potter\u0027s third year at Hogwarts is full of new dangers. A convicted murderer, Sirius Black, has broken out of Azkaban prison, and it seems he\u0027s after Harry. Now Hogwarts is being patrolled by the dementors, the Azkaban guards who are hunting Sirius. But Harry can\u0027t imagine that Sirius or, for that matter, the evil Lord Voldemort could be more frightening than the dementors themselves, who have the terrible power to fill anyone they come across with aching loneliness and despair. Meanwhile, life continues as usual at Hogwarts. A top-of-the-line broom takes Harry\u0027s success at Quidditch, the sport of the Wizarding world, to new heights. A cute fourth-year student catches his eye. And he becomes close with the new Defense of the Dark Arts teacher, who was a childhood friend of his father. Yet despite the relative safety of life at Hogwarts and the best efforts of the dementors, the threat of Sirius Black grows ever closer. But if Harry has learned anything from his education in wizardry, it is that things are often not what they seem. Tragic revelations, heartwarming surprises, and high-stakes magical adventures await the boy wizard in this funny and poignant third installment of the beloved series.-scholastic.com\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1062,
            "title": "The Old Man and the Sea",
            "author": "Ernest Hemingway",
            "date": "10/28/96",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Literature, Novels, American, School, Adventure, Classic Literature, Literary Fiction, 20th Century",
            "characters": "Santiago, Manolin",
            "synopsis": "\"Librarian\u0027s note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereThis short novel, already a modern classic, is the superbly told, tragic story of a Cuban fisherman in the Gulf Stream and the giant Marlin he kills and loses — specifically referred to in the citation accompanying the author\u0027s Nobel Prize for literature in 1954.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1063,
            "title": "Winnie-the-Pooh",
            "author": "A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard (Illustrator)",
            "date": "10/01/2001",
            "genres": "Classics, Childrens, Fiction, Fantasy, Animals, Picture Books, Young Adult, Audiobook, Middle Grade, Juvenile",
            "characters": "Winnie the Pooh (A.A. Milne), Christopher Robin (A.A. Milne), Piglet (A.A. Milne), Owl (A.A. Milne), Kanga (A.A. Milne), Roo (A.A. Milne), Eeyore (A.A. Milne), Rabbit (A.A. Milne)",
            "synopsis": "\"The adventures of Christopher Robin and his friends in which Pooh Bear uses a balloon to get honey, Piglet meets a Heffalump, and Eeyore has a birthday.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1064,
            "title": "Interview with the Vampire",
            "author": "Anne Rice",
            "date": "08/31/04",
            "genres": "Horror, Fantasy, Fiction, Vampires, Paranormal, Supernatural, Classics, Gothic, Urban Fantasy, Historical Fiction",
            "characters": "Lestat de Lioncourt, Claudia, Daniel Molloy, Louis de Pointe du Lac",
            "synopsis": "\"This is the story of Louis, as told in his own words, of his journey through mortal and immortal life. Louis recounts how he became a vampire at the hands of the radiant and sinister Lestat and how he became indoctrinated, unwillingly, into the vampire way of life. His story ebbs and flows through the streets of New Orleans, defining crucial moments such as his discovery of the exquisite lost young child Claudia, wanting not to hurt but to comfort her with the last breaths of humanity he has inside. Yet, he makes Claudia a vampire, trapping her womanly passion, will, and intelligence inside the body of a small child. Louis and Claudia form a seemingly unbreakable alliance and even \"\"settle down\"\" for a while in the opulent French Quarter. Louis remembers Claudia\u0027s struggle to understand herself and the hatred they both have for Lestat that sends them halfway across the world to seek others of their kind. Louis and Claudia are desperate to find somewhere they belong, to find others who understand, and someone who knows what and why they are.Louis and Claudia travel Europe, eventually coming to Paris and the ragingly successful Theatre des Vampires-a theatre of vampires pretending to be mortals pretending to be vampires. Here they meet the magnetic and ethereal Armand, who brings them into a whole society of vampires. But Louis and Claudia find that finding others like themselves provides no easy answers and in fact presents dangers they scarcely imagined.Originally begun as a short story, the book took off as Anne wrote it, spinning the tragic and triumphant life experiences of a soul. As well as the struggles of its characters, Interview captures the political and social changes of two continents. The novel also introduces Lestat, Anne\u0027s most enduring character, a heady mixture of attraction and revulsion. The book, full of lush description, centers on the themes of immortality, change, loss, sexuality, and power.source: annerice.com\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1065,
            "title": "A Prayer for Owen Meany",
            "author": "John Irving ",
            "date": "10/28/90",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Contemporary, Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, Historical Fiction, Adult Fiction, Coming Of Age, American",
            "characters": "Owen Meany, John Wheelwright",
            "synopsis": "\"Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend\u0027s mother. Owen doesn\u0027t believe in accidents; he believes he is God\u0027s instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul is both extraordinary and terrifying. At moments a comic, self-deluded victim, but in the end the principal, tragic actor in a divine plan, Owen Meany is the most heartbreaking hero John Irving has yet created.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1066,
            "title": "Moby-Dick or, the Whale",
            "author": "Herman Melville, Andrew Delbanco (Introduction), Tom Quirk (Notes), Rockwell Kent (Illustrator)",
            "date": "02/21/03",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Literature, Adventure, Novels, Historical Fiction, American, Classic Literature, 19th Century, Unfinished",
            "characters": "Elijah, Stubb, Captain Ahab, Ishmael, Queequeg, Starbuck, Tashtego, Dough-boy, Flask, Daggoo, Fedallah, Pippin (\"\"Pip\"\"), Moby Dick, Mapple Priest, Peleg, Bildad, Fleece, Perth, Peter Coffin, Aunt Charity, Mrs Hussey",
            "synopsis": "\"\"\"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships\u0027 cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it.\"\" So Melville wrote of his masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. In part, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopaedia of whaling lore and legend, the book can be seen as part of its author\u0027s lifelong meditation on America. Written with wonderfully redemptive humour, Moby-Dick is also a profound inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception.This edition of Moby-Dick, which reproduces the definitive text of the novel, includes invaluable explanatory notes, along with maps, illustrations, and a glossary of nautical terms.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1067,
            "title": "The Red Tent",
            "author": "Anita Diamant ",
            "date": "10/28/97",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Religion, Book Club, Feminism, Adult, Adult Fiction, Womens, Novels",
            "characters": "Isaac (Bible), Dinah (Bible), Jacob (Bible)",
            "synopsis": "\"Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that are about her father, Jacob, and his dozen sons. Told in Dinah\u0027s voice, this novel reveals the traditions and turmoils of ancient womanhood—the world of the red tent. It begins with the story of her mothers—Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah—the four wives of Jacob. They love Dinah and give her gifts that sustain her through a hard-working youth, a calling to midwifery, and a new home in a foreign land. Dinah\u0027s story reaches out from a remarkable period of early history and creates an intimate connection with the past. Deeply affecting, The Red Tent combines rich storytelling with a valuable achievement in modern fiction: a new view of biblical women\u0027s society.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1068,
            "title": "The Secret Life of Bees",
            "author": "Sue Monk Kidd ",
            "date": "01/28/03",
            "genres": "Fiction, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Classics, Adult Fiction, Historical, Contemporary, Adult, Coming Of Age, Chick Lit",
            "characters": "Lily Owens, Rosaleen, August Boatwright, June Boatwright, May Boatwright, T. Ray Owens",
            "synopsis": "\"Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily\u0027s fierce-hearted black \"\"stand-in mother,\"\" Rosaleen, insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily decides to spring them both free. They escape to Tiburon, South Carolina-a town that holds the secret to her mother\u0027s past. Taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters, Lily is introduced to their mesmerizing world of bees and honey, and the Black Madonna. This is a remarkable novel about divine female power, a story women will share and pass on to their daughters for years to come.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1069,
            "title": "Clockwork Angel",
            "author": "Cassandra Clare , Rita Sussekind (Translator)",
            "date": "08/31/10",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Paranormal, Romance, Steampunk, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Vampires, Angels",
            "characters": "Theresa \"\"Tessa\"\" Gray, Magnus Bane, William Herondale, James \"\"Jem\"\" Carstairs, Jessamine Lovelace, Henry Branwell, Charlotte Branwell, Nathaniel Gray, Camille Belcourt, Sophie Collins",
            "synopsis": "\"In a time when Shadowhunters are barely winning the fight against the forces of darkness, one battle will change the course of history forever. Welcome to the Infernal Devices trilogy, a stunning and dangerous prequel to the New York Times bestselling Mortal Instruments series.The year is 1878. Tessa Gray descends into London’s dark supernatural underworld in search of her missing brother. She soon discovers that her only allies are the demon-slaying Shadowhunters—including Will and Jem, the mysterious boys she is attracted to. Soon they find themselves up against the Pandemonium Club, a secret organization of vampires, demons, warlocks, and humans. Equipped with a magical army of unstoppable clockwork creatures, the Club is out to rule the British Empire, and only Tessa and her allies can stop them...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1070,
            "title": "And Then There Were None",
            "author": "Agatha Christie",
            "date": "05/03/2004",
            "genres": "Mystery, Classics, Fiction, Crime, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, Adult, Suspense, Novels",
            "characters": "Justice Lawrence John Wargrave, Vera Elizabeth Claythorne, Philip Lombard, General John Gordon Macarthur, Dr Edward George Armstrong, Anthony James Marston, William Henry Blore, Mr Thomas Rogers, Mrs Ethel Rogers, Emily Caroline Brent, Isaac Morris, Fred Narracott",
            "synopsis": "\"First, there were ten—a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a little private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unknown to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they\u0027re unwilling to reveal—and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder. A famous nursery rhyme is framed and hung in every room of the mansion:\"\"Ten little boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine. Nine little boys sat up very late; One overslept himself and then there were eight. Eight little boys traveling in Devon; One said he\u0027d stay there then there were seven. Seven little boys chopping up sticks; One chopped himself in half and then there were six. Six little boys playing with a hive; A bumblebee stung one and then there were five. Five little boys going in for law; One got in Chancery and then there were four. Four little boys going out to sea; A red herring swallowed one and then there were three. Three little boys walking in the zoo; A big bear hugged one and then there were two. Two little boys sitting in the sun; One got frizzled up and then there was one. One little boy left all alone; He went out and hanged himself and then there were none.\"\"When they realize that murders are occurring as described in the rhyme, terror mounts. One by one they fall prey. Before the weekend is out, there will be none. Who has choreographed this dastardly scheme? And who will be left to tell the tale? Only the dead are above suspicion.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1071,
            "title": "Middlesex",
            "author": "Jeffrey Eugenides",
            "date": "09/16/03",
            "genres": "Fiction, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, LGBT, Literary Fiction, Novels, Classics, Literature, Queer, Adult",
            "characters": "Calliope Stephanides, Eleutherios Stephanides, Desdemona Stephanides, Sourmelina Zizmo, Miltiades Stephanides, Theodora Stephanides, Chapter Eleven, The Obscure Object, James Zizmo, Michael Antoniou",
            "synopsis": "\"Middlesex tells the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides, and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family, who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City and the race riots of 1967 before moving out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret, and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1072,
            "title": "The Master and Margarita",
            "author": "Mikhail Bulgakov, Katherine Tiernan O\u0027Connor (Translator), Ellendea Proffer (Annotations and Afterword), Diana Lewis Burgin (Translator)",
            "date": "03/28/96",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Russia, Fantasy, Russian Literature, Magical Realism, Literature, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century",
            "characters": "Lucifer, Pontius Pilate, Caiaphas, Woland, Behemot, Jesus, Master, Margarita Nicolaevna, Ivan Bezdomny, Yeshua Ha-Nozri, David (Bible)",
            "synopsis": "\"The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov\u0027s comic masterpiece.An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and Pontius Pilate, The Master and Margarita is recognized as one of the essential classics of modern Russian literature. The novel\u0027s vision of Soviet life in the 1930s is so ferociously accurate that it could not be published during its author\u0027s lifetime and appeared only in a censored edition in the 1960s. Its truths are so enduring that its language has become part of the common Russian speech.One hot spring, the devil arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and an immense talking black cat with a fondness for chess and vodka. The visitors quickly wreak havoc in a city that refuses to believe in either God or Satan. But they also bring peace to two unhappy Muscovites: one is the Master, a writer pilloried for daring to write a novel about Christ and Pontius Pilate; the other is Margarita, who loves the Master so deeply that she is willing literally to go to hell for him. What ensues is a novel of inexhaustible energy, humor, and philosophical depth, a work whose nuances emerge for the first time in Diana Burgin\u0027s and Katherine Tiernan O\u0027Connor\u0027s splendid English version.(back cover)\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1073,
            "title": "The Name of the Wind",
            "author": "Patrick Rothfuss ",
            "date": "04/28/07",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Magic, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adult, Adventure, Audiobook, Epic",
            "characters": "Bast, Denna, Ambrose, Kvothe, Simmon, Wilem, The Chandrian, Devi, Auri, Fela, Chronicler",
            "synopsis": "\"Told in Kvothe\u0027s own voice, this is the tale of the magically gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen. The intimate narrative of his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-ridden city, his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, and his life as a fugitive after the murder of a king form a gripping coming-of-age story unrivaled in recent literature. A high-action story written with a poet\u0027s hand, The Name of the Wind is a masterpiece that will transport readers into the body and mind of a wizard.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1074,
            "title": "The Shining",
            "author": "Stephen King ",
            "date": "07/01/1980",
            "genres": "Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Classics, Fantasy, Mystery, Paranormal, Suspense, Novels, Adult",
            "characters": "Wendy Torrance, Danny Torrance, Dick Halloran, Horace Derwent, Stuart Ullman, Albert Shockley, Delberg Grady, Watson, Bill Edmonds, Charles Grondin, Sylvia Hunter Derwent, Howard Cottrell, Larry Durkin, Jack Torrance",
            "synopsis": "\"Jack Torrance\u0027s new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he\u0027ll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. But as the harsh winter weather sets in, the idyllic location feels ever more remote...and more sinister. And the only one to notice the strange and terrible forces gathering around the Overlook is Danny Torrance, a uniquely gifted five-year-old.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1075,
            "title": "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer",
            "author": "Mark Twain, Guy Cardwell (Annotations), John Seelye (Introduction)",
            "date": "02/28/06",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Adventure, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Literature, Childrens, School, Novels, American",
            "characters": "Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer",
            "synopsis": "\"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer revolves around the youthful adventures of the novel\u0027s schoolboy protagonist, Thomas Sawyer, whose reputation precedes him for causing mischief and strife. Tom lives with his Aunt Polly, half-brother Sid, and cousin Mary in the quaint town of St. Petersburg, just off the shore of the Mississippi River. St. Petersburg is described as a typical small-town atmosphere where the Christian faith is predominant, the social network is close-knit, and familiarity resides.  Unlike his brother Sid, Tom receives \"\"lickings\"\" from his Aunt Polly; ever the mischief-maker, would rather play hooky than attend school and often sneaks out his bedroom window at night to adventure with his friend, Huckleberry Finn ­ the town\u0027s social outcast. Tom, despite his dread of schooling, is extremely clever and would normally get away with his pranks if Sid were not such a \"\"tattle-tale.\"\"  As punishment for skipping school to go swimming, Aunt Polly assigns Tom the chore of whitewashing the fence surrounding the house. In a brilliant scheme, Tom is able to con the neighborhood boys into completing the chore for him, managing to convince them of the joys of whitewashing. At school, Tom is equally as flamboyant, and attracts attention by chasing other boys, yelling, and running around. With his usual antics, Tom attempts to catch the eye of Becky Thatcher, a new girl in town, and persuades her to get \"\"engaged\"\" by kissing him. But their romance collapses when she learns Tom has been \"\"engaged\"\" previously to Amy Lawrence. Shortly after Becky shuns him, he accompanies Huckleberry Finn to the graveyard at night, where they witness the murder of Dr. Robinson.Excerpt:\"\"TOM!\"\" No answer. \"\"TOM!\"\" No answer. \"\"What\u0027s gone with that boy,  I wonder? You TOM!\"\" No answer. The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never looked through them for so small a thing as a boy; they were her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for \"\"style,\"\" not service—she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well. She looked perplexed for a moment, and then said, not fiercely, but still loud enough for the furniture to hear: \"\"Well, I lay if I get hold of you I\u0027ll—\"\" She did not finish, for by this time she was bending down and punching under the bed with the broom, and so she needed breath to punctuate the punches with. She resurrected nothing but the cat. \"\"I never did see the beat of that boy!\"\"\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1076,
            "title": "Eragon",
            "author": "Christopher Paolini ",
            "date": "04/28/05",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Dragons, Adventure, Magic, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy, Childrens",
            "characters": "Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle), Saphira (The Inheritance Cycle), Roran Garrowsson, Arya (The Inheritance Cycle), Brom (The Inheritance Cycle), Orik (The Inheritance Cycle), Horst (The Inheritance Cycle), Murtagh (The Inheritance Cycle), Solembum, Queen Islanzadi, Angela the Herbalist",
            "synopsis": "\"An alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780375826696 can be found here.One boy...One dragon...A world of adventure. When Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy; perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter. But when the stone brings a dragon hatchling, Eragon soon realizes he has stumbled upon a legacy nearly as old as the Empire itself. Overnight his simple life is shattered, and he is thrust into a perilous new world of destiny, magic, and power. With only an ancient sword and the advice of an old storyteller for guidance, Eragon and the fledgling dragon must navigate the dangerous terrain and dark enemies of an Empire ruled by a king whose evil knows no bounds. Can Eragon take up the mantle of the legendary Dragon Riders? The fate of the Empire may rest in his hands.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1077,
            "title": "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time",
            "author": "Mark Haddon",
            "date": "05/18/04",
            "genres": "Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult, Contemporary, Novels, Classics, Psychology, Literature, Realistic Fiction, Adult Fiction",
            "characters": "Christopher John Francis Boone, Toby, Siobhan, Mr. Jeavons, Mrs. Alexander, Ed Boone, Judy Boone, Mr. Roger Shears, Mrs. Eileen Shears, Rhodri, Wellington",
            "synopsis": "\"Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow.Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, for fifteen-year-old Christopher everyday interactions and admonishments have little meaning. He lives on patterns, rules, and a diagram kept in his pocket. Then one day, a neighbor\u0027s dog, Wellington, is killed and his carefully constructive universe is threatened. Christopher sets out to solve the murder in the style of his favourite (logical) detective, Sherlock Holmes. What follows makes for a novel that is funny, poignant and fascinating in its portrayal of a person whose curse and blessing are a mind that perceives the world entirely literally.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1078,
            "title": "Tuesdays with Morrie",
            "author": "Mitch Albom ",
            "date": "10/28/00",
            "genres": "Nonfiction, Memoir, Biography, Inspirational, Classics, Philosophy, Self Help, Contemporary, Adult, Biography Memoir",
            "characters": "Mitch Albom, Morrie Schwartz",
            "synopsis": "\"Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago.Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded. Wouldn\u0027t you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you? Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man\u0027s life. Knowing he was dying of ALS - or motor neurone disease - Mitch visited Morrie in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final \u0027class\u0027: lessons in how to live.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1079,
            "title": "The Unbearable Lightness of Being",
            "author": "Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim (Translator)",
            "date": "10/27/09",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Philosophy, Literature, Novels, Czech Literature, Romance, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, 20th Century",
            "characters": "Sabine, Franz, Tomáš, Tereza, Karenin",
            "synopsis": "\"In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. This magnificent novel juxtaposes geographically distant places, brilliant and playful reflections, and a variety of styles, to take its place as perhaps the major achievement of one of the world’s truly great writers.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1081,
            "title": "Where the Red Fern Grows",
            "author": "Wilson Rawls",
            "date": "05/09/2000",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Animals, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade, School, Realistic Fiction, Read For School",
            "characters": "Billy Colman, Old Dan, Little Ann",
            "synopsis": "\"A loving threesome, they ranged the dark hills and river bottoms of Cherokee country. Old Dan had the brawn. Little Ann had the brains, and Billy had the will to make them into the finest hunting team in the valley. Glory and victory were coming to them, but sadness waited too. Where the Red Fern Grows is an exciting tale of love and adventure you\u0027ll never forget.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1082,
            "title": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets",
            "author": "J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré (Illustrator)",
            "date": "06/02/1999",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Magic, Childrens, Middle Grade, Adventure, Audiobook, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy",
            "characters": "Draco Malfoy, Ron Weasley, Petunia Dursley, Vernon Dursley, Dudley Dursley, Severus Snape, Rubeus Hagrid, Lord Voldemort, Minerva McGonagall, Neville Longbottom, Fred Weasley, George Weasley, Percy Weasley, Ginny Weasley, Colin Creevey, Filius Flitwick, Gilderoy Lockhart, Lucius Malfoy, Pomona Sprout, Arthur Weasley, Molly Weasley, Cornelius Fudge, Poppy Pomfrey, Oliver Wood, Dobby, Parvati Patil, Dean Thomas, James Potter, Seamus Finnigan, Rolanda Hooch, Katie Bell, Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger",
            "synopsis": "\"Ever since Harry Potter had come home for the summer, the Dursleys had been so mean and hideous that all Harry wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he’s packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange impish creature who says that if Harry returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike.And strike it does. For in Harry’s second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor and a spirit who haunts the girls’ bathroom. But then the real trouble begins – someone is turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possible be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects… Harry Potter himself!\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1083,
            "title": "The Scarlet Letter",
            "author": "Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas E. Connolly (Annotations), Nina Baym (Introduction)",
            "date": "02/27/03",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, School, Literature, High School, Read For School, Historical, Classic Literature, American",
            "characters": "Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth, Pearl Prynne",
            "synopsis": "\"Nathaniel Hawthorne\u0027s THE SCARLET LETTER reaches to our nation\u0027s historical and moral roots for the material of great tragedy. Set in an early New England colony, the novel shows the terrible impact a single, passionate act has on the lives of three members of the community: the defiant Hester Prynne; the fiery, tortured Reverend Dimmesdale; and the obsessed, vengeful Chillingworth.With THE SCARLET LETTER, Hawthorne became the first American novelist to forge from our Puritan heritage a universal classic, a masterful exploration of humanity\u0027s unending struggle with sin, guilt and pride.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1084,
            "title": "In Cold Blood",
            "author": "Truman Capote",
            "date": "10/28/94",
            "genres": "Nonfiction, Classics, True Crime, Crime, Mystery, History, Literature, Thriller, American, Biography",
            "characters": "Perry Edward Smith, Richard Hickock, Herb Clutter, Bonnie Clutter, Nancy Clutter, Kenyon Clutter, Alvin Dewey",
            "synopsis": "\"On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. At the center of his study are the amoral young killers Perry Smith and Dick Hickcock, who, vividly drawn by Capote, are shown to be reprehensible yet entirely and frighteningly human. In Cold Blood is a seminal work of modern prose, a remarkable synthesis of journalistic skill and powerfully evocative narrative.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1085,
            "title": "Fight Club",
            "author": "Chuck Palahniuk ",
            "date": "05/01/2018",
            "genres": "Fiction, Contemporary, Classics, Thriller, Novels, Mystery, Adult, Literature, American, Adult Fiction",
            "characters": "The Narrator, Tyler Durden, Marla Singer",
            "synopsis": "\"Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation’s most visionary satirist in this, his first book. Fight Club’s estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of Tyler Durden, an enigmatic young man who holds secret after-hours boxing matches in the basement of bars. There, two men fight \"\"as long as they have to.\"\" This is a gloriously original work that exposes the darkness at the core of our modern world.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1086,
            "title": "The Five People You Meet in Heaven",
            "author": "Mitch Albom ",
            "date": "09/23/03",
            "genres": "Fiction, Inspirational, Contemporary, Fantasy, Adult, Spirituality, Classics, Adult Fiction, Philosophy, Novels",
            "characters": "Eddie, Marguerite, Tala, Blue Man, Steve Rogers, Ruby",
            "synopsis": "\"From the author of the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie, a novel that explores the unexpected connections of our lives, and the idea that heaven is more than a place; it\u0027s an answer. Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It\u0027s a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers. One by one, from childhood to soldier to old age, Eddie\u0027s five people revisit their connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his \"\"meaningless\"\" life, and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: \"\"Why was I here?\"\"\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1087,
            "title": "Hush, Hush",
            "author": "Becca Fitzpatrick ",
            "date": "10/13/09",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal, Angels, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy",
            "characters": "Nora Grey, Jev \"\"Patch\"\" Cipriano, Vee Sky, Marcie Millar, Rixon, Elliot Saunders",
            "synopsis": "\"A SACRED OATHA FALLEN ANGELA FORBIDDEN LOVERomance was not part of Nora Grey\u0027s plan. She\u0027s never been particularly attracted to the boys at her school, no matter how hard her best friend, Vee, pushes them at her. Not until Patch comes along. With his easy smile and eyes that seem to see inside her, Patch draws Nora to him against her better judgment.But after a series of terrifying encounters, Nora\u0027s not sure whom to trust. Patch seems to be everywhere she is and seems to know more about her than her closest friends. She can\u0027t decide whether she should fall into his arms or run and hide. And when she tries to seek some answers, she finds herself near a truth that is way more unsettling than anything Patch makes her feel.For she is right in the middle of an ancient battle between the immortal and those that have fallen - and, when it comes to choosing sides, the wrong choice will cost Nora her life.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1088,
            "title": "The Count of Monte Cristo",
            "author": "Alexandre Dumas, Robin Buss (Translator)",
            "date": "05/27/03",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Adventure, Literature, France, Historical, Classic Literature, Novels, Romance",
            "characters": "Edmond Dantès, Abbé Faria, Giovanni Bertuccio, Luigi Vampa, Haydée, Mercédès Mondego, Fernand Mondego, Albert de Morcerf, Baron Danglars, Gérard de Villefort, Valentine de Villefort, Noirtier de Villefort, Héloïse de Villefort, Pierre Morrel, Maximilien Morrel, Beauchamp, \"\"Franz d\u0027\u0027Épinay\"\", Lucien Debray, Eugénie Danglars, Hermine Danglars, Benedetto, Kadrus (tailor, neighboring)",
            "synopsis": "\"Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. Dumas’ epic tale of suffering and retribution, inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, was a huge popular success when it was first serialized in the 1840s.Robin Buss’s lively English translation is complete and unabridged, and remains faithful to the style of Dumas’s original. This edition includes an introduction, explanatory notes and suggestions for further reading.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1089,
            "title": "Lonesome Dove",
            "author": "Larry McMurtry",
            "date": "10/01/1999",
            "genres": "Fiction, Historical Fiction, Westerns, Classics, Historical, Adventure, Novels, Literature, Audiobook, American",
            "characters": "Captain Woodrow Call, Augustus \"\"Gus\"\" McCrae, Joshua Deets, Newt Dobbs, Pea Eye Parker, Lorena Wood",
            "synopsis": "\"A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize— winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the third book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness of America.Journey to the dusty little Texas town of Lonesome Dove and meet an unforgettable assortment of heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers. Richly authentic, beautifully written, always dramatic, Lonesome Dove is a book to make us laugh, weep, dream, and remember.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1090,
            "title": "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer",
            "author": "Patrick Süskind, John E. Woods (Translator)",
            "date": "10/28/87",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Historical, German Literature, Novels",
            "characters": "Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, Giuseppe Baldini, Madame Gaillard, Jeanne Bussie, Father Terrier, Grimal, The Plum Girl, Chénier, Marquis de Taillade-Espinasse, Madame Arnulfi, Dominique Druot, Antoine Richis, Laure Richis",
            "synopsis": "\"An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind\u0027s classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man\u0027s indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder.In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift—an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille\u0027s genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and fresh-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the \"\"ultimate perfume\"\"—the scent of a beautiful young virgin. Told with dazzling narrative brilliance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1091,
            "title": "Holes",
            "author": "Louis Sachar ",
            "date": "09/02/2000",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Middle Grade, Realistic Fiction, Classics, Mystery, Adventure, School, Contemporary",
            "characters": "Stanley Yelnats",
            "synopsis": "\"Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful lot of holes.It doesn’t take long for Stanley to realize there’s more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. But what could be buried under a dried-up lake? Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment—and redemption.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1092,
            "title": "Watchmen",
            "author": "Alan Moore , Dave Gibbons (Illustrator/Letterer), John Higgins (Colorist)",
            "date": "10/28/05",
            "genres": "Graphic Novels, Comics, Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Classics, Superheroes, Dystopia",
            "characters": "Dr. Manhattan, Rorschach, Hollis Mason, Daniel Dreiberg, Sally Jupiter, Laurel Jupiter, Adrian Veidt, Edward Blake",
            "synopsis": "\"This Hugo Award-winning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the concept of the super-hero is dissected as the heroes are stalked by an unknown assassin.One of the most influential graphic novels of all time and a perennial best-seller, Watchmen has been studied on college campuses across the nation and is considered a gateway title, leading readers to other graphic novels such as V for Vendetta, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and The Sandman series.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1093,
            "title": "It",
            "author": "Stephen King ",
            "date": "10/01/1987",
            "genres": "Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Audiobook, Mystery, Adult, Paranormal, Classics, Novels",
            "characters": "Dick Halloran, Pennywise the Dancing Clown, Bill Denbrough, Richie Tozier, Eddie Kaspbrak, Stan Uris, Ben Hanscom, Beverly Marsh, Mike Hanlon, Frank Dodd, Henry Bowers, Audra Phillips, George Denbrough, Adrian Mellon, Patrick Hockstetter, American Law Enforcement",
            "synopsis": "\"Welcome to Derry, Maine ...It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real ...They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them can withstand the force that has drawn them back to Derry to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1094,
            "title": "The Last Olympian",
            "author": "Rick Riordan ",
            "date": "05/05/2009",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Mythology, Fiction, Middle Grade, Adventure, Childrens, Greek Mythology, Urban Fantasy, Magic",
            "characters": "Nico di Angelo, Thalia Grace, Tyson, Annabeth Chase, Demeter (Goddess), Luke Castellan, Hera, Hades, Will Solace, Percy Jackson",
            "synopsis": "\"All year the half-bloods have been preparing for battle against the Titans, knowing the odds of victory are grim. Kronos\u0027s army is stronger than ever, and with every god and half-blood he recruits, the evil Titan\u0027s power only grows.While the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster Typhon, Kronos begins his advance on New York City, where Mount Olympus stands virtually unguarded. Now it\u0027s up to Percy Jackson and an army of young demigods to stop the Lord of Time. In this momentous final book in the New York Times best-selling series, the long-awaited prophecy surrounding Percy\u0027s sixteenth birthday unfolds. And as the battle for Western civilization rages on the streets of Manhattan, Percy faces a terrifying suspicion that he may be fighting against his own fate.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1095,
            "title": "The Divine Comedy",
            "author": "Dante Alighieri, Allen Mandelbaum (Translator), Eugenio Montale (Introduction)",
            "date": "08/01/1995",
            "genres": "Classics, Poetry, Fiction, Literature, Religion, Philosophy, Fantasy, Italian Literature, Italy, Classic Literature",
            "characters": "Virgilio (Publius Vergilius Maro), Lucifer, Odysseus, Achilles (Greek hero), Dante Alighieri, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Brutus, Attila the Hun, Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, Cleopatra, Trajan (emperor), Cerberus, Roland, Dido of Carthage, Julius Caesar, Charon (mythology), Beatrice (Dante), Francesca da Rimini, Saul (biblical king), Judas Iscariot, Mary (mother of Jesus)",
            "synopsis": "\"The Divine Comedy describes Dante\u0027s descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and encounter with his dead love, Beatrice; and finally, his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions of faith, desire and enlightenment, the poem is a brilliantly nuanced and moving allegory of human redemption. Dante Alighieri was born in Florence in 1265 and belonged to a noble but impoverished family. His life was divided by political duties and poetry, the most of famous of which was inspired by his meeting with Bice Portinari, whom he called Beatrice,including La Vita Nuova and The Divine Comedy. He died in Ravenna in 1321.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1096,
            "title": "Peter Pan",
            "author": "J.M. Barrie, Michael Hague (Illustrator)",
            "date": "10/01/2003",
            "genres": "Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Childrens, Adventure, Young Adult, Audiobook, Middle Grade, Fairy Tales, Literature",
            "characters": "Peter Pan (J.M. Barrie), Wendy Darling (J.M. Barrie), The Twins, John Darling (J.M. Barrie), Michael Darling (J.M. Barrie), James Hook, Smee (J.M. Barrie), Nibs, Tootles, Slightly, Curly, Tinker Bell (J.M. Barrie)",
            "synopsis": "\"Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie Peter Pan, the mischievous boy who refuses to grow up, lands in the Darling\u0027s proper middle-class home to look for his shadow. He befriends Wendy, John and Michael and teaches them to fly (with a little help from fairy dust). He and Tinker Bell whisk them off to Never-land where they encounter the Red Indians, the Little Lost Boys, pirates and the dastardly Captain Hook.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1097,
            "title": "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again",
            "author": "J.R.R. Tolkien",
            "date": "08/15/02",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Classics, Fiction, Adventure, Young Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Childrens, Epic Fantasy, Novels",
            "characters": "Gandalf, Bilbo Baggins, Thorin Oakenshield, Smaug, Elrond Half-elven, Gollum, Dwalin, Balin, Kili, Fili, Dori, Ori, Nori, Oin, Gloin, Bifur, Bofur, Bombur, Beorn, Bard the Bowman",
            "synopsis": "\"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.Written for J.R.R. Tolkien’s own children, The Hobbit met with instant critical acclaim when it was first published in 1937. Now recognized as a timeless classic, this introduction to the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, the wizard Gandalf, Gollum, and the spectacular world of Middle-earth recounts of the adventures of a reluctant hero, a powerful and dangerous ring, and the cruel dragon Smaug the Magnificent. The text in this 372-page paperback edition is based on that first published in Great Britain by Collins Modern Classics (1998), and includes a note on the text by Douglas A. Anderson (2001).\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1098,
            "title": "Love in the Time of Cholera",
            "author": "Gabriel García Márquez, Edith Grossman (Translator)",
            "date": "10/05/2003",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Romance, Magical Realism, Literature, Novels, Spanish Literature, Literary Fiction, Historical",
            "characters": "Fermina Daza, Florentino Ariza, Juvenal Urbino, Lorenzo Daza, Aunt Escolástica, Hildebranda Sánchez, Trànsito Ariza, Leona Cassiani, América Vicuna",
            "synopsis": "\"In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is heartbroken, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs—yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1099,
            "title": "Shadow Kiss",
            "author": "Richelle Mead ",
            "date": "11/13/08",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Vampires, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Magic",
            "characters": "Vasilisa \"\"Lissa\"\" Dragomir, Dimitri Belikov, Christian Ozera, Mason Ashford, Adrian Ivashkov, Victor Dashkov, Mia Rinaldi, Janine Hathaway, Jillian Mastrano, Edison \"\"Eddie\"\" Castile, Rosemarie \"\"Rose\"\" Hathaway, Camille Conta, Stan Alto, Jesse Zeklos, Tatiana Ivashkov, Ryan Aylesworth, Shane Reyes, Brandon Lazar, Dean Barnes",
            "synopsis": "\"WHAT IF FOLLOWING HER HEART MEANS ROSE COULD LOSE HER BEST FRIEND FOREVER?Lissa Dragomir is a Moroi princess: a mortal vampire with a rare gift for harnessing the earth\u0027s magic. She must be protected at all times from Strigoi; the fiercest vampires - the ones who never die. The powerful blend of human and vampire blood that flows through Rose Hathaway, Lissa\u0027s best friend, makes her a Dhampir. Rose is dedicated to a dangerous life of protecting Lissa from the Strigoi, who are hell-bent on making Lissa one of them.Rose knows it is forbidden to love another guardian. Her best friend, Lissa - the last Dragomir princess - must always come first. Unfortunately, when it comes to gorgeous Dimitri Belikov, some rules are meant to be broken...Then a strange darkness begins to grow in Rose\u0027s mind, and ghostly shadows warn of a terrible evil drawing nearer to the Academy\u0027s iron gates. The immortal undead are closing in, and they want vengeance for the lives Rose has stolen. In a heart-stopping battle to rival her worst nightmares, Rose will have to choose between life, love, and the two people who matter most... but will her choice mean that only one can survive?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1100,
            "title": "The Ultimate Hitchhiker\u0027s Guide to the Galaxy",
            "author": "Douglas Adams",
            "date": "04/28/02",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Humor, Fantasy, Classics, Comedy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure, Novels, British Literature",
            "characters": "Zaphod Beeblebrox, Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Trillian, Marvin, the paranoid android",
            "synopsis": "\"At last in paperback in one complete volume, here are the five novels from Douglas Adams\u0027s Hitchhiker series. \"\"The Hitchhiker\u0027s Guide to the Galaxy\"\"Seconds before the Earth is demolished for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is saved by Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised Guide. Together they stick out their thumbs to the stars and begin a wild journey through time and space.\"\"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe\"\"Facing annihilation at the hands of warmongers is a curious time to crave tea. It could only happen to the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his comrades as they hurtle across the galaxy in a desperate search for a place to eat.\"\"Life, the Universe and Everything\"\"The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky- so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals can avert Armageddon: mild-mannered Arthur Dent and his stalwart crew.\"\"So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish\"\"Back on Earth, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription conspires to thrust him back to reality. So to speak.\"\"Mostly Harmless\"\"Just when Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life, all hell breaks loose. Can he save the Earth from total obliteration? Can he save the Guide from a hostile alien takeover? Can he save his daughter from herself?Also includes the short story \"\"Young Zaphod Plays It Safe\"\".\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1101,
            "title": "Atonement",
            "author": "Ian McEwan",
            "date": "03/28/03",
            "genres": "Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance, Classics, Historical, War, Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Literature, Novels",
            "characters": "Briony Tallis, Emily Tallis, Cecilia Tallis, Leon Tallis, Lola Quincey, Jackson Quincey, Pierrot Quincey, Paul Marshall, Robbie Turner",
            "synopsis": "\"Ian McEwan’s symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from this master of English prose.On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses the flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant. But Briony’s incomplete grasp of adult motives and her precocious imagination bring about a crime that will change all their lives, a crime whose repercussions Atonement follows through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1102,
            "title": "The Importance of Being Earnest",
            "author": "Oscar Wilde",
            "date": "10/28/05",
            "genres": "Classics, Plays, Fiction, Drama, Humor, Literature, School, Comedy, Theatre, Romance",
            "characters": "Lane, John Worthing, Algernon Montcrieff, Cecily Cardew, Gwendolen Fairfax, Miss Prism, Rev. Canon Chasuble, Merriman, Lady Bracknell",
            "synopsis": "\"Oscar Wilde\u0027s madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements still delights readers more than a century after its 1895 publication and premiere performance. The rapid-fire wit and eccentric characters of The Importance of Being Earnest have made it a mainstay of the high school curriculum for decades.Cecily Cardew and Gwendolen Fairfax are both in love with the same mythical suitor. Jack Worthing has wooed Gwendolen as Ernest while Algernon has also posed as Ernest to win the heart of Jack\u0027s ward, Cecily. When all four arrive at Jack\u0027s country home on the same weekend the \"\"rivals\"\" to fight for Ernest\u0027s undivided attention and the \"\"Ernests\"\" to claim their beloveds pandemonium breaks loose. Only a senile nursemaid and an old, discarded hand-bag can save the day!This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader\u0027s notes to help the modern reader appreciate Wilde\u0027s wry wit and elaborate plot twists.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1103,
            "title": "Eat, Pray, Love",
            "author": "Elizabeth Gilbert ",
            "date": "02/01/2007",
            "genres": "Nonfiction, Memoir, Travel, Biography, Chick Lit, Romance, Spirituality, Contemporary, Biography Memoir, Autobiography",
            "characters": "Liz Gilbert, Felipe, Richard from Texas, Wayan",
            "synopsis": "\"A celebrated writer\u0027s irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of life. Around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned thirty, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis. She had everything an educated, ambitious American woman was supposed to want—a husband, a house, a successful career. But instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she was consumed with panic, grief, and confusion. She went through a divorce, a crushing depression, another failed love, and the eradication of everything she ever thought she was supposed to be. To recover from all this, Gilbert took a radical step. In order to give herself the time and space to find out who she really was and what she really wanted, she got rid of her belongings, quit her job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the world—all alone. Eat, Pray, Love is the absorbing chronicle of that year. Her aim was to visit three places where she could examine one aspect of her own nature set against the backdrop of a culture that has traditionally done that one thing very well. In Rome, she studied the art of pleasure, learning to speak Italian and gaining the twenty-three happiest pounds of her life. India was for the art of devotion, and with the help of a native guru and a surprisingly wise cowboy from Texas, she embarked on four uninterrupted months of spiritual exploration. In Bali, she studied the art of balance between worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. She became the pupil of an elderly medicine man and also fell in love the best way—unexpectedly. An intensely articulate and moving memoir of self-discovery, Eat, Pray, Love is about what can happen when you claim responsibility for your own contentment and stop trying to live in imitation of society’s ideals. It is certain to touch anyone who has ever woken up to the unrelenting need for change.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1104,
            "title": "Their Eyes Were Watching God",
            "author": "Zora Neale Hurston",
            "date": "05/30/06",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, School, African American, Literature, Novels, Feminism, Read For School, High School",
            "characters": "Eleanor, Sam Watson, Shelby, Janie Starks, Pheoby Watson, Nanny, Leafy, Johnny Taylor, Logan Killicks, Jody Starks, Tea Cake, Pearl Stone, Mrs. Sumpkins, Lulu Moss, \"\"Mis\u0027\u0027 Washburn\"\", Mr. Washburn, Miss Nellie, Mayrella",
            "synopsis": "\"Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person - no mean feat for a black woman in the \u002730s. Janie\u0027s quest for identity takes her through three marriages and into a journey back to her roots.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1105,
            "title": "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz",
            "author": "L. Frank Baum, W.W. Denslow (Illustrator)",
            "date": "10/28/95",
            "genres": "Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Childrens, Young Adult, Adventure, Audiobook, Middle Grade, Magic, Literature",
            "characters": "Uncle Henry, Dorothy Gale, Tin Woodman, Scarecrow, Cowardly Lion, Wicked Witch of the West, Wizard of Oz, Toto, Aunt Em, Good Witch of the North, Wicked Witch of the East, Boq, Stork, Queen of the Field Mice, Guardian of the Gates, Soldier with the Green Whiskers, Jellia Jamb, Gayelette, Quelala, Glinda, Munchkins, Kalidahs, Winged Monkeys, Winkies, Hammer-Heads, Uncle Henry, Dorothy Gale, Tin Woodman, Scarecrow, Cowardly Lion, Wicked Witch of the West, Wizard of Oz, Toto, Aunt Em, Good Wi",
            "synopsis": "\"When Dorothy and her little dog Toto are caught in a tornado, they and their Kansas farmhouse are suddenly transported to Oz, where Munchkins live, monkeys fly and Wicked Witches rule. Desperate to return home, and with the Wicked Witch of the West on their trail, Dorothy and Toto - together with new friends the Tin Woodsman, Scarecrow and cowardly Lion - embark on a fantastic quest along the Yellow Brick Road in search of the Emerald City. There they hope to meet the legendary, all-powerful Wizard of Oz, who alone may hold the power to grant their every wish.Just as captivating as it was a hundred years ago, this is a story that all ages will love.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1106,
            "title": "The Lorax",
            "author": "Dr. Seuss",
            "date": "02/24/98",
            "genres": "Childrens, Picture Books, Fiction, Classics, Poetry, Fantasy, Environment, Young Adult, Kids, Juvenile",
            "characters": "Lorax, Swomee-Swans, Brown Bar-ba-loots, Humming-Fishes",
            "synopsis": "\"\"\"UNLESS someone like you...cares a whole awful lot...nothing is going to get better...It\u0027s not.\"\" Long before saving the earth became a global concern, Dr. Seuss, speaking through his character the Lorax, warned against mindless progress and the danger it posed to the earth\u0027s natural beauty. His classic cautionary tale is now available in an irresistible mini-edition, perfect for backpack or briefcase, for Arbor Day, Earth Day, and every day.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1107,
            "title": "Blood Promise",
            "author": "Richelle Mead ",
            "date": "08/25/09",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Vampires, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Magic",
            "characters": "Sydney Sage, Vasilisa \"\"Lissa\"\" Dragomir, Dimitri Belikov, Christian Ozera, Adrian Ivashkov, Mia Rinaldi, Janine Hathaway, Avery Lazar, Jillian Mastrano, Abe Mazur, Rosemarie \"\"Rose\"\" Hathaway, Olena Belikov",
            "synopsis": "\"Bound by love, but sworn to kill...The world thought Dimitri was dead. And to a certain extent, he was. But I hadn\u0027t been able to forget a conversation he and I had once had. We\u0027d both agreed that we\u0027d rather be dead - truly dead - than walk the world as Strigoi. It was time to honor our words.Guardian Rose Hathaway\u0027s life will never be the same. The recent attack on St. Vladimir\u0027s Academy devastated the entire Moroi world. Many are dead. And, for the few victims carried off by Strigoi, their fates are even worse. A rare tattoo now adorns Rose\u0027s neck; a mark that says she\u0027s killed far too many Strigoi to count.But only one victim matters... Dimitri Belikov. Rose must now choose one of two very different paths: honoring her life\u0027s vow to protect Lissa—her best friend and the last surviving Dragomir princess—or, dropping out of the Academy to strike out on her own and hunt down the man she loves. She\u0027ll have to go to the ends of the earth to find Dimitri and keep the promise he begged her to make. But the question is, when the time comes, will he want to be saved?Now, with everything at stake—and worlds away from St. Vladimir\u0027s and her unguarded, vulnerable, and newly rebellious best friend—can Rose find the strength to destroy Dimitri? Or, will she sacrifice herself for a chance at eternal love?Readers who fell in love with Rose, Lissa, and Dimitri won\u0027t want to miss Blood Promise, the much-anticipated, epic fourth novel in Richelle Mead\u0027s enthralling Vampire Academy series.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1108,
            "title": "The Good Earth",
            "author": "Pearl S. Buck",
            "date": "03/04/2009",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, China, Literature, Historical, Asia, Novels, School, Classic Literature",
            "characters": "Wang Lung, O-lan",
            "synopsis": "\"This tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works, nurturing the land as it nurtures him and his family. Nearby, the nobles of the House of Hwang consider themselves above the land and its workers; but they will soon meet their own downfall.Hard times come upon Wang Lung and his family when flood and drought force them to seek work in the city. The working people riot, breaking into the homes of the rich and forcing them to flee. When Wang Lung shows mercy to one noble and is rewarded, he begins to rise in the world, even as the House of Hwang falls.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1109,
            "title": "Heart of Darkness",
            "author": "Joseph Conrad, Aníbal Fernandes (Translator)",
            "date": "10/01/2003",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Literature, Africa, Historical Fiction, School, Novels, Read For School, Adventure, High School",
            "characters": "Charles Marlow, Kurtz",
            "synopsis": "\"Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, was originally a three-part series in Blackwood\u0027s Magazine in 1899. It is a story within a story, following a character named Charlie Marlow, who recounts his adventure to a group of men onboard an anchored ship. The story told is of his early life as a ferry boat captain. Although his job was to transport ivory downriver, Charlie develops an interest in investing an ivory procurement agent, Kurtz, who is employed by the government. Preceded by his reputation as a brilliant emissary of progress, Kurtz has now established himself as a god among the natives in “one of the darkest places on earth.” Marlow suspects something else of Kurtz: he has gone mad.A reflection on corruptive European colonialism and a journey into the nightmare psyche of one of the corrupted, Heart of Darkness is considered one of the most influential works ever written.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1110,
            "title": "A Midsummer Night\u0027s Dream",
            "author": "William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine (Editor), Barbara A. Mowat (Editor), Catherine Belsey (Contributor)",
            "date": "07/28/16",
            "genres": "Classics, Plays, Fiction, Drama, Fantasy, School, Romance, Literature, Theatre, Poetry",
            "characters": "Robin Goodfellow, a Puck, Demetrius, Hermia, Lysander (Shakespeare), Theseus (mythology), Peaseblossom, Moth, Cobweb, Mustardseed, Oberon, Titania, Egeus, Philostrate, Peter Quince, Snug, Nick Bottom, Francis Flute, Tom Snout, Robin Starveling, Hippolyta, Hermia (Shakespeare), Helena (Shakespeare)",
            "synopsis": "\"Shakespeare\u0027s intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start-Demetrius and Lysander both want Hermia but she only has eyes for Lysander. Bad news is, Hermia\u0027s father wants Demetrius for a son-in-law. On the outside is Helena, whose unreturned love burns hot for Demetrius. Hermia and Lysander plan to flee from the city under cover of darkness but are pursued by an enraged Demetrius (who is himself pursued by an enraptured Helena). In the forest, unbeknownst to the mortals, Oberon and Titania (King and Queen of the faeries) are having a spat over a servant boy. The plot twists up when Oberon\u0027s head mischief-maker, Puck, runs loose with a flower which causes people to fall in love with the first thing they see upon waking. Throw in a group of labourers preparing a play for the Duke\u0027s wedding (one of whom is given a donkey\u0027s head and Titania for a lover by Puck) and the complications become fantastically funny.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1111,
            "title": "Clockwork Princess",
            "author": "Cassandra Clare ",
            "date": "09/05/2013",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Paranormal, Steampunk, Historical Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Angels, Fiction, Historical",
            "characters": "Theresa \"\"Tessa\"\" Gray, Magnus Bane, William Herondale, James \"\"Jem\"\" Carstairs, Henry Branwell, Charlotte Branwell, Gideon Lightwood, Gabriel Lightwood, Sophie Collins, Cecily Herondale",
            "synopsis": "\"Danger and betrayal, love and loss, secrets and enchantment are woven together in the breathtaking finale to the #1 New York Times bestselling Infernal Devices Trilogy, prequel to the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series.THE INFERNAL DEVICES WILL NEVER STOP COMINGA net of shadows begins to tighten around the Shadowhunters of the London Institute. Mortmain plans to use his Infernal Devices, an army of pitiless automatons, to destroy the Shadowhunters. He needs only one last item to complete his plan: he needs Tessa Gray.Charlotte Branwell, head of the London Institute, is desperate to find Mortmain before he strikes. But when Mortmain abducts Tessa, the boys who lay equal claim to her heart, Jem and Will, will do anything to save her. For though Tessa and Jem are now engaged, Will is as much in love with her as ever.As those who love Tessa rally to rescue her from Mortmain’s clutches, Tessa realizes that the only person who can save her is herself. But can a single girl, even one who can command the power of angels, face down an entire army?Danger and betrayal, secrets and enchantment, and the tangled threads of love and loss intertwine as the Shadowhunters are pushed to the very brink of destruction in the breathtaking conclusion to the Infernal Devices trilogy.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1112,
            "title": "The Prophet",
            "author": "Kahlil Gibran",
            "date": "01/01/2010",
            "genres": "Poetry, Philosophy, Classics, Fiction, Spirituality, Religion, Literature, Inspirational, Self Help, Novels",
            "characters": "Al Mustafa, Al Mitra",
            "synopsis": "\"Kahlil Gibran’s masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Published in 1923, it has been translated into more than twenty languages, and the American editions alone have sold more than nine million copies.The Prophet is a collection of poetic essays that are philosophical, spiritual, and, above all, inspirational. Gibran’s musings are divided into twenty-eight chapters covering such sprawling topics as love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, housing, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1113,
            "title": "The Sea of Monsters",
            "author": "Rick Riordan ",
            "date": "04/01/2006",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Mythology, Fiction, Middle Grade, Adventure, Childrens, Urban Fantasy, Greek Mythology, Magic",
            "characters": "Tyson, Annabeth Chase, Grover Underwood, Luke Castellan, Ares (god), Circe, Blackbeard, Chiron, Hermes, Polyphemus, Clarisse, Percy Jackson",
            "synopsis": "\"The heroic son of Poseidon makes an action-packed comeback in the second must-read installment of Rick Riordan\u0027s amazing young readers series. Starring Percy Jackson, a \"\"half blood\"\" whose mother is human and whose father is the God of the Sea, Riordan\u0027s series combines cliffhanger adventure and Greek mythology lessons that results in true page-turners that get better with each installment.In this episode, The Sea of Monsters, Percy sets out to retrieve the Golden Fleece before his summer camp is destroyed, surpassing the first book\u0027s drama and setting the stage for more thrills to come.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1114,
            "title": "The Joy Luck Club",
            "author": "Amy Tan ",
            "date": "09/21/06",
            "genres": "Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, China, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Adult, Literature, Asia, Novels",
            "characters": "Suyuan Woo, June Woo, Lindo Jong, Waverly Jong, An-Mei Hsu, Rose Hsu Jordan, Ying-Ying St. Clair, Lena St. Clair",
            "synopsis": "\"Four mothers, four daughters, four families, whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who\u0027s telling the stories. In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters\u0027 futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Their daughters, who have never heard these stories, think their mothers\u0027 advice is irrelevant to their modern American lives – until their own inner crises reveal how much they\u0027ve unknowingly inherited of their mothers\u0027 pasts. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1115,
            "title": "The Call of the Wild",
            "author": "Jack London, Avi (Introduction)",
            "date": "01/01/2001",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Adventure, Young Adult, Animals, Historical Fiction, Literature, School, Childrens, Novels",
            "characters": "Buck, Spitz, John Thornton, Francois (The Call of the Wild), Perrault (The Call of the Wild)",
            "synopsis": "\"First published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is regarded as Jack London\u0027s masterpiece. Based on London\u0027s experiences as a gold prospector in the Canadian wilderness and his ideas about nature and the struggle for existence, The Call of the Wild is a tale about unbreakable spirit and the fight for survival in the frozen Alaskan Klondike.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1116,
            "title": "Jonathan Livingston Seagull",
            "author": "Richard Bach , Russell Munson (Photographer)",
            "date": "02/07/2006",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Philosophy, Fantasy, Spirituality, Inspirational, Self Help, Literature, Novels, Animals",
            "characters": "Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Chiang, Fletcher Lynd Seagull",
            "synopsis": "\"This is a story for people who follow their hearts and make their own rules...people who get special pleasure out of doing something well, even if only for themselves...people who know there\u0027s more to this living than meets the eye: they’ll be right there with Jonathan, flying higher and faster than ever they dreamed.Jonathan Livingston Seagull is no ordinary bird. He believes it is every gull\u0027s right to fly, to reach the ultimate freedom of challenge and discovery, finding his greatest reward in teaching younger gulls the joy of flight and the power of dreams. The special 20th anniversary release of this spiritual classic!\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1117,
            "title": "Madame Bovary",
            "author": "Gustave Flaubert, Mark Overstall (Contributor), Paul De Man (Editor), Malcolm Bowie (Introduction), Margaret Mauldon (Translator)",
            "date": "10/28/04",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, France, Literature, French Literature, Romance, 19th Century, Novels, Historical Fiction, Classic Literature",
            "characters": "Emma Bovary, Charles Bovary, Monsieur Homais, Berthe Bovary, Rodolphe Boulanger, Léon Dupuis",
            "synopsis": "\"\u0027Oh, why, dear God, did I marry him?\u0027Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment, and when real life continues to fail to live up to her romantic expectations, the consequences are devastating. Flaubert\u0027s erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted: \u0027Madame Bovary, c\u0027est moi.\u0027This modern translation by Flaubert\u0027s biographer, Geoffrey Wall, retains all the delicacy and precision of the French original. The edition also contains a preface by the novelist Michèle Roberts.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1118,
            "title": "The Phantom Tollbooth",
            "author": "Norton Juster, Jules Feiffer (Illustrator)",
            "date": "10/28/96",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Childrens, Classics, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Adventure, Humor, Science Fiction Fantasy, Juvenile",
            "characters": "Tock, Humbug, Milo",
            "synopsis": "\"Librarian\u0027s Note: For an alternate cover edition of the same ISBN, click here.Hailed as “a classic. . . . humorous, full of warmth and real invention” (The New Yorker), this beloved story -first published more than fifty years ago- introduces readers to Milo and his adventures in the Lands Beyond. For Milo, everything’s a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he’s got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from a ticking watchdog named Tock, and even embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason! Somewhere along the way, Milo realizes something astonishing. Life is far from dull. In fact, it’s exciting beyond his wildest dreams. . . .\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1119,
            "title": "The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset",
            "author": "Suzanne Collins, Guillaume Fournier (Translator), Pilar Ramírez Tello  (Translator), Hanna Hörl (Illustrator), Sylke Hachmeister (Translator), Peter Klöss (Translator)",
            "date": "08/24/10",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Fiction, Fantasy, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Romance, Adventure, Teen, Action, Novels",
            "characters": "Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, Primrose Everdeen, Gale Hawthorne, Haymitch Abernathy, Cinna, Alma Coin, Coriolanus Snow",
            "synopsis": "\"The extraordinary, ground breaking New York Times bestsellers The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, along with the third book in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, are available for the first time ever in a beautiful boxset edition. Stunning, gripping, and powerful. The trilogy is now complete!\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1120,
            "title": "The Girl Who Played with Fire",
            "author": "Stieg Larsson, Reg Keeland (Translator)",
            "date": "07/28/09",
            "genres": "Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Contemporary, Sweden, Adult, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Lisbeth Salander, Mikael Blomkvist, Alexander Zalachenko, Jan Bublanski, Sonja Modig, Peter Teleborian, Erika Berger, Ronald Niedermann, Annika Giannini, Dragan Armansky, Gunnar Björck, Harriet Vanger, Holger Palmgren, Nils Bjurman, Miriam Wu",
            "synopsis": "\"Part blistering espionage thriller, part riveting police procedural, and part piercing exposé on social injustice, The Girl Who Played with Fire is a masterful, endlessly satisfying novel.  Mikael Blomkvist, crusading publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation. On the eve of its publication, the two reporters responsible for the article are murdered, and the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to his friend, the troubled genius hacker Lisbeth Salander. Blomkvist, convinced of Salander’s innocence, plunges into an investigation. Meanwhile, Salander herself is drawn into a murderous game of cat and mouse, which forces her to face her dark past.From the Trade Paperback edition.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1121,
            "title": "The Maze Runner",
            "author": "James Dashner ",
            "date": "10/06/2009",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Post Apocalyptic, Mystery, Teen, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Chuck, Teresa Agnes, Minho, Alby, Gally, Thomas, Ben, Newt",
            "synopsis": "\"There are alternate cover editions for this ASIN here and here.If you ain’t scared, you ain’t human. When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his name. He’s surrounded by strangers—boys whose memories are also gone. Nice to meet ya, shank. Welcome to the Glade. Outside the towering stone walls that surround the Glade is a limitless, ever-changing maze. It’s the only way out—and no one’s ever made it through alive. Everything is going to change. Then a girl arrives. The first girl ever. And the message she delivers is terrifying. Remember. Survive. Run.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1122,
            "title": "The Neverending Story",
            "author": "Michael Ende, Ralph Manheim (Translator), Roswitha Quadflieg (Illustrator)",
            "date": "10/28/97",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Classics, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Adventure, German Literature, Middle Grade, Science Fiction Fantasy, Books About Books",
            "characters": "Bastian Balthazar Bux, Atreyu, Falkor, Karl Konrad Koreander, The Childlike Empress, Xayide, Gmork, Grograman, Morla, The Old Man of Wandering Mountain, Uyulala",
            "synopsis": "\"This epic work of the imagination has captured the hearts of millions of readers worldwide since it was first published more than a decade ago. Its special story within a story is an irresistible invitation for readers to become part of the book itself. And now this modern classic and bibliophile\u0027s dream is available in hardcover again.The story begins with a lonely boy named Bastian and the strange book that draws him into the beautiful but doomed world of Fantastica. Only a human can save this enchanted place by giving its ruler, the Childlike Empress, a new name. But the journey to her tower leads through lands of dragons, giants, monsters, and magic and once Bastian begins his quest, he may never return. As he is drawn deeper into Fantastica, he must find the courage to face unspeakable foes and the mysteries of his own heart. Readers, too, can travel to the wondrous, unforgettable world of Fantastica if they will just turn the page...-front flap\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1123,
            "title": "Treasure Island",
            "author": "Robert Louis Stevenson, David W. Whitehead (Introduction), Richard S. Hartmetz  (Editor)",
            "date": "09/15/01",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Adventure, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Childrens, Literature, Pirates, Fantasy, Novels",
            "characters": "Jim Hawkins, Billy Bones, Doctor Livesey, Captain Smollet, Squire John Trelawney, Ben Gunn, Long John Silver",
            "synopsis": "\"\"\"For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From the moment young Jim Hawkins first encounters the sinister Blind Pew at the Admiral Benbow Inn until the climactic battle for treasure on a tropic isle, the novel creates scenes and characters that have fired the imaginations of generations of readers. Written by a superb prose stylist, a master of both action and atmosphere, the story centers upon the conflict between good and evil - but in this case a particularly engaging form of evil. It is the villainy of that most ambiguous rogue Long John Silver that sets the tempo of this tale of treachery, greed, and daring. Designed to forever kindle a dream of high romance and distant horizons, Treasure Island is, in the words of G. K. Chesterton, \u0027the realization of an ideal, that which is promised in its provocative and beckoning map; a vision not only of white skeletons but also green palm trees and sapphire seas.\u0027 G. S. Fraser terms it \u0027an utterly original book\u0027 and goes on to write: \u0027There will always be a place for stories like Treasure Island that can keep boys and old men happy.\u0027\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1124,
            "title": "A Storm of Swords",
            "author": "George R.R. Martin",
            "date": "03/04/2003",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Adult, Adventure, Dragons, Audiobook, Epic",
            "characters": "Brandon Stark, Catelyn Stark, Tyrion Lannister, Daenerys Targaryen, Robb Stark, Arya Stark, Jaime Lannister, Joffrey Baratheon, Tywin Lannister, Stannis Baratheon, Melisandre, Davos Seaworth, Lysa Arryn, Petyr Baelish, Sansa Stark, Varys, Hodor, Brienne of Tarth, Samwell Tarly, Sandor Clegane, Pyp, Grenn, Tommen Baratheon, Oswell Kettleback, Beric Dondarrion, Thoros of Myr, Jon Snow, Cersei Lannister, Jorah Mormont",
            "synopsis": "\"An alternate cover for this isbn can be found here.Here is the third volume in George R.R. Martin\u0027s magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Game of Thrones and A Clash of Kings. Together, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction.Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as alliances are made and broken. Joffrey sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the Seven Kingdoms. His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced, victim of the sorceress who holds him in her thrall. Young Robb still rules the North from the fortress of Riverrun. Meanwhile, making her way across a blood-drenched continent is the exiled queen, Daenerys, mistress of the only three dragons still left in the world. And as opposing forces manoeuver for the final showdown, an army of barbaric wildlings arrives from the outermost limits of civilization, accompanied by a horde of mythical Others—a supernatural army of the living dead whose animated corpses are unstoppable. As the future of the land hangs in the balance, no one will rest until the Seven Kingdoms have exploded in a veritable storm of swords...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1125,
            "title": "A Farewell to Arms",
            "author": "Ernest Hemingway",
            "date": "10/28/04",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, War, Literature, Novels, American, Romance, Classic Literature, School",
            "characters": "Frederic Henry, Catherine Barkley, Rinaldi",
            "synopsis": "\"A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield - the weary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the profound struggle between loyalty and desertion—this gripping, semiautobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep. Ernest Hemingway famously said that he rewrote his ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1126,
            "title": "Tote Mädchen lügen nicht",
            "author": "Jay Asher , Knut Krüger (Übersetzer)",
            "date": "03/16/09",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Contemporary, Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Mystery, Mental Health, Teen, Audiobook, Romance, High School",
            "characters": "Clay Jensen, Hannah Baker, Bryce Walker, Jessica Davis, Justin Foley, Tyler Down, Courtney Crimsen, Alex Standall, Mr. Porter, Marcus Cooley, Zach Dempsey, Ryan Shaver, Jenny Kurtz",
            "synopsis": "\"You can’t stop the future. You can’t rewind the past.The only way to learn the secret . . . is to press play.Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker–his classmate and crush–who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah’s voice tells him that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he’ll find out why. Clay spends the night crisscrossing his town with Hannah as his guide. He becomes a firsthand witness to Hannah’s pain, and as he follows Hannah’s recorded words throughout his town, what he discovers changes his life forever.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1127,
            "title": "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West",
            "author": "Gregory Maguire, Douglas Smith (Illustrator)",
            "date": "10/28/00",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Retellings, Adult Fiction, Magic, Witches, Fairy Tales, Classics",
            "characters": "Elphaba Thropp, Liir, Glinda Upland, Galinda Upland, Madam Morrible, Nessarose Thropp, Fiyero Tigelaar, The Wizard of Oz",
            "synopsis": "\"When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum\u0027s classic tale we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious Witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil?Gregory Maguire creates a fantasy world so rich and vivid that we will never look at Oz the same way again. Wicked is about a land where animals talk and strive to be treated like first-class citizens, Munchkinlanders seek the comfort of middle-class stability, and the Tin Man becomes a victim of domestic violence. And then there is the little green-skinned girl named Elphaba, who will grow up to become the infamous Wicked Witch of the West, a smart, prickly, and misunderstood creature who challenges all our preconceived notions about the nature of good and evil.An astonishingly rich re-creation of the land of Oz, this book retells the story of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, who wasn\u0027t so wicked after all. Taking readers past the yellow brick road and into a phantasmagoric world rich with imagination and allegory, Gregory Maguire just might change the reputation of one of the most sinister characters in literature.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1128,
            "title": "Shōgun",
            "author": "James Clavell",
            "date": "02/19/09",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Japan, Historical, Classics, Adventure, Asia, Literature, Novels, Japanese Literature",
            "characters": "John Blackthorne, Toranaga, Mariko, Jabu, Buntaró, Hiromacu, Martin Alvito, Jaemon, Išido, Ochiba",
            "synopsis": "\"Alternate Cover for ISBN: 0440178002A bold English adventurer. An invincible Japanese warlord. A beautiful woman torn between two ways of life. All brought together in an extraordinary saga aflame with passion, conflict, ambition, and the struggle for power.Here is the world-famous novel of Japan that is the earliest book in James Clavell’s masterly Asian saga. Set in the year 1600, it tells the story of a bold English pilot whose ship was blown ashore in Japan, where he encountered two people who were to change his life: a warlord with his own quest for power, and a beautiful interpreter torn between two ways of life and two ways of love. The principal figures are John Blackthorne, whose dream it is to be the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe, to wrest control of the trade between Japan and China from Portuguese, and to return home a man of wealth and position; Toranaga, the most powerful feudal lord in Japan, who strives and schemes to seize ultimate power by becoming Shogun—the Supreme Military Dictator—and to unite the warring samurai fiefdoms under his own masterly and farsighted leadership; and the Lady Mariko, a Catholic convert whose conflicting loyalties to the Church and her country are compounded when she falls in love with Blackthorne, the barbarian intruder. In dramatizing how a Westerner, the representative man of his time, comes to be altered by his exposure to an alien culture, Mr. Clavell provides a spellbinding depiction of a nation seething with violence and intrigue as it moves from the medieval world to the modern.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1129,
            "title": "Extremely Loud \u0026 Incredibly Close",
            "author": "Jonathan Safran Foer ",
            "date": "04/04/2006",
            "genres": "Fiction, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Adult, Literary Fiction, Literature, New York, Young Adult",
            "characters": "Oskar Schell",
            "synopsis": "\"Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies. When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre, Oskar sets out to solve the mystery of a key he discovers in his father\u0027s closet. It is a search which leads him into the lives of strangers, through the five boroughs of New York, into history, to the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima, and on an inward journey which brings him ever closer to some kind of peace.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1130,
            "title": "Murder on the Orient Express",
            "author": "Agatha Christie",
            "date": "06/04/2007",
            "genres": "Mystery, Classics, Fiction, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, Thriller, Detective, Adult, British Literature",
            "characters": "Samuel Edward Ratchett, Hector MacQueen, Masterman, Colonel Arbuthnot, Harriet Hubbard, Count Rudolf Andrenyi, Countess Elena Andrenyi, Princess Natalia Dragomiroff, Mary Debenham, Hildegarde Schmidt, Antonio Foscarel, Greta Ohlsson, Pierre Michel, Cyrus Hardman, Dr. Constantine, M. Bouc, Hercule Poirot",
            "synopsis": "\"Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside.Isolated and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must identify the murderer—in case he or she decides to strike again.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1131,
            "title": "His Dark Materials",
            "author": "Philip Pullman",
            "date": "09/23/03",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Adventure, Classics, Steampunk, Magic",
            "characters": "Lyra Belacqua, Will Parry, Mary Malone, Pantalaimon, Lord Asriel, Iorek Byrnison, Iofur Raknison, Marisa Coulter, Lee Scoresby, Roger Parslow, Stanislaus Grumman, Serafina Pekkala",
            "synopsis": "\"The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass are available together in one volume perfect for any fan or newcomer to this modern fantasy classic series.These thrilling adventures tell the story of Lyra and Will—two ordinary children on a perilous journey through shimmering haunted otherworlds. They will meet witches and armored bears, fallen angels and soul-eating specters. And in the end, the fate of both the living—and the dead—will rely on them.Phillip Pullman’s spellbinding His Dark Materials trilogy has captivated readers for over twenty years and won acclaim at every turn. It will have you questioning everything you know about your world and wondering what really lies just out of reach.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1132,
            "title": "A Little Princess",
            "author": "Frances Hodgson Burnett, Nancy Bond (Foreword)",
            "date": "02/26/02",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Childrens, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade, Historical, Literature, Juvenile, Novels",
            "characters": "Sara Crewe, Ralph Crewe, Maria Minchin, Ermengarde St. John, Becky, Lottie Legh, Thomas Carrisford, Ram Dass (A Little Princess)",
            "synopsis": "\"Sara Crewe, an exceptionally intelligent and imaginative student at Miss Minchin\u0027s Select Seminary for Young Ladies, is devastated when her adored, indulgent father dies. Now penniless and banished to a room in the attic, Sara is demeaned, abused, and forced to work as a servant. How this resourceful girl\u0027s fortunes change again is at the center of A Little Princess, one of the best-loved stories in all of children\u0027s literature. This unique and fully annotated edition appends excerpts from Frances Hodgson Burnett\u0027s original 1888 novella Sara Crewe and the stage play that preceded the novel, as well as an early story, \"\"Behind the White Brick,\"\" allowing readers to see how A Little Princess evolved. In his delightful introduction, U. C. Knoepflmacher considers the fairy-tale allusions and literary touchstones that place the book among the major works of Victorian literature, and shows it to be an exceptionally rich and resonant novel.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1133,
            "title": "Schindler\u0027s List",
            "author": "Thomas Keneally",
            "date": "02/17/94",
            "genres": "History, Nonfiction, Classics, Holocaust, War, Historical, World War II, Biography, Literature, Media Tie In",
            "characters": "Oskar Schindler, Amon Leopold Göth",
            "synopsis": "\"In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur, but to them he became a saviour. This is the extraordinary story of Oskar Schindler, who risked his life to protect Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland and who was transformed by the war into a man with a mission, a compassionate angel of mercy.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1134,
            "title": "Last Sacrifice",
            "author": "Richelle Mead ",
            "date": "12/07/2010",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Vampires, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Magic",
            "characters": "Sydney Sage, Vasilisa \"\"Lissa\"\" Dragomir, Dimitri Belikov, Christian Ozera, Adrian Ivashkov, Victor Dashkov, Janine Hathaway, Jillian Mastrano, Abe Mazur, Natasha Ozera, Rosemarie \"\"Rose\"\" Hathaway",
            "synopsis": "\"They come first.My vision was growing dimmer, the blackness and ghosts closing in. I swore it was like I could hear Robert whispering in my ear: The world of the dead won\u0027t give you up a second time. Just before the light completely vanished, I saw Dimitri\u0027s face join Lissa\u0027s. I wanted to smile. I decided then that if the two people I loved most were safe, I could leave this world.The dead could finally have me.Rose Hathaway has always played by her own rules. She broke the law when she ran away from St. Vladimir\u0027s Academy with her best friend and last surviving Dragomir princess, Lissa. She broke the law when she fell in love with her gorgeous, off-limits instructor, Dimitri. And she dared to defy Queen Tatiana, leader of the Moroi world, risking her life and reputation to protect generations of dhampir guardians to come.Now the law has finally caught up with Rose - for a crime she didn\u0027t even commit. She\u0027s in prison for the highest offense imaginable: the assassination of a monarch. She\u0027ll need help from both Dimitri and Adrian to find the one living person who can stall her execution and force the Moroi elite to acknowledge a shocking new candidate for the royal throne: Vasilisa Dragomir.But the clock on Rose\u0027s life is running out. Rose knows in her heart the world of the dead wants her back...and this time she is truly out of second chances. The big question is, when your whole life is about saving others, who will save you?Join Rose, Dimitri, Adrian, and Lissa in Last Sacrifice, the epic, unforgettable finale to Richelle Mead\u0027s international #1 bestselling Vampire Academy series.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1135,
            "title": "The Night Circus",
            "author": "Erin Morgenstern ",
            "date": "09/13/11",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Magic, Young Adult, Magical Realism, Adult, Audiobook, Historical",
            "characters": "Celia Bowen, Marco Alisdair, Isobel Martin, Penelope \"\"Poppet\"\" Aislin Murray, Winston \"\"Widget\"\" Aidan Murray, Bailey Clarke, Alexander H., Hector Bowen, Chandresh Christophe Lefevre, Friedrick Stefan Thiessen, Ethan Barris, Tara Burgess, Lainie Burgess, Tante Padva, Tsukiko",
            "synopsis": "\"The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway—a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love—a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands. True love or not, the game must play out, and the fates of everyone involved, from the cast of extraordinary circus performers to the patrons, hang in the balance, suspended as precariously as the daring acrobats overhead. Written in rich, seductive prose, this spell-casting novel is a feast for the senses and the heart.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1136,
            "title": "Fallen",
            "author": "Lauren Kate ",
            "date": "12/08/2009",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal, Angels, Paranormal Romance, Fiction, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy, Teen",
            "characters": "Lucinda Price, Daniel Grigori, Cameron \"\"Cam\"\" Briel, Arriane Alter, Pennyweather \"\"Penn\"\" Van Syckle Lockwood, Roland Sparks, \"\"Gabrielle \u0027\u0027Gabbe\u0027\u0027 Givens\"\", \"\"Mary Margaret \u0027\u0027Molly\u0027\u0027 Zane\"\"",
            "synopsis": "\"There’s something achingly familiar about Daniel Grigori.Mysterious and aloof, he captures Luce Price’s attention from the moment she sees him on her first day at the Sword \u0026 Cross boarding school in sultry Savannah, Georgia. He’s the one bright spot in a place where cell phones are forbidden, the other students are all screw-ups, and security cameras watch every move.Even though Daniel wants nothing to do with Luce—and goes out of his way to make that very clear—she can’t let it go. Drawn to him like a moth to a flame, she has to find out what Daniel is so desperate to keep secret… even if it kills her.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1137,
            "title": "The Silmarillion",
            "author": "J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (Editor), Ted Nasmith (Illustrator)",
            "date": "11/15/04",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Classics, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Mythology, Literature, Novels, Adventure",
            "characters": "Gandalf, Saruman, Elrond Half-elven, Galadriel, Finwë, Fingolfin, Celebrian, Bregor, Beren, Túrin Turambar, Húrin Thalion, Niënor, Glaurung, Fëanor, Tuor, Lúthien, Morgoth",
            "synopsis": "\"A number-one New York Times bestseller when it was originally published, THE SILMARILLION is the core of J.R.R. Tolkien\u0027s imaginative writing, a work whose origins stretch back to a time long before THE HOBBIT.Tolkien considered THE SILMARILLION his most important work, and, though it was published last and posthumously, this great collection of tales and legends clearly sets the stage for all his other writing. The story of the creation of the world and of the the First Age, this is the ancient drama to which the characters in THE LORD OF THE RINGS look back and in whose events some of them, such as Elrond and Galadriel, took part. The three Silmarils were jewels created by Feanor, most gifted of the Elves. Within them was imprisoned the Light of the Two Trees of Valinor before the Trees themselves were destroyed by Morgoth, the first Dark Lord. Thereafter, the unsullied Light of Valinor lived on only in the Silmarils, but they were seized by Morgoth and set in his crown, which was guarded in the impenetrable fortress of Angband in the north of Middle-earth. THE SILMARILLION is the history of the rebellion of Feanor and his kindred against the gods, their exile from Valinor and return to Middle-earth, and their war, hopeless despite all their heroism, against the great Enemy.This second edition features a letter written by J.R.R. Tolkien describing his intentions for the book, which serves as a brilliant exposition of his conception of the earlier Ages of Middle-earth.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1138,
            "title": "The Secret Magdalene",
            "author": "Ki Longfellow ",
            "date": "03/27/07",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Religion, Historical, Spirituality, Novels, Contemporary, Biblical Fiction, Literature, Biblical",
            "characters": "Salome, John the Baptizer, Yeshu’a, Mary Magdalene",
            "synopsis": "\"Raised like sisters, Mariamne and Salome are indulged with riches, position, and learning—a rare thing for females in Jerusalem. But Mariamne has a further gift: an illness has left her with visions; she has the power of prophecy. It is her prophesying that drives the two girls to flee to Egypt, where they study philosophy, mathematics, and astronomy in the Great Library of Alexandria.After seven years they return to a Judaea where many now believe John the Baptizer is the messiah. Salome too begins to believe, but Mariamne, now called Magdalene, is drawn to his cousin, Yeshu\u0027a, a man touched by the divine in the same way she was during her days of illness. Together they speak of sharing their direct experience of God; but Yeshu\u0027a unexpectedly gains a reputation as a healer, and as the ill and the troubled flock to him, he and Magdalene are forced to make a terrible decision.This radical retelling of the greatest story ever told brings Mary Magdalene to life—not as a prostitute or demon-possessed—but as an educated woman who was truly the \"\"apostle to the apostles.\"\"From the Hardcover edition.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1139,
            "title": "Beloved",
            "author": "Toni Morrison",
            "date": "06/08/2004",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Magical Realism, Literature, African American, Historical, Novels, School, Literary Fiction",
            "characters": "Baby Suggs, Sethe, Beloved, Paul D, Denver, Stamp Paid, Sixo, Halle, Schoolteacher",
            "synopsis": "\"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past.Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Meanwhile Sethe’s house has long been troubled by the angry, destructive ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.Sethe works at beating back the past, but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly in her memory and in the lives of those around her. When a mysterious teenage girl arrives, calling herself Beloved, Sethe’s terrible secret explodes into the present.Combining the visionary power of legend with the unassailable truth of history, Morrison’s unforgettable novel is one of the great and enduring works of American literature.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1140,
            "title": "A Confederacy of Dunces",
            "author": "John Kennedy Toole, Walker Percy (Foreword)",
            "date": "01/28/94",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Humor, Literature, Comedy, Novels, American, Literary Fiction, Audiobook, Contemporary",
            "characters": "Ignatius Jacques Reilly, Myrna Minkoff, Irene Reilly, Santa Battaglia, Angelo Mancuso, Lana Lee, Burma Jones",
            "synopsis": "\"Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here\"\"A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs.\"\"Meet Ignatius J. Reilly, the hero of John Kennedy Toole\u0027s tragicomic tale, A Confederacy of Dunces. This 30-year-old medievalist lives at home with his mother in New Orleans, pens his magnum opus on Big Chief writing pads he keeps hidden under his bed, and relays to anyone who will listen the traumatic experience he once had on a Greyhound Scenicruiser bound for Baton Rouge. (\"\"Speeding along in that bus was like hurtling into the abyss.\"\") But Ignatius\u0027s quiet life of tyrannizing his mother and writing his endless comparative history screeches to a halt when he is almost arrested by the overeager Patrolman Mancuso-who mistakes him for a vagrant-and then involved in a car accident with his tipsy mother behind the wheel. One thing leads to another, and before he knows it, Ignatius is out pounding the pavement in search of a job.Over the next several hundred pages, our hero stumbles from one adventure to the next. His stint as a hotdog vendor is less than successful, and he soon turns his employers at the Levy Pants Company on their heads. Ignatius\u0027s path through the working world is populated by marvelous secondary characters: the stripper Darlene and her talented cockatoo; the septuagenarian secretary Miss Trixie, whose desperate attempts to retire are constantly, comically thwarted; gay blade Dorian Greene; sinister Miss Lee, proprietor of the Night of Joy nightclub; and Myrna Minkoff, the girl Ignatius loves to hate. The many subplots that weave through A Confederacy of Dunces are as complicated as anything you\u0027ll find in a Dickens novel, and just as beautifully tied together in the end. But it is Ignatius-selfish, domineering, and deluded, tragic and comic and larger than life-who carries the story. He is a modern-day Quixote beset by giants of the modern age. His fragility cracks the shell of comic bluster, revealing a deep streak of melancholy beneath the antic humor. John Kennedy Toole committed suicide in 1969 and never saw the publication of his novel. Ignatius Reilly is what he left behind, a fitting memorial to a talented and tormented life.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1141,
            "title": "The Selection",
            "author": "Kiera Cass ",
            "date": "04/24/12",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Romance, Dystopia, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Audiobook, Teen, Chick Lit, Young Adult Fantasy",
            "characters": "Aspen Leger, America Singer, Prince Maxon",
            "synopsis": "\"For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to escape the life laid out for them since birth. To be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and priceless jewels. To live in a palace and compete for the heart of gorgeous Prince Maxon.But for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. It means turning her back on her secret love with Aspen, who is a caste below her. Leaving her home to enter a fierce competition for a crown she doesn\u0027t want. Living in a palace that is constantly threatened by violent rebel attacks.Then America meets Prince Maxon. Gradually, she starts to question all the plans she\u0027s made for herself—and realizes that the life she\u0027s always dreamed of may not compare to a future she never imagined.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1142,
            "title": "Catching Fire",
            "author": "Suzanne Collins",
            "date": "09/01/2009",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Dystopia, Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Adventure, Teen, Post Apocalyptic, Action",
            "characters": "Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, Primrose Everdeen, Gale Hawthorne, Effie Trinket, Haymitch Abernathy, Cinna, Finnick Odair, Johanna Mason, President Coriolanus Snow, Madge Undersee, Caesar Flickerman, Twill, Cashmere, Gloss, Enobaria, Beetee, Wiress, Mags, Blight, Woof, Cecilia, Chaff, Seeder, Plutarch Heavensbee, Octavia (Hunger Games), Portia (hunger Games)",
            "synopsis": "\"SPARKS ARE IGNITING.FLAMES ARE SPREADING.AND THE CAPITAL WANTS REVENGE.Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. Yet nothing is the way Katniss wishes it to be. Gale holds her at an icy distance. Peeta has turned his back on her completely. And there are whispers of a rebellion against the Capitol - a rebellion that Katniss and Peeta may have helped create.Much to her shock, Katniss has fueled an unrest that she\u0027s afraid she cannot stop. And what scares her even more is that she\u0027s not entirely convinced she should try. As time draws near for Katniss and Peeta to visit the districts on the Capitol\u0027s cruel Victory Tour, the stakes are higher than ever. If they can\u0027t prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that they are lost in their love for each other, the consequences will be horrifying. Katniss is about to be tested as never before.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1143,
            "title": "The Lost Hero",
            "author": "Rick Riordan ",
            "date": "10/12/2010",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Mythology, Fiction, Middle Grade, Adventure, Childrens, Greek Mythology, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy",
            "characters": "Leo Valdez, Thalia Grace, Annabeth Chase, Hera, Juno, Rachel Elizabeth Dare, Jason Grace, Piper McLean, Will Solace",
            "synopsis": "\"JASON HAS A PROBLEM. He doesn’t remember anything before waking up in a bus full of kids on a field trip. Apparently he has a girlfriend named Piper, and his best friend is a guy named Leo. They’re all students at the Wilderness School, a boarding school for “bad kids,\"\" as Leo puts it. What did Jason do to end up here? And where is here, exactly? Jason doesn\u0027t know anything—except that everything seems very wrong.PIPER HAS A SECRET. Her father has been missing for three days, ever since she had that terrifying nightmare about his being in trouble. Piper doesn’t understand her dream, or why her boyfriend suddenly doesn’t recognize her. When a freak storm hits during the school trip, unleashing strange creatures and whisking her, Jason, and Leo away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood, she has a feeling she’s going to find out, whether she wants to or not.LEO HAS A WAY WITH TOOLS. When he sees his cabin at Camp Half-Blood, filled with power tools and machine parts, he feels right at home. But there’s weird stuff, too—like the curse everyone keeps talking about, and some camper who\u0027s gone missing. Weirdest of all, his bunkmates insist that each of them—including Leo—is related to a god. Does this have anything to do with Jason\u0027s amnesia, or the fact that Leo keeps seeing ghosts?Join new and old friends from Camp Half-Blood in this thrilling first book in The Heroes of Olympus series. Best-selling author Rick Riordan has pumped up the action, humor, suspense, and mystery in an epic adventure that will leave readers panting for the next installment.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1144,
            "title": "Spirit Bound",
            "author": "Richelle Mead ",
            "date": "05/18/10",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Vampires, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Magic",
            "characters": "Vasilisa \"\"Lissa\"\" Dragomir, Dimitri Belikov, Christian Ozera, Adrian Ivashkov, Victor Dashkov, Mia Rinaldi, Jillian Mastrano, Abe Mazur, Natasha Ozera, Rosemarie \"\"Rose\"\" Hathaway",
            "synopsis": "\"Salvation has its price . . .The words stunned Adrian for a moment, but he kept going. \"\"You\u0027re lying. What you\u0027re describing is impossible. There\u0027s no way to save a Strigoi. When they\u0027re gone, they\u0027re gone. They\u0027re dead. Undead. Forever.\"\"Robert\u0027s next words weren\u0027t directed at Adrian. They were spoken to me. \"\"That which is dead doesn\u0027t always stay dead....\"\"After a long and heartbreaking journey to Siberia, Dimitri’s birthplace, Rose Hathaway has finally returned to St. Vladimir’s—and to her best friend, Lissa Dragomir. It\u0027s graduation, and the girls can’t wait for their real lives outside the academy’s cold iron gates to finally begin. But even with the intrigue and excitement of court life looming, Rose’s heart still aches for Dimitri. He’s out there, somewhere.She failed to kill him when she had the chance, and now her worst fears are about to come true. Dimitri has tasted her blood, and she knows in her heart that he is hunting her. And if Rose won\u0027t join him, he won\u0027t rest until he has silenced her . . . forever.But Rose can\u0027t forget what she learned on her journey—whispers of a magic too impossible and terrifying to comprehend. A magic inextricably tied to Lissa that could hold the answer to all of Rose\u0027s prayers, but not without devastating consequences. Now Rose will have to decide what—and who—matters most to her. And in the end, is true love really worth the price?Fall in love with Rose and Dimitri all over again in Spirit Bound, the eagerly awaited fifth novel in Richelle Mead\u0027s enthralling Vampire Academy series.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1145,
            "title": "Clockwork Prince",
            "author": "Cassandra Clare ",
            "date": "12/06/2011",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Paranormal, Steampunk, Historical Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Angels, Vampires",
            "characters": "Theresa \"\"Tessa\"\" Gray, Magnus Bane, William Herondale, James \"\"Jem\"\" Carstairs, Jessamine Lovelace, Henry Branwell, Charlotte Branwell, Nathaniel Gray, Gideon Lightwood, Gabriel Lightwood, Sophie Collins",
            "synopsis": "\"In the magical underworld of Victorian London, Tessa Gray has at last found safety with the Shadowhunters. But that safety proves fleeting when rogue forces in the Clave plot to see her protector, Charlotte, replaced as head of the Institute. If Charlotte loses her position, Tessa will be out on the street—and easy prey for the mysterious Magister, who wants to use Tessa’s powers for his own dark ends.With the help of the handsome, self-destructive Will and the fiercely devoted Jem, Tessa discovers that the Magister’s war on the Shadowhunters is deeply personal. He blames them for a long-ago tragedy that shattered his life. To unravel the secrets of the past, the trio journeys from mist-shrouded Yorkshire to a manor house that holds untold horrors, from the slums of London to an enchanted ballroom where Tessa discovers that the truth of her parentage is more sinister than she had imagined. When they encounter a clockwork demon bearing a warning for Will, they realize that the Magister himself knows their every move—and that one of their own has betrayed them.Tessa finds her heart drawn more and more to Jem, but her longing for Will, despite his dark moods, continues to unsettle her. But something is changing in Will—the wall he has built around himself is crumbling. Could finding the Magister free Will from his secrets and give Tessa the answers about who she is and what she was born to do?As their dangerous search for the Magister and the truth leads the friends into peril, Tessa learns that when love and lies are mixed, they can corrupt even the purest heart.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1146,
            "title": "The Iliad/The Odyssey",
            "author": "Homer, Robert Fagles (Translator), Bernard Knox (Introduction)",
            "date": "11/01/1999",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Poetry, Mythology, Literature, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, School, Adventure, Historical",
            "characters": "Odysseus, Menelaus, Hector of Troy, Achilles (Greek hero), Sarpedon (king of Lycia), Patroclus, Agamemnon",
            "synopsis": "\"Gripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, \u0027The Iliad\u0027 is the story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles. Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic. If \u0027The Iliad\u0027 is the world\u0027s greatest war story, then \u0027The Odyssey\u0027 is literature\u0027s greatest evocation of every man\u0027s journey through life. Here again, Fagles has performed the translator\u0027s task magnificently, giving us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. Each volume contains a superb introduction with textual and critical commentary by renowned classicist Bernard Knox.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1147,
            "title": "The Crucible",
            "author": "Arthur Miller, Christopher Bigs(Introduction)",
            "date": "03/25/03",
            "genres": "Classics, Plays, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Drama, School, Read For School, Historical, High School, Literature",
            "characters": "Rev. Parris, Tituba, Abigail Williams, John Proctor, Elizabeth Proctor, Giles Corey, Rebecca Towne Nurse, Mary Warren, Deputy Governor Danforth",
            "synopsis": "\"\"\"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history,\"\" Arthur Miller wrote of his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller\u0027s drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town\u0027s most basic fears and suspicions; and when a young girl accuses Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch, self-righteous church leaders and townspeople insist that Elizabeth be brought to trial. The ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against neighbor brilliantly illuminates the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence.Written in 1953, The Crucible is a mirror Miller uses to reflect the anti-communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy\u0027s \"\"witch-hunts\"\" in the United States. Within the text itself, Miller contemplates the parallels, writing, \"\"Political opposition... is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.\"\"WIth an introduction by Christopher Bigsby.(back cover)\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1148,
            "title": "Cat\u0027s Cradle",
            "author": "Kurt Vonnegut Jr.",
            "date": "10/28/99",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Science Fiction, Humor, Literature, Novels, Dystopia, American, Fantasy, 20th Century",
            "characters": "Bokonon, Angela Hoenikker, Emily Hoenikker, Frank Hoenikker, Newt Hoenikker, \"\"Papa\"\" Monzano, Mona Aamons Monzano, John   --",
            "synopsis": "\"Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut\u0027s cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it ...Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding \u0027fathers\u0027 of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he\u0027s the inventor of \u0027ice-nine\u0027, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker\u0027s three ecentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness. Felix Hoenikker\u0027s Death Wish comes true when his last, fatal gift to humankind brings about the end, that for all of us, is nigh...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1149,
            "title": "The God of Small Things",
            "author": "Arundhati Roy , Claude Demanuelli (Translator), Barbara Auer (Narrator), Diana Quick (Reading), Luana Stoica (trad.), Donada Peters (Narrator), Josep Julià Ballbé (Translator)",
            "date": "10/28/97",
            "genres": "Fiction, India, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Novels, Indian Literature, Literary Fiction, Literature, Classics, Asia",
            "characters": "Rahel, Ammu, Mammachi, Chacko, Estha, Velutha, Baby Kochamma",
            "synopsis": "\"The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with chrome tailfins is stranded on the highway amid a Marxist workers\u0027 demonstration. Inside the car sit two-egg twins Rahel and Esthappen, and so begins their tale. . . .Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, they fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family-their lonely, lovely mother, Ammu (who loves by night the man her children love by day), their blind grandmother, Mammachi (who plays Handel on her violin), their beloved uncle Chacko (Rhodes scholar, pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher), their enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt), and the ghost of an imperial entomologist\u0027s moth (with unusually dense dorsal tufts).When their English cousin, Sophie Mol, and her mother, Margaret Kochamma, arrive on a Christmas visit, Esthappen and Rahel learn that Things Can Change in a Day. That lives can twist into new, ugly shapes, even cease forever, beside their river \"\"graygreen.\"\" With fish in it. With the sky and trees in it. And at night, the broken yellow moon in it.The brilliantly plotted story uncoils with an agonizing sense of foreboding and inevitability. Yet nothing prepares you for what lies at the heart of it.The God of Small Things takes on the Big Themes-Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite Joy. Here is a writer who dares to break the rules. To dislocate received rhythms and create the language she requires, a language that is at once classical and unprecedented. Arundhati Roy has given us a book that is anchored to anguish, but fueled by wit and magic. -front flap\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1150,
            "title": "Girl with a Pearl Earring",
            "author": "Tracy Chevalier ",
            "date": "10/28/05",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Classics, Art, Romance, Adult Fiction, Adult, Novels, Literature",
            "characters": "Johannes Vermeer, Griet, Pieter van Ruijven, Catharina Bolnes, Maria Thins, Tanneke, Pieter (Girl with a pearl earring), Antonie van Leeuwenhoek",
            "synopsis": "\"With precisely 35 canvases to his credit, the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer represents one of the great enigmas of 17th-century art. The meager facts of his biography have been gleaned from a handful of legal documents. Yet Vermeer\u0027s extraordinary paintings of domestic life, with their subtle play of light and texture, have come to define the Dutch golden age. His portrait of the anonymous Girl with a Pearl Earring has exerted a particular fascination for centuries—and it is this magnetic painting that lies at the heart of Tracy Chevalier\u0027s second novel of the same title.Girl with a Pearl Earring centers on Vermeer\u0027s prosperous Delft household during the 1660s. When Griet, the novel\u0027s quietly perceptive heroine, is hired as a servant, turmoil follows. First, the 16-year-old narrator becomes increasingly intimate with her master. Then Vermeer employs her as his assistant—and ultimately has Griet sit for him as a model.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1151,
            "title": "The Silence of the Lambs",
            "author": "Thomas Harris",
            "date": "10/28/02",
            "genres": "Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Crime, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Classics, Novels, Drama",
            "characters": "Jack Crawford, Hannibal Lecter, Clarice Starling",
            "synopsis": "Hannibal Lecter. The ultimate villain of modern fiction. Read the five-million-copy bestseller that scared the world silent. The Silence of the Lambs. A young FBI trainee. An evil genius locked away for unspeakable crimes. A plunge into the darkest chambers of a psychopath\u0027s mind-in the deadly search for a serial killer. - back cover"
          },
          {
            "id": 1152,
            "title": "Shiver",
            "author": "Maggie Stiefvater ",
            "date": "08/01/2009",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal, Werewolves, Fiction, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy, Teen",
            "characters": "Grace Brisbane, Sam  Roth, Isabel Culpeper, Jack Culpeper, Geoffrey Beck, Olivia Marx, Rachel, William Koenig",
            "synopsis": "\"For years, Grace has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf—her wolf—is a chilling presence she can\u0027t seem to live without.Meanwhile, Sam has lived two lives: In winter, the frozen woods, the protection of the pack, and the silent company of a fearless girl. In summer, a few precious months of being human… until the cold makes him shift back again.Now, Grace meets a yellow-eyed boy whose familiarity takes her breath away. It\u0027s her wolf. It has to be. But as winter nears, Sam must fight to stay human—or risk losing himself, and Grace, forever.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1153,
            "title": "Uglies",
            "author": "Scott Westerfeld ",
            "date": "02/08/2005",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, Teen, Adventure, Post Apocalyptic, Science Fiction Fantasy",
            "characters": "David Strorm, Tally Youngblood, Shay, Peris, Dr. Cable",
            "synopsis": "\"Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can\u0027t wait. In just a few weeks she\u0027ll have the operation that will turn her from a repellent ugly into a stunning pretty. And as a pretty, she\u0027ll be catapulted into a high-tech paradise where her only job is to have fun.But Tally\u0027s new friend Shay isn\u0027t sure she wants to become a pretty. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world—and it isn\u0027t very pretty. The authorities offer Tally a choice: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. Tally\u0027s choice will change her world forever....\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1154,
            "title": "City of Fallen Angels",
            "author": "Cassandra Clare ",
            "date": "04/05/2011",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Vampires, Fiction, Angels, Supernatural, Magic",
            "characters": "Alexander \"\"Alec\"\" Lightwood, Jonathan \"\"Jace\"\" Wayland, Isabelle \"\"Izzy\"\" Sophia Lightwood, Magnus Bane, Jordan Kyle, Maia Roberts, Jocelyn Fray, Luke Garroway, Camille Belcourt, Clarissa \"\"Clary\"\" Fray, Simon Lewis",
            "synopsis": "\"The Mortal War is over, and sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is back home in New York, excited about all the possibilities before her. She’s training to become a Shadowhunter and to use her unique power. Her mother is getting married to the love of her life. Downworlders and Shadowhunters are at peace at last. And—most importantly of all—she can finally call Jace her boyfriend.But nothing comes without a price.Someone is murdering Shadowhunters, provoking tensions between Downworlders and Shadowhunters that could lead to a second, bloody war. Clary’s best friend, Simon, can’t help her—his mother just found out that he’s a vampire, and now he’s homeless. When Jace begins to pull away from her without explaining why, Clary is forced to delve into the heart of a mystery whose solution reveals her worst nightmare: she herself has set in motion a terrible chain of events that could lead to her losing everything she loves. Even Jace.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1155,
            "title": "The Phantom of the Opera",
            "author": "Gaston Leroux, Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (Translator)",
            "date": "12/30/87",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Horror, Romance, Gothic, Mystery, Historical Fiction, France, Literature, Fantasy",
            "characters": "Erik, Christine Daaé, Madame Giry, Raoul de Chagny, La Carlotta, \"\"The Persian\"\", Count Phillippe de Chagny",
            "synopsis": "\"First published in French as a serial in 1909, The Phantom of the Opera is a riveting story that revolves around the young, Swedish Christine Daaé. Her father, a famous musician, dies, and she is raised in the Paris Opera House with his dying promise of a protective angel of music to guide her. After a time at the opera house, she begins hearing a voice, who eventually teaches her how to sing beautifully. All goes well until Christine\u0027s childhood friend Raoul comes to visit his parents, who are patrons of the opera, and he sees Christine when she begins successfully singing on the stage. The voice, who is the deformed, murderous \u0027ghost\u0027 of the opera house named Erik, however, grows violent in his terrible jealousy, until Christine suddenly disappears. The phantom is in love, but it can only spell disaster.Leroux\u0027s work, with characters ranging from the spoiled prima donna Carlotta to the mysterious Persian from Erik\u0027s past, has been immortalized by memorable adaptations. Despite this, it remains a remarkable piece of Gothic horror literature in and of itself, deeper and darker than any version that follows.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1156,
            "title": "Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World\u0027s Worst Dog",
            "author": "John Grogan",
            "date": "10/18/05",
            "genres": "Nonfiction, Animals, Memoir, Dogs, Biography, Humor, Biography Memoir, Adult, Contemporary, Autobiography",
            "characters": "Jenny, Patrick Grogan, Marley, Conor Grogan, Colleen Grogan, Família Grogan, John Grogan",
            "synopsis": "\"John and Jenny were just beginning their life together. They were young and in love, with a perfect little house and not a care in the world. Then they brought home Marley, a wiggly yellow furball of a puppy. Life would never be the same.Marley quickly grew into a barreling, ninety-seven-pound streamroller of a Labrador retriever, a dog like no other. He crashed through screen doors, gouged through drywall, flung drool on guests, stole women\u0027s undergarments, and ate nearly everything he could get his mouth around, including couches and fine jewelry. Obedience school did no good—Marley was expelled. Neither did the tranquilizers the veterinarian prescribed for him with the admonishment, \"\"Don\u0027t hesitate to use these.\"\"And yet Marley\u0027s heart was pure. Just as he joyfully refused any limits on his behavior, his love and loyalty were boundless, too. Marley shared the couple\u0027s joy at their first pregnancy, and their heartbreak over the miscarriage. He was there when babies finally arrived and when the screams of a seventeen-year-old stabbing victim pierced the night. Marley shut down a public beach and managed to land a role in a feature-length movie, always winning hearts as he made a mess of things. Through it all, he remained steadfast, a model of devotion, even when his family was at its wit\u0027s end. Unconditional love, they would learn, comes in many forms.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1157,
            "title": "Ella Enchanted",
            "author": "Gail Carson Levine ",
            "date": "09/01/1998",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Romance, Fairy Tales, Childrens, Middle Grade, Retellings, Magic, Adventure",
            "characters": "Ella Varner, Lucinda, Mandy, Prince Charmont, Areida, Hattie, Olive Abroholos Elephanta",
            "synopsis": "\"At birth, Ella is inadvertently cursed by an imprudent young fairy named Lucinda, who bestows on her the \"\"gift\"\" of obedience. Anything anyone tells her to do, Ella must obey. Another girl might have been cowed by this affliction, but not feisty Ella: \"\"Instead of making me docile, Lucinda\u0027s curse made a rebel of me. Or perhaps I was that way naturally.\"\" When her beloved mother dies, leaving her in the care of a mostly absent and avaricious father, and later, a loathsome stepmother and two treacherous stepsisters, Ella\u0027s life and well-being seem to be in grave peril. But her intelligence and saucy nature keep her in good stead as she sets out on a quest for freedom and self-discovery as she tries to track down Lucinda to undo the curse, fending off ogres, befriending elves, and falling in love with a prince along the way. Yes, there is a pumpkin coach, a glass slipper, and a happily ever after, but this is the most remarkable, delightful, and profound version of Cinderella you\u0027ll ever read.Gail Carson Levine\u0027s examination of traditional female roles in fairy tales takes some satisfying twists and deviations from the original. Ella is bound by obedience against her will, and takes matters in her own hands with ambition and verve. Her relationship with the prince is balanced and based on humor and mutual respect; in fact, it is she who ultimately rescues him. Ella Enchanted has won many well-deserved awards, including a Newbery Honor.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1158,
            "title": "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle",
            "author": "Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin (Translator)",
            "date": "10/28/97",
            "genres": "Fiction, Magical Realism, Japan, Japanese Literature, Fantasy, Contemporary, Literature, Novels, Mystery, Asia",
            "characters": "Toru Okada, Kumiko Okada, Noboru Wataya, Malta Kano, May Kasahara, Creta Kano, Tokutaro Mamiya, Nutmeg Akasaka, Cinnamon Akasaka, Boris Gromov, Ushikawa",
            "synopsis": "\"Japan\u0027s most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II.In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife\u0027s missing cat. Soon he finds himself looking for his wife as well in a netherworld that lies beneath the placid surface of Tokyo. As these searches intersect, Okada encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists: a psychic prostitute; a malevolent yet mediagenic politician; a cheerfully morbid sixteen-year-old-girl; and an aging war veteran who has been permanently changed by the hideous things he witnessed during Japan\u0027s forgotten campaign in Manchuria.Gripping, prophetic, suffused with comedy and menace, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force equal in scope to the masterpieces of Mishima and Pynchon.Three books in one volume: The Thieving Magpie, Bird as Prophet, The Birdcatcher. This translation by Jay Rubin is in collaboration with the author.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1159,
            "title": "The Green Mile",
            "author": "Stephen King ",
            "date": "09/01/1996",
            "genres": "Horror, Fiction, Fantasy, Thriller, Mystery, Supernatural, Paranormal, Crime, Drama, Historical Fiction",
            "characters": "John Coffey, Paul Edgecomb, Percy Wetmore, American Law Enforcement, Brutus Howell",
            "synopsis": "\"When it first appeared, one volume per month, Stephen King\u0027s THE GREEN MILE was an unprecedented publishing triumph: all six volumes ended up on the New York Times bestseller lists—simultaneously—and delighted millions of fans the world over.Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Depression-worn men of E Block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk the Green Mile, keeping a date with \"\"Old Sparky,\"\" Cold Mountain\u0027s electric chair. Prison guard Paul Edgecombe has seen his share of oddities in his years working the Mile. But he\u0027s never seen anyone like John Coffey, a man with the body of a giant and the mind of a child, condemned for a crime terrifying in its violence and shocking in its depravity. In this place of ultimate retribution, Edgecombe is about to discover the terrible, wondrous truth about Coffey, a truth that will challenge his most cherished beliefes... and yours.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1160,
            "title": "A Clash of Kings",
            "author": "George R.R. Martin",
            "date": "05/28/02",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Adult, Adventure, Dragons, Audiobook, Epic",
            "characters": "Brandon Stark, Catelyn Stark, Tyrion Lannister, Daenerys Targaryen, Eddard Stark, Theon Greyjoy, Robb Stark, Arya Stark, Jaime Lannister, Joffrey Baratheon, Tywin Lannister, Stannis Baratheon, Melisandre, Davos Seaworth, Lysa Arryn, Petyr Baelish, Sansa Stark, Varys, Hodor, Brienne of Tarth, Rickon Stark, Rhaego, Gendry, Edric Storm, Lord High Captain Ser Imry Florent, Selyse Baratheon, Shireen Baratheon, Margaery Tyrell, Mace Tyrell, Ser Garlan Tyrell, Myrcella Baratheon, \"\"R\u0027\u0027hllor\"\", Hoster Tully, Ser Brynden Tully, Jeor Mormont, Maester Cressen, Maester Pylos, PatchFace, Lord Steffon Baratheon, Cassana Baratheon, Aerys Targaryen II, Ser Harbert, Lord Gulian Swann, Ser Cortnay Penrose, Lord Selwyn the Evenstar, Beric Dondarrion, Thoros of Myr, Bryce Caron, Paxter Redwyne, Ardrian Celtigar, Monford Velaryon, Duram Bar Emmon, Salladhor Saan, Guncer Sunglass, Willem Darry, Robert Arryn, Ser Axell Florent, Syrio Forel, Lommy Greenhands, Hot Pie, Praed, \"\"Jaqen H\u0027\u0027ghar\"\", Rorge, Reysen, Cutjack, Woth, Gerren, Urreg, Ser Ilyn Payne, Ser Arys Oakheart, Ser Boros Blount, Ser Meryn Trant, Ser Mandon Moore, Ser Preston Greenfield, Ser Gregor Clegane, Lord Gyles Rosby, Tanda Stokeworth, Lollys Stokeworth, Falyse Stokeworth, Jalabhar Xho, Ermesande Hayford, Tyrek Lannister, Ser Hobber Redwyne, Ser Horas Redwyne, Ser Balon Swann, Morros Slynt, Janos Slynt, Lothor Brune, Dontos Hollard, Ser Aron Santagar, Old Nan, Septa Mordane, Lord Bronn, Timett son of Timett, Shagga son of Dolf, Chella daughter of Cheyk, Tysha, Vardis Egen, Ser Barristan Selmy, Lancel Lannister, Captain Vylarr, Grey Wind, Nymeria, Shaggydog, Walder Frey, Little Walder Frey, Ser Stevron Frey, Black Walder Frey, Ser Emmon Frey, Red Walder Frey, Walder Rivers, White Walda, Ser Aenys Frey, Ser Rodrik Cassel, Beth Cassel, Farlen, Turnip, Maester Luwin, Septon Chayle, Hayhead, Mikken, Alebelly, Joseth, Shyra Errol, Tomard, TomToo, Jory Cassel, Qhorin Halfhand, Pypar, Todder, Othor, Ser Endrew Tarth, Conwy, Ser Alliser Thorne, Donal Noye, Thoren Smallwood, Jaremy Rykker, Waymar Royce, Ser Arnell, Dywen, Olyvar Frey, Ser Robin Ryger, Ser Cleos Frey, Genna Frey, Ser Edmure Tully, Lord Rickard Karstark, Willem Lannister, Tion Frey, Maester Vyman, Marq Piper, Karyl Vance, Jonos Bracken, Jason Mallister, Patrek Mallister, Greatjon Umber, Tytos Blackwood, Ser Desmond Grell, Burton Crakehall, Ser Amory Lorch, Ser Stafford Lannister, Daven Lannister, Allar Deem, Ser Jacelyn Bywater, Tobho Mott, Allard Seaworth, Dale Seaworth, Maric Seaworth, Matthos Seaworth, Devan Seaworth, Marya Seaworth, Septon Barre, Hubard Rambton, Yohn Royce, Balon Greyjoy, Alannys Greyjoy, Euron Greyjoy, Aeron Greyjoy, Rodrik Greyjoy, Maron Greyjoy, Lord Sawane, Goodbrother of Great Wyk, Sylas Sourmouth, Dagmer Cleftjaw, Maester Qalen, Maester Wendamyr, Rakharo, Aggo, Ko Jhogo, Doreah, Jhiqui, Rhaegal, Viserion, Drogon, Khal Pono, Mirri Maz Duur, Khal Jhaqo, Magister Illyrio, Lynesse Hightower, Lord Leyton Hightower, Gerold Hightower, Tregar Ormollen, Ryman Frey, Hosteen Frey, Pyat Pree, Xaro Xhoan Daxos, Quaithe of the Shadow, Bedwyck, Eddison Tollett, Jarman Buckwell, Ser Mallador Locke, Sheila Whent, Jeyne Poole, Maester Frenken, Podrick Payne, Ironbelly, Master Salloreon, Chataya, Alayaya, Wyman Manderly, Poxy Tym, Halys Hornwood, Daryn Hornwood, Larence Snow, Ser Wendel Manderly, Wylis Manderly, Roose Bolton, Domeric Bolton, Ramsay Snow, Reek, Mors Crowfood, Hother Umber, Robett Glover, Leobald Tallhart, Beren Tallhart, Benfred Tallhart, Ser Helman Tallhart, Howland Reed, Cley Cerwyn, Doran Martell, Trystane Martell, Elia of Dorne, Rhaenys Targaryen, Aegon Targaryen, Hallyne the Pyromancer, Meera Reed, Jojen Reed, Hallis Mollen, Jon Umber, Colen of Greenpools, Lord Estermont, Lord Mathis Rowan, Lady Oakheart, Lord Randyll Tarly, Lucas Blackwood, Ser Perwyn Frey, Jon Fossoway, Guyard Morrigen, Tanton Fossoway, Craster, Mance Rayder, Gared, Lark the Sisterman, Brown Bernarr, Sigrin the Shipwright, Otter Gimpknee, Rymolf Stormdrunk, Donnel Locke, Maester Colemon, The Tickler, Polliver, Dunsen, Mycah, Goodwife Amabel, Goodwife Harra, Weese, Quhuru Mo, Kevan Lannister, Alyn Stackspear, Whitesmile Wat, Lord Lefford, Ser Dunaver, Jodge, Harys Swyft, Maester Tothmure, Lord Vargo Hoat, Lord Lydden, Joss Stilwood, Eggon, Tobbot, Robar Royce, SER ROBERT BRAX, Lymond Vikary, Lord Jast, Martyn Lannister, Ser Parmen Crane, Emmon Cuy, Ser Gawen Wylde, Edwyn Frey, Petyr Frey, Aegon Frey, Stygg, Werlag, Urzen, Black Lorren, Gevin Harlaw, Lord Botley, Todric, Andrik the Unsmiling, Lord Drumm of Old Wyk, Qarl the Maid, Ser Addam Marbrand, Ser Lyonel Baratheon, Tuffleberry, Martyn Rivers, Rymund the Rhymer, Utherydes Wayn, Enger, Long Lew, Poul Pernford, Brandon the Shipwright, Mathos Mallarawan, Wendello Qar Deeth, Egon Emeros the Exquisite, Ser Osmund Kettleblack, Osney Kettleblack, Osfryd Kettleblack, Tygett Lannister, Alester Florent of Brightwater, Lord Meadows, Rattleshirt, Harma the Dogshead, Alfyn Crowkiller, Rickard Stark, The Weeping Man, Symon Silver Tongue, Ashara Dayne, Flement Brax, Pinkeye, Ser Cadwyn, Ben Blackthumb, Shagwell the Fool, Squint, Gariss, Gynir Rednose, Gelmarr the Grim, Squire Dalbridge, Stonesnake, Ygritte, Ethan Glover, Jeffory Mallister, Kyle Royce, Elbert Arryn, Porther, Hullen, Harridan, Ser Arneld, Strong Belwas, Arstan Whitebeard, Walton Steelshanks, Septon Utt, Qyburn, Faithful Ursywck, Elmar Frey, Ser Jared Frey, Harys Haigh, Ronel Rivers, Lord Crakehall, Philip Foote, Josmyn Peckledon, Willit, Dykk Harlaw, Endehar, Red Rolfe, Ulf the Ill, Harrag Sheepstealer, Kenned the Whale, Maester Ballabar, Ragwyle, Arthur Dayne, Dolorous Edd, Robin Flint, Lord Velaryon, Alysanne, Prince Rhaegar, Maester Aemon, King Harren, Hal Mollen, Fat Tom, Maekar Targaryens, Moon Boy, Bael the Bard, Ser Harys Swyft, Lord Rossart, Elenei, Durran Godsgrief, Azor Ahai, Lord Caswell, Chiswyck, Lord of Light, Lord Cerwyn, Lord Hornwood, Ser Mark Mullendore, Lord Celtigar, Ser Errol, Prince Tommen, Myraham, Lord Varner, King Daeron, Lady Lyanna, Lord Caron, Esgred, High Septon, Lady Selyse, Robert I Baratheon, Big Walder Frey, Donella Hornwood, SER ROBERT BRAX, Lymond Vikary, Lord Jast, Martyn Lannister, Ser Parmen Crane, Emmon Cuy, Ser Gawen Wylde, Edwyn Frey, Petyr Frey, Aegon Frey, Stygg, Werlag, Urzen, Black Lorren, Gevin Harlaw, Lord Botley, Todric, Andrik the Unsmiling, Lord Drumm of Old Wyk, Qarl the Maid, Ser Addam Marbrand, Ser Lyonel Baratheon, Tuffleberry, Martyn Rivers, Rymund the Rhymer, Utherydes Wayn, Enger, Long Lew, Poul Pernford, Brandon the Shipwright, Mathos Mallarawan, Wendello Qar Deeth, Egon Emeros the Exquisite, Ser Osmund Kettleblack, Osney Kettleblack, Osfryd Kettleblack, Tygett Lannister, Alester Florent of Brightwater, Lord Meadows, Rattleshirt, Harma the Dogshead, Alfyn Crowkiller, Rickard Stark, The Weeping Man, Symon Silver Tongue, Ashara Dayne, Flement Brax, Pinkeye, Ser Cadwyn, Ben Blackthumb, Shagwell the Fool, Squint, Gariss, Gynir Rednose, Gelmarr the Grim, Squire Dalbridge, Stonesnake, Ygritte, Ethan Glover, Jeffory Mallister, Kyle Royce, Elbert Arryn, Porther, Hullen, Harridan, Ser Arneld, Strong Belwas, Arstan Whitebeard, Walton Steelshanks, Septon Utt, Qyburn, Faithful Ursywck, Elmar Frey, Ser Jared Frey, Harys Haigh, Ronel Rivers, Lord Crakehall, Philip Foote, Josmyn Peckledon, Dykk Harlaw, Endehar, Red Rolfe, Ulf the Ill, Harrag Sheepstealer, Kenned the Whale, Maester Ballabar, Ragwyle, Arthur Dayne, Dolorous Edd, Robin Flint, Lord Velaryon, Alysanne, Prince Rhaegar, Maester Aemon, King Harren, Hal Mollen, Fat Tom, Maekar Targaryens, Moon Boy, Bael the Bard, Ser Harys Swyft, Lord Rossart, Elenei, Durran Godsgrief, Azor Ahai, Lord Caswell, Chiswyck, Lord of Light, Lord Cerwyn, Lord Hornwood, Ser Mark Mullendore, Lord Celtigar, Ser Errol, Prince Tommen, Myraham, Lord Varner, King Daeron, Lady Lyanna, Lord Caron, Esgred, High Septon, Lady Selyse, Ottyn Wythers, SER ROBERT BRAX, Lymond Vikary, Lord Jast, Martyn Lannister, Ser Parmen Crane, Emmon Cuy, Ser Gawen Wylde, Edwyn Frey, Petyr Frey, Aegon Frey, Stygg, Werlag, Urzen, Black Lorren, Gevin Harlaw, Lord Botley, Todric, Andrik the Unsmiling, Lord Drumm of Old Wyk, Qarl the Maid, Ser Addam Marbrand, Ser Lyonel Baratheon, Tuffleberry, Martyn Rivers, Rymund the Rhymer, Utherydes Wayn, Enger, Long Lew, Poul Pernford, Brandon the Shipwright, Mathos Mallarawan, Egon Emeros the Exquisite, Ser Osmund Kettleblack, Osney Kettleblack, Osfryd Kettleblack, Tygett Lannister, Alester Florent of Brightwater, Lord Meadows, Rattleshirt, Harma the Dogshead, Alfyn Crowkiller, Rickard Stark, The Weeping Man, Symon Silver Tongue, Ashara Dayne, Flement Brax, Pinkeye, Ser Cadwyn, Ben Blackthumb, Shagwell the Fool, Squint, Gariss, Gynir Rednose, Gelmarr the Grim, Squire Dalbridge, Stonesnake, Ygritte, Ethan Glover, Jeffory Mallister, Kyle Royce, Elbert Arryn, Porther, Hullen, Harridan, Ser Arneld, Strong Belwas, Arstan Whitebeard, Walton Steelshanks, Septon Utt, Qyburn, Faithful Ursywck, Elmar Frey, Ser Jared Frey, Harys Haigh, Ronel Rivers, Lord Crakehall, Philip Foote, Josmyn Peckledon, Willit, Dykk Harlaw, Endehar, Red Rolfe, Ulf the Ill, Harrag Sheepstealer, Kenned the Whale, Maester Ballabar, Ragwyle, Arthur Dayne, Dolorous Edd, Robin Flint, Lord Velaryon, Alysanne, Prince Rhaegar, Maester Aemon, King Harren, Hal Mollen, Fat Tom, Maekar Targaryens, Moon Boy, Bael the Bard, Ser Harys Swyft, Lord Rossart, Elenei, Durran Godsgrief, Azor Ahai, Lord Caswell, Chiswyck, Lord of Light, Lord Cerwyn, Lord Hornwood, Ser Mark Mullendore, Lord Celtigar, Ser Errol, Prince Tommen, Myraham, Lord Varner, King Daeron, Lady Lyanna, Lord Caron, Esgred, High Septon, Lady Selyse, Samwell Tarly, Asha Greyjoy, Sandor Clegane, Oswell Kettleback, Tommen Baratheon, Jon Snow, Cersei Lannister, Jorah Mormont",
            "synopsis": "\"A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. Two great leaders—Lord Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon—who hold sway over an age of enforced peace are dead, victims of royal treachery. Now, from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. It is a tale in which brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress; and wild men descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside. Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel...and the coldest hearts. For when kings clash, the whole land trembles.Here is the second volume in George R.R. Martin magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Game of Thrones and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, George R.R. Martin stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1161,
            "title": "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society",
            "author": "Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows",
            "date": "07/10/2018",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Romance, World War II, Book Club, War, Adult, Adult Fiction, Books About Books",
            "characters": "Sophie Kintock, Juliet Ashton, Dawsey Adams, Susan Scott, Sidney Stark, Elizabeth McKenna, Isola Pribby, Markham V. Reynolds, Jr., Kit McKenna, Adelaide Addison, Eben Ramsey, Amelia Maugery, John Booker, Christian Hellman, Will Thisbee, Clovis Fossey, Thomson Stubbins, Clara Saussey, Sally Ann Frobisher",
            "synopsis": "\" #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE ON NETFLIX - A remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German Occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name. \"\"I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.\"\" January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she\u0027s never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb...As Juliet and her new correspondent exchange letters, Juliet is drawn into the world of this man and his friends—and what a wonderfully eccentric world it is. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society—born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi when its members were discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island—boasts a charming, funny, deeply human cast of characters, from pig farmers to phrenologists, literature lovers all.Juliet begins a remarkable correspondence with the society\u0027s members, learning about their island, their taste in books, and the impact the recent German occupation has had on their lives. Captivated by their stories, she sets sail for Guernsey, and what she finds will change her forever.Written with warmth and humor as a series of letters, this novel is a celebration of the written word in all its guises and of finding connection in the most surprising ways.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1162,
            "title": "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas",
            "author": "Hunter S. Thompson, Ralph Steadman (Illustrator)",
            "date": "06/28/98",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Humor, Journalism, Novels, American, Literature, Contemporary, Travel, Comedy",
            "characters": "Hunter S. Thompson",
            "synopsis": "\"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1163,
            "title": "The House of the Spirits",
            "author": "Isabel Allende , Magda Bogin (Translator)",
            "date": "08/30/05",
            "genres": "Fiction, Magical Realism, Historical Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Spanish Literature, Literature, Historical, Novels, Latin American",
            "characters": "Esteban Trueba, Clara del Valle, Férula Trueba, Blanca Trueba, Jaime Trueba, Nicolàs Trueba, Pedro Tercero Garcia, Alba Trueba, Esteban Garcia",
            "synopsis": "\"In one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of the twentieth century, Isabel Allende weaves a luminous tapestry of three generations of the Trueba family, revealing both triumphs and tragedies. Here is patriarch Esteban, whose wild desires and political machinations are tempered only by his love for his ethereal wife, Clara, a woman touched by an otherworldly hand. Their daughter, Blanca, whose forbidden love for a man Esteban has deemed unworthy infuriates her father, yet will produce his greatest joy: his granddaughter Alba, a beautiful, ambitious girl who will lead the family and their country into a revolutionary future.The House of the Spirits is an enthralling saga that spans decades and lives, twining the personal and the political into an epic novel of love, magic, and fate.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1164,
            "title": "Roots: The Saga of an American Family",
            "author": "Alex Haley",
            "date": "01/01/1977",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Classics, Historical, African American, Africa, Race, Literature, Audiobook, Novels",
            "characters": "George Lincoln Rockwell, Alex Haley, Kunta Kinte",
            "synopsis": "\"When he was a boy in Henning, Tennessee, Alex Haley\u0027s grandmother used to tell him stories about their family—stories that went back to her grandparents, and their grandparents, down through the generations all the way to a man she called \"\"the African.\"\" She said he had lived across the ocean near what he called the \"\"Kamby Bolongo\"\" and had been out in the forest one day chopping wood to make a drum when he was set upon by four men, beaten, chained and dragged aboard a slave ship bound for Colonial America.Still vividly remembering the stories after he grew up and became a writer, Haley began to search for documentation that might authenticate the narrative. It took ten years and a half a million miles of travel across three continents to find it, but finally, in an astonishing feat of genealogical detective work, he discovered not only the name of \"\"the African\"\"—Kunta Kinte—but the precise location of Juffure, the very village in The Gambia, West Africa, from which he was abducted in 1767 at the age of sixteen and taken on the Lord Ligonier to Maryland and sold to a Virginia planter.Haley has talked in Juffure with his own African sixth cousins. On September 29, 1967, he stood on the dock in Annapolis where his great-great-great-great-grandfather was taken ashore on September 29, 1767. Now he has written the monumental two-century drama of Kunta Kinte and the six generations who came after him—slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lumber mill workers and Pullman porters, lawyers and architects—and one author.But Haley has done more than recapture the history of his own family. As the first black American writer to trace his origins back to their roots, he has told the story of 25,000,000 Americans of African descent. He has rediscovered for an entire people a rich cultural heritage that slavery took away from them, along with their names and their identities. But Roots speaks, finally, not just to blacks, or to whites, but to all people and all races everywhere, for the story it tells is one of the most eloquent testimonials ever written to the indomitability of the human spirit.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1165,
            "title": "Misery",
            "author": "Stephen King ",
            "date": "11/01/1988",
            "genres": "Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, Mystery, Novels, Adult, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Drama",
            "characters": "Paul Sheldon, Annie Wilkes",
            "synopsis": "\"Alternate cover editions here and here.Paul Sheldon. He\u0027s a bestselling novelist who has finally met his biggest fan. Her name is Annie Wilkes and she is more than a rabid reader - she is Paul\u0027s nurse, tending his shattered body after an automobile accident. But she is also his captor, keeping him prisoner in her isolated house.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1166,
            "title": "Howl\u0027s Moving Castle",
            "author": "Diana Wynne Jones",
            "date": "08/01/2001",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Romance, Magic, Middle Grade, Childrens, Adventure, Classics, Young Adult Fantasy",
            "characters": "Michael (angel), Wizard Howl, Sophie Hatter, Calcifer, Witch of the Waste, Lily Angorian",
            "synopsis": "\"An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found hereSophie has the great misfortune of being the eldest of three daughters, destined to fail miserably should she ever leave home to seek her fate. But when she unwittingly attracts the ire of the Witch of the Waste, Sophie finds herself under a horrid spell that transforms her into an old lady. Her only chance at breaking it lies in the ever-moving castle in the hills: the Wizard Howl\u0027s castle. To untangle the enchantment, Sophie must handle the heartless Howl, strike a bargain with a fire demon, and meet the Witch of the Waste head-on. Along the way, she discovers that there\u0027s far more to Howl—and herself—than first meets the eye.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1167,
            "title": "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet\u0027s Nest",
            "author": "Stieg Larsson, Reg Keeland (Translator)",
            "date": "05/23/10",
            "genres": "Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Contemporary, Adult, Sweden, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Lisbeth Salander, Mikael Blomkvist, Alexander Zalachenko, Jan Bublanski, Sonja Modig, Peter Teleborian, Erika Berger, Ronald Niedermann, Annika Giannini, Dragan Armansky, Monica Figuerola, Torsten Edklinth, Dr. Anders Jonasson, Gunnar Björck",
            "synopsis": "\"The stunning third and final novel in Stieg Larsson\u0027s internationally best-selling trilogy.Lisbeth Salander - the heart of Larsson\u0027s two previous novels - lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She\u0027s fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she\u0027ll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she will plot revenge - against the man who tried to kill her, and the corrupt government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life.Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now Salander is fighting back.~from the jacket\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1168,
            "title": "The Secret History",
            "author": "Donna Tartt",
            "date": "04/13/04",
            "genres": "Fiction, Mystery, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Thriller, Classics, Adult, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Novels",
            "characters": "Richard Papen, Camilla Macaulay, Julian Morrow, Charles Macaulay, Henry Winter, Edmund Corcoran, Francis Abernathy",
            "synopsis": "\"Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality they slip gradually from obsession to corruption and betrayal, and at last - inexorably - into evil.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1169,
            "title": "White Oleander",
            "author": "Janet Fitch ",
            "date": "09/01/2001",
            "genres": "Fiction, Contemporary, Drama, Adult Fiction, Coming Of Age, Adult, Novels, Chick Lit, Literary Fiction, Young Adult",
            "characters": "Astrid Magnusson, Ingrid Magnusson",
            "synopsis": "\"Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, White Oleander tells the unforgettable story of Ingrid, a brilliant poet imprisoned for murder, and her daughter, Astrid, whose odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes-each its own universe, with its own laws, its own dangers, its own hard lessons to be learned-becomes a redeeming and surprising journey of self-discovery.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1170,
            "title": "Delirium",
            "author": "Lauren Oliver ",
            "date": "02/07/2012",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Dystopia, Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Teen, Audiobook, Love, Post Apocalyptic",
            "characters": "Hana Tate, Magdalena \"\"Lena\"\" Ella Haloway-Tiddle, Alex Sheathes, Carol Tiddle, Grace Tiddle",
            "synopsis": "\"There is an alternate cover edition for this ISBN13 here.In an alternate United States, love has been declared a dangerous disease, and the government forces everyone who reaches eighteen to have a procedure called the Cure. Living with her aunt, uncle, and cousins in Portland, Maine, Lena Haloway is very much looking forward to being cured and living a safe, predictable life. She watched love destroy her mother and isn\u0027t about to make the same mistake.But with ninety-five days left until her treatment, Lena meets enigmatic Alex, a boy from the \"\"Wilds\"\" who lives under the government\u0027s radar. What will happen if they do the unthinkable and fall in love?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1171,
            "title": "Othello",
            "author": "William Shakespeare",
            "date": "01/01/2004",
            "genres": "Classics, Plays, Fiction, Drama, School, Literature, Theatre, Read For School, Poetry, Tragedy",
            "characters": "Iago, Bianca, Othello, Miguel Cássio, Desdêmona, Emilia, Rodrigo",
            "synopsis": "\"In Othello, Shakespeare creates a powerful drama of a marriage that begins with fascination (between the exotic Moor Othello and the Venetian lady Desdemona), with elopement, and with intense mutual devotion and that ends precipitately with jealous rage and violent deaths. He sets this story in the romantic world of the Mediterranean, moving the action from Venice to the island of Cyprus and giving it an even more exotic coloring with stories of Othello\u0027s African past. Shakespeare builds so many differences into his hero and heroine—differences of race, of age, of cultural background—that one should not, perhaps, be surprised that the marriage ends disastrously. But most people who see or read the play feel that the love that the play presents between Othello and Desdemona is so strong that it would have overcome all these differences were it not for the words and actions of Othello\u0027s standard-bearer, Iago, who hates Othello and sets out to destroy him by destroying his love for Desdemona. As Othello succumbs to Iago\u0027s insinuations that Desdemona is unfaithful, fascination—which dominates the early acts of the play—turns to horror, especially for the audience. We are confronted by spectacles of a generous and trusting Othello in the grip of Iago\u0027s schemes; of an innocent Desdemona, who has given herself up entirely to her love for Othello only to be subjected to his horrifying verbal and physical assaults, the outcome of Othello\u0027s mistaken convictions about her faithlessness.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1172,
            "title": "Paper Towns",
            "author": "John Green ",
            "date": "09/22/09",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, Mystery, Realistic Fiction, Teen, Coming Of Age, Adventure, Young Adult Contemporary",
            "characters": "Margo Roth Spiegelman, Quentin  Jacobsen, Marcus \"\"Radar\"\" Lincoln, Lacey Pemberton, Ben Starling, Jason Worthington",
            "synopsis": "\"Who is the real Margo?Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life—dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows. After their all-nighter ends, and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues—and they\u0027re for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees the girl he thought he knew...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1173,
            "title": "The Vampire Lestat",
            "author": "Anne Rice",
            "date": "08/31/04",
            "genres": "Horror, Fantasy, Vampires, Fiction, Paranormal, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy, Gothic, Historical Fiction, Adult",
            "characters": "Lestat de Lioncourt, Gabrielle de Lioncourt, Akasha, Marius de Romanus, Nicolas de Lenfrent, Louis de Pointe du Lac, Armand",
            "synopsis": "\"Lestat. The vampire hero of Anne Rice\u0027s enthralling new novel is a creature of the darkest and richest imagination. Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the demonic, shimmering 1980s, he rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his eternal, terrifying existence. His is a mesmerizing story -- passionate, complex, and thrilling.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1174,
            "title": "Speak",
            "author": "Laurie Halse Anderson ",
            "date": "01/15/19",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Fiction, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Teen, Mental Health, High School, Coming Of Age, School, Abuse",
            "characters": "Ivy Hall, Heather, Nichole Smythe Burnell, Melinda Sordino, Andy Evans, David Petrakis, Mr. Freeman, Rachel Bruin",
            "synopsis": "\"The first ten lies they tell you in high school.\"\"Speak up for yourself—we want to know what you have to say.\"\" From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether. Only her art class offers any solace, and it is through her work on an art project that she is finally able to face what really happened at that terrible party: she was raped by an upperclassman, a guy who still attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her. Her healing process has just begun when she has another violent encounter with him. But this time Melinda fights back, refuses to be silent, and thereby achieves a measure of vindication. In Laurie Halse Anderson\u0027s powerful novel, an utterly believable heroine with a bitterly ironic voice delivers a blow to the hypocritical world of high school. She speaks for many a disenfranchised teenager while demonstrating the importance of speaking up for oneself.Speak was a 1999 National Book Award Finalist for Young People\u0027s Literature.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1175,
            "title": "The Idiot",
            "author": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Anna Brailovsky (Translator), Eva M. Martin (Translator), Constance Garnett (Translator), Martin Geeson (Narrator), Joseph Frank (Introduction)",
            "date": "04/08/2003",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Russia, Russian Literature, Literature, Novels, Philosophy, 19th Century, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction",
            "characters": "Prince Myshkin, Nastasya Filippovna, Rogozhin",
            "synopsis": "\"Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women—the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia—both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin’s honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moral emptiness of those around him. In her revision of the Garnett translation, Anna Brailovsky has corrected inaccuracies wrought by Garnett’s drastic anglicization of the novel, restoring as much as possible the syntactical structure of the original story.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1176,
            "title": "King Lear",
            "author": "William Shakespeare",
            "date": "01/01/2004",
            "genres": "Classics, Plays, Drama, Fiction, School, Literature, Theatre, Poetry, Read For School, Tragedy",
            "characters": "Regan, Cordelia, Goneril, Leir of Britain, Fool, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Albany, Earl of Kent, Earl of Gloucester, Edgar, Edmund",
            "synopsis": "\"Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain that it represents. Its figures harden their hearts, engage in violence, or try to alleviate the suffering of others. Lear himself rages until his sanity cracks. What, then, keeps bringing us back to King Lear? For all the force of its language, King Lear is almost equally powerful when translated, suggesting that it is the story, in large part, that draws us to the play.The play tells us about families struggling between greed and cruelty, on the one hand, and support and consolation, on the other. Emotions are extreme, magnified to gigantic proportions. We also see old age portrayed in all its vulnerability, pride, and, perhaps, wisdom—one reason this most devastating of Shakespeare’s tragedies is also perhaps his most moving.The authoritative edition of King Lear from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes:-Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play-Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play-Scene-by-scene plot summaries-A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases-An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language-An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play-Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books-An annotated guide to further readingEssay by Susan SnyderThe Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare’s printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit Folger.edu.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1177,
            "title": "The Once and Future King",
            "author": "T.H. White",
            "date": "06/15/87",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Arthurian, Mythology, Science Fiction Fantasy, Young Adult, Literature, Historical",
            "characters": "Merlin, Sir Lancelot, Sir Mordred, Queen Guinevere, King Arthur",
            "synopsis": "\"T.H White′s masterful retelling of the Arthurian legend is an abiding classic. Here all five volumes that make up the story are published in one volume, as White himself always wished. Exquisite comedy offsets the tragedy of Arthur′s personal doom as White brings to life the major British epic of all time with brilliance, grandeur, warmth and charm.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1178,
            "title": "Neverwhere",
            "author": "Neil Gaiman ",
            "date": "09/02/2003",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Science Fiction, Adventure, Horror, Adult, Young Adult",
            "characters": "Richard Mayhew, Door, Marquis de Carabas, Hunter, Mr. Croup, Mr. Vandemar, Islington, Jessica Bartram, Old Bailey",
            "synopsis": "\"Under the streets of London there\u0027s a place most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, knights in armour and pale girls in black velvet. This is the city of the people who have fallen between the cracks.Richard Mayhew, a young businessman, is going to find out more than enough about this other London. A single act of kindness catapults him out of his workday existence and into a world that is at once eerily familiar and utterly bizarre. And a strange destiny awaits him down here, beneath his native city: Neverwhere.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1179,
            "title": "Into the Wild",
            "author": "Jon Krakauer ",
            "date": "01/20/97",
            "genres": "Nonfiction, Biography, Travel, Adventure, Classics, Memoir, Nature, Biography Memoir, School, Survival",
            "characters": "Christopher McCandless",
            "synopsis": "\"Librarian\u0027s Note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereIn April, 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, a party of moose hunters found his decomposed body. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild.Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and, unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw away the maps. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1180,
            "title": "Inkheart",
            "author": "Cornelia Funke , Anthea Bell (Translator)",
            "date": "05/01/2005",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Middle Grade, Adventure, Magic, Books About Books, Young Adult Fantasy, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Meggie Folchart, Mortimer Folchart, Elinor Loredan, Farid, Resa Folchart, Staubfinger, Capricorn",
            "synopsis": "\"Alternate cover edition: 9780439709101From internationally acclaimed storyteller Cornelia Funke, this bestselling, magical epic is now out in paperback!One cruel night, Meggie\u0027s father reads aloud from a book called INKHEART- and an evil ruler escapes the boundaries of fiction and lands in their living room. Suddenly, Meggie is smack in the middle of the kind of adventure she has only read about in books. Meggie must learn to harness the magic that has conjured this nightmare. For only she can change the course of the story that has changed her life forever.This is INKHEART-a timeless tale about books, about imagination, about life. Dare to read it aloud.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1181,
            "title": "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ\u0027s Childhood Pal",
            "author": "Christopher Moore ",
            "date": "05/25/04",
            "genres": "Fiction, Humor, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Religion, Comedy, Historical, Audiobook, Adult, Adult Fiction",
            "characters": "Levi \"\"Biff\"\", Mary Magdalene, Jesus",
            "synopsis": "\"The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years—except Biff, the Messiah\u0027s best bud, who has been resurrected to tell the story in the divinely hilarious yet heartfelt work \"\"reminiscent of Vonnegut and Douglas Adams\"\" (Philadelphia Inquirer).Verily, the story Biff has to tell is a miraculous one, filled with remarkable journeys, magic, healings, kung fu, corpse reanimations, demons, and hot babes. Even the considerable wiles and devotion of the Savior\u0027s pal may not be enough to divert Joshua from his tragic destiny. But there\u0027s no one who loves Josh more—except maybe \"\"Maggie,\"\" Mary of Magdala—and Biff isn\u0027t about to let his extraordinary pal suffer and ascend without a fight.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1182,
            "title": "The Complete Sherlock Holmes",
            "author": "Arthur Conan Doyle",
            "date": "10/01/1986",
            "genres": "Classics, Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Short Stories, Detective, Literature, Mystery Thriller, Historical Fiction, Thriller",
            "characters": "Charles Baskerville, Inspector Lestrade, Henry Baskerville, Irene Adler, James Moriarty, Mrs Hudson (Conan Doyle series), John H. Watson, M.D., Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes, Dr. John Watson",
            "synopsis": "\"A study in scarlet -The sign of four -Adventures of Sherlock Holmes : A scandal in Bohemia ; The red-headed league ; A case of identity ; The Boscombe Valley mystery ; The five orange pips ; The man with the twisted lip ; The adventure of the blue carbuncle ; The adventure of the speckled band ; The adventure of the engineer\u0027s thumb ; The adventure of the noble bachelor ; The adventure of the beryl coronet ; The adventure of the copper beeches -Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes : Silver blaze ; The yellow face ; The stock-broker\u0027s clerk ; The \"\"Gloria Scott\"\" ; The Musgrave ritual ; The Reigate puzzle ; The crooked man ; The resident patient ; The Greek interpreter ; The naval treaty ; The final problem -The return of Sherlock Holmes : The adventure of the empty house ; The adventure of the Norwood builder ; The adventure of the dancing men ; The adventure of the solitary cyclist ; The adventure of the priory school ; The adventure of Black Peter ; The adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton ; The adventure of the six Napoleons ; The adventure of the three students ; The adventure of the golden pince-nez ; The adventure of the missing three-quarter ; The adventure of the abbey grange ; The adventure of the second stain. Volume 2. Introduction / by Loren D. Estleman -The hound of the Baskervilles -The valley of fear -His last bow : The adventure of Wisteria Lodge : The singular experience of Mr. John Scott Eccles ; The tiger of San Pedro ; The adventure of the cardboard box ; The adventure of the red circle ; The adventure of the Bruce-Partington plans ; The adventure of the dying detective ; The disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax ; The adventure of the devil\u0027s foot ; His last bow -The case-book of Sherlock Holmes : The adventure of the illustrious client ; The adventure of the blanched soldier ; The adventure of the Mazarin stone ; The adventure of the three gables ; The adventure of the Sussex vampire ; The adventure of the three Garridebs ; The problem of Thor Bridge ; The adventure of the creeping man ; The adventure of the lion\u0027s mane ; The adventure of the veiled lodger ; The adventure of Shoscombe old place ; The adventure of the retired colourman.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1183,
            "title": "Candide",
            "author": "Voltaire, Sara Gioacchino Corcos (Translator)",
            "date": "10/28/91",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Philosophy, France, Literature, Humor, French Literature, School, 18th Century, Novels",
            "characters": "Pangloss, Cunegonde, Dr. Pangloss, Candide (Voltaire)",
            "synopsis": "\"Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in \"\"the best of all possible worlds.\"\" On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the philosophical optimism that proclaims that all disaster and human suffering is part of a benevolent cosmic plan. Fast, funny, often outrageous, the French philosopher\u0027s immortal narrative takes Candide around the world to discover that - contrary to the teachings of his distinguished tutor Dr. Pangloss - all is not always for the best. Alive with wit, brilliance, and graceful storytelling, Candide has become Voltaire\u0027s most celebrated work.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1184,
            "title": "James and the Giant Peach",
            "author": "Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illustrator)",
            "date": "09/10/2002",
            "genres": "Childrens, Fantasy, Fiction, Classics, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Adventure, Juvenile, Humor, Chapter Books",
            "characters": "James Henry Trotter",
            "synopsis": "\"When James accidentally drops some magic crystals by the old peach tree, strange things start to happen. The peach at the top of the tree begins to grow, and before long it\u0027s as big as a house. When James discovers a secret entranceway into the fruit and crawls inside, he meets wonderful new friends-the Old-Green-Grasshopper, the dainty Ladybug, and the Centipede of the multiple boots. After years of feeling like an outsider in his aunts\u0027 house, James finally found a place where he belongs. With a snip of the stem, the peach household starts rolling away-and the adventure begins!Roald Dahl\u0027s first and most widely celebrated book for young people continues to thrill readers around the world.\"\"This is a stunning book to be cherished for its story, a superb fantasy.\"\"-Chicago Tribune\"\"A beautifully written, fantastic book.\"\"-Christian Science Monitor\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1185,
            "title": "Blood River: A Journey to Africa\u0027s Broken Heart",
            "author": "Tim Butcher ",
            "date": "01/03/2008",
            "genres": "Travel, Nonfiction, Africa, History, Adventure, Memoir, Biography, Politics, Travelogue, Autobiography",
            "characters": "Henry Morton Stanley",
            "synopsis": "\"A compulsively readable account of a journey to the Congo — a country virtually inaccessible to the outside world — vividly told by a daring and adventurous journalist.Ever since Stanley first charted its mighty river in the 1870s, the Congo has epitomized the dark and turbulent history of a failed continent. However, its troubles only served to increase the interest of Daily Telegraph correspondent Tim Butcher, who was sent to cover Africa in 2000. Before long he became obsessed with the idea of recreating Stanley’s original expedition — but travelling alone.Despite warnings Butcher spent years poring over colonial-era maps and wooing rebel leaders before making his will and venturing to the Congo’s eastern border. He passed through once thriving cities of this country and saw the marks left behind by years of abuse and misrule. Almost, 2,500 harrowing miles later, he reached the Atlantic Ocean, a thinner and a wiser man.Butcher’s journey was a remarkable feat. But the story of the Congo, vividly told in Blood River, is more remarkable still.From the Hardcover edition.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1186,
            "title": "Paradise Lost",
            "author": "John Milton, John Leonard (Editor, Contributor)",
            "date": "02/27/03",
            "genres": "Classics, Poetry, Fiction, Literature, Religion, Fantasy, Philosophy, School, Classic Literature, Epic",
            "characters": "Michael (angel), Belial, Belzebub, Eve (Bible), Jesus, Raphael (angel), Satan, Mammon, God, Adam (Bible)",
            "synopsis": "\"John Milton\u0027s Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind\u0027s destiny. The struggle rages across three worlds - heaven, hell, and earth - as Satan and his band of rebel angels plot their revenge against God. At the center of the conflict are Adam and Eve, who are motivated by all too human temptations but whose ultimate downfall is unyielding love.Marked by Milton\u0027s characteristic erudition, Paradise Lost is a work epic both in scale and, notoriously, in ambition. For nearly 350 years, it has held generation upon generation of audiences in rapt attention, and its profound influence can be seen in almost every corner of Western culture.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1187,
            "title": "All Creatures Great and Small",
            "author": "James Herriot",
            "date": "04/15/98",
            "genres": "Nonfiction, Animals, Memoir, Classics, Biography, Humor, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, British Literature, Audiobook",
            "characters": "James Herriot, Siegfried Farnon, Tristan Farnon, Helen Alderson, Mrs. Hall, Mrs. Pumphrey, Tricky Woo, Granville Bennet, Diana Brompton, Herbert Jarvis, Broom, Charlie Dent, John Skipton, Copfield",
            "synopsis": "\"The classic multimillion copy bestsellerDelve into the magical, unforgettable world of James Herriot, the world\u0027s most beloved veterinarian, and his menagerie of heartwarming, funny, and tragic animal patients.For over forty years, generations of readers have thrilled to Herriot\u0027s marvelous tales, deep love of life, and extraordinary storytelling abilities. For decades, Herriot roamed the remote, beautiful Yorkshire Dales, treating every patient that came his way from smallest to largest, and observing animals and humans alike with his keen, loving eye.In All Creatures Great and Small, we meet the young Herriot as he takes up his calling and discovers that the realities of veterinary practice in rural Yorkshire are very different from the sterile setting of veterinary school. Some visits are heart-wrenchingly difficult, such as one to an old man in the village whose very ill dog is his only friend and companion, some are lighthearted and fun, such as Herriot\u0027s periodic visits to the overfed and pampered Pekinese Tricki Woo who throws parties and has his own stationery, and yet others are inspirational and enlightening, such as Herriot\u0027s recollections of poor farmers who will scrape their meager earnings together to be able to get proper care for their working animals. From seeing to his patients in the depths of winter on the remotest homesteads to dealing with uncooperative owners and critically ill animals, Herriot discovers the wondrous variety and never-ending challenges of veterinary practice as his humor, compassion, and love of the animal world shine forth.James Herriot\u0027s memoirs have sold 80 million copies worldwide, and continue to delight and entertain readers of all ages\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1188,
            "title": "The Thirteenth Tale",
            "author": "Diane Setterfield ",
            "date": "09/12/2006",
            "genres": "Fiction, Mystery, Historical Fiction, Gothic, Books About Books, Adult, Historical, Fantasy, Book Club, Adult Fiction",
            "characters": "Margaret Lea, Emmeline March, Adeline March, Vida Winter, Aurelius Love",
            "synopsis": "\"All children mythologize their birth...So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter\u0027s collection of stories, which are as famous for the mystery of the missing thirteenth tale as they are for the delight and enchantment of the twelve that do exist. The enigmatic Winter has spent six decades creating various outlandish life histories for herself - all of them inventions that have brought her fame and fortune but have kept her violent and tragic past a secret. Now old and ailing, she at last wants to tell the truth about her extraordinary life. She summons biographer Margaret Lea, a young woman for whom the secret of her own birth, hidden by those who loved her most, remains an ever-present pain. Struck by a curious parallel between Miss Winter\u0027s story and her own, Margaret takes on the commission. As Vida disinters the life she meant to bury for good, Margaret is mesmerized. It is a tale of gothic strangeness featuring the Angelfield family, including the beautiful and willful Isabelle, the feral twins Adeline and Emmeline, a ghost, a governess, a topiary garden and a devastating fire. Margaret succumbs to the power of Vida\u0027s storytelling but remains suspicious of the author\u0027s sincerity. She demands the truth from Vida, and together they confront the ghosts that have haunted them while becoming, finally, transformed by the truth themselves. The Thirteenth Tale is a love letter to reading, a book for the feral reader in all of us, a return to that rich vein of storytelling that our parents loved and that we loved as children. Diane Setterfield will keep you guessing, make you wonder, move you to tears and laughter and, in the end, deposit you breathless yet satisfied back upon the shore of your everyday life.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1189,
            "title": "Foundation",
            "author": "Isaac Asimov",
            "date": "06/01/2004",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Space Opera, Novels, Space, Audiobook, Speculative Fiction",
            "characters": "Hari Seldon, Hober Mallow, Salvor Hardin",
            "synopsis": "\"For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future - to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire - both scientists and scholars - and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for a future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation.But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. Mankind\u0027s last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and be overrun - or fight them and be destroyed.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1190,
            "title": "Norwegian Wood",
            "author": "Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin (Translator)",
            "date": "09/12/2000",
            "genres": "Fiction, Japan, Romance, Japanese Literature, Contemporary, Novels, Literature, Literary Fiction, Asia, Magical Realism",
            "characters": "Toru Watanabe, Naoko, Midori Kobayashi, Reiko Ishida, Nagasawa",
            "synopsis": "\"Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. Toru begins to adapt to campus life and the loneliness and isolation he faces there, but Naoko finds the pressures and responsibilities of life unbearable. As she retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself reaching out to others and drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman.A magnificent blending of the music, the mood, and the ethos that was the sixties with the story of one college student\u0027s romantic coming of age, Norwegian Wood brilliantly recaptures a young man\u0027s first, hopeless, and heroic love.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1191,
            "title": "The Cider House Rules",
            "author": "John Irving ",
            "date": "07/01/2000",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Literature, Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Novels, American, Adult Fiction, Historical",
            "characters": "Dr. Wilbur Larch, Candy Kendall, Wally Worthington, Rose Rose, Homer Wells",
            "synopsis": "\"Raised from birth in the orphanage at St. Cloud\u0027s, Maine, Homer Wells has become the protege of Dr. Wilbur Larch, its physician and director. There Dr. Larch cares for the troubled mothers who seek his help, either by delivering and taking in their unwanted babies or by performing illegal abortions. Meticulously trained by Dr. Larch, Homer assists in the former, but draws the line at the latter. Then a young man brings his beautiful fiancee to Dr. Larch for an abortion, and everything about the couple beckons Homer to the wide world outside the orphanage ...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1192,
            "title": "Kafka on the Shore",
            "author": "Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel (Translator)",
            "date": "01/03/2006",
            "genres": "Fiction, Magical Realism, Japan, Fantasy, Japanese Literature, Contemporary, Novels, Literature, Literary Fiction, Asia",
            "characters": "Kafka Tamura, Sakura, Satoru Nakata, Oshima, Miss Saeki, Hoshino",
            "synopsis": "\"Kafka on the Shore, a tour de force of metaphysical reality, is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom. Their odyssey, as mysterious to them as it is to us, is enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerizing events. Cats and people carry on conversations, a ghostlike pimp employs a Hegel-quoting prostitute, a forest harbors soldiers apparently unaged since World War II, and rainstorms of fish (and worse) fall from the sky. There is a brutal murder, with the identity of both victim and perpetrator a riddle—yet this, along with everything else, is eventually answered, just as the entwined destinies of Kafka and Nakata are gradually revealed, with one escaping his fate entirely and the other given a fresh start on his own.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1193,
            "title": "Heidi",
            "author": "Johanna Spyri, Beverly Cleary (Foreword), Angelo Rinaldi (Illustrator)",
            "date": "11/15/02",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Childrens, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade, Historical, Juvenile, Childrens Classics, 19th Century",
            "characters": "Heidi, Clara, Peter, Uncle Alm",
            "synopsis": "\"Little orphan Heidi goes to live high in the Alps with her gruff grandfather and brings happiness to all who know her on the mountain. When Heidi goes to Frankfurt to work in a wealthy household, she dreams of returning to the mountains and meadows, her friend Peter, and her beloved grandfather.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1194,
            "title": "City of Lost Souls",
            "author": "Cassandra Clare ",
            "date": "05/08/2012",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Vampires, Angels, Fiction, Supernatural, Magic",
            "characters": "Alexander \"\"Alec\"\" Lightwood, Jonathan \"\"Jace\"\" Wayland, Isabelle \"\"Izzy\"\" Sophia Lightwood, Magnus Bane, Jordan Kyle, Maia Roberts, Jocelyn Fray, Luke Garroway, Sebastian Morgenstern, Aline Penhallow, Camille Belcourt, Clarissa \"\"Clary\"\" Fray, Jonathan Morgenstern, Simon Lewis",
            "synopsis": "\"The New York Times bestselling Mortal Instruments continues—and so do the thrills and danger for Jace, Clary, and Simon.What price is too high to pay, even for love? When Jace and Clary meet again, Clary is horrified to discover that the demon Lilith’s magic has bound her beloved Jace together with her evil brother Sebastian, and that Jace has become a servant of evil. The Clave is out to destroy Sebastian, but there is no way to harm one boy without destroying the other. As Alec, Magnus, Simon, and Isabelle wheedle and bargain with Seelies, demons, and the merciless Iron Sisters to try to save Jace, Clary plays a dangerous game of her own. The price of losing is not just her own life, but Jace’s soul. She’s willing to do anything for Jace, but can she still trust him? Or is he truly lost?Love. Blood. Betrayal. Revenge. Darkness threatens to claim the Shadowhunters in the harrowing fifth book of the Mortal Instruments series.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1195,
            "title": "Sophie\u0027s World",
            "author": "Jostein Gaarder, Paulette Møller (Translator)",
            "date": "10/28/95",
            "genres": "Philosophy, Fiction, Classics, Young Adult, Novels, Fantasy, Literature, Contemporary, Unfinished, Scandinavian Literature",
            "characters": "Charles Darwin, Cecilia Skotbu, Malaikat Ariel, Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, René Descartes, George Berkeley, John Locke, David Hume, St. Augustine, Baruch Spinoza, Sofie Amundsen, Jorunn, Jesus, Immanuel Kant, Socrates (philosopher), Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx",
            "synopsis": "\"An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found hereOne day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: \"\"Who are you?\"\" and \"\"Where does the world come from?\"\" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1196,
            "title": "The Wise Man\u0027s Fear",
            "author": "Patrick Rothfuss ",
            "date": "03/01/2011",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Magic, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure, Audiobook, Adult, Epic",
            "characters": "Bast, Denna, Ambrose, Kvothe, Simmon, Wilem, The Chandrian, Maer Alveron, Felurian, Devi, Tempi, Auri, Fela, Chronicler",
            "synopsis": "\"“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”My name is Kvothe.I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to Gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep.You may have heard of me.So begins the tale of a hero told from his own point of view — a story unequaled in fantasy literature. Now in The Wise Man\u0027s Fear, an escalating rivalry with a powerful member of the nobility forces Kvothe to leave the University and seek his fortune abroad. Adrift, penniless, and alone, he travels to Vintas, where he quickly becomes entangled in the politics of courtly society. While attempting to curry favor with a powerful noble, Kvothe uncovers an assassination attempt, comes into conflict with a rival arcanist, and leads a group of mercenaries into the wild, in an attempt to solve the mystery of who (or what) is waylaying travelers on the King\u0027s Road.All the while, Kvothe searches for answers, attempting to uncover the truth about the mysterious Amyr, the Chandrian, and the death of his parents. Along the way, Kvothe is put on trial by the legendary Adem mercenaries, is forced to reclaim the honor of the Edema Ruh, and travels into the Fae realm. There he meets Felurian, the faerie woman no man can resist, and who no man has ever survived ... until Kvothe.In The Wise Man\u0027s Fear, Kvothe takes his first steps on the path of the hero and learns how difficult life can be when a man becomes a legend in his own time.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1197,
            "title": "The Awakening",
            "author": "Kate Chopin",
            "date": "10/28/06",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Feminism, School, Literature, Historical Fiction, Read For School, High School, American, 19th Century",
            "characters": "Edna Pontellier, Léonce Pontellier, Robert Lebrun, Alcée Arobin, Adèle Ratignolle, Mademoiselle Reisz",
            "synopsis": "\"When first published in 1899, The Awakening shocked readers with its honest treatment of female marital infidelity. Audiences accustomed to the pieties of late Victorian romantic fiction were taken aback by Chopin\u0027s daring portrayal of a woman trapped in a stifling marriage, who seeks and finds passionate physical love outside the confines of her domestic situation.Aside from its unusually frank treatment of a then-controversial subject, the novel is widely admired today for its literary qualities. Edmund Wilson characterized it as a work \"\"quite uninhibited and beautifully written, which anticipates D. H. Lawrence in its treatment of infidelity.\"\" Although the theme of marital infidelity no longer shocks, few novels have plumbed the psychology of a woman involved in an illicit relationship with the perception, artistry, and honesty that Kate Chopin brought to The Awakening.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1198,
            "title": "Sophie\u0027s Choice",
            "author": "William Styron",
            "date": "03/03/1992",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Holocaust, War, Historical, World War II, Literature, Novels, Literary Fiction",
            "characters": "Stingo, Nathan Landau, Sophie Zawistowska",
            "synopsis": "Three stories are told: a young Southerner wants to become a writer; a turbulent love-hate affair between a brilliant Jew and a beautiful Polish woman; and of an awful wound in that woman\u0027s past-one that impels both Sophie and Nathan toward destruction."
          },
          {
            "id": 1199,
            "title": "The Prince of Tides",
            "author": "Pat Conroy",
            "date": "03/26/02",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Southern, Romance, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Literature, Drama, Novels, Adult Fiction",
            "characters": "Tom Wingo, Susan Lowenstein, Savannah Wingo, Luke Wingo",
            "synopsis": "\"PAT CONROY has created a huge, brash thunderstorm of a novel, stinging with honesty and resounding with drama. Spanning forty years, this is the story of turbulent Tom Wingo, his gifted and troubled twin sister Savannah, and their struggle to triumph over the dark and tragic legacy of the extraordinary family into which they were born.Filled with the vanishing beauty of the South Carolina low country as well as the dusty glitter of New York City, The Prince of Tides is PAT CONROY at his very best.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1200,
            "title": "Never Let Me Go",
            "author": "Kazuo Ishiguro",
            "date": "08/31/10",
            "genres": "Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult, Romance, Literature, British Literature",
            "characters": "Kathy H., Ruth, Tommy",
            "synopsis": "\"From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human.Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants them to be. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little contact with it.Within the grounds of Hailsham, Kathy grows from schoolgirl to young woman, but it’s only when she and her friends Ruth and Tommy leave the safe grounds of the school (as they always knew they would) that they realize the full truth of what Hailsham is.Never Let Me Go breaks through the boundaries of the literary novel. It is a gripping mystery, a beautiful love story, and also a scathing critique of human arrogance and a moral examination of how we treat the vulnerable and different in our society. In exploring the themes of memory and the impact of the past, Ishiguro takes on the idea of a possible future to create his most moving and powerful book to date.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1201,
            "title": "The Son of Neptune",
            "author": "Rick Riordan ",
            "date": "10/04/2011",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Mythology, Fiction, Middle Grade, Adventure, Greek Mythology, Urban Fantasy, Childrens, Young Adult Fantasy",
            "characters": "Nico di Angelo, Octavian, Hera, Reyna, Juno, Hazel Levesque, Frank Zhang, Ella the Harpy, Percy Jackson",
            "synopsis": "\"PERCY IS CONFUSED. When he awoke from his long sleep, he didn\u0027t know much more than his name. His brain fuzz is lingering, even after the wolf Lupa told him he is a demigod and trained him to fight with the pen/sword in his pocket. Somehow Percy manages to make it to a camp for half-bloods, despite the fact that he has to keep killing monsters along the way. But the camp doesn\u0027t ring any bells with him. The only thing he can recall from his past is another name: Annabeth. HAZEL IS SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD. When she lived before, she didn\u0027t do a very good job of it. Sure, she was an obedient daughter, even when her mother was possessed by greed. But that was the problem—when the Voice took over her mother and commanded Hazel to use her \"\"gift\"\" for an evil purpose, Hazel couldn\u0027t say no. Now because of her mistake, the future of the world is at risk. Hazel wishes she could ride away from it all on the stallion that appears in her dreams.FRANK IS A KLUTZ. His grandmother says he is descended from heroes and can be anything he wants to be, but he doesn\u0027t see it. He doesn\u0027t even know who his father is. He keeps hoping Apollo will claim him, because the only thing he is good at is archery—although not good enough to win camp war games. His bulky physique makes him feel like an ox, especially in front of Hazel, his closest friend at camp. He trusts her completely—enough to share the secret he holds close to his heart.Beginning at the \"\"other\"\" camp for half-bloods and extending as far as the land beyond the gods, this breathtaking second installment of the Heroes of Olympus series introduces new demigods, revives fearsome monsters, and features other remarkable creatures, all destined to play a part in the Prophesy of Seven.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1202,
            "title": "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe",
            "author": "Fannie Flagg",
            "date": "05/07/2002",
            "genres": "Fiction, Historical Fiction, LGBT, Classics, Chick Lit, Southern, Historical, Humor, Queer, Adult Fiction",
            "characters": "Ruth, Mrs. Ninny Threadgoode, Evelyn Couch, Idgie",
            "synopsis": "\"It\u0027s first the story of two women in the 1980s, of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women-of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth, who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern kind of Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1203,
            "title": "Ready Player One",
            "author": "Ernest Cline ",
            "date": "08/16/11",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Young Adult, Fantasy, Dystopia, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adult, Cyberpunk, Novels",
            "characters": "Wade Owen Watts, Ogden Morrow, Parzival, Aech, James Donovan Halliday, Art3mis, Kira Morrow, Daito, Shoto, Nolan Sorrento",
            "synopsis": "\"Librarian\u0027s note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereIN THE YEAR 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he\u0027s jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade\u0027s devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world\u0027s digital confines, puzzles that are based on their creator\u0027s obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them. But when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade\u0027s going to survive, he\u0027ll have to win—and confront the real world he\u0027s always been so desperate to escape.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1204,
            "title": "Middlemarch",
            "author": "George Eliot, Michel Faber (Introduction)",
            "date": "10/28/04",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literature, 19th Century, Victorian, British Literature, Novels, Romance, Classic Literature",
            "characters": "Dorothea Brooke, Celia Brooke, Will Ladislaw, Mary Garth, Rosamond Vincy, Sir James Chettam, Tertius Lydgate, Peter Featherstone, Edward Casaubon, Caleb Garth, Camden Farebrother, Joshua Rigg, John Raffles, Nicholas Bulstrode, Harriet Bulstrode, Arthur Brooke, Fred Vincy",
            "synopsis": "\"Taking place in the years leading up to the First Reform Bill of 1832, Middlemarch explores nearly every subject of concern to modern life: art, religion, science, politics, self, society, human relationships. Among her characters are some of the most remarkable portraits in English literature: Dorothea Brooke, the heroine, idealistic but naive; Rosamond Vincy, beautiful and egoistic: Edward Casaubon, the dry-as-dust scholar: Tertius Lydgate, the brilliant but morally-flawed physician: the passionate artist Will Ladislaw: and Fred Vincey and Mary Garth, childhood sweethearts whose charming courtship is one of the many humorous elements in the novel\u0027s rich comic vein.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1205,
            "title": "The Monster at the End of this Book",
            "author": "Jon Stone, Michael J. Smollin (Illustrator)",
            "date": "05/11/2004",
            "genres": "Picture Books, Childrens, Fiction, Humor, Classics, Monsters, Storytime, Kids, Juvenile, Fantasy",
            "characters": "Grover",
            "synopsis": "\"Many adults name this book as their favorite Little Golden Book. Generations of kids have interacted with lovable, furry old Grover as he begs the reader not to turn the page—for fear of a monster at the end of the book. “Oh, I am so embarrassed,” he says on the last page . . . for, of course, the monster is Grover himself! This all-time favorite is now available as a Big Little Golden Book—perfect for lap-time reading.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1206,
            "title": "Bridget Jones\u0027s Diary",
            "author": "Helen Fielding , Хелен Филдинг",
            "date": "06/01/1999",
            "genres": "Fiction, Chick Lit, Romance, Humor, Contemporary, Adult, Comedy, Adult Fiction, British Literature, Novels",
            "characters": "Bridget Jones, Mark Darcy, Daniel Cleaver",
            "synopsis": "\"Meet Bridget Jones—a 30-something Singleton who is certain she would have all the answers if she could:a. lose 7 poundsb. stop smokingc. develop Inner Poise\"\"123 lbs. (how is it possible to put on 4 pounds in the middle of the night? Could flesh have somehow solidified becoming denser and heavier? Repulsive, horrifying notion), alcohol units 4 (excellent), cigarettes 21 (poor but will give up totally tomorrow), number of correct lottery numbers 2 (better, but nevertheless useless)...\"\"Bridget Jones\u0027 Diary is the devastatingly self-aware, laugh-out-loud daily chronicle of Bridget\u0027s permanent, doomed quest for self-improvement — a year in which she resolves to: reduce the circumference of each thigh by 1.5 inches, visit the gym three times a week not just to buy a sandwich, form a functional relationship with a responsible adult, and learn to program the VCR.Over the course of the year, Bridget loses a total of 72 pounds but gains a total of 74. She remains, however, optimistic. Through it all, Bridget will have you helpless with laughter, and — like millions of readers the world round — you\u0027ll find yourself shouting, \"\"Bridget Jones is me!\"\"\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1207,
            "title": "Mrs. Dalloway",
            "author": "Virginia Woolf, Maureen Howard (Foreword)",
            "date": "10/28/02",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Literature, Novels, British Literature, Feminism, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, School, English Literature",
            "characters": "Clarissa Dalloway, Septimus Warren Smith, Peter Walsh, Sally Seton",
            "synopsis": "\"Heralded as Virginia Woolf\u0027s greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman\u0027s life. When we meet her, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party preparation while in her mind she is something much more than a perfect society hostess. As she readies her house, she is flooded with remembrances of faraway times. And, met with the realities of the present, Clarissa reexamines the choices that brought her there, hesitantly looking ahead to the unfamiliar work of growing old.\"\"Mrs. Dalloway was the first novel to split the atom. If the novel before Mrs. Dalloway aspired to immensities of scope and scale, to heroic journeys across vast landscapes, with Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf insisted that it could also locate the enormous within the everyday; that a life of errands and party-giving was every bit as viable a subject as any life lived anywhere; and that should any human act in any novel seem unimportant, it has merely been inadequately observed. The novel as an art form has not been the same since.\"\"Mrs. Dalloway also contains some of the most beautiful, complex, incisive and idiosyncratic sentences ever written in English, and that alone would be reason enough to read it. It is one of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century.\"\"-Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1208,
            "title": "Mockingjay",
            "author": "Suzanne Collins",
            "date": "08/24/10",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Dystopia, Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Adventure, Teen, Post Apocalyptic, Science Fiction Fantasy",
            "characters": "Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, Primrose Everdeen, Gale Hawthorne, Haymitch Abernathy, Finnick Odair, Johanna Mason, President Coriolanus Snow, President Coin",
            "synopsis": "\"The final book in the ground-breaking HUNGER GAMES trilogy, this new foiled edition of MOCKINGJAY is available for a limited period of time. Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she\u0027s made it out of the bloody arena alive, she\u0027s still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. And what\u0027s worse, President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe either. Not Katniss\u0027s family, not her friends, not the people of District 12.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1209,
            "title": "Franny and Zooey",
            "author": "J.D. Salinger",
            "date": "01/30/01",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Short Stories, Literature, American, Novels, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Adult Fiction, Adult",
            "characters": "Franny Glass, Zooey Glass, Buddy Glass, Lane Coutell, Bessie Glass",
            "synopsis": "\"The short story, Franny, takes place in an unnamed college town and tells the tale of an undergraduate who is becoming disenchanted with the selfishness and inauthenticity she perceives all around her.The novella, Zooey, is named for Zooey Glass, the second-youngest member of the Glass family. As his younger sister, Franny, suffers a spiritual and existential breakdown in her parents\u0027 Manhattan living room - leaving Bessie, her mother, deeply concerned - Zooey comes to her aid, offering what he thinks is brotherly love, understanding, and words of sage advice.Salinger writes of these works: \"\"FRANNY came out in The New Yorker in 1955, and was swiftly followed, in 1957 by ZOOEY. Both stories are early, critical entries in a narrative series I\u0027m doing about a family of settlers in twentieth-century New York, the Glasses. It is a long-term project, patently an ambiguous one, and there is a real-enough danger, I suppose that sooner or later I\u0027ll bog down, perhaps disappear entirely, in my own methods, locutions, and mannerisms. On the whole, though, I\u0027m very hopeful. I love working on these Glass stories, I\u0027ve been waiting for them most of my life, and I think I have fairly decent, monomaniacal plans to finish them with due care and all-available skill.\"\"\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1210,
            "title": "The Power of One",
            "author": "Bryce Courtenay",
            "date": "09/29/96",
            "genres": "Fiction, Historical Fiction, Africa, Classics, South Africa, Coming Of Age, Historical, Young Adult, Novels, Book Club",
            "characters": "\"\"Doc\"\" Bradley Stanwick, Peekay, Geel Piet, Morris Levy, The Judge, Mrs. Boxall, Miss Bornstein",
            "synopsis": "\"In 1939, as Hitler casts his enormous, cruel shadow across the world, the seeds of apartheid take root in South Africa. There, a boy called Peekay is born. His childhood is marked by humiliation and abandonment, yet he vows to survive and conceives heroic dreams, which are nothing compared to what life actually has in store for him. He embarks on an epic journey through a land of tribal superstition and modern prejudice where he will learn the power of words, the power to transform lives and the power of one.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1211,
            "title": "The Magician\u0027s Nephew",
            "author": "C.S. Lewis",
            "date": "05/04/2005",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Classics, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Adventure, Christian, Middle Grade, Christian Fiction, Magic",
            "characters": "Polly, Aslan, Digory Kirke, Jadis, Andrew Kirke, Sarah Houplin, Letitia Ketterley",
            "synopsis": "\"The secret passage to the house next door leads to a fascinating adventureNARNIA...where the woods are thick and cold, where Talking Beasts are called to life...a new world where the adventure begins.Digory and Polly meet and become friends one cold, wet summer in London. Their lives burst into adventure when Digory\u0027s Uncle Andrew, who thinks he is a magician, sends them hurtling to...somewhere else. They find their way to Narnia, newborn from the Lion\u0027s song, and encounter the evil sorceress Jadis before they finally return home.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1212,
            "title": "Stardust",
            "author": "Neil Gaiman ",
            "date": "08/29/06",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Romance, Young Adult, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, Magic, Audiobook, Fairy Tales, Adult",
            "characters": "Tristran Thorn, Yvaine, Victoria Forester, Dunstan Thorn, Madame Semele, Lady Una, Lord Primus, Lord Septimus, The Lilim, Mr. Monday",
            "synopsis": "\"Life moves at a leisurely pace in the tiny town of Wall—named after the imposing stone barrier which separates the town from a grassy meadow. Here, young Tristran Thorn has lost his heart to the beautiful Victoria Forester and for the coveted prize of her hand, Tristran vows to retrieve a fallen star and deliver it to his beloved. It is an oath that sends him over the ancient wall and into a world that is dangerous and strange beyond imagining...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1213,
            "title": "Number the Stars",
            "author": "Lois Lowry ",
            "date": "02/09/1998",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Fiction, Classics, Childrens, Historical, Holocaust, Middle Grade, World War II, School",
            "characters": "Annemarie Johansen, Ellen Rosen",
            "synopsis": "\"Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think of life before the war. It\u0027s now 1943 and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi soldiers marching through town. When the Jews of Denmark are \"\"relocated,\"\" Ellen moves in with the Johansens and pretends to be one of the family. Soon Annemarie is asked to go on a dangerous mission to save Ellen\u0027s life.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1214,
            "title": "Allegiant",
            "author": "Veronica Roth ",
            "date": "10/22/13",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Dystopia, Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, Adventure, Teen, Post Apocalyptic, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Beatrice Prior, Peter, Caleb Prior, Christina, Marcus Eaton, Tobias Eaton",
            "synopsis": "\"The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered - fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she\u0027s known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories.But Tris\u0027s new reality is even more alarming than the one she left behind. Old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless. Explosive new truths change the hearts of those she loves. And once again, Tris must battle to comprehend to complexities of human nature - and of herself - while facing impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice, and love.Told from a riveting dual perspective, ALLEGIANT, by #1 New York Times best-selling author Veronica Roth, brings the DIVERGENT series to a powerful conclusion while revealing the secrets of the dystopian world that has captivated millions of readers in DIVERGENT and INSURGENT.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1215,
            "title": "Eleanor \u0026 Park",
            "author": "Rainbow Rowell ",
            "date": "02/26/13",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Audiobook, Teen, Coming Of Age, Young Adult Contemporary, High School",
            "characters": "Park Sheridan, Eleanor Douglas",
            "synopsis": "\"Eleanor is the new girl in town, and with her chaotic family life, her mismatched clothes and unruly red hair, she couldn\u0027t stick out more if she tried.Park is the boy at the back of the bus. Black T-shirts, headphones, head in a book - he thinks he\u0027s made himself invisible. But not to Eleanor... never to Eleanor.Slowly, steadily, through late-night conversations and an ever-growing stack of mix tapes, Eleanor and Park fall for each other. They fall in love the way you do the first time, when you\u0027re young, and you feel as if you have nothing and everything to lose.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1216,
            "title": "Me Before You",
            "author": "Jojo Moyes ",
            "date": "07/30/13",
            "genres": "Romance, Fiction, Contemporary, Chick Lit, Adult, Adult Fiction, Audiobook, Drama, Realistic Fiction, Contemporary Romance",
            "characters": "Will Traynor, Louisa \"\"Lou\"\" Clark, Camilla Traynor",
            "synopsis": "\"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars, discover the love story that captured over 20 million hearts in Me Before You, After You, and Still Me.They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose . . .Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life—steady boyfriend, close family—who has barely been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex–Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after an accident. Will has always lived a huge life—big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel—and now he’s pretty sure he cannot live the way he is.Will is acerbic, moody, bossy—but Lou refuses to treat him with kid gloves, and soon his happiness means more to her than she expected. When she learns that Will has shocking plans of his own, she sets out to show him that life is still worth living.A Love Story for this generation and perfect for fans of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, Me Before You brings to life two people who couldn’t have less in common—a heartbreakingly romantic novel that asks, What do you do when making the person you love happy also means breaking your own heart?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1217,
            "title": "The Mark of Athena",
            "author": "Rick Riordan ",
            "date": "10/02/2012",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Mythology, Fiction, Middle Grade, Adventure, Greek Mythology, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Childrens",
            "characters": "Leo Valdez, Nico di Angelo, Annabeth Chase, Hades, Jason Grace, Piper McLean, Hazel Levesque, Frank Zhang, Percy Jackson",
            "synopsis": "\"Annabeth is terrified. Just when she\u0027s about to be reunited with Percy—after six months of being apart, thanks to Hera—it looks like Camp Jupiter is preparing for war. As Annabeth and her friends Jason, Piper, and Leo fly in on the Argo II, she can\u0027t blame the Roman demigods for thinking the ship is a Greek weapon. With its steaming bronze dragon figurehead, Leo\u0027s fantastical creation doesn\u0027t appear friendly. Annabeth hopes that the sight of their praetor Jason on deck will reassure the Romans that the visitors from Camp Half-Blood are coming in peace.And that\u0027s only one of her worries. In her pocket, Annabeth carries a gift from her mother that came with an unnerving command: Follow the Mark of Athena. Avenge me. Annabeth already feels weighed down by the prophecy that will send seven demigods on a quest to find—and close—the Doors of Death. What more does Athena want from her?Annabeth\u0027s biggest fear, though, is that Percy might have changed. What if he\u0027s now attached to Roman ways? Does he still need his old friends? As the daughter of the goddess of war and wisdom, Annabeth knows she was born to be a leader—but never again does she want to be without Seaweed Brain by her sideNarrated by four different demigods, The Mark of Athena is an unforgettable journey across land and sea to Rome, where important discoveries, surprising sacrifices, and unspeakable horrors await. Climb aboard the Argo II, if you dare. . . .\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1218,
            "title": "The Art of Racing in the Rain",
            "author": "Garth Stein ",
            "date": "05/13/08",
            "genres": "Fiction, Animals, Contemporary, Dogs, Adult Fiction, Audiobook, Adult, Book Club, Novels, Family",
            "characters": "Eve, Enzo, Denny Swift, Zoë",
            "synopsis": "\"Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television extensively, and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race car driver.Through Denny, Enzo has gained tremendous insight into the human condition, and he sees that life, like racing, isn\u0027t simply about going fast. On the eve of his death, Enzo takes stock of his life, recalling all that he and his family have been through.A heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope, The Art of Racing in the Rain is a beautifully crafted and captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life ... as only a dog could tell it.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1219,
            "title": "The Way of Kings",
            "author": "Brandon Sanderson ",
            "date": "08/31/10",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Audiobook, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adult, Epic, Magic, Adventure",
            "characters": "Kaladin Stormblessed, Dalinar Kholin, Shallan Davar, Jasnah Kholin, Adolin Kholin, Hoid",
            "synopsis": "\"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, book one of The Stormlight Archive begins an incredible new saga of epic proportion.Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter.It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and suits of armor that transform ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Men trade kingdoms for Shardblades. Wars were fought for them, and won by them.One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains. There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery. In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies fight separately against a single foe, he struggles to save his men and to fathom the leaders who consider them expendable.Brightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called The Way of Kings. Troubled by over-powering visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own sanity.Across the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to train under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic, Dalinar\u0027s niece, Jasnah. Though she genuinely loves learning, Shallan\u0027s motives are less than pure. As she plans a daring theft, her research for Jasnah hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the war.The result of over ten years of planning, writing, and world-building, The Way of Kings is but the opening movement of the Stormlight Archive, a bold masterpiece in the making.Speak again the ancient oaths:Life before death.Strength before weakness.Journey before Destination.and return to men the Shards they once bore.The Knights Radiant must stand again.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1220,
            "title": "If I Stay",
            "author": "Gayle Forman ",
            "date": "04/02/2009",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Teen, Music, Death, Audiobook, Young Adult Contemporary",
            "characters": "Teddy Hall, Kim Schein, Adam Wilde, Mia Hall",
            "synopsis": "\"Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.Just listen, Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel.I open my eyes wide now.I sit up as much as I can.And I listen.Stay, he says.Choices. Seventeen-year-old Mia is faced with some tough ones: Stay true to her first love—music—even if it means losing her boyfriend and leaving her family and friends behind?Then one February morning Mia goes for a drive with her family, and in an instant, everything changes. Suddenly, all the choices are gone, except one. And it\u0027s the only one that matters.If I Stay is a heartachingly beautiful book about the power of love, the true meaning of family, and the choices we all make.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1221,
            "title": "Black Beauty",
            "author": "Anna Sewell",
            "date": "03/01/2003",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Childrens, Animals, Young Adult, Horses, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade, Adventure, Literature",
            "characters": "Black Beauty, Ginger",
            "synopsis": "\"Black Beauty spends his youth in a loving home, surrounded by friends and cared for by his owners. But when circumstances change, he learns that not all humans are so kind. Passed from hand to hand, Black Beauty witnesses love and cruelty, wealth and poverty, friendship and hardship . . . Will the handsome horse ever find a happy and lasting home? Carefully retold in clear contemporary language, and presented with delightful illustrations, these favorite classic stories capture the heart and imagination of young readers. By retelling the story in a shorter, simpler form, these books become highly engaging for children, and the color illustrations help with both comprehension and interest level. Black Beauty is part of a collectible series that has strong gift appeal.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1222,
            "title": "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man",
            "author": "James Joyce, Seamus Deane (Editor), Jim Norton (Translation), Hans Walter Gabler, Jeri Johnson (Editor), J.M. Gaffney (Editor), Ludmila Savitzky (Translator)",
            "date": "03/25/03",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Literature, Irish Literature, Ireland, Novels, 20th Century, School, Literary Fiction, Classic Literature",
            "characters": "Stephen Dedalus, Simon Dedalus, Fr. John Conmee, Mary Dedalus",
            "synopsis": "\"The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus\u0027s Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce and a universal testament to the artist\u0027s \u0027eternal imagination\u0027. Both an insight into Joyce\u0027s life and childhood, and a unique work of modernist fiction, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a novel of sexual awakening, religious rebellion and the essential search for voice and meaning that every nascent artist must face in order to blossom fully into themselves.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1223,
            "title": "Gulliver\u0027s Travels",
            "author": "Jonathan Swift, Robert DeMaria Jr. (Editor)",
            "date": "01/30/03",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Literature, Novels, Classic Literature, 18th Century, School, British Literature",
            "characters": "Lemuel Gulliver",
            "synopsis": "\"For the last 250 years people everywhere have enjoyed reading about Lemuel Gulliver\u0027s travels in the strange countries of Lilliput and Brobdingnag. The people of these countries, with all their curiously human failings, come to life in Martin Aitchison\u0027s vivid illustrations. Here is a story to make you laugh - but to make you think, too.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1224,
            "title": "Bel Canto",
            "author": "Ann Patchett",
            "date": "08/02/2005",
            "genres": "Fiction, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Book Club, Novels, Music, Adult Fiction, Literature, Adult, Romance",
            "characters": "Katsumi Hosokawa, Roxane Coss, Gen Watanabe, Carmen Lowell",
            "synopsis": "\"In an unnamed South American country, a world-renowned soprano sings at a birthday party in honor of a visiting Japanese industrial titan. Alas, in the opening sequence, a ragtag band of 18 terrorists enters the vice-presidential mansion through the air conditioning ducts. Their quarry is the president, who has unfortunately stayed home to watch a favorite soap opera. And thus, from the beginning, things go awry.Among the hostages are Russian, Italian, and French diplomatic types. Swiss Red Cross negotiator Joachim Messner comes and goes, wrangling over terms and demands. Days stretch into weeks, the weeks into months. Joined by no common language except music, the 58 international hostages and their captors forge unexpected bonds. Time stands still, priorities rearrange themselves. Ultimately, of course, something has to give.Hearing opera sung live for the first time, a young priest reflects:  Never had he thought, never once, that such a woman existed, one who stood so close to God that God\u0027s own voice poured from her. How far she must have gone inside herself to call up that voice. It was as if the voice came from the center part of the earth and by the sheer effort and diligence of her will she had pulled it up through the dirt and rock and through the floorboards of the house, up into her feet, where it pulled through her, reaching, lifting, warmed by her, and then out of the white lily of her throat and straight to God in heaven. \""
          },
          {
            "id": 1225,
            "title": "American Psycho",
            "author": "Bret Easton Ellis",
            "date": "03/28/91",
            "genres": "Fiction, Horror, Thriller, Classics, Crime, Contemporary, Mystery, Novels, Literature, American",
            "characters": "Patrick Bateman, Evelyn Richards, Timothy Price, Paul Owen, Luis Carruthers, Courtney Lawrence",
            "synopsis": "\"Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and he works on Wall Street, he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking us to head-on collision with America\u0027s greatest dream—and its worst nightmare—American Psycho is bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognise but do not wish to confront.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1226,
            "title": "V for Vendetta",
            "author": "Alan Moore , David Lloyd (Illustrator)",
            "date": "11/01/2005",
            "genres": "Graphic Novels, Comics, Fiction, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Classics, Politics, Fantasy",
            "characters": "Evey Hammond, Adam Susan, Eric Finch, Lewis Prothero, V",
            "synopsis": "\"\"\"Remember, remember the fifth of November...\"\"A frightening and powerful tale of the loss of freedom and identity in a chillingly believable totalitarian world, V for Vendetta stands as one of the highest achievements of the comics medium and a defining work for creators Alan Moore and David Lloyd.Set in an imagined future England that has given itself over to fascism, this groundbreaking story captures both the suffocating nature of life in an authoritarian police state and the redemptive power of the human spirit which rebels against it. Crafted with sterling clarity and intelligence, V for Vendetta brings an unequaled depth of characterization and verisimilitude to its unflinching account of oppression and resistance.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1227,
            "title": "The Witches",
            "author": "Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illustrator)",
            "date": "10/28/97",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Childrens, Fiction, Classics, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Witches, Magic, Humor, Juvenile",
            "characters": "Boy Narrator, The Grand High Witch, \"\"Boy\u0027\u0027s Grandmother\"\"",
            "synopsis": "\"This is not a fairy-tale. This is about real witches. Real witches don\u0027t ride around on broomsticks. They don\u0027t even wear black cloaks and hats. They are vile, cunning, detestable creatures who disguise themselves as nice, ordinary ladies. So how can you tell when you\u0027re face to face with one? Well, if you don\u0027t know yet you\u0027d better find out quickly-because there\u0027s nothing a witch loathes quite as much as children and she\u0027ll wield all kinds of terrifying powers to get rid of them.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1228,
            "title": "The Graveyard Book",
            "author": "Neil Gaiman , Dave McKean (Illustrator)",
            "date": "09/30/08",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Horror, Paranormal, Childrens, Middle Grade, Audiobook, Ghosts, Supernatural",
            "characters": "Nobody Owens, the man Jack, Silas, Mr. Owens, Mrs. Owens, Miss Lupescu, Scarlett Perkins, The Sleer, Liza Hempstock",
            "synopsis": "\"Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a perfectly normal boy. Well, he would be perfectly normal if he didn\u0027t live in a graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the world of the dead.There are dangers and adventures for Bod in the graveyard: the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer; a gravestone entrance to a desert that leads to the city of ghouls; friendship with a witch, and so much more.But it is in the land of the living that real danger lurks, for it is there that the man Jack lives and he has already killed Bod\u0027s family.A deliciously dark masterwork by bestselling author Neil Gaiman, with illustrations by award-winning Dave McKean.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1229,
            "title": "The Complete Novels",
            "author": "Jane Austen",
            "date": "06/17/96",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Literature, Historical, Classic Literature, Novels, Regency, British Literature",
            "characters": "Mr. Bennet, Mrs. Bennet, Jane Bennet, Elizabeth Bennet, Mary Bennet, Kitty Bennet, Lydia Bennet, Louisa Hurst, Caroline Bingley, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Georgiana Darcy, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Anne de Bourgh, Colonel Fitzwilliam, Mr. Gardiner, Mrs. Gardiner, Sir William Lucas, Lady Lucas, Charlotte Lucas, Maria Lucas, Lady Russell, Emma Woodhouse, Elinor Dashwood, Marianne Dashwood, Catherine Morland, Henry Tilney, Eleanor Tilney, General Tilney, John Thorpe, Isabella Thorpe, Fanny Price (Mansfield Park), Edmund Bertram, Henry Crawford, Mary Crawford, Sir Thomas Bertram, Lady Bertram, William Price, Tom Bertram, Maria Bertram, Julia Bertram, Mr. Rushworth, Mr. Yates, Mr. Price, Mrs. Price, Edward Ferrars, Charles Bingley, George Wickham, Mr. William Collins, George Knightley, Harriet Smith, Jane Fairfax, Frank Churchill, Henry Woodhouse, Colonel Brandon, Lady Middleton, John Middleton, Mr. Dashwood, Mrs. John Dashwood, Mrs. Dashwood, Philip Elton, Augusta Elton, Miss Bates, Isabella Woodhouse, John Knightley, Anne Elliot",
            "synopsis": "\"This volume contains the six major novels: \"\"Emma\"\", \"\"Mansfield Park\"\", \"\"Northanger Abbey\"\", \"\"Persuasion\"\", \"\"Sense and Sensibility\"\", \"\"Pride and Prejudice\"\".\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1230,
            "title": "White Fang",
            "author": "Jack London, مها محمود صالح  (Translator)",
            "date": "01/01/2001",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Adventure, Animals, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Literature, Childrens, Novels, American",
            "characters": "White Fang",
            "synopsis": "\"White Fang is part dog and part wolf, and the lone survivor of his family. In his lonely world, he soon learns to follow the harsh law of the North-kill or be killed. But nothing in White Fang\u0027s life can prepare him for the cruel owner who turns him into a vicious killer. Will White Fang ever know the kindness of a gentle master?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1231,
            "title": "Beowulf",
            "author": "Unknown, Seamus Heaney (Translator)",
            "date": "02/17/01",
            "genres": "Classics, Poetry, Fiction, Fantasy, School, Mythology, Literature, Medieval, Read For School, Epic",
            "characters": "Beowulf, Grendel, Onela, Unferth, Breca, Wiglaf, Wealhtheow, Hrothgar",
            "synopsis": "\"Beowulf is a major epic of Anglo-Saxon literature, probably composed between the first half of the seventh century and the end of the first millennium. The poem was inspired by Germanic and Anglo-Saxon oral tradition recounting the exploits of Beowulf, the hero who gave his name to the poem. Here, it\u0027s transcribed as a verse epic, onto which are grafted Christian additions.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1232,
            "title": "Tuck Everlasting",
            "author": "Natalie Babbitt",
            "date": "11/01/1985",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Classics, Fiction, Childrens, Middle Grade, School, Historical Fiction, Romance, Read For School",
            "characters": "Winnie Foster, Angus Bain, Jesse Tuck, Mae Tuck, Miles Tuck",
            "synopsis": "\"Doomed to - or blessed with - eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can. When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tucks take her home and explain why living forever at one age is less a blessing that it might seem. Complications arise when Winnie is followed by a stranger who wants to market the spring water for a fortune.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1233,
            "title": "The Final Empire",
            "author": "Brandon Sanderson ",
            "date": "07/25/06",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Magic, Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Young Adult, Adventure",
            "characters": "Marsh, Vin, Elend Venture, Sazed, Kelsier, Dockson, Hammond, Breeze, Clubs, Spook, The Lord Ruler, Lord Renoux, Yeden, OreSeur",
            "synopsis": "\"For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the \"\"Sliver of Infinity,\"\" reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler\u0027s most hellish prison. Kelsier \"\"snapped\"\" and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark.Kelsier recruited the underworld\u0027s elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, each of whom shares one of his many powers, and all of whom relish a high-stakes challenge. Only then does he reveal his ultimate dream, not just the greatest heist in history, but the downfall of the divine despot.But even with the best criminal crew ever assembled, Kel\u0027s plan looks more like the ultimate long shot, until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into his life. Like him, she\u0027s a half-Skaa orphan, but she\u0027s lived a much harsher life. Vin has learned to expect betrayal from everyone she meets, and gotten it. She will have to learn to trust, if Kel is to help her master powers of which she never dreamed.This saga dares to ask a simple question: What if the hero of prophecy fails?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1234,
            "title": "Beautiful Creatures",
            "author": "Kami Garcia , Margaret Stohl ",
            "date": "12/01/2009",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Fiction, Magic, Supernatural, Witches, Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy",
            "characters": "Ethan Wate, Lena Duchannes, Wesley \"\"Link\"\" Lincoln, Amma Treadeau, Macon Ravenwood",
            "synopsis": "\"Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she\u0027s struggling to conceal her power, and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town\u0027s oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them.In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1235,
            "title": "Steppenwolf",
            "author": "Hermann Hesse, Basil Creighton (translator)",
            "date": "10/28/99",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Philosophy, German Literature, Literature, Novels, Germany, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Psychology",
            "characters": "Mariecke, Harry Haller, Pablo Soler, Hermine",
            "synopsis": "\"Steppenwolf is a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. This Faust-like and magical story is evidence of Hesse\u0027s searching philosophy and extraordinary sense of humanity as he tells of the humanization of a middle-aged misanthrope. Yet his novel can also be seen as a plea for rigorous self-examination and an indictment of the intellectual hypocrisy of the period. As Hesse himself remarked, \"\"Of all my books Steppenwolf is the one that was more often and more violently misunderstood than any of the others\"\".\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1236,
            "title": "Eldest",
            "author": "Christopher Paolini ",
            "date": "03/13/07",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Dragons, Adventure, Magic, High Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy",
            "characters": "Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle), Saphira (The Inheritance Cycle), Oromis (The Inheritance Cycle), Glaedr (The Inheritance Cycle), Roran Garrowsson, Hrothgar (The Inheritance Cycle), Arya (The Inheritance Cycle), Orik (The Inheritance Cycle), Horst (The Inheritance Cycle), Murtagh (The Inheritance Cycle), Solembum, Jeod Longshanks, The Twins, Nasuada, Queen Islanzadi, Jormundur, Lethrblaka, Albreich, Angela the Herbalist",
            "synopsis": "\"Darkness falls…despair abounds…evil reigns…Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the mighty forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire. Now Eragon must travel to Ellesmera, land of the elves, for further training in the skills of the Dragon Rider. Ages 12+.Darkness falls…despair abounds…evil reigns…Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the mighty forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire. Now Eragon must travel to Ellesmera, land of the elves, for further training in the skills of the Dragon Rider: magic and swordsmanship. Soon he is on the journey of a lifetime, his eyes open to awe-inspring new places and people, his days filled with fresh adventure. But chaos and betrayal plague him at every turn, and nothing is what it seems. Before long, Eragon doesn\u0027t know whom he can trust.Meanwhile, his cousin Roran must fight a new battle–one that might put Eragon in even graver danger.Will the king\u0027s dark hand strangle all resistance? Eragon may not escape with even his life. . . .\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1237,
            "title": "The Eye of the World",
            "author": "Robert Jordan",
            "date": "11/15/90",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, Adult, Audiobook, Epic",
            "characters": "\"\"Rand al\u0027\u0027Thor\"\", \"\"Nynaeve al\u0027\u0027Meara\"\", \"\"Egwene al\u0027\u0027Vere\"\", Perrin Aybara, \"\"Al\u0027\u0027Lan Mandragoran\"\", Matrim Cauthon, Moiraine Damodred, Loial, Thom Merrilin, Padan Fain, \"\"Ba\u0027\u0027alzamon\"\", Elyas Machera, \"\"Tam al\u0027\u0027Thor\"\"",
            "synopsis": "\"The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.When The Two Rivers is attacked by Trollocs-a savage tribe of half-men, half-beasts- five villagers flee that night into a world they barely imagined, with new dangers waiting in the shadows and in the light.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1238,
            "title": "A Separate Peace",
            "author": "John Knowles, David Levithan  (Afterword)",
            "date": "09/30/03",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, School, Coming Of Age, Literature, Read For School, High School, Novels",
            "characters": "Gene Forrester, Phineas",
            "synopsis": "\"An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to the second world war.Set at a boys boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world.A bestseller for more than thirty years, A Separate Peace is John Knowles crowning achievement and an undisputed American classic.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1239,
            "title": "The Complete Maus",
            "author": "Art Spiegelman",
            "date": "10/02/2003",
            "genres": "Graphic Novels, Comics, Nonfiction, History, Biography, Memoir, War, Historical, Holocaust, Graphic Novels Comics",
            "characters": "Vladek Spiegelman, Anja Spiegelman, Art Spiegelman, Mala Spiegelman",
            "synopsis": "\"Combined for the first time here are Maus I: A Survivor\u0027s Tale and Maus II - the complete story of Vladek Spiegelman and his wife, living and surviving in Hitler\u0027s Europe. By addressing the horror of the Holocaust through cartoons, the author captures the everyday reality of fear and is able to explore the guilt, relief and extraordinary sensation of survival - and how the children of survivors are in their own way affected by the trials of their parents. A contemporary classic of immeasurable significance.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1240,
            "title": "Mansfield Park",
            "author": "Jane Austen, Kathryn Sutherland (Editor)",
            "date": "10/28/03",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Literature, 19th Century, Historical, British Literature, Classic Literature, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Fanny Price (Mansfield Park), Edmund Bertram, Henry Crawford, Mary Crawford, Sir Thomas Bertram, Lady Bertram, William Price, Tom Bertram, Maria Bertram, Julia Bertram, Mr. Rushworth, Mr. Yates, Mr. Price, Mrs. Price, Mrs. Norris",
            "synopsis": "\"Adopted into the household of her uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, Fanny Price grows up a meek outsider among her cousins in the unaccustomed elegance of Mansfield Park. Soon after Sir Thomas absents himself on estate business in Antigua (the family\u0027s investment in slavery and sugar is considered in the Introduction in a new, post-colonial light), Mary Crawford and her brother Henry arrive at Mansfield, bringing with them London glamour, and the seductive taste for flirtation and theatre that precipitates a crisis. While Mansfield Park appears in some ways to continue where Pride and Prejudice left off, it is, as Kathryn Sutherland shows in her illuminating Introduction, a much darker work, which challenges \u0027the very values (of tradition, stability, retirement and faithfulness) it appears to endorse\u0027. This new edition provides an accurate text based, for the first time since its original publication, on the first edition of 1814.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1241,
            "title": "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier \u0026 Clay",
            "author": "Michael Chabon",
            "date": "08/25/01",
            "genres": "Fiction, Historical Fiction, Novels, Literature, Historical, Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Comics, Jewish, New York",
            "characters": "Joe Kavalier, Sam Clay, Rosa Saks",
            "synopsis": "\"Joe Kavalier, a young Jewish artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdini-esque escape, has just smuggled himself out of Nazi-invaded Prague and landed in New York City. His Brooklyn cousin Sammy Clay is looking for a partner to create heroes, stories, and art for the latest novelty to hit America - the comic book. Drawing on their own fears and dreams, Kavalier and Clay create the Escapist, the Monitor, and Luna Moth, inspired by the beautiful Rosa Saks, who will become linked by powerful ties to both men. With exhilarating style and grace, Michael Chabon tells an unforgettable story about American romance and possibility.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1242,
            "title": "Brisingr",
            "author": "Christopher Paolini ",
            "date": "09/20/08",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Dragons, Magic, Adventure, High Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy",
            "characters": "Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle), Saphira (The Inheritance Cycle), Oromis (The Inheritance Cycle), Glaedr (The Inheritance Cycle), Roran Garrowsson, Sloan (The Inheritance Cycle), Katrina (The Inheritance Cycle), Elva (The Inheritance Cycle), Arya (The Inheritance Cycle), Orik (The Inheritance Cycle), Murtagh (The Inheritance Cycle), Nasuada, Galbatorix, Blödhgarm, Lady Lorana, Queen Islanzadi, Menoa Tree, Rhunön, King Orrin, Fadawar (The Inheritance Cycle), Jormundur, Trianna (The Inheritance Cycle), Lethrblaka, Jarsha (The Inheritance Cycle), Angela the Herbalist",
            "synopsis": "\"Oaths sworn... loyalties tested... forces collide.It\u0027s been only months since Eragon first uttered \"\"brisingr\"\", an ancient language term for fire. Since then, he\u0027s not only learned to create magic with words — he\u0027s been challenged to his very core. Following the colossal battle against the Empires warriors on the Burning Plains, Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have narrowly escaped with their lives. Still, there is more adventure at hand for the Rider and his dragon, as Eragon finds himself bound by a tangle of promises he may not be able to keep.First is Eragon\u0027s oath to his cousin, Roran: to help rescue Roran\u0027s beloved from King Galbatorix\u0027s clutches. But Eragon owes his loyalty to others, too. The Varden are in desperate need of his talents and strength — as are the elves and dwarves. When unrest claims the rebels and danger strikes from every corner, Eragon must make choices — choices that will take him across the Empire and beyond, choices that may lead to unimagined sacrifice.Eragon is the greatest hope to rid the land of tyranny. Can this once simple farm boy unite the rebel forces and defeat the king?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1243,
            "title": "Stargirl",
            "author": "Jerry Spinelli",
            "date": "09/28/02",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Fiction, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Romance, Middle Grade, Childrens, Teen, School, Coming Of Age",
            "characters": "Stargirl Caraway, Leo Borlock",
            "synopsis": "\"A celebration of nonconformity; a tense, emotional tale about the fleeting, cruel nature of popularity-and the thrill and inspiration of first love. Ages 12+Leo Borlock follows the unspoken rule at Mica Area High School: don\u0027t stand out-under any circumstances! Then Stargirl arrives at Mica High and everything changes-for Leo and for the entire school. After 15 years of home schooling, Stargirl bursts into tenth grade in an explosion of color and a clatter of ukulele music, enchanting the Mica student body.But the delicate scales of popularity suddenly shift, and Stargirl is shunned for everything that makes her different. Somewhere in the midst of Stargirl\u0027s arrival and rise and fall, normal Leo Borlock has tumbled into love with her.In a celebration of nonconformity, Jerry Spinelli weaves a tense, emotional tale about the fleeting, cruel nature of popularity-and the thrill and inspiration of first love.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1244,
            "title": "Dear John",
            "author": "Nicholas Sparks ",
            "date": "10/30/06",
            "genres": "Romance, Fiction, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Adult, Adult Fiction, Young Adult, Love, Contemporary Romance, Drama",
            "characters": "Savannah Lynn Curtis, John Tyree",
            "synopsis": "\"An angry rebel, John dropped out of school and enlisted in the Army, not knowing what else to do with his life-until he meets the girl of his dreams, Savannah. Their mutual attraction quickly grows into the kind of love that leaves Savannah waiting for John to finish his tour of duty, and John wanting to settle down with the woman who has captured his heart. But 9/11 changes everything. John feels it is his duty to re-enlist. And sadly, the long separation finds Savannah falling in love with someone else. Dear John, the letter read... and with those two words, a heart was broken and two lives were changed forever. Returning home, John must come to grips with the fact that Savannah, now married, is still his true love—and face the hardest decision of his life.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1245,
            "title": "\u0027Salem\u0027s Lot",
            "author": "Stephen King ",
            "date": "10/28/91",
            "genres": "Horror, Fiction, Vampires, Fantasy, Thriller, Paranormal, Supernatural, Audiobook, Adult, Mystery",
            "characters": "Benjamin Mears, Susan Norton, Matt Burke, Mark Petrie, Father Donald Callahan, Mike Ryerson, Dr James Cody, Richard Throckett Straker, Danny Glick, Larry Crockett, Sonny James, Charles Boone, Loretta Starcher, Weasel Craig, Larry McLeod, Joe Crane, June Petrie, Hal Griffen, Dud Rogers, Cynthia Stowens, Buddy Bascomb, Nolly Gardener, Tookey, Miss Coogan, Royal Snow, Harriet Durham",
            "synopsis": "\"Thousands of miles away from the small township of \u0027Salem\u0027s Lot, two terrified people, a man and a boy, still share the secrets of those clapboard houses and tree-lined streets. They must return to \u0027Salem\u0027s Lot for a final confrontation with the unspeakable evil that lives on in the town.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1246,
            "title": "Crescendo",
            "author": "Becca Fitzpatrick ",
            "date": "10/19/10",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Fantasy, Angels, Paranormal, Romance, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy",
            "characters": "Nora Grey, Jev \"\"Patch\"\" Cipriano, Vee Sky, Marcie Millar, Rixon, Scott Parnell",
            "synopsis": "\"Nora Grey\u0027s life is still far from perfect. Surviving an attempt on her life wasn\u0027t pleasant, but at least she got a guardian angel out of it. A mysterious, magnetic, gorgeous guardian angel. But despite his role in her life, Patch has been acting anything but angelic. He\u0027s more elusive than ever (if that\u0027s possible) and what\u0027s worse, he seems to be spending time with Nora\u0027s archenemy, Marcie Millar.Nora would have hardly noticed Scott Parnell, an old family friend who has moved back to town, if Patch hadn\u0027t been acting so distant. Even with Scott\u0027s totally infuriating attitude, Nora finds herself drawn to him - despite her lingering feelings that he is hiding something.If that weren\u0027t enough, Nora is haunted by images of her murdered father, and comes to question whether her Nephilim bloodline has anything to do with his death. Desperate to figure out what happened, she puts herself in increasingly dangerous situations to get the answer. But maybe some things are better left buried, because the truth could destroy everything - and everyone - she trusts.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1247,
            "title": "The English Patient",
            "author": "Michael Ondaatje",
            "date": "04/18/06",
            "genres": "Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, Romance, Historical, War, Canada, Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels",
            "characters": "Kip, Hana, Geoffrey Clifton, Katharine Clifton, David Caravaggio, Ladislaus de Almásy, Gyges of Lydia, Candaules of Lydia",
            "synopsis": "\"With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje\u0027s Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1248,
            "title": "East of Eden",
            "author": "John Steinbeck",
            "date": "10/28/02",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels, American, Literary Fiction, Historical, Classic Literature, Adult",
            "characters": "Mr. Edwards, Ethel, Lee, Faye, Tom Hamilton, Cyrus Trask, Mrs. Trask, Alice Trask, Adam Trask, Charles Trask, Aron Trask, Caleb Trask, Samuel Hamilton, Liza Hamilton, George Hamilton, Will Hamilton, Joe Hamilton, Lizzie Hamilton, Una Hamilton, Dessie Hamilton, Olive Hamilton, Mollie Hamilton, Cathy Ames, Abra Bacon, Joe Valery",
            "synopsis": "\"In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California’s Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons—whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.Adam Trask came to California from the East to farm and raise his family on the new rich land. But the birth of his twins, Cal and Aaron, brings his wife to the brink of madness, and Adam is left alone to raise his boys to manhood. One boy thrives nurtured by the love of all those around him; the other grows up in loneliness enveloped by a mysterious darkness.First published in 1952, East of Eden is the work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love\u0027s absence. A masterpiece of Steinbeck\u0027s later years, East of Eden is a powerful and vastly ambitious novel that is at once a family saga and a modern retelling of the Book of Genesis.-jacket flap\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1249,
            "title": "Cloud Atlas",
            "author": "David Mitchell",
            "date": "08/17/04",
            "genres": "Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Dystopia, Contemporary, Novels, Literary Fiction, Literature, Historical",
            "characters": "Adam Ewing, Autua, Dr. Goose, Robert Frobisher, Rufus Sixsmith, Vyvyan Ayrs, Jocasta Ayrs, Eva van Outryve de Crommelynck, Luisa Rey, Timothy Cavendish, Sonmi~451, Zachry, Meronym, Hae-Joo Im, Mr. Meeks, Ernie Blacksmith, Nurse Noakes, Javier Gomez, Fay Li, Bill Smoke, Joe Napier, Yoona-939, Isaac Sachs, Old Georgie",
            "synopsis": "\"A postmodern visionary who is also a master of styles of genres, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian lore of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and Philip K. Dick. The result is brilliantly original fiction as profund as it is playful. Now in his new novel, David Mitchell explores with daring artistry fundamental questions of reality and identity.Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Along the way, Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite. . . .Abruptly, the action jumps to Belgium in 1931, where Robert Frobisher, a disinherited bisexual composer, contrives his way into the household of an infirm maestro who has a beguiling wife and a nubile daughter. . . . From there we jump to the West Coast in the 1970s and a troubled reporter named Luisa Rey, who stumbles upon a web of corporate greed and murder that threatens to claim her life. . . . And onward, with dazzling virtuosity, to an inglorious present-day England; to a Korean superstate of the near future where neocapitalism has run amok; and, finally, to a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history.But the story doesn’t end even there. The narrative then boomerangs back through centuries and space, returning by the same route, in reverse, to its starting point. Along the way, Mitchell reveals how his disparate characters connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky.As wild as a videogame, as mysterious as a Zen koan, Cloud Atlas is an unforgettable tour de force that, like its incomparable author, has transcended its cult classic status to become a worldwide phenomenon.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1250,
            "title": "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values",
            "author": "Robert M. Pirsig",
            "date": "04/25/06",
            "genres": "Philosophy, Fiction, Classics, Spirituality, Travel, Psychology, Literature, Self Help, Unfinished, Religion",
            "characters": "Phaedrus, Sylvia Sutherland, John Sutherland, Chris",
            "synopsis": "\"Robert M. Pirsig\u0027s Zen \u0026 the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is an examination of how we live, a meditation on how to live better set around the narration of a summer motorcycle trip across America\u0027s Northwest, undertaken by a father \u0026 his young son.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1251,
            "title": "The Martian",
            "author": "Andy Weir ",
            "date": "02/11/2014",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Audiobook, Adventure, Space, Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Thriller, Humor, Survival",
            "characters": "Mark Watney, Venkat Kapoor, Melissa Lewis, Rick Martinez, Beth Johanssen, Alex Vogel, Teddy Sanders, Mindy Park, Annie Montrose, Bruce Ng, Mitch Henderson, Chris Beck, Rich Purnell, Brendan Hutch",
            "synopsis": "\"Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there.After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he won’t have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old “human error” are much more likely to kill him first. But Mark isn’t ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills — and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit — he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1252,
            "title": "The Last Song",
            "author": "Nicholas Sparks ",
            "date": "09/08/2009",
            "genres": "Romance, Fiction, Young Adult, Contemporary, Chick Lit, Adult, Realistic Fiction, Adult Fiction, Drama, Love",
            "characters": "Will Blakelee, Veronica \"\"Ronnie\"\" Miller",
            "synopsis": "\"Alternate Cover Edition can be found hereSeventeen-year-old Veronica \u0027Ronnie\u0027 Miller’s life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alienated from her parents, especially her father . . . until her mother decides it would be in everyone’s best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Ronnie’s father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church. The tale that unfolds is an unforgettable story about love in its myriad forms - first love, the love between parents and children - that demonstrates, as only a Nicholas Sparks novel can, the many ways that deeply felt relationships can break our hearts . . . and heal them.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1253,
            "title": "My Ántonia",
            "author": "Willa Cather",
            "date": "02/20/00",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literature, School, American, Historical, Novels, Adult Fiction, Classic Literature",
            "characters": "Ántonia Shimerda, Jim Burden, Josiah Burden, Emmaline Burden, Ambrosch Shimerda, Lena Lingard, Otto Fuchs, Jake Marpole, Mr. Shimerda, Mrs. Shimerda",
            "synopsis": "\"Through Jim Burden\u0027s endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant life in the Nebraska heartland, with all its insistent bonds. Guiding the way are some of literature\u0027s most beguiling characters: the Russian brothers plagued by memories of a fateful sleigh ride, Antonia\u0027s desperately homesick father and self-indulgent mother, and the coy Lena Lingard. Holding the pastoral society\u0027s heart, of course, is the bewitching, free-spirited Antonia.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1254,
            "title": "Shatter Me",
            "author": "Tahereh Mafi",
            "date": "11/15/11",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Dystopia, Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction, Paranormal, Fiction, Supernatural, Post Apocalyptic, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Adam Kent, Juliette Ferrars, Aaron Warner Anderson, Kenji Kishimoto, Castle",
            "synopsis": "\"I have a curseI have a giftI am a monsterI\u0027m more than humanMy touch is lethalMy touch is powerI am their weaponI will fight backJuliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days.The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal. As long as she doesn’t hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don’t fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color.The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war – and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she’s exactly what they need right now.Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1255,
            "title": "The Amber Spyglass",
            "author": "Philip Pullman",
            "date": "09/09/2003",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Science Fiction, Childrens, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, Steampunk, Audiobook, Magic",
            "characters": "Lyra Belacqua, Will Parry, Mary Malone, Pantalaimon, Lord Asriel, Iorek Byrnison, Marisa Coulter, Lee Scoresby, Roger Parslow, Stanislaus Grumman, Serafina Pekkala",
            "synopsis": "\"Will is the bearer of the knife. Now, accompanied by angels, his task is to deliver that powerful, dangerous weapon to Lord Asriel - by the command of his dying father.But how can he go looking for Lord Asriel when Lyra is gone? Only with her help can he fathom the myriad plots and intrigues that beset him. The two great powers of the many worlds are lining up for war, and Will must find Lyra, for together they are on their way to battle, an inevitable journey that will even take them to the world of the dead...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1256,
            "title": "Doctor Zhivago",
            "author": "Boris Pasternak, John Bayley (Introduction), Max Hayward (Translator), Manya Harari (Translator)",
            "date": "03/18/97",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Russia, Russian Literature, Literature, Romance, Novels, Historical, War",
            "characters": "Yury Andreyevich Zhivago, Alexander Alexandrovich Gromeko, Markel Shchapov, Pavel Pavlovich Antipov, Rodyon Fyodorovich Guishar, Victor Ippolitovich Komarovsky, Kologrivov, Kuprik Tiverzin, Iosif Gimazetdinovich Galiullin, Nikolay Nikolayevich Vedenyapin, Nicky Dudorov, Misha Gordon, Antonina Alexandrovna Gromeko, Anna Ivanovna Gromeko, Amalia Karlovna Guishar, Larissa Fëdorovna Antipova, Anfim Yefimovitch Samdevyatov, Nadya Kologrigova, Evgraf Andreevič Zivago, Marina (Doctor Zhivago)",
            "synopsis": "\"This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987. One of the results of its publication in the West was Pasternak\u0027s complete rejection by Soviet authorities; when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 he was compelled to decline it. The book quickly became an international best-seller.Dr. Yury Zhivago, Pasternak\u0027s alter ego, is a poet, philosopher, and physician whose life is disrupted by the war and by his love for Lara, the wife of a revolutionary. His artistic nature makes him vulnerable to the brutality and harshness of the Bolsheviks. The poems he writes constitute some of the most beautiful writing featured in the novel.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1257,
            "title": "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame",
            "author": "Victor Hugo, Walter J. Cobb (Translator)",
            "date": "04/10/2001",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, France, Literature, French Literature, Gothic, Historical, Romance, Novels",
            "characters": "Quasimodo (Victor Hugo), Claude Frollo, Esmeralda, Gringoire, Captain Phoebus de Chateaupers",
            "synopsis": "\"This extraordinary historical novel, set in Medieval Paris under the twin towers of its greatest structure and supreme symbol, the cathedral of Notre-Dame, is the haunting drama of Quasimodo, the hunchback; Esmeralda, the gypsy dancer; and Claude Frollo, the priest tortured by the specter of his own damnation. Shaped by a profound sense of tragic irony, it is a work that gives full play to Victor Hugo\u0027s brilliant historical imagination and his remarkable powers of description.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1258,
            "title": "Inferno",
            "author": "Dante Alighieri, Anthony M. Esolen (Translator)",
            "date": "12/09/2003",
            "genres": "Classics, Poetry, Fiction, Literature, Religion, Fantasy, School, Italian Literature, Philosophy, Medieval",
            "characters": "Virgilio (Publius Vergilius Maro), Odysseus, Dante Alighieri, Beatrice (diverse works), Paolo, Francesca, Charon (mythology)",
            "synopsis": "\"Of the great poets, Dante is one of the most elusive and therefore one of the most difficult to adequately render into English verse. In the Inferno, Dante not only judges sin but strives to understand it so that the reader can as well. With this major new translation, Anthony Esolen has succeeded brilliantly in marrying sense with sound, poetry with meaning, capturing both the poem’s line-by-line vigor and its allegorically and philosophically exacting structure, yielding an Inferno that will be as popular with general readers as with teachers and students. For, as Dante insists, without a trace of sentimentality or intellectual compromise, even Hell is a work of divine art.Esolen also provides a critical Introduction and endnotes, plus appendices containing Dante’s most important sources—from Virgil to Saint Thomas Aquinas and other Catholic theologians—that deftly illuminate the religious universe the poet inhabited.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1259,
            "title": "Like Water for Chocolate",
            "author": "Laura Esquivel, Thomas Christensen  (Translator), Carol Christensen (Translator)",
            "date": "09/16/93",
            "genres": "Fiction, Romance, Magical Realism, Historical Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Food, Spanish Literature, Adult, Novels",
            "characters": "Tita de la Garza, Gertrudis de la Garza, Rosaura de la Garza, Mamá Elena, Pedro Muzquiz, John Brown, Nacha, Chencha, Juan Alejandrez",
            "synopsis": "\"Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit.The number one bestseller in Mexico and America for almost two years, and subsequently a bestseller around the world, Like Water For Chocolate is a romantic, poignant tale, touched with moments of magic, graphic earthiness, bittersweet wit - and recipes. A sumptuous feast of a novel, it relates the bizarre history of the all-female De La Garza family. Tita, the youngest daughter of the house, has been forbidden to marry, condemned by Mexican tradition to look after her mother until she dies. But Tita falls in love with Pedro, and he is seduced by the magical food she cooks. In desperation, Pedro marries her sister Rosaura so that he can stay close to her, so that Tita and Pedro are forced to circle each other in unconsummated passion. Only a freakish chain of tragedies, bad luck and fate finally reunite them against all the odds.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1260,
            "title": "Dragonfly in Amber",
            "author": "Diana Gabaldon ",
            "date": "08/07/2001",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction, Time Travel, Historical, Historical Romance, Audiobook, Scotland, Adult",
            "characters": "Jamie Fraser, Brianna Randall, Roger MacKenzie, Fergus Fraser, Ian Murray, Claire Randall Fraser, Jonathan Randall, Dougal MacKenzie, Colum MacKenzie, Geillis Duncan, Jenny Murray, Frank Randall, Murtagh Fraser",
            "synopsis": "\"From the author of Outlander... a magnificent epic that once again sweeps us back in time to the drama and passion of 18th-century Scotland...For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to Scotland\u0027s majestic mist-shrouded hills. Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it birth: about the mystery of an ancient circle of standing stones ...about a love that transcends the boundaries of time ...and about James Fraser, a Scottish warrior whose gallantry once drew a young Claire from the security of her century to the dangers of his ....Now a legacy of blood and desire will test her beautiful copper-haired daughter, Brianna, as Claire\u0027s spellbinding journey of self-discovery continues in the intrigue-ridden Paris court of Charles Stuart ...in a race to thwart a doomed Highlands uprising ...and in a desperate fight to save both the child and the man she loves....\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1261,
            "title": "Breakfast of Champions",
            "author": "Kurt Vonnegut Jr.",
            "date": "05/28/99",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Science Fiction, Humor, Literature, Novels, American, Literary Fiction, Audiobook, Comedy",
            "characters": "Kilgore Trout, Eliot Rosewater, Rabo Karabekian, Dwayne Hoover, Francine Pefko, Kazak, Wayne Hoobler, Cyprian Ukwende, Celia Hoover, Harry LeSabre, Bunny Hoover, Beatrice Keedlser, Bonnie MacMahon",
            "synopsis": "\"Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereIn Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s  most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1262,
            "title": "The BFG",
            "author": "Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illustrator)",
            "date": "10/28/01",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Childrens, Fiction, Classics, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Humor, Adventure, Audiobook, Juvenile",
            "characters": "the Big Friendly Giant, Queen Elizabeth II, Sophie (the BFG), The Fleshlumpeater, The Bonecruncher, The Manhugger, The Childchewer, The Meatdripper, The Gizzardgulper, The Maidmasher, The Bloodbottler, The Butcher Boy, Mary (the BFG), Mr. Tibbs (the BFG)",
            "synopsis": "\"Captured by a giant! The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It\u0027s lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, the Fleshlumpeater, the Bonecruncher, or any of the other giants-rather than the BFG-she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that they are flush-bunking off in England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she must stop them once and for all. And the BFG is going to help her!\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1263,
            "title": "Six of Crows",
            "author": "Leigh Bardugo ",
            "date": "09/29/15",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, Romance, LGBT, High Fantasy, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Inej Ghafa, Kaz Brekker, Jesper Fahey, Wylan Van Eck, Matthias Helvar, Nina Zenik",
            "synopsis": "Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price—and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can’t pull it off alone. . . .A convict with a thirst for revengeA sharpshooter who can’t walk away from a wagerA runaway with a privileged pastA spy known as the WraithA Heartrender using her magic to survive the slumsA thief with a gift for unlikely escapesKaz’s crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction—if they don’t kill each other first."
          },
          {
            "id": 1264,
            "title": "A Fine Balance",
            "author": "Rohinton Mistry",
            "date": "11/30/01",
            "genres": "Fiction, India, Historical Fiction, Canada, Indian Literature, Asia, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Historical",
            "characters": "Maneck Kohlah, Omprakash Darji, Ishvar Darji, Dina Dalal, Rustom Dalal, Nusswan Shroff, Vasantrao Valmik, Thakur Dharamsi, Ashraf Chacha, Rajaram, Shankar, Beggar Master",
            "synopsis": "\"With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers-a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native village-will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment and an uncertain future. As the characters move from distrust to friendship and from friendship to love, A Fine Balance creates an enduring panorama of the human spirit in an inhuman state.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1265,
            "title": "Daughter of Smoke \u0026 Bone",
            "author": "Laini Taylor ",
            "date": "09/27/11",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Paranormal, Angels, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Magic, Young Adult Fantasy, Supernatural",
            "characters": "Madrigal, Karou, Akiva (Daughter of Smoke \u0026 Bone), Kazimir, Zuzana, Issa, Brimstone, Thiago, Mik, Ziri",
            "synopsis": "\"Around the world, black hand prints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.In a dark and dusty shop, a devil’s supply of human teeth grows dangerously low.And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherworldly war.Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real, she’s prone to disappearing on mysterious \"\"errands\"\", she speaks many languages - not all of them human - and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she’s about to find out.When beautiful, haunted Akiva fixes fiery eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1266,
            "title": "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde",
            "author": "Robert Louis Stevenson, Vladimir Nabokov (Introduction), Mervyn Peake (Illustrator), Théo Varlet (Translation), Patrick Horgan (Narrator), Dan Chaon  (Afterword)",
            "date": "09/02/2003",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Mystery, Gothic, Fantasy, Literature, 19th Century, School",
            "characters": "Mr Gabriel John Utterson, Dr. Hastie Lanyon, Dr. Henry Jekyll, Mr Edward Hyde, Richard Enfield, Poole (Jekyll \u0026 Hyde)",
            "synopsis": "\"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novella written by the famous Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886. The work is commonly known today as The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, or simply Jekyll \u0026 Hyde. It is about a London lawyer named John Gabriel Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1267,
            "title": "City of Heavenly Fire",
            "author": "Cassandra Clare ",
            "date": "05/27/14",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Vampires, Angels, Fiction, Magic, Supernatural",
            "characters": "Alexander \"\"Alec\"\" Lightwood, Jonathan \"\"Jace\"\" Wayland, Isabelle \"\"Izzy\"\" Sophia Lightwood, Theresa \"\"Tessa\"\" Gray, Magnus Bane, Jordan Kyle, Maia Roberts, Jocelyn Fray, Luke Garroway, Sebastian Morgenstern, Clarissa \"\"Clary\"\" Fray, Simon Lewis",
            "synopsis": "\"In this dazzling and long-awaited conclusion to the acclaimed Mortal Instruments series, Clary and her friends fight the greatest evil they have ever faced: Clary\u0027s own brother.Sebastian Morgenstern is on the move, systematically turning Shadowhunter against Shadowhunter. Bearing the Infernal Cup, he transforms Shadowhunters into creatures out of nightmare, tearing apart families and lovers as the ranks of his Endarkened army swell.The embattled Shadowhunters withdraw to Idris - but not even the famed demon towers of Alicante can keep Sebastian at bay. And with the Nephilim trapped in Idris, who will guard the world against demons?When one of the greatest betrayals the Nephilim have ever known is revealed, Clary, Jace, Isabelle, Simon, and Alec must flee - even if their journey takes them deep into the demon realms, where no Shadowhunter has set foot before, and from which no human being has ever returned...Love will be sacrificed and lives lost in the terrible battle for the fate of the word in the thrilling final installment of the classic urban fantasy series The Mortal Instruments!\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1268,
            "title": "Evermore",
            "author": "Alyson Noel ",
            "date": "02/03/2009",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Vampires, Magic",
            "characters": "Ever Bloom, Damen Auguste, Drina, Miles, Haven Turner",
            "synopsis": "\"The first book in Alyson Noël\u0027s extraordinary new Immortals series. Enter an enchanting new world, where true love never dies...After a horrible accident claims the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever Bloom can see people\u0027s auras, hear their thoughts, and know someone\u0027s entire life story by touching them. Going out of her way to avoid human contact to suppress her abilities, she has been branded a freak at her new high school—but everything changes when she meets Damen Auguste.Damen is gorgeous, exotic and wealthy. He\u0027s the only one who can silence the noise and random energy in her head—wielding a magic so intense, it\u0027s as though he can peer straight into her soul. As Ever is drawn deeper into his enticing world of secrets and mystery, she\u0027s left with more questions than answers. And she has no idea just who he really is—or what he is. The only thing she knows to be true is that she\u0027s falling deeply and helplessly in love with him.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1269,
            "title": "Death of a Salesman",
            "author": "Arthur Miller",
            "date": "03/18/94",
            "genres": "Plays, Classics, Fiction, Drama, School, Theatre, Literature, Read For School, High School, American",
            "characters": "Willy Loman, Linda Loman, Happy Loman, Biff Loman, Ben Loman, Howard Wagner",
            "synopsis": "\"\u0027For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don\u0027t put a bolt to a nut, he don\u0027t tell you the law or give you medicine. He\u0027s a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine.\u0027Willy Loman has been a salesman for 34 years. At 60, he is cast aside, his usefulness now exhausted. With no future to dream about he must face the crushing disappointments of his past. He takes one final brave action, but is he heroic at last?, or a self-deluding fool?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1270,
            "title": "11/22/63",
            "author": "Stephen King ",
            "date": "11/08/2011",
            "genres": "Fiction, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction, Time Travel, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller, Audiobook, Historical, Mystery",
            "characters": "John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, Jake Epping, Al Templeton, Harry Dunning, Marina Oswald, Bill Titus, Sadie Dunhill, Yellow Card Man, Deacon \"\"Deke\"\" Simmons, Ellen Dockerty, George de Mohrenschildt, Richie Tozier, Beverly Marsh",
            "synopsis": "\"Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students—a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk.Not much later, Jake’s friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane—and insanely possible—mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake’s life—a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1271,
            "title": "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil",
            "author": "John Berendt",
            "date": "06/28/99",
            "genres": "Nonfiction, True Crime, Mystery, Crime, History, Southern, Classics, Travel, Memoir, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Jim Williams, Danny Hansford",
            "synopsis": "\"A sublime and seductive reading experience. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, this enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city has become a modern classic.Shots rang out in Savannah\u0027s grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt\u0027s sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet it is a work of nonfiction. Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case.It is a spellbinding story peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters: the well-bred society ladies of the Married Woman\u0027s Card Club; the turbulent young redneck gigolo; the hapless recluse who owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man, woman, and child in Savannah; the aging and profane Southern belle who is the \"\"soul of pampered self-absorption\"\"; the uproariously funny black drag queen; the acerbic and arrogant antiques dealer; the sweet-talking, piano-playing con artist; young blacks dancing the minuet at the black debutante ball; and Minerva, the voodoo priestess who works her magic in the graveyard at midnight. These and other Savannahians act as a Greek chorus, with Berendt revealing the alliances, hostilities, and intrigues that thrive in a town where everyone knows everyone else.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1272,
            "title": "A Streetcar Named Desire",
            "author": "Tennessee Williams",
            "date": "12/01/1952",
            "genres": "Plays, Classics, Drama, Fiction, School, Theatre, American, Literature, Read For School, High School",
            "characters": "Blanche DuBois, Stanley Kowalski, Stella Kowalski, Harold Mitchel, Eunice Hubbel, Steve Hubbel, Pablo Gonzales, Negro Woman, Baby, Matron, Doctor, Mexican Woman, Young Collector",
            "synopsis": "\"The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman and The Crucible), and Williams’ essay “The World I Live In.”It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and impact as when they first appeared—57 years after its Broadway premiere, Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire is one of those plays. The story famously recounts how the faded and promiscuous Blanche DuBois is pushed over the edge by her sexy and brutal brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski. Streetcar launched the careers of Marlon Brando, Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden, and solidified the position of Tennessee Williams as one of the most important young playwrights of his generation, as well as that of Elia Kazan as the greatest American stage director of the ’40s and ’50s.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1273,
            "title": "Infinite Jest",
            "author": "David Foster Wallace",
            "date": "10/28/05",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Humor, Unfinished, Literary Fiction, American, Philosophy",
            "characters": "Hal Incadenza, Joelle Van Dyne, Michael Pemulis, Mario Incandenza, Ken Erdedy, Avril Incandenza, Orin Incandenza, Randy Lenz, Ortho Stice, Tiny Ewell, Poor Tony Krause, Clenette Henderson, Remy Marathe, Hugh Steeply, Pat Montesian, Ann Kittenplan, Trevor Axford, LaMont Chu, Geoffrey Day, Gerhardt Schtitt, Ted Schacht, Dr. James Orin Incandenza, Katherine Ann Gompert, Dr. Charles Tavis, Mildred L. Bonk, Harriet Bonk-Green, Jim Troelsch, Donald W. Gately, Bruce Green, Emil Minty, Lyle",
            "synopsis": "\"A gargantuan, mind-altering tragi-comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. Set in an addicts\u0027 halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human—and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1274,
            "title": "The Prince",
            "author": "Niccolò Machiavelli, Rufus Goodwin (Translator), Benjamin Martinez (Illustrator)",
            "date": "06/01/2003",
            "genres": "Classics, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Politics, History, Political Science, Literature, Italian Literature, Italy, School",
            "characters": "Theseus (mythology), Alexander the Great, Cesare Borgia, Francesco Sforza, Niccolò Machiavelli, Pope Alexander VI, Louis XII of France",
            "synopsis": "\"Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following observations, be Machiavellian as we understand the disparaging term? 1. So it is that to know the nature of a people, one need be a Prince; to know the nature of a Prince, one need to be of the people. 2. If a Prince is not given to vices that make him hated, it is unsusal for his subjects to show their affection for him. 3. Opportunity made Moses, Cyrus, Romulus, Theseus, and others; their virtue domi-nated the opportunity, making their homelands noble and happy. Armed prophets win; the disarmed lose. 4. Without faith and religion, man achieves power but not glory. 5. Prominent citizens want to command and oppress; the populace only wants to be free of oppression. 6. A Prince needs a friendly populace; otherwise in diversity there is no hope. 7. A Prince, who rules as a man of valor, avoids disasters, 8. Nations based on mercenary forces will never be solid or secure. 9. Mercenaries are dangerous because of their cowardice 10. There are two ways to fight: one with laws, the other with force. The first is rightly man’s way; the second, the way of beasts.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1275,
            "title": "Hamlet",
            "author": "William Shakespeare, Harold Bloom (Contributor), Rex Gibson (Editor)",
            "date": "08/01/2005",
            "genres": "Classics, Plays, Fiction, Drama, School, Literature, Theatre, Read For School, High School, Poetry",
            "characters": "Hamlet, Horatio, Polonius, Laertes, Gertrude, Marcellus, Rosencrantz and Guildentstern, Fortinbras, Bernardo, Francisco, Reynaldo, Osric, Voltimand, Cornelius, Claudius, Ophelia",
            "synopsis": "\"Among Shakespeare\u0027s plays, \"\"Hamlet\"\" is considered by many his masterpiece. Among actors, the role of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is considered the jewel in the crown of a triumphant theatrical career. Now Kenneth Branagh plays the leading role and co-directs a brillant ensemble performance. Three generations of legendary leading actors, many of whom first assembled for the Oscar-winning film \"\"Henry V\"\", gather here to perform the rarely heard complete version of the play. This clear, subtly nuanced, stunning dramatization, presented by The Renaissance Theatre Company in association with \"\"Bbc\"\" Broadcasting, features such luminaries as Sir John Gielgud, Derek Jacobi, Emma Thompson and Christopher Ravenscroft. It combines a full cast with stirring music and sound effects to bring this magnificent Shakespearen classic vividly to life. Revealing new riches with each listening, this production of \"\"Hamlet\"\" is an invaluable aid for students, teachers and all true lovers of Shakespeare - a recording to be treasured for decades to come.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1276,
            "title": "Faust, First Part",
            "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Peter Salm (Translator)",
            "date": "07/01/1988",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Plays, Poetry, German Literature, Drama, Literature, Philosophy, School, Fantasy",
            "characters": "Faust, Mephistopheles, Gretchen",
            "synopsis": "\"Wielki uczony - wciąż spragniony wiedzy o sensie istnienia - zawiera pakt z diabłem. Chce absolutnego poznania i doskonałego szczęścia - jeśli zazna chwili, o której powie „trwaj, jesteś piękna!” szatan będzie mógł wziąć jego duszę do piekła. Mefistofeles ochoczo zgadza się na to - wszak sprawdzić wiarę Fausta pozwolił mu sam Bóg.Faust to dzieło życia Goethego, dramat o możliwościach ludzkiego poznania i sensie istnienia świata.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1277,
            "title": "Anna and the French Kiss",
            "author": "Stephanie Perkins ",
            "date": "12/02/2010",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary, Chick Lit, Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, Teen, Young Adult Romance",
            "characters": "Anna Oliphant, Étienne St. Clair, Meredith Chevalier, Rashmi, Joshua Wasserstein, Ellie, Bridgette Saunderwick, Christopher, Dave Higgenbottom, Sean Oliphant, Kevin Quiggley, Amanda Spitterton-Watts, Matt, Isla Martin",
            "synopsis": "\"Anna is looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a great job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. Which is why she is less than thrilled about being shipped off to boarding school in Paris-until she meets Étienne St. Clair. Smart, charming, beautiful, Étienne has it all...including a serious girlfriend. But in the City of Light, wishes have a way of coming true. Will a year of romantic near-misses end with their long-awaited French kiss?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1278,
            "title": "A Feast for Crows",
            "author": "George R.R. Martin",
            "date": "10/28/11",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Adult, Adventure, Dragons, Audiobook, Epic",
            "characters": "Arya Stark, Jaime Lannister, Petyr Baelish, Sansa Stark, Varys, Brienne of Tarth, Samwell Tarly, Arianne Martell, Victarion Greyjoy, Asha Greyjoy, Pyp, Tommen Baratheon, Thoros of Myr, Jon Snow, Cersei Lannister",
            "synopsis": "\"Crows will fight over a dead man\u0027s flesh, and kill each other for his eyes.Bloodthirsty, treacherous and cunning, the Lannisters are in power on the Iron Throne in the name of the boy-king Tommen. The war in the Seven Kingdoms has burned itself out, but in its bitter aftermath new conflicts spark to life.The Martells of Dorne and the Starks of Winterfell seek vengeance for their dead. Euron Crow\u0027s Eye, as black a pirate as ever raised a sail, returns from the smoking ruins of Valyria to claim the Iron Isles. From the icy north, where Others threaten the Wall, apprentice Maester Samwell Tarly brings a mysterious babe in arms to the Citadel.Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory will go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel and the coldest hearts.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1279,
            "title": "The Angel Experiment",
            "author": "James Patterson ",
            "date": "05/05/2006",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Fiction, Adventure, Paranormal, Teen, Action, Mystery, Urban Fantasy",
            "characters": "Maximum Ride, Jeb Batchelder, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, Angel (Maximum Ride), Erasers, Fang, Ari",
            "synopsis": "\"Six unforgettable kids — with no families, no homes — are running for their lives. Max Ride and her best friends have the ability to fly. And that\u0027s just the beginning of their amazing powers. But they don\u0027t know where they come from, who\u0027s hunting them, why they are different from all other humans... and if they\u0027re meant to save mankind — or destroy it.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1280,
            "title": "Matched",
            "author": "Ally Condie ",
            "date": "11/30/10",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Dystopia, Romance, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Teen, Audiobook, Futuristic, Post Apocalyptic",
            "characters": "Cassia Reyes, Ky Markham, Xander Carrow",
            "synopsis": "\"In the Society, officials decide. Who you love. Where you work. When you die.Cassia has always trusted their choices. It’s hardly any price to pay for a long life, the perfect job, the ideal mate. So when her best friend appears on the Matching screen, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is the one…until she sees another face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. Now Cassia is faced with impossible choices: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she’s known and a path no one else has ever dared follow—between perfection and passion.Matched is a story for right now and storytelling with the resonance of a classic.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1281,
            "title": "Flowers in the Attic",
            "author": "V.C. Andrews",
            "date": "10/28/79",
            "genres": "Fiction, Horror, Young Adult, Mystery, Classics, Romance, Gothic, Thriller, Drama, Adult",
            "characters": "Cathy Dollanganger, Chris Dollanganger, Cory Dollanganger, Carrie Dollanganger, Corrine Dollanganger, Olivia Foxworth",
            "synopsis": "\"Such wonderful children. Such a beautiful mother. Such a lovely house. Such endless terror!It wasn\u0027t that she didn\u0027t love her children. She did. But there was a fortune at stake—a fortune that would assure their later happiness if she could keep the children a secret from her dying father.So she and her mother hid her darlings away in an unused attic.Just for a little while.But the brutal days swelled into agonizing years. Now Cathy, Chris, and the twins wait in their cramped and helpless world, stirred by adult dreams, adult desires, served a meager sustenance by an angry, superstitious grandmother who knows that the Devil works in dark and devious ways. Sometimes he sends children to do his work—children who—one by one—must be destroyed....\u0027Way upstairs there are four secrets hidden. Blond, beautiful, innocent struggling to stay alive....\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1282,
            "title": "The Chosen",
            "author": "Chaim Potok",
            "date": "04/12/1987",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Jewish, Religion, School, Literature, Judaism, Novels",
            "characters": "Reuven Malter, Danny Saunders",
            "synopsis": "\"It is the now-classic story of two fathers and two sons and the pressures on all of them to pursue the religion they share in the way that is best suited to each. And as the boys grow into young men, they discover in the other a lost spiritual brother, and a link to an unexplored world that neither had ever considered before. In effect, they exchange places, and find the peace that neither will ever retreat from again. . . .\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1283,
            "title": "All the Light We Cannot See",
            "author": "Anthony Doerr ",
            "date": "05/06/2014",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, War, World War II, Adult, Audiobook, France, Book Club, Adult Fiction",
            "characters": "Werner Pfennig, Marie-Laure LeBlanc, Frank Volkheimer, Etienne LeBlanc, Frederick (All the Light We Cannot See), Jutta Pfennig, Madame Manec, Reinhold von Rumpel, Frau Elena, Daniel LeBlanc, Dr. Hauptmann, Walter Bernd, Bastian",
            "synopsis": "\"An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereFrom the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1284,
            "title": "Artemis Fowl",
            "author": "Eoin Colfer",
            "date": "04/01/2003",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Middle Grade, Childrens, Adventure, Science Fiction, Magic, Urban Fantasy, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Artemis Fowl II, Domovoi Butler, Captain Holly Short, Commander Julius Root, Foaly, Mulch Diggums, Juliet Butler, Angeline Fowl, Captain Trouble Kelp, Briar Cudgeon, Nguyen Xuan, Corporal Grub Kelp, Professor Cumulus, Dr Jerbal Argon, Chix Verbil",
            "synopsis": "\"Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is a millionaire, a genius, and above all, a criminal mastermind. But even Artemis doesn\u0027t know what he\u0027s taken on when he kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. These aren\u0027t the fairies of bedtime stories—they\u0027re dangerous! Full of unexpected twists and turns, Artemis Fowl is a riveting, magical adventure.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1285,
            "title": "The Virgin Suicides",
            "author": "Jeffrey Eugenides",
            "date": "10/28/02",
            "genres": "Fiction, Contemporary, Classics, Young Adult, Literary Fiction, Coming Of Age, Novels, Literature, Adult Fiction, Adult",
            "characters": "Cecilia Lisbon, Lux Lisbon, Mary Lisbon, Therese Lisbon, Bonnie Lisbon",
            "synopsis": "\"The shocking thing about the girls was how nearly normal they seemed when their mother let them out for the one and only date of their lives. Twenty years on, their enigmatic personalities are embalmed in the memories of the boys who worshipped them and who now recall their shared adolescence: the brassiere draped over a crucifix belonging to the promiscuous Lux; the sisters\u0027 breathtaking appearance on the night of the dance; and the sultry, sleepy street across which they watched a family disintegrate and fragile lives disappear.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1286,
            "title": "The Reader",
            "author": "Bernhard Schlink, Carol Brown Janeway (Translator)",
            "date": "06/26/97",
            "genres": "Fiction, Historical Fiction, German Literature, Classics, Holocaust, Romance, Historical, Germany, War, World War II",
            "characters": "Michael Berg, Hanna Schmitz",
            "synopsis": "\"Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany.When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his lover—then she inexplicably disappears. When Michael next sees her, he is a young law student, and she is on trial for a hideous crime. As he watches her refuse to defend her innocence, Michael gradually realizes that Hanna may be guarding a secret she considers more shameful than murder.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1287,
            "title": "Nineteen Minutes",
            "author": "Jodi Picoult ",
            "date": "03/05/2007",
            "genres": "Fiction, Contemporary, Chick Lit, Adult, Adult Fiction, Drama, Young Adult, Realistic Fiction, Mystery, Crime",
            "characters": "Josie Cormier, Alex Cormier, Lacy Houghton, Lewis Houghton, Peter Houghton, Jordan McAfee, Patrick Ducharme",
            "synopsis": "\"In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn, color your hair, watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five....In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world, or you can just jump off it. In nineteen minutes, you can get revenge. Sterling is a small, ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens - until the day its complacency is shattered by a shocking act of violence. In the aftermath, the town\u0027s residents must not only seek justice in order to begin healing but also come to terms with the role they played in the tragedy. For them, the lines between truth and fiction, right and wrong, insider and outsider have been obscured forever. Josie Cormier, the teenage daughter of the judge sitting on the case, could be the state\u0027s best witness, but she can\u0027t remember what happened in front of her own eyes. And as the trial progresses, fault lines between the high school and the adult community begin to show, destroying the closest of friendships and families. Nineteen Minutes is New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult\u0027s most raw, honest, and important novel yet. Told with the straightforward style for which she has become known, it asks simple questions that have no easy answers: Can your own child become a mystery to you? What does it mean to be different in our society? Is it ever okay for a victim to strike back? And who - if anyone - has the right to judge someone else?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1288,
            "title": "The House of Hades",
            "author": "Rick Riordan ",
            "date": "10/08/2013",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Mythology, Fiction, Middle Grade, Adventure, Greek Mythology, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Magic",
            "characters": "Nico di Angelo, Hades, Hazel Levesque, Annabeth Chase, Percy Jackson, Leo Valdez, Jason Grace, Piper McLean, Frank Zhang",
            "synopsis": "\"Hazel stands at a crossroads. She and the remaining crew of the Argo II could return home with the Athena Parthenos statue and try to stop Camp Half-Blood and Camp Jupiter from going to war. Or they could continue their quest to find the House of Hades, where they might be able to open the Doors of Death, rescue their friends Percy and Annabeth from Tartarus, and prevent monsters from being reincarnated in the mortal world. Whichever road they decide to take, they have to hurry, because time is running out. Gaea, the bloodthirsty Earth Mother, has set the date of August 1 for her rise to power.Annabeth and Percy are overwhelmed. How will the two of them make it through Tartarus? Starving, thirsty, and in pain, they are barely able to stumble on in the dark and poisonous landscape that holds new horrors at every turn. They have no way of locating the Doors of Death. Even if they did, a legion of Gaea\u0027s strongest monsters guards the Doors on the Tartarus side. Annabeth and Percy can\u0027t exactly launch a frontal assault.Despite the terrible odds, Hazel, Annabeth, Percy, and the other demigods of the prophecy know that there is only one choice: to attempt the impossible. Not just for themselves, but for everyone they love. Even though love can be the riskiest choice of all.Join the demigods as they face their biggest challenges yet in The House of Hades, the hair-raising penultimate book in the best-selling Heroes of Olympus series.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1289,
            "title": "Shantaram",
            "author": "Gregory David Roberts",
            "date": "10/28/04",
            "genres": "Fiction, India, Travel, Adventure, Contemporary, Novels, Asia, Historical Fiction, Unfinished, Crime",
            "characters": "Lin Ford, Karla Saraanen, Lisa, Prabaker, Abdel Khader Khan, Abdullah Taheri, Nazeer, Didier",
            "synopsis": "\"\"\"It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.\"\"So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel set in the underworld of contemporary Bombay. Shantaram is narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport who flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of a city where he can disappear.Accompanied by his guide and faithful friend, Prabaker, the two enter Bombay\u0027s hidden society of beggars and gangsters, prostitutes and holy men, soldiers and actors, and Indians and exiles from other countries, who seek in this remarkable place what they cannot find elsewhere.As a hunted man without a home, family, or identity, Lin searches for love and meaning while running a clinic in one of the city\u0027s poorest slums, and serving his apprenticeship in the dark arts of the Bombay mafia. The search leads him to war, prison torture, murder, and a series of enigmatic and bloody betrayals. The keys to unlock the mysteries and intrigues that bind Lin are held by two people. The first is Khader Khan: mafia godfather, criminal-philosopher-saint, and mentor to Lin in the underworld of the Golden City. The second is Karla: elusive, dangerous, and beautiful, whose passions are driven by secrets that torment her and yet give her a terrible power.Burning slums and five-star hotels, romantic love and prison agonies, criminal wars and Bollywood films, spiritual gurus and mujaheddin guerrillas – this huge novel has the world of human experience in its reach, and a passionate love for India at its heart. Based on the life of the author, it is by any measure the debut of an extraordinary voice in literature.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1290,
            "title": "The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America",
            "author": "Erik Larson ",
            "date": "02/11/2003",
            "genres": "Nonfiction, History, True Crime, Crime, Historical, Mystery, Audiobook, American History, Biography, Book Club",
            "characters": "Daniel Burnham, H.H. Holmes",
            "synopsis": "\"Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World\u0027s Fair with such drama that readers may find themselves checking the book\u0027s categorization to be sure that \u0027The Devil in the White City\u0027 is not, in fact, a highly imaginative novel. Larson tells the stories of two men: Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible for the fair\u0027s construction, and H.H. Holmes, a serial killer masquerading as a charming doctor. Burnham\u0027s challenge was immense. In a short period of time, he was forced to overcome the death of his partner and numerous other obstacles to construct the famous \"\"White City\"\" around which the fair was built. His efforts to complete the project, and the fair\u0027s incredible success, are skillfully related along with entertaining appearances by such notables as Buffalo Bill Cody, Susan B. Anthony, and Thomas Edison. The activities of the sinister Dr. Holmes, who is believed to be responsible for scores of murders around the time of the fair, are equally remarkable. He devised and erected the World\u0027s Fair Hotel, complete with crematorium and gas chamber, near the fairgrounds and used the event as well as his own charismatic personality to lure victims. Combining the stories of an architect and a killer in one book, mostly in alternating chapters, seems like an odd choice but it works. The magical appeal and horrifying dark side of 19th-century Chicago are both revealed through Larson\u0027s skillful writing. - John Moe\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1291,
            "title": "Redeeming Love",
            "author": "Francine Rivers ",
            "date": "10/28/07",
            "genres": "Christian Fiction, Christian, Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Historical, Historical Romance, Adult, Faith, Christian Romance",
            "characters": "Angel, Michael Hosea",
            "synopsis": "\"California’s gold country, 1850. A time when men sold their souls for a bag of gold and women sold their bodies for a place to sleep. Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. Sold into prostitution as a child, she survives by keeping her hatred alive. And what she hates most are the men who use her, leaving her empty and dead inside. Then she meets Michael Hosea. A man who seeks his Father’s heart in everything, Michael Hosea obeys God’s call to marry Angel and to love her unconditionally. Slowly, day by day, he defies Angel’s every bitter expectation until, despite her resistance her frozen heart begins to thaw. But with her unexpected softening come overwhelming feelings of unworthiness and fear. And so Angel runs. Back to the darkness, away from her husband’s pursuing love, terrified of the truth she can no longer deny: Her final healing must come from the One who loves her even more than Michael Hosea does…the One who will never let her go. A life-changing story of God’s unconditional, redemptive, all-consuming love.-back cover\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1292,
            "title": "The Age of Innocence",
            "author": "Edith Wharton, Maureen Howard (Introduction)",
            "date": "08/26/04",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance, Literature, American, Historical, Novels, New York, Classic Literature",
            "characters": "Newland Archer, May Welland, Ellen Olenska, Mrs. Manson Mingott, Mrs. Augusta Welland",
            "synopsis": "\"Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people “dreaded scandal more than disease.”This is Newland Archer’s world as he prepares to marry the beautiful but conventional May Welland. But when the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a disastrous marriage, Archer falls deeply in love with her. Torn between duty and passion, Archer struggles to make a decision that will either courageously define his life—or mercilessly destroy it.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1293,
            "title": "The Lost Symbol",
            "author": "Dan Brown ",
            "date": "09/15/09",
            "genres": "Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Adventure, Historical Fiction, Crime, Novels, Adult",
            "characters": "Robert Langdon, Katherine Solomon, Peter Solomon, Inoue Sato, Warren Bellamy, Zachary Solomon, Turner Simkins",
            "synopsis": "\"WHAT IS LOST...WILL BE FOUNDIn this stunning follow-up to the global phenomenon The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown demonstrates once again why he is the world\u0027s most popular thriller writer. The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storytelling - a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen truths...all under the watchful eye of Brown\u0027s most terrifying villain to date. Set within the hidden chambers, tunnels, and temples of Washington, DC., The Lost Symbol accelerates through a startling landscape toward an unthinkable finale.As the story opens, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned unexpectedly to deliver an evening lecture in the U.S. Capitol Building. Within minutes of his arrival, however, the night takes a bizarre turn. A disturbing object - artfully encoded with five symbols - is discovered in the Capitol Building. Langdon recognizes the object as an ancient invitation...one meant to usher its recipient into a long-lost world of esoteric wisdom.When Langdon\u0027s beloved mentor, Peter Solomon - a prominent Mason and philanthropist - is brutally kidnapped, Langdon realizes his only hope of saving Peter is to accept this mystical invitation and follow wherever it leads him. Langdon is instantly into a clandestine world of Masonic secrets, hidden history, and never-before-seen locations - all of which seem to be dragging him toward a single, inconceivable truth.As the world discovered in The Da Vinci Code and Angels \u0026 Demons, Dan Brown\u0027s novels are brilliant tapestries of veiled histories, arcane symbols, and enigmatic codes. In this new novel, he again challenges readers with an intelligent, lightning-paced story that offers surprises at every turn. The Lost Symbol is exactly what Brown\u0027s fans have been waiting for...his most thrilling novel yet.(jacket)\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1294,
            "title": "The Grapes of Wrath",
            "author": "John Steinbeck",
            "date": "04/10/2014",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels, School, American, Historical, Classic Literature, High School",
            "characters": "Tom Joad, Rose of Sharon Joad Rivers, Ma Joad, Pa Joad, Uncle John Joad, Jim Casy, Al Joad, Ruthie Joad, Winfield Joad, Noah Joad, Grampa Joad, Granma Joad, Connie Rivers",
            "synopsis": "\"The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers.First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1295,
            "title": "Northanger Abbey",
            "author": "Jane Austen, Alfred J. Mac Adam (Introduction)",
            "date": "03/03/2005",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Gothic, Literature, 19th Century, Historical, British Literature, Classic Literature",
            "characters": "Catherine Morland, Henry Tilney, Eleanor Tilney, General Tilney, John Thorpe, Isabella Thorpe, James Morland, Mrs. Morland, Mr. Morland, Mrs. Allen, Mr. Allen, Captain Tilney, Mrs. Thorpe",
            "synopsis": "\"Jane Austen\u0027s first novel—published posthumously in 1818—tells the story of Catherine Morland and her dangerously sweet nature, innocence, and sometime self-delusion. Though Austen\u0027s fallible heroine is repeatedly drawn into scrapes while vacationing at Bath and during her subsequent visit to Northanger Abbey, Catherine eventually triumphs, blossoming into a discerning woman who learns truths about love, life, and the heady power of literature. The satirical novel pokes fun at the gothic novel while earnestly emphasizing caution to the female sex.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1296,
            "title": "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader",
            "author": "C.S. Lewis, Pauline Baynes (Illustrator)",
            "date": "09/01/2006",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Classics, Young Adult, Childrens, Adventure, Christian, Middle Grade, Christian Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy",
            "characters": "Aslan, Lucy Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie, Eustace Scrubb, Prince Caspian, Reepicheep",
            "synopsis": "\"The Dawn Treader will take you places you never dreamed existed. NARNIA... the world of wicked dragons and magic spells, where the very best is brought out of even the worst people, where anything can happen (and most often does)... and where the adventure begins.The Dawn Treader is the first ship Narnia has seen in centuries. King Caspian has built it for his voyage to find the seven lords, good men whom his evil uncle Miraz banished when he usurped the throne. The journey takes Edmund, Lucy, and their cousin Eustace to the Eastern Islands, beyond the Silver Sea, toward Aslan\u0027s country at the End of the World.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1297,
            "title": "Dubliners",
            "author": "James Joyce, Jeri Johnson (Editor, Introduction and Notes)",
            "date": "03/15/01",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Short Stories, Ireland, Literature, Irish Literature, 20th Century, School, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction",
            "characters": "Mariecke, Bantam Lyons, John Corley, Fr. Flynn, Jimmy Doyle, Matthew Lenehan, Mrs. Mooney, Polly Mooney, Mr. Doran, Little Chandler, Ignatius Gallaher, Farrington, Tom Farrington, Joe Donnelly, Mr. Duffy, Mrs. Sinico, Charles Stewart Parnell, Mrs. Kearney, Kathleen Kearney, Mr. Kernan, Gabriel Conroy",
            "synopsis": "\"This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemism, reveals to the Irish their unromantic realities. Each of the 15 stories offers glimpses into the lives of ordinary Dubliners, and collectively they paint a portrait of a nation.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1298,
            "title": "A Court of Thorns and Roses",
            "author": "Sarah J. Maas ",
            "date": "05/05/2015",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, New Adult, Retellings, Fiction, Magic, Fae, Young Adult Fantasy, Paranormal",
            "characters": "Amarantha, Feyre Archeron, Tamlin, Lucien Vanserra, Rhysand, Nesta Archeron, Elain Archeron",
            "synopsis": "\"Feyre\u0027s survival rests upon her ability to hunt and kill – the forest where she lives is a cold, bleak place in the long winter months. So when she spots a deer in the forest being pursued by a wolf, she cannot resist fighting it for the flesh. But to do so, she must kill the predator and killing something so precious comes at a price ...Dragged to a magical kingdom for the murder of a faerie, Feyre discovers that her captor, his face obscured by a jewelled mask, is hiding far more than his piercing green eyes would suggest. Feyre\u0027s presence at the court is closely guarded, and as she begins to learn why, her feelings for him turn from hostility to passion and the faerie lands become an even more dangerous place. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose him forever.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1299,
            "title": "Untamed",
            "author": "P.C. Cast , Kristin Cast ",
            "date": "09/23/08",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Vampires, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Fiction, Supernatural, Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy, Magic",
            "characters": "Zoey Redbird, Nyx (House of Night), Erik Night, Stevie Rae Johnson, Neferet, Heath Luck, Aphrodite LaFont, Kalona, Sylvia Redbird, Erin Bates, Shaunee Cole, Damien Maslin, James Stark, Jack Twist, Darius Langley",
            "synopsis": "\"Zoey Redbird\u0027s adventures at vampyre finishing school take a wild and dangerous turn as loyalties are tested and shocking true intentions come to light, in this spellbinding fourth novel in the House of Night series.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1300,
            "title": "Everything Is Illuminated",
            "author": "Jonathan Safran Foer ",
            "date": "04/01/2003",
            "genres": "Fiction, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Novels, Literature, Holocaust, Literary Fiction, Jewish, Magical Realism, Historical",
            "characters": "Alexander Perchov, Jonathan Safran Foer",
            "synopsis": "\"With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man - also named Jonathan Safran Foer - sets out to find the woman who may or may not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war; an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior; and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape and into an unexpected past.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1301,
            "title": "Crown of Midnight",
            "author": "Sarah J. Maas ",
            "date": "08/27/13",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Magic, Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy, New Adult, High Fantasy, Fae, Paranormal",
            "characters": "Celaena Sardothien, Chaol Westfall, Prince Dorian Havilliard, Princess Nehemia Ytger, Archer Finn, Kaltain Rompier",
            "synopsis": "\"\"\"A line that should never be crossed is about to be breached.It puts this entire castle in jeopardy—and the life of your friend.\"\"From the throne of glass rules a king with a fist of iron and a soul as black as pitch. Assassin Celaena Sardothien won a brutal contest to become his Champion. Yet Celaena is far from loyal to the crown. She hides her secret vigilantly; she knows that the man she serves is bent on evil.Keeping up the deadly charade becomes increasingly difficult when Celaena realizes she is not the only one seeking justice. As she tries to untangle the mysteries buried deep within the glass castle, her closest relationships suffer. It seems no one is above questioning her allegiances—not the Crown Prince Dorian; not Chaol, the Captain of the Guard; not even her best friend, Nehemia, a foreign princess with a rebel heart.Then one terrible night, the secrets they have all been keeping lead to an unspeakable tragedy. As Celaena\u0027s world shatters, she will be forced to give up the very thing most precious to her and decide once and for all where her true loyalties lie... and whom she is ultimately willing to fight for.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1302,
            "title": "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings",
            "author": "Maya Angelou",
            "date": "11/28/93",
            "genres": "Nonfiction, Classics, Memoir, Biography, Autobiography, Poetry, Feminism, African American, Biography Memoir, Race",
            "characters": "\"\"Marguerite Johnson \u0027\u0027Maya\u0027\u0027\"\", Bailey Johnson Jr., \"\"Annie Henderson \u0027\u0027Momma\u0027\u0027\"\", Uncle Willie, Bailey Johnson, Vivian Baxter",
            "synopsis": "\"Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local \"\"powhitetrash.\"\" At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (\"\"I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare\"\") will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1303,
            "title": "I, Robot",
            "author": "Isaac Asimov",
            "date": "06/28/04",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Classics, Short Stories, Science Fiction Fantasy, Robots, Fantasy, Audiobook, Novels, Speculative Fiction",
            "characters": "Susan Calvin, Mike Donovan",
            "synopsis": "\"Isaac Asimov\u0027s I, Robot launches readers on an adventure into a not-so-distant future where man and machine , struggle to redefinelife, love, and consciousness—and where the stakes are nothing less than survival. Filled with unforgettable characters, mind-bending speculation, and nonstop action, I, Robot is a powerful reading experience from one of the master storytellers of our time. I, ROBOT They mustn\u0027t harm a human being, they must obey hitman orders, and they must protect their own existence...but only so long as that doesn\u0027t violate rules one and two. With these Three Laws of Robotics, humanity embarked on perhaps its greatest adventure: the invention of the first positronic man. It was a bold new era of evolution that would open up enormous possibilities—and unforeseen risks. For the scientists who invented the earliest robots weren\u0027t content that their creations should \u0027 remain programmed helpers, companions, and semisentient worker-machines. And soon the robots themselves; aware of their own intelligence, power, and humanity, aren\u0027t either. As humans and robots struggle to survive together—and sometimes against each other—on earth and in space, the future of both hangs in the balance. Human men and women confront robots gone mad, telepathic robots, robot politicians, and vast robotic intelligences that may already secretly control the world. And both are asking the same questions: What is human? And is humanity obsolete? In l, Robot Isaac Asimov changes forever our perception of robots, and human beings and updates the timeless myth of man\u0027s dream to play god. with all its rewards—and terrors.-front flap\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1304,
            "title": "The Pearl",
            "author": "John Steinbeck",
            "date": "01/08/2002",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Literature, School, Historical Fiction, Novels, Read For School, American, Classic Literature, High School",
            "characters": "Kino, Juana, Coyotito, Juan Tomas, Apolonia",
            "synopsis": "\"Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the kings of Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant son with meager subsistence. Then, on a day like any other, Kino emerges from the sea with a pearl as large as a sea gull’s egg, as “perfect as the moon.” With the pearl comes hope, the promise of comfort and of security…A story of classic simplicity, based on a Mexican folk tale, The Pearl explores the secrets of man’s nature, greed, the darkest depths of evil, and the luminous possibilities of love.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1305,
            "title": "The One",
            "author": "Kiera Cass ",
            "date": "05/06/2014",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Romance, Dystopia, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Audiobook, Teen, Chick Lit, Young Adult Fantasy",
            "characters": "Aspen Leger, America Singer, Prince Maxon",
            "synopsis": "\"The time has come for one winner to be crowned.When she was chosen to compete in the Selection, America never dreamed she would find herself anywhere close to the crown—or to Prince Maxon\u0027s heart. But as the end of the competition approaches, and the threats outside the palace walls grow more vicious, America realizes just how much she stands to lose—and how hard she\u0027ll have to fight for the future she wants.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1306,
            "title": "The Jungle",
            "author": "Upton Sinclair, Earl Lee  (Foreword), Kathleen DeGrave (Introduction)",
            "date": "04/01/2003",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literature, Politics, School, Novels, Historical, Classic Literature, American",
            "characters": "Jurgis, Ona Lukoszaite, Teta Elzbieta Lukoszaite",
            "synopsis": "\"For nearly a century, the original version of Upton Sinclair\u0027s classic novel has remained almost entirely unknown. When it was published in serial form in 1905, it was a full third longer than the censored, commercial edition published in book form the following year. That expurgated commercial edition edited out much of the ethnic flavor of the original, as well as some of the goriest descriptions of the meat-packing industry and much of Sinclair\u0027s most pointed social and political commentary. The text of this new edition is as it appeared in the original uncensored edition of 1905. It contains the full 36 chapters as originally published, rather than the 31 of the expurgated edition. A new foreword describes the discovery in the 1980s of the original edition and its subsequent suppression, and a new introduction places the novel in historical context by explaining the pattern of censorship in the shorter commercial edition.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1307,
            "title": "Carrie",
            "author": "Stephen King ",
            "date": "11/01/2005",
            "genres": "Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Paranormal, Fantasy, Classics, Supernatural, Adult, Novels, Adult Fiction",
            "characters": "Carrie White, Margaret White, Tommy Ross, Chris Hargensen, Sue Snell, Rita Desjardin, Billy Nolan",
            "synopsis": "\"A modern classic, Carrie introduced a distinctive new voice in American fiction - Stephen King. The story of misunderstood high school girl Carrie White, her extraordinary telekinetic powers, and her violent rampage of revenge, remains one of the most barrier-breaking and shocking novels of all time.Make a date with terror and live the nightmare that is...Carrie-back cover\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1308,
            "title": "Snow Falling on Cedars",
            "author": "David Guterson",
            "date": "09/26/95",
            "genres": "Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Historical, Literature, Novels, Romance, Classics, Literary Fiction, Adult Fiction",
            "characters": "Kabuo Miyamoto, Ishmael Chambers, Hatsue Miyamoto, Carl Heine",
            "synopsis": "\"Gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric—a masterpiece of suspense San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. In the course of the ensuing trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than a man\u0027s guilt. For on San Pedro, memories of a charmed love affair between a white boy and the Japanese girl who grew up to become Kabuo\u0027s wife; memories of land desired, paid for, and lost. Above all, San Piedro is haunted by the memory of what happened to its Japanese residents during World War II, when an entire community was sent into exile while its neighbors watched.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1309,
            "title": "Voyager",
            "author": "Diana Gabaldon ",
            "date": "08/07/2001",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction, Time Travel, Historical, Historical Romance, Adult, Audiobook, Scotland",
            "characters": "Jamie Fraser, Brianna Randall, Roger MacKenzie, Fergus Fraser, Marsali Fraser, Ian Murray, Lord John Grey, Claire Randall Fraser, Geillis Duncan, Jenny Murray, Stephen Bonnet, Young Ian Murray, William Ransom, Laoghaire MacKenzie, Mr. Willoughby, Joan MacKimmie, Michael Murray",
            "synopsis": "\"From the author of the breathtaking bestsellers Outlander and Dragonfly in Amber, the extraordinary saga continues.Their passionate encounter happened long ago by whatever measurement Claire Randall took. Two decades before, she had traveled back in time and into the arms of a gallant eighteenth-century Scot named Jamie Fraser. Then she returned to her own century to bear his child, believing him dead in the tragic battle of Culloden. Yet his memory has never lessened its hold on her... and her body still cries out for him in her dreams.Then Claire discovers that Jamie survived. Torn between returning to him and staying with their daughter in her own era, Claire must choose her destiny. And as time and space come full circle, she must find the courage to face the passion and pain awaiting her...the deadly intrigues raging in a divided Scotland... and the daring voyage into the dark unknown that can reunite or forever doom her timeless love.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1310,
            "title": "I, Claudius",
            "author": "Robert Graves",
            "date": "10/23/89",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Classics, Historical, Literature, Italy, Novels, British Literature, Audiobook, 20th Century",
            "characters": "Nero (emperor), Caligula, Livia Drusa, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus, Agrippina the Elder, Tiberius Claudius Caesar, Augustus, Valeria Messalina",
            "synopsis": "\"Into the \u0027autobiography\u0027 of Clau-Clau-Claudius, the pitiful stammerer who was destined to become Emperor in spite of himself, Graves packs the everlasting intrigues, the depravity, the bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius, soon to culminate in the deified insanity of Caligula.I, Claudius and its sequel, Claudius the God, are among the most celebrated, as well the most gripping historical novels ever written.Cover illustration: Brian Pike\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1311,
            "title": "Heir of Fire",
            "author": "Sarah J. Maas ",
            "date": "09/02/2014",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Magic, New Adult, Young Adult Fantasy, Fiction, Fae, High Fantasy, Paranormal",
            "characters": "Celaena Sardothien, Chaol Westfall, Prince Dorian Havilliard, Manon Blackbeak, Rowan Whitethorn",
            "synopsis": "\"Celaena has survived deadly contests and shattering heartbreak-but at an unspeakable cost. Now, she must travel to a new land to confront her darkest truth . . . a truth about her heritage that could change her life-and her future-forever. Meanwhile, brutal and monstrous forces are gathering on the horizon, intent on enslaving her world. Will Celaena find the strength to not only fight her inner demons, but to take on the evil that is about to be unleashed?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1312,
            "title": "Me Talk Pretty One Day",
            "author": "David Sedaris",
            "date": "10/28/01",
            "genres": "Nonfiction, Humor, Memoir, Essays, Short Stories, Comedy, Biography, Audiobook, Biography Memoir, Autobiography",
            "characters": "David Sedaris",
            "synopsis": "\"David Sedaris\u0027 move to Paris from New York inspired these hilarious pieces, including the title essay, about his attempts to learn French from a sadistic teacher who declares that every day spent with you is like having a caesarean section. His family is another inspiration. You Can\u0027t Kill the Rooster is a portrait of his brother, who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. And no one hones a finer fury in response to such modern annoyances as restaurant meals presented in ludicrous towers of food and cashiers with six-inch fingernails.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1313,
            "title": "Chosen",
            "author": "P.C. Cast , Kristin Cast ",
            "date": "03/04/2008",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Vampires, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Fiction, Supernatural, Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy, Magic",
            "characters": "Zoey Redbird, Nyx (House of Night), Erik Night, Stevie Rae Johnson, Neferet, Heath Luck, Aphrodite LaFont, Sylvia Redbird, Loren Blake, Erin Bates, Shaunee Cole, Damien Maslin, Jack Twist, Darius Langley",
            "synopsis": "\"Dark forces are at work at the House of Night and Zoey Redbird’s adventures at the school take a mysterious turn. Her best friend, Stevie Rae, is undead and struggling to maintain a grip on her humanity. Zoey finds herself in the very unexpected and rare situation of having three boyfriends. Mix a little bloodlust into the equation and the situation has the potential to spell social disaster. Just when it seems things couldn’t get any tougher, vampyres start turning up dead. Really dead. It looks like the People of Faith are tired of living side-by-side with vampyres. But, as Zoey and her friends so often find out, how things appear rarely affects the truth…\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1314,
            "title": "A Room with a View",
            "author": "E.M. Forster",
            "date": "01/01/2005",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Literature, Italy, British Literature, 20th Century, Novels, Classic Literature",
            "characters": "Lucy Honeychurch, Charlotte Bartlett, George Emerson, Mr. Emerson, Rev. Arthur Beebe, Eleanor Lavish, Cecil Vyse, Freddy Honeychurch, Rev. Cuthbert Eager, Miss Alan",
            "synopsis": "\"\"\"But you do,\"\" he went on, not waiting for contradiction. \"\"You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you, and no other word expresses it ...\"\"Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her, until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. Her eyes are opened by the unconventional characters she meets at the Pension Bertolini: flamboyant romantic novelist Eleanor Lavish, the Cockney Signora, curious Mr Emerson and, most of all, his passionate son George.Lucy finds herself torn between the intensity of life in Italy and the repressed morals of Edwardian England, personified in her terminally dull fiancé Cecil Vyse. Will she ever learn to follow her own heart?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1315,
            "title": "Bleak House",
            "author": "Charles Dickens, Nicola Bradbury (Annotations), Hablot Knight Browne (Illustrations)",
            "date": "01/06/2006",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Literature, 19th Century, Victorian, Historical Fiction, British Literature, Novels, Classic Literature, Mystery",
            "characters": "Esther Summerson, Lady Dedlock, John Jarndyce, Sir Leicester Dedlock",
            "synopsis": "\"Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The obscure case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs, the romance of Esther Summerson and the secrets of her origin, the sleuthing of Detective Inspector Bucket and the fate of Jo the crossing-sweeper, these are some of the lives Dickens invokes to portray London society, rich and poor, as no other novelist has done. Bleak House, in its atmosphere, symbolism and magnificent bleak comedy, is often regarded as the best of Dickens. A \u0027great Victorian novel\u0027, it is so inventive in its competing plots and styles that it eludes interpretation.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1316,
            "title": "The Republic",
            "author": "Plato, Desmond Lee (Translator), Maria Helena da Rocha Pereira (Translator), Benjamin Jowett (Translator)",
            "date": "02/25/03",
            "genres": "Philosophy, Classics, Nonfiction, Politics, History, School, Literature, Political Science, Ancient, College",
            "characters": "Adeimantus, Polemarchus, Cleitophon, Socrates (philosopher)",
            "synopsis": "\"Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classic text is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation, other questions are raised: what is goodness?; what is reality?; and what is knowledge? The Republic also addresses the purpose of education and the role of both women and men as guardians of the people. With remarkable lucidity and deft use of allegory, Plato arrives at a depiction of a state bound by harmony and ruled by philosopher kings.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1317,
            "title": "The Last Battle",
            "author": "C.S. Lewis",
            "date": "06/20/05",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Classics, Young Adult, Childrens, Christian, Adventure, Middle Grade, Christian Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy",
            "characters": "Aslan, Lucy Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie, Eustace Scrubb, Jill Pole, Jewel, The Anti-Christ, Puzzle, King Tirian, Digory Kirke, Peter Pevensie, Reepicheep, Shift",
            "synopsis": "\"This edition of Lewis\u0027s classic fantasy fiction is packaged specifically for adults. Complementing the look of the author\u0027s non-fiction books, and anticipating the forthcoming Narnia feature films, this edition contains an exclusive P.S. section about the history of the book, plus a round-up of the first six titles.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1318,
            "title": "The Exorcist",
            "author": "William Peter Blatty",
            "date": "02/01/1994",
            "genres": "Horror, Fiction, Classics, Paranormal, Thriller, Supernatural, Fantasy, Religion, Audiobook, Adult",
            "characters": "Lankester Merrin, Pazuzu, Damien Karras, Regan MacNeil, Chris MacNeil",
            "synopsis": "\"Four decades after it first terrified the world, William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist is back! An extraordinary classic work of horror and dark paranormal suspense. In this stunning 40th Anniversary Edition, a desperate mother and two priests fight to free the soul of a little girl from a supernatural entity of pure malevolence.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1319,
            "title": "Coraline",
            "author": "Neil Gaiman , Dave McKean (illustrator)",
            "date": "08/29/06",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Horror, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Middle Grade, Audiobook, Paranormal, Adventure, Supernatural",
            "characters": "Coraline Jones, Mrs. Jones, Mr. Jones, The Cat, The Other Mother, The Other Father, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, Mr. Bobo",
            "synopsis": "\"The day after they moved in, Coraline went exploring....In Coraline\u0027s family\u0027s new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close. The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own. Only it\u0027s different. At first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. The food is better. The toy box is filled with wind-up angels that flutter around the bedroom, books whose pictures writhe and crawl and shimmer, little dinosaur skulls that chatter their teeth. But there\u0027s another mother, and another father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Other children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors. Coraline is their only hope of rescue. She will have to fight with all her wits and all the tools she can find if she is to save the lost children, her ordinary life, and herself. Critically acclaimed and award-winning author Neil Gaiman will delight readers with his first novel for all ages.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1320,
            "title": "Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend",
            "author": "Hermann Hesse, Thomas Mann (Introduction)",
            "date": "12/07/1996",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Philosophy, Literature, German Literature, Novels, Germany, 20th Century, Coming Of Age, Spirituality",
            "characters": "Emil Sinclair, Max Demian",
            "synopsis": "\"Wie alle Hauptwerke Hermann Hesses hat auch der Demian, den der damals 40jährige Autor mitten im Ersten Weltkrieg schrieb, eine ebenso ungewöhnliche wie spannende Entstehungs- und Wirkungsgeschichte. Daß dieses im Herbst 1917 vollendete Buch erst im Juni 1919, ein halbes Jahr nach Kriegsende, veröffentlicht wurde, lag an der Unbekanntheit des Verfassers. Denn Hesse hatte das Manuskript dem Verlag als das Erstlingswerk eines kranken jungen Dichters empfohlen, des zeitkritischen Poeten Emil Sinclair, der bisher nur in Zeitungen und Zeitschriften durch pazifistische Mahnrufe und Erzählungen aufgefallen war (die gleichfalls von Hesse stammten). Doch trotz des Inkognitos erlebte das Buch eine geradezu stürmische Aufnahme und wurde noch im Erscheinungsjahr mit dem Fontane-Preis für das beste Erstlingswerk eines Nachwuchsautors ausgezeichnet. Thomas Mann verglich die elektrisierende Wirkung des Buches mit der von Goethes Werther, da es »mit unheimlicher Genauigkeit den Nerv der Zeit traf und eine ganze Jugend, die wähnte aus ihrer Mitte sei ihr ein Künder ihres tiefsten Lebens entstanden, zu dankbarem Entzücken hinriß«. Bis zur Entdeckung des Pseudonyms im Mai 1920 erschienen drei Auflagen, denen dann unter Hesses eigenem Namen zu seinen Lebzeiten noch 93 weitere folgten.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1321,
            "title": "The 5th Wave",
            "author": "Rick Yancey",
            "date": "05/07/2013",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Fiction, Aliens, Fantasy, Post Apocalyptic, Romance, Audiobook, Apocalyptic",
            "characters": "Evan Walker, Cassie Sullivan, Sammy Sullivan, Ben Parish, Colonel Alexander",
            "synopsis": "\"After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one.Now, it\u0027s the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth\u0027s last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie\u0027s only hope for rescuing her brother-or even saving herself. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. To give up or to get up.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1322,
            "title": "The Iron King",
            "author": "Julie Kagawa ",
            "date": "01/19/10",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Paranormal, Fae, Fairies, Magic, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy",
            "characters": "Meghan Chase, Puck, Grimalkin, \"\"Ash - Ashallayn\u0027\u0027 Darkmyr Tallyn\"\", Ethan Chase, Machina The Iron King",
            "synopsis": "\"Meghan Chase has a secret destiny; one she could never have imagined.Something has always felt slightly off in Meghan\u0027s life, ever since her father disappeared before her eyes when she was six. She has never quite fit in at school or at home.When a dark stranger begins watching her from afar, and her prankster best friend becomes strangely protective of her, Meghan senses that everything she\u0027s known is about to change.But she could never have guessed the truth - that she is the daughter of a mythical faery king and is a pawn in a deadly war. Now Meghan will learn just how far she\u0027ll go to save someone she cares about, to stop a mysterious evil, no faery creature dare face; and to find love with a young prince who might rather see her dead than let her touch his icy heart.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1323,
            "title": "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe",
            "author": "Benjamin Alire Sáenz ",
            "date": "02/21/12",
            "genres": "Young Adult, LGBT, Contemporary, Romance, Fiction, Audiobook, Realistic Fiction, Queer, Coming Of Age, Young Adult Contemporary",
            "characters": "Aristotle \"\"Ari\"\" Mendoza, Dante Quintana",
            "synopsis": "\"A lyrical novel about family and friendship from critically acclaimed author Benjamin Alire Sáenz. Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the loners start spending time together, they discover that they share a special friendship-the kind that changes lives and lasts a lifetime. And it is through this friendship that Ari and Dante will learn the most important truths about themselves and the kind of people they want to be.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1324,
            "title": "Torment",
            "author": "Lauren Kate ",
            "date": "09/28/10",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Fantasy, Angels, Romance, Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Teen",
            "characters": "Lucinda Price, Daniel Grigori, Arriane Alter, Cameron Briel, Shelby Sterris, Miles Fisher, Mary Margaret  Zane, Roland Sparks, Gabrielle Givens, Dawn Casterly, Lillith Clout",
            "synopsis": "\"Hell on earth.That’s what it’s like for Luce to be apart from her fallen angel boyfriend, Daniel. It took them an eternity to find one another, but now he has told her he must go away. Just long enough to hunt down the Outcasts—immortals who want to kill Luce. Daniel hides Luce at Shoreline, a school on the rocky California coast with unusually gifted students: Nephilim, the offspring of fallen angels and humans.At Shoreline, Luce learns what the Shadows are, and how she can use them as windows to her previous lives. Yet the more Luce learns, the more she suspects that Daniel hasn’t told her everything. He’s hiding something—something dangerous. What if Daniel’s version of the past isn’t actually true? What if Luce is really meant to be with someone else?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1325,
            "title": "Bloodlines",
            "author": "Richelle Mead ",
            "date": "08/23/11",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Vampires, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Magic, Supernatural, Paranormal Romance, Fiction",
            "characters": "Sydney Sage, Dimitri Belikov, Adrian Ivashkov, Jillian Mastrano, Abe Mazur, Edison \"\"Eddie\"\" Castile, Zoe Sage",
            "synopsis": "\"I wasn\u0027t free of my past, not yet.Sydney\u0027s blood is special. That\u0027s because she\u0027s an alchemist - one of a group of humans who dabble in magic and serve to bridge the worlds of humans and vampires. They protect vampire secrets - and human lives. But the last encounter Sydney had with vampires got her in deep trouble with the other alchemists. And now with her allegiances in question, her future is on the line.When Sydney is torn from her bed in the middle of the night, at first she thinks she\u0027s still being punished for her complicated alliance with dhampir Rose Hathaway. But what unfolds is far worse. Jill Dragomir - the sister of Moroi Queen Lissa Dragomir - is in mortal danger, and the Moroi must send her into hiding. To avoid a civil war, Sydney is called upon to act as Jill\u0027s guardian and protector, posing as her roommate in the unlikeliest of places: a human boarding school in Palm Springs, California. The last thing Sydney wants is to be accused of sympathizing with vampires. And now she has to live with one.The Moroi court believe Jill and Sydney will be safe at Amberwood Prep, but threats, distractions, and forbidden romance lurk both outside - and within - the school grounds. Now that they\u0027re in hiding, the drama is only just beginning.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1326,
            "title": "Vanity Fair",
            "author": "William Makepeace Thackeray, John Carey (Editor/Introduction)",
            "date": "01/30/03",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literature, 19th Century, British Literature, Victorian, Romance, Classic Literature, Novels",
            "characters": "Amelia Sedley, Rebecca Sharp, William Dobbin, George Osborne, Rawdon Crawley, Jos Sedley, Sir Pitt Crawley, Matilda Crawley",
            "synopsis": "\"A novel that chronicles the lives of two women who could not be more different: Becky Sharp, an orphan whose only resources are her vast ambitions, her native wit, and her loose morals; and her schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a typically naive Victorian heroine, the pampered daughter of a wealthy family.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1327,
            "title": "Wizard\u0027s First Rule",
            "author": "Terry Goodkind",
            "date": "04/14/03",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Magic, Adventure, Romance, Adult, Epic",
            "characters": "Richard Cypher, Kahlan Amnell, \"\"Zeddicus Zu\u0027\u0027l Zorander\"\", Darken Rahl",
            "synopsis": "\"In the aftermath of the brutal murder of his father, a mysterious woman, Kahlan Amnell, appears in Richard Cypher\u0027s forest sanctuary seeking help . . . and more. His world, his very beliefs, are shattered when ancient debts come due with thundering violence. In a dark age it takes courage to live, and more than mere courage to challenge those who hold dominion, Richard and Kahlan must take up that challenge or become the next victims. Beyond awaits a bewitching land where even the best of their hearts could betray them. Yet, Richard fears nothing so much as what secrets his sword might reveal about his own soul. Falling in love would destroy them—for reasons Richard can\u0027t imagine and Kahlan dare not say.In their darkest hour, hunted relentlessly, tormented by treachery and loss, Kahlan calls upon Richard to reach beyond his sword—to invoke within himself something more noble. Neither knows that the rules of battle have just changed . . . or that their time has run out.This is the beginning. One book. One Rule. Witness the birth of a legend.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1328,
            "title": "North and South",
            "author": "Elizabeth Gaskell",
            "date": "01/13/94",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Historical, 19th Century, Victorian, Literature, British Literature, Historical Romance",
            "characters": "Margaret Hale, Frederick Hale, Mr. Hale, Mrs. Hale, Mr. Bell, Dixon, Mrs. Hannah Thornton, Fanny Thornton, Bessy Higgins, Nicholas Higgins, John   Thornton",
            "synopsis": "\"When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the north of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of Milton, Margaret becomes aware of the poverty and suffering of the local mill workers and develops a passionate sense of social justice. This is intensified by her tempestuous relationship with the mill-owner and self-made man, John Thornton, as their fierce opposition over his treatment of his employees masks a deeper attraction.In North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell skillfully fuses individual feeling with social concern, and in Margaret Hale creates one of the most original heroines of Victorian literature.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1329,
            "title": "Brideshead Revisited",
            "author": "Evelyn Waugh",
            "date": "01/30/82",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literature, British Literature, Novels, 20th Century, LGBT, Literary Fiction, Historical",
            "characters": "Charles Ryder, Lord Sebastian Flyte, Lady Julia Flyte, Rex Mottram, Anthony Blanche",
            "synopsis": "\"The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh\u0027s novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder\u0027s infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly-disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian at Oxford, then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia, Charles comes finally to recognize only his spiritual and social distance from them.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1330,
            "title": "Of Human Bondage",
            "author": "W. Somerset Maugham, Benjamin DeMott (Introduction), Maeve Binchy (Afterword)",
            "date": "01/02/2007",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Literature, Novels, British Literature, Literary Fiction, Romance, 20th Century, Classic Literature, Coming Of Age",
            "characters": "Philip Carey, Mildred Rogers, Norah Nesbit, Thorpe Athelny, Sally Athelny, Hayward, Emily Wilkinson, Louisa Carey, Dr. South, Harry Griffiths, Fanny Price (Of Human Bondage), Frederick Lawson, Cronshaw, Ruth Chalice, Dr. Tyrell, Betty Athelny",
            "synopsis": "\"From a tormented orphan with a clubfoot, Philip Carey grows into an impressionable young man with a voracious appetite for adventure and knowledge. His cravings take him to Paris at age eighteen to try his hand at art, then back to London to study medicine. But even so, nothing can sate his nagging hunger for experience. Then he falls obsessively in love, embarking on a disastrous relationship that will change his life forever.…Marked by countless similarities to Maugham’s own life, his masterpiece is “not an autobiography,” as the author himself once contended, “but an autobiographical novel; fact and fiction are inexorably mingled; the emotions are my own.”\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1331,
            "title": "World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War",
            "author": "Max Brooks ",
            "date": "09/12/2006",
            "genres": "Horror, Fiction, Zombies, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Post Apocalyptic, Dystopia, Audiobook, Apocalyptic, War",
            "characters": "Zombies, Kwang Jing-shu, Nury Televaldi, Stanley MacDonald, Todd Wainio, Maria Zhuganova, Jesika Hendricks, Joe Muhammad",
            "synopsis": "\"The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.Ranging from the now infamous village of New Dachang in the United Federation of China, where the epidemiological trail began with the twelve-year-old Patient Zero, to the unnamed northern forests where untold numbers sought a terrible and temporary refuge in the cold, to the United States of Southern Africa, where the Redeker Plan provided hope for humanity at an unspeakable price, to the west-of-the-Rockies redoubt where the North American tide finally started to turn, this invaluable chronicle reflects the full scope and duration of the Zombie War.Most of all, the book captures with haunting immediacy the human dimension of this epochal event. Facing the often raw and vivid nature of these personal accounts requires a degree of courage on the part of the reader, but the effort is invaluable because, as Mr. Brooks says in his introduction, \"\"By excluding the human factor, aren\u0027t we risking the kind of personal detachment from history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it? And in the end, isn\u0027t the human factor the only true difference between us and the enemy we now refer to as \u0027the living dead\u0027?\"\"Note: Some of the numerical and factual material contained in this edition was previously published under the auspices of the United Nations Postwar Commission.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1332,
            "title": "A Great and Terrible Beauty",
            "author": "Libba Bray ",
            "date": "12/09/2003",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Paranormal, Romance, Magic, Teen, Young Adult Fantasy",
            "characters": "Gemma Doyle, Kartik, Ann Bradshaw, Felicity Worthington, Pippa Cross",
            "synopsis": "\"In this debut gothic novel mysterious visions, dark family secrets and a long-lost diary thrust Gemma and her classmates back into the horrors that followed her from India. (Ages 12+)It\u0027s 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma\u0027s reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she\u0027s been followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence\u0027s most powerful girls—and their foray into the spiritual world—lead to?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1333,
            "title": "The Witching Hour",
            "author": "Anne Rice",
            "date": "11/04/2004",
            "genres": "Horror, Fantasy, Fiction, Paranormal, Witches, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy, Gothic, Magic, Adult",
            "characters": "Rowan Mayfair, Michael James Timothy Curry, Aaron Lightner, Lasher, Deirdre Mayfair, Stella Mayfair, Mary Beth Mayfair, Antha Mayfair, Carlotta Mayfair, Ellie Mayfair, Julien Mayfair, Marie Claudette Mayfair Landry, Angélique Mayfair, Katherine Mayfair, Remy Mayfair, Graham Franklin, Lionel Mayfair, Belle Mayfair, Darcy Monahan, Sean Lacy, Petyr van Abel, Deborah Mayfair de Montcleve, Suzanne Mayfair, Lestan Mayfair, Marguerite Mayfair, Tyrone Clifford McNamara, Augustin Mayfair, Jeannette Mayfair, Cortland Mayfair, Barclay Mayfair, Garland Mayfair, Corrington Mayfair, Daniel McIntyre, Nancy Mayfair, Millie Mayfair, Amanda Grady Mayfair, Sean McIntyre, Alice Mayfair",
            "synopsis": "\"From the author of the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles comes a huge, hypnotic novel of witchcraft and the occult through four centuries.Demonstrating, once again, her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of legend, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of witches—a family given to poetry and to incest, to murder and to philosophy; a family that, over the ages, is itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous, and seductive being.On the veranda of a great New Orleans house, now faded, a mute and fragile woman sits rocking... and The Witching Hour begins.It begins in our time with a rescue at sea.  Rowan Mayfair, a beautiful woman, a brilliant practitioner of neurosurgery—aware that she has special powers but unaware that she comes from an ancient line of witches—finds the drowned body of a man off the coast of California and brings him to life.  He is Michael Curry, who was born in New Orleans and orphaned in childhood by fire on Christmas Eve, who pulled himself up from poverty, and who now, in his brief interval of death, has acquired a sensory power that mystifies and frightens him.As these two, fiercely drawn to each other, fall in love and—in passionate alliance—set out to solve the mystery of her past and his unwelcome gift, the novel moves backward and forward in time from today\u0027s New Orleans and San Francisco to long-ago Amsterdam and a château in the France of Louis XIV.  An intricate tale of evil unfolds—an evil unleashed in seventeenth-century Scotland, where the first \"\"witch,\"\" Suzanne of the Mayfair, conjures up the spirit she names Lasher... a creation that spells her own destruction and torments each of her descendants in turn.From the coffee plantations of Port au Prince, where the great Mayfair fortune is made and the legacy of their dark power is almost destroyed, to Civil War New Orleans, as Julien—the clan\u0027s only male to be endowed with occult powers—provides for the dynasty its foothold in America, the dark, luminous story encompasses dramas of seduction and death, episodes of tenderness and healing.  And always—through peril and escape, tension and release—there swirl around us the echoes of eternal war: innocence versus the corruption of the spirit, sanity against madness, life against death.  With a dreamlike power, the novel draws us, through circuitous, twilight paths, to the present and Rowan\u0027s increasingly inspired and risky moves in the merciless game that binds her to her heritage. And in New Orleans, on Christmas Eve, this strangest of family sagas is brought to its startling climax.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1334,
            "title": "The Summoning",
            "author": "Kelley Armstrong ",
            "date": "07/01/2008",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Supernatural, Magic, Romance, Ghosts, Werewolves, Fiction",
            "characters": "Chloe Saunders, Derek Souza, \"\"Victoria \u0027\u0027Tori\u0027\u0027 Enright\"\", \"\"Rachelle \u0027\u0027Rae\u0027\u0027 Rogers\"\", Simon Bae",
            "synopsis": "\"Chloe Saunders used to have a relatively normal life.But now she finds herself in the middle of some really strange situations because:~She suddenly starts seeing dead people.~She gets locked up in a group home for unstable teens.~The group home isn\u0027t what it seems. My name is Chloe Saunders and my life will never be the same again.All I wanted was to make friends, meet boys, and keep on being ordinary. I don\u0027t even know what that means anymore. It all started on the day that I saw my first ghost—and the ghost saw me.Now there are ghosts everywhere and they won\u0027t leave me alone. To top it all off, I somehow got myself locked up in Lyle House, a \"\"special home\"\" for troubled teens. Yet the home isn\u0027t what it seems. Don\u0027t tell anyone, but I think there might be more to my housemates than meets the eye. The question is, whose side are they on? It\u0027s up to me to figure out the dangerous secrets behind Lyle House... before its skeletons come back to haunt me.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1335,
            "title": "Cry, the Beloved Country",
            "author": "Alan Paton",
            "date": "11/25/03",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Africa, Historical Fiction, South Africa, Literature, School, Novels, Historical, Read For School",
            "characters": "Stephen Kumalo, Absalom Kumalo, Msimangu, James Jarvis",
            "synopsis": "\"Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa’s history, was an immediate worldwide bestseller in 1948. Alan Paton’s impassioned novel about a black man’s country under white man’s law is a work of searing beauty.Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.The eminent literary critic Lewis Gannett wrote, “We have had many novels from statesmen and reformers, almost all bad; many novels from poets, almost all thin. In Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country the statesman, the poet and the novelist meet in a unique harmony.” Cry, the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son, Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its lyricism, unforgettable for character and incident, Cry, the Beloved Country is a classic work of love and hope, courage and endurance, born of the dignity of man.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1336,
            "title": "Johnny Got His Gun",
            "author": "Dalton Trumbo",
            "date": "08/01/2000",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, War, Historical Fiction, Horror, Literature, Novels, World War I, Politics, American",
            "characters": "Joe Bonham",
            "synopsis": "\"This was no ordinary war. This was a war to make the world safe for democracy. And if democracy was made safe, then nothing else mattered - not the millions of dead bodies, nor the thousands of ruined lives... This is no ordinary novel. This is a novel that never takes the easy way out: it is shocking, violent, terrifying, horrible, uncompromising, brutal, remorseless and gruesome... but so is war. Winner of the National Book Award.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1337,
            "title": "Chocolat",
            "author": "Joanne Harris ",
            "date": "11/01/2000",
            "genres": "Fiction, Romance, Magical Realism, France, Fantasy, Contemporary, Food, Chick Lit, Historical Fiction, Adult",
            "characters": "Caro Clairmont, Josephine Bonnet, Anouk Rocher, Vianne Rocher, Roux, Francis Reynaud, Armande Voizin, Paul-Marie Muscat, Luc Clairmont, Guillaume Duplessis",
            "synopsis": "\"A timeless novel of a straitlaced village\u0027s awakening to joy and sensuality - every page offers a description of chocolate to melt in the mouths of chocoholics, francophiles, armchair gourmets, cookbook readers, and lovers of passion everywhere.Illuminating Peter Mayle\u0027s South of France with a touch of Laura Esquivel\u0027s magic realism, Chocolat is a timeless novel of a straitlaced village\u0027s awakening to joy and sensuality. In tiny Lansquenet, where nothing much has changed in a hundred years, beautiful newcomer Vianne Rocher and her exquisite chocolate shop arrive and instantly begin to play havoc with Lenten vows. Each box of luscious bonbons comes with a free gift: Vianne\u0027s uncanny perception of its buyer\u0027s private discontents and a clever, caring cure for them. Is she a witch? Soon the parish no longer cares, as it abandons itself to temptation, happiness, and a dramatic face-off between Easter solemnity and the pagan gaiety of a chocolate festival. Chocolat\u0027s every page offers a description of chocolate to melt in the mouths of chocoholics, francophiles, armchair gourmets, cookbook readers, and lovers of passion everywhere. It\u0027s a must for anyone who craves an escapist read, and is a bewitching gift for any holiday.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1338,
            "title": "Halfway to the Grave",
            "author": "Jeaniene Frost ",
            "date": "10/30/07",
            "genres": "Paranormal, Vampires, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Adult, Supernatural, Fiction, New Adult",
            "characters": "Bones (Night Huntress series), Catherine Crawfield-Russell, Spade (Night Huntress series), Tate Bradley, Don Williams",
            "synopsis": "\"Flirting With The Grave…Half-vampire Catherine Crawfield is going after the undead with a vengeance, hoping that one of these deadbeats is her father – the one responsible for ruining her mother’s life. Then she’s captured by Bones, a vampire bounty hunter, and is forced into an unlikely partnership.In exchange for help finding her father, Cat agrees to train with the sexy night stalker until her battle reflexes are as sharp as his fangs. She’s amazed she doesn’t end up as his dinner – are there actually good vampires? Pretty soon Bones will have her convinced that being half-dead doesn’t have to be all bad. But before she can enjoy her status as kick-ass demon hunter, Cat and Bones are pursued by a group of killers. Now Cat will have to choose a side … and Bones is turning out to be as tempting as any man with a heartbeat.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1339,
            "title": "Three Cups of Tea: One Man\u0027s Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time",
            "author": "Greg Mortenson , David Oliver Relin",
            "date": "01/30/07",
            "genres": "Nonfiction, Memoir, Biography, Travel, Education, Book Club, Biography Memoir, Pakistan, Inspirational, History",
            "characters": "Greg Mortenson, Syed Abbas, Ali, Sarah Bishop",
            "synopsis": "\"The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban’s backyardAnyone who despairs of the individual’s power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan’s treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers and promised to build them a school. Over the next decade he built fifty-five schools—especially for girls—that offer a balanced education in one of the most isolated and dangerous regions on earth. As it chronicles Mortenson’s quest, which has brought him into conflict with both enraged Islamists and uncomprehending Americans, Three Cups of Tea combines adventure with a celebration of the humanitarian spirit.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1340,
            "title": "Perfect Chemistry",
            "author": "Simone Elkeles ",
            "date": "12/23/08",
            "genres": "Romance, Young Adult, Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, High School, Fiction, New Adult, Realistic Fiction, Chick Lit, Young Adult Romance",
            "characters": "Alex Fuentes, Brittany Ellis",
            "synopsis": "\"A fresh, urban twist on the classic tale of star-crossed lovers.When Brittany Ellis walks into chemistry class on the first day of senior year, she has no clue that her carefully created \u0027perfect\u0027 life is about to unravel before her eyes. She\u0027s forced to be lab partners with Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, and he is about to threaten everything she\u0027s worked so hard for: her flawless reputation, her relationship with her boyfriend, and the secret that her home life is anything but perfect. Alex is a bad boy and he knows it. So when he makes a bet with his friends to lure Brittany into his life, he thinks nothing of it. But soon Alex realizes Brittany is a real person with real problems, and suddenly the bet he made in arrogance turns into something much more.In a passionate story about looking beneath the surface, Simone Elkeles breaks through the stereotypes and barriers that threaten to keep Brittany and Alex apart.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1341,
            "title": "Red Queen",
            "author": "Victoria Aveyard ",
            "date": "02/10/2015",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Dystopia, Romance, Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy, Magic, Science Fiction, Audiobook, Paranormal",
            "characters": "Kilorn Warren, Gisa Barrow, Tiberias Calore \"\"Cal\"\" VII, Mare Molly Barrow, Maven Calore, Evangeline Samos, Diana Farley, Tiberias Calore VI, Elara Merandus, Julian Jacos, Lucas Samos",
            "synopsis": "\"This is a world divided by blood—red or silver. The Reds are commoners, ruled by a Silver elite in possession of god-like superpowers. And to Mare Barrow, a seventeen-year-old Red girl from the poverty-stricken Stilts, it seems like nothing will ever change. That is until she finds herself working in the Silver Palace. Here, surrounded by the people she hates the most, Mare discovers that, despite her red blood, she possesses a deadly power of her own. One that threatens to destroy the balance of power. Fearful of Mare\u0027s potential, the Silvers hide her in plain view, declaring her a long-lost Silver princess, now engaged to a Silver prince. Despite knowing that one misstep would mean her death, Mare works silently to help the Red Guard, a militant resistance group, and bring down the Silver regime. But this is a world of betrayal and lies, and Mare has entered a dangerous dance—Reds against Silvers, prince against prince, and Mare against her own heart.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1342,
            "title": "The Woman in White",
            "author": "Wilkie Collins, Matthew Sweet (Annotations)",
            "date": "02/27/03",
            "genres": "Classics, Mystery, Fiction, Gothic, Horror, 19th Century, Victorian, Historical Fiction, Literature, British Literature",
            "characters": "Walter Hartright, Marian Halcombe, Anne Catherick, Sir Percival Glyde, Count Fosco, Frederick Fairlie, Laura Fairlie, Madame Fosco, Mr. Gilmore",
            "synopsis": "\"\u0027In one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop... There, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth, stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white\u0027The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright\u0027s eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter becomes embroiled in the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his \u0027charming\u0027 friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons, and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors of English country houses and the madhouse, The Woman in White is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism.Matthew Sweet\u0027s introduction explores the phenomenon of Victorian \u0027sensation\u0027 fiction, and discusses Wilkie Collins\u0027s biographical and societal influences. Included in this edition are appendices on theatrical adaptations of the novel and its serialisation history.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1343,
            "title": "Angels \u0026 Demons",
            "author": "Dan Brown ",
            "date": "04/01/2006",
            "genres": "Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Crime, Historical Fiction, Novels, Adult",
            "characters": "Vittoria Vetra, Robert Langdon, Leonardo Vetra, Gunther Glick, Maximilian Kohler, Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca",
            "synopsis": "\"World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization - the Illuminati. In a desperate race to save the Vatican from a powerful time bomb, Langdon joins forces in Rome with the beautiful and mysterious scientist Vittoria Vetra. Together they embark on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, and deserted cathedrals, and into the depths of the most secretive vault on earth...the long-forgotten Illuminati lair.(back cover)\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1344,
            "title": "Just Listen",
            "author": "Sarah Dessen ",
            "date": "04/06/2006",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Chick Lit, Teen, Music, Young Adult Contemporary, High School",
            "characters": "Annabel Greene, Owen Armstrong, Whitney Greene",
            "synopsis": "\"Last year, Annabel was \"\"the girl who has everything\"\" — at least that\u0027s the part she played in the television commercial for Kopf\u0027s Department Store.This year, she\u0027s the girl who has nothing: no best friend because mean-but-exciting Sophie dropped her, no peace at home since her older sister became anorexic, and no one to sit with at lunch. Until she meets Owen Armstrong.Tall, dark, and music-obsessed, Owen is a reformed bad boy with a commitment to truth-telling. With Owen\u0027s help, maybe Annabel can face what happened the night she and Sophie stopped being friends.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1345,
            "title": "The Truth About Forever",
            "author": "Sarah Dessen ",
            "date": "05/11/2004",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, Chick Lit, Realistic Fiction, Teen, Young Adult Contemporary, Young Adult Romance, High School",
            "characters": "Macy Queen, Wes Baker, Monica Palmetto, Kristy Palmetto, Bert Baker, Caroline Queen, Jason Talbot, Deborah Queen",
            "synopsis": "\"That\u0027s what Macy has to look forward to while her boyfriend, Jason, is away at Brain Camp. Days will be spent at a boring job in the library, evenings will be filled with vocabulary drills for the SATs, and spare time will be passed with her mother, the two of them sharing a silent grief at the traumatic loss of Macy\u0027s father.But sometimes, unexpected things can happen—things such as the catering job at Wish, with its fun-loving, chaotic crew. Or her sister\u0027s project of renovating the neglected beach house, awakening long-buried memories. Things such as meeting Wes, a boy with a past, a taste for Truth-telling, and an amazing artistic talent, the kind of boy who could turn any girl\u0027s world upside down. As Macy ventures out of her shell, she begins to question her sheltered life.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1346,
            "title": "A Discovery of Witches",
            "author": "Deborah Harkness ",
            "date": "02/28/11",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Romance, Paranormal, Vampires, Witches, Magic, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural",
            "characters": "Sarah Bishop, Sean Ryder, Diana Bishop, Matthew Clairmont, Emily Mather, Miriam Shephard, Hamish Osborne, Marcus Whitmore, Ysabeau de Clermont, Baldwin de Clairmont, Elias Ashmole, Peter Knox, Stephen Proctor, Rebecca Bishop, Juliette Durand, Agatha Wilson, Nathaniel Wilson, Gillian Chamberlain, Marthe (Vampire), Chris Roberts",
            "synopsis": "\"A richly inventive novel about a centuries-old vampire, a spellbound witch, and the mysterious manuscript that draws them together. Deep in the stacks of Oxford\u0027s Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in the course of her research. Descended from an old and distinguished line of witches, Diana wants nothing to do with sorcery; so after a furtive glance and a few notes, she banishes the book to the stacks. But her discovery sets a fantastical underworld stirring, and a horde of daemons, witches, and vampires soon descends upon the library. Diana has stumbled upon a coveted treasure lost for centuries-and she is the only creature who can break its spell. Debut novelist Deborah Harkness has crafted a mesmerizing and addictive read, equal parts history and magic, romance and suspense. Diana is a bold heroine who meets her equal in vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont, and gradually warms up to him as their alliance deepens into an intimacy that violates age-old taboos. This smart, sophisticated story harks back to the novels of Anne Rice, but it is as contemporary and sensual as the Twilight series-with an extra serving of historical realism.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1347,
            "title": "Unwind",
            "author": "Neal Shusterman ",
            "date": "11/06/2007",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Teen, Thriller, Adventure, Survival",
            "characters": "Lev Calder, Connor Lassiter, Risa Ward",
            "synopsis": "\"Connor, Risa, and Lev are running for their lives.The Second Civil War was fought over reproductive rights. The chilling resolution: Life is inviolable from the moment of conception until age thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, parents can have their child \"\"unwound,\"\" whereby all of the child\u0027s organs are transplanted into different donors, so life doesn\u0027t technically end. Connor is too difficult for his parents to control. Risa, a ward of the state, is not enough to be kept alive. And Lev is a tithe, a child conceived and raised to be unwound. Together, they may have a chance to escape and to survive.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1348,
            "title": "Trainspotting",
            "author": "Irvine Welsh",
            "date": "07/11/1994",
            "genres": "Fiction, Contemporary, Classics, Novels, Thriller, Mystery, Scotland, Crime, Drama, Dark",
            "characters": "Mark Renton, Simon Williamson",
            "synopsis": "\"The bestselling novel by Irvine Welsh that provided the inspiration for Danny Boyle’s hit film Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fuckin embarrassment tae the selfish, fucked-up brats ye\u0027ve produced. Choose life.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1349,
            "title": "Cannery Row",
            "author": "John Steinbeck",
            "date": "02/05/2002",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Literature, Historical Fiction, American, Novels, Literary Fiction, Classic Literature, 20th Century, The United States Of America",
            "characters": "Eddie, \"\"Doc\"\" Bradley Stanwick, Dora, Lee Chong, Mack, Hughie, Gay, Hazel, Eddie, Doc, Dora, Lee Chong, Mack",
            "synopsis": "\"Cannery Row is a book without much of a plot. Rather, it is an attempt to capture the feeling and people of a place, the cannery district of Monterey, California, which is populated by a mix of those down on their luck and those who choose for other reasons not to live \"\"up the hill\"\" in the more respectable area of town. The flow of the main plot is frequently interrupted by short vignettes that introduce us to various denizens of the Row, most of whom are not directly connected with the central story. These vignettes are often characterized by direct or indirect reference to extreme violence: suicides, corpses, and the cruelty of the natural world.The \"\"story\"\" of Cannery Row follows the adventures of Mack and the boys, a group of unemployed yet resourceful men who inhabit a converted fish-meal shack on the edge of a vacant lot down on the Row.Sweet Thursday is the sequel to Cannery Row.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1350,
            "title": "Much Ado About Nothing",
            "author": "William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat (Editor), Paul Werstine (Editor), Robert Jackson (Editor), Gail Kern Paster (Contributor)",
            "date": "10/28/04",
            "genres": "Classics, Plays, Fiction, Drama, Romance, School, Theatre, Literature, Humor, Comedy",
            "characters": "boy, Hero (Much ado), Ursula (Shakespeare), Don Pedro, Beatrice (diverse works), Claudio, Benedick, Don John, Leonato, Dogberry, Friar Francis, Verges, Magaret, Balthazar (Much Ado About Nothing), Borachio, Conrade, A Sexton, The Watch, Innogen, Antonio",
            "synopsis": "\"In Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare includes two quite different stories of romantic love. Hero and Claudio fall in love almost at first sight, but an outsider, Don John, strikes out at their happiness. Beatrice and Benedick are kept apart by pride and mutual antagonism until others decide to play Cupid.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1351,
            "title": "Swann\u0027s Way",
            "author": "Marcel Proust, Lydia Davis (Translator)",
            "date": "11/30/04",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, France, Literature, French Literature, Novels, 20th Century, Philosophy, Literary Fiction, Unfinished",
            "characters": "Narrator/Marcel, Baron de Charlus, Mme Swann, Gilberte Swann, Cottard, Odette de Crécy, Charles Swann, Françoise de Combray, Madame Verdurin",
            "synopsis": "\"Marcel Proust\u0027s In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century. But since its original prewar translation there has been no completely new version in English. Now, Penguin brings Proust\u0027s masterpiece to new audiences throughout the world, beginning with Lydia Davis\u0027s internationally acclaimed translation of the first volume, Swann\u0027s Way.Swann\u0027s Way is one of the preeminent novels of childhood: a sensitive boy\u0027s impressions of his family and neighbors, all brought dazzlingly back to life years later by the taste of a madeleine. It also enfolds the short novel \"\"Swann in Love,\"\" an incomparable study of sexual jealousy that becomes a crucial part of the vast, unfolding structure of In Search of Lost Time. The first volume of the work that established Proust as one of the finest voices of the modern age — satirical, skeptical, confiding, and endlessly varied in its response to the human condition — Swann\u0027s Way also stands on its own as a perfect rendering of a life in art, of the past re-created through memory.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1352,
            "title": "Sarah\u0027s Key",
            "author": "Tatiana de Rosnay ",
            "date": "06/28/07",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Holocaust, Historical, World War II, France, War, Book Club, Adult, Adult Fiction",
            "characters": "Julia Jarmond, Sarah Starzynski, Zoë Tézac, Bertrand Tézac, Michel Starzynski, Wladyslaw Starzynski, Rywka Starzynski, William Rainsferd, Edouard Tézac, Jules Dufaure, Genevieve Dufaure",
            "synopsis": "\"Paris, July 1942: Ten-year-old Sarah is brutally arrested with her family in the Vel\u0027 d\u0027Hiv\u0027 roundup, the most notorious act of French collaboration with the Nazis. but before the police come to take them, Sarah locks her younger brother, Michel, in their favorite hiding place, a cupboard in the family\u0027s apartment. She keeps the key, thinking that she will be back within a few hours.Paris, May 2002: On Vel\u0027 d\u0027Hiv\u0027s sixtieth anniversary, Julia Jarmond, an American journalist, is asked by her Paris-based American magazine to write an article about this black day in France\u0027s past. Julia has lived in Paris for nearly twenty-five years, married a Frenchman, and she is shocked both by her ignorance about the event and the silence that still surrounds it. In the course of her investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connects her to Sarah. Julia finds herself compelled to retrace the girl\u0027s ordeal, from the terrible days spent shut in at the Vel\u0027 d\u0027Hiv\u0027 to the camps and beyond. As she probes into Sarah\u0027s past, she begins to question her own place in France and to reevaluate her marriage and her life.Writing about the fate of her country with a pitiless clarity, Tatiana de Rosnay offers us a brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation and reveals the taboos and denial surrounding this painful episode in French history.(front flap)\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1353,
            "title": "Acheron",
            "author": "Sherrilyn Kenyon ",
            "date": "08/05/2008",
            "genres": "Paranormal Romance, Paranormal, Romance, Fantasy, Vampires, Urban Fantasy, Mythology, Adult, Fiction, Demons",
            "characters": "Styxx of Didymos, Apollymi, Strykerius, Artemis Agrotera, Soteria \"\"Tory\"\" Eleni Athena Kafieri, Ryssa of Didymos, Jaden (Acheron), Apollo (Styxx), Acheron \"\"Ash\"\" Parthenopaeus",
            "synopsis": "\"Eleven thousand years ago a god was born. Cursed into the body of a human, Acheron endured a lifetime of hatred. His human death unleashed an unspeakable horror that almost destroyed the earth. Brought back against his will, he became the sole defender of mankind.Only it was never that simple…For centuries, he has fought for our survival and hidden a past he never wants revealed.Now his survival, and ours, hinges on the very woman who threatens him. Old enemies reawaken and unite to kill them both.War has never been deadlier… or more fun.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1354,
            "title": "The Elite",
            "author": "Kiera Cass ",
            "date": "04/23/13",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Romance, Dystopia, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Audiobook, Teen, Chick Lit, Young Adult Romance",
            "characters": "Celeste White, Elise Whisks, Aspen Leger, America Singer, Prince Maxon, Kriss Ambers",
            "synopsis": "\"The Selection began with thirty-five girls. Now with the group narrowed down to the six Elite, the competition to win Prince Maxon\u0027s heart is fiercer than ever—and America is still struggling to decide where her heart truly lies. Is it with Maxon, who could make her life a fairy tale? Or with her first love, Aspen?America is desperate for more time. But the rest of the Elite know exactly what they want—and America\u0027s chance to choose is about to slip away.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1355,
            "title": "Silence",
            "author": "Becca Fitzpatrick ",
            "date": "10/04/2011",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Fantasy, Angels, Paranormal, Romance, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy",
            "characters": "Nora Grey, Jev \"\"Patch\"\" Cipriano, Vee Sky, Marcie Millar, Scott Parnell, Hank Millar, Blythe Gray",
            "synopsis": "\"Nora Grey can\u0027t remember the past five months of her life. After the initial shock of waking up in a cemetery and being told that she has been missing for weeks - with no one knowing where she was or who she was with - she tried to get her life back on track. Go to school, hang out with her best friend, Vee, and dodge mom\u0027s creepy new boyfriend.But there is this voice in the back of her head, an idea that she can almost reach out and touch. Visions of angel wings and unearthly creatures that have nothing to do with the life she knows.And this unshakable feeling that a part of her is missing.Then Nora crosses paths with a sexy stranger, whom she feels a mesmerizing connection to. He seems to hold all the answers...and her heart. Every minute she spends with him grows more and more intense until she realizes she could be falling in love. Again.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1356,
            "title": "Nine Stories",
            "author": "J.D. Salinger",
            "date": "01/30/01",
            "genres": "Short Stories, Fiction, Classics, Literature, American, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, The United States Of America, Novels, Adult Fiction",
            "characters": "Seymour Glass, Beatrice Glass Tannenbaum",
            "synopsis": "\"Nine Stories (1953) is a collection of short stories by American fiction writer J. D. Salinger published in April 1953. It includes two of his most famous short stories, \"\"A Perfect Day for Bananafish\"\" and \"\"For Esmé – with Love and Squalor\"\". (Nine Stories is the U.S. title; the book is published in many other countries as For Esmé - with Love and Squalor, and Other Stories.)The stories are:\"\"A Perfect Day for Bananafish\"\"\"\"Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut\"\"\"\"Just Before the War with the Eskimos\"\"\"\"The Laughing Man\"\"\"\"Down at the Dinghy\"\"\"\"For Esmé – with Love and Squalor\"\"\"\"Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes\"\"\"\"De Daumier-Smith\u0027s Blue Period\"\"\"\"Teddy\"\"\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1357,
            "title": "The Return of the King",
            "author": "J.R.R. Tolkien",
            "date": "07/12/1974",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Classics, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Literature, Novels, Magic",
            "characters": "Frodo Baggins, Meriadoc Brandybuck, Peregrin Took, Gandalf, Aragorn, Gimli, Bilbo Baggins, Saruman, Éowyn, Éomer, Elrond Half-elven, Arwen Undómiel, Galadriel, Faramir, Gollum, Legolas, Sam Gamgee",
            "synopsis": "\"In the third volume of The Lord of the Rings trilogy the good and evil forces join battle, and we see that the triumph of good is not absolute. The Third Age of Middle-earth ends, and the age of the dominion of Men begins.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1358,
            "title": "All the Bright Places",
            "author": "Jennifer Niven ",
            "date": "01/06/2015",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance, Fiction, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Realistic Fiction, Audiobook, Young Adult Contemporary, Teen",
            "characters": "Theodore Finch, Violet Markey",
            "synopsis": "\"The Fault in Our Stars meets Eleanor and Park in this exhilarating and heart-wrenching love story about a girl who learns to live from a boy who intends to die.Soon to be a major motion picture starring Elle Fanning! Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister’s recent death. When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it’s unclear who saves whom. And when they pair up on a project to discover the “natural wonders” of their state, both Finch and Violet make more important discoveries: It’s only with Violet that Finch can be himself—a weird, funny, live-out-loud guy who’s not such a freak after all. And it’s only with Finch that Violet can forget to count away the days and start living them. But as Violet’s world grows, Finch’s begins to shrink. This is an intense, gripping novel perfect for fans of Jay Asher, Rainbow Rowell, John Green, Gayle Forman, and Jenny Downham from a talented new voice in YA, Jennifer Niven.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1359,
            "title": "Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster",
            "author": "Jon Krakauer ",
            "date": "10/19/99",
            "genres": "Nonfiction, Adventure, Memoir, Travel, Biography, History, Survival, Mountaineering, Biography Memoir, Sports",
            "characters": "Rob Hall, Jon Krakauer",
            "synopsis": "\"A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that \"\"suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down.\"\" He was wrong. The storm, which claimed five lives and left countless more-including Krakauer\u0027s-in guilt-ridden disarray, would also provide the impetus for Into Thin Air, Krakauer\u0027s epic account of the May 1996 disaster.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1360,
            "title": "Far From the Madding Crowd",
            "author": "Thomas Hardy, Rosemarie Morgan (Editor/Introduction), Shannon Russell (Editor/Introduction)",
            "date": "02/27/03",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, 19th Century, Literature, British Literature, Victorian, Classic Literature, Novels",
            "characters": "Gabriel Oak, Bathsheba Everdene, William Boldwood, Francis Troy, Fanny Robin",
            "synopsis": "\"Far from the Madding Crowd was Thomas Hardy\u0027s first major literary success, and it edited with an introduction and notes by Rosemarie Morgan and Shannon Russell in Penguin Classics.Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues, threatening the stability of the whole community. The first of his works set in the fictional county of Wessex, Hardy\u0027s novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with his evocative descriptions of rural life and landscapes, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1361,
            "title": "I Am Number Four",
            "author": "Pittacus Lore",
            "date": "08/03/2010",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Fiction, Aliens, Romance, Paranormal, Adventure, Teen, Action",
            "characters": "Henri Smith, Sarah Hart, Mark James, Sam Goode, Bernie Kosar, Mogadorians, Number 6, John Smith (Pittacus Lore)",
            "synopsis": "\"Nine of us came here. We look like you. We talk like you. We live among you. But we are not you. We can do things you dream of doing. We have powers you dream of having. We are stronger and faster than anything you have ever seen. We are the superheroes you worship in movies and comic books-but we are real.Our plan was to grow, and train, and become strong, and become one, and fight them. But they found us and started hunting us first. Now all of us are running. Spending our lives in shadows, in places where no one would look, blending in. We have lived among you without you knowing.But they know.They caught Number One in Malaysia.Number Two in England.And Number Three in Kenya.They killed them all.I am Number Four.I am next.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1362,
            "title": "Dead to the World",
            "author": "Charlaine Harris ",
            "date": "04/01/2005",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Vampires, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Fiction, Mystery, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Adult",
            "characters": "Sookie Stackhouse, Bill Compton, Sam Merlotte, Jason Stackhouse, Eric Northman, Tara Thornton, Pam Ravenscroft, Alcide Herveaux",
            "synopsis": "\"Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in Bon Temps, Louisiana. She has only a few close friends, because not everyone appreciates Sookie’s gift: she can read minds. That’s not exactly every man’s idea of date bait – unless they’re undead; vampires and the like can be tough to read. And that’s just the kind of guy Sookie’s been looking for. Maybe that’s why, when she comes across a naked vampire, she doesn’t just drive on by. He hasn’t got a clue who he is, but Sookie has: Eric looks just as scary and sexy – and dead – as ever. But now he has amnesia, he’s sweet, vulnerable, and in need of Sookie’s help – because whoever took his memory now wants his life.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1363,
            "title": "Persuasion",
            "author": "Jane Austen, Deidre Shauna Lynch (Introduction), James Kinsley (Editor)",
            "date": "03/18/04",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Literature, Historical, 19th Century, British Literature, Classic Literature, Historical Romance",
            "characters": "Lady Russell, Charles Musgrove, Admiral Croft, Elizabeth Elliot, Frederick Wentworth, Lady Russell, Mary Musgrove, Sophia Croft, Sir Walter Elliot, Louisa Musgrove, Captain James Benwick, William Elliot, Mrs. Smith, Anne Elliot, Henrietta Musgrave, Captain Harville",
            "synopsis": "\"Twenty-seven-year old Anne Elliot is Austen\u0027s most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her friend Lady Russell that such a match is unworthy. The breakup produces in Anne a deep and long-lasting regret. When later Wentworth returns from sea a rich and successful captain, he finds Anne\u0027s family on the brink of financial ruin and his own sister a tenant in Kellynch Hall, the Elliot estate. All the tension of the novel revolves around one question: Will Anne and Wentworth be reunited in their love?Jane Austen once compared her writing to painting on a little bit of ivory, 2 inches square. Readers of Persuasion will discover that neither her skill for delicate, ironic observations on social custom, love, and marriage nor her ability to apply a sharp focus lens to English manners and morals has deserted her in her final finished work.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1364,
            "title": "Sabriel",
            "author": "Garth Nix ",
            "date": "09/30/96",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Magic, Young Adult Fantasy, High Fantasy, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Teen",
            "characters": "Sabriel, Touchstone, Mogget, Abhorsen, Kerrigor, Rogir",
            "synopsis": "\"Sent to a boarding school in Ancelstierre as a young child, Sabriel has had little experience with the random power of Free Magic or the Dead who refuse to stay dead in the Old Kingdom. But during her final semester, her father, the Abhorsen, goes missing, and Sabriel knows she must enter the Old Kingdom to find him. With Sabriel, the first installment in the Abhorsen series, Garth Nix exploded onto the fantasy scene as a rising star, in a novel that takes readers to a world where the line between the living and the dead isn\u0027t always clear—and sometimes disappears altogether.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1365,
            "title": "Cutting for Stone",
            "author": "Abraham Verghese ",
            "date": "02/03/2009",
            "genres": "Fiction, Historical Fiction, Africa, Book Club, Medicine, Ethiopia, Medical, Novels, Literary Fiction, Historical",
            "characters": "Thomas Stone, Sister Mary Joseph Praise, Marion Stone, Shiva Stone",
            "synopsis": "\"A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel - an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home.Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother’s death in childbirth and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Yet it will be love, not politics—their passion for the same woman—that will tear them apart and force Marion, fresh out of medical school, to flee his homeland. He makes his way to America, finding refuge in his work as an intern at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. When the past catches up to him—nearly destroying him—Marion must entrust his life to the two men he thought he trusted least in the world: the surgeon father who abandoned him and the brother who betrayed him.An unforgettable journey into one man’s remarkable life, and an epic story about the power, intimacy, and curious beauty of the work of healing others.(front flap)\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1366,
            "title": "The Goose Girl",
            "author": "Shannon Hale ",
            "date": "05/01/2005",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Fairy Tales, Romance, Fiction, Retellings, Middle Grade, Adventure, Young Adult Fantasy, Magic",
            "characters": "Razo, Geric, Enna, Princess Anidori-Kiladra, Finn, Selia",
            "synopsis": "\"Mythopoeic Fantasy Award nominee for Children\u0027s Literature 2010 (The Books of Bayern series).She was born with her eyes closed and a word on her tongue, a word she could not taste. Her name was Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, and she spent the first years of her life listening to her aunt’s stories and learning the language of the birds, especially the swans. And when she was older, she watched as a colt was born, and she heard the first word on his tongue, his name, Falada.From the Grimm\u0027s fairy tale of the princess who became a goose girl before she could become queen, Shannon Hale has woven an incredible, original, and magical tale of a girl who must find her own unusual talents before she can lead the people she has made her own.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1367,
            "title": "I Capture the Castle",
            "author": "Dodie Smith",
            "date": "03/31/98",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Romance, Coming Of Age, Historical, British Literature, Novels, Adult Fiction",
            "characters": "Cassandra Mortmain, Rose Mortmain, James Mortmain, Topaz Mortmain, Thomas Mortmain, Stephen Colly, Simon Cotton, Neil Cotton, Miss Marcy, Audrey Fox-Cotton, Leda Fox-Cotton",
            "synopsis": "\"Through six turbulent months of 1934, 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain keeps a journal, filling three notebooks with sharply funny yet poignant entries about her home, a ruined Suffolk castle, and her eccentric and penniless family. By the time the last diary shuts, there have been great changes in the Mortmain household, not the least of which is that Cassandra is deeply, hopelessly, in love.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1368,
            "title": "The Glass Menagerie",
            "author": "Tennessee Williams, Robert Bray (Introduction)",
            "date": "06/17/99",
            "genres": "Plays, Classics, Drama, Fiction, School, Theatre, Literature, Read For School, High School, American",
            "characters": "Amanda Wingfield, Laura Wingfield, \"\"Jim O\u0027\u0027Connor\"\", Tom Wingfield",
            "synopsis": "\"No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams\u0027s The Glass Menagerie. As Williams\u0027s first popular success, it launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career, of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, Menagaerie has been the bravura piece for great actresses from Jessica Tandy to Joanne Woodward, and is studied and performed in classrooms and theatres around the world. The Glass Menagerie (in the reading text the author preferred) is now available only in its New Directions Paperbook edition. A new introduction by the editor of The Tennessee Williams Annual Review, Robert Bray, reappraises the play more than half a century after it won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. This edition of The Glass Menagerie also includes Williams\u0027s essay on the impact of sudden fame on a struggling writer, \"\"The Catastrophe of Success,\"\" as well as a short section of Williams\u0027s own \"\"Production Notes.\"\" (back cover)\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1369,
            "title": "Twelfth Night",
            "author": "William Shakespeare",
            "date": "07/01/2004",
            "genres": "Classics, Plays, Drama, Fiction, School, Romance, Theatre, Literature, Poetry, Read For School",
            "characters": "Viola, Count Orsino, Sebastian, Sir Toby Belch, Malvolio, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Feste, Sebastion, Olivia",
            "synopsis": "\"Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays with love and power. The Countess Olivia, a woman with her own household, attracts Duke (or Count) Orsino. Two other would-be suitors are her pretentious steward, Malvolio, and Sir Andrew Aguecheek.Onto this scene arrive the twins Viola and Sebastian; caught in a shipwreck, each thinks the other has drowned. Viola disguises herself as a male page and enters Orsino’s service. Orsino sends her as his envoy to Olivia—only to have Olivia fall in love with the messenger. The play complicates, then wonderfully untangles, these relationships.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1370,
            "title": "The Darkest Minds",
            "author": "Alexandra Bracken ",
            "date": "12/18/12",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Dystopia, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Paranormal, Fiction, Adventure, Supernatural, Young Adult Fantasy",
            "characters": "Charles \"\"Chubs\"\" Carrington Meriwether IV (The Darkest Minds), Ruby Elizabeth Daly (The Darkest Minds), Liam Stewart (The Darkest Minds), Suzume Kimura, Clancy Gray (The Darkest Minds)",
            "synopsis": "\"When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that gets her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government “rehabilitation camp.” She might have survived the mysterious disease that’s killed most of America’s children, but she and the others have emerged with something far worse: frightening abilities they cannot control.Now sixteen, Ruby is one of the dangerous ones.When the truth comes out, Ruby barely escapes Thurmond with her life. Now she’s on the run, desperate to find the one safe haven left for kids like her—East River. She joins a group of kids who escaped their own camp. Liam, their brave leader, is falling hard for Ruby. But no matter how much she aches for him, Ruby can’t risk getting close. Not after what happened to her parents.When they arrive at East River, nothing is as it seems, least of all its mysterious leader. But there are other forces at work, people who will stop at nothing to use Ruby in their fight against the government. Ruby will be faced with a terrible choice, one that may mean giving up her only chance at a life worth living.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1371,
            "title": "Invisible Monsters",
            "author": "Chuck Palahniuk ",
            "date": "05/01/2018",
            "genres": "Fiction, Contemporary, Thriller, Mystery, Novels, Dark, Adult, Humor, Adult Fiction, Drama",
            "characters": "Shannon McFarland, Brandy Alexander, Evie Cottrell, Manus Kelley, The Rhea Sisters",
            "synopsis": "\"She\u0027s a catwalk model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden motor \u0027accident\u0027 leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she goes from being the beautiful centre of attention to being an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists.Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from being a real woman, who will teach her that reinventing yourself means erasing your past and making up something better, and that salvation hides in the last place you\u0027ll ever want to look.The narrator must exact revenge upon Evie, her best friend and fellow model; kidnap Manus, her two-timing ex-boyfriend; and hit the road with Brandy in search of a brand-new past, present and future.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1372,
            "title": "The Hours",
            "author": "Michael Cunningham ",
            "date": "10/28/02",
            "genres": "Fiction, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, LGBT, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, Historical, American",
            "characters": "Clarissa Vaughan, Laura Brown, Virginia Woolf",
            "synopsis": "\"In 1920s London, Virginia Woolf is fighting against her rebellious spirit as she attempts to make a start on her new novel. A young wife and mother, broiling in a suburb of 1940s Los Angeles, yearns to escape and read her precious copy of Mrs Dalloway. And Clarissa Vaughan steps out of her smart Greenwich village apartment in 1990s New York to buy flowers for a party she is hosting for a dying friend.The Hours recasts the classic story of Woolf\u0027s Mrs Dalloway in a startling new light. Moving effortlessly across the decades and between England and America, this exquisite novel intertwines the worlds of three unforgettable women.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1373,
            "title": "Drums of Autumn",
            "author": "Diana Gabaldon ",
            "date": "10/16/18",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction, Time Travel, Historical, Historical Romance, Audiobook, Adult, Adventure",
            "characters": "Jamie Fraser, Brianna Randall, Roger MacKenzie, Fergus Fraser, Marsali Fraser, Ian Murray, Claire Randall Fraser, Geillis Duncan, Stephen Bonnet, Young Ian Murray, Duncan Innes",
            "synopsis": "\"In this breathtaking novel, rich in history and adventure, #1 New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon continues the story of Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser that started with the now-classic novel Outlander and continued in Dragonfly in Amber and Voyager. Once again spanning continents and centuries, Gabaldon has created a work of sheer brilliance. What if you knew someone you loved was going to die? What if you thought you could save them? How much would you risk to try?Claire Randall has gone to find Jamie Fraser, the man she loved more than life, and has left half her heart behind with their daughter, Brianna. Claire gave up Jamie to save Brianna, and now Bree has sent her mother back to the Scottish warrior who was willing to give his life to save them both. But a chilling discovery in the pages of history suggests that Jamie and Claire\u0027s story doesn\u0027t have a happy ending.Brianna dares a terrifying leap into the unknown in search of her mother and the father she has never met, risking her own future to try to change history . . . and to save their lives. But as Brianna plunges into an uncharted wilderness, a heartbreaking encounter may strand her forever in the past . . . or root her in the place she should be, where her heart and soul belong.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1374,
            "title": "Wicked Lovely",
            "author": "Melissa Marr ",
            "date": "06/12/2007",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Fairies, Fae, Fiction, Paranormal Romance, Magic",
            "characters": "Aislinn, Keenan, Leslie, Irial, Evan Dennison, Jimmy, Sorcha, Rianne, Niall, Cerise Mar, Donia, Beira, Tavish, Mitchell Price, Seth (Wicked Lovely), Moira (Wicked Lovely)",
            "synopsis": "\"Rule #3: Don\u0027t stare at invisible faeries.Aislinn has always seen faeries. Powerful and dangerous, they walk hidden in the mortal world. Aislinn fears their cruelty - especially if they learn of her Sight - and wishes she were as blind to their presence as other teens.Rule #2: Don\u0027t speak to invisible faeries.Now faeries are stalking her. One of them, Keenan, who is equal parts terrifying and alluring, is trying to talk to her, asking questions Aislinn is afraid to answer.Rule #1: Don\u0027t ever attract their attention.But it\u0027s too late. Keenan is the Summer King, who has sought his queen for nine centuries. Without her, summer itself will perish. He is determined that Aislinn will become the Summer Queen at any cost — regardless of her plans or desires.Suddenly none of the rules that have kept Aislinn safe are working anymore, and everything is on the line: her freedom; her best friend, Seth; her life; everything.Faery intrigue, mortal love, and the clash of ancient rules and modern expectations swirl together in Melissa Marr\u0027s stunning twenty-first-century faery tale.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1375,
            "title": "P.S. I Love You",
            "author": "Cecelia Ahern",
            "date": "01/05/2005",
            "genres": "Romance, Chick Lit, Fiction, Contemporary, Adult, Contemporary Romance, Love, Adult Fiction, Drama, Ireland",
            "characters": "Holly Kennedy, Frank Kennedy, Jack Kennedy, Gerry Clark, Sharon McCarthy, Denise Hennessey, Daniel Connolly, Elizabeth Kennedy, Ciara Kennedy, Declan Kennedy, Richard Kennedy, John McCarthy, \"\"Tom O\u0027\u0027Connor\"\"",
            "synopsis": "\"A novel about holding on, letting go, and learning to love again.Now in paperback, the endearing novel that captured readers\u0027 hearts and introduced a fresh new voice in women\u0027s fiction Cecelia Ahern. Holly couldn\u0027t live without her husband Gerry, until the day she had to. They were the kind of young couple who could finish each other\u0027s sentences. When Gerry succumbs to a terminal illness and dies, 30-year-old Holly is set adrift, unable to pick up the pieces. But with the help of a series of letters her husband left her before he died and a little nudging from an eccentric assortment of family and friends, she learns to laugh, overcome her fears, and discover a world she never knew existed. The kind of enchanting novel with cross-generational appeal that comes along once in a great while, PS, I Love You is a captivating love letter to the world!\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1376,
            "title": "Queen of Shadows",
            "author": "Sarah J. Maas ",
            "date": "09/01/2015",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Magic, New Adult, Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy, Fae, High Fantasy, Paranormal",
            "characters": "Celaena Sardothien, Chaol Westfall, Rowan Whitethorn, Dorian Havilliard, Aedion Ashryver, Aelin Ashryver Galathynius",
            "synopsis": "\"Everyone Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her. But she’s at last returned to the empire—for vengeance, to rescue her once-glorious kingdom, and to confront the shadows of her past…She has embraced her identity as Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen. But before she can reclaim her throne, she must fight.She will fight for her cousin, a warrior prepared to die for her. She will fight for her friend, a young man trapped in an unspeakable prison. And she will fight for her people, enslaved to a brutal king and awaiting their lost queen’s triumphant return.The fourth volume in the New York Times bestselling series continues Celaena’s epic journey and builds to a passionate, agonizing crescendo that might just shatter her world.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1377,
            "title": "Hunted",
            "author": "P.C. Cast , Kristin Cast ",
            "date": "03/10/2009",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Vampires, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Fiction, Supernatural, Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy, Magic",
            "characters": "Zoey Redbird, Nyx (House of Night), Erik Night, Stevie Rae Johnson, Neferet, Heath Luck, Aphrodite LaFont, Kalona, Sylvia Redbird, Darius Langley",
            "synopsis": "\"What if the hottest guy in the world was hiding a nameless evil, and all he wanted was you? At the start of this heart-pounding new installment of the bestselling House of Night series, Zoey’s friends have her back again and Stevie Rae and the red fledglings aren’t Neferet’s secrets any longer. But an unexpected danger has emerged. Neferet guards her powerful new consort, Kalona, and no one at the House of Night seems to understand the threat he poses. Kalona looks gorgeous, and he has the House of Night under his spell. A past life holds the key to breaking his rapidly spreading influence, but what if this past life shows Zoey secrets she doesn’t want to hear and truths she can’t face?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1378,
            "title": "A Christmas Carol",
            "author": "Charles Dickens, Joe L. Wheeler (Contributor)",
            "date": "09/23/99",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Christmas, Fantasy, Literature, Historical Fiction, Audiobook, Holiday, 19th Century, Classic Literature",
            "characters": "Timothy Cratchit, Bob Cratchit, Jacob Marley, Ebenezer Scrooge",
            "synopsis": "\"\u0027If I had my way, every idiot who goes around with Merry Christmas on his lips, would be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. Merry Christmas? Bah humbug!\u0027Introduction and Afterword by Joe WheelerTo bitter, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, Christmas is just another day. But all that changes when the ghost of his long-dead business partner appears, warning Scrooge to change his ways before it\u0027s too late. Part of the Focus on the Family Great Stories collection, this edition features an in-depth introduction and discussion questions by Joe Wheeler to provide greater understanding for today\u0027s reader. \"\"A Christmas Carol\"\" captures the heart of the holidays like no other novel.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1379,
            "title": "The Last Unicorn",
            "author": "Peter S. Beagle ",
            "date": "07/28/08",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Classics, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, Unicorns, Fairy Tales",
            "characters": "The Last Unicorn, Mommy Fortuna, Schmendrick, Molly Grue, King Haggard, Prince Lír",
            "synopsis": "\"alternate cover editions can be found here, here and hereShe was magical, beautiful beyond belief—and completely alone...The unicorn had lived since before memory in a forest where death could touch nothing. Maidens who caught a glimpse of her glory were blessed by enchantment they would never forget. But outside her wondrous realm, dark whispers and rumours carried a message she could not ignore: \"\"Unicorns are gone from the world.\"\"Aided by a bumbling magician and an indomitable spinster, she set out to learn the truth. but she feared even her immortal wisdom meant nothing in a world where a mad king\u0027s curse and terror incarnate lived only to stalk the last unicorn to her doom...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1380,
            "title": "Little House in the Big Woods",
            "author": "Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams (Illustrator)",
            "date": "01/01/2007",
            "genres": "Classics, Historical Fiction, Childrens, Fiction, Young Adult, Historical, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Family, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Laura Ingalls Wilder, Caroline Quiner Ingalls, Charles Ingalls, Mary Ingalls",
            "synopsis": "\"Based on the real-life adventures of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House in the Big Woods is the first book in the award-winning Little House series, which has captivated generations of readers. This edition features the classic black-and-white artwork from Garth Williams.Little House in the Big Woods takes place in 1871 and introduces us to four-year-old Laura, who lives in a log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods of Wisconsin. She shares the cabin with her Pa, her Ma, her sisters Mary and Carrie, and their lovable dog, Jack.Pioneer life isn’t easy for the Ingalls family, since they must grow or catch all their own food as they get ready for the cold winter. But they make the best of every tough situation. They celebrate Christmas with homemade toys and treats, do their spring planting, bring in the harvest in the fall, and make their first trip into town. And every night, safe and warm in their little house, the sound of Pa’s fiddle lulls Laura and her sisters into sleep.The nine books in the timeless Little House series tell the story of Laura’s real childhood as an American pioneer, and are cherished by readers of all generations. They offer a unique glimpse into life on the American frontier, and tell the heartwarming, unforgettable story of a loving family.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1381,
            "title": "Hyperion",
            "author": "Dan Simmons, Gary Ruddell (Illustrator)",
            "date": "03/28/90",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Space Opera, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Time Travel, Horror, Space, Novels",
            "characters": "Siri, Martin Silenus, Sol Weintraub, Consul, The Shrike, Rachel Weintraub, Brawne Lamia, Fedmahn Kassad, Meina Gladstone, Melio Arundez, Tyrena Wingreen-Feif, A. Bettik, Sad King Billy, Paul Duré, Lenar Hoyt, Het Masteen, Sarai Weintraub, John Keats",
            "synopsis": "\"On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved riddles of their lives. Each carries a desperate hope—and a terrible secret. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1382,
            "title": "No Country for Old Men",
            "author": "Cormac McCarthy",
            "date": "07/11/2006",
            "genres": "Fiction, Thriller, Crime, Westerns, Mystery, Literature, Novels, Classics, Contemporary, American",
            "characters": "Ed Tom Bell, Llewelyn Moss, Anton Chigurh, Carla Jean Moss, Dead Dawg, Carson Wells, Deputy Wendell, Loretta Bell",
            "synopsis": "\"In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, the setting of his famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law–in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell–can contain.As Moss tries to evade his pursuers–in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives–McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines. No Country for Old Men is a triumph.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1383,
            "title": "The Bean Trees",
            "author": "Barbara Kingsolver",
            "date": "03/01/1989",
            "genres": "Fiction, Contemporary, Novels, Literary Fiction, Adult Fiction, Adult, School, Classics, Literature, Realistic Fiction",
            "characters": "Taylor Greer, Turtle Greer, Lou Ann Ruiz, Estevan, Esperanza, Mattie",
            "synopsis": "\"Clear-eyed and spirited, Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away. But when she heads west with high hopes and a barely functional car, she meets the human condition head-on. By the time Taylor arrives in Tucson, Arizona, she has acquired a completely unexpected child, a three-year-old American Indian girl named Turtle, and must somehow come to terms with both motherhood and the necessity for putting down roots. Hers is a story about love and friendship, abandonment and belonging, and the discovery of surprising resources in apparently empty places.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1384,
            "title": "The Raven Boys",
            "author": "Maggie Stiefvater ",
            "date": "09/18/12",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Paranormal, Romance, Fiction, Magic, Urban Fantasy, Audiobook, Supernatural, Young Adult Fantasy",
            "characters": "Blue Sargent, Richard \"\"Dick\"\" Campbell Gansey III, Adam Parrish, Ronan Lynch, Noah (The Raven Cycle)",
            "synopsis": "\"“There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.”It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. He has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.From Maggie Stiefvater, the bestselling and acclaimed author of the Shiver trilogy and The Scorpio Races, comes a spellbinding new series where the inevitability of death and the nature of love lead us to a place we’ve never been before.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1385,
            "title": "The Bad Beginning",
            "author": "Lemony Snicket , Brett Helquist (Illustrator)",
            "date": "09/30/99",
            "genres": "Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Fantasy, Middle Grade, Mystery, Adventure, Audiobook, Humor, Juvenile",
            "characters": "Count Olaf, Klaus Baudelaire, Sunny Baudelaire, Arthur Poe, Violet Baudelaire, Justice Strauss",
            "synopsis": "\"Dear Reader,I\u0027m sorry to say that the book you are holding in your hands is extremely unpleasant. It tells an unhappy tale about three very unlucky children. Even though they are charming and clever, the Baudelaire siblings lead lives filled with misery and woe. From the very first page of this book when the children are at the beach and receive terrible news, continuing on through the entire story, disaster lurks at their heels. One might say they are magnets for misfortune.In this short book alone, the three youngsters encounter a greedy and repulsive villain, itchy clothing, a disastrous fire, a plot to steal their fortune, and cold porridge for breakfast.It is my sad duty to write down these unpleasant tales, but there is nothing stopping you from putting this book down at once and reading something happy, if you prefer that sort of thing.With all due respect,Lemony Snicket\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1386,
            "title": "Cyrano de Bergerac",
            "author": "Edmond Rostand, Eteel Lawson (Introduction), Lowell Bair (Translation)",
            "date": "08/05/2003",
            "genres": "Classics, Plays, Fiction, Drama, France, Romance, Theatre, School, Literature, Historical Fiction",
            "characters": "Cyrano de Bergerac, Roxane, Christian de Neuvillette, Count de Guiche, Ragueneau, Le Bret",
            "synopsis": "\"This is Edmond Rostand\u0027s immortal play in which chivalry and wit, bravery and love are forever captured in the timeless spirit of romance. Set in Louis XIII\u0027s reign, it is the moving and exciting drama of one of the finest swordsmen in France, gallant soldier, brilliant wit, tragic poet-lover with the face of a clown. Rostand\u0027s extraordinary lyric powers gave birth to a universal hero-Cyrano De Bergerac-and ensured his own reputation as author of one of the best-loved plays in the literature of the stage.This translation, by the American poet Brian Hooker, is nearly as famous as the original play itself, and is generally considered to be one of the finest English verse translations ever written.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1387,
            "title": "Speaker for the Dead",
            "author": "Orson Scott Card",
            "date": "08/15/94",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Young Adult, Audiobook, Space, Aliens, Novels, Space Opera",
            "characters": "Andrew Wiggin",
            "synopsis": "\"Now available in mass market, the revised, definitive edition of the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning classic. In this second book in the saga set 3,000 years after the terrible war, Ender Wiggin is reviled by history as the Xenocide-the destroyer of the alien Buggers. Now, Ender tells the true story of the war and seeks to stop history from repeating itself. ...In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War.Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens\u0027 ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery...and the truth.Speaker for the Dead, the second novel in Orson Scott Card\u0027s Ender Quintet, is the winner of the 1986 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1987 Hugo Award for Best Novel.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1388,
            "title": "The Westing Game",
            "author": "Ellen Raskin",
            "date": "04/12/2004",
            "genres": "Mystery, Young Adult, Fiction, Middle Grade, Childrens, Classics, School, Mystery Thriller, Juvenile, Realistic Fiction",
            "characters": "Samuel W. Westing, Turtle Wexler, Flora Baumbach, Christos Theodorakis, Denton Deere, J.J. Ford, Alexander McSouthers, Grace Wexler, James Hoo, Berthe Erica Crowe, Otis Amber, Douglas Hoo, Theo Theodorakis, Sydelle Pulaski, Angela Wexler, Sandy Hoo, Jake Wexler",
            "synopsis": "\"A bizarre chain of events begins when sixteen unlikely people gather for the reading of Samuel W. Westing\u0027s will. And though no one knows why the eccentric, game-loving millionaire has chosen a virtual stranger—and a possible murderer—to inherit his vast fortune, one thing\u0027s for sure: Sam Westing may be dead ... but that won\u0027t stop him from playing one last game!\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1389,
            "title": "Interpreter of Maladies",
            "author": "Jhumpa Lahiri",
            "date": "05/22/00",
            "genres": "Short Stories, Fiction, India, Contemporary, Literature, Literary Fiction, Indian Literature, Asia, Adult Fiction, Adult",
            "characters": "Dev, Elliot, Miranda, Shobha, Lilia, Shukumar, Mr. Pirzada, Mr. Das, Mrs. Das, Mr. Kapasi, Boori Maa, Mrs. Dalal, Laxmi, Mrs. Sen, Sanjeev, Twinkle",
            "synopsis": "\"Librarian\u0027s note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereNavigating between the Indian traditions they\u0027ve inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri\u0027s elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In \"\"A Temporary Matter,\"\" published in The New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple faces the heartbreak of a stillborn birth while their Boston neighborhood copes with a nightly blackout. In the title story, an interpreter guides an American family through the India of their ancestors and hears an astonishing confession. Lahiri writes with deft cultural insight reminiscent of Anita Desai and a nuanced depth that recalls Mavis Gallant.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1390,
            "title": "The Red Pyramid",
            "author": "Rick Riordan ",
            "date": "05/04/2010",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Mythology, Middle Grade, Adventure, Fiction, Childrens, Magic, Urban Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy",
            "characters": "Bast, Isis, Anubis, Osiris, Horus (God), Carter Kane, Sadie Kane, Zia Rashid, Thoth, Khufu, Sekhmet, Julius Kane, Geb, Nut, Set, Nephthys, Serket, Sobek (Death Comes as the End), Shu, Nekhbet, Apophis, Philip II of Macedon (The albino crocodile)",
            "synopsis": "\"Since his mother\u0027s death six years ago, Carter Kane has been living out of a suitcase, traveling the globe with his father, the brilliant Egyptologist, Dr. Julius Kane. But while Carter\u0027s been homeschooled, his younger sister, Sadie, has been living with their grandparents in London. Sadie has just what Carter wants—school friends and a chance at a \"\"normal\"\" life. But Carter has just what Sadie longs for—time with their father. After six years of living apart, the siblings have almost nothing in common. Until now.On Christmas Eve, Sadie and Carter are reunited when their father brings them to the British Museum, with a promise that he\u0027s going to \"\"make things right.\"\" But all does not go according to plan: Carter and Sadie watch as Julius summons a mysterious figure, who quickly banishes their father and causes a fiery explosion.Soon Carter and Sadie discover that the gods of Ancient Egypt are waking, and the worst of them—Set—has a frightening scheme. To save their father, they must embark on a dangerous journey—a quest that brings them ever closer to the truth about their family and its links to the House of Life, a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1391,
            "title": "The Goldfinch",
            "author": "Donna Tartt",
            "date": "10/22/13",
            "genres": "Fiction, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Audiobook, Art, Adult, Novels, Adult Fiction, Mystery, Literature",
            "characters": "Boris Pavlikovsky (The Goldfinch), Theo Decker, Pippa, Hobie",
            "synopsis": "\"It begins with a boy. Theo Decker, a thirteen-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don\u0027t know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his unbearable longing for his mother, he clings to one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art.As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love-and at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.The Goldfinch combines vivid characters, mesmerizing language, and suspense, while plumbing with a philosopher\u0027s calm the deepest mysteries of love, identity, and art. It is an old-fashioned story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention, and the ruthless machinations of fate.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1392,
            "title": "Julius Caesar",
            "author": "William Shakespeare, Roma Gill",
            "date": "10/17/02",
            "genres": "Classics, Plays, Fiction, Drama, School, Historical Fiction, Literature, Read For School, Theatre, High School",
            "characters": "Gaius Cassius Longinus, Brutus, Calpurnia (wife of Caesar), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, Marcus Antonius, Augustus, Julius Caesar, Portia Catonis, Marcus Tullius Cicero",
            "synopsis": "\"The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the greatest playwright in the English language. This exclusive collection of the Bard\u0027s best works has been designed specifically for readers new to Shakespeare\u0027s rich literary legacy. Each play is presented complete and unabridged, in large print. Every book is well illustrated, and starts with a commentary and character summary. Scene synopses and character summaries clarify confusing plots, while incisive essays explore the historical context and Shakespeare\u0027s sources. Each book ends with a complete list of Shakespeare\u0027s plays and a brief chronology of the Bard\u0027s life. The detailed explanatory notes are written clearly and positioned right next to the text-no more squinting at microscopic footnotes or flipping pages back and forth in search of endnotes! The new edition of the series features new covers and new illustrations, including both new drawings and photos from recent productions of Shakespeare\u0027s plays around the globe. In addition, the notes and the introductory material have been completely revised in line with new research and in order to make them clearer and more accessible. Finally, the entire text has been redesigned and reset to enhance readability. The new edition achieves the feat of unprecedented clarity of presentation without any cuts to the original text or the detailed explanations.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1393,
            "title": "Anne of Avonlea",
            "author": "L.M. Montgomery",
            "date": "10/06/1997",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Childrens, Historical, Romance, Canada, Audiobook, Middle Grade",
            "characters": "Marilla Cuthbert, Diana Barry, Gilbert Blythe, Rachel Lynde, Anne Shirley, Davy Keith, Dora Keith, Paul Irving, Stephen Irving, Lavender Lewis, J. A. Harrison, Jane Andrews, Charlotta the Fourth, Anthony Pye",
            "synopsis": "\"At sixteen, Anne is grown up...almost. Her gray eyes shine like evening stars, but her red hair is still as peppery as her temper. In the years since she arrived at Green Gables as a freckle-faced orphan, she has earned the love of the people of Avonlea and a reputation for getting into scrapes. But when Anne begins her job as the new schoolteacher, the real test of her character begins. Along with teaching the three Rs, she is learning how complicated life can be when she meddles in someone else\u0027s romance, finds two new orphans at Green Gables, and wonders about the strange behaviour of the very handsome Gilbert Blythe. As Anne enters womanhood, her adventures touch the heart and the funny bone.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1394,
            "title": "A Dog\u0027s Purpose",
            "author": "W. Bruce Cameron ",
            "date": "07/28/10",
            "genres": "Fiction, Animals, Dogs, Contemporary, Adult, Fantasy, Audiobook, Adult Fiction, Humor, Young Adult",
            "characters": "Ethan, Bailey, Heather",
            "synopsis": "\"This is the remarkable story of one endearing dog\u0027s search for his purpose over the course of several lives. More than just another charming dog story, this touches on the universal quest for an answer to life\u0027s most basic question: Why are we here? Surprised to find himself reborn as a rambunctious golden haired puppy after a tragically short life as a stray mutt, Bailey\u0027s search for his new life\u0027s meaning leads him into the loving arms of 8 year old Ethan. During their countless adventures Bailey joyously discovers how to be a good dog. But this life as a beloved family pet is not the end of Bailey\u0027s journey. Reborn as a puppy yet again, Bailey wonders, will he ever find his purpose? Heartwarming, insightful, and often laugh out loud funny, this book is not only the emotional and hilarious story of a dog\u0027s many lives, but also a dog\u0027s eye commentary on human relationships and the unbreakable bonds between man and man\u0027s best friend. This story teaches us that love never dies, that our true friends are always with us, and that every creature on earth is born with a purpose.-front flap\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1395,
            "title": "Peace Like a River",
            "author": "Leif Enger",
            "date": "08/07/2002",
            "genres": "Fiction, Historical Fiction, Book Club, Adult Fiction, Adult, Literary Fiction, Novels, Contemporary, Coming Of Age, Family",
            "characters": "Rube Land, Swede Land, Davy Land, Jeremiah Land",
            "synopsis": "\"Once in a great while, we encounter a novel in our voluminous reading that begs to be read aloud. Leif Enger\u0027s debut, Peace Like a River, is one such work. His richly evocative novel, narrated by an asthmatic 11-year-old named Reuben Land, is the story of Reuben\u0027s unusual family and their journey across the frozen Badlands of the Dakotas in search of his fugitive older brother. Charged with the murder of two locals who terrorized their family, Davy has fled, understanding that the scales of justice will not weigh in his favor. But Reuben, his father, Jeremiah—a man of faith so deep he has been known to produce miracles—and Reuben\u0027s little sister, Swede, follow closely behind the fleeing Davy.Affecting and dynamic, Peace Like a River is at once a tragedy, a romance, and an unflagging exploration into the spirituality and magic possible in the everyday world, and in that of the world awaiting us on the other side of life. In Enger\u0027s superb debut effort, we witness a wondrous celebration of family, faith, and spirit, the likes of which we haven\u0027t seen in a long, long time—and the birth of a classic work of literature.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1396,
            "title": "We Need to Talk About Kevin",
            "author": "Lionel Shriver ",
            "date": "07/03/2006",
            "genres": "Fiction, Contemporary, Thriller, Horror, Crime, Drama, Adult, Literary Fiction, Psychology, Book Club",
            "characters": "Eva Khatchadourian, Kevin Khatchadourian, Franklin Plaskett, Celia Khatchadourian",
            "synopsis": "\" The gripping international bestseller about motherhood gone awry.Eva never really wanted to be a mother - and certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher who tried to befriend him, all two days before his sixteenth birthday. Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with marriage, career, family, parenthood, and Kevin\u0027s horrific rampage in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her estranged husband, Franklin. Uneasy with the sacrifices and social demotion of motherhood from the start, Eva fears that her alarming dislike for her own son may be responsible for driving him so nihilistically off the rails. \""
          },
          {
            "id": 1397,
            "title": "A Monster Calls",
            "author": "Patrick Ness",
            "date": "05/07/2015",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Horror, Contemporary, Middle Grade, Magical Realism, Childrens, Death, Paranormal",
            "characters": "\"\"Conor O\u0027\u0027Malley\"\"",
            "synopsis": "\"The bestselling novel about love, loss and hope from the twice Carnegie Medal-winning Patrick Ness. Conor has the same dream every night, ever since his mother first fell ill, ever since she started the treatments that don\u0027t quite seem to be working. But tonight is different. Tonight, when he wakes, there\u0027s a visitor at his window. It\u0027s ancient, elemental, a force of nature. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor. It wants the truth. Patrick Ness takes the final idea of the late, award-winning writer Siobhan Dowd and weaves an extraordinary and heartbreaking tale of mischief, healing and above all, the courage it takes to survive.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1398,
            "title": "The Wasp Factory",
            "author": "Iain Banks",
            "date": "10/28/98",
            "genres": "Fiction, Horror, Thriller, Mystery, Contemporary, Dark, Drama, Suspense, Novels, Classics",
            "characters": "Frank Cauldhame, Eric Cauldhame, Angus Cauldhame, Mrs Clamp, Diggs",
            "synopsis": "\"Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his father outside a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least, unconventional. Frank\u0027s mother abandoned them years ago: his elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital; and his father measures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale. Frank has turned to strange acts of violence to vent his frustrations. In the bizarre daily rituals there is some solace. But when news comes of Eric\u0027s escape from the hospital Frank has to prepare the ground for his brother\u0027s inevitable return - an event that explodes the mysteries of the past and changes Frank utterly.The Wasp Factory is a work of horrifying compulsion: horrifying, because it enters a mind whose realities are not our own, whose values of life and death are alien to our society; compulsive, because the humour and compassion of that mind reach out to us all. A novel of extraordinary originality, imagination and comic ferocity.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1399,
            "title": "Poison Study",
            "author": "Maria V. Snyder ",
            "date": "03/01/2007",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Magic, Fiction, Paranormal, High Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy, Adventure, New Adult",
            "characters": "Valek, Maren, Commander Ambrose, Janco, Yelena Zaltana, Ari, Rand, General Brazell",
            "synopsis": "\"Choose: A quick death… or slow poison...About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. She\u0027ll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace—and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia.And so Yelena chooses to become a food taster. But the chief of security, leaving nothing to chance, deliberately feeds her Butterfly\u0027s Dust—and only by appearing for her daily antidote will she delay an agonizing death from the poison.As Yelena tries to escape her new dilemma, disasters keep mounting. Rebels plot to seize Ixia and Yelena develops magical powers she can\u0027t control. Her life is threatened again and choices must be made. But this time the outcomes aren\u0027t so clear...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1400,
            "title": "The Two Towers",
            "author": "J.R.R. Tolkien, Peter S. Beagle  (Introduction)",
            "date": "09/05/2003",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Classics, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Novels, Literature, Magic",
            "characters": "Frodo Baggins, Meriadoc Brandybuck, Peregrin Took, Gandalf, Aragorn, Gimli, Boromir, Bilbo Baggins, Eriol, Rúmil, Treebeard, Saruman, Éowyn, Éomer, Elrond Half-elven, Arwen Undómiel, Galadriel, Faramir, Gollum, Legolas, Sam Gamgee",
            "synopsis": "\"The Fellowship was scattered. Some were bracing hopelessly for war against the ancient evil of Sauron. Some were contending with the treachery of the wizard Saruman. Only Frodo and Sam were left to take the accursed Ring of Power to be destroyed in Mordor–the dark Kingdom where Sauron was supreme. Their guide was Gollum, deceitful and lust-filled, slave to the corruption of the Ring. Thus continues the magnificent, bestselling tale of adventure begun in The Fellowship of the Ring, which reaches its soul-stirring climax in The Return of the King.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1401,
            "title": "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich",
            "author": "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, H.T. Willetts (Translation)",
            "date": "03/16/05",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Russia, Historical Fiction, Russian Literature, Literature, Novels, Historical, 20th Century, School",
            "characters": "Ivan Denisovich Shukhov",
            "synopsis": "\"The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literature. The story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, it graphically describes his struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. An unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin\u0027s forced work camps, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is one of the most extraordinary literary documents to have emerged from the Soviet Union and confirms Solzhenitsyn\u0027s stature as \"\"a literary genius whose talent matches that of Dosotevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy\"\"-Harrison SalisburyThis unexpurgated 1991 translation by H. T. Willetts is the only authorized edition available, and fully captures the power and beauty of the original Russian.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1402,
            "title": "The Queen of the Damned",
            "author": "Anne Rice",
            "date": "11/29/97",
            "genres": "Horror, Fantasy, Vampires, Fiction, Paranormal, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy, Gothic, Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy",
            "characters": "Lestat de Lioncourt, Gabrielle de Lioncourt, Maharet, Akasha, Enkil, Mael, Khayman, Jesse Miriam Reeves, Marius de Romanus, Daniel Molloy, Louis de Pointe du Lac, Armand",
            "synopsis": "\"Librarian\u0027s note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereIn 1976, a uniquely seductive world of vampires was unveiled in the now-classic Interview with the Vampire . . . in 1985, a wild and voluptous voice spoke to us, telling the story of The Vampire Lestat.  In The Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice continues her extraordinary \"\"Vampire Chronicles\"\" in a feat of mesmeric storytelling, a chillingly hypnotic entertainment in which the oldest and most powerful forces of the night are unleashed on an unsuspecting world.Three brilliantly colored narrative threads intertwine as the story unfolds:- The rock star known as Vampire Lestat, worshipped by millions of spellbound fans, prepares for a concert in San Francisco.  Among the audience-pilgrims in a blind swoon of adoration-are hundreds of vampires, creatures who see Lestat as a \"\"greedy fiend risking the secret prosperity of all his kind just to be loved and seen by mortals,\"\" fiends themselves who hate Lestat\u0027s power and who are determined to destroy him . . . - The sleep of certain men and women-vampires and mortals scattered around the world-is haunted by a vivid, mysterious dream: of twins with fiery red hair and piercing green eyes who suffer an unspeakable tragedy.  It is a dream that slowly, tauntingly reveals its meaning to the dreamers as they make their way toward each other-some to be destroyed on the journey, some to face an even more terrifying fate at journey\u0027s end . . . - Akasha-Queen of the Damned, mother of all vampires, rises after a 6,000 year sleep and puts into motion a heinous plan to \"\"save\"\" mankind from itself and make \"\"all myths of the world real\"\" by elevating herself and her chosen son/lover to the level of the gods: \"\"I am the fulfillment and I shall from this moment be the cause\"\" . . . These narrative threads wind sinuously across a vast, richly detailed tapestry of the violent, sensual world of vampirism, taking us back 6,000 years to its beginnings.  As the stories of the \"\"first brood\"\" of blood drinkers are revealed, we are swept across the ages, from Egypt to South America to the Himalayas to all the shrouded corners of the globe where vampires have left their mark. Vampires are created-mortals succumbing to the sensation of \"\"being enptied, of being devoured, of being nothing.\"\" Vampires are destroyed.  Dark rituals are performed-the rituals of ancient creatures prowling the modern world.  And, finally, we are brought to a moment in the twentieth century when, in an astonishing climax, the fate of the living dead-and perhaps of the living, all the living-will be decided.From the Hardcover edition.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1403,
            "title": "Left Behind",
            "author": "Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins",
            "date": "09/01/2000",
            "genres": "Fiction, Christian, Christian Fiction, Religion, Fantasy, Thriller, Christianity, Science Fiction, Apocalyptic, Spirituality",
            "characters": "The Anti-Christ, Nicolae Carpathia, Rayford Steele, Cameron \"\"Buck\"\" Williams, Bruce Barnes",
            "synopsis": "\"An airborne Boeing 747 is headed to London when, without any warning, passengers mysteriously disappear from their seats. Terror and chaos slowly spread not only through the plane but also worldwide as unusual events continue to unfold. For those who have been left behind, the apocalypse has just begun...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1404,
            "title": "The Eyre Affair",
            "author": "Jasper Fforde ",
            "date": "02/25/03",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Humor, Science Fiction, Books About Books, Time Travel, Alternate History, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adult",
            "characters": "Thursday Next, Jane Eyre, Acheron Hades, Jack Schitt, Landen Parke-Laine, Pickwick, Emma, Lady Hamilton, \"\"Thursday\u0027\u0027s Dad (name unknown)\"\", Braxton Hicks, Mrs. Nakajima, Joffy Next, Polly Next, Wednesday Next, Spike Stoker, Mycroft Next, Edward Rochester",
            "synopsis": "\"Great Britain circa 1985: time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. Baconians are trying to convince the world that Francis Bacon really wrote Shakespeare, there are riots between the Surrealists and Impressionists, and thousands of men are named John Milton, an homage to the real Milton and a very confusing situation for the police. Amidst all this, Acheron Hades, Third Most Wanted Man In the World, steals the original manuscript of Martin Chuzzlewit and kills a minor character, who then disappears from every volume of the novel ever printed! But that\u0027s just a prelude . . .Hades\u0027 real target is the beloved Jane Eyre, and it\u0027s not long before he plucks her from the pages of Bronte\u0027s novel. Enter Thursday Next. She\u0027s the Special Operative\u0027s renowned literary detective, and she drives a Porsche. With the help of her uncle Mycroft\u0027s Prose Portal, Thursday enters the novel to rescue Jane Eyre from this heinous act of literary homicide. It\u0027s tricky business, all these interlopers running about Thornfield, and deceptions run rampant as their paths cross with Jane, Rochester, and Miss Fairfax. Can Thursday save Jane Eyre and Bronte\u0027s masterpiece? And what of the Crimean War? Will it ever end? And what about those annoying black holes that pop up now and again, sucking things into time-space voids . . .Suspenseful and outlandish, absorbing and fun, The Eyre Affair is a caper unlike any other and an introduction to the imagination of a most distinctive writer and his singular fictional universe.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1405,
            "title": "Inheritance",
            "author": "Christopher Paolini ",
            "date": "11/08/2011",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Dragons, Fiction, Magic, Adventure, High Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy",
            "characters": "Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle), Saphira (The Inheritance Cycle), Glaedr (The Inheritance Cycle), Roran Garrowsson, Sloan (The Inheritance Cycle), Katrina (The Inheritance Cycle), Elva (The Inheritance Cycle), Arya (The Inheritance Cycle), Orik (The Inheritance Cycle), Murtagh (The Inheritance Cycle), Solembum, Nasuada, Galbatorix, Blödhgarm, King Orrin, Angela the Herbalist",
            "synopsis": "\"It began with Eragon... It ends with Inheritance.Not so very long ago, Eragon — Shadeslayer, Dragon Rider — was nothing more than a poor farm boy, and his dragon, Saphira, only a blue stone in the forest. Now the fate of an entire civilization rests on their shoulders.Long months of training and battle have brought victories and hope, but they have also brought heartbreaking loss. And still, the real battle lies ahead: they must confront Galbatorix. When they do, they will have to be strong enough to defeat him. And if they cannot, no one can. There will be no second chance.The Rider and his dragon have come further than anyone dared to hope. But can they topple the evil king and restore justice to Alagaësia? And if so, at what cost?This is the spellbinding conclusion to Christopher Paolini\u0027s worldwide bestselling Inheritance cycle.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1406,
            "title": "Before I Fall",
            "author": "Lauren Oliver ",
            "date": "10/25/10",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Realistic Fiction, Teen, Paranormal, Death, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Kent McFuller, Ally Harris, Samantha Kingston, Lindsay Edgecombe, Elody, Juliet Sykes, Izzy Kingston, Rob Cokran",
            "synopsis": "\"For popular high school senior Samantha Kingston, February 12—\"\"Cupid Day\"\"—should be one big party, a day of valentines and roses and the privileges that come with being at the top of the social pyramid. And it is … until she dies in a terrible accident that night.However, she still wakes up the next morning. In fact, Sam lives the last day of her life seven times, until she realizes that by making even the slightest changes, she may hold more power than she ever imagined.Before I Fall is now a major motion picture Zoey Deutch, Halston Sage, and Kian Lawley. Named to numerous state reading lists, the novel was also recognized as a Best Book of the Year by Amazon.com, Barnes \u0026 Noble, The Daily Beast, NPR, and Publishers Weekly.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1407,
            "title": "The Talisman",
            "author": "Stephen King , Peter Straub ",
            "date": "09/15/01",
            "genres": "Horror, Fantasy, Fiction, Thriller, Adventure, Mystery, Supernatural, Audiobook, Paranormal, Science Fiction",
            "characters": "Jack Sawyer",
            "synopsis": "\"On a brisk autumn day, a twelve-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: his father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is about to change. For he has been chosen to make a journey back across America-and into another realm.One of the most influential and heralded works of fantasy ever written, The Talisman is an extraordinary novel of loyalty, awakening, terror, and mystery. Jack Sawyer, on a desperate quest to save his mother\u0027s life, must search for a prize across an epic landscape of innocents and monsters, of incredible dangers and even more incredible truths. The prize is essential, but the journey means even more. Let the quest begin. . . .\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1408,
            "title": "Where She Went",
            "author": "Gayle Forman ",
            "date": "04/05/2011",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Music, New Adult, Teen, Audiobook, Young Adult Contemporary",
            "characters": "Teddy Hall, Kim Schein, Adam Wilde, Mia Hall",
            "synopsis": "\"It\u0027s been three years since the devastating accident... three years since Mia walked out of Adam\u0027s life forever.Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Juilliard\u0027s rising star and Adam is LA tabloid fodder, thanks to his new rock star status and celebrity girlfriend. When Adam gets stuck in New York by himself, chance brings the couple together again, for one last night. As they explore the city that has become Mia\u0027s home, Adam and Mia revisit the past and open their hearts to the future - and each other.Told from Adam\u0027s point of view in the spare, lyrical prose that defined If I Stay, Where She Went explores the devastation of grief, the promise of new hope, and the flame of rekindled romance.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1409,
            "title": "Prince Caspian",
            "author": "C.S. Lewis",
            "date": "06/20/05",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Classics, Young Adult, Childrens, Adventure, Christian, Middle Grade, Christian Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy",
            "characters": "Aslan, Lucy Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie, Prince Caspian, Trumpkin, Peter Pevensie, Susan Pevensie, Reepicheep, Bacchus (god), Silenus, Nikabrik, King Miraz, Dr. Cornelius, Trufflehunter",
            "synopsis": "\"The four Pevensies help Caspian battle Miraz and ascend his rightful throneNARNIA... the land between the lamp-post and the castle of Cair Paravel, where animals talk, where magical things happen... and where the adventure begins.Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy are returning to boarding school when they are summoned from the dreary train station (by Susan\u0027s own magic horn) to return to the land of Narnia—the land where they had ruled as kings and queens and where their help is desperately needed.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1410,
            "title": "The Memory Keeper\u0027s Daughter",
            "author": "Kim Edwards ",
            "date": "05/30/06",
            "genres": "Fiction, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Adult, Historical Fiction, Book Club, Drama, Chick Lit, Novels, Family",
            "characters": "Phoebe, Al, Dr. David Henry, Norah Henry, Bree, Paul Henry",
            "synopsis": "\"On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Down\u0027s Syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split-second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret. But Caroline, the nurse, cannot leave the infant. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child herself. So begins this story that unfolds over a quarter of a century - in which these two families, ignorant of each other, are yet bound by the fateful decision made that long-ago winter night. Norah Henry, who knows only that her daughter died at birth, remains inconsolable; her grief weighs heavily on their marriage. And Paul, their son, raises himself as best he can, in a house grown cold with mourning. Meanwhile, Phoebe, the lost daughter, grows from a sunny child to a vibrant young woman whose mother loves her as fiercely as if she were her own.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1411,
            "title": "The Knife of Never Letting Go",
            "author": "Patrick Ness",
            "date": "07/22/14",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Adventure, Teen, Audiobook, Thriller, Post Apocalyptic",
            "characters": "Ben, Aaron, Hildy, Todd Hewitt, Viola Eade, Mayor Prentiss, Cillian, Manchee (Dog), Davy Prentiss, Jr.",
            "synopsis": "\"Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men think, and they hear everything he thinks. Todd is just a month away from becoming a man, but in the midst of the cacophony, he knows that the town is hiding something from him - something so awful Todd is forced to flee with only his dog, whose simple, loyal voice he hears too. With hostile men from the town in pursuit, the two stumble upon a strange and eerily silent creature: a girl. Who is she? Why wasn\u0027t she killed by the germ like all the females on New World? Propelled by Todd\u0027s gritty narration, readers are in for a white-knuckle journey in which a boy on the cusp of manhood must unlearn everything he knows in order to figure out who he truly is.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1412,
            "title": "Shadowfever",
            "author": "Karen Marie Moning ",
            "date": "01/18/11",
            "genres": "Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Paranormal Romance, Fae, Adult, Fiction, Magic, Supernatural",
            "characters": "MacKayla Lane, Rowena, \"\"Dani O\u0027\u0027Malley\"\", Jericho Barrons, \"\"V\u0027\u0027lane\"\", Christian MacKeltar, Inspector Jayne, Ryodan, Queen Aoibheal, Darroc, Cruce, Lor",
            "synopsis": "\"“Evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it’s good.” — MacKayla Lane was just a child when she and her sister, Alina, were given up for adoption and banished from Ireland forever. — Twenty years later, Alina is dead and Mac has returned to the country that expelled them to hunt her sister’s murderer. But after discovering that she descends from a bloodline both gifted and cursed, Mac is plunged into a secret history: an ancient conflict between humans and immortals who have lived concealed among us for thousands of years.What follows is a shocking chain of events with devastating consequences, and now Mac struggles to cope with grief while continuing her mission to acquire and control the Sinsar Dubh - a book of dark, forbidden magic scribed by the mythical Unseelie King, containing the power to create and destroy worlds.In an epic battle between humans and Fae, the hunter becomes the hunted when the Sinsar Dubh turns on Mac and begins mowing a deadly path through those she loves.Who can she turn to? Who can she trust? Who is the woman haunting her dreams? More important, who is Mac herself and what is the destiny she glimpses in the black and crimson designs of an ancient tarot card?From the luxury of the Lord Master’s penthouse to the sordid depths of an Unseelie nightclub, from the erotic bed of her lover to the terrifying bed of the Unseelie King, Mac’s journey will force her to face the truth of her exile, and to make a choice that will either save the world . . . or destroy it.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1413,
            "title": "Gone",
            "author": "Michael Grant ",
            "date": "06/24/08",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Paranormal, Romance, Adventure, Supernatural, Teen",
            "characters": "Sam Temple, Astrid Ellison, Caine Soren, Diana Ladris, Drake Merwin, Quinn Gaither, Lana Lazar, Little Pete",
            "synopsis": "\"In the blink of an eye, everyone disappears. Gone. Except for the young.There are teens, but not one single adult. Just as suddenly, there are no phones, no internet, no television. No way to get help. And no way to figure out what\u0027s happened.Hunger threatens. Bullies rule. A sinister creature lurks. Animals are mutating. And the teens themselves are changing, developing new talents—unimaginable, dangerous, deadly powers—that grow stronger by the day. It\u0027s a terrifying new world. Sides are being chosen, a fight is shaping up. Townies against rich kids. Bullies against the weak. Powerful against powerless. And time is running out: On your 15th birthday, you disappear just like everyone else...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1414,
            "title": "Native Son",
            "author": "Richard Wright",
            "date": "08/02/2005",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, African American, Literature, Race, Novels, School, American, Banned Books",
            "characters": "Bigger Thomas, Mary Dalton, Mrs. Dalton, Henry Dalton, Jan Erlone, Boris Max, Mrs. Thomas, Buddy Thomas, Vera Thomas",
            "synopsis": "\"Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic.Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright\u0027s powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1415,
            "title": "The Killer Angels",
            "author": "Michael Shaara",
            "date": "08/12/1987",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Civil War, War, Historical, Military Fiction, Classics, American History, American Civil War, School",
            "characters": "Robert E. Lee, George Pickett, James Longstreet, Joshua Chamberlain",
            "synopsis": "\"In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation\u0027s history, two armies fought for two dreams. One dreamed of freedom, the other of a way of life. Far more than rifles and bullets were carried into battle. There were memories. There were promises. There was love. And far more than men fell on those Pennsylvania fields. Shattered futures, forgotten innocence, and crippled beauty were also the casualties of war. The Killer Angels is unique, sweeping, unforgettable—a dramatic re-creation of the battleground for America\u0027s destiny.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1416,
            "title": "Foucault\u0027s Pendulum",
            "author": "Umberto Eco, William Weaver (Translator)",
            "date": "03/05/2007",
            "genres": "Fiction, Mystery, Historical Fiction, Literature, Classics, Italian Literature, Thriller, Novels, Italy, Philosophy",
            "characters": "Jacopo Belbo, Diotallevi, Casaubon, Signor Casaubon, Belbo, Dr. Diotallevi, Aglie, Sergei Witte, Elie de Cyon, Mary Lena, Hugues de Champagne, Artois, Gabriel Naudé, de Maistre, Theo Fox, Dufy, Abbé Barruel, Monsieur Rodin, Philippe Nizier Anselme Vachot, Péladan, Justine Glinka, Leo Fox",
            "synopsis": "\"Foucault\u0027s Pendulum is divided into ten segments represented by the ten Sefiroth. The novel is full of esoteric references to the Kabbalah. The title of the book refers to an actual pendulum designed by the French physicist Léon Foucault to demonstrate the rotation of the earth, which has symbolic significance within the novel.Bored with their work, and after reading too many manuscripts about occult conspiracy theories, three vanity publisher employees (Belbo, Diotallevi and Casaubon) invent their own conspiracy for fun. They call this satirical intellectual game \"\"The Plan,\"\" a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlled—a point located in Paris, France, at Foucault’s Pendulum. But in a fateful turn the joke becomes all too real.The three become increasingly obsessed with The Plan, and sometimes forget that it\u0027s just a game. Worse still, other conspiracy theorists learn about The Plan, and take it seriously. Belbo finds himself the target of a real secret society that believes he possesses the key to the lost treasure of the Knights Templar.Orchestrating these and other diverse characters into his multilayered semioticadventure, Eco has created a superb cerebral entertainment.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1417,
            "title": "The Scorch Trials",
            "author": "James Dashner ",
            "date": "10/12/2010",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Post Apocalyptic, Teen, Audiobook, Mystery",
            "characters": "Brenda (Maze Runner), Teresa Agnes, Minho, Thomas, Newt, Aris Jones, Jorge",
            "synopsis": "Solving the Maze was supposed to be the end.    Thomas was sure that escape from the Maze would mean freedom for him and the Gladers. But WICKED isn’t done yet. Phase Two has just begun. The Scorch.   There are no rules. There is no help. You either make it or you die.   The Gladers have two weeks to cross through the Scorch—the most burned-out section of the world. And WICKED has made sure to adjust the variables and stack the odds against them.   Friendships will be tested. Loyalties will be broken. All bets are off.    There are others now. Their survival depends on the Gladers’ destruction—and they’re determined to survive."
          },
          {
            "id": 1418,
            "title": "Darkfever",
            "author": "Karen Marie Moning ",
            "date": "10/31/06",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Paranormal Romance, Fae, Adult, Fiction, Supernatural, Vampires",
            "characters": "MacKayla Lane, Rowena, Jericho Barrons, \"\"V\u0027\u0027lane\"\", Lord Master, Malluce",
            "synopsis": "\"\"\"My name is MacKayla, Mac for short. I\u0027m a sidhe-seer, one who sees the Fae, a fact I accepted only recently and very reluctantly.My philosophy is pretty simple - any day nobody\u0027s trying to kill me is a good day in my book. I haven\u0027t had many good days lately. Not since the walls between Man and Fae came down. But then, there\u0027s not a sidhe-seer alive who\u0027s had a good day since then.\"\"When MacKayla\u0027s sister was murdered, she left a single clue to her death, a cryptic message on Mac\u0027s cell phone. Journeying to Ireland in search of answers, Mac is soon faced with an even greater challenge: staying alive long enough to master a power she had no idea she possessed - a gift that allows her to see beyond the world of man, into the dangerous realm of the Fae.As Mac delves deeper into the mystery of her sister\u0027s death, her every move is shadowed by the dark, mysterious Jericho...while at the same time, the ruthless V\u0027lane - an alpha Fae who makes sex an addiction for human women - closes in on her. As the boundary between worlds begins to crumble, Mac\u0027s true mission becomes clear: to find the elusive Sinsar Dubh before someone else claims the all-powerful Dark Book - because whoever gets to it first holds nothing less than complete control both worlds in their hands.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1419,
            "title": "The History of Love",
            "author": "Nicole Krauss",
            "date": "05/17/06",
            "genres": "Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Novels, Literary Fiction, Book Club, Adult Fiction, Adult, Love",
            "characters": "Alma Singer, Leo Gursky, Zvi Litvinoff",
            "synopsis": "\"An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found hereFourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother\u0027s loneliness. Believing she might discover it in an old book her mother is lovingly translating, she sets out in search of its author. Across New York an old man called Leo Gursky is trying to survive a little bit longer. He spends his days dreaming of the lost love who, sixty years ago in Poland, inspired him to write a book. And although he doesn\u0027t know it yet, that book also survived: crossing oceans and generations, and changing lives...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1420,
            "title": "Pretties",
            "author": "Scott Westerfeld ",
            "date": "11/01/2005",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, Teen, Adventure, Post Apocalyptic, Science Fiction Fantasy",
            "characters": "David Strorm, Tally Youngblood, Shay, Dr. Cable, Andrew Simpson Smith, Peris, Zane (Uglies)",
            "synopsis": "\"Gorgeous. Popular. Perfect.Perfectly wrong.Tally has finally become pretty. Now her looks are beyond perfect, her clothes are awesome, her boyfriend is totally hot, and she\u0027s completely popular. It\u0027s everything she\u0027s ever wanted.But beneath all the fun - the nonstop parties, the high-tech luxury, the total freedom - is a nagging sense that something\u0027s wrong. Something important. Then a message from Tally\u0027s ugly past arrives. Reading it, Tally remembers what\u0027s wrong with pretty life, and the fun stops cold.Now she has to choose between fighting to forget what she knows and fighting for her life - because the authorities don\u0027t intend to let anyone with this information survive.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1421,
            "title": "The Bourne Identity",
            "author": "Robert Ludlum",
            "date": "03/24/05",
            "genres": "Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Espionage, Adventure, Action, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Novels",
            "characters": "Jason Bourne, Marie St. Jacques",
            "synopsis": "\"Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereWho is Jason Bourne? Is he an assassin, a terrorist, a thief? Why has he got four million dollars in a Swiss bank account? Why has someone tried to murder him?...Jason Bourne does not know the answer to any of these questions. Suffering from amnesia, he does not even know that he is Jason Bourne. What manner of man is he? What are his secrets? Who has he killed?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1422,
            "title": "Words of Radiance",
            "author": "Brandon Sanderson ",
            "date": "03/04/2014",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Audiobook, Magic, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic, Adult, Adventure",
            "characters": "Kaladin Stormblessed, Dalinar Kholin, Shallan Davar, Jasnah Kholin, Eshonai, Adolin Kholin, Hoid, Lift",
            "synopsis": "\"Words of Radiance, Book Two of the Stormlight Archive, continues the immersive fantasy epic that The Way of Kings began.Expected by his enemies to die the miserable death of a military slave, Kaladin survived to be given command of the royal bodyguards, a controversial first for a low-status \"\"darkeyes.\"\" Now he must protect the king and Dalinar from every common peril as well as the distinctly uncommon threat of the Assassin, all while secretly struggling to master remarkable new powers that are somehow linked to his honorspren, Syl.The Assassin, Szeth, is active again, murdering rulers all over the world of Roshar, using his baffling powers to thwart every bodyguard and elude all pursuers. Among his prime targets is Highprince Dalinar, widely considered the power behind the Alethi throne. His leading role in the war would seem reason enough, but the Assassin\u0027s master has much deeper motives.Brilliant but troubled Shallan strives along a parallel path. Despite being broken in ways she refuses to acknowledge, she bears a terrible burden: to somehow prevent the return of the legendary Voidbringers and the civilization-ending Desolation that will follow. The secrets she needs can be found at the Shattered Plains, but just arriving there proves more difficult than she could have imagined.Meanwhile, at the heart of the Shattered Plains, the Parshendi are making an epochal decision. Hard pressed by years of Alethi attacks, their numbers ever shrinking, they are convinced by their war leader, Eshonai, to risk everything on a desperate gamble with the very supernatural forces they once fled. The possible consequences for Parshendi and humans alike, indeed, for Roshar itself, are as dangerous as they are incalculable.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1423,
            "title": "Possession",
            "author": "A.S. Byatt",
            "date": "10/01/1991",
            "genres": "Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance, Classics, Mystery, Historical, Literary Fiction, Literature, British Literature, Poetry",
            "characters": "Maud Bailey, Roland Michell, Christabel LaMotte, Randolph Henry Ash, Leonora Stern, Mortimer Cropper, James Blackadder, Beatrice Nest, Val, Euan MacIntyre, Ellen Ash, Blanche Glover, Sabine de Kerkoz",
            "synopsis": "\"Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets. As they uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire—from spiritualist séances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany—what emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of passions and ideas.Man Booker Prize Winner (1990)\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1424,
            "title": "Gravity\u0027s Rainbow",
            "author": "Thomas Pynchon",
            "date": "10/31/06",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Science Fiction, Literature, Historical Fiction, Novels, American, War, Unfinished, 20th Century",
            "characters": "Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop, Pig Bodine",
            "synopsis": "\"Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity\u0027s Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the 20th century as Joyce\u0027s Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative, and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1425,
            "title": "I Am Legend and Other Stories",
            "author": "Richard Matheson",
            "date": "09/15/97",
            "genres": "Horror, Fiction, Science Fiction, Vampires, Short Stories, Fantasy, Post Apocalyptic, Classics, Dystopia, Zombies",
            "characters": "Robert Neville",
            "synopsis": "\"Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth...but he is not alone. Every other man, woman, and child on Earth has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville\u0027s blood.By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn.How long can one man survive in a world of vampires?I am legend -Buried talents -The near departed -Prey -Witch war -Dance of the dead -Dress of white silk -Mad house -The funeral -From shadowed places -Person to person.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1426,
            "title": "Oedipus Rex",
            "author": "Sophocles, J.E. Thomas (Translator)",
            "date": "06/22/06",
            "genres": "Classics, Plays, Fiction, Drama, School, Mythology, Read For School, Theatre, Literature, High School",
            "characters": "Oedipus, Tiresias, Creon, Jocasta (Greek Mythology), Sphinx (Greek mythology)",
            "synopsis": "\"\"\"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?\"\"Sophocles\u0027 Oedipus Rex has never been surpassed for the raw and terrible power with which its hero struggles to answer the eternal question, \"\"Who am I?\"\" The play, a story of a king who acting entirely in ignorance kills his father and marries his mother, unfolds with shattering power; we are helplessly carried along with Oedipus towards the final, horrific truth. To make Oedipus more accessible for the modern reader, our Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Classics includes a glossary of the more difficult words, as well as convenient sidebar notes to enlighten the reader on aspects that may be confusing or overlooked. We hope that the reader may, through this edition, more fully enjoy the beauty of the verse, the wisdom of the insights, and the impact of the drama.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1427,
            "title": "Scarlet",
            "author": "Marissa Meyer ",
            "date": "02/05/2013",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Dystopia, Retellings, Fiction, Fairy Tales, Audiobook, Adventure",
            "characters": "Linh Cinder, Queen Levana, Scarlet Benoit, Ze’ev \"\"Wolf\"\" Kesley, Emperor Kai, Ran Kesley, Carswell Thorne, Iko, Aimery Park, Linh Adri, Linh Pearl, Michelle Benoit",
            "synopsis": "\"Cinder returns in the second thrilling installment of the New York Times-bestselling Lunar Chronicles.She’s trying to break out of prison—even though if she succeeds, she’ll be the Commonwealth’s most wanted fugitive. Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit’s grandmother is missing. It turns out there are many things Scarlet doesn’t know about her grandmother and the grave danger she has lived in her whole life. When Scarlet encounters Wolf, a street fighter who may have information as to her grandmother’s whereabouts, she has no choice but to trust him, though he clearly has a few dark secrets of his own. As Scarlet and Wolf work to unravel one mystery, they find another when they cross paths with Cinder. Together, they must stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen who will do anything to make Prince Kai her husband, her king, her prisoner.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1428,
            "title": "Alanna: The First Adventure",
            "author": "Tamora Pierce ",
            "date": "01/01/2005",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Magic, Adventure, Young Adult Fantasy, High Fantasy, Middle Grade, Childrens, Teen",
            "characters": "Alanna of Trebond, Thom of Trebond, Coram Smythesson, George Cooper, Jonathan of Conte, Raoul of Goldenlake, Gareth of Naxen the Second (Gary), Alex of Tirrigan, Duke Roger of Conte",
            "synopsis": "\"From now on I\u0027m Alan of Trebond, the younger twin. I\u0027ll be a knight.And so young Alanna of Trebond begins the journey to knighthood. Though a girl, Alanna has always craved the adventure and daring allowed only for boys; her twin brother, Thom, yearns to learn the art of magic. So one day they decide to switch places: Thom heads for the convent to learn magic; Alanna, pretending to be a boy, is on her way to the castle of King Roald to begin her training as a page.  But the road to knighthood is not an easy one. As Alanna masters the skills necessary for battle, she must also learn to control her heart and to discern her enemies from her allies.Filled with swords and sorcery, adventure and intrigue, good and evil, Alanna\u0027s first adventure begins - one that will lead to the fulfillment of her dreams and the magical destiny that will make her a legend in her land.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1429,
            "title": "House of Sand and Fog",
            "author": "Andre Dubus III",
            "date": "10/02/2018",
            "genres": "Fiction, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Adult Fiction, Novels, Literature, Book Club, Adult, Drama, Suspense",
            "characters": "Colonel Behrani, Kathy Nicolo, Sheriff Lester Burdon",
            "synopsis": "\"In this “page-turner with a beating heart” (Boston Globe), a recovering alcoholic and addict down on her luck struggles to hold on to her home in California. But this becomes contested territory when a recent immigrant from the Middle East—a former colonel in the Iranian Air Force—becomes determined to restore his family’s dignity through buying the house. When the woman’s lover, a married cop, intervenes, he goes to extremes to win her love. Andre Dubus III’s unforgettable characters—people with ordinary flaws, looking for a small piece of ground to stand on—careen toward inevitable conflict. An “affecting, subtle portrait of two hostile but equally fragile camps” (The New Yorker), their tragedy paints a shockingly true picture of the country we still live in today, two decades after this book’s first publication.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1430,
            "title": "John Adams",
            "author": "David McCullough",
            "date": "05/22/01",
            "genres": "History, Biography, Nonfiction, American History, Presidents, Politics, Historical, Biography Memoir, American Revolution, Audiobook",
            "characters": "John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Dickinson, Abigail Adams, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson",
            "synopsis": "\"The enthralling, often surprising story of John Adams, one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived.In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot - \"\"the colossus of independence,\"\" as Thomas Jefferson called him - who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second President of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war; who was learned beyond all but a few and regarded by some as \"\"out of his senses\"\"; and whose marriage to the wise and valiant Abigail Adams is one of the moving love stories in American history. Like his masterly, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Truman, David McCullough\u0027s John Adams has the sweep and vitality of a great novel. It is both a riveting portrait of an abundantly human man and a vivid evocation of his time, much of it drawn from an outstanding collection of Adams family letters and diaries. In particular, the more than one thousand surviving letters between John and Abigail Adams, nearly half of which have never been published, provide extraordinary access to their private lives and make it possible to know John Adams as no other major American of his founding era. As he has with stunning effect in his previous books, McCullough tells the story from within - from the point of view of the amazing eighteenth century and of those who, caught up in events, had no sure way of knowing how things would turn out. George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, the British spy Edward Bancroft, Madame Lafayette and Jefferson\u0027s Paris \"\"interest\"\" Maria Cosway, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, the scandalmonger James Callender, Sally Hemings, John Marshall, Talleyrand, and Aaron Burr all figure in this panoramic chronicle, as does, importantly, John Quincy Adams, the adored son whom Adams would live to see become President. Crucial to the story, as it was to history, is the relationship between Adams and Jefferson, born opposites - one a Massachusetts farmer\u0027s son, the other a Virginia aristocrat and slaveholder, one short and stout, the other tall and spare. Adams embraced conflict; Jefferson avoided it. Adams had great humor; Jefferson, very little. But they were alike in their devotion to their country. At first they were ardent co-revolutionaries, then fellow diplomats and close friends. With the advent of the two political parties, they became archrivals, even enemies, in the intense struggle for the presidency in 1800, perhaps the most vicious election in history. Then, amazingly, they became friends again, and ultimately, incredibly, they died on the same day - their day of days - July 4, in the year 1826. Much about John Adams\u0027s life will come as a surprise to many readers. His courageous voyage on the frigate Boston in the winter of 1778 and his later trek over the Pyrenees are exploits that few would have dared and that few readers will ever forget. It is a life encompassing a huge arc - Adams lived longer than any president. The story ranges from the Boston Massacre to Philadelphia in 1776 to the Versailles of Louis XVI, from Spain to Amsterdam, from the Court of St. James\u0027s, where Adams was the first American to stand before King George III as a representative of the new nation, to the raw, half-finished Capital by the Potomac, where Adams was the first President to occupy the White House. This is history on a grand scale - a book about politics and war and social issues, but also about human nature, love, religious faith, virtue, ambition, friendship and betrayal, and the far-reaching consequences of noble ideas. Above all, John Adams is an enthralling, often surprising story of one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1431,
            "title": "One for the Money",
            "author": "Janet Evanovich ",
            "date": "10/28/06",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Humor, Chick Lit, Romance, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Contemporary, Adult, Comedy",
            "characters": "Ranger (Rangeman CEO), Lula, Grandma Mazur, Jimmy Alpha, Joe Morelli, Stephanie Plum",
            "synopsis": "\"You\u0027ve lost your job as a department store lingerie buyer, your car\u0027s been repossessed, and most of your furniture and small appliances have been sold off to pay last month\u0027s rent. Now the rent is due again. And you live in New Jersey. What do you do?If you\u0027re Stephanie Plum, you become a bounty hunter. But not just a nickel-and-dime bounty hunter; you go after the big money. That means a cop gone bad. And not just any cop. She goes after Joe Morelli, a disgraced former vice cop who is also the man who took Stephanie\u0027s virginity at age 16 and then wrote details on a bathroom wall. With pride and rent money on the line, Plum plunges headlong into her first case, one that pits her against ruthless adversaries - people who\u0027d rather kill than lose.In Stephanie Plum, Evanovich has created a resourceful and humorous character who stands apart from the pack of gritty female detectives.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1432,
            "title": "The Song of Achilles",
            "author": "Madeline Miller ",
            "date": "09/20/11",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Mythology, LGBT, Romance, Historical, Retellings, Audiobook, Adult",
            "characters": "Achilles (Greek hero), Peleus, Patroclus, Thetis (mythology)",
            "synopsis": "\"Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. By all rights their paths should never cross, but Achilles takes the shamed prince as his friend, and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine their bond blossoms into something deeper - despite the displeasure of Achilles\u0027 mother Thetis, a cruel sea goddess. But then word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped. Torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus journeys with Achilles to Troy, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they hold dear.Profoundly moving and breathtakingly original, this rendering of the epic Trojan War is a dazzling feat of the imagination, a devastating love story, and an almighty battle between gods and kings, peace and glory, immortal fame and the human heart.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1433,
            "title": "Champion",
            "author": "Marie Lu ",
            "date": "11/05/2013",
            "genres": "Dystopia, Young Adult, Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Adventure, Action, Audiobook, Teen",
            "characters": "June Iparis, Daniel Altan Wing",
            "synopsis": "\"He is a Legend.She is a Prodigy.Who will be Champion?  June and Day have sacrificed so much for the people of the Republic—and each other—and now their country is on the brink of a new existence. June is back in the good graces of the Republic, working within the government’s elite circles as Princeps-Elect, while Day has been assigned a high-level military position. But neither could have predicted the circumstances that will reunite them: just when a peace treaty is imminent, a plague outbreak causes panic in the Colonies, and war threatens the Republic’s border cities. This new strain of plague is deadlier than ever, and June is the only one who knows the key to her country’s defense. But saving the lives of thousands will mean asking the one she loves to give up everything. With heart-pounding action and suspense, Marie Lu’s bestselling trilogy draws to a stunning conclusion.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1434,
            "title": "The Haunting of Hill House",
            "author": "Shirley Jackson, Laura Miller (Introduction)",
            "date": "11/28/06",
            "genres": "Horror, Classics, Fiction, Gothic, Mystery, Paranormal, Audiobook, Ghosts, Thriller, Supernatural",
            "characters": "Dr. John Montague, Eleanor Vance, Theodora (The Haunting of Hill House), Luke Sanderson, Mrs. Montague, Arthur Parker (The Haunting of Hill House), Mrs. Dudley",
            "synopsis": "\"It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a \"\"haunting\"\"; Theodora, the lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1435,
            "title": "Assassin\u0027s Apprentice",
            "author": "Robin Hobb ",
            "date": "03/01/1996",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Magic, Adventure, Adult, Audiobook, Young Adult",
            "characters": "Verity Farseer, The Fool, Sean Galen, FitzChivalry Farseer, Burrich, Lady Patience, Shrewd, Chade Fallstar, Regal Farseer, Nighteyes, Kettricken",
            "synopsis": "\"In a faraway land where members of the royal family are named for the virtues they embody, one young boy will become a walking enigma.Born on the wrong side of the sheets, Fitz, son of Chivalry Farseer, is a royal bastard, cast out into the world, friendless and lonely. Only his magical link with animals - the old art known as the Wit - gives him solace and companionship. But the Wit, if used too often, is a perilous magic, and one abhorred by the nobility.So when Fitz is finally adopted into the royal household, he must give up his old ways and embrace a new life of weaponry, scribing, courtly manners; and how to kill a man secretly, as he trains to become a royal assassin.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1436,
            "title": "1Q84",
            "author": "Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin (Translator), Philip Gabriel (Translator)",
            "date": "10/25/11",
            "genres": "Fiction, Fantasy, Magical Realism, Japan, Science Fiction, Japanese Literature, Contemporary, Literature, Novels, Dystopia",
            "characters": "Aomame Masami, Tengo Kawana, Fuka-Eri, Komatsu",
            "synopsis": "\"The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that bears a question.” Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unraveled. As Aomame’s and Tengo’s narratives converge over the course of this single year, we learn of the profound and tangled connections that bind them ever closer: a beautiful, dyslexic teenage girl with a unique vision; a mysterious religious cult that instigated a shoot-out with the metropolitan police; a reclusive, wealthy dowager who runs a shelter for abused women; a hideously ugly private investigator; a mild-mannered yet ruthlessly efficient bodyguard; and a peculiarly insistent television-fee collector.A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell’s — 1Q84 is Haruki Murakami’s most ambitious undertaking yet: an instant best seller in his native Japan, and a tremendous feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1437,
            "title": "The Magus",
            "author": "John Fowles",
            "date": "01/04/2001",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Mystery, Literature, Novels, Literary Fiction, Greece, British Literature, Contemporary",
            "characters": "Nicholas Urfe, Alison Kelly, Maurice Conchis, Julie Holmes, June Holmes, Lily de Seitas, Joe Harrison, Sandy Mitford, Demetriades, Joan Kemp, John Leverrier, John Briggs",
            "synopsis": "\"This daring literary thriller, rich with eroticism and suspense, is one of John Fowles\u0027s best-loved and bestselling novels and has contributed significantly to his international reputation as a writer of the first degree. At the center of The Magus is Nicholas Urfe, a young Englishman who accepts a teaching position on a remote Greek island, where he befriends a local millionaire. The friendship soon evolves into a deadly game, in which reality and fantasy are deliberately manipulated, and Nicholas finds that he must fight not only for his sanity but for his very survival.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1438,
            "title": "Oryx and Crake",
            "author": "Margaret Atwood ",
            "date": "03/30/04",
            "genres": "Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Post Apocalyptic, Fantasy, Canada, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Novels",
            "characters": "Snowman, Oryx, Crake",
            "synopsis": "\"Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey–with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake–through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride. Margaret Atwood projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1439,
            "title": "Tempted",
            "author": "P.C. Cast , Kristin Cast ",
            "date": "10/23/09",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Vampires, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy, Magic",
            "characters": "Zoey Redbird, Dragon, Nyx (House of Night), Erik Night, Stevie Rae Johnson, Neferet, Heath Luck, Aphrodite LaFont, Kalona, Sylvia Redbird, Erin Bates, Shaunee Cole, Damien Maslin, James Stark, Jack Twist, Rephaim, Darius Langley",
            "synopsis": "\"So…you’d think after banishing an immortal being and a fallen High Priestess, saving Stark’s life, biting Heath, getting a headache from Erik, and almost dying, Zoey Redbird would catch a break. Sadly, a break is not in the House of Night school forecast for the High Priestess in training and her gang.Juggling three guys is anything but a stress reliever, especially when one of them is a sexy Warrior who is so into protecting Zoey that he can sense her emotions. Speaking of stress, the dark force lurking in the tunnels under the Tulsa Depot is spreading, and Zoey is beginning to believe Stevie Rae could be responsible for a lot more than a group of misfit red fledglings. Aphrodite’s visions warn Zoey to stay away from Kalona and his dark allure, but they also show that it is Zoey who has the power to stop the evil immortal.Soon it becomes obvious that Zoey has no choice: if she doesn’t go to Kalona he will exact a fiery vengeance on those closest to her. Will Zoey have the courage to chance losing her life, her heart, and her soul?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1440,
            "title": "Cress",
            "author": "Marissa Meyer ",
            "date": "02/04/2014",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Retellings, Dystopia, Fiction, Fairy Tales, Audiobook, Adventure",
            "characters": "Princess Winter, Linh Cinder, Queen Levana, Scarlet Benoit, Ze’ev \"\"Wolf\"\" Kesley, Emperor Kai, Carswell Thorne, Iko, Crescent Moon \"\"Cress\"\" Darnel, Jacin Clay, Dr. Dmitri Erland, Sybil Mira, Aimery Park, Linh Adri",
            "synopsis": "\"In this third book in the Lunar Chronicles, Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, now with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they\u0027re plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and her army.Their best hope lies with Cress, a girl imprisoned on a satellite since childhood who\u0027s only ever had her netscreens as company. All that screen time has made Cress an excellent hacker. Unfortunately, she\u0027s just received orders from Levana to track down Cinder and her handsome accomplice.When a daring rescue of Cress goes awry, the group is separated. Cress finally has her freedom, but it comes at a higher price. Meanwhile, Queen Levana will let nothing prevent her marriage to Emperor Kai. Cress, Scarlet, and Cinder may not have signed up to save the world, but they may be the only hope the world has.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1441,
            "title": "Inferno",
            "author": "Dan Brown ",
            "date": "05/14/13",
            "genres": "Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Historical Fiction, Adventure, Novels, Crime, Adult",
            "characters": "Robert Langdon, Sienna Brooks, Laurence Knowlton, Christoph Brüder, Elizabeth Sinskey, Bertrand Zobrist, Jonathan Ferris",
            "synopsis": "\"Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon awakens in an Italian hospital, disoriented and with no recollection of the past thirty-six hours, including the origin of the macabre object hidden in his belongings. With a relentless female assassin trailing them through Florence, he and his resourceful doctor, Sienna Brooks, are forced to flee. Embarking on a harrowing journey, they must unravel a series of codes, which are the work of a brilliant scientist whose obsession with the end of the world is matched only by his passion for one of the most influential masterpieces ever written, Dante Alighieri\u0027s The Inferno.  Dan Brown has raised the bar yet again, combining classical Italian art, history, and literature with cutting-edge science in this sumptuously entertaining thriller.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1442,
            "title": "A Breath of Snow and Ashes",
            "author": "Diana Gabaldon ",
            "date": "08/29/06",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Romance, Fiction, Fantasy, Time Travel, Historical, Historical Romance, Audiobook, Adult, Adventure",
            "characters": "Jamie Fraser, Brianna Randall, Roger MacKenzie, Jeremiah MacKenzie, Fergus Fraser, Marsali Fraser, Germain Fraser, Malva Christie, Tom Christie, Lord John Grey, Jocasta Cameron, Duncan Innes, Claire Randall Fraser, Stephen Bonnet, Young Ian Murray, William Ransom, Lizzie Wemyss, Jo Beardsley, Kezzie Beardsley",
            "synopsis": "\"A Breath of Snow and Ashes continues the extraordinary story of 18th-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his 20th-century wife, Claire.The year is 1772, and on the eve of the American Revolution, the long fuse of rebellion has already been lit. Men lie dead in the streets of Boston, and in the backwoods of North Carolina, isolated cabins burn in the forest.With chaos brewing, the governor calls upon Jamie Fraser to unite the backcountry and safeguard the colony for King and Crown. But from his wife Jamie knows that three years hence the shot heard round the world will be fired, and the result will be independence — with those loyal to the King either dead or in exile. And there is also the matter of a tiny clipping from The Wilmington Gazette, dated 1776, which reports Jamie’s death, along with his kin. For once, he hopes, his time-traveling family may be wrong about the future.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1443,
            "title": "Night Watch",
            "author": "Terry Pratchett",
            "date": "10/27/11",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Comedy, Time Travel, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Audiobook, Novels, High Fantasy",
            "characters": "Nobby Nobbs, Carrot Ironfoundersson, Sam Vimes, Young Sam Vimes, Havelock Vetinari, Sybil Deidre Olgivanna Ramkin, DEATH, Cheery Littlebottom, Reg Shoe, Detritus, Monks of History, Buggy Swires, Fred Colon, Lu-Tze, John Keel",
            "synopsis": "\"\u0027Don\u0027t put your trust in revolutions. They always come round again. That\u0027s why they\u0027re called revolutions. People die, and nothing changes.\u0027For a policeman, there can be few things worse than a serial killer at loose in your city. Except, perhaps, a serial killer who targets coppers, and a city on the brink of bloody revolution. The people have found their voice at last, the flags and barricades are rising...And the question for a policeman, an officer of the law, a defender of the peace, is:Are you with them, or are you against them?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1444,
            "title": "Veronika Decides to Die",
            "author": "Paulo Coelho , Margaret Jull Costa (Translator), Kâmuran Şipal (Translator)",
            "date": "06/01/2006",
            "genres": "Fiction, Contemporary, Philosophy, Novels, Psychology, Romance, Drama, Mental Health, Literature, Spirituality",
            "characters": "Boston \"\"Mari\"\" Maribu, Athena (Greek goddess), Veronika, Eduard, Dr. Igor, Zedka",
            "synopsis": "\"In his latest international bestseller, the celebrated author of The Alchemist addresses the fundamental questions asked by millions: What am I doing here today? and Why do I go on living?Twenty-four-year-old Veronika seems to have everything she could wish for: youth and beauty, plenty of attractive boyfriends, a fulfilling job, and a loving family. Yet something is lacking in her life. Inside her is a void so deep that nothing could possibly ever fill it. So, on the morning of November 11, 1997, Veronika decides to die. She takes a handful of sleeping pills expecting never to wake up.Naturally Veronika is stunned when she does wake up at Villete, a local mental hospital, where the staff informs her that she has, in fact, partially succeeded in achieving her goal. While the overdose didn\u0027t kill Veronika immediately, the medication has damaged her heart so severely that she has only days to live.The story follows Veronika through the intense week of self-discovery that ensues. To her surprise, Veronika finds herself drawn to the confinement of Villete and its patients, who, each in his or her individual way, reflect the heart of human experience. In the heightened state of life\u0027s final moments, Veronika discovers things she has never really allowed herself to feel before: hatred, fear, curiosity, love, and sexual awakening. She finds that every second of her existence is a choice between living and dying, and at the eleventh hour emerges more open to life than ever before.In Veronika Decides to Die, Paulo Coelho takes the reader on a distinctly modern quest to find meaning in a culture overshadowed by angst, soulless routine, and pervasive conformity. Based on events in Coelho\u0027s own life, Veronika Decides to Die questions the meaning of madness and celebrates individuals who do not fit into patterns society considers to be normal. Poignant and illuminating, it is a dazzling portrait of a young woman at the crossroads of despair and liberation, and a poetic, exuberant appreciation of each day as a renewed opportunity.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1445,
            "title": "Prodigal Summer",
            "author": "Barbara Kingsolver",
            "date": "10/16/01",
            "genres": "Fiction, Contemporary, Nature, Novels, Literary Fiction, Adult, Adult Fiction, Literature, Environment, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Deanna Wolfe, Eddie Bondo, Lusa Maluf Landowski, Garnett Walker, Nannie Rawley",
            "synopsis": "\"Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia.From her outpost in an isolated mountain cabin, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region. She is caught off-guard by a young hunter who invades her most private spaces and confounds her self-assured, solitary life. On a farm several miles down the mountain, Lusa Maluf Landowski, a bookish city girl turned farmer\u0027s wife, finds herself unexpectedly marooned in a strange place where she must declare or lose her attachment to the land that has become her own. And a few more miles down the road, a pair of elderly feuding neighbors tend their respective farms and wrangle about God, pesticides, and the possibilities of a future neither of them expected.Over the course of one humid summer, these characters find their connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with whom they share a place. Prodigal Summer demonstrates a balance of narrative, drama and ideas that is characteristic of Barbara Kingsolver\u0027s finest work.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1446,
            "title": "Corelli\u0027s Mandolin",
            "author": "Louis de Bernières",
            "date": "08/29/95",
            "genres": "Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance, Classics, War, Historical, Greece, World War II, Novels, Literature",
            "characters": "Pelagia, Antonio Corelli, Mandras, Dr Iannis",
            "synopsis": "\"Captain Corelli’s Mandolin is set in the early days of the second world war, before Benito Mussolini invaded Greece. Dr Iannis practices medicine on the island of Cephalonia, accompanied by his daughter, Pelagia, to whom he imparts much of his healing art. Even when the Italians do invade, life isn’t so bad—at first anyway. The officer in command of the Italian garrison is the cultured Captain Antonio Corelli, who responds to a Nazi greeting of “Heil Hitler” with his own “Heil Puccini”, and whose most precious possession is his mandolin. It isn\u0027t long before Corelli and Pelagia are involved in a heated affair-despite her engagement to a young fisherman, Mandras, who has gone off to join Greek partisans. Love is complicated enough in wartime, even when the lovers are on the same side. And for Corelli and Pelagia, it becomes increasingly difficult to negotiate the minefield of allegiances, both personal and political, as all around them atrocities mount, former friends become enemies and the ugliness of war infects everyone it touches. British author Louis de Bernières is well known for his forays into magical realism in such novels as The War of Don Emmanuel\u0027s Nether Parts, Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord and The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman. Here he keeps it to a minimum, though certainly the secondary characters with whom he populates his island—the drunken priest, the strongman, the fisherman who swims with dolphins—would be at home in any of his wildly imaginative Latin American fictions. Instead, de Bernières seems interested in dissecting the nature of history as he tells his ever-darkening tale from many different perspectives. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin works on many levels, as a love story, a war story and a deconstruction of just what determines the facts that make it into the history books.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1447,
            "title": "I\u0027d Tell You I Love You, But Then I\u0027d Have to Kill You",
            "author": "Ally Carter ",
            "date": "05/01/2006",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Romance, Mystery, Contemporary, Fiction, Espionage, Chick Lit, Adventure, Teen, Realistic Fiction",
            "characters": "Liz Sutton, Macey McHenry, Josh Abram, Rebecca \"\"Bex\"\" Baxter, Kim Lee, Tina Walters, Cammie Morgan",
            "synopsis": "\"Cammie Morgan is a student at the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women, a fairly typical all-girls school—that is, if every school taught advanced martial arts in PE and the latest in chemical warfare in science, and students received extra credit for breaking CIA codes in computer class. The Gallagher Academy might claim to be a school for geniuses, but it\u0027s really a school for spies. Even though Cammie is fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man in seven different ways, she has no idea what to do when she meets an ordinary boy who thinks she\u0027s an ordinary girl. Sure, she can tap his phone, hack into his computer, or track him through town with the skill of a real \"\"pavement artist\"\"—but can she maneuver a relationship with someone who can never know the truth about her? Cammie Morgan may be an elite spy-in-training, but in her sophomore year, she\u0027s on her most dangerous mission—falling in love.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1448,
            "title": "The Fiery Cross",
            "author": "Diana Gabaldon , Janos Farkas (translator)",
            "date": "08/30/05",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Romance, Fiction, Fantasy, Time Travel, Historical, Historical Romance, Audiobook, Adult, Adventure",
            "characters": "Jamie Fraser, Brianna Randall, Roger MacKenzie, Jeremiah MacKenzie, Fergus Fraser, Marsali Fraser, Germain Fraser, Jocasta Cameron, Duncan Innes, Claire Randall Fraser, Stephen Bonnet, Young Ian Murray",
            "synopsis": "\"The year is 1771, and war is coming. Jamie Fraser’s wife tells him so. Little as he wishes to, he must believe it, for hers is a gift of dreadful prophecy—a time-traveler’s certain knowledge. Claire’s unique view of the future has brought him both danger and deliverance in the past; her knowledge of the oncoming revolution is a flickering torch that may light his way through the perilous years ahead—or ignite a conflagration that will leave their lives in ashes.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1449,
            "title": "The Magic Mountain",
            "author": "Thomas Mann, John E. Woods (Translator)",
            "date": "10/28/96",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, German Literature, Literature, Philosophy, Novels, Germany, 20th Century, Nobel Prize, Literary Fiction",
            "characters": "Hans Castorp, Ludovico Settembrini, Joachim Ziemssen, Hermine Kleefeld, Clavdia Chauchat, Pieter Peeperkorn",
            "synopsis": "\"In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devoted exclusively to sickness, as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting the first symptoms of its own terminal irrationality. The Magic Mountain is a monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, a book that pulses with life in the midst of death.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1450,
            "title": "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants",
            "author": "Ann Brashares",
            "date": "09/11/2001",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Fiction, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Romance, Teen, Realistic Fiction, Childrens, Coming Of Age, Young Adult Contemporary",
            "characters": "Bridget Vreeland, Tibby Rollins, Carmen Lowell, Lena Kaligaris, Effie Kaligaris, Duncan Howe, Al Lowell, Eric Richman, Kostos Dounas",
            "synopsis": "\"Carmen got the jeans at a thrift shop. They didn’t look all that great: they were worn, dirty, and speckled with bleach. On the night before she and her friends part for the summer, Carmen decides to toss them. But Tibby says they’re great. She\u0027d love to have them. Lena and Bridget also think they’re fabulous. Lena decides that they should all try them on. Whoever they fit best will get them. Nobody knows why, but the pants fit everyone perfectly. Even Carmen (who never thinks she looks good in anything) thinks she looks good in the pants. Over a few bags of cheese puffs, they decide to form a sisterhood and take the vow of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants . . . the next morning, they say good-bye. And then the journey of the pants — and the most memorable summer of their lives — begins.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1451,
            "title": "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler",
            "author": "E.L. Konigsburg",
            "date": "06/02/2003",
            "genres": "Fiction, Childrens, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Mystery, Classics, Realistic Fiction, Adventure, Juvenile, School",
            "characters": "Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Claudia Kincaid, James Kincaid",
            "synopsis": "\"When suburban Claudia Kincaid decides to run away, she knows she doesn’t just want to run from somewhere, she wants to run to somewhere — to a place that is comfortable, beautiful, and, preferably, elegant. She chooses the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Knowing her younger brother Jamie has money and thus can help her with a serious cash-flow problem, she invites him along.Once settled into the museum, Claudia and Jamie find themselves caught up in the mystery of an angel statue that the museum purchased at auction for a bargain price of $225. The statue is possibly an early work of the Renaissance master, Michelangelo, and therefore worth millions. Is it? Or isn’t it? Claudia is determined to find out. Her quest leads her to Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, the remarkable old woman who sold the statue, and to some equally remarkable discoveries about herself.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1452,
            "title": "The Elegance of the Hedgehog",
            "author": "Muriel Barbery, Alison Anderson  (Translator)",
            "date": "09/02/2008",
            "genres": "Fiction, France, Contemporary, Philosophy, Book Club, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Adult Fiction, Adult",
            "characters": "Renée Michel, Paloma Josse, Kakuro Ozu",
            "synopsis": "\"A moving, funny, triumphant novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us.We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. Renée, the concierge, is witness to the lavish but vacuous lives of her numerous employers. Outwardly she conforms to every stereotype of the concierge: fat, cantankerous, addicted to television. Yet, unbeknownst to her employers, Renée is a cultured autodidact who adores art, philosophy, music, and Japanese culture. With humor and intelligence she scrutinizes the lives of the building\u0027s tenants, who for their part are barely aware of her existence. Then there\u0027s Paloma, a twelve-year-old genius. She is the daughter of a tedious parliamentarian, a talented and startlingly lucid child who has decided to end her life on the sixteenth of June, her thirteenth birthday. Until then she will continue behaving as everyone expects her to behave: a mediocre pre-teen high on adolescent subculture, a good but not an outstanding student, an obedient if obstinate daughter. Paloma and Renée hide both their true talents and their finest qualities from a world they suspect cannot or will not appreciate them. They discover their kindred souls when a wealthy Japanese man named Ozu arrives in the building. Only he is able to gain Paloma\u0027s trust and to see through Renée\u0027s timeworn disguise to the secret that haunts her. This is a moving, funny, triumphant novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1453,
            "title": "The Big Sleep",
            "author": "Raymond Chandler",
            "date": "07/12/1988",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Classics, Crime, Noir, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Thriller, Novels, American",
            "characters": "Philip Marlowe, Vivian Regan, Carmen Sternwood, General Guy Sternwood, Eddie Mars, Rusty Regan, Arthur Gwynn Geiger, Owen Taylor, Agnes Lozelle, Joe Brody, Harry Jones, Mona Mars, Carol Lundgren, Lash Camino, Bernie Ohls",
            "synopsis": "\"Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid....He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. This is the Code of the Private Eye as defined by Raymond Chandler in his 1944 essay \u0027The Simple Act of Murder.\u0027 Such a man was Philip Marlowe, private eye, an educated, heroic, streetwise, rugged individualist and the hero of Chandler\u0027s first novel, The Big Sleep. This work established Chandler as the master of the \u0027hard-boiled\u0027 detective novel, and his articulate and literary style of writing won him a large audience, which ranged from the man in the street to the most sophisticated intellectual.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1454,
            "title": "Message in a Bottle",
            "author": "Nicholas Sparks ",
            "date": "12/01/1999",
            "genres": "Romance, Fiction, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Adult, Adult Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Love, Drama, Novels",
            "characters": "Theresa Osborne, Garrett Blake",
            "synopsis": "\"Shimmering with suspense and emotional intensity - takes readers on a hunt for the truth about a man and his memories, and about both the heartbreaking fragility and enormous strength of love.Nicholas Sparks is our very best chronicler of the human heart. His stunning first novel, The Notebook, has been given by friend to friend and lover to lover all over the world as a testament to the timeless power of love. But if we thought he could never again move us so deeply, he now shows us he can-in a story that renews our faith in destiny...in the ability of true lovers to find each other no matter where, no matter when... Message In A Bottle Thrown to the waves, and to fate, the bottle could have ended up anywhere. Instead, it is found just three weeks after it begins its journey. Theresa Osborne, divorced and the mother of a twelve-year-old son, picks it up during a seaside vacation from her job as a Boston newspaper columnist. Inside is a letter that opens with: My Dearest Catherine, I miss you my darling, as I always do, but today is particularly hard because the ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together... For \"\"Garrett,\"\" the man who signs the letter, the message is the only way he knows to express his undying love for a woman he has lost. For Theresa, wary of romance since her husband shattered her trust, the message raises questions that intrigue her. Who are Garrett and Catherine? Where is he now? What is his story? Challenged by the mystery, and pulled to find Garrett by emotions she does not fully understand, Theresa begins a search that takes her to a sunlit coastal town and an unexpected confrontation. Brought together by chance-or something more powerful-Theresa and Garrett are people whose lives are about to touch for a purpose, in a tale that resonates with our deepest hopes for finding that special someone and everlasting love. Shimmering with suspense and emotional intensity, Message in a Bottle takes readers on a hunt for the truth about a man and his memories, and about both the heartbreaking fragility and enormous strength of love. For those who cherished The Notebook and readers waiting to discover the magic of Nicholas Sparks\u0027s storytelling, here is his new, achingly lovely novel of happenstance, desire, and the choices that matter most...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1455,
            "title": "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West",
            "author": "Dee Brown",
            "date": "01/23/01",
            "genres": "History, Nonfiction, American History, Classics, Historical, War, Politics, Race, Native Americans, Westerns",
            "characters": "Sitting Bull, Red Cloud, Ely Parker, Cochise, Quanah Parker, Kicking Bird, Ten Bears, Crazy Horse, Chief Joseph, Geronimo, Manuelito, Little Crow",
            "synopsis": "\"Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling history The New York Times called \"\"Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking...Impossible to put down.\"\"Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown\u0027s eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. A national bestseller in hardcover for more than a year after its initial publication, it has sold almost four million copies and has been translated into seventeen languages. For this elegant thirtieth-anniversary edition—published in both hardcover and paperback—Brown has contributed an incisive new preface.Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown allows the great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes to tell us in their own words of the battles, massacres, and broken treaties that finally left them demoralized and defeated. A unique and disturbing narrative told with force and clarity, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee changed forever our vision of how the West was really won.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1456,
            "title": "Prodigy",
            "author": "Marie Lu ",
            "date": "01/29/13",
            "genres": "Dystopia, Young Adult, Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Adventure, Teen, Action, Audiobook",
            "characters": "June Iparis, Daniel Altan Wing",
            "synopsis": "\"Injured and on the run, it has been seven days since June and Day barely escaped Los Angeles and the Republic with their lives. Day is believed dead having lost his own brother to an execution squad who thought they were assassinating him. June is now the Republic\u0027s most wanted traitor. Desperate for help, they turn to the Patriots - a vigilante rebel group sworn to bring down the Republic. But can they trust them or have they unwittingly become pawns in the most terrifying of political games?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1457,
            "title": "The No. 1 Ladies\u0027 Detective Agency",
            "author": "Alexander McCall Smith ",
            "date": "02/06/2003",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Africa, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Botswana, Detective, Adult Fiction, Adult, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Precious Ramotswe, Silvia Potokwani, Charlie the older apprentice, Note Mokoti, Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni, Violet Sepotho, Grace Makutsi, Fanwell the younger apprentice, Obed Ramotswe",
            "synopsis": "\"Precious Ramotswe has only just set up shop as Botswana\u0027s No.1 (and only) lady detective when she is hired to track down a missing husband, uncover a con man, and follow a wayward daughter. However, the case that tugs at her heart, and lands her in danger, is a missing eleven-year-old boy, who may have been snatched by witch doctors.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1458,
            "title": "Love Story",
            "author": "Erich Segal",
            "date": "01/08/2002",
            "genres": "Romance, Fiction, Classics, Contemporary, Chick Lit, Novels, Love, Love Story, Adult, Drama",
            "characters": "Oliver Barrett IV, Jennifer Cavilleri",
            "synopsis": "\"Oliver Barrett IV, a wealthy jock from a stuffy WASP family on his way to a Harvard degree and a career in law . . . Jenny Cavilleri, a sharp-tongued, working-class beauty studying music at Radcliffe . . .Opposites in nearly every way, Oliver and Jenny are kindred spirits from vastly different worlds. Falling deeply and powerfully, their attraction to one another defies everything they have ever believed—as they share a passion far greater than anything they dreamed possible . . . and explore the wonder of a love that must end too soon.One of the most adored novels of our time, this is the book that defined a generation—a story of uncompromising devotion, of life as it really is . . . and love that changes everything.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1459,
            "title": "Glass Houses",
            "author": "Rachel Caine ",
            "date": "10/03/2006",
            "genres": "Vampires, Young Adult, Paranormal, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Paranormal Romance, Ghosts",
            "characters": "Michael Glass, Shane Collins, Eve Rosser, Claire Danvers",
            "synopsis": "\"From the author of the popular Weather Warden series comes the debut of an exciting new series set in Morganville, Texas, where you would be well advised to avoid being out after dark.College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation. When Claire heads off-campus, the imposing old house where she finds a room may not be much better. Her new roommates don\u0027t show many signs of life, but they\u0027ll have Claire\u0027s back when the town\u0027s deepest secrets come crawling out, hungry for fresh blood. Will she be able to face the town\u0027s terror or will she drown like everyone else?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1460,
            "title": "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea",
            "author": "Jules Verne, Anthony Bonner (Translator)",
            "date": "04/01/2002",
            "genres": "Classics, Science Fiction, Fiction, Adventure, Fantasy, France, Literature, Steampunk, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy",
            "characters": "Pierre Aronnax, Ned Land, Captain Nemo",
            "synopsis": "\"When an unidentified “monster” threatens international shipping, French oceanographer Pierre Aronnax and his unflappable assistant Conseil join an expedition organized by the US Navy to hunt down and destroy the menace. After months of fruitless searching, they finally grapple with their quarry, but Aronnax, Conseil, and the brash Canadian harpooner Ned Land are thrown overboard in the attack, only to find that the “monster” is actually a futuristic submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by a shadowy, mystical, preternaturally imposing man who calls himself Captain Nemo. Thus begins a journey of 20,000 leagues—nearly 50,000 miles—that will take Captain Nemo, his crew, and these three adventurers on a journey of discovery through undersea forests, coral graveyards, miles-deep trenches, and even the sunken ruins of Atlantis. Jules Verne’s novel of undersea exploration has been captivating readers ever since its first publication in 1870, and Frederick Paul Walter’s reader-friendly, scientifically meticulous translation of this visionary science fiction classic is complete and unabridged down to the smallest substantive detail.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1461,
            "title": "Confessions of a Shopaholic",
            "author": "Sophie Kinsella ",
            "date": "11/04/2003",
            "genres": "Chick Lit, Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Humor, Adult, Adult Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Comedy, Young Adult",
            "characters": "Becky Bloomwood, Luke Brandon, Susan Cleath-Stuart, Tarquin Cleath-Stuart, Alicia Billington",
            "synopsis": "\"Becky Bloomwood has a fabulous flat in London’s trendiest neighborhood, a troupe of glamorous socialite friends, and a closet brimming with the season’s must-haves. The only trouble is, she can’t actually afford it—not any of it. Her job writing at Successful Saving magazine not only bores her to tears, it doesn’t pay much at all. And lately Becky’s been chased by dismal letters from the bank—letters with large red sums she can’t bear to read. She tries cutting back. But none of her efforts succeeds. Her only consolation is to buy herself something . . . just a little something. Finally a story arises that Becky actually cares about, and her front-page article catalyzes a chain of events that will transform her life—and the lives of those around her—forever.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1462,
            "title": "Odd Thomas",
            "author": "Dean Koontz ",
            "date": "08/29/06",
            "genres": "Horror, Fiction, Mystery, Fantasy, Thriller, Paranormal, Suspense, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy, Mystery Thriller",
            "characters": "Odd Thomas, Stormy Llewellyn, Chief Wyatt Porter, Robert Thomas \"\"Fungus Man\"\" Robertson, Little Ozzie",
            "synopsis": "\"\"\"The dead don\u0027t talk. I don\u0027t know why.\"\" But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as an ordinary guy, if possessed of a certain measure of talent at the Pico Mundo Grill and rapturously in love with the most beautiful girl in the world, Stormy Llewellyn.Maybe he has a gift, maybe it\u0027s a curse, Odd has never been sure, but he tries to do his best by the silent souls who seek him out. Sometimes they want justice, and Odd\u0027s otherworldly tips to Pico Mundo\u0027s sympathetic police chief, Wyatt Porter, can solve a crime. Occasionally they can prevent one. But this time it\u0027s different.A mysterious man comes to town with a voracious appetite, a filing cabinet stuffed with information on the world\u0027s worst killers, and a pack of hyena-like shades following him wherever he goes. Who the man is and what he wants, not even Odd\u0027s deceased informants can tell him. His most ominous clue is a page ripped from a day-by-day calendar for August 15.Today is August 14.In less than twenty-four hours, Pico Mundo will awaken to a day of catastrophe. As evil coils under the searing desert sun, Odd travels through the shifting prisms of his world, struggling to avert a looming cataclysm with the aid of his soul mate and an unlikely community of allies that includes the King of Rock \u0027n\u0027 Roll. His account of two shattering days when past and present, fate and destiny converge is the stuff of our worst nightmares, and a testament by which to live: sanely if not safely, with courage, humor, and a full heart that even in the darkness must persevere.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1463,
            "title": "Ivanhoe",
            "author": "Walter Scott, Graham Tulloch (Editor, Introduction)",
            "date": "03/30/00",
            "genres": "Classics, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Adventure, Literature, Historical, Romance, Classic Literature, Novels, 19th Century",
            "characters": "Little John, Robin of Locksley, Richard I of England, Wilfred of Ivanhoe, John of England, Rebecca of York, Isaac of York, Brian de Bois-Guilbert, Reginald Front-de-Boeuf, Cedric of Rotherwood, Maurice De Bracy, Waldemar Fitzurse, Maid Marion, Black Knight, Prince John Lackland, Robert von der Normandie, Bruder Gurth, Iorlvaux, Le Noir-Fainéant, Ivanhoe",
            "synopsis": "\"For this novel, Scott moved far away from the setting of his own turbulent time. He went back to the late 12th century, and to England rather than the Scottish settings of all his previous novels. He connected his writing Ivanhoe with his concerns about contemporary events.Scott drew together the apparently opposing themes of historical reality and chivalric romance, social realism and high adventure, past and present.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1464,
            "title": "The Nightingale",
            "author": "Kristin Hannah ",
            "date": "02/03/2015",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, World War II, War, Audiobook, Adult, France, Adult Fiction, Romance",
            "characters": "Vianne Mauriac, Isabelle Rossignol",
            "synopsis": "\"In love we find out who we want to be.In war we find out who we are.FRANCE, 1939In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says good-bye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn’t believe that the Nazis will invade France…but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent. When a German captain requisitions Vianne’s home, she and her daughter must live with the enemy or lose everything. Without food or money or hope, as danger escalates all around them, she is forced to make one impossible choice after another to keep her family alive.Vianne’s sister, Isabelle, is a rebellious eighteen-year-old, searching for purpose with all the reckless passion of youth. While thousands of Parisians march into the unknown terrors of war, she meets Gaëtan, a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within France, and she falls in love as only the young can…completely. But when he betrays her, Isabelle joins the Resistance and never looks back, risking her life time and again to save others.With courage, grace and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of World War II and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the women’s war. The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France—a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1465,
            "title": "Ender\u0027s Shadow",
            "author": "Orson Scott Card",
            "date": "05/19/02",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Young Adult, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Adventure, Space, War, Novels",
            "characters": "Andrew Wiggin, \"\"Bean\"\", Nikolai Delphiki, Volescu, Sister Carlotta, Poke",
            "synopsis": "\"Welcome to Battleschool.Growing up is never easy. But try living on the mean streets as a child begging for food and fighting like a dog with ruthless gangs of starving kids who wouldn\u0027t hesitate to pound your skull into pulp for a scrap of apple. If Bean has learned anything on the streets, it\u0027s how to survive. And not with fists. He is way too small for that. But with brains.Bean is a genius with a magician\u0027s ability to zero in on his enemy and exploit his weakness.What better quality for a future general to lead the Earth in a final climactic battle against a hostile alien race, known as Buggers. At Battleschool Bean meets and befriends another future commander - Ender Wiggins - perhaps his only true rival.Only one problem: for Bean and Ender, the future is now.Ender\u0027s Shadow is the book that launched The Shadow Series, and the parallel novel to Orson Scott Card\u0027s science fiction classic, Ender\u0027s Game.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1466,
            "title": "The Aeneid",
            "author": "Virgil, Robert Fitzgerald (Translator)",
            "date": "06/16/90",
            "genres": "Classics, Poetry, Fiction, Mythology, Literature, School, Epic, Fantasy, Ancient, Classic Literature",
            "characters": "Venus (Goddess), Jupiter (God), Aeneas, Juno, Priam, Ixion, Iris (Greek), Mercury (mythology) Marvel), Turnus (King of the Rutuli), Vulcan (God), Neoptolemus, Dido of Carthage, Misenus, Anchises, Sybil (Ancient oracle), Ascanius, Charon (mythology), Camilla (mythology), Lavinia (mythology), Pallas (son of Evander)",
            "synopsis": "\"The Aeneid – thrilling, terrifying and poignant in equal measure – has inspired centuries of artists, writers and musicians.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is translated by J. W. Mackail and has an afterword by Coco Stevenson.Virgil’s epic tale tells the story of Aeneas, a Trojan hero, who flees his city after its fall, with his father Anchises and his young son Ascanius – for Aeneas is destined to found Rome and father the Roman race. As Aeneas journeys closer to his goal, he must first prove his worth and attain the maturity necessary for such an illustrious task. He battles raging storms in the Mediterranean, encounters the fearsome Cyclopes, falls in love with Dido, Queen of Carthage, travels into the Underworld and wages war in Italy.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1467,
            "title": "Unravel Me",
            "author": "Tahereh Mafi",
            "date": "02/05/2013",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Dystopia, Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction, Paranormal, Fiction, New Adult, Post Apocalyptic, Supernatural",
            "characters": "Adam Kent, Juliette Ferrars, Aaron Warner Anderson, Kenji Kishimoto",
            "synopsis": "\"The thrilling second installment in New York Times bestselling author Tahereh Mafi’s Shatter Me series.It should have taken Juliette a single touch to kill Warner. But his mysterious immunity to her deadly power has left her shaken, wondering why her ultimate defense mechanism failed against the person she most needs protection from.She and Adam were able to escape Warner’s clutches and join up with a group of rebels, many of whom have powers of their own. Juliette will finally be able to actively fight against The Reestablishment and try to fix her broken world. And perhaps these new allies can help her shed light on the secret behind Adam’s—and Warner’s—immunity to her killer skin.Juliette’s world is packed with high-stakes action and tantalizing romance, perfect for fans of the Red Queen series by Victoria Aveyard and the Darkest Minds trilogy by Alexandra Bracken.Ransom Riggs, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Miss Peregrine\u0027s Home for Peculiar Children, raved: \"\"A thrilling, high-stakes saga of self-discovery and forbidden love, the Shatter Me series is a must-read for fans of dystopian young-adult literature—or any literature!\"\"\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1468,
            "title": "Emma",
            "author": "Jane Austen, Fiona Stafford (Introduction/Notes)",
            "date": "05/06/2003",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Literature, Historical, 19th Century, Classic Literature, Audiobook, British Literature",
            "characters": "Emma Woodhouse, George Knightley, Harriet Smith, Jane Fairfax, Frank Churchill, Henry Woodhouse, Mr. Woodhouse, Mrs. Weston, Philip Elton, Augusta Elton, Mr Weston, Mrs Anne Weston, Miss Bates, Isabella Woodhouse, John Knightley, Mr. Elton, Mrs. Elton",
            "synopsis": "\"An alternative cover of this ISBN can be found here.Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen\u0027s most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma organizes the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village and plays matchmaker with devastating effect.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1469,
            "title": "Angle of Repose",
            "author": "Wallace Stegner",
            "date": "05/28/92",
            "genres": "Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, Literature, Westerns, Literary Fiction, Novels, Book Club, Historical, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Lyman Ward, Susan Burling Ward, Oliver Ward, Rodman Ward, Frank Sargent, Ada Topham, Shelly Rasmussen, Ellen Ward",
            "synopsis": "\"Wallace Stegner\u0027s Pultizer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery—personal, historical, and geographical. Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents\u0027 remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving civilization into the surface of America\u0027s western frontier. But his research reveals even more about his own life than he\u0027s willing to admit. What emerges is an enthralling portrait of four generations in the life of an American family.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1470,
            "title": "The Shell Seekers",
            "author": "Rosamunde Pilcher",
            "date": "04/06/2004",
            "genres": "Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Chick Lit, Adult Fiction, Historical, British Literature, Contemporary, Family, Novels",
            "characters": "Penelope Keeling",
            "synopsis": "\"Artist\u0027s daughter Penelope Keeling can look back on a full and varied life: a Bohemian childhood in London and Cornwall, an unhappy wartime marriage, and the one man she truly loved. She has brought up three children - and learned to accept them as they are. Yet she is far too energetic and independent to settle sweetly into pensioned-off old-age. And when she discovers that her most treasured possession, her father\u0027s painting, The Shell Seekers, is now worth a small fortune, it is Penelope who must make the decisions that will determine whether her family can continue to survive as a family, or be split apart.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1471,
            "title": "The Corrections",
            "author": "Jonathan Franzen",
            "date": "09/02/2002",
            "genres": "Fiction, Contemporary, Novels, Literary Fiction, Literature, American, Family, The United States Of America, Unfinished, Adult Fiction",
            "characters": "Alfred Lambert, Enid Lambert, Gary Lambert",
            "synopsis": "\"Winner of the National Book Award for FictionNominated for the National Book Critics Circle AwardAn American Library Association Notable BookJonathan Franzen\u0027s third novel, The Corrections, is a great work of art and a grandly entertaining overture to our new century: a bold, comic, tragic, deeply moving family drama that stretches from the Midwest at mid-century to Wall Street and Eastern Europe in the age of greed and globalism. Franzen brings an old-time America of freight trains and civic duty, of Cub Scouts and Christmas cookies and sexual inhibitions, into brilliant collision with the modern absurdities of brain science, home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental healthcare, and the anti-gravity New Economy. With The Corrections, Franzen emerges as one of our premier interpreters of American society and the American soul.Enid Lambert is terribly, terribly anxious. Although she would never admit it to her neighbors or her three grown children, her husband, Alfred, is losing his grip on reality. Maybe it\u0027s the medication that Alfred takes for his Parkinson\u0027s disease, or maybe it\u0027s his negative attitude, but he spends his days brooding in the basement and committing shadowy, unspeakable acts. More and more often, he doesn\u0027t seem to understand a word Enid says.Trouble is also brewing in the lives of Enid\u0027s children. Her older son, Gary, a banker in Philadelphia, has turned cruel and materialistic and is trying to force his parents out of their old house and into a tiny apartment. The middle child, Chip, has suddenly and for no good reason quit his exciting job as a professor at D--- College and moved to New York City, where he seems to be pursuing a \"\"transgressive\"\" lifestyle and writing some sort of screenplay. Meanwhile the baby of the family, Denise, has escaped her disastrous marriage only to pour her youth and beauty down the drain of an affair with a married man-or so Gary hints.Enid, who loves to have fun, can still look forward to a final family Christmas and to the ten-day Nordic Pleasurelines Luxury Fall Color Cruise that she and Alfred are about to embark on. But even these few remaining joys are threatened by her husband\u0027s growing confusion and unsteadiness. As Alfred enters his final decline, the Lamberts must face the failures, secrets, and long-buried hurts that haunt them as a family if they are to make the corrections that each desperately needs.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1472,
            "title": "The Bluest Eye",
            "author": "Toni Morrison",
            "date": "09/06/2005",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, African American, Race, Literature, Novels, Literary Fiction, School, American",
            "characters": "Pauline Breedlove, Cholly Breedlove, Pecola Breedlove",
            "synopsis": "\"The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison\u0027s first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author\u0027s girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove. Pecola prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the year the marigolds in the Breedloves\u0027 garden do not bloom. Pecola\u0027s life does change- in painful, devastating ways.What its vivid evocation of the fear and loneliness at the heart of a child\u0027s yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment. The Bluest Eye remains one of Toni Morrisons\u0027s most powerful, unforgettable novels- and a significant work of American fiction.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1473,
            "title": "Anthem",
            "author": "Ayn Rand",
            "date": "12/01/1999",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Philosophy, Dystopia, Science Fiction, School, Literature, Read For School, Politics, Novels",
            "characters": "Liberty, Equality",
            "synopsis": "\"Anthem has long been hailed as one of Ayn Rand\u0027s classic novels, and a clear predecessor to her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. In Anthem, Rand examines a frightening future in which individuals have no name, no independence, and no values. Equality 7-2521 lives in the dark ages of the future where all decisions are made by committee, all people live in collectives, and all traces of individualism have been wiped out. Despite such a restrictive environment, the spark of individual thought and freedom still burns in him-a passion which he has been taught to call sinful. In a purely egalitarian world, Equality 7-2521 dares to stand apart from the herd-to think and choose for himself, to discover electricity, and to love the woman of his choice. Now he has been marked for death for committing the ultimate sin. In a world where the great \"\"we\"\" reign supreme, he has rediscovered the lost and holy word-\"\"I.\"\"\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1474,
            "title": "Under the Dome",
            "author": "Stephen King ",
            "date": "11/10/2009",
            "genres": "Horror, Fiction, Science Fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Mystery, Suspense, Audiobook, Adult, Drama",
            "characters": "Dale Barbara, Julia Shumway, James Rennie, Junior Rennie, Eric \"\"Rusty\"\" Everett, Joseph \"\"Scarecrow Joe\"\" McClatchey, Brenda Perkins, Frank DeLesseps, Carter Thibodeau, Melvin Searles, Georgia Roux, Andy Sanders, Phil \"\"The Chef\"\" Bushey, Peter Randolph, United States Military, American Law Enforcement, Dale \"\"Barbie\"\" Barbara, James \"\"Big Jim\"\" Rennie, Bill Allnut, Sarah Allnut, Mabel Alston, Private Clint Ames, Tommy Anderson, Willow Anderson, Elsa Andrews, Aidan Patrick Appleton, Alice Rachel Appleton, Marty Arsenault, Donnie Baribeau, Chaz Bender, Kayla Bevins, Harriet Bigelow, Fernald \"\"Fern\"\" Bowie, Stewart Bowie, Joe Boxer, Clayton Brassey, Freeman Brown, Gina Buffalino, Michela Burpee, Romeo \"\"Rommie\"\" Burpee, Little Walter Bushey, Phil Bushey, Sammy Bushey, Billy Cale, Jack Cale, Ernie Calvert, Joanie Calvert, Lucien Calvert, Norrie Calvert, Ed Carty, Carrie Carver, Deanna Carver, Johnny Carver, Eddie Chalmers, Pamela Chen, Henrietta Clavard, John Clavard, Reverend Lester Coggins, Cindy Collins, Hanna Compton, Mrs. Connaught, Lauren Conree, Rance Conroy, Arletta Coombs, Anderson Cooper, Mary Lou Costas, Colonel James O. Cox, Wanda Crumley, Wendell Crumley, Wanda Debec, Frederick \"\"Fred\"\"  Howard Denton, Alden Dinsmore, Oliver \"\"Ollie\"\" Dinsmore, Rory Dinsmore, Shelley Dinsmore, Russ Dorr, Alva Drake, Benny Drake, Norman Drake, Coralee Dumagen, Marta Edmunds, Brendan Ellerbee, Myra Evans, Erik \"\"Rusty\"\" Everett, Janelle Everett, Judy Everett, Linda Everett, Rusty Evers, George Frederick, Lois Freeman, Will Freeman, Jack Evans, Randall Killian, Ricky Killian, Roger Killian, Leo Lamoine, George Lathrop, Reverend Piper Libby, Rupert \"\"Rupe\"\" Libby, Corrie Macintosh, Suzanne Malveaux, Toby Manning, Thurston Marshall, Angie McCain, LaDonna McCain, Mr. McCain, Claire McClatchey, Joe McClatchey, Sam McClatchey, James McMurtry, Lennie Meechum, Stacey Moggin, Tabby Morrell, Frieda Morrison, Henry Morrison, Charles \"\"Stubby\"\" Norman, Howard \"\"Duke\"\" Perkins, Major Gene Ray, Doc Rayburn, Nora Robichaud, Bob Roux, Helen Roux, Andrew \"\"Andy\"\" DeLois Sanders, Claudette Sanders, Dorothy \"\"Dodee\"\"  Sanders, Sea Dogs, Melvin \"\"Mel\"\" Searles, Petra Searles, Jimmy Sirois, Carolyn Sturges, Chuck Thompson, Al Timmons, Ginny Tomlinson, Nell Toomey, Aubrey Towle, Johnny Trent, Douglas Twitchell, Miz Rose Twitchell, Jessie Vachon, Ellen Vanedestine",
            "synopsis": "\"On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as “the dome” comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when—or if—it will go away.Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens—town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician’s assistant at the hospital, a selectwoman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing—even murder—to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Because time isn’t just short. It’s running out.source: stephenking.com\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1475,
            "title": "Living Dead in Dallas",
            "author": "Charlaine Harris ",
            "date": "04/01/2004",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Vampires, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Fiction, Mystery, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Adult",
            "characters": "Sookie Stackhouse, Bill Compton, Sam Merlotte, Jason Stackhouse, Eric Northman, Tara Thornton, Pam Ravenscroft, Barry \"\"Bellboy\"\" Horowitz",
            "synopsis": "\"Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is having a streak of bad luck. First her co-worker is killed, and no one seems to care. Then she comes face to-face with a beastly creature that gives her a painful and poisonous lashing. Enter the vampires, who graciously suck the poison from her veins (like they didn\u0027t enjoy it).The point is: they saved her life. So when one of the bloodsuckers asks for a favor, she obliges - and soon Sookie\u0027s in Dallas, using her telepathic skills to search for a missing vampire. She\u0027s supposed to interview certain humans involved, but she makes one condition: the vampires must promise to behave and let the humans go unharmed. But that\u0027s easier said than done, and all it takes is one delicious blonde and one small mistake for things to turn deadly....\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1476,
            "title": "A Canticle for Leibowitz",
            "author": "Walter M. Miller Jr., Mary Doria Russell  (Introduction)",
            "date": "05/09/2006",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Post Apocalyptic, Classics, Dystopia, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Religion, Apocalyptic, Speculative Fiction",
            "characters": "Isaac Edward Leibowitz, Benjamin Eleazar bar Joshua",
            "synopsis": "\"In a nightmarish ruined world slowly awakening to the light after sleeping in darkness, the infant rediscoveries of science are secretly nourished by cloistered monks dedicated to the study and preservation of the relics and writings of the blessed Saint Isaac Leibowitz. From here the story spans centuries of ignorance, violence, and barbarism, viewing through a sharp, satirical eye the relentless progression of a human race damned by its inherent humanness to recelebrate its grand foibles and repeat its grievous mistakes.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1477,
            "title": "The Jungle Books",
            "author": "Rudyard Kipling, Alev Lytle Croutier (Afterword)",
            "date": "05/03/2005",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Childrens, Fantasy, Adventure, Short Stories, Literature, Animals, Young Adult, India",
            "characters": "Mowgli (Rudyard Kipling), Bagheera (Rudyard Kipling), Hathin, Shere Khan, Baloo (Rudyard Kipling), Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Nagaina, Darzee, Messua, Akela, Kaa, Tabaqui, Nag",
            "synopsis": "\"The Jungle Books can be regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children. But they also constitute a complex literary work of art in which the whole of Kipling\u0027s philosophy of life is expressed in miniature. They are best known for the \u0027Mowgli\u0027 stories; the tale of a baby abandoned and brought up by wolves, educated in the ways and secrets of the jungle by Kaa the python, Baloo the bear, and Bagheera the black panther. The stories, a mixture of fantasy, myth, and magic, are underpinned by Kipling\u0027s abiding preoccupation with the theme of self-discovery, and the nature of the \u0027Law\u0027.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1478,
            "title": "Rubinrot",
            "author": "Kerstin Gier",
            "date": "01/06/2009",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Time Travel, Romance, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction, Fiction, Paranormal, Historical, Mystery",
            "characters": "Grace Shepherd, Leslie Hay, Gideon de Villiers, Cynthia Dale, Gwendolyn Shepherd, Gordan Gelderman, James Augustus Peregrine Pympoole-Bothame",
            "synopsis": "\"Manchmal ist es ein echtes Kreuz, in einer Familie zu leben, die jede Menge Geheimnisse hat. Der Überzeugung ist zumindest die 16-jährige Gwendolyn.Bis sie sich eines Tages aus heiterem Himmel im London um die letzte Jahrhundertwende wiederfindet. Und ihr klar wird, dass ausgerechnet sie das allergrößte Geheimnis ihrer Familie ist. Was ihr dagegen nicht klar ist: Dass man sich zwischen den Zeiten möglichst nicht verlieben sollte. Denn das macht die Sache erst recht kompliziert!\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1479,
            "title": "The Story of My Life",
            "author": "Helen Keller",
            "date": "05/01/1990",
            "genres": "Nonfiction, Biography, Classics, Memoir, History, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, Historical, Disability, Inspirational",
            "characters": "Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller",
            "synopsis": "\"When she was 19 months old, Helen Keller (1880–1968) suffered a severe illness that left her blind and deaf. Not long after, she also became mute. Her tenacious struggle to overcome these handicaps-with the help of her inspired teacher, Anne Sullivan-is one of the great stories of human courage and dedication. In this classic autobiography, first published in 1903, Miss Keller recounts the first 22 years of her life, including the magical moment at the water pump when, recognizing the connection between the word \"\"water\"\" and the cold liquid flowing over her hand, she realized that objects had names. Subsequent experiences were equally noteworthy: her joy at eventually learning to speak, her friendships with Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edward Everett Hale and other notables, her education at Radcliffe (from which she graduated cum laude), and-underlying all-her extraordinary relationship with Miss Sullivan, who showed a remarkable genius for communicating with her eager and quick-to-learn pupil.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1480,
            "title": "Something Wicked This Way Comes",
            "author": "Ray Bradbury",
            "date": "03/01/1998",
            "genres": "Horror, Fantasy, Fiction, Classics, Science Fiction, Young Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Halloween, Audiobook, Mystery",
            "characters": "William Halloway, James Nightshade, Charles Halloway",
            "synopsis": "\"One of Ray Bradbury’s best-known and most popular novels, Something Wicked This Way Comes, now featuring a new introduction and material about its longstanding influence on culture and genre.For those who still dream and remember, for those yet to experience the hypnotic power of its dark poetry, step inside. The show is about to begin. Cooger \u0026 Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. The carnival rolls in sometime after midnight, ushering in Halloween a week early. A calliope’s shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. Two boys will discover the secret of its smoke, mazes, and mirrors; two friends who will soon know all too well the heavy cost of wishes…and the stuff of nightmares.Few novels have endured in the heart and memory as has Ray Bradbury’s unparalleled literary masterpiece Something Wicked This Way Comes. Scary and suspenseful, it is a timeless classic in the American canon.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1481,
            "title": "Linger",
            "author": "Maggie Stiefvater ",
            "date": "07/13/10",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal, Werewolves, Fiction, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy, Teen",
            "characters": "Shelby, Grace Brisbane, Sam  Roth, Cole St. Clair, Isabel Culpeper, Jack Culpeper, Geoffrey Beck, Olivia Marx",
            "synopsis": "\"the longing.Once Grace and Sam have found each other, they know they must fight to stay together. For Sam, this means a reckoning with his werewolf past. For Grace, it means facing a future that is less and less certain.the loss.Into their world comes a new wolf named Cole, whose past is full of hurt and danger. He is wrestling with his own demons, embracing the life of a wolf while denying the ties of being a human.the linger.For Grace, Sam, and Cole, life a constant struggle between two forces - wolf and human - with love baring its two sides as well. It is harrowing and euphoric, freeing and entrapping, enticing and alarming. As their world falls apart, love is what lingers. But will it be enough?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1482,
            "title": "Geek Love",
            "author": "Katherine Dunn",
            "date": "06/11/2002",
            "genres": "Fiction, Horror, Fantasy, Contemporary, Novels, Literary Fiction, Dark, Adult Fiction, Adult, Literature",
            "characters": "Olympia \"\"Oly\"\" Binewski, Arturo \"\"Arty\"\" Binewski, Al Binewski",
            "synopsis": "\"Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out—with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes—to breed their own exhibit of human oddities. There’s Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan . . . Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins . . . albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him the family’s most precious—and dangerous—asset.As the Binewskis take their act across the backwaters of the U.S., inspiring fanatical devotion and murderous revulsion; as its members conduct their own Machiavellian version of sibling rivalry, Geek Love throws its sulfurous light on our notions of the freakish and the normal, the beautiful and the ugly, the holy and the obscene. Family values will never be the same.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1483,
            "title": "The Portrait of a Lady",
            "author": "Henry James, Patricia Crick (Annotations)",
            "date": "09/30/03",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Literature, 19th Century, Novels, American, Historical Fiction, Classic Literature, Romance, Victorian",
            "characters": "Isabel Archer, Lydia Touchett, Ralph Touchett, Lord Warburton, Gilbert Osmond, Edward Rosier, Caspar Goodwood, Pansy Osmond, Madame Merle, Henrietta Stackpole",
            "synopsis": "\"When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to determine her own fate, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. She then finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gilbert Osmond, who, beneath his veneer of charm and cultivation, is cruelty itself. A story of intense poignancy, Isabel\u0027s tale of love and betrayal still resonates with modern audiences.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1484,
            "title": "Because of Winn-Dixie",
            "author": "Kate DiCamillo ",
            "date": "08/06/2001",
            "genres": "Fiction, Childrens, Realistic Fiction, Middle Grade, Young Adult, Animals, Classics, School, Dogs, Juvenile",
            "characters": "Winn-Dixie, India Opal Buloni, Otis, Miss Franny Block, Gloria Dump, The Preacher, Amanda Wilkinson",
            "synopsis": "\"Kate DiCamillo\u0027s beloved, best-selling debut novel is now available in a paperback digest edition.Kate DiCamillo\u0027s first published novel, like Winn-Dixie himself, immediately proved to be a keeper—a New York Times bestseller, a Newbery Honor winner, the inspiration for a popular film, and most especially, a cherished classic that touches the hearts of readers of all ages. It\u0027s now available in a paperback digest format certain to bring this tale\u0027s magic to an even wider circle of fans.The summer Opal and her father, the preacher, move to Naomi, Florida, Opal goes into the Winn-Dixie supermarket—and comes out with a dog. A big, ugly, suffering dog with a sterling sense of humor. A dog she dubs Winn-Dixie. Because of Winn-Dixie, the preacher tells Opal ten things about her absent mother, one for each year Opal has been alive. Winn-Dixie is better at making friends than anyone Opal has ever known, and together they meet the local librarian, Miss Franny Block, who once fought off a bear with a copy of WAR AND PEACE. They meet Gloria Dump, who is nearly blind but sees with her heart, and Otis, an ex-con who sets the animals in his pet shop loose after hours, then lulls them with his guitar.Opal spends all that sweet summer collecting stories about her new friends and thinking about her mother. But because of Winn-Dixie or perhaps because she has grown, Opal learns to let go, just a little, and that friendship—and forgiveness—can sneak up on you like a sudden summer storm.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1485,
            "title": "Jude the Obscure",
            "author": "Thomas Hardy, Patricia Ingham, Dennis Taylor  (With), Jenny Sterlin (Narrator), Mark Oxford, James Oliver Smith Jr. (Editor)",
            "date": "12/01/2006",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Literature, 19th Century, Victorian, Novels, British Literature, Historical Fiction, Classic Literature, English Literature",
            "characters": "Jude Fawley, Arabella Donn, Sue Bridehead",
            "synopsis": "\"Jude Fawley\u0027s hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to the town of Christminster where he finds work as a stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, freethinking \u0027New Woman\u0027.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1486,
            "title": "Red Rising",
            "author": "Pierce Brown ",
            "date": "01/28/14",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult, Dystopia, Fiction, Audiobook, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adult, Adventure, Space",
            "characters": "Darrow, Cassius au Bellona, Mustang, Sevro au Barca, Fitchner au Barca",
            "synopsis": "\"\"\"I live for the dream that my children will be born free,\"\" she says. \"\"That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them.\"\"\"\"I live for you,\"\" I say sadly.Eo kisses my cheek. \"\"Then you must live for more.\"\"Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations.Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children.But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity already reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and sprawling parks spread across the planet. Darrow—and Reds like him—are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class.Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow sacrifices everything to infiltrate the legendary Institute, a proving ground for the dominant Gold caste, where the next generation of humanity\u0027s overlords struggle for power. He will be forced to compete for his life and the very future of civilization against the best and most brutal of Society\u0027s ruling class. There, he will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies... even if it means he has to become one of them to do so.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1487,
            "title": "Macbeth",
            "author": "William Shakespeare",
            "date": "07/01/2013",
            "genres": "Classics, Plays, Fiction, Drama, School, Literature, Read For School, Theatre, High School, Poetry",
            "characters": "Fleance, Seyward, Young Siward, Seyton, First Witch, Second Witch, Third Witch, Lady Macduff, Lady Macbeth",
            "synopsis": "\"One night on the heath, the brave and respected general Macbeth encounters three witches who foretell that he will become king of Scotland. At first sceptical, he’s urged on by the ruthless, single-minded ambitions of Lady Macbeth, who suffers none of her husband’s doubt. But seeing the prophecy through to the bloody end leads them both spiralling into paranoia, tyranny, madness, and murder.This shocking tragedy - a violent caution to those seeking power for its own sake - is, to this day, one of Shakespeare’s most popular and influential masterpieces.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1488,
            "title": "The Namesake",
            "author": "Jhumpa Lahiri",
            "date": "09/01/2004",
            "genres": "Fiction, India, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Novels, Indian Literature, Literature, Book Club, Adult Fiction, Adult",
            "characters": "Ashoke Ganguli, Ashima Ganguli, Gogol/Nikhil Ganguli, Sonia/Sonali Ganguli, Maxine, Moushumi Mazoomdar",
            "synopsis": "\"Jhumpa Lahiri\u0027s Interpreter of Maladies established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation. Her stories are one of the very few debut works - and only a handful of collections - to have won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Among the many other awards and honors it received were the New Yorker Debut of the Year award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the highest critical praise for its grace, acuity, and compassion in detailing lives transported from India to America.In The Namesake, Lahiri enriches the themes that made her collection an international bestseller: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation, and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations. Here again Lahiri displays her deft touch for the perfect detail — the fleeting moment, the turn of phrase — that opens whole worlds of emotion.The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. On the heels of their arranged wedding, Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli settle together in Cambridge, Massachusetts. An engineer by training, Ashoke adapts far less warily than his wife, who resists all things American and pines for her family. When their son is born, the task of naming him betrays the vexed results of bringing old ways to the new world. Named for a Russian writer by his Indian parents in memory of a catastrophe years before, Gogol Ganguli knows only that he suffers the burden of his heritage as well as his odd, antic name. Lahiri brings great empathy to Gogol as he stumbles along the first-generation path, strewn with conflicting loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs. With penetrating insight, she reveals not only the defining power of the names and expectations bestowed upon us by our parents, but also the means by which we slowly, sometimes painfully, come to define ourselves.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1489,
            "title": "The Death Cure",
            "author": "James Dashner ",
            "date": "10/11/2011",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Post Apocalyptic, Teen, Audiobook, Action",
            "characters": "Brenda (Maze Runner), Teresa Agnes, Minho, Gally, Thomas, Newt, Aris Jones, Jorge",
            "synopsis": "\"It’s the end of the line. WICKED has taken everything from Thomas: his life, his memories, and now his only friends—the Gladers. But it’s finally over. The trials are complete, after one final test. Will anyone survive? What WICKED doesn’t know is that Thomas remembers far more than they think. And it’s enough to prove that he can’t believe a word of what they say. The truth will be terrifying. Thomas beat the Maze. He survived the Scorch. He’ll risk anything to save his friends. But the truth might be what ends it all.  The time for lies is over.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1490,
            "title": "The Girl on the Train",
            "author": "Paula Hawkins ",
            "date": "01/13/15",
            "genres": "Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Contemporary, Adult, Audiobook, Adult Fiction",
            "characters": "Rachel Watson, Anna Watson, Tom Watson, Megan Hipwell, Scott Hipwell, Kamal Abdic",
            "synopsis": "\"An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She’s even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. “Jess and Jason,” she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy. And then she sees something shocking. It’s only a minute until the train moves on, but it’s enough. Now everything’s changed. Now Rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives she’s only watched from afar. Now they’ll see; she’s much more than just the girl on the train...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1491,
            "title": "It\u0027s Kind of a Funny Story",
            "author": "Ned Vizzini, Rachel Cohn (Foreword)",
            "date": "05/01/2007",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Fiction, Contemporary, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Realistic Fiction, Romance, Psychology, Coming Of Age, Teen",
            "characters": "Aaron, Nia, Craig Gilner, Noelle",
            "synopsis": "\"Ambitious New York City teenager Craig Gilner is determined to succeed at life - which means getting into the right high school to get into the right job. But once Craig aces his way into Manhattan\u0027s Executive Pre-Professional High School, the pressure becomes unbearable. He stops eating and sleeping until, one night, he nearly kills himself.Craig\u0027s suicidal episode gets him checked into a mental hospital, where his new neighbors include a transsexual sex addict, a girl who has scarred her own face with scissors, and the self-elected President Armelio. There, Craig is finally able to confront the sources of his anxiety.Ned Vizzini, who himself spent time in a psychiatric hospital, has created a remarkably moving tale about the sometimes unexpected road to happiness.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1492,
            "title": "Fire",
            "author": "Kristin Cashore",
            "date": "10/05/2009",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, High Fantasy, Teen, Paranormal",
            "characters": "Brocker (Graceling Realm), Roen (Graceling Realm), Nash (Graceling Realm), Brigan (Graceling Realm), Leck (Graceling Realm), Garan (Graceling Realm), Archer (Graceling Realm), Fire (Graceling Realm)",
            "synopsis": "\"It is not a peaceful time in the Dells. The young King Nash clings to his throne while rebel lords in the north and south build armies to unseat him. The mountains and forests are filled with spies and thieves and lawless men.This is where Fire lives. With a wild, irresistible appearance and hair the color of flame, Fire is the last remaining human monster. Equally hated and adored, she had the unique ability to control minds, but she guards her power, unwilling to steal the secrets of innocent people. Especially when she has so many of her own.Then Prince Brigan comes to bring her to King City, The royal family needs her help to uncover the plot against the king. Far away from home, Fire begins to realize there\u0027s more to her power than she ever dreamed. Her power could save the kingdom.If only she weren\u0027t afraid of becoming the monster her father was.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1493,
            "title": "Death on the Nile",
            "author": "Agatha Christie",
            "date": "10/28/78",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Audiobook, Thriller, British Literature, Egypt",
            "characters": "Colonel Race, Simon  Doyle, Parker Pyne, Hercule Poirot, Linnet Ridgeway, Jacqueline de Bellefort, Mrs. Allerton, Tim Allerton, Dr. Carl Bessner, Miss Bowers, Jim Fanthorp, Ferguson, Salomè Otterbourne, Rosalie Otterbourne, Andrew Pennington, Cornelia Robson, Marie Van Schuyler, Joanna Southwood",
            "synopsis": "\"The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything - until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: \u0027I\u0027d like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.\u0027 Yet in this exotic setting, nothing is ever quite what it seems...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1494,
            "title": "The Color of Magic",
            "author": "Terry Pratchett",
            "date": "09/13/05",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Comedy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Magic, Adventure, High Fantasy, Novels",
            "characters": "Rincewind, Twoflower, The Luggage, DEATH",
            "synopsis": "\"Terry Pratchett\u0027s profoundly irreverent, bestselling novels have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody next to the likes of Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.The Color of Magic is Terry Pratchett\u0027s maiden voyage through the now-legendary land of Discworld. This is where it all begins - with the tourist Twoflower and his wizard guide, Rincewind.On a world supported on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown), a gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out. There\u0027s an avaricious but inept wizard, a naive tourist whose luggage moves on hundreds of dear little legs, dragons who only exist if you believe in them, and of course THE EDGE of the planet...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1495,
            "title": "The Hero of Ages",
            "author": "Brandon Sanderson ",
            "date": "10/14/08",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Magic, Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Adventure, Epic",
            "characters": "Marsh, Vin, Elend Venture, Sazed, Hammond, Breeze, Spook",
            "synopsis": "\"Tricked into releasing the evil spirit Ruin while attempting to close the Well of Ascension, new emperor Elend Venture and his wife, the assassin Vin, are now hard-pressed to save the world.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1496,
            "title": "The Sorrows of Young Werther",
            "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Philippe Forget, Dr. Riaz-ul-Hassan (Translator), Edla Valdna (Translator), Hugo Flintzer (Illustrator), R. Dillon Boylan (Translation), Charles Louis De Sevelinges, Robert Graves, more…",
            "date": "02/08/2005",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, German Literature, Literature, Romance, Germany, School, Novels, 18th Century, Romanticism",
            "characters": "Werther, Albert Kestner, Charlotte Buff Kestner",
            "synopsis": "\"This is Goethe\u0027s first novel, published in 1774. Written in diary form, it tells the tale of an unhappy, passionate young man hopelessly in love with Charlotte, the wife of a friend - a man who he alternately admires and detests. \u0027The Sorrows of Young Werther\u0027 became an important part of the \u0027Sturm und Drang movement, and greatly influenced later \u0027Romanticism\u0027. The work is semi-autobiographical - in 1772, two years before the novel was published, Goethe had passed through a similar tempestuous period, when he lost his heart to Charlotte Buff, who was at that time engaged to his friend Johann Christian Kestner.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1497,
            "title": "Still Alice",
            "author": "Lisa Genova ",
            "date": "07/06/2007",
            "genres": "Fiction, Contemporary, Psychology, Book Club, Adult Fiction, Adult, Audiobook, Medical, Realistic Fiction, Drama",
            "characters": "Alice Howland, Lydia Howland, John Howland, Anna Howland, Tom Howland, Tamara Moyer, Dr. Davis",
            "synopsis": "\"Still Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman\u0027s sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer\u0027s disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph. D in neuroscience from Harvard University. Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer\u0027s disease. Fiercely independent, Alice struggles to maintain her lifestyle and live in the moment, even as her sense of self is being stripped away. In turns heartbreaking, inspiring and terrifying, Still Alice captures in remarkable detail what\u0027s it\u0027s like to literally lose your mind...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1498,
            "title": "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress",
            "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
            "date": "03/14/05",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Audiobook, Politics, Space, Novels, Speculative Fiction",
            "characters": "Manuel Garcia \"\"Mannie\"\" O\u0027\u0027Kelly-Davis, Wyoming \"\"Wyoh\"\" Knott, Professor Bernardo de la Paz, Adam Selene, Stuart Rene \"\"Stu\"\" LaJoie, HOLMES IV",
            "synopsis": "\"It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of a former penal colony on the Moon against its masters on the Earth. It is a tale of a culture whose family structures are based on the presence of two men for every woman, leading to novel forms of marriage and family. It is the story of the disparate people, a computer technician, a vigorous young female agitator, and an elderly academic who become the movement\u0027s leaders, and of Mike, the supercomputer whose sentience is known only to the revolt\u0027s inner circle, who for reasons of his own is committed to the revolution\u0027s ultimate success.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1499,
            "title": "Choke",
            "author": "Chuck Palahniuk ",
            "date": "06/28/02",
            "genres": "Fiction, Contemporary, Humor, Novels, Literature, Adult, American, Adult Fiction, Dark, Literary Fiction",
            "characters": "Victor Mancini, Denny, Ida Mancini, Paige Marshall",
            "synopsis": "\"Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows himself to be “saved” by fellow patrons who, feeling responsible for Victor’s life, go on to send checks to support him. When he’s not pulling this stunt, Victor cruises sexual addiction recovery workshops for action, visits his addled mom, and spends his days working at a colonial theme park. His creator, Chuck Palahniuk, is the visionary we need and the satirist we deserve.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1500,
            "title": "Dandelion Wine",
            "author": "Ray Bradbury",
            "date": "07/28/00",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult, Short Stories, Coming Of Age, Literature, Novels, American",
            "characters": "Douglas Spaulding, Tom Spaulding",
            "synopsis": "\"The summer of \u002728 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. Of half-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandma\u0027s belly-busting dinner. It was a summer of sorrows and marvels and gold-fuzzed bees. A magical, timeless summer in the life of a twelve-year-old boy named Douglas Spaulding—remembered forever by the incomparable Ray Bradbury.Woven into the novel are the following short stories: Illumination, Dandelion Wine, Summer in the Air, Season of Sitting, The Happiness Machine, The Night, The Lawns of Summer, Season of Disbelief, The Last-the Very Last, The Green Machine, The Trolley, Statues, The Window, The Swan, The Whole Town\u0027s Sleeping, Goodbye Grandma, The Tarot Witch, Hotter Than Summer, Dinner at Dawn, The Magical Kitchen, Green Wine for Dreaming.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1501,
            "title": "Mary Poppins",
            "author": "P.L. Travers, Júlia Sardà (Illustrator), Mary Shepard (Illustrator)",
            "date": "06/01/2006",
            "genres": "Classics, Fantasy, Childrens, Fiction, Middle Grade, Audiobook, Young Adult, Juvenile, Magic, Adventure",
            "characters": "Jane Whitefield, Michael Banks, Mary  Poppins",
            "synopsis": "\"By P.L. Travers, the author featured in the major motion picture, Saving Mr. Banks. From the moment Mary Poppins arrives at Number Seventeen Cherry-Tree Lane, everyday life at the Banks house is forever changed. It all starts when Mary Poppins is blown by the east wind onto the doorstep of the Banks house. She becomes a most unusual nanny to Jane, Michael, and the twins. Who else but Mary Poppins can slide up banisters, pull an entire armchair out of an empty carpetbag, and make a dose of medicine taste like delicious lime-juice cordial? A day with Mary Poppins is a day of magic and make-believe come to life!\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1502,
            "title": "Finale",
            "author": "Becca Fitzpatrick ",
            "date": "10/23/12",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Fantasy, Angels, Romance, Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy",
            "characters": "Nora Grey, Jev \"\"Patch\"\" Cipriano, Vee Sky, Marcie Millar, Scott Parnell",
            "synopsis": "\"Nora and Patch thought their troubles were behind them. Hank is gone and they should be able to put his ugly vendetta to rest. But in Hank\u0027s absence, Nora has become the unwitting head of the Nephilim and must finish what Hank began. Which ultimately means destroying the fallen angels - destroying Patch.Nora will never let that happen, so she and Patch make a plan: lead everyone to believe they have broken up, and work the system from the inside. Nora will convince the Nephilim that they are making a mistake in fighting the fallen angels, and Patch will find out everything he can from the opposing side. They will end this war before it can even begin.But the best-laid plans often go awry. Nora is put through the paces in her new role and finds herself drawn to an addictive power she never anticipated.As the battle lines are drawn, Nora and Patch must confront the differences that have always been between them and either choose to ignore them or let them destroy the love they have always fought for.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1503,
            "title": "The Awakening",
            "author": "Kelley Armstrong ",
            "date": "04/28/09",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Supernatural, Romance, Magic, Werewolves, Ghosts, Fiction",
            "characters": "Chloe Saunders, Derek Souza, \"\"Victoria \u0027\u0027Tori\u0027\u0027 Enright\"\", \"\"Rachelle \u0027\u0027Rae\u0027\u0027 Rogers\"\", Simon Bae",
            "synopsis": "\"If you had met me a few weeks ago, you probably would have described me as an average teenage girl - someone normal. Now my life has changed forever and I’m as far away from normal as it gets. A living science experiment - not only can I see ghosts, but I was genetically altered by a sinister organization called Edison Group. What does that mean? For starters. I\u0027m a teenage necromancer whose powers are out of control: I raise the dead without even trying. Trust me, that is not a power you want to have. Ever.Now I’m running for my life with three of my supernatural friends - a charming sorcerer, a cynical werewolf, and a disgruntled witch - and we have to find someone who can help us before the Edison Group finds us first. Or die trying.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1504,
            "title": "Survivor",
            "author": "Chuck Palahniuk ",
            "date": "05/01/2018",
            "genres": "Fiction, Contemporary, Thriller, Novels, Humor, Dark, Literature, American, Audiobook, Adult",
            "characters": "Tender Branson, Fertility Hollis, The Agent, The Caseworker, Primus",
            "synopsis": "\"From the author of the underground sensation Fight Club comes this wickedly incisive second novel, a mesmerizing, unnerving, and hilarious vision of cult and post-cult life.Tender Branson—last surviving member of the so-called Creedish Death Cult—is dictating his life story into the flight recorder of Flight 2039, cruising on autopilot at 39,000 feet somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. He is all alone in the airplane, which will crash shortly into the vast Australian outback. Before it does, he will unfold the tale of his journey from an obedient Creedish child and humble domestic servant to an ultra-buffed, steroid- and collagen-packed media messiah, author of a best-selling autobiography, Saved from Salvation, and the even better selling Book of Very Common Prayer (The Prayer to Delay Orgasm, The Prayer to Prevent Hair Loss, The Prayer to Silence Car Alarms). He\u0027ll reveal the truth of his tortured romance with the elusive and prescient Fertility Hollis, share his insight that \"\"the only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage,\"\" and deny responsibility for the Tender Branson Sensitive Materials Sanitary Landfill, a 20,000-acre repository for the nation\u0027s outdated pornography. Among other matters both bizarre and trenchant.Not since Kurt Vonnegut\u0027s Mother Night and Jerzy Kosinski\u0027s Being There has there been as dark and telling a satire on the wages of fame and the bedrock lunacy of the modern world. Unpredictable, compelling, and unforgettable, Survivor is Chuck Palahniuk at his deadpan peak; and it cements his place as one of the most original writers in fiction today.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1505,
            "title": "Revolutionary Road",
            "author": "Richard Yates",
            "date": "02/01/2001",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Novels, American, Literature, Literary Fiction, Contemporary, 20th Century, Modern Classics",
            "characters": "Frank Wheeler, April Wheeler, Shep Campbell, Milly Campbell",
            "synopsis": "\"In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model American couple: bright, beautiful, talented, with two young children and a starter home in the suburbs. Perhaps they married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank\u0027s job is dull. And April never saw herself as a housewife. Yet they have always lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner. But now that certainty is now about to crumble. With heartbreaking compassion and remorseless clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April mortgage their spiritual birthright, betraying not only each other, but their best selves.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1506,
            "title": "An Abundance of Katherines",
            "author": "John Green ",
            "date": "09/21/06",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, Realistic Fiction, Teen, Humor, Coming Of Age, Young Adult Contemporary, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Colin Singleton, Lindsey Lee Wells, Katherine Carter, Hassan Harbish",
            "synopsis": "\"Katherine V thought boys were grossKatherine X just wanted to be friendsKatherine XVIII dumped him in an e-mailK-19 broke his heartWhen it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton\u0027s type happens to be girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact.On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed-up child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, Judge Judy-loving best friend riding shotgun-but no Katherines. Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship, avenge Dumpees everywhere, and finally win him the girl.Love, friendship, and a dead Austro-Hungarian archduke add up to surprising and heart-changing conclusions in this ingeniously layered comic novel about reinventing oneself.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1507,
            "title": "Antigone",
            "author": "Sophocles, J.E. Thomas (Translator)",
            "date": "12/01/2005",
            "genres": "Classics, Plays, Drama, Fiction, School, Read For School, Mythology, Theatre, Literature, High School",
            "characters": "Antigone, Ismene (sister of Antigone), Eurydice (wife of Creon), Haemon, Tiresias, Creon",
            "synopsis": "\"The curse placed on Oedipus lingers and haunts a younger generation in this new and brilliant translation of Sophocles\u0027 classic drama. The daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, Antigone is an unconventional heroine who pits her beliefs against the King of Thebes in a bloody test of wills that leaves few unharmed. Emotions fly as she challenges the king for the right to bury her own brother. Determined but doomed, Antigone shows her inner strength throughout the play.Antigone raises issues of law and morality that are just as relevant today as they were more than two thousand years ago. Whether this is your first reading or your twentieth, Antigone will move you as few pieces of literature can.To make this quintessential Greek drama more accessible to the modern reader, this Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary of difficult terms, a list of vocabulary words, and convenient sidebar notes. By providing these, it is our intention that readers will more fully enjoy the beauty, wisdom, and intent of the play.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1508,
            "title": "The Invention of Hugo Cabret",
            "author": "Brian Selznick",
            "date": "03/28/07",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Graphic Novels, Middle Grade, Fantasy, Mystery, Historical, Picture Books",
            "characters": "Hugo Cabret, George Méliès, Isabelle",
            "synopsis": "\"Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric, bookish girl and a bitter old man who runs a toy booth in the station, Hugo\u0027s undercover life, and his most precious secret, are put in jeopardy. A cryptic drawing, a treasured notebook, a stolen key, a mechanical man, and a hidden message from Hugo\u0027s dead father form the backbone of this intricate, tender, and spellbinding mystery.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1509,
            "title": "The Ocean at the End of the Lane",
            "author": "Neil Gaiman ",
            "date": "06/18/13",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Magical Realism, Audiobook, Young Adult, Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adult Fiction, Paranormal",
            "characters": "Lettie Hempstock, Ursula Monkton, The Nameless Boy, Ginnie Hempstock, Old Mrs. Hempstock",
            "synopsis": "\"Sussex, England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn\u0027t thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she\u0027d claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy.Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie—magical, comforting, wise beyond her years—promised to protect him, no matter what.A groundbreaking work from a master, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out. It is a stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly\u0027s wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1510,
            "title": "Small Gods",
            "author": "Terry Pratchett",
            "date": "08/01/2005",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Comedy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Religion, Science Fiction, Audiobook, Novels, High Fantasy",
            "characters": "The Librarian, Great God Om, Brutha, Exquisitor Vorbis, Didactylos, Simony, Urn",
            "synopsis": "\"Just because you can\u0027t explain it, doesn\u0027t mean it\u0027s a miracle.\u0027 Religion is a controversial business in the Discworld. Everyone has their own opinion, and indeed their own gods. Who come in all shapes and sizes. In such a competitive environment, there is a pressing need to make one\u0027s presence felt. And it\u0027s certainly not remotely helpful to be reduced to be appearing in the form of a tortoise, a manifestation far below god-like status in anyone\u0027s book. In such instances, you need an acolyte, and fast. Preferably one who won\u0027t ask too many questions...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1511,
            "title": "Tender Is the Night",
            "author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald, Amor Towles  (Introduction)",
            "date": "07/01/1995",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Literature, American, Novels, Romance, 20th Century, France, Literary Fiction, Modern Classics",
            "characters": "Dick Diver, Nicole Diver, Rosemary Hoyt, Elsie Speers, Abe North, Franz Gregorovius, Baby Warren, Tommy Barban",
            "synopsis": "\"Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick\u0027s harrowing demise. A profound study of the romantic concept of character, Tender Is the Night is lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1512,
            "title": "Nausea",
            "author": "Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander (Translator), H.P. van den Aardweg (Translator), Hayden Carruth (Introduction)",
            "date": "10/28/69",
            "genres": "Philosophy, Fiction, Classics, France, Literature, French Literature, Novels, 20th Century, Nobel Prize, Unfinished",
            "characters": "Antoine Roquentin, \"\"l\u0027\u0027Autodidacte\"\", Anny",
            "synopsis": "\"Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogues his every feeling and sensation about the world and people around him. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which \"\"spread at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of our time, the time of purple suspenders and broken chair seats; it is made of wide, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain.\"\" Roquentin\u0027s efforts to try and come to terms with his life, his philosophical and psychological struggles, give Sartre the opportunity to dramatize the tenets of his Existentialist creed.The introduction for this edition of Nausea by Hayden Carruth gives background on Sartre\u0027s life and major works, a summary of the principal themes of Existentialist philosophy, and a critical analysis of the novel itself.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1513,
            "title": "The Passage",
            "author": "Justin Cronin , Dominique Haas (Traduction)",
            "date": "06/08/2010",
            "genres": "Horror, Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Post Apocalyptic, Vampires, Dystopia, Thriller, Apocalyptic, Paranormal",
            "characters": "Brad Wolgast, Lacey Antoinette Kudoto, Phil Doyle, Giles Babcock, Olson Hand, Theo Jaxon, Ida Jaxon, Sara Fisher, Mausami Patal, Caleb \"\"Hightop\"\" Jones, Amy Harper Bellafonte, Peter Jaxon, Anthony Lloyd Carter, Michael \"\"The Circuit\"\" Fisher, Hollis Wilson, Alicia Donadio, Jonas Abbott Lear",
            "synopsis": "\"IT HAPPENED FAST.THIRTY-TWO MINUTES FOR ONE WORLD TO DIE, ANOTHER TO BE BORN.First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. All that remains for the stunned survivors is the long fight ahead and a future ruled by fear-of darkness, of death, of a fate far worse.As civilization swiftly crumbles into a primal landscape of predators and prey, two people flee in search of sanctuary. FBI agent Brad Wolgast is a good man haunted by what he\u0027s done in the line of duty. Six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte is a refugee from the doomed scientific project that has triggered apocalypse. Wolgast is determined to protect her from the horror set loose by her captors, but for Amy, escaping the bloody fallout is only the beginning of a much longer odyssey-spanning miles and decades-toward the time an place where she must finish what should never have begun.With The Passage, award-winning author Justin Cronin has written both a relentlessly suspenseful adventure and an epic chronicle of human endurance in the face of unprecedented catastrophe and unimaginable danger. Its inventive storytelling, masterly prose, and depth of human insight mark it as a crucial and transcendent work of modern fiction.(front flap)\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1514,
            "title": "The Reckoning",
            "author": "Kelley Armstrong ",
            "date": "04/06/2010",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Supernatural, Werewolves, Magic, Ghosts, Fiction",
            "characters": "Chloe Saunders, Derek Souza, \"\"Victoria \u0027\u0027Tori\u0027\u0027 Enright\"\", Simon Bae",
            "synopsis": "\"Chloe Saunders is fifteen and would love to be normal. Unfortunately, Chloe happens to be a genetically engineered necromancer who can raise the dead without even trying. She and her equally gifted (or should that be \u0027cursed\u0027?) friends are now running for their lives from the evil corporation that created them.As if that\u0027s not enough, Chloe is struggling with her feelings for Simon, a sweet-tempered sorcerer, and his brother Derek, a not so sweet-tempered werewolf. And she has a horrible feeling she\u0027s leaning towards the werewolf...Definitely not normal.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1515,
            "title": "Starship Troopers",
            "author": "Robert A. Heinlein",
            "date": "05/15/87",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Classics, Military Fiction, War, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space Opera, Fantasy, Space, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Juan Rico",
            "synopsis": "\"The historians can’t seem to settle whether to call this one \"\"The Third Space War\"\" (or the fourth), or whether \"\"The First Interstellar War\"\" fits it better. We just call it “The Bug War.\"\" Everything up to then and still later were \"\"incidents,\"\" \"\"patrols,\"\" or \"\"police actions.\"\" However, you are just as dead if you buy the farm in an \"\"incident\"\" as you are if you buy it in a declared war...In one of Robert A. Heinlein’s most controversial bestsellers, a recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the Universe—and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry against mankind’s most alarming enemy.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1516,
            "title": "Ethan Frome",
            "author": "Edith Wharton",
            "date": "10/28/05",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Literature, School, Romance, Historical Fiction, American, Novels, High School, Classic Literature",
            "characters": "Ethan Frome, Mrs. Hale, Zeena Frome, Mattie Silver, Mrs. Ned Hale, Denis Eady, Jotham Powell, Harmon Gow, Michael Eady, Lawyer Varnum, Ned Hale, Orin Silver, Andrew Hale, Aunt Martha Pierce, Mrs. Frome, Mrs. Homan, Dr. Buck, Eliza Spears, Aunt Philura Maple, Daniel Byrne, Dr. Kidder, Mrs. Varnum",
            "synopsis": "\"The classic novel of despair, forbidden emotions, and sexual undercurrents set against the austere New England countrysideEthan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeena\u0027s vivacious cousin enters their household as a hired girl, Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent.In one of American fiction\u0027s finest and most intense narratives, Edith Wharton moves this ill-starred trio toward their tragic destinies. Different in both tone and theme from Wharton\u0027s other works, Ethan Frome has become perhaps her most enduring and most widely read book.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1517,
            "title": "The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War",
            "author": "Tim Butcher ",
            "date": "05/01/2014",
            "genres": "History, Nonfiction, World War I, War, Travel, Biography, Politics, European History, 20th Century, Biography Memoir",
            "characters": "Gavrilo Princip",
            "synopsis": "\"On a summer morning in Sarajevo a hundred years ago, a teenage assassin named Gavrilo Princip fired not just the opening shots of the First World War but the starting gun for modern history, when he killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Yet the events Princip triggered were so monumental that his own story has been largely overlooked, his role garbled and motivations misrepresented.The Trigger puts this right, filling out as never before a figure who changed our world and whose legacy still has an impact on all of us today. Born a penniless backwoodsman, Princip’s life changed when he trekked through Bosnia and Serbia to attend school. As he ventured across fault lines of faith, nationalism and empire, so tightly clustered in the Balkans, radicalisation slowly transformed him from a frail farm boy into history’s most influential assassin.By retracing Princip’s journey from his highland birthplace, through the mythical valleys of Bosnia to the fortress city of Belgrade and ultimately Sarajevo, Tim Butcher illuminates our understanding both of Princip and the places that shaped him. Tim uncovers details about Princip that have eluded historians for a century and draws on his own experience, as a war reporter in the Balkans in the 1990s, to face down ghosts of conflicts past and present.The Trigger is a rich and timely work that brings to life both the moment the world first went to war and an extraordinary region with a potent hold over history.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1518,
            "title": "The Gargoyle",
            "author": "Andrew Davidson ",
            "date": "01/01/2008",
            "genres": "Fiction, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Romance, Historical, Contemporary, Adult, Gothic, Paranormal, Adult Fiction",
            "characters": "Marianne Engel",
            "synopsis": "\"An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time.The narrator of The Gargoyle is a very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexually adept, who dwells in the moral vacuum that is modern life. As the book opens, he is driving along a dark road when he is distracted by what seems to be a flight of arrows. He crashes into a ravine and suffers horrible burns over much of his body. As he recovers in a burn ward, undergoing the tortures of the damned, he awaits the day when he can leave the hospital and commit carefully planned suicide—for he is now a monster in appearance as well as in soul. A beautiful and compelling, but clearly unhinged, sculptress of gargoyles by the name of Marianne Engel appears at the foot of his bed and insists that they were once lovers in medieval Germany. In her telling, he was a badly injured mercenary and she was a nun and scribe in the famed monastery of Engelthal who nursed him back to health. As she spins their tale in Scheherazade fashion and relates equally mesmerizing stories of deathless love in Japan, Iceland, Italy, and England, he finds himself drawn back to life—and, finally, in love. He is released into Marianne\u0027s care and takes up residence in her huge stone house. But all is not well. For one thing, the pull of his past sins becomes ever more powerful as the morphine he is prescribed becomes ever more addictive. For another, Marianne receives word from God that she has only twenty-seven sculptures left to complete—and her time on earth will be finished. Already an international literary sensation, the Gargoyle is an Inferno for our time. It will have you believing in the impossible.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1519,
            "title": "Forrest Gump",
            "author": "Winston Groom",
            "date": "10/01/2002",
            "genres": "Fiction, Humor, Historical Fiction, Classics, Media Tie In, Novels, Drama, Adventure, Contemporary, Historical",
            "characters": "Forrest Gump, Lieutenant Dan Taylor, Forrest Gump Jnr, Jenny Curran",
            "synopsis": "\"At 6\u00276\"\" and 240lbs, Forrest Gump is difficult to ignore. This satire follows him from the football dynasties of Bear Bryant to Vietnam, and from encounters with Presidents Johnson and Nixon to pow-wows with Chairman Mao. It also takes in Harvard University, a Hollywood set, and a NASA mission.\"\"Forrest Gump is line bred out of Voltaire and Huck Finn; its humour is wild and coarse, a satire right on the money. It is not the less honest for being so funny, for bringing the woebegone archangels of our culture and history to judgement. Anyone who doesn\u0027t read this book deserves to spend the winter in North Dakota\"\" (Jim Harrison)\"\"A superbly controlled satire\"\" (The Washington Post)\"\"Rollicking, bawdy... A good time... Poking fun at everything\"\" (People)\"\"Winston Groom has created the ideal citizen for the modern world - a perfect idiot\"\" (P.J. O\u0027Rourke)\"\"Joyously madcap\"\" (Publishers Weekly)\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1520,
            "title": "The Sparrow",
            "author": "Mary Doria Russell ",
            "date": "09/08/1997",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Religion, Science Fiction Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Aliens, Adult, Book Club, Novels",
            "characters": "Emilio Sandoz, Jimmy Quinn, Vincenzo Giuliani, John Candotti, Johannes Voelker, Edward Behr, Sofia Mendez, Anne Edwards, George Edwards, Alan Pace, Felipe Reyes, D.W. Yarbrough, Marc Robichaux, Supaari, Askama, Hlavin Kitheri",
            "synopsis": "\"In 2019, humanity finally finds proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post in Puerto Rico picks up exquisite singing from a planet that will come to be known as Rakhat. While United Nations diplomats endlessly debate a possible first contact mission, the Society of Jesus quietly organizes an eight-person scientific expedition of its own. What the Jesuits find is a world so beyond comprehension that it will lead them to question what it means to be \"\"human\"\".\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1521,
            "title": "I Am the Messenger",
            "author": "Markus Zusak , Emmanuel Pailler",
            "date": "05/09/2006",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Fiction, Mystery, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Teen, Audiobook, Australia, Adult, Coming Of Age",
            "characters": "Audrey, Ed Kennedy, Milla Johnson, Marvin Harris, Ritchie Sánchez",
            "synopsis": "\"protect the diamondssurvive the clubsdig deep through the spadesfeel the heartsEd Kennedy is an underage cabdriver without much of a future. He\u0027s pathetic at playing cards, hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey, and utterly devoted to his coffee-drinking dog, the Doorman. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery.That\u0027s when the first ace arrives in the mail.That\u0027s when Ed becomes the messenger.Chosen to care, he makes his way through town helping and hurting (when necessary) until only one question remains: Who\u0027s behind Ed\u0027s mission?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1522,
            "title": "The Hate U Give",
            "author": "Angie Thomas ",
            "date": "02/28/17",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Fiction, Contemporary, Audiobook, Realistic Fiction, Race, Social Justice, Teen, Young Adult Contemporary, African American",
            "characters": "Khalil, Starr, Seven",
            "synopsis": "\"An alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780062498533 can be found here.Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr.But what Starr does—or does not—say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life.Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, this is a powerful and gripping YA novel about one girl\u0027s struggle for justice.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1523,
            "title": "Walking Disaster",
            "author": "Jamie McGuire ",
            "date": "04/02/2013",
            "genres": "Romance, New Adult, Contemporary, Young Adult, Contemporary Romance, College, Fiction, Chick Lit, Fighters, Love",
            "characters": "Abby Abernathy, Travis Maddox",
            "synopsis": "\"How much is too much to love? Travis Maddox learned two things from his mother before she died: Love hard. Fight harder.Finally, the highly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Beautiful Disaster.Can you love someone too much?Travis Maddox learned two things from his mother before she died: Love hard. Fight harder.In Walking Disaster, the life of Travis is full of fast women, underground gambling, and violence. But just when he thinks he is invincible, Abby Abernathy brings him to his knees.Every story has two sides. In Beautiful Disaster, Abby had her say. Now it’s time to see the story through Travis’s eyes.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1524,
            "title": "Dreamfever",
            "author": "Karen Marie Moning ",
            "date": "08/18/09",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal Romance, Fae, Adult, Fiction, Magic, Supernatural",
            "characters": "MacKayla Lane, Rowena, \"\"Dani O\u0027\u0027Malley\"\", Jericho Barrons, \"\"V\u0027\u0027lane\"\", Lord Master, \"\"Derek O\u0027\u0027Bannion\"\", Christian MacKeltar, Ryodan, Darroc",
            "synopsis": "\"MacKayla Lane lies naked on the cold stone floor of a church, at the mercy of the erotic Fae master she once swore to kill. Far from home, unable to control her sexual hungers, MacKayla is now fully under the Lord Master’s spell.…In New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning’s stunning new novel, the walls between human and Fae worlds have come crashing down. And as Mac fights for survival on Dublin’s battle-scarred streets, she will embark on the darkest—and most erotically charged—adventure of her life.He has stolen her past, but MacKayla will never allow her sister’s murderer to take her future. Yet even the uniquely gifted sidhe-seer is no match for the Lord Master, who has unleashed an insatiable sexual craving that consumes Mac’s every thought—and thrusts her into the seductive realm of two very dangerous men, both of whom she desires but dares not trust. As the enigmatic Jericho Barrons and the sensual Fae prince V’lane vie for her body and soul, as cryptic entries from her sister’s diary mysteriously appear and the power of the Dark Book weaves its annihilating path through the city, Mac’s greatest enemy delivers a final challenge.…It’s an invitation Mac cannot refuse, one that sends her racing home to Georgia, where an even darker threat awaits. With her parents missing and the lives of her loved ones under siege, Mac is about to come face-to-face with a soul-shattering truth—about herself and her sister, about Jericho Barrons…and about the world she thought she knew.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1525,
            "title": "Around the World in Eighty Days",
            "author": "Jules Verne, Michael Glencross (Translator, Annotations), Brian W. Aldiss (Introduction)",
            "date": "02/26/04",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Adventure, Science Fiction, France, Travel, Fantasy, Literature, Historical Fiction, Novels",
            "characters": "Fix, Phileas Fogg, Jean Passepartout, Aouda",
            "synopsis": "\"One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passepartout. Passing through exotic lands and dangerous locations, they seize whatever transportation is at hand—whether train or elephant—overcoming set-backs and always racing against the clock.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1526,
            "title": "The Hotel New Hampshire",
            "author": "John Irving ",
            "date": "10/22/82",
            "genres": "Fiction, Contemporary, Literature, Novels, Literary Fiction, Classics, American, Humor, The United States Of America, Adult Fiction",
            "characters": "John Berry, Franny Berry, Frank Berry, Win Berry, Lilly Berry",
            "synopsis": "\"“The first of my father’s illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels.” So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they “dream on” in a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel by the remarkable author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and Last Night in Twisted River.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1527,
            "title": "On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft",
            "author": "Stephen King ",
            "date": "07/28/02",
            "genres": "Nonfiction, Writing, Memoir, Biography, Reference, Autobiography, Audiobook, Biography Memoir, Books About Books, Horror",
            "characters": "Stephen King",
            "synopsis": "\"\"\"Long live the King\"\" hailed Entertainment Weekly upon the publication of Stephen King\u0027s On Writing. Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer\u0027s craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have. King\u0027s advice is grounded in his vivid memories from childhood through his emergence as a writer, from his struggling early career to his widely reported near-fatal accident in 1999 - and how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery. Brilliantly structured, friendly and inspiring, On Writing will empower and entertain everyone who reads it - fans, writers, and anyone who loves a great story well told.(back cover)\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1528,
            "title": "The Forgotten Garden",
            "author": "Kate Morton ",
            "date": "06/01/2008",
            "genres": "Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Historical, Australia, Romance, Adult Fiction, Adult, British Literature, Book Club",
            "characters": "Cassandra Ryan, \"\"Nell O\u0027\u0027Connor\"\", Eliza Makepeace, Rose Mountrachet",
            "synopsis": "\"A foundling, an old book of dark fairy tales, a secret garden, an aristocratic family, a love denied, and a mystery. The Forgotten Garden is a captivating, atmospheric and compulsively readable story of the past, secrets, family and memory from the international best-selling author Kate Morton.Cassandra is lost, alone and grieving. Her much loved grandmother, Nell, has just died and Cassandra, her life already shaken by a tragic accident ten years ago, feels like she has lost everything dear to her. But an unexpected and mysterious bequest from Nell turns Cassandra’s life upside down and ends up challenging everything she thought she knew about herself and her family.Inheriting a book of dark and intriguing fairytales written by Eliza Makepeace—the Victorian authoress who disappeared mysteriously in the early twentieth century—Cassandra takes her courage in both hands to follow in the footsteps of Nell on a quest to find out the truth about their history, their family and their past; little knowing that in the process, she will also discover a new life for herself.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1529,
            "title": "The Bridges of Madison County",
            "author": "Robert James Waller",
            "date": "09/01/1995",
            "genres": "Fiction, Romance, Classics, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Novels, Adult Fiction, Adult, Love, Drama",
            "characters": "Robert Kincaid, Francesca Johnson",
            "synopsis": "\"The story of Robert Kincaid, the photographer and free spirit searching for the covered bridges of Madison County, and Francesca Johnson, the farm wife waiting for the fulfillment of a girlhood dream, THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY gives voice to the longings of men and women everywhere-and shows us what it is to love and be loved so intensely that life is never the same again.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1530,
            "title": "Kane and Abel",
            "author": "Jeffrey Archer",
            "date": "03/13/04",
            "genres": "Fiction, Historical Fiction, Thriller, Drama, Classics, Novels, Historical, Mystery, Contemporary, Mystery Thriller",
            "characters": "William Kane, Abel Rosnovski",
            "synopsis": "\"Born on the same day near the turn of the century on opposite sides of the world, both men are brought together by fate and the quest of a dream. These two men - ambitious, powerful, ruthless - are locked in a relentless struggle to build an empire, fuelled by their all-consuming hatred. Over 60 years and three generations, through war, marriage, fortune, and disaster, Kane and Abel battle for the success and triumph that only one man can have.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1531,
            "title": "Specials",
            "author": "Scott Westerfeld ",
            "date": "05/09/2006",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, Teen, Adventure, Post Apocalyptic, Futuristic",
            "characters": "David Strorm, Tally Youngblood, Shay, Dr. Cable, Andrew Simpson Smith, Peris, Zane (Uglies)",
            "synopsis": "\"\"\"Special Circumstances\"\": The words have sent chills down Tally\u0027s spine since her days as a repellent, rebellious ugly. Back then Specials were a sinister rumor - frighteningly beautiful, dangerously strong, breathtakingly fast. Ordinary pretties might live their whole lives without meeting a Special. But Tally\u0027s never been ordinary.And now she\u0027s been turned into one of them: a superamped fighting machine, engineered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid.The strength, the speed, and the clarity and focus of her thinking feel better than anything Tally can remember. Most of the time. One tiny corner of her heart still remembers something more.Still, it\u0027s easy to tune that out - until Tally\u0027s offered a chance to stamp out the rebels of the New Smoke permanently. It all comes down to one last choice: listen to that tiny, faint heartbeat, or carry out the mission she\u0027s programmed to complete. Either way, Tally\u0027s world will never be the same.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1532,
            "title": "Absalom, Absalom!",
            "author": "William Faulkner",
            "date": "11/30/90",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Literature, American, Novels, Historical Fiction, Southern, Southern Gothic, 20th Century, Literary Fiction",
            "characters": "Quentin Compson III, Thomas Sutpen, Jason Compson III, Shreve, Rosa Coldfield, Ellen Coldfield, Henry Sutpen, Judith Sutpen, Charles Bon, Wash Jones, Jim Bond",
            "synopsis": "\"Published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! is considered by many to be William Faulkner\u0027s masterpiece. Although the novel\u0027s complex and fragmented structure poses considerable difficulty to readers, the book\u0027s literary merits place it squarely in the ranks of America\u0027s finest novels. The story concerns Thomas Sutpen, a poor man who finds wealth and then marries into a respectable family. His ambition and extreme need for control bring about his ruin and the ruin of his family. Sutpen\u0027s story is told by several narrators, allowing the reader to observe variations in the saga as it is recounted by different speakers. This unusual technique spotlights one of the novel\u0027s central questions: To what extent can people know the truth about the past?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1533,
            "title": "Shutter Island",
            "author": "Dennis Lehane ",
            "date": "04/27/04",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Horror, Suspense, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Novels, Psychological Thriller, Adult Fiction",
            "characters": "Teddy Daniels, Chuck Aule, Dr. John Cawley, Dr. Jeremiah Naehring",
            "synopsis": "\"The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this remote and barren island, despite having been kept in a locked cell under constant surveillance. As a killer hurricane relentlessly bears down on them, a strange case takes on even darker, more sinister shades—with hints of radical experimentation, horrifying surgeries, and lethal countermoves made in the cause of a covert shadow war. No one is going to escape Shutter Island unscathed, because nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. But then neither is Teddy Daniels.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1534,
            "title": "Mort",
            "author": "Terry Pratchett",
            "date": "02/06/2001",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Comedy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Magic, Novels, Death, Science Fiction",
            "characters": "Albert, DEATH, Mort, Ysabel, Keli",
            "synopsis": "\"Terry Pratchett\u0027s profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestseller in England, where they have catapulted him into the highest echelons of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.In this Discworld installment, Death comes to Mort with an offer he can\u0027t refuse - especially since being, well, dead isn\u0027t compulsory. As Death\u0027s apprentice, he\u0027ll have free board and lodging, use of the company horse, and he won\u0027t need time off for family funerals. The position is everything Mort thought he\u0027d ever wanted, until he discovers that this perfect job can be a killer on his love life.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1535,
            "title": "The Golden Lily",
            "author": "Richelle Mead ",
            "date": "06/12/2012",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Vampires, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Magic, Supernatural, Paranormal Romance, Fiction",
            "characters": "Sydney Sage, Dimitri Belikov, Adrian Ivashkov, Jillian Mastrano, Edison \"\"Eddie\"\" Castile, Angeline Dawes, Sonya Karp, Keith Darnell, Tom Darnell",
            "synopsis": "\"Sydney Sage is an Alchemist, one of a group of humans who dabble in magic and serve to bridge the worlds of humans and vampires. Alchemists protect vampire secrets - and human lives.Sydney would love to go to college, but instead, she\u0027s been sent into hiding at a posh boarding school in Palm Springs, California - tasked with protecting Moroi princess Jill Dragomir from assassins who want to throw the Moroi court into civil war. Formerly in disgrace, Sydney is now praised for her loyalty and obedience, and held up as the model of an exemplary Alchemist.But the closer she grows to Jill, Eddie, and especially Adrian, the more she finds herself questioning her age-old Alchemist beliefs, her idea of family, and her sense of what it means to truly belong. Her world becomes even more complicated when magical experiments show Sydney may hold the key to prevent becoming Strigoi - the fiercest vampires, the ones who don\u0027t die. But it\u0027s her fear of being just that - special, magical, powerful - that scares her more than anything. Equally daunting is her new romance with Braydon, a cute, brainy guy who seems to be her match in every way. Yet, as perfect as he seems, Sydney finds herself being drawn to someone else - someone forbidden to her.When a shocking secret threatens to tear the vampire world apart, Sydney\u0027s loyalties are suddenly tested more than ever before. She wonders how she\u0027s supposed to strike a balance between the principles and dogmas she\u0027s been taught, and what her instincts are now telling her.Should she trust the Alchemists - or her heart?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1536,
            "title": "One Foot in the Grave",
            "author": "Jeaniene Frost ",
            "date": "04/29/08",
            "genres": "Vampires, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Romance, Fantasy, Adult, Supernatural, Fiction, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Denise MacGregor, Bones (Night Huntress series), Catherine Crawfield-Russell, Spade (Night Huntress series), Mencheres, Tate Bradley, Don Williams, Ian Flannery, Annette De Witt, Maximus (Night Huntress series)",
            "synopsis": "\"You can run from the grave, but you can’t hide…Half-vampire Cat Crawfield is now Special Agent Cat Crawfield, working for the government to rid the world of the rogue undead. She’s still using everything Bones, her sexy and dangerous ex, taught her, but when Cat is targeted for assassination, the only man who can help her is the vampire she left behind.Being around Bones awakens all her emotions, from the adrenaline rush of slaying vamps side by side to the reckless passion that consumed them. But a price on her head – wanted: dead or half-alive – means her survival depends on teaming up with Bones. And no matter how hard Cat tries to keep things professional between them, she’ll find that desire lasts forever … and Bones won’t let her get away again.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1537,
            "title": "A Million Little Pieces",
            "author": "James Frey",
            "date": "09/22/05",
            "genres": "Fiction, Contemporary, Psychology, Biography Memoir, Adult, Book Club, Novels, Mental Health, Adult Fiction, Drama",
            "characters": "James Frey",
            "synopsis": "\"Intense, unpredictable, and instantly engaging, this is a story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation as it has never been told before. It is also the introduction of a bold and talented literary voice. Before considering reading this book, please see the BookBrowse note on the book jacket/review page.BookBrowse Note: January 9th 2006: An article in the Smoking Gun claimed that James Frey (author of A Million Little Pieces and My Friend Leonard) fabricated key parts of his books. They cited police records, court documents and interviews with law enforcement agents which belie a number of Frey\u0027s claims regarding criminal charges against him, jail terms and his fugitive status.In an interview with the Smoking Gun, Frey admitted that he had \u0027embellished central details\u0027 in A Million Little Pieces and backtracked on claims he made in the book.January 26th 2006. Frey\u0027s publisher stated that while it initially stood by him, after further questioning of the author, the house has \"\"sadly come to the realization that a number of facts have been altered and incidents embellished.\"\" It will be adding a a publisher\u0027s note and author\u0027s note to all future editions of A Million Little Pieces.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1538,
            "title": "Mystic River",
            "author": "Dennis Lehane ",
            "date": "02/01/2001",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Drama, Novels, Adult, Contemporary",
            "characters": "Dave Boyle, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus",
            "synopsis": "\"Boston, 1975. East Buckingham è un quartiere in cui tutti conoscono tutti. Nessuno dei suoi abitanti se ne mai andato, se non quei ragazzi che la guerra ha strappato dalle proprie case per non restituirli più. Crescere in una periferia come questa non è certo il modo migliore per dare alla propria vita grandi prospettive. Ma è qui che Sean, Jimmy e Dave sono nati, e la loro esistenza sarebbe stata uguale a quella di tanti altri se non fosse arrivata quella dannata mattina. La mattina in cui Dave, con i suoi occhi spenti pieni di lacrime è salito sul sedile posteriore di quella macchina. Ed è scomparso per quattro, terribili giorni. Venticinque anni dopo, la violenza torna a segnare la vita di Dave. Questa volta però gli sguardi che si posano su di lui non sono compassionevoli, ma carichi d\u0027odio e disprezzo. Reazione più che naturale di fronte all\u0027omicidio di una ragazza di diciannove anni di cui Dave è accusato. E, quasi che il destino volesse rinsaldare un tragico legame, la vittima è la figlia di Jimmy, mentre Sean, diventato poliziotto, è incaricato delle indagini.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1539,
            "title": "The Blood of Olympus",
            "author": "Rick Riordan ",
            "date": "10/07/2014",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Mythology, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Fiction, Adventure, Greek Mythology, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Childrens",
            "characters": "Leo Valdez, Nico di Angelo, Thalia Grace, Annabeth Chase, Demeter (Goddess), Grover Underwood, Hera, Hades, Reyna, Juno, Rachel Elizabeth Dare, Jason Grace, Piper McLean, Hazel Levesque, Frank Zhang, Will Solace, Percy Jackson",
            "synopsis": "\"Nico had warned them. Going through the House of Hades would stir the demigods\u0027 worst memories. Their ghosts would become restless. Nico may actually become a ghost if he has to shadow-travel with Reyna and Coach Hedge one more time. But that might be better than the alternative: allowing someone else to die, as Hades foretold.Jason\u0027s ghost is his mother, who abandoned him when he was little. He may not know how he is going to prove himself as a leader, but he does know that he will not break promises like she did. He will complete his line of the prophecy: To storm or fire the world must fall.Reyna fears the ghosts of her ancestors, who radiate anger. But she can\u0027t allow them to distract her from getting the Athena Parthenos to Camp Half-Blood before war breaks out between the Romans and Greeks. Will she have enough strength to succeed, especially with a deadly hunter on her trail?Leo fears that his plan won\u0027t work, that his friends might interfere. But there is no other way. All of them know that one of the Seven has to die in order to defeat Gaea, the Earth Mother.Piper must learn to give herself over to fear. Only then will she be able to do her part at the end: utter a single word.Heroes, gods, and monsters all have a role to play in the climactic fulfillment of the prophecy in The Blood of Olympus, the electrifying finale of the best-selling Heroes of Olympus series.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1540,
            "title": "The City of Ember",
            "author": "Jeanne DuPrau",
            "date": "2003",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Dystopia, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Fiction, Middle Grade, Childrens, Adventure, Post Apocalyptic, Teen",
            "characters": "Lina Mayfleet, Doon Harrow",
            "synopsis": "\"An alternate cover edition can be found here.Many hundreds of years ago, the city of Ember was created by the Builders to contain everything needed for human survival. It worked…but now the storerooms are almost out of food, crops are blighted, corruption is spreading through the city and worst of all—the lights are failing. Soon Ember could be engulfed by darkness…But when two children, Lina and Doon, discover fragments of an ancient parchment, they begin to wonder if there could be a way out of Ember. Can they decipher the words from long ago and find a new future for everyone? Will the people of Ember listen to them?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1541,
            "title": "The Agony and the Ecstasy",
            "author": "Irving Stone",
            "date": "1961",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Art, Classics, Italy, Historical, Art History, Literature, Biography Memoir, Novels",
            "characters": "\"\"Lorenzo de\u0027\u0027 Medici\"\", Michelangelo, Pope Clement VII, Francesco Granacci, Pietro Torrigiani, Pope Julius II, Leonardo da Vinci",
            "synopsis": "\"Celebrating the 500th anniversary of Michelangelo’s David, New American Library releases a special edition of Irving Stone’s classic biographical novel—in which both the artist and the man are brought to life in full. A masterpiece in its own right, this novel offers a compelling portrait of Michelangelo’s dangerous, impassioned loves, and the God-driven fury from which he wrested the greatest art the world has ever known.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1542,
            "title": "We",
            "author": "Yevgeny Zamyatin, Clarence Brown (Translator, Introduction)",
            "date": "1993",
            "genres": "Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Classics, Russia, Russian Literature, Literature, Novels, 20th Century, Science Fiction Fantasy",
            "characters": "D-503, I-330, S-4711, O-90, R-13",
            "synopsis": "\"The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell\u0027s 1984 and foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet RussiaYevgeny Zamyatin\u0027s We is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand. In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the all-powerful \u0027Benefactor\u0027, the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState live out lives devoid of passion and creativity - until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: he has an individual soul. Set in the twenty-sixth century AD, We is the classic dystopian novel and was the forerunner of works such as George Orwell\u0027s 1984 and Aldous Huxley\u0027s Brave New World. It was suppressed for many years in Russia and remains a resounding cry for individual freedom, yet is also a powerful, exciting and vivid work of science fiction. Clarence Brown\u0027s brilliant translation is based on the corrected text of the novel, first published in Russia in 1988 after more than sixty years\u0027 suppression.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1543,
            "title": "Deception Point",
            "author": "Dan Brown ",
            "date": "Dec-02",
            "genres": "Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Crime, Novels, Science Fiction, Action",
            "characters": "Rachel Sexton, Michael Tolland, Thomas Sedgewick Sexton, Corky Marlinson, Zachary Herney, William Pickering, Gabrielle Ashe, Marjorie Tench, Lawrence Ekstrom",
            "synopsis": "\"A shocking scientific discovery. A conspiracy of staggering brilliance. A thriller unlike any you\u0027ve ever read....When a NASA satellite discovers an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory—a victory with profound implications for NASA policy and the impending presidential election. To verify the authenticity of the find, the White House calls upon the skills of intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton. Accompanied by a team of experts, including the charismatic scholar Michael Tolland, Rachel travels to the Arctic and uncovers the unthinkable: evidence of scientific trickery—a bold deception that threatens to plunge the world into controversy. But before she can warn the President, Rachel and Michael are ambushed by a deadly team of assassins. Fleeing for their lives across a desolate and lethal landscape, their only hope for survival is to discover who is behind this masterful plot. The truth, they will learn, is the most shocking deception of all.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1544,
            "title": "Wizard and Glass",
            "author": "Stephen King , Dave McKean (Illustrator)",
            "date": "Oct-03",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Westerns, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Post Apocalyptic, Novels",
            "characters": "Eddie Dean, Jake Chambers, Roland Deschain, Alain Johns, Susannah Dean (The Dark Tower), Cuthbert Allgood, The Crimson King, Susan Delgado, Captain Trips",
            "synopsis": "\"Roland, Eddie, Susannah, Jake, and Jake’s pet bumbler survive Blaine the Mono’s final crash, only to find themselves stranded in an alternate version of Topeka, Kansas, one that has been ravaged by the superflu virus. While following the deserted I-70 toward a distant glass palace, they hear the atonal squalling of a thinny, a place where the fabric of existence has almost entirely worn away. While camping near the edge of the thinny, Roland tells his ka-tet a story about another thinny, one that he encountered when he was little more than a boy. Over the course of one long magical night, Roland transports us to the Mid-World of long-ago and a seaside town called Hambry, where Roland fell in love with a girl named Susan Delgado, and where he and his old tet-mates Alain and Cuthbert battled the forces of John Farson, the harrier who—with a little help from a seeing sphere called Maerlyn’s Grapefruit—ignited Mid-World’s final war.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1545,
            "title": "The Bhagavad Gita",
            "author": "Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Simon Brodbeck (Introduction), Juan Mascaró (Translator)",
            "date": "2003",
            "genres": "Religion, Philosophy, Classics, Spirituality, Nonfiction, Poetry, India, Hinduism, Mythology, History",
            "characters": "Arjuna, Krishna, Sanjaya, King Dhrtarastra, Dhrstadyumna, Dronacharya",
            "synopsis": "\"The Bhagavad Gita is an early epic poem that recounts the conversation between Arjuna the warrior and his charioteer Krishna, the manifestation of God. In the moments before a great battle, the dialogue sets out the important lessons Arjuna must learn to change the outcome of the war he is to fight, and culminates in Krishna revealing to the warrior his true cosmic form, counselling him to search for the universal perfection of life. Ranging from instructions on yoga postures to dense moral discussion, the Gita is one of the most important Hindu texts, as well as serving as a practical guide to living well.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1546,
            "title": "The Man Without Qualities",
            "author": "Robert Musil, Burton Pike (Editor), Sophie Wilkins (Translator)",
            "date": "1995",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Philosophy, Literature, German Literature, Novels, 20th Century, Historical Fiction, Germany, Literary Fiction",
            "characters": "Ulrich, Franz Joseph I of Austria, Dr. Paul Arnheim",
            "synopsis": "\"Set in Vienna on the eve of World War I, this great novel of ideas tells the story of Ulrich, ex-soldier and scientist, seducer and skeptic, who finds himself drafted into the grandiose plans for the 70th jubilee of the Emperor Franz Josef. This new translation - published in two elegant volumes - is the first to present Musil\u0027s complete text, including material that remained unpublished during his lifetime.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1547,
            "title": "Eleven Minutes",
            "author": "Paulo Coelho , Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)",
            "date": "2003",
            "genres": "Fiction, Romance, Novels, Contemporary, Philosophy, Literature, Adult, Spirituality, Drama, Brazil",
            "characters": "Mariecke, Ralph",
            "synopsis": "\"Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that “love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer. . . .” A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune.Maria’s despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome young painter. In this odyssey of self-discovery, Maria has to choose between pursuing a path of darkness—sexual pleasure for its own sake—or risking everything to find her own “inner light” and the possibility of sacred sex, sex in the context of love.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1548,
            "title": "Invisible Cities",
            "author": "Italo Calvino, William Weaver (Translator)",
            "date": "1974",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Short Stories, Magical Realism, Italian Literature, Literature, Italy, Architecture, Novels",
            "characters": "Marco Polo, Kublai Khan",
            "synopsis": "\"\"\"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, but the emperor of the Tartars does continue listening to the young Venetian with greater attention and curiosity than he shows any other messenger or explorer of his.\"\" So begins Italo Calvino\u0027s compilation of fragmentary urban images. As Marco tells the khan about Armilla, which \"\"has nothing that makes it seem a city, except the water pipes that rise vertically where the houses should be and spread out horizontally where the floors should be,\"\" the spider-web city of Octavia, and other marvelous burgs, it may be that he is creating them all out of his imagination, or perhaps he is recreating fine details of his native Venice over and over again, or perhaps he is simply recounting some of the myriad possible forms a city might take.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1549,
            "title": "Maus: Un survivant raconte, tome 1: Mon père saigne l\u0027histoire",
            "author": "Art Spiegelman",
            "date": "Jun-18",
            "genres": "Graphic Novels, Comics, History, Nonfiction, Memoir, Holocaust, Biography, Historical, War, Graphic Novels Comics",
            "characters": "Vladek Spiegelman, Anja Spiegelman, Art Spiegelman, Mala Spiegelman",
            "synopsis": "\"Maus raconte la vie de Vladek Spiegelman, rescapé juif des camps nazis, et de son fils, auteur de bandes dessinées, qui cherche un terrain de réconciliation avec son père, sa terrifiante histoire et l\u0027Histoire. Des portes d\u0027Auschwitz aux trottoirs de New York se déroule en deux temps (les années 30 et les années 70) le récit d\u0027une double survie : celle du père, mais aussi celle du fils, qui se débat pour survivre au survivant. Ici, les Nazis sont des chats et les Juifs des souris.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1550,
            "title": "The Tin Drum",
            "author": "Günter Grass, Ralph Manheim (Translator)",
            "date": "2005",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, German Literature, Historical Fiction, Literature, Germany, Magical Realism, Novels, Nobel Prize, War",
            "characters": "Oskar Matzerath",
            "synopsis": "On his third birthday Oskar decides to stop growing. Haunted by the deaths of his parents and wielding his tin drum Oskar recounts the events of his extraordinary life; from the long nightmare of the Nazi era to his anarchic adventures in post-war Germany."
          },
          {
            "id": 1551,
            "title": "A Town Like Alice",
            "author": "Nevil Shute",
            "date": "2000",
            "genres": "Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, Australia, Romance, War, Historical, World War II, Literature, Novels",
            "characters": "Jean Paget, Joe Harman",
            "synopsis": "\"Nevil Shute\u0027s most beloved novel, a tale of love and war, follows its enterprising heroine from the Malayan jungle during World War II to the rugged Australian outback.Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman living in Malaya, is captured by the invading Japanese and forced on a brutal seven-month death march with dozens of other women and children. A few years after the war, Jean is back in England, the nightmare behind her. However, an unexpected inheritance inspires her to return to Malaya to give something back to the villagers who saved her life. Jean\u0027s travels leads her to a desolate Australian outpost called Willstown, where she finds a challenge that will draw on all the resourcefulness and spirit that carried her through her war-time ordeals.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1552,
            "title": "The Turn of the Screw",
            "author": "Henry James",
            "date": "1994",
            "genres": "Classics, Horror, Fiction, Gothic, Mystery, Literature, 19th Century, Ghosts, Audiobook, Paranormal",
            "characters": "Flora (Turn of the Screw), Miles (Turn of the Screw), Mrs. Grose, Peter Quint, Miss Jessel",
            "synopsis": "\"A very young woman\u0027s first job: governess for two weirdly beautiful, strangely distant, oddly silent children, Miles and Flora, at a forlorn estate...An estate haunted by a beckoning evil.Half-seen figures who glare from dark towers and dusty windows- silent, foul phantoms who, day by day, night by night, come closer, ever closer. With growing horror, the helpless governess realizes the fiendish creatures want the children, seeking to corrupt their bodies, possess their minds, own their souls...But worse-much worse- the governess discovers that Miles and Flora have no terror of the lurking evil.For they want the walking dead as badly as the dead want them.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1553,
            "title": "Nights in Rodanthe",
            "author": "Nicholas Sparks ",
            "date": "Aug-04",
            "genres": "Romance, Fiction, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Adult, Adult Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Love, Drama, Novels",
            "characters": "Adrienne Willis, Paul Flanner",
            "synopsis": "\"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks comes a tender story of hope and joy; of sacrifice and forgiveness - a moving reminder that love is possible at any age, at any time, and often comes when we least expect it. At forty-five, Adrienne Willis must rethink her entire life when her husband abandons her for a younger woman. Reeling with heartache and in search of a respite, she flees to the small coastal town of Rodanthe, North Carolina to tend to a friend\u0027s inn for the weekend. But when a major storm starts moving in, it appears that Adrienne\u0027s perfect getaway will be ruined - until a guest named Paul Flanner arrives. At fifty-four, Paul has just sold his medical practice and come to Rodanthe to escape his own shattered past. Now, with the storm closing in, two wounded people will turn to each other for comfort - and in one weekend set in motion feelings that will resonate throughout the rest of their lives.Did You Know?--The main characters\u0027 names were Christmas presents to Nicholas\u0027s in-laws (Paul and Adrienne)?This was Nicholas\u0027s first book to debut at #1?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1554,
            "title": "Hearts in Atlantis",
            "author": "Stephen King ",
            "date": "2001",
            "genres": "Horror, Fiction, Fantasy, Short Stories, Thriller, Suspense, Supernatural, Mystery, War, Historical Fiction",
            "characters": "The Crimson King, American Law Enforcement, Ted Brautigan, Bobby Garfield, Liz Garfield, Carol Gerber, John Sullivan, Peter Riley, Willie Shearman, Ronnie Malenfant",
            "synopsis": "\"Five interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War.Stephen King, whose first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974, the year before the last U.S. troops withdrew from Vietnam, is the first hugely popular writer of the TV generation. Images from that war - and the protests against it - had flooded America\u0027s living rooms for a decade. Hearts in Atlantis, King\u0027s newest fiction, is composed of five interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War. In Part One, \"\"Low Men in Yellow Coats,\"\" eleven-year-old Bobby Garfield discovers a world of predatory malice in his own neighborhood. He also discovers that adults are sometimes not rescuers but at the heart of the terror. In the title story, a bunch of college kids get hooked on a card game, discover the possibility of protest...and confront their own collective heart of darkness, where laughter may be no more than the thinly disguised cry of the beast. In \"\"Blind Willie\"\" and \"\"Why We\u0027re in Vietnam,\"\" two men who grew up with Bobby in suburban Connecticut try to fill the emptiness of the post-Vietnam era in an America which sometimes seems as hollow - and as haunted - as their own lives. And in \"\"Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling,\"\" this remarkable book\u0027s denouement, Bobby returns to his hometown where one final secret, the hope of redemption, and his heart\u0027s desire may await him. Full of danger, full of suspense, most of all full of heart, Stephen King\u0027s new book will take some readers to a place they have never been...and others to a place they have never been able to completely leave.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1556,
            "title": "The Red Badge of Courage",
            "author": "Stephen Crane",
            "date": "2006",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, War, Civil War, Literature, Historical, School, Young Adult, American",
            "characters": "Henry Fleming",
            "synopsis": "\"Henry Fleming has joined the Union army because of his romantic ideas of military life, but soon finds himself in the middle of a battle against a regiment of Confederate soldiers. Terrified, Henry deserts his comrades. Upon returning to his regiment, he struggles with his shame as he tries to redeem himself and prove his courage.The Red Badge of Courage is Stephen Crane’s second book, notable for its realism and the fact that Crane had never personally experienced battle. Crane drew heavy inspiration from Century Magazine, a periodical known for its articles about the American Civil War. However, he criticized the articles for their lack of emotional depth and decided to write a war novel of his own. The manuscript was first serialized in December 1894 by The Philadelphia Press and quickly won Crane international acclaim before he died in June 1900 at the age of 28.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1557,
            "title": "Needful Things",
            "author": "Stephen King ",
            "date": "1992",
            "genres": "Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Supernatural, Mystery, Paranormal, Suspense, Adult, Novels",
            "characters": "Leland Gaunt, Brian Rusk, Cora Rusk, Polly Chalmers, Alan Pangborn, Norris Ridgewick, Danforth Keeton, Netitia Cobb, Wilma Jerzyck, Sally Ratcliffe, Lester Pratt, Frank Jewett, Ace Merrill, Sean Rusk, Myrtle Keeton, George T. Nelson, Hugh Priest, Seaton Thomas, Henry Payton, Slopey Dodd, Henry Beaufort",
            "synopsis": "\"Leland Gaunt opens a new shop in Castle Rock called Needful Things. Anyone who enters his store finds the object of his or her lifelong dreams and desires: a prized baseball card, a healing amulet. In addition to a token payment, Gaunt requests that each person perform a little \"\"deed,\"\" usually a seemingly innocent prank played on someone else from town. These practical jokes cascade out of control and soon the entire town is doing battle with itself. Only Sheriff Alan Pangborn suspects that Gaunt is behind the population\u0027s increasingly violent behavior.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1558,
            "title": "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns",
            "author": "Frank Miller, Klaus Janson (Illustrator), Lynn Varley (Illustrator)",
            "date": "Nov-12",
            "genres": "Comics, Graphic Novels, Batman, Fiction, Comic Book, Graphic Novels Comics, Dc Comics, Superheroes, Fantasy, Classics",
            "characters": "Oliver Queen, Harvey Dent, Alfred Pennyworth, Carrie Kelley, James Gordon, Selina Kyle, Bruce Wayne, Joker, Superman",
            "synopsis": "\"This masterpiece of modern comics storytelling brings to vivid life a dark world and an even darker man. Together with inker Klaus Janson and colorist Lynn Varley, writer/artist Frank Miller completely reinvents the legend of Batman in his saga of a near-future Gotham City gone to rot, ten years after the Dark Knight\u0027s retirement. Crime runs rampant in the streets, and the man who was Batman is still tortured by the memories of his parents\u0027 murders. As civil society crumbles around him, Bruce Wayne\u0027s long-suppressed vigilante side finally breaks free of its self-imposed shackles. The Dark Knight returns in a blaze of fury, taking on a whole new generation of criminals and matching their level of violence. He is soon joined by this generation\u0027s Robin—a girl named Carrie Kelley, who proves to be just as invaluable as her predecessors.But can Batman and Robin deal with the threat posed by their deadliest enemies, after years of incarceration have made them into perfect psychopaths? And more important, can anyone survive the coming fallout of an undeclared war between the superpowers—or a clash of what were once the world\u0027s greatest superheroes?Over fifteen years after its debut, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns remains an undisputed classic and one of the most influential stories ever told in the comics medium.Collecting Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #1-4\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1559,
            "title": "Alias Grace",
            "author": "Margaret Atwood ",
            "date": "Dec-96",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Mystery, Historical, Canada, Classics, Literary Fiction, Crime, Literature, Novels",
            "characters": "Grace Marks",
            "synopsis": "\"It\u0027s 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders.An up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens to her story while bringing her closer and closer to the day she cannot remember. What will he find in attempting to unlock her memories?Captivating and disturbing, Alias Grace showcases best-selling, Booker Prize-winning author Margaret Atwood at the peak of her powers.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1560,
            "title": "The Red and the Black",
            "author": "Stendhal, Roger Gard (Translator)",
            "date": "2002",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, France, French Literature, Literature, 19th Century, Novels, Historical Fiction, Romance, Classic Literature",
            "characters": "Julien Sorel, Mathilde de la Mole, Valenod, Pirard, Chélan, Fouqué, Elisa, Madame de Rênal, Marquis de la Mole",
            "synopsis": "\"Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon realizing that success can only be achieved by adopting the subtle code of hypocrisy by which society operates, he begins to achieve advancement through deceit and self-interest. His triumphant career takes him into the heart of glamorous Parisian society, along the way conquering the gentle, married Madame de Rênal, and the haughty Mathilde. But then Julien commits an unexpected, devastating crime - and brings about his own downfall. The Red and the Black is a lively, satirical portrayal of French society after Waterloo, riddled with corruption, greed, and ennui, and Julien - the cold exploiter whose Machiavellian campaign is undercut by his own emotions - is one of the most intriguing characters in European literature.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1561,
            "title": "The Dead Zone",
            "author": "Stephen King ",
            "date": "Aug-80",
            "genres": "Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Mystery, Suspense, Paranormal, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Novels",
            "characters": "Johnny Smith, Greg Stillson, Frank Dodd, American Law Enforcement",
            "synopsis": "\"Johnny, the small boy who skated at breakneck speed into an accident that for one horrifying moment plunged him into The Dead Zone. Johnny Smith, the small-town schoolteacher who spun the wheel of fortune and won a four-and-a-half-year trip into The Dead Zone. John Smith, who awakened from an interminable coma with an accursed power—the power to see the future and the terrible fate awaiting mankind in The Dead Zone.~\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1562,
            "title": "Stoner",
            "author": "John Williams, John McGahern (Contributor)",
            "date": "2006",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Literature, Novels, American, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, The United States Of America, 20th Century, Americana",
            "characters": "William Stoner",
            "synopsis": "\"William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a “proper” family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied; his wife and daughter turn coldly away from him; a transforming experience of new love ends under threat of scandal. Driven ever deeper within himself, Stoner rediscovers the stoic silence of his forebears and confronts an essential solitude.John Williams’s luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1563,
            "title": "The Gormenghast Novels",
            "author": "Mervyn Peake, Anthony Burgess (Introduction), Quentin Crisp (Introduction)",
            "date": "Dec-95",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Classics, Gothic, Novels, Literature, Science Fiction Fantasy, Horror, 20th Century, Science Fiction",
            "characters": "Titus Groan, Steerpike, Dr. Alfred Prunesquallor, Lord Sepulchrave, Mr. Flay, Abiatha Swelter, Gertrude Groan, Fuchsia Groan, Keda, Nannie Slagg, Cora Groan, Clarice Groan",
            "synopsis": "\"A doomed lord, an emergent hero, and a dazzling array of bizarre creatures inhabit the magical world of the Gormenghast novels which, along with Tolkien\u0027s Lord of the Rings, reign as one of the undisputed fantasy classics of all time. At the center of it all is the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, who stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that form Gormenghast Castle and its kingdom, unless the conniving Steerpike, who is determined to rise above his menial position and control the House of Groan, has his way.In these extraordinary novels, Peake has created a world where all is like a dream - lush, fantastical, and vivid. Accompanying the text are Peake\u0027s own drawings, illustrating the whole assembly of strange and marvelous creatures that inhabit Gormenghast.Also featuring:Introductory essays by Anthony Burgess and Quentin CrispTwelve critical essays, curated by Peake scholar Peter G. WinningtonFragment of the unpublished novel, Titus Awakes\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1564,
            "title": "The French Lieutenant\u0027s Woman",
            "author": "John Fowles",
            "date": "2009",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Romance, Historical, Literature, British Literature, Novels, Literary Fiction, 20th Century",
            "characters": "Sarah Woodruff, Charles Smithson, Ernestina Freeman, Sam Farrow, Dr Grogan",
            "synopsis": "\"The scene is the village of Lyme Regis on Dorset\u0027s Lyme Bay...\"\"the largest bite from the underside of England\u0027s out-stretched southwestern leg.\"\" The major characters in the love-intrigue triangle are Charles Smithson, 32, a gentleman of independent means \u0026 vaguely scientific bent; his fiancée, Ernestina Freeman, a pretty heiress daughter of a wealthy \u0026 pompous dry goods merchant; \u0026 Sarah Woodruff, mysterious \u0026 fascinating...deserted after a brief affair with a French naval officer a short time before the story begins. Obsessed with an irresistible fascination for the enigmatic Sarah, Charles is hurtled by a moment of consummated lust to the brink of the existential void. Duty dictates that his engagement to Tina must be broken as he goes forth once again to seek the woman who has captured his Victorian soul \u0026 gentleman\u0027s heart.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1565,
            "title": "Quo Vadis",
            "author": "Henryk Sienkiewicz, W.S. Kuniczak (Translator)",
            "date": "2006",
            "genres": "Classics, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Polish Literature, Historical, Literature, Religion, Romance, Christian, Novels",
            "characters": "Nero (emperor), Lygia, Marcus Vinicius, Paul of Tarsus, Ursus, Petronius, Chilo Chilonides, Simon Peter",
            "synopsis": "\"This glorious saga unfolds against the backdrop of ancient Rome-from the Forum to the Coliseum, from banquet halls to summer retreats in Naples, from the luxurious houses of the nobility to the hovels of the poor, Quo Vadis richly depicts a place and time still captivating to the modern imagination. This radiant translation by W.S. Kuniczak restores the original glory and richness of master storyteller Henryk Sienkiewicz\u0027s epic tale.Set at a turning point in history (A.D. 54-68), as Christianity replaces the era of corruption and immorality that marked Nero\u0027s Rome, Quo Vadis abounds with compelling characters, including:Vinicius, the proud centurion who has fallen deeply in love with a mysterious young woman who disappears the night they meet;Ligia, the elusive beauty. Vinicius will not easily win her love, for she is a Christian, one of the group of dedicated believers led by the apostle Peter. Christians are rare in pagan, hedonistic Rome, and suffer great persecution;Petronius, uncle to Vinicius, an elegant, witty courtier who scoffs at love and religion but finds his nephew\u0027s passion charming; andNero himself, enemy of all Christians, a despotic emperor who plunges Rome deeper and deeper into depravity. The decadence of his banquets is staggering; and even worse, his mad laughter is heard echoing in the amphitheater as gladiators duel to the death.As Nero\u0027s appalling plans for the Christians become ever clearer, time appears to be running out for the young lovers. Vinicius must come to understand the true meaning of Ligia\u0027s religion before it is too late.Grand in scope and ambition, Quo Vadis explores the themes of love, desire and profound moral courage. Lavish descriptions, vivid dialogue and brilliantly drawn characters make this one of the world\u0027s greatest epics. Beloved by children and adults the world over, Quo Vadis has been the subject of five films, two of them in English.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1566,
            "title": "Guards! Guards!",
            "author": "Terry Pratchett",
            "date": "Aug-01",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Comedy, Dragons, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Magic, Novels, High Fantasy",
            "characters": "Nobby Nobbs, Carrot Ironfoundersson, Sam Vimes, Cut Me Own Throat Dibbler, Havelock Vetinari, Sybil Deidre Olgivanna Ramkin, DEATH, The Librarian, Lupine Wonse, Fred Colon",
            "synopsis": "\"This is where the dragons went. They lie ... not dead, not asleep, but ... dormant. And although the space they occupy isn\u0027t like normal space, nevertheless they are packed in tightly. They could put you in mind of a can of sardines, if you thought sardines were huge and scaly. And presumably, somewhere, there\u0027s a key...GUARDS! GUARDS! is the eighth Discworld novel - and after this, dragons will never be the same again!\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1567,
            "title": "Perdido Street Station",
            "author": "China Miéville ",
            "date": "Aug-03",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Steampunk, Urban Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction Fantasy, New Weird, Weird Fiction, Speculative Fiction",
            "characters": "Lin, Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin, Yagharek, Mr. Motley, Derkhan Blueday, Lemuel Pigeon, Bentham Rudgutter, Construct Council",
            "synopsis": "\"Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies the city of New Crobuzon, where the unsavory deal is stranger to no one-not even to Isaac, a gifted and eccentric scientist who has spent a lifetime quietly carrying out his unique research. But when a half-bird, half-human creature known as the Garuda comes to him from afar, Isaac is faced with challenges he has never before encountered. Though the Garuda\u0027s request is scientifically daunting, Isaac is sparked by his own curiosity and an uncanny reverence for this curious stranger. Soon an eerie metamorphosis will occur that will permeate every fiber of New Crobuzon-and not even the Ambassador of Hell will challenge the malignant terror it evokes.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1568,
            "title": "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman",
            "author": "Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New (Editor), Christopher Ricks (Introduction)",
            "date": "2003",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Literature, 18th Century, Humor, Novels, British Literature, English Literature, Classic Literature, Irish Literature",
            "characters": "Tristram Shandy, Uncle Toby, Trim, Yorick, Mr. Shandy, Mrs. Shandy",
            "synopsis": "\"No one description will fit this strange, eccentric, endlessly complex masterpiece. It is a fiction about fiction-writing in which the invented world is as much infused with wit and genius as the theme of inventing it. It is a joyful celebration of the infinite possibilities of the art of fiction, and a wry demonstration of its limitations. This Penguin Classic contains Christopher Ricks\u0027s introductory essay, itself a classic of English literary criticism, together with a new introduction on the recent critical history and influence of Tristram Shandy by Melvyn New. The text and notes are based on the acclaimed Florida Edition, making the scholarship of the Florida editors readily available for the first time.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1569,
            "title": "The House of the Scorpion",
            "author": "Nancy Farmer ",
            "date": "May-04",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Fiction, Fantasy, Teen, Adventure, School, Middle Grade, Childrens",
            "characters": "El Patron, Tam Lin, Maria Mendoza, Chacho, Fidelito, Ton-Ton",
            "synopsis": "\"With undertones of vampires, Frankenstein, dragons\u0027 hoards, and killing fields, Matt\u0027s story turns out to be an inspiring tale of friendship, survival, hope, and transcendence. A must-read for teenage fantasy fans.At his coming-of-age party, Matteo Alacrán asks El Patrón\u0027s bodyguard, \"\"How old am I?...I know I don\u0027t have a birthday like humans, but I was born.\"\" \"\"You were harvested,\"\" Tam Lin reminds him. \"\"You were grown in that poor cow for nine months and then you were cut out of her.\"\" To most people around him, Matt is not a boy, but a beast. A room full of chicken litter with roaches for friends and old chicken bones for toys is considered good enough for him. But for El Patrón, lord of a country called Opium—a strip of poppy fields lying between the U.S. and what was once called Mexico—Matt is a guarantee of eternal life. El Patrón loves Matt as he loves himself for Matt is himself. They share identical DNA.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1570,
            "title": "Darkness at Noon",
            "author": "Arthur Koestler, Daphne Hardy (Translator)",
            "date": "Mar-84",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Politics, Russia, Literature, Novels, Dystopia, 20th Century, Thriller",
            "characters": "Nicolas Salmanovitch Rubashov",
            "synopsis": "\"Darkness at Noon (from the German: Sonnenfinsternis) is a novel by the Hungarian-born British novelist Arthur Koestler, first published in 1940. His best-known work tells the tale of Rubashov, a Bolshevik 1917 revolutionary who is cast out, imprisoned and tried for treason by the Soviet government he\u0027d helped create.Darkness at Noon stands as an unequaled fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an aging revolutionary, imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the Party to which he has dedicated his life. As the pressure to confess preposterous crimes increases, he relives a career that embodies the terrible ironies and human betrayals of a totalitarian movement masking itself as an instrument of deliverance. Almost unbearably vivid in its depiction of one man\u0027s solitary agony, it asks questions about ends and means that have relevance not only for the past but for the perilous present. It is —- as the Times Literary Supplement has declared —- \"\"A remarkable book, a grimly fascinating interpretation of the logic of the Russian Revolution, indeed of all revolutionary dictatorships, and at the same time a tense and subtly intellectualized drama.\"\"\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1571,
            "title": "The White Tiger",
            "author": "Aravind Adiga",
            "date": "2008",
            "genres": "Fiction, India, Contemporary, Indian Literature, Novels, Literature, Literary Fiction, Asia, Book Club, Crime",
            "characters": "Balram Halwai, Ashok, Kishan, Kusum, Stork",
            "synopsis": "\"Introducing a major literary talent, The White Tiger offers a story of coruscating wit, blistering suspense, and questionable morality, told by the most volatile, captivating, and utterly inimitable narrator that this millennium has yet seen. Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells us the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life—having nothing but his own wits to help him along. Born in the dark heart of India, Balram gets a break when he is hired as a driver for his village\u0027s wealthiest man, two house Pomeranians (Puddles and Cuddles), and the rich man\u0027s (very unlucky) son. From behind the wheel of their Honda City car, Balram\u0027s new world is a revelation. While his peers flip through the pages of Murder Weekly (\"\"Love - Rape - Revenge!\"\"), barter for girls, drink liquor (Thunderbolt), and perpetuate the Great Rooster Coop of Indian society, Balram watches his employers bribe foreign ministers for tax breaks, barter for girls, drink liquor (single-malt whiskey), and play their own role in the Rooster Coop. Balram learns how to siphon gas, deal with corrupt mechanics, and refill and resell Johnnie Walker Black Label bottles (all but one). He also finds a way out of the Coop that no one else inside it can perceive. Balram\u0027s eyes penetrate India as few outsiders can: the cockroaches and the call centers; the prostitutes and the worshippers; the ancient and Internet cultures; the water buffalo and, trapped in so many kinds of cages that escape is (almost) impossible, the white tiger. And with a charisma as undeniable as it is unexpected, Balram teaches us that religion doesn\u0027t create virtue, and money doesn\u0027t solve every problem - but decency can still be found in a corrupt world, and you can get what you want out of life if you eavesdrop on the right conversations. The White Tiger recalls The Death of Vishnu and Bangkok 8 in ambition, scope, and narrative genius, with a mischief and personality all its own. Amoral, irreverent, deeply endearing, and utterly contemporary, this novel is an international publishing sensation —and a startling, provocative debut.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1572,
            "title": "If Tomorrow Comes",
            "author": "Sidney Sheldon",
            "date": "1985",
            "genres": "Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Romance, Suspense, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Drama, Contemporary, Novels",
            "characters": "Tracy Whitney, Maximilian, Don Orsatti, Joe Romano",
            "synopsis": "\"This is a story of intrigue and revenge. Tracy Whitney is young, beautiful and intelligent - and about to marry into wealth and glamour. Until, suddenly, she is betrayed, framed by a ruthless Mafia gang, abandoned by the man she loves. Only her ingenuity saves her and helps her fight back.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1573,
            "title": "The Sword of Shannara",
            "author": "Terry Brooks ",
            "date": "Apr-99",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, Young Adult, Adult, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Shea Ohmsford, Flick, Allanon, Menion, Balinor, Hendel, Durin, Dayel",
            "synopsis": "\"Living in peaceful Shady Vale, Shea Ohmsford knew little of the troubles that plagued the rest of the world. Then the giant, forbidding Allanon revealed that the supposedly dead Warlock Lord was plotting to destroy the world. The sole weapon against this Power of Darkness was the Sword of Shannara, which could only be used by a true heir of Shannara-Shea being the last of the bloodline, upon whom all hope rested. Soon a Skull Bearer, dread minion of Evil, flew into the Vale, seeking to destroy Shea. To save the Vale, Shea fled, drawing the Skull Bearer after him....\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1574,
            "title": "The Day of the Jackal",
            "author": "Frederick Forsyth",
            "date": "Sept-79",
            "genres": "Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Crime, Espionage, Suspense, Historical Fiction, Drama, Mystery Thriller, Novels",
            "characters": "the Jackal, Claude Lebel, Victor Kowalski, Jacqueline Dumas",
            "synopsis": "\"Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.The Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with opaque, gray eyes. A killer at the top of his profession. A man unknown to any secret service in the  world. An assassin with a contract to kill the world\u0027s most heavily guarded man.One  man with a rifle who can change the course of history. One man whose mission is so secretive not even his employers know his name. And as the minutes count down to the final act of execution, it seems that there is no power on earth that can stop the Jackal.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1575,
            "title": "About a Boy",
            "author": "Nick Hornby",
            "date": "2000",
            "genres": "Fiction, Contemporary, Humor, British Literature, Novels, Adult Fiction, Adult, Comedy, Literature, Coming Of Age",
            "characters": "Will Burrows, Fiona Waters, Ellie",
            "synopsis": "\"\u0027How cool was Will Freeman?\u0027Too cool! At thirty-six, he\u0027s as hip as a teenager. He\u0027s single, child-free, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He\u0027s also found a great way to score with women: attend single parents\u0027 groups full of available (and grateful) mothers, all hoping to meet a Nice Guy.Which is how Will meets Marcus, the oldest twelve-year-old on the planet. Marcus is a bit strange: he listens to Joni Mitchell and Mozart, looks after his mum and has never owned a pair of trainers. But Marcus latches on to Will - and won\u0027t let go. Can Will teach Marcus how to grow up cool? And can Marcus help Will just to grow up?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1576,
            "title": "Master of the Game",
            "author": "Sidney Sheldon",
            "date": "1993",
            "genres": "Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Romance, Drama, Novels, Crime, Historical Fiction",
            "characters": "Eve, Alexandra Jones, Anthony \"\"Tony\"\" Blackwell, Kate Blackwell, David Blackwell, Jamie Mcgregor, Salomon van der Merwe, Margaret van der Merwe, Dr. Peter Templeton",
            "synopsis": "\"One of Sidney Sheldon\u0027s most popular and bestselling titles, repackaged and reissued for a new generation of fans. Kate Blackwell is one of the richest and most powerful women in the world. She is an enigma, a woman surrounded by a thousand unanswered questions. Her father was a diamond prospector who struck it rich beyond his wildest dreams. Her mother was the daughter of a crooked Afrikaaner merchant. Her conception was itself an act of hate-filled vengeance. At the extravagent celebrations of her ninetieth birthday, there are toasts from a Supreme Court Judge and a telegram from the White House. And for Kate there are ghosts, ghosts of absent friends and of enemies. Ghosts from a life of blackmail and murder. Ghosts from an empire spawned by naked ambition! Sidney Sheldon is one of the most popular storytellers in the world. This is one of his best-loved novels, a compulsively readable thriller, packed with suspense, intrigue and passion. It will recruit a new generation of fans to his writing.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1577,
            "title": "The Wee Free Men",
            "author": "Terry Pratchett",
            "date": "2004",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Humor, Comedy, Magic, Science Fiction Fantasy, Childrens, Adventure, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Nanny Ogg, Tiffany Aching, Nac Mac Feegle, Granny Weatherwax",
            "synopsis": "\"Librarian\u0027s Note: For an alternate cover edition of the same ISBN, click here.\"\"Another world is colliding with this one,\"\" said the toad. \"\"All the monsters are coming back.\"\"\"\"Why?\"\" said Tiffany.\"\"There\u0027s no one to stop them.\"\"There was silence for a moment.Then Tiffany said, \"\"There\u0027s me.\"\"Armed only with a frying pan and her common sense, Tiffany Aching, a young witch-to-be, is all that stands between the monsters of Fairyland and the warm, green Chalk country that is her home. Forced into Fairyland to seek her kidnapped brother, Tiffany allies herself with the Chalk\u0027s local Nac Mac Feegle - aka the Wee Free Men - a clan of sheep-stealing, sword-wielding, six-inch-high blue men who are as fierce as they are funny. Together they battle through an eerie and ever-shifting landscape, fighting brutal flying fairies, dream-spinning dromes, and grimhounds - black dogs with eyes of fire and teeth of razors - before ultimately confronting the Queen of the Elves, absolute ruler of a world in which reality intertwines with nightmare. And in the final showdown, Tiffany must face her cruel power alone...In a riveting narrative that is equal parts suspense and humor, Carnegie Medalist Terry Pratchett returns to his internationally popular Discworld with a breathtaking tale certain to leave fans, new and old, enthralled.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1578,
            "title": "Lord of Misrule",
            "author": "Rachel Caine ",
            "date": "Jan-09",
            "genres": "Vampires, Young Adult, Paranormal, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Paranormal Romance, Teen",
            "characters": "Michael Glass, Shane Collins, Eve Rosser, Claire Danvers",
            "synopsis": "\"In the college town of Morganville, vampires and humans coexist in (relatively) bloodless harmony. Then comes Bishop, the master vampire who threatens to abolish all order, revive the forces of the evil dead, and let chaos rule. But Bishop isn\u0027t the only threat. Violent black cyclone clouds hover, promising a storm of devastating proportions as student Claire Danvers and her friends prepare to defend Morganville against elements both natural and unnatural.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1579,
            "title": "The Illuminatus! Trilogy",
            "author": "Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson",
            "date": "Dec-83",
            "genres": "Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Humor, Philosophy, Conspiracy Theories, Novels, Occult, Politics, Science Fiction Fantasy",
            "characters": "George Dorn, Joseph Malik, Hagbard Celine, Saul Goodman, Barney Muldoon, Simon Moon, Stella Maris, John Dillinger",
            "synopsis": "\"It was a deadly mistake. Joseph Malik, editor of a radical magazine, had snooped into rumors about an ancient secret society that was still alive and kicking. Now his offices have been bombed, he\u0027s missing, and the case has landed in the lap of a tough, cynical, streetwise New York detective. Saul Goodman knows he\u0027s stumbled onto something big—but even he can\u0027t guess how far into the pinnacles of power this conspiracy of evil has penetrated.Filled with sex and violence—in and out of time and space—the three books of The Illuminatus! Trilogy are only partly works of the imagination. They tackle all the cover-ups of our time—from who really shot the Kennedys to why there\u0027s a pyramid on a one-dollar bill—and suggest a mind-blowing truth.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1580,
            "title": "Animal Dreams",
            "author": "Barbara Kingsolver",
            "date": "1991",
            "genres": "Fiction, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Adult, Literature, Realistic Fiction, Womens, Romance",
            "characters": "Cosima \"\"Codi\"\" Noline, Homer Noline, Halimeda \"\"Hallie\"\" Noline, Emelina Domingo, Loyd Peregrina, J.T. Domingo",
            "synopsis": "\"\"\"Animals dream about the things they do in the day time just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you\u0027ve got to live a sweet life.\"\" So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher. But when Codi Noline returns to her hometown, Loyd\u0027s advice is painfully out of her reach. Dreamless and at the end of her rope, Codi comes back to Grace, Arizona to confront her past and face her ailing, distant father. What she finds is a town threatened by a silent environmental catastrophe, some startling clues to her own identity, and a man whose view of the world could change the course of her life. Blending flashbacks, dreams, and Native American legends, Animal Dreams is a suspenseful love story and a moving exploration of life\u0027s largest commitments. With this work, the acclaimed author of The Bean Trees and Homeland and Other Stories sustains her familiar voice while giving readers her most remarkable book yet.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1581,
            "title": "Out of Africa",
            "author": "Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen",
            "date": "1992",
            "genres": "Nonfiction, Africa, Classics, Memoir, Biography, Travel, History, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, Kenya",
            "characters": "Gustav Mohr, Isak Dinesen",
            "synopsis": "\"Out of Africa is Isak Dinesen\u0027s memoir of her years in Africa, from 1914 to 1931, on a four-thousand-acre coffee plantation in the hills near Nairobi. She had come to Kenya from Denmark with her husband, and when they separated she stayed on to manage the farm by herself, visited frequently by her lover, the big-game hunter Denys Finch-Hatton, for whom she would make up stories \"\"like Scheherazade.\"\" In Africa, \"\"I learned how to tell tales,\"\" she recalled many years later. \"\"The natives have an ear still. I told stories constantly to them, all kinds.\"\" Her account of her African adventures, written after she had lost her beloved farm and returned to Denmark, is that of a master storyteller, a woman whom John Updike called \"\"one of the most picturesque and flamboyant literary personalities of the century.\"\"\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1582,
            "title": "The Bridge on the Drina",
            "author": "Ivo Andrić, Lovett F. Edwards (Translator), William H. McNeill (Introduction)",
            "date": "1977",
            "genres": "Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, Literature, Historical, Novels, Nobel Prize, War, 20th Century, Serbian Literature",
            "characters": "Franz Ferdinand, Karađorđe Petrović, Sokollu Mehmed Pasha, Abidaga, Fata Avdagina, Radisav, Alihodja Mutevelić, Osman Effendi Karamanli, the man from Plvelje, Pop Nikola, Mula Ibrahim, Arif Beg, Shemsibeg Branković, Milan Glasinčanin, Lotte Apfelmaier, Gregor Fedun, Janko Stiković, Fehim Bhatijarević, Nikola Glasičanin, Zorka",
            "synopsis": "\"A vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late sixteenth century to the beginning of World War I, The Bridge on the Drina earned Ivo Andric the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961. A great stone bridge built three centuries ago in the heart of the Balkans by a Grand Vezir of the Ottoman Empire dominates the setting of Andric\u0027s stunning novel. Spanning generations, nationalities, and creeds, the bridge stands witness to the countless lives played out upon it: Radisav, the workman, who tries to hinder its construction and is impaled on its highest point; to the lovely Fata, who throws herself from its parapet to escape a loveless marriage; to Milan, the gambler, who risks everything in one last game on the bridge with the devil his opponent; to Fedun, the young soldier, who pays for a moment of spring forgetfulness with his life. War finally destroys the span, and with it the last descendant of that family to which the Grand Vezir confided the care of his pious bequest - the bridge.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1583,
            "title": "Suttree",
            "author": "Cormac McCarthy",
            "date": "May-92",
            "genres": "Fiction, Literature, Southern Gothic, Novels, Classics, American, Southern, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Gothic",
            "characters": "Cornelius Suttree, Gene Harrogate",
            "synopsis": "\"This compelling novel has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living alone and in exile in a disintegrating houseboat on the wrong side of the Tennessee River close by Knoxville. He stays at the edge of an outcast community inhabited by eccentrics, criminals and the poverty-stricken. Rising above the physical and human squalor around him, his detachment and wry humour enable him to survive dereliction and destitution with dignity.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1584,
            "title": "The Forest of Hands and Teeth",
            "author": "Carrie Ryan ",
            "date": "Jul-09",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Zombies, Horror, Dystopia, Fantasy, Fiction, Post Apocalyptic, Romance, Paranormal, Science Fiction",
            "characters": "Mary, Travis, Harry Adams, Cass, Jed",
            "synopsis": "\"In Mary\u0027s world there are simple truths. The Sisterhood always knows best. The Guardians will protect and serve. The Unconsecrated will never relent. And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the fence that protects the village from the Forest of Hands and Teeth. But, slowly, Mary’s truths are failing her. She’s learning things she never wanted to know about the Sisterhood and its secrets, and the Guardians and their power, and about the Unconsecrated and their relentlessness. When the fence is breached and her world is thrown into chaos, she must choose between her village and her future—between the one she loves and the one who loves her. And she must face the truth about the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Could there be life outside a world surrounded by so much death?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1585,
            "title": "Tatiana and Alexander",
            "author": "Paullina Simons",
            "date": "2008",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Romance, Historical, Historical Romance, Fiction, Russia, War, Adult, World War II, Love",
            "characters": "Tatiana Metanova, Alexander Barrington",
            "synopsis": "\"Tatiana is eighteen years old, pregnant, and widowed when she escapes war-torn Leningrad to find a new life in America. But the ghosts of her past do not rest easily. She becomes consumed by the belief that her husband, Red Army officer Alexander Belov, is still alive and needs her desperately.Meanwhile, oceans and continents away in the Soviet Union, Alexander barely escapes execution, and is forced to lead a battalion of soldiers considered expendable by the Soviet high command. Yet Alexander is determined to take his men through the ruins of Europe in one last desperate bid to escape Stalin\u0027s death machine and somehow find his way to Tatiana once again.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1586,
            "title": "The Cat in the Hat Comes Back",
            "author": "Dr. Seuss",
            "date": "2000",
            "genres": "Childrens, Picture Books, Fiction, Classics, Poetry, Humor, Fantasy, Cats, Animals, Juvenile",
            "characters": "Sally, The Cat in the Hat",
            "synopsis": "\"The Cat in the Hat returns for more out-of-control fun in this wintry Beginner Book by Dr. Seuss. It’s a snowy day and Dick and Sally are stuck shovelling . . . until the Cat in the Hat arrives to liven things up (to say the least!). Featuring the Cat’s helpers Little Cat A, Little Cat B, and so on through the alphabet, and ending with a gigantic Voom, \u0027The Cat in the Hat Comes Back\u0027 is a riotous, fun-filled follow-up to Dr. Seuss’s classic \u0027The Cat in the Hat.\u0027.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1587,
            "title": "O Pioneers!",
            "author": "Willa Cather",
            "date": "1992",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literature, American, Historical, Novels, Westerns, 20th Century, Classic Literature",
            "characters": "Alexandra Bergson",
            "synopsis": "\"O Pioneers! (1913) was Willa Cather\u0027s first great novel, and to many it remains her unchallenged masterpiece. No other work of fiction so faithfully conveys both the sharp physical realities and the mythic sweep of the transformation of the American frontier—and the transformation of the people who settled it. Cather\u0027s heroine is Alexandra Bergson, who arrives on the wind-blasted prairie of Hanover, Nebraska, as a girl and grows up to make it a prosperous farm. But this archetypal success story is darkened by loss, and Alexandra\u0027s devotion to the land may come at the cost of love itself.At once a sophisticated pastoral and a prototype for later feminist novels, O Pioneers! is a work in which triumph is inextricably enmeshed with tragedy, a story of people who do not claim a land so much as they submit to it and, in the process, become greater than they were.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1588,
            "title": "A Wind in the Door",
            "author": "Madeleine L\u0027Engle",
            "date": "Mar-76",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Science Fiction, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Meg Murry, Charles Wallace Murry, \"\"Calvin O\u0027\u0027Keefe\"\", Echthroi, Mrs. Murry, Proginoskes",
            "synopsis": "\"Every time a star goes out, another Echthros has won a battle.Just before Meg Murry\u0027s little brother, Charles Wallace, falls deathly ill, he sees dragons in the vegetable garden. The dragons turn out to be Proginoskes, a cherubim composed out wings and eyes, wind and flame. It is up to Meg and Proginoskes, along with Meg\u0027s friend Calvin, to save Charles Wallace\u0027s life. To do so, they must travel deep within Charles Wallace to attempt to defeat the Echthroi—those who hate—and restore brilliant harmony and joy to the rhythm of creation, the song of the universe.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1589,
            "title": "The Earthsea Trilogy",
            "author": "Ursula K. Le Guin",
            "date": "1979",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Classics, Epic Fantasy, Magic, Dragons, Speculative Fiction",
            "characters": "Lebannen, Ged",
            "synopsis": "\"As long ago as forever and as far away as Selidor, there lived the dragonlord and Archmage, Sparrowhawk, the greatest of the great wizards - he who, when still a youth, met with the evil shadow-beast; he who later brought back the Ring of Erreth-Akbe from the Tombs of Atuan; and he who, as an old man, rode the mighty dragon Kalessin back from the land of the dead. And then, the legends say, Sparrowhawk entered his boat, Lookfar, turned his back on land, and without wind or sail or oar moved westward over the sea and out of sight.Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore - Ursula Le Guin\u0027s brilliant and magical trilogy.Cover Illustration: Jonathan Field\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1590,
            "title": "Twilight",
            "author": "Meg Cabot ",
            "date": "2006",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Paranormal, Fantasy, Romance, Ghosts, Supernatural, Fiction, Teen, Chick Lit, Mystery",
            "characters": "Hector de Silva (Jesse), Susannah \"\"Suze\"\" Simon, Paul Slater, Kelly Prescott, Father Dominic, Jake Ackerman (Sleepy), Brad Ackerman (Dopey), David Ackerman (Doc), Sister Ernestine",
            "synopsis": "\"This time it\u0027s life or death.Suze has gotten used to ghosts. She\u0027s a mediator, after all, and communicating with the dead is all in a day\u0027s work. So she certainly never expected to fall in love with one: Jesse, a nineteenth-century hottie. But when she discovers that she has the power to determine who becomes a ghost in the first place, Suze begins to freak. It means she can alter the course of history... and prevent Jesse\u0027s murder, keeping him from ever becoming a ghost - and from ever meeting Suze.Will Jesse choose to live without her, or die to love her?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1591,
            "title": "The Fall of Hyperion",
            "author": "Dan Simmons",
            "date": "Dec-95",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Space Opera, Science Fiction Fantasy, Time Travel, Audiobook, Space, Speculative Fiction, Horror",
            "characters": "Martin Silenus, Sol Weintraub, Consul, The Shrike, Rachel Weintraub, Brawne Lamia, Fedmahn Kassad, Meina Gladstone, Melio Arundez, Tyrena Wingreen-Feif, John Keats",
            "synopsis": "\"In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention. On the world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secrets they contain mean that nothing-nothing anywhere in the universe-will ever be the same.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1592,
            "title": "Ship of Magic",
            "author": "Robin Hobb ",
            "date": "Mar-99",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure, Dragons, Magic, Adult, Pirates",
            "characters": "Althea Vestrit, Ephron Vestrit, Ronica Vestrit, Keffria Vestrit, Kyle Haven, Wintrow Vestrit, Malta Vestrit, Vivacia, Paragon, Brashen Trell, Amber (Liveship Traders), Kennit",
            "synopsis": "\"Wizardwood, a sentient wood.The most precious commodity in the world.Like many other legendary wares, it comes only from the Rain River Wilds.But how can one trade with the Rain Wilders, when only a liveship fashioned from wizardwood can negotiate the perilous waters of the Rain River? Rare and valuable a liveship will quicken only when three members, from successive generations, have died on board. The liveship Vivacia is about to undergo her quickening as Althea Vestrit’s father is carried on deck in his death-throes. Althea waits for the ship that she loves more than anything else in the world to awaken. Only to discover that the Vivacia has been signed away in her father’s will to her brutal brother-in-law, Kyle Haven...Others plot to win or steal a liveship. The Paragon, known by many as the Pariah, went mad, turned turtle, and drowned his crew. Now he lies blind, lonely, and broken on a deserted beach. But greedy men have designs to restore him, to sail the waters of the Rain Wild River once more.Cover illustration by John Howe\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1593,
            "title": "Os Maias",
            "author": "Eça de Queirós, Ester de Lemos (Introdução)",
            "date": "Apr-03",
            "genres": "Classics, Portuguese Literature, Fiction, Romance, Portugal, School, Literature, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Novels",
            "characters": "Carlos da Maia, João da Ega, Maria Eduarda, Afonso da Maia, Maria Monforte, Eusébiozinho, Alencar, Conde de Gouvarinho, Sousa Neto, Palma Cavalão, Dâmaso Salcede, Steinbroken, Cohen, Craft, Condessa de Gouvarinho, Cruges, Tancredo, Sr. Guimarães, Rufino",
            "synopsis": "\"Biblioteca Ulisseia de Autores Portugueses #15Os Maias é uma das obras mais conhecidas do escritor português Eça de Queiroz. O livro foi publicado no Porto em 1888. A acção de Os Maias passa-se em Lisboa, na segunda metade do século XIX, e apresenta-nos a história de três gerações da família Maia. A acção inicia-se no Outono de 1875, quando Afonso da Maia, nobre e pobre proprietário, se instala no Ramalhete com o neto recém formado em Medicina. Neste momento faz-se uma longa descrição da casa - \"\"O Ramalhete,\"\" cujo nome tem origem num painel de azulejos com um ramo de girassóis, e não em algo fresco ou campestre, tal como o nome nos remete a pensar. Afonso da Maia era o personagem mais simpático do romance e aquele que o autor mais valorizou, pois não se lhe conhecem defeitos. É um homem de carácter, culto e requintado nos gostos. Em jovem aderiu aos ideais do Liberalismo e foi obrigado, por seu pai, a sair de casa e a instalar-se em Inglaterra. Após o pai falecer regressa a Lisboa para casar com Maria Eduarda Runa, mas pouco tempo depois escolhe o exílio por razões de ordem política. Há em Os Maias um retrato da Lisboa da epóca. Carlos, que mora na Rua das Janelas Verdes, caminha com frequência até ao Rossio (embora, por vezes, vá a cavalo ou de carruagem). Algumas das lojas citadas no livro ainda existem - a Casa Havaneza, no Chiado, por exemplo. É possível seguir os diferentes percursos de Carlos ou do Ega pelas suas da Baixa lisboeta, ainda que algumas tenham mudado de nome. No final do livro, quando Carlos volta a Lisboa muitos anos depois, somos levados a ver as novidades - a Avenida da Liberdade, que substituiu o Passeio Público, e que é descrita como uma coisa nova, e feia pela sua novidade, exactamente como nos anos 70 se falava das casas de emigrante. O romance veicula sobre o país uma perspectiva muito derrotista, muito pessimista. Tirando a natureza (o Tejo, Sintra, Santa Olávia...), é tudo uma choldra ignóbil. Predomina uma visão de estrangeirado, de quem só valoriza as civilizações superiores - da França e Inglaterra, principalmente. Os políticos são mesquinhos, ignorantes ou corruptos (Gouvarinho, Sousa Neto...); os homens das Letras sao boémios e dissolutos, retrógrados ou distantes da realidade concreta (Alencar, Ega...: lembre-se o que se passou no Sarau do Teatro da Trindade); os jornalistas boémios e venais (Palma...); os homens do desporto não conseguem organizar uma corrida de cavalos, pois não há hipódromo à altura, nem cavalos, nem cavaleiros, as pessoas não vestem como o evento exigia, as senhoras traziam vestidos de missa. Para cúmulo de tudo isto, os protagonistas acabam vencidos da vida. Apesar de ser isto referido no fim do livro, pode-se ver que ainda há alguma esperanca implícita, nas passagens em que Carlos da Maia e João da Ega dizem que o apetite humano é a causa de todos os seus problemas e que portanto nunca mais terão apetites, mas logo a seguir dizem que lhes está a apetecer um \"\"prato de paio com ervilhas,\"\" ou quando dizem que a pressa não leva a nada e que a vida deve ser levada com calma mas começam a correr para apanhar o americano (eléctrico). Mais do que crítica de costumes, o romance mostra-nos um país - sobretudo Lisboa - que se dissolve, incapaz de se regenerar. Quando o autor escreve mais tarde A Cidade e as Serras, expõe uma atitude muito mais construtiva: o protagonista regenera-se pela descoberta das raízes rurais ancestrais não atingidas pela degradação da civilização, num movimento inverso ao que predomina n\u0027Os Maias.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1594,
            "title": "Bag of Bones",
            "author": "Stephen King ",
            "date": "Jun-99",
            "genres": "Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Fantasy, Paranormal, Suspense, Supernatural, Ghosts, Adult",
            "characters": "Mike Noonan, Mattie Devore, Kyra Devore, Max Devore, Jo Noonan, Sara Tidwell",
            "synopsis": "\"Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write, and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he calls Sara Laughs, Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside getaway. There, he finds his beloved Yankee town held in the grip of a powerful millionaire, Max Devore, whose vindictive purpose is to take his three-year-old granddaughter, Kyra, away from her widowed young mother, Mattie. As Mike is drawn into Mattie and Kyra\u0027s struggle, as he falls in love with both of them, he is also drawn into the mystery of Sara Laughs, now the site of ghostly visitations and escalating terrors. What are the forces that have been unleashed here—and what do they want of Mike Noonan?It is no secret that King is one of our most mesmerizing storytellers. In Bag of Bones, he proves to be one of our most moving as well.(back cover)\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1595,
            "title": "Tales of the City",
            "author": "Armistead Maupin",
            "date": "1989",
            "genres": "Fiction, LGBT, Queer, Humor, Gay, Classics, Contemporary, Novels, American, Literature",
            "characters": "Mary Ann Singleton, Michael Tolliver, Anna  Madrigal, Mona Ramsey, Brian Hawkins",
            "synopsis": "\"San Francisco, 1976. A naïve young secretary, fresh out of Cleveland, tumbles headlong into a brave new world of laundromat Lotharios, pot-growing landladies, cut throat debutantes, and Jockey Shorts dance contests. The saga that ensues is manic, romantic, tawdry, touching, and outrageous—unmistakably the handiwork of Armistead Maupin.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1596,
            "title": "Shadowland",
            "author": "Meg Cabot , Jenny Carroll",
            "date": "2005",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Ghosts, Fiction, Supernatural, Mystery, Chick Lit, Teen",
            "characters": "Susannah \"\"Suze\"\" Simon, Hector de Silva (Jesse), Father Dominic, Andy Ackerman, Jake Ackerman (Sleepy), Brad Ackerman (Dopey), David Ackerman (Doc), Adam McTavish, CeeCee Webb, Bryce Martinson, Gina Augustin",
            "synopsis": "\"Suze is a mediator - a liaison between the living and the dead. In other words, she sees dead people. And they won\u0027t leave her alone until she helps them resolve their unfinished business with the living. But Jesse, the hot ghost haunting her bedroom, doesn\u0027t seem to need her help. Which is a relief, because Suze has just moved to sunny California and plans to start fresh, with trips to the mall instead of the cemetery, and surfing instead of spectral visitations. But the very first day at her new school, Suze realizes it\u0027s not that easy. There\u0027s a ghost with revenge on her mind ... and Suze happens to be in the way.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1597,
            "title": "Brida",
            "author": "Paulo Coelho , Montserrat Mira (Translator)",
            "date": "2006",
            "genres": "Fiction, Fantasy, Philosophy, Novels, Romance, Spirituality, Inspirational, Literature, Magical Realism, Contemporary",
            "characters": "Brida",
            "synopsis": "\"O livro conta a história de Brida O\u0027 Fern, uma irlandesa de 21 anos em busca da magia e dos poderes ocultos. Durante sua busca, Brida conhece um mago, Mago de Folk, que promete ensiná-la através da Tradição do Sol, que explica tudo através da natureza e de suas manifestações divinas. Mas Brida toma, na verdade, como mestra, Wicca, uma bela mulher que lhe ensina através da Tradição da Lua, a antiga Tradição das Bruxas, que explica o Universo através da Sabedoria e do Tempo. Sua evolução espiritual e sua busca pela Outra Parte (a famosa alma gêmea) estão retratadas neste livro emocionante e tão interessante quanto os outros livros do autor - segue contudo, o estilo altamente \"\"místico\"\" como \"\"O Diário de um Mago\"\" e \"\"O Alquimista\"\".\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1598,
            "title": "Prey",
            "author": "Michael Crichton",
            "date": "2006",
            "genres": "Fiction, Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror, Suspense, Mystery, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure, Novels, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Jack Forman, Julia Forman",
            "synopsis": "\"In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles - micro-robots - has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive.It has been programmed as a predator. It is evolving swiftly, becoming more deadly with each passing hour.Every attempt to destroy it has failed.And we are the prey.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1599,
            "title": "Last Exit to Brooklyn",
            "author": "Hubert SelJr., Gilbert Sorrentino (Editor)",
            "date": "2000",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Thriller, Contemporary, Dark, New York, American, Crime, Novels, Mystery",
            "characters": "Harry Black",
            "synopsis": "\"Few novels have caused as much debate as Hubert Selby Jr.\u0027s notorious masterpiece, Last Exit to Brooklyn, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.Described by various reviewers as hellish and obscene, Last Exit to Brooklyn tells the stories of New Yorkers who at every turn confront the worst excesses in human nature. Yet there are moments of exquisite tenderness in these troubled lives. Georgette, the transvestite who falls in love with a callous hoodlum; Tralala, the conniving prostitute who plumbs the depths of sexual degradation; and Harry, the strike leader who hides his true desires behind a boorish masculinity, are unforgettable creations. Last Exit to Brooklyn was banned by British courts in 1967, a decision that was reversed the following year with the help of a number of writers and critics including Anthony Burgess and Frank Kermode.Hubert Selby, Jr. (1928-2004) was born in Brooklyn, New York. At the age of 15, he dropped out of school and went to sea with the merchant marines. While at sea he was diagnosed with lung disease. With no other way to make a living, he decided to try writing: \u0027I knew the alphabet. Maybe I could be a writer.\u0027 In 1964 he completed his first book, Last Exit to Brooklyn, which has since become a cult classic. In 1966, it was the subject of an obscenity trial in the UK. His other books include The Room, The Demon, Requiem for a Dream, The Willow Tree and Waiting Period. In 2000, Requiem for a Dream was adapted into a film starring Jared Leto and Ellen Burstyn, and directed by Darren Aronofsky.\u0027Last Exit to Brooklyn will explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America, and still be eagerly read in 100 years\u0027Allen Ginsberg\u0027An urgent tickertape from hell\u0027Spectator\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1600,
            "title": "Marina",
            "author": "Carlos Ruiz Zafón",
            "date": "1999",
            "genres": "Fiction, Young Adult, Mystery, Fantasy, Horror, Gothic, Historical Fiction, Spanish Literature, Spain, Romance",
            "characters": "Marina Marchetti, German Blau, Oscar Drai",
            "synopsis": "\"Quince años mas tarde, la memoria de aquel dia ha vuelto a mi. He visto a aquel muchacho vagando entre las brumas de la estacion de Francia y el nombre de Marina se ha encendido de nuevo como una herida fresca. Todos tenemos un secreto encerrado bajo llave en el atico del alma. este es el mio.En la Barcelona de 1980 Oscar Drai suena despierto, deslumbrado por los placeres mocernistas cercanos al internado en el que estudia. En una de sus escapadas conoce a Marina, una chica audaz que comparte con oscar la aventura de adentrarse en un enigma doloroso del pasado de la ciudad. Un misterioso personaje de la posguerra se propuso el mayor desafio imaginable, pero su ambicion lo arrastro por sendas siniestras cucyas consecuencias debe pagar alguien todavia hoy.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1601,
            "title": "The Tale of the Body Thief",
            "author": "Anne Rice",
            "date": "2005",
            "genres": "Horror, Fantasy, Vampires, Fiction, Paranormal, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy, Gothic, Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy",
            "characters": "Lestat de Lioncourt, David Talbot",
            "synopsis": "\"In a gripping feat of storytelling, Anne Rice continues the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles that began with the now-classic Interview with the Vampire. For centuries, Lestat—vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals—has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living dead. Now he is alone. And in his overwhelming need to destroy his doubts and his loneliness, Lestat embarks on the most dangerous enterprise he has undertaken in all the years of his haunted existence. Praise for The Tale of the Body Thief  “Tinged with mystery, full of drama . . . The story is involving, the twists surprising.”—People   “Rice is our modern messenger of the occult, whose nicely updated dark-side passion plays twist and turn in true Gothic form.”—San Francisco Chronicle  “Fast-paced . . . . mesmerizing . . . silkenly sensuous . . . No one writing today matches her deftness with the erotic.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution  “Hypnotic . . . masterful.”—CosmopolitanFrom the Paperback edition.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1602,
            "title": "Duma Key",
            "author": "Stephen King ",
            "date": "Jan-08",
            "genres": "Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Supernatural, Mystery, Audiobook, Suspense, Paranormal, Novels",
            "characters": "Edgar Freemantle, Jerome Wireman, Elizabeth Eastlake, Dr. Xander Kamen, Jack Cantori, Perse (Duma Key), Candy Brown, Mary Ire, Pam Freemantle, Ilse Freemantle",
            "synopsis": "\"From the Flap:NO MORE THAN A DARK PENCIL LINE ON A BLANK PAGE. A HORIZON LINE, MAYBE, BUT ALSO A SLOT FOR BLACKNESS TO POUR THROUGH . . . A terrible construction site accident takes Edgar Freemantle\u0027s right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. A marriage that produced two lovely daughters suddenly ends, and Edgar begins to wish he hadn\u0027t survived the injuries that could have killed him. He wants out. His psychologist, Dr. Kamen, suggests a \"\"geographic cure,\"\" a new life distant from the Twin Cities and the building business Edgar grew from scratch. And Kamen suggests something else. \"\"Edgar does anything make you happy?\"\" \"\"I used to sketch.\"\" \"\"Take it up again. You need hedges . . . hedges against the night.\"\"Edgar leaves Minnesota for a rented house on Duma Key, a stunningly beautiful, eerily undeveloped splinter of the Florida coast. The sun setting into the Gulf of Mexico and the tidal rattling of shells on the beach call out to him, and Edgar draws. A visit from Ilse, the daughter he dotes on, starts his movement out of solitude. He meets a kindred spirit in Wireman, a man reluctant to reveal his own wounds, and then Elizabeth Eastlake, a sick old woman whose roots are tangled deep in Duma Key. Now Edgar paints, sometimes feverishly, his exploding talent both a wonder and a weapon. Many of his paintings have a power that cannot be controlled. When Elizabeth\u0027s past unfolds and the ghosts of her childhood begin to appear, the damage of which they are capable is truly devastating.The tenacity of love, the perils of creativity, the mysteries of memory and the nature of the supernatural-Stephen King gives us a novel as fascinating as it is gripping and terrifying.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1603,
            "title": "The Woman in the Dunes",
            "author": "Kōbō Abe, E. Dale Saunders (Translator)",
            "date": "1991",
            "genres": "Fiction, Japan, Japanese Literature, Classics, Literature, Novels, Asia, Magical Realism, Literary Fiction, Asian Literature",
            "characters": "Niki Jumpei",
            "synopsis": "\"The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, suspense and the existential novel. After missing the last bus home following a day trip to the seashore, an amateur entomologist is offered lodging for the night at the bottom of a vast sand pit. But when he attempts to leave the next morning, he quickly discovers that the locals have other plans. Held captive with seemingly no chance of escape, he is tasked with shoveling back the ever-advancing sand dunes that threaten to destroy the village. His only companion is an odd young woman, and together their fates become intertwined as they work side by side through this Sisyphean of tasks.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1604,
            "title": "From Hell",
            "author": "Alan Moore , Eddie Campbell (illustrator), Pete Mullins (illustrator)",
            "date": "2007",
            "genres": "Graphic Novels, Comics, Horror, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Crime, Comic Book, Mystery, Historical",
            "characters": "Aleister Crowley, Oscar Wilde, Jack the Ripper, William Morris, Frederick George Abberline, Joseph Merrick, Queen Victoria",
            "synopsis": "\"\"\"I shall tell you where we are. We\u0027re in the most extreme and utter region of the human mind. A dim, subconscious underworld. A radiant abyss where men meet themselves. Hell, Netley. We\u0027re in Hell.\"\" Having proved himself peerless in the arena of reinterpreting superheroes, Alan Moore turned his ever-incisive eye to the squalid, enigmatic world of Jack the Ripper and the Whitechapel murders of 1888. Weighing in at 576 pages, From Hell is certainly the most epic of Moore\u0027s works and remarkably and is possibly his finest effort yet in a career punctuated by such glorious highlights as Watchmen and V for Vendetta. Going beyond the myriad existing theories, which range from the sublime to the ridiculous, Moore presents an ingenious take on the slaughter. His Ripper\u0027s brutal activities are the epicentre of a conspiracy involving the very heart of the British Establishment, including the Freemasons and The Royal Family. A popular claim, which is transformed through Moore\u0027s exquisite and thoroughly gripping vision, of the Ripper crimes being the womb from which the 20th century, so enmeshed in the celebrity culture of violence, received its shocking, visceral birth. Bolstered by meticulous research that encompasses a wide spectrum of Ripper studies and myths and coupled with his ability to evoke sympathies in such monstrous characters, Moore has created perhaps the finest examination of the Ripper legacy, observing far beyond society\u0027s obsessive need to expose Evil\u0027s visage. Ultimately, as Moore observes, Jack\u0027s identity and his actions are inconsequential to the manner in which society embraced the Fear: \"\"It\u0027s about us. It\u0027s about our minds and how they dance. Jack mirrors our hysterias. Faceless, he is the receptacle for each new social panic.\"\" Eddie Campbell\u0027s stunning black and white artwork, replete with a scratchy, dirty sheen, is perfectly matched to the often-unshakeable intensity of Moore\u0027s writing. Between them, each murder is rendered in horrifying detail, providing the book\u0027s most unnerving scenes, made more so in uncomfortable, yet lyrical moments as when the villain embraces an eviscerated corpse, craving understanding; pleading that they \"\"are wed in legend, inextricable within eternity\"\". Though technically a comic, the term hardly begins to describe From Hell\u0027s inimitable grandeur and finesse, as it takes the medium to fresh heights of ingenuity and craftsmanship. Moore and Campbell\u0027s autopsy on the emaciated corpse of the Ripper myth has divulged a deeply disturbing yet undeniably captivating masterpiece. —Danny Graydon\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1605,
            "title": "Blackwood Farm",
            "author": "Anne Rice",
            "date": "2003",
            "genres": "Vampires, Horror, Fantasy, Fiction, Paranormal, Supernatural, Witches, Urban Fantasy, Gothic, Adult",
            "characters": "Lestat de Lioncourt, Quinn Tyrrell, Mona Mayfair",
            "synopsis": "\"Lestat is back, saviour and demon, presiding over a gothic story of family greed and hatred through generations, a terrifying drama of blood lust and betrayal, possession and matricide. Blackwood Farm with its grand Southern mansion, set among dark cypress swamps in Louisiana, harbours terrible blood-stained secrets and family ghosts. Heir to them all is Quinn Blackwood, young, rash and beautiful, himself a \u0027bloodhunter\u0027 whom Lestat takes under his wing. But Quinn is in thrall not only to the past and his own appetites but, even more dangerously, to a companion spirit, a \u0027goblin\u0027 succubus who could destroy him and others. Only the unearthly power of Lestat combined with the earthly powers of the Mayfair clan could hope to save Quinn from himself and his ghosts, or to rescue the doomed girl Quinn loves from her own mortality. Shocking, savage and richly erotic, this novel with the deceptively gentle title bring us Anne Rice at her most powerfully disturbing. Here are vampires and witches, men and women, demons and a doppelganger, caught up in a maelstrom of death and destruction, blood and fire, cruelty and fate.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1606,
            "title": "Tithe",
            "author": "Holly Black ",
            "date": "Apr-04",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal, Fiction, Fairies, Romance, Fae, Young Adult Fantasy, Magic",
            "characters": "Kaye Fierch, Ellen Fierch, Cornelius Stone, Rath Roiben Rye, Janet Stone",
            "synopsis": "\"Welcome to the realm of very scary faeries!Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and independent, she travels from city to city with her mother\u0027s rock band until an ominous attack forces Kaye back to her childhood home. There, amid the industrial, blue-collar New Jersey backdrop, Kaye soon finds herself an unwilling pawn in an ancient power struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms - a struggle that could very well mean her death.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1607,
            "title": "Pandora",
            "author": "Anne Rice",
            "date": "May-01",
            "genres": "Vampires, Horror, Fantasy, Fiction, Paranormal, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Gothic, Historical",
            "characters": "Marius de Romanus, David Talbot, Pandora",
            "synopsis": "\"Anne Rice, creator of the Vampire Lestat, the Mayfair witches and the amazing worlds they inhabit, now gives us the first in a new series of novels linked together by the fledgling vampire David Talbot, who has set out to become a chronicler of his fellow Undead.The novel opens in present-day Paris in a crowded café, where David meets Pandora. She is two thousand years old, a Child of the Millennia, the first vampire ever made by the great Marius. David persuades her to tell the story of her life. Pandora begins, reluctantly at first and then with increasing passion, to recount her mesmerizing tale, which takes us through the ages, from Imperial Rome to eighteenth-century France to twentieth-century Paris and New Orleans. She carries us back to her mortal girlhood in the world of Caesar Augustus, a world chronicled by Ovid and Petronius. This is where Pandora meets and falls in love with the handsome, charismatic, lighthearted, still-mortal Marius. This is the Rome she is forced to flee in fear of assassination by conspirators plotting to take over the city. And we follow her to the exotic port of Antioch, where she is destined to be reunited with Marius, now immortal and haunted by his vampire nature, who will bestow on her the Dark Gift as they set out on the fraught and fantastic adventure of their two turbulent centuries together.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1608,
            "title": "Tortilla Flat",
            "author": "John Steinbeck",
            "date": "Jul-01",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Literature, Novels, American, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, The United States Of America, Classic Literature",
            "characters": "Danny, Pablo Soler, Pilon, Jesus Maria Corcoran, Pirate, Torelli",
            "synopsis": "\"\"\"Steinbeck is an artist; and he tells the stories of these lovable thieves and adulterers with a gentle and poetic purity of heart and of prose.\"\" - New York Herald TribuneAdopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, Steinbeck created a \"\"Camelot\"\" on a shabby hillside above the town of Monterey,California and peopled it with a colorful band of knights. At the center of the tale is Danny, whose house, like Arthur\u0027s castle, becomes a gathering place for men looking for adventure, camaraderie, and a sense of belonging. These \"\"knights\"\" are paisanos, men of mixed heritage, whose ancestors settled California hundreds of years before. Free of ties to jobs and other complications of the American way of life, they fiercely resist the corrupting tide of honest toil in the surrounding ocean of civil rectitude.As Steinbeck chronicles their deeds-their multiple loves, their wonderful brawls, their Rabelaisian wine-drinking-he spins a tale as compelling and ultimately as touched by sorrow as the famous legends of the Round Table, which inspired him.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1609,
            "title": "The Garden of Eden",
            "author": "Ernest Hemingway",
            "date": "2003",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Literature, Novels, American, Romance, France, Literary Fiction, 20th Century, Classic Literature",
            "characters": "David Bourne, Catherine Bourne, Marita",
            "synopsis": "\"A sensational bestseller when it appeared in 1986, The Garden of Eden is the last uncompleted novel of Ernest Hemingway, which he worked on intermittently from 1946 until his death in 1961. Set on the Côte d\u0027Azur in the 1920s, it is the story of a young American writer, David Bourne, his glamorous wife, Catherine, and the dangerous, erotic game they play when they fall in love with the same woman. \"\"A lean, sensuous narrative...taut, chic, and strangely contemporary,\"\" The Garden of Eden represents vintage Hemingway, the master \"\"doing what nobody did better\"\" (R. Z. Sheppard, Time).\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1610,
            "title": "Thief of Time",
            "author": "Terry Pratchett",
            "date": "2008",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Comedy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Time Travel, Science Fiction, High Fantasy, Novels",
            "characters": "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Nanny Ogg, DEATH, Susan Sto Helit, Death of Rats, The Auditors, Ronny Soak, Monks of History, Lu-Tze",
            "synopsis": "\"Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed.And on Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where it\u0027s wasted (like underwater - how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities, where there\u0027s never enough time.But the construction of the world\u0027s first truly accurate clock starts a race against, well, time, for Lu Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd. Because it will stop time. And that will only be the start of everyone\u0027s problems.Thief of Time comes complete with a full supporting cast of heroes and villains, yetis, martial artists and Ronnie, the fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse (who left before they became famous).\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1611,
            "title": "The Trumpet of the Swan 50th Anniversary",
            "author": "E.B. White, Fred Marcellino (Illustrator)",
            "date": "2000",
            "genres": "Classics, Childrens, Fiction, Animals, Fantasy, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Chapter Books, School",
            "characters": "Serena, Sam Beaver, Louis the swan",
            "synopsis": "\"Swan SongLike the rest of his family, Louis is a trumpeter swan. But unlike his four brothers and sisters, Louis can\u0027t trumpet joyfully. In fact, he can\u0027t even make a sound. And since he can\u0027t trumpet his love, the beautiful swan Serena pays absolutely no attention to him.Louis tries everything he can think of to win Serena\u0027s affection—he even goes to school to learn to read and write. But nothing seems to work. Then his father steals him a real brass trumpet. Is a musical instrument the key to winning Louis his love?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1612,
            "title": "Rooftops of Tehran",
            "author": "Mahbod Seraji ",
            "date": "2009",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Iran, Romance, Historical, Cultural, Novels, Asia, Coming Of Age, Drama",
            "characters": "Pasha Shahed, Zari, Ahmed, Faheemeh",
            "synopsis": "\"From \"\"a striking new talent\"\"(Sandra Dallas, author of Tallgrass) comes an unforgettable debut novel of young love and coming of age in an Iran headed toward revolution. In this poignant, eye-opening and emotionally vivid novel, Mahbod Seraji lays bare the beauty and brutality of the centuries-old Persian culture, while reaffirming the human experiences we all share. In a middle-class neighborhood of Iran\u0027s sprawling capital city, 17-year-old Pasha Shahed spends the summer of 1973 on his rooftop with his best friend Ahmed, joking around one minute and asking burning questions about life the next. He also hides a secret love for his beautiful neighbor Zari, who has been betrothed since birth to another man. But the bliss of Pasha and Zari\u0027s stolen time together is shattered when Pasha unwittingly acts as a beacon for the Shah\u0027s secret police. The violent consequences awaken him to the reality of living under a powerful despot, and lead Zari to make a shocking choice...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1613,
            "title": "Tell Me Your Dreams",
            "author": "Sidney Sheldon",
            "date": "Aug-99",
            "genres": "Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Novels, Romance, Drama, Psychology",
            "characters": "Alette Peters, Ashley Patterson, Toni Prescott, Steven Patterson, David Singer, Sandra Singer, Jesse Quiller, Gilbert Keller, Emily Quiller, Joseph Kincaid, Jim Cleary, Samuel Blake, Richard Melton",
            "synopsis": "\"She had read about stalkers, but they belonged in a different, faraway world. She had no idea who it could be, who would want to harm her. She was trying desperately not to panic, but lately her sleep had been filled with nightmares, and she had awakened each morning with a feeling of impending doom.Thus begins Sidney Sheldon\u0027s chilling new novel, Tell Me Your Dreams. Three beautiful young women are suspected of committing a series of brutal murders. The police make an arrest that leads to one of the most bizarre murder trials of the century. Based on actual events, Sheldon\u0027s novel races from London to Rome to the city of Quebec to San Francisco, with a climax that will leave the reader stunned.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1614,
            "title": "Fifth Business",
            "author": "Robertson Davies",
            "date": "2002",
            "genres": "Fiction, Canada, Classics, Historical Fiction, Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, Canadian Literature, School, Historical",
            "characters": "Dunstan Ramsay, Boy Staunton",
            "synopsis": "\"Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross and destined to be caught in a no man\u0027s land where memory, history, and myth collide. As Ramsay tells his story, it begins to seem that from boyhood, he has exerted a perhaps mystical, perhaps pernicious, influence on those around him. His apparently innocent involvement in such innocuous events as the throwing of a snowball or the teaching of card tricks to a small boy in the end prove neither innocent nor innocuous. Fifth Business stands alone as a remarkable story told by a rational man who discovers that the marvelous is only another aspect of the real.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1615,
            "title": "The Winter Sea",
            "author": "Susanna Kearsley ",
            "date": "2010",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Romance, Fiction, Historical, Time Travel, Scotland, Historical Romance, Fantasy, Contemporary, Adult",
            "characters": "Carrie McClelland, Sophia Paterson, John Moray, Graham Keith",
            "synopsis": "\"In the spring of 1708, an invading Jacobite fleet of French and Scottish soldiers nearly succeeded in landing the exiled James Stewart in Scotland to reclaim his crown.Now, Carrie McClelland hopes to turn that story into her next bestselling novel. Settling herself in the shadow of Slains Castle, she creates a heroine named for one of her own ancestors and starts to write.But when she discovers her novel is more fact than fiction, Carrie wonders if she might be dealing with ancestral memory, making her the only living person who knows the truth—the ultimate betrayal—that happened all those years ago, and that knowledge comes very close to destroying her.…\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1616,
            "title": "Firestarter",
            "author": "Stephen King ",
            "date": "1998",
            "genres": "Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Paranormal, Supernatural, Suspense, Adult, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Charlene \"\"Charlie\"\"  McGee, Andrew \"\"Andy\"\"  McGee, John Rainbird, Captain James \"\"Cap\"\" Hollester, Vicky Tomlinson, Patrick Hockstetter, Irv Manders, Norma Manders, Doctor Joseph Wanless, Doctor Herman Pynchot, Albert Steinowitz, Orv  \"\"OJ\"\" Jamieson, Orville Bates",
            "synopsis": "\"The Department of Scientific Intelligence (aka \"\"The Shop\"\") never anticipated that two participants in their research program would marry and have a child. Charlie McGee inherited pyrokinetic powers from her parents, who had been given a low-grade hallucinogen called \"\"Lot Six\"\" while at college. Now the government is trying to capture young Charlie and harness her powerful firestarting skills as a weapon.-stephenking.com\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1617,
            "title": "The Feast of the Goat",
            "author": "Mario Vargas Llosa, Edith Grossman (Translator)",
            "date": "2003",
            "genres": "Fiction, Historical Fiction, Novels, Spanish Literature, Latin American, Literature, Nobel Prize, Latin American Literature, Historical, Politics",
            "characters": "Urania Cabral, Agustín Cabral, Rafael Trujillo, Johnny Abbes García, Ramfis Trujillo, Joaquín Balaguer, Antonio Imbert Barrera, Antonio de la Maza",
            "synopsis": "\"Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic - and finds herself reliving the events of 1961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a nation of three million people. Rafael Trujillo, the depraved ailing dictator whom Dominicans call the Goat, controls his inner circle with a combination of violence and blackmail. In Trujillo\u0027s gaudy palace, treachery and cowardice have become the way of life. But Trujillo\u0027s grasp is slipping away. There is a conspiracy against him, and a Machiavellian revolution already underway that will have bloody consequences of its own. In this \u0027masterpiece of Latin American and world literature, and one of the finest political novels ever written\u0027 (\"\"Bookforum\"\"), Mario Vargas Llosa recounts the end of a regime and the birth of a terrible democracy, giving voice to the historical Trujillo and the victims, both innocent and complicit, drawn into his deadly orbit.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1618,
            "title": "Unaccustomed Earth",
            "author": "Jhumpa Lahiri",
            "date": "2008",
            "genres": "Fiction, Short Stories, India, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Literature, Indian Literature, Book Club, Adult Fiction, Adult",
            "characters": "Ruma",
            "synopsis": "\"Eight stories—longer and more emotionally complex than any Lahiri has yet written—that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they enter the lives of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers.From the internationally best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction: eight stories—longer and more emotionally complex than any she has yet written—that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they enter the lives of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers.In the stunning title story, Ruma, a young mother in a new city, is visited by her father, who carefully tends the earth of her garden, where he and his grandson form a special bond. But he’s harboring a secret from his daughter, a love affair he’s keeping all to himself. In “A Choice of Accommodations,” a husband’s attempt to turn an old friend’s wedding into a romantic getaway weekend with his wife takes a dark, revealing turn as the party lasts deep into the night. In “Only Goodness,” a sister eager to give her younger brother the perfect childhood she never had is overwhelmed by guilt, anguish, and anger when his alcoholism threatens her family. And in “Hema and Kaushik,” a trio of linked stories—a luminous, intensely compelling elegy of life, death, love, and fate—we follow the lives of a girl and boy who, one winter, share a house in Massachusetts. They travel from innocence to experience on separate, sometimes painful paths, until destiny brings them together again years later in Rome. Unaccustomed Earth is rich with Jhumpa Lahiri’s signature gifts: exquisite prose, emotional wisdom, and subtle renderings of the most intricate workings of the heart and mind. It is a masterful, dazzling work of a writer at the peak of her powers.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1619,
            "title": "Miecz przeznaczenia",
            "author": "Andrzej Sapkowski",
            "date": "1994",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Short Stories, Polish Literature, Audiobook, High Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, Adult, Epic Fantasy",
            "characters": "Dandelion, Yennefer, Ciri (Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon), Visenna, Eithné, Braenn, Essi Daven, Geralt of Rivia",
            "synopsis": "\"„Miecz przeznaczenia” jest zbiorem opowiadań stanowiących swoistą kontynuację przygód Geralta ze zbioru „Ostatnie życzenie”, a zarazem poprzedza historię opisaną w „Sadze o wiedźminie”. Generalnie opowiadania składające się na omawiany zbiór nie różnią się niczym od napisanych wcześniej. Geralt dzięki swojej sile, odwadze i inteligencji walczy z potworami bądź w inny sposób stara się pomagać ludziom. Świat, w którym rozgrywa się akcja, jest przedstawiony w sposób niezwykle plastyczny, co sprawia, iż można go sobie bez większych problemów wyobrazić. Książka przesiąknięta jest emocjami, marzeniami i wartościami. Na kartach opowiadań widzimy miłość, poświęcenie, honor, determinację spowodowaną zamiarem udzielenia pomocy ukochanemu, przywiązanie do własnej ziemi.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1620,
            "title": "A Swiftly Tilting Planet",
            "author": "Madeleine L\u0027Engle",
            "date": "Jan-81",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Science Fiction, Childrens, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy, Time Travel, Middle Grade, Adventure",
            "characters": "Meg Murry, Charles Wallace Murry, \"\"Mrs. O\u0027\u0027Keefe\"\", Mad Dog Branzillo, Gaudior, Echthroi, Harcels, Madoc Gywnedd, Brandon Llawcae, Matthew Maddox, Chuck Maddox, Sandy Murry, Dennys Murry",
            "synopsis": "\"In this companion volume to A Wrinkle In Time (Newbery Award winner) and A Wind In The Door fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace and the unicorn Gaudior undertake a perilous journey through time in a desperate attempt to stop the destruction of the world by the mad dictator Madog Branzillo. They are not alone in their quest. Charles Wallace\u0027s sister, Meg - grown and expecting her first child, but still able to enter her brother\u0027s thoughts and emotions by \"\"kything\"\" - goes with him in spirit.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1621,
            "title": "The Warrior\u0027s Apprentice",
            "author": "Lois McMaster Bujold ",
            "date": "2003",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Space Opera, Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Adventure, Military Fiction, Space, Speculative Fiction",
            "characters": "Miles Vorkosigan",
            "synopsis": "\"Between the seemingly impossible tasks of living up to his warrior-father\u0027s legend and surmounting his own physical limitations, Miles Vorkosigan faces some truly daunting challenges. Shortly after his arrival on Beta Colony, Miles unexpectedly finds himself the owner of an obsolete freighter and in more debt than he ever thought possible. Propelled by his manic \"\"forward momentum,\"\" the ever-inventive Miles creates a new identity for himself as the commander of his own mercenary fleet to obtain a lucrative cargo; a shipment of weapons destined for a dangerous warzone.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1622,
            "title": "Remember Me?",
            "author": "Sophie Kinsella ",
            "date": "2008",
            "genres": "Chick Lit, Romance, Fiction, Contemporary, Adult, Humor, Contemporary Romance, Adult Fiction, Audiobook, British Literature",
            "characters": "Eric Ross, Jon, Lexi Smart, sister Amy, Fi",
            "synopsis": "\"When twenty-eight-year-old Lexi Smart wakes up in a London hospital, she’s in for a big surprise. Her teeth are perfect. Her body is toned. Her handbag is Vuitton. Having survived a car accident—in a Mercedes no less—Lexi has lost a big chunk of her memory, three years to be exact, and she’s about to find out just how much things have changed.Somehow Lexi went from a twenty-five-year-old working girl to a corporate big shot with a sleek new loft, a personal assistant, a carb-free diet, and a set of glamorous new friends. And who is this gorgeous husband—who also happens to be a multimillionaire? With her mind still stuck three years in reverse, Lexi greets this brave new world determined to be the person she…well, seems to be. That is, until an adorably disheveled architect drops the biggest bombshell of all.Suddenly Lexi is scrambling to catch her balance. Her new life, it turns out, comes complete with secrets, schemes, and intrigue. How on earth did all this happen? Will she ever remember? And what will happen when she does?With the same wicked humor and delicious charm that have won her millions of devoted fans, Sophie Kinsella, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Shopaholic \u0026 Baby, returns with an irresistible new novel and a fresh new heroine who finds herself in a life-changing and utterly hilarious predicament…\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1623,
            "title": "The Tortilla Curtain",
            "author": "T. Coraghessan Boyle ",
            "date": "1995",
            "genres": "Fiction, Contemporary, Book Club, School, Literature, Novels, Literary Fiction, American, Audiobook, Adult Fiction",
            "characters": "Delany Mossbacher, Candido Rincon, America Rincon",
            "synopsis": "\"Topanga Canyon is home to two couples on a collision course. Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher lead an ordered sushi-and-recycling existence in a newly gated hilltop community: he a sensitive nature writer, she an obsessive realtor. Mexican illegals Cándido and América Rincón desperately cling to their vision of the American Dream as they fight off starvation in a makeshift camp deep in the ravine. And from the moment a freak accident brings Cándido and Delaney into intimate contact, these four and their opposing worlds gradually intersect in what becomes a tragicomedy of error and misunderstanding.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1624,
            "title": "Maskerade",
            "author": "Terry Pratchett",
            "date": "1995",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Comedy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Witches, Audiobook, Magic, High Fantasy, Comic Fantasy",
            "characters": "Nobby Nobbs, Nanny Ogg, DEATH, Agnes Nitt, The Librarian, Death of Rats, Detritus, Granny Weatherwax",
            "synopsis": "\"The Ghost in the bone-white mask who haunts theAnkh-Morpork Opera House was always considered a benign presence - some would even say lucky - until he started killing people. The sudden rash of bizarre backstage deaths now threatens to mar the operatic debut of country girl Perdita X. (nee Agnes) Nitt, she of the ample body and ampler voice.Perdita\u0027s expected to hide in the chorus and sing arias out loud while a more petitely presentable soprano mouths the notes. But at least it\u0027s an escape from scheming Nanny Ogg and old Granny Weatherwax back home, who want her to join their witchy ranks.Once Granny sets her mind on something, however, it\u0027s difficult - and often hazardous - to dissuade her. And no opera-prowling phantom fiend is going to keep a pair of determined hags down on the farm after they\u0027ve seen Ankh-Morpork.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1625,
            "title": "The Merchant of Death",
            "author": "D.J. MacHale ",
            "date": "Sept-02",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Science Fiction, Adventure, Middle Grade, Childrens, Young Adult Fantasy, Teen, Magic",
            "characters": "Bobby Pendragon, Andy Mitchell, Press Tilton, Shannon Pendragon, Courtney Chetwynde, Mark Dimond, Saint Dane, Traveler Alder",
            "synopsis": "\"Librarian Note: Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereDENDURONBOBBY PENDRAGON is a seemingly normal fourteen-year-old boy. He has a family, a home, and even Marley, his beloved dog. But there is something very special about Bobby.He is going to save the world.And not just Earth as we know it. Bobby is slowly starting to realize that life in the cosmos isn\u0027t quite what he thought it was. And before he can object, he is swept off to an alternate dimension known as Denduron, a territory inhabited by strange beings, ruled by a magical tyrant, and plagued by dangerous revolution.If Bobby wants to see his family again, he\u0027s going to have to accept his role as savior, and accept it wholeheartedly. Because, as he is about to discover, Denduron is only the beginning....Cover illustration by Victor Lee\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1626,
            "title": "The Other Side of Midnight",
            "author": "Sidney Sheldon",
            "date": "1975",
            "genres": "Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Romance, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Novels, Crime, Drama, Contemporary",
            "characters": "Noelle Page, Lawrence \"\"Larry\"\" Douglas, Catherine Alexander, Constantin \"\"Costa\"\" Demiris, Napoleon Chotas",
            "synopsis": "\"Paris...Washington...a peaceful Midwestern campus...a fabulous villa in Greece...all part of a terrifying web of intrigue and treachery as a ruthless trio of human beings - an incredibly beautiful film star, a legendary Greek tycoon, a womanizing international adventurer- use an innocent American girl as a bewildered, horror-stricken pawn in a desperate game of vengeance and betrayal, love and lust, life and death...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1627,
            "title": "The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury",
            "author": "Bill Watterson",
            "date": "Sept-88",
            "genres": "Comics, Humor, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Comedy, Childrens, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Comic Strips, Classics",
            "characters": "Calvin, Hobbes",
            "synopsis": "\"Perhaps the most brilliant comic strip ever created, Calvin and Hobbes continues to entertain with dazzling cartooning and tremendous humor.Bill Watterson\u0027s Calvin and Hobbes has been a worldwide favorite since its introduction in 1985. The strip follows the richly imaginative adventures of Calvin and his trusty tiger, Hobbes. Whether a poignant look at serious family issues or a round of time-travel (with the aid of a well-labeled cardboard box), Calvin and Hobbes will astound and delight you.Beginning with the day Hobbes sprang into Calvin\u0027s tuna fish trap, the first two Calvin and Hobbes collections, Calvin and Hobbes and Something Under The Bed Is Drooling, are brought together in this treasury. Including black-and-white dailies and color Sundays, The Essential Calvin and Hobbes also features an original full-color 16-page story.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1628,
            "title": "Knife of Dreams",
            "author": "Robert Jordan",
            "date": "Dec-06",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic, Adventure, Audiobook, Magic, Adult",
            "characters": "\"\"Rand al\u0027\u0027Thor\"\", \"\"Nynaeve al\u0027\u0027Meara\"\", \"\"Egwene al\u0027\u0027Vere\"\", Perrin Aybara, \"\"Al\u0027\u0027Lan Mandragoran\"\", Matrim Cauthon, Min Farshaw, Elayne Trakand, Aviendha, Siuan Sanche",
            "synopsis": "\"The dead are walking, men die impossible deaths, and it seems as though reality itself has become unstable: All are signs of the imminence of Tarmon Gai\u0027don, the Last Battle, when Rand al\u0027Thor, the Dragon Reborn, must confront the Dark One as humanity\u0027s only hope. But Rand dares not fight until he possesses all the surviving seals on the Dark One\u0027s prison and has dealt with the Seanchan, who threaten to overrun all nations this side of the Aryth Ocean and increasingly seem too entrenched to be fought off. But his attempt to make a truce with the Seanchan is shadowed by treachery that may cost him everything. Whatever the price, though, he must have that truce. And he faces other dangers.The winds of time have become a storm, and things that everyone believes are fixed in place forever are changing before their eyes. Even the White Tower itself is no longer a place of safety. Now Rand, Perrin and Mat, Egwene and Elayne, Nynaeve and Lan, and even Loial, must ride those storm winds, or the Dark One will triumph.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1629,
            "title": "Lord Foul\u0027s Bane",
            "author": "Stephen R. Donaldson",
            "date": "Nov-89",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction, Adventure, High Fantasy, Epic, Unfinished, Young Adult",
            "characters": "Thomas Covenant",
            "synopsis": "\"He called himself Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever because he dared not believe in the strange alternate world in which he suddenly found himself.Yet the Land tempted him. He had been sick; now he seemed better than ever before. Through no fault of his own, he had been outcast, unclean, a pariah. Now he was regarded as a reincarnation of the Land\u0027s greatest hero-Berek Halfhand-armed with the mystic power of White Gold. That power alone could protect the Lords of the Land from the ancient evil of Despiser, Lord Foul. Only...Covenant had no idea of how the power could be used!Thus begins one of the most remarkable epic fantasies ever written...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1630,
            "title": "Ghost Town",
            "author": "Rachel Caine ",
            "date": "Nov-10",
            "genres": "Vampires, Young Adult, Paranormal, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Supernatural, Paranormal Romance, Fiction, Teen",
            "characters": "Claire Danvers, Monica Morrell, Michael Glass, Eve Rosser",
            "synopsis": "\"Deep in the heart of Texas, Morganville is a small college town full of laid-back students and eccentric townies, not to mention the sort of creatures you wouldn\u0027t want to run into after dark. Despite their obvious differences, the human and vampire residents of Morganville have learned to coexist, but that doesn\u0027t stop genius student Claire Danvers from keeping up her guard. Because in Morganville, nothing is as it seems...While developing a new system to maintain the town\u0027s defenses, Claire discovers a way to use the vampires\u0027 powers to help keep outsiders from spreading news of Morganville\u0027s \"\"unique\"\" situation once they\u0027ve crossed the city limits.But the new system has an unexpected and possibly deadly consequence: People inside the town start forgetting who and what they are - even the vampires. And when Claire\u0027s boyfriend, Shane, and her best friend, Eve, start treating her like a perfect stranger, Claire realizes she has to figure out a way to pull the plug on her experiment - before she forgets how to save herself... and Morganville.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1631,
            "title": "Calvin and Hobbes",
            "author": "Bill Watterson, G.B. Trudeau (Foreword)",
            "date": "May-87",
            "genres": "Comics, Humor, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Childrens, Comedy, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Classics, Comic Strips",
            "characters": "Calvin, Hobbes",
            "synopsis": "\"This is the first collection of the popular comic strip that features Calvin, a rambunctious 6-year-old boy, and his stuffed tiger, Hobbes, who comes charmingly to life.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1632,
            "title": "La catedral del mar",
            "author": "Ildefonso Falcones",
            "date": "Mar-06",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Spain, Spanish Literature, Medieval, Roman, Novels, Romance, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Joan, Arnau, Guillem, Aladis, Mar (Ildefonso Falcones)",
            "synopsis": "\"Siglo XIV. La ciudad de Barcelona se encuentra en su momento de mayor prosperidad; ha crecido hacia la Ribera, el humilde barrio de los pescadores, cuyos habitantes deciden construir, con el dinero de unos y el esfuerzo de otros, el mayor templo mariano jamás conocido: Santa María de la Mar.Una construcción que es paralela a la azarosa historia de Arnau, un siervo de la tierra que huye de los abusos de su señor feudal y se refugia en Barcelona, donde se convierte en ciudadano y, con ello, en hombre libre.El joven Arnau trabaja como palafrenero, estibador, soldado y cambista. Una vida extenuante, siempre al amparo de la catedral de la mar, que le iba a llevar de la miseria del fugitivo a la nobleza y la riqueza. Pero con esta posición privilegiada también le llega la envidia de sus pares, que urden una sórdida conjura que pone su vida en manos de la Inquisición...\"\"La catedral del mar\"\" es una trama en la que se entrecruzan lealtad y venganza, traición y amor, guerra y peste, en un mundo marcado por la intolerancia religiosa, la ambición material y la segregación social. Todo ello convierte esta obra no sólo en una novela absorbente, sino también en la más fascinante y ambiciosa recreación de las luces y sombras de la época feudal.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1633,
            "title": "Revolution",
            "author": "Jennifer Donnelly ",
            "date": "2011",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Historical, Fiction, Time Travel, Fantasy, Contemporary, Romance, Teen, France",
            "characters": "Andi Alpers, Alexandrine Paradis",
            "synopsis": "\"BROOKLYN: Andi Alpers is on the edge. She’s angry at her father for leaving, angry at her mother for not being able to cope, and heartbroken by the loss of her younger brother, Truman. Rage and grief are destroying her. And she’s about to be expelled from Brooklyn Heights’ most prestigious private school when her father intervenes. Now Andi must accompany him to Paris for winter break.PARIS: Alexandrine Paradis lived over two centuries ago. She dreamed of making her mark on the Paris stage, but a fateful encounter with a doomed prince of France cast her in a tragic role she didn’t want—and couldn’t escape. Two girls, two centuries apart. One never knowing the other. But when Andi finds Alexandrine’s diary, she recognizes something in her words and is moved to the point of obsession. There’s comfort and distraction for Andi in the journal’s antique pages—until, on a midnight journey through the catacombs of Paris, Alexandrine’s words transcend paper and time, and the past becomes suddenly, terrifyingly present.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1634,
            "title": "Farewell, My Lovely",
            "author": "Raymond Chandler",
            "date": "Aug-92",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Noir, Classics, Detective, Mystery Thriller, American, Thriller, Novels",
            "characters": "Moose Malloy, Philip Marlowe, Lindsay Marriott, Jessie Florian, Anne Riordan, Mrs. Lewin Lockridge Grayle, Jules Amthor, Laire Brunette, Dr. Sonderborg, Lewin Lockridge Grayle, Detective-Lieutenant Carl Randall, Nulty, Chief John Wax",
            "synopsis": "\"Marlowe\u0027s about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, another murder, a fortune-teller, a couple more murders, and more corruption than your average graveyard.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1635,
            "title": "Genghis: Birth of an Empire",
            "author": "Conn Iggulden",
            "date": "Mar-08",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Fantasy, Asia, War, Adventure, Audiobook, Military Fiction, Action",
            "characters": "Genghis Khan, Börte Üjin, Yesugei, Bekter, Khasar, Kachiun, Temüge, Hoelun",
            "synopsis": "\"From the author of the bestselling \"\"The Dangerous Book for Boys\"\" He was born Temujin, the son of a khan, raised in a clan of hunters migrating across the rugged steppe. Temujin\u0027s young life was shaped by a series of brutal acts: the betrayal of his father by a neighboring tribe and the abandonment of his entire family, cruelly left to die on the harsh plain. But Temujin endured-and from that moment on, he was driven by a singular fury: to survive in the face of death, to kill before being killed, and to conquer enemies who could come without warning from beyond the horizon.  Through a series of courageous raids against the Tartars, Temujin\u0027s legend grew. And so did the challenges he faced-from the machinations of a Chinese ambassador to the brutal abduction of his young wife, Borte. Blessed with ferocious courage, it was the young warrior\u0027s ability to learn, to imagine, and to judge the hearts of others that propelled him to greater and greater power. Until Temujin was chasing a vision: to unite many tribes into one, to make the earth tremble under the hoofbeats of a thousand warhorses, to subject unknown nations and even empires to his will. \"\"From the Hardcover edition.\"\"\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1636,
            "title": "Maus II: A Survivor\u0027s Tale: And Here My Troubles Began",
            "author": "Art Spiegelman",
            "date": "Sept-92",
            "genres": "Graphic Novels, Comics, Nonfiction, History, Memoir, Holocaust, Biography, Historical, War, Graphic Novels Comics",
            "characters": "Vladek Spiegelman, Anja Spiegelman, Art Spiegelman, Mala Spiegelman",
            "synopsis": "\"Acclaimed as a quiet triumph and a brutally moving work of art, the first volume of Art Spieglman\u0027s Maus introduced readers to Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler\u0027s Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his father, his father\u0027s terrifying story, and History itself. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), succeeds perfectly in shocking us out of any lingering sense of familiararity with the events described, approaching, as it does, the unspeakable through the diminutive.This second volume, subtitled And Here My Troubles Began, moves us from the barracks of Auschwitz to the bungalows of the Catskills. Genuinely tragic and comic by turns, it attains a complexity of theme and a precision of thought new to comics and rare in any medium. Maus ties together two powerful stories: Vladek\u0027s harrowing tale of survival against all odds, delineating the paradox of daily life in the death camps, and the author\u0027s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. At every level this is the ultimate survivor\u0027s tale - and that too of the children who somehow survive even the survivors.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1637,
            "title": "Persona normal",
            "author": "Benito Taibo",
            "date": "Destino",
            "genres": "9.78607E+12",
            "characters": "Young Adult, Contemporary, Spanish Literature, Fiction, Coming Of Age, Drama",
            "synopsis": "\"Una grandiosa e increíble aventura para ser todo... excepto normal. "
          },
          {
            "id": 1638,
            "title": "\u0027Tis",
            "author": "Frank McCourt",
            "date": "1999",
            "genres": "Nonfiction, Memoir, Biography, Autobiography, Ireland, Biography Memoir, Irish Literature, History, Historical, New York",
            "characters": "Frank McCourt",
            "synopsis": "\"The sequel to Frank McCourt\u0027s memoir of his Irish Catholic boyhood, Angela\u0027s Ashes, picks up the story in October 1949, upon his arrival in America. Though he was born in New York, the family had returned to Ireland due to poor prospects in the United States. Now back on American soil, this awkward 19-year-old, with his \"\"pimply face, sore eyes, and bad teeth,\"\" has little in common with the healthy, self-assured college students he sees on the subway and dreams of joining in the classroom. Initially, his American experience is as harrowing as his impoverished youth in Ireland, including two of the grimmest Christmases ever described in literature. McCourt views the U.S. through the same sharp eye and with the same dark humor that distinguished his first memoir: race prejudice, casual cruelty, and dead-end jobs weigh on his spirits as he searches for a way out. A glimpse of hope comes from the army, where he acquires some white-collar skills, and from New York University, which admits him without a high school diploma. But the journey toward his position teaching creative writing at Stuyvesant High School is neither quick nor easy. Fortunately, McCourt\u0027s openness to every variety of human emotion and longing remains exceptional; even the most damaged, difficult people he encounters are richly rendered individuals with whom the reader can\u0027t help but feel uncomfortable kinship. The magical prose, with its singing Irish cadences, brings grandeur and beauty to the most sorrowful events, including the final scene, set in a Limerick graveyard. -Wendy Smith\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1639,
            "title": "Reunion",
            "author": "Jenny Carroll, Meg Cabot ",
            "date": "2005",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Paranormal, Fantasy, Romance, Ghosts, Supernatural, Fiction, Teen, Mystery, Chick Lit",
            "characters": "Susannah \"\"Suze\"\" Simon, Hector de Silva (Jesse), Father Dominic, Jake Ackerman (Sleepy), Brad Ackerman (Dopey), CeeCee Webb, Gina Augustin, David Ackerman (Doc), Kelly Prescott, Scott Turner, Adam McTavish",
            "synopsis": "\"Accidents happen. With ghostly consequences, if you\u0027re Susannah Simon.The RLS Angels are out for blood, and only Suze can stop them - since she\u0027s the only one who can see them. The four ghostly teenagers died in a terrible car accident, for which they blame Suze\u0027s classmate Michael... and they\u0027ll stop at nothing until he\u0027s joined them in the realm of the dead.As Suze desperately fends off each attempt on Michael\u0027s life, she finds she can relate to the Angels\u0027 fury. Because their deaths turn out not to have been accidental at all. And their killer is only too willing to strike again.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1640,
            "title": "In the Time of the Butterflies",
            "author": "Julia Alvarez ",
            "date": "Aug-95",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, School, Classics, Novels, Adult Fiction, Book Club, Latin American, Adult",
            "characters": "Patria Mirabal de Gonzalez, Minerva Mirabal de Tavarez, Maria Teresa Mirabal de Guzman, Bélgica Adela Mirabal de Reyes",
            "synopsis": "\"Set during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic in 1960, this extraordinary novel tells the story of the Mirabal sisters, three young wives and mothers who are assassinated after visiting their jailed husbands. From the author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents comes this tale of courage and sisterhood set in the Dominican Republic during the rise of the Trujillo dictatorship. A skillful blend of fact and fiction, In the Time of the Butterflies is inspired by the true story of the three Mirabal sisters who, in 1960, were murdered for their part in an underground plot to overthrow the government. Alvarez breathes life into these historical figures-known as \"\"las mariposas,\"\" or \"\"the butterflies,\"\" in the underground-as she imagines their teenage years, their gradual involvement with the revolution, and their terror as their dissentience is uncovered.  Alvarez\u0027s controlled writing perfectly captures the mounting tension as \"\"the butterflies\"\" near their horrific end. The novel begins with the recollections of Dede, the fourth and surviving sister, who fears abandoning her routines and her husband to join the movement. Alvarez also offers the perspectives of the other sisters: brave and outspoken Minerva, the family\u0027s political ringleader; pious Patria, who forsakes her faith to join her sisters after witnessing the atrocities of the tyranny; and the baby sister, sensitive Maria Teresa, who, in a series of diaries, chronicles her allegiance to Minerva and the physical and spiritual anguish of prison life.  In the Time of the Butterflies is an American Library Association Notable Book and a 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award nominee.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1641,
            "title": "Pyramids",
            "author": "Terry Pratchett",
            "date": "2008",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Comedy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Magic, Novels, Science Fiction, High Fantasy",
            "characters": "Teppic, Dios, Ptraci, Maldito Bastardo, Mericet, Broncalo, Ptaclusp, Koomi, Teppicamon XVII",
            "synopsis": "\"It\u0027s bad enough being new on the job, but Teppic hasn\u0027t a clue as to what a pharaoh is supposed to do. After all, he\u0027s been trained at Ankh-Morpork\u0027s famed assassins\u0027 school, across the sea from the Kingdom of the Sun. First, there\u0027s the monumental task of building a suitable resting place for Dad - a pyramid to end all pyramids. Then there are the myriad administrative duties, such as dealing with mad priests, sacred crocodiles, and marching mummies. And to top it all off, the adolescent pharaoh discovers deceit, betrayal - not to mention a headstrong handmaiden - at the heart of his realm.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1642,
            "title": "Haunted",
            "author": "Meg Cabot ",
            "date": "2005",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Paranormal, Fantasy, Romance, Ghosts, Supernatural, Fiction, Teen, Chick Lit, Mystery",
            "characters": "Hector de Silva (Jesse), Father Dominic, Susannah \"\"Suze\"\" Simon, Paul Slater, Kelly Prescott, Rick Slater, Andy Ackerman, Jake Ackerman (Sleepy), Brad Ackerman (Dopey), David Ackerman (Doc), Neil Jankow",
            "synopsis": "\"Is it possible to be haunted by someone who isn\u0027t even dead?Suze is used to trouble, but this time she\u0027s in deep: Ghostly Jesse has her heart, but Paul Slater, a real flesh-and-blood guy, is warm for her form. And mediator Paul knows how to send Jesse to the Great Beyond. For good.Paul claims he won\u0027t do anything to Jesse as long as Suze will go out with him. Fearing she\u0027ll lose Jesse forever, Suze agrees. But even if Suze can get Jesse to admit his true feelings for her, what kind of future can she have with a guy who\u0027s already dead?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1643,
            "title": "The White Dragon",
            "author": "Anne McCaffrey",
            "date": "Jul-86",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Science Fiction, Dragons, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Young Adult, High Fantasy, Adult, Speculative Fiction, Adventure",
            "characters": "Jaxom, Ruth (The White Dragon)",
            "synopsis": "\"Jaxom, a rebellious young aristocrat, and Ruth, his white dragon, fly into another time to retrieve the queen\u0027s stolen egg, thereby averting a dragonrider war, and find their planet threatened once again by a Threadfall.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1644,
            "title": "Six Days of the Condor",
            "author": "James Grady ",
            "date": "May-74",
            "genres": "Thriller, Fiction, Mystery, Drama, Crime, Suspense, Espionage, Novels, Mystery Thriller, Adult Fiction",
            "characters": "Ronald Malcolm",
            "synopsis": "\"CIA operative Malcolm, code-named Condor, discovers his colleagues butchered in a blood-spattered office, he realizes that only an oversight by the assassins has saved his life. He contacts CIA headquarters for help but when an attempted rendezvous goes wrong, it quickly becomes clear that no one can be trusted. Malcolm disappears into the streets of Washington, hoping to evade the killers long enough to unravel the conspiracy—but will that be enough to save his life?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1645,
            "title": "Ninth Key",
            "author": "Jenny Carroll, Meg Cabot ",
            "date": "2005",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Paranormal, Fantasy, Romance, Ghosts, Supernatural, Fiction, Mystery, Teen, Chick Lit",
            "characters": "Susannah \"\"Suze\"\" Simon, Hector de Silva (Jesse), Father Dominic, CeeCee Webb, Tad Beaumont, Andy Ackerman, Jake Ackerman (Sleepy), Brad Ackerman (Dopey), David Ackerman (Doc)",
            "synopsis": "\"Ghosts ruin everything. Especially your love life.Everything is going great for Suze. Her new life in California is a whirlwind of parties and excellent hair days. Tad Beaumont, the hottest boy in town, has even asked Suze out on her very first date. Suze is so excited that she\u0027s willing to ignore her misgivings about Tad... particularly the fact that he\u0027s not Jesse, whose ghostly status - not to mention apparent disinterest in her - make him unattainable.What Suze can\u0027t ignore, however, is the ghost of a murdered woman whose death seems directly connected to dark secrets hidden in none other than Tad Beaumont\u0027s past.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1646,
            "title": "Naruto, Vol. 01: Uzumaki Naruto",
            "author": "Masashi Kishimoto, Katy Bridges (Translator)",
            "date": "Feb-14",
            "genres": "Manga, Fantasy, Comics, Graphic Novels, Young Adult, Fiction, Adventure, Comics Manga, Anime, Action",
            "characters": "Sasuke Uchiha, Kakashi Hatake, Iruka, Hiruzen Saratobi, Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno",
            "synopsis": "\"Naruto is a ninja-in-training with an incorrigible knack for mischief. His wild antics amuse his teammates, but Naruto is completely serious about one thing: becoming the world\u0027s greatest ninja! UZUMAKI NARUTO Twelve years ago the Village Hidden in the Leaves was attacked by a fearsome threat. A nine-tailed fox spirit claimed the life of the village leader, the Hokage, and many others. Today, the village is at peace, and a troublemaking kid named Naruto is struggling to graduate from Ninja Academy. His goal may be to become Hokage, but his true destiny will be much more complicated. The adventure begins now!\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1647,
            "title": "Luck in the Shadows",
            "author": "Lynn Flewelling ",
            "date": "Sept-96",
            "genres": "Fantasy, LGBT, M M Romance, Fiction, Romance, High Fantasy, Queer, Magic, Adventure, Gay",
            "characters": "Alec í Amasa of Kerry, Seregil í Korit Solun Meringil Bôkthersa",
            "synopsis": "\"When young Alec of Kerry is taken prisoner for a crime he didn’t commit, he is certain that his life is at an end. But one thing he never expected was his cellmate. Spy, rogue, thief, and noble, Seregil of Rhiminee is many things–none of them predictable. And when he offers to take on Alec as his apprentice, things may never be the same for either of them. Soon Alec is traveling roads he never knew existed, toward a war he never suspected was brewing. Before long he and Seregil are embroiled in a sinister plot that runs deeper than either can imagine, and that may cost them far more than their lives if they fail. But fortune is as unpredictable as Alec’s new mentor, and this time there just might be…Luck in the Shadows.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1648,
            "title": "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim",
            "author": "David Sedaris",
            "date": "2004",
            "genres": "Humor, Nonfiction, Memoir, Essays, Short Stories, Comedy, Audiobook, Biography, Biography Memoir, Autobiography",
            "characters": "David Sedaris",
            "synopsis": "\"David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother’s wedding. He mops his sister’s floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn’t it? In his newest collection of essays, David Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface. His world is alive with obscure desires and hidden motives — a world where forgiveness is automatic and an argument can be the highest form of love. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim is another unforgettable collection from one of the wittiest and most original writers at work today.-davidsedarisbooks.com\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1649,
            "title": "Gardens of the Moon",
            "author": "Steven Erikson ",
            "date": "Jan-05",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Epic, Science Fiction Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Magic, Adult, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Kalam Mekhar, Quick Ben, Raest, Kruppe, Baruk, Anomander Rake, Whiskeyjack, Crokus, Sorry",
            "synopsis": "\"The Malazan Empire simmers with discontent, bled dry by interminable warfare, bitter infighting and bloody confrontations with the formidable Anomander Rake and his Tiste Andii, ancient and implacable sorcerers. Even the imperial legions, long inured to the bloodshed, yearn for some respite. Yet Empress Laseen\u0027s rule remains absolute, enforced by her dread Claw assassins.For Sergeant Whiskeyjack and his squad of Bridgeburners, and for Tattersail, surviving cadre mage of the Second Legion, the aftermath of the siege of Pale should have been a time to mourn the many dead. But Darujhistan, last of the Free Cities of Genabackis, yet holds out. It is to this ancient citadel that Laseen turns her predatory gaze.However, it would appear that the Empire is not alone in this great game. Sinister, shadowbound forces are gathering as the gods themselves prepare to play their hand...Conceived and written on a panoramic scale, Gardens of the Moon is epic fantasy of the highest order-an enthralling adventure by an outstanding new voice.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1650,
            "title": "Golden Fool",
            "author": "Robin Hobb ",
            "date": "Dec-03",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, Dragons, Epic, Adult",
            "characters": "The Fool, FitzChivalry Farseer, Chade Fallstar, Kettricken, Dutiful Farseer, Thick",
            "synopsis": "\"The acclaimed Farseer and Liveship Traders trilogies established Robin Hobb as one of the most splendidly imaginative practitioners of world-class fantasy. Now, in Book 2 of her most stunning trilogy yet, Hobb continues the soul-shattering tale of FitzChivalry Farseer. With rich characters, breathtaking magic, and sweeping action, Golden Fool brings the reluctant adventurer further into the fray in an epic of sacrifice, salvation, and untold treachery.Golden FoolPrince Dutiful has been rescued from his Piebald kidnappers and the court has resumed its normal rhythms. But for FitzChivalry Farseer, a return to isolation is impossible. Though gutted by the loss of his wolf bondmate, Nighteyes, Fitz must take up residence at Buckkeep and resume his tasks as Chade’s apprentice assassin. Posing as Tom Badgerlock, bodyguard to Lord Golden, FitzChivalry becomes the eyes and ears behind the walls. And with his old mentor failing visibly, Fitz is forced to take on more burdens as he attempts to guide a kingdom straying closer to civil strife each day.The problems are legion. Prince Dutiful’s betrothal to the Narcheska Elliania of the Out Islands is fraught with tension, and the Narcheska herself appears to be hiding an array of secrets. Then, amid Piebald threats and the increasing persecution of the Witted, FitzChivalry must ensure that no one betrays the Prince’s secret—a secret that could topple the Farseer throne: that he, like Fitz, possesses the dread “beast magic.”Meanwhile, FitzChivalry must impart to the Prince his limited knowledge of the Skill: the hereditary and addictive magic of the Farseers. In the process, they discover within Buckkeep one who has a wild and powerful talent for it, and whose enmity for Fitz may have disastrous consequences for all.Only Fitz’s enduring friendship with the Fool brings him any solace. But even that is shattered when unexpected visitors from Bingtown reveal devastating secrets from the Fool’s past. Now, bereft of support and adrift in intrigue, Fitz’s biggest challenge may be simply to survive the inescapable and violent path that fate has laid out for him.From the Hardcover edition.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1651,
            "title": "Laskar Pelangi",
            "author": "Andrea Hirata",
            "date": "2008",
            "genres": "Novels, Fiction, Indonesian Literature, Childrens, Asia, Young Adult, Education, Literature, Adventure, Inspirational",
            "characters": "A Ling, Lintang, Ikal, Muslimah Hafsari, Harfan Effendy Noor, Floriana, Mahar",
            "synopsis": "\"Begitu banyak hal menakjubkan yang terjadi dalam masa kecil para anggota Laskar Pelangi. Sebelas orang anak Melayu Belitong yang luar biasa ini tak menyerah walau keadaan tak bersimpati pada mereka. Tengoklah Lintang, seorang kuli kopra cilik yang genius dan dengan senang hati bersepeda 80 kilometer pulang pergi untuk memuaskan dahaganya akan ilmu—bahkan terkadang hanya untuk menyanyikan Padamu Negeri di akhir jam sekolah. Atau Mahar, seorang pesuruh tukang parut kelapa sekaligus seniman dadakan yang imajinatif, tak logis, kreatif, dan sering diremehkan sahabat-sahabatnya, namun berhasil mengangkat derajat sekolah kampung mereka dalam karnaval 17 Agustus. Dan juga sembilan orang Laskar Pelangi lain yang begitu bersemangat dalam menjalani hidup dan berjuang meraih cita-cita. Selami ironisnya kehidupan mereka, kejujuran pemikiran mereka, indahnya petualangan mereka, dan temukan diri Anda tertawa, menangis, dan tersentuh saat membaca setiap lembarnya. Buku ini dipersembahkan buat mereka yang meyakini the magic of childhood memories, dan khususnya juga buat siapa saja yang masih meyakini adanya pintu keajaiban lain untuk mengubah dunia: pendidikan.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1652,
            "title": "The Bourne Supremacy",
            "author": "Robert Ludlum",
            "date": "2004",
            "genres": "Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Espionage, Action, Adventure, Drama, Crime, Mystery Thriller",
            "characters": "Jason Bourne",
            "synopsis": "\"A killer with no face, no identity and a name the world wanted to forget:Jason BourneReenter the shadowy world of Jason Bourne, an expert assassin still plagued by the splintered nightmares of his former life. This time the stakes are higher than ever. For someone else has taken on the Bourne identity—a ruthless killer who must be stopped or the world will pay a devastating price. To succeed, the real Jason Bourne must maneuver through the dangerous labyrinth of international espionage—an exotic world filled with CIA plots, turncoat agents, and ever-shifting alliances—all the while hoping to find the truth behind his haunted memories and the answers to his own fragmented past. This time there are two Bournes—and one must die.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1653,
            "title": "Memories, Dreams, Reflections",
            "author": "C.G. Jung, Aniela Jaffé (Editor), Richard Winston (Translator), Clara Winston (Translator)",
            "date": "Apr-89",
            "genres": "Psychology, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Biography, Memoir, Autobiography, Spirituality, Psychoanalysis, Science, History",
            "characters": "Carl Gustav Jung",
            "synopsis": "\"In the spring of 1957, when he was eighty-one years old, C. G. Jung undertook the telling of his life story. At regular intervals he had conversations with his colleague and friend Aniela Jaffé, and collaborated with her in the preparation of the text based on these talks. On occasion, he was moved to write entire chapters of the book in his own hand, and he continued to work on the final stages of the manuscript until shortly before his death on June 6, 1961.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1654,
            "title": "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch",
            "author": "Philip K. Dick",
            "date": "2010",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Novels, Speculative Fiction, Dystopia, American, Classics, Religion, Fantasy",
            "characters": "Palmer Eldritch",
            "synopsis": "\"Dick at his wildest and strangest - a mystifying but brilliant book - SF: 100 Best NovelsIn the overcrowded world and cramped space colonies of the late 21st century, tedium can be endured through the drug Can-D, which enables users to inhabit a shared illusory world. When industrialist Palmer Eldritch returns from an interstellar trip, he brings with him a new drug, Chew-Z. It is far more potent than Can-D, but threatens to plunge the world into a permanent state of drugged illusion controlled by the mysterious Eldritch.Cover illustration: Chris Moore\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1655,
            "title": "A Spell for Chameleon",
            "author": "Piers Anthony",
            "date": "Sept-77",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Science Fiction Fantasy, Young Adult, Magic, Adventure, Science Fiction, High Fantasy, Comedy",
            "characters": "Sabrina, Cherie, Martha, Bink, Chester, Crombie, Beauregard, Chameleon, Chilk, Donald The Shade, Gap Dragon, Hastings, Hermin the Hermit, Humfrey, Jama, Justin Tree, Manticora, Munly, Numbo, Potipher, Spring of Life, Storm King, Zink, Iris (Piers Anthony), Millie, Trent, Bigfoot, Roland, Bianca, Sally",
            "synopsis": "\"Xanth was the enchanted land where magic ruled - where every citizen had a special spell only he could cast. It was a land of centaurs and dragons and basilisks.For Bink of North Village, however, Xanth was no fairy tale. He alone had no magic. And unless he got some - and got some fast! - he would be exiled. Forever!But the Good Magician Humfrey was convinced that Bink did indeed have magic. In fact, both Beauregard the genie and the magic wall chart insisted that Bink had magic. Magic as powerful as any possessed by the King or by Good Magician Humfrey - or even by the Evil Magician TrentBe that as it may, no one could fathom the nature of Bink\u0027s very special magic. Bink was in despair. This was even worse than having no magic at all..and he would still be exiled!\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1656,
            "title": "To Have and Have Not",
            "author": "Ernest Hemingway",
            "date": "1999",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Literature, Novels, American, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Classic Literature, The United States Of America, Modern Classics",
            "characters": "Harry Morgan",
            "synopsis": "\"To Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him into the world of the wealthy and dissipated yachtsmen who throng the region, and involve him in a strange and unlikely love affair.Harshly realistic, yet with one of the most subtle and moving relationships in the Hemingway oeuvre, To Have and Have Not is literary high adventure at its finest.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1657,
            "title": "Chrzest ognia",
            "author": "Andrzej Sapkowski",
            "date": "1996",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Polish Literature, Audiobook, High Fantasy, Adventure, Epic Fantasy, Adult, Magic, Science Fiction Fantasy",
            "characters": "Dandelion, Yennefer, Triss Merigold, Ciri (Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon), Francesca Findabair, Geralt of Rivia, Philippa Eilhart, Milva, Zoltan Chivay, Percival Schuttenbach, Emiel Regis Rohellec Terzieff-Godefroy, Cahir Mawr Dyffryn aep Ceallach, Assire var Anahid, Fringilla Vigo",
            "synopsis": "\"Cztery królestwa ogarnia wojenne szaleństwo.Piękna Filippa Eilhart powołuje tajną lożę czarodziejek.Wiedźmina dręczą sny.Andrzej Sapkowski, arcymistrz świtowej fantasy, po raz kolejny zaprasza do swej krainy Nigdy-Nigdy i przedstawia trzeci tom wychwalanej przez krytykę i uwielbianej przez czytelników wiedźmińskiej sagi.Geralt, wyleczony przez driady z ran odniesionych w czasie nieudanego puczu na wyspie Thanedd, wyrusza na poszukiwanie przeznaczonego mu Dziecka Niespodzianki. Oprócz nieodłącznego Jaskra, trubadura i domorosłego filozofa, do kompanii wiedźmina przystępują: pełna temperamentu łuczniczka Milva, nilfgaardzki rycerz - koszmar ze snów Ciri, którego poszukująnajlepsi szpiedzy Cesarstwa, sprytny gnom zwiadowca, pięciu rubasznych krasnoludów oraz noszący się staroświecko i pachnący intensywnie ziołami cyrulik - osobnik jakby nie z tej bajki.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1658,
            "title": "And Quiet Flows the Don",
            "author": "Mikhail Sholokhov",
            "date": "1996",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Russia, Russian Literature, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels, War, Nobel Prize, 20th Century",
            "characters": "Grigore Pantelejevic Melehov, Aksinja Astahova, Natalija Mironovna",
            "synopsis": "\"And Quiet Flows the Don or Quietly Flows the Don (Тихий Дон, lit. \"\"The Quiet Don\"\") is 4-volume epic novel by Russian writer Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov. The 1st three volumes were written from 1925 to \u002732 \u0026 published in the Soviet magazine October in 1928–32. The 4th volume was finished in 1940. The English translation of the 1st three volumes appeared under this title in 1934. The novel is considered one of the most significant works of Russian literature in the 20th century. It depicts the lives \u0026 struggles of Don Cossacks during WWI, the Russian Revolution \u0026 Russian Civil War. In 1965, Sholokhov was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for this novel. The authorship of the novel is contested by some literary critics \u0026 historians, who believe it wasn\u0027t entirely written by Sholokhov.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1659,
            "title": "Pattern Recognition",
            "author": "William Gibson",
            "date": "Feb-05",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Cyberpunk, Mystery, Thriller, Science Fiction Fantasy, Novels, Speculative Fiction, Espionage, Literature",
            "characters": "Hubertus Bigend, Cayce Pollard",
            "synopsis": "\"Cayce Pollard is an expensive, spookily intuitive market-research consultant. In London on a job, she is offered a secret assignment: to investigate some intriguing snippets of video that have been appearing on the Internet. An entire subculture of people is obsessed with these bits of footage, and anybody who can create that kind of brand loyalty would be a gold mine for Cayce\u0027s client. But when her borrowed apartment is burgled and her computer hacked, she realizes there\u0027s more to this project than she had expected.Still, Cayce is her father\u0027s daughter, and the danger makes her stubborn. Win Pollard, ex-security expert, probably ex-CIA, took a taxi in the direction of the World Trade Center on September 11 one year ago, and is presumed dead. Win taught Cayce a bit about the way agents work. She is still numb at his loss, and, as much for him as for any other reason, she refuses to give up this newly weird job, which will take her to Tokyo and on to Russia. With help and betrayal from equally unlikely quarters, Cayce will follow the trail of the mysterious film to its source, and in the process will learn something about her father\u0027s life and death.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1660,
            "title": "Nine Princes in Amber",
            "author": "Roger Zelazny, Tim White (illustrator)",
            "date": "Mar-86",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Classics, Adventure, High Fantasy, Audiobook, Magic",
            "characters": "Random of Amber, Brand of Amber, Corwin of Amber, Eric of Amber, Benedict of Amber, Caine of Amber, Bleys of Amber, Julian of Amber, Gérard of Amber, Florimel of Amber, Deirdre of Amber, Fiona of Amber, Llewella of Amber",
            "synopsis": "\"Amber, the one real world, wherein all others, including our own Earth, are but Shadows. Amber burns in Corwin\u0027s blood. Exiled on Shadow Earth for centuries, the prince is about to return to Amber to make a mad and desperate rush upon the throne. From Arden to the blood-slippery Stairway into the Sea, the air is electrified with the powers of Eric, Random, Bleys, Caine, and all the princes of Amber whom Corwin must overcome. Yet, his savage path is blocked and guarded by eerie structures beyond imagining; impossible realities forged by demonic assassins and staggering horrors to challenge the might of Corwin\u0027s superhuman fury.\u0027 to \u0027Awakening in an Earth hospital unable to remember who he is or where he came from, Corwin is amazed to learn that he is one of the sons of Oberon, King of Amber, and is the rightful successor to the crown in a parallel world.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1661,
            "title": "Thorn Queen",
            "author": "Richelle Mead ",
            "date": "2009",
            "genres": "Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, Paranormal, Fae, Paranormal Romance, Romance, Adult, Magic, Supernatural, Fiction",
            "characters": "Eugenie Markham, Dorian, Kiyo Marquez, Volusian, Jasmine Delaney, Maiwenn",
            "synopsis": "\"Eugenie Markham is a shaman for hire. She\u0027s paidto bind and banish creatures from theOtherworld.But something happened after her last battle. She became queen of the Thorn Land. With her kingdom in tatters, her love life in chaos, and eager to avoid the prophecy about her firstborn destroying mankind, the job\u0027s really not all it\u0027s cracked up to be.Now young girls are disappearing from the Otherworld, and no one seems willing to find out why. Or to put an end to it. Not that Eugenie\u0027s fazed by spilling fey blood, but this enemy is shrewd, subtle, and dangerous - and nursing a very personal grudge.Eugenie must venture deep into the Otherworld and trust in a power she can barely control. She may be a reluctant queen, but she\u0027s vowed to do her duty, even if it means facing the darkest and deadliest side of her nature.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1662,
            "title": "Brimstone",
            "author": "Douglas Preston , Lincoln Child",
            "date": "May-05",
            "genres": "Mystery, Thriller, Fiction, Horror, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Adventure, Audiobook, Novels",
            "characters": "Aloysius X.L. Pendergast, Constance Greene, Diogenes Pendergast, Laura Hayward, Viola Maskelene, Count Isidor Fosco, Locke Bullard, Jeremy Grove, Nigel Cutforth, Bryce Harriman, Rev. Wayne P. Buck, Lady Evelyn Milbanke, \"\"Vincent D\u0027\u0027Agosta\"\"",
            "synopsis": "\"Art critic Jeremy Grove is found dead, his face frozen in a mask of terror. His body temperature is grotesquely high; he is discovered in a room barricaded from the inside; the smell of brimstone is everywhere... and the unmistakable imprint of a claw is burned into the wall. As more bodies are discovered - their only connection the bizarre but identical manner of death - the world begins to wonder if the Devil has, in fact, come to collect his due.Teaming with Police Officer Vincent D\u0027Agosta (The Relic), Agent Pendergast is determined to solve this case that appears to defy everything except supernatural logic.©2004 Douglas Preston (P)2011 Hachette\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1663,
            "title": "Raven\u0027s Gate",
            "author": "Anthony Horowitz ",
            "date": "Oct-06",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Horror, Fiction, Paranormal, Adventure, Supernatural, Mystery, Magic, Thriller",
            "characters": "Richard Cole, Matt Freeman, Jayne Deverill",
            "synopsis": "\"He always knew he was different.First there were the dreams.Then the deaths began. When Matt Freeman gets into trouble with the police, he\u0027s sent to be fostered in Yorkshire. It\u0027s not long before he senses there\u0027s something wrong with his guardian; with the whole village. Then Matt learns about the Old Ones and begins to understand just how he is different. But no one will believe him; no one can help. There is no proof. There is no logic. There is just the Gate.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1664,
            "title": "The People of Sparks",
            "author": "Jeanne DuPrau",
            "date": "2004",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Dystopia, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Middle Grade, Post Apocalyptic, Childrens, Adventure, Teen",
            "characters": "Lina Mayfleet, Doon Harrow",
            "synopsis": "\"An alternate cover can be found here.The sequel to the critically acclaimed The City of Ember continues the story of Lina and Doon, who have emerged from the underground city to the exciting new world above. When anonymous acts of vandalism push them toward violence, it\u0027s up to Lina and Doon to discover who\u0027s behind the vandalism and why.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1665,
            "title": "أحببتك أكثر مما ينبغي",
            "author": "أثير عبدالله النشمي ",
            "date": "2009",
            "genres": "Novels, Romance, Fiction, Romantic, Love, Unfinished, Drama, Literature",
            "characters": "جمان, عبد العزيز",
            "synopsis": "\"\"\"أجلس اليوم إلى جوارك، أندب أحلامي الحمقى.. غارقة في حبي لك ولا قدرة لي على انتشال بقايا أحلامي من بين حطامك..\"\"، \"\"أحببتك أكثر مما ينبغي، وأحببتني أقل مما أستحق!\"\"تبدأ الكاتبة السعودية روايتها بنفس المقطع الذي تنتهي به، لتروي بينهما قصة \"\"جمانة\"\" و\"\"عزيز\"\" التي \"\"لن تنتهي!\"\".تبوح المرأة بتفاصيل مشاعرها تجاه الرجل الذي تحب، والأهم أنها تحاول التعبير عن حالتها الذهنية في تناقضها الحتمي مع حالة الحب الذي تكنّ. فالشرخ الذي يولّد عذابات جمة لا دواء لها، لا بد قائم بين عقلها وقوة مشاعرها، وعطائها الذي لا حدود له للمحبوب: \"\"كنت على استعداد لأن أصغر فتكبر..لأن أفشل لتنجح، لأن أخبو لتلمع..\"\"، ونوعية حبها الذي لا يقدره بل يتجاهله أو يقوم باستغلاله لصالح أهداف أقل أهمية منه بكثير، وأقل قيمة. \"\"ما زلت لا أدرك، لا أدرك كيف يتلاعب رجل بامرأة تحبه من دون أن يخاف للحظة مما يفعله نحوها!\"\"في كل مرة و\"\"بعد كل خيبة أمل.. بعد كل محنة وكل نزوة.. كنت أحاول لملمة أجزائي لنفتح مجدداً صفحة بيضاء أخرى..\"\"، لكن \"\"البدايات الجديدة ما هي إلا كذبة\"\".تستعيد الكاتبة ذكرياتها معه منذ البداية في مقهى خارج الوطن الذي غادرته للدراسة: \"\"الوطن الذي لو لم أغادره لما حدث كل هذا.. أتكون أنت عقابي على مغادرة وطن أحبني!..\"\"، وفكرة العقاب والثواب التي يسخر منها عزيز، تؤمن هي بها: \"\"مؤمنة أنا بيوم الحساب أكثر من أي شيء،\"\" لأنها تأمل عبرها أن ينال عزيز عقابه على ما اقترفه بحقها.قالت لهما العجوز الهندية غريبة الأطوار، دون سابق معرفة: \"\"هي متعبة منك..منك فقط..وأنت متعب من كل شيء..\"\"، وقالت لها \"\"هيفاء\"\" صديقتها الكويتية التي تتخاصم دائما وعزيز، بأنه لا يستحقها، وتقول جمانة له اليوم \"\"حبي لك كان أعمى يا عزيز..وأن هيفاء رأت فيك ما لم أره..\"\"، رأت الكذب المتسلسل والخيانة والإنكار الذي يشكك الآخر بنفسه وبعقله وإحساسه، وهي صفات تتجاهلها المرأة التي تحب رجلاً يحبها لكنه غير قادر على الالتزام بها. قال لها بصراحة: \"\"اسمعي.. أنا رجل لعوب.. أشرب وأعربد وأعاشر النساء.. لكنني أعود إليك في كل مرة..\"\"، وكانت تتحمل الأذى: \"\"تؤذينني عمداً وكأنك تفرغ في نفسي أحقادك وأوجاعك وأمراضك، تؤذيني عمداً باسم الحبّ..\"\". وهي بالرغم من كل الحقائق والوقائع تعترف: \"\"لم أبكِ بحرقة إلا بسببك ولم أضحك من أعماقي إلا معك.. أليست بمعادلة صعبة..؟ يحلل لها زياد صديقهما المشترك الوضع: \"\"أحببته لدرجة أخافته!.. لم يكن قادراً على ضمك لقائمة نسائه ولم يتمكن من الابتعاد عنك.. أحبك لدرجة أنه كان يخشى عليك من نفسه.. كما كان يخشى منك في الوقت ذاته..\"\"كيف يلتقيان، وهو يؤمن بأن الغاية تبرر الوسيلة، وهي تؤمن \"\"بأن الوسيلة أحياناً أهم من الغاية!\"\"؟\"\"قلت لي يوماً بأن حكايات الحبّ الشرقية غالباً ما تنتهي بمأساة. واليوم أعرف بأنك كنت محقاً في هذا..\"\"تنقل الرواية بصدق عميق ما يدور في أعماق المرأة في حالة حب،ّ من أحاسيس وأفكار وتناقضات، إذ تظن أن الخيار الصعب إلى أقسى مداه يكمن في الحفاظ على مشاعر الحبّ الجياشة واستمرارها، على حساب التنكّر للذات الواعية والمدركة لتلاعب الطرف الآخر بها، لكنها بأي حال، وحتى في حال دفع الحساب، لن تحصل على مبتغاها.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1666,
            "title": "The Enemy",
            "author": "Charlie Higson",
            "date": "2010",
            "genres": "Zombies, Horror, Young Adult, Dystopia, Post Apocalyptic, Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Thriller, Apocalyptic",
            "characters": "Deke, Lewis, Ollie, Achilleus (From The Enemy), Callum, David King, Jester, Maxie, Blue, Arran, Small Sam, Whitney, Freak",
            "synopsis": "\"Charlie Higson\u0027s The Enemy is the first in a jaw-dropping zombie horror series for teens. Everyone over the age of fourteen has succumbed to a deadly zombie virus and now the kids must keep themselves alive.When the sickness came, every parent, police officer, politician - every adult fell ill. The lucky ones died. The others are crazed, confused and hungry. Only children under fourteen remain, and they\u0027re fighting to survive.Now there are rumours of a safe place to hide. And so a gang of children begin their quest across London, where all through the city - down alleyways, in deserted houses, underground - the grown-ups lie in wait.But can they make it there - alive?This edition contains the first chapter of the second book The Dead.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1667,
            "title": "Antony and Cleopatra",
            "author": "William Shakespeare, Cynthia Marshall (Essay), Barbara A. Mowat (Editor), Paul Werstine (Editor)",
            "date": "2005",
            "genres": "Classics, Plays, Drama, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Theatre, Literature, Romance, Poetry, School",
            "characters": "Cleopatra, Marcus Antonius",
            "synopsis": "\"A romantic tragedy about the relationship between Mark Antony and the Queen of Egypt, including notes and critical commentary.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1668,
            "title": "Seventh Son",
            "author": "Orson Scott Card",
            "date": "Apr-88",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Alternate History, Science Fiction, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Young Adult, Historical, Magic, Speculative Fiction",
            "characters": "Alvin Maker, Taleswapper, Reverend Thrower, Alvin Miller, Faith Miller",
            "synopsis": "\"In an alternate version of frontier America, young Alvin is the seventh son of a seventh son, and such a birth is powerful magic. Yet even in the loving safety of his home, dark forces reach out to destroy him.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1669,
            "title": "The Canterville Ghost",
            "author": "Oscar Wilde, Inga Moore (Illustrator), Giada Riondino (Translator)",
            "date": "1997",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Short Stories, Fantasy, Horror, Humor, Gothic, Ghosts, Paranormal, 19th Century",
            "characters": "Minister Mr Otis, Lord Canterville, Rev. Augustus Dampier, Duke of Cheshire",
            "synopsis": "\"This is Oscar Wilde\u0027s tale of the American family moved into a British mansion, Canterville Chase, much to the annoyance of its tired ghost. The family - which refuses to believe in him - is in Wilde\u0027s way a commentary on the British nobility of the day - and on the Americans, too. The tale, like many of Wilde\u0027s, is rich with allusion, but ends as sentimental romance...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1670,
            "title": "Academ\u0027s Fury",
            "author": "Jim Butcher ",
            "date": "Feb-10",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Magic, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure, Audiobook, Epic, Young Adult",
            "characters": "Bernard, Amara, Miles, Isana, Gaius Sextus, Fidelius, Doroga, Tavi, Lady Aquataine",
            "synopsis": "\"For centuries, the people of Alera have relied on the power of the furies to protect them from outside invaders. But the gravest threat might be closer than they think.Tavi has escaped the Calderon Valley and the mysterious attack of the Marat on his homeland. But he is far from safe, as trying to keep up the illusion of being a student while secretly training as one of the First Lord\u0027s spies is a dangerous game. And he has not yet learned to use the furies, making him especially vulnerable.When the attack comes it\u0027s on two fronts. A sudden strike threatens the First Lord\u0027s life and threatens to plunge the land into civil war. While in the Calderon Valley, the threat faced from the Marat is dwarfed by an ancient menace. And Tavi must learn to harness the furies if he has any chance of fighting the greatest threat Alera has ever known . . .\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1671,
            "title": "George\u0027s Marvellous Medicine",
            "author": "Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illustrator)",
            "date": "2003",
            "genres": "Childrens, Fiction, Fantasy, Classics, Middle Grade, Young Adult, Humor, Novels, Chapter Books, Audiobook",
            "characters": "George Kranky, Grandma, Mrs. Kranky, Mr. Killy Kranky",
            "synopsis": "\"George\u0027s Grandma is a grizzly, grumpy, selfish old woman with pale brown teeth and a small puckered up mouth like a dog\u0027s bottom. Four times a day she takes a large spoonful of medicine, but it doesn\u0027t seem to do her any good. She\u0027s always just as poisonous after she\u0027s taken it as she was before. When George is left to look after her one morning, it\u0027s just the chance he needs . . .\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1672,
            "title": "Rose Madder",
            "author": "Stephen King ",
            "date": "1995",
            "genres": "Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Supernatural, Suspense, Paranormal, Mystery, Audiobook, Adult",
            "characters": "Rose McClendon Daniels, Norman Daniels, American Law Enforcement",
            "synopsis": "\"Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereRoused by a single drop of blood, Rosie Daniels wakes up to the chilling realisation that her husband is going to kill her. And she takes flight - with his credit card. Alone in a strange city, Rosie begins to build a new life: she meets Bill Steiner and she finds an odd junk shop painting, \u0027Rose Madder\u0027, which strangely seems to want her as much as she wants it. But it\u0027s hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder. Rose-maddened and on the rampage, Norman is a corrupt cop with a dog\u0027s instinct for tracking people. And he\u0027s getting close. Rosie can feel just how close he\u0027s getting...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1673,
            "title": "The Six Wives of Henry VIII",
            "author": "Alison Weir",
            "date": "1992",
            "genres": "History, Nonfiction, Biography, Historical, Tudor Period, British Literature, Biography Memoir, European History, Audiobook, 16th Century",
            "characters": "Anne Boleyn, Thomas More, Catherine of Aragon, Jane Seymour, Catherine Howard, Anne of Cleves, Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Francis I of France, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas Wolsey, Henry VIII of England, George Boleyn, Jane Boleyn, Catherine Parr",
            "synopsis": "\"Weir has tirelessly made her way through the entire labyrinth of Tudor history to tell the collective story of the six wives of Henry VIII-a vivid, full-blooded portrait of six very different women-in a work of sound and brilliant scholarship. Illustrations.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1674,
            "title": "The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes",
            "author": "Bill Watterson",
            "date": "1992",
            "genres": "Comics, Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels, Childrens, Comedy, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Comic Strips, Cartoon",
            "characters": "Calvin, Hobbes",
            "synopsis": "\"They\u0027re back: Calvin, the six-year-old dirty tricksmeister and master of indignation and his warm, cuddly philosopher sidekick, Hobbes. A tiger whose idea of adventure is to lie on his back by the fire and have his stomach rubbed. In six short years this unlikely duo has captured the hearts, the minds, and, most of all, the funny bones of America. They are the most phenomenal success story in syndication - and publishing - history. In only six years, they appear in more than 2,100 newspapers worldwide, and Calvin and Hobbes wins as many readership polls as Calvin has excesses. All seven of Bill Watterson\u0027s collections have sold a million copies within a year of publication. This treasury collection contains a never-before-published full-color section, as well as the cartoons appearing in \u0027The Revenge of the Baby-Sat\u0027 and \u0027Scientific Progress Goes \"\"Boink.\"\"\u0027 All Sunday cartoons are presented full-page and full-color.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1675,
            "title": "Q \u0026 A",
            "author": "Vikas Swarup",
            "date": "2005",
            "genres": "Fiction, India, Contemporary, Asia, Novels, Drama, Audiobook, Romance, Indian Literature, Adult Fiction",
            "characters": "Ram Mohammad Thomas",
            "synopsis": "\"Vikas Swarup\u0027s spectacular debut novel opens in a jail cell in Mumbai, India, where Ram Mohammad Thomas is being held after correctly answering all twelve questions on India\u0027s biggest quiz show, Who Will Win a Billion? It is hard to believe that a poor orphan who has never read a newspaper or gone to school could win such a contest. But through a series of exhilarating tales Ram explains to his lawyer how episodes in his life gave him the answer to each question.Ram takes us on an amazing review of his own history - from the day he was found as a baby in the clothes donation box of a Delhi church to his employment by a faded Bollywood star to his adventure with a security-crazed Australian army colonel to his career as an overly creative tour guide at the Taj Mahal.Vikas Swarup\u0027s Q \u0026 A is a beguiling blend of high comedy, drama, and romance that reveals how we know what we know - not just about trivia, but about life itself. Cutting across humanity in all its squalor and glory, Vikas Swarup presents a kaleidoscopic vision of the struggle between good and evil - and what happens when one boy has no other choice in life but to survive.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1676,
            "title": "Çalıkuşu",
            "author": "Reşat Nuri Güntekin",
            "date": "1992",
            "genres": "Turkish Literature, Classics, Turkish, Fiction, Romance, Novels, Roman, Historical Fiction, Literature, Drama",
            "characters": "Kamran, Feride",
            "synopsis": "\"Reşat Nuri Güntekin\u0027in 1922 yılında ilk kez Vakit gazetesinde tefrika edilen en tanınmış eseridir. Fransız Lisesi mezunu gencecik, delişmen bir kız olan Feride\u0027nin serüveni yaşadığı derin bir hayal kırıklığı sonrasında nişanlısını, ailesini İstanbul\u0027da bırakarak Anadolu\u0027nun küçük bir köyüne öğretmen olmasıyla başlar. Daha sonra bu köyü diğer kasabalar, şehirler izler. Önceleri her gittiği yerde Kurtuluş Savaşı\u0027nın etkileri görülür, güç koşulların, sefaletin izlerine rastlanır. Sonraları farklı kültürden gelen genç, yalnız ve bağımsız bir kızın toplumsal yaşamdaki zorlukları, çatışan değer yargıları, karşısına dikilen çıkar ilişkileri, Feride\u0027nin iç dünyasındaki fırtınalar ve derin yalnızlıkla iç içe geçerek okurun karşısına çıkar. Çalıkuşu, gerçekçi yönelimin ilk dönemlerinden olan bir başyapıttır.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1677,
            "title": "The Man in the Brown Suit",
            "author": "Agatha Christie",
            "date": "2002",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Mystery Thriller, Detective, British Literature, Romance, Adventure, Thriller",
            "characters": "Anne Beddingfeld, Colonel Race, The Honourable Mrs Suzanne Blair, Sir Eustace Pedler, MP, Guy Pagett, Arthur Minks, Henry Flemming, Mrs Flemming, Lord Nasby, Mrs Caroline James, Harry Rayburn, Rev. Edward Chichester, Nadina (The man in the Brown Suit)",
            "synopsis": "\"Newly-orphaned Anne Beddingfeld is a nice English girl looking for a bit of adventure in London. But she stumbles upon more than she bargained for! Anne is on the platform at Hyde Park Corner tube station when a man falls onto the live track, dying instantly. A doctor examines the man, pronounces him dead, and leaves, dropping a note on his way. Anne picks up the note, which reads \"\"17.1 22 Kilmorden Castle\"\". The next day the newspapers report that a beautiful ballet dancer has been found dead there- brutally strangled. A fabulous fortune in diamonds has vanished. And now, aboard the luxury liner Kilmorden Castle, mysterious strangers pillage her cabin and try to strangle her. What are they looking for? Why should they want her dead? Lovely Anne is the last person on earth suited to solve this mystery... and the only one who can! Anne\u0027s journey to unravel the mystery takes her as far afield as Africa and the tension mounts with every step... and Anne finds herself struggling to unmask a faceless killer known only as \u0027The Colonel\u0027....\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1678,
            "title": "Tutunamayanlar",
            "author": "Oğuz Atay",
            "date": "Jan-84",
            "genres": "Turkish Literature, Turkish, Fiction, Novels, Literature, Roman, Classics, Unfinished, Literary Fiction, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Selim Işık, Turgut Özben",
            "synopsis": "\"Türk edebiyatının en önemli eserlerinden biri olan Tutunamayanlar\u0027ı Berna Moran, \"\"hem söyledikleri hem de söyleyiş biçimiyle bir başkaldırı\"\" olarak niteler. Moran\u0027a göre \"\"Oğuz Atay\u0027ın mizah gücü, duyarlılığı ve kullandığı teknik incelikler, Tutunamayanlar\u0027ı büyük bir yeteneğin ürünü yapmış, yapıttaki bu yetkinlik Türk romanını çağdaş roman anlayışıyla aynı hizaya getirmiş ve ona çok şey kazandırmıştır.\"\" Küçük burjuva dünyasını zekice alaya alan Atay \"\"saldırısını, tutunanların anlamayacağı, reddedeceği türden bir romanla yapar.\"\" Tutunamayanlar, 1970 TRT Roman Ödülü\u0027nü kazanmıştı.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1679,
            "title": "The Chamber",
            "author": "John Grisham ",
            "date": "Jan-06",
            "genres": "Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Legal Thriller, Crime, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Law, Drama, Novels",
            "characters": "Adam Hall, Sam Cayhall",
            "synopsis": "\"In the corridors of Chicago\u0027s top law firm: Twenty -six-year-old Adam Hall stands on the brink of a brilliant legal career. Now he is risking it all for a death-row killer and an impossible case.Maximum Security Unit, Mississippi State Prison: Sam Cayhall is a former Klansman and unrepentant racist now facing the death penalty for a fatal bombing in 1967. He has run out of chances - except for one: the young, liberal Chicago lawyer who just happens to be his grandson.While the executioners prepare the gas chamber, while the protesters gather and the TV cameras wait, Adam has only days, hours, minutes to save his client. For between the two men is a chasm of shame, family lies, and secrets - including the one secret that could save Sam Cayhall\u0027s life... or cost Adam his.-back cover\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1680,
            "title": "Airman",
            "author": "Eoin Colfer",
            "date": "2008",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Fantasy, Steampunk, Historical Fiction, Adventure, Fiction, Science Fiction, Historical, Teen, Action",
            "characters": "Conor Broekhart, Isabella Trudeau, Declan Broekhart, Catherine Broekhart, Linus Wynter, Nicholas Trudeau, Hugo Bonvilain",
            "synopsis": "\"In the 1890s Conor and his family live on the sovereign Saltee Islands, off the Irish coast. Conor spends his days studying the science of flight with his tutor and exploring the castle with the king’s daughter, Princess Isabella. But the boy’s idyllic life changes forever the day he discovers a deadly conspiracy against the king. When Conor tries to intervene, he is branded a traitor and thrown into jail on the prison island of Little Saltee. There, he has to fight for his life, as he and the other prisoners are forced to mine for diamonds in inhumane conditions.There is only one way to escape Little Saltee, and that is to fly. So Conor passes the solitary months by scratching drawings of flying machines on the prison walls. The months turn into years; but eventually the day comes when Conor must find the courage to trust his revolutionary designs and take to the air.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1681,
            "title": "I Too Had a Love Story",
            "author": "Ravinder Singh",
            "date": "2011",
            "genres": "Romance, Fiction, Love, Indian Literature, Love Story, Romantic, Novels, India, Contemporary, Young Adult",
            "characters": "Ravinder Singh, Khushi",
            "synopsis": "\"Do love stories ever die?. . . How would you react when a beautiful person comes into your life, and then goes away from you . . . forever?Not all love stories are meant to have a perfect ending. I Too Had a Love Story is one such saga. It is the tender and heartfelt tale of Ravin and Khushi—two people who found each other on a matrimonial site and fell in love . . . until life put their love to the ultimate test.Romantic, emotional and sincere, this heartbreaking true life story has already touched a million hearts. This bestselling novel is a must-read for anyone who believes in the magic of love . . .\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1682,
            "title": "The Pigman",
            "author": "Paul Zindel",
            "date": "2005",
            "genres": "Fiction, Young Adult, Classics, School, Realistic Fiction, Read For School, Teen, Childrens, High School, Contemporary",
            "characters": "John Conlan, Lorraine Jensen, Angelo \"\"Pigman\"\" Pignati",
            "synopsis": "\"Librarian note: an alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereWhen sophomores John and Lorraine played a practical joke a few months ago on a stranger named Angelo Pignati, they had no idea what they were starting. Virtually overnight, almost against their will, the two befriended the lonely old man; it wasn\u0027t long before they were more comfortable in his house than their own. But now Mr. Pignati is dead. And for John and Lorraine, the only way to find peace is to write down their friend\u0027s story - the story of the Pigman.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1683,
            "title": "The Second Summer of the Sisterhood",
            "author": "Ann Brashares",
            "date": "Dec-04",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Fiction, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Romance, Teen, Realistic Fiction, Childrens, Coming Of Age, Young Adult Contemporary",
            "characters": "Bridget Vreeland, Tibby Rollins, Carmen Lowell, Lena Kaligaris",
            "synopsis": "\"With a bit of last summer\u0027s sand in the pockets, the Traveling Pants and the Sisterhood that wears them embark on their second summer together.Bridget: Impulsively sets off for Alabama, wanting to both confront and avoid her demons... but she can\u0027t keep the truth from the Pants.Carmen: Is concerned that her mother is making a fool of herself over a man. When she discovers that her mom borrowed the Pants to wear on a date, she\u0027s certain of it.Tibby: Makes a movie she\u0027d like to be proud of... while the Pants keep alive the memory of a friend who could see beyond appearances.Lena: Has spent months hiding from love... only to find that she\u0027s at last ready to put on the Pants and let them lead her where they will.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1684,
            "title": "La vida es sueño",
            "author": "Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Ciriaco Morón Arroyo (Editor)",
            "date": "2001",
            "genres": "Plays, Classics, Drama, Spanish Literature, Theatre, Fiction, School, Spain, Poetry, Literature",
            "characters": "Segismundo, Rosaura, Basílio",
            "synopsis": "\"He aquí la creación más lograda y de carácter más universal de Calderón. La vida es sueño es, en síntesis, la plasmación barroca de la idea de la fugacidad de la vida con todos los aditamentos geniales de construcción, caracteres y estilo que el autor supo imprimirle. Con este pesimismo radical sobre el valor de la vida humana se interfiere el libre albedrío como afirmación personal de Segismundo —“¿y teniendo yo más vida / tengo menos libertad?”—. Estos dos principios combinados crean una riqueza enorme de sentidos, que en esta edición son desmenuzados críticamente por Ciriaco Morón Arroyo.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1685,
            "title": "Annie on My Mind",
            "author": "Nancy Garden",
            "date": "1992",
            "genres": "LGBT, Young Adult, Romance, Fiction, Queer, Lesbian, Contemporary, Classics, Realistic Fiction, Coming Of Age",
            "characters": "Liza Winthrop, Annie Kenyon, Ms. Stevenson, Ms. Widmer, Mrs. Poindexter, Ms. Baxter, Chad Winthrop, Sally Jarrell, Jennifer Piccolo",
            "synopsis": "\"This groundbreaking book is the story of two teenage girls whose friendship blossoms into love and who, despite pressures from family and school that threaten their relationship, promise to be true to each other and their feelings. The book has been banned from many school libraries and publicly burned in Kansas City. Of the author and the book, the Margaret A. Edwards Award committee said, “Using a fluid, readable style, Garden opens a window through which readers can find courage to be true to themselves.”\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1686,
            "title": "The Paul Street Boys",
            "author": "Ferenc Molnár",
            "date": "1998",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Hungarian Literature, Childrens, Hungary, School, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels",
            "characters": "Nemecsek Ernő, Boka János, Geréb Dezső, Áts Feri",
            "synopsis": "\"The war between two groups of Hungarian boys living in Budapest. One with Hungarian national colours (red, white, green) is defending the square from redshirts (from Garibaldi\u0027s redshirts), who want to occupy the square.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1687,
            "title": "Daniel Deronda",
            "author": "George Eliot, Edmund White (Introduction)",
            "date": "2002",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, 19th Century, Victorian, British Literature, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels, Romance, Jewish",
            "characters": "Daniel Deronda, Gwendolen Harleth, Mirah Lapidoth, Sir Hugo Mallinger, Henleigh Mallinger Grandcourt",
            "synopsis": "\"A beautiful young woman stands poised over the gambling tables in an expensive hotel. She is aware of, and resents, the gaze of an unusual young man, a stranger, who seems to judge her, and find her wanting. The encounter will change her life.The strange young man is Daniel Deronda, brought up with his own origins shrouded in mystery, searching for a compelling outlet for his singular talents and remarkable capacity for empathy. Deronda\u0027s destiny will change the lives of many.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1688,
            "title": "Night Fall",
            "author": "Nelson DeMille ",
            "date": "Nov-05",
            "genres": "Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Drama, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Novels, Adult Fiction, Action",
            "characters": "John Corey",
            "synopsis": "\"Based on true events, but unlike anything you\u0027ve ever read before, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille has created what may be his finest work to date.It is dusk on July 17, 1996. A man and a woman who are married-but not to each other-make love on a Long Island beach as a video camera records their pleasure...and something more. Out over the ocean, TWA Flight 800 suddenly explodes with 230 victims on board, the terrible blast illuminating the sky. The government\u0027s verdict is mechanical failure. But the videotape may tell another story-if it can be found.Now on the fifth anniversary of the crash, two members of the Federal Anti-Terrorist Task Force set out to reopen the case; John Corey, an ex-NYPD detective, and his wife, Kate Mayfield, a career FBI agent. Together, they hunt for the crucial video...and race towed an elusive truth even more horrifying than the crash itself.-back cover\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1689,
            "title": "The Inheritance of Loss",
            "author": "Kiran Desai",
            "date": "2005",
            "genres": "Fiction, India, Historical Fiction, Indian Literature, Novels, Asia, Literary Fiction, Literature, Contemporary, Book Club",
            "characters": "Jemubhai Patel",
            "synopsis": "\"In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas lives an embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace, when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judge’s cook watches over her distractedly, for his thoughts are often on his son, Biju, who is hopscotching from one gritty New York restaurant to another. Kiran Desai’s brilliant novel, published to huge acclaim, is a story of joy and despair. Her characters face numerous choices that majestically illuminate the consequences of colonialism as it collides with the modern world.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1690,
            "title": "High Five",
            "author": "Janet Evanovich ",
            "date": "Jun-00",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Humor, Chick Lit, Romance, Crime, Comedy, Contemporary, Mystery Thriller, Adult",
            "characters": "Ranger (Rangeman CEO), Lula, Randy Briggs, Joe Morelli, Stephanie Plum, Tank",
            "synopsis": "\"Stephanie Plum has a whole lot of trouble on her doorstep.Her Uncle Fred has disappeared and Grandma Mazur is convinced he\u0027s been abducted by aliens.Meanwhile, Cousin Vinnie has asked her to bring in the vertically challenged Randy Briggs who\u0027s jumped bail. But instead of coming quietly, he has taken up residence in Stephanie\u0027s closet. The mysterious man called Bunchy is trailing Stephanie in the hope of tracking down Fred. And Benito Ramirez is back from jail, quoting Scripture and vowing to introduce Stephanie to God - face to face.Thankfully Joe Morelli, the irresistible cop, is still around to give her the odd sleepless night - though now he faces tough competition from the enigmatic Ranger...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1691,
            "title": "The House of Sleep",
            "author": "Jonathan Coe ",
            "date": "May-99",
            "genres": "Fiction, Contemporary, British Literature, Novels, Literature, Romance, Literary Fiction, Psychology, Drama, Adult Fiction",
            "characters": "Sarah, Robert, Terry, Gregory",
            "synopsis": "\"Like a surreal and highly caffeinated version of The Big Chill, Jonathan Coe\u0027s new novel follows four students who knew each other in college in the eighties. Sarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real events. Robert has his life changed forever by the misunderstandings that arise from her condition. Terry spends his wakeful nights fueling his obsession with movies. And an increasingly unstable doctor, Gregory, sees sleep as a life-shortening disease which he must eradicate.But after ten years of fretful slumber and dreams gone bad, the four reunite in their college town to confront their disorders. In a Gothic cliffside manor being used as a clinic for sleep disorders, they discover that neither love, nor lunacy, nor obsession ever rests.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1692,
            "title": "The Dice Man",
            "author": "Luke Rhinehart",
            "date": "1999",
            "genres": "Fiction, Psychology, Novels, Thriller, Contemporary, Classics, American, Philosophy, Literature, Humor",
            "characters": "Luke Rhinehart",
            "synopsis": "\"The cult classic that can still change your life...Let the dice decide! This is the philosophy that changes the life of bored psychiatrist Luke Rhinehart - and in some ways changes the world as well. Because once you hand over your life to the dice, anything can happen. Entertaining, humorous, scary, shocking, subversive, The Dice Man is one of the cult bestsellers of our time.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1693,
            "title": "Percy Jackson and the Sword of Hades",
            "author": "Rick Riordan ",
            "date": "Feb-09",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Mythology, Fiction, Adventure, Short Stories, Middle Grade, Greek Mythology, Childrens, Novella",
            "characters": "Nico di Angelo, Thalia Grace, Persephone (Goddess), Hades, Percy Jackson",
            "synopsis": "\"The goddess Persephone has summoned Percy, Thalia, and Nico to the Underworld in order to retrieve Hades\u0027 powerful sword before it falls into the wrong hands. Flip the book over for lots more ancient Greek fun with Terry Deary\u0027s \u0027Groovy Greeks\u0027 - it\u0027s history with the nasty bits left in!\"\"\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1694,
            "title": "Czas pogardy",
            "author": "Andrzej Sapkowski",
            "date": "1995",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Polish Literature, Audiobook, High Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, Epic Fantasy, Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy",
            "characters": "Dandelion, Yennefer, Triss Merigold, Ciri (Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon), Iskra, Skomlik, Aplegatt, Francesca Findabair, Geralt of Rivia, Emhyr var Emreis, Sigismund Dijkstra, Philippa Eilhart, Margarita Laux–Antille, Tessaia de Vries, Codringher, Fenn, Vilgefortz, Giselher, Mistle, Kayleigh",
            "synopsis": "\"Czas pogardy - tom drugi sagi o wiedźminie. Nastał czas pogardy, czas miecza i topora, czas wilczej zamieci. Wśród wojennej zawieruchy znaleźli się Geralt, Yennefer i Ciri, ale każde z nich gdzie indziej. Ciri czuje się porzucona, zapomniana, musi sama borykać się z trudami wędrówki...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1695,
            "title": "Flashman",
            "author": "George MacDonald Fraser, Gino D\u0027Achille (Illustrator)",
            "date": "1999",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Humor, Historical, Adventure, Comedy, War, Classics, Novels, India",
            "characters": "Harry Paget Flashman",
            "synopsis": "\"Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world.Can a man be all bad? When Harry Flashman’s adventures as the reluctant secret agent in Afghanistan lead him to join the exclusive company of Lord Cardigan’s Hussars and play a part in the disastrous Retreat from Kabul, it culminates in the rascal’s finest – and most dishonest – turn.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1696,
            "title": "Guardians of the West",
            "author": "David Eddings",
            "date": "Mar-88",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Adventure, Young Adult, Magic, Epic, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Garion, Polgara, Belgarath, Layla, \"\"Ce\u0027\u0027Nedra\"\", Silk, Barak, Fulrach, Anheg, Rhodar, Cho-Hag, Islena, Porenn, Silar, Hettar, Durnik, Lellodrin, Mandorallen, Arianaa, Nerinaa, Ran Borune XXIII, Sadi, Aldur, Beltira, Belkira, Beldin, Gorim, Relg, Yarbleck, Greldik, Merel, Poledra, Korodullin, Drosta lek Thun, Morin, Javelina, Varana, Errand",
            "synopsis": "\"Garion has slain the evil God Torak and been crowned King of Riva. The Prophecy was fulfilled—or so it seemed. While the strange child Errand was growing up in the Vale of Aldur with Polgara and Durnik, showing only occasional flashes of inexplicable knowledge and power, Garion was learning to rule and to be the husband of his fiery little Queen Ce’Nedra. Eleven years passed.Then suddenly the Voice of Prophecy cried out a warning: “Beware Zandramas!” Not even Belgarath the Sorcerer knew who or what Zandramas was. But Garion discovered hints in a previously obscured part of the Mrin Codex. Worse, he learned that the Dark Prophecy was still waging its ancient struggle against the Prophecy of Light. Again, great evil was brewing in the East. And again, Garion found himself a pawn, caught between the two ancient Prophecies, with the fate of the world somehow resting on him.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1697,
            "title": "Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance",
            "author": "Barack Obama",
            "date": "2004",
            "genres": "Nonfiction, Biography, Memoir, Politics, Autobiography, History, Biography Memoir, Audiobook, Race, African American",
            "characters": "Barack Obama",
            "synopsis": "\"In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey—first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother’s family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father’s life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1698,
            "title": "Point Blank",
            "author": "Anthony Horowitz ",
            "date": "2001",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Adventure, Fiction, Mystery, Action, Espionage, Thriller, Childrens, Teen, Realistic Fiction",
            "characters": "Alex Rider, Alan Blunt, Jack Starbright, Smithers, Dr Grief, Mrs Jones",
            "synopsis": "\"MI6 assigns Alex Rider, 14, undercover at an elite prep school for teen rebels after two fathers are assassinated. Principal Dr Grief and vicious cigar-smoking Mrs Stellenbosch are the only teachers. All the students act studious, perfect - and identical. When Alex finds the plot, the villains find him, and the mountain peak has only a black ski run escape.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1699,
            "title": "Pani Jeziora",
            "author": "Andrzej Sapkowski",
            "date": "2001",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Polish Literature, Adventure, High Fantasy, Audiobook, Epic Fantasy, Magic, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adult",
            "characters": "Dandelion, Yennefer, Triss Merigold, Ciri (Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon), Geralt of Rivia, Emhyr var Emreis, Sigismund Dijkstra, Vilgefortz, Milva, Zoltan Chivay, Emiel Regis Rohellec Terzieff-Godefroy, Cahir Mawr Dyffryn aep Ceallach, Fringilla Vigo, Leo Bonhart, Angouleme, Jarre, Nimue, Condwiramurs, Galhad, \"\"Avallac\u0027\u0027h\"\", Eredin, Oberon Muircetach, Boreas Mun, Isengrim Faoiltiarna, Milo Vanderbeck, Iola the Second, Shani, Marti Sodergren, Julia Abatemarco, Yarpen Zigrin, Anna Henrietta of Toussaint",
            "synopsis": "\"Length: 20 hours and 18 minutesThe Witcher returns in this action-packed sequel to The Tower of Swallows, in the New York Times best-selling series that inspired The Witcher video games.After walking through the portal in the Tower of Swallows while narrowly escaping death, Ciri finds herself in a completely different world...an Elven world. She is trapped, with no way out. Time does not seem to exist, and there are no obvious borders or portals to cross back into her home world.But this is Ciri, the child of prophecy, and she will not be defeated. She knows she must escape to finally rejoin the Witcher, Geralt, and his companions - and also to try to conquer her worst nightmare. Leo Bonhart, the man who chased, wounded, and tortured Ciri, is still on her trail. And the world is still at war.Translated from the original Polish by David French.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1700,
            "title": "The Last Command",
            "author": "Timothy Zahn ",
            "date": "Feb-94",
            "genres": "Star Wars, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Space Opera, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Adventure, Novels, Space",
            "characters": "Luke Skywalker, Jacen Solo, Mara Jade, Thrawn, Jaina Solo, Gilad Pellaeon, Wedge Antilles, Talon Karrde, Mon Mothma, Khabarakh, \"\"Joruus C\u0027\u0027baoth\"\", \"\"Borsk Fey\u0027\u0027lya\"\", Garm Bel Iblis",
            "synopsis": "\"The embattled Republic reels from the attacks of Grand Admiral Thrawn, who has marshaled the remnants of the Imperial forces and driven the Rebels back with an abominable technology recovered from the Emperor\u0027s secret fortress: clone soldiers. As Thrawn mounts his final siege, Han and Chewbacca struggle to form a coalition of smugglers for a last-ditch attack against the empire, while Leia holds the Alliance together and prepares for the birth of her Jedi twins. Overwhelmed by the ships and clones at Thrawn\u0027s command, the Republic has one last hope-sending a small force, led by Luke Skywalker, into the very stronghold that houses Thrawn\u0027s terrible cloning machines. There a final danger awaits, as the Dark Jedi C\u0027baoth directs the battle against the Rebels and builds his strength to finish what he had already started: the destruction of Luke Skywalker.Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years!\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1701,
            "title": "Princess in the Spotlight",
            "author": "Meg Cabot ",
            "date": "2006",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Romance, Chick Lit, Fiction, Contemporary, Teen, Childrens, Humor, Realistic Fiction, High School",
            "characters": "Mia Thermopolis, Lilly Moscovitz, Helen Thermopolis, Frank Gianini, Michael Moscovitz, \"\"Grandmère\"\" Clarisse Renaldo",
            "synopsis": "\"No one ever said being a princess was easy.Just when Mia thought she had the whole princess thing under control, things get out of hand, fast. First, there\u0027s an unexpected announcement from her mother. Then Grandmère arranges a national primetime interview for the brand-new crown princess of Genovia. On top of that, intriguing, exasperating letters from a secret admirer begin to arrive.Before she even has the chance to wonder who those letters are from, Mia is swept up in a whirlwind of royal intrigue the likes of which haven\u0027t been seen since volume I of The Princess Diaries.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1702,
            "title": "Poseidon’s Children",
            "author": "Michael West ",
            "date": "Mar-12",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Horror, Mythology, Urban Fantasy, Mermaids, Fiction, Greek Mythology, Paranormal, Thriller, Monsters",
            "characters": "Preacher, Earl L. Preston Jr., Carol Miyagi, Dante \"\"The Horror Show\"\" Vianello, Roger Hays, Larry Neuhaus, Peggy Hern, Alan Everson, Barbara DeParle, Karl Tellstrom, Christine DeParle",
            "synopsis": "\"Man no longer worships the old gods; forgotten and forsaken, they have become nothing more than myth and legend. But all that is about to change. After the ruins of a vast, ancient civilization are discovered on the ocean floor, Coast Guard officers find a series of derelict ships drifting in the current—high-priced yachts and leaking fishing boats, all ransacked, splattered in blood, their crews missing and presumed dead. And that\u0027s just the beginning. Vacationing artist Larry Neuhaus has just witnessed a gruesome shark attack, a young couple torn apart right before his eyes....at least, he thinks it was a shark. And when one of these victims turns out to be the only son of Roger Hays, the most powerful man in the country, things go from bad to worse. Now, to stop the carnage, Larry and his new-found friends must work together to unravel a mystery as old as time, and face an enemy as dark as the ocean depths.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1703,
            "title": "Presumed Innocent",
            "author": "Scott Turow ",
            "date": "1988",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Crime, Legal Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Law, Audiobook, Novels",
            "characters": "Rusty Sabich, Alejandro \"\"Sandy\"\" Stern",
            "synopsis": "\"Hailed as the most suspenseful and compelling novel in decades. Presumed Innocent brings to life our worst nightmare: that of an ordinary citizen facing conviction for the most terrible of all crimes. It\u0027s the stunning portrayal of one man\u0027s all-too-human, all-consuming fatal attraction for a passionate woman who is not his wife, and the story of how his obsession puts everything he loves and values on trial—including his own life. It\u0027s a book that lays bare a shocking world of betrayal and murder, as well as the hidden depths of the human heart. And it will hold you and haunt you ... long after you have reached its shattering conclusion.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1704,
            "title": "The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man\u0027s Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45",
            "author": "Władysław Szpilman, Anthea Bell (Translator)",
            "date": "1999",
            "genres": "Nonfiction, History, Holocaust, Biography, War, Memoir, World War II, Historical, Poland, Classics",
            "characters": "Władysław Szpilman, Władysław Szpilman",
            "synopsis": "\"The last live broadcast on Polish Radio, on September 23, 1939, was Chopin\u0027s Nocturne in C# Minor, played by a young pianist named Wladyslaw Szpilman, until his playing was interrupted by German shelling. It was the same piece and the same pianist, when broadcasting was resumed six years later. The Pianist is Szpilman\u0027s account of the years inbetween, of the death and cruelty inflicted on the Jews of Warsaw and on Warsaw itself, related with a dispassionate restraint borne of shock. Szpilman, now 88, has not looked at his description since he wrote it in 1946 (the same time as Primo Levi\u0027s If This Is A Man?; it is too personally painful. The rest of us have no such excuse.  Szpilman\u0027s family were deported to Treblinka, where they were exterminated; he survived only because a music-loving policeman recognised him. This was only the first in a series of fatefully lucky escapes that littered his life as he hid among the rubble and corpses of the Warsaw Ghetto, growing thinner and hungrier, yet condemned to live. Ironically it was a German officer, Wilm Hosenfeld, who saved Szpilman\u0027s life by bringing food and an eiderdown to the derelict ruin where he discovered him. Hosenfeld died seven years later in a Stalingrad labour camp, but portions of his diary, reprinted here, tell of his outraged incomprehension of the madness and evil he witnessed, thereby establishing an effective counterpoint to ground the nightmarish vision of the pianist in a desperate reality. Szpilman originally published his account in Poland in 1946, but it was almost immediately withdrawn by Stalin\u0027s Polish minions as it unashamedly described collaborations by Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Poles and Jews with the Nazis. In 1997 it was published in Germany after Szpilman\u0027s son found it on his father\u0027s bookcase. This admirably robust translation by Anthea Bell is the first in the English language. There were 3,500,000 Jews in Poland before the Nazi occupation; after it there were 240,000. Wladyslaw Szpilman\u0027s extraordinary account of his own miraculous survival offers a voice across the years for the faceless millions who lost their lives. -David Vincent\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1705,
            "title": "The Buried Giant",
            "author": "Kazuo Ishiguro",
            "date": "Mar-15",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Audiobook, Novels, Historical, Literature, British Literature, Magical Realism",
            "characters": "Sir Gawain, Beatrice (diverse works), Axl, Wistan, Edwin, Querig, Ivor, Father Jonus, Lord Brennus",
            "synopsis": "\"\"\"You\u0027ve long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it\u0027s time now to think on it anew. There\u0027s a journey we must go on, and no more delay...\"\"The Buried Giant begins as a couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years.Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro\u0027s first novel in nearly a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge, and war.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1706,
            "title": "Two for the Dough",
            "author": "Janet Evanovich ",
            "date": "Jun-96",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Humor, Chick Lit, Romance, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Comedy, Contemporary, Adult",
            "characters": "Ranger (Rangeman CEO), Lula, Grandma Mazur, Kenny Mancuso, Joyce Bernhardt, Joe Morelli, Stephanie Plum, Spiro Stiva",
            "synopsis": "\"This one\u0027s double the fun!Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is still learning the ropes at her cousin Vinnie\u0027s bail bond office, so when she sets out on the trail of Kenny Mancuso - a suspiciously wealthy, working class Trenton boy who has just shot his best friend - the stakes are higher than ever. That Mancuso is distantly related to vice cop Joe Morelli - who is trying to beat Stephanie to the punch - only makes the hunt more thrilling...Taking pointers from her bounty hunter pal, Ranger, and using her pistol packing Grandma Mazur as a decoy, Stephanie is soon closing in on her mark. But Morelli and his libido are worthy foes. And a more sinister kind of enemy has made his first move... and his next move might be Stephanie\u0027s last.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1707,
            "title": "Mahabharata",
            "author": "C. Rajagopalachari (Translator)",
            "date": "1951",
            "genres": "Classics, Mythology, Religion, Fiction, India, Philosophy, Epic, Poetry, Spirituality, Indian Literature",
            "characters": "Dushashana, Bhimasena, Bhurisravas, Yayati, Jarasandha, Yudhisthira, Dhrstadyumna, King Dhrtarastra, Shikhandhi, Bhigna, Ghatotkacha, Vyasadeva, Kripa, Rukma, Sanjaya, Panchali, Yavakrida, Kicaka, Vaisampayana, Sauti, Thirisoolam, Good Yudhishthir, Takshaka, Abhimanyu, Dronacharya, Dhritarashtra, Gadura, Vasuki, Matsya, Pandu, Dhritarastra, Brahmanas, Drona, Kacha, Dhananjaya, Hastina, Rakshasa, Kunti, Dwaipayana, Dushmanta, Ashvatthama, Sisupala, Duhsasan, Dwarka, Gandhari, Sindhu, Aswapati, Chedi, Shakuni, Aswatthama, Dhrtarastra, Duhsasana, Jayadratha, Vidura, Devayani, Dhristadyumna, Dharmaputra, Sikhandin, Dushashana, Bhimasena, Bhurisravas, Yayati, Jarasandha, Yudhisthira, Dhrstadyumna, King Dhrtarastra, Shikhandhi, Bhigna, Ghatotkacha, Vyasadeva, Kripa, Rukma, Sanjaya, Panchali, Yavakrida, Kicaka, Hastinapura, Subhadra, Hidimbi, Matali, Kuvera, Kritavarma, Visnu, Drorta, Virata, Dmna, Droha, Duhiasana",
            "synopsis": "\"Originally published in the year 1951, the huge popularity of the book has resulted in the book being re-printed several times. Centuries ago, it was proclaimed of the Mahabharata: \"\"What is not in it, is nowhere.\"\" But even now, we can use the same words about it. He who knows it not, knows not the heights and depths of the soul; he misses the trials and tragedy and the beauty and grandeur of life. The Mahabharata is not a mere epic; it is a romance telling the tale of heroic men and women, and of some who were divine. It is a whole literature in itself, containing a code of life, a philosophy of social and ethical relations, and speculative thought on human problems that is hard to rival.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1708,
            "title": "Valiant",
            "author": "Holly Black ",
            "date": "Oct-06",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Urban Fantasy, Fairies, Paranormal, Fiction, Romance, Fae, Magic, Young Adult Fantasy",
            "characters": "Kaye Fierch, Ellen Fierch, Janet Stone, Cornelius Stone, Rath Roiben Rye",
            "synopsis": "\"When seventeen-year-old Valerie runs away to New York City, she\u0027s trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city\u0027s labyrinthine subway system. But there\u0027s something eerily beguiling about Val\u0027s new friends. And when one talks Val into tracking down the lair of a mysterious creature with whom they are all involved, Val finds herself torn between her newfound affection for an honorable monster and her fear of what her new friends are becoming.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1709,
            "title": "The Unconsoled",
            "author": "Kazuo Ishiguro",
            "date": "1995",
            "genres": "Fiction, Literature, Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Novels, British Literature, Fantasy, Unfinished, Japan, 20th Century",
            "characters": "Sophie, Mr. Ryder, Gustav, Leo Brodsky, Miss Collins, Miss Stratmann, Mr. Hoffman, Stephan Hoffman, Boris",
            "synopsis": "\"Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. But then as he traverses a landscape by turns eerie and comical – and always strangely malleable, as a dream might be - he comes steadily to realise he is facing the most crucial performance of his life.Ishiguro\u0027s extraordinary and original study of a man whose life has accelerated beyond his control was met on publication by consternation, vilification – and the highest praise.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1710,
            "title": "Call It Sleep",
            "author": "Henry Roth, Alfred Kazin (Introduction), Hana Wirth-Nesher (Afterword)",
            "date": "1994",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Jewish, New York, Novels, American, Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction",
            "characters": "David Schearl",
            "synopsis": "\"When Henry Roth published Call It Sleep, his first novel, in 1934, it was greeted with critical acclaim. But in that dark Depression year, books were hard to sell, and the novel quickly dropped out of sight, as did its twenty-eight-year-old author. Only with its paperback publication in 1964 did the novel receive the recognition it deserves. Call It Sleep was the first paperback ever to be reviewed on the front page of The New York Times Book Review, and it proceeded to sell millions of copies both in the United States and around the world. Call It Sleep is the magnificent story of David Schearl, the “dangerously imaginative” child coming of age in the slums of New York.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1711,
            "title": "Mistress of Rome",
            "author": "Kate Quinn ",
            "date": "Dec-19",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Historical, Romance, Fiction, Historical Romance, Italy, Adult, Ancient History, Drama, Roman",
            "characters": "Titus Flavius Domitianus, Vibia Sabina, Lepida Pollia",
            "synopsis": "\"The first in an unforgettable historical saga from the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Alice Network. First-century Rome: A ruthless emperor watches over all-and fixes his gaze on one young woman... Thea is a slave girl from Judaea, purchased as a toy for the spiteful heiress Lepida Pollia. Now she has infuriated her mistress by capturing the attention of Rome\u0027s newest and most savage gladiator-and though his love brings Thea the first happiness of her life, their affair ends quickly when a jealous Lepida tears them apart.Remaking herself as a singer for Rome\u0027s aristocrats, Thea unwittingly attracts another admirer: the charismatic Emperor of Rome. But the passions of an all-powerful man come with a heavy price, and Thea finds herself fighting for both her soul and her sanity. Many have tried to destroy the Emperor: a vengeful gladiator, an upright senator, a tormented soldier, a Vestal Virgin. But in the end, the life of Domitian lies in the hands of one woman: the Emperor\u0027s mistress.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1712,
            "title": "Eric",
            "author": "Terry Pratchett",
            "date": "Jul-08",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Comedy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Magic, Adventure, Adult, Science Fiction",
            "characters": "Rincewind, The Luggage, Eric",
            "synopsis": "\"Discworld\u0027s only demonology hacker, Eric, is about to make life very difficult for the rest of Ankh-Morpork\u0027s denizens. This would-be Faust is very bad...at his work, that is. All he wants is to fulfill three little wishes:to live forever, to be master of the universe, and to have a stylin\u0027 hot babe.But Eric isn\u0027t even good at getting his own way. Instead of a powerful demon, he conjures, well, Rincewind, a wizard whose incompetence is matched only by Eric\u0027s. And as if that wasn\u0027t bad enough, that lovable travel accessory the Luggage has arrived, too. Accompanied by his best friends, there\u0027s only one thing Eric wishes now - that he\u0027d never been born!\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1713,
            "title": "The Hidden Staircase",
            "author": "Carolyn Keene, Mildred Benson (Ghostwriter)",
            "date": "1996",
            "genres": "Mystery, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Mystery Thriller, Juvenile, Adventure, Crime",
            "characters": "Nancy Drew, Carson Drew, Hannah Gruen, Helen Corning, Allison Horner, Abigail Rowen, Nathan Gombet, Rosemary Turnbull, Floretta Turnbull",
            "synopsis": "\"Nancy Drew is alarmed when Nathan Gombet threatens her father. Gombet sold a piece of land for a railroad bridge through Carson Drew and now believes that he was cheated. Meanwhile, valuable objects are disappearing from rooms in the Turnbull mansion even while the Turnbull sisters, Rosemary and Florette, are at home in their locked house. Having heard about her reputation for solving mysteries, the sisters invite Nancy Drew to stay in the mansion and discover the thief. In seeking to solve the mysterious happenings in an old stone mansion, Nancy uses her courage and powers of deduction and tackles a situation that would have appalled a far older person.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1714,
            "title": "Regeneration",
            "author": "Pat Barker",
            "date": "Published",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, War, Historical, World War I, British Literature, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels, 20th Century",
            "characters": "Robert Graves, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Billy Prior, Dr. William Rivers, Sarah Lumb, David Burns, Dr. Lewis Yealland",
            "synopsis": "\"Regeneration, one in Pat Barker\u0027s series of novels confronting the psychological effects of World War I, focuses on treatment methods during the war and the story of a decorated English officer sent to a military hospital after publicly declaring he will no longer fight. Yet the novel is much more. Written in sparse prose that is shockingly clear—the descriptions of electronic treatments are particularly harrowing—it combines real-life characters and events with fictional ones in a work that examines the insanity of war like no other. Barker also weaves in issues of class and politics in this compactly powerful book. Other books in the series include The Eye in the Door and the Booker Award winner The Ghost Road.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1715,
            "title": "Cities of the Plain",
            "author": "Cormac McCarthy",
            "date": "Jul-99",
            "genres": "Fiction, Westerns, Literature, Novels, Historical Fiction, American, Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Classics, Adventure",
            "characters": "John Grady Cole, Billy Parham",
            "synopsis": "\"The concluding volume of the Border trilogy. In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award-winning author of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing fashions a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier. It is 1952 and John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands in New Mexico, not far from the proving grounds of Alamogordo and the cities of El Paso and Juarez. Their life is made up of trail drives and horse auctions and stories told by campfire light. They value that life all the more because they know it is about to change forever.The change comes when John Grady falls in love with a beautiful, ill-starred Mexican prostitute and sets in motion a chain of events as violent as they are unstoppable. Haunting in its beauty, filled with sorrow, humor, and awe, Cities of the Plain is a genuine American epic.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1716,
            "title": "From Russia With Love",
            "author": "Ian Fleming",
            "date": "2002",
            "genres": "Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Espionage, Adventure, Crime, Suspense, Drama, Novels, Classics",
            "characters": "James Bond",
            "synopsis": "\"Ian Fleming’s fifth James Bond novel.James Bond is marked for death by the Soviet counterintelligence agency SMERSH in Ian Fleming’s masterful spy thriller, and the novel that President John F. Kennedy named one of his favourite books of all time.SMERSH stands for ‘Death to Spies’ and there’s no secret agent they’d like to disgrace and destroy more than 007, James Bond. But ensnaring the British Secret Service’s most lethal operative will require a lure so tempting even he can’t resist. Enter Tatiana Romanova, a ravishing Russian spy whose ‘defection’ springs a trap designed with clockwork precision.Her mission: seduce Bond, then flee to the West on the Orient Express. Waiting in the shadows are two of Ian Fleming’s most vividly drawn villains: Red Grant, SMERSH’s deadliest assassin, and the sinister operations chief Rosa Klebb-five feet four inches of pure killing power.Bursting with action and intrigue, From Russia with Love is one of the best-loved books in the Bond canon-an instant classic that set the standard for sophisticated literary spycraft for decades to come.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1717,
            "title": "Le Petit Nicolas",
            "author": "René Goscinny, Jean-Jacques Sempé",
            "date": "1988",
            "genres": "France, Fiction, Childrens, Classics, Humor, French Literature, Short Stories, School, Young Adult, Middle Grade",
            "characters": "Nicolas",
            "synopsis": "\"La maîtresse est inquiète, le photographe s\u0027éponge le front, le Bouillon devient tout rouge, les mamans ont mauvaise mine, les papas font les guignols, le directeur part à la retraite, quant à l\u0027inspecteur, il est reparti aussi vite qu\u0027il était venu. Pourtant, à l\u0027école ou en famille, Geoffroy, Agnan, Eudes, Rufus, Clotaire, Maixent, Alceste, Joachim... et le Petit Nicolas sont - presque - toujours sages.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1718,
            "title": "Kim",
            "author": "Rudyard Kipling, Edward W. Said (Editor)",
            "date": "1981",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, India, Historical Fiction, Adventure, Literature, Novels, British Literature, Historical, Asia",
            "characters": "\"\"Kimball O\u0027\u0027Hara (Kim)\"\", Teshoo Lama",
            "synopsis": "\"Kim is set in an imperialistic world; a world strikingly masculine, dominated by travel, trade and adventure, a world in which there is no question of the division between white and non-white.Two men - a boy who grows into early manhood and an old ascetic priest, the lama - are at the center of the novel. A quest faces them both. Born in India, Kim is nevertheless white, a sahib. While he wants to play the Great Game of Imperialism, he is also spiritually bound to the lama. His aim, as he moves chameleon-like through the two cultures, is to reconcile these opposing strands, while the lama searches for redemption from the Wheel of Life. A celebration of their friendship in a beautiful but often hostile environment, \u0027Kim\u0027 captures the opulence of India\u0027s exotic landscape, overlaid by the uneasy presence of the British Raj.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1719,
            "title": "Player Piano",
            "author": "Kurt Vonnegut Jr.",
            "date": "Sept-06",
            "genres": "Fiction, Science Fiction, Classics, Dystopia, Literature, Novels, American, Humor, Science Fiction Fantasy, Literary Fiction",
            "characters": "Paul Proteus",
            "synopsis": "\"Kurt Vonnegut’s first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines. Paul’s rebellion is vintage Vonnegut—wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality.Alternate cover edition here\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1720,
            "title": "The Hitchhiker\u0027s Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts",
            "author": "Douglas Adams",
            "date": "1992",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Humor, Fantasy, Comedy, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure, British Literature, Novels",
            "characters": "Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect",
            "synopsis": "\"Charting the whole of Arthur Dent\u0027s odyssey through space are:THE HITCHHIKER\u0027S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY.One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, this seems already to be more than he can cope with. Sadly, however, the weekend has only just begun, and the Galaxy is a very very very large and startling place.THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE.When all questions of space, time, matter and the nature of being have been resolved, only one question remains -- \"\"Where shall we have dinner?\"\" The Restaurant at the End of the Universe provides the ultimate gastronomic experience, and for once there is no morning after to worry about.LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING.In consequence of a number of stunning catastrophes, Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a hideously miserable cave on prehistoric Earth. However, just as he thinks that things cannot possibly get any worse, they suddenly do. He discovers that the Galaxy is not only mind-boggling big and bewildering but also that most of the things that happen in it are staggeringly unfair.SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH.Just as Arthur Dent\u0027s sense of reality is in its dickiest state he suddenly finds the girl of his dreams. He finds her in the last place in the Universe in which he would expect to find anything at all, but which 3,976,000 people will find oddly familiar. They go in search of God\u0027s Final Message to His Creation and, in a dramatic break with tradition, actually find it.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1721,
            "title": "Dark Force Rising",
            "author": "Timothy Zahn ",
            "date": "Apr-93",
            "genres": "Star Wars, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Space Opera, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Adventure, Novels, Space",
            "characters": "Luke Skywalker, Lando Calrissian, Mara Jade, Thrawn, Gilad Pellaeon, Wedge Antilles, Talon Karrde, Leia Organa, Khabarakh, \"\"Joruus C\u0027\u0027baoth\"\", \"\"Borsk Fey\u0027\u0027lya\"\", Garm Bel Iblis, Han Solo",
            "synopsis": "\"The dying Empire\u0027s most cunning and ruthless warlord—Grand Admiral Thrawn—has taken command of the remnants of the Imperial fleet and launched a massive campaign aimed at the New Republic\u0027s destruction. Meanwhile, Han and Lando Calrissian race against time to find proof of treason inside the highest Republic Council—only to discover instead a ghostly fleet of warships that could bring doom to their friends and victory to their enemies.Yet most dangerous of all is a new Dark Jedi, risen from the ashes of a shrouded past, consumed by bitterness… and scheming to corrupt Luke Skywalker to the Dark Side.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1722,
            "title": "Somewhere In Time",
            "author": "Richard Matheson",
            "date": "Jan-99",
            "genres": "Time Travel, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical, Classics, Historical Romance, Adult",
            "characters": "Richard Collier, Elise McKenna",
            "synopsis": "\"Somewhere in Time is the powerful story of a love that transcends time and space, written by one of the Grand Masters of modern fantasy.Matheson\u0027s classic novel tells the moving, romantic story of a modern man whose love for a woman he has never met draws him back in time to a luxury hotel in San Diego in 1896, where he finds his soul mate in the form of a celebrated actress of the previous century. Somewhere in Time won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and the 1980 movie version, starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour, remains a cult classic whose fans continue to hold yearly conventions to this day. \""
          },
          {
            "id": 1723,
            "title": "Déjà Dead",
            "author": "Kathy Reichs ",
            "date": "Jun-98",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Drama, Adult, Adult Fiction, Novels",
            "characters": "Temperance Brennan, Andrew Ryan, Luc Claudel, Pierre LaManche",
            "synopsis": "\"Her life is devoted to justice; for those she never even knew. In the year since Temperance Brennan left behind a shaky marriage in North Carolina, work has often preempted her weekend plans to explore Quebec. When a female corpse is discovered meticulously dismembered and stashed in trash bags, Temperance detects an alarming pattern and she plunges into a harrowing search for a killer. But her investigation is about to place those closest to her, her best friend and her own daughter, in mortal danger...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1724,
            "title": "If This Is a Man • The Truce",
            "author": "Primo Levi, Stuart J. Woolf (Translator), Paul Bailey (Introduction)",
            "date": "1987",
            "genres": "Nonfiction, History, Biography, Holocaust, Classics, Memoir, War, Italian Literature, World War II, Autobiography",
            "characters": "Primo Levi, Alberto (If this is a man), Charles (If this is a man), Arthur (If this is a man), Jean \"\"Pikolo\"\", Lorenzo Perrone",
            "synopsis": "\"\u0027With the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, dutiful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was profoundly in touch with the minutest workings of the most endearing human events and with the most contemptible. What has survived in Levi\u0027s writing isn\u0027t just his memory of the unbearable, but also, in The Periodic Table and The Wrench, his delight in what made the world exquisite to him. He was himself a magically endearing man, the most delicately forceful enchanter I\u0027ve ever known\u0027 - Philip Roth.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1725,
            "title": "Nana",
            "author": "Émile Zola, Gerhard Krüger (Translator)",
            "date": "2002",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, France, French Literature, 19th Century, Literature, Historical Fiction, Novels, Romance, Roman",
            "characters": "Nana Coupeau, Philippe Hugon, Count Muffat",
            "synopsis": "\"Wenn die üppige blonde Nana auf der Bühne des Pariser Varietétheaters steht, spürt jeder: sie hat keinen Funken Talent. Doch das macht nichts, denn sie hat etwas anderes ... Nana, das Kind aus der Gosse, Tochter einer Wäscherin, ausgestattet mit großen sinnlichen Reizen, steigt auf zur begehrtesten Kurtisane der Pariser Gesellschaft. Sie wird zum Idol, dem sich die Männer zu Füßen werfen. Bankiers bringen ihr ein ganzes Vermögen zum Opfer, Aristokraten ihre Würde, Jünglinge nehmen sich ihretwegen das Leben. Nana in ihrer grenzenlosen Gier und Verschwendungssucht schreitet ungerührt über sie hinweg, schön wie eine Sumpfblüte, Sinnbild einer untergehenden Ära.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1726,
            "title": "Dombey and Son",
            "author": "Charles Dickens, Jonathan Lethem (Introduction)",
            "date": "2003",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Literature, 19th Century, Victorian, British Literature, Audiobook, Classic Literature, Novels, Historical Fiction",
            "characters": "Mr. Dombey, Paul Dombey, Florence Dombey, Miss Tox",
            "synopsis": "\"Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens’s story of a powerful man whose callous neglect of his family triggers his professional and personal downfall, showcases the author’s gift for vivid characterization and unfailingly realistic description. As Jonathan Lethem contends in his Introduction, Dickens’s “genius . . . is at one with the genius of the form of the novel itself: Dickens willed into existence the most capacious and elastic and versatile kind of novel that could be, one big enough for his vast sentimental yearnings and for every impulse and fear and hesitation in him that countervailed those yearnings too. Never parsimonious and frequently contradictory, he always gives us everything he can, everything he’s planned to give, and then more.” This Modern Library Paperback Classic was set from the 1867 “Charles Dickens” edition.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1727,
            "title": "Windmills of the Gods",
            "author": "Sidney Sheldon",
            "date": "1994",
            "genres": "Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Romance, Novels, Crime, Contemporary, Drama",
            "characters": "Mary Ashley, Mike Slade, Louis Desforges",
            "synopsis": "This classic best-selling thriller races from the White House to the romance of Paris and the shady menace of Cold War Bucharest as a young woman ambessador faces unseen and powerful enemies plotting her and her children\u0027s destruction."
          },
          {
            "id": 1728,
            "title": "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight",
            "author": "Unknown, Burton Raffel (Translator), Neil D. Isaacs (Afterword)",
            "date": "Nov-01",
            "genres": "Classics, Poetry, Fantasy, Fiction, Medieval, Arthurian, School, Mythology, Literature, Read For School",
            "characters": "Morgan le Fay, Sir Gawain, Sir Bertilak de Haute Desert, King Arthur",
            "synopsis": "\"Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer\u0027s masterworks and of the great Old English poems, including \"\"Beowulf.\"\" This edition includes a Preface by Raffel and a new Introduction. Revised reissue.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1729,
            "title": "Born of Night",
            "author": "Sherrilyn Kenyon ",
            "date": "Oct-09",
            "genres": "Romance, Paranormal Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Paranormal, Aliens, Adult, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Futuristic",
            "characters": "Caillen Dagan, Syn Wade, Nykyrian Quiakides, Kiara Zamir, Jayne, Pitala, Askel Quiakides, Arast Quiakides, Hauk, Keifer Zamir",
            "synopsis": "\"In the Ichidian Universe, The League and their ruthless assassins rule all. Expertly trained and highly valued, the League Assassins are the backbone of the government. But not even the League is immune to corruption . . .Command Assassin Nykyrian Quikiades once turned his back on the League—and has been hunted by them ever since. Though many have tried, none can kill him or stop him from completing his current mission: to protect Kiara Zamir, a woman whose father’s political alliance has made her a target. As her world becomes even deadlier, Kiara must entrust her life to the same kind of beast who once killed her mother and left her for dead. Old enemies and new threaten them both and the only way they can survive is to overcome their suspicions and learn to trust in the very ones who threaten them the most: each other.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1730,
            "title": "Every Boy\u0027s Got One",
            "author": "Meg Cabot ",
            "date": "2005",
            "genres": "Chick Lit, Romance, Fiction, Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, Adult, Humor, Young Adult, Adult Fiction, Comedy",
            "characters": "Jane Harris, Cal Langdon",
            "synopsis": "\"Cartoonist Jane Harris is delighted by the prospect of her first-ever trip to Europe. But it\u0027s hate at first sight for Jane and Cal Langdon, and neither is too happy at the prospect of sharing a villa with one another for a week-not even in the beautiful and picturesque Marches countryside. But when Holly and Mark\u0027s wedding plans hit a major snag that only Jane and Cal can repair, the two find themselves having to put aside their mutual dislike for one another in order to get their best friends on the road to wedded bliss-and end up on a road themselves ... one neither of them ever expected.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1731,
            "title": "A House for Mr Biswas",
            "author": "V.S. Naipaul",
            "date": "2003",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Literature, India, Novels, Nobel Prize, Literary Fiction, Indian Literature, 20th Century, Contemporary",
            "characters": "Mohun Biswas, Shama",
            "synopsis": "\"Mohun Biswas has spent his 46 years of life striving for independence. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning of his father, he yearns for a place he can call home. He marries into the Tulsi family, on whom he becomes dependent, but rebels and takes on a succession of occupations in a struggle to weaken their hold over him.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1732,
            "title": "Queen of Sorcery",
            "author": "David Eddings",
            "date": "Nov-82",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, Young Adult, Audiobook, Epic",
            "characters": "Garion, Polgara, Belgarath, \"\"Ce\u0027\u0027Nedra\"\", Silk, Issa, Barak, Asharak, Hettar, Durnik, Lellodrin, Mandorallen, Arianaa, Brill, Nerinaa, Ran Borune XXIII, Sadi, Salmissra, Mayaserana",
            "synopsis": "\"The Trail of Prophecy...Legends told of how the evil God Torak had coveted the power of the Orb of Aldur, until defeated in a final battle. But prophecy spoke of a time when he would awake and again seek dominance over the world. Now the Orb has been stolen by a priest of Torak, and that time was at hand. The master Sorcerer Belgarath and his daughter Polgara the arch-Sorceress were on the trail of the Orb, seeking to regain it before the final disaster. And with them went Garion, a simple farm boy only months before, but now the focus of the struggle. He has never believed in sorcery and wanted no part of it. Yet with every league they traveled, the power grew in him, forcing him to acts of wizardry he could not accept. This continues the magnificent epic of The Belgariad, began in Pawn of Prophecy, set among strange lands against a background of a war of men, Kings, and Gods that had spanned seven thousand years - a novel of strange fate and a prophecy that must come true!\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1733,
            "title": "Lord of the Shadows",
            "author": "Darren Shan ",
            "date": "May-06",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Horror, Vampires, Paranormal, Fiction, Supernatural, Adventure, Urban Fantasy, Middle Grade",
            "characters": "Darren Shan",
            "synopsis": "\"Book 11 of The Saga Of Darren Shan. Darren\u0027s going home. Back to where everything started. The town\u0027s changed a lot in the years that he\u0027s been away - but then, so has Darren.Plagued by nightmares of what the future seems to hold, Darren feels uneasy revisiting the place where he was re-born as a child of the night, as though the universe (as though destiny) is plotting to throw something very nasty at him on the streets of his old home.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1734,
            "title": "Castle of Wizardry",
            "author": "David Eddings",
            "date": "May-84",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, Young Adult, Epic, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Garion, Polgara, Belgarath, Layla, \"\"Ce\u0027\u0027Nedra\"\", Silk, Barak, Fulrach, Anheg, Rhodar, Cho-Hag, Islena, Porenn, Silar, Hettar, Durnik, Lellodrin, Mandorallen, Arianaa, Ran Borune XXIII, Sadi, Gorim, Relg, Taur Urgas, Taiba, Greldik, Brand, Merel, Joran, Poledra, Beldaran, Olban, Vordai, Korodullin, Morin",
            "synopsis": "\"A magnificent epic set against a history of seven thousand years of the struggles of Gods and Kings and men - of strange lands and events - of fate and a prophecy that must be fulfilled!THE BELGARIADIt had all begun with the theft of the Orb that had so long protected the West from the evil God Torak. Before that, Garion had been a simple farm boy. Afterward, he discovered that his aunt was really the Sorceress Polgara and his grandfather was Belgarath, the Eternal Man. Then, on the long quest to recover the Orb, Garion found to his dismay that he, too, was a sorcerer.Now, at last, the Orb was regained and the quest was nearing its end. Of course, the questors still had to escape from this crumbling enemy fortress and flee across a desert filled with Murgo soldiers searching for them, while Grolim Hierarchs strove to destroy them with dark magic. Then, somehow, they must manage to be in Riva with the Orb by Erastide.After that, however, Garion was sure that his part in these great events would be finished.But the Prophecy still held future surprises for Garion - and for the little Princess Ce\u0027Nedra!THUS CONTINUES BOOK FOUR OF THE BELGARIAD\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1735,
            "title": "This Thing of Darkness",
            "author": "Harry Thompson",
            "date": "2005",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Adventure, Literary Fiction, Travel, Literature, Historical Romance, Evolution, Modern",
            "characters": "Charles Darwin, Robert Fitzroy, Bartholomew James Sulivan, Orundellico",
            "synopsis": "\"1828 - Brilliant young naval officer Robert FitzRoy is given the captaincy of HMS Beagle, surveying the wilds of Tierra del Fuego, aged just twenty-three. He takes a passenger: a young trainee cleric and amateur geologist named Charles Darwin. This is the story of a deep friendship between two men, and the twin obsessions that tore it apart, leading one to triumph and the other to disaster...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1736,
            "title": "Dawn",
            "author": "Octavia E. Butler",
            "date": "Apr-97",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Aliens, Post Apocalyptic, Speculative Fiction, Dystopia, Horror, Adult",
            "characters": "Lilith lyapo, Ahajas, Dichaan, Tediin, Nikanj, Kahguyaht, Peter Van Weerden, Jean Pelerin, Gabriel Rinaldi, Curt Loehr, Celene Ivers, Ray Ordway, Victor Dominic, Beatrice Dwyer, Allison Zeigler, Hillary Ballard, Jdahya, Tate",
            "synopsis": "\"Lilith Iyapo has just lost her husband and son when atomic fire consumes Earth—the last stage of the planet’s final war. Hundreds of years later Lilith awakes, deep in the hold of a massive alien spacecraft piloted by the Oankali—who arrived just in time to save humanity from extinction. They have kept Lilith and other survivors asleep for centuries, as they learned whatever they could about Earth. Now it is time for Lilith to lead them back to her home world, but life among the Oankali on the newly resettled planet will be nothing like it was before.The Oankali survive by genetically merging with primitive civilizations—whether their new hosts like it or not. For the first time since the nuclear holocaust, Earth will be inhabited. Grass will grow, animals will run, and people will learn to survive the planet’s untamed wilderness. But their children will not be human. Not exactly.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1737,
            "title": "A Time to Love and a Time to Die",
            "author": "Erich Maria Remarque, Denver Lindley (translator)",
            "date": "1954",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, War, Historical Fiction, German Literature, Germany, Novels, Romance, World War II, Literature",
            "characters": "Ernst Graeber, Elisabeth Kruse, Prof. Pohlmann, Alfons Binding",
            "synopsis": "\"In de kou en omgeven door alle verschrikkingen van het oostfront verheugt Ernst Graeber zich op niets meer dan zijn verlof. Thuis, in Duitsland, zal het leven wel weer goed zijn.Maar als de jonge soldaat terugkomt is zijn ouderlijk huis gebombardeerd en blijken zijn ouders vermist. Graeber gaat naar hen op zoek, terwijl op hetzelfde moment de Endsieg verkondigd wordt door de nazi’s – en vooral door zijn schoolvriend Binding, inmiddels een belangrijk man bij de Gestapo en verantwoordelijk voor talloze arrestaties van ‘joodse verraders’. Verbijsterd ziet hij dat ook aan het ‘thuisfront’ wanhoop, overlevingsdrift en geweld het laatste restje medemenselijkheid aan het opvreten zijn. Op een avond komt hij tussen de puinhopen van de verwoeste en ontredderde stad Elisabeth tegen, de dochter van de huisarts. Samen beleven de soldaat en de jonge vrouw midden in de chaos een paar dagen geluk, en voor enkele momenten lukt het Graeber om de gedachte dat hij weer terug moet naar het front opzij te duwen.Terug aan het front verzet hij zich voor het eerst en op zijn manier tegen het nazi-credo van de Untermenschen en laat enkele Russische gevangenen ontsnappen. Maar zij reageren daarop heel anders dan hij verwacht en gehoorzamen aan de logica van deze en iedere oorlog: oog om oog, tand om tand.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1738,
            "title": "Wieża Jaskółki",
            "author": "Andrzej Sapkowski",
            "date": "2001",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Polish Literature, High Fantasy, Audiobook, Adventure, Epic Fantasy, Magic, Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy",
            "characters": "Dandelion, Yennefer, Triss Merigold, Ciri (Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon), Iskra, Geralt of Rivia, Rience, Sigismund Dijkstra, Vilgefortz, Giselher, Mistle, Milva, Emiel Regis Rohellec Terzieff-Godefroy, Cahir Mawr Dyffryn aep Ceallach, Vysogota of Corvo, Leo Bonhart, Stefan \"\"Tawny Owl\"\" Skellen, Angouleme, Esterad Thyssen, Crach an Craite, Joanna \"\"Kenna\"\" Selborne, Schirrù",
            "synopsis": "\"Ciri staje przed swoim przeznaczeniem. Drakkar wiozący Yennefer trafia w oko czarodziejskiego cyklonu. Czy wśród przyjaciół wiedźmina ukrywa się zdrajca? Czwarta, przedostatnia odłona epopei o świecie wiedźmina i wojnach, jakie nim wstrząsają. W zagubionej wśród bagien chacie pustelnika ciężko ranna Ciri powraca do zdrowia. Jej tropem podążają bezlitośni zabójcy z Nilfgaardu. Tymczasem drużyna Geralta, unikając coraz to nowych niebezpieczeństw, dociera wreszcie do ukrywjących się druidów. Czy wiedźminowi uda się odnaleźć Ciri? Jaką rolę odegra osnuta legendą Wieża Jaskółki?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1739,
            "title": "Morning Glory",
            "author": "LaVyrle Spencer",
            "date": "1991",
            "genres": "Romance, Historical Romance, Historical, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Westerns, World War II, Contemporary, Adult, Western Romance",
            "characters": "Will Parker, Eleanor Dinsmore",
            "synopsis": "\"LOVE IN A STRANGER\u0027S EYES...ELLYIn town, they called her \"\"Crazy Widow Dinsmore.\"\" But Elly was no stranger to their ridicule-she had been an outsider all her life, growing up in a boarded-up old house under the strict eye of her eccentric grandparents. Now she was all alone, with two little boys to raise, and a third child on the way.WILLHe drifted into Whitney, Georgia, one lazy afternoon in the summer of 1941, hoping to put his lonely past behind him. He yearned for the tenderness he had never known, the home he\u0027d never had. All he needed was for someone to give him a chance.Then he saw her classified ad: WANTED-A husband. When he stepped across Elly Dinsmore\u0027s cluttered yard, Will Parker knew he had come home at last ...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1740,
            "title": "Sourcery",
            "author": "Terry Pratchett",
            "date": "Apr-08",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Comedy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Magic, Audiobook, Adventure, High Fantasy, Science Fiction",
            "characters": "Rincewind, The Luggage, Havelock Vetinari, DEATH, The Librarian, Nijel the Destroyer, Conina",
            "synopsis": "\"When last seen, the singularly inept wizard Rincewind had fallen off the edge of the world. Now magically, he\u0027s turned up again, and this time he\u0027s brought the Luggage.But that\u0027s not all....Once upon a time, there was an eighth son of an eighth son who was, of course, a wizard. As if that wasn\u0027t complicated enough, said wizard then had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son - a wizard squared (that\u0027s all the math, really). Who of course, was a source of magic - a sourcerer.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1741,
            "title": "The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary",
            "author": "Simon Winchester",
            "date": "2005",
            "genres": "Nonfiction, History, Biography, Language, Books About Books, Historical, True Crime, Audiobook, Biography Memoir, Linguistics",
            "characters": "Dr. William Chester Minor, Sir James Murray",
            "synopsis": "\"The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary - and literary history. The compilation of the OED, begun in 1857, was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected, the overseeing committee, led by Professor James Murray, discovered that one man, Dr. W. C. Minor, had submitted more than ten thousand. When the committee insisted on honoring him, a shocking truth came to light: Dr. Minor, an American Civil War veteran, was also an inmate at an asylum for the criminally insane.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1742,
            "title": "Princess in Love",
            "author": "Meg Cabot ",
            "date": "2006",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Romance, Chick Lit, Fiction, Contemporary, Teen, Childrens, Humor, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult Contemporary",
            "characters": "Mia Thermopolis, Kenny Showalter, Lilly Moscovitz, Helen Thermopolis, Frank Gianini, Michael Moscovitz, Boris Pelkowski, \"\"Grandmère\"\" Clarisse Renaldo, Sebastiano, Tina Hakim Baba",
            "synopsis": "\"Princess Mia may seem like the luckiest girl ever.But the truth is, Mia spends all her time doing one of three things: preparing for her nerve-racking entrée into Genovian society, slogging through the congestion unique to Manhattan in December, and avoiding further smooching from her hapless boyfriend, Kenny.For Mia, being princess is not the fairy tale it\u0027s supposed to be . . . or is it?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1743,
            "title": "Ghost World",
            "author": "Daniel Clowes",
            "date": "Apr-01",
            "genres": "Comics, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Young Adult, Comic Book, Coming Of Age, Comix, Contemporary, American",
            "characters": "Enid Coleslaw, Rebecca Doppelmeyer",
            "synopsis": "\"Ghost World has become a cultural and generational touchstone, and continues to enthrall and inspire readers over a decade after its original release as a graphic novel. Originally serialized in the pages of the seminal comic book Eightball throughout the mid-1990s, this quasi-autobiographical story (the name of one of the protagonists is famously an anagram of the author\u0027s name) follows the adventures of two teenage girls, Enid and Becky, two best friends facing the prospect of growing up, and more importantly, apart. Daniel Clowes is one of the most respected cartoonists of his generation, and Ghost World is his magnum opus. Adapted into a major motion picture directed by Terry Zwigoff (director of the acclaimed documentary Crumb), which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. This graphic novel is a must for any self-respecting comics fan\u0027s library.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1744,
            "title": "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate",
            "author": "Jacqueline Kelly ",
            "date": "2009",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Fiction, Middle Grade, Historical, Childrens, Juvenile, Coming Of Age, Family, Realistic Fiction",
            "characters": "Calpurnia Virginia Tate, Granddaddy Walter Tate",
            "synopsis": "\"Calpurnia Virginia Tate is eleven years old in 1899 when she wonders why the yellow grasshoppers in her Texas backyard are so much bigger than the green ones. With a little help from her notoriously cantankerous grandfather, an avid naturalist, she figures out that the green grasshoppers are easier to see against the yellow grass, so they are eaten before they can get any larger.As Callie explores the natural world around her, she develops a close relationship with her grandfather, navigates the dangers of living with six brothers, and comes up against just what it means to be a girl at the turn of the century.Debut author Jacqueline Kelly deftly brings Callie and her family to life, capturing a year of growing up with unique sensitivity and a wry wit.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1745,
            "title": "Spring Snow",
            "author": "Yukio Mishima, Michael Gallagher  (Translator)",
            "date": "Nov-00",
            "genres": "Fiction, Japan, Japanese Literature, Historical Fiction, Classics, Literature, Asia, Novels, Romance, Asian Literature",
            "characters": "Kiyoaki Matsugae, Satoko Ayakura, Shigekuni Honda, Shigeyuki Iinuma",
            "synopsis": "\"Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - rich provincial families, a new and powerful political and social elite.Kiyoaki has been raised among the elegant Ayakura family - members of the waning aristocracy - but he is not one of them. Coming of age, he is caught up in the tensions between the old and the new, and his feelings for the exquisite, spirited Satoko, observed from the sidelines by his devoted friend Honda. When Satoko is engaged to a royal prince, Kiyoaki realises the magnitude of his passion.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1746,
            "title": "Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings",
            "author": "Abolqasem Ferdowsi, Dick Davis (Translator), جلال خالقی مطلق (Editor), Azar Nafisi  (Foreword)",
            "date": "2006",
            "genres": "Poetry, Classics, History, Iran, Mythology, Literature, Epic, Medieval, Historical, Nonfiction",
            "characters": "Sohrab, Rostam, Esfandiar, Simorgh \u0026...",
            "synopsis": "\"Among the great works of world literature, perhaps one of the least familiar to English readers is the \"\"Shahnameh: ThePersian Book of Kings,\"\" the national epic of Persia. This prodigious narrative, composed by the poet Ferdowsi between the years 980 and 1010, tells the story of pre- Islamic Iran, beginning in the mythic time of Creation and continuing forward to the Arab invasion in the seventh century. As a window on the world, \"\"Shahnameh\"\" belongs in the company of such literary masterpieces as Dante\u0027s \"\"Divine Comedy,\"\" the plays of Shakespeare, the epics of Homer- classics whose reach and range bring whole cultures into view. In its pages are unforgettable moments of national triumph and failure, human courage and cruelty, blissful love and bitter grief.In tracing the roots of Iran, \"\"Shahnameh\"\" initially draws on the depths of legend and then carries its story into historical times, when ancient Persia was swept into an expanding Islamic empire. Now Dick Davis, the greatest modern translator of Persian poetry, has revisited that poem, turning the finest stories of Ferdowsi\u0027s original into an elegant combination of prose and verse. For the first time in English, in the most complete form possible, readers can experience \"\"Shahnameh\"\" in the same way that Iranian storytellers have lovingly conveyed it in Persian for the past thousand years.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1747,
            "title": "Riddle-Master",
            "author": "Patricia A. McKillip",
            "date": "Mar-99",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, Classics, Speculative Fiction",
            "characters": "Morgon, Prince of Hed, Raederle of An, Deth, Eliard of Hed, Tristan of Hed, Mathom of An, Duac of An, Rood of An, Heureu of Ymris, Eriel, Astrin of Ymris, The Morgol, Lyra of Herun, Har the Wolf-King, Danan of Isig, Ghisteslwchlohm, Yrth, Aloil, Nun, Iff of the Unpronounceable Name, Suth, Talies, Ohm, Tel",
            "synopsis": "\"For over twenty years, Patricia A. McKillip has captured the hearts and imaginations of thousands of readers. And although her renowned Riddle-Master trilogy-The Riddle-Master of Hed, Heir of Sea and Fire, and Harpist in the Wind-has been long out of print, it is considered her most enduring and beloved work. Now it is collected in one volume for the first time-the epic journeys of a young prince in a strange land, where wizards have long since vanished...but where magic is waiting to be reborn.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1748,
            "title": "The Big Four",
            "author": "Agatha Christie",
            "date": "2002",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Thriller, Audiobook, British Literature, Novels",
            "characters": "John Ingles, Arthur Hastings, Hercule Poirot, Abe Ryland, Inspector Japp, Li Chang Yen, Dr. Ridgeway, An unexpected guest, Number Four, Countess Rossakoff, Madame Olivier, Achille Poirot",
            "synopsis": "\"Framed in the doorway of Poirot’s bedroom stood an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The man’s gaunt face stared for a moment, then he swayed and fell. Who was he? Was he suffering from shock or just exhaustion? Above all, what was the significance of the figure 4, scribbled over and over again on a sheet of paper? Poirot finds himself plunged into a world of international intrigue, risking his life to uncover the truth about ‘Number Four’.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1749,
            "title": "Puhdistus",
            "author": "Sofi Oksanen ",
            "date": "2008",
            "genres": "Fiction, Historical Fiction, Finnish Literature, Historical, Contemporary, Scandinavian Literature, Novels, Literary Fiction, Literature, Crime",
            "characters": "Aliide Truu, Zara Pekk, Hans Eerikinpoika Pekk, Ingel",
            "synopsis": "\"Ikääntynyt Aliide Truu asuu yksin taloaan Viron maaseudulla. Maa on itsenäistynyt edellisenä vuonna ja maareformi on alkanut. Vanhan naisen arjen katkaisee pihalle pyörtynyt parikymppinen Zara. Tultuaan tajuihinsa Zara kertoo pakenevansa väkivaltaista miestään. Kohtaaminen nostaa Aliiden mieleen repivät muistot nuoruuden traagisesta rakkaudesta ja valinnoista, jotka sinetöivät hänen lähimpiensä kohtalon. Omiin epätoivoisiin ratkaisuihinsa pakotetun Zaran tilanne puolestaan osoittaa, että vaikka aika on toinen, vaino ei ole loppunut, muuttanut vain muotoaan.Puhdistuksen syvintä ydintä on petos, johon epätoivoiset tunteet ajavat. Romaani avaa myös Viron vaiettua lähihistoriaa yhden suvun kokemusten kautta.Kirja antaa äänen sodan, kommunismin ja sorron uhreille. 1940-luvulla koettujen nöyryytysten ohella teoksessa nousee esiin nykynaisiin epävakaissa yhteiskunnallisissa olosuhteissa kohdistuva hyväksikäyttö.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1750,
            "title": "Annie\u0027s Song",
            "author": "Catherine Anderson ",
            "date": "Jan-96",
            "genres": "Historical Romance, Romance, Historical, Westerns, Historical Fiction, Adult, Disability, Western Romance, Abuse, Fiction",
            "characters": "Alex Montgomery, Annie Trimble",
            "synopsis": "\"Annie Trimble lives in a solitary world that no one enters or understands. As delicate and beautiful as the tender blossoms of the Oregon spring, she is shunned by a town that misinterprets her affliction. But cruelty cannot destroy the love Annie holds in her heart. Alex Montgomery is horrified to learn his wild younger brother forced himself on a helpless \"\"idiot girl.\"\" Tormented by guilt, Alex agrees to marry her and raise the baby she carries as his own. But he never dreams he will grow to cherish his lovely, mute, and misjudged Annie; her childlike innocence, her womanly charms and the wondrous way she views her world. He becomes determined to break through the wall of silence surrounding her; to heal... and to be healed by Annie\u0027s sweet song of love.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1751,
            "title": "Death du Jour",
            "author": "Kathy Reichs ",
            "date": "May-06",
            "genres": "Mystery, Crime, Fiction, Thriller, Drama, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Novels, Murder Mystery, Dark",
            "characters": "Temperance Brennan, Andrew Ryan",
            "synopsis": "\"Assaulted by the bitter cold of a Montreal winter, the American-born Dr. Temperance Breman, Forensic Anthropologist for the Province of Quebec, digs for a corpse where Sister Elisabeth Nicolet, dead over a century and now a candidate for sainthood, should lie in her grave. A strange, small coffin, buried in the recesses of a decaying church, holds the first clue to the cloistered nun\u0027s fate. The puzzle surrounding Sister Elisabeth\u0027s life and death provides a welcome contrast to discoveries at a burning chalet, where scorched and twisted bodies await Tempe\u0027s professional expertise. Who were these people? What brought them to this gruesome fate? Homicide Detective Andrew Ryan, with whom Tempe has a combustive history, joins her in the arson investigation. From the fire scene they are drawn into the worlds of an enigmatic and controversial professor, a mysterious commune, and a primate colony on a Carolina island.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1752,
            "title": "Microserfs",
            "author": "Douglas Coupland ",
            "date": "1995",
            "genres": "Fiction, Humor, Contemporary, Canada, Novels, Literature, Technology, Geek, Literary Fiction, Computers",
            "characters": "Daniel Underwood",
            "synopsis": "\"Narrated in the form of a Powerbook entry by Dan Underwood, a computer programmer for Microsoft, this state-of-the-art novel about life in the \u002790s follows the adventures of six code-crunching computer whizzes. Known as \"\"microserfs,\"\" they spend upward of 16 hours a day \"\"coding\"\" (writing software) as they eat \"\"flat\"\" foods (such as Kraft singles, which can be passed underneath closed doors) and fearfully scan the company email to see what the great Bill might be thinking and whether he is going to \"\"flame\"\" one of them. Seizing the chance to be innovators instead of cogs in the Microsoft machine, this intrepid bunch strike out on their own to form a high-tech start-up company named Oop! in Silicon Valley. Living together in a sort of digital flophouse -\"\"Our House of Wayward Mobility\"\" - they desperately try to cultivate well-rounded lives and find love amid the dislocated, subhuman whir and buzz of their computer-driven world.Funny, illuminating and ultimately touching, Microserfs is the story of one generation\u0027s very strange and claustrophobic coming of age.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1753,
            "title": "Jhereg",
            "author": "Steven Brust , Olaf Schenk (Übersetzer)",
            "date": "2005",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Dragons, Science Fiction, Adventure, Epic Fantasy, Magic, Mystery",
            "characters": "Vlad Taltos, Aliera, Morollan, Mellar, Loiosh",
            "synopsis": "\"Vlad Taltos ist ein Hexer, freiberuflicher Attentäter, lebt als Ostländer (also Mensch) unter Dragaeranern und nennt einen reptilischen Vertrauten mit beissendem Humor sein Eigen. Und er ist in Schwierigkeiten, denn er muss einen Krieg verhindern, in dem sich seine besten Freunde und daneben auch die großen Familien von Dragaera gegenseitig auslöschen würden...The first to be published, this is actually the fourth novel in the timeline of the VLAD TALTOS series. The books recount the adventures of the wisecracking hired killer Vlad, a human on a planet mainly inhabited by the long-lived, extremely tall sorcerers known as the Dragaerans. One of the most powerful bosses in the Jhereg-Dragaera\u0027s premier criminal organization-hires Vlad, one of their guild members, to assassinate Mellar, who stole millions from the Jhereg leadership and fled. Unfortunately, this thief turns out to be protected in a way that makes it difficult for Vlad to do his job without gaining the permanent enmity of a friend. The reader also learns more about Vlad\u0027s past in this, and in other, lives.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1754,
            "title": "Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü",
            "author": "Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar",
            "date": "2005",
            "genres": "Turkish Literature, Fiction, Turkish, Classics, Literature, Roman, Novels, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Modern Classics",
            "characters": "Hayri İrdal, Halit Ayarcı, Dr. Ramiz, Muvakkit Nuri Efendi, Seyit Lûtfullah, Abdüsselam Bey, Aristidi Efendi, Yangeldi Asaf Bey, Topal İsmail",
            "synopsis": "\"Şiirlerinde sembolist bir dil kullanan Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar romanlarında gerçekçi ve sosyal sorunlara eğilen bir tarzı tercih etmiştir.Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü Türk insanının doğu ve batı arasında bocalamasını irdeleyen bir başucu romanıdır.Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü, içeriğini ve konusunu romanın karakterlerinden Nuri Efendi (Saat Ustası), Mübarek (Ayaklı ve yaşlı bir İngiliz yapımı duvar saati), Halit Ayarcı ve saat-zaman-insan ilişkilerinden almaktadır.Anlatım, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’ın kendine has simgeci anlatımıyla birleşip, zaman zaman gelişen olaylarla birlikte başkalaşmaktadır. İnsanların popülerliğe ve paraya verdiği önemin, insanların nasıl bir anda yüz değiştirebileceğinin altı çizilmektedir.İki uygarlık arasında bocalayan toplumumuzun yanlış tutumlarını, davranışlarını alaya alan eleştirel bir romandır. Yapıt çocukluğu II. Abdülhamit döneminde geçen, Meşrutiyet ve Cumhuriyet dönemlerinde de yaşayan Hayri İrdal\u0027ın anıları şeklinde kurgulanmıştır. Roman dört bölümden oluşmaktadır: Büyük Ümitler, Küçük Hakikatler, Sabaha Doğru, Her Mevsimin Bir Sonu Vardır.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1755,
            "title": "Sorcery \u0026 Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot",
            "author": "Patricia C. Wrede , Caroline Stevermer ",
            "date": "2004",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Romance, Historical, Magic, Mystery, Regency, Historical Fantasy",
            "characters": "Cecelia Rushton, Katherine Talgarth, James Tarleton, Thomas Schofield, Miranda Tanistry, Dorothea Griscomb, Sir Hilary Bedrick, Georgina Talgarth, Oliver Rushton, Sylvia Schofield",
            "synopsis": "\"A great deal is happening in London and the country this season.For starters, there\u0027s the witch who tried to poison Kate at the Royal College of Wizards. There\u0027s also the man who seems to be spying on Cecelia. (Though he\u0027s not doing a very good job of it-so just what are his intentions?) And then there\u0027s Oliver. Ever since he was turned into a tree, he hasn\u0027t bothered to tell anyone where he is.Clearly, magic is a deadly and dangerous business. And the girls might be in fear for their lives . . . if only they weren\u0027t having so much fun!\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1756,
            "title": "Shanna",
            "author": "Kathleen E. Woodiwiss",
            "date": "2000",
            "genres": "Romance, Historical Romance, Historical, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Adult, Pirates, Adventure, Chick Lit, British Literature",
            "characters": "Shanna Trahern, Ruark Beauchamp",
            "synopsis": "\"an alternate cover edition can be found hereBehind the foreboding walls of Newgate Prison, a pact is sealed in secret - as a dashing and doomed criminal consents to wed a beautiful heiress . . . in return for one night of unparalleled pleasure.In the fading echoes of hollow wedding vows, a promise is broken - as a sensuous free-spirit flees to a lush Caribbean paradise, abandoning the handsome stranger she married to the gallows. But Ruark Beauchamp\u0027s destiny is now eternally intertwined with his exquisite, tempestuous Shanna\u0027s. And no iron ever forged can imprison his magnificent passion . . . and no hangman\u0027s noose will deny him the ecstasy that is rightfully his.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1757,
            "title": "A Fórmula de Deus",
            "author": "José Rodrigues dos Santos",
            "date": "2006",
            "genres": "Fiction, Thriller, Romance, Portuguese Literature, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Portugal, Roman, Religion, Novels",
            "characters": "Tomás Noronha",
            "synopsis": "\"\"\"Nas escadarias do Museu Egípcio, em pleno Cairo, Tomás Noronha é abordado por uma desconhecida. Chama-se Ariana Pakravan, é iraniana e traz consigo a cópia de um documento inédito, um velho manuscrito com um estranho título e um poema enigmático.O inesperado encontro lança Tomás numa empolgante aventura, colocando-o na rota da crise nuclear com o Irão e da mais importante descoberta jamais efectuada por Albert Einstein, um achado que o conduz ao maior de todos os mistérios. A prova científica da existência de Deus.Uma história de amor, uma intriga de traição, uma perseguição implacável, uma busca espiritual que nos leva à mais espantosa revelação mística de todos os tempos.Baseada nas últimas e mais avançadas descobertas científicas nos campos da física, da cosmologia e da matemática, A Fórmula de Deus transporta-nos numa surpreendente viagem até às origens do tempo, à essência do universo e ao sentido da vida.\"\"\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1758,
            "title": "The Go-Between",
            "author": "L.P. Hartley, Colm Tóibín (Introduction)",
            "date": "2002",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, British Literature, 20th Century, Coming Of Age, Novels, Literary Fiction, Literature, Modern Classics",
            "characters": "Leo Colston, Marcus Maudsley, Marian Maudsley, Ted Burgess, Hugh Trimingham, Denys Maudsley",
            "synopsis": "\"\"\"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.\"\"Summering with a fellow schoolboy on a great English estate, Leo, the hero of L. P. Hartley\u0027s finest novel, encounters a world of unimagined luxury. But when his friend\u0027s beautiful older sister enlists him as the unwitting messenger in her illicit love affair, the aftershocks will be felt for years. The inspiration for the brilliant Joseph Losey/Harold Pinter film starring Julie Christie and Alan Bates, The Go-Between is a masterpiece—a richly layered, spellbinding story about past and present, naiveté and knowledge, and the mysteries of the human heart. This volume includes, for the first time ever in North America, Hartley\u0027s own introduction to the novel.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1759,
            "title": "The Silver Kiss",
            "author": "Annette Curtis Klause",
            "date": "Oct-92",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Vampires, Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal, Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Horror",
            "characters": "Zoë, Simon",
            "synopsis": "\"Zoe is wary when, in the dead of night, the beautiful yet frightening Simon comes to her house. Simon seems to understand the pain of loneliness and death and Zoe\u0027s brooding thoughts of her dying mother.Simon is one of the undead, a vampire, seeking revenge for the gruesome death of his mother three hundred years before. Does Simon dare ask Zoe to help free him from this lifeless chase and its insufferable loneliness?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1760,
            "title": "Magician: Master",
            "author": "Raymond E. Feist",
            "date": "Jan-93",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Magic, Adventure, Epic, Science Fiction, Adult",
            "characters": "Pug, Tomas Megarson, Kulgan, Dolgan, Borric conDoin, Arutha conDoin, Carline conDoin, Martin Longbow, Laurie of Tyr-Sog, Kasumi Shinzawai, Aglaranna of Elvandar, Macros the Black, Ashen-Shugar, Ichindar",
            "synopsis": "\"He held the fate of two worlds in his hands... Once he was an orphan called Pug, apprenticed to a sorcerer of the enchanted land of Midkemia.. Then he was captured and enslaved by the Tsurani, a strange, warlike race of invaders from another world.There, in the exotic Empire of Kelewan, he earned a new name-Milamber. He learned to tame the unnimagined powers that lay withing him. And he took his place in an ancient struggle against an evil Enemy older than time itself.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1761,
            "title": "The Passion of Artemisia",
            "author": "Susan Vreeland",
            "date": "Jan-03",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Art, Italy, Historical, Art History, Womens, 17th Century, Adult Fiction, Novels",
            "characters": "Galileo Galilei, Artemisia Gentileschi, \"\"Cosimo II de\u0027\u0027 Medici\"\", Palmira Stiattesi, Pierantonio Stiattesi, Orazio Gentileschi, Graziella, Renata",
            "synopsis": "\"From extraordinary highs - patronage by the Medicis, friendship with Galileo and, most importantly of all, beautiful and outstandingly original paintings - to rape by her father\u0027s colleague, torture by the Inquisition, life-long struggles for acceptance by the artistic Establishment, and betrayal by the men she loved, Artemisia was a bold and brilliant woman who lived as she wanted, and paid a high price.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1762,
            "title": "Theatre",
            "author": "W. Somerset Maugham",
            "date": "2001",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, British Literature, 20th Century, Romance, Novels, English Literature, Literature, Theatre, Classic Literature",
            "characters": "Julia Lambert, Michael Gosselyn, Thomas Fennell, Jimmie Langdon",
            "synopsis": "\"In Theatre, W. Somerset Maugham–the author of the classic novels Of Human Bondage and Up at the Villa–introduces us to Julia Lambert, a woman of breathtaking poise and talent whose looks have stood by her forty-six years. She is a star stage actress England–so good, in fact, that perhaps she never stops acting.It seems that noting can ruffle her satin feathers, until a quiet stranger who challenges Julia\u0027s very sense of self. As a result, she will endure rejection for the first time, her capacity as a mother will be affronted, and her ability to put on whatever face she desired for her public will prove limited. In Theatre, Maugham subtly exposes the tensions and triumphs that occur when acting and reality blend together, and–for Julia–ultimately reverse.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1763,
            "title": "The Best Laid Plans",
            "author": "Sidney Sheldon",
            "date": "1998",
            "genres": "Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Romance, Novels, Crime, Drama, Adult",
            "characters": "Dana Evans, Oliver Russell, Leslie Stewart, Peter Tager, Senator Todd Davis, Henry Chambers, Jan Davis",
            "synopsis": "\"He wanted power. Oliver Russell is fated to rise to the pinnacle of power, President of the United States. She wanted revenge. Leslie Stewart is his betrayed fiancee. Amassing her own media empire, on her fortieth birthday, she looks back. What went wrong?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1764,
            "title": "Dissolution",
            "author": "C.J. Sansom",
            "date": "2004",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Mystery, Fiction, Historical, Crime, Historical Mystery, British Literature, Tudor Period, Mystery Thriller, Thriller",
            "characters": "Matthew Shardlake, Mark Poer, Thomas Cromwell, Abbot Fabian, Brother Edwig, Brother Gabriel of Ashford, Brother Guy of Malton, Brother Hugh, Brother Jude, Brother Mortimus of Kelso, Joan Woode, Robin Singleton, Alice Fewterer, Simon Whelplay, Ralph Spenlay, Master Bugge, Jerome Wentworth, Lawrence Goodhaps, Brother Athelstan, Gilbert Copynger, Joan Stumpe, Orphan Stonegarden, Thomas Oldknoll, Master Hodges",
            "synopsis": "\"Henry VIII has ordered the dissolution of the monasteries and England is full of informers. At the monastery of Scarnsea, events have spiralled out of control with the murder of Commissioner Robin Singleton. Matthew Shardlake, a lawyer, and his assistant are sent to investigate.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1765,
            "title": "Snakehead",
            "author": "Anthony Horowitz ",
            "date": "2007",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Adventure, Fiction, Espionage, Action, Mystery, Thriller, Childrens, Teen, Middle Grade",
            "characters": "Alex Rider, Alan Blunt, Jack Starbright, Smithers, Mrs Jones",
            "synopsis": "No sooner has Alex splashed down off the coast of Australia than he finds himself sucked into another adventure. This time he\u0027s working for ASIS - the Australian Secret Service - and his target is the criminal underworld of South-East Asia: the ruthless world of the Snakehead."
          },
          {
            "id": 1766,
            "title": "Monster",
            "author": "Frank E. Peretti",
            "date": "Oct-06",
            "genres": "Fiction, Christian Fiction, Christian, Horror, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Adult",
            "characters": "Reed Shelton, Beck Shelton",
            "synopsis": "\"Something\u0027s out there... Reed Shelton organized this survival weekend. Hired the best guide in the region. Meticulously trained, studied, and packed while encouraging his wife, Beck, to do the same. But little did they know that surviving the elements would become the least of their worries. During their first night of camping, an unearthly wail pierces the calm of the forest. Then someone—no, something—emerges from the dense woods and begins pursuing them. Everything that follows is a blur to Reed—except for the unforgettable image of a huge creature carrying his wife into the darkness. Dependant on the efforts of a small town and a band of friends, Reed knows they have little time to find Beck. Even more important, he soon realizes that they aren\u0027t the only ones doing the hunting. Something much faster, more relentless—and definitely not human—has begun to hunt them.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1767,
            "title": "The Lottery",
            "author": "Shirley Jackson",
            "date": "1990",
            "genres": "Short Stories, Classics, Horror, Fiction, Dystopia, School, Read For School, Science Fiction, Literature, Adult",
            "characters": "Tessie Hutchinson, Bill Hutchinson, Mr. Summers, Mr. Graves",
            "synopsis": "\"Shirley Jackson\u0027s \"\"The Lottery\"\" is a memorable and terrifying masterpiece, fueled by a tension that creeps up on you slowly without any clear indication of why. This is just a townful of people, after all, choosing their numbers for the annual lottery. What\u0027s there to be scared of?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1768,
            "title": "Black Water",
            "author": "D.J. MacHale ",
            "date": "Aug-04",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Science Fiction, Adventure, Childrens, Middle Grade, Young Adult Fantasy, Teen, Time Travel",
            "characters": "Bobby Pendragon, Aja Killian, Tom Dorney, Courtney Chetwynde, Mark Dimond, Saint Dane",
            "synopsis": "\"Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here and hereBREAKING THE RULESJust when fifteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon thinks he understands his purpose as a Traveler - to protect the territories of Halla from the evil Saint Dane - he is faced with an impossible choice. The inhabitants of Eelong are in danger of being wiped out by a mysterious plague. The only way Bobby can stop it is to bring the antidote from another territory. Since moving items between territories is forbidden by the Traveler rules, if Bobby chooses to save Eelong he could endanger himself, his friends, and the future of every other being in Halla.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1769,
            "title": "Tracy\u0027s Tiger",
            "author": "William Saroyan",
            "date": "1989",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, American, Short Stories, 20th Century, Novels, Czech Literature, Mine, The United States Of America, Magical Realism",
            "characters": "Tiger, Laura, Tracy",
            "synopsis": "The story of Tracy\u0027s Tiger was adapted into an original musical in two acts for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival\u0027s 2007 season. The Saroyan story was transplanted from New York to 1950s San Francisco for the musical."
          },
          {
            "id": 1770,
            "title": "Memory",
            "author": "Lois McMaster Bujold ",
            "date": "2005",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Space Opera, Mystery, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Space, Audiobook, Adventure, Military Fiction",
            "characters": "Ivan VorPatril, Simon Illyan, Gregor Vorbarra, Alys Vorpatril, Miles Vorkosigan",
            "synopsis": "\"Forced to abandon his undercover role as leader of the Dendarii Mercenaries, Miles Vorkosigan persuades Emperor Gregor to appoint him Imperial Auditor so he can penetrate Barrayar’s intelligence and security operations (ImpSec). Simon Illyan, head of ImpSec and Miles’ former boss, is failing physically and mentally, and Miles sets out to find out why - and who, if anyone, is behind Illyan’s rapid decline. Library Journal calls Miles “one of the genre’s most enterprising and engaging heroes”. A Hugo and Nebula Award finalist.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1771,
            "title": "The Last Templar",
            "author": "Raymond Khoury ",
            "date": "Dec-06",
            "genres": "Fiction, Thriller, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Adventure, Historical, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Action, Crime",
            "characters": "Sean Reilly, Tess Chaykin, William Vance, Monsignor de Angelis",
            "synopsis": "\"\"\"It has served us well, this myth of Christ.\"\"Pope Leo X, 16th CenturyIn a hail of fire and flashing sword, as the burning city of Acre falls from the hands of the West in 1291, The Last Templar opens with a young Templar knight, his mentor, and a handful of others escaping to the sea carrying a mysterious chest entrusted to them by the Order\u0027s dying Grand Master. The ship vanishes without a trace.In present day Manhattan, four masked horsemen dressed as Templar Knights emerge from Central Park and ride up the Fifth Avenue steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art during the blacktie opening of a Treasures of the Vatican exhibit. Storming through the crowds, the horsemen brutally attack anyone standing between them and their prize. Attending the gala, archaeologist Tess Chaykin watches in silent terror as the leader of the horsemen hones in on one piece in particular, a strange geared device. He utters a few cryptic Latin words as he takes hold of it with reverence before leading the horsemen out and disappearing into the night.In the aftermath, an FBI investigation is led by anti-terrorist specialist Sean Reilly. Soon, he and Tess are drawn into the dark, hidden history of the crusading Knights, plunging them into a deadly game of cat and mouse with ruthless killers as they race across three continents to recover the lost secret of the Templars.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1772,
            "title": "The Last Book in the Universe",
            "author": "Rodman Philbrick",
            "date": "2000",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Fiction, Adventure, Post Apocalyptic, Fantasy, Middle Grade, Teen, Childrens",
            "characters": "Spaz, Ryter",
            "synopsis": "\"This fast-paced action novel is set in a future where the world has been almost destroyed. Like the award-winning novel Freak the Mighty, this is Philbrick at his very best.It\u0027s the story of an epileptic teenager nicknamed Spaz, who begins the heroic fight to bring human intelligence back to the planet. In a world where most people are plugged into brain-drain entertainment systems, Spaz is the rare human being who can see life as it really is. When he meets an old man called Ryter, he begins to learn about Earth and its past. With Ryter as his companion, Spaz sets off an unlikely quest to save his dying sister - and in the process, perhaps the world.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1773,
            "title": "Icefire",
            "author": "Chris d\u0027Lacey",
            "date": "Jul-07",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Dragons, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Magic, Middle Grade, Adventure, Urban Fantasy, Juvenile",
            "characters": "David Rain, Elizabeth Pennykettle, Lucy Pennykettle",
            "synopsis": "\"Secrets will be revealed when fire and ice collide...In the exciting sequel to The Fire Within, David must uncover the truth behind the mysterious clay dragons. David\u0027s quest is to discover the link between the fire of the last known dragon on Earth and the icy regions of the Arctic. It\u0027s a journey that will change his life forever, a journey that will bring him to the very heart of the legend of dragons and the mysterious, ancient secret of the icefire...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1774,
            "title": "A Monstrous Regiment of Women",
            "author": "Laurie R. King , Martina Petranović (Translator)",
            "date": "2000",
            "genres": "Mystery, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Crime, Historical Mystery, Historical, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, Detective, Adult",
            "characters": "Mary Russell, Inspector Lestrade, Margery Childe, Veronica Beaconsfield, Mrs Hudson (Conan Doyle series), Sherlock Holmes (Russell \u0026 Holmes series), Dr. John Watson",
            "synopsis": "\"A Monstrous Regiment of Women continues Mary Russell\u0027s adventures as a worthy student of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and as an ever more skilled sleuth in her own right. Looking for respite in London after a stupefying visit from relatives, Mary encounters a friend from Oxford. The young woman introduces Mary to her current enthusiasm, a strange and enigmatic woman named Margery Childe, who leads something called \"\"The New Temple of God.\"\" It seems to be a charismatic sect involved in the post-World War I suffrage movement, with a feminist slant on Christianity. Mary is curious about the woman, and intrigued. Is the New Temple a front for something more sinister? When a series of murders claims members of the movement\u0027s wealthy young female volunteers and principal contributors, Mary, with Holmes in the background, begins to investigate. Things become more desperate than either of them expected as Mary\u0027s search plunges her into the worst danger she has yet faced.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1775,
            "title": "The Masterharper of Pern",
            "author": "Anne McCaffrey",
            "date": "1999",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Science Fiction, Dragons, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adult, Young Adult, Music, Adventure, High Fantasy",
            "characters": "Lessa, \"\"F\u0027\u0027lar\"\", Masterharper Robinton, \"\"F\u0027\u0027nor\"\", Sebell, \"\"F\u0027\u0027lor\"\", Petiron, Merelan, Gennell, Fax",
            "synopsis": "\"MasterSinger Merelan and Harper Petiron were a brilliant and devoted couple. Merelan was the most outstanding soprano ever heard on Pern, and was often the only one who could master Petiron\u0027s technically accomplished compositions. When, after a long and difficult birth, Robinton was born to them, it should have been the culmination of a unique partnership.But Petiron, almost from the first day, had no time for his son, refusing to see the incredible talent the boy possessed, ignoring his achievements and maintaining a strict and disapproving vigilance over him at all times.Carefully, secretly, the Harper Hall took over, training the greatest talent Pern had ever seen - a talent that was more than just musical, for Robinton was able to talk to the dragons of Pern.As constant sadness beset his personal life, so a startling career sent him like a meteor through the Holds and Weyrs of Pern until, as MasterHarper, he became part of the great plan to rescue Lessa from the brutal rule of Holder Fax - Lessa, who was to be the saviour of the dragons of Pern.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1776,
            "title": "Henderson the Rain King",
            "author": "Saul Bellow, Luciano Bianciardi (Translator)",
            "date": "1996",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Literature, Africa, Novels, American, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Nobel Prize, The United States Of America",
            "characters": "Eugene Henderson, Romilayu, King Dahfu",
            "synopsis": "\"Henderson has come to Africa on a spiritual safari, a quest for the truth. His feats of strength, his passion for life, and, most importantly, his inadvertant success in bringing rain have made him a god-like figure among the tribes.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1777,
            "title": "Locke \u0026 Key, Volume 1: Welcome to Lovecraft",
            "author": "Joe Hill , Gabriel Rodríguez (Artist)",
            "date": "Feb-13",
            "genres": "Graphic Novels, Comics, Horror, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Mystery, Paranormal, Supernatural",
            "characters": "Tyler Locke, Kinsey Locke, Bode Locke",
            "synopsis": "\"Locke \u0026 Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them. Home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1778,
            "title": "París",
            "author": "Florencia Bonelli ",
            "date": "Dec-10",
            "genres": "Romance, Contemporary Romance, Contemporary, France, Adult, Historical Fiction, Action, Medical, Drama, Spanish Literature",
            "characters": "Eliah Al-Saud, Matilde Martínez",
            "synopsis": "\"Matilde Martínez es una pediatra decidida a cambiar el mundo. Eliah Al-Saud es un soldado profesional, demasiado cínico para creer que es posible cambiarlo. Sin embargo, cuando Eliah y Matilde se conocen, la atracción es innegable, y, pese a sus diferencias, caen rendidos ante la pasión que los domina. Su romance se convertirá en una aventura peligrosa, con el conflicto palestino-israelí y una amenaza atómica como telones de fondo. Una adictiva novela contemporánea en la que dos personajes intensos y cautivadores lucharán por sus vidas y las de sus seres queridos, pero ¿conseguirán también salvar su amor?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1779,
            "title": "The Postman",
            "author": "David Brin ",
            "date": "Dec-97",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Post Apocalyptic, Dystopia, Apocalyptic, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Adventure, War",
            "characters": "Gordon Krantz",
            "synopsis": "\"This is the story of a lie that became the most powerful kind of truth. A timeless novel as urgently compelling as War Day or Alas, Babylon, David Brin\u0027s The Postman is the dramatically moving saga of a man who rekindled the spirit of America through the power of a dream, from a modern master of science fiction.He was a survivor-a wanderer who traded tales for food and shelter in the dark and savage aftermath of a devastating war. Fate touches him one chill winter\u0027s day when he borrows the jacket of a long-dead postal worker to protect himself from the cold. The old, worn uniform still has power as a symbol of hope, and with it he begins to weave his greatest tale, of a nation on the road to recovery.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1780,
            "title": "Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media",
            "author": "Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky",
            "date": "2002",
            "genres": "Politics, Nonfiction, History, Philosophy, Sociology, Economics, Journalism, Political Science, Society, Psychology",
            "characters": "Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Saddam Hussein, Matt Taibbi",
            "synopsis": "\"In this pathbreaking work, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political agendas of the privileged groups that dominate domestic society, the state, and the global order.Based on a series of case studies—including the media’s dichotomous treatment of “worthy” versus “unworthy” victims, “legitimizing” and “meaningless” Third World elections, and devastating critiques of media coverage of the U.S. wars against Indochina—Herman and Chomsky draw on decades of criticism and research to propose a Propaganda Model to explain the media’s behavior and performance. Their new introduction updates the Propaganda Model and the earlier case studies, and it discusses several other applications. These include the manner in which the media covered the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement and subsequent Mexican financial meltdown of 1994-1995, the media’s handling of the protests against the World Trade Organization, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund in 1999 and 2000, and the media’s treatment of the chemical industry and its regulation. What emerges from this work is a powerful assessment of how propagandistic the U.S. mass media are, how they systematically fail to live up to their self-image as providers of the kind of information that people need to make sense of the world, and how we can understand their function in a radically new way.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1781,
            "title": "The Fire Within",
            "author": "Chris d\u0027Lacey",
            "date": "Mar-07",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Dragons, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Middle Grade, Magic, Urban Fantasy, Adventure, Juvenile",
            "characters": "David Rain, Elizabeth Pennykettle, Lucy Pennykettle",
            "synopsis": "\"A magical adventure about the power of dragons...When David moves in with Elizabeth Pennykettle and her eleven-year-old daughter, Lucy, he discovers a collection of clay dragons that come to life. David\u0027s own special dragon inspires him to write a story, which reveals the secrets behind a mystery. In order to solve the mystery and save his dragon, David must master the magic of the fire within - not only with his hands but also with his heart.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1782,
            "title": "The Last Herald-Mage",
            "author": "Mercedes Lackey",
            "date": "1990",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Magic, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, LGBT, Romance, Young Adult, Gay",
            "characters": "Vanyel Ashkevron, Yfandes, Savil Ashkevron, Tylendel Frelennye",
            "synopsis": "\"The Last Herald-Mage contains Magic\u0027s Pawn, Magic\u0027s Promise and Magic\u0027s Price.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1783,
            "title": "The Innocent Mage",
            "author": "Karen Miller",
            "date": "Sept-07",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Magic, High Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure, Adult, Young Adult, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Asher of Restharven, Gar (Kingmaker, Kingbreaker)",
            "synopsis": "\"Enter the kingdom of Lur, where to use magic unlawfully means death. The Doranen have ruled Lur with magic since arriving as refugees centuries ago. Theirs was a desperate flight to escape the wrath of a powerful mage who started a bitter war in their homeland. To keep Lur safe, the native Olken inhabitants agreed to abandon their own magic. Magic is now forbidden to them, and any who break this law are executed. Asher left his coastal village to make his fortune. Employed in the royal stables, he soon finds himself befriended by Prince Gar and given more money and power than he\u0027d ever dreamed possible. But the Olken have a secret; a prophecy. The Innocent Mage will save Lur from destruction and members of The Circle have dedicated themselves to preserving Olken magic until this day arrives. Unbeknownst to Asher, he has been watched closely. As the Final Days approach, his life takes a new and unexpected turn ...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1784,
            "title": "Magician\u0027s Gambit",
            "author": "David Eddings",
            "date": "Jun-83",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Adventure, Young Adult, Magic, Epic, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Garion, Polgara, Belgarath, \"\"Ce\u0027\u0027Nedra\"\", Silk, Barak, Hettar, Durnik, Mandorallen, Brill, Mara, Aldur, Beltira, Belkira, Beldin, Gorim, Relg, Ul, Yarbleck, Taur Urgas, Taiba, Poledra, Errand",
            "synopsis": "\"Ce\u0027Nedra, Imperial Princess of Tolnedra, is confused. Everyone knows the tales of the Orb protecting the West from the evil god Torak are just silly legends. But here she is, forced to join a dangerous quest to recover that stolen Orb. No one believes in sorcery, but Garion\u0027s aunt and grandfather seem to be the fabled sorcerers Polgara and Belgarath, who would have to be thousands of years old.Even young Garion is learning to do sorcery. He\u0027s just a farm boy, totally unsuitable for an Imperial Princess. Yet for some reason, she has the urge to teach him, brush back his tangled hair, and comfort him. But he is going to a strange tower in the center of all he believes evil, to face some horrible, powerful magician, and she can\u0027t be there to watch over him. She may never see him again!Thus continues The Belgariad, an epic prophecy still unfolding.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1785,
            "title": "Absolute Power",
            "author": "David Baldacci ",
            "date": "2003",
            "genres": "Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, Politics, Action, Novels",
            "characters": "Luther Whitney, Kate Whitney, President Alan Richmond, Christy Sullivan, Walter Sullivan, Bill Burton, Tim Collin, Gloria Russell, Seth Frank, Sandy Lord, Jack Graham, Jennifer Ryce Baldwin",
            "synopsis": "\"A grizzled professional cat burglar gets trapped inside the bedroom closet of one of the world\u0027s richest men, only to witness, through a one-way mirror, two Secret Service agents kill the billionaire\u0027s trampy young wife as she tries to fight off the drunken sexual advances of the nation\u0027s chief executive. Running for his life, but not before he picks up a bloodstained letter opener that puts the president at the scene of the crime, the burglar becomes the target of a clandestine manhunt orchestrated by leading members of the executive branch.Meanwhile, Jack Graham, once a public defender and now a high-powered corporate attorney, gets drawn into the case because the on-the-lam burglar just happens to be the father of his former financee, a crusading Virginia prosecutor. Embroidering the narrative through assorted plot whorls are the hero\u0027s broken romance; his conflict over selling out for financial success; the prosecutor\u0027s confused love-hate for her burglar father; the relentless investigation by a northern Virginia career cop; the dilemma of government agents trapped in a moral catch-22; the amoral ambitions of a sexy White House Chief of Staff; and the old burglar\u0027s determination to bring down the ruthless president. Meanwhile, lurking at the novel\u0027s center like a venomous spider is the sociopathic president.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1786,
            "title": "Megan Meade\u0027s Guide to the McGowan Boys",
            "author": "Kate Brian",
            "date": "Oct-06",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary, Chick Lit, High School, Teen, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult Romance, Fiction, Young Adult Contemporary",
            "characters": "Megan Meade, Evan McGowan, Finn McGowan, Doug McGowan, Miller McGowan, Hailie",
            "synopsis": "\"When she was nine, Megan Meade met a group of terrible, mean, Popsicle-goo-covered boys, the sons of her father\u0027s friend - the McGowan boys. Now, seven years later, Megan\u0027s army doctor parents are shipping off to Korea and Megan is being sent to live with the little monsters, who are older now and quite different than she remembered them.  Living in a house with seven boys will give Megan, who has never even been kissed, the perfect opportunity to learn everything there is to know about boys. And she\u0027ll send all her notes to her best friend, Tracy, in...  Megan Meade\u0027s Guide to the McGowan Boys  Observation #1: Being an army brat sucks. Except that this is definitely a better alternative to moving to Korea.  Observation #2: Forget evil, laughing, little monsters. These guys have been touched by the Abercrombie gods. They are a blur of toned, suntanned perfection.  Observation #3: I need a lock on my door. STAT.  Observation #4: Three words: six-pack abs.  Observation #5: Do not even get me started on the state of the bathroom. I\u0027m thinking of calling in a hazmat team. Seriously.  Observation #6: These boys know how to make enemies. Big time.  Megan Meade will have to juggle a new school, a new family, a new crush - on the boy next door, as in next bedroom door - and a new life. Will she survive the McGowan boys?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1787,
            "title": "Whispers of the Dead",
            "author": "Simon Beckett",
            "date": "Jan-10",
            "genres": "Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Audiobook, German Literature, British Literature, Adult",
            "characters": "David Hunter",
            "synopsis": "\"In plain black letters were the words Anthropological Research Facility,\u0027 but it was better known but another, less formal name. Most people just called it The Body Farm.The victim has been bound and torturer, the body decomposed beyond recognition...A second body is found.In America to escape the violence that nearly killed him, forensics expert David Hunter needs to know whether he is still up to the job of confronting death in all its strange and terrible forms.Then a body is found in a remote cabin out in the woods. And then another...Pushed deep into the heart of a terrifying manhunt, Hunter begins to wonder if they\u0027re on the trail of a maniac who simply cannot be stopped.Shocking, cunning and heart-stoppingly exciting, here is the new crime thriller from a No. 1 intentional bestselling storyteller.(back cover)\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1788,
            "title": "The Moomins and the Great Flood",
            "author": "Tove Jansson, David McDuff (Translator)",
            "date": "2006",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Childrens, Fiction, Classics, Finnish Literature, Scandinavian Literature, Swedish Literature, Adventure, Middle Grade, Picture Books",
            "characters": "Moomintroll, Moominmamma, Sniff, Tulippa, Moominpappa",
            "synopsis": "\"The Moomins and the Great Flood is the first book about the Moomins, originally published in 1945. It´s the story about Moominmamma and Moomintroll´s search for the missing Moominpappa and how they found their way to the Moominvalley.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1789,
            "title": "The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness",
            "author": "Simon Wiesenthal",
            "date": "1998",
            "genres": "Nonfiction, Holocaust, Philosophy, History, Religion, Memoir, World War II, Spirituality, Biography, School",
            "characters": "Simon Wiesenthal, Karl S.",
            "synopsis": "\"While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying SS man. Haunted by the crimes in which he\u0027d participated, the soldier wanted to confess to-\u0026 obtain absolution from-a Jew. Faced with the choice between compassion \u0026 justice, silence \u0026 truth, Wiesenthal said nothing. But even years after the war had ended, he wondered: Had he done the right thing? What would you have done in his place?In this important book, 53 distinguished men \u0026 women respond to Wiesenthal\u0027s questions. They are theologians, political leaders, writers, jurists, psychiatrists, human rights activists, Holocaust survivors \u0026 victims of attempted genocides in Bosnia, Cambodia, China \u0026 Tibet. Their responses, as varied as their experiences of the world, remind us that Wiesenthal\u0027s questions are not limited to events of the past. Often surprising, always thought provoking, The Sunflower will challenge you to define your beliefs about justice, compassion \u0026 responsibility.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1790,
            "title": "Kuyucaklı Yusuf",
            "author": "Sabahattin Ali",
            "date": "Jan-99",
            "genres": "Turkish Literature, Fiction, Turkish, Classics, Roman, Novels, Literature, 20th Century, Audiobook, Read For School",
            "characters": "Kuyucaklı Yusuf, Kaymakam Selahattin Bey, Muazzez",
            "synopsis": "\"\"\"Bu manasız ve yabancı hayatta bir tek şeye hakikaten sarılmış, hakikaten inanır gibi olmuştu. Bu da karısı idi. Muazzez\u0027in varlığı Yusuf için büyük, boşlukları dolduracak mahiyette bir şey değildi, fakat onun yokluğu müthişti. Onun bu kadar sebepsiz yere, bu kadar insafsızca Yusuf\u0027un hayatından koparılması çıldırtacak kadar acı idi. Hayatında asıl aradığı şeyin Muazzez olmadığını biliyordu, fakat Muazzez olmadan bunu aramaya muktedir olamayacağını sanıyordu.\"\"Kuyucaklı Yusuf, Türk edebiyatının belki de en romantik kahramanıdır. Hayatın ve insanların zalimliği karşısındaki naif duruşu ile bir yandan trajik bir sona ilerlerken, bir yandan da yaşadığı lirik aşk hikayesinin kahramanı olarak edebiyat tarihinde yerini almıştır.Sabahattin Ali büyük romanı Kuyucaklı Yusuf\u0027ta lirik ve romantik bir kahramanın yanı sıra, zalim ve ağulu bir taşra portresini bütün aktörleriyle gözümüzde canlandırır.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1791,
            "title": "Captains and the Kings",
            "author": "Taylor Caldwell",
            "date": "Apr-89",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Romance, Classics, Novels, Historical Romance, Drama, American, Literature",
            "characters": "Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh, Harry Zieff, Bernadette Hennessey Armagh, Elizabeth Healey Hennessey, Charles Desmond, Rory Armagh, Mary Armag, Marjorie Chisholm, Ed Healey, Sean Armagh, Courtney Wickersham, Tom Hennessey, Katherine Hennessey, Kevin Armagh, Honora Houlihan, Miss Emmy, Claudia, Martinique",
            "synopsis": "\"This is a great surging novel about the amassing of a colossal fortune, the political power that comes with it, and the operation of a curse laid on an Irish-American dynasty and the ruthless driving man who founded it.Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh was thirteen years old when he first saw America through a dirty porthole on the steerage deck of The Irish Queen. It was the early 1850\u0027s and he was a penniless immigrant, an orphan cast on a hostile shore to make a home for himself and his younger brother and infant sister. Some seventy years later, from his deathbed, Joseph Armagh last glimpsed his adopted land from the gleaming windows of a palatial estate. A multi-millionaire, one of the most powerful and feared men, Joseph Armagh had indeed found a home. CAPTAINS AND KINGS is the story of the price that was paid for it in the consuming, single-minded determination of a man clawing his way to the top; in the bitter-sweet bliss of the love of a beautiful woman; in the almost too-late enjoyment of extraordinary children; and in the curse which used the hand of fate to strike in the very face of success itself.Once again, Taylor Caldwell has looked into America\u0027s roistering past as a setting for a drama of the consequences of savage ambition - and its meaning then and now.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1792,
            "title": "Griffin and Sabine",
            "author": "Nick Bantock",
            "date": "2001",
            "genres": "Fiction, Art, Fantasy, Romance, Graphic Novels, Mystery, Magical Realism, Adult Fiction, Adult, Contemporary",
            "characters": "Griffin Moss, Sabine Strohem",
            "synopsis": "\"It all started with a mysterious and seemingly innocent postcard, but from that point nothing was to remain the same in the life of Griffin Moss, a quiet, solitary artist living in London. His logical, methodical world was suddenly turned upside down by a strangely exotic woman living on a tropical island thousands of miles away. Who is Sabine? How can she \"\"see\"\" what Griffin is painting when they have never met? Is she a long-lost twin? A clairvoyant? Or a malevolent angel? Are we witnessing the flowering of a magical relationship or a descent into madness?This stunning visual novel unfolds in a series of postcards and letters, all brilliantly illustrated with whimsical designs, bizarre creatures, and darkly imagined landscapes. Inside the book, Griffin and Sabine\u0027s letters are to be found nestling in their envelopes, permitting the reader to examine the intimate correspondence of these inexplicably linked strangers. This truly innovative novel combines a strangely fascinating story with lush artwork in an altogether original format.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1793,
            "title": "A Darkness At Sethanon",
            "author": "Raymond E. Feist",
            "date": "1987",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Magic, Adventure, Epic, Science Fiction, Adult",
            "characters": "Pug, Tomas Megarson, Arutha conDoin, Martin Longbow, Laurie of Tyr-Sog, Macros the Black, Ashen-Shugar, Jimmy the Hand, Murmandamus, Baru the Serpentslayer, Roald of Tyr-Sog, Guy du Bas-Tyra",
            "synopsis": "\"A Darkness at Sethanon is the stunning climax to Raymond E. Feist\u0027s brilliant epic fantasy trilogy, the Riftwar Saga. Here be dragons and sorcery, swordplay, quests, pursuits, intrigues, stratagems, journeys to the darkest realms of the dead and titanic battles between the forces of good and darkest evil. Here is the final dramatic confrontation between Arutha and Murmandamus - and the perilous quest of Pug the magician and Tomas the warrior for Macros the Black. A Darkness at Sethanon is heroic fantasy of the highest excitement and on the grandest scale, a magnificent conclusion to one of the great fantasy sagas of our time.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1794,
            "title": "The Rivers of Zadaa",
            "author": "D.J. MacHale ",
            "date": "Jun-06",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Science Fiction, Fiction, Adventure, Childrens, Middle Grade, Teen, Young Adult Fantasy, Time Travel",
            "characters": "Bobby Pendragon, Traveler Loor, Andy Mitchell, Saangi, Bokka, Courtney Chetwynde, Mark Dimond, Saint Dane, Traveler Alder",
            "synopsis": "\"THE BATTLE CONTINUES.THE STRUGGLE OF GOOD VERSUS EVIL continues as Bobby Pendragon follows Saint Dane to the territory of Zadaa. Saint Dane\u0027s influence has fueled the fire of discontent between two warring tribes: the Rokador and the Batu. This is also the territory where the Traveler Loor lives as a member of the Batu. Together she and Bobby must work to thwart Saint Dane\u0027s efforts to destroy Zadaa.But as Bobby pursues Saint Dane, he begins to notice changes in himself. He is no longer a flip kid looking for excitement. He is a young man beginning to see this quest as more than a series of adventures. He is also learning that as a Traveler, he has powers no normal human should have.Cover illustration by Victor Lee\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1795,
            "title": "The Subterraneans",
            "author": "Jack Kerouac",
            "date": "1994",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Literature, Novels, American, The United States Of America, 20th Century, Americana, Romance, Literary Fiction",
            "characters": "Leo Percepied, Julian Alexander, Frank Carmody, Sam Vedder",
            "synopsis": "\"Jack Kerouac, one of the great voices of the Beat generation and author of the classic On the Road, here continues his peregrinations in postwar, underground San Francisco. \"\"The subterraneans\"\" come alive at night, travel along dark alleyways, and live in a world filled with paint, poetry, music, smoke, and sex. Simmering in the center of it all is the brief affair between Leo Percepied, a writer, and Mardou Fox, a black woman ten years younger. Just at the moment when she is coolly leaving him, Leo realizes his passion for passion, his inability to function without it, and the puzzling futility of seeking redemption and fulfillment through writing.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1796,
            "title": "Ferien auf Saltkrokan",
            "author": "Astrid Lindgren",
            "date": "2007",
            "genres": "Childrens, Fiction, Classics, Swedish Literature, Scandinavian Literature, Sweden, Middle Grade, 20th Century, German Literature, Adventure",
            "characters": "Tjorven Grankvist, Pelle Melkersson, Malin Melkersson, Melker Melkersson, Johan Melkersson, Niklas Melkersson, Nisse Grankvist, Marta Grankvist, Teddy Grankvist, Freddy Grankvist, Stina",
            "synopsis": "\"Ferien auf Saltkrokan! Pelle, seine große Schwester Malin und seine beiden Brüder entdecken auf der kleinen Insel die unberührte Natur der schwedischen Schären. Sie baden im Meer, fangen Fische, sammeln Pfifferlinge und feiern Mittsommer. Nichts aber ist schöner für Pelle, als gemeinsam mit Tjorven, dem Inselmädchen, und ihrem großen Bernhardinerhund Bootsmann über die Felsen und durch den Wald zu streifen und dabei von einem Abenteuer ins nächste zu stolpern.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1797,
            "title": "An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness",
            "author": "Kay Redfield Jamison ",
            "date": "Oct-96",
            "genres": "Psychology, Nonfiction, Memoir, Mental Health, Biography, Mental Illness, Biography Memoir, Autobiography, Science, Health",
            "characters": "Kay Redfield Jamison",
            "synopsis": "The personal memoir of a manic depressive and an authority on the subject describes the onset of the illness during her teenage years and her determined journey through the realm of available treatments."
          },
          {
            "id": 1798,
            "title": "Endless Night",
            "author": "Agatha Christie",
            "date": "2007",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Mystery Thriller, Thriller, Audiobook, Detective, British Literature, Novels",
            "characters": "Michael Rogers, Fenella Goodman, Greta Andersen",
            "synopsis": "\"Gipsy’s Acre was a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea – and in Michael Rogers it stirred a child-like fantasy. There, amongst the dark fir trees, he planned to build a house, find a girl and live happily ever after. Yet, as he left the village, a shadow of menace hung over the land. For this was the place where accidents happened. Perhaps Michael should have heeded the locals’ warnings: ‘There’s no luck for them as meddles with Gipsy’s Acre.’ Michael Rogers is a man who is about to learn the true meaning of the old saying ‘In my end is my beginning.’The title Endless Night was taken from William Blake’s Auguries of Innocence and describes Christie’s favourite theme in the novel: a “twisted” character, who always chooses evil over good.Christie finished Endless Night in six weeks, as opposed to the three-four months that most of her other novels took. Despite being in her seventies while writing it, she told an interviewer that being Michael, the twenty-something narrator, “wasn’t difficult. After all, you hear people like him talking all the time.”The book is dedicated to Christie\u0027s relative \"\"Nora Prichard from whom I first heard the legend of Gipsy\u0027s Acre.\"\" Gipsy\u0027s Acre was a field on the Welsh moors.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1799,
            "title": "Ain\u0027t She Sweet?",
            "author": "Susan Elizabeth Phillips ",
            "date": "2006",
            "genres": "Romance, Contemporary Romance, Contemporary, Chick Lit, Fiction, Humor, Adult, Audiobook, Southern, Adult Fiction",
            "characters": "Sugar Beth Carey, Colin Byrne",
            "synopsis": "\"In high school Sugar Carey had reigned supreme. She alone had decided what or who was cool. Her spiral perm had been the perm against which all others were measured, and her opinion on which boys were acceptable to date the only one that counted. A beautiful, blonde - if not always benevolent - dictator, she had a reputation for being the wild child in her home town, the girl most likely to set the world on fire, and leave a trail of destruction in her wake. When she left home she swore she\u0027d never return. Only now, fifteen years and several husbands later, she\u0027s run out of money, luck and options...But Sugar arrives back home to discover that everyone else is living her life. Her half sister is married to Sugar\u0027s high school sweetheart, the teacher she schemed to get fired is now a successful novelist and owns her old house. She also discovers that people have long memories - especially where Sugar is concerned...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1800,
            "title": "The Cradle Will Fall",
            "author": "Mary Higgins Clark",
            "date": "2003",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Adult, Adult Fiction, Romance, Contemporary",
            "characters": "Katie",
            "synopsis": "This hospital-based horror tale features abduction and a research project that violates every principle of modern medicine. This is a reissue of a novel by a popular author often described as the \u0027Queen of Suspense\u0027."
          },
          {
            "id": 1801,
            "title": "Till The Last Breath",
            "author": "Durjoy Datta ",
            "date": "Sept-12",
            "genres": "Romance, Fiction, Indian Literature, India, Love, Romantic, Young Adult, Love Story, Contemporary, Novels",
            "characters": "Arman Kashyup, Kajal Khurana, Pihu Malhotra, Dushyant Roy, Zarah Mirza",
            "synopsis": "\"On a lazy Sunday morning, two young people are wheeled into Room No. 509 of GKL super specialty hospital.A brilliant nineteen year old medical student, suffering from an incurable, fatal disease hurtling her at a slow, painful, uncertain death.A wasteful twenty five year old drug addict, with no appreciation of life, with every organ system of his body slowly shutting down.Two prodigious doctors, fighting their own demons from the past, try to keep these two patients alive, putting their medical licenses at risk.Death looms in the tiny 12X13 foot room as they fight for every breath of their lives, even as the doctors put them through unapproved experimental treatments to prolong their lives.How will the last month of pain and struggle change their lives? How will it transform the doctors who work steadfastly to make them live a little longer?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1802,
            "title": "The Minds of Billy Milligan",
            "author": "Daniel Keyes",
            "date": "Oct-81",
            "genres": "Nonfiction, Psychology, Biography, True Crime, Crime, American, Thriller, Mental Illness, Mental Health, True Story",
            "characters": "Billy Milligan",
            "synopsis": "\"Billy Milligan can be anyone he wants to be . . . except himself. Out of control of his actions, Billy Milligan was a man tormented by twenty-four distinct personalities battling for supremacy over his body—a battle that culminated when he awoke in jail, arrested for the kidnap and rape of three women. In a landmark trial, Billy was acquitted of his crimes by reason of insanity caused by multiple personality—the first such court decision in history—bringing to public light the most remarkable and harrowing case of multiple personality ever recorded.Twenty-four people live inside Billy Milligan. Philip, a petty criminal; Kevin, who dealt drugs and masterminded a drugstore robbery; April, whose only ambition was to kill Billy\u0027s stepfather; Adalana, the shy, lonely, affection-starved lesbian who “used” Billy\u0027s body in the rapes that led to his arrest; David, the eight-year-old “keeper of pain”; and all of the others, including men, women, several children, both boys and girls, and the Teacher, the only one who can put them all together. You will meet each in this often shocking true story. And you will be drawn deeply into the mind of this tortured young man and his splintered, terrifying world.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1803,
            "title": "Congo",
            "author": "Florencia Bonelli ",
            "date": "Aug-11",
            "genres": "Romance, Contemporary Romance, Historical Fiction, Africa, Contemporary, Action",
            "characters": "Eliah Al-Saud",
            "synopsis": "\"\"\"Él es un señor de la guerra. Ella, una luchadora por la paz.\"\"La cirujana pediátrica Matilde Martínez viaja desde París con destino al Congo guiada por una ilusión: aliviar el sufrimiento de los nifios castigados por la violencia y el hambre que imperan en ese país africano. Ha dejado atrás una historia de amor difícil, que no consigue olvidar.Por su parte, el soldado profesional Eliah Al-Saud llega al Congo movido por una ambición: hacerse de una mina de coltán, el mineral más codiciado por los fabricantes de teléfonos móviles, que le redituará grandes beneficios económicos. Pero sobre todo llega al Congo para recuperar a Matilde, a quien considera la razón de su vida.Los traumas y secretos que los distanciaron en París siguen latentes y, rodeados por un contexto cruel e injusto, la reconciliación parece imposible.En el marco de la Segunda Guerra del Congo, más conocida como Guerra del Coltán, y amenazados por grupos guerrilleros de mucho poder, Matilde y Eliah intentarán por todos los medios que triunfe el amor sobre la guerra.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1804,
            "title": "La ciudad de los prodigios",
            "author": "Eduardo Mendoza",
            "date": "1987",
            "genres": "Fiction, Spanish Literature, Spain, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels, Humor, Roman, Contemporary, Drama",
            "characters": "Onofre Bouvila",
            "synopsis": "\"En 1887, Onofre Bouvila, un joven campesino arruinado, llega a la gran ciudad que todavía no lo es, Barcelona, y encuentra su primer trabajo como repartidor de panfletos anarquistas entre los obreros que trabajan en la Exposición Universal del ańo siguiente. El lector deberá seguir la espectacular historia del ascenso de Bouvila, que lo llevará a convertirse en uno de los hombres más ricos e influyentes del país con métodos no del todo ortodoxos.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1805,
            "title": "Ballet Shoes",
            "author": "Noel Streatfeild, Diane Goode (Illustrator)",
            "date": "Sept-03",
            "genres": "Childrens, Classics, Fiction, Middle Grade, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Childrens Classics, Juvenile, British Literature, Realistic Fiction",
            "characters": "Pauline Fossil, Petrova Fossil, Posy Fossil",
            "synopsis": "\"An alternate cover edition for this ISBN from 1993 can be found herePauline, Petrova and Posy are orphans determined to help out their family by attending the Children\u0027s Academy of Dancing and Stage Training. But when they vow to make a name for themselves, they have no idea it\u0027s going to be such hard work! They launch themselves into the world of show business, complete with working papers, the glare of the spotlight, and practice, practice, practice! Pauline is destined for the movies. Posy is a born dancer. But practical Petrova finds she\u0027d rather pilot a plane than perform a pirouette. Each girl must find the courage to follow her dream.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1806,
            "title": "قمر على سمرقند",
            "author": "محمد المنسي قنديل , Mohamed Mansi Qandil",
            "date": "Jun-11",
            "genres": "Novels, Fiction, Literature, Egypt, Historical Fiction, Unfinished, Contemporary, Egyptian Literature, Asia, Audiobook",
            "characters": "نور الله, علي, طيف, لطف الله, سيد قطب, Timur, Gamal Abdel Nasser",
            "synopsis": "عندما يقوم «علي» الطبيب المصري الشاب برحلة إلى مدينة «سمرقند»، بحثًا عن سر قديم ويتقابل مع رجل أسطوري هو «نور الله» الذي يقود سيارته ويوجه مصيره، ويخوضان معًا مغامرة في أماكن مدهشة.. وتأخذ الرحلة أيضًا بعدها في الزمان فتستكشف بعضًا من ماضي هذه الأرض الغضة والغنية بالتاريخ والأساطير، وتخوض في تعقيدات الحاضر بكل ما فيه من مؤامرات وعنف وجنس. إنها رواية تستكشف أرضًا جديدة وتخوض في تضاريس لم تصل إليها الرواية العربية من قبل، وتطرح أسئلة تتعلق بالهوية والذات والمصير الإنساني"
          },
          {
            "id": 1807,
            "title": "Kruistocht in spijkerbroek",
            "author": "Thea Beckman",
            "date": "1974",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Historical, Fantasy, Dutch Literature, Time Travel, Adventure, Classics",
            "characters": "Mariecke, Rudolf Wega, Fibonacci",
            "synopsis": "\"De zestienjarige Dolf uit Amstelveen geeft zich op als proefkonijn: hij zal door een materie-transmitter teruggeflitst worden naar de Middeleeuwen om daar één middag een kijkje te nemen. Maar door een foute berekening komt hij in het jaar 1212 terecht in een Kinderkruistocht die net uit Keulen is vertrokken en niet op het riddertoernooi in Montgivray in Midden-Frankrijk dat hij zo graag wilde bijwonen.Verbijsterd ziet hij duizenden gelovige – en vooral goedgelovige – kinderen, aan wie wonderen zijn beloofd, zingend aan hem voorbijtrekken. Zij zijn van plan met hun blote handen het Heilige Land van de Saracenen te bevrijden.Om vijf uur diezelfde middag moet Dolf weer op de afgesproken plek staan om teruggeflitst te worden naar de twintigste eeuw – tenminste, als er niets fout gaat…Lengte: 11 uur 26 minuten\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1808,
            "title": "Tailchaser\u0027s Song",
            "author": "Tad Williams ",
            "date": "Dec-00",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Animals, Cats, Young Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Animal Fiction, Adventure, Adult, Novels",
            "characters": "Fritti Tailchaser, Pouncequick, Roofshadow",
            "synopsis": "\"Meet Fritti Tailchaser, a ginger tom cat of rare courage and curiosity, a born survivor in a world of heroes and villains, of powerful feline gods and whiskery legends about those strange furless, erect creatures called M’an.“The hour of Unfolding Dark had begun, and the rooftop where Tailchaser lay was smothered in shadow. He was deep in a dream of leaping and flying when he felt an unusual tingling in his whiskers. Fritti Tailchaser, hunterchild of the Folk, came suddenly awake and sniffed the air. Ears pricked and whiskers flared straight, he sifted the evening breeze. Nothing unusual. Then what had awakened him? Pondering, he splayed his claws and began a spine-limbering stretch that finally ended at the tip of his reddish tail.”Join Tailchaser on his magical quest to rescue his catfriend Hushpad on a quest that will take him all the way to cat hell and beyond.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1809,
            "title": "The Bride Collector",
            "author": "Ted Dekker ",
            "date": "2010",
            "genres": "Christian, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, Fiction, Christian Fiction, Mystery, Adult Fiction, Romance, Detective",
            "characters": "Brad Raines, Nikki Holden, Paradise, Quinton Gauld",
            "synopsis": "A string of exquisite young women have been murdered by a single individual who leaves his signature with each body: a pristine bridal veil. FBI agent Brad Raines must turn to a most unusual source for help."
          },
          {
            "id": 1810,
            "title": "İnce Memed 1",
            "author": "Yaşar Kemal",
            "date": "Jan-04",
            "genres": "Fiction, Turkish Literature, Turkish, Classics, Literature, Historical Fiction, Novels, Roman, 20th Century, Adventure",
            "characters": "İnce Memed, Abdi Ağa",
            "synopsis": "\"Otuz iki yıllık bir zaman diliminde yazılan İnce Memed dörtlüsü düzene başkaldıran Memed\u0027in ve insan ilişkileri, doğası ve renkleriyle Çukurova\u0027nın öyküsüdür. Yaşar Kemal\u0027in söyleyişiyle \"\"içinde başkaldırma kurduyla doğmuş\"\" bir insanın, \"\"mecbur adam\"\"ın romanı.Abdi Ağa\u0027nın zulmüyle köyünü terk etmek zorunda kalan Memed, Ağa\u0027nın yeğeniyle evlendirilmek üzere olan Hatçe\u0027yi kaçırır. Abdi Ağa\u0027yı yaralayan, yeğenini de öldüren Memed eşkıya Deli Durdu\u0027ya katılır, ancak kıyıcılığına katlanamadığı Deli Durdu\u0027dan iki arkadaşıyla birlikte ayrılır. Memed, sıradan bir köy çocuğuyken, zulmedenler için eşkıyaya, köylüler içinse bir kurtarıcıya dönüşür. \"\"Bir yaşam biçimini bir halkın portresi olarak böylesine veren bu romandan daha iyisi yazılamazdı.\"\" - The New York Times Book Review, (A.B.D.) \"\"Şaşırtıcı, orijinal bir kitap.\"\" - Sunday Times, (İngiltere) \"\"Epik boyutlara ulaşan ve muhteşem bir sona ulaşmak için hız kazanan öyküye kendinizi kaptırıyorsunuz.\"\" - Sunday Times, (İngiltere) \"\"Yaşar Kemal, şaşılacak ölçüde yaratıcı.\"\"- The Bookseller, (İngiltere)\"\"Yaşar Kemal, karakterlerini unutulmaz, seçkin ve gerçek hayattan daha da gerçekçi kılan detay zenginliği ile Rus edebiyatının kalitesine ulaşıyor.\"\"- Sunday Telegraph, (İngiltere)\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1811,
            "title": "The Gift",
            "author": "Vladimir Nabokov, Michael Scammell (Translator), Dmitri Nabokov (Translator)",
            "date": "2017",
            "genres": "Fiction, Russia, Classics, Russian Literature, Literature, Novels, 20th Century, Germany, Literary Fiction, Modern Classics",
            "characters": "Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, Elizaveta Pavlovna, Zina Mertz",
            "synopsis": "\"The Gift is the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his native Russian and the crowning achievement of that period in his literary career.  It is also his ode to Russian literature, evoking the works of Pushkin, Gogol, and others in the course of its narrative:  the story of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished émigré poet living in Berlin, who dreams of the book he will someday write-a book very much like The Gift itself.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1812,
            "title": "The Edible Woman",
            "author": "Margaret Atwood ",
            "date": "Jun-98",
            "genres": "Fiction, Feminism, Canada, Classics, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Canadian Literature, Womens",
            "characters": "Marian McAlpin, Ainsley Tewce, Peter Wollander",
            "synopsis": "\"Marian is determined to be ordinary. She lays her head gently on the shoulder of her serious fiancé and quietly awaits marriage. But she didn\u0027t count on an inner rebellion that would rock her stable routine, and her digestion. Marriage à la mode, Marian discovers, is something she literally can\u0027t stomach... The Edible Woman is a funny, engaging novel about emotional cannibalism, men and women, and the desire to be consumed.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1813,
            "title": "Goodbye Tsugumi",
            "author": "Banana Yoshimoto, Giorgio Amitrano (Translator), Michael Emmerich (Translator)",
            "date": "2002",
            "genres": "Fiction, Japan, Japanese Literature, Contemporary, Asia, Asian Literature, Novels, Literature, Young Adult, Adult",
            "characters": "Shirakawa Maria, Yamamoto Tsugumi, Yamamoto Yoko, Kyoichi",
            "synopsis": "\"Banana Yoshimoto\u0027s novels of young life in Japan have made her an international sensation. Goodbye Tsugumi is an offbeat story of a deep and complicated friendship between two female cousins that ranks among her best work. Maria is the only daughter of an unmarried woman. She has grown up at the seaside alongside her cousin Tsugumi, a lifelong invalid, charismatic, spoiled, and occasionally cruel. Now Maria\u0027s father is finally able to bring Maria and her mother to Tokyo, ushering Maria into a world of university, impending adulthood, and a \"\"normal\"\" family. When Tsugumi invites Maria to spend a last summer by the sea, a restful idyll becomes a time of dramatic growth as Tsugumi finds love and Maria learns the true meaning of home and family. She also has to confront both Tsugumi\u0027s inner strength and the real possibility of losing her. Goodbye Tsugumi is a beguiling, resonant novel from one of the world\u0027s finest young writers.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1814,
            "title": "Jakob von Gunten",
            "author": "Robert Walser, Christopher Middleton (Translator, Introduction)",
            "date": "1999",
            "genres": "Fiction, German Literature, Classics, Literature, Novels, 20th Century, Germany, Literary Fiction, Short Stories, Modern Classics",
            "characters": "Jakob von Gunten, Herr Benjamenta",
            "synopsis": "\"The Swiss writer Robert Walser is one of the quiet geniuses of twentieth-century literature. Largely self-taught and altogether indifferent to worldly success, Walser wrote a range of short stories, essays and four novels, of which Jakob von Gunten is widely recognized as the finest. It tells the story of a seventeen-year-old runaway from an old family who enrolls in a school for servants. The Institute, run by the domineering Herr Benjamenta and his beautiful but ailing sister, is a deeply mysterious place: the faculty lies asleep in a single room. The students though subject to fierce discipline, come and go at will. Jakob, an irrepressibly subversive presence, keeps a journal in which he records his quirky impressions of the school as well as his own quickly changing enthusiasms and uncertainties, deliberations and dreams. And in the end, as the Institute itself dissolves around him like a dream, he steps out boldly to explore still-unimagined worlds.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1815,
            "title": "Bluebeard",
            "author": "Kurt Vonnegut Jr.",
            "date": "2011",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Humor, Literature, Novels, Science Fiction, American, Art, Literary Fiction, Contemporary",
            "characters": "Rabo Karabekian",
            "synopsis": "\"Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy-one, wants to be left alone on his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked inside his potato barn. But then a voluptuous young widow badgers Rabo into telling his life story—and Vonnegut in turn tells us the plain, heart-hammering truth about man’s careless fancy to create or destroy what he loves.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1816,
            "title": "The Loved One",
            "author": "Evelyn Waugh",
            "date": "Nov-01",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Humor, Literature, British Literature, Novels, Death, 20th Century, Comedy, Literary Fiction",
            "characters": "Dennis Barlow, Aimée Thanatogenos, Mr. Joyboy, Francis Hinsley, Sir Ambrose Abercrombie",
            "synopsis": "\"Following the death of a friend, British poet and pets\u0027 mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering the artificial Hollywood paradise of the Whispering Glades Memorial Park. Within its golden gates, death, American-style, is wrapped up and sold like a package holiday. There, Dennis enters the fragile and bizarre world of Aimée, the naïve Californian corpse beautician, and Mr Joyboy, the master of the embalmer\u0027s art...A dark and savage satire on the Anglo-American cultural divide, The Loved One depicts a world where love, reputation, and death cost a very great deal.This is an alternate cover edition: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3....\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1817,
            "title": "The Gates of Rome",
            "author": "Conn Iggulden",
            "date": "Feb-04",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, War, Fantasy, Roman, Adventure, Italy, Novels, Action",
            "characters": "Brutus, Gaius Marius, Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Julius Caesar",
            "synopsis": "\"Rarely, if ever, does a new writer dazzle us with such a vivid imagination and storytelling, flawlessly capturing the essence of a land, a people, a legend. Conn Iggulden is just such a writer, bringing to vivid life one of the most fascinating eras in human history. In a true masterpiece of historical fiction, Iggulden takes us on a breathtaking journey through ancient Rome, sweeping us into a realm of tyrants and slaves, of dark intrigues and seething passions. What emerges is both a grand romantic tale of coming-of-age in the Roman Empire and a vibrant portrait of the early years of a man who would become the most powerful ruler on earth: Julius Caesar. On the lush Italian peninsula, a new empire is taking shape. At its heart is the city of Rome, a place of glory and decadence, beauty and bloodshed. Against this vivid backdrop, two boys are growing to manhood, dreaming of battles, fame, and glory in service of the mightiest empire the world has ever known. One is the son of a senator, a boy of privilege and ambition to whom much has been given and from whom much is expected. The other is a bastard child, a boy of strength and cunning, whose love for his adoptive family-and his adoptive brother-will be the most powerful force in his life. As young Gaius and Marcus are trained in the art of combat-under the tutelage of one of Rome\u0027s most fearsome gladiators-Rome itself is being rocked by the art of treachery and ambition, caught in a tug-of-war as two rival generals, Marius and Sulla, push the empire toward civil war. For Marcus, a bloody campaign in Greece will become a young soldier\u0027s proving ground. For Gaius, the equally deadly infighting of the Roman Senate will be the battlefield where he hones his courage and skill. And for both, the love of an extraordinary slave girl will be an honor each will covet but only one will win. The two friends are forced to walk different paths, and by the time they meet again everything will have changed. Both will have known love, loss, and violence. And the land where they were once innocent will be thrust into the grip of bitter conflict-a conflict that will set Roman against Roman...and put their friendship to the ultimate test. Brilliantly interweaving history and adventure, Conn Iggulden conjures a stunning array of contrasts-from the bloody stench of a battlefield to the opulence of the greatest city in history, from the tenderness of a lover to the treachery of an assassin. Superbly rendered, grippingly told, Emperor, The Gates of Rome is a work of vaulting imagination from a powerful new voice in historical fiction. \"\"From the Hardcover edition.\"\"\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1818,
            "title": "Ellana",
            "author": "Pierre Bottero",
            "date": "Dec-06",
            "genres": "Fantasy, France, Young Adult, Roman, Fiction, Childrens, Novels, Adventure, Middle Grade, Sci Fi Fantasy",
            "characters": "Ellana Caldin",
            "synopsis": "\"Seule survivante d\u0027un groupe de pionniers après l\u0027attaque de leur caravane par des Raïs, au nord de l\u0027Empire, une fillette est recueillie par le peuple des Petits. Elle grandit dans la Forêt Maison à l\u0027écart des hommes et décide, à l\u0027adolescence, de partir en quête de ses origines. En chemin, sous le nom d\u0027Ellana, elle croise le plus grand des marchombres, le maître Jilano Alhuïn, qui la prend pour élève et l\u0027initie aux secrets de sa guilde. Un apprentissage semé d\u0027embûches, de rencontres et d\u0027inimitiés…\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1819,
            "title": "Fire Star",
            "author": "Chris d\u0027Lacey",
            "date": "Mar-07",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Dragons, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Middle Grade, Magic, Adventure, Urban Fantasy, Mystery",
            "characters": "David Rain, Suzanna Martindale, Elizabeth Pennykettle, Lucy Pennykettle",
            "synopsis": "\"There is a fire star coming, signaling a time of new beginnings. A time for dragons to rise again...A research trip to the Arctic and a contract for a new book - life can\u0027t get much better for David Rain. But as soon as David finds himself in the icy climes, he begins to write his legend of bears, dragons, and the mmysterious fire star. Soon he realizes that his tale is starting to mirror real life, and that an old enemy is on her way to meet him.Can David thwart her terrible master plan? Or will his world be destroyed forever?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1820,
            "title": "Deadeye Dick",
            "author": "Kurt Vonnegut Jr.",
            "date": "2010",
            "genres": "Fiction, Humor, Classics, Literature, Science Fiction, American, Novels, Contemporary, Horror, Literary Fiction",
            "characters": "Rudy Waltz",
            "synopsis": "\"Deadeye Dick is Kurt Vonnegut’s funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrors—a double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation, an annihilation of a city by a neutron bomb—Rudy Waltz, aka Deadeye Dick, takes us along on a zany search for absolution and happiness. Here is a tale of crime and punishment that makes us rethink what we believe . . . and who we say we are.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1821,
            "title": "Under Milk Wood",
            "author": "Dylan Thomas",
            "date": "1954",
            "genres": "Poetry, Plays, Classics, Drama, Fiction, Theatre, Literature, British Literature, 20th Century, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Dylan Thomas, Dai Bread, Polly Garter, Nogood Boyo, Gossamer Beynon, Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard, Captain Cat",
            "synopsis": "\"A moving and hilarious account of a spring day in a small Welsh coastal town, Under Milk Wood is \"\"lyrical, impassioned and funny, an Our Town given universality\"\" (The New Statesman and Nation).\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1822,
            "title": "Monster Hunter International",
            "author": "Larry Correia",
            "date": "2009",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Horror, Fiction, Paranormal, Vampires, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Action, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Owen Zastava Pitt",
            "synopsis": "\"Five days after Owen Zastava Pitt pushed his insufferable boss out of a fourteenth story window, he woke up in the hospital with a scarred face, an unbelievable memory, and a job offer. It turns out that monsters are real. All the things from myth, legend, and B-movies are out there, waiting in the shadows. Officially secret, some of them are evil, and some are just hungry. On the other side are the people who kill monsters for a living. Monster Hunter International is the premier eradication company in the business. And now Owen is their newest recruit. It’s actually a pretty sweet gig, except for one little problem. An ancient entity known as the Cursed One has returned to settle a centuries old vendetta. Should the Cursed One succeed, it means the end of the world, and MHI is the only thing standing in his way. With the clock ticking towards Armageddon, Owen finds himself trapped between legions of undead minions, belligerent federal agents, a cryptic ghost who has taken up residence inside his head, and the cursed family of the woman he loves. Business is good... Welcome to Monster Hunter International.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1823,
            "title": "Big Fish",
            "author": "Daniel Wallace",
            "date": "2004",
            "genres": "Fiction, Fantasy, Magical Realism, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Humor, Adult, Media Tie In, Novels, Literature",
            "characters": "William Bloom, Edward Bloom, Sandra Kay Templeton, Jenny Hill",
            "synopsis": "\"He could outrun anybody, and he never missed a day of school. He saved lives, tamed giants. Animals loved him. People loved him. Women loved him (and he loved them back). And he knew more jokes than any man alive.Now, as he lies dying, Edward Bloom can\u0027t seem to stop telling jokes -or the tall tales that have made him, in his son\u0027s eyes, an extraordinary man. Big Fish is the story of this man\u0027s life, told as a series of legends and myths inspired by the few facts his son, William, knows. Through these tales -hilarious and wrenching, tender and outrageous- William begins to understand his elusive father\u0027s great feats, and his great failings.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1824,
            "title": "The Naked Sun",
            "author": "Isaac Asimov",
            "date": "1996",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Mystery, Robots, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy, Crime, Novels, Detective, Fantasy",
            "characters": "Elijah Baley, R. Daneel Olivaw, Gladia Delmarre",
            "synopsis": "\"A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot servants. To this strange and provocative planet comes Detective Elijah Baley, sent from the streets of New York with his positronic partner, the robot R. Daneel Olivaw, to solve an incredible murder that has rocked Solaria to its foundations. The victim had been so reclusive that he appeared to his associates only through holographic projection. Yet someone had gotten close enough to bludgeon him to death while robots looked on. Now Baley and Olivaw are faced with two clear impossibilities: Either the Solarian was killed by one of his robots - unthinkable under the laws of Robotics - or he was killed by the woman who loved him so much that she never came into his presence!\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1825,
            "title": "Silverthorn",
            "author": "Raymond E. Feist",
            "date": "1986",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Magic, Adventure, Epic, Science Fiction, Novels",
            "characters": "Pug, Arutha conDoin, Martin Longbow, Laurie of Tyr-Sog, Jimmy the Hand, Anita of Krondor, Murmandamus, Brother Dominic of Sarth, Baru the Serpentslayer, Roald of Tyr-Sog",
            "synopsis": "\"A poisoned bolt has struck down the Princess Anita on the day of her wedding to Prince Arutha of Krondor.To save his beloved, Arutha sets out in search of the mystic herb called Silverthorn that only grows in the dark and forbidding land of the Spellweavers.Accompanied by a mercenary, a minstrel, and a clever young thief, he will confront an ancient evil and do battle with the dark powers that threaten the enchanted realm of Midkemia.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1826,
            "title": "Korkma Ben Varım",
            "author": "Murat Menteş",
            "date": "Nov-09",
            "genres": "Turkish Literature, Turkish, Roman, Fiction, Novels",
            "characters": "Şebnem Şibumi, Enver Paşa, Hayati Tehlike, Mr. Spock, Abdülcabbar, Ruhiye Hanım, Müntekim Gıcırbey, papağan Huduni, cin Jajha, Atom Bombacıyan, Uçan Kız, Abidin Dandini, Leyla Kalahari",
            "synopsis": "\"“Öldürdüğüm insanlarla iyi arkadaşolacağımızı düşünmüşümdür hep.”Dublörün Dilemması’nın yazarından komik, hızlı, şoke edici bir roman daha.Gönül İşleri Bakanlığı’nda basın müşaviri dövüş ustası Fu.Başkalarının intikamını alarak hayatını kazanan Gıcırbey.Tarih öğretmeni dilber Şebnem Şibumi.Padişah yorganları satıcısı Enver Paşa.Dul gangster Hayati Tehlike.Mr. Spock, Abdülcabbar, Ruhiye Hanım, papağan Huduni, cin Jajha, Atom Bombacıyan, Uçan Kız, Abidin Dandini, Leyla Kalahari ve diğerleri...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1827,
            "title": "Pudd\u0027nhead Wilson",
            "author": "Mark Twain",
            "date": "1984",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Literature, Humor, Historical Fiction, American, Mystery, 19th Century, School, Novels",
            "characters": "Roxana Langley, \"\"David Pudd\u0027\u0027nhead Wilson\"\", Roxanne",
            "synopsis": "\"At the beginning of Pudd\u0027nhead Wilson a young slave woman, fearing for her infant\u0027s son\u0027s life, exchanges her light-skinned child with her master\u0027s.  From this rather simple premise Mark Twain fashioned one of his most entertaining, funny, yet biting novels.  On its surface, Pudd\u0027nhead Wilson possesses all the elements of an engrossing nineteenth-century mystery:  reversed identities, a horrible crime, an eccentric detective, a suspenseful courtroom drama, and a surprising, unusual solution.  Yet it is not a mystery novel.  Seething with the undercurrents of antebellum southern culture, the book is a savage indictment in which the real criminal is society, and racial prejudice and slavery are the crimes.  Written in 1894, Pudd\u0027nhead Wilson glistens with characteristic Twain humor, with suspense, and with pointed irony:  a gem among the author\u0027s later works.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1828,
            "title": "Daughters of Darkness",
            "author": "L.J. Smith ",
            "date": "Aug-96",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Vampires, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Supernatural, Paranormal Romance, Witches",
            "characters": "Rowan Redfern, Ash Redfern, Kestrel Redfern, Mary-Lynnette Carter, John Quinn, Jade Redfern, Mark Carter, Jeremy Lovett, Bunny Marten, Vic Kimble, Todd Akers",
            "synopsis": "\"Unearthly Beauty There\u0027s something strange about the new girls in town. Briar Creek, Oregon, has never seen anything like the supernatural grace of Rowan, Kestrel, and Jade, three sisters who move into the dilapidated old house next to Mark and Mary-Lynnette Carter. Mark is obsessed with Jade- but she and her sisters have a secret. And when Mark and Mary-Lynnette follow them into the woods one night, they are plunged into a nightmare beyond their imagination. Because the sisters are fugitives from the Night World, and their brother Ash is hot on the trail behind them. He\u0027s ruthless, gorgeous, and he has orders to bring the girls back at all costs. And when he sees Mary-Lynette, he decides to take her too...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1829,
            "title": "Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed",
            "author": "Patricia Cornwell ",
            "date": "Nov-03",
            "genres": "Nonfiction, True Crime, History, Crime, Mystery, Biography, Historical, Thriller, Horror, British Literature",
            "characters": "Jack the Ripper",
            "synopsis": "\"Now updated with new material that brings the killer\u0027s picture into clearer focus.In the fall of 1888, all of London was held in the grip of unspeakable terror.  An elusive madman calling himself Jack the Ripper was brutally butchering women in the slums of London’s East End.  Police seemed powerless to stop the killer, who delighted in taunting them and whose crimes were clearly escalating in violence from victim to victim.  And then the Ripper’s violent spree seemingly ended as abruptly as it had begun.  He had struck out of nowhere and then vanished from the scene.  Decades passed, then fifty years, then a hundred, and the Ripper’s bloody sexual crimes became anemic and impotent fodder for puzzles, mystery weekends, crime conventions, and so-called “Ripper Walks” that end with pints of ale in the pubs of Whitechapel.  But to number-one New York Times bestselling novelist Patricia Cornwell, the Ripper murders are not cute little mysteries to be transformed into parlor games or movies but rather a series of terrible crimes that no one should get away with, even after death.  Now Cornwell applies her trademark skills for meticulous research and scientific expertise to dig deeper into the Ripper case than any detective before her—and reveal the true identity of this fabled Victorian killer.In Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper, Case Closed, Cornwell combines the rigorous discipline of twenty-first century police investigation with forensic techniques undreamed of during the late Victorian era to solve one of the most infamous and difficult serial murder cases in history.  Drawing on unparalleled access to original Ripper evidence, documents, and records, as well as archival, academic, and law-enforcement resources, FBI profilers, and top forensic scientists, Cornwell reveals that Jack the Ripper was none other than a respected painter of his day, an artist now collected by some of the world’s finest museums: Walter Richard Sickert.It has been said of Cornwell that no one depicts the human capability for evil better than she.   Adding layer after layer of circumstantial evidence to the physical evidence discovered by modern forensic science and expert minds, Cornwell shows that Sickert, who died peacefully in his bed in 1942, at the age of 81, was not only one of Great Britain’s greatest painters but also a serial killer, a damaged diabolical man driven by megalomania and hate.  She exposes Sickert as the author of the infamous Ripper letters that were written to the Metropolitan Police and the press.  Her detailed analysis of his paintings shows that his art continually depicted his horrific mutilation of his victims, and her examination of this man’s birth defects, the consequent genital surgical interventions, and their effects on his upbringing present a casebook example of how a psychopathic killer is created.New information and startling revelations detailed in Portrait of a Killer include:- How a year-long battery of more than 100 DNA tests—on samples drawn by Cornwell’s forensics team in September 2001 from original Ripper letters and Sickert documents—yielded the first shadows of the 75- to 114 year-old genetic evid...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1830,
            "title": "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day",
            "author": "Winifred Watson",
            "date": "2000",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Humor, Romance, British Literature, Historical, Chick Lit, Audiobook, 20th Century",
            "characters": "Guinevere Pettigrew, Delysia Langford",
            "synopsis": "\"Miss Pettigrew, an approaching-middle-age governess, was accustomed to a household of unruly English children. When her employment agency sends her to the wrong address, her life takes an unexpected turn. The alluring nightclub singer, Delysia LaFosse, becomes her new employer, and Miss Pettigrew encounters a kind of glamour that she had only met before at the movies. Over the course of a single day, both women are changed forever.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1831,
            "title": "Cosmopolis",
            "author": "Don DeLillo",
            "date": "2003",
            "genres": "Fiction, Contemporary, Novels, American, Literature, Literary Fiction, New York, Americana, The United States Of America, 21st Century",
            "characters": "Eric Packer, Elise Shifrin, Benno Levin, Torval",
            "synopsis": "\"It is a stunningly eventful day in the life of Eric Packer, a multi-billionaire who has recently married the heiress of a vast European fortune. A violent protest is being staged by anti-globalist groups and Eric fears that he may be a target. He is very much the target, but not by the protestors.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1832,
            "title": "A Letter of Mary",
            "author": "Laurie R. King ",
            "date": "2001",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical, Historical Mystery, Crime, British Literature, Detective, Audiobook, Mystery Thriller",
            "characters": "Mary Russell, Inspector Lestrade, Dorothy Ruskin, Colonel Dennis Edwards, Erica Rogers, Mrs Hudson (Conan Doyle series), Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes (Russell \u0026 Holmes series)",
            "synopsis": "\"The year is 1923 and Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell receive a visit from Dorothy Ruskin, an amateur archaeologist. She shows them a scrap of ancient writing that is supposedly Mary Magdalene\u0027s. Soon afterwards she is murdered — but why?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1833,
            "title": "Borstal Boy",
            "author": "Brendan Behan, Benedict Kiely (Afterword)",
            "date": "Published",
            "genres": "Irish Literature, Ireland, Memoir, Biography, Nonfiction, Autobiography, Classics, History, Banned Books, 20th Century",
            "characters": "Brendan Behan",
            "synopsis": "\"This miracle of autobiography and prison literature begins: \"\"Friday, in the evening, the landlady shouted up the stairs: \u0027Oh God, oh Jesus, oh Sacred Heart, Boy, there\u0027s two gentlemen here to see you.\u0027 I knew by the screeches of her that the gentlemen were not calling to inquire after my health . . . I grabbed my suitcase, containing Pot. Chlor., Sulph Ac, gelignite, detonators, electrical and ignition, and the rest of my Sinn Fein conjurer\u0027s outfit, and carried it to the window . . .\"\" The men were, of course, the police, and seventeen-year-old Behan. He spent three years as a prisoner in England, primarily in Borstal (reform school), and was then expelled to his homeland, a changed but hardly defeated rebel. Once banned in the Irish Republic, Borstal Boy is both a riveting self-portrait and a clear look into the problems, passions, and heartbreak of Ireland.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1834,
            "title": "The Big Nowhere",
            "author": "James Ellroy",
            "date": "1994",
            "genres": "Crime, Fiction, Mystery, Noir, Thriller, Detective, Historical Fiction, Hard Boiled, Mystery Thriller, Suspense",
            "characters": "Deputy Danny Upshaw, Turner \"\"Buzz\"\" Meeks, lieutenant Malcolm Considine",
            "synopsis": "\"1950s Los Angeles: The City of Angels has become the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hunts and insanely violent killings are terrorising the community. Three men are plunged into a maelstrom of violence and deceit when their lives become inextricably linked as each one confronts his own personal darkness. Told with Ellroy\u0027s characteristically forceful and relentless style, The Big Nowhere is the link between the Black Dahlia and LA Confidential in his masterwork, The LA Quartet. It is as powerful and thrilling as crime fiction gets.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1835,
            "title": "Five Go to Smuggler\u0027s Top",
            "author": "Enid Blyton",
            "date": "2001",
            "genres": "Childrens, Adventure, Mystery, Fiction, Classics, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Novels, British Literature, Childrens Classics",
            "characters": "George Kirrin (Famous Five), Dick Kirrin, Timmy, Anne (Famous Five), Julian (Famous Five)",
            "synopsis": "\"The Five find adventure, when they spend Easter vacation at Mr. Lenoir\u0027s sinister house Smuggler\u0027s Top. Set high above an eerie marsh, the house is honeycombed with hidden staircases and tunnels that once served as a hideaway for smugglers. When strange lights begin to appear, the Five suspect that the tunnels are once more in use.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1836,
            "title": "Twenty Years After",
            "author": "Alexandre Dumas, David Coward (Editor), Auguste Maquet (Co-Author)",
            "date": "1993",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Adventure, France, Historical, French Literature, Literature, 19th Century, Novels",
            "characters": "\"\"D\u0027\u0027Artagnan\"\", Athos, Porthos, Aramis, Oliver Cromwell, Anne of Austria, Cardinal Mazarino, Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland",
            "synopsis": "\"\u0027At this game, whoever does not kill is killed.\u0027Twenty Years After (1845), the sequel to The Three Musketeers, is a supreme creation of suspense and heroic adventure.Two decades have passed since the musketeers triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady. Time has weakened their resolve, and dispersed their loyalties. But treasons and stratagems still cry out for justice: civil war endangers the throne of France, while in England Cromwell threatens to send Charles I to the scaffold. Dumas brings his immortal quartet out of retirement to cross swords with time, the malevolence of men, and the forces of history. But their greatest test is a titanic struggle with the son of Milady, who wears the face of Evil.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1837,
            "title": "Assassination Vacation",
            "author": "Sarah Vowell",
            "date": "2006",
            "genres": "Nonfiction, History, Humor, Travel, Essays, Audiobook, Memoir, American History, Politics, Historical",
            "characters": "Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth, Edwin Booth, Theodore Roosevelt, William McKinley, James A. Garfield, Charles Guiteau, Leon Czolgosz, Robert Todd Lincoln",
            "synopsis": "\"Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit, probity, and an irreverent sense of humor. With Assassination Vacation, she takes us on a road trip like no other—a journey to the pit stops of American political murder and through the myriad ways they have been used for fun and profit, for political and cultural advantage.From Buffalo to Alaska, Washington to the Dry Tortugas, Vowell visits locations immortalized and influenced by the spilling of politically important blood, reporting as she goes with her trademark blend of wisecracking humor, remarkable honesty, and thought-provoking criticism. We learn about the jinx that was Robert Todd Lincoln (present at the assassinations of Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley) and witness the politicking that went into the making of the Lincoln Memorial. The resulting narrative is much more than an entertaining and informative travelogue—it is the disturbing and fascinating story of how American death has been manipulated by popular culture, including literature, architecture, sculpture, and—the author\u0027s favorite— historical tourism. Though the themes of loss and violence are explored and we make detours to see how the Republican Party became the Republican Party, there are all kinds of lighter diversions along the way into the lives of the three presidents and their assassins, including mummies, show tunes, mean-spirited totem poles, and a nineteenth-century biblical sex cult.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1838,
            "title": "The Black Arrow",
            "author": "Robert Louis Stevenson",
            "date": "2001",
            "genres": "Classics, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Adventure, Historical, Literature, Young Adult, British Literature, Romance, 19th Century",
            "characters": "Richard III of England, Richard \"\"Dick\"\" Shelton, Joanna Sedley",
            "synopsis": "\"From the beloved author of Treasure Island Originally serialized in a periodical of boys\u0027 adventure fiction, The Black Arrow is a swashbuckling portrait of a young man\u0027s journey to discover the heroism within himself. Young Dick Shelton, caught in the midst of England\u0027s War of the Roses, finds his loyalties torn between the guardian who will ultimately betray him and the leader of a secret fellowship, The Black Arrow. As Shelton is drawn deeper into this conspiracy, he must distinguish friend from foe and confront war, shipwreck, revenge, murder, and forbidden love, as England\u0027s crown threatens to topple around him.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1839,
            "title": "The Doomsday Conspiracy",
            "author": "Sidney Sheldon",
            "date": "1991",
            "genres": "Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Science Fiction, Novels, Crime, Contemporary, Romance",
            "characters": "Robert Bellamy",
            "synopsis": "\"OPERATION DOOMSDAY ... ACTIVE ... Commander Robert Bellamy of US Naval Intelligence is dispatched on a top secret mission. A weather balloon carrying sensitive military information has crashed in Switzerland. Bellamy must locate the ten witnesses to the incident so that they can be sworn to secrecy. But as he conducts his search Bellamy begins to suspect that he, too, is being hunted, by an unknown lethal force, that what he was told about the balloon was only one part of an almost unbelievable happening... From Washington to Zurich, Rome and Paris, the story unfolds to reveal Bellamy\u0027s past: why the women he loves the most cannot return his love, why his friends become his deadly enemies, and why the world must never learn the incredible secret hidden on the Swiss Alps... \""
          },
          {
            "id": 1840,
            "title": "Vengeance in Death",
            "author": "J.D. Robb ",
            "date": "2004",
            "genres": "Mystery, Romance, Crime, Romantic Suspense, Fiction, Futuristic, Suspense, Science Fiction, Thriller, Mystery Thriller",
            "characters": "Eve Dallas, Roarke, Delia Peabody, Ryan Feeney, Charlotte Mira, Ian McNab, Commander Jack Whitney, Mavis Freestone, Nadine Furst, Lawrence Charles Summerset, Chief Harrison Tibble, Brian Kelly",
            "synopsis": "\"He is an expert with the latest technology...a madman with the mind of a genius and the heart of a killer. He quietly stalks his prey. Then he haunts the police with cryptic riddles about the crimes he is about to commit-always solved moments too late to save his victims\u0027 lives.Police lieutenant Eve Dallas found the first victim butchered in his own home. The second lost his life in a vacant luxury apartment. The two men had little in common. Both suffered unspeakable torture before their deaths. And both had ties to an ugly secret of ten years past-a secret shared by none other than Eve\u0027s new husband, Roarke.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1841,
            "title": "Born in Sin",
            "author": "Kinley MacGregor",
            "date": "2003",
            "genres": "Historical Romance, Romance, Historical, Medieval, Scotland, Historical Fiction, Medieval Romance, Fiction, Adult, Beauty and The Beast",
            "characters": "Caledonia MacNeely (Callie), Sin MacAllister",
            "synopsis": "\"Stunning Caledonia MacNeely fights an unfamiliar shiver when she is offered in marriage to the infamous ′Lord Sin′. Though Callie fears this mysterious knight - less for the dark whispers that damn him than for the burning desire he invokes - she is under order of the English King. And with the fate of her troubled clan hanging in the balance, she has little recourse.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1842,
            "title": "Something Under the Bed is Drooling",
            "author": "Bill Watterson, Pat Oliphant (Foreword)",
            "date": "1988",
            "genres": "Comics, Humor, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Comic Strips, Graphic Novels Comics, Comedy, Comic Book, Childrens, Cartoon",
            "characters": "Calvin, Hobbes",
            "synopsis": "\"Calvin is a rambunctious six-year-old whose manic antics threaten world peace. Hobbes is his stuffed tiger who comes alive when adults aren\u0027t around. The saga of their daily exploits won cartoonist Bill Watterson the coveted Reuben Award for \"\"Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year.\"\" Something Under the Bed Is Drooling is a jewel.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1843,
            "title": "Notwendige Streitgenossen",
            "author": "Georg Miggel ",
            "date": "2009",
            "genres": "Crime, Fiction",
            "characters": "Theo Lindner",
            "synopsis": "\"Lieber Herr Miggel,Streitgenossen habe ich genossen über den 1. Mai, sehr gut wie Familienumfeld und Charakter zusammen kommen, die Rivalitäten innerhalb und zwischen den Kanzleien, die Komik der präzisen Erfassung der steuerlichen Problematik des Lösegeldes, alles um nur nicht auf den Punkt zu kommen, glaubhaft wie größte jurisitische Rationalität bemüht wird um höchste Irratonalität anzugehen. Das steigert sich alles schön bis zur Mitte, dann treten die Streitgenossen und mit ihnen die Story auf der Stelle. Auch das überraschende Ende ist nicht ganz so überraschend, man hat irgendso eine zweite ebene erwartet, wenn auch nicht diese.Das schwächt den pay-off (Hornberger Schiessen). Sicher gute Vorlage für einen TV Krimi/Gesellschaftsdrama, allerdings in USA eher als bei uns; ich höre die Anwaltsserien haben hier wenig Zuspruch, bin da ber kein Spezialist.Jedenfalls eine empfehlenswerte Lektüre.KomplimentIhrVolker SchlöndorffIt only seems to start Theo Lindner, an internationally active law firm partner and father, an ordinary working day: In an unexpected meeting scheduled, he learns that his colleague Joachim Peters has been the victim of a kidnapping - the 20 million euro ransom to the members of the Board of their private pay. Within the firm a thrilling tug of war starts at the adequate handling of the emergency, on the one hand, anyone can associate a potential victim of the kidnap victims to identify the other hand, see all their material well-being threatened for years to come. The situation is alarming and, as encrypted, the second sign of life references to Peters\u0027 whereabouts, and he seems to contain Theo Lindner, with whom he privately nothing extraordinary, explicitly send out greetings. A breathtaking, exciting thriller in the legal environment, authentic and psychologically brilliant.Nur scheinbar beginnt für Theo Lindner, Partner einer international agierenden Anwaltskanzlei und Familienvater, ein ganz normaler Arbeitstag in Berlin: In einer unvorhergesehen anberaumten Sitzung erfährt er, dass sein Kollege Joachim Peters Opfer einer Entführung geworden ist – die 25 Millionen DM Lösegeld sollen die Mitglieder der Sozietät aus ihrem Privatvermögen berappen. Innerhalb der Sozietät beginnt ein nervenaufreibendes Tauziehen um den adäquaten Umgang mit der Notlage, denn einerseits kann sich jeder Teilhaber als potenzielles Opfer mit dem Entführten identifizieren, andererseits empfinden alle ihr materielles Wohlergehen auf Jahre hinaus bedroht.Die Lage spitzt sich zu, als das zweite Lebenszeichen verschlüsselte Hinweise auf Peters’ Aufenthaltsort zu enthalten scheint und er Theo Lindner, mit dem ihn privat nichts außergewöhnlich verbindet, explizit Grüße zukommen lässt …Ein atemberaubend spannender Krimi im Juristen-Milieu, authentisch und psychologisch brillant.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1844,
            "title": "Das Lächeln der Fortuna",
            "author": "Rebecca Gablé",
            "date": "May-01",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Historical, German Literature, Fiction, Audiobook, British Literature, Medieval, Fantasy, Roman, Drama",
            "characters": "Isaac, Robin, Agnes, Conrad, Maria, Stephen, Geoffrrey Dermond, Mortimer, Leofric",
            "synopsis": "\"Nach dem Tod seines Vaters, des ehemaligen Earl of Walsingham, reißt der zwölfjährige Robin aus der Klosterschule aus und verdingt sich als Stallknecht auf dem Gut, das einst seiner Familie gehörte. Als Sohn eines angeblichen Hochverräters zählt er zu den Besitzlosen und ist der Willkür der Obrigkeit ausgesetzt. Besonders Mortimer, der Sohn des neuen Earl, schikaniert Robert, wo er kann. Zwischen den Jungen wächst eine tödliche Feindschaft. Aber Robin geht seinen Weg, der ihn schließlich zurück in die Welt von Hof, Adel und Ritterschaft führt. An der Seite des charismatischen Duke of Lancaster erlebt er Feldzüge, Aufstände und politische Triumphe - begegnet Frauen, die ebenso schön wie gefährlich sind. Doch das Rad der Fortuna dreht sich unaufhörlich, und während ein junger, unfähiger König England ins Verderben zu reißen droht, steht Robin plötzlich wieder seinem alten Todfeind gegenüber.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1845,
            "title": "House of Suns",
            "author": "Alastair Reynolds",
            "date": "2010",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Space Opera, Audiobook, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Space, Hard Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Mystery",
            "characters": "Purslane, Abigail Gentian, Hesperus, Madame Kleinfelter",
            "synopsis": "\"Six million years ago, at the dawn of the star-faring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones, which she called shatterlings. But now, someone is eliminating the Gentian line. Campion and Purslane—two shatterlings who have fallen in love and shared forbidden experiences—must determine exactly who, or what, their enemy is, before they are wiped out of existence.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1846,
            "title": "Pather Panchali: Song of the Road",
            "author": "Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay",
            "date": "Sept-75",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, India, Novels, Indian Literature, Drama, Literary Fiction, Asia, Family, Literature",
            "characters": "Apu, Sarbajaya, Durga",
            "synopsis": "\"Pather Panchali deals with the life of the Roy family, consisting of Harihar, Sarbajaya, Apu and Durga, both in their ancestral village Nishchindipur in rural Bengal and later when they move to Varanasi in search of a better life, as well as the anguish and loss they face during their travels.It first appeared as a serial in a Calcutta periodical in 1928 and was published as a book the next year; it was the first published novel written by the author. It was followed in 1932 by a sequel Aparajito, which was later also adapted into a film of the same name by Satyajit Ray.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1847,
            "title": "Fortune\u0027s Favorites",
            "author": "Colleen McCullough",
            "date": "1994",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Roman, Ancient History, Italy, Novels, Ancient, War, Literature",
            "characters": "Spartacus, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Marcus Licinius Crassus, Julius Caesar, Marcus Tullius Cicero",
            "synopsis": "\"They were blessed by the gods at birth with wealth and privilege. In a time of cataclysmic upheaval, a bold new generation of Romans vied for greatness amid the disintegrating remnants of their beloved Republic. But there was one who towered above them all - a brilliant and beautiful boy whose ambition was unequaled, whose love was legend and whose glory was Rome\u0027s. A boy they would one day call \"\"Caesar.\"\"\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1848,
            "title": "Independence Day",
            "author": "Richard Ford",
            "date": "2003",
            "genres": "Fiction, Novels, Literature, American, Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Classics, Americana, The United States Of America",
            "characters": "Frank Bascombe",
            "synopsis": "\"A visionary account of American life-and the long-awaited sequel to one of the most celebrated novels of the past decade-Independence Day reveals a man and our country with unflinching comedy and the specter of hope and even permanence, all of which Richard Ford evokes with a keen intelligence, perfect emotional pitch, and a voice invested with absolute authority.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1849,
            "title": "Catapult Soul",
            "author": "Brian Celio",
            "date": "Mar-09",
            "genres": "Counter Culture, Fiction",
            "characters": "Luke Adams, Teodora Vallano, Vincent Vallano, Ivy Pineda, Zach Pessini, Teresa Cazzata, Dr. Rosenbaum, Rick Vallano, Aunt Stella, Uncle Alfonse, Eddie Hughes, Dante Zielinski, Jeremiah O’Malley, Anthony Durkin, Father Carr, Edward Pineda, Sandy Pineda, Holly Pineda, Jack McArdle, Abigail McArdle, Brian Seaver, Andrea No-Last-Name, Agent Ralphie, Hi-I’m-Thai Chick, Anson, Jackson Price, Eli Perez, Wes Parsons, Renee Baughman, Zia Filomena, Steve O’Malley, Kelly O’Malley, Big Joe, Sandino Camilleri, Glenn the Racist, Bob Fontana, Niki Fontana, Roland le Maître D, Billy Modo, Ron Adams, Grace Adams, Milvio, Gennaro, Razzle, Screwy Squirrel, \"\"The Ol\u0027\u0027 Warhorse\"\", Quorra Vallano, Jean-Pierre",
            "synopsis": "\"Some consider this a serious story about love, art, and the madness in embracing both. Others consider it a tortured artist satire in disguise.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1850,
            "title": "La Confusion des sentiments",
            "author": "Stefan Zweig, Olivier Bournac (Translator), جواد شیخ‌الاسلامی (Translator), Alzir Hella (Translator)",
            "date": "Oct-08",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, German Literature, Literature, 20th Century, Novels, LGBT, Germany, Novella, Short Stories",
            "characters": "Roland",
            "synopsis": "\"Au soir de sa vie, un vieux professeur se souvient de l\u0027aventure qui, plus que les honneurs et la réussite de sa carrière, a marqué sa vie. A dix-neuf ans, il a été fasciné par la personnalité d\u0027un de ses professeurs ; l\u0027admiration et la recherche inconsciente d\u0027un Père font alors naître en lui un sentiment mêlé d\u0027idolâtrie, de soumission et d\u0027un amour presque morbide. Freud a salué la finesse et la vérité avec laquelle l\u0027auteur d\u0027Amok et du Joueur d\u0027échecs restituait le trouble d\u0027une passion et le malaise qu\u0027elle engendre chez celui qui en est l\u0027objet. Paru en 1926, ce récit bref et profond connut un succès fulgurant, en raison de la nouveauté audacieuse du sujet. Il demeure assurément l\u0027un des chefs-d\u0027œuvre du grand écrivain autrichien.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1851,
            "title": "The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books I-II",
            "author": "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Thomas P. Whitney (Translator), Georgi Plekhanov (Quoted), Leon Trotsky (Quoted)",
            "date": "1974",
            "genres": "History, Nonfiction, Russia, Classics, Politics, Biography, Russian Literature, Literature, Memoir, Philosophy",
            "characters": "Joseph Stalin, Mikhail Ryumin, Viktor Abakumov",
            "synopsis": "\"Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn\u0027s chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1852,
            "title": "Sister of My Heart",
            "author": "Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni ",
            "date": "2000",
            "genres": "Fiction, India, Contemporary, Book Club, Indian Literature, Novels, Asia, Adult, Cultural, Historical Fiction",
            "characters": "Anju \u0026 Sudha, Gouri, Pishi, and Nalini",
            "synopsis": "\"Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family; her cousin Sudha is the daughter of the black sheep of the family. Sudha is as beautiful, tenderhearted, and serious as Anju is plain, whip-smart, and defiant. yet since the day they were born, Sudha and Anju have been bonded in ways even their mothers cannot comprehend.The cousins\u0027 bond is shattered, however, when Sudha learns a dark family secret. Urged into arranged marriages, their lives take sudden, opposite turns: Sudha becomes the dutiful daughter-in-law of a rigid small-town household, while Anju goes to America with her new husband and learns to live her own life of secrets. Then tragedy strikes them both, and the women discover that, despite the distance that has grown between them, they have only each other to turn to. Set in the two worlds of India and America, this is an exceptionally moving novel of love, friendship, and compelling courage.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1853,
            "title": "A Cidade e as Serras",
            "author": "Eça de Queirós, Carlos Reis (Introdução)",
            "date": "1992",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Portuguese Literature, Portugal, Literature, Romance, Novels, School, Adult, 19th Century",
            "characters": "Jacinto, José Fernandes, Jacinto Galião, Cintinho, Grilo, Joaninha",
            "synopsis": "\"Biblioteca Ulisseia de Autores Portugueses #5José Maria de Eça de Queiroz (Póvoa de Varzim, 25 de novembro de 1845 — Neuilly-sur-Seine, 16 de agosto de 1900), escritor e ensaísta, foi um dos nomes mais importantes da literatura portuguesa. De nome completo José Maria de Eça de Queirós nasceu a Novembro de 1845, numa casa na Praça do Almada, em Póvoa de Varzim. O seu pai, José Maria de Almeida de Teixeira de Queirós, nascido no Brasil e vindo para Portugal com um ano de idade, provinha de uma família de magistrados perseguidos pelos seus ideais liberais que defendiam uma doutrina constitucional. Eça foi internado no Colégio da Lapa, no Porto, de onde saiu em 1861, com dezasseis anos, para a Universidade de Coimbra, onde estudou Direito. Num ambiente boémio da cidade universitária de Coimbra estes jovens reuniam-se para trocar ideias, livros e formas para renovar a vida política e cultural portuguesa, que estava a viver uma autêntica revolução social com a introdução dos novos meios de transportes ferroviários que traziam, todos os dias, novidades do centro da Europa, influenciando esta geração para novas ideologias e valores. Foi nesse grupo que Eça conheceu os futuros escritores e poetas, Teófilo Braga, Ramalho Ortigão, Guerra Junqueiro, Guilherme de Azevedo, Oliveira Martins, entre outros; mas sobretudo, foi aí que travou amizade com Antero de Quental, um jovem carismático a quem os membros do grupo chamavam de líder e que incentivou os restantes a seguir e a difundir as então recentes correntes ideológicas e literárias europeias: o Positivismo, o Socialismo e o Realismo-Naturalismo. Notabilizou-se pela originalidade e riqueza do seu estilo e linguagem, nomeadamente pelo realismo descritivo e pela crítica social constantes nos seus romances mas, tal como o crítico literário, Jacinto Prado Coelho disse: \"\"foi mais analista social do que psicólogo; ironizou Portugal porque muito o amava e o queria melhor.\"\"\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1854,
            "title": "Heaven to Betsy",
            "author": "Maud Hart Lovelace, Vera Neville (Illustrator)",
            "date": "1980",
            "genres": "Classics, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Historical, Juvenile, Childrens Classics, Middle Grade, Family",
            "characters": "Betsy Ray, Tacy Kelly",
            "synopsis": "\"High School is Heaven! It\u0027s Betsy Ray\u0027s freshman year at Deep Valley High School, and she and her best childhood chum, Tacy Kelly, are loving every minute. Betsy and Tacy find themselves in the midst of a new crowd of friends, with studies aplenty (including Latin and-ugh-algebra), parties and picnics galore, Sunday night lunches at home-and boys!There\u0027s Cab Edwards, the jolly boy next door; handsome Herbert Humphreys; and the mysteriously unfriendly, but maddeningly attractive, Joe Willard. Betsy likes them all, but no boy in particular catches her fancy until she meets the new boy in town, Tony Markham . . . the one she and Tacy call the Tall Dark Handsome Stranger. He\u0027s sophisticated, funny, and dashing-and treats Betsy just like a sister. Can Betsy turn him into a beau?An entertaining picture of school clubs, fudge parties, sings around the piano, and Sunday-night suppers in Betsy\u0027s hospitable home.\u0027 \u0027Chicago Tribune.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1855,
            "title": "Een schitterend gebrek",
            "author": "Arthur Japin",
            "date": "2006",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Dutch Literature, Literature, Roman, Novels, School, Read For School, Italy, Historical",
            "characters": "Giacomo Casanova",
            "synopsis": "\"In zijn memoires vermeldt Casanova terloops dat Lucia een van de weinige vrouwen is die hij ooit onrecht heeft aangedaan. Maar hoe? Wat is er werkelijk gebeurd? Waarom deed Lucia afstand van haar geluk? \"\"Een schitterend gebrek\"\" is haar verhaal, het verslag van een uitzonderlijk leven.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1856,
            "title": "Negeri 5 Menara",
            "author": "Ahmad Fuadi ",
            "date": "Aug-09",
            "genres": "Novels, Fiction, Indonesian Literature, Islam, Inspirational, Religion, Drama, Unfinished, Adventure, True Story",
            "characters": "Alif, Raja, Atang, Said, Dulmajid, Baso, Randai, Sarah, Amak, Kiai Rais, Ustad Salman, Tyson",
            "synopsis": "\"Alif lahir di pinggir Danau Maninjau dan tidak pernah menginjak tanah di luar ranah Minangkabau. Masa kecilnya adalah berburu durian runtuh di rimba Bukit Barisan, bermain bola di sawah berlumpur dan tentu mandi berkecipak di air biru Danau Maninjau.Tiba-tiba saja dia harus naik bus tiga hari tiga malam melintasi punggung Sumatera dan Jawa menuju sebuah desa di pelosok Jawa Timur. Ibunya ingin dia menjadi Buya Hamka walau Alif ingin menjadi Habibie. Dengan setengah hati dia mengikuti perintah Ibunya: belajar di pondok.Di kelas hari pertamanya di Pondok Madani (PM), Alif terkesima dengan “mantera” sakti man jadda wajada. Siapa yang bersungguh-sungguh pasti sukses.Dia terheran-heran mendengar komentator sepakbola berbahasa Arab, anak menggigau dalam bahasa Inggris, merinding mendengar ribuan orang melagukan Syair Abu Nawas dan terkesan melihat pondoknya setiap pagi seperti melayang di udara.Dipersatukan oleh hukuman jewer berantai, Alif berteman dekat dengan Raja dari Medan, Said dari Surabaya, Dulmajid dari Sumenep, Atang dari Bandung dan Baso dari Gowa. Di bawah menara masjid yang menjulang, mereka berenam kerap menunggu maghrib sambil menatap awan lembayung yang berarak pulang ke ufuk. Di mata belia mereka, awan-awan itu menjelma menjadi negara dan benua impian masing-masing. Kemana impian jiwa muda ini membawa mereka? Mereka tidak tahu. Yang mereka tahu adalah: Jangan pernah remehkan impian, walau setinggi apa pun. Tuhan sungguh Maha Mendengar.Bagaimana perjalanan mereka ke ujung dunia ini dimulai? Siapa horor nomor satu mereka? Apa pengalaman mendebarkan di tengah malam buta di sebelah sungai tempat jin buang anak? Bagaimana sampai ada yang kasak-kusuk menjadi mata-mata misterius? Siapa Princess of Madani yang mereka kejar-kejar? Kenapa mereka harus botak berkilat-kilat? Bagaimana sampai Icuk Sugiarto, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ibnu Rusyd, bahkan Maradona sampai akhirnya ikut campur? Ikuti perjalanan hidup yang inspiratif ini langsung dari mata para pelakunya. Negeri Lima Menara adalah buku pertama dari sebuah trilogi.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1857,
            "title": "The Sky is Falling",
            "author": "Sidney Sheldon",
            "date": "Jul-01",
            "genres": "Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Novels, Romance, Drama, Contemporary",
            "characters": "Jack Stone, Kemal, Dana Evans, Richard Melton, Jeff Connors, Matt Baker, Taylor Winthrop, Gary Winthrop, Julie Winthrop, Joan Sinisi, Howard Wharton, Dorothy Wharton, Elliot Cromwell, Roger Hudson, Pamela Hudson, Marcel Falcon",
            "synopsis": "\"Washington TV anchorwoman Dana Evans (from Best Laid Plans) suspects the accidents befalling the rich Winthrop family, killing all five members, were murders. Like Chicken Little and the sky falling, she chases clues across the world to unravel an international conspiracy. The inheritance goes to charity, so money is not the motive. Her Sarajevo ward Kemal gets expelled, a prosthetic arm, then often naps afternoons under care of kindly new housekeeper. Unseen agents follow her, bug hotel rooms, while an evil mastermind voice overhears taped conversations and supervises regular secret auctions, inviting armed wealthy customers. Witnesses and informants die before, and after meetings. Friends become foes, nobody can be trusted.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1858,
            "title": "The Abortion",
            "author": "Richard Brautigan",
            "date": "Jan-73",
            "genres": "Fiction, Novels, Romance, Literature, American, Books About Books, 20th Century, Humor, Literary Fiction, Adult Fiction",
            "characters": "Vida",
            "synopsis": "\"A reclusive young man works in a San Francisco library for unpublishable books. Life\u0027s losers, an astonishing number of whom seem to be writers, can bring their manuscripts to the library, where they will be welcomed, registered and shelved. They will not be read, but they will be cherished. In comes Vida, with her manuscript. Her book is about her gorgeous body, in which she feels uncomfortable. The librarian makes her feel comfortable, and together they live in the back of the library until the trip to Tijuana changes them in ways neither of them had ever expected.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1859,
            "title": "Diamonds Are Forever",
            "author": "Ian Fleming",
            "date": "2003",
            "genres": "Fiction, Thriller, Espionage, Mystery, Adventure, Classics, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Action, Spy Thriller",
            "characters": "James Bond, M, Tiffany Case, Felix Leiter",
            "synopsis": "\"\"\"Listen, Bond,\"\" said Tiffany Case. \"\"It’d take more than Crabmeat Ravigotte to get me into bed with a man. In any event, since it’s your check, I’m going to have caviar, and what the English call \u0027cutlets,\u0027 and some pink champagne. I don’t often date a good-looking Englishman and the dinner’s going to live up to the occasion.\"\"Meet Tiffany Case, a cold, gorgeous, devil-may-care blonde; the kind of girl you could get into a lot of trouble with—if you wanted. She stands between James Bond and the leaders of a diamond-smuggling ring that stretches from Africa via London to the States. Bond uses her to infiltrate this gang, but once in America the hunter becomes the hunted. Bond is in real danger until help comes from an unlikely quarter, the ice-maiden herself …\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1860,
            "title": "The Seventh Dwarf",
            "author": "Eoin Colfer",
            "date": "2004",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Science Fiction, Adventure, Childrens, Short Stories, Urban Fantasy, Magic, Middle Grade",
            "characters": "Artemis Fowl II, Domovoi Butler, Foaly, Mulch Diggums",
            "synopsis": "\"Mulch Diggums, a dwarf on the run from the Lower Elements Police, is trying to get his hands on the priceless Fei Fei tiara. But stealing it seems too easy. That\u0027s because it is too easy. Artemis Fowl, the legendary twelve-year-old criminal mastermind, has set him up. He needs Mulch\u0027s help...This is an Eoin Colfer\u0027s fantastic new Artemis adventure especially for World Book Day.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1861,
            "title": "Bilangan Fu",
            "author": "Ayu Utami",
            "date": "Jun-08",
            "genres": "Novels, Indonesian Literature, Fiction, Literature, Romance, Adult, Philosophy, Spirituality, Historical, Unfinished",
            "characters": "Parang Jati, Sandi Yuda",
            "synopsis": "\"Yuda, \"\"si iblis\"\", seorang pemanjat tebing dan petaruh yang melecehkan nilai-nilai masyarakat. Parang Jati, \"\"si malaikat\"\", seorang pemuda berjari duabelas yang dibentuk oleh ayah angkatnya untuk menanggung duka dunia. Marja, \"\"si manusia\"\", seorang gadis bertubuh kuda feji dan berjiwa matahari.Mereka terlibat dalam segitiga cinta yang lembut, di antara pengalaman-pengalaman keras yang berawal dari sebuah kejadian aneh- orang mati yang bangkit dari kubur- menuju penyelamatan perbukitan gamping di selatan Jawa.Di antara semua itu, Bilangan Fu sayup-sayup menyingkapkan diri.Pengarang menamai nafas novelnya \"\"spiritualisme kritis\"\". Yaitu, yang mengangkat wacana spiritual- keagamaan, kebatinan, maupun mistik- ke dalam kerangka yang menghormatinya sekaligus bersikap kritis kepadanya, yang mengangkat wacana keberimanan, tanpa terjebak dalam dakwah hitam dan putih.Novel ini adalah manifesto Ayu Utami tentang sebuah sikap yang dianggap perlu diutamakan di zaman ini: sikap religius ataupun spiritual, yang kritis.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1862,
            "title": "Nathaniel\u0027s Nutmeg: How One Man\u0027s Courage Changed the Course of History",
            "author": "Giles Milton",
            "date": "2005",
            "genres": "History, Nonfiction, Food, Travel, Adventure, Asia, Historical, Biography, World History, 17th Century",
            "characters": "Nathaniel Courthope, Captain of the Swan",
            "synopsis": "\"The tiny island of Run is an insignificant speck in the middle of the Indonesian archipelago-remote, tranquil, and now largely ignored. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, however, Run\u0027s harvest of nutmeg turned it into the most lucrative of the Spice Islands, precipitating a fierce and bloody battle between the all-powerful Dutch East India Company and a small band of ragtag British adventurers led by the intrepid Nathaniel Courthope. The outcome of the fighting was one of the most spectacular deals in history: Britain ceded Run to Holland, but in return was given another small island, Manhattan. A brilliant adventure story of unthinkable hardship and savagery, the navigation of uncharted waters, and the exploitation of new worlds, Nathaniel\u0027s Nutmeg is a remarkable chapter in the history of the colonial powers.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1863,
            "title": "Castelli di rabbia",
            "author": "Alessandro Baricco",
            "date": "Oct-97",
            "genres": "Fiction, Italian Literature, Novels, Italy, Contemporary, Roman, Unfinished, 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction",
            "characters": "Dann Rail, Jun Rail, Hector Horeau, Pekish, Pehnt, Mormy",
            "synopsis": "\"Il primo libro di narrativa di Baricco: il romanzo è ambientato nell\u0027Ottocento, in una cittadina immaginaria, Quinnipak; è generoso nel presentare storie e personaggi, ciascuno con i suoi sogni e caratteri. E tra questi ci sono il signore e la signora Rail, che si amano di un amore tutto loro, e il bambino Penth con il suo amico Pekisch, e due bande che partono dagli estremi del paese per incontrarsi. La narrazione è costruita come un montaggio cinematografico e orchestrata come una partitura musicale.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1864,
            "title": "Godless: The Church of Liberalism",
            "author": "Ann Coulter",
            "date": "2006",
            "genres": "Politics, Nonfiction, Humor, Audiobook, Religion, Political Science, Cultural, History, Evolution, Womens",
            "characters": "Mumia Abu-Jamal, Alger Hiss",
            "synopsis": "\"\"\"If a martian landed in America and set out to determine the nation\u0027s official state religion, he would have to conclude it is liberalism, while Christianity and Judaism are prohibited by law. Many Americans are outraged by liberal hostility to traditional religion. But as Ann Coulter reveals in this, her most explosive book yet, to focus solely on the Left\u0027s attacks on our Judeo-Christian tradition is to miss a larger point: liberalism \"\"is\"\" a religion-a godless one. And it is now entrenched as the state religion of this county. Though liberalism rejects the idea of God and reviles people of faith, it bears all the attributes of a religion. In \"\"Godless,\"\" Coulter throws open the doors of the Church of Liberalism, showing us its sacraments (abortion), its holy writ (\"\"Roe v. Wade\"\"), its martyrs (from Soviet spy Alger Hiss to cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal), its clergy (public school teachers), its churches (government schools, where prayer is prohibited but condoms are free), its doctrine of infallibility (as manifest in the \"\"absolute moral authority\"\" of spokesmen from Cindy Sheehan to Max Cleland), and its cosmology (in which mankind is an inconsequential accident). Then, of course, there\u0027s the liberal creation myth: Charles Darwin\u0027s theory of evolution. For liberals, evolution is the touchstone that separates the enlightened from the benighted. But Coulter neatly reverses the pretense that liberals are rationalists guided by the ideals of free inquiry and the scientific method. She exposes the essential truth about Darwinian evolution that liberals refuse to confront: \"\"it is bogus science.\"\" Writing with a keen appreciation for genuine science, Coulter reveals that the so-called gaps in the theory of evolution are all there is-Darwinism is nothing but a gap. After 150 years of dedicated searching into the fossil record, evolution\u0027s proponents have failed utterly to substantiate its claims. And a long line of supposed evidence, from the infamous Piltdown Man to the \"\"evolving\"\" peppered moths of England, has been exposed as hoaxes. Still, liberals treat those who question evolution as religious heretics and prohibit students from hearing about real science when it contradicts Darwinism. And these are the people who say they want to keep faith out of the classroom? Liberals\u0027 absolute devotion to Darwinism, Coulter shows, has nothing to do with evolution\u0027s scientific validity and everything to do with its refusal to admit the possibility of God as a guiding force. They will brook no challenges to the official religion. Fearlessly confronting the high priests of the Church of Liberalism and ringing with Coulter\u0027s razor-sharp wit, \"\"Godless\"\" is the most important and riveting book yet from one of today\u0027s most lively and impassioned conservative voices. \"\"Liberals love to boast that they are not \u0027religious, \u0027 which is what one would expect to hear from the state-sanctioned religion. Of course liberalism is a religion. It has its own cosmology, its own miracles, its own beliefs in the supernatural, its own churches, its own high priests, its own saints, its own total worldview, and its own explanation of the existence of the universe. In other words, liberalism contains all the attributes of what is generally known as \u0027religion.\u0027\"\" -From Godless\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1865,
            "title": "Mistress of Mellyn",
            "author": "Victoria Holt",
            "date": "1960",
            "genres": "Romance, Gothic, Mystery, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical Romance, Gothic Romance, Historical, Suspense, Romantic Suspense",
            "characters": "Gilly, Martha Leigh, Connan TreMellyn, Alvean TreMellyn, Mrs. Polgrey, Celestine Nansellock, Peter Nansellock, Linda Treslyn, Alice TreMellyn",
            "synopsis": "\"Mount Mellyn stood as proud and magnificent as she had envisioned... But what about its master-Connan TreMellyn? Was Martha Leigh\u0027s new employer as romantic as his name sounded? As she approached the sprawling mansion towering above the cliffs of Cornwall, an odd chill of apprehension overcame her. TreMellyn\u0027s young daugher, Alvean, proved as spoiled and difficult as the three governesses before Martha had discovered. But it was the girl\u0027s father whose cool, arrogant demeanor unleashed unfamiliar sensations and turmoil-even as whispers of past tragedy and present danger begin to insinuate themselves into Martha\u0027s life. Powerless against her growing desire for the enigmatic Connan, she is drawn deeper into family secrets-as passion overpowers reason, sending her head and heart spinning. But though evil lurks in the shadows, so does love-and the freedom to find a golden promise forever...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1866,
            "title": "The Ghost Writer",
            "author": "Philip Roth",
            "date": "2005",
            "genres": "Fiction, Novels, Literary Fiction, Literature, American, Jewish, Classics, Contemporary, 20th Century, Americana",
            "characters": "Nathan Zuckerman, E.I. Lonoff, Hope Lonoff, Amy Bellette, Felix Abravanel",
            "synopsis": "\"When talented young writer Nathan Zuckerman makes his pilgrimage to sit at the feet of his hero, the reclusive master of American Literature, E. I. Lonoff, he soon finds himself enmeshed in the great Jewish writer\u0027s domestic life, with all its complexity, artifice and drive for artistic truth. As Nathan sits in breathlessly awkward conversation with his idol, a glimpse of a dark-haired beauty through a closing doorway leaves him reeling. He soon learns that the entrancing vision is Amy Bellette, but her position in the Lonoff household - student? mistress? - remains tantalisingly unclear. Over a disturbed and confusing dinner, Nathan gleans snippets of Amy\u0027s haunting Jewish background, and begins to draw his own fantastical conclusions...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1867,
            "title": "The Atrocity Archives",
            "author": "Charles Stross ",
            "date": "Jan-06",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Humor, Lovecraftian, Thriller, Science Fiction Fantasy, Paranormal",
            "characters": "Bob Howard, Dominique \"\"Mo\"\" O\u0027\u0027Brien",
            "synopsis": "\"NEVER VOLUNTEER FOR ACTIVE DUTY ...Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob\u0027s under a desk restoring lost data. His world was dull and safe - but then he went and got Noticed. Now, Bob is up to his neck in spycraft, parallel universes, dimension-hopping terrorists, monstrous elder gods and the end of the world. Only one thing is certain: it will take more than a full system reboot to sort this mess out ...This is the first novel in the Laundry Files.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1868,
            "title": "Bodas de sangre",
            "author": "Federico García Lorca, Allen Josephs (Editor), Juan Caballero (Editor)",
            "date": "2005",
            "genres": "Plays, Classics, Spanish Literature, Drama, Theatre, Spain, Poetry, School, Fiction, Literature",
            "characters": "La Madre, La Novia, La Suegra, La Mujer de Leonardo, La Criada, Leonardo, La Luna, La Muerte (como Mendiga)",
            "synopsis": "\"El tema de esta obra surgio a raiz de una noticia aparecida en prensa: dos amantes se fugan en la vispera de la boda de la mujer con otro hombre. Garia Lorca convierte la realidad en poesia. En su obra hay ansias de libertad, andalucismo, simbolismo y muerte, pero por encima de todo, poesia dramatica. Bodas de sangre es, pues, una obra teatral donde las desgarradas pasiones de sus protagonistas se desatan ante la atenta mirada de la luna, personificacion hermosa y terrible de la muerte.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1869,
            "title": "Absent in the Spring",
            "author": "Mary Westmacott (Pseudonym), Agatha Christie",
            "date": "Apr-97",
            "genres": "Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Classics, Drama, Crime, British Literature, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Kate Dawson, Joan Scudamore, Rodney Scudamore, Blanche Haggard, Tony Scudamore, Averil Harrison-Wilmott, Barbara Wray, William Wray, Myrna Randolph, Michael Callaway, Nobby Reid, Charles Edward Sherston, Leslie Adeline Sherston, Edward Harrison-Wilmott, Agnes",
            "synopsis": "\"Returning from a visit to her daughter in Iraq, Joan Scudamore finds herself unexpectedly alone and stranded in an isolated rest house by flooding of the railway tracks. This sudden solitude compels Joan to assess her life for the first time ever and face up to many of the truths about herself. Looking back over the years, Joan painfully re-examines her attitudes, relationships and actions and becomes increasingly uneasy about the person who is revealed to her.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1870,
            "title": "The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Prince",
            "author": "Cassandra Clare , Hye-Kyung Baek (Illustrator)",
            "date": "Sept-13",
            "genres": "Graphic Novels, Fantasy, Manga, Young Adult, Romance, Steampunk, Paranormal, Historical Fiction, Vampires, Comics",
            "characters": "Theresa \"\"Tessa\"\" Gray, William Herondale, James \"\"Jem\"\" Carstairs",
            "synopsis": "\"A prequel to Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments series, The Infernal Devices is the story of Tessa Gray, a sixteen-year-old American girl traveling alone to Victorian London who runs afoul of the city’s sordid supernatural underworld. Rescued by the Shadowhunters of the London Institute, Tessa quickly finds herself caught up in an intrigue that may very well destroy her new friends – including the two enigmatic young men, Jem and Will, who have taken her under their wing…\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1871,
            "title": "Splitterherz",
            "author": "Bettina Belitz",
            "date": "2010",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, German Literature, Romance, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Young Adult Fantasy, Fiction, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Elisabeth Sturm, Colin Jerimiah Blackburn, Leopold Sturm, Tilmann Schütz, Tessa",
            "synopsis": "\"Es gibt genau einen Grund, warum Elisabeth Sturm nicht mit fliegenden Fahnen vom platten Land zurück nach Köln geht, und dieser Grund heißt Colin. Der arrogante, unnahbare, aber leider auch äußerst faszinierende Colin gibt Ellie ein Rätsel nach dem anderen auf, und obwohl sie sich mit aller Macht dagegen wehrt, kann sie sich seiner Ausstrahlung nicht entziehen.Bald muss Ellie einsehen, dass Colin viel mehr mit ihrer Familie verbindet, als sie sich je vorstellen könnte. Ihr Vater Leo verbirgt ein Geheimnis, das ihn und Colin zu erbitterten Gegnern macht – und das Ellie in tödliche Gefahr bringt. Dass sie mit ihren seltsamen nächtlichen Träumen den Schlüssel zu dem Rätsel in der Hand hält, begreift Ellie erst, als ihre Gefühle für Colin alles zu zerstören drohen, was sie liebt.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1872,
            "title": "The Loop",
            "author": "Nicholas Evans",
            "date": "1999",
            "genres": "Fiction, Romance, Animals, Drama, Contemporary, Nature, Wolves, Adult Fiction, Mystery, Adult",
            "characters": "Helen Ross, Luke Calder, Buck Calder",
            "synopsis": "\"Helen Ross is a 29-year-old biologist, sent into a hostile place to protect the wolves from those who seek to destroy them. She struggles for survival and for self-esteem, embarking on a love affair with the 18-year-old son of her most powerful opponent, brutal and charismatic rancher, Buck Calder.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1873,
            "title": "Frelseren",
            "author": "Jo Nesbø ",
            "date": "2007",
            "genres": "Crime, Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Scandinavian Literature, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Nordic Noir, Audiobook, Suspense",
            "characters": "Harry Hole",
            "synopsis": "\"A 14-year old girl is raped at one of the Salvation Army summer camps. Twelve years later, at a Christmas concert in a square in Oslo, a Salvation Army soldier is executed by a man in the crowd. A press photographer has caught a suspect on one of the photos of the concert. Beate Lønn, the identification expert, is confused by how the face can change from one photo to the next. Inspector Harry Hole’s search for the faceless man takes place on the seamy side of the city, among those who seek eternal – or just momentary – redemption. And the gunman has not yet completed his mission.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1874,
            "title": "Ozma of Oz",
            "author": "L. Frank Baum",
            "date": "1907",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Classics, Fiction, Childrens, Young Adult, Adventure, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Audiobook, Magic",
            "characters": "Uncle Henry, Dorothy Gale, Tin Woodman, Scarecrow, Cowardly Lion, Tik-Tok, Billina, Princess Ozma, Nome King, Jack Pumpkinhead, Soldier with the Green Whiskers, Jellia Jamb, Glinda, Jinjur, Princess Langwidere, Hungry Tiger, Kaliko, Queen of Ev, Evring, Evardo, The Saw-Horse",
            "synopsis": "\"Readers of all ages will welcome the chance to be reunited with Dorothy Gale and such beloved characters as the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Cowardly Lion, as well as to meet new favorites such as the Hungry Tiger, whose appetite is never satisfied; Princess Langwidere, who has thirty heads; Billina, a talking chicken; and Tiktok, a mechanical man.Blown overboard while sailing with her uncle, Dorothy finds herself in the fairy realm of Ev. She sets out with her friends to rescue the Queen of Ev and her ten children, who have been imprisoned by the cruel Nome King. But even Ozma, the wise Ruler of Oz, is no match for the clever king, and it\u0027s up to Dorothy to save everyone from terrible danger. But will the Nome King\u0027s enchantments be too much even for the plucky little girl from Kansas?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1875,
            "title": "The Sandman: The Dream Hunters",
            "author": "Neil Gaiman , Yoshitaka Amano (Illustrator)",
            "date": "2000",
            "genres": "Graphic Novels, Fantasy, Comics, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Mythology, Comic Book, Horror, Japan, Art",
            "characters": "Dream of the Endless, Matthew the Raven, Cain (DC Comics), Abel (DC Comics), Mildred (Hecatae), Mordred/Morganna (Hecatae), Cynthia (Hecatae)",
            "synopsis": "\"Sandman fans should feel lucky that master fantasy writer Neil Gaiman discovered the mythical world of Japanese fables while researching his translation of Hayao Miyazaki\u0027s film Princess Mononoke. At the same time, while preparing for the Sandman 10th anniversary, he met Yoshitaka Amano, his artist for the 11th Sandman book. Amano is the famed designer of the Final Fantasy game series. The product of Gaiman\u0027s immersion in Japanese art, culture, and history, Sandman: Dream Hunters is a classic Japanese tale (adapted from \"\"The Fox, the Monk, and the Mikado of All Night\u0027s Dreaming\"\") that he has subtly morphed into his Sandman universe.Like most fables, the story begins with a wager between two jealous animals, a fox and a badger: which of them can drive a young monk from his solitary temple? The winner will make the temple into a new fox or badger home. But as the fox adopts the form of a woman to woo the monk from his hermitage, she falls in love with him. Meanwhile, in far away Kyoto, the wealthy Master of Yin-Yang, the onmyoji, is plagued by his fears and seeks tranquility in his command of sorcery. He learns of the monk and his inner peace; he dispatches demons to plague the monk in his dreams and eventually kill him to bring his peace to the onmyoji. The fox overhears the demons on their way to the monk and begins her struggle to save the man whom at first she so envied.Dream Hunters is a beautiful package. From the ink-brush painted endpapers to the luminous page layouts-including Amano\u0027s gate-fold painting of Morpheus in a sea of reds, oranges, and violets-this book has been crafted for a sensuous reading experience. Gaiman has developed as a prose stylist in the last several years with novels and stories such as Neverwhere and Stardust, and his narrative rings with a sense of timelessness and magic that gently sustains this adult fairy tale. The only disappointment here is that the book is so brief. One could imagine this creative team being even better suited to a longer story of more epic proportions. On the final page of Dream Hunters, in fact, Amano suggest that he will collaborate further with Mr. Gaiman in the future. Readers of Dream Hunters will hope that Amano\u0027s dream comes true. -Patrick O\u0027Kelley\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1876,
            "title": "The White Plague",
            "author": "Frank Herbert",
            "date": "Dec-83",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Post Apocalyptic, Horror, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Dystopia, Thriller, Speculative Fiction, Apocalyptic",
            "characters": "\"\"John Roe O\u0027\u0027Neill\"\"",
            "synopsis": "\"The White Plague, a marvelous and terrifyingly plausible blend of fiction and visionary theme, tells of one man who is pushed over the edge of sanity by the senseless murder of his family and who, reappearing several months later as the so-called Madman, unleashes a terrible plague upon the human race—one that zeros in, unerringly and fatally, on women.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1877,
            "title": "A Man Lay Dead",
            "author": "Ngaio Marsh",
            "date": "2000",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Detective, Classics, British Literature, Historical, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, Murder Mystery",
            "characters": "Nigel Bathgate, Sir Hubert Handesley, Charles Rankin, Arthur Wilde, Angela North, Marjorie Wilde, Rosamund Grant, Doctor Foma Tokareff, Vassily Ivanovitch, Mr. Sumiloff, Detective-Sergeant Bailey, Roderick Alleyn",
            "synopsis": "\"At Sir Hubert Handesley\u0027s country house party, five guests have gathered for the uproarious parlor game of \"\"Murder.\"\" Yet no one is laughing when the lights come up on an actual corpse, the good-looking and mysterious Charles Rankin. Scotland Yard\u0027s Inspector Roderick Alleyn arrives to find a complete collection of alibis, a missing butler, and an intricate puzzle of betrayal and sedition in the search for the key player in this deadly game.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1878,
            "title": "One Hundred Names",
            "author": "Cecelia Ahern",
            "date": "2013",
            "genres": "Fiction, Chick Lit, Romance, Contemporary, Audiobook, Adult Fiction, Adult, Ireland, Irish Literature, Novels",
            "characters": "Steve, Kitty Logan, Constance \u0026 Bob",
            "synopsis": "\"Internationally bestselling author Cecelia Ahern delivers her biggest and most compelling book yet—a tale of secrets, second chances, and the hidden connections that unite our livesScandal has derailed journalist Kitty Logan\u0027s career, a setback that is soon compounded by an even more devastating loss. Constance, the woman who taught Kitty everything she knew, is dying. At her mentor\u0027s bedside, Kitty asks her, \"\"What is the one story you always wanted to write?\"\"The answer lies in a single sheet of paper buried in Constance\u0027s office—a list of one hundred names—with no notes or explanation. But before Kitty can ask her friend, it is too late.Determined to unlock the mystery and rebuild her own shaky confidence, Kitty throws herself into the investigation, tracking down each of the names on the list and uncovering their connection. Meeting these ordinary people and learning their stories, Kitty begins to piece together an unexpected portrait of Constance\u0027s life... and starts to understand her own.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1879,
            "title": "Nutuk",
            "author": "Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Zeynep Korkmaz (Editor)",
            "date": "1991",
            "genres": "History, Turkish Literature, Turkish, Politics, Nonfiction, Classics, Biography, Education, Historical, Literature",
            "characters": "Mustafa Kemal Atatürk",
            "synopsis": "\"Atatürk`ün kendi kaleminden çıkan bu eser, yine Atatürk tarafından Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi`nin 15-20 Ekim 1927 tarihleri arasında Ankara`da toplanan ikinci kurultayında 36,5 saat süren ve altı günde okunarak tarihi bir hitabeye dayandığı için NUTUK adını almıştır.1919 senesi Mayısının 19. günü Samsun\u0027a çıktım. Vaziyet ve manzara-i umumiye: Osmanlı Devleti\u0027nin dahil bulunduğu grup, Harb-i Umumide mağlup olmuş, Osmanlı ordusu her tarafta zedelenmiş, şeriaiti ağır bir mütarekename imzalanmış. Büyük harbin uzun seneleri zarfında, millet, yorgun ve fakir bir halde. Millet ve memleketi Harb-i Umumiye sevk edenler, kendi hayatları endişesine düşerek, memleketten firar etmişler. Saltanat ve hilafet mevkiini işgal eden Vahdettin, mütereddi, şahsını ve yalnız tahtını temin edebileceğini tahayyül ettiği deni tedbirler araştırmakta. Damat Ferit Paşa\u0027nın riyasetindeki kabine; aciz, haysiyetsiz, cebin, yalnız Padişah\u0027ın iradesine tabi ve onunla beraber şahıslarını vikaye edebilecek herhangi bir vaziyete razı.Ordu\u0027nun elinden esliha ve cephanesi alınmış ve alınmakta...İtilaf Devletleri, mütareke ahkamına rivayete lüzum görmüyorlar. Birer vesile ile, İtilaf donanmaları ve askerleri İstanbul\u0027da. Adana vilayeti Fransızlar; Urfa, Maraş, Ayıntap İngilizler tarafından işgal edilmiş. Antalya ve Konya\u0027da, İtalyan kıtaat-ı askeriyesi; Merzifon ve Samsun\u0027da İngiliz askerleri bulunuyor. Her tarafta, ecnebi zabit ve memurları ve hususi adamları faaliyette. Nihayet, mebde-i kelam kabul ettiğimiz tarihten dört gün evvel, 15 Mayıs 1919\u0027da İtilaf Devletleri\u0027nin muvafakatiyle Yunan ordusu İzmir\u0027e ihraç ediliyor.(Kitabın İçinden)\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1880,
            "title": "Ramona Quimby, Age 8",
            "author": "Beverly Cleary",
            "date": "Jan-82",
            "genres": "Childrens, Fiction, Middle Grade, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult, Classics, Chapter Books, Juvenile, Humor, Kids",
            "characters": "Ramona Quimby, Beezus Quimby",
            "synopsis": "\"Mr. Quimby\u0027s going to college, Mrs. Quimby\u0027s going to work. Now that Ramona is eight, she can go to a new school with a new teacher and ride the bus all by herself. But after school she has to stay with Grandmother Kemp and be nice to that bratty little Willa Jean until Beezus�who\u0027s tempermental enough to ruin anyone\u0027s day�comes to take her home. Life isn\u0027t as easy for Ramona as it used to be. All the Quimbys have to adjust, and Ramona gets her chance to prove that she\u0027s \"\"big enough for her family to depend on.\"\"\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1881,
            "title": "Weirdos from Another Planet!",
            "author": "Bill Watterson",
            "date": "1990",
            "genres": "Comics, Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels, Comic Strips, Comic Book, Comedy, Graphic Novels Comics, Childrens, Cartoon",
            "characters": "Calvin, Hobbes",
            "synopsis": "\"In Calvin and Hobbes book Weirdos From Another Planet!, this power-packed extravaganza of creative energy and imagination feature the childhood fun and fantasy that was a Watterson trademark. Weirdos From Another Planet! is out of this world!\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1882,
            "title": "Belle",
            "author": "Lesley Pearse",
            "date": "Feb-11",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Romance, Fiction, Historical Romance, Chick Lit, Adult, Drama, Mystery, Contemporary, Crime",
            "characters": "Belle Brooks",
            "synopsis": "\"London 1910Fifteen year-old Belle has lived in a brothel in Seven Dials all her life, with no understanding of what happens in the rooms upstairs. But her innocence is shattered when she witnesses the murder of one of the girls and, subsequently snatched from the streets by the killer, she is sold into prostitution in Paris.No longer mistress of her own fate, Belle is blown across the globe to sensuous New Orleans where she comes of age and learns to enjoy life as a courtesan. Yet thoughts of home - and the knowledge her status as golden girl cannot last - compel her to break out of her gilded cage.But Belle finds escaping tougher than she imagined, for her life is threatened by desperate men who crave her beauty and attention. Armed only with resourcefulness and spirit, she has a long and dangerous journey ahead of her.Will courage be enough to sustain her? Can she make it back to her family and friends and find her chance at true happiness?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1883,
            "title": "La vuelta del ranquel",
            "author": "Florencia Bonelli ",
            "date": "Sept-08",
            "genres": "Romance, Historical Romance, Historical Fiction, Historical, Adult Fiction",
            "characters": "Laura Escalante, Nahueltruz Guor",
            "synopsis": "\"Dicen que los indios jamás olvidan una ofensa, que la venganza entre ellos es cosa sagrada y que todo lo que tienen de agradecidos y humanitarios lo tienen de rencorosos y vengativos. Y aunque Lorenzo Rosas vista a la última moda parisina y hable tres lenguas, en su fuero íntimo sigue siendo Nahueltruz Guor, el ranquel que seis años atrás juro destruir a la culpable de su desdicha: Laura Escalante.En la sociedad porteña ella es conocida corno la viuda de Riglos, una mujer hermosa, rica, inalcanzable. Dueña de una editorial, se mide ideológicamente con figuras de la talla de Sarmiento y MansÜla y escribe un folletín que mantiene en vilo a muchas lectoras. Se le atribuyen, además, varios affaires, el más resonante con el general Julio Roca, quien se apresta para su conquista del indio. Pero lo cierto es que, detrás de esa imagen de mujer fatal, Laura esconde un alma sensible y un corazón destrozado.El rencor de Nahueltruz parece tan profundo como el amor que ella siente por él. En medio de esta lucha de voluntades poderosas, los fantasmas del pasado reaparecen para complicar la situación y se interponen nuevos obstáculos y malentendidos. ¿Podrá Nahueltruz vencer el odio que lo domina y perdonarla?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1884,
            "title": "The Gold Bug Variations",
            "author": "Richard Powers",
            "date": "1991",
            "genres": "Fiction, Literature, Music, Novels, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, American, Romance, Unfinished, 20th Century",
            "characters": "Stuart Ressler, Jeanette Koss",
            "synopsis": "\"A national bestseller, voted by Time as the #1 novel of 1991, selected as one of the \"\"Best Books of 1991\"\" by Publishers Weekly, and nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award-a magnificent story that probes the meaning of love, science, music, and art, by the brilliant author of Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1885,
            "title": "Indias blancas",
            "author": "Florencia Bonelli ",
            "date": "Mar-10",
            "genres": "Romance, Historical Romance, Historical Fiction, Historical, Adult",
            "characters": "Laura Escalante, Nahueltruz Guor, Blanca Montes, Mariano Rosas",
            "synopsis": "\"Un relato de amor apasionado, donde indios, blancos y mujeres cautivas entretejen una trama que perdura para siempre en la mente del oyente. Corre el año 1873 y la sociedad portea se consolida alrededor de las familias con apellidos ilustres. Laura Escalante, hija de un general de la Nación, es una joven bellísima con ideas claras y convicciones fuertes. Cuando viaja a Córdoba para atender a su hermano enfermo, conoce al indio ranquel Nahueltruz Guor y su vida cambia para siempre. Un amor irrefrenable, enfrentado a todos y a todo, incluso a ellos mismos, los hace transitar momentos dolorosos, llenos de aventuras, desencuentros y acción, en el marco de la pica lucha entre indios y blancos que ha definido a nuestro país desde entonces.Florencia Bonelli, con maestra narrativa y un profundo conocimiento de la historia argentina, ofrece en Indias blancas un relato de amor apasionado, donde indios, blancos, y mujeres cautivas entretejen una trama que perdura para siempre en la mente del oyente.  Please note: This audiobook is in Castilian Spanish.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1886,
            "title": "Madeline",
            "author": "Ludwig Bemelmans",
            "date": "1989",
            "genres": "Picture Books, Childrens, Classics, Fiction, France, Kids, Poetry, Realistic Fiction, Juvenile, Young Adult",
            "characters": "Madeline, Miss Clavel, Doctor Cohn",
            "synopsis": "\"Madeline is one of the best-loved characters in children\u0027s literature. Set in picturesque Paris, this tale of a brave little girl\u0027s trip to the hospital was a Caldecott Honor Book in 1940 and has as much appeal today as it did then. The combination of a spirited heroine, timelessly appealing art, cheerful humor, and rhythmic text makes Madeline a perennial favorite with children of all ages.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1887,
            "title": "The Revenge of the Baby-Sat",
            "author": "Bill Watterson",
            "date": "1991",
            "genres": "Humor, Comics, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Strips, Comic Book, Comedy, Childrens, Cartoon",
            "characters": "Calvin, Hobbes",
            "synopsis": "\"The praise and popularity of Calvin and Hobbes continue to escalate as the hottest comic strip around reaches its fifth birthday. With keen insight, Bill Watterson depicts life through the eyes of a child, and the limits of our imaginations are challenged as we accompany Calvin and Hobbes while they stir up trouble, travel through time, transmogrify themselves-and just have fun in everything they do.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1888,
            "title": "A Knight of the Word",
            "author": "Terry Brooks ",
            "date": "Aug-99",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Magic, Epic Fantasy, Demons, Horror, Epic",
            "characters": "Nest Freemark, John Ross",
            "synopsis": "\"Eight centuries ago the first Knight of the Word was commissioned to combat the demonic evil of the Void. Now that daunting legacy has passed to John Ross - along with powerful magic and the knowledge that his actions are all that stand between a living hell and humanity\u0027s future.Then, after decades of service to the Word, an unspeakable act of violence shatters John Ross\u0027s weary faith. Haunted by guilt, he turns his back on his dread gift, settling down to build a normal life, untroubled by demons and nightmares.But a fallen Knight makes a tempting prize for the Void, which could bend the Knight\u0027s magic to its own evil ends. And once the demons on Ross\u0027s trail track him to Seattle, neither he nor anyone close to him will be safe. His only hope is Nest Freemark, a college student who wields an extraordinary magic all her own. Five years earlier, Ross had aided Nest when the future of humanity rested upon her choice between Word and Void. Now Nest must return the favor. She must restore Ross\u0027s faith, or his life - and hers - will be forfeit...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1889,
            "title": "The Field of Swords",
            "author": "Conn Iggulden",
            "date": "Jan-06",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, War, Roman, Fantasy, Military Fiction, Action, Adventure, Novels",
            "characters": "Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, Brutus, Marcus Licinius Crassus, Vercingetorix, Marcus Antonius, Augustus, Julius Caesar",
            "synopsis": "\"From the author of the bestselling The Dangerous Book for Boys With his acclaimed Emperor novels, author Conn Iggulden brings a dazzling world to life–the rich, complex world of ancient Rome as seen through the eyes of one extraordinary man: Julius Caesar. Now Iggulden returns to the story of Julius Caesar and a realm that stretches from the sands of North Africa to the coast of Britain. Against this magnificent backdrop, Caesar, his first victories under his belt and a series of key alliances in place, makes his move toward power and glory–and commands his famous legions on one of history’s bloodiest and most daring military campaigns. It is the heart of the first century B.C. For Julius Caesar, the time has come to enter the treacherous political battleground that has become Rome. Having proved his valor in the slaves’ revolt, Caesar is strengthened by the love and vision of a beautiful older woman, and by the sword of his loyal friend, Marcus Brutus. And when he is appointed to a new position of power, Caesar manages to do what none of the other great figures of his time could: capture the hearts of the Roman people themselves. Crushing a rebellion, bringing order to the teeming city, Caesar then makes the move that will change history. He leaves Rome for the foothills of the Alps. And with an army made in his own image, he begins a daring charge through Gaul, across the English Channel, and to the wilds of tribal Britain. Here, in a series of cataclysmic clashes, the legend of Julius Caesar will be forged. And while Caesar and Brutus pit their lives–and those of their men–against the armies of the wilderness, their political adversaries in Rome grow at once more fearful and more formidable. So when the fighting at the dominion’s edge is over, the greatest danger to Julius Caesar will await him on the Tiber–with a man who wants Rome himself. From the clash of armies to the heat of a woman’s seduction, from the thunder of battle to the orgies of pleasure and plunder that follow in a warrior’s wake, Emperor: The Field of Swords captures in riveting detail a world being shaped by a brilliant civilization. And in this extraordinary novel, the fate of Rome is being driven by the ambitions of a single man. A man with an unmatched genius for power.From the Hardcover edition.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1890,
            "title": "The Gods of War",
            "author": "Conn Iggulden",
            "date": "Apr-07",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, War, Fantasy, Roman, Adventure, Action, Novels, Ancient",
            "characters": "Brutus, Cleopatra, Augustus, Julius Caesar",
            "synopsis": "\"The year is 53 B.C. Fresh from victory in Gaul, Julius Caesar leads battle-hardened legions across the Rubicon river–threatening Rome herself. Even the master strategist Pompey is caught unprepared by the strike, and forced to abandon his city. The armies of Rome will face each other at last in civil war, led by the two greatest generals ever to walk the seven hills. Thus begins Conn Iggulden’s towering saga of Julius Caesar as he approaches his final destiny—a destiny that will be decided not by legions but by his friend Brutus and an Egyptian queen named Cleopatra, who will bear his only son....For Caesar, the campaign against Pompey will test his military genius and his appetite for glory to their limits, as the greatest fighting machine the world has ever seen divides against itself in a bloody conflict that will set brother against brother until victory or death. But for Caesar, another kingdom beckons—a world of ancient mysteries and languid sensuality, where a beautiful, bewitching woman waits to snare his heart. The Gods of War follows Julius Caesar through politics and passion, ruthless ambition and private grief, and into the corruption of power itself. Those he has loved will play a part in his triumphs—as will the jealousy and hatred of his enemies.From the spectacles of the arena to the whispered lies of conspirators, Conn Iggulden brings to life a world of monumental drama. And at its heart is one extraordinary friendship—marked by fierce loyalty and bitter betrayal, with dark events shrouded in noble ideals.From the Hardcover edition.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1891,
            "title": "The Gap Into Conflict: The Real Story",
            "author": "Stephen R. Donaldson",
            "date": "Jul-92",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Space Opera, Science Fiction Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Space, Adventure, Thriller, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Angus Thermopyle, Nick Succorso, Morn Hyland, Davies Hyland",
            "synopsis": "\"Author of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, one of the most acclaimed fantasy series of all time, master storyteller Stephen R. Donaldson returns with this exciting and long-awaited new series that takes us into a stunningly imagined future to tell a timeless story of adventure and the implacable conflict of good and evil within each of us.Angus Thermopyle was an ore pirate and a murderer; even the most disreputable asteroid pilots of Delta Sector stayed locked out of his way.  Those who didn\u0027t ended up in the lockup-or dead.  But when Thermopyle arrived at Mallory\u0027s Bar \u0026 Sleep with a gorgeous woman by his side the regulars had to take notice.  Her name was Morn Hyland, and she had been a police officer-until she met up with Thermopyle.But one person in Mallory\u0027s Bar wasn\u0027t intimidated.  Nick Succorso had his own reputation as a bold pirate and he had a sleek frigate fitted for deep space.  Everyone knew that Thermopyle and Succorso were on a collision course.  What nobody expected was how quickly it would be over-or how devastating victory would be.  It was common enough example of rivalry and revenge-or so everyone thought.  The REAL story was something entirely different.In The Real Story, Stephen R. Donaldson takes us to a remarkably detailed world of faster-than-light travel, politics, betrayal, and a shadowy presence just outside our view to tell the fiercest, most profound story he has ever written.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1892,
            "title": "The Shrinking Man",
            "author": "Richard Matheson",
            "date": "2002",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Horror, Fiction, Fantasy, Classics, American, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy, Family, Adventure",
            "characters": "Scott Carey",
            "synopsis": "\"While on holiday, Scott Carey is exposed to a cloud of radioactive spray shortly after he accidentally ingests insecticide. The radioactivity acts as a catalyst for the bug spray, causing his body to shrink at a rate of approximately 1/7 of an inch per day. A few weeks later, Carey can no longer deny the truth: not only is he losing weight, he is also shorter than he was and deduces, to his dismay, that his body will continue to shrink.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1893,
            "title": "The Flame and the Flower",
            "author": "Kathleen E. Woodiwiss",
            "date": "Apr-72",
            "genres": "Romance, Historical Romance, Historical, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Adult, Chick Lit, Regency, Classics, Pirates",
            "characters": "Heather Simmons, Brandon Birmingham",
            "synopsis": "\"Doomed to a life of unending toil, Heather Simmons fears for her innocence — until a shocking, desperate act forces her to flee... and to seek refuge in the arms of a virile and dangerous stranger.A lusty adventurer married to the sea, Captain Brandon Birmingham courts scorn and peril when he abducts the beautiful fugitive from the tumultuous London dockside. But no power on Earth can compel him to relinquish his exquisite prize. For he is determined to make the sapphire-eyed lovely his woman... and to carry her off to far, uncharted realms of sensuous, passionate love.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1894,
            "title": "Gone Tomorrow",
            "author": "Lee Child ",
            "date": "Apr-09",
            "genres": "Thriller, Fiction, Mystery, Crime, Suspense, Action, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, Adventure, Terrorism",
            "characters": "Jacob \"\"Jake\"\" Mark, Susan Mark, Theresa Lee, John Sansom, Jack Reacher",
            "synopsis": "\"Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of tell-tale signs. Mostly because they\u0027re nervous. By definition they\u0027re all first-timers.There are twelve things to look for: No one who has worked in law enforcement will ever forget them.New York City. The subway, two o\u0027clock in the morning. Jack Reacher studies his fellow passengers. Four are OK. The fifth isn\u0027t.The train brakes for Grand Central Station. Will Reacher intervene, and save lives? Or is he wrong? Will his intervention cost lives - including his own?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1895,
            "title": "The Angel of Darkness",
            "author": "Caleb Carr ",
            "date": "1997",
            "genres": "Mystery, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Crime, Thriller, Historical, Mystery Thriller, Historical Mystery, Suspense, Horror",
            "characters": "Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, Stevie Taggert, Cyrus Montrose, Sara Howard, John Schuyler Moore, Marcus Isaacson, Lucius Isaacson, Elspeth Hunter",
            "synopsis": "\"In The Angel of Darkness, Caleb Carr brings back the vivid world of his bestselling The Alienist but with a twist: this story is told by the former street urchin Stevie Taggert, whose rough life has given him wisdom beyond his years. Thus New York City, and the groundbreaking alienist Dr. Kreizler himself, are seen anew. It is June 1897. A year has passed since Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a pioneer in forensic psychiatry, tracked down the brutal serial killer John Beecham with the help of a team of trusted companions and a revolutionary application of the principles of his discipline. Kreizler and his friends-high-living crime reporter John Schuyler Moore; indomitable, derringer-toting Sara Howard; the brilliant (and bickering) detective brothers Marcus and Lucius Isaacson; powerful and compassionate Cyrus Montrose; and Stevie Taggert, the boy Kreizler saved from a life of street crime-have returned to their former pursuits and tried to forget the horror of the Beecham case. But when the distraught wife of a Spanish diplomat begs Sara\u0027s aid, the team reunites to help find her kidnapped infant daughter. It is a case fraught with danger, since Spain and the United States are on the verge of war. Once again, Caleb Carr proves his brilliant ability to re-create the past, both high life and low. As the horror unfolds, Delmonico\u0027s still serves up wondrous meals, and a summer trip to the elegant gambling parlors of Saratoga provides precious keys to the murderer\u0027s past. At the same time, we go on revealing journeys into Stevie\u0027s New York, a place where poor and neglected children-then as now-turn to crime and drugs at shockingly early ages. Peppered throughout are characters taken from real life and rendered with historical vigor, including suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton; painter Albert Pinkham Ryder; and Clarence Darrow, who thunders for the defense in a tense courtroom drama during which the sanctity of American motherhood itself is put on trial. Fast-paced and chilling, The Angel of Darkness is a tour de force, a novel of modern evil in old New York.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1896,
            "title": "راوية الأفلام",
            "author": "Hernán Rivera Letelier, صالح علماني (Translator)",
            "date": "2011",
            "genres": "Novels, Fiction, Audiobook, Latin American Literature, Literature, Historical Fiction, Roman, Novella, Latin American, Contemporary",
            "characters": "María Margarita",
            "synopsis": "«ماريا مارجريتا » فتاة يافعة من إحدى القرى الصغيرة بتشيلي اشتهرت بقدرتها العجيبة على إعادة سرد قصص الأفلام ببراعة. فكلما عُرِض فيلم جديد في سينما القرية، جمع السكان لها النقود لكي تشاهده، أيا كان نوعه، سواء كان هذا الفيلم أحدث أفلام مارلين منرو، أو جاري كوبر، أو حتى فيلمًا غنائيًّا من المكسيك، فتشاهد الفتاة الفيلم، ثم تعود بدورها لتحكيه لهم بطريقتها الجذابة. يسرد لنا إيرنان ريبيرا لتيلير بأسلوبه السحري الرقيق والمؤثر قصة يسترجع فيها ذكريات دور السينما في أوج مجدها بأمريكا اللاتينية."
          },
          {
            "id": 1897,
            "title": "The White Road",
            "author": "John Connolly ",
            "date": "Mar-04",
            "genres": "Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Fiction, Horror, Mystery Thriller, Supernatural, Suspense, Paranormal, Detective",
            "characters": "Charlie Parker",
            "synopsis": "\"John Connolly thrilled readers with his bestselling novels, \"\"Every Dead Thing, Dark Hollow,\"\" and \"\"The Killing Kind.\"\" Now he delivers spellbinding suspense as Charlie Parker races to unravel a brutal crime committed in the Deep South. After years of suffering unfathomable pain and guilt over the murders of his wife and daughter, private detective Charlie Parker has finally found some measure of peace. As he and his lover, Rachel, are awaiting the birth of their first child and settling into an old farmhouse in rural Maine, Parker has found the kind of solace often lost to those who have been touched by true evil.But darkness soon descends when Parker gets a call from Elliot Norton, an old friend from his days as a detective with the NYPD. Now practicing law in Charleston, South Carolina, Elliot is defending a young black man accused of raping and killing his white girlfriend, the daughter of a powerful Southern millionaire. Reluctantly, Parker agrees to help Elliot and by doing so ventures into a living nightmare, a bloody dreamscape haunted by the specter of a hooded woman and a black car waiting for a passenger who never arrives. Beginning as an investigation into a young woman\u0027s death, it is a fast-moving descent into an abyss where forces conspire to destroy all that Parker holds dear.Hailed as a \"\"master storyteller\"\" \"\"(The London Express)\"\" by critics stateside and abroad, Connolly has once again delivered a riveting and suspenseful story that draws readers toward the horrifying crossroads of the past and present, of the living and the dead. \"\"We are trapped not only by our own history but by the histories of all those with whom we choose to share our lives,\"\" hewrites. As chillingly as it is beautifully rendered, \"\"The White Road\"\" is sure to tread a frightening path for even the most world-weary crime fiction fan.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1898,
            "title": "Mona Lisa Overdrive",
            "author": "William Gibson",
            "date": "Dec-89",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Cyberpunk, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Dystopia, Novels, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Canada, Medical",
            "characters": "Molly Millions",
            "synopsis": "\"William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date... The Mona Lisa Overdrive. Enter Gibson\u0027s unique world - lyric and mechanical, erotic and violent, sobering and exciting - where multinational corporations and high tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into the computer-generated universe known as cyberspace. Into this world comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with internationally famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell. Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspace without a computer. Now, from inside cyberspace, a kidnapping plot is masterminded by a phantom entity who has plans for Mona, Angie, and all humanity, plans that cannot be controlled... or even known. And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy Yakuza, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes... or so they think.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1899,
            "title": "Secret Vampire",
            "author": "L.J. Smith ",
            "date": "Jun-96",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Vampires, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Witches",
            "characters": "Thea Sophia Harman, Poppy North, Ash Redfern, James Rasmussen, Blaise Harman, Thierry Descouedres, Phillip North, Cliff Hilgard, Jasper R. Rasmussen, Owen Franklin",
            "synopsis": "\"The diagnosis for Poppy was death. there was no hope-until James, her best friend and secret love, appeared in the hospital. But this was a James she didn\u0027t know. He offered Poppy eternal life. Only he could open the door to the Night World. They\u0027re soulmates-but can she follow him into death and beyond?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1900,
            "title": "The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan",
            "author": "Nancy Springer ",
            "date": "2008",
            "genres": "Mystery, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Historical, Fiction, Middle Grade, Childrens, Adventure, Juvenile, British Literature",
            "characters": "Enola Holmes",
            "synopsis": "\"When Enola Holmes encounters her friend Lady Cecily hiding behind a pink fan, she finds it peculiar. Cecily is being held hostage in an abysmal orphanage, forced into a miserable marriage. Enola joins forces with the much older famous brother Sherlock who she has fought desperately to elude, and risks her own freedom to rescue her friend.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1901,
            "title": "The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets",
            "author": "Nancy Springer , Peter Ferguson (Cover Illustrator)",
            "date": "2008",
            "genres": "Mystery, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Historical, Fiction, Middle Grade, Childrens, Adventure, Juvenile, British Literature",
            "characters": "Enola Holmes, Mrs. Mary Watson, Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes",
            "synopsis": "\"Everyone knows Dr. Watson is Sherlock Holmes\u0027 right-hand man - so when he goes missing, it\u0027s a shock. Even Sherlock hasn\u0027t, well, the slightest clue as to where he could be. Enola is intrigued, but weary; she\u0027s still hiding from her older brothers - and getting involved could be disastrous. But when a bizarre bouquet shows up at the Watson residence, full of convolvulus, hawthorn, and white poppies, Enola must act. She dons her most discerning disguise yet to find the sender - and quickly, for Enola knows the blossoms symbolize death!Hold your breath, because Enola\u0027s about to take it away. The stakes are higher and the mystery deeper than ever before in this third installment of this Edgar Award nominated, critically acclaimed series.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1902,
            "title": "The Death of Kings",
            "author": "Conn Iggulden",
            "date": "Feb-05",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Roman, Fantasy, War, Adventure, Novels, Italy, Action",
            "characters": "Brutus, Julius Caesar",
            "synopsis": "\"The acclaimed author of Emperor: The Gates of Rome returns to the extraordinary life of Julius Caesar in a new novel that takes us further down the path to glory . . . as Caesar comes into his own as a man, warrior, senator, husband, and leader.In a sparsely settles region of North Africa, a band of disheveled soldiers turn their eyes toward one man among them: their leader, Julius Caesar. The soldiers are Roman legionaries. And their quarry is a band of pirates who dared to kidnap Julius Caesar for ransom. Now, as Caesar exacts his revenge and builds a legend far from Rome, his friend Marcus Brutus is fighting battles of another sort, rising to power in the wake of the assassination of a dictator. Once Brutus and Caesar were as close as brothers, devoted to the same ideals and attracted to the same forbidden women. Now they will be united again by a shock wave from the north, where a gladiator named Spartacus is building an army of seventy thousand slaves—to fight a cataclysmic battle against Rome itself.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1903,
            "title": "Scientific Progress Goes Boink",
            "author": "Bill Watterson",
            "date": "1991",
            "genres": "Comics, Humor, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Comic Book, Graphic Novels Comics, Comedy, Comic Strips, Childrens, Cartoon",
            "characters": "Calvin, Hobbes",
            "synopsis": "\"In this collection, Calvin and his tiger-striped sidekick Hobbes are hilarious whether the two are simply lounging around philosophizing about the future of mankind or plotting their latest money-making scheme. Chock-full of the familiar adventures of Spaceman Spiff, findings of Dad\u0027s popularity poll, and time travel to the Jurassic Age, Scientific Progress Goes \"\"Boink\"\" is guaranteed to set scientific inquiry back an eon—and advance the reading pleasure of all Calvin and Hobbes fans.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1904,
            "title": "A Morbid Taste for Bones",
            "author": "Ellis Peters",
            "date": "1994",
            "genres": "Mystery, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Crime, Historical Mystery, Medieval, Mystery Thriller, Detective, British Literature",
            "characters": "Brother Cadfael, Brother Jerome, Prior Robert Pennant, Abbot Heribert, Brother John, Brother Columbanus, Father Huw, Rhisiart, Sioned, Engelard, Peredur, Bened, Annest",
            "synopsis": "\"Ellis Peters\u0027 introduction to the murderous medieval world of Brother Cadfael...A Morbid Taste for BonesIn the remote Welsh mountain village of Gwytherin lies the grave of Saint Winifred. Now, in 1137, the ambitious head of Shrewsbury Abbey has decided to acquire the sacred remains for his Benedictine order. Native Welshman Brother Cadfael is sent on the expedition to translate and finds the rustic villagers of Gwytherin passionately divided by the Benedictine\u0027s offer for the saint\u0027s relics. Canny, wise, and all too wordly, he isn\u0027t surprised when this taste for bones leads to bloody murder.The leading opponent to moving the grave has been shot dead with a mysterious arrow, and some say Winifred herself held the bow. Brother Cadfael knows a carnal hand did the killing. But he doesn\u0027t know that his plan to unearth a murderer may dig up a case of love and justice...where the wages of sin may be scandal or Cadfael\u0027s own ruin.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1905,
            "title": "The Fry Chronicles",
            "author": "Stephen Fry",
            "date": "2010",
            "genres": "Nonfiction, Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, Humor, Audiobook, Biography Memoir, Comedy, British Literature, LGBT",
            "characters": "Douglas Adams, Hugh Laurie, Alastair Cooke, Emma Thompson, Stephen Fry, Rowan Atkinson, Ben Elton, Simon Gray",
            "synopsis": "\"Thirteen years ago, Moab Is My Washpot, Stephen Fry\u0027s autobiography of his early years, was published to rave reviews and was a huge best seller. In the years since, Stephen Fry has moved into a completely new stratosphere, both as a public figure, and a private man. Now he is not just a multi-award-winning comedian and actor, but also an author, director, and presenter.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1906,
            "title": "The Bar Code Tattoo",
            "author": "Suzanne Weyn",
            "date": "Sept-04",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Teen, Mystery, Adventure, Futuristic",
            "characters": "Kayla Reed",
            "synopsis": "\"The bar code tattoo. Everybody\u0027s getting it. It will make your life easier, they say. It will hook you in. It will become your identity.But what if you say no? What if you don\u0027t want to become a code? For Kayla, this one choice changes everything. She becomes an outcast in her high school. Dangerous things happen to her family. There\u0027s no option but to run . . . for her life.Individuality vs. conformity.Identity vs. access.Freedom vs. control.The bar code tattoo.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1907,
            "title": "The Professor",
            "author": "Charlotte Brontë",
            "date": "May-99",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Romance, 19th Century, Victorian, Literature, Historical Fiction, British Literature, Classic Literature, Novels",
            "characters": "William Crimsworth",
            "synopsis": "\"The Professor was the first novel by Charlotte Brontë. It was originally written before Jane Eyre and rejected by many publishing houses, but was eventually published posthumously in 1857. The book is the story of a young man, William Crimsworth. It describes his maturation, his loves and his eventual career as a professor at an all-girl\u0027s school. The story is based upon Charlotte Brontë\u0027s experiences in Brussels, where she studied as a language student in 1842.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1908,
            "title": "The Long Ships",
            "author": "Frans G. Bengtsson, Michael Meyer (Translator)",
            "date": "1994",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Adventure, Classics, Historical, Sweden, Fantasy, Swedish Literature, Scandinavian Literature, Novels",
            "characters": "Orm Tostesson",
            "synopsis": "\"The book is set in the late 10th century \u0026 follows the adventures of Orm (\"\"serpent\"\"), called \"\"Red\"\" for his hair \u0026 his temper, a native of Scania. The story portrays the political situation of Europe in the later Viking Age, Andalusia under Al-Mansur Ibn Abi Aamir, Denmark under Harold Bluetooth, followed by the struggle between Eric the Victorious \u0026 Sweyn Forkbeard of Denmark, Ireland under Brian Boru, England under Ethelred the Unready, the Battle of Maldon, all before the backdrop of the gradual Christianisation of Scandinavia, contrasting the pragmatic Norse pagan outlook with Islam \u0026 Christianity.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1909,
            "title": "The Mirror Crack\u0027d from Side to Side",
            "author": "Agatha Christie",
            "date": "2002",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Mystery Thriller, Detective, British Literature, Murder Mystery, Adult, Cozy Mystery",
            "characters": "Chief Inspector Dermot Craddock, Dr. Haydock, Dolly Bantry, Miss Marple, Marina Gregg, Jason Rudd, Lola Brewster, Ardwyck Fenn, \"\"Giuseppe (The Mirror Crack\u0027\u0027d from Side to Side)\"\", Ella Zielinsky, Dr. Maurice Gilchrist, Hailey Preston, Margot Bence, William Tiddler, Councillor Allcock and Mrs. Allcock, Cherry Baker, Gladys Dixon, \"\"Heather Babcock (The Mirror Crack\u0027\u0027d from Side to Side)\"\"",
            "synopsis": "\"One minute, silly Heather Badcock had been gabbling on at her movie idol, the glamorous Marina Gregg. The next, Heather suffered a massive seizure. But for whom was the deadly poison really intended?Marina’s frozen expression suggested she had witnessed something horrific. But, while others searched for material evidence, Jane Marple conducted a very different investigation – into human nature.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1910,
            "title": "The Twenty-One Balloons",
            "author": "William Pène du Bois",
            "date": "1986",
            "genres": "Fiction, Childrens, Fantasy, Classics, Adventure, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade, Juvenile, School",
            "characters": "William Waterman Sherman, Mr. F",
            "synopsis": "\"Professor William Waterman Sherman intends to fly across the Pacific Ocean. But through a twist of fate, he lands on the secret island of Krakatoa where he discovers a world of unimaginable wealth, eccentric inhabitants, and incredible balloon inventions. Winner of the 1948 Newbery Medal, this classic fantasy-adventure is a joy for all ages.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1911,
            "title": "Heretic",
            "author": "Bernard Cornwell ",
            "date": "Sept-04",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Medieval, Fantasy, Adventure, War, France, British Literature, Military Fiction",
            "characters": "Thomas of Hookton, Guy Vexille",
            "synopsis": "\"From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the sequel to The Archer’s Tale and Vagabond—the spellbinding tale of a young man, a fearless archer, who sets out wanting to avenge his family’s honor and winds up on a quest for the Holy Grail.Already a seasoned veteran of King Edward\u0027s army, young Thomas of Hookton possesses the fearlessness of a born leader and an uncanny prowess with the longbow. Now, at the head of a small but able band of soldiers, he has been dispatched to capture the castle of Astarac. But more than duty to his liege has brought him to Gascony, home of his forebears and the hated black knight who brutally slew Thomas\u0027s father. It is also the last place where the Holy Grail was reported seen. Here, also, a beautiful and innocent, if not pious, woman is to be burned as a heretic. Saving the lady, Genevieve, from her dread fate will brand Thomas an infidel, forcing them to flee together across a landscape of blood and fire. And what looms ahead is a battle to the death that could ultimately shape the future of Christendom.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1912,
            "title": "The Hollow",
            "author": "Agatha Christie",
            "date": "2002",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Detective, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Audiobook, Murder Mystery, Adult",
            "characters": "Hercule Poirot, Lady Lucy Angkatell, Sir Henry Angkatell, Dr John Christow, Gerda Christow, Henrietta Savernake, Inspector Grange, Veronica Cray, Midge Hardcastle, David Angkatell, Gudgeon",
            "synopsis": "\"Lady Angkatell, intrigued by the criminal mind, has invited Hercule Poirot to her estate for a weekend house party. The Belgian detective\u0027s arrival at the Hollow is met with an elaborate tableau staged for his amusement: a doctor lies in a puddle of red paint, his timid wife stands over his body with a gun while the other guests look suitably shocked. But this is no charade. The paint is blood and the corpse real!\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1913,
            "title": "The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant",
            "author": "Stephen R. Donaldson",
            "date": "1994",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, American, Adventure, High Fantasy",
            "characters": "Thomas Covenant",
            "synopsis": "\"The magnificent saga of Thomas Covenant continues in Stephen Donaldson\u0027s highly acclaimed second epic fantasy trilogy, together in one volume.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1914,
            "title": "Match Me If You Can",
            "author": "Susan Elizabeth Phillips ",
            "date": "Aug-06",
            "genres": "Romance, Contemporary Romance, Contemporary, Chick Lit, Sports, Sports Romance, Fiction, Humor, Adult, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Heath Champion, Annabelle Granger, Portia Powers, Bodie Gray",
            "synopsis": "\"You met quarterback Kevin Tucker in This Heart of Mine. Now get ready to meet his shark of an agent, Heath Champion, and Annabelle Granger, the girl least likely to succeed.Annabelle\u0027s endured dead-end jobs, a broken engagement . . . even her hair\u0027s a mess! But that\u0027s going to change now that she\u0027s taken over her late grandmother\u0027s matchmaking business. All Annabelle has to do is land the Windy City\u0027s hottest bachelor as her client, and she\u0027ll be the most sought-after matchmaker in town.Why does the wealthy, driven, and gorgeous sports agent Heath Champion need a matchmaker, especially a red-haired screw-up like Annabelle Granger? True, she\u0027s entertaining, and she does have a certain quirky appeal. But Heath is searching for the ultimate symbol of success - the perfect wife. And to make an extraordinary match, he needs an extraordinary matchmaker, right?Soon everyone in Chicago has a stake in the outcome, and a very big question: When the determined matchmaker promised she\u0027d do anything to keep her star client happy . . . did she mean anything? If Annabelle isn\u0027t careful, she just might find herself going heart-to-heart with the toughest negotiator in town.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1915,
            "title": "Cast in Silence",
            "author": "Michelle Sagara",
            "date": "Aug-09",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Magic, Dragons, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Paranormal, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Mystery, Young Adult",
            "characters": "Kaylin Neya, Severn, Tiamaris, Lord Nightshade",
            "synopsis": "\"Don\u0027t ask. Don\u0027t tell. Stay alive.A member of the elite Hawk force that protects the City of Elantra, Kaylin Neya has sacrificed much to earn the respect of the winged Aerians and immortal Barrani she works alongside. But the mean streets she escaped as a child aren\u0027t the ones she\u0027s vowed to give her life guarding. Those were much darker…Kaylin\u0027s moved on with her life—and is keeping silent about the shameful things she\u0027s done to stay alive. But when the city\u0027s oracles warn of brewing unrest in the outer fiefdoms, a mysterious visitor from Kaylin\u0027s past casts her under a cloud of suspicion. Thankfully, if she\u0027s anything, she\u0027s a survivor…\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1916,
            "title": "Death in the Clouds",
            "author": "Agatha Christie",
            "date": "2001",
            "genres": "Mystery, Crime, Fiction, Classics, Detective, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Audiobook, Murder Mystery, Thriller",
            "characters": "Inspector Japp, Hercule Poirot, Jane Grey, Madame Angéligue Giselle, James Ryder, Monsieur Armand Dupont, Daniel Clancy, Doctor Bryant, Norman Gale, Countess of Horbury, Venetia Kerr, Jean Dupont",
            "synopsis": "\"A woman is killed by a poisoned dart in the enclosed confines of a commercial passenger plane…From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp.What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind him, in seat No.2, sat the slumped, lifeless body of a woman.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1917,
            "title": "A Great Deliverance",
            "author": "Elizabeth George ",
            "date": "Jun-89",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Thriller, Detective, British Literature, Adult, Suspense, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Thomas Lynley, Barbara Havers, Lady Helen Clyde, Simon St. James, Deborah St. James",
            "synopsis": "\"To this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldale\u0027s lush green valleys. Three hundred years ago, as legend goes, the frightened Yorkshire villagers smothered a crying babe in Keldale Abbey, where they\u0027d hidden to escape the ravages of Cromwell\u0027s raiders.Now into Keldale\u0027s pastoral web of old houses and older secrets comes Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton. Along with the redoubtable Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, Lynley has been sent to solve a savage murder that has stunned the peaceful countryside. For fat, unlovely Roberta Teys has been found in her best dress, an axe in her lap, seated in the old stone barn beside her father\u0027s headless corpse. Her first and last words were \"\"I did it. And I\u0027m not sorry.\"\"Yet as Lynley and Havers wind their way through Keldale\u0027s dark labyrinth of secret scandals and appalling crimes, they uncover a shattering series of revelations that will reverberate through this tranquil English valley—and in their own lives as well.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1918,
            "title": "Sadako will leben",
            "author": "Karl Bruckner",
            "date": "2006",
            "genres": "Fiction, Childrens, Historical Fiction, Classics, Young Adult, Historical, German Literature, School, War, Novels",
            "characters": "Sadako Sasaki",
            "synopsis": "\"6. August 1945, 8 Uhr 15 Minuten - die kleine Sadako Sasaki erlebt den Atombombenabwurf über Hiroshima scheinbar unbeschadet. 10 Jahre später: Sadako, eine begeisterte Radfahrerin, wird bei einem Rennen von einer plötzlichen Schwäche befallen und es stellt sich heraus, dass sie an der Strahlenkrankheit leidet. Einer japanischen Tradition zufolge wird jedem, der tausend Papierkraniche faltet, ein sehnlicher Wunsch in Erfüllung gehen. Sadako klammert sich an diese Legende und an das Leben, selbst als die Ärzte sie aufgegeben haben. Unbeirrt arbeitet sie an den Kranichen, doch beim 990. versagen ihre Kräfte ...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1919,
            "title": "Justice Hall",
            "author": "Laurie R. King ",
            "date": "2003",
            "genres": "Mystery, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Historical Mystery, Crime, British Literature, Detective, Adult, Mystery Thriller",
            "characters": "Mary Russell, Ali Hazr, Mahmoud Hazr, Sherlock Holmes",
            "synopsis": "\"Hours after Holmes and Russell return from solving the murky riddle of The Moor, a bloodied but oddly familiar stranger pounds desperately on their front door, pleading for their help. When he recovers, he lays before them the story of the enigmatic Marsh Hughenfort, younger brother of the Duke of Beauville, returned to England upon his brother\u0027s death, determined to learn the truth about the untimely death of the hall\u0027s expected heir — a puzzle he is convinced only Holmes and Russell can solve. It\u0027s a mystery that begins during the Great War of 1918, when young Gabriel Hughenfort, the late Duke\u0027s only son, died amidst scandalous rumors that have haunted the family ever since. While Holmes heads to London to uncover the truth of Gabriel\u0027s war record, Russell joins an ill-fated shooting party. A missing diary, a purloined bundle of letters, and a trail of ominous clues comprise a mystery that will call for Holmes\u0027s cleverest disguises and Russell\u0027s most daring journeys into the unknown, from an English hamlet to the city of Paris to the wild prairie of the New World. The trap is set, the game is afoot, but can they catch an elusive villain in the act of murder before they become his next victims?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1920,
            "title": "An Inspector Calls",
            "author": "J.B. Priestley",
            "date": "1987",
            "genres": "Plays, Classics, School, Fiction, Mystery, Drama, Crime, Read For School, Theatre, Historical",
            "characters": "Arthur Birling, Sheila Birling, Eric Birling, Edna, Gerald Croft, Inspector Goole",
            "synopsis": "\"The action of the play occurs in an English industrial city, where a young girl commits suicide and an eminently respectable British family is subject to a routine inquiry in connection with the death. An inspector calls to interrogate the family, and during the course of his questioning, all members of the group are implicated lightly or deeply in the girl\u0027s undoing. The family, closely knit and friendly at the beginning of the evening, is shown up as selfish, self-centered or cowardly, its good humor turning to acid, and good fellowship to dislike, before the evening is over. The surprising revelation, however, is in the inspector...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1921,
            "title": "The Mysterious Mr. Quin",
            "author": "Agatha Christie",
            "date": "2003",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Short Stories, Classics, British Literature, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Fantasy, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Harley Quin, \"\"Mr. Satterthwaite (Dead Man\u0027\u0027s Mirror)\"\"",
            "synopsis": "\"Harley Quin is an enigma. Even his friend Mr Satterthwaite is unable to understand how the man seems to appear and disappear almost like a trick of the light - and when he does appear it\u0027s usually in the sparkle of sunshine, or surrounded by a spectrum of coloured light pouring through a stained glass window...In fact, the only consistent thing about the Mysterious Mr Quin is that his presence is always a harbinger of love ... or death.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1922,
            "title": "Mao II",
            "author": "Don DeLillo",
            "date": "1992",
            "genres": "Fiction, Novels, Literature, American, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, The United States Of America, 20th Century, American Fiction, United States",
            "characters": "Bill Gray, Karen Janney, George Haddad",
            "synopsis": "\"\"\"One of the most intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America\"\" (The New York Times), Don DeLillo presents an extraordinary new novel about words and images, novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch-individualist. At the heart of the book is Bill Gray, a famous reclusive writer who escapes the failed novel he has been working on for many years and enters the world of political violence, a nightscape of Semtex explosives and hostages locked in basement rooms. Bill\u0027s dangerous passage leaves two people stranded: his brilliant, fixated assistant, Scott, and the strange young woman who is Scott\u0027s lover—and Bill\u0027s.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1923,
            "title": "Greenwitch",
            "author": "Susan Cooper ",
            "date": "1997",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Middle Grade, Arthurian, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, Magic, Classics",
            "characters": "Will Stanton, Simon Drew, Merry Lyon, Jane Drew, Barnabas Drew",
            "synopsis": "\"Simon, Jane, and Barney, enlisted by their mysterious great-uncle, arrive in a small coastal town to recover a priceless golden grail stolen by the forces of evil - Dark. They are not at first aware of the strange powers of another boy brought to help, Will Stanton - nor of the sinister significance of the Greenwitch, an image of leaves and branches that for centuries has been cast into the sea for good luck in fishing and harvest. Their search for the grail sets into motion a series of distubing, sometimes dangerous events that, at their climax, bring forth a gift that, for a time at least, will keep the Dark from rising.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1924,
            "title": "শঙ্কু সমগ্র",
            "author": "Satyajit Ray (Author \u0026 Illustrator), সমীর সরকার (Illustrator)",
            "date": "Jan-03",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller, Childrens, Classics, Short Stories, Humor",
            "characters": "Newton, Professor Shonku",
            "synopsis": "\"প্রফেসর শঙ্কু কে? তিনি এখন কোথায়? এটুকু জানা গেছে যে তিনি একজন বৈজ্ঞানিক। কেউ কেউ বলে তিনি নাকি একটা ভীষণ পরীক্ষা করতে গিয়ে প্রাণ হারিয়েছেন। আবার এও শোনা যায় যে তিনি কোনো অজ্ঞাত অঞ্চলে গা ঢাকা দিয়ে নিজের কাজ করে যাচ্ছেন, সময় হলেই আত্মপ্রকাশ করবেন।প্রফেসর শঙ্কুর প্রতিটি ডায়েরিতে কিছু না কিছু আশ্চর্য অভিজ্ঞতার বিবরণ আছে। কাহিনীগুলো সত্য কি মিথ্যা, সম্ভব কি অসম্ভব, সে বিচার পাঠকরা করবেন!\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1925,
            "title": "The Gate to Women\u0027s Country",
            "author": "Sheri S. Tepper",
            "date": "1999",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Dystopia, Feminism, Post Apocalyptic, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Womens, Gender",
            "characters": "Sylvia, Stavia, Chernon, Morgot, Jerby, Dawid, Beneda, Myra Morgotdoughter",
            "synopsis": "\"Tepper\u0027s finest novel to date is set in a post-holocaust feminist dystopia that offers only two political alternatives: a repressive polygamist sect that is slowly self-destructing through inbreeding and the matriarchal dictatorship called Women\u0027s Country. Here, in a desperate effort to prevent another world war, the women have segregated most men into closed military garrisons and have taken on themselves every other function of government, industry, agriculture, science and learning.The resulting manifold responsibilities are seen through the life of Stavia, from a dreaming 10-year-old to maturity as doctor, mother and member of the Marthatown Women\u0027s Council. As in Tepper\u0027s Awakeners series books, the rigid social systems are tempered by the voices of individual experience and, here, by an imaginative reworking of The Trojan Woman that runs through the text. A rewarding and challenging novel that is to be valued for its provocative ideas.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1926,
            "title": "A Fan\u0027s Notes",
            "author": "Frederick Exley",
            "date": "Sept-88",
            "genres": "Fiction, Sports, Novels, Literature, American, Football, Literary Fiction, Classics, 20th Century, Drinking",
            "characters": "Fred Exley, Bunny Sue Allorgee, Earl Exley, Mrs. Exley, \"\"Mr. Blue (A Fan\u0027\u0027s Notes)\"\", Patience Exley, Christopher Plumpton",
            "synopsis": "\"This fictional memoir, the first of an autobiographical trilogy, traces a self professed failure\u0027s nightmarish decent into the underside of American life and his resurrection to the wisdom that emerges from despair.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1927,
            "title": "Nothing Can Keep Us Together",
            "author": "Cecily von Ziegesar",
            "date": "May-05",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Chick Lit, Fiction, Contemporary, Romance, Teen, High School, Drama, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult Contemporary",
            "characters": "Serena van der Woodsen, Blair Waldorf, Nate Archibald, Charles \"\"Chuck\"\" Bass, Dan Humphrey, Jenny Humphrey, Vanessa Abrams",
            "synopsis": "\"Welcome to New York City\u0027s Upper East Side, where my friends and I are the princes and princesses of private school, and graduation is just an excuse to throw a fabulous party - as if we need a reason.Enter the world of Gossip Girl- a world where jealousy and betrayal are always in fashion.We\u0027re nearly done with high school - forever! - but before we head off to the Ivy of our choice we\u0027ve got plenty to keep us busy: B found S kissing N in the shower. Steamy! Even B can see that S and N would make the hottest couple ever, right? Wrong. B\u0027s about to strut down the revenge runway, and I have a front row seat. We\u0027ll see if this catfight looks good on the catwalk. Time to hide behind my oversized Chanel sunglasses to watch the show . . . .You know you love me,gossip girl\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1928,
            "title": "One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War",
            "author": "Michael Dobbs ",
            "date": "Feb-08",
            "genres": "History, Nonfiction, Politics, American History, War, Russia, Military Fiction, Military History, Historical, Presidents",
            "characters": "John F. Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev",
            "synopsis": "\"In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict over the placement of missiles in Cuba. Veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs has pored over previously untapped American, Soviet, and Cuban sources to produce the most authoritative book yet on the Cuban missile crisis. In his hour-by-hour chronicle of those near-fatal days, Dobbs reveals some startling new incidents that illustrate how close we really did come to Armageddon. Here, for the first time, are gripping accounts of Khrushchev\u0027s plan to destroy the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo; the accidental overflight of the Soviet Union by an American spy plane; the movement of Soviet nuclear warheads around Cuba during the tensest days of the crisis; the activities of CIA agents inside Cuba; and the crash landing of an American F-106 jet with a live nuclear weapon on board. Dobbs takes us inside the White House and the Kremlin as Kennedy and Khrushchev-rational, intelligent men separated by an ocean of ideological suspicion-agonize over the possibility of war. He shows how these two leaders recognized the terrifying realities of the nuclear age while Castro-never swayed by conventional political considerations-demonstrated the messianic ambition of a man selected by history for a unique mission. As the story unfolds, Dobbs brings us onto the decks of American ships patrolling Cuba; inside sweltering Soviet submarines and missile units as they ready their warheads; and onto the streets of Miami, where anti-Castro exiles plot the dictator\u0027s overthrow. Based on exhaustive new research and told in breathtaking prose, here is ariveting account of history\u0027s most dangerous hours, full of lessons for our time.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1929,
            "title": "Dangerous Lady",
            "author": "Martina Cole",
            "date": "2005",
            "genres": "Crime, Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Drama, Contemporary, Modern, British Literature, Contemporary Romance",
            "characters": "Maura Ryan, Michael Ryan",
            "synopsis": "\"No one thinks a seventeen-year-old girl can take on the hard men of London\u0027s gangland, but it\u0027s a mistake to underestimate Maura Ryan: she\u0027s tough, clever and beautiful —and she\u0027s determined that nothing will stand in her way. Which makes her one very dangerous lady.Together, she and her brother Michael are unbeatable: the Queen and King of organised crime, they run the pubs and clubs, the prostitutes and pimps of the West End. With Maura masterminding it, they pull off an audicious gold bullion robbery and have much of the Establishment in their pockets.But notoriety has its price. The police are determined to put Maura away once and for all —and not everyone in the family thinks that\u0027s such a bad idea. When it comes to the crunch, Maura has to face the pain of lost love in her past —and the dangerous lady discovers her heart is not made entirely of stone.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1930,
            "title": "King Ottokar\u0027s Sceptre",
            "author": "Hergé, Michael Turner (Translator), Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper (Translator)",
            "date": "1997",
            "genres": "Comics, Graphic Novels, Bande Dessinée, Adventure, Fiction, Childrens, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, France, Mystery",
            "characters": "Tintin, Thomson \u0026 Thompson, Bianca Castafiore, Professor Hector Alembick, Snowy",
            "synopsis": "\"Tintin finds a lost briefcase and returns it to the owner, Professor Hector Alembick, who is a sigilographer, an expert on seals. He shows Tintin his collection of seals, including one which belonged to the Syldavian King Ottokar IV. Tintin then discovers that he and Alembick are under surveillance by some strange men. Tintin\u0027s flat is even bombed in an attempt to kill him. Suspecting a Syldavian connection, Tintin offers to accompany Alembick to Syldavia for research.On the plane Tintin begins to suspect his companion. The Alembick travelling with him doesn\u0027t smoke and doesn\u0027t seem to need the spectacles he wears, while the Alembick he first met smoked heavily and had very poor eyesight. During a layover, Tintin fakes a fall and grabs Alembick\u0027s beard, thinking it is false and Alembick is an imposter. However, it is (for Alembick) painfully real. Tintin decides to let the matter drop but then, while flying over Syldavia, it is the pilot of the plane who opens a trap door and Tintin drops out, landing in a haywagon.Tintin has a hunch that a plot is afoot to steal the sceptre of King Ottokar IV. In Syldavia, the reigning King must possess the sceptre to rule or he will be forced to abdicate. Every year he rides in a parade during St. Vladimir\u0027s Day carrying it, while the people sing the national anthem. Tintin succeeds in warning the reigning King, Muskar XII, despite the efforts of the conspirators. He and the King rush to the royal treasure room to find Alembick, the royal photographer and some guards unconscious and the sceptre missing.Tintin\u0027s friends Thomson and Thompson are summoned to investigate but their theory on how the sceptre was stolen proves bad and painful for them. Later on, Tintin notices a spring cannon in a toy shop and this gives him the clue. Professor Alembick had asked for some photographs to be taken of the sceptre, but the camera was a spring cannon in disguise, which allowed him to catapult it out of the castle into a nearby forest.Searching the forest, Tintin spots the sceptre being found by agents of the neighbouring country, Borduria. Following them all the way to the border, he wrests the sceptre from them. In the wallet of one of the thieves he discovers papers that show that the theft of the sceptre was just part of a major plan for the taking over of Syldavia by their long-time political rival, Borduria.Tintin steals a Me-109 from a Bordurian airfield (whose squadron is being kept ready to take part in the envisioned \"\"Anschluss\"\" of Syldavia) to fly it back to the King in time. He is shot down by the Syldavians who have naturally opened fire on an enemy aircraft violating their airspace. He manages to make the rest of the journey by foot.Meanwhile the Interior Minister informs the King that rumours have been spreading that the sceptre has been stolen and that there have been riots against local Bordurian businesses, acts which would justify a Bordurian takeover of the country. The King is about to abdicate when Snowy runs in with the sceptre (which had fallen out of Tintin\u0027s pocket).Tintin then gives the King the papers he took from the man who stole the sceptre. They prove that the plot was masterminded by Müsstler, leader of the Iron Guard, a local political party. The King takes action by having Müsstler and his associates arrested and the army mobilised along the Bordurian frontier. In response, the Bordurian leader pulls his own troops back from the border, though he stresses his own country\u0027s \"\"desire for peace\"\" and criticises Syldavia\u0027s \"\"strange\"\" behaviour.The next day is St. Vladimir\u0027s Day and Tintin is made a Knight of the Order of the Golden Pelican, the first non-Syldavian to receive such an honour. Further inquiries by the authorities reveal that, in a classic Ruritanian plot device, Professor Alembick is one of a pair of identical twins: Hector Alembick was kidnapped and replaced with his brother Alfred who left for Syldavia in his place.Tintin and Snowy return home by a flying boat with Thomson and Thompson, who suffer momentary panic when the aircraft appears to be falling into the sea at the end of the flight. The reader is treated to a rare \"\"wink to the camera\"\" from Tintin, who points out their error, and they laugh about it so much that they do indeed fall into the sea as they disembark.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1931,
            "title": "Switch Bitch",
            "author": "Roald Dahl",
            "date": "1987",
            "genres": "Short Stories, Fiction, Humor, Classics, Adult, British Literature, Fantasy, Literature, Comedy, Contemporary",
            "characters": "Uncle Oswald Hendryks Cornelius",
            "synopsis": "\"In Switch Bitch four tales of seduction and suspense are told by the grand master of the short story, Roald Dahl.Topping and tailing this collection are The Visitor and Bitch, stories featuring Dahl\u0027s notorious hedonist Oswald Hendryks Cornelius (or plain old Uncle Oswald) whose exploits are frequently as extraordinary as they are scandalous. In the middle, meanwhile, are The Great Switcheroo and The Last Act, two stories exploring a darker side of desire and pleasure.In the black comedies of Switch Bitch Roald Dahl brilliantly captures the ins and outs, highs and lows of sex.\u0027Dahl is too good a storyteller to become predictable\u0027 Daily TelegraphRoald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl\u0027s Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl\u0027s stories continue to make readers shiver today.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1932,
            "title": "Death in the Andes",
            "author": "Mario Vargas Llosa, Edith Grossman (Translator)",
            "date": "1996",
            "genres": "Fiction, Latin American, Novels, Literature, Spanish Literature, Mystery, Nobel Prize, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Crime",
            "characters": "Tomás Carreño, Corporal Lituma",
            "synopsis": "\"In an isolated community in the Peruvian Andes, a series of mysterious disappearances has occurred. Army corporal Lituma and his deputy Tom�s believe the Shining Path guerrillas are responsible, but the townspeople have their own ideas about the forces that claimed the bodies of the missing men. This riveting novel is filled with unforgettable characters, among them disenfranchised Indians, eccentric local folk, and a couple performing strange cannibalistic sacrifices. As the investigation moves forward, Tom�s entertains Lituma with the surreal tale of a precarious love affair.Death in the Andes is both a fascinating detective novel and an insightful political allegory. Mario Vargas Llosa offers a panoramic view of Peruvian society, from the recent social upheaval to the cultural influences in its past.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1933,
            "title": "Prisoners of the Sun",
            "author": "Hergé",
            "date": "2002",
            "genres": "Comics, Graphic Novels, Bande Dessinée, Adventure, Fiction, Childrens, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, France, Mystery",
            "characters": "Tintin, Captain Archibald Haddock, Zorrino, Thomson \u0026 Thompson, Snowy, Professor Calculus",
            "synopsis": "\"After The Seven Crystal Balls set the eerie stage, Tintin and his friends continue their adventures in Peru. There Tintin rescues an orange-seller named Zorrino from being bullied, and the young man becomes their guide in their quest to find the Temple of the Sun. But they find more than they bargained for and end up in a hot spot. The perils of this engaging two-part adventure are especially harrowing in their combination of the supernatural and the real, although the resolution is a little too deus ex machina. Calculus and the Thompsons provide their usual comic relief.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1934,
            "title": "The Monkey\u0027s Raincoat",
            "author": "Robert Crais",
            "date": "1999",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Suspense, Action, Audiobook, Noir",
            "characters": "Elvis Cole, Joe Pike, Ellen Lang, Lou Poitras, Lt. Baishe",
            "synopsis": "\"Taking the mystery community by storm, this Elvis Cole novel was nominated for the Edgar, Anthony, Shamus, and Macavity awards and won both the Anthony and Macavity for Best Novel of the Year.When Ellen Lang\u0027s husband disappears with their son, she hires Elvis Cole to track him down. A quiet and seemingly submissive wife, Ellen can\u0027t even write a check without him. All she wants is to get him and her son back—no questions asked. The search for Ellen\u0027s errant husband leads Elvis into the seamier side of Hollywood. He soon learns that Mort Lang is a down-on-his-luck talent agent who associates with a schlocky movie producer, and the last place he was spotted was at a party thrown by a famous and very well-connected ex-Matador. But no one has seen him since—including his B-movie girlfriend.At the same time the police find Mort in his parked car with four gunshots in his chest —and no kid in sight—Ellen disappears. Now nothing is what it seems, and the heat is on. It\u0027s up to Elvis Cole and his partner Joe Pike to find the connection between sleazy Hollywood players and an ex-Matador.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1935,
            "title": "ആടുജീവിതം | Aatujeevitham",
            "author": "Benyamin",
            "date": "Aug-08",
            "genres": "Fiction, India, Novels, Indian Literature, Literature, Classics, Asia, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Asian Literature",
            "characters": "Hakim, Najeeb, Hamid",
            "synopsis": "\"ലക്ഷകണക്കിനു മലയാളികള്‍ ഗള്‍ഫില്‍ ജീവിക്കുന്നു, ലക്ഷങ്ങള്‍ ജീവിച്ചു തിരിച്ചു പോയിരിക്കുന്നു. ഇതില്‍ എത്ര പേര്‍ മരുഭൂമിയുടെ തീക്ഷ്‌ണത സത്യമായും അനുഭവിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്. ആ തീക്ഷ്ണത തൊട്ടറിഞ്ഞ, അഥവാ മണല്‍‌പരപ്പിലെ ജീവിതം ചുട്ടുപൊള്ളിച്ച നജീബ് എന്നയാളുടെ അനുഭവമാണ് ആടുജീവിതത്തിനു പ്രേരണയായതെന്ന് നോവലിസ്‌റ്റ് ബെന്യാമിന്‍ പറയുന്നു. പ്രവാസജീവിതത്തിലെ തികച്ചും വ്യത്യസ്‌തമായ ഒരേട്.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1936,
            "title": "Kayıp Gül",
            "author": "Serdar Özkan",
            "date": "2012",
            "genres": "Turkish Literature, Fiction, Turkish, Fantasy, Novels, Literature, Philosophy, Mystery, Roman, Spirituality",
            "characters": "Diana (goddess)",
            "synopsis": "\"29 DİLDE, 40’TAN FAZLA ÜLKEDE BASILAN ULUSLARARASI BİR BESTSELLERKanada’dan Japonya’ya, Brezilya’dan Endonezya’ya yüzbinlerce okurun gönlünde taht kuran KAYIP GÜL genç Türk romancı Serdar Özkan’ın ilk romanı.Tüm zamanların en çok okunan ve sevilen kitaplarından St. Exupéry\u0027nin Küçük Prens\u0027i, Richard Bach\u0027ın Martı\u0027sı ve Paulo Coelho\u0027nun Simyacı\u0027sına denk tutulan Kayıp Gül, bugüne kadar 29 dile çevrildi, birçok ülkede haftalarca bestseller listelerinde yeraldı.Kayıp Gül\u0027ün kahramanı Diana\u0027nın peşine takılan okur, başta Türk kültürüne olmak üzere, Yunan mitolojisinden Yunus Emre\u0027ye; William Blake\u0027ten Sokrates\u0027e; doğu mistisizminden Küçük Prens\u0027e; Meryem Ana\u0027dan Nasrettin Hoca\u0027ya; modern yaşantıdan metafiziğe; gerçek dünyadan güllerin ve düşlerin dünyasına gizemli bir yolculuğa çıkıyor.“Çağdas bir fabl, derin ve bilgece - St. Exupéry\u0027nin başyapıtı Küçük Prens\u0027in tadında.” DPA - ALMANYA“Muhteşem bir öykü. Bu romanın yaptığı muhteşem. Denilebilir ki, bu romanın bizi birleştirmeye gücü var.” TVA Televizyonu - KANADA“Türklerin Küçük Prens’i tüm dünyayı büyülüyor.” Helsinki Sanomat - FİNLANDİYA“Gerçek mutluluğu aramak üzerine ilham verici harikulade bir öykü.” Magazin 2000plus – ALMANYA“Büyük bir global başarı. Simyacı, Küçük Prens ve Martı\u0027yı sevenlerin mutlaka okuması gereken bir kitap.” Air Beletrina - SLOVENYA“Kayıp Gül Doğu ile Batı arasında bir köprü.” Vijesti - SIRBİSTAN ve KARADAĞ“Kayıp Gül hayatımda okuduğum en güzel öykülerden biri. Kitabı bitirdiğiniz zaman, kendinizi bir hediye almış gibi hissediyorsunuz. Ben öyle hissettim.” Christine Michaud, TVA Televizyonu - KANADA\"\"Çok başarılı, masalsı bir roman.\"\" Prof. Talât Sait Halman - Bilkent Üni. Edebiyat Fakültesi Dekanı\"\"Serdar Özkan genç ve yetenekli bir romancı, onun adını önümüzdeki yıllarda sık sık duyacağınıza sizi temin edebilirim.\"\" İskender Pala – Kasım 2003\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1937,
            "title": "The Silent Cry",
            "author": "Kenzaburō Ōe, John Bester (translator)",
            "date": "1998",
            "genres": "Fiction, Japan, Japanese Literature, Literature, Asia, Novels, Classics, Nobel Prize, Asian Literature, 20th Century",
            "characters": "Mitsusaburo Nedokoro, Takashi Nedokoro",
            "synopsis": "\"Two brothers, Takashi and Mitsu, return from Tokyo to the village of their childhood. The selling of their family home leads them to an inescapable confrontation with their family history. Their attempt to escape the influence of the city ends in failure as they realize that its tentacles extend to everything in the countryside, including their own relationship. In 1994, Kenzaburo Oe was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Signalling out The Silent Cry, the Nobel Committee stated that his poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament.  Kenzaburo Oe is one of the great writers of the century and The Silent Cry is his masterpiece.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1938,
            "title": "Zombie Apocalypse!",
            "author": "Stephen Jones (Editor), Pat Cadigan , Paul McAuley , Robert Hood , Michael Marshall Smith , Tim Lebbon , Christopher Fowler, Paul Finch , more…",
            "date": "2010",
            "genres": "Zombies, Horror, Fiction, Post Apocalyptic, Science Fiction, Anthologies, Fantasy, Apocalyptic, Short Stories, Dystopia",
            "characters": "Zombies",
            "synopsis": "\"In the near future, a desperate and ever-more controlling UK government attempts to restore a sense of national pride with a New Festival of Britain. But construction work on the site of an old church in south London releases a centuries-old plague that turns its victims into flesh-hungry ghouls whose bite or scratch passes the contagion - a supernatural virus which has the power to revive the dead - on to others.\u0027The Death\u0027 soon sweeps across London and the whole country descends into chaos. When a drastic attempt to eradicate the outbreak at source fails, the plague spreads quickly to mainland Europe and then across the rest of the world.Told through a series of interconnected eyewitness narratives - text messages, e-mails, blogs, letters, diaries and transcripts - this is an epic story of a world plunged into chaos as the dead battle the living for total domination.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1939,
            "title": "Timbuktu",
            "author": "Paul Auster",
            "date": "May-00",
            "genres": "Fiction, Dogs, Animals, Novels, Contemporary, American, Literature, The United States Of America, Literary Fiction, 20th Century",
            "characters": "Mr. Bones, Willy G Christmas",
            "synopsis": "\"Mr. Bones, the canine hero of Paul Auster\u0027s astonishing new book, is the sidekick and confidant of Willy G. Christmas, a brilliant and troubled homeless man from Brooklyn. As Willy\u0027s body slowly expires, he sets off with Mr. Bones for Baltimore in search of his high school English teacher and a new home for his companion. Mr. Bones is our witness during their journey, and out of his thoughts, Paul Auster has spun one of the richest, most compelling tales in American fiction.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1940,
            "title": "Hangover Square",
            "author": "Patrick Hamilton",
            "date": "2006",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, British Literature, Mystery, Crime, Modern Classics, Novels, Literature, Noir, 20th Century",
            "characters": "George Harvey Bone, Netta Longdon, Peter (Hangover Square), Mickey (Hangover Square), Johnnie Littlejohn, Eddie Carstairs",
            "synopsis": "\"Hamilton captures the edgy, obsessive and eventually murderous mindset of a romantically frustrated British man in this WWII-era novel. London 1939, and in the grimy publands of Earls Court, George Harvey Bone is pursuing a helpless infatuation with Netta who is cool, contemptuous and hopelessly desirable to George. George is adrift in hell, until something goes click in his head and he realizes that he must kill her.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1941,
            "title": "სამოსელი პირველი",
            "author": "Guram Dochanashvili",
            "date": "2011",
            "genres": "Georgian, Fiction, Magical Realism",
            "characters": "დომენიკო, მიჩინიო, მარშალი ბეტანკური, მენდეს მესიელი, ალექსანდრო, გვეგვე, ტერეზა, დულიო, მამიდა არიადნა, კონჩეტინა, ჯულიო, ჟოაო აბადო, მოხუცი სანტოსი, დონ დიეგო, ზე მორეირა, მანუელო კოსტა, პოლოვნიკი სეზარი, ჩიჩიო, ოთო ექიმი",
            "synopsis": "\"თანამედროვე ქართველი კლასიკოსი მწერალის გურამ დოჩანაშვილის ყველაზე ცნობილი ნაწარმოები. \"\"სამოსელი პირველის\"\" სიუჟეტი თავგადასავლის მაძიებელი ჭაბუკის დომენიკოს ტიპური ამბავია, რომელზეც დიდად იმოქმედა იდუმალებით მოცული კაცის - ლტოლვილის ნაამბობმა. დომენიკო ტოვებს მშობლიურ სახლ-კარს, მამას და მიდის \"\"ლამაზ ქალაქში\"\". თანდათან მრავალი ადამიანთან ურთიერთობისას, იგი მიხვდება, თუ რა არის მეგობრობა, სიყვარული, სიკეთე, ბოროტება, გულწფელობა, პატიოსნება. ეს არის წიგნი სიკეთისა და ბოროტების შეცნობაზე, მას თამამად შეიძლება ვუწოდოთ \"\"ცხოვრების წიგნი\"\".\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1942,
            "title": "Lucian",
            "author": "Isabel Abedi",
            "date": "2009",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Paranormal, Angels, German Literature, Contemporary, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Paranormal Romance",
            "characters": "Lucian, Faye, Rebecca Wolff, Marjanne Wolff, Suse Rossmann, Sebastian (Isabel Abedi), Alec Reed, Mr. Tyger",
            "synopsis": "\"Es fühlt sich an wie ein Riss. Ein hauchfeiner Riss, tief in Rebeccas Innerem. Als ob ihr jemand mit der Pinzette ein Härchen ausgerupft hätte. Was bleibt: ein sonderbares Gefühl von Leere und der Angst. Doch dann taucht Lucian auf, wie aus dem Nichts. Ein Junge ohne Vergangenheit, jemand, der sich nicht erinnern kann, wer er ist oder wo er herkommt. Aber Lucian gibt Rebecca mit einem Mal das Gefühl, dass sie nicht mehr allein ist.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1943,
            "title": "Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia",
            "author": "Brandon Sanderson ",
            "date": "Oct-09",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Middle Grade, Humor, Childrens, Adventure, Audiobook, Urban Fantasy, Science Fiction",
            "characters": "Alcatraz Smedry",
            "synopsis": "\"When Alcatraz and Grandpa Smedry make a pilgrimage to the Free Kingdom city of Crystallia, the Smedry home base, Alcatraz is shocked to see that he is, in fact, a legend. When he was a baby he was stolen by the Evil Librarians, and his mother, a Librarian herself, was behind the whole scheme. Now, with his estranged father, who is acting indeed strange, Bastille, who has been stripped of her armor, and Grandpa Smedry, who is, as always, late to everything (that\u0027s his Talent), Alcatraz tries to save a city under siege. From who? Why, the Librarians of course!\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1944,
            "title": "Young Stalin",
            "author": "Simon Sebag Montefiore ",
            "date": "2007",
            "genres": "History, Biography, Nonfiction, Russia, Politics, Russian History, Biography Memoir, Historical, European History, War",
            "characters": "Joseph Stalin",
            "synopsis": "\"Based on ten years\u0027 astonishing new research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic, dangerous boy became a student priest, romantic poet, gangster mastermind, prolific lover, murderous revolutionary, and the merciless politician who shaped the Soviet Empire in his own brutal image: How Stalin became Stalin.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1945,
            "title": "Diplomatic Immunity",
            "author": "Lois McMaster Bujold ",
            "date": "2003",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Space Opera, Fiction, Mystery, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space, Audiobook, Military Fiction, Adventure",
            "characters": "Lady Ekaterin Vorkosigan, Bel Thorne, Miles Vorkosigan",
            "synopsis": "\"A rich Komarran merchant fleet has been impounded at Graf Station, in distant Quaddiespace, after a bloody incident on the station docks involving a security officer from the convoy\u0027s Barrayaran military escort. Lord Miles Vorkosigan of Barrayar and his wife, Lady Ekaterin, have other things on their minds, such as getting home in time to attend the long-awaited births of their first children. But when duty calls in the voice of Barrayar\u0027s Emperor Gregor, Miles, Gregor\u0027s youngest Imperial Auditor (a special high-level troubleshooter) has no choice but to answer.Waiting on Graf Station are diplomatic snarls, tangled loyalties, old friends, new enemies, racial tensions, lies and deceptions, mysterious disappearances, and a lethal secret with wider consequences than even Miles anticipates: a race with time for life against death in horrifying new forms.The downside of being a troubleshooter comes when trouble starts shooting back . . .\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1946,
            "title": "Locke \u0026 Key, Vol. 4: Keys to the Kingdom",
            "author": "Joe Hill , Gabriel Rodríguez (Artist)",
            "date": "Feb-13",
            "genres": "Graphic Novels, Comics, Horror, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Supernatural, Paranormal, Adult",
            "characters": "Tyler Locke, Kinsey Locke, Bode Locke",
            "synopsis": "\"Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez\u0027s Locke \u0026 Key unwinds into its fourth volume in Keys to the Kingdom. With more keys making themselves known, and the depths of the Locke family\u0027s mystery ever-expanding, Dodge\u0027s desperation to end his shadowy quest drives the inhabitants of Keyhouse ever closer to a revealing conclusion.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1947,
            "title": "Locke \u0026 Key, Vol. 3: Crown of Shadows",
            "author": "Joe Hill , Gabriel Rodríguez (Artist)",
            "date": "Feb-13",
            "genres": "Graphic Novels, Comics, Horror, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Mystery, Paranormal, Supernatural",
            "characters": "Tyler Locke, Kinsey Locke, Bode Locke",
            "synopsis": "\"The dead plot against the living, the darkness closes in on Keyhouse, and a woman is shattered beyond repair, in the third storyline of the Eisner-nominated series, Locke \u0026 Key! Dodge continues his relentless quest to find the key to the black door, and raises an army of shadows to wipe out anyone who might get in his way. Surrounded and outnumbered, the Locke children find themselves fighting a desperate battle, all alone, in a world where the night itself has become their enemy.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1948,
            "title": "Handling the Undead",
            "author": "John Ajvide Lindqvist",
            "date": "2009",
            "genres": "Horror, Zombies, Fiction, Fantasy, Swedish Literature, Paranormal, Supernatural, Sweden, Scandinavian Literature, Novels",
            "characters": "Gustav Mahler, David Zetterberg",
            "synopsis": "\"Something very peculiar is happening in Stockholm. There\u0027s a heatwave on and people cannot turn their lights out or switch their appliances off. Then the terrible news breaks. In the city morgue, the dead are waking up...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1949,
            "title": "Granny Dan",
            "author": "Danielle Steel",
            "date": "2000",
            "genres": "Romance, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical, Chick Lit, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Romance, Russia, Adult",
            "characters": "Danina \"\"Granny Dan\"\" Petroskova",
            "synopsis": "Op 17-jarige leeftijd is Danina Petroskova prima ballerina geworden. Maar gebeurtenissen zowel dichtbij als ver weg slaan de grond onder haar dansende voeten weg… Deze roman verscheen eerder onder de titel Oma Danina."
          },
          {
            "id": 1950,
            "title": "Spieltrieb",
            "author": "Juli Zeh",
            "date": "Mar-06",
            "genres": "Fiction, German Literature, Contemporary, Roman, Germany, Novels, Literature, Thriller, Young Adult, Literary Fiction",
            "characters": "Ada, Alev El Quamar, Szymon Smutek",
            "synopsis": "\"Ada ist mit 12 Jahren auf erschreckende Weise erwachsen geworden. Vor zwei Jahren nämlich hat die hochintelligente Schülerin, neu am Bonner Ernst-Bloch-Gymnasium und im Unterricht gern in die Rolle der Lehrerin schlüpfend, beschlossen, alles als „gleich gültig“ anzusehen. Nur der Sport- und Deutschlehrer Smutek und Höfi, der Geschichtslehrer, können ihr Paroli bieten. Aber dann kommt der ebenso attraktive wie kluge Halbägypter Alev ins Spiel, dem alle „Prinzessinnen“ der Schule zu Füßen liegen. Ada und Alev scheinen wie geschaffen für ein Experiment jenseits moralischer Konventionen, bei dem es vor allem um die gleichberechtigten Startanlagen der Teilnehmer geht. Das intellektuelle Kräftemessen beginnt - und weitet sich bald zu einer Obsession. Aber wer hält die Fäden in der Hand? Wie kann man Realität und Fiktion auseinanderhalten? Und: Gibt es eine Möglichkeit auszusteigen? Ada, so hieß schon einmal die (12-jährige) Heldin eines Buchs, in dem es um Spieltriebe in Internatsumgebung ging: um erotische Spiele, aber auch um solche mit Form und Inhalt. Ada oder Das Verlangen heißt dieses Buch, und der Meister adoleszenter Erotik, Vladmir Nabokov, hat es Ende der sechziger Jahre geschrieben. Ada erscheint darin als „anmutiger Computer“, dem der „Wortzirkus“ das größte Vergnügen bereitet. Und tatsächlich ist ADA ja auch der Name einer raffinierten, zur Strukturprüfung anderer Programme verwendeten Programmiersprache: unbewusst durchschauend und „intelligent dumm“ wie die Protagonistin von Zehs Spieltrieb eben. Auf beide Traditionen spielt Zehs Roman mehr als deutlich an: auch dies Teil einer intertextuellen Strategie, die das Buch um eine weitere Nuance bereichert. All diese Ebenen hat Zeh auf eine faszinierend konsequente, atmosphärisch überaus dichte Weise zu einer philosophischen Pubertätsgeschichte mit Liebes- und Krimielementen miteinander verwoben. Und sie hat dies so spielerisch leicht getan, das ihr faszinierender Roman auf hohem Niveau bestens, teils sogar vergnüglich lesbar geblieben ist. -Thomas Köster\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1951,
            "title": "The Gods of Mars",
            "author": "Edgar Rice Burroughs, Michael Whelan (Illustrator)",
            "date": "Jan-63",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Classics, Adventure, Pulp, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Sword and Planet, Aliens",
            "characters": "Dejah Thoris, John Carter, Tars Tarkas, Carthoris",
            "synopsis": "\"After the long exile on Earth, John Carter finally returned to his beloved Mars. But beautiful Dejah Thoris, the woman he loved, had vanished. Now he was trapped in the legendary Eden of Mars - an Eden from which none ever escaped alive.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1952,
            "title": "Hades\u0027 Disciples",
            "author": "Michael West ",
            "date": "May-14",
            "genres": "Horror, Fantasy, Mythology, Yeti, Paranormal, Science Fiction, Monsters, Dragons, Aliens, Werewolves",
            "characters": "Preacher, Benedict, Earl L. Preston Jr., Carol Miyagi, Dante \"\"The Horror Show\"\" Vianello, Alan Everson, Vivian Song, Kari Hannigan, Chud, Dr. Graeme King, Uzuri \"\"Zuri\"\" Shujaa, Agent Andrews, Dr. Kathy Ward, Detective Roy Perry",
            "synopsis": "\"Terrifying creatures exist all around us, hiding in plain sight. Ancient. Deadly. They gather in secret, conspiring, dreaming of nothing less than humanity\u0027s destruction, and their numbers are growing.Earl Preston knows the danger all too well. After tangling with a horde of mythological sea monsters in Colonial Bay, he has been tasked with finding these beasts and exposing their plans whatever they may be. But Earl is not the only one with a mystery on their hands. At the very top of the world, Carol Miyagi has stumbled onto an artifact from Earth\u0027s past, something magnificent held captive in a prison of ice and snow. Now, Carol and Earl must work quickly to decipher the will of the gods-a plot that defies imagination-and to stop their followers from carrying it out.They thought the nightmare was over, but they are about to discover that the horror has only just begun.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1953,
            "title": "Le Malade imaginaire",
            "author": "Molière",
            "date": "1998",
            "genres": "Classics, Plays, France, Theatre, Fiction, Drama, French Literature, School, Humor, 17th Century",
            "characters": "Angélique, Argan, Béline, Louison, Béralde, Cléante, Monsieur Diafoirus, Thomas Diafoirus, Monsieur Purgon, Monsieur Fleurant",
            "synopsis": "\"Le Malade imaginaire est la dernière comédie et en même temps la dernière pièce écrite par Molière. Il s\u0027agit d\u0027une comédie-ballet en trois actes.Dans la satire outrageante de Molière sur la médecine et ses praticiens on peut dire que le riche Argan “jouit” d\u0027une mauvaise santé. Les laxatifs, suppositoires, saignées, et les opinions deuxième et troisième des charlatans éminents sont à l\u0027ordre du jour et l’enfer de Toinette, sa servante qui ose lui contredire. Sa fille Angélique est amoureuse de Cléante, mais Argan veut la marier à Thomas Diafoirus, un médecin qui ne vaut rien, qui peut assurer à son beau-père des soins de santé pour la durée de sa vie. Cléante se déguise en professeur de musique pour pouvoir voir son amour, mais Béline, la deuxième épouse d’Argan, menace de les dénoncer. Une Toinette déguisée, des sages conseils de son frère Béralde, et une scène de mort truquée, vont enfin montrer à Argan qui il peut faire confiance.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1954,
            "title": "Rise of the Wolf",
            "author": "Curtis Jobling ",
            "date": "2011",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Werewolves, Middle Grade, Adventure, Paranormal, Fiction, Shapeshifters, Childrens, Supernatural",
            "characters": "Hector of Troy, Drew Ferran, Prince Lucas, Lady Gretchen, Whitley",
            "synopsis": "\"Imagine a world ruled by Werelords - men and women who can shift at will into bears, lions, and serpents. When Drew suddenly discovers he\u0027s not only a werewolf but the long-lost heir to the murdered Wolf King\u0027s throne, he must use his wits and newfound powers to survive in a land suddenly full of enemies. Drew\u0027s the only one who can unite the kingdom in a massive uprising against its tyrant ruler, Leopold the Lion. But the king is hot on Drew\u0027s tail and won\u0027t rest until he\u0027s got the rebel Wolf\u0027s head.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1955,
            "title": "The History of the Siege of Lisbon",
            "author": "José Saramago, Giovanni Pontiero (Translator)",
            "date": "2000",
            "genres": "Fiction, Portugal, Historical Fiction, Portuguese Literature, Literature, Novels, Nobel Prize, Romance, Classics, 20th Century",
            "characters": "Raimundo Silva, Dom Afonso Henriques",
            "synopsis": "\"\"\"If proofreaders were given their freedom and did not have their hands and feet tied by a mass of prohibitions more binding than the penal code, they would soon transform the face of the world, establish the kingdom of universal happiness, giving drink to the thirsty, food to the famished, peace to those who live in turmoil, joy to the sorrowful ... for they would be able to do all these things simply by changing the words ...\"\" The power of the word is evident in Portuguese author José Saramago\u0027s novel, The History of the Siege of Lisbon. His protagonist, a proofreader named Raimundo Silva, adds a key word to a history of Portugal and thus rewrites not only the past, but also his own life.  Brilliantly translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero, The History of the Siege of Lisbon is a meditation on the differences between historiography, historical fiction, and \"\"stories inserted into history.\"\" The novel is really two stories in one: the reimagined history of the 1147 siege of Lisbon that Raimundo feels compelled to write and the story of Raimundo\u0027s life, including his unexpected love affair with the editor, Maria Sara. In Saramago\u0027s masterful hands, the strands of this complex tale weave together to create a satisfying whole.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1956,
            "title": "محال",
            "author": "يوسف زيدان , Youssef Ziedan",
            "date": "2013",
            "genres": "Novels, Literature, Fiction, Egyptian Literature, Politics, Egypt, Unfinished",
            "characters": "شاب سودانى, نورا",
            "synopsis": "«وأما الأخبار التى بأيدينا الآن، فإنما نتَّبع فيها غالب الظن، لا العلم المحقق» – ابن النفيسبطل هذه الرواية شاب مصري سوداني يتسم بالبراءة والتدين، ويعمل كمرشد سياحي في الأقصر وأسوان. كانت أقصى أحلام هذا الشاب هي الزواج من فتاة نوبية جميلة ليبدأ حياة سعيدة هانئة، ولكن نظام حياته المسالم والممل ينقلب رأسا على عقب بعد مقابلة مع أسامة بن لادن في السودان في أوائل التسعينيات.تأسرنا الرواية بإيقاعها المتسارع لنتتبع مصير بطلها من الأقصر للخليج لأوزبكستان ثم أفغانستان ومعتقل جوانتانامو. لغة يوسف زيدان الشعرية تجعلنا نعيش تجربة إنسانية فريدة، حيث يختلط الواقع بالخيال وننطلق مع البطل في رحلة لنكتشف خبايا النفس والعالم"
          },
          {
            "id": 1957,
            "title": "The Shooting Star",
            "author": "Hergé",
            "date": "2002",
            "genres": "Comics, Graphic Novels, Bande Dessinée, Adventure, Fiction, Childrens, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, France, Mystery",
            "characters": "Tintin, Captain Archibald Haddock, Snowy, Philippulus the Prophet, Professor Decimus Phostle, Captain Chester",
            "synopsis": "\"A huge fireball comes hurtling towards Earth from space! Tintin sets sail with Captain Haddock to find the meteorite in the stormy Arctic Ocean, but a valuable metal is contained in the meteorite and Tintin\u0027s attempts to reach it are met with relentless sabotage.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1958,
            "title": "The Sound of Waves",
            "author": "Yukio Mishima, Meredith Weather(Translator)",
            "date": "2000",
            "genres": "Fiction, Japan, Japanese Literature, Classics, Romance, Literature, Asia, Novels, Asian Literature, 20th Century",
            "characters": "Shinji Kubo, Terukichi Miyata, Chiyoko, Yasuo Kawamoto",
            "synopsis": "\"Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. It tells of Shinji, a young fisherman and Hatsue, the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. Shinji is entranced at the sight of Hatsue in the twilight on the beach and they fall in love. When the villagers\u0027 gossip threatens to divide them, Shinji must risk his life to prove his worth.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1959,
            "title": "The Courts of Chaos",
            "author": "Roger Zelazny, Tim White (illustrator)",
            "date": "Published",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Audiobook, High Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, Speculative Fiction",
            "characters": "Random of Amber, Brand of Amber, Corwin of Amber, Benedict of Amber, Bleys of Amber, Fiona of Amber, King Oberon of Amber, Merlin of Amber",
            "synopsis": "\"Amber, the one real world of which all others – including our own Earth – are but Shadows...For untold millennia, the cosmic Pattern sustained order in Amber and all the known worlds. But now the forces of Chaos have succeeded in disrupting the Pattern, unleashing destructive forces beyond measure... forces meant to reshape the universe.To save Amber, Corwin, prince of the blood, champion of the perfect realm, must undertake the most perilous journey of his life. A journey that will take him through all the terrors of Shadows to the enemy\u0027s last stonghold. A journey beyond the very edge of existence... to the Courts of Chaos.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1960,
            "title": "Who\u0027s That Girl?",
            "author": "Alexandra Potter ",
            "date": "2009",
            "genres": "Chick Lit, Romance, Fiction, Contemporary, Magic, Adult, Time Travel, Contemporary Romance, Humor, British Literature",
            "characters": "Charlotte Merryweather",
            "synopsis": "\"At age thirty-one, American Charlotte Merryweather has spent ten years in London pursuing personal and professional perfection. Yet her present-day success- heading her own PR company, owning a gorgeous apartment, planning a future with her devoted boyfriend- only heightens the shock of a visit from the past.  \"\"Lottie,\"\" Charlotte\u0027s twenty-one-year-old self, drives onto the scene at the wheel of a rusty, orange Volkswagen Beetle identical to Charlotte\u0027s first UK ride. Charlotte pursues a friendship aimed to bestow upon Lottie a decade of wisdom. Yet Charlotte\u0027s prosperous polish proves a pale substitute for Lottie\u0027s innate, youthful graces- openness, passion, and kindness. Will the student become the teacher in this witty turnabout?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1961,
            "title": "The Fourth Protocol",
            "author": "Frederick Forsyth",
            "date": "1996",
            "genres": "Fiction, Thriller, Espionage, Mystery, Suspense, Spy Thriller, Novels, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Action",
            "characters": "Harold Philby, John Preston, Jim Rawlings, George Berenson, Jan Marais, Sir Nigel Irvine",
            "synopsis": "\"Professional thief Jim Rawlings breaks into the apartment of a senior civil servant, and unintentionally discovers stolen top secret documents. Although one of the most notorious thieves in London, he is enough of a patriot to anonymously send the documents to MI5 so that they might locate the traitor. In Moscow, British defector Kim Philby drafts a memorandum for the Soviet General Secretary stating that, if the Labour Party wins the next general election in the United Kingdom (scheduled for sometime in the subsequent eighteen months), the \"\"hard left\"\" of the party will oust the moderate populist Neil Kinnock in favour of a radical new leader who will adopt a true Marxist-Leninist manifesto, including the expulsion of all American forces from the United Kingdom and the country\u0027s withdrawal from and repudiation of NATO. In conjunction with a GRU general, an academic named Krilov, and a master strategist, Philby devises \"\"Plan Aurora\"\" to ensure a Labour victory by exploiting the party\u0027s support for unilateral disarmament - although it is noted that the strategist, a nuclear physicist and chess Grand Master, has come up with most of the plan\u0027s strategy.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1962,
            "title": "Way Station",
            "author": "Clifford D. Simak",
            "date": "1992",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Hugo Awards, Classics, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Aliens, Speculative Fiction, Audiobook, Space",
            "characters": "Mary, Enoch Wallace, Lucy Fisher, Winslowe",
            "synopsis": "\"Enoch Wallace is an ageless hermit, striding across his untended farm as he has done for over a century, still carrying the gun with which he had served in the Civil War. But what his neighbors must never know is that, inside his unchanging house, he meets with a host of unimaginable friends from the farthest stars.More than a hundred years before, an alien named Ulysses had recruited Enoch as the keeper of Earth\u0027s only galactic transfer station. Now, as Enoch studies the progress of Earth and tends the tanks where the aliens appear, the charts he made indicate his world is doomed to destruction. His alien friends can only offer help that seems worse than the dreaded disaster. Then he discovers the horror that lies across the galaxy...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1963,
            "title": "Robots and Empire",
            "author": "Isaac Asimov",
            "date": "1996",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Robots, Mystery, Classics, Novels, Fantasy, Space Opera, Detective",
            "characters": "R. Daneel Olivaw, Keldon Amadiro, Gladia Delmarre, R. Giskard Reventlov",
            "synopsis": "\"Long after his humiliating defeat at the hands of Earthman Elijah Baley, Keldon Amadiro embarked on a plan to destroy planet Earth. But even after his death, Baley\u0027s vision continued to guide his robot partner, R. Daneel Olivaw, who had the wisdom of a great man behind him and an indestructable will to win....\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1964,
            "title": "Die rote Zora und ihre Bande",
            "author": "Kurt Held",
            "date": "2003",
            "genres": "Childrens, German Literature, Classics, Fiction, Young Adult, Adventure, Middle Grade, Roman, Kids, Germany",
            "characters": "Zora, Branko",
            "synopsis": "\"Eine Stadt am Adriatischen Meer ist Schauplatz dieses Romans. Branco, der Sohn eines fahrenden Geigers und einer Tabakarbeiterin, verliert seine Mutter. Er hat kein Zuhause mehr. Bald verdächtigt man ihn des Diebstahls und sperrt ihn ein. Doch Zora, das Mädchen mit den roten Haaren, befreit ihn, und er wird in die Bande der jungen Uskoken aufgenommen, die in der alten Burg hausen. Nicht Romantik, sondern Hunger und Not haben sie zusammengetrieben. Sie kämpfen ums tägliche Brot, gegen Entbehrungen und Verfolgung. So Ernst die Lage der Kinder oft ist, so herrlich sind die Einfälle, mit denen sie ihren Widersachern begegnen, und um so selbstloser wird ihre Kameradschaft. Mögen die Erwachsenen sich auch von ihnen abwenden: sie finden aneinander Halt, und ein eigenes Ehrgefühl bewahrt sie vor Schlechtem. Ihre wilden Streiche bringen jedoch die Bürgerschaft gegen sie auf, und es droht das Gefängnis. Da weiß aber ihr Beschützer, ein alter Fischer, die Stadtväter zu überzeugen, dass es zum Besten aller ist, sich der Kinder anzunehmen. So finden die Rote Zora und ihre Bande endlich Arbeit und ein Zuhause.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1965,
            "title": "The Knight Templar",
            "author": "Jan Guillou",
            "date": "2010",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Swedish Literature, Scandinavian Literature, Medieval, Adventure, War, Novels, Sweden",
            "characters": "Richard I of England, Heraclius, Saladin, Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, Arn Magnusson, Birger Brosa, Canute I of Sweden, Wilfred of Ivanhoe, Guy of Lusignan, Arnold of Torroja, Roger de Moulins, Raynald of Châtillon, Gerard de Ridefort, Raymond III of Tripoli, Cecilia Johansdotter of Sweden, Magnus Minniskiöld",
            "synopsis": "\"Tempelriddaren är den spännande fortsättningen på Vägen till Jerusalem. Arn är 27 år och redan en ärrad veteran bland korsfararna i Det heliga landet. Mycket har han hunnit lära sig under de tio år som gått sedan han red bort från Arnäs i Västergötland för sin tjugoåriga botgöringstjänst i Palestina. Den trosvissa övertygelse om uppdragets rättfärdighet som den 17-årige rekryten hade vid sin ankomst till korsfararriket har fått sig många törnar. Och nu, som borgherre i garnisonen i Gaza och med uppdraget att upprätthålla lag och ordning i trakten, får han allt oftare erfara att han har mera besvär med de nyanlända korsfararna - som antingen styrs av överdrivet kristet nit eller alltför ohöljd plundringslust - än med landets luttrade urinvånare. Hemma i Sverige har under tiden Cecilia, Arns ungdomskärlek som till straff för deras älskog sattes i det stränga Gudhems kloster, fött deras barn, en gosse som växer upp hos Arns farbror Birger Brosa. Cecilia ber om undret att Arn måtte komma åter, och även Birger som manövrerar slugt i de svenska maktstriderna hoppas på Arns återkomst.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1966,
            "title": "Thousand Cranes",
            "author": "Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)",
            "date": "1996",
            "genres": "Japan, Fiction, Japanese Literature, Classics, Asia, Literature, Novels, Asian Literature, Nobel Prize, Romance",
            "characters": "Kikuji, Mrs. Ota, Fumiko",
            "synopsis": "\"An alternate cover of this ISBN can be found here.Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s Thousand Cranes is a luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead.   While attending a traditional tea ceremony in the aftermath of his parents’ deaths, Kikuji encounters his father’s former mistress, Mrs. Ota. At first Kikuji is appalled by her indelicate nature, but it is not long before he succumbs to passion—a passion with tragic and unforeseen consequences, not just for the two lovers, but also for Mrs. Ota’s daughter, to whom Kikuji’s attachments soon extend. Death, jealousy, and attraction convene around the delicate art of the tea ceremony, where every gesture is imbued with profound meaning.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1967,
            "title": "The Seven Dials Mystery",
            "author": "Agatha Christie",
            "date": "2001",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Mystery Thriller, Detective, British Literature, Thriller, Murder Mystery, Adult",
            "characters": "Superintendent Battle, Lady Eileen Brent, Bill Eversleigh, George Lomax, Tredwell, Clement Edward Alistair Brent, Lord Caterham, Jimmy Thesinger, Sir Oswald Coote, Lady Maria Coote, Rupert Bateman, Gerald Wade, Lorraine Wade, Herr Eberhard, Countess Anna Radzky, Mr. Mosgorovsky, John Bauer, Ronny Devereux",
            "synopsis": "\"Gerry Wade é por todos conhecido como um inveterado dorminhoco. Aquando de uma festa organizada em Chimneys, o seu grupo de amigos decide pregar-lhe uma partida memorável. Na cidade vizinha compram oito relógios despertadores, com os quais estão decididos a sobressaltá-lo durante o sono. A noite passa mas as suas expectativas saem goradas quando o atroador toque dos relógios não exerce qualquer efeito sobre Gerry. Tinham razão ao esperar um efeito surpreendente, mas não podiam imaginar que fosse tão trágico. Poderá o relógio desaparecido explicar tão fatal mistério?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1968,
            "title": "Die Räuber",
            "author": "Friedrich Schiller, Jaan Kärner (-Translator)",
            "date": "1986",
            "genres": "Classics, Plays, German Literature, Drama, Fiction, School, 18th Century, Germany, Literature, Theatre",
            "characters": "Daniel Foster, Franz Moor, Karl Moor, Maximilian Moor, Amalia von Edelreich, Spiegelberg, Schweizer, Schufterle, Roller, Grimm, Razmann, Kosinsky, Schwarz, Pastor Moser, Hermann",
            "synopsis": "Mit seinem 1781 erschienenen leidenschaftlichen Drama der Selbtstzerstörung einer Familie machte Schiller bei der Uraufführung am Mannheimer Nationaltheater 1782 Sensation. Fortan galt er den Zeitgenossen als ein deutscher Shakespeare. Die Themen und Motive des Sturm-und-Drang-Stücks blieben für Schiller bis zu seinen letzen klassischen Werken verbindlich und haben bis heute nichts von ihrer Faszination verloren."
          },
          {
            "id": 1969,
            "title": "The Blue Djinn of Babylon",
            "author": "P.B. Kerr",
            "date": "2006",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Adventure, Middle Grade, Childrens, Magic, Mythology, Young Adult Fantasy, Novels",
            "characters": "Nimrod, John Gaunt, Philippa Gaunt",
            "synopsis": "\"Sequel to the NY TIMES Bestseller, The Akhenaten Adventure. John and Phillipa Gaunt, 12 year old twins who recently discovered themselves to be descended from a long line of djinn (which are commonly called genies) and who are now in possession of great magical powers, have only just returned from their adventures battling an evil djinn in Cairo and London. Now the mystery surrounding a powerful book of djinn magic lures the twins straight into their next extraordinary adventure. 8.5 x 5.25 x 1.2\"\"\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1970,
            "title": "Die dunkle Seite des Mondes",
            "author": "Martin Suter",
            "date": "Dec-01",
            "genres": "Fiction, German Literature, Contemporary, Roman, Novels, School, Thriller, Crime, Drama, Literary Fiction",
            "characters": "Urs Blank",
            "synopsis": "\"Starwirtschaftsanwalt Urs Blank, fünfundvierzig, Fachmann für Fusionsverhandlungen, hat seine Gefühle im Griff. Doch dann gerät sein Leben aus den Fugen. Ein Trip mit halluzinogenen Pilzen führt zu einer gefährlichen Persönlichkeitsveränderung, aus der ihn niemand zurückzuholen vermag. Blank flieht in den Wald. Bis er endlich begreift: Es gibt nur einen Weg, um sich aus diesem Alptraum zu befreien.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1971,
            "title": "Playing for the Ashes",
            "author": "Elizabeth George ",
            "date": "1994",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Detective, British Literature, Murder Mystery, Suspense, Contemporary",
            "characters": "Thomas Lynley, Barbara Havers, Lady Helen Clyde, Winston Nkata, Kenneth Fleming, Miriam Whitelaw, Olivia Whitelaw, Jean Cooper, Jimmy Cooper, Chris Faraday, Isabelle Ardery",
            "synopsis": "\"\"\"The story begins with my father, actually, and the fact that I\u0027m the one who\u0027s answerable for his death.  It was not my first crime, as you will see, but it is the one my mother couldn\u0027t forgive.\"\"In her astonishing New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Elizabeth George reveals the even darker truth behind this startling confession. Playing for the Ashes is a rich tale of passion, murder and love in which Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers once again find themselves embroiled in a case where nothing—and no one—is really what it seems.  Intense, suspenseful and brilliantly written, Playing for theAshes will make readers \"\"search out the sleuthing pair\u0027s first six adventures...a treasure,\"\" as Cosmopolitan predicted in their review.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1972,
            "title": "The Blue Lotus",
            "author": "Hergé",
            "date": "2002",
            "genres": "Comics, Graphic Novels, Bande Dessinée, Adventure, Fiction, France, Graphic Novels Comics, Childrens, Comic Book, Mystery",
            "characters": "Tintin, Thomson \u0026 Thompson, Roberto Rastapopoulos, Snowy, Mitsuhirato, Chang",
            "synopsis": "\"Tintin och Milou fortsätter sin asiatiska resa till Shanghai i Kina, för att försöka lösa mysteriet med farao Kih-Oskhs cigarrer. Tintin räddar den lille pojken Tchang Tchong-Jen från att drunkna, och de blir goda vänner. Jakten på narkotikaligan leder dem till tillhållet Blå lotus, där det står klart att skumma saker försiggår ... Hergé träffade Tchang på riktigt under sitt arbete med \"\"Blå lotus\"\" och deras vänskap kom att betyda mycket för honom; den öppnade hans ögon på flera sätt och gav honom ökad respekt för andra kulturer. Tintin som tidigare varit en representant för gängse uppfattningar börjar nu aktivt bekämpa fördomar. Detta visar sig tydligt i kommande böcker, där Hergé också varit medveten om vikten av noggrann research!\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1973,
            "title": "The Wave",
            "author": "Todd Strasser , Morton Rhue",
            "date": "Mar-05",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Fiction, School, Classics, Historical Fiction, Read For School, Contemporary, Psychology, Realistic Fiction, Historical",
            "characters": "David Collins, Laurie Saunders, Amy Smith, Ben Ross, Robert Billings, Christy Ross",
            "synopsis": "\"The Wave is based on a true incident that occurred in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969.The powerful forces of group pressure that pervaded many historic movements such as Nazism are recreated in the classroom when history teacher Burt Ross introduces a \"\"new\"\" system to his students. And before long The Wave, with its rules of \"\"strength through discipline, community, and action\"\", sweeps from the classroom through the entire school. And as most of the students join the movement, Laurie Saunders and David Collins recognize the frightening momentum of The Wave and realize they must stop it before it\u0027s too late.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1975,
            "title": "Five Go Adventuring Again",
            "author": "Enid Blyton",
            "date": "2001",
            "genres": "Childrens, Fiction, Adventure, Mystery, Classics, Young Adult, Middle Grade, British Literature, Novels, Juvenile",
            "characters": "Timothy, George Kirrin (Famous Five), Dick Kirrin, Anne (Famous Five), Julian (Famous Five)",
            "synopsis": "\"There\u0027s a thief at Kirrin Cottage! The Famous Five think they know who it is, but they need to prove it! Where can they find evidence? The discovery of an old map and very unusual hiding place is all they need to get to the bottom of this mystery and uncover the true culprit!\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1976,
            "title": "Mackenzie\u0027s Mission",
            "author": "Linda Howard",
            "date": "Jul-00",
            "genres": "Romance, Contemporary Romance, Contemporary, Romantic Suspense, Military Fiction, Suspense, Fiction, Chick Lit, Adult, Mystery",
            "characters": "Caroline Evans, Joe \"\"Breed\"\" Mackenzie",
            "synopsis": "\"Night Wing — the revolutionary test plane with a top secret weapons system — was Colonel Joe \"\"Breed\"\" Mackenzie\u0027s number-one priority. And weapons expert Caroline Evans was his number-one distraction. True, the stubborn blonde was giving him the cold shoulder, but Joe hadn\u0027t become the best of the best by giving up. Then he discovered someone on the inside was sabotaging Night Wing, and with her late hours and specialized expertise, Caroline seemed the obvious choice. Now Joe had to choose between allegiance to his country and love for his prime suspect...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1977,
            "title": "Jembatan Musim Gugur",
            "author": "Takashi Matsuoka, Ary Nilandari  (Translator)",
            "date": "2005",
            "genres": "Japan, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Historical, Fiction, Japanese Literature, Novels, Romance, Asian Literature, Indonesian Literature",
            "characters": "Genji Okumichi, Lady Shizuka, Emily Gibson",
            "synopsis": "\"Mengetahui masa depan dan mengetahui masa lampau adalah dua hal yang bermakna sama. Apa bedanya mengetahui hal yang tak terelakkan dengan mengetahui apa yang telah terjadi?Aki-no-Hashi(1311)Sesosok wanita hadir, mengiris keheningan menara tertinggi Kastel Awan Burung Gereja. Kecantikannya memukau, kelembutannya menghanyutkan, dan keanggunannya menebarkan pesona. Tetapi, kemunculannya selalu berselubung misteri. Benarkah dia Lady Shizuka, sang putri sihir dari masa lampau? Benarkah dia penentu sejarah klan Okumichi? Dan mengapa dia juga muncul di hadapan Emily Gibson, wanita asing yang bukan keturunannya?Samurai: Jembatan Musim Gugur menguak kelanjutan kisah hidup Genji Okumichi, sang Daimyo Akaoka dalam Samurai: Kastel Awan Burung Gereja. Kisah ini pun menyibak kekuatan cinta yang mampu menjungkirbalikkan dunia, perpaduan kekuatan ragawi dan kehalusan pekerti, dan mengedepankan ketulusan sejati dalam menyikapi takdir, meskipun akhir hidup sudah di depan mata.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1978,
            "title": "Tuesday\u0027s Child",
            "author": "Louise Bagshawe ",
            "date": "Published",
            "genres": "Chick Lit, Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Adult, Womens Fiction, New Adult, Humor",
            "characters": "Lucy Evans, Oliver McCleod, Victoria Cobham, Todd Mayle",
            "synopsis": "\"The heroine this novel is a tomboy. She loves her Doc Martens, heavy metal, and hanging out with her best friend, Ollie. She may have been born on a Tuesday, but graceful she isn\u0027t. However, Grace\u0027s world is about to change. Ollie gets engaged, and her new boss wants her to smarten up. Grace tries to turn herself into the kind of girl she thinks they want her to be - with hilarious and unexpected results.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1979,
            "title": "Locke \u0026 Key, Vol. 5: Clockworks",
            "author": "Joe Hill , Gabriel Rodríguez (Artist)",
            "date": "Jul-13",
            "genres": "Graphic Novels, Horror, Comics, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Paranormal, Supernatural, Adult",
            "characters": "Tyler Locke, Kinsey Locke, Bode Locke, Zack Wells",
            "synopsis": "\"Locke \u0026 Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them.... and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all...! After the gruesome murder of their father, the Locke kids, Tyler, Kinsey and Bode move with their mother Nina to the ancestral family home, Keyhouse. They soon discover that the house is full of secrets when they start finding magical keys which hold impossible powers such as turning people into ghosts, or being able to erase someone\u0027s memories. They are not the only ones who know of the keys; a demonic creature known as Dodge is also after the keys, with the goal of opening the Black Door, which will allow the demons of hell to enter our world. The sprawling tale of the Locke family and their mastery of the \u0027whispering steel\u0027 thunders to new heights as the true history of the family is revealed to Tyler and Kinsey. Zack Wells assumes a new form, Tyler and Kinsey travel through time.Tyler and Kinsey Locke have no idea that their now-deceased nemesis, Lucas \"\"Dodge\"\" Caravaggio, has taken over the body of their younger brother, Bode. With unrestricted access to Keyhouse, Dodge\u0027s ruthless quest to find the Omega Key and open the Black Door is almost complete. But Tyler and Kinsey have a dangerous key of their own — one that can unlock all the secrets of Keyhouse by opening a gateway to the past. The time has come for the Lockes to face theri own legacy and the darkness behind the Black Door. Because if they don\u0027t learn from their family history, they may be doomed to repeat it, and time is running out!Colonel Adam Crais\u0027s minutemen are literally trapped between a rock and a hard place; in the first days of the Revolutionary War, they find themselves hiding beneath 120 feet of New England stone, with a full regiment of redcoats waiting for them in the daylight... and a door into hell in the cavern below. The black door is open, and it\u0027s up to a 16-year-old smith named Ben Locke to find a way to close it. The biggest mysteries of the Locke \u0026 Key series are resolved as Clockworks opens, not with a bang, but with the thunderous crash of English cannons.Contents:Clockworks [Locke \u0026 Key • 5] / graphic format novella by Joe Hill; interior artwork by Gabriel Rodriguez and Jay Fotos 1 The Locksmith\u0027s Son 2 SMASH! 3 The Tamers of the Tempest 4 The Whispering Iron 5 Grown-Ups 6 CurtainThe Known Keys (Clockworks) [Locke \u0026 Key • 5.5] [Excerpts from the Diary of Benjamin Pierce Locke, 1757-1799] / shortfiction by Joe Hill; interior artwork by Gabriel Rodriguez...to be concluded in Locke \u0026 Key: OMEGAStorytellers: Joe Hill, author, Gabriel Rodriguez, Illustrator. Series edited by Chris Ryall. Collection edited by Justin Eisinger..\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1980,
            "title": "Kinderen van Moeder Aarde",
            "author": "Thea Beckman",
            "date": "2003",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Childrens, Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Post Apocalyptic, 20th Century, Dutch Literature, Historical Fiction",
            "characters": "Christian, Thura, Kunz, Kolbe, Hannah-Dottir, Armina-Dottir, Rajo, Anouk",
            "synopsis": "\"Zes eeuwen na de Derde Wereldoorlog. De aarde is door een kernoorlog gekanteld en bijna verwoest. Het ijs op het vroegere Groenland, dat nu Thule heet, is gesmolten en het land heeft een heerlijk klimaat. De mensen leven in harmonie met de natuur. Het land wordt door vrouwen geregeerd, zonder leger, zonder wapens.Op een dag verschijnt er een onbekend schip in de fjord. Algauw blijkt dat de opvarenden van het schip, afkomstig uit het Badense Rijk, van plan zijn Thule te veroveren. Bij een land zonder wapens, geregeerd door vrouwen, moet dat toch niet moeilijk zijn! De Badeners stuiten echter op onverwachte tegenstand.Kinderen van Moeder Aarde is deel 1 in de Thule-trilogie.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1981,
            "title": "South: The Story of Shackleton\u0027s Last Expedition 1914-1917",
            "author": "Ernest Shackleton, Peter King (Editor), Frank Hurley (Illustrator)",
            "date": "Nov-99",
            "genres": "History, Nonfiction, Adventure, Biography, Travel, Memoir, Historical, Survival, Classics, Autobiography",
            "characters": "Ernest Shackleton",
            "synopsis": "\"In 1914, as the shadow of war falls across Europe, a party led by veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton sets out to become the first to traverse the Antarctic continent. Their initial optimism is short-lived, however, as the ice field slowly thickens, encasing the ship Endurance in a death-grip, crushing their craft, and marooning 28 men on a polar ice floe.In an epic struggle of man versus the elements, Shackleton leads his team on a harrowing quest for survival over some of the most unforgiving terrain in the world. Icy, tempestuous seas full of gargantuan waves, mountainous glaciers and icebergs, unending brutal cold, and ever-looming starvation are their mortal foes as Shackleton and his men struggle to stay alive.What happened to those brave men forever stands as a testament to their strength of will and the power of human endurance.This is their story, as told by the man who led them.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1982,
            "title": "Complicity",
            "author": "Iain Banks",
            "date": "2003",
            "genres": "Fiction, Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Contemporary, Scotland, Novels, British Literature, Science Fiction, Modern",
            "characters": "Cameron Colley",
            "synopsis": "\"A few spliffs, a spot of milkd S\u0026M, phone through the copy of tomorrow\u0027s front page, catch up with the latest from your mystery source - could be big, could be very big - in fact, just a regular day at the office for free-wheeling, substance abusing Cameron Colley, a fully paid-up Gonzo hack on an Edinburgh newspaper. The source is pretty thin, but Cameron senses a scoop and checks out a series of bizarre deaths from a few years ago - only to find that the police are checking out a series of bizarre deaths that are happening right now. And Cameron just might know more about it that he\u0027d care to admit...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1983,
            "title": "The Illearth War",
            "author": "Stephen R. Donaldson",
            "date": "Nov-89",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction, Adventure, Epic, High Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Dark Fantasy",
            "characters": "Thomas Covenant",
            "synopsis": "\"After scant days in his \"\"real\"\" world, Thomas Covenant found himself again summoned to the Land. There forty bitter years had passed, while Lord Foul, immortal enemy of the Land, moved to fulfill his prophecy of doom.The Council of Lords found their spells useless, now that Foul the Despiser held the Illearth Stone, ancient source of evil power, High Lord Elena turned in desperation to Covenant and the legendary white hold magic of his ring. And nobody knew how to use the white hold-least of all, Thomas Covenant.Thus continues one of the most remarkable epic fantasies ever written...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1984,
            "title": "Harpist in the Wind",
            "author": "Patricia A. McKillip",
            "date": "1979",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Magic, Young Adult, Science Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Adventure, Adult",
            "characters": "Morgon, Prince of Hed, Raederle of An",
            "synopsis": "\"In the midst of conflict and unrest the Prince of Hed solves the puzzle of his future when he learns to harp the wind, discovers who the shape changers are, and understands his own relationship to Deth, harpist of the wizard Ohm.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1985,
            "title": "The Devil\u0027s Right Hand",
            "author": "Lilith Saintcrow ",
            "date": "2007",
            "genres": "Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, Paranormal, Demons, Fiction, Paranormal Romance, Romance, Magic, Supernatural, Adult",
            "characters": "Eddie, Dante Valentine, Gabriel \"\"Gabe\"\" Anderson, Japhrimel, Lucas Villalobos",
            "synopsis": "\"Dante Valentine, Necromancer and bounty hunter, just wants to be left alone. But the Devil has other ideas. The Prince wants Dante. And he wants her now. And Dante and her lover, Japhrimel, have no choice but to answer the Prince\u0027s summons. And to fulfill a seemingly simple task: become the Devil\u0027s Right Hand, hunt down four demons that have escaped from Hell, and earn His gratitude. It\u0027s a shame that nothing is ever easy when it comes to the Devil. Because of course, he doesn\u0027t tell Dante the whole truth: there is a rebellion brewing in Hell. And there is a good chance that Lucifer is about to be pushed off the throne. But Dante is getting really tired of being pushed around. And this time, she might be angry enough to take on the Devil himself...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1986,
            "title": "East of the Sun",
            "author": "Julia Gregson ",
            "date": "Jun-08",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, India, Romance, Historical, Asia, Travel, Chick Lit, British Literature, Novels",
            "characters": "Rose, Victoria Kitchen, Guy, Viva",
            "synopsis": "\"Autumn 1928. The Kaiser-i-Hind is en route to Bombay. In Cabin D38, Viva Hollowat, an inexperienced chaperone, is worried she\u0027s made a terrible mistake. Her advert in The Lady has resulted in three unsettling charges to be escorted to India.Rose, a beautiful, dangerously naive English girl, is about to be married to the cavalry officer she has met only a handful of times.Victoria, the bridesmaid, is determined to lose her virginity on the journey before finding a husband of her own in India. And overshadowing all three of them, the malevolent presence of Guy Glover, a strange and disturbed schoolboy.Three potential Memsahibs with a myriad of reasons for leaving England, but the cargo of hopes and secrets they carry has done little to prepare them for what lies ahead.From the parties of the wealthy Bombay socialites to the poverty of the orphans on Tamarind Street, East of the Sun is everything a historical novel should be: alive with glorious detail, fascinating characters and masterful storytelling.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1987,
            "title": "The Greek Myths",
            "author": "Robert Graves",
            "date": "1992",
            "genres": "Mythology, Classics, Nonfiction, History, Reference, Religion, Greece, Greek Mythology, Literature, Philosophy",
            "characters": "Oedipus, Artemis (Goddess), Demeter (Goddess), Theseus (mythology), Ajax (Greek hero), Odysseus, Penelope (wife of Odysseus), Helen of Troy, Menelaus, Paris, Hector of Troy, Achilles (Greek hero), Pandora (mythology), Orestes, Zeus (God), Dionysus (mythology), Ares (god), Eris, Perseus, Prometheus (mythology), Athena (Greek goddess), Hera, Atlas, Persephone (Goddess), Hades, Hephaestus, Eros, Eurydice, Orpheus, Medusa, Aeneas, Osiris, Asclepius, Electra, Poseidon (God), Medea of Colchis, Chiron, Sarpedon (king of Lycia), Priam, Daedalus, Thoth, Arachne (mythology), Erinyes, Cassandra (of Troy), Ganymede (mythology), Boreas, Cadmus (mythology), Europa, Hermaphroditus, Ixion, Leto (mythology), Minos, Narcissus, Niobe (mythology), Pan (Greek), Pegasus, Scylla, Tiresias, Hermes, Silenus, Rhea (Greek), Heracles, Cerberus, Aphrodite, Creon, Iris (Greek), Minotaur, Sisyphus, Hydra of Lerna, Cronos (Greek), Hestia (Goddess), Atropos (mythology), Gaia (Greek), Antiope (mythology), Hecate (mythology), Apollo (Greek god), Clytemnestra (wife of Agamemnon), Pygmalion (Greek), Uranus (Greek), Oceanus (Greek), Charon (mythology), Sphinx (Greek mythology), Hyperion (mythology), Selene (mythology), Eos (mythology), Helius (mythology), Styx (Goddess), Icarus (mythology), Thetis (mythology), Galatea (mythology), Echo (mythology), Tantalus, Adonis (mythology), Myrrha, Euterpe (mythology), Ariadne (mythology), Priapus, Procrustes (mythology), Agamemnon",
            "synopsis": "\"Combines in a single volume the complete text of the definitive two-volume classic, citing all the ancient myths. For a full appreciation of literature or visual art, knowledge of the Greek myths is crucial. In this much-loved collection, poet and scholar Robert Graves retells the immortal stories of the Greek myths. Demeter mourning her daughter Persephone, Icarus flying too close to the sun, Theseus and the Minotaur … all are captured here with the author’s characteristic erudition and flair.The Greek Myths is the culmination of years of research and careful observation, however what makes this collection extraordinary is the imaginative and poetic style of the retelling. Drawing on his experience as a novelist and poet, Graves tells the fantastic stories of Ancient Greece in a style that is both absorbing and easy for the general reader to understand. Each story is accompanied by Graves’ interpretation of the origins and deeper meaning of the story, giving a reader an unparalleled insight into the customs and development of the Greek world.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1988,
            "title": "The Pursuit of Love",
            "author": "Nancy Mitford",
            "date": "1999",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Romance, Historical Fiction, British Literature, Humor, 20th Century, Historical, Novels, Modern Classics",
            "characters": "Linda Radlett, Matthew Radlett, Fanny Wincham, Aunt Emily, David Warbeck, Lord Merlin, Sadie Radlett, Jassy, Matt, Robin and Vicki Radlett, Louisa Radlett, The Bolter, Tony Kroesig, Christian Talbot, Fabrice Sauveterre, Alfred Wincham, Lavender Davis",
            "synopsis": "\"Few aristocratic English families of the twentieth century enjoyed the glamorous notoriety of the infamous Mitford sisters. Nancy Mitford\u0027s most famous novel, The Pursuit of Love satirizes British aristocracy in the twenties and thirties through the amorous adventures of the Radletts, an exuberantly unconventional family closely modelled on Mitford\u0027s own.The Radletts of Alconleigh occupy the heights of genteel eccentricity, from terrifying Lord Alconleigh (who, like Mitford\u0027s father, used to hunt his children with bloodhounds when foxes were not available), to his gentle wife, Sadie, their wayward daughter Linda, and the other six lively Radlett children. Mitford\u0027s wickedly funny prose follows these characters through misguided marriages and dramatic love affairs, as the shadow of World War II begins to close in on their rapidly vanishing world.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1989,
            "title": "Don\u0027t Look Now",
            "author": "Daphne du Maurier",
            "date": "1971",
            "genres": "Short Stories, Horror, Fiction, Classics, Gothic, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, British Literature, 20th Century",
            "characters": "John Baxter, Laura Baxter",
            "synopsis": "The title novella of this collection features John and Laura who are on holiday in Venice. But it is a dangerous place for them as they are being followed by two old sisters and there is a killer on the loose."
          },
          {
            "id": 1990,
            "title": "The Initiation",
            "author": "L.J. Smith ",
            "date": "1992",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Witches, Romance, Magic, Supernatural, Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance",
            "characters": "Nick Armstrong, Cassie Blake, Faye Chamberlain, Diana Meade, Adam Conant, Laurel Quincey, Melanie Glaser, Deborah Armstrong, Chris Henderson, Doug Henderson, Susan Whitler",
            "synopsis": "Cassie is initiated into her hometown\u0027s coven of witches but her love for the coven leader\u0027s boyfriend could prove deadly."
          },
          {
            "id": 1991,
            "title": "The Mystery of Edwin Drood",
            "author": "Charles Dickens, David Paroissien (Annotations)",
            "date": "2002",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Mystery, 19th Century, Literature, Victorian, British Literature, Gothic, Historical Fiction, Novels",
            "characters": "Edwin Drood, Edwin Drood, Rosa Bud, Dick Datchery, John Jasper, Neville Landless, Rev. Septimus Crisparkle, Dupin, Pater Brown, Marlowe, Helena Landless, Hiram Grewgious, Miss Twinkleton, Luke Honeythunder, Mr. Tartar, Thomas Sapsea, Hercule Poirot, Jules Maigret, Charles Dickens, Sherlock Holmes",
            "synopsis": "\"Charles Dickens\u0027s final, unfinished novel, and one that has puzzled readers and inspired writers since its publication, The Mystery of Edwin Drood is edited with an introduction by David Paroissien in Penguin Classics.Edwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa Bud when he comes of age, but when they find that duty has gradually replaced affection, they agree to break off the engagement. Shortly afterwards, in the middle of a storm on Christmas Eve, Edwin disappears, leaving nothing behind but some personal belongings and the suspicion that his jealous uncle John Jasper, madly in love with Rosa, is the killer. And beyond this presumed crime there are further intrigues: the dark opium dens of the sleepy cathedral town of Cloisterham, and the sinister double life of Choirmaster Jasper, whose drug-fuelled fantasy life belies his respectable appearance. Dickens died before completing The Mystery of Edwin Drood, leaving its tantalising mystery unsolved and encouraging successive generations of readers to turn detective.This edition contains an introduction by David Paroissien, discussing the novel\u0027s ending, with a chronology, notes, original illustrations by Samuel Luke Fildes, appendices on opium use in the nineteenth century, the \u0027Sapsea Fragment\u0027 and Dickens\u0027s plans for the story\u0027s conclusion.Charles Dickens is one of the best-loved novelists in the English language, whose 200th anniversary was celebrated in 2012. His most famous books, including Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield and The Pickwick Papers, have been adapted for stage and screen and read by millions.If you enjoyed The Mystery of Edwin Drood, you might like Dickens\u0027s Little Dorrit, also available in Penguin Classics.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1992,
            "title": "Five Go Off in a Caravan",
            "author": "Enid Blyton",
            "date": "2001",
            "genres": "Childrens, Adventure, Fiction, Mystery, Classics, Young Adult, Middle Grade, British Literature, Juvenile, Novels",
            "characters": "George Kirrin (Famous Five), Dick Kirrin, Timmy, Tinker, Anne (Famous Five), Julian (Famous Five)",
            "synopsis": "\"A caravan holiday for the Famous Five is bound to be an adventure! And when they stumble across a circus troupe, the gang are thrilled. But some of the circus people have more sinister plans than just clowning around...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1993,
            "title": "Marathon Man",
            "author": "William Goldman",
            "date": "1976",
            "genres": "Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Espionage, Novels, Classics, Adventure",
            "characters": "Henry\"\"Doc\"\" Levy, Thomas \"\"Babe\"\" Levy, Dr. Christian Szell, Peter Janeway, Elsa Opel",
            "synopsis": "\"Tom \"\"Babe\"\" Levy is a runner in every sense: racing tirelessly toward his goals of athletic and academic excellence-and endlessly away from the specter of his famous father\u0027s scandal-driven suicide. But an unexpected visit from his beloved older brother will set in motion a chain of events that plunge Babe into a vortex of terror, treachery, and murder-and force him into a race for his life . . . and for the answer to the fateful question, \"\"Is it safe?\"\"\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1994,
            "title": "Oğullar ve Rencide Ruhlar",
            "author": "Alper Canıgüz",
            "date": "2004",
            "genres": "Turkish Literature, Turkish, Fiction, Roman, Novels, Contemporary, Detective, Literature, Mystery",
            "characters": "Alper Kamu, Onur Çalışkan, Metin Bilgin",
            "synopsis": "\"\"\"Beş yaş insanın en olgun çağıdır; sonra çürüme başlar.Ben Alper Kamu, birkaç ay önce beş yaşına bastım. Doğum günüm yaklaşırken vaktimin büyük kısmını pencerenin önünde, dışarıdaki insanları izleyerek geçiriyordum. Hızlanarak, yavaşlayarak, türlü sesler çıkararak ve bir yerlere bakarak yaşayıp gidiyorlardı. Bür gün onlardan biri haline geleceğimi düşünmek beni hasta ediyordu. Ne yazık ki bundan kaçış yoktu. Zaman acımasızdı ve ben hızla yaşlanıyordum. Hayatımdaki tek iyi şey artık anaokuluna gitmek zorunda olmayışımdı. Zarardan kar. Uzun süre annem ile babama anaokulunun bana göre bir yer olmadığını anlatmaya çalışmıştım aslında. Bütün rasyonel dayanaklarıyla. Hiçbir işe yaramamıştı maalesef. İlla ki uykumda kan ter içinde tepinmek, servis minibüsü kapıya geldiğinde küçük çaplı bir sinir krizi geçirmek gibi yöntemlere başvurmam gerekecekti derdimi anlamaları için. Kepazelik. İnsanı kendinden utandırıyorlardı.\"\"Alper Canıgüz, kıvrak ve sürükleyici diliyle, beş yaşındaki bir çocuğun içine düştüğü bir hikayeyi anlatıyor. Yaşının avantajıyla her yere girip çıkan, hem filozof hem fırlama bir oğlan... Hikayeyi ve \"\"karakteri\"\" çevreleyen semt hayatı ve mahalle atmosferi de, bizzat karakter kazanıyor anlatıda...Polisiye, fantastik ve mizahi edebiyatın tatlarını ustaca kaynaştıran, olağanüstü özgün, çok iddialı bir kitap.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1995,
            "title": "Bizim Büyük Çaresizliğimiz",
            "author": "Barış Bıçakçı",
            "date": "2004",
            "genres": "Turkish Literature, Turkish, Fiction, Novels, Roman, Literature, Literary Fiction, Contemporary",
            "characters": "Ender Eşik, Çetin Aras, Nihal",
            "synopsis": "\"Sıkı bir dostluk... Aslında hikâye onların hikâyesi, Ender’in ve Çetin’in... Günün birinde hayatlarına bir genç kız girer. Şimdi düşünme, hatırlama ve kendini didikleme zamanıdır.“Nihal’e başından beri olduğumuzdan farklı göründük. Böyle gerekmişti. Koruyucu, kollayıcı, soğukkanlı, ne yapması gerektiğini bilen, Nihal düzgün yürüsün, üniversiteyi uzatmadan bitirsin, yaşadığı felaketten makul adımlarla uzaklaşsın diye asfalt döşeyen iki orta yaşlı, deneyimli erkek. Biri göbekli, diğeri kel.”Barış Bıçakçı, bu çağa özgü lâf kalabalığından; dil, duygu, düşünce kirliliğinden paçalarına tek damla çamur bulaştırmadan çıkabilen, şaşırtıcı bir içışığı cömertçe yayan bir yazar. Nefes alır gibi, su içer gibi yazıyor.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1996,
            "title": "The Baker\u0027s Boy",
            "author": "J.V. Jones",
            "date": "1997",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, Epic, Young Adult, Speculative Fiction",
            "characters": "Melliandra, Tawl, Prince Kylock",
            "synopsis": "\"THE BOOK OF WORDS is a thrilling new fantasy adventure series, where the lethal conspiracies and deadly intrigues of the mighty can be countered only by the power of magic.At vast Castle Harvell, Where King Lesketh lies dying, two fates collide. In her regal suite, young Melliandra, the daughter of an influential lord, rebels against her forced betrothal to the sinister Prince Kylock. In the kitchens, an apprentice named Jack is terrified by his sudden, uncontrolled power to work miracles. Together they flee the castle, stalked by a sorcer who has connived for decades to control the crown, committing supernatural murder to advance his schemes.Meanwhile, a young knight begins a quest leaving behind his home and family to seek out the treacherous Isle of Larn, where lies a clue to his desperate search for the truth.And a wondrous epic of darkness and beauty begins...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1997,
            "title": "Spellbinder",
            "author": "L.J. Smith ",
            "date": "Oct-96",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Vampires, Romance, Witches, Urban Fantasy, Magic, Fiction, Supernatural",
            "characters": "Thea Sophia Harman, Eric Ross, Blaise Harman, Edgith Harman, Dani Naete Mella Abforth, Vivienne Morrigan, Selene Lucna, Kevin Imamura, Pilar Osorio, Rosamund Ross, Luke Price, Alaric Breedlove, Rendy Marik, Kishi Hirata, Claire Blessingway, Nathaniel Long, Lawai Dcua, Chang Xi, Nana Buruku",
            "synopsis": "\"Blaise\u0027s black magic is powerful. The only way Thea can fight back is to use her own white magic, to bewitch Eric herself as a bluff. But soon Thea finds herself getting too close to Eric, feeling forbidden emotions, breaking Night World laws by falling in love. As halloween and the Night of the Witch draw closer, can Thea save Eric and herself from Blaise\u0027s revenge?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1998,
            "title": "Soulmate",
            "author": "L.J. Smith ",
            "date": "Apr-97",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Vampires, Paranormal, Fantasy, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Supernatural, Paranormal Romance, Fiction, Witches",
            "characters": "Maya, Thea Sophia Harman, Ash Redfern, Hannah Snow, Thierry Descouedres, Paul Win-field, Chris Grady, Catherine Clovis, Lupe Acevedo, Gillian Lennox, John Quinn, David Blackburn, Rashel Jordan, Eric Ross, James Rasmussen, Poppy North",
            "synopsis": "\"Eternal Love Hannah Snow\u0027s life was so together. Friends, terrific grades, dreams of a career in paleontology. Everything was perfect... until the notes started appearing. Notes in her own handwriting, warning her of the danger that was coming. Dead Before Seventeen.The psychiatrist was supposed to help. But what came out of the age regressions were memories of another time, another life. And of a stranger who tore her world apart... a vampire who killed a village in his rage. Until, in the eyes of a dying human girl, he recognized his soulmate.Now the stranger is back. He has searched for Hannah throughout the years, trying to make amends, waiting for her to be born. Now he is Thierry, the Lord of the Night World- and nothing in heaven or hell will keep him from his soulmate again. But if her destiny is death, can even Theirry\u0027s love protect her?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 1999,
            "title": "Cat and Mouse",
            "author": "Günter Grass, Ralph Manheim (Translator)",
            "date": "1997",
            "genres": "Fiction, German Literature, Classics, Germany, Literature, Historical Fiction, Nobel Prize, Novels, War, 20th Century",
            "characters": "Oskar Matzerath, Joachim Mahlke",
            "synopsis": "\"An alternate cover for this isbn can be found here.To compensate for his unusually large Adam’s apple—source of both discomfort and distress—fourteen year old Joachim Mahlke turns himself into athlete and ace diver. Soon he is known to his peers and his nation as “The Great Mahlke”. But to his enemies, he remains a target. He is different and doomed in a country scarred by the war.Cat and Mouse was first published in 1961, two years after Gunter Grass’ controversial and applauded masterpiece, The Tin Drum. Once again Grass turns his attention on Danzig. With a subtle blend of humour and power, Cat and Mouse ostensibly relates the rise of Mahlke from clown to hero. But Mahlke’s outlandish antics hide the darkness at the heart of a nation torn by Nazi violence, the war, and its aftermath.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2000,
            "title": "The Fisherman\u0027s Lady",
            "author": "George MacDonald, Michael R. Phillips (editor)",
            "date": "1991",
            "genres": "Fiction, Christian Fiction, Historical Fiction, Christian, Classics, Historical, Romance, Adult Fiction, 19th Century, Mystery",
            "characters": "Malcolm MacPhail",
            "synopsis": "\"The discovery of a woman\u0027s body in an old house overlooking the sea leads to revelations concerning Malcolm MacPhail, a Scottish fisherman.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2001,
            "title": "London Fields",
            "author": "Martin Amis",
            "date": "Feb-03",
            "genres": "Fiction, Mystery, Novels, British Literature, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, Crime",
            "characters": "Samson Young, Guy Clinch, Keith Talent, Nicola Six",
            "synopsis": "\"London Fields is Amis\u0027s murder story for the end of the millennium. The murderee is Nicola Six, a \"\"black hole\"\" of sex and self-loathing intent on orchestrating her own extinction. The murderer may be Keith Talent, a violent lowlife whose only passions are pornography and darts. Or is the killer the rich, honorable, and dimly romantic Guy Clinch?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2002,
            "title": "Bonita Avenue",
            "author": "Peter Buwalda",
            "date": "Sept-10",
            "genres": "Fiction, Dutch Literature, Literature, Roman, Novels, Contemporary, Thriller, 21st Century, School, Adult",
            "characters": "Joni Sigerius, Aaron Bever, Siem Sigerius",
            "synopsis": "\"Joni Sigerius, de dochter van de rector magnificus van de Twentse universiteit, drijft samen met haar vriend Aaron een handeltje dat ze maar liever voor haar krachtige en briljante vader verborgen houdt. Het is in het jaar van de vuurwerkramp dat ook in het gezin de boel explodeert. Niet alleen lopen Joni en Aaron tegen de lamp, die zomer komt ook de enige en echte zoon van Sigerius vrij uit de Scheveningse gevangenis. Acht jaar later pas – Joni verdient inmiddels miljoenen in Los Angeles – verneemt Aaron wat er zich in 2000 werkelijk heeft afgespeeld.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2003,
            "title": "The Next Accident",
            "author": "Lisa Gardner ",
            "date": "2001",
            "genres": "Mystery, Thriller, Suspense, Fiction, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Romantic Suspense, Murder Mystery, Romance, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Pierce Quincy, Rainie Conner",
            "synopsis": "\"FBI Agent Pierce Quincy is haunted by his daughter\u0027s death in a drunk-driving accident. Pierce knew about his daughter\u0027s problem with alcohol, and about her loneliness. And so, he is sure, did the man who killed her. Rainie Conner is an ex-cop with a past overshadowed by violence. She was once involved with Pierce in a harrowing case that brought them together personally and professionally. Then, he came to her rescue. Now it is time for her to help him. This killer is different. He has an insatiable hunger for revenge - and for fear. He isn\u0027t satisfied with taking his victims\u0027 lives - he wants to get inside their minds and strip them of every defence. And his target is Quincy\u0027s surviving daughter. Rainie believes that the only way to stop him is to put herself directly into the killer\u0027s murderous path and herself become - the next accident.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2004,
            "title": "Hersenschimmen",
            "author": "J. Bernlef",
            "date": "1985",
            "genres": "Dutch Literature, Fiction, Literature, School, Classics, Roman, Contemporary, Read For School, Adult, Novels",
            "characters": "Maarten Klein, Vera Klein",
            "synopsis": "\"Maarten Klein verliest langzaam maar zeker zijn greep op de werkelijkheid. Hij kan heden en verleden niet meer onderscheiden, wil plotseling weer naar zijn werk en ziet zijn echtgenote voor een vreemde aan. \u0027Achter me in de deuropening staat een vrouw. Haar bruine haar valt met een lok schuin naar rechts over haar voorhoofd. [...] Ze houdt me in de gaten.\u0027 Meer nog dan een verhaal over dementie is Hersenschimmen een liefdesgeschiedenis, met een overmijdelijk tragisch einde.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2005,
            "title": "Witchlight",
            "author": "L.J. Smith ",
            "date": "Jan-98",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Fantasy, Vampires, Paranormal, Romance, Witches, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Paranormal Romance",
            "characters": "Galen Drache, Raksha Keller, Iliana Harman, Winfrith Arlin, Nissa Johnson",
            "synopsis": "\"Keller is a black panther. A least when she\u0027s not being a tough, no-nonsense seventeen-year-old girl. She\u0027s a shapeshifter who grew up on the streets and will do whatever it takes to survive. But when Circle Daybreak hires her to protect a new Wild Power, Keller meets her match.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2006,
            "title": "I Heard That Song Before",
            "author": "Mary Higgins Clark",
            "date": "2007",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Romance, Adult, Murder Mystery, Adult Fiction",
            "characters": "Kay Lansing, Grace Carrington, Peter Carrington, Susan Althorp",
            "synopsis": "\"When Kay Lansing marries wealthy widower Peter Carrington, she is well aware of the rumours surrounding the mysterious death of Peter\u0027s first wife Grace, who was found floating in the family pool ten years ago, pregnant at the time. Kay also discovers that Peter is a chronic sleepwalker who suffers from periodic nightmares. When the police arrive at her doorstep with a warrant for Peter\u0027s arrest in connection with another murder - that of a woman Peter had escorted to a high school senior prom twenty-two years ago - Kay begins to fear that she has married a sleepwalking murderer, and she resolves to find out the truth behind the puzzling deaths. But are the two deaths linked? And why does a melody that Kay cannot identify keep playing in her head every time she approaches the family chapel?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2007,
            "title": "A Sea of Troubles",
            "author": "Donna Leon",
            "date": "2002",
            "genres": "Mystery, Crime, Italy, Fiction, Audiobook, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Thriller, Contemporary, Police",
            "characters": "Commissario Guido Brunetti, Ispettore Vianello, Vice-Questore Patta",
            "synopsis": "\"The murder of two clam fishermen off the island of Pellestrina, south of the Lido on the Venetian lagoon, draws Commissario Brunetti into the close-knit community of the island, bound together by a code of loyalty and a suspicion of outsiders worthy of the Mafia. When the boss\u0027 secretary Signorina Elettra volunteers to visit the island, where she has relatives, Brunetti finds himself torn between his duty to solve the murders, concerns for Elettra\u0027s safety, and his not entirely straightforward feelings for her ...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2008,
            "title": "The Guns of Avalon",
            "author": "Roger Zelazny",
            "date": "Apr-86",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Audiobook, High Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, Urban Fantasy",
            "characters": "Random of Amber, Brand of Amber, Corwin of Amber, Eric of Amber, Benedict of Amber, Caine of Amber, Bleys of Amber, Julian of Amber, Gérard of Amber, Florimel of Amber, Deirdre of Amber, Fiona of Amber, Llewella of Amber",
            "synopsis": "\"Across the worlds of Shadow, Corwin, prince of blood royal, heir to the throne of Amber, gathers his forces for an assault that will yield up to him the crown that is rightfully his. But, a growing darkness of his own doing threatens his plans, an evil that stretches to the heart of the perfect kingdom itself where the demonic forces of Chaos mass to annihilate Amber and all who would rule there.One of the most revered names in sf and fantasy, the incomparable Roger Zelazny was honored with numerous prizes—including six Hugo and three Nebula Awards—over the course of his legendary career. Among his more than fifty books, arguably Zelazny’s most popular literary creations were his extraordinary Amber novels. The Guns of Avalon is the second book of The Chronicles of Amber.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2009,
            "title": "Benjamin Franklin: An American Life",
            "author": "Walter Isaacson ",
            "date": "Jun-04",
            "genres": "Biography, History, Nonfiction, American History, Biography Memoir, Politics, American Revolution, Audiobook, Historical, Business",
            "characters": "Benjamin Franklin",
            "synopsis": "\"Benjamin Franklin is the Founding Father who winks at us. An ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings, he seems made of flesh rather than of marble. In bestselling author Walter Isaacson\u0027s vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin seems to turn to us from history\u0027s stage with eyes that twinkle from behind his new-fangled spectacles. By bringing Franklin to life, Isaacson shows how he helped to define both his own time and ours.He was, during his 84-year life, America\u0027s best scientist, inventor, diplomat, writer, and business strategist, and he was also one of its most practical—though not most profound—political thinkers. He proved by flying a kite that lightning was electricity, and he invented a rod to tame it. He sought practical ways to make stoves less smoky and commonwealths less corrupt. He organized neighborhood constabularies and international alliances, local lending libraries and national legislatures. He combined two types of lenses to create bifocals and two concepts of representation to foster the nation\u0027s federal compromise. He was the only man who shaped all the founding documents of America: the Albany Plan of Union, the Declaration of Independence, the treaty of alliance with France, the peace treaty with England, and the Constitution. And he helped invent America\u0027s unique style of homespun humor, democratic values, and philosophical pragmatism.But the most interesting thing that Franklin invented, and continually reinvented, was himself. America\u0027s first great publicist, he was, in his life and in his writings, consciously trying to create a new American archetype. In the process, he carefully crafted his own persona, portrayed it in public, and polished it for posterity.Through it all, he trusted the hearts and minds of his fellow \"\"leather-aprons\"\" more than he did those of any inbred elite. He saw middle-class values as a source of social strength, not as something to be derided. His guiding principle was a \"\"dislike of everything that tended to debase the spirit of the common people.\"\" Few of his fellow founders felt this comfort with democracy so fully, and none so intuitively.In this colorful and intimate narrative, Isaacson provides the full sweep of Franklin\u0027s amazing life, from his days as a runaway printer to his triumphs as a statesman, scientist, and Founding Father. He chronicles Franklin\u0027s tumultuous relationship with his illegitimate son and grandson, his practical marriage, and his flirtations with the ladies of Paris. He also shows how Franklin helped to create the American character and why he has a particular resonance in the twenty-first century.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2010,
            "title": "With a Tangled Skein",
            "author": "Piers Anthony",
            "date": "Oct-86",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Mythology, Magic, Paranormal, Adventure, Supernatural",
            "characters": "Orb Kaftan, Parry, Niobe Kaftan, Luna Kaftan, Magician Kaftan, Cedric Kaftan, Pacian Kaftan",
            "synopsis": "\"THE WOMAN WHO WANTED REVENGEWhen the man Niobe loved was shot, she learned that she had been the target, in a devious plot of the Devil\u0027s. Hoping for revenge, Niobe accepted a position as one of the three Aspects of Fate, only to find that Satan\u0027s plots were tangled into the very Tapestry of Fate. Now the Evil One was laying a trap to ruin Niobe\u0027s granddaughter Luna, who threatened his plans—and he had tricked her son into Hell.Niobe\u0027s only chance to save her son and Luna was to accept a challenge by the Prince of Deceit—a challenge to be decided in Hell and in a maze of Satan\u0027s devising.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2011,
            "title": "The Anonymous Venetian",
            "author": "Donna Leon",
            "date": "1995",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Italy, Detective, Audiobook, Mystery Thriller, Thriller, Contemporary, Murder Mystery",
            "characters": "Commissario Guido Brunetti",
            "synopsis": "The Anonymous Venetian"
          },
          {
            "id": 2012,
            "title": "Reforming a Rake",
            "author": "Suzanne Enoch",
            "date": "Mar-00",
            "genres": "Historical Romance, Romance, Historical, Regency, Regency Romance, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Adult, British Literature, Humor",
            "characters": "Alexandra Gallant, Lucien Balfour",
            "synopsis": "\"Lessons In LoveA governess must never be alone with a man. Her reputation mustn\u0027t have even a hint of scandal. She must never reveal personal emotions. No matter how strong the provocation by her employer. A governess never questions her employer\u0027s commands. Even when he\u0027s tempting her to forsake respectability for desire? She must never, ever, fall in love with someone above her station. Especially a rake—no matter how devastating his kisses may be.Alexandra Gallant is a governess extraordinaire—and if it weren\u0027t for that unfortunate incident at her last position, she wouldn\u0027t now be forced into the employ of Lucien Balfour, the most notorious rake in London. Though the sinfully attractive earl hired her to teach his young cousin, his seductive whispers and toe-curling kisses suggest he has something far less respectable in mind...and that will never happen. For although Lucien seems determined to teach her about pleasure, she has a few lessons to teach him about love!\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2013,
            "title": "The Secret Place",
            "author": "Tana French ",
            "date": "Aug-19",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Thriller, Ireland, Audiobook, Adult, Suspense, Irish Literature",
            "characters": "Frank Mackey, Holly Mackey, Antoinette Conway, Stephen Moran",
            "synopsis": "\"An alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.A year ago a boy was found murdered at a girlsʼ boarding school, and the case was never solved. Detective Stephen Moran has been waiting for his chance to join Dublin’s Murder Squad when sixteen-year-old Holly Mackey arrives in his office with a photo of the boy with the caption: “I KNOW WHO KILLED HIM.” Stephen joins with Detective Antoinette Conway to reopen the case—beneath the watchful eye of Holly’s father, fellow detective Frank Mackey. With the clues leading back to Holly’s close-knit group of friends, to their rival clique, and to the tangle of relationships that bound them all to the murdered boy, the private underworld of teenage girls turns out to be more mysterious and more dangerous than the detectives imagined.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2014,
            "title": "Search for Senna",
            "author": "Katherine Applegate",
            "date": "Jul-99",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Mythology, Fiction, Adventure, Childrens, Young Adult Fantasy, Science Fiction, Teen, Urban Fantasy",
            "characters": "David Levin, \"\"April O\u0027\u0027Brien\"\", Senna Wales, Jalil, Christopher",
            "synopsis": "\"There is a place that shouldn’t exist. But does. And there are creatures that shouldn’t exist. But do. Welcome to a land where all of your dreams and nightmares are very real—and often deadly. Welcome to Everworld.David’s life was pretty normal. School. Friends. Girlfriend. Actually, Senna was probably the oddest aspect of his life. She was beautiful. Smart. But there was something very different about her. Something strange.And on the day it began, everything happened so quickly. One moment, Senna was with him. The next, she was swallowed up by the earth, her screams echoing from far, far away. David couldn’t just let her go. Neither could the others. His friends—and hers. So, they followed. And found themselves in a world they could have never imagined. Now they have to find Senna and get home without losing their lives. Or their minds. Or both…\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2015,
            "title": "Boy Overboard",
            "author": "Morris Gleitzman",
            "date": "2004",
            "genres": "Childrens, Fiction, School, Young Adult, Read For School, Adventure, Middle Grade, War, Australia, Family",
            "characters": "Jamal",
            "synopsis": "\"Jamal and Bibi have a dream: To lead Australia to football glory in the next World Cup. But first they must face pirates, storms, and assassins. Can Jamal and his family survive their incredible journey and get to Australia?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2016,
            "title": "Rogue Squadron",
            "author": "Michael A. Stackpole ",
            "date": "Feb-96",
            "genres": "Star Wars, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Space Opera, Science Fiction Fantasy, Novels, Media Tie In, Adventure, Space",
            "characters": "Corran Horn, Wedge Antilles, Ysanne Isard, Kirtan Loor, Ooryl Qrygg",
            "synopsis": "\"They are sleek, swift, and deadly. They are the X-wing fighters. And as the struggle rages across the vastness of space, the fearless men and women who pilot them risk both their lives and their machines. Their mission: to defend the Rebel Alliance against a still-powerful and battle-hardened Imperial foe in a last-ditch effort to control the stars!Its very name strikes fear into enemy hearts. So when Rebel hero Wedge Antilles rebuilds the legendary Rogue Squadron, he seeks out only the best - the most skilled, the most daring X-wing pilots. Through arduous training and dangerous missions, he weeds out the weak from the strong, assembling a group of hard-bitten warriors willing to fight, ready to die. Antilles knows the grim truth: that even with the best X-wing jockeys in the galaxy, many will not survive their near-suicidal missions. But when Rogue Squadron is ordered to assist in the assault on the heavily fortified Imperial stronghold of Black Moon, even the bravest must wonder if any at all will survive. . . . \""
          },
          {
            "id": 2017,
            "title": "Giant Days, Vol. 1",
            "author": "John Allison , Lissa Treiman (Illustrator), Whitney Cogar (Colors)",
            "date": "Dec-15",
            "genres": "Graphic Novels, Comics, Young Adult, Contemporary, Graphic Novels Comics, Fiction, Humor, LGBT, New Adult, Realistic Fiction",
            "characters": "Susan Ptolemy, Nadia, Daisy Wooton, Esther de Groot, Ed Gemmell, Graham McGraw",
            "synopsis": "\"Susan, Esther, and Daisy started at university three weeks ago and became fast friends. Now, away from home for the first time, all three want to reinvent themselves. But in the face of handwringing boys, “personal experimentation,” influenza, mystery-mold, nu-chauvinism, and the willful, unwanted intrusion of “academia,” they may be lucky just to make it to spring alive. Going off to university is always a time of change and growth, but for Esther, Susan, and Daisy, things are about to get a little weird.Collects issues #1-4.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2018,
            "title": "Il talismano del potere",
            "author": "Licia Troisi",
            "date": "Apr-05",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, High Fantasy, Magic, Dragons, Fiction, Adventure, Young Adult Fantasy, Romance, Italian Literature",
            "characters": "Sennar, Nihal, mezzelfo",
            "synopsis": "\"Mentre l\u0027esercito delle Terre ancora libere dal potere del Tiranno crolla sotto l\u0027avanzata delle truppe nemiche e degli agghiaccianti schieramenti dei fantasmi, Nihal, l\u0027ultimo mezzelfo del Mondo Emerso, è in viaggio con il giovane mago Sennar per una missione disperata: recuperare le otto pietre di un talismano dai poteri infiniti, capace di porre fine alla guerra. Ciascuna delle otto Terre del Mondo Emerso nasconde all\u0027interno di un santuario una delle pietre dedicate agli Spiriti della natura: Acqua, Luce, Mare, Tempo, Fuoco, Terra, Oscurità, Aria. Se Nihal riuscirà a raggiungere tutti i santuari e a riunire le pietre del talismano, potrà chiamare a raccolta gli Spiriti e annullare ogni forma di magia, comprese le terribili armi del Tiranno. Nella Terra dell\u0027Acqua, intanto, il maestro di Nihal, lo gnomo Ido, scopre di avere un nuovo e terribile nemico che rischia di trascinarlo verso un passato da cui sembra impossibile riscattarsi. \""
          },
          {
            "id": 2019,
            "title": "La missione di Sennar",
            "author": "Licia Troisi",
            "date": "Oct-04",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, High Fantasy, Dragons, Magic, Fiction, Adventure, Young Adult Fantasy, Romance, Childrens",
            "characters": "Sennar, Nihal, mezzelfo",
            "synopsis": "\"Proseguono le avventure della giovane guerriera Nihal, l\u0027ultimo mezzoelfo esistente nel Mondo Emerso, e dell\u0027inseparabile amico mago Sennar. Insieme combattono contro le forze del Tiranno deciso a conquistare le Terre libere e ad assoggettarne tutti gli abitanti per mezzo della stregoneria. Adesso Nihal è alle prese con il mistero della Lacrima, una pietra che sembra dotata di enormi poteri, mentre Sennar è partito alla ricerca delle Terre Sommerse, un continente di cui i secoli hanno cancellato le tracce. Per ritrovarlo, Sennar è costretto a imbarcarsi su una nave pirata e combattere contro i mostri del mare.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2020,
            "title": "Dead Witches Tell No Tales (The Hollows, #3-4)",
            "author": "Kim Harrison ",
            "date": "Jul-06",
            "genres": "Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, Paranormal, Vampires, Fiction, Witches, Romance, Mystery, Paranormal Romance, Werewolves",
            "characters": "Rachel Morgan, Ivy Tamwood, Jenks",
            "synopsis": "\"Even in the Holllows - Cincinnati\u0027s home to all supernatural folk - vampires and werewolves can make strange bedfellows. Just ask Rachel Morgan, private investigator and witch. First her never-do-well boyfriend disappears into the night. Then the hunky protege of vampire crimelord Piscary starts eyeing her curves... not to mention her throat. Throw in a demon or two keen to singe her hide - or take her soul - and you\u0027d think she was the poster child for doom instead of one savvy spellcaster. Luckily she shares her business and the deconsecrated church she calls home with roomies Ivy, lithe living vampire, and Jenks, the world\u0027s crankiest pixie. For it\u0027ll take more than boots to grind down the hell-magic and mayhem that surround her. EVERY WHICH WAY BUT DEAD finds Rachel in a battle of wits and spells, going head to head with nemesis Trent Kalamack and the dark magic he\u0027s long ago forged in becoming a drug lord. Who would have guessed Rachel\u0027s own father had been his partner? But as she reels from tis blistering truth, arch-demon Algaliarept returns to claim her as his familiar, a bargain she\u0027d struck in exchange for his testifying against Piscary. The price of failing to comply? Her soul whisked off to the darkest ever-after... In A FISTFUL OF CHARMS, Rachel\u0027s former boyfriend, Nick, has stolen the focus, a cursed Were statue able to create new Weres through biting rather than birthing. The statue is the stuff of legend - and ultimate power. for it would give Weres dominion over vampires ... and spark all-out war. To stop a bloodbath no one wants, Rachel will pull out every stop, spell and incantation to save the day. -- from book\u0027s dustjacket\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2021,
            "title": "Mecanoscrit del segon origen",
            "author": "Manuel de Pedrolo, Jordi Fornas i Martínez (Illustrator)",
            "date": "Feb-95",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Young Adult, Classics, School, Dystopia, Childrens, Novels, High School, Drama",
            "characters": "Alba, Dídac",
            "synopsis": "\"Amb el títol de \"\"Mecanoscrit del segon origen\"\" és conegut, l\u0027any 7138 de la nova era, el llibre que més de quatre mil anys enrere havia estat rescatat de l\u0027oblit i que ocasionà fins i tot serioses discussions entre els entesos d\u0027aquell temps. ¿Obra de ciència-ficció, com pretén l\u0027erudit Eli Raures, o memòries autèntiques d\u0027un dels pocs sobrevivents de la catàstrofe que destruí la civilització, com opina el marxant d\u0027antiguitats Olguen Dalmasas? ¿És l\u0027Alba, la seva protagonista, un personatge de novel·la o bé la mare de la humanitat que s\u0027ha refet gairebé a partir de zero? Aquesta noia de catorze anys, \"\"verge i bruna\"\", com diu ella mateixa, es dreça del text amb un poder de suggestió tan extraordinari que costa de creure que algú, ni que sigui Manuel de Pedrolo, pugui haver-la inventada. D\u0027on l\u0027ha treta? D\u0027on li ha vingut, el mecanoscrit?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2022,
            "title": "The Case of the Left-Handed Lady",
            "author": "Nancy Springer , Peter Ferguson (Cover Illustrator )",
            "date": "2007",
            "genres": "Mystery, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Historical, Fiction, Middle Grade, Childrens, Adventure, Juvenile, Historical Mystery",
            "characters": "Enola Holmes, Sherlock Holmes, Dr. John Watson",
            "synopsis": "\"Enola\u0027s name backwards spells \"\"alone,\"\" and alone she is, in the world\u0027s biggest, darkest, dirtiest city. She is being hunted down by the world\u0027s most famous detective - her own brother, Sherlock Holmes. For the sake of freedom she must elude him, but what can she do to ease her loneliness?When she discovers a hidden cache of brilliant charcoal drawings, she feels as if she\u0027s a soul mate to the girl who drew them - but that girl, young Lady Cecily, has disappeared without a trace. Braving midnight streets where murderers roam, Enola must unravel the clues - a leaning ladder, a shifty-eyed sales clerk, political pamphlets - to find the left-handed lady, but in order to save Lady Cecily from a powerful villain, Enola risks revealing more than she should. Will her own lonely heart betray her?In this second installment of the acclaimed Enola Holmes Mysteries, two-time Edgar Award winner Nancy Springer brings us all the danger and intrigue of Victorian London as she continues the adventures of one of the wittiest and most exciting new heroines in today\u0027s literature.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2023,
            "title": "N or M?",
            "author": "Agatha Christie",
            "date": "2001",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Detective, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Thriller, Adult, Novels",
            "characters": "Tommy Beresford, \"\"Tuppence\"\" Beresford, Albert Batt",
            "synopsis": "\"The final words of the dying man...the code names of Hitler\u0027s most dangerous agents...the mysterious clue that sends Tommy and Tuppence to a seaside resort on a mission of wartime intelligence. But not as husband and wife. As strangers, meeting by chance, setting an elaborate trap for an elusive killer.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2024,
            "title": "Absolutely Normal Chaos",
            "author": "Sharon Creech",
            "date": "2004",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Middle Grade, Childrens, Contemporary, Family, Romance, Humor, Coming Of Age",
            "characters": "Finnie family, Carl Ray, Alex Cheevey, Furtz Family, \"\"Mary Lou\u0027\u0027s Friends\"\", Mary Lou Finney",
            "synopsis": "\"Mary Lou Finney is less than excited about her assignment to keep a journal over the summer. Boring! Then cousin Carl Ray comes to stay with her family, and what starts out as the dull dog days of summer quickly turns into the wildest roller coaster ride of all time. A wonderful story of contemporary teen life.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2025,
            "title": "Busman\u0027s Honeymoon",
            "author": "Dorothy L. Sayers",
            "date": "Feb-06",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Romance, Classics, British Literature, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Historical Fiction, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey, Mervyn Bunter, Harriet Vane, Gerald, Duke of Denver, Helen, Duchess of Denver, Chief Inspector Charles Parker, Gerald \"\"Saint-George\"\" Wimsey, William Noakes, Martha Ruddle, Frank Crutchley, Bert Ruddle, Joseph Sellon, Agnes Twitterton, The Reverend Simon Goodacre, Superintendent Kirk, Mrs. Goodacre, \"\"Franklin, the lady\u0027\u0027s maid\"\", Honoria Lucasta, Dowager Duchess of Denver",
            "synopsis": "\"Lord Peter Wimsey and his bride, mystery writer Harriet Vane, start their honeymoon with murder. The former owner of Talboys estate is dead in the cellar with a misspelled \"\"notise\"\" to the milkman, not a spot of blood on his smashed skull, and £600 in his pocket.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2026,
            "title": "The Lilies of the Field",
            "author": "William Edmund Barrett",
            "date": "Feb-95",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Christian, Religion, Christian Fiction, Media Tie In, Novels, Faith, Catholic",
            "characters": "Homer Smith",
            "synopsis": "\"One of the most beloved of modern classics returns with a beautiful new cover. The enchanting story of two unlikely friends, a black ex-GI and the head of a group of German nuns, The Lilies of the Field tells the story of their impossible dream-to build a chapel in the desert.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2027,
            "title": "The Promise",
            "author": "Danielle Steel",
            "date": "1999",
            "genres": "Romance, Fiction, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, Novels, Adult, Drama, Love, Adult Fiction",
            "characters": "Micheal Hillyard, Nancy McAllister",
            "synopsis": "\"Young architect Micheal Hillyard and artist Nancy McAllister are determined to get married despite his wealthy mother\u0027s disapproval. Then minutes before their wedding, a terrifying accident and a cruel deception separate Micheal and Nancy-perhaps forever. Each pursues a new life-Nancy in California, Micheal in New York. But eventually nothing-and no one-can keep them apart as they keep their vow never to say good-bye.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2028,
            "title": "The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man",
            "author": "Mark Hodder ",
            "date": "Mar-11",
            "genres": "Steampunk, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Alternate History, Fiction, Mystery, Time Travel, Historical Fiction, Historical, Adventure",
            "characters": "Sir Richard Francis Burton, Algernon Charles Swinburne",
            "synopsis": "\"It is 1862, though not the 1862 it should be. . . . Time has been altered, and Sir Richard Francis Burton, the king’s agent, is one of the few people who know that the world is now careening along a very different course from that which Destiny intended. When a clockwork-powered man of brass is found abandoned in Trafalgar Square, Burton and his assistant, the wayward poet Algernon Swinburne, find themselves on the trail of the stolen Garnier Collection—black diamonds rumored to be fragments of the Lemurian Eye of Naga, a meteorite that fell to Earth in prehistoric times. His investigation leads to involvement with the media sensation of the age: the Tichborne Claimant, a man who insists that he’s the long lost heir to the cursed Tichborne estate. Monstrous, bloated, and monosyllabic, he’s not the aristocratic Sir Roger Tichborne known to everyone, yet the working classes come out in force to support him. They are soon rioting through the streets of London, as mysterious steam wraiths incite all-out class warfare. From a haunted mansion to the Bedlam madhouse, from South America to Australia, from séances to a secret labyrinth, Burton struggles with shadowy opponents and his own inner demons, meeting along the way the philosopher Herbert Spencer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Florence Nightingale, and Charles Doyle (father of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle). Can the king’s agent expose a plot that threatens to rip the British Empire apart, leading to an international conflict the like of which the world has never seen? And what part does the clockwork man have to play? Burton and Swinburne’s second adventure—The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man—is filled with eccentric steam-driven technology, grotesque characters, and a deepening mystery that pushes forward the three-volume story arc begun in The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2029,
            "title": "Five Go to Mystery Moor",
            "author": "Enid Blyton",
            "date": "2001",
            "genres": "Childrens, Adventure, Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult, Classics, Middle Grade, British Literature, Childrens Classics, Novels",
            "characters": "George Kirrin (Famous Five), Dick Kirrin, Timmy, Anne (Famous Five), Anne, Julian (Famous Five), Julian, Dick, George, Timmy",
            "synopsis": "\"Bleak and eerie, Mystery Moor is well-known for its spooky atmosphere, but is there something really scary out there? The Famous Five are intrigued, but the unfriendly travellers camped on the moor aren\u0027t letting on. The gang risk treacherous conditions to follow them over the moor - but what danger will they find at the end of their trail?Cover illustration: Richard Jones\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2030,
            "title": "Five Go Off to Camp",
            "author": "Enid Blyton",
            "date": "2001",
            "genres": "Childrens, Adventure, Fiction, Mystery, Classics, Young Adult, British Literature, Juvenile, Middle Grade, Childrens Classics",
            "characters": "George Kirrin (Famous Five), Dick Kirrin, Timmy, Tinker, Anne (Famous Five), Julian (Famous Five)",
            "synopsis": "\"Spook trains in the dead of night! And they seem to vanish into thin air - but where do they go? The Famous Five are on to it! But discovery of an unusual underground tunnel system, and a secret train-service, has them puzzled. If they follow the tracks, will they solve the mystery?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2031,
            "title": "Poirot Investigates",
            "author": "Agatha Christie",
            "date": "2001",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Short Stories, Classics, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, British Literature, Murder Mystery",
            "characters": "Hercule Poirot",
            "synopsis": "\"The very first collection of superb short stories featuring Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings…First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond… then came the ‘suicide’ that was murder… the mystery of the absurdly cheap flat… a suspicious death in a locked gun-room… a million dollar bond robbery… the curse of a pharaoh’s tomb… a jewel robbery by the sea… the abduction of a Prime Minister… the disappearance of a banker… a phone call from a dying man… and, finally, the mystery of the missing will.What links these fascinating cases? Only the brilliant deductive powers of Hercule Poirot!1. The Adventure of The Western Star2. The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor3. The Adventure of The Cheap Flat4. The Mystery of Hunter\u0027s Lodge5. The Million Dollar Bond Robbery6. The Adventure of The Egyptian Tomb7. The Jewel Robbery at The Grand Metropolitan8. The Kidnapped Prime Minister9. The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim10. The Adventure of The Italian Nobleman11. The Case of The Missing Will\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2032,
            "title": "The House of Silk",
            "author": "Anthony Horowitz ",
            "date": "Nov-11",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Crime, Historical, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, Thriller, Historical Mystery",
            "characters": "Inspector Lestrade, James Moriarty, Edmund Carstairs, Tobias Finch, Cornelius Stillman, Bill McParland, Catherine Carstairs, Mr. Kirby, Margaret Kirby, Patrick the nephew, Eliza Carstairs, Wiggins, a Baker Street Irregular, Ross Dixon, Sally Dixon, Lord Alec Ravenshaw, Isaiah Creer, Constable Stanley Perkins, Inspector J. Harriman, Lord Horace Blackwater, Dr. Thomas Ackland, Dr. Percy Trevalayan, Mr. Hawkins, Rivers, \"\"Keelan O\u0027\u0027Donaghue\"\", Dr. Asmodeus Silkin, Reverend Charles Fitzsimmons, Joanna Fitzsimmons, \"\"Rourke O\u0027\u0027Donaghue\"\", Jason Bratby, Mrs Hudson (Conan Doyle series), Mary Morstan, Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes, Dr. John Watson",
            "synopsis": "\"For the first time in its one-hundred-and-twenty-five-year history, the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate has authorized a new Sherlock Holmes novel.Once again, THE GAME’S AFOOT…London, 1890. 221B Baker St. A fine art dealer named Edmund Carstairs visits Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson to beg for their help. He is being menaced by a strange man in a flat cap – a wanted criminal who seems to have followed him all the way from America. In the days that follow, his home is robbed, his family is threatened. And then the first murder takes place.Almost unwillingly, Holmes and Watson find themselves being drawn ever deeper into an international conspiracy connected to the teeming criminal underworld of Boston, the gaslit streets of London, opium dens and much, much more. And as they dig, they begin to hear the whispered phrase-the House of Silk-a mysterious entity that connects the highest levels of government to the deepest depths of criminality. Holmes begins to fear that he has uncovered a conspiracy that threatens to tear apart the very fabric of society.The Arthur Conan Doyle Estate chose the celebrated, #1 New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz to write The House of Silk because of his proven ability to tell a transfixing story and for his passion for all things Holmes. Destined to become an instant classic, The House of Silk brings Sherlock Holmes back with all the nuance, pacing, and almost superhuman powers of analysis and deduction that made him the world’s greatest detective, in a case depicting events too shocking, too monstrous to ever appear in print…until now.(front flap)\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2033,
            "title": "Earthfall",
            "author": "Orson Scott Card",
            "date": "Jan-96",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adult, Audiobook, Religion, Novels, Space, Speculative Fiction",
            "characters": "Nafai \"\"Nyef\"\", Volemak \"\"Volya\"\", Elemak \"\"Elya\"\", Mebbekew \"\"Meb\"\", Issib \"\"Issya\"\", Luet \"\"Lutya\"\", Hushidh \"\"Shuya\"\", Eiadh \"\"Edhya\"\", (Lady) Rasa, Shedemei \"\"Shedya\"\", Zdorab \"\"Zodya\"\"",
            "synopsis": "\"Earthfall, the fourth volume in Orson Scott Card\u0027s space opera Homecoming seriesThe Oversoul of the colony planet Harmony selected the family of Wetchik to carry it back to long-lost Earth. Now grown to a tribe in the years of their journey to Harmony\u0027s hidden starport, they are ready at last to take a ship to the stars. But from the beginning there has been bitter dispute between Nafai and Elemak, Wetchick\u0027s youngest son and his oldest.On board the starship Bailica, the children of the tribe will become pawns in the struggle. Two factions are each making secret plans to awaken the children, and themselves, early from the cold-sleep capsules in which they will pass the long decades of the journey. Each side hopes to gain years of influence on the minds of the children, winning their loyalty in the struggle for control of reclaimed Earth.But the Oversoul is truly in control of this journey. It has downloaded a complete copy of itself to the Ship\u0027s computers. And only Nafai, who wears the Cloak of the Starmaster by the Oversoul\u0027s command, really understand what this will mean to all their plans for the future.Homecoming seriesThe Memory of EarthThe Call of EarthThe Ships of EarthEarthfallEarthborn\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2034,
            "title": "Yukon Ho!",
            "author": "Bill Watterson",
            "date": "Mar-89",
            "genres": "Comics, Humor, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Comic Strips, Comic Book, Comedy, Graphic Novels Comics, Childrens, Cartoon",
            "characters": "Calvin, Hobbes",
            "synopsis": "\"The spirit of childhood leaps to life again with boundless energy and magic in Yukon Ho!, a collection of adventures featuring rambunctious six-year-old Calvin and his co-conspirator tiger-chum, Hobbes. Picking up where The Essential Calvin and Hobbes left off, Yukon Ho! is a delight!\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2035,
            "title": "Bring on the Empty Horses",
            "author": "David Niven",
            "date": "1976",
            "genres": "Biography, Nonfiction, Memoir, Autobiography, Film, Humor, History, Media Tie In, Biography Memoir, British Literature",
            "characters": "David Niven",
            "synopsis": "\"David Niven recalls his time in Hollywood during its heyday. He recounts stories and anecdotes of the stars, producers, directors, tycoons and oddballs, many of whom were his friends.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2036,
            "title": "Five Go to Billycock Hill",
            "author": "Enid Blyton",
            "date": "2001",
            "genres": "Childrens, Adventure, Fiction, Mystery, Classics, Young Adult, Middle Grade, British Literature, Childrens Classics, Novels",
            "characters": "George Kirrin (Famous Five), Dick Kirrin, Timmy, Tinker, Anne (Famous Five), Julian (Famous Five)",
            "synopsis": "Features a contemporary cover treatment that brings The Famous Five into the 21st Century."
          },
          {
            "id": 2037,
            "title": "Thornyhold",
            "author": "Mary Stewart",
            "date": "1988",
            "genres": "Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Gothic, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Historical, Romantic Suspense, British Literature, Suspense",
            "characters": "Gilly",
            "synopsis": "\"The story is about a lonely child who is made to see the world through her cousin\u0027s unusual eyes. When the child becomes a young woman, she inherits her dead cousin\u0027s house as well as her reputation among the local community as a witch. However, as she finds out, this is no normal community, and worries quickly present themselves.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2038,
            "title": "The Story of B",
            "author": "Daniel Quinn",
            "date": "Dec-97",
            "genres": "Fiction, Philosophy, Spirituality, Environment, Novels, Religion, Literature, Anthropology, Adult Fiction, Classics",
            "characters": "Jared Osborne",
            "synopsis": "\"An Adventure of the Mind and SpiritFather Jared Osborne has received an extraordinary assignment from his superiors: Investigate an itinerant preacher stirring up deep trouble in central Europe. His followers all him B, but his enemies say he’s something else: the Antichrist. However, the man Osborne tracks across a landscape of bars, cabarets, and seedy meeting halls is no blasphemous monster—though an earlier era would undoubtedly have rushed him to the burning stake. For B claims to be enunciating a gospel written not on any stone or parchment but in our very genes, opening up a spiritual direction for humanity that would have been unimaginable to any of the prophets or saviors of traditional religion. Pressed by his superiors for a judgment, Osborne is driven to penetrate B’s inner circle, where he soon finds himself an anguished collaborator in the dismantling of his own religious foundations. More than a masterful novel of adventure and suspense, The Story of B is a rich source of compelling ideas from an author who challenges us to rethink our most cherished beliefs.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2039,
            "title": "Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain",
            "author": "Charles R. Cross",
            "date": "2001",
            "genres": "Music, Biography, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Memoir, Audiobook, Rock N Roll, Pop Culture, Autobiography, The United States Of America",
            "characters": "Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic, Dave Grohl, Nirvana, Courtney Love",
            "synopsis": "\"The art of Nirvana\u0027s Kurt Cobain was all about his private life, but written in a code as obscure as T.S. Eliot\u0027s. Now Charles Cross has cracked the code in the definitive biography Heavier Than Heaven, an all-access pass to Cobain\u0027s heart and mind. It reveals many secrets, thanks to 400-plus interviews, and even quotes Cobain\u0027s diaries and suicide notes and reveals an unreleased Nirvana masterpiece. At last we know how he created, how lies helped him die, how his family and love life entwined his art-plus, what the heck \"\"Smells Like Teen Spirit\"\" really means. (It was graffiti by Bikini Kill\u0027s Kathleen Hanna after a double date with Dave Grohl, Cobain, and the \"\"over-bored and self-assured\"\" Tobi Vail, who wore Teen Spirit perfume; Hanna wrote it to taunt the emotionally clingy Cobain for wearing Vail\u0027s scent after sex-a violation of the no-strings-attached dating ethos of the Olympia, Washington, \"\"outcast teen\"\" underground. Cobain\u0027s stomach-churning passion for Vail erupted in six or so hit tunes like \"\"Aneurysm\"\" and \"\"Drain You.\"\")  Cross uncovers plenty of news, mostly grim and gripping. As a teen, Cobain said he had \"\"suicide genes,\"\" and his clan was peculiarly defiant: one of his suicidal relatives stabbed his own belly in front of his family, then ripped apart the wound in the hospital. Cobain was contradictory: a sweet, popular teen athlete and sinister berserker, a kid who rescued injured pigeons and laughingly killed a cat, a talented yet astoundingly morbid visual artist. He grew up to be a millionaire who slept in cars (and stole one), a fiercely loyal man who ruthlessly screwed his oldest, best friends. In fact, his essence was contradictions barely contained. Cross, the coauthor of Nevermind: Nirvana, the definitive book about the making of the classic album, puts numerous Cobain-generated myths to rest. (Cobain never lived under a bridge-that Aberdeen bridge immortalized in the 12th song on Nevermind was a tidal slough, so nobody could sleep under it.) He gives the fullest account yet of what it was like to be, or love, Kurt Cobain. Heavier Than Heaven outshines the also indispensable Come As You Are. It\u0027s the deepest book about pop\u0027s darkest falling star. -Tim Appelo \""
          },
          {
            "id": 2040,
            "title": "The Complete Adventures of Feluda, Vol. 1",
            "author": "Satyajit Ray, Gopa Majumdar (Translator)",
            "date": "2000",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Detective, Short Stories, India, Thriller, Crime, Classics, Adventure, Indian Literature",
            "characters": "Pradosh C. Mitter-Feluda",
            "synopsis": "\"Between 1965 and 1992, Satyajit Ray wrote a total of 35 Feluda stories, featuring the master sleuth Pradosh C. Mitter, AKA Feluda. The plots involve murder, mystery and adventure, most of the times in exotic locations, narrated in a racy, humorous style by the detective\u0027s cousin-cum-assistant Topeshranjan Mitter AKA Topshe, and in most cases, accompanied by the funny Lalmohan Ganguly AKA Jatayu, who himself was a famous crime writer. All of this makes for enormously entertaining fare - and it is no wonder that each Feluda book has been a best-seller. All the stories are now available together in this two volume omnibus. For the first time ever, the stories are arranged in chronological order of composition, and one can note Feluda\u0027s development from an unknown amateur detective to a famous investigator. This first volume contains some of the best Feluda stories ever written.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2041,
            "title": "A Conspiracy of Paper",
            "author": "David Liss ",
            "date": "2001",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Mystery, Historical, Historical Mystery, 18th Century, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Crime",
            "characters": "Benjamin Weaver",
            "synopsis": "\"Benjamin Weaver, a Jew and an ex-boxer, is an outsider in eighteenth-century London, tracking down debtors and felons for aristocratic clients. The son of a wealthy stock trader, he lives estranged from his family - until he is asked to investigate his father’s sudden death. Thus Weaver descends into the deceptive world of the English stock jobbers, gliding between coffee houses and gaming houses, drawing rooms and bordellos. The more Weaver uncovers, the darker the truth becomes, until he realizes that he is following too closely in his father’s footsteps - and they just might lead him to his own grave. An enthralling historical thriller, A Conspiracy of Paper will leave readers wondering just how much has changed in the stock market in the last three hundred years ...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2042,
            "title": "The Neon Rain",
            "author": "James Lee Burke",
            "date": "2005",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Noir, Audiobook, Suspense, Southern",
            "characters": "Dave Robicheaux",
            "synopsis": "\"Detective Dave Robicheaux has fought too many battles: in Vietnam, with killers and hustlers, with police brass, and with the bottle. Lost without his wife\u0027s love, Robicheaux\u0027s haunted soul mirrors the intensity and dusky mystery of New Orleans\u0027 French Quarter - the place he calls home, and the place that nearly destroys him when he becomes involved in the case of a young prostitute whose body is found in a bayou. Thrust into the world of drug lords and arms smugglers, Robicheaux must face down a subterranean criminal world and come to terms with his own bruised heart in order to survive.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2043,
            "title": "Texas! Lucky",
            "author": "Sandra Brown ",
            "date": "Feb-91",
            "genres": "Romance, Contemporary Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, Chick Lit, Audiobook, Mystery, Adult, Westerns, Western Romance",
            "characters": "Lucky Tyler, Devon Haines",
            "synopsis": "\"Lucky Tyler attracted trouble-and women-like a lightning rod. But the night he stepped in to rescue a mysterious redhead in a seedy bar, he got more than he bargained for!The lady excited him, challenged him, drove him wild with desire-then vanished without a trace. Lucky was desperate to find her, to brand her with his heat-and when the police were called in to investigate a suspicious fire at Tyler Drilling, his family business, he needed her for an alibi!Torn between anguish and ecstasy, Devon Haines tried to refuse Lucky\u0027s pleas for help, but the reckless blue-eyed devil wouldn\u0027t take no as an answer from her... not when his touch could make her burn, could make her his.Framed by old enemies, Lucky knew his only hope to clear himself rested on solving the crime, but Devon feared when his innocence was proved, she would lose the handsome cowboy who possessed her heart and soul Would the tragic vow that made their love forbidden cost her forever in his arms?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2044,
            "title": "The Bell",
            "author": "Iris Murdoch, A.S. Byatt (Introduction)",
            "date": "2001",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, British Literature, Literature, Novels, Religion, Literary Fiction, Philosophy, LGBT, 20th Century",
            "characters": "Dora Greenfield, Paul Greenfield, Peter Topglass, Toby Gashe, Catherine Fawley, Nick Fawley, James Tayper Pace, Mark Stafford, Margaret Stafford, Patchway, Father Bob Joyce, Sister Ursula, Mother Clare, Noel Spens, Michael Meade",
            "synopsis": "\"A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns. A new bell, legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. Dora Greenfield, erring wife, returns to her husband. Michael Mead, leader of the community, is confronted by Nick Fawley, with whom he had disastrous homosexual relations, while the wise old Abbess watches and prays and exercises discreet authority. And everyone, or almost everyone, hopes to be saved, whatever that may mean....Iris Murdoch\u0027s funny and sad novel has themes of religion, the fight between good and evil, and the terrible accidents of human frailty.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2045,
            "title": "Maid to Match",
            "author": "Deeanne Gist ",
            "date": "2010",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Romance, Christian Fiction, Historical, Historical Romance, Christian, Fiction, Christian Romance, Christian Historical Fiction, Chick Lit",
            "characters": "Tillie Reese, Mack Danvers, Mackenzie Danver, Ora Lou Danvers, Mrs Winters, Lucy Lewers, Dixie Brown, Edith Stuyvesant Dresser Vanderbilt, Earl Danver, George Washington Vanderbilt III, Forbus Sloop, Mrs Sloop, Captain Hovious, Mr. Tarwater, Doc Kuppenheimer, Artie Alsup, Aaron James, Pilkerton, Allan Reese, Daphne Devine, Ora Lou Danver, Mrs. Reese, Mary Pamela DePriest, Leonard Vaughan, Ikey, Herbert Reese, Irene Martin, Louis Blomberg, Mr. Sterling, Tolene, Alice Breeding, Homer Nash, Bubby",
            "synopsis": "\"From the day she arrives at the Biltmore, Tillie Reese is dazzled—by the riches of the Vanderbilts and by Mack Danvers, a mountain man turned footman. When Tillie is enlisted to help tame Mack\u0027s rugged behavior by tutoring him in the ways of refined society, the resulting sparks threaten Tillie\u0027s efforts to be chosen as Edith Vanderbilt\u0027s lady\u0027s maid. But the stakes rise even higher when Mack and Tillie become entangled in a cover-up at the town orphanage. They could both lose their jobs...and their hearts.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2046,
            "title": "ব্যোমকেশ সমগ্র",
            "author": "Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay",
            "date": "May-95",
            "genres": "Detective, Mystery, Thriller, Fiction, Classics, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Novels, Collections, Young Adult",
            "characters": "ব্যোমকেশ বক্সী",
            "synopsis": "\"Byomkesh Bakshi (Bengali: ব্যোমকেশ বক্সী) is a fictional detective in Bengali literature created by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay. He is one of the most famous detective characters in Bengali literature. This book contains all of his stories in one volume, including one incomplete story. শরদিন্দু অমনিবাস (প্রথম-দ্বাদশ খণ্ড) গ্রন্থে সঙ্কলিত শরদিন্দু বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়ের যাবতীয় রচনা বিষয় অনুসারে এক একটি খণ্ডে বিন্যস্ত করার নব পরিকল্পনা অনুযায়ী লেখকের সমুদয় গোয়েন্দা কাহিনী একত্রে ব্যোমকেশ সমগ্র নামে প্রকাশ করা হল। শরদিন্দু অমনিবাস-এর প্রথম, দ্বিতীয় ও দ্বাদশ খণ্ডে বিধৃত ব্যোমকেশ সংক্রান্ত অন্যান্য রচনাগুলিও যেমন, সুকুমার সেনের \u0027ব্যোমকেশ উপন্যাস\u0027, প্রতুলচন্দ্র গুপ্তের \u0027ব্যোমকেশ, সত্যবতী, সত্যবতীর গাড়ি\u0027 ও \u0027ব্যোমকেশ ও সত্যবতীর প্রস্থান\u0027 এবং পার্থ চট্টোপাধ্যায়ের \u0027ব্যোমকেশের সঙ্গে সাক্ষাৎকার\u0027 এই গ্রন্থে (শেষোক্ত দুটি দ্বিতীয় সংস্করণে) যুক্ত করা হয়েছে।শরদিন্দু বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায় ব্যোমকেশ চরিত্রটি নিয়ে ৩৩টি কাহিনী রচনা করেছেন। এর মাঝে ১টি অসম্পূর্ণ। এই কাহিনীগুলি হলঃসত্যান্বেষী, পথের কাঁটা, সীমান্ত-হীরা,মাকড়সার রস, অর্থমনর্থম্‌, চোরাবালি, অগ্নিবাণ, উপসংহার, রক্তমুখী নীলা, ব্যোমকেশ ও বরদা, চিত্রচোর, দুর্গরহস্য, চিড়িয়াখানা, আদিম রিপু, বহ্নি-পতঙ্গ, রক্তের দাগ, মণিমন্ডন, অমৃতের মৃত্যু, শৈলরহস্য, অচিন পাখি, কহেন কবি কালিদাস, অদৃশ্য ত্রিকোণ, খুঁজি খুঁজি নারি, অদ্বিতীয়, মগ্নমৈনাক, দুষ্টচক্র, হেঁয়ালির ছন্দ, রুম নম্বর দুই, ছলনার ছন্দ, শজারুর কাঁটা, বেণীসংহার, লোহার বিস্কুট, বিশুপাল বধ (অসমাপ্ত) ।\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2047,
            "title": "Runaway",
            "author": "Alice Munro",
            "date": "Nov-05",
            "genres": "Short Stories, Fiction, Canada, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Literature, Nobel Prize, Canadian Literature, Womens, Book Club",
            "characters": "Juliet",
            "synopsis": "\"The incomparable Alice Munro’s bestselling and rapturously acclaimed Runaway is a book of extraordinary stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises, from the title story about a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable of leaving her husband, to three stories about a woman named Juliet and the emotions that complicate the luster of her intimate relationships. In Munro’s hands, the people she writes about–women of all ages and circumstances, and their friends, lovers, parents, and children–become as vivid as our own neighbors. It is her miraculous gift to make these stories as real and unforgettable as our own. (back cover)RunawayChanceSoonSilencePassionTrespassesTricks\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2048,
            "title": "Dark Fire",
            "author": "Chris d\u0027Lacey",
            "date": "2009",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Dragons, Young Adult, Fiction, Middle Grade, Magic, Childrens, Adventure, Science Fiction, Juvenile",
            "characters": "David Rain, Elizabeth Pennykettle, Lucy Pennykettle, Suzanna Martindale, Alexa Martindale, Christopher Apak",
            "synopsis": "\"With the Earth on the brink of recolonisation by dragons, David Rain is sent on an important mission: to seek out and destroy a trace of dark fire, the deadliest force in the universe. But with success could come a terrible price, the sacrifice of a beloved clay dragon. How much does the life of one small dragon count?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2049,
            "title": "The Dying Earth",
            "author": "Jack Vance",
            "date": "Mar-77",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Science Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy, Dying Earth, Post Apocalyptic, Speculative Fiction, High Fantasy",
            "characters": "Guyal, Liane, Turjan, \"\"T\u0027\u0027sais\"\", Ulan Dhor, Pandelume, \"\"T\u0027\u0027sain\"\"",
            "synopsis": "\"Seekers of wisdom and beauty include lovely lost women, eccentric wizards and man-eating melancholy deodands. Twk-men ride dragonflies and trade information for salt. There are monsters and demons. Each being is morally ambiguous: the evil are charming, the good are dangerous.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2050,
            "title": "Bearing an Hourglass",
            "author": "Piers Anthony",
            "date": "Oct-84",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Time Travel, Magic, Mythology, Adventure, Paranormal",
            "characters": "Parry, Orlene, Norton",
            "synopsis": "\"THE MAN WHO LIVED BACKWARDWhen life seemed pointless to Norton, he accepted the position as the Incarnation of Time, even though it meant living backward from present to past. The other seemingly all-powerful incantations of Immortality—Death, Fate, War, and Nature—made him welcome. Even Satan greeted him with gifts. But he soon discovered that the gifts were cunning traps and he had become enmeshed in a complex scheme of the Evil One to destroy all that was good.In the end, armed only with the Hourglass, Norton was forced to confront the immense power of Satan directly. And though Satan banished him to Hell, he was resolved to fight on.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2051,
            "title": "Dark of the Moon",
            "author": "Rachel Hawthorne",
            "date": "2009",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Paranormal, Werewolves, Romance, Fantasy, Shapeshifters, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Teen, Fiction",
            "characters": "Daniel Foster, Rafe Lowell, Lindsey Lancaster, Brittany Reed, Mason Keane, Dr. Keane, Lucas Wilde, Connor McCandless, Kayla Madison",
            "synopsis": "\"I\u0027ve loved him forever, but he can never be mine.Brittany is determined to prove herself to the Dark Guardians. And yet she\u0027s been keeping a devastating secret: She hasn\u0027t experienced any of the intense, early signs of change that mark a Dark Guardian\u0027s transformation. The only intense feelings she has are for Connor - and she\u0027s kept that a secret, too. But she knows she\u0027ll never truly have Connor\u0027s love if she\u0027s not a Shifter like him.At the first full moon after her birthday, her greatest fear is realized: She doesn\u0027t transform. Brittany is so desperate to become a wolf that she\u0027ll go to extremes she never thought possible... and put all the Dark Guardians in incredible danger.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2052,
            "title": "Five Have a Wonderful Time",
            "author": "Enid Blyton",
            "date": "Sept-01",
            "genres": "Childrens, Adventure, Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult, Classics, Middle Grade, Childrens Classics, Novels, British Literature",
            "characters": "Jo, Timothy, George Kirrin (Famous Five), Dick Kirrin, Tinker, Anne (Famous Five), Julian (Famous Five)",
            "synopsis": "\"The Famous Five are having a brilliant time - on holiday in horse-drawn caravans - and they\u0027ve discovered a ruined castle nearby! The castle looked deserted from a distance - but is that a face at the window? Or is it a trick of the light? The Famous Five just have to find out! Just who is hiding in the castle? About The Author: Enid Blyton, 1896 - November 28, 1959 Enid Blyton was born in London in 1896. She was educated in a private school and thought that she would become a musician until she realized that writing was her passion. She attended Ipswich High School where she trained to become a kindergarten teacher and eventually opened her own school for infants. Blyton\u0027s first poem was published in 1917, entitled \"\"Have You-\"\" which appeared in Nash\u0027s Magazine. In 1922, her first book of verses was published, entitled \"\"Child Whispers.\"\" In 1926 she accepted a position editing the children\u0027s magazine \"\"Sunny Stories\"\" as well as writing the column \"\"Teachers World.\"\" Blyton\u0027s first full length children\u0027s book was published din 1938 and was titled \"\"The Secret Island.\"\" After working on the column for years, Blyton quit \"\"Teachers World\"\" in 1945 and also ended her stint as editor of \"\"Sunny Stories\"\" seven years later. In 1953 she started her own children\u0027s magazine called \"\"The Edith Blyton Magazine\"\" which featured stories about her characters and news on the clubs formed around them. Her most famous stories were those of the \"\"Famous Five\"\" The Magazine closed in 1959. In the 50\u0027s and 60\u0027s Blyton was criticized for the language in her book, for being to simple, but some 300 are still in print today. Blyton has published over 600 books in the course of her career. Enid Blyton died in her sleep on November 28, 1968. She was 72 years old.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2053,
            "title": "Understood Betsy",
            "author": "Dorothy Canfield Fisher",
            "date": "1996",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Childrens, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade, Young Adult, Juvenile, Historical, Literature, School",
            "characters": "Elizabeth Ann, Aunt Harriet, Cousin Frances, Abigail Putney, Henry Putney, Ann Putney",
            "synopsis": "\"For all of her nine years, fragile Elizabeth Ann has heard her Aunt Frances refer in whispers to her \"\"horrid Putney cousins.\"\" But when her aunt can no longer care for her, Elizabeth Ann must leave her sheltered life to live in the wilds of Vermont with those distant relatives.In the beginning, Elizabeth Ann is shocked by country living-pets are allowed to sleep in the house and children are expected to do chores! But with country living comes independence and responsibility, and in time, Elizabeth Ann finds herself making friends and enjoying her new family. When the year is up and Aunt Frances comes to get her niece, she finds a healthier, prouder girl with a new name-Betsy-and a new outlook on life.Understood Betsy has delighted generations of young readers since it was first published by Henry Holt and Company in 1917.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2054,
            "title": "13 Secrets",
            "author": "Michelle Harrison ",
            "date": "Feb-11",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Middle Grade, Young Adult, Fiction, Adventure, Fairies, Mystery, Magic, Childrens, Paranormal",
            "characters": "Raven, Amos, Tanya, Fabian, Rowan, Warwick, Gredin, Mad Morag, Florence",
            "synopsis": "\"Red is now living at Elvesden Manor under her real name, Rowan, and trying to put the past behind her. But staying on the straight and narrow isn’t as easy as she had hoped . . . Hounded by those who would like her to participate once more in the changeling trade, Rowan is also haunted by dreams of the Hedgewitch’s cottage and the chained-up Eldritch, who swore revenge when she left him there.Her past is about to catch up with her, but can she, Tanya and Fabian prevent it consuming her altogether?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2055,
            "title": "The White Mountains",
            "author": "John Christopher",
            "date": "Apr-03",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Young Adult, Fiction, Dystopia, Fantasy, Childrens, Post Apocalyptic, Adventure, Aliens, Science Fiction Fantasy",
            "characters": "Will, Henry, Beanpole",
            "synopsis": "\"Long ago, the Tripods—huge, three-legged machines—descended upon Earth and took control. Now people unquestioningly accept the Tripods\u0027 power. They have no control over their thoughts or their lives.But for a brief time in each person\u0027s life—in childhood—he is not a slave. For Will, his time of freedom is about to end—unless he can escape to the White Mountains, where the possibility of freedom still exists.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2056,
            "title": "The Last Mermaid",
            "author": "Shana Abe ",
            "date": "May-08",
            "genres": "Romance, Fantasy, Mermaids, Paranormal Romance, Paranormal, Fiction, Historical Romance, Historical, Fantasy Romance, Magic",
            "characters": "Aedan of Kelmere, Ronan MacMhuirich, Ruri Kell, Iain MacInnes, Ione of Kell, Leila de Sant Severe",
            "synopsis": "\"Shana Abe has entranced countless readers with her passion-filled novels of adventure, intrigue, and romance. Now the author of The Secret Swan delivers a gift from the sea: three hauntingly beautiful tales connected by a legend, a locket, and a love beyond time. 531 a.d.: The tiny island of Kell is said to be enchanted, inhabited by an extraordinary creature who comforts shipwrecked sailors passing into the next world. Prince Aedan of the Isles believes in no such nonsense until he awakens on Kell itself and meets the sensuous siren who rescued him from the sea. 1721: Ronan MacMhuirich, Earl of Kell, is the target of an unlikely assassin: Leila, a mysterious woman from an exotic land. But his irresistibly beautiful would-be slayer is in just as much danger as Ronan when she falls for this man with a magic of his own. 2004: What do you do when you inherit a Scottish island you never knew existed and find yourself pursued by a handsome stranger who wants to buy it from you? That\u0027s what happens to Ruri Kell when she accepts Iain MacInness\u0027 invitation to visit her birthright, and listens to a proposition as sinfully tempting as everything else about him. Three seductive love stories, three passionate couples, all linked by one of the most romantic myths of all.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2057,
            "title": "Dead Souls",
            "author": "Ian Rankin ",
            "date": "1999",
            "genres": "Crime, Mystery, Fiction, Scotland, Thriller, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Murder Mystery, Noir, Novels",
            "characters": "Inspector John Rebus",
            "synopsis": "\"A call from an old friend brings back memories and more than a little guilt for DI John Rebus of the Lothian and Borders police. Suddenly it seems Edinburgh’s streets are crowded with the lost and forgotten.Stalking a poisoner at the local zoo, Rebus hits upon a freed paedophile, camera in hand. Outing the man rouses the vigilantes and leaves Rebus with mixed feelings and another weight on his conscience. But the straw that looks like breaking Rebus’s back comes courtesy of the US government. Feted by the tabloid press and put under Rebus’s watchful eye, a convicted murderer is looking to play games with Rebus as his pawn...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2058,
            "title": "The Hanging Garden",
            "author": "Ian Rankin ",
            "date": "2005",
            "genres": "Crime, Mystery, Fiction, Scotland, Thriller, Detective, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Murder Mystery, Police",
            "characters": "Inspector John Rebus",
            "synopsis": "\"Tough and complex, Detective John Rebus gets personally involved in a case when he rescues a young Bosnian girl forced into prostitution. Add to that the hunt for an elderly Nazi accused of slaughtering a French village, and Rebus wonders just how evil humans can be. But when his daughter is mortally injured, he just might make a deal with the devil to find the culprit. Rankin won critical acclaim for his novel \"\"Black and Blue.\"\" Optioned for a BBC film series. Martin\u0027s Press.The Hanging Gardens of Babylon... The hanging of four French villagers in World War II... The hanging of an old man in a Scottish cemetary... Seemingly random facts linked to one man... Detective Inspector John Rebus is buried under a pile of paperwork generated by his investigations into a suspected war criminal, and his immediate supervisors are more than happy to have him tucked away in a quiet backwater for several months. However, the escalating dispute between upstart Tommy Telford and Big Ger Cafferty\u0027s gang soon gives Rebus an escape clause. Telford is known to have close ties to a man nicknamed Mr. Pink Eyes, a brutal gangster running a lucrative business bringing Chechen refugees into Britain to work as prostitutes. And when Rebus takes under his wing a distraught Bosnian call girl, it gives him a personal reason to make sure Telford takes the high road out of town. Within days, Rebus\u0027s daughter is the victim of an all-too-professional hit-and-run, and Rebus knows that there\u0027s nothing he won\u0027t do to bring down prime suspect Tommy Telford-even if it means cutting a deal with the devil. A chilling glimpse into the darkest extremes of human cruelty, a page-turning literary thriller, this ninth entry in Ian Rankin\u0027s award-winning series confirms his reputation as a writer of rare and lasting gifts.top\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2059,
            "title": "Exit Music",
            "author": "Ian Rankin ",
            "date": "2007",
            "genres": "Mystery, Crime, Fiction, Scotland, Thriller, Detective, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Novels, Murder Mystery",
            "characters": "Siobhan Clarke, \"\"Big Ger\"\" Cafferty, Inspector John Rebus",
            "synopsis": "Free Delivery if order value from the seller is greater than 399. Used Book in good condition. No missing/ torn pages. No stains. Note: The above used product classification has been solely undertaken by the seller. Amazon shall neither be liable nor responsible for any used product classification undertaken by the seller. A-to-Z Guarantee not applicable on used products."
          },
          {
            "id": 2060,
            "title": "The Naming of the Dead",
            "author": "Ian Rankin ",
            "date": "2007",
            "genres": "Crime, Mystery, Fiction, Scotland, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Novels, Audiobook, Police",
            "characters": "Inspector John Rebus",
            "synopsis": "\"The sixteenth Inspector Rebus novel from \u0027Britain\u0027s No.1 crime writer\u0027 DAILY MIRROR.A murder has been committed - but as the victim was a rapist, recently released from prison, no one is too concerned about the crime. That is, until Detective Inspector John Rebus and DS Siobhan Clarke uncover evidence that a serial killer is on the loose ...When Rebus also starts looking into the apparent suicide of an MP, he is abruptly warned off the case, not least because the G8 leaders have gathered in Scotland, and Rebus\u0027s bosses want him well out of the way. But Rebus has never been one to stick to the rules, and when Siobhan has a very personal reason for hunting down a riot cop, it looks as though both Rebus and Clarke may be up against their own side ...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2061,
            "title": "Seduction in Death",
            "author": "J.D. Robb ",
            "date": "2004",
            "genres": "Mystery, Romance, Crime, Fiction, Romantic Suspense, Futuristic, Suspense, Science Fiction, Audiobook, Thriller",
            "characters": "Eve Dallas, Roarke, Nyle Sumner, Ezra Trent, Delia Peabody, Ryan Feeney, Charlotte Mira, Ian McNab, Louise Dimatto, Charles Monroe",
            "synopsis": "\"Dante had been courting his victim in cyberspace for weeks before meeting her in person. A few sips of wine and a few hours later, she was dead. The murder weapon: a rare, usually undetectable date-rape drug with a street value of a quarter million dollars. Lieutenant Eve Dallas is playing and replaying the clues in her mind. The candlelight, the music, the rose petals strewn across the bed - a seduction meant for his benefit, not hers. He hadn\u0027t intended to kill her. But now that he has, he is left with only two choices: to either hole up in fear and guilt or start hunting again. . .\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2062,
            "title": "Tooth and Nail",
            "author": "Ian Rankin ",
            "date": "1998",
            "genres": "Crime, Mystery, Fiction, Scotland, Thriller, Detective, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Audiobook, Novels",
            "characters": "Inspector John Rebus",
            "synopsis": "\"Drafted down to the Big Smoke thanks to a supposed expertise in the modus operandi of serial killers, Inspector John Rebus is on a train south from Edinburgh. His Scotland Yard opposite number, George Flight, isn’t too happy at yet more interference. It’s bad enough having several Chief Inspectors on your back without being hounded at every turn by an upstart Jock. Rebus is going to have to deal with racial prejudice as well as the predations of a violent maniac. When he’s offered a serial killer profile of the Wolfman by an attractive lady psychologist, it’s too good an opportunity to turn down. But in finding an ally, he may have given his enemies an easy means of attack.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2063,
            "title": "The Old Capital",
            "author": "Yasunari Kawabata, J. Martin Holman (Translator), Vanja Lantz (Translator)",
            "date": "2006",
            "genres": "Japan, Fiction, Japanese Literature, Historical Fiction, Classics, Asia, Nobel Prize, Literature, Novels, Asian Literature",
            "characters": "Chieko, Shige, Takichiro",
            "synopsis": "\"The Old Capital is one of the three novels cited specifically by the Nobel Committee when they awarded Kawabata the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. With the ethereal tone and aesthetic styling characteristic of Kawabata\u0027s prose, The Old Capital tells the story of Chieko, the adopted daughter of a Kyoto kimono designer, Takichiro, and his wife, Shige.Set in the traditional city of Kyoto, Japan, this deeply poetic story revolves around Chieko who becomes bewildered and troubled as she discovers the true facets of her past. With the harmony and time-honored customs of a Japanese backdrop, the story becomes poignant as Chieko’s longing and confusion develops.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2064,
            "title": "The Haunted Showboat",
            "author": "Carolyn Keene",
            "date": "1957",
            "genres": "Mystery, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Cozy Mystery",
            "characters": "Nancy Drew, Bess Marvin, George Fayne",
            "synopsis": "\"Nancy, Bess and George visit New Orleans for Mardi Gras. While on vacation for the festivities, the three friends become involved with pirates, ghosts, and investigating an old showboat, rumored to be haunted, that must be restored in time for the gala celebrations. This book is the original text. A revised text does not exist.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2065,
            "title": "Endgame",
            "author": "Samuel Beckett",
            "date": "1989",
            "genres": "Plays, Drama, Classics, Fiction, Theatre, Irish Literature, Literature, France, 20th Century, School",
            "characters": "Nell, Hamm, Clov, Nagg",
            "synopsis": "\"Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories, and poetry has earned him an uncontested place as one of the greatest writers of our time. Endgame, originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett himself, is now considered by many critics to be his greatest single work. A pinnacle of Beckett\u0027s characteristic raw minimalism, it is a pure and devastating distillation of the human essence in the face of approaching death.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2066,
            "title": "Sharpe\u0027s Tiger",
            "author": "Bernard Cornwell ",
            "date": "2003",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, War, Adventure, Military Fiction, India, Audiobook, Action, British Literature",
            "characters": "Richard Sharpe, Obadiah Hakeswill, William Lawford, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington",
            "synopsis": "\"The prequel to the series, describing Sharpe\u0027s experiences in India. Sharpe’s Tiger describes the adventures of the raw young private soldier Richard Sharpe in India, before the Peninsular War.Sharpe and the rest of his battalion, along with the rising star of the general staff Arthur Wellesley, are about to embark upon the siege of Seringapatam, island citadel of the Tippoo of Mysore. The British must remove this potentate from his tiger throne, but he has gone to extraordinary lengths to defend his city from attack. And always he is surrounded by tigers, both living and ornamental…any prisoner of the Tippoo can expect a savage end.When a senior British officer is captured by the Tippoo\u0027s forces Sharpe is offered a chance to attempt a rescue, a chance he snatched in order to escape from the tyrannical Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill. But in fleeing Hakeswill he enters the confusing, exotic and dangerous world of the Tippoo and Sharpe will need all his wits just to stay alive, let alone save the British army from catastrophe.With the same meticulous research and attention to detail that distinguishes the rest of the bestselling series of Sharpe novels, Bernard Cornwell has recreated the I 799 campaign against Seringapatam which made the British masters of southern India, a campaign that pitted brutalized soldiers against an ancient and splendid civilization. Set against a background of dazzling wealth, ruinous poverty, gorgeous palaces, sudden cruelty and pitiless battles, Sharpe’s Tiger is his greatest adventure yet.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2067,
            "title": "Henry VIII: The King and His Court",
            "author": "Alison Weir",
            "date": "2008",
            "genres": "History, Nonfiction, Biography, Tudor Period, Historical, British Literature, 16th Century, Biography Memoir, European History, Medieval",
            "characters": "Anne Boleyn, Thomas More, Catherine of Aragon, Jane Seymour, Catherine Howard, Anne of Cleves, Henry VII of England, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas Cranmer, Thomas Wolsey, Henry VIII of England, Catherine Parr, Elizabeth I of England, Edward VI of England, Mary I of England",
            "synopsis": "\"Henry VIII, renowned for his command of power and celebrated for his intellect, presided over one of the most magnificent–and dangerous–courts in Renaissance Europe. Never before has a detailed, personal biography of this charismatic monarch been set against the cultural, social, and political background of his glittering court. Now Alison Weir, author of the finest royal chronicles of our time, brings to vibrant life the turbulent, complex figure of the King. Packed with colorful description, meticulous in historical detail, rich in pageantry, intrigue, passion, and luxury, Weir brilliantly renders King Henry VIII, his court, and the fascinating men and women who vied for its pleasures and rewards. The result is an absolutely spellbinding read.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2068,
            "title": "Standing in Another Man\u0027s Grave",
            "author": "Ian Rankin ",
            "date": "Published",
            "genres": "Mystery, Crime, Fiction, Scotland, Thriller, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Contemporary, Murder Mystery, Suspense",
            "characters": "Detective John Rebus",
            "synopsis": "\"John Rebus returns to investigate the disappearances of three women from the same road over ten years.  For the last decade, Nina Hazlitt has been ready to hear the worst about her daughter\u0027s disappearance. But with no sightings, no body, and no suspect, the police investigation ground to a halt long ago, and Nina\u0027s pleas to the cold case department have led her nowhere.  Until she meets the newest member of the team: former Detective John Rebus.  Rebus has never shied away from lost causes - one of the many ways he managed to antagonize his bosses when he was on the force. Now he\u0027s back as a retired civilian, reviewing abandoned files. Necessary work, but it\u0027s not exactly scratching the itch he feels to be in the heart of the action.  Two more women have gone missing from the same road where Sally Hazlitt was last seen. Unlike his skeptical colleagues, Rebus can sense a connection - but pursuing it leads him into the crosshairs of adversaries both old and new.  Rebus may have missed the thrill of the hunt, but he\u0027s up against a powerful enemy who\u0027s got even less to lose.  On the twentieth anniversary of Ian Rankin\u0027s first American publication comes a novel bursting with the vitality and suspense that made its author one of crime fiction\u0027s most dazzling stars. Standing in Another Man\u0027s Grave is the triumphant return of John Rebus, and a riveting story of sin, redemption, and revenge.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2069,
            "title": "The Truth",
            "author": "Zizou Corder",
            "date": "2006",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Adventure, Fiction, Childrens, Animals, Middle Grade, Science Fiction, Mystery, Cats",
            "characters": "Sergei, Charlie Ashanti, Ninu, Raja Boris, Rafi Sadler",
            "synopsis": "\"At the end of LIONBOY: THE CHASE Charlie Ashanti has restored the lions to their home in the wilds of Morocco and been reunited in the port town of Essaouira with his parents, Magdalen and Aneba. But just as Charlie is beginning to think that his adventures might be over, who should reappear but the nasty lion-tamer Maccomo and the raffish Rafi. Before he knows it, Charlie has been kidnapped once again and is in the hold of a ship bound he knows not where. All is not lost, however. Eventually the entire cast of the LIONBOY trilogy find themselves on a Caribbean island, the home of the sinister Corporacy. Can Charlie bring the story to a triumphant conclusion by vanquishing the Corporacy and ridding the world of its nefarious schemes?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2070,
            "title": "The Clue of the Leaning Chimney",
            "author": "Carolyn Keene",
            "date": "1967",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Detective",
            "characters": "Nancy Drew, Bess Marvin, George Fayne, Hannah Gruen, Dick Milton, Officer Murphy, Mr. Soong, Mrs. Wendell",
            "synopsis": "\"A rare and valuable Chinese vase is stolen from a pottery shop and Dick Milton, the owner, asks Nancy for help. The young sleuth is tasked to find the thief, the missing ornament and to locate a leaning chimney. This chimney marks a discovery that will solve Dick’s financial problems. During her investigations, Nancy finds the leaning chimney, but it only leads her into more puzzles. Are there connections between the theft of the rare vase, a number of similar crimes and the strange disappearance of a Chinese pottery expert and his daughter? This book is the revised text. The plot of the original story (©1949) is similar with minor revisions.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2071,
            "title": "Five Have Plenty of Fun",
            "author": "Enid Blyton",
            "date": "Oct-01",
            "genres": "Childrens, Adventure, Fiction, Mystery, Classics, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Childrens Classics, British Literature, Mystery Thriller",
            "characters": "George Kirrin (Famous Five), Dick Kirrin, Tinker, Julian (Famous Five)",
            "synopsis": "\"New and contemporary cover treatment brings The Famous Five into the 21st Century, and to a whole new generation of readers!\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2072,
            "title": "Bedknob and Broomstick",
            "author": "Mary Norton",
            "date": "1983",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Childrens, Classics, Fiction, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Adventure, Magic, Juvenile, Time Travel",
            "characters": "Charles Wilson , Carey Wilson, Eglantine Price, Emelius Jones, Paul Wilson",
            "synopsis": "\"In The Magic Bedknob, Carey, Charles and Paul 6 find prim Miss Price injured by falling off her broomstick. For their silence, she bespells a bedknob to carry them where-ever and when-ever. In Bonfires and Broomsticks two years later, they bring necromancer Emelius Jones to visit. But his neighbors want to burn him at the stake for disappearing in the Great Fire of London.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2073,
            "title": "The Clue in the Crossword Cipher",
            "author": "Carolyn Keene",
            "date": "1967",
            "genres": "Mystery, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Adventure",
            "characters": "Nancy Drew",
            "synopsis": "\"Lovely young Carla Ponce, a resident of Peru, invites Nancy, Bess and George to visit her and solve a mystery that promises to lead to a fabulous treasure. A clue is carved on an intriguing wooden plaque belonging to Carla’s family. When a notorious gang headed by El Gato steals the priceless relic, Nancy quickly recovers the old plaque. Through clever deductions, perseverance, and dangerous adventures, Nancy and her friends help to capture a ring of vicious smugglers and make an astounding archaeological discovery. This book is the original text. A revised text does not exist.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2074,
            "title": "Lessico famigliare",
            "author": "Natalia Ginzburg, Cesare Garboli (Contributor)",
            "date": "1999",
            "genres": "Fiction, Italian Literature, Italy, Classics, Novels, Literature, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Audiobook, Womens",
            "characters": "Natalia Ginzburg",
            "synopsis": "\"Lessico famigliare è la storia di una famiglia ebrea, quella della stessa scrittrice, che si svolge a Torino fra gli anni Trenta e Cinquanta. Natalia, l\u0027ultima dei cinque figli Levi, è la voce narrante. Con assoluto rispetto della verità, e, per certi versi, mantenendo l\u0027incanto della fanciullezza, l\u0027autrice non solo ripercorre con la memoria le vicende dei suoi cari, ma ne fissa per sempre anche il linguaggio (che, come sappiamo, è unico per ogni nucleo famigliare), i motti, le abitudini radicate.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2075,
            "title": "U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money",
            "author": "John Dos Passos, Daniel Aaron (Editor), Townsend Ludington (Editor)",
            "date": "1996",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Literature, American, Novels, Historical Fiction, Politics, 20th Century, The United States Of America, United States",
            "characters": "Mac Smith, Janey Williams, J. Ward Moorehouse, Eleanor Stoddard, Charley Anderson, Joe Williams, Richard Ellsworth Savage, Eveline Hutchins, Daughter, Ben Compton, Mary French, Margo Dowling",
            "synopsis": "\"In the novels that make up the U.S.A.trilogy—The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money—Dos Passos creates an unforgettable collective portrait of America, shot through with sardonic comedy and brilliant social observation. He interweaves the careers of his characters and the events of their time with a narrative verve and breathtaking technical skill that make U.S.A. among the most compulsively readable of modern classics.A startling range of experimental devices captures the textures and background noises of 20th-century life: \"\"Newsreels\"\" with blaring headlines; autobiographical \"\"Camera Eye\"\" sections with poetic stream-of-consciousness; \"\"biographies\"\" evoking emblematic historical figures like J.P. Morgan, Henry Ford, John Reed, Frank Lloyd Wright, Thorstein Veblen, and the Unknown Soldier. Holding everything together is sheer storytelling power, tracing dozens of characters from the Spanish-American War to the onset of the Depression.The U.S.A. trilogy is filled with American speech: labor radicals and advertising executives, sailors and stenographers, interior decorators and movie stars. Their crisscrossing destinies take in wars and revolutions, desperate love affairs and harrowing family crises, corrupt public triumphs and private catastrophes, in settings that include the trenches of World War I, insurgent Mexico, Hollywood studios in the silent era, Wall Street boardrooms, and the tumultuous streets of Boston just before the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2076,
            "title": "Rites of Passage",
            "author": "William Golding",
            "date": "2001",
            "genres": "Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, Nobel Prize, Historical, Literary Fiction, British Literature, Literature, Australia, 20th Century",
            "characters": "Edmund Talbot, Reverend Colley, Zenobia Brocklebank, Captain Anderson, Miss Granham, Deverel, Cumbershum, Wheeler, Summers, Billy Rogers, Mr. Prettiman",
            "synopsis": "\"The first volume of William Golding\u0027s Sea Trilogy.Sailing to Australia in the early years of the nineteenth century, Edmund Talbot keeps a journal to amuse his godfather back in England. Full of wit and disdain, he records the mounting tensions on the ancient, stinking warship where officers, sailors, soldiers and emigrants jostle in the cramped spaces below decks. Then a single passenger, the obsequious Reverend Colley, attracts the animosity of the sailors, and in the seclusion of the fo\u0027castle something happens to bring him into a \u0027hell of degradation\u0027, where shame is a force deadlier than the sea itself.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2077,
            "title": "Doctor Who: The Face of the Enemy",
            "author": "David A. McIntee",
            "date": "Jan-98",
            "genres": "Doctor Who, Science Fiction, Fiction, Media Tie In",
            "characters": "Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, The Master (Doctor Who), Harry Sullivan, The Second Master",
            "synopsis": "\"The Doctor and Jo have gone off in the TARDIS, leaving the Brigadier and UNIT facing a deadly mystery - and a moral dilemma...Robbery and murder are on the increase in Britain as disputes between underworld gangs escalate into open warfare on the streets. The Master seems inextricably linked to the chaos - despite the fact he is safely under lock and key.Meanwhile UNIT is called in when a plane missing in strange circumstances is rediscovered - contaminated with radiation and particle damage that cannot possibly have occurred on Earth.As the mystery deepens, what little light they can shed on the matter leads the Brigadier to believe that with the Doctor away, Earth\u0027s only hope may lie with its greatest enemy...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2078,
            "title": "The Scent of Water",
            "author": "Elizabeth Goudge",
            "date": "1963",
            "genres": "Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, Christian Fiction, Christian, British Literature, Novels, Adult, Adult Fiction, Historical",
            "characters": "Mary Lindsay",
            "synopsis": "\"Mary Lindsay met her little niece and namesake only once, but she saw in the quiet, imaginative child a kindred spirit to inherit her ancient house. Fifty years later her niece inherited the house with no knowledge of it beyond her indelible childhood memories, and no experience at all of living in the country.Mary Lindsay is a born and bred Londoner who has enjoyed her city life-a prestigious job, and friends with whom she takes in the city pleasures of theatre, art and…As a retired businesswoman living in a rural house inherited from her aunt finds consolation for a failed romance with a married blind man by learning more about her aunt and herself.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2079,
            "title": "Death Note: L, Change the WorLd",
            "author": "M, Takami Nieda (Translator)",
            "date": "Jan-16",
            "genres": "Manga, Mystery, Fiction, Light Novel, Fantasy, Thriller, Crime, Novels, Young Adult, Comics",
            "characters": "L Lawliet",
            "synopsis": "\"In an alternative continuity in the Death Note setting, ace detective L\u0027s name has been written in a Death Note. He has twenty-three days to bring a terrorist group to justice, or they will use a deadly new virus to change the world—by killing off most of humanity.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2080,
            "title": "Burned Alive",
            "author": "Souad",
            "date": "2005",
            "genres": "Nonfiction, Biography, Memoir, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, Feminism, Islam, Religion, True Story, Womens",
            "characters": "Souad, Ayah, Ibu, Kainat, Noura, Assad, Hussein, Faiez, Marwan, Jacqueline, Hassan, Edmond Kaiser, Antonio, Laetitia, Nadia",
            "synopsis": "\"When Souad was seventeen she fell in love. In her village, as in so many others, sex before marriage was considered a grave dishonour to one\u0027s family and was punishable by death. This was her crime. Her brother-in-law was given the task of arranging her punishment. One morning while Souad was washing the family\u0027s clothes, he crept up on her, poured petrol over her and set her alight.In the eyes of their community he was a hero. An execution for a \u0027crime of honour\u0027 was a respectable duty unlikely to bring about condemnation from others. It certainly would not have provoked calls for his prosecution. More than five thousand cases of such honour killings are reported around the world each year and many more take place that we hear nothing about.Miraculously, Souad survived rescued by the women of her village, who put out the flames and took her to a local hospital. Horrifically burned, and abandoned by her family and community, it was only the intervention of a European aid worker that enabled Souad to receive the care and sanctuary she so desperately needed and to start her life again. She has now decided to tell her story and uncover the barbarity of honour killings, a practice which continues to this day.Burned Alive is a shocking testimony, a true story of almost unbelievable cruelty. It speaks of amazing courage and fortitude and of one woman\u0027s determination to survive. It is also a call to break the taboo of silence that surrounds this most brutal of practices and which ignores the plight of so many other women who are also victims of traditional violence.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2081,
            "title": "The Malay Dilemma",
            "author": "Mahathir Mohamad, مهاتير محمد",
            "date": "1996",
            "genres": "Nonfiction, Politics, History, Asia, Research, Political Science",
            "characters": "Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad, Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad, Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, Mahathir bin Mohamad, Mahathir Mohamad, Tun Mahathir Mohamad, Tun Mahathir bin Mohamad, Tun Mahathir, Tun Dr. Mahathir, Tun Dr Mahathir, Chedet, \"\"Che\u0027\u0027 Det\"\", Che Det, Dr M, Tun M, C.H.E. Det",
            "synopsis": "\"In The Malay Dilemma, former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad examines and analyses the make-up of the Malays and the problem of racial harmony in Malaysia. First published in 1970, the book seeks to explain the causes for the 13 May 1969 riots in Kuala Lumpur.Dr Mahathir sets out his view as to why the Malays are economically backward and why they feel they must insist upon immigrants becoming real Malaysians speaking in due course nothing but Malay, as do immigrants to America or Australia speak nothing but the language of what the author calls \"\"the definitive people\"\". He argues that the Malays are the rightful owners of Malaya. He also argues that immigrants are guests until properly absorbed, and that they are not properly absorbed until they have abandoned the language and culture of their past.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2082,
            "title": "斜陽 [Shayō]",
            "author": "Osamu Dazai",
            "date": "May-03",
            "genres": "Japan, Fiction, Japanese Literature, Classics, Literature, Asia, Novels, 20th Century, Historical Fiction, Asian Literature",
            "characters": "Kazuko, \"\"Kazuko\u0027\u0027s mother\"\", Naoji, Uehara, Wada",
            "synopsis": "敗戦後、元華族の母と離婚した“私”は財産を失い、伊豆の別荘へ行った。最後の貴婦人である母と、復員してきた麻薬中毒の弟・直治、無頼の作家上原、そして新しい恋に生きようとする29歳の私は、没落の途を、滅びるものなら、華麗に滅びたいと進んでいく。戦後の太宰治の代表作品。語註や著名人の「鑑賞」もついて感想文に最適。"
          },
          {
            "id": 2083,
            "title": "Spring in London",
            "author": "Ilana Tan",
            "date": "Feb-10",
            "genres": "Romance, Indonesian Literature, Novels, Fiction, Young Adult, Contemporary, Chick Lit, Adult, Drama, Collections",
            "characters": "Naomi Ishida, Danny Jo (Jo In-Ho), Miho Nakajima, Christopher Scott, Julie Hathaway, Anna Jo, Bobby Shin, Kim Dong-Min",
            "synopsis": "\"Gadis itu tidak menyukainya. Kenapa? Astaga, ia—Danny Jo—adalah orang yang baik. Sungguh! Ia selalu bersikap ramah, sopan dan menyenangkan. Lalu kenapa Naomi Ishida menjauhinya seperti wabah penyakit? Bagaimana mereka bisa bekerja sama dalam pembuatan video musik ini kalau gadis itu mengacuhkannya setiap saat? Kesalahan apa yang sudah dia lakukan? Bagaimanapun juga Danny bukan orang yang gampang menyerah. Ia akan mencoba mendekati Naomi untuk mencari tahu alasan gadis itu memusuhinya. Tetapi ada dua hal yang tidak diperhitungkan Danny. Yang pertama adalah kemungkinan ia akan jatuh cinta pada Naomi Ishida yang dingin, misterius, dan penuh rahasia itu. Dan yang kedua adalah kemungkinan ia akan menguak rahasia gelap yang bisa menghancurkan mereka berdua dan orang-orang yang mereka sayangi.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2084,
            "title": "Tegenspel",
            "author": "Floortje Zwigtman",
            "date": "2007",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Historical Fiction, LGBT, Historical, Fiction, Gay, Queer, M M Romance, Romance, Literature",
            "characters": "Adrian Mayfield",
            "synopsis": "Het spannende en romantische vervolg op \u0027Schijnbewegingen\u0027. Het voert de lezer opnieuw mee naar het opwindende en rebelse Londen van het fin de siècle."
          },
          {
            "id": 2085,
            "title": "Odd John",
            "author": "Olaf Stapledon",
            "date": "Mar-12",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy, Novels, British Literature, Fantasy, Philosophy, 20th Century, Literature",
            "characters": "John Wainwright",
            "synopsis": "\"Odd John is the story of a mutated superman - a young man who must accept that he is different, and decide what to do with his gifts.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2086,
            "title": "A Study in Scarlet \u0026 The Sign of the Four",
            "author": "Arthur Conan Doyle, David Stuart Davies  (Introduction)",
            "date": "2004",
            "genres": "Mystery, Classics, Fiction, Crime, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Literature, 19th Century, Victorian, British Literature",
            "characters": "Mordecai Smith, Brother Bartholomew, Morstan, Mrs. Bemstone, Bartholomew Sholto",
            "synopsis": "\"\u0027Doctor Watson, Mr Sherlock Holmes\u0027 - The most famous introduction in the history of crime fiction takes place in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle\u0027s A Study in Scarlet, bringing together Sherlock Holmes, the master of science detection, and John H. Watson, the great detective\u0027s faithful chronicler. This novel not only establishes the magic of the Holmes myth but also provides the reader with a dramatic adventure yarn which ranges from the foggy, gas-lit streets of London to the burning plains of Utah.The Sign of the Four, the second Holmes novel, presents the detective with one of his greatest challenges. The theft of the Agna treasure in India forms a catalyst for treachery, deceit and murder.With these two classic novels, A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four, you have the brilliant foundation of the Sherlock Holmes canon. Reading pleasure rarely comes any finer.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2087,
            "title": "Die hässliche Herzogin Margarete Maultasch",
            "author": "Lion Feuchtwanger",
            "date": "Dec-76",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, German Literature, Classics, Historical, Literature",
            "characters": "Duchess Margarete of Tyrol",
            "synopsis": "\"Die Meisterin der Intrigen Margarete, Herzogin von Tirol, ist eine wichtige Figur auf dem Schachbrett der europäischen Geschichte. Sicher im Urteil und rasch im Handeln, zwingt sie selbst ihren Gegnern Achtung ab. Doch ihre groteske Hässlichkeit macht sie zum Gespött der Leute. Auf grausame Weise sucht sie zu erlangen, was der Schönheit von selbst zufällt: Macht und Liebe.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2088,
            "title": "Imzadi",
            "author": "Peter David",
            "date": "Jul-93",
            "genres": "Star Trek, Science Fiction, Fiction, Romance, Star Trek The Next Generation, Science Fiction Fantasy, Media Tie In, Time Travel, Fantasy, Space Opera",
            "characters": "Deanna Troi, Data, Wesley Crusher, William Thomas Riker",
            "synopsis": "\"Years before they served together on board the \"\"U.S.S. Enterprise.\"\" Commander William Riker and ship\u0027s counselor Deanna Troi had a tempestuous love affair on her home planet of Betazed. Now, their passions have cooled and they serve together as friends. Yet the memories of that time linger and Riker and Troi remain \"\"Imzadi\"\" - a powerful Betazoid term that describes the enduring bond they still share. During delicate negotiations with an aggressive race called the Sindareen. Deanna Troi mysteriously falls ill...and dies. But her death is only the beginning of the adventure for Commander Riker - an adventure that will take him across time, pit him against one of his closest friends, and force him to choose between Starfleet\u0027s strictest rule and the one he calls \"\"Imzadi.\"\"\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2089,
            "title": "Inne Pieśni",
            "author": "Jacek Dukaj",
            "date": "2003",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Polish Literature, Science Fiction, Fiction, Poland, Novels, Philosophy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Steampunk",
            "characters": "Hieronim Berbelek",
            "synopsis": "\"Starogrecki świat pięciu żywiołów pod władzą formy w opowieści o sile ludzkiego ducha i o tym, co nieopisywalne.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2090,
            "title": "De dood van Maarten Koning",
            "author": "J.J. Voskuil",
            "date": "2000",
            "genres": "Fiction, Literature, Dutch Literature, Roman, Humor",
            "characters": "Maarten Koning, Nicolien Koning",
            "synopsis": "\"In dit laatste deel van Het Bureau ziet Maarten Koning zich al op de eerste dag na zijn afscheid gesteld voor de vraag wat hij met zijn leven moet aanvangen. Hij begint met kleine klusjes in huis, merkt dat hij daarbij Nicolien in de weg loopt die het ontwend is om de hele dag met zijn tweeën te zijn, loopt een blokje om, pakt de fiets en gaat een keer bij het Bureau langs om de drukproeven terug te brengen van het Bulletin, waarvoor hij tot het eind van het jaar nog de verantwoordelijkheid heeft.Geleidelijk vindt hij een evenwicht, waarin gevoelens van onbestemdheid afgewisseld worden door die van gelukzaligheid en vrijheid. Af en toe bezoekt hij het Bureau, waar hij plaatsneemt aan het bureau van Beerta, op de zolderkamer die men hem als een pied à terre gelaten heeft om het werk af te ronden voor de commissies waarvan hij nog deel uitmaakt zolang zijn opvolger niet is aangewezen en ingewerkt.Als die opvolger eenmaal is aangetreden, sluipt gaandeweg een gevoel van vervreemding binnen. Het gedrag van zijn vroegere medewerkers begint geleidelijk te veranderen. En als op een dag zijn zolderkamer ontruimd blijkt te zijn, ontwikkelen de gebeurtenissen, die leiden tot het onthutsende slot, waarop de titel van dit deel de lezer al enigszins heeft voorbereid, zich snel.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2091,
            "title": "Blaze of Glory",
            "author": "Michael Pryor ",
            "date": "2006",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Steampunk, Fiction, Magic, Adventure, Science Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy, Mystery, Urban Fantasy",
            "characters": "Aubrey Fitzwilliam, Caroline Hepworth, Dr. Mordecai Tremaine, George Doyle",
            "synopsis": "\"Aubrey Fitzwilliam is the son of a prominent ex-prime minister. He\u0027s also brilliant at magic, but he\u0027s stuck at military school. At least he has his best friend, George, there to back him up. George would follow Aubrey anywhere - and with Aubrey\u0027s talent for thinking up impulsive and daring schemes that will get them both in trouble, that\u0027s no easy thing to do. At a weekend shooting party at Prince Albert\u0027s country estate, the boys find themselves in a hotbed of intrigue and politics. They discover a golem, a magical creature built to perform one task: to kill Prince Albert. Aubrey and George are hailed as heroes for foiling the attempt on the prince\u0027s life - but who sent the golem, and why? Aubrey is far too curious to let the authorities handle this one, and he and George start investigating.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2092,
            "title": "After the Storm",
            "author": "Lauren Brooke",
            "date": "Jun-00",
            "genres": "Horses, Young Adult, Childrens, Fiction, Animals, Contemporary, Middle Grade, Realistic Fiction, Juvenile, Coming Of Age",
            "characters": "Amy Fleming, Jack Bartlett, Lou Fleming, Ty Baldwin, Matt Trewin, Scott Trewin, Val Grant, Carl Anderson, Larry Boswell, Max Satchwell, Nancy Satchwell, Melanie Satchwell, Hannah Boswell, Shelley Boswell, Ashley Grant",
            "synopsis": "\"Heartland is a horse farm nestled in the hills of Virginia, but it\u0027s much more than that. Heartland is like no other place - it\u0027s a place where the scars of the past can be healed, a place where frightened and abused horses learn to trust again.Amy hasn\u0027t seen Spartan since the accident - that stormy night that changed their lives forever. Now Spartan is coming to Heartland. He\u0027s not the same horse. He\u0027s filled with an anger that seems directed at Amy. At the sight of her, he lashes out - teeth bared, hooves flailing. Amy has so much healing to do on her own, it seems she\u0027s the last person who could help Spartan. But she might also be the only one.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2093,
            "title": "Das Jesus-Video",
            "author": "Andreas Eschbach",
            "date": "2000",
            "genres": "Thriller, Science Fiction, Fiction, German Literature, Fantasy, Time Travel, Religion, Mystery, Adventure, Contemporary",
            "characters": "Jesus, Peter Eisenhardt",
            "synopsis": "\"Kurz vor der Jahrtausendwende läßt uns Andreas Eschbach einen Blick in die Zukunft werfen. Er dreht aber die Uhren zurück: Wie kommt die Bedienungsanleitung für eine Videokamera in ein 2000 Jahre altes Grab in Israel?Der Entdecker Stephen Foxx hat nur eine Erklärung: Jemand muß versucht haben, Videoaufnahmen von Jesus Christus zu machen! Der Tote im Grab ist demnach ein Mann der Zukunft, der in die Vergangenheit reiste, um sich dort ein Bild von der Wahrheit zu machen: Lebte Jesus wirklich?Mit dieser Frage begibt sich der Leser auf eine äußerst turbulente Zeitreise. Das Geheimnis, soviel sei verraten, wird schließlich gelüftet - aber ganz anders, als alle Beteiligten erwarten.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2094,
            "title": "Schilf",
            "author": "Juli Zeh",
            "date": "May-09",
            "genres": "Fiction, Germany, Mystery, German Literature, Crime, Thriller, Contemporary, Novels, Science Fiction, Literature",
            "characters": "Sebastian, Oskar, Maike, Liam, Dabbeling, Rita Skura, Schilf",
            "synopsis": "\"Ein liebender Kommissar, ein tödliches Missverständnis und die verflixte Beschaffenheit der Welt.Sebastian kann mit seinem Leben mehr als zufrieden sein. Vielleicht hat er ein bisschen zu viel von seinem physikalischen Talent zugunsten seiner Familie aufgegeben. Sein alter Freund Oskar, auch er ein Genie der theoretischen Physik, erinnert ihn zuweilen daran. Als Sebastian seinen Sohn in ein Ferienlager fahren will, findet er sich unversehens in einem Alptraum wieder. Der Sohn wird entführt, und er bekommt ihn erst wieder, wenn er einen Mord begeht …\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2095,
            "title": "Darkness Falls",
            "author": "Cate Tiernan",
            "date": "Oct-12",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Paranormal, Romance, Magic, Urban Fantasy, Supernatural, Paranormal Romance, Fiction, Teen",
            "characters": "Nastasya Crowe, Reyn",
            "synopsis": "\"You can run from your past, but it will always catch up.Nastasya has lived for hundreds of years, but for some reason it never seems to get any easier. She’s left behind her days of debauchery to find peace and forgiveness at River’s Edge, a safe haven for wayward immortals. There she’s uncovered her family’s epic history, reclaimed her magickal powers, and met Reyn, whom she dubs “the Viking god.” Just as she settles into her new life, Nastasya learns that her old friends might be in town....Reuniting with her gorgeous and dangerous ex-best-friend, Innocencio, Nas wonders if she’ll ever be truly free of her dark legacy. Is Incy dangerous, power-hungry, and wicked? Or is he the only one who truly understands Nas’s darkness? Either way, Nas is desperate to find out who she really is-even if the answer kills her.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2096,
            "title": "Point of Origin",
            "author": "Patricia Cornwell ",
            "date": "2000",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Murder Mystery, Detective, Adult, Adult Fiction",
            "characters": "Kay Scarpetta, Pete Marino, Lucy Farinelli, Benton Wesley, T.N. McGovern, Kenneth Sparkes, Betty Foster – Kenneth Sparkes horse trainer, based in Beaverdam",
            "synopsis": "\"A farmhouse destroyed by fireA body amongst the ruinsDr Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner and consulting pathologist for the federal law enforcement agency ATF, is called out to a farmhouse in Virginia which has been destroyed by fire. In the ruins of the house she finds a body which tells a story of a violent and grisly murder.The fire has come at the same time as another even more incendiary horror: Carrie Grethen, a killer who nearly destroyed the lives of Scarpetta and those closest to her, has escaped from a forensic psychiatric hospital. Her whereabouts is unknown, but her ultimate destination is not, for Carrie has begun to communicate with Scarpetta, conveying her deadly - if cryptic - plans for revenge.Chillingly mesmeric in tone, labyrinthine in structure, Point of Origin is Patricia Cornwell at her most dazzling.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2097,
            "title": "Mrs. Jeffries on the Trail",
            "author": "Emily Brightwell",
            "date": "1995",
            "genres": "Mystery, Cozy Mystery, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Historical Mystery, Crime, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Mrs Hepzibah Jeffries, Inspector Gerald Witherspoon",
            "synopsis": "\"Inspector Witherspoon of Scotland Yard resorts once again to his housekeeping super-sleuth, Mrs. Jeffries, when a girl flower-peddler is killed on a foggy night in Victorian London.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2098,
            "title": "The Redbreast",
            "author": "Jo Nesbø ",
            "date": "2009",
            "genres": "Mystery, Crime, Fiction, Thriller, Scandinavian Literature, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Nordic Noir, Audiobook, Historical Fiction",
            "characters": "Harry Hole, Ellen Gjelten, Ståle Aune, Tom Waaler, Rakel Fauke, Sindre Fauke, Even Juul, Daniel Gudeson, Gudbrand Johansen, Edvard Mosken",
            "synopsis": "\"Als der norwegische Staatsschutz Hinweise auf ein geplantes Attentat auf den Thronfolger erhält, beginnt für Harry Hole ein Alptraum aus Lügen und Verrat. Die Spur der Verdächtigen führt in das dunkelste Kapitel norwegischer Vergangenheit: Eine Gruppe von Nazikollaborateuren hat im Untergrund ihr verhängnisvolles Netz gewoben und Harry sieht sich mit einem mörderischen Filz von Intrigen und Verblendung konfrontiert.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2099,
            "title": "La obra maestra desconocida",
            "author": "Honoré de Balzac, Francisco Calvo Serraller (contributor), Nglalil Rudin (Translator), Ana Iribas (Translator)",
            "date": "2001",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Art, France, Literature, French Literature, 19th Century, Short Stories, Novels, Novella",
            "characters": "Nicolas Poussin",
            "synopsis": "\"A New York Review Books Original One of Honore de Balzac\u0027s most celebrated tales, \"\"The Unknown Masterpiece\"\" is the story of a painter who, depending on one\u0027s perspective, is either an abject failure or a transcendental genius-or both. The story, which has served as an inspiration to artists as various as Cezanne, Henry James, Picasso, and New Wave director Jacques Rivette, is, in critic Dore Ashton\u0027s words, a \"\"fable of modern art.\"\" Published here in a new translation by poet Richard Howard, \"\"The Unknown Masterpiece\"\" appears, as Balzac intended, with \"\"Gambara,\"\" a grotesque and tragic novella about a musician undone by his dreams.Discurso artístico #5\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2100,
            "title": "A Traveller in Time",
            "author": "Alison Uttley",
            "date": "1997",
            "genres": "Time Travel, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Childrens, Fiction, Historical, Young Adult, Science Fiction, Classics, Middle Grade",
            "characters": "Penelope Taberner Cameron",
            "synopsis": "\"While visiting Thackers Manor in 1934, dreamy Penelope becomes involved in a 16th century plot to rescue Mary, Queen of Scots. A beloved time travel story that has endured for generations.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2101,
            "title": "Doctor Who: No Future",
            "author": "Paul Cornell ",
            "date": "Feb-94",
            "genres": "Doctor Who, Science Fiction, Fiction",
            "characters": "The Seventh Doctor, Ace, Bernice Summerfield, UNIT, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, The Monk, Vardan, The Doctor",
            "synopsis": "\"\u0027This time, anarchy\u0027s real. There are power cuts and Wilson\u0027s resignation, a great upheaval of unease. But now there\u0027s real fear too. Real panic. And that\u0027s not how it\u0027s supposed to be.\u0027Somebody has been toying with the Doctor\u0027s past, testing him, threatening him, leading him on a chase that has brought the TARDIS to London in 1976 - where reality has been altered once again.Black Star terrorists foment riots in the streets. The Queen barely escapes assassination. A fearful tension is rising. Something is going to happen. Something bad.Meanwhile, Benny\u0027s the lead singer in a punk band. Ace can\u0027t talk to her or the Doctor without an argument starting, so she\u0027s made murderous plans of her own. The Doctor\u0027s alone - he doesn\u0027t know who his enemy is, and even the Brigadier has disowned him.As usual, it\u0027s up to the Doctor to protect the world. And he can\u0027t even protect himself.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2102,
            "title": "The Legend of Sigurd \u0026 Gudrún",
            "author": "J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (Editor)",
            "date": "May-09",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Poetry, Fiction, Mythology, Classics, Literature, Historical Fiction, Medieval, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic",
            "characters": "Sigurd, Gudrún",
            "synopsis": "\"Many years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien composed his own version, now published for the first time, of the great legend of Northern antiquity, in two closely related poems to which he gave the titles The New Lay of the Völsungs and The New Lay of Gudrún.In the \"\"Lay of the Völsungs\"\" is told the ancestry of the great hero Sigurd, the slayer of Fáfnir most celebrated of dragons, whose treasure he took for his own; of his awakening of the Valkyrie Brynhild, who slept surrounded by a wall of fire, and of their betrothal; and of his coming to the court of the great princes who were named the Niflungs (or Nibelungs), with whom he entered into blood-brotherhood. In that court there sprang great love but also great hate, brought about by the power of the enchantress of the Niflungs, skilled in the arts of magic, of shape-changing and potions of forgetfulness.In scenes of dramatic intensity, of confusion of identity, thwarted passion, jealousy, and bitter strife, the tragedy of Sigurd and Brynhild, of Gunnar the Niflung and Gudrún his sister, mounts to its end in the murder of Sigurd at the hands of his blood-brothers, the suicide of Brynhild, and the despair of Gudrún. In the \"\"Lay of Gudrún\"\" her fate after the death of Sigurd is told, her marriage against her will to the mighty Atli, ruler of the Huns (the Attila of history), his murder of her brothers the Niflung lords, and her hideous revenge.Deriving his version primarily from his close study of the ancient poetry of Norway and Iceland known as the Poetic Edda (and where no old poetry exists, from the later prose work Völsunga Saga), J.R.R. Tolkien employed a verse-form of short stanzas whose lines embody in English the exacting alliterative rhythms and the concentrated energy of the poems of the Edda.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2103,
            "title": "The Blood of Others",
            "author": "Simone de Beauvoir",
            "date": "1964",
            "genres": "Fiction, Philosophy, Classics, France, French Literature, Literature, Novels, Feminism, Historical Fiction, 20th Century",
            "characters": "Suzon, Jean Blomart, Mm. Blomart, M. Blomart, Marcel Ledru, Jacques Ledru, Perrun, Martin (The Blood Of Others), Helene (The Blood Of Others), Laurent (The Blood Of Others), Louise (The Blood Of Others), Madeleine (The Blood Of Others), Elisabeth (The Blood Of Others), Denise (The Blood Of Others)",
            "synopsis": "\"Jean Blomart, patriot leader against the German forces of occupation, waits throughout an endless night for his lover, Helene, to die. He is the one who sent her on the mission that led to her death, and before morning, he must ultimately decide how many others to send to a similar fate.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2104,
            "title": "Emil i Lönneberga",
            "author": "Astrid Lindgren",
            "date": "1975",
            "genres": "Childrens, Classics, Fiction, Swedish Literature, Scandinavian Literature, Sweden, Humor, Adventure, Young Adult, 20th Century",
            "characters": "Emil, Ida",
            "synopsis": "\"Emil i Lönneberga hette en pojke som bodde i Lönneberga. Det var en liten besvärlig en, inte riktigt så snäll som du. Fast såg snäll ut, det gjorde han visst det. När han inte skrek. Han hade runda blå ögon och ett runt rödblommigt ansikte och ljust, ulligt hår. Alltihop såg snällt ut på något sätt, så man kunde tro att Emil var en riktig liten ängel. men det skulle man bara inte inbilla sig.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2105,
            "title": "The Windflower",
            "author": "Laura London, Sharon Curtis, Tom Curtis",
            "date": "2003",
            "genres": "Romance, Historical Romance, Historical, Pirates, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Adventure, Adult, Regency, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Merri Wilding, Devon Crandall",
            "synopsis": "\"SHE LONGED FOR A PIRATE\u0027S KISSES, FOR A GOLDEN ROGUE\u0027S CARESS...Every lady of breeding knows. No one has a good time on a pirate ship. No one, that is, but the pirates. Yet there she was, Merry Wilding - kidnapped in error, taken from a ship bound from New York to England, spirited away in a barrel and swept aboard the infamous Black Joke....There she was, trembling with pleasure in the arms of her achingly handsome, sensationally sensual, golden-haired captor - Devon. From the storm-tossed Atlantic to the languid waters of the Gulf Stream, from a smuggler\u0027s den to a gilded mansion, Merry struggled to escape...to escape the prison of her own reckless passions, the bondage of sweet, bold desire...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2106,
            "title": "Der 77. Grad",
            "author": "Bill Napier",
            "date": "2007",
            "genres": "Thriller, Fiction, Mystery, Adventure, Historical Fiction, Suspense, Crime, Historical, Mystery Thriller",
            "characters": "Harry Blake, Zola Khan",
            "synopsis": "\"As an antique map dealer in a small English town, Harry Blake appreciates the quiet life. But when a local landowner asks him to value a 400 year old journal and twelve hours later he is brutally murdered, Harry\u0027s peace of mind is shattered. What does the dusty journal contain that is a matter of life or death? Why is someone prepared to pay Harry a fortune to steal it? He turns to marine historian Zola Khan to uncover the mysteries. The trail of the journal leads him into a world of deadly Elizabethan conspiracies, and the thread of history takes him through a thousand years of religious intrigue back to the blood-soaked Crusades. And he finally learns that at stake are millions of dollars and a plan to trigger nothing less than war...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2107,
            "title": "Huzur",
            "author": "Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar",
            "date": "Sept-14",
            "genres": "Turkish Literature, Fiction, Turkish, Classics, Novels, Roman, Literature, Historical Fiction, Unfinished, The World",
            "characters": "Mümtaz, Nuran, İhsan, Suat",
            "synopsis": "\"Tanpınar, kültürümüzü bir \"\"iç âlem medeniyeti\"\"nin tezahürü olarak görür. Bu medeniyeti, belirli bir ahlâkı taşıyan \"\"mânevi vazifelerine inanmış, muayyen bir ruh nizamından geçmiş, nefislerini terbiye etmiş\"\" insanlar meydana getirmiştir.Huzur\u0027un kahramanlarından Mümtaz, roman boyunca kendisini \"\"huzur\"\"a kavuşturacak bir \"\"iç nizam\"\"ı aramaktadır. Eserde hastalık, ölüm, tabiat, kozmik unsurlar, medeniyet, sosyal meseleler, çeşitli ruh halleri ve estetik fikirler iç içe verilir. Ancak bütün bunların üzerinde romana hâkim olan Mümtaz\u0027la Nuran\u0027ın aşklarıdır. İstanbul, bu aşkın yaşandığı çevre olmaktan çıkarak, âdeta bir roman kahramanı gibi ele alınır.Huzur için, belli bir dünya görüşüne, bir hayat nizamına kavuşamamış Cumhuriyet aydınlarının \"\"huzursuzlukları\"\"nı dile getiriyor denebilir.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2108,
            "title": "Barefoot in the Head",
            "author": "Brian W. Aldiss",
            "date": "2001",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Post Apocalyptic, Novels, Literature, Surreal, Poetry, Dystopia, British Literature",
            "characters": "Colin Charteris",
            "synopsis": "\"When an undeclared Acid Head War breaks out, Britain is the first to be devastated by Psycho-Chemical Aerosols-tasteless, odourless, colourless psychedelic drugs, which distort the minds of thousands of civilians into extreme terror or extreme joy. When the warped citizens of Europe proclaim Colin Charteris their hero, he finds himself leading an unfathomable crusade in a devastated world. Perhaps Aldiss\u0027s most experimental work, this first appeared in several parts as the \u0027Acid Head War\u0027 series in New Worlds. Set in a Europe some years after a flare-up in the Middle East led to Europe being attacked with bombs releasing huge quantities of long-lived hallucinogenic drugs. Into an England with a population barely maintaining a grip on reality comes a young Serb, who himself starts coming under the influence of the ambient aerosols \u0026 finds himself leading a messianic crusade. The narration \u0026 dialog reflects the shattering of language under the influence of the drugs, in mutating phrases \u0026 puns \u0026 allusions, in a deliberate echo of Finnegans Wake.-Wikipedia\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2109,
            "title": "The Vanished Ones",
            "author": "Donato Carrisi, Howard Curtis (translator)",
            "date": "2015",
            "genres": "Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Italy, Italian Literature, Suspense, Detective, France",
            "characters": "Mila Vasquez",
            "synopsis": "\"Set in the world of his record-breaking, prize-winning debut, The Whisperer, The Vanished Ones is the new literary thriller from Donato Carrisi - intelligent, exhilarating and incredibly compelling.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2110,
            "title": "Hasse Simonsdochter",
            "author": "Thea Beckman",
            "date": "1989",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Childrens, Fiction, Historical, Young Adult, Adventure, Dutch Literature, Romance, Novels, 20th Century",
            "characters": "Hasse Simonsdochter, Jan van Schaffelaar, Gerrit van Wou",
            "synopsis": "\"In de tijd van de Hoekse en Kabeljauwse twisten is Kampen een belangrijke handelsstad, maar Hasse, dochter van een mandenvlechter, vindt het er maar druk en benauwd. Ze trekt er liever op uit met haar zelfgemaakte pijl en boog om langs de IJssel te zwerven. Haar ouders willen heel graag dat ze gaat trouwen, maar Hasse neemt haar eigen beslissingen. Ze \u0027verbidt\u0027 Jan van Schaffelaar, dat wil zeggen, ze redt hem van het schavot door met hem te trouwen. Samen trekken ze naar de Veluwe, waar hij als aanvoerder van een troep huurlingen de belangen van de hertog van Gelre behartigt. Hasse geniet van het vrije ongebonden leven. Als jongen verkleed doet ze mee met de overvallen en als boogschutter weet ze het respect van de mannen af te dwingen. Als de compagnie in Barneveld in het nauw wordt gedreven vraagt Hasse zich angstig af hoe ze de belegering zullen overleven.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2111,
            "title": "Hipólito",
            "author": "Euripides, J.B. Mello e Souza (Translator)",
            "date": "2006",
            "genres": "Plays, Classics, Drama, Fiction, Mythology, Theatre, Tragedy, Greece, Ancient, Poetry",
            "characters": "Artemis (Goddess), Theseus (mythology), Hippolytus, Phaedra, Aphrodite",
            "synopsis": "\"Na leitura de \u0027Hipólito\u0027, o leitor moderno talvez se surpreenda com o que lhe parecerá ser uma inversão de valores: uma deusa castigar duramente um jovem que delibera e age dentro da mais estrita correção! No entanto, sob a perspectiva da religiosidade grega, a altivez do jovem é também sua fonte de hýbris, isto é, de descomedimento, pois ao reverenciar apenas Ártemis, a deusa da vida selvagem, e se recusar a cultuar Afrodite, a deusa do amor, Hipólito desconsidera o princípio básico da piedade grega, que é o de prestar honras a todos os deuses.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2112,
            "title": "Damiano\u0027s Lute",
            "author": "R.A. MacAvoy",
            "date": "Jun-85",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Historical, Historical Fantasy, Angels, Alternate History, Supernatural, Italy",
            "characters": "Damiano Delstrego, Saara, Gaspare",
            "synopsis": "\"This novel is a sequel to Damiano. Set against the turbulent backdrop of the Italian Renaissance this alternate history takes place in a world where real faith-based magic exists. Our hero is Damiano Dalstrego. He is a wizard\u0027s son, an alchemist and the heir to dark magics. Shattered by the demonic fury of his dark powers, Damiano Delstrego has forsaken his magical heritage to live as a mortal man. Accompanied only by the guidance of the Archanagel Raphael, the chidings of a brash young rogue, and the memory of a beautiful pagan witch, Damiano journeys across a plague-ridden French countryside in search of peace. But the Father of Lies reaches out once again to grasp him. And to avert the hellish destiny awaiting him, Damiano must challenge the greatest forces of darkness, armed only with the power of his love and the music of his lute. The final volume of this story is Raphael.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2113,
            "title": "Rule 34",
            "author": "Charles Stross ",
            "date": "2011",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Cyberpunk, Mystery, Crime, Near Future, Scotland, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Liz Kavanaugh, Anwar Hussein, Stuart Jackson, Dorothy",
            "synopsis": "\"DI Liz Kavanaugh: You realise policing internet porn is your life and your career went down the pan five years ago. But when a fetishist dies on your watch, the Rule 34 Squad moves from low priority to worryingly high profile. Anwar: As an ex-con, you\u0027d like to think your identity fraud days are over. Especially as you\u0027ve landed a legit job (through a shady mate). Although now that you\u0027re Consul for a shiny new Eastern European Republic, you\u0027ve no idea what comes next. The Toymaker: Your meds are wearing off and people are stalking you through Edinburgh\u0027s undergrowth. But that\u0027s ok, because as a distraction, you\u0027re project manager of a sophisticated criminal operation. But who\u0027s killing off potential recruits? So how do bizarre domestic fatalities, dodgy downloads and a European spamming network fit together? The more DI Kavanaugh learns, the less she wants to find out.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2114,
            "title": "Taking Chances",
            "author": "Lauren Brooke",
            "date": "Feb-01",
            "genres": "Horses, Young Adult, Childrens, Animals, Fiction, Middle Grade, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Juvenile, Teen",
            "characters": "Amy Fleming, Jack Bartlett, Lou Fleming, Ty Baldwin, Soraya Martin, Matt Trewin, Scott Trewin, Val Grant, Ashley Grant, Ben Stillman, Claire Whitely, Mrs. Whitely",
            "synopsis": "\"Heartland is a horse farm nestled in the hills of Virginia, but it\u0027s much more than that. Heartland is like no other place - it\u0027s a place where the scars of the past can be healed, a place where frightened and abused horses learn to trust again.Amy knows that Ty is important to Heartland - and to her. Ty is the only other person who truly understands the meaning of Heartland, who is as dedicated to rescuing and curing horses as she is. But their friendship is thrown off balance when Ben, the new stable hand, arrives. And by the time Amy realizes she\u0027s pushed Ty away, he may have decided to leave Heartland forever.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2115,
            "title": "Family Affairs",
            "author": "Jen Calonita ",
            "date": "May-08",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Romance, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Fiction, Teen, High School, Middle Grade, Young Adult Contemporary",
            "characters": "Kaitlin Burke, Sky Mackenzie, Austin Meyers, Nadine Cobb, Alexis Holden, Meg Burke, Matthew Burke, Liz Mendes, Rodney (SOMHL), Laney Peters, Heidi Caldwell, Maria Meadow, Tom Pullman",
            "synopsis": "\"The filming for sure-to-be-blockbuster movie Pretty Young Assassins has wrapped, and teen movie star Kaitlin Burke returns to life on the set of prime-time drama Family Affair. After ten seasons of filming the hit favorite TV show, Kaitlin would have thought that she could see any curveballs coming, but with a plotting new actress on set, all bets are off. The new diva, Alexis, makes even Kaitlin\u0027s long-time nemesis Sky seem like a puppy in comparison. Can Kaitlin keep her sane boyfriend, her insane job, and her composure in the face of this new star power?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2116,
            "title": "En Familia",
            "author": "Hector Malot",
            "date": "1996",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Childrens, France, Novels, Young Adult, Classic Literature, Adventure, Historical, Literature",
            "characters": "Perrine",
            "synopsis": "\"A los 12 años, Perrine se encuentra huérfana, sola y pobre en París. Antes de morir, su madre le dice que debe buscar a su abuelo que vive en un pueblo distante. Pero este ignora la existencia de la nieta…\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2117,
            "title": "Un Asunto Tenebroso",
            "author": "Honoré de Balzac, Carlos Pujol (Prólogo), Pedro Darnell (Traductor)",
            "date": "2008",
            "genres": "Classics, France, French Literature, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Literature, Novels, 19th Century, Unfinished",
            "characters": "Joseph Fouché, Henri de Marsay, Laurence de Cinq-Cygne, Paul-Marie Simeuse, Marie-Paul Simeuse, Michon",
            "synopsis": "\"«De un Asunto tenebroso, que se publicó en forma de folletín entre enero y febrero de 1841, suele decirse que fue la primera novela policíaca del mundo. Rigurosamente coetánea es otra gran pieza fundacional del género, Los asesinatos de la calle Morgue , del americano Poe, aparecida este mismo año, pero se trata de un relato breve que no hace más que establecer las clásicas reglas de la investigación como desafío al ingenio. La obra de Balzac tiene una amplitud mucho mayor, y no sólo por el número de páginas; vemos como la ficción invade la Historia con mayúscula para servirse de ella, pero también para explicarla, y como el enigma llega a adquirir luego secretas resonancias casi inconfesables. »Balzac trabaja con situaciones que no admiten ningún grado de asepsia: sentimientos humanos por una parte; por otra, altos intereses políticos. Novela policíaca, desde luego, pero de ningún modo inocente; todo lo contrario, cargada de complejísimos supuestos de todo orden que hacen que éste sea un relato detectivesco heterodoxo, impuro, como dicen los teóricos, pero gracias a ello novela en el sentido propio de la palabra.» Del prólogo de Carlos Pujol.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2118,
            "title": "Dshamilja",
            "author": "Chingiz Aitmatov, Hartmut Herboth (Übersetzer)",
            "date": "2004",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Russia, Romance, Asia, Russian Literature, Historical Fiction, Novels, Literature, Short Stories",
            "characters": "Dshamilja, Danijar, Seït",
            "synopsis": "\"Der 15-jährige Said erzählt die Geschichte seiner jungen, verheirateten Schwägerin Dshamilja. Während ihr ungeliebter Ehemann an der Front steht, lernt die selbstbewusste, lebensfrohe Dshamilja den scheuen, träumerischen Danijar kennen und lieben. Der junge Said erzählt mit den Augen eines Kindes, das zu verstehen beginnt, welch eine Macht die Liebe sein kann. Denn Dshamilja sagt sich von ihrem Heimatort und den alten Traditionen los und zieht in die Ferne.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2119,
            "title": "The Wailing",
            "author": "M.R. Graham ",
            "date": "Oct-12",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Paranormal, Horror, Historical Fiction, Historical",
            "characters": "Rowan, Daniel Leland, Signe",
            "synopsis": "\"With Nazi bombs falling from the sky and fires consuming London, reluctant immortal Daniel Leland finds himself in an uncomfortable position. As a halfhearted employee of the British government, blackmailed into submission, he is forced to use his peculiar talent for murder in the service of the Crown. But as the assignments become impossibly challenging, the limits of that talent are tested. The Luftwaffe is not the most explosive thing to menace Great Britain, and even dead things can die again. There is more at stake than the questionable life of a lone agent, more at stake than Daniel Leland would care to admit.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2120,
            "title": "Zwiebelchen (Alex Taschenbücher, #33)",
            "author": "Gianni Rodari, Raul Verdini (Illustrator), Pan Rova (Translator)",
            "date": "1978",
            "genres": "Childrens, Fiction, Italian Literature, Classics, Fantasy, Russia, Italy, Adventure, Fairy Tales, Dystopia",
            "characters": "Cipollino",
            "synopsis": "\"Als Zwiebelchen seinen Vater besucht, der vom Statthalter Zitrone ins Gefängnis geworfen wurde, gibt ihm der Alte zum Abschied einen Rat: Pack deine Siebensachen, zieh in die Welt hinaus und studiere die Schurken! Noch weiß Zwiebelchen nicht, wobei ihm ein solches Studium helfen könnte. Doch eins schwört er: Den Vater und all die anderen unschuldig Eingekerkerten wird er eines Tages befreien.Die Geschichte von Zwiebelchen und seinen Freunden, die mutig gegen Ungerechtigkeit und Grausamkeit kämpfen, ist vielen Lesern bereits zu einem Lieblingsbuch geworden.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2121,
            "title": "Devlet Ana",
            "author": "Kemal Tahir",
            "date": "Mar-16",
            "genres": "Turkish Literature, Turkish, Roman, Literature, Classics, Novels, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical",
            "characters": "Osman Gazi, Orhan Gazi, Kerimcan, Bacıbey, Mavro, Aslıhan, Pir Elvan, Kel Derviş, Kaplan Çavuş, Şeyh Edebali, Akçakoca",
            "synopsis": "\"\u0027Devlet Ana\u0027, Osmanlı kurulmadan önceki Anadolu\u0027nun görünümünü ve Anadolu insanının özlemlerini anlatırken, onların güçlü, güvenli, adaletli bir devlete duyduğu ihtiyacı da açığa çıkarmaktadır. Kemal Tahir\u0027in en önemli romanı olarak gösterilen \u0027Devlet Ana\u0027, onun düşünce yapısını da en iyi yansıtan eserlerinden biri sayılmaktadır.\"\"Kemal Tahir, tarihi ve toplumu hakkındaki orijinal ve sağlam görüşlerinden hareket ettiği için hem \u0027mahalli ağızları\u0027, hem Türkçe\u0027nin küçümsenmiş ve unutulmuş nesir dilini hem de yeni imkanlarını kaynaştırarak ve aşarak kullanabilmiştir. Eserlerindeki eşsiz dil ve üslup güzelliğinin kaynağı bu davranıştadır. Daha önceki romanlarında da görülen bu özellik \u0027Devlet Ana\u0027da en yüce noktasına erişmiştir. Türkçe\u0027nin unutulmuş olan dehası bütün boyutları, zenginliği ve haslığıyla ilk olarak Kemal Tahir\u0027in eserlerinde kendini göstermektedir.\"\"- Selahattin Hilav-\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2122,
            "title": "Schlafes Bruder",
            "author": "Robert Schneider",
            "date": "2004",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, German Literature, Novels, School, Historical Fiction, Historical, Roman, Drama, Music",
            "characters": "Johannes Elias Alder",
            "synopsis": "\" Robert Schneider siedelt seinen Roman über das verkannte musikalische Genie Johannes Elias Alder in dem rauhen, vorarlbergischen Bergdorf Eschberg an, dessen Einwohner nur über alltägliche Dinge sprechen, sich ansonsten in Andeutungen ergehen und im Zweifelsfall lieber schweigen als reden. Elias, der von Geburt an anders ist als die Bauern, wird von diesen Menschen gemieden und von seiner eigenen Mutter abgelehnt. So wie die drei Feuer, die das Dorf nach und nach auslöschen, so löscht die Enttäuschung über drei wichtige Menschen (Mutter, Vater und die unerwiderte Liebe zu Elsbeth) schließlich das Leben des zweiundzwanzigjährigen Elias aus. Dieser Roman, der vordergründig sehr nüchtern, ja fast wie eine Chronik erzählt ist, bezieht seine Atmosphäre aus winzigen Details - der Hut des Vaters als einziger Trost für den kleinen Jungen, die sparsame, aber umso deutlicher entsetzte Reaktion des jugendlichen Elias, als er sieht wie sein Vater einen Menschen umbringt. Das Buch hat mich von Anfang bis zum Ende in seinen Bann gezogen. Ich habe es nicht - wie Elias Canetti schrieb - mit Freude gelesen, sondern mit einer großen Beklemmung und gleichzeitiger Begeisterung für den einzigartigen Stil Schneiders. Die Geschichte des Musikers Johannes Elias Alder wird mich sicher immer begleiten. -Cornelia Rediger \""
          },
          {
            "id": 2123,
            "title": "The Rainbow Fish",
            "author": "Marcus Pfister",
            "date": "1992",
            "genres": "Picture Books, Childrens, Fiction, Animals, Classics, Fantasy, Kids, Storytime, Juvenile, School",
            "characters": "Rainbow Fish",
            "synopsis": "\"The Rainbow Fish is an international bestseller and a modern classic. Eye-catching foilstamping, glittering on every page, offers instant child-appeal, but it is the universal message at the heart of this simple story about a beautiful fish, who learns to make friends by sharing his most prized possessions, that gives the book its lasting value.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2124,
            "title": "The Andalite Chronicles",
            "author": "K.A. Applegate, Katherine Applegate",
            "date": "Dec-97",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Young Adult, Fiction, Fantasy, Childrens, Aliens, Middle Grade, Adventure, Animals, War",
            "characters": "Elfangor",
            "synopsis": "\"Relates the story of Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul, the Andalite war-prince responsible for creating the human animorphs on Earth.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2125,
            "title": "Silent in the Sanctuary",
            "author": "Deanna Raybourn ",
            "date": "2008",
            "genres": "Mystery, Historical Fiction, Historical, Romance, Historical Mystery, Fiction, Historical Romance, Victorian, British Literature, Mystery Thriller",
            "characters": "Lady Julia Grey, Nicholas Brisbane, Portia, Lady Bettiscombe, Lord March, Morag, Magda, Eglamour \"\"Plum\"\" March, Lysander March, Violante, Alessandro Fornacci, Charlotte King, Lucy, Emma Phipps, Aunt Dorcas, Sir Cedric Eastley, Henry Ludlow, Lucian Snow",
            "synopsis": "\"Fresh from a six-month sojourn in Italy, Lady Julia returns home to Sussex to find her father\u0027s estate crowded with family and friends— but dark deeds are afoot at the deconsecrated abbey, and a murderer roams the ancient cloisters. Much to her surprise, the one man she had hoped to forget—the enigmatic and compelling Nicholas Brisbane—is among her father\u0027s houseguests… and he is not alone. Not to be outdone, Julia shows him that two can play at flirtation and promptly introduces him to her devoted, younger, titled Italian count.But the homecoming celebrations quickly take a ghastly turn when one of the guests is found brutally murdered in the chapel, and a member of Lady Julia\u0027s own family confesses to the crime. Certain of her cousin\u0027s innocence, Lady Julia resumes her unlikely and deliciously intriguing partnership with Nicholas Brisbane, setting out to unravel a tangle of deceit before the killer can strike again. When a sudden snowstorm blankets the abbey like a shroud, it falls to Lady Julia and Nicholas Brisbane to answer the shriek of murder most foul.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2126,
            "title": "Martin Misunderstood",
            "author": "Karin Slaughter , Walter Lewis (Narrator)",
            "date": "Jul-08",
            "genres": "Thriller, Fiction, Crime, Mystery, Audiobook, Short Stories, Humor, Suspense, Adult, Mystery Thriller",
            "characters": "Martin Reed, Detective Anther Albada",
            "synopsis": "\"Crime fiction obsessive Martin Reed is the proverbial butt of everyone\u0027s jokes. Working as a glorified accountant at Southern Toilet Supply and still living with his cantankerous mother, he has become resigned to the world in which he lives.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2127,
            "title": "Breaking Free",
            "author": "Lauren Brooke",
            "date": "Oct-00",
            "genres": "Horses, Young Adult, Childrens, Fiction, Animals, Middle Grade, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Juvenile, Teen",
            "characters": "Amy Fleming, Jack Bartlett, Lou Fleming, Ty Baldwin, Soraya Martin, Matt Trewin, Scott Trewin, Val Grant, Ashley Grant, Lisa Stillman, Ben Stillman, Eliza Chittick",
            "synopsis": "\"Heartland is a horse farm nestled in the hills of Virginia, but it\u0027s much more than that. Heartland is like no other place - it\u0027s a place where the scars of the past can be healed, a place where frightened and abused horses learn to trust again.Pegasus is all Amy has left of her past, but he\u0027s steadily growing weaker. Amy\u0027s trying to care for him and hold Heartland together. She\u0027s trying to do just what her mother would have done, but everything is beginning to unravel. It will take all Amy\u0027s courage to let go of her mother\u0027s legacy, but it is the only way she will break free and find her own.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2128,
            "title": "A Rose for Virtue",
            "author": "Norah Lofts",
            "date": "1971",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Historical, France, Fiction, Romance",
            "characters": "Hortense de Beauharnais",
            "synopsis": "\"Hortense Beauharnais finds herself rubbing shoulders with royalty as her mother remarries to become Napoleon Bonaparte\u0027s wife. As Napoleon struggles for power on the battlefields of Europe, so Hortense charts her way through the French court - a chessboard world where the motives are jealousy and greed and the prizes are thrones of conquered countries. Despite attempts to retain her individuality, Hortense finds herself married to Napoleon\u0027s brother Louis, but her heart is with Charles de Flahaut, a gallant young officer. Unwilling to cross her stepfather, Hortense must wait and see if time will take her to her lover.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2129,
            "title": "The Gemel Ring",
            "author": "Betty Neels",
            "date": "Jul-02",
            "genres": "Romance, Fiction, British Literature, Contemporary Romance, Harlequin Romance",
            "characters": "Abigail Trent, Dominic van Wijkelen, Charity Dawson, Everard van Tijlen",
            "synopsis": "\"Sister Charity Dawson loved her job but there was one problem. Like the other humble members of St. Simon\u0027s nursing staff, she had to put up with the arrogant Dr. Everard van Tijlen. When Charity apparently discovered that the distinguished doctor\u0027s exorbitant fees funded a playboy lifestyle, she hit the roof. Everard might well have an engaging boyish smile, but he needed to be taken down a peg or two. And Charity knew just how to do it.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2130,
            "title": "The Glamour",
            "author": "Christopher Priest",
            "date": "2005",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Contemporary, British Literature, Literature, Mystery, Thriller, Novels",
            "characters": "Richard Grey, Susan Kewley",
            "synopsis": "\"Cameraman Richard Grey\u0027s memory has blanked out the few weeks before he was injured in a car bomb explosion. When he is visited by a girl who seems to have been his lover, his attempts to recall the forgotten period produce an odyssey through France and conflicting accounts of what happened. When Susan Kewley speaks to him of that time, he finds himself glimpsing a terrible twilight world - the world of the glamour.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2131,
            "title": "The World of Ptavvs",
            "author": "Larry Niven",
            "date": "Apr-00",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Space Opera, Science Fiction Fantasy, Hard Science Fiction, Aliens, Classics, Speculative Fiction, Novels, Space",
            "characters": "Larry Greenberg",
            "synopsis": "\"Larry Greenberg\u0027s telepathic tendencies had been trained and developed to a critical level. The trouble was that if these psychic interchanges were strong enough, a man could end up not knowing who he really was. And when Larry\u0027s mind is taken over by a sinister alien force, he has to fight to retain his sanity - and divert a disaster that threatens all mankind...\"\"Snappy, ingenious, and upbeat.\"\" - GalaxyMade the 1st ballot for the 1967 Nebula\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2132,
            "title": "Promethea: Book One",
            "author": "Alan Moore , J.H. Williams III, Mick Gray",
            "date": "Published",
            "genres": "Comics, Graphic Novels, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Mythology, Superheroes, Comix, Magic",
            "characters": "Promethea",
            "synopsis": "\"The first graphic novel from America\u0027s Best Comics, like all titles from ABC, is written and created by Alan Moore, writer of Watchmen, the classic Swamp Thing, and V for Vendetta. Boasting some of Moore\u0027s most powerful writing in years, this volume introduces Promethea, a powerful figure who appeared in Victorian children\u0027s stories and turn-of-the-century comic strips and gains new life through Sophie Bangs, a college student in alternate-reality New York City. But as this exotic heroine leaps into battle, will Sophie\u0027s personality be able to reemerge when the battle is over?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2133,
            "title": "The Book of Night with Moon",
            "author": "Diane Duane , Kathryn Parise (Designed by)",
            "date": "Mar-99",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult, Cats, Animals, Urban Fantasy, Magic, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Contemporary",
            "characters": "Rhiow, Saash, Urruah, Arhu",
            "synopsis": "\"Rhiow seems a perfectly ordinary New York City cat. Or so her humans think - but she is much more than she appears. With her partners Saash and Urruah, she collaborates with human wizards to protect the earth from dark forces and maintain the network of magical gateways that connect to different realities. But amid this amazing secret animal world lies a danger that threatens not only the cats of the world, but humans as well.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2134,
            "title": "La décima sinfonía",
            "author": "Joseph Gelinek",
            "date": "2008",
            "genres": "Thriller, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Mystery, Music, Crime",
            "characters": "Daniel Paniagua",
            "synopsis": "\"Svet klasične muzike potresa prava revolucija kada poznati dirigent Ronald Tomas izvede na privatnom koncertu navodnu rekonstrukciju prvog stava mitske Desete simfonije Ludviga van Betovena. Jedan od gostiju na tom događaju, mladi muzikolog Danijel Panijagva, počinje da sumnja: Možda Betovenova Deseta simfonija zaista postoji i sada se nalazi u Tomasovim rukama? Možda je genije iz Bona pobedio „prokletstvo desete simfonije“, po kojem svi kompozitori umiru kada je jednom napišu?Nakon okrutnog ubistva, počinje opasna igra u koju su pored Danijela upleteni i jedna žena sudija, lukavi detektiv za ubistva i razne moćne organizacije čiji su članovi uticajni biznismeni i Napoleonovi potomci. Svi oni bore se da pronadu sveti gral klasične muzike. Niko od njih ne zna da je odgovor na njihova pitanja u kontroverznoj Betovenovoj prošlosti i njegovoj zabranjenoj ljubavi koja je sve do danas ostala neotkrivena...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2135,
            "title": "The Endearment",
            "author": "LaVyrle Spencer",
            "date": "1995",
            "genres": "Romance, Historical Romance, Historical, Westerns, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Western Romance, Adult, Chick Lit, 19th Century",
            "characters": "Anna Reardon, Karl Lindstrom",
            "synopsis": "\"From the streets of 19th-century Boston to the harsh frontier-she wove a web of deception to ensnare her man!Lovely, fiery-tempered Anna Reardon was forced to lie to get out of the street urchin\u0027s life that shamed her ... to become Karl Lindstrom\u0027s mail-order bride in the beautiful, treacherous Minnesota wilderness.Karl forgave Anna for her deceptions-but there was still one shameful, burning secret that she had to hide from him, knowing its revelation would destroy the love that had become her very life!\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2136,
            "title": "Panzram: A Journal of Murder",
            "author": "Thomas E. Gaddis, James O. Long",
            "date": "Jun-02",
            "genres": "True Crime, Nonfiction, Biography, Psychology, Crime, History, Memoir, Biography Memoir, Autobiography, Dark",
            "characters": "Carl Panzram",
            "synopsis": "\"\"\"In my lifetime I have murdered 21 human beings, I have committed thousands of burglaries, robberies, larcenies, arsons and last but not least I have committed sodomy on more than 1,000 male human beings. For all of these things I am not the least bit sorry. I have no conscience so that does not worry me. I don\u0027t believe in man, God nor Devil. I hate the whole damn human race including myself.\"\"Carl Panzram, who called himself the \"\"world\u0027s worst murderer,\"\" wrote these words in a full autobiography and confession he prepared for the one friend in his life-a young prison guard named Henry Lesser. PANZRAM: A JOURNAL OF MURDER, combines these brutally forthright memoirs with the commentary of authors Gaddis and Long, into a compelling chronicle of the forces that engender hate. The authors provide a historical and sociological framework for Panzram\u0027s own words, using this uniquely detailed self-analysis by a mass murderer to depict what happens when an intelligent and unbreakable personality that has been interminably and unmercifully abused strikes back in vengeance.  PANZRAM arrives as a gripping warning from America\u0027s recent past to our newly repressive era of prison-industrial complex, death penalty abuse, and unprecedentedly high rates of incarceration from a man who walked the halls of Death Row with a blindingly clear vision. Introduction by Harold Schechter, author of Deranged and Deviant.(ISBN 1-878923-14-5)(ISBN 13: 9781878923141)NOTE: There are 2 different versions of this book with the same ISBN numbers. Different cover and amount of pages.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2137,
            "title": "What\u0027s Left?",
            "author": "Nick Cohen",
            "date": "2007",
            "genres": "Politics, Nonfiction, Philosophy, History, Journalism, Society, War, Sociology, Essays, Jewish",
            "characters": "George W. Bush, Paul Wolfowitz, Tony Blair, Noam Chomsky, Slobodan Milošević, Christopher Hitchens, Martin Amis, Saddam Hussein, Edward Said, George Galloway, Nick Cohen, Eric Hobsbawm, Harold Pinter, Robert Fisk, Azar Nafisi, Margaret Thatcher, Virginia Woolf",
            "synopsis": "\"From the witty and excoriating voice of journalist Nick Cohen, a powerful and irreverent dissection of the agonies, idiocies and compromises of mainstream liberal thought. He comes from the Left. When he was a child, his mother would search supermarket shelves for politically reputable citrus fruit, and despair. Aged 13, when he learned his kind and thoughtful English teacher voted Conservative, he nearly fell off his chair: \u0027To be good, you had to be on the Left.\u0027 Today he\u0027s no less confused. When he looks around him, in the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq, he sees a community of Left-leaning liberals standing on their heads. Why do apologies for a militant Islam standing for everything the liberal-Left is against come from a section of it? After the US/UK wars in Bosnia and Kosovo against Milosevic\u0027s ethnic cleansers, why were some on the Left denying the existence of Serb concentration camps? Why is Palestine a cause for the liberal-Left, but not, for instance, China, the Sudan, Zimbabwe or North Korea? Why can\u0027t those who say they support the Palestinian cause tell you what type of Palestine they\u0027d like to see? After the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington DC, why were you as likely to read that a conspiracy of Jews controlled US or UK foreign policy in a liberal literary journal as in a neo-Nazi rag? It\u0027s easy to know what the Left is fighting against-the evils of Bush and corporations-but what and who are they fighting for? As he tours the follies of the Left, he asks us to reconsider what it means to be liberal today. With the angry satire of Swift, he reclaims the values of democracy and solidarity that united the movement against fascism, asking: What\u0027s Left?.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2138,
            "title": "Who Fears The Devil?",
            "author": "Manly Wade Wellman",
            "date": "Feb-80",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Horror, Short Stories, Fiction, Weird Fiction, Pulp, Science Fiction Fantasy, Collections, Science Fiction, Adventure",
            "characters": "Silver John",
            "synopsis": "\"There\u0027s a traveling man the Carolina mountain folk call Silver John for the silver strings strung on his guitar. In his wanderings, John encounters a parade of benighted forest creatures, mountain spirits, and shapeless horrors from the void of history with only his enduring spirit, playful wit, and the magic of his guitar to preserve him. Manly Wade Wellman\u0027s Silver John is one of the most beloved figures in fantasy, a true American folk hero of the literary age. For the first time the \"\"Planet Stories\"\" edition of \"\"Who Fears the Devil?\"\" collects all of John\u0027s adventures published throughout Wellman\u0027s life, including two stories about John before he got his silver-stringed guitar that have never previously appeared in a Silver John collection. Lost, out of print, or buried in expensive hardcover editions, the seminal, unforgettable tales of \"\"Who Fears the Devil?\"\" stand ready for a new generation ready to continue the folk tradition of Silver John!\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2139,
            "title": "Roboter-Visionen",
            "author": "Isaac Asimov, Ralph McQuarrie (Illustrator), Marcel Bieger (Translator), Ingrid Herrmann (Translator), Fredy Köpsell (Translator)",
            "date": "1994",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories, Robots, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Anthologies, Fantasy, Audiobook, Collections",
            "characters": "R. Daneel Olivaw, Lije Bailey, Susan Calvin",
            "synopsis": "\"From Isaac Asimov, the Hugo Award-winning Grand Master of Science Fiction whose name is synonymous with the science of robotics, comes five decades of robot visions: thirty-four landmark stories and essays—including three rare tales—gathered together in one volume. Meet all of Asimov’s most famous creations including: Robbie, the very first robot that his imagination brought to life; Susan Calvin, the original robot psychologist; Stephen Byerley, the humanoid robot; and the famous human/robot detective team of Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw, who have appeared in such bestselling novels as The Robots of Dawn and Robots and Empire.Let the master himself guide you through the key moments in the fictional history of robot-human relations—from the most primitive computers and mobile machines to the first robot to become a man.(back cover)Contents: Robot Visions • cover and interior artwork by Ralph McQuarrie Introduction: The Robot Chronicles • essay by Isaac Asimov Robot Visions / short story by Isaac Asimov Too Bad! (1989) / short story by Isaac Asimov Robbie (1940) / short story by Isaac Asimov (variant of Strange Playfellow) Reason [Mike Donovan] (1941) / short story by Isaac Asimov Liar! [Susan Calvin] (1941) / short story by Isaac Asimov Runaround [Mike Donovan] (1942) / novelette by Isaac Asimov Evidence [Susan Calvin] (1946) / novelette by Isaac Asimov Little Lost Robot [Susan Calvin] (1947) / novelette by Isaac Asimov The Evitable Conflict [Susan Calvin] (1950) / novelette by Isaac Asimov Feminine Intuition [Susan Calvin] (1969) / novelette by Isaac Asimov The Bicentennial Man (1976) / novelette by Isaac Asimov Someday (1956) / short story by Isaac Asimov Think! (1977) / short story by Isaac Asimov Segregationist (1967) / short story by Isaac Asimov Mirror Image [Elijah Bailey/R. Daneel Olivaw] (1972) / short story by Isaac Asimov Lenny [Susan Calvin] (1958) / short story by Isaac Asimov Galley Slave [Susan Calvin] (1957) / novelette by Isaac Asimov Christmas Without Rodney (1988) / short story by Isaac Asimov Essays by Isaac Asimov: Robots I Have Known (1954); The New Teachers (1976); Whatever You Wish (1977); The Friends We Make (1977); Our Intelligent Tools (1977); The Laws of Robotics (1979); Future Fantastic (1989); The Machine and the Robot (1978); The New Profession (1979); The Robot As Enemy? (1979); Intelligences Together (1979); My Robots (1987); The Laws of Humanics (1987); Cybernetic Organism (1987); The Sense of Humor (1988); Robots in Combination (1988).The volume features many black-and-white illustrations by Ralph McQuarrie.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2140,
            "title": "La espada de la oscuridad",
            "author": "Kinley MacGregor",
            "date": "2007",
            "genres": "Romance, Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Paranormal, Historical Romance, Historical, Time Travel, Magic, Adult, Fantasy Romance",
            "characters": "Kerrigan, Seren of York, Merlin, Liam the God, Morgen le Fey, Blaise, Elaine, Alethea",
            "synopsis": "\"El nuevo rey de Camelot ya no luce una brillante armadura: Arturo y sus caballeros han caído y gobierna un nuevo monarca. En el bosque más oscuro, un joven terrorífico se ha convertido en el hombre más poderoso del mundo. Despiadado y desenfrenado, Karrigan ha dejado de ser humano hace tiempo. Entretanto, en el corazón de Londres, una joven y energética campesina llamada Seren sueña con ser libre, pero aún no imagina que huyendo de su destino acabará por encontrarlo.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2141,
            "title": "Five Run Away Together",
            "author": "Enid Blyton",
            "date": "2001",
            "genres": "Childrens, Adventure, Fiction, Mystery, Classics, Young Adult, Middle Grade, British Literature, Novels, Juvenile",
            "characters": "George Kirrin (Famous Five), Dick Kirrin, Timmy, Tinker, Anne (Famous Five), Julian (Famous Five)",
            "synopsis": "\"Julian, Dick and Anne arrive in Kirrin Cottage to stay with George (real name Georgina) for the holidays. They plan to spend time exploring Kirrin Island but their happiness is spoilt when Aunt Fanny falls ill and has to leave with Uncle Quentin to be treated in a far-off hospital. They are cared for by Aunt Fanny\u0027s temporary cook, Mrs Stick, who is accompanied by her husband and their ghastly son Edgar. The Sticks and the four children come to hate each other. Mrs Stick repeatedly tries to poison George\u0027s dog Timmy, prompting George to hatch a secret plan to run away to Kirrin Island. When Julian catches her leaving, she decides to allow the other children to go with her.The children find evidence of other people visiting the island and suspect smugglers. The discovery of a young girl\u0027s toys and clothes point to something sinister going on.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2142,
            "title": "Die Revolution entlässt ihre Kinder",
            "author": "Wolfgang Leonhard",
            "date": "2005",
            "genres": "Biography, German Literature, Nonfiction, Russia, Autobiography, History",
            "characters": "Wolfgang Leonhard, Wilhelm Pieck, Walter Ulbricht, Susanne Leonhard, Paul Wandel, Rudolf Herrnstadt, Alfred Kurella, Ernő Gerő, Fritz Erpenbeck, Anton Ackermann, Otto Grotewohl",
            "synopsis": "\" Wolfgang Leonhards 1954 erstmals erschienenes Buch Die Revolution entläßt ihre Kinder, ist längst zu einem Klassiker der Kommunismusforschung avanciert. Zu Recht, denn auch nach 45 Jahren hat es nichts von seiner Aktualität und Brillanz verloren. Wer die inneren Funktionsmechanismen des Stalinismus verstehen will, kommt an Leonhards Buch nicht vorbei. Doch was macht das Besondere seiner Arbeit aus? Der Autor genießt einen entscheidenden Vorteil bei der Analyse des Stalinismus: Die Erfahrungen eines zehnjährigen Lebens in der Sowjetunion und der vierjährigen Tätigkeit als Funktionär im zentralen Apparat der SED-Führung. 1935 nach Moskau emigriert, erlebte Leonhard die große stalinistische Säuberung der Jahre 1936 bis 1938 und wurde ab 1942 auf der Schule der Kommunistischen Internationale zum Funktionär ausgebildet. Im Mai 1945 kehrte er zusammen mit Walter Ulbricht nach Deutschland zurück. Bis zu seiner überraschenden Flucht nach Jugoslawien im März 1949 war er im Zentralkomitee der KPD/SED mit der ideologischen Schulung der Parteifunktionäre betraut. In dieser Funktion lernte Leonhard viele der damaligen Repräsentanten der sowjetischen Besatzungszone und der späteren DDR persönlich kennen. Es ist diese intime Kenntnis der inneren Mechanismen des Systems: Die Möglichkeit, sich in die Menschen der kommunistischen Welt hineinzudenken und die Fähigkeit, die für viele so rätselhafte ideologische Wortklauberei entziffern zu können, die sein Werk auszeichnen. Vieles, was dem Außenstehenden oft so unwahrscheinlich anmutet, erscheint dem früheren Funktionär \"\"von drüben\"\" wie ein offenes Buch. Diese Kenntnisse befähigen Leonhard, die Entwicklungen in der kommunistischen Welt objektiv zu analysieren. \"\"Gleichermaßen entfernt von primitivem Antikommunismus und den Haßgefühlen, aber auch von Schönfärberei und Illusionen\"\", wie er 1990 anläßlich der Neuauflage von Die Revolution entläßt ihre Kinder schrieb. Es ist dieser unverfälschte Blick eines Insiders, der dem Buch jenes Maß an Authentizität und Glaubwürdigkeit verleiht, das es bis heute auszeichnet. -Stephan Fingerle\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2143,
            "title": "The Moonspinners",
            "author": "Mary Stewart",
            "date": "1996",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Romance, Suspense, Romantic Suspense, Gothic, Greece, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Historical Fiction",
            "characters": "Nicola Ferris",
            "synopsis": "\"Young, beautiful, and adventurous Nicola Ferris loves her life as a secretary at the British Embassy on Greece. On leave from her job as a secretary in Athens, has been looking forward to a quiet week\u0027s holiday in the lush island of Crete, enjoying the wild flowers and the company of her cousin Frances. Then on her day off, her impulse led her on a little-used path into the foreboding White Mountains. She links up with two hiking companions who have inadvertently stumbled upon a scene of blood vengeance, that involving a young Englishman and a group of people tied together by blood and the bonds of greed.For the first time in her life Nicola meets a man and a situation she cannot deal with... A man in hiding - for reasons he could not explain. Warned to stay away, Nicola was unable to obey. And before she realized what she had uncovered, she found herself thrust into the midst of an alarming plot in which she would become the prey... And suddenly the life Nicola adores is in danger of coming to an abrupt, brutal, and terrifying end....\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2144,
            "title": "Don Quijote de la Mancha II: Segunda Parte del Ingenioso Caballero Don Quijote de la Mancha",
            "author": "Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, G. Roux (Illustrator), John Jay Allen (Editor)",
            "date": "2016",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Spanish Literature, Literature, Novels, Spain, Humor, Adventure, College, Fantasy",
            "characters": "Sancho Panza, Don Quijote de la Mancha, Dulcinea",
            "synopsis": "\"Hace más de un cuarto de siglo que Ediciones Cátedra publicó por primera vez una edición del \"\"Quijote\"\" en la colección Letras Hispánicas, a cargo del profesor John Jay Allen. En 1986, el profesor Allen modificó en parte la introducción a la luz de algunos estudios que habían ido apareciendo después de la primera edición. Posteriormente el texto también fue revisado teniendo en cuenta las nuevas lecturas y enmiendas que la crítica erudita y los investigadores han ido incorporando durante los últimos años. Coincidiendo con el cuarto centenario de la publicación del Quijote, Ediciones Cátedra, y una vez más el cuidado del profesor Allen, ofrece una edición renovada y puesta al día de la obra maestra de Cervantes.Here are the adventures of that bumbling, infinitely compassionate knight, Don Quijote, and his shrewdly simple squire, Sancho Panza. Part parody and part cautionary tale, Don Quijote is one of the world\u0027s great literary works.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2145,
            "title": "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog",
            "author": "Dylan Thomas",
            "date": "1968",
            "genres": "Short Stories, Fiction, Poetry, Literature, British Literature, Classics, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Biography Memoir, Irish Literature",
            "characters": "Dylan Thomas",
            "synopsis": "\"The \u0027Young Dog\u0027 of the title is of course Thomas himself, \u0026 this volume of autobiographical stories by the great modern poet, who shows his waggish humor at its best, his exuberance \u0026 verbal magic in spectacular display. It also shows him a spinner of tales \u0026 a creator of memorable characters.The peachesA visit to Grandpa\u0027sPatricia, Edith \u0026 ArnoldThe fightExtraordinary little coughJust like little dogsWhere Tawe flowsWho do you wish was with usOld GarboOne warm Saturday\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2146,
            "title": "Conspiracy Game",
            "author": "Christine Feehan ",
            "date": "Nov-06",
            "genres": "Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Romance, Fantasy, Romantic Suspense, Military Fiction, Contemporary, Suspense, Urban Fantasy, Adult",
            "characters": "Ken Norton, Briony Jenkins, Jack Norton",
            "synopsis": "\"Jack Norton is a GhostWalker, a genetically enhanced sniper with a merciless sense of justice, a phantom welcomed by the anonymity of the night. But a mission to rescue his brother in the jungle has left him vulnerable to rebel forces. His only salvation is his power of telepathy. Then he meets Briony, an unusual beauty on a mission of her own. But they share more than the sweltering heat ... Briony shares the GhostWalker powers. Yet she\u0027s different. She doesn\u0027t know what she is, or what she\u0027s capable of. But her enemies do. And Jack and Briony\u0027s flight will take them into frightening conspiracy of mind and body - across the globe and into the heart of darkness, where the shocking truth is something neither of them could have foreseen - or can escape...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2147,
            "title": "The Rest of the Robots",
            "author": "Isaac Asimov",
            "date": "1968",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories, Classics, Robots, Anthologies, Fantasy, Collections, Science Fiction Fantasy, Short Story Collection",
            "characters": "Susan Calvin, Mike Donovan",
            "synopsis": "\"The Rest of the Robots is the third timeless, amazing and amusing volume of Isaac Asimov\u0027s robot stories, offering golden insights into robot thought processes. Asimov\u0027s Three Laws of Robotics have since been programmed into real computers the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and used as the outline for a legal robotic charter in Korea. ROBOT TONY is the first robot designed to perform domestic duties by the US Robots and Mechanical Men Corporation. Is it Tony\u0027s fault that the lady of the house where he\u0027s field tested falls in love with him?ROBOT AL was intended for shipment to a mining outfit on the moon. Instead, he\u0027s loose in the mountains of Virginia...building from scraps of junk his very own, very dangerous disintegrator.ROBOT LENNY answers workaday questions in babytalk. So why is Dr Susan Calvin, the world\u0027s top robopsychologist, fascinated by this messed up specimen of an industrial robot?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2148,
            "title": "Core of Evil",
            "author": "Nigel McCrery",
            "date": "2009",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Crime, British Literature, Murder Mystery, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Novels",
            "characters": "Mark Lapslie",
            "synopsis": "\"A visceral thriller from the creator of the hit BBC drama Silent Witness, introducing synaesthetic detective DCI Mark Lapslie. I\u0027ve looked into the eyes of women who have banged nine-inch nails into the skulls of their victims with hammers ... we evaluate them, trying to determine whether they have actually changed, or whether there\u0027s still a core of evil within them...Before his diagnosis, DCI Mark Lapslie thought everyone was like him. Now he knows he suffers from synaethesthesia - a rare neurological condition that has cross-wired his senses. The sickening clamour of sounds he can taste has smothered his marriage and stifled his career. At the scene of a fatal traffic accident, Lapslie\u0027s interest isn\u0027t in the recently deceased driver, rather the desiccated corpse found lying next to him. Something about the body stirs a fleeting recollection at the back of Lapslie\u0027s mind... he can\u0027t quite put his finger on it, but he can almost taste it... Memories haunt Violet Chambers. Taking tea with her friend Daisy, she knows it\u0027s time to move on. As Daisy falls to the floor, eyes streaming, face burning, Violet calmly waits. Black hellebore is remarkably potent. It won\u0027t be long now. Discover the other books in the DCI Mark Lapslie series: Tooth and Claw, Scream, Thirteenth Coffin and Flesh and Blood.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2149,
            "title": "The Mystery of the Invisible Thief",
            "author": "Enid Blyton",
            "date": "May-91",
            "genres": "Mystery, Childrens, Adventure, Fiction, Crime, Novels, Young Adult, Female Authors, Classics, Teen",
            "characters": "\"\"Philip \u0027\u0027Pip\u0027\u0027 Hilton\"\", \"\"Margaret \u0027\u0027Daisy\u0027\u0027 Dakin\"\", Buster the Dog, \"\"Laurence \u0027\u0027Larry\u0027\u0027 Daykin\"\", \"\"Frederick Algernon \u0027\u0027Fatty\u0027\u0027 Trotteville\"\", \"\"Elizabeth \u0027\u0027Bets\u0027\u0027 Hilton\"\"",
            "synopsis": "\"Larry, Daisy, Fatty, Pip, Bets and Buster are immediately on the trail when two robberies take place in the village, and though the thief has left enormous footprints, it seems as if he is able to enter houses without being seen.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2150,
            "title": "The Mysterious Mannequin",
            "author": "Carolyn Keene",
            "date": "1970",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Adventure",
            "characters": "Nancy Drew",
            "synopsis": "\"When Carson Drew’s Turkish client vanishes, Nancy is determined to decipher the clues woven into the decorative border of an Oriental rug. The coded message starts her on a quest for a missing mannequin. What happened to the attractive figure that was displayed in the large window of his rug shop? Who is trying to keep Nancy from finding it—and why? Tracking down the intricate trail of clues to solve this mystery, Nancy and her friends travel to Turkey. This book is the original text. A revised text does not exist.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2151,
            "title": "The Taming of a Wild Child",
            "author": "Kimberly Lang ",
            "date": "Mar-13",
            "genres": "Romance, Contemporary Romance, Contemporary, Harlequin, Category Romance, New Adult, Chick Lit",
            "characters": "Lorelei LaBlanc, Donovan St. James",
            "synopsis": "\"Waking up in a stranger\u0027s bed is not how socialite Lorelei LaBlanc planned on spending the morning after the night before.From now on…:A) No more secret hookups with Donovan St. James—he\u0027s the last man on earth she\u0027d want to share a room with, never mind a king-size bed.B) Maintain a professional persona at all times. After all, he\u0027s a hard-hitting journalist who\u0027s always on the lookout for the latest scoop …and she\u0027s perfect tabloid fodder.C) Keep friends close but enemies closer. Donovan may look like the ultimate poster boy but his intentions are anything but PG rated….\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2152,
            "title": "Meneer Beerta",
            "author": "J.J. Voskuil",
            "date": "Apr-97",
            "genres": "Fiction, Literature, Dutch Literature, Roman, 20th Century, Classics, Humor, Novels",
            "characters": "Maarten Koning, Nicolien Koning",
            "synopsis": "\"Meneer Beerta is het eerste deel van Het Bureau, een roman in zeven delen, die de menselijke verhoudingen op en rondom een wetenschappelijk instituut tussen de jaren 1957 en 1987 tot onderwerp heeft. Hoofdpersoon is Maarten Koning, die ook in Bij nader inzien - het debuut van J.J. Voskuil uit 1963 - centraal stond.Maarten Koning ervaart de maatschappij waarin hij een plaats moet vinden als bedreigend en past zich moeilijk aan. Dat scherpt zijn blik voor zijn eigen tekortkomingen en die van zijn collega’s. In zijn ogen is de wereld waarin zij leven een schijnwereld, waarin mensen hun behoefte aan aandacht, erkenning of macht verbergen achter, schijnbaar zinvolle, maar in werkelijkheid zinloze werkzaamheden. Deze verborgen behoeften van mensen die elkaar niet hebben uitgezocht maar wel dag in dag uit met elkaar moeten verkeren, zijn aanleiding tot talloze wrijvingen en spanningen, een enkele maal met een tragische afloop, maar meestal komisch.Meneer Beerta beschrijft de jaren tussen 1957 en 1965 en eindigt met de pensionering van Beerta als directeur. Maarten heeft hem in zijn studietijd leren kennen als een beminnelijke scepticus en dat trekt hem aan. Van het geïdealiseerde beeld dat hij van hem heeft zal in de loop van het boek weinig overblijven, al verliest hij zijn sympathie niet. Tegelijkertijd is de lezer getuige van zijn vergeefse pogingen bondgenoten te zoeken in zijn afkeer van de in zijn ogen loze pretenties van de mensen waartussen hij terecht is gekomen.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2153,
            "title": "La Duchesse De Langeais",
            "author": "Honoré de Balzac",
            "date": "1998",
            "genres": "France, Classics, Fiction, French Literature, Literature, 19th Century, Romance, Roman, Novels",
            "characters": "Henri de Marsay, Armand de Montriveau, Antoinette de Langeais, Marquis de Roquenrolles",
            "synopsis": "\"A l\u0027égal de la princesse de Clèves et de la Sanseverina, la duchesse de Langeais est l\u0027une des grandes divinités féminines de notre littérature. Elle réunit en sa personne le triple prestige de la beauté, de la naissance et du malheur. Issue d\u0027un sang illustre, Antoinette de Navarreins voit le jour en 1794, sous la Terreur, une bien sombre étoile qui sera pour elle la marque du destin. Quelque vingt ans plus tard, séparée de son mari abhorré que lui avait imposé un père indifférent, c\u0027est l\u0027une des gloires mondaines du Faubourg Saint-Germain. Mais que dissimule la coquetterie glacée de cette aristocratique Célimène ? Et par quel étrange sortilège l\u0027incandescente passion d\u0027Armand de Montriveau va-t-elle à son tour la consumer ? Comme tout vrai chef-d\u0027œuvre, ce \"\" roman noir \"\" - primitivement intitulé \"\" Ne touchez pas à la hache \"\" - est pour partie une autobiographie sublimée, c\u0027est-à-dire le contraire d\u0027un roman à clefs. \"\" Moi seul sais ce qu\u0027il y a d\u0027horrible dans La Duchesse de Langeais \"\", confiait Balzac à l\u0027un de ses proches. C\u0027est pourquoi l\u0027œuvre conserve, depuis plus d\u0027un siècle et demi, son mystère et sa force de séduction.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2154,
            "title": "Special Friendships",
            "author": "Roger Peyrefitte, Edward Hyams (Translator)",
            "date": "1968",
            "genres": "France, LGBT, Fiction, Gay, French Literature, Queer, Classics, Novels, Roman",
            "characters": "Lucien Rouvière, Georges de Sarre, Alexandre Motier",
            "synopsis": "\"Special Friendships is a 1943 novel by French writer Roger Peyrefitte, probably his best known work today, which won the coveted prix Renaudot. Largely autobiographical, it deals with an intimate relationship between two boys at a Roman Catholic boarding school and how it is destroyed by a priest\u0027s will to protect them from homosexuality.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2155,
            "title": "The Ugly Duckling",
            "author": "Iris Johansen ",
            "date": "Dec-96",
            "genres": "Mystery, Thriller, Fiction, Suspense, Romance, Romantic Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Contemporary, Adult",
            "characters": "Nell Calder, Nicholas Tanek, Paul Maritz, Philippe Gardeaux, Jamie Reardon, Tania Vlados",
            "synopsis": "\"If fate suddenly made you more beautiful than you ever dreamed possible, would it be the beginning of a fairy tale, or your worst nightmare?The brutal attack should have killed anybody, but Nell Calder did more than survive. She emerged a woman transformed, with an exquisite beauty found only in fairy tales. Nell Calder deserved a happy ending. Instead, her descent into terror has just begun.Her attacker is still on the hunt, determined to finish what he\u0027s started. And Nell, protected by a new face, is just as determined to fight back and take her revenge. But to catch her prey, she will have to expose herself—even if it makes her a killer\u0027s prime target.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2156,
            "title": "The Lost Clue",
            "author": "Mrs. O.F. Walton",
            "date": "Published",
            "genres": "Fiction, Mystery, Christian Fiction, Classics, Romance, Christian, Childrens, Historical Fiction",
            "characters": "Kenneth Fortescue, Marjorie Douglas",
            "synopsis": "\"In this intriguing mystery, Captain Fortesque finds himself torn between two loyalties. Having been educated in the finest schools of England, he enjoyed acceptance in high society, but kept his true upbringing a secret. Then the day came that changed the course of his life. It all started with the mysterious note that could only be read after his father’s death. Will he be able to endure the dramatic challenges he will now face?In the meantime, everything in Daisy Bank seemed crooked and out of shape. Across stretches of dark stagnant water, Marjorie wandered over the wilderness of ashes, wondering how anything could grow in such poor and barren soil. But she learns that even in the midst of that bleak, coal-mining region, she can be ‘a tree of the Lord’s planting,’ bringing sunshine and growth to the dark, dreary world in which she finds herself.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2157,
            "title": "Fausto / Werther",
            "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe",
            "date": "1998",
            "genres": "Classics, German Literature, Theatre, Historical Fiction, Fiction",
            "characters": "Faust, Mephistopheles, Werther, Gretchen",
            "synopsis": "\"Goethe es el alemán de fama perpetua, grande entre los grandes de todos los tiempos. Universal por su genio, no se le resistió ningún género literario: fue poeta, novelista, pensador, autor dramático y hombre de ciencia de fecundas instituciones. El libro imperecedero de Goethe es Fausto, obra inconmensurable, a la vez drama, misterio, poema simbólico y filosófico. Más de seis décadas de la vida de Goethe laboraron en la composición de Fausto, tragedia que ha sido denominada \"\"la segunda Biblia de los alemanes\"\". Fausto es la obra capital de Goethe. La idea v la realización palpitaron en el pecho del poeta desde su inquieta infancia hasta los días apacibles y melancólicos de su vejez. Puede decirse que Fausto es Goethe. El genial alemán estuvo siempre obsesionado por la búsqueda de la Verdad y éste es asimismo el gran drama de Fausto. Werther, esa célebre novela romántica de Goethe, tuvo su origen, como tantas poesías del autor, en un asunto amoroso.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2158,
            "title": "Yssa il buono",
            "author": "John le Carré",
            "date": "2009",
            "genres": "Fiction, Thriller, Espionage, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Spy Thriller, Suspense, Crime, Terrorism, Germany",
            "characters": "Issa, Annabel, Tommy Brue",
            "synopsis": "\"Chi è lo sconosciuto gracile e male in arnese, avvolto in un cappottone nero, in cui Melik, immigrato turco di seconda generazione nato ad Amburgo, continua a imbattersi? Dopo l\u002711 settembre la vita del giovane, devoto musulmano e promessa della boxe, soffre di equilibri precari, e lui farebbe di tutto pur di non cacciarsi nei guai. Ma sua madre, che considera un dovere prestare aiuto a un compagno di fede, decide di dare ospitalità allo straniero. Lo strano ragazzo, che dice di chiamarsi Yssa Karpov, rivela di essere un profugo ceceno fuggito da un carcere russo e di essere entrato in Germania clandestinamente con l\u0027intenzione di studiare medicina, grazie anche all\u0027aiuto che gli verrà fornito da Tommy Brue. Peccato che Brue non abbia idea di chi lui sia. Il ceceno, però, è in possesso di una misteriosa parola d\u0027ordine capace di ridestare improvvisamente il passato: \"\"lipizzano\"\". Quando Brue sente questo termine per bocca di Annabel Richter, avvocato specializzato nell\u0027assistenza agli immigrati a cui Yssa si è rivolto, sa che non si riferisce alla nobile razza di cavalli di origine slovena. Lipizzano è la parola in codice con cui suo padre indicava ingenti e loschi capitali travasati dall\u0027Unione Sovietica nelle casse della sua banca. John le Carré torna con una storia che si confronta con gli aspetti più ambigui della contemporaneità, ponendo l\u0027accento sulle contraddizioni delle democrazie occidentali e sull\u0027arroganza del potere nei confronti dei più deboli.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2159,
            "title": "Piç",
            "author": "Hakan Günday",
            "date": "Oct-07",
            "genres": "Turkish Literature, Turkish, Novels, Fiction",
            "characters": "Afgan, Barbaros, Cenk, Hakan",
            "synopsis": "\"Piçlerin çocukları olmaz.Piçler, aşık oldukları kadınların kendilerini kurtaracaklarını düşünür. Oysa hiçbir kadın dünyaya bir piçi kurtarmak için gelmemiştir.Piçlere sır verilebilir. Ölümleriyle son bulan sırdaşlıkları vardır.Piçlerin cinsel hayatı düzensizdir.Piçlerin bedenleri ve akılları, diğer insanlarınkilerin aksine nasırlaşmaz. Onların nasırlaşan tek yerleri ruhlarıdır.Piçler sadece kendi aşklarına saygı duyarlar. En yakın dostlarının kadınlarına dil ve el uzatabilirler. Bu durumda piç tabii ki suçlu, ancak piçlik meşrudur. Piçler düzensiz hayatlarında düzenli olarak içki içerler. Belli sayıdaki kadehten sonra sarhoş olup sızarlar. Sızdıkları yerin adı huzurdur.Piçlerin babalarıyla olan ilişkileri mezar taşı kadar soğuk, yeni dökülmüş kan kadar sıcaktır.Piçler insan öldüremedikleri, ağır suçlar işleyemedikleri, korkak ve hain oldukları için yaşadıkları yerleri zorunlu kalmadıkça terk edemezler.Piçin davranış ve tercihlerini sadece bir başka piç kabul edilebilir olarak değerlendirir ve \"\"Neden?\"\" diye sormaz. \"\"Neden\"\" sorusu piçliği yok eder.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2160,
            "title": "Broken Harbor",
            "author": "Tana French ",
            "date": "2012",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Ireland, Thriller, Audiobook, Suspense, Adult, Contemporary",
            "characters": "Michael Kennedy, Detective Quigley, \"\"Superintendent O\u0027\u0027Kelly\"\", Richie Curran, Dina Kennedy",
            "synopsis": "\"Mick “Scorcherˮ Kennedy is the star of the Dublin Murder Squad. He plays by the books and plays hard, and thatʼs how the biggest case of the year ends up in his hands. On one of the half-abandoned “luxuryˮ developments that litter Ireland, Patrick Spain and his two young children have been murdered. His wife, Jenny, is in intensive care. At first, Scorcher thinks itʼs going to be an easy solve, but too many small things canʼt be explained: the half-dozen baby monitors pointed at holes smashed in the Spainsʼ walls, the files erased from the familyʼs computer, the story Jenny told her sister about a shadowy intruder slipping past the houseʼs locks. And this neighborhood—once called Broken Harbor—holds memories for Scorcher and his troubled sister, Dina: childhood memories that Scorcher thought he had tightly under control.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2161,
            "title": "American Power and the New Mandarins: Historical and Political Essays",
            "author": "Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn (Introduction)",
            "date": "2002",
            "genres": "Politics, History, Nonfiction, Essays, Political Science, Philosophy, The United States Of America, War, American, United States",
            "characters": "Dwight D. Eisenhower, \"\"Conor Cruise O\u0027\u0027Brien\"\", Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Lyndon B. Johnson, Samuel P. Huntington, Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King, Karl Marx",
            "synopsis": "\"American Power and the New Mandarins is Noam Chomsky’s first political book, widely considered to be among the most cogent and powerful statements against the American war in Vietnam. Long out of print, this collection of early, seminal essays helped to establish Chomsky as a leading critic of United States foreign policy. These pages mount a scathing critique of the contradictions of the war, and an indictment of the mainstream, liberal intellectuals—the “new mandarins”—who furnished what Chomsky argued was the necessary ideological cover for the horrors visited on the Vietnamese people.As America’s foreign entanglements deepen by the month, Chomsky’s lucid analysis is a sobering reminder of the perils of imperial diplomacy. With a new foreword by Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States, American Power and the New Mandarins is a renewed call for independent analysis of America’s role in the world.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2162,
            "title": "Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories",
            "author": "Agatha Christie",
            "date": "1997",
            "genres": "Mystery, Short Stories, Fiction, Classics, Crime, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Detective, Anthologies, Murder Mystery",
            "characters": "Miss Marple",
            "synopsis": "\"Elderly Miss Jane Marple from St Mary\u0027s Mead village applies skills of observation and deduction to mysteries, usually to murder from books Tuesday Club, Regatta, Three Blind Mice.Tuesday Club1 Tuesday Night Club2 Idol House of Astarte3 Ingots of Gold4 Bloodstained Pavement5 Motive v Opportunity6 Thumbmark of St Peter7 Blue Geranium8 Companion9 Four Suspects10 Christmas Tragedy11 Herb of Death12 Affair at the Bungalow13 Death by DrowningRegatta14 Miss Marple Tells a StoryThree Blind Mice15 Strange Jest16 Tape Measure17 Perfect Maid18 CaretakerDouble Sin19 Greenshaw\u0027s Folly20 Sanctuary\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2163,
            "title": "Doctor Who: Dust Breeding",
            "author": "Mike Tucker",
            "date": "Jun-01",
            "genres": "Doctor Who, Science Fiction, Audiobook, Fiction, Plays, Media Tie In, British Literature, Time Travel",
            "characters": "The Seventh Doctor, Ace, The Master (Doctor Who), Bev Tarrant, The Doctor, The Third Master",
            "synopsis": "\"On nineteenth Century Earth artist Edvard Munch hears an infinite scream pass through nature. Centuries later his painting of that Scream hangs in a gallery on the barren dust world Duchamp 331.Why is there a colony of artists on a planet that is little more than a glorified garage? What is the event that the passengers of the huge, opulent pleasure cruiser \u0027Gallery\u0027 are hoping to see? And what is hidden in the crates that litter the cargo hold?The Doctor\u0027s diary indicates that the painting is about to be destroyed in \u0027mysterious circumstances\u0027, and when he and Ace arrive on Duchamp 331, those circumstances are well underway.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2164,
            "title": "Ice Station",
            "author": "Matthew Reilly",
            "date": "2000",
            "genres": "Thriller, Fiction, Action, Adventure, Military Fiction, Suspense, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Science Fiction, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Shane Schofield, Elizabeth Gant, Gena Newman, Sarah Hensleigh, Kirsty Hensleigh, James Renshaw, Trevor Barnaby, Andrew Trent, Abby Sinclair",
            "synopsis": "\"At a remote US ice station in Antarctica, a team of scientists has made an amazing discovery. They found something unbelievable buried deep below the surface - trapped inside a layer of ice 400 million years old.Something made of metal...something which shouldn\u0027t be there...it\u0027s the discovery of a lifetime, a discovery of immeasurable value. And a discovery men will kill for.Led by the enigmatic Lieutenant Shane Schofield, a crack team of US Marines is rushed to the ice station to secure this bizarre discovery for their nation. Meanwhile other countries have developed the same ideas, and are ready to pursue it swiftly and ruthlessly. Fortunately, Schofield\u0027s men are a tough unit, all set to follow their leader into hell.They soon discover they just did...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2165,
            "title": "Die Kinder Von Eden",
            "author": "Ken Follett ",
            "date": "Nov-01",
            "genres": "Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Crime, Historical Fiction, Audiobook, Action",
            "characters": "Judy Madox",
            "synopsis": "\"Ein kleines, verschwiegenes Tal in Kalifornien. Hier lebt seit den sechziger Jahren eine Hippie-Kommune. Nun aber soll ihr Dorf einem Stausee weichen. Doch die \"\"Kinder von Eden\"\" wollen sich nicht aus ihrem Paradies vertreiben lassen und greifen in ihrer Not zu einem wahnwitzigen Plan: Sie drohen der Regierung, ein Erdbeben stattfinden zu lassen, das entsetzliche Folgen haben wird. Niemand nimmt ihre Ankündigung ernst. Nur die junge FBI-Agentin Judy Maddox , die bereits auf der Abschußliste ihrer Vorgesetzten steht, hat ihre Zweifel und versucht, die Katastrophe zu verhindern. Aber dann überschlagen sich die Ereignisse ... (Amazon.de)\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2166,
            "title": "Sign of the Unicorn",
            "author": "Roger Zelazny",
            "date": "Nov-86",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Audiobook, Magic, Adventure, Epic",
            "characters": "Random of Amber, Brand of Amber, Corwin of Amber, Benedict of Amber, Julian of Amber, Gérard of Amber, Deirdre of Amber, Fiona of Amber, Flora of Amber",
            "synopsis": "\"He who rules Amber rules the one true world. He who thwarts Amber invites the wrath of Amber betrayed. An unseen enemy of immense strength has seized a Prince of the Blood, and now threatens the perfect kingdom by striking at the very core of its power - the secret knowledge of Shadow.When Corwin summons forces to defend the throne, he finds himself challenged by royal conspirators, hideous demons, supernatural patterns and the ominous unknown that suddenly transcends all he ever suspected about the true nature of Amber.One of the most revered names in sf and fantasy, the incomparable Roger Zelazny was honored with numerous prizes—including six Hugo and three Nebula Awards—over the course of his legendary career. Among his more than fifty books, arguably Zelazny’s most popular literary creations were his extraordinary Amber novels.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2167,
            "title": "The Downfall of a Good Girl",
            "author": "Kimberly Lang ",
            "date": "Feb-13",
            "genres": "Romance, Contemporary Romance, Harlequin, Contemporary, Chick Lit, Adult, Category Romance, Harlequin Romance",
            "characters": "Vivienne LaBlanc, Connor Mansfield",
            "synopsis": "\"Southern debutante Vivienne LaBlanc can\u0027t believe bad-boy rock star Connor Mansfield is back in town for the New Orleans annual Saints and Sinners pageant. He has a reputation as wicked as his devilish smile, and Vivi has no intention of becoming one of his latest groupies! He once crushed her high school heart, so playing the saint to Connor\u0027s sinner should be easy. But how can Vivi get those less-than-angelic thoughts out of her head-especially when Connor\u0027s so good at tempting her to be bad?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2168,
            "title": "The Family Fang",
            "author": "Kevin Wilson ",
            "date": "Aug-11",
            "genres": "Fiction, Humor, Contemporary, Art, Adult Fiction, Novels, Family, Literary Fiction, Adult, Book Club",
            "characters": "Caleb Fang, Camille Fang, Annie Fang, Buster Fang",
            "synopsis": "\"Mr. and Mrs. Fang called it art.Their children called it mischief.Performance artists Caleb and Camille Fang dedicated themselves to making great art. But when an artist’s work lies in subverting normality, it can be difficult to raise well-adjusted children. Just ask Buster and Annie Fang. For as long as they can remember, they starred (unwillingly) in their parents’ madcap pieces. But now that they are grown up, the chaos of their childhood has made it difficult to cope with life outside the fishbowl of their parents’ strange world.When the lives they’ve built come crashing down, brother and sister have nowhere to go but home, where they discover that Caleb and Camille are planning one last performance -– their magnum opus -– whether the kids agree to participate or not. Soon, ambition breeds conflict, bringing the Fangs to face the difficult decision about what’s ultimately more important: their family or their art.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2169,
            "title": "Darkness, Take My Hand",
            "author": "Dennis Lehane ",
            "date": "1997",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Noir, Suspense, Audiobook, Adult",
            "characters": "Angie Gennaro, Patrick Kenzie, Bubba Rogowski",
            "synopsis": "\"Pat Kenzie riceve da una nota psichiatra l\u0027incarico di proteggere il figlio perseguitato da minacce e messaggi anonimi. Sembra un caso di facile soluzione. È l\u0027inizio di un incubo. Una serie di terrificanti omicidi, apparentemente senza legame, lo riporta di prepotenza nel passato, agli anni dell\u0027adolescenza, vissuti nel quartiere degradato di Dorchester a Boston. Le vittime, su cui l\u0027assassino ha infierito orribilmente, crocifiggendole e mutilandole, sono tutte persone che Pat Kenzie ha conosciuto. Nel corso di una frenetica caccia all\u0027uomo, condotta anche con l\u0027aiuto di Angie Gennaro e del fedele Bubba Rogowski, Pat si rende conto che il prossimo bersaglio potrebbe essere lui...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2170,
            "title": "Серпико",
            "author": "Peter Maas, Питър Маас, Явор Въжаров (Translator)",
            "date": "1990",
            "genres": "Biography, Nonfiction, True Crime, Crime, History, New York, Biography Memoir, Media Tie In, Memoir, American History",
            "characters": "American Law Enforcement, Frank Serpico",
            "synopsis": "\"В своя художествено документален роман „Серпико“ известният американски журналист и писател Питър Маас представя детайлна картина на полицейския апарат в САЩ. В книгата, силно въздействуваща преди всичко с фактите и особено популярна благодарение на екранизацията й (с Ал Пачино в главната роля), се изобличава безпринципността на тези, чийто дълг е да преследват закононарушителите, разкрива се покварата сред т.нар. „пазители на реда“. С реални факти, данни, дати, цифри и имена са описани ред скандални афери на висши и нисши полицейски служители. Франк Серпико, героят на тази достоверна история, се опълчва срещу бездушието и подкупността на своите колеги. Тъжна е равносметката на този самотен бунтар, когато на тридесет и шест години — пенсиониран и инвалид за цял живот — той е изправен пред въпроса: „А сега накъде?…“\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2171,
            "title": "Os Sertões",
            "author": "Euclides da Cunha",
            "date": "2005",
            "genres": "History, Brazil, Classics, Nonfiction, War, Literature, Portuguese Literature, Politics, Latin American, 20th Century",
            "characters": "Antônio Conselheiro",
            "synopsis": "\"Este livro é dividido em três partes:A Terra é uma descrição detalhada feita pelo cientista Euclides da Cunha, mostrando todas as características do lugar, o clima, as secas, a terra, enfim.O Homem é uma descrição feita pelo sociólogo e antropólogo Euclides da Cunha, que mostra o habitante do lugar, sua relação com o meio, sua gênese etnológica, seu comportamento, crença e costume; mas depois se fixa na figura de Antônio Conselheiro, o líder de Canudos. Apresenta se caráter, seu passado e relatos de como era a vida e os costumes de Canudos, como relatados por visitantes e habitantes capturados. Estas duas partes são essencialmente descritivas, pois na verdade “armam o palco” e “introduzem os personagens” para a verdadeira história, a Guerra de Canudos, relatada na terceira parte,A Luta é uma descrição feita pelo jornalista e ser humano Euclides da Cunha, relatando as quatro expedições a Canudos, criando o retrato real só possível pela testemunha ocular da fome, da peste, da miséria, da violência e da insanidade da guerra. Retratando minuciosamente movimento de tropas, o autor constantemente se prende à individualidade das ações e mostra casos isolados marcantes que demonstram bem o absurdo de um massacre que começou por um motivo tolo – Antônio Conselheiro reclamando um estoque de madeira não entregue – escalou para um conflito onde havia paranóia nacional pois suspeitava-se que os “monarquistas” de Canudos, liderados pelo “famigerado e bárbaro Bom Jesus Conselheiro” tinham apoio externo. No final, foi apenas um massacre violento onde estavam todos errados e o lado mais fraco resistiu até o fim com seus derradeiros defensores – um velho, dois adultos e uma criança.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2172,
            "title": "Risiko",
            "author": "Steffen Kopetzky",
            "date": "Oct-16",
            "genres": "German Literature, Historical, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Novels",
            "characters": "Karl Dönitz, Wilhelm Souchon, Sebastian Stichnote, Lucien Camus, Oskar von Niedermayer, Max von Oppenheim",
            "synopsis": "\"Geheimexpedition des Deutschen Reichs an den Hindukusch: Nach einem Plan des Orientkenners Freiherr Max von Oppenheim ziehen sechzig Mann mit der Bagdadbahn, zu Pferd und auf Kamelen durch Wüsten und Gebirge. Das Ziel: den Emir von Afghanistan und die Stämme der Paschtunen im Namen des Islam zum Angriff auf Britisch-Indien zu bewegen. Der junge Marinefunker Sebastian Stichnote liegt mit seinem Schiff vor der Küste Albaniens. Aus der Enge der Giesinger Gerberei seiner Brüder hat ihn das Fernweh hinaus auf See und zur vielstimmigen Funktechnik gezogen. Diese gibt ihm das Gefühl, mit dem ganzen Kosmos in Kontakt zu stehen. Als der Erste Weltkrieg beginnt, muss die unterlegene deutsche Flotte durchs Mittelmeer nach Konstantinopel fliehen. Stichnote hat es nach den ersten Seegefechten eilig, sein Schiff so schnell wie möglich zu verlassen und schließt sich als Funkoffizier einer geheimen Expedition nach Kabul an. Ihre Reise führt sie nach Syrien, Bagdad, Teheran, Isfahan und schließlich durch die persische Wüste. Am Ende hängt der Erfolg der Expedition von Stichnote ab, der mit allem brechen muss, was ihm einst heilig war.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2173,
            "title": "Notes from an Exhibition",
            "author": "Patrick Gale",
            "date": "2008",
            "genres": "Fiction, Contemporary, Art, Literary Fiction, Mental Health, British Literature, Book Club, Novels, Family, Mental Illness",
            "characters": "Garfield, Morwenna, Hedley, Rachel Kelly, Antony",
            "synopsis": "\"When troubled artist Rachel Kelly dies painting obsessively in her attic studio in Penzance, her saintly husband and adult children have more than the usual mess to clear up. She leaves behind an extraordinary and acclaimed body of work - but she also leaves a legacy of secrets and emotional damage that will take months to unravel.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2174,
            "title": "Deadly Relations: Bester Ascendant",
            "author": "Greg Keyes",
            "date": "Mar-99",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Babylon 5, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Tv, Space Opera, Fantasy, Media Tie In",
            "characters": "Alfred Bester",
            "synopsis": "\"The child of their greatest heroes-he was destined to become their darkest enemy . . .In the twenty-second century, the discovery of human telepaths led to terror and bloodshed, and to the creation of the Psi Corps-a government agency of elite telepaths who were used to control their own kind. Under the command of a power-mad politician, the Corps became a ruthless tool of oppression, and the telepath underground was formed. Matthew and Fiona Dexter led the resistance to its greatest victories. But when they were martyred for the cause, their only child was claimed by the very forces they had died opposing.Raised from infancy within the Psi Corps, Alfred Bester was a telepath of exceptional ability, determined to make his mark by transforming himself into a master of deceit. Schooled in hate but tormented by shards of conscience, he wrestled with the seductiveness of the sinister cause he served. But slowly stripped of humanity by the war between decency and betrayal, he surrendered his soul-and rose to become the most dreaded figure of his time . . . Book Two in the gripping new epic trilogy that uncovers the secret history of the Psi Corps.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2175,
            "title": "The Hand of Oberon",
            "author": "Roger Zelazny",
            "date": "Jun-77",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Audiobook, Adventure, Magic, Epic",
            "characters": "Random of Amber, Brand of Amber, Corwin of Amber, Ganelon",
            "synopsis": "\"Across the mysterious Black Road, demons swarm into Shadow. The ancient, secret source of the royal family\u0027s power is revealed, \u0026 an unholy pact between a prince of the realm \u0026 the forces of Chaos threaten all the known worlds with absolute obliteration. The hour of battle is at hand. Now Corwin and the remaining princes of Amber must call upon all their superhuman powers to defeat their brother-turned-traitor before he can walk the magical Pattern that created Amber and remake the universe in his own image.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2176,
            "title": "Still Life",
            "author": "A.S. Byatt",
            "date": "1996",
            "genres": "Fiction, British Literature, Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Contemporary, Historical, Modern, 20th Century",
            "characters": "Frederica Potter",
            "synopsis": "\"From the author of The New York Times bestseller Possession, comes a highly acclaimed novel which captures in brilliant detail the life of one extended English family-and illuminates the choices they must make between domesticity and ambition, life and art. Toni Morrison, author of Beloved, writes of Byatt: \"\"When it comes to probing characters her scalpel is sure but gentle. She is a loving surgeon\"\".\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2177,
            "title": "Scoop",
            "author": "Evelyn Waugh",
            "date": "2003",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Humor, Novels, British Literature, Journalism, Literature, Comedy, 20th Century, Africa",
            "characters": "William Boot, John Courtney Boot, Mr Salter",
            "synopsis": "\"Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the \"\"Daily Beast\"\", has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another. Acting on a dinner-party tip from Mrs Algernon Smith, he feels convinced that he has hit on just the chap to cover a promising little war in the African Republic of Ishmaelia. One of Waugh\u0027s most exuberant comedies, \"\"Scoop\"\" is a brilliantly irreverent satire of \"\"Fleet Street\"\" and its hectic pursuit of hot news.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2178,
            "title": "Pandora Hearts, Volume 6",
            "author": "Jun Mochizuki",
            "date": "Jul-11",
            "genres": "Manga, Fantasy, Graphic Novels, Mystery, Comics, Shonen, Comics Manga, Supernatural, Young Adult, Action",
            "characters": "Oz Vessalius, Xerxes Break, Alice, Gilbert Nightray, Ada Vessalius, Sharon Rainsworth",
            "synopsis": "\"Though Oz’s sudden appearance in the midst of Pandora wreaks havoc, the initially chilly reception to the prison-breaker runs more than warm when Jack Vessalius, hero of the tragedy of Sablier and the man from Alice’s memories, manifests in Oz’s body. Sensing Oz’s resultant inner turmoil, Uncle Oscar drags Oz and company on a “mission” to Lutwidge Academy, where Oz’s little sister, Ada, is a student. But some carefree fun and a tearful reunion ten years in the making is not all for which Oz must prepare himself: crimson-cloaked foes are lying in wait to torture him for answers about the events of a hundred years ago…\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2179,
            "title": "Quando il diavolo ti accarezza",
            "author": "Luca Tarenzi",
            "date": "Feb-11",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Italian Literature",
            "characters": "Azazel (Demon), Eleonora, Arioch, Khaled, Cesare, Sofia, Anna, Hadraniel, Caethel, Il Filosofo",
            "synopsis": "\"In una Milano buia e sferzata dalla pioggia, Lena sta inseguendo la sua amica Sofia, misteriosamente caduta in uno stato di trance. Davanti alla mole imponente della stazione Centrale, tra i marmi dievolmente illuminati dalla luce dei lampioni, la giovane assiste a un incredibile duello: un\u0027immensa creatura di fuoco sta per annientare un ragazzo nudo e coperto di sangue. D\u0027istinto Lena interviene e permette al giovane di approfittare di un attimo di distrazione dell\u0027avversario per rovesciare le sorti della battaglia e decapitarlo con la sua stessa spada. Solo che l\u0027assalitore era un angelo e il giovane, Arioch, un demone appena evocato per uccidere Sofia. Lena è determinata, coraggiosa, testarda e per salvare la sua migliore amica è disposta a tutto, anche a mettersi contro un demone. Arioch è antico come il mondo, violento, sanguinario e ha una missione cui è vincolato. E, purtroppo per Lena, ha anche due occhi penetranti e stregati...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2180,
            "title": "جريمة في بغداد",
            "author": "Agatha Christie",
            "date": "2011",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Thriller, British Literature, Adventure, Novels",
            "characters": "Victoria Jones, Edward Goring, Henry Carmichael, Richard Baker, Mr. \u0026 Mrs. Clayton, Marcus Tio, Sir Rupert Crofton Lee, Lionel Shrivenham, Anna Scheele, Mr. Dakin, Dr. Pauncefoot Jones, Mr. \u0026 Mrs. Hamilton Clipp, Mrs. Cardew Trench, Dr. Rathbone, Captain Crosbie",
            "synopsis": "\"تم اختيار بغداد كموقع لعقد قمة سرية بين القوتين العظميين. ولكن الخبر تسرب للأسف, وهناك منظمة سرية في الشرق الأوسط تخطط لإفساد الاجتماع. وفي قلب هذا الموقف الملتهب؛ سقطت فيكتوريا جونز, وهي فتاة محبة للمغامرات لكنها تجد نفسها في موقف لاتحسد عليه عندما يقتحم عميل سري جريح الغرفة التي تنزل فيها بأحد الفنادق ثم يخر صريعاً, وتحاول فيكتوريا أن تجد معنى للكلمات التي نطق بها : \"\" ... الشيطان... البصرة... ليفارج...\"\".\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2181,
            "title": "The Tomb of Hercules",
            "author": "Andy McDermott",
            "date": "2008",
            "genres": "Adventure, Thriller, Fiction, Action, Mystery, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Suspense, Archaeology, Romance",
            "characters": "Nina Wilde, Eddie Chase, Lady Sophia Blackwood, Richard Yuen Xuan, Victor Dalton, René Corvus, Hector Amoros",
            "synopsis": "\"An ancient warriorFor archaeologist Nina Wilde it\u0027s the opportunity of a lifetime. Her studies of an ancient text have convinced her that a tomb containing the remains of legendary warrior Hercules may actually exist. If she can locate it, it will be the most important historical find ever to be unearthed.An incredible treasureAs Nina and Eddie Chase, her ex-SAS bodyguard, begin their search it\u0027s clear that others want to find the tomb - and the unimaginable riches contained within. Then Chase\u0027s attention is diverted by the re-appearance of a face from his past...A lethal enemyNina and Chase are soon following a violent trail of corruption and conspiracy around the globe. From Switzerland to Shanghai, Botswana to London, it\u0027s a race against time to find the Tomb of Hercules before it falls into the most evil of hands...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2182,
            "title": "Green Mars",
            "author": "Kim Stanley Robinson",
            "date": "May-93",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Hugo Awards, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space, Speculative Fiction, Space Opera, Hard Science Fiction, Politics, Fantasy",
            "characters": "Maya Toitovna, Hiroko Ai, Simon Frasier, Sax Russell, Peter Clayborne, Arthur Randolph",
            "synopsis": "\"In the Nebula Award winning Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson began his critically acclaimed epic saga of the colonization of Mars, Now the Hugo Award winning Green Mars continues the thrilling and timeless tale of humanity\u0027s struggle to survive at its farthest frontier.Nearly a generation has passed since the first pioneers landed, but the transformation of Mars to an Earthlike planet has just begun. The plan is opposed by those determined to preserve the planet\u0027s hostile, barren beauty. Led by rebels like Peter Clayborne, these young people are the first generation of children born on Mars. They will be joined by original settlers Maya Toitovna, Simon Frasier, and Sax Russell. Against this cosmic backdrop, passions, rivalries, and friendships explode in a story as spectacular as the planet itself.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2183,
            "title": "The Europeans",
            "author": "Henry James, Patricia Crick, Tony Tanner",
            "date": "1996",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, American, 19th Century, Novels, Literature, Historical Fiction, The United States Of America, American Classics, Classic Literature",
            "characters": "Eugenia, the Baroness Munster, Felix Young, Gertrude Wentworth, Charlotte Wentworth, Clifford Wentworth, Robert Acton",
            "synopsis": "\"Eugenia, the daughter of American expatriates, is the morganatic wife of a German prince, who is being urged to divorce her in favor of a state marriage. She and her artist brother, Felix, travel to Boston to meet distant cousins relatives, partially in hopes of making a wealthy marriage.  Its wit, gaiety, and what Rebecca West calls its \"\"clear sunlit charm\"\" have made this masterly short novel one of the most popular of James\u0027s novels.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2184,
            "title": "Bleed for Me",
            "author": "Michael Robotham ",
            "date": "2010",
            "genres": "Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Audiobook, British Literature, Adult, Psychological Thriller",
            "characters": "Joseph O’Loughlin",
            "synopsis": "\"Ray Hegarty, a highly respected former detective, lies dead in his daughter Sienna\u0027s bedroom. She is found covered in his blood. Everything points to her guilt, but psychologist Joe O\u0027Loughlin isn\u0027t convinced.Fourteen-year-old Sienna is the best friend of Joe\u0027s daughter, and he has watched her grow up and seen the troubled look in her eyes. Against the advice of the police, he launches his own investigation, embarking upon a hunt that will lead him to a predatory schoolteacher, a conspiracy of silence and a race-hate trial that is captivating the nation.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2185,
            "title": "Wszystko czerwone",
            "author": "Joanna Chmielewska",
            "date": "Feb-09",
            "genres": "Polish Literature, Crime, Mystery, Humor, Fiction, Detective, Poland, Comedy, Womens, Contemporary",
            "characters": "Joanna",
            "synopsis": "\"Bohaterka, Joanna, architekt zatrudniony w pracowni projektowej, zostaje każdorazowo wplątana w niezwykłe intrygi kryminalne (odrębne w każdym tomie), których odgałęzienia sięgają Danii, Francji, Brazylii i innych krajów. Dzięki zastosowaniu niekonwencjonalnych metod prywatnego śledztwa Joanna, otoczona przyjaciółmi, zwłaszcza związanymi z Danią, rozwiązuje tajemnice licznych morderstw i kradzieży. Każdy tom stanowi całkowicie odrębną całość o cyklu można w tym przypadku mówić dzięki tożsamości głównej bohaterki oraz kilku innych postaci przewijających się przez kolejne, fabularnie niezależne, tomy. Książka w dwóch wersjach kolorystycznych okładki białej lub czerwonej.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2186,
            "title": "The Affinity Bridge",
            "author": "George Mann",
            "date": "2008",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Science Fiction, Historical Fiction, Steampunk, Alternate History, Zombies, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure",
            "characters": "Veronica Hobbes, Sir Maurice Newbury, Sir Charles Bainbridge",
            "synopsis": "\"Welcome to the bizarre and dangerous world of Victorian London, a city teetering on the edge of revolution. Its people are ushering in a new era of technology, dazzled each day by new inventions. Airships soar in the skies over the city, whilst ground trains rumble through the streets and clockwork automatons are programmed to carry out menial tasks in the offices of lawyers, policemen and journalists. But beneath this shiny veneer of progress lurks a sinister side. For this is also a world where ghostly policemen haunt the fog-laden alleyways of Whitechapel, where cadavers can rise from the dead and where Sir Maurice Newbury, Gentleman Investigator for the Crown, works tirelessly to protect the Empire from her foes. When an airship crashes in mysterious circumstances, Sir Maurice and his recently appointed assistant Miss Veronica Hobbes are called in to investigate. Meanwhile, Scotland Yard is baffled by a spate of grisly murders and a terrifying plague is ravaging the slums of the city. So begins an adventure quite unlike any other, a thrilling steampunk mystery and the first in the series of \"\"Newbury \u0026 Hobbes\"\" investigations.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2187,
            "title": "Fleshmarket Close",
            "author": "Ian Rankin ",
            "date": "2005",
            "genres": "Crime, Mystery, Fiction, Scotland, Detective, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Audiobook, Murder Mystery",
            "characters": "Inspector John Rebus",
            "synopsis": "\"An illegal immigrant is found murdered in an Edinburgh housing scheme: a racist attack, or something else entirely? Rebus is drawn into the case, but has other problems: his old police station has closed for business, and his masters would rather he retire than stick around. But Rebus is that most stubborn of creatures. As Rebus investigates, he must visit an asylum seekers\u0027 detention centre, deal with the sleazy Edinburgh underworld, and maybe even fall in love... Siobhan meanwhile has problems of her own. A teenager has disappeared from home and Siobhan is drawn into helping the family, which will mean travelling closer than is healthy towards the web of a convicted rapist. Then there\u0027s the small matter of the two skeletons - a woman and an infant - found buried beneath a concrete cellar floor in Fleshmarket Close. The scene begins to look like an elaborate stunt - but whose, and for what purpose? And how can it tie to the murder on the unforgiving housing-scheme known as Knoxland?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2188,
            "title": "The Covenant of Genesis",
            "author": "Andy McDermott",
            "date": "2009",
            "genres": "Adventure, Thriller, Fiction, Action, Mystery, Historical Fiction, Suspense, Audiobook, Mystery Thriller, Romance",
            "characters": "Nina Wilde, Eddie Chase, Lady Sophia Blackwood, Victor Dalton",
            "synopsis": "\"An incredible discoveryArchaeologist Nina Wilde has unearthed an amazing find: a dive site containing evidence of a settlement that existed over a hundred thousand years before any previously known culture. Could a completely undiscovered civilisation have once ruled the earth?A merciless foeBefore Nina can consider the evidence further, her research boat is attacked and her proof stolen. Determined to solve the mystery, Nina and Eddie Chase, her fiance, embarked on a quest for answers. But at every step they are hunted by a clandestine religious group, the Covenant of Genesis.A shocking revelationThe Covenant, representatives from three of the world\u0027s most powerful religions, will stop at nothing to keep Nina\u0027s discovery secret. But why? Such a discovery would contradict the creation mythology they share.. but could it be that they are also seek to claim for themselves the most valuable archaeological prize of all time?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2189,
            "title": "El modelo Pickman",
            "author": "H.P. Lovecraft, Mariana Enríquez (Prologue)",
            "date": "Jun-10",
            "genres": "Horror, Short Stories, Fiction, Lovecraftian, Classics, Fantasy, Weird Fiction, Gothic, Supernatural, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Richard Upton Pickman",
            "synopsis": "\"El modelo de Pickman es uno de los mejores cuentos de Howard Phillips Lovecraft. La historia gira en torno de Richard Upton Pickman, un desaparecido pintor, cuyos cuadros han cruzado la frontera de lo excéntrico para entrar en lo perversamente grotesco.Pero el suspenso y el horror del relato no están directamente ligados a los vívidos lienzos del artista, sino al modelo en el que fueron inspirados.Es una obra extraña para Lovecraft, cercana a ciertos clásicos de Poe, en la que convierte a toda la ciudad de Boston en un laberinto de pasadizos subterráneos que conectan el cementerio con el mar; túneles y sótanos donde se arrastran y susurran horrores sin nombre. Varios críticos consideran que el final de este relato es uno de los mejores y más escalofriantes de la literatura de terror.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2190,
            "title": "A Long Long Way",
            "author": "Sebastian Barry",
            "date": "Oct-05",
            "genres": "Fiction, Historical Fiction, Ireland, War, Irish Literature, World War I, Historical, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels",
            "characters": "Willie Dunne",
            "synopsis": "\"Irish author and playwright Sebastian Barry has created a powerful new novel about divided loyalties and the realities of war.In 1914, Willie Dunne, barely eighteen years old, leaves behind Dublin, his family, and the girl he plans to marry in order to enlist in the Allied forces and face the Germans on the Western Front. Once there, he encounters a horror of violence and gore he could not have imagined and sustains his spirit with only the words on the pages from home and the camaraderie of the mud-covered Irish boys who fight and die by his side.  Dimly aware of the political tensions that have grown in Ireland in his absence, Willie returns on leave to find a world split and ravaged by forces closer to home. Despite the comfort he finds with his family, he knows he must rejoin his regiment and fight until the end. With grace and power, Sebastian Barry vividly renders Willie’s personal struggle as well as the overwhelming consequences of war.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2191,
            "title": "Ne dites pas à ma mère que je suis voyante, elle me croit libraire à Vancouver",
            "author": "Eileen Cook , Maryvonne Ssossé (Traduction)",
            "date": "Nov-09",
            "genres": "Chick Lit, Romance, Fiction, Contemporary, Humor, Contemporary Romance, Canada, Adult, Adult Fiction, Novels",
            "characters": "Sophie Kintock, Nick McKenna, Doug Chase",
            "synopsis": "\"On dit souvent que l\u0027amour rend aveugle. Pas dans le cas de Sophie Kintock, qui, après une rupture, se découvre un don de double vue jusque-là insoupçonné !Quand Doug la quitte après six ans de vie commune, Sophie, libraire à Vancouver, est prête à tout pour le récupérer. C\u0027est pourquoi, lorsqu\u0027elle apprend que sa nouvelle petite amie, la pulpeuse Melanie, s\u0027intéresse au paranormal, elle a une idée aussi folle que diabolique : proposer à sa rivale une fausse consultation de voyance destinée à faire rompre les tourtereaux. Mais rien ne va se passer comme prévu, car Sophie se retrouve vite dépassée par le succès inattendu de ses nouveaux talents... Eileen Cook signe une comédie désopilante portée par une héroïne au caractère bien trempé, maladroite et attachante à souhait.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2192,
            "title": "Vineland",
            "author": "Thomas Pynchon",
            "date": "Jun-95",
            "genres": "Fiction, Literature, Novels, American, Literary Fiction, 20th Century, The United States Of America, Classics, Humor, Contemporary",
            "characters": "Zoyd Wheeler, Brock Vond, Hector Zuñiga, Prairie, Frenesi Gates",
            "synopsis": "\"A group of Americans in Northern California in 1984 are struggling with the consequences of their lives in the sixties, still run by the passions of those times - sexual and political - which have refused to die. Among them is Zoyd Wheeler who is preparing for his annual act of televised insanity (for which he receives a government stipend) when an unwelcome face appears from out of his past.An old nemesis, federal prosecutor Brock Vond, storms into Vineland at the head of a heavily armed strike force. Soon Zoyd and his daughter, Prairie, go into hiding while Vond begins a relationship with Zoyd\u0027s ex-wife and uses Prairie as a pawn against the mother she never knew she had.Part daytime drama, part political thriller, Vineland is a strange evocation of a twentieth-century America headed for a less than harmonic future.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2193,
            "title": "Bad Men",
            "author": "John Connolly ",
            "date": "May-05",
            "genres": "Thriller, Horror, Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Supernatural, Fantasy, Paranormal",
            "characters": "Marianne Elliott, Joe Dupree, Edward Molloch, Willard, Sharon Macy",
            "synopsis": "\"New York Times bestselling author John Connolly masterfully intertwines mystery, emotion, violence, and the supernatural in this raw and gripping thriller.He has been told the girl\u0027s last words, and he feels unaccountably afraid. The dead ones. They were dead, but they had lights. Why do the dead need light?Three hundred years ago, the settlers on the small Maine island of Sanctuary were betrayed to their enemies and slaughtered. Since then, the island has known peace. Until now. A gang of four men are descending on Sanctuary, intent on committing a brutal and relentless massacre. All that stands in their way are rookie police officer Sharon Macie and the strange, troubled officer Joe Dupree.But Joe is no ordinary policeman. He knows the island has been steeped in blood once and that it will never again tolerate the shedding of innocent blood. The band of killers who are set to desecrate Sanctuary will unleash the fury of its ghosts upon themselves and all who stand by them. On Sanctuary, all hell is about to break loose ...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2194,
            "title": "K-PAX The Trilogy",
            "author": "Gene Brewer",
            "date": "2004",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Psychology, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Humor, Space, Novels, Philosophy",
            "characters": "Prot, Gene",
            "synopsis": "\"When a man who claims to be from outer space is brought into the Manhattan Institute, the mental ward seems to be just the place for him. Clever, inscrutable and utterly charismatic, Robert Porter calls himself \u0027prot\u0027 and has no traceable background - but he claims that he is an inhabitant of the planet K-PAX, a perfect world without wars.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2195,
            "title": "The Sinister Sign Post",
            "author": "Franklin W. Dixon",
            "date": "1968",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Adventure, Classics, Detective, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Novels",
            "characters": "Frank Hardy, Mr. Morton, Chet Morton, Iola Morton, Joe Hardy, Fenton Hardy, Mrs. Morton, Laura Hardy, Keith Alden, Roger Alden",
            "synopsis": "\"Racing cars! Mystery! Adventure! These elements combine to give Frank and Joe Hardy one of the most dangerous and intriguing cases of their careers.It all starts when their father, Fenton Hardy, is engaged by an experimental race car and motor designer to investigate a series of mysterious accidents. Three of his drivers have crashed because the windshields of their cars were suddenly crazed, thus cutting off forward vision. Frank and Joe uncover one slim clue. Each of the drivers had seen a signpost marked DANGER shortly before the accident. The young detectives investigate, only to discover that the signposts have vanished. What happened to them? And what sinister purpose did they serve?The attempted theft of a secret experimental motor and the kidnapping of a famous race horse are part of this thrilling case, which proves to be as sinister as the signposts themselves.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2196,
            "title": "Night of the Hawk",
            "author": "Dale Brown ",
            "date": "1993",
            "genres": "Fiction, Military Fiction, Thriller, Action, War, Adventure, Aviation, Science Fiction, Drama, Novels",
            "characters": "Patrick McLanahan, Brad Elliott, \"\"Harold \u0027\u0027Hal\u0027\u0027 Briggs\"\"",
            "synopsis": "\"In 1988, after a breathtaking raid into Soviet territory, Flt Lt David Luger sacrificed himself to save his friends. They escaped to safety, and Luger was left for dead in deepest Siberia. Four years later it is discovered that Luger survived, so a rescue mission is launched.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2197,
            "title": "Walt Disney\u0027s Mickey and the Beanstalk",
            "author": "Dina Anastasio (Adaptation), Sharon Ross (Illustrator)",
            "date": "1988",
            "genres": "Childrens, Picture Books, Fiction, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Classics, Animals",
            "characters": "\"\"Mickey Mouse (Disney\u0027\u0027s)\"\"",
            "synopsis": "\"Retells the traditional tale of Jack and the beanstalk with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy playing major roles.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2198,
            "title": "The Fortune of the Rougons",
            "author": "Émile Zola",
            "date": "Sept-85",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, France, French Literature, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels, Roman, Historical",
            "characters": "Gervaise Macquart, Eugène Rougon",
            "synopsis": "\"La fortuna de los Rougon (1871) es la primera novela de la serie Les Rougon Macquart, de Émile Zola.La historia comienza con Adelaida Touque, hija de campesinos acomodados, que vive en una ciudad de la región de Provenza llamada Plassans (trasunto de Aix-en-Provence y de Lorgues). Adelaida se casa con un jardinero empleado de la familia, Rougon, con quien tiene un hijo, Pierre. Viuda muy joven, se convierte (ante la incredulidad y el rechazo de la sociedad de su entorno) en la amante de un cazador furtivo y contrabandista, Macquart, con el que tendrá dos hijos bastardos, Úrsula y Antonio. A la muerte de su amante, Adelaida caerá en una especie de abandono y semilocura. El hijo mayor de Adelaida, Pierre, que va a personificar la ambición y el ansia de poder, reniega de su condición de campesino y se convierte en un pequeño comerciante burgués gracias al matrimonio interesado con Felicidad Puech. Ambos conspirarán para hacerse con el poder en Plassans con ocasión del golpe de Estado de Napoleón III que acaba con la I República francesa e instaura el llamado II Imperio.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2199,
            "title": "The Secret of Excalibur",
            "author": "Andy McDermott",
            "date": "2008",
            "genres": "Adventure, Thriller, Fiction, Action, Mystery, Historical Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Fantasy, Audiobook, Archaeology",
            "characters": "Nina Wilde, Eddie Chase, Victor Dalton, Hector Amoros, Bernd Rust, Jack Mitchell",
            "synopsis": "\"The third brilliant adventure thriller featuring archaeologist Nina Wilde, in which Nina must find Excalibur, King Arthur\u0027s beloved sword. Said to make whoever holds it unstoppable in battle, the sword Excalibur has been coveted across the ages, and thought lost for over a thousand years. With a cryptic message to archaeologist Nina Wilde, this may be about to change. Historian Bernd Rust believes he can locate Excalibur...and that the sword is the key to harnessing an incredible source of energy. Nina is sceptical - until she and Rust are attacked by mercenaries determined to steal his research. Nina and her boyfriend, ex-SAS soldier Eddie Chase, are soon propelled into a deadly race to find Excalibur. From the deserts ofSyria to the arctic wastes of Russia, Nina and Chase must battle a merciless enemy who plans to use the sword\u0027s powers to plunge the world into a new era of war...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2200,
            "title": "Forbidden",
            "author": "Amy Miles ",
            "date": "2011",
            "genres": "Vampires, Paranormal, Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Amazon",
            "characters": "Roseline Enescue, Gabriel Marston, Sadie Hughes, William Hughes, Nicolae Dalma, Vladimir Enescue, Lucien Enescue, Sorin Funar, Fane Dalca",
            "synopsis": "\"Roseline Enescue didn\u0027t ask to become an Immortal, to have all of the guests at her wedding slaughtered, or be forced into marriage with a man whose lust for blood would one day ignite the vampire legend. Willing to risk everything for a chance at a normal life, Roseline escapes to America. Terrified her husband Vladimir will find her, Roseline enrolls as a senior in Chicago\u0027s elite Rosewood Prep school. Mingling with humans is the last place he would look for her. But her transition into the human world isn\u0027t easy. Mortal men flock after her while cutthroat girls plot her demise. Yet Roseline remains relatively unfazed by the petty hysteria until she falters into the arms of Gabriel Marston, reluctant MVP quarterback, unwilling ladies man, and sensitive artist in hiding. Troubled by the bond that pulls her towards the mortal boy, Roseline tries to ignore him, but Gabriel is persistent. As their lives entwine, Roseline begins to realize that Gabriel is much more than he appears. His ability to toss a football the entire length of the field and grind concrete into dust pales in comparison to the glowing blue cross tattoo that mysteriously appears on his forearms. Despite the forbidden bond between them, Roseline can\u0027t help wondering what Gabriel is: He\u0027s not human. He\u0027s not Immortal. So just what is he?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2201,
            "title": "De legende en de heldhaftige vroolijke en roemrijke daden van Uilenspiegel en Lamme Goedzak in Vlaanderenland en elders",
            "author": "Charles de Coster",
            "date": "2005",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Belgian, Historical, 19th Century, Belgium, Literature, France, Roman",
            "characters": "Thyl Ulenspiegel, Lamme Goedzak",
            "synopsis": "\"Tijl Uilenspiegel is de legendarische grappige held, het prototype van de rondzwervende vagebond. Zijn naam duikt voor het eerst op in Middeleeuwse teksten. Oorspronkelijk waren de Uilenspiegelverhalen alleen bedoeld als volksvermaak en is de Tijl die erin wordt opgevoerd op slechts één ding uit: grappen maken ten koste van alles en iedereen, over alle rangen en standen heen.In 1867 geeft schrijver Charles de Coster die figuur echter een heldhaftiger tintje: in een historische roman smeedt hij Tijl Uilenspiegel om tot een Vlaamse vrijheidsheld die vecht tegen de Spaanse overheersing in de 16de eeuw. Charles de Coster laat Uilenspiegel in Damme geboren worden op hetzelfde ogenblik dat in Spanje de zoon van Keizer Karel het levenslicht ziet. Na een conflict met de pastoor moet Uilenspiegel een boetereis naar Rome ondernemen. Bij zijn thuiskomst in Damme vindt hij zijn vader, Klaas, op de brandstapel omdat die onderdak heeft gegeven aan een ketter. In een droom krijgen Tijl en zijn vriendin Nele het bevel op zoek te gaan naar \"\"de Zeven\"\" en \"\"de Gordel\"\". Samen met zijn vriend, Lamme Goedzak, gaat Uilenspiegel op stap...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2202,
            "title": "Palomino",
            "author": "Danielle Steel",
            "date": "Dec-82",
            "genres": "Romance, Fiction, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, Drama, Novels, Adult Fiction, Horses, Animals",
            "characters": "Samantha Taylor, Tate Jordan",
            "synopsis": "\"Samantha Taylor is shattered when her husband leaves her for another woman. She puts her advertising career on hold and seeks refuge at a friend\u0027s California ranch, where she loses herself in the daily labor of ranch life. Here, she discovers the healing powers of trusted friends, simple joys, and hard work. She also meets Tate Jordan, the ranch foreman, and a tumultuous relationship ensues. When Tate disappears and a fall from a horse changes Samantha\u0027s life forever, she is confined to a wheelchair and must look deep inside herself to finds the courage to begin again. Now, fighting the battles of the handicapped, she finds new challenges, new loves, and even the adopted child she\u0027s always longed for.From the Paperback edition.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2203,
            "title": "Savage Season",
            "author": "Joe R. Lansdale",
            "date": "2001",
            "genres": "Mystery, Crime, Fiction, Thriller, Noir, Humor, Mystery Thriller, Horror, Suspense, The United States Of America",
            "characters": "Hap Collins, Leonard Pine",
            "synopsis": "\"Here comes Trudy back into Hap\u0027s life, thirty-six but looking ten years younger, with long blonde hair and legs that begin under her chin, and the kind of walk that\u0027ll make a man run his car off the road. Here comes trouble, says Leonard, and he\u0027s right. She was always trouble, but she had this laugh when she was happy in bed that could win Hap over every time. Trudy has a proposition: an easy two hundred thousand dollars, tax-free. It\u0027s just a simple matter of digging it up ...Hap Collins and Leonard Pine, white and black, straight and gay, are the unlikeliest duo in crime fiction. Savage Season is their debut.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2204,
            "title": "The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters",
            "author": "Enid Blyton",
            "date": "2003",
            "genres": "Mystery, Childrens, Fiction, Adventure, Classics, Detective, British Literature, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Mystery Thriller",
            "characters": "\"\"Philip \u0027\u0027Pip\u0027\u0027 Hilton\"\", \"\"Margaret \u0027\u0027Daisy\u0027\u0027 Dakin\"\", Buster the Dog, \"\"Laurence \u0027\u0027Larry\u0027\u0027 Daykin\"\", \"\"Frederick Algernon \u0027\u0027Fatty\u0027\u0027 Trotteville\"\", \"\"Elizabeth \u0027\u0027Bets\u0027\u0027 Hilton\"\"",
            "synopsis": "\"An adventure for the Five Find-Outers and their dog. Fatty, Larry, Daisy, Pip, Bets and Buster become involved in a very peculiar situation when a series of unsigned letters are sent to various people in Peterswood.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2205,
            "title": "Fires of Winter",
            "author": "Johanna Lindsey",
            "date": "Sept-80",
            "genres": "Historical Romance, Romance, Historical, Historical Fiction, Medieval, Fiction, Adult, Medieval Romance, Viking Romance, M F Romance",
            "characters": "Garrick Haardrad, Brenna Carmarham",
            "synopsis": "\"NEVER A VIKING\u0027S CAPTIVELovely and dauntless, abducted by invaders from across an icy sea, Lady Brenna vowed vengeance - swearing no Viking brute would be her master...no barbarian would enslave her noble Celtic heart.FOREVER A VIKING\u0027S LOVEYet Garrick Haardrad, the proud and powerful son of a ruthless Viking chieftan, claims her with a primitive abandon that leaves her breathless, igniting fires of passion that blaze through the cold Nordic nights and forge the unbreakable bonds of a fiery, eternal love.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2206,
            "title": "Whit",
            "author": "Iain Banks",
            "date": "1995",
            "genres": "Fiction, Contemporary, Religion, Novels, Scotland, Modern, Literature, British Literature, Coming Of Age, Literary Fiction",
            "characters": "Isis Whit",
            "synopsis": "\"Isis Whit is no ordinary teenager. An innocent in the ways of the world, an ingenue when it comes to fashion, she does however rejoice in some neat healing powers, a way with animals and the exalted status of Elect of God of the Luskentyrian Sect. Part of the 1995 Scottish Book Fortnight promotion.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2207,
            "title": "Rock Star",
            "author": "Jackie Collins",
            "date": "1988",
            "genres": "Fiction, Romance, Chick Lit, Contemporary Romance, Novels, Adult Fiction, Contemporary, Womens Fiction, Drama, Amazon",
            "characters": "Sharleen, Kris Phoenix, Bobby Mondella, Rafealla LeSerre, Cybil Wilde, Marcus Citroen, Nova Citroen, Buzz Darke, Odile Ronet, Rupert Egerton, Rasta Stanley, Ollie Stoltz, Rocket Fabrizzi, Nichols Kline",
            "synopsis": "\"Music was their business - pleasure was their game.Rock Star blows the lid off the hard-driving lifestyles of today\u0027s music superstars.Kris Phoenix - The legendary and wildly sexy guitar hero,Bobby Mondella - Black soul superstar with a past,Rafealla - An exotically beautiful girl who comes between them with a vengeance.Rock Star takes you on a dangerous trip through the jungle of broken dreams and blackmail, hit records and hit men...a jungle of sex, drugs and rock \u0027n\u0027 roll.Rock Star is a love story that burns.Feel the heat...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2208,
            "title": "The Departure",
            "author": "K.A. Applegate, Katherine Applegate",
            "date": "Jul-98",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Young Adult, Fiction, Fantasy, Aliens, Childrens, Middle Grade, Animals, Adventure, War",
            "characters": "Visser Three",
            "synopsis": "\"Cassie\u0027s had it. After the last mission, she realizes she\u0027s getting tired of missions. Tired of battles. Tired of being an Animorph. She decides that she just can\u0027t do it anymore. So she quits.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2209,
            "title": "Mission of Gravity",
            "author": "Hal Clement",
            "date": "Oct-74",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Hard Science Fiction, Aliens, Speculative Fiction, Space Opera, 20th Century, Space, Adventure",
            "characters": "Barlennnan, Charles Lackland",
            "synopsis": "\"Cover Artist: Ed EmshwillerMission of Gravity is an sf novel by Hal Clement. The title is a play on words, one meaning \"\"the force which pulls\"\" \u0026 the other being \"\"extremely serious or important\"\". It was serialized in Astounding Science Fiction, 4–7/53. Its 1st cloth publication was in \u002754. It was 1st published in paper in \u002758. Along with the novel itself, many editions (\u0026 most recent editions) of the book also include Whirligig World, an essay on creating the planet Mesklin that was published in the 6/53 Astounding. He published two sequels, a \u002770 novel called Star Light \u0026 a \u002773 short story called Lecture Demonstration. Mission of Gravity was nominated for a Retro Hugo Award for \u002754.For a profit \u0026 adventure Barlennan would sail thousands of miles across uncharted waters, into regions where gravity played strange tricks. He\u0027d dare the perils of strange tribes \u0026 stranger creatures-even dicker with those aliens from beyond the skies, though the concept of another world was unknown to the inhabitants of the planet of Mesklin. But in spite of the incredible technology of the strangers \u0026 without regard for their enormous size, Barlennan had the notion of turning the deal to an unsuspected advantage for himself-a considerable enterprise for a being very much resembling a 15\"\" caterpillar!\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2210,
            "title": "The Fugitive Factor",
            "author": "Gordon Korman",
            "date": "Jun-05",
            "genres": "Adventure, Mystery, Fiction, Middle Grade, Childrens, Young Adult, Thriller, Action, Realistic Fiction, Survival",
            "characters": "Aiden Falconer, Meg Falconer",
            "synopsis": "\"NOWHERE TO HIDE.Aiden and Meg Falconer are out to find the evidence that will free their parents from a life sentence in prison. But in order to do that, they have to live undercover. Ever since they broke out of a juvenile detention facility, they\u0027ve been chased by the FBI... and by a strange killer they\u0027ve nicknamed Hairless Joe. Now their story has hit the airwaves, and suddenly everyone is looking for them. They think they can hide with an old family friend... but when Meg is thrown in jail, the danger and adventure only increase.EVERYWHERE TO RUN.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2211,
            "title": "Het lot van de familie Meijer",
            "author": "Charles Lewinsky, Elly Schippers (Translator)",
            "date": "Jan-09",
            "genres": "Fiction, Historical Fiction, Roman, Literature, Historical, Novels, Jewish, Judaism, German Literature, World War II",
            "characters": "Salomon Meijer, Janki Meijer, Golde Meijer, Mimi Meijer, Chanele Meijer, Pinchas Pomeranz, Zalman Kamionker, Hinda Meijer, Alfred Meijer, Ruben Kamionker, Désirée Pomeranz, François Meijer, Arthur Meijer, Mina Kahn, Joni Leibowitz, Rachel Kamionker, Lea Kamionker, Felix Grün, Hillel Rosenthal, Rosa Recha Meijer",
            "synopsis": "\"Als op een nacht in 1871 een ver familielid bij de deur van de Meijers aanklopt, kan niemand vermoeden dat hun leven vanaf dat moment radicaal zal veranderen. Hun wereld in het dorp Endingen is op dat moment klein, maar nog intact. Dan duikt wervelwind Janki op, een ver familielid, al weet niemand er het fijne van. Een jaar later heeft hij een bruid de aangenomen dochter annex dienstmeid Chanele, een vrouw die op vele momenten een beslissende rol gaat spelen in het leven van de Meijers en een stoffenwinkel in Baden. Vijf generaties beslaat de geschiedenis van de Meijers, een geschiedenis vol liefdesgeluk en levensdroefenis, en vol strijd om succes en acceptatie. Van de kleine, gave wereld van Endingen, waar veehandelaar Salomon Meijer zijn altijd opgevouwen paraplu tot een symbool van zijn betrouwbaarheid heeft gemaakt, gaat het naar het mooiste warenhuis van Zürich, en voorbij de landsgrenzen. En steeds raakt de wereld een stukje meer uit zijn voegen.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2212,
            "title": "Jerusalem: The Biography",
            "author": "Simon Sebag Montefiore ",
            "date": "2011",
            "genres": "History, Nonfiction, Religion, Israel, Biography, Politics, Travel, Historical, Jewish, Islam",
            "characters": "Wilhelm II, German Emperor, T.E. Lawrence, Herod the Great, Pontius Pilate, Richard I of England, Saladin, Conrad of Montferrat, Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, Baldwin V of Jerusalem, Sibylla of Jerusalem, Herod Antipas, Yasser Arafat, Muhammad, Yitzhak Rabin, Al-Adil I, Godfrey of Bouillon, Baldwin I, Baldwin II, King of Jerusalem, Melisende, Fulk, King of Jerusalem, Baldwin III, Amalric I, Guy of Lusignan, Isabella I of Jerusalem, Henry II, Count of Champagne, Herod Agrippa, Jesus, Winston Churchill",
            "synopsis": "\"Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today’s clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel–Palestine conflict, this is the epic history of 3,000 years of faith, slaughter, fanaticism and coexistence.How did this small, remote town become the Holy City, the ‘centre of the world’ and now the key to peace in the Middle East? In a dazzling narrative, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals this ever-changing city in its many incarnations, bringing every epoch and character blazingly to life. Jerusalem’s biography is told through the wars, love affairs and revelations of the men and women – kings, empresses, prophets, poets, saints, conquerors and whores – who created, destroyed, chronicled and believed in Jerusalem. As well as the many ordinary Jerusalemites who have left their mark on the city, its cast varies from Solomon, Saladin and Suleiman the Magnificent to Cleopatra, Caligula and Churchill; from Abraham to Jesus and Muhammad; from the ancient city of Jezebel, Nebuchadnezzar, Herod and Nero to the modern times of the Kaiser, Disraeli, Mark Twain, Rasputin and Lawrence of Arabia.Drawing on new archives, current scholarship, his own family papers and a lifetime’s study, Montefiore illuminates the essence of sanctity and mysticism, identity and empire in a unique chronicle of the city that is believed will be the setting for the Apocalypse. This is how Jerusalem became Jerusalem, and the only city that exists twice – in heaven and on earth.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2213,
            "title": "A Maze of Death",
            "author": "Philip K. Dick",
            "date": "Jun-94",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Novels, Speculative Fiction, Religion, Science Fiction Fantasy, Mystery, American, 20th Century, Philosophy",
            "characters": "Ben Tallchief, Seth Morley, Mary Morley",
            "synopsis": "\"Fourteen strangers come to Delmak-O. Thirteen of them were transferred by the usual authorities. One got there by praying. But once they arrived on that treacherous planet, whose very atmosphere seemed to induce paranoia and psychosis, the newcomers tound that even prayer was useless. For on Delmak-O, God is either absent or intent on destroying His creations. At once a wrenching metaphysical thriller and an ingenious meditation on the nature of divinity, A Maze of Death is Philip K. Dick at his most dizzyingly provocative.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2214,
            "title": "Byomkesh Bakshi Stories",
            "author": "Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, Monimala Dhar (Translator)",
            "date": "Jan-03",
            "genres": "Mystery, Crime, Detective, India, Short Stories, Fiction, Classics, Indian Literature, Suspense, Thriller",
            "characters": "ব্যোমকেশ বক্সী",
            "synopsis": "\"In the early 30s, a detective by the name of Byomkesh Bakshi made an entry into the world of Bengali fiction. This book contains seven of his most entertaining adventures, competently translated. At each reading, one can only marvel at the writer\u0027s genius.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2215,
            "title": "Il fantasma",
            "author": "Danielle Steel, Maria Grazia Griffini (Translator)",
            "date": "2007",
            "genres": "Romance, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Chick Lit, Paranormal, Historical, Historical Romance, Mystery, Contemporary Romance",
            "characters": "Charles Waterson",
            "synopsis": "\"Una promozione richiama a New York l\u0027architetto Charles Waterstone, che lascia Londra oppresso dalla malinconia per la fine del suo matrimonio. Ma un\u0027imprevista, e magica, vacanza nel New England gli cambierà la vita. Nel castello che prende in affitto aleggia infatti il fantasma di una donna temeraria e passionale che, a distanza di due secoli, può ancora infondere speranza e coraggio a chi è disposto ad ascoltarla. Ed è grazie a lei che Charles ritrova la voglia di aprirsi al futuro d\u0027amore che lo attende.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2216,
            "title": "Mutineers\u0027 Moon",
            "author": "David Weber",
            "date": "Oct-91",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Space Opera, Fiction, Military Fiction, Military Science Fiction, Fantasy, Space, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, War",
            "characters": "Dahak",
            "synopsis": "\"For Lt. Commander Colin Maclntyre, it began as a routine training flight over the Moon. For Dahak, a self-aware Imperial battleship, it began millennia ago when that powerful artificial intelligence underwent a mutiny in the face of the enemy. The mutiny was never resolved-Dahak was forced to maroon not just the mutineers but the entire crew on prehistoric Earth. Dahak has been helplessly waiting as the descendants of the loyal crew regressed while the mutineers maintained control of technology that kept them alive as the millennia passed. But now Dahak\u0027s sensors indicate that the enemy that devastated the Imperium so long ago has returned-and Earth is in their path. For the sake of the planet, Dahak must mobilize its defenses. And that it cannot do until the mutineers are put down. So Dahak has picked Colin Maclntyre to be its new captain. Now Maclntyre must mobilize humanity to destroy the mutineers once and for all-or Earth will become a cinder in the path of galactic conquest.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2217,
            "title": "Loves Music, Loves to Dance",
            "author": "Mary Higgins Clark",
            "date": "Mar-92",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Adult, Romance, Adult Fiction, Murder Mystery",
            "characters": "Darcy Scott, Erin Kelley, Nona Roberts, \"\"Vince D\u0027\u0027Ambrosio\"\", Chris Sheridan, Michael Nash, Jay Stratton, Doug Fox, Gus Boxer, Len Parker",
            "synopsis": "\"A serial killer leaves one dancing shoe on a foot of the victims who answer his personal ads. When Erin dies, her best friend places ads to entice the villain already targeting her next. New York police detective Vince D\u0027Ambrosio takes a personal interest. New boyfriend Dr Michael Nash is supportive. A stalker may surprise everyone.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2218,
            "title": "The Monarch of the Glen",
            "author": "Compton Mackenzie",
            "date": "2000",
            "genres": "Fiction, Scotland, Historical Fiction, Classics, Humor, Comedy, Literature, British Literature",
            "characters": "Donald MacDonald of Ben Nevis",
            "synopsis": "\"The ancient clan spirit is not yet dead in the Scottish highlands, with Donald MacDonald of Ben Nevis ruling the roost at wild, craggy Glenbogle Castle. Woe betide those who trespass on this Chieftain\u0027s kingdom... So when a hapless bunch of Sassenach hikers invades the glens, camping on Ben Nevis\u0027s beloved land and disturbing his prized grouse, they are in for the shock of a lifetime, as the MacDonald clan prepare to do battle with the unfortunate travelers. Kilt swinging and sporran flying, fortified with whisky, with his two stout daughters at his side and the welcome support of American millionaire Chester Royde, Ben Nevis wages war on the hikers in the ancient manner of his ancestors (which involves roasting and dungeons among other dubious punishments), with hilarious results....\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2219,
            "title": "Preying For Mercy",
            "author": "Patricia Briggs",
            "date": "Jun-08",
            "genres": "Urban Fantasy, Paranormal, Fantasy, Vampires, Werewolves, Paranormal Romance, Shapeshifters, Romance, Adult, Magic",
            "characters": "Adam Hauptman, Zee (Siebold Adelbertsmiter), Mercy Thompson",
            "synopsis": "\"Omnibus edition of Moon Called, Blood Bound ANDIron Kissed.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2220,
            "title": "The Gates",
            "author": "John Connolly ",
            "date": "2009",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult, Horror, Humor, Supernatural, Paranormal, Science Fiction, Demons, Urban Fantasy",
            "characters": "Mrs Abernathy, The Great Malevolence, Samuel Johnson (John Connolly)",
            "synopsis": "\"Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund, Boswell, are trying to show initiative by trick-or-treating a full three days before Halloween which is how they come to witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Road. The Abernathys don\u0027t mean any harm by their flirtation with the underworld, but when they unknowingly call forth Satan himself, they create a gap in the universe. A gap in which a pair of enormous gates is visible. The gates to Hell. And there are some pretty terrifying beings just itching to get out...Can one small boy defeat evil? Can he harness the power of science, faith, and love to save the world as we know it?Bursting with imagination, The Gates is about the pull between good and evil, physics and fantasy. It is about a quirky and eccentric boy who is impossible not to love, and the unlikely cast of characters who give him the strength to stand up to a demonic power.John Connolly manages to re-create the magical and scary world of childhood that we\u0027ve all left behind but so love to visit. And for those of you who thought you knew everything you could about particle physics and the universe, think again. This novel makes anything seem possible.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2221,
            "title": "The Mystery of the Secret Room",
            "author": "Enid Blyton",
            "date": "2002",
            "genres": "Mystery, Childrens, Fiction, Adventure, Middle Grade, Detective, Young Adult, British Literature, Juvenile, Whodunit",
            "characters": "\"\"Philip \u0027\u0027Pip\u0027\u0027 Hilton\"\", \"\"Margaret \u0027\u0027Daisy\u0027\u0027 Dakin\"\", Buster the Dog, \"\"Laurence \u0027\u0027Larry\u0027\u0027 Daykin\"\", Inspector Jenks, \"\"Frederick Algernon \u0027\u0027Fatty\u0027\u0027 Trotteville\"\", \"\"Elizabeth \u0027\u0027Bets\u0027\u0027 Hilton\"\"",
            "synopsis": "\"In the cold and foggy Christmas holidays, it doesn\u0027t seem as though the Five Find-Outers and Dog will have anything exciting to investigate. Fatty\u0027s got some wonderful new disguises, but there doesn\u0027t seem to be any mystery for them at all this time. Then Pip stumbles on a single furnished room in an otherwise deserted house. They try to find out whom the house belongs to, but they\u0027re not making much progress - until Fatty decides to go to the house to see what he can uncover. Suddenly trapped by the men inside, he writes a note to his friends, apparently innocuous enough, but with another secret message hidden beneath it. Mr Goon has tried investigating the house too, but only ends up locked in the coal cellar and covered in dust. The rest of the Find-Outers call Inspector Jenks to help Fatty, and find the house has been a place for storing stolen goods and the men inside are wanted criminals. Another mystery safely solved!\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2222,
            "title": "Two Women",
            "author": "Martina Cole",
            "date": "Published",
            "genres": "Crime, Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Abuse, Drama, Audiobook, Modern, Contemporary",
            "characters": "Sue Dalston, Matilda Enderby",
            "synopsis": "\"Danger and violence have always been part of Sue Dalston\u0027s East End upbringing. Unloved by her mother, abused by her father, and brutalised throughout her entire marriage, she smashed her husband\u0027s skull in a final act of desperation. All that keeps her sane is knowing that she\u0027s done it to protect her four children. At last, they are safe from harm. When she is celled up with murderess Matilda Enderby, their fates become inextricably linked. And no one - least of all Sue - could have predicted the consequences...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2223,
            "title": "Il ciclo di Retief vol.1",
            "author": "Keith Laumer",
            "date": "Fanucci",
            "genres": "1E+13",
            "characters": "Science Fiction",
            "synopsis": "\"I Classici della Fantascienza e della Fantasy 5I VolumeRaccolta completa di tutte le avventure di Retief, scritte da Keith Laumer. Il volume contiene: Racconti:-Il gigante assassino"
          },
          {
            "id": 2224,
            "title": "Debt of Bones",
            "author": "Terry Goodkind",
            "date": "Nov-04",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Magic, Adventure, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic, Adult, American",
            "characters": "Mariska, Abby, \"\"Zeddicus Zu\u0027\u0027l Zorander\"\", Jana, Delora, Mother Confessor, Panis Rahl, Anargo, Helsa, Erilyn, Thomas (Terry Goodkind)",
            "synopsis": "\"A milestone of storytelling set in the world of The Sword of Truth, Debt of Bones is the story of young Abby\u0027s struggle to win the aid of the wizard Zedd Zorander, the most important man alive. Abby is trapped, not only between both sides of the war, but in a mortal conflict between two powerful men. For Zedd, who commands power most men can only imagine, granting Abby\u0027s request would mean forsaking his sacred duty. With the storm of the final battle about to break, both Abby and Zedd are caught in a desperate fight to save the life of a child....but neither can escape the shadow of an ancient betrayal. With time running out, their only choice may be a debt of bones. The world-for Zedd, for Abby,for everyone-will never again be the same.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2225,
            "title": "In Their Footsteps",
            "author": "Tess Gerritsen ",
            "date": "2004",
            "genres": "Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Fiction, Romance, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Romantic Suspense, Harlequin, American",
            "characters": "Jordan Tavistock, Beryl Tavistock, Richard Wolf, Hugh Tavistock, Claude Daumier",
            "synopsis": "\"Old secrets die hard....The quiet scandal surrounding her parents\u0027 deaths twenty years ago has always haunted Beryl Tavistock. Now she\u0027s decided that the only way to exorcise the ghosts of the past is to search for the truth. Beryl starts asking dangerous questions, and the answers are proving that old secrets die hard. Caught in what\u0027s become a deadly game of cat-and-mouse, her quest takes her from the rain-slick streets of Paris to the sun-drenched isles of Greece. And as she gets pulled into a world of espionage, Beryl quickly discovers that she needs help. Richard Wolf, an ex-CIA agent and a man she\u0027s only just met, is her only hope. But in a world where trust is a double-edged sword, friends become enemies, and enemies become killers . . .\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2226,
            "title": "Surrender Bay",
            "author": "Denise Hunter ",
            "date": "Oct-07",
            "genres": "Christian Fiction, Romance, Christian, Contemporary, Fiction, Christian Romance, Contemporary Romance, Chick Lit, Inspirational, Clean Romance",
            "characters": "Samantha Owen, Landon Reed",
            "synopsis": "\"On the beautiful island of Nantucket, salt and roses scent the air, waves sparkle over hidden currents, and a storm-tossed soul seeks safe harbor.When Samantha Owen\u0027s estranged stepfather dies, she inherits his cottage in Nantucket-a place she left years ago, never planning to return. As a single mom, Sam can\u0027t afford to pass up on a financial windfall like ocean-front property. So she travels home to fix up the house and sell it . . . never suspecting that Landon Reed still lives two doors down. As their long-dormant romance begins to bud again, Sam must face the fact that Landon still doesn\u0027t know why she left the island. Will the secrets she\u0027s hidden all these years tear them apart . . . or is Landon\u0027s love really as unconditional as he claims?Denise Hunter weaves a heart-tugging tale of shattered trust and enduring love . . . all in a romantic seaside setting.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2227,
            "title": "Paradise News",
            "author": "David Lodge",
            "date": "1993",
            "genres": "Fiction, Humor, Novels, British Literature, Contemporary, Literature, Comedy, 20th Century, English Literature, Travel",
            "characters": "Bernard Walsh",
            "synopsis": "\"Paradise, tourist style. It\u0027s a very long way from home.Bernard Walsh is in Hawaii on family business, escorting his querulous father to the bedside of a long-forgotten aunt. His mission transports him from quiet obscurity in Rummridge, England, to a lush tropical playground, from cloistered solitude into the unfamiliar company of package tourists: honeymooners; young women looking for Mr. Nice; families nuclear and fissile. But it is the island itself that holds the most astonishing surprises, as an accidental encounter opens up to Bernard possibilities of life, and love, never dreamed of in his normally overcast habitat. Paradise News is an enchanting-and very funny-portrait of the late flowering of an honest man.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2228,
            "title": "Singapur, czwarta rano",
            "author": "Marcin Bruczkowski",
            "date": "Nov-05",
            "genres": "Polish Literature, Travel, Asia, Nonfiction",
            "characters": "Pawel",
            "synopsis": "\"Autor Bezsenności w Tokio tym razem zabiera Czytelników do Singapuru - nie tylko o czwartej rano... Bohaterami powieści są Paweł - polski perkusista-hobbysta, jego przyjaciele z zespołu i ich dziewczyny. Różnią ich kolory skóry, języki, religie, temperamenty, łączy wspólna pasja: muzyka. Jak potoczy się kariera Pawła i Highway 69?Dowcipnie, zaskakująco i przewrotnie Autor pokazuje realia życia w Singapurze. Posługuje się potocznym językiem muzyków, a jednocześnie bezpiecznie przeprowadza przez zawiłości Singlish. Dla smakoszy - nie zabraknie opowieści o miejscowych przysmakach i przepisów kulinarnych.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2229,
            "title": "The Black Angel",
            "author": "John Connolly ",
            "date": "Feb-06",
            "genres": "Thriller, Mystery, Crime, Horror, Fiction, Supernatural, Paranormal, Mystery Thriller, Fantasy, Suspense",
            "characters": "Rachel Honeybourne (Beauty), Angel, Charlie Parker, Louis, Brightwell",
            "synopsis": "\"When a young woman disappears from the streets of New York City, ties of friendship and blood inevitably draw ingenious, tortured detective Charlie Parker into the search. Soon he discovers links to a church of bones in Eastern Europe, a 1944 slaughter at a French monastery, and to the myth of an object known as the Black Angel - considered by evil men to be beyond priceless. But the Black Angel is not a legend. It is real. It lives. It dreams. And the mystery of its existence may contain the secret of Parker\u0027s own origins.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2230,
            "title": "Hunting for Hidden Gold",
            "author": "Franklin W. Dixon",
            "date": "Jun-03",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Adventure, Classics, Detective, Juvenile, Audiobook, Middle Grade",
            "characters": "Frank Hardy, Chet Morton, Joe Hardy, Fenton Hardy, Aunt Gertrude, Biff Hooper, Tony Prito, Mike Onslow, George Haskins, Lenny Haskins, Hank Shale, John Coulson, James Coulson, Bart Dawson, Bob Dodge, Ben Tinker, Jim Burke, Sheriff Kenner, Big Al, Slim, Ira Kleeder, Hopkins, Zeke, Robby, Nick, Whitlow",
            "synopsis": "\"Timber wolves, a Rocky Mountain blizzard, and a mine cave-in are only a few of the perils Frank and Joe Hardy encounter during their search for the principal members of a notorious gang responsible for a payroll robbery. In the old Montana mining camp of Lucky Lode, the young detectives puzzle over a series of mysterious events. A piano-playing ghost haunts the long-abandoned dance hall. Eerie blue lights flash from the hilltop cemetery in the dark of night. Strange men arrange a meeting at Shadow the Bear. A suspect disappears through a curtain of frozen ice. How are these events related to the men who kidnapped the boys in Chicago? Who booby-trapped the helicopter which flew the young detectives to the ghost town? And what ever happened to Bart Dawson who seemingly deserted his gold-mining partners twenty-five years ago? Clue by clue, Frank and Joe cleverly fit into place the scattered pieces of this dangerous puzzle and come up with the astonishing solution.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2231,
            "title": "Garden of the Purple Dragon",
            "author": "Carole Wilkinson",
            "date": "2007",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Dragons, Young Adult, Adventure, Fiction, Childrens, Historical Fiction, Magic, Middle Grade, Historical",
            "characters": "Ping, Long Kai Duan, Hua",
            "synopsis": "\"Book jacket: In the time of the Han Dynasty in ancient China, a young orphan struggles to fulfill her destiny. Ping has survived her days as a slave at Huangling Palace, but new challenges await her in the desolate mountains of Tai Shan. The wise dragon, Danzi, is no longer around to guide her, and now it is up to Ping to take care of the baby dragon, Kai. Food is scarce, and she must constantly be on the lookout for enemies. Things seem to get better when fate leads them back to the Imperial Palace, to the Garden of the Purple Dragon. Yet even within these hallowed walls, Ping and Kai are not as they believe.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2232,
            "title": "Winnie-the-Pooh Meets Gopher (Little Golden Book)",
            "author": "A.A. Milne, George Desantis (Adaptor)",
            "date": "1974",
            "genres": "Childrens, Picture Books, Fiction, Animals",
            "characters": "\"\"Gopher (Disney\u0027\u0027s Winnie the Pooh)\"\", \"\"Winnie the Pooh (Disney\u0027\u0027s)\"\", \"\"Rabbit (Disney\u0027\u0027s Winnie the Pooh)\"\", \"\"Christopher Robin (Disney\u0027\u0027s Winnie the Pooh)\"\"",
            "synopsis": "Please don\u0027t delete. This edition doesn\u0027t have an ISBN."
          },
          {
            "id": 2233,
            "title": "The Difference Engine",
            "author": "William Gibson, Bruce Sterling",
            "date": "Feb-92",
            "genres": "Steampunk, Science Fiction, Fiction, Alternate History, Cyberpunk, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Novels",
            "characters": "Charles Babbage, Sybil Gerard, Edward \"\"Leviathan\"\" Mallory, Laurence Oliphant",
            "synopsis": "\"1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. And three extraordinary characters race toward a rendezvous with history - and the future: Sybil Gerard - dishonored woman and daughter of a Luddite agitator; Edward \"\"Leviathan\"\" Mallory - explorer and paleontologist; Laurence Oliphant - diplomat and spy. Their adventure begins with the discovery of a box of punched Engine cards of unknown origin and purpose. Cards someone wants badly enough to kill for...Part detective story, part historical thriller, The Difference Engine is the first collaborative novel by two of the most brilliant and controversial science fiction authors of our time. Provocative, compelling, intensely imagined, it is a startling extension of Gibson\u0027s and Sterling\u0027s unique visions - in a new and totally unexpected direction!\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2234,
            "title": "The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck",
            "author": "Beatrix Potter",
            "date": "2002",
            "genres": "Childrens, Picture Books, Classics, Fiction, Animals, Fantasy, Juvenile, British Literature, Short Stories, Childrens Classics",
            "characters": "Jemima Puddle-Duck",
            "synopsis": "\"The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck is an original classic by Beatrix Potter.Poor Jemima. All she wants to do is lay her eggs in peace, and be allowed to hatch them herself. At last she flies off and finds the perfect place. Little does the silly duck realise that the charming gentleman who has lent her his woodshed is busily planning a delicious meal of . . . roast duck!Jemima was a real duck belonging to Beatrix Potter, who lived at her farm, Hill Top. The story also features Beatrix\u0027s own sheepdog, Kep, who thankfully manages to save Jemima from a nasty fate!Beatrix Potter is regarded as one of the world\u0027s best-loved children\u0027s authors of all time. From her first book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, published by Frederick Warne in 1902, she went on to create a series of stories based around animal characters including Mrs. Tiggy-winkle, Benjamin Bunny, Jemima Puddle-duck, Mr. Jeremy Fisher and Tom Kitten.Her humorous, lively tales and beautiful illustrations have become a natural part of childhood. With revenue from the sales of her books, Beatrix Potter bought a farm - Hill Top - in the English Lake District, where she later became a farmer and prize-winning sheep breeder. She launched the now vast merchandise programme by patenting the very first Peter Rabbit doll in 1903. The product range continues to grow today with licences around the world including baby clothing and bedding, nursery decor products and collectables. Upon her death, Beatrix Potter left 14 farms and over 4000 acres of Lake District farmland to the National Trust so that the place that she loved would remain undeveloped and protected for future generations to enjoy.Today Beatrix Potter\u0027s original 23 tales are still published by Frederick Warne, alongside a wide range of other formats including baby books, activity books and gift and sound books.The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck is number nine in Beatrix Potter\u0027s series of 23 little books. Look out for the rest!1 The Tale of Peter Rabbit2 The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin3 The Tailor of Gloucester4 The Tale of Benjamin Bunny5 The Tale of Two Bad Mice6 The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle7 The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher8 The Tale of Tom Kitten9 The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck10 The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies11 The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse12 The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes13 The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse 14 The Tale of Mr. Tod15 The Tale of Pigling Bland16 The Tale of Samuel Whiskers17 The Tale of The Pie and the Patty-Pan18 The Tale of Ginger and Pickles19 The Tale of Little Pig Robinson20 The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit21 The Story of Miss Moppet22 Appley Dapply\u0027s Nursery Rhymes23 Cecily Parsley\u0027s Nursery Rhymes\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2235,
            "title": "Un homme heureux",
            "author": "Arto Paasilinna",
            "date": "Feb-07",
            "genres": "Fiction, Humor, Finnish Literature, Novels, Comedy, European Literature, Roman",
            "characters": "Akseli Jaatinen, Irene Koponen",
            "synopsis": "\"L\u0027ingénieur Akseli Jaatinen a été chargé de construire un nouveau pont dans le village de Kuusmäki, à l\u0027endroit même où, pendant la guerre civile de 1918, une sanglante bataille a opposé blancs et rouges – épisode dont la mémoire continue de diviser les habitants de la commune, par ailleurs peu enclins à se laisser bousculer dans leur train-train.Dans ce milieu fermé, Jaatinen aura vite fait de s\u0027attirer des inimitiés par ses méthodes peu conformistes. De bisbilles en provocations, les relations se tendent entre les notables locaux et le nouveau venu, qui se fait non seulement rosser et humilier, mais aussi finalement renvoyer de son poste d\u0027ingénieur. Mais Jaatinen n\u0027est pas homme à se laisser faire. Méthodiquement, il met en œuvre une diabolique vengeance dont ses persécuteurs se mordront amèrement les doigts...Les ponts que construit l\u0027ingénieur Jaatinen sont une métaphore puissante de la solidarité entre les hommes, et sa quête du bonheur laisse entrevoir ce que pourrait être une humanité ouverte et soucieuse d\u0027autrui.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2236,
            "title": "Tanrı Daima Tebdil-i Kıyafet Gezer",
            "author": "Laurent Gounelle, Işık Ergüden (Translator)",
            "date": "Jun-12",
            "genres": "Fiction, Psychology, Contemporary, France, Self Help, Roman, French Literature, Literature, Personal Development, Novels",
            "characters": "Audrey, Catherine, Alan Greenmor, Yves Dubreuil",
            "synopsis": "\"Mutluluğun kapını çalmasını bekleme, sen ona gitHayatını değiştirecek roman bu işte!Bir düşünün. İntihar etmek üzeresiniz. Bir adam hayatınızı kurtarıyor, ama karşılığında sizinle bir anlaşma yapıyor. Bundan sonra o ne söylerse sorgusuz sualsiz yapacaksınız. Kendi iyiliğiniz için... Çaresiz, kabul ediyorsunuz ve hayatınızın iplerini tıpkı bir kukla gibi başkasının ellerine bırakıyorsunuz. Ve hayatınız eskisinden çok daha güzel oluyor. Yine de şüpheleriniz var: Bu adam aslında kim? Çevresindeki gizemli kişilerin sırrı ne? Sizden aslında ne istiyor?Tanrı Daima Tebdil-i Kıyafet Gezer, kendi kendimize koyduğumuz engelleri, korkularımızı ve önyargılarımızı nasıl aşacağımızın, kaderimiz sandığımız mutsuz bir yaşamı, bizi mutluluğa götüren bir yolculuğa nasıl dönüştüreceğimizin hikâyesi.\"\"Laurent Gounelle bir mutluluk fabrikatörü... Eğer mutluluğun bir reçetesi varsa, Gounelle o reçeteyi biliyor olmalı.\"\"Le Figaro\"\"Yeni Coelho.\"\"L\u0027Express\"\"İnsanın kendini arayışı ve başkasını anlaması hakkındaki bu benzersiz roman, kendine güven ve özgürlük üzerine işe yarar tavsiyeler veriyor.\"\"France Soir\"\"Sürükleyici ve kolay okunan bir kitap. Hem iyi bir kişisel gelişim kitabı hem de güzel bir roman. Bayıldım!\"\"Critiques Libres\"\"Sonuna kadar gizemini koruyan, mizahi ve şiirsel bir roman.\"\"L\u0027est-éclair\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2237,
            "title": "Beneath a Silent Moon",
            "author": "Tracy Grant ",
            "date": "2003",
            "genres": "Mystery, Historical Fiction, Romance, Historical, Historical Mystery, Fiction, Regency, Espionage, Historical Romance, Suspense",
            "characters": "Simon Tanner, Malcolm Rannoch Charles Fraser",
            "synopsis": "\"June-July 1817 The task had taken shape thanks to the inconvenient way secrets had of bubbling to the surface. It went without saying that it was going to be difficult. But then, murder always was…  The London docks.  Beneath a silent moon, a mysterious exile slips back into the city to complete a nefarious mission that began decades before.  On that same night, London\u0027s titled, wealthy and beautiful waltz the night away at Glenister House. Among the guests aristocratic Charles Fraser, a former spy recently returned from the Napoleonic Wars, and his bride Mélanie, who has charmed London society but hides her own secrets. In the brilliance of Mayfair, a visitor from their past pulls Charles and Mélanie back into the world of danger and espionage they thought they had left behind. But this time, the intrigues are rooted in Charles\u0027s complex and troubled family. Melanie and Charles Fraser have traded the moment-to-moment dangers of the war-ravaged Continent for the glittering world of the British ton. But beneath the shimmering veneer of London society, they discover an establishment that is rotten to its very core. An assassination and a trail of clues that lead back to the French Revolution itself plunge Charles and Melanie once more into the danger that has always been the common ground in their marriage. As they search for the truth, they find that the answers cut shockingly close to their own friends and family - including the seemingly perfect Honoria Talbot.  A secret society, and the dangerous liaisons of the Fraser family lead Charles and Mélanie from the glittering ballrooms and shadowy streets of London to the Fraser estate on the Scottish coast. This is a deadly game that could shake the fate of nations: but for Charles, the stakes are the lives of those he holds most dear, and the love of the enigmatic woman who shares his name...and his bed. \""
          },
          {
            "id": 2238,
            "title": "The Blue Umbrella",
            "author": "Ruskin Bond",
            "date": "Published",
            "genres": "Fiction, India, Short Stories, Childrens, Indian Literature, Novella, Classics, Asian Literature, Novels, Adventure",
            "characters": "Binya, Bijju, Ram Bharosa",
            "synopsis": "\"\u0027The umbrella was like a flower, a great blue flower that had sprung up on the dry brown hillside.\u0027In exchange for her lucky leopard\u0027s claw pendant, Binya acquires a beautiful blue umbrella that makes her the envy of everyone in the village, especially Ram Bharosa, the shopkeeper. It is the prettiest umbrella in the whole village and she carries it everywhere she goes. The Blue Umbrella is a short and humorous novella set in the hills of Garhwal. Written in simple yet witty language, it captures life in a village - where ordinary characters become heroic, and others find opportunities to redeem themselves.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2239,
            "title": "Night Train",
            "author": "Martin Amis",
            "date": "1999",
            "genres": "Fiction, Mystery, Crime, Novels, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, British Literature, Detective, Noir, Literature",
            "characters": "Mike Hoolihan, Jennifer Rockwell, Tom Rockwell, Trader Faulkner",
            "synopsis": "\"Detective Mike Hoolihan has seen it all. A fifteen-year veteran of the force, she\u0027s gone from walking a beat, to robbery, to homicide. But one case-this case-has gotten under her skin.When Jennifer Rockwell, darling of the community and daughter of a respected career cop-now top brass-takes her own life, no one is prepared to believe it. Especially her father, Colonel Tom. Homicide Detective Mike Hoolihan, longtime colleague and friend of Colonel Tom, is ready to \"\"put the case down.\"\" Suicide. Closed. Until Colonel Tom asks her to do the one thing any grieving father would ask: take a second look.Not since his celebrated novel Money has Amis turned his focus on America to such remarkable effect. Fusing brilliant wordplay with all the elements of the classic whodunit, Amis exposes a world where surfaces are suspect (no matter how perfect), where paranoia is justified (no matter how pervasive), and where power and pride are brought low by the hidden recesses of our humanity.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2240,
            "title": "The Wicked Girls",
            "author": "Alex Marwood",
            "date": "Jun-12",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Audiobook, British Literature, Adult Fiction, Adult",
            "characters": "Jade Walker, Annabel Oldacre, Amber Gordon, Kirsty Lindsay, Chloe Francis, Jackie Jacobs, Martin Bagshawe",
            "synopsis": "\"One summer morning, three little girls meet for the first time. By the end of the day, two will be charged with murder. Twenty-five years later, journalist Kirsty Lindsay is reporting on a series of sickening attacks on young female tourists in a seaside town when her investigation leads her to interview funfair cleaner Amber Gordon. For Kirsty and Amber, it\u0027s the first time they\u0027ve seen each other since that dark day when they were just children. But with new lives - and families - to protect, will they really be able to keep their wicked secret hidden?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2241,
            "title": "Le Ventre de l\u0027Atlantique",
            "author": "Fatou Diome",
            "date": "2006",
            "genres": "Fiction, Africa, France, School, Senegal, French Literature, Novels, Read For School, Contemporary, African Literature",
            "characters": "Salie",
            "synopsis": "\"Salie vit en France. Son frère, Madické, rêve de l\u0027y rejoindre et compte sur elle. Mais comment lui expliquer la face cachée de l\u0027immigration, lui qui voit la France comme une terre promise où réussissent les footballeurs sénégalais, où vont se réfugier ceux qui, comme Sankèle, fuient leur destin tragique ? Comment empêcher Madické et ses camarades de laisser courir leur imagination, quand l\u0027homme de Barbès, de retour au pays, gagne en notabilité, escamote sa véritable vie d\u0027émigré et les abreuve de récits où la France passe pour la mythique Arcadie ? Les relations entre Madické et Salie nous dévoilent l\u0027inconfortable situation des \"\" venus de France \"\", écrasés par les attentes démesurées de ceux qui sont restés au pays et confrontés à la difficulté d\u0027être l\u0027autre partout. Distillant leurre et espoir, Le Ventre de l\u0027Atlantique charrie entre l\u0027Europe et l\u0027Afrique des destins contrastés, saisis dans le tourbillon des sentiments contraires, suscités par l\u0027irrésistible appel de l\u0027Ailleurs. Car, même si la souffrance de ceux qui restent est indicible, il s\u0027agit de partir, voguer, libre comme une algue de l\u0027Atlantique. Ce premier roman, sans concession, est servi par une écriture pleine de souffle et d\u0027humour.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2242,
            "title": "The Adventures of Holly Hobbie",
            "author": "Richard S. Dubelman",
            "date": "Published",
            "genres": "Fiction, Childrens, Young Adult",
            "characters": "Liz Dutton, Holly Hobbie, Danny Sutton, John Dutton, Agatha Dutton, Melville Dutton",
            "synopsis": "\"Not a trace is found of celebrated arcaeologist Melville Dutton, who mysteriously vanished in the trackless jungles of Central America. His quest-the greatest of Maya ruins-the lost Jaguar City. Hope for the survival of the charismatic explorer is eventually abandoned. Only his daughter, Liz, tormented by a recurring nightmare, steadfastly believes that her father is alive.On a snowy Thanksgiving in her grandparents\u0027 New England farmhouse, Liz is entranced by a portrait of her ancestor-a breathtakingly beautiful teen-age girl. The haunting picture, painted in 1803, seems to glow with an indefinable magic. Flames dance wildly in the old stone fireplace... heatwaves shimmer... definition is obscurred... then--Holly Hobbie. Is this intelligent, graceful young girl in colonial dress another of Liz\u0027s dreams? Or the portrait come to life?The author takes us along with Holly and Liz on a fascinating odyssey triggered by scattered clues-the snarling jaguar pendant, Dutton\u0027s last jungle diaries, cryptic Maya inscriptions-all crucial in linking their destiny with that of Mel Dutton.-Excerpt of book jacket description.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2243,
            "title": "The Secret of Chimneys",
            "author": "Agatha Christie",
            "date": "2001",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Detective, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Audiobook, Thriller, Murder Mystery",
            "characters": "Superintendent Battle, Lady Eileen Brent, Bill Eversleigh, George Lomax, Tredwell, Clement Edward Alistair Brent, Lord Caterham, Anthony Cade, Virginia Revel",
            "synopsis": "\"A bit of adventure and quick cash is all that good-natured drifter Anthony Cade is looking for when he accepts a messenger job from an old friend. It sounds so simple: deliver the provocative memoirs of a recently deceased European count to a London publisher. Little did Anthony suspect that a simple errand to deliver the manuscript on behalf of his friend would drop him right in the middle of an international conspiracy, and he begins to realize that it has placed him in serious danger. Why were Count Stylptich\u0027s memoirs so important? And what was \"\"King Victor\"\" really after? The parcel holds ore than scandalous royal secrets - because it contains a stash of letters that suggest blackmail. Someone would stop at nothing to prevent the monarchy being restored in faraway Herzoslovakia.Wherever ravishing Virginia Revel went, death seemed sure to follow. First her husband died. The next to perish was a foreign prince whose ruthless power was matched by his scandalous passions. Then a bungling blackmailer followed them into the grave. Murder, blackmail, stolen letters, and a fabulous missing jewel: all under the not always co-operative eyes of Scotland Yard and the Surete. All threads lead to Chimneys, one of England\u0027s historic country house estates, where a master murderer mingled with the aristocratic guests. Virginia could turn to only one person to prove her innocence and end her nightmare, and she could only pray that she had not put her life into the hands of the man who was out to take it....\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2244,
            "title": "Beyoğlu\u0027nun En Güzel Abisi",
            "author": "Ahmet Ümit",
            "date": "Oct-13",
            "genres": "Turkish Literature, Roman, Turkish, Fiction, Crime, Mystery, Novels, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Thriller",
            "characters": "Başkomiser Nevzat, Komiser Ali, Nizam Kara, Kriminolog Zeynep, İhsan Yıldızeli, Engin Akça",
            "synopsis": "\"\"\"Aşk, yaşamı; cinayet, ölümü sıradanlıktan kurtarır.\"\" Yılbaşı gecesi işlenen bir cinayet... Tarlabaşı’nın arka sokaklarında bulunan bir erkek cesedi. Öldürülmüş erkeklerin en yakışıklısı, belki de en kötüsü. Karanlık sırların ortaya çıkardığı utanç verici bir gerçek. Gururlarının kurbanı olmuş erkekler, onların hayatlarını yaşamak zorunda olan kadınlar. Bu cinayetler yatağında, bu kötülükler bahçesinde, bu insan eti satılan can pazarında masumiyetini korumaya çalışan bir adam. Bir zamanlar İstanbul’un en gözde yeri olan Beyoğlu’nun hazin hikâyesi. Karanlık...  Soğuk havayla iyice ağırlaşan bir karanlık. Uzaklardan şarkılar geliyor kulağına, neşeli kadın çığlıkları, ayarını yitirmiş sarhoş naraları, biri küfrediyor belki ana avrat, belki ağlıyor biri hıçkıra hıçkıra, belki biri sessizce ölüyor bu gürültünün, bu hengâmenin ortasında. Umurunda değil. Hepsinden sıyrılmış, sadece öfke...  Nereye gittiğini bilmeden yürüyor, nefret tarafından kuşatılmış olarak. Kıskançlık denen o canavar, çelikten pençesine almış yüreğini, habire sıkıyor. “Kadınlar,” diyor bir ses zihninin derinliklerinden...  “Kadınlar, onlarla oynayamazsın... Oynadığını zannedersin ama bir de bakmışsın, asıl oyuncak sen olmuşsun.” Hayatına giren kadınların yüzleri beliriyor sokağın zemininde. Birer birer düşüyor görüntüleri ayaklarının dibine. Hepsinin boynu bükük, hepsinin gözlerinde keder. Hepsi üzgün... Aldırmıyor, bir su birikintisiymiş gibi basıp geçiyor üzerlerinden ama yeniden düşüyor görüntüler zemine. “Kadınlar,” diyor o ses yine, “Kadınlardan asla kurtulamazsın, hayaletleri hayatın boyunca seni takip eder.”\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2245,
            "title": "Changing Places",
            "author": "David Lodge",
            "date": "1979",
            "genres": "Fiction, Humor, Novels, Literature, British Literature, Academia, Comedy, Contemporary, 20th Century, Literary Fiction",
            "characters": "Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp",
            "synopsis": "\"Anyone intrigued by differences between American and British academic institutions will find this an amusing and accurate send-up. David Lodge, portraying two American and British professors who replace one another at their respective institutions, gives greed, pettiness, and pretense full rein.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2246,
            "title": "Załatwiaczka",
            "author": "Milena Wójtowicz",
            "date": "Jan-07",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Polish Literature, Urban Fantasy, Vampires",
            "characters": "Małgorzata Brzeska",
            "synopsis": "\"(notka z tylnej okładki)Potrzebujesz tony humoru, funta zagadek kryminalnych przyprawionych słodko-gorzkimi perypetiami bohaterki? Sięgnij po \"\"Załatwiaczkę\"\" i załatwione!Małgorzata wyjeżdża na studia do Anglii. Nie spodziewa się, że w spadku po życzliwej staruszce dostanie dom i ekscentryczne zajęcie. Nie przypuszcza, że na dziesięć lat wciągnie ją w swe tryby Korporacja... Załatwiaczy. Poznaj wampira - uwodziciela, czarodzieja - działacza społecznego, przedsiębiorczego czytacza marzeń czy wróżkę z wyrokiem w zawieszeniu...A tak na marginesie - znajomi nie znaleźli Ci jeszcze roboty w Anglii? Zadzwoń do ZAŁATWIACZKI\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2247,
            "title": "The Secret of the Old Mill",
            "author": "Franklin W. Dixon",
            "date": "2002",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Adventure, Detective, Middle Grade, Mystery Thriller, Juvenile",
            "characters": "Frank Hardy, Mr. Morton, Chet Morton, Iola Morton, Callie Shaw, Joe Hardy, Fenton Hardy, Aunt Gertrude, Roberts, Ken Blake, Oscar Smuff, Mr. Reed, Ezra Collig, Miss Benson, Mrs. Morton, Tony Prito, Mr. Markel, Mr. Evans, Mr. Docker, Mrs. Smith, Paul Blum, Laura Hardy",
            "synopsis": "\"Determined to learn the secret of the old mill, Frank and Joe employ a clever ruse to gain entrance and become trapped. There they unravel two mysteries, one involving a counterfeiting case and the other, a national security case their father is working on.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2248,
            "title": "Cassidy",
            "author": "Lee Nelson",
            "date": "Published",
            "genres": "Westerns, Historical, Adventure, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Lds Fiction, Novels, Lds, Young Adult",
            "characters": "Butch Cassidy",
            "synopsis": "\"The story of the Mormon farm boy from Southern Utah who put together the longest string of successful bank and train robberies in the history of the American West. Unlike most cowboy outlaws of his day, Butch Cassidy defended the poor and oppressed, refused to shoot people, and shared his stolen wealth with those in need.  Early in his outlaw career, Butch discovered true love. Her name was Mary, and the love they shared lasted for decades. However, Pinkerton agents, law officers, bank detectives and bounty hunters chased Cassidy relentlessly, making it impossible for him to leave the outlaw life, eventually pushing him to seek refugein Argentina and Bolivia. But in the end Butch outsmarted them all.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2249,
            "title": "The Invitation",
            "author": "Jude Deveraux",
            "date": "1994",
            "genres": "Romance, Historical Romance, Historical, Fiction, Anthologies, Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, Historical Fiction, Adult, Short Stories",
            "characters": "Kane Taggert, Cole Hunter, \"\"Jackie O\u0027\u0027Neill\"\", William Montgomery, Cale Anderson, Dorie Lathan",
            "synopsis": "\"original cover of the paperback edition of Jude Deveraux\u0027s The Invitation with ISBN 0-671-74458-5Jackie O\u0027Neill was a daredevil pilot and a true American heroine...a woman so beautiful men stopped in their tracks to watch her walk down the street, her long confident strides eating up the earth. After years of nonstop excitement - of traveling around the globe in a chaotic rags-to-riches-to-rags whirl with her late husband, Charley - Jackie had returned to Eternity, Colorado, near her hometown of Chandler. She wanted to put down roots, start a business, maybe someday fall in love again. But she never dreamed that the man who might make all her wishes come true was William Montgomery...little Billy, the lovesick boy who dogged her every step when she was a teenager...little Billy, who was now definitely a man, handsome, sexy, rich, and still madly in love with Jackie O\u0027Neill....In THE INVITATION, MATCHMAKERS, and A PERFECT ARRANGEMENT, Jude Deveraux brings us three novellas destined to delight us with her special brand of whimsy, while touching our hearts with the delicious romance that only comes from the imagination of America\u0027s most beloved storyteller.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2250,
            "title": "Death Note: Black Edition, Vol. 2",
            "author": "Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata, Yuki Kowalsky (translator)",
            "date": "2009",
            "genres": "Graphic Novels, Comics, Fantasy, Manga, Young Adult, Horror, Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Crime",
            "characters": "Light Yagami, Ryuk",
            "synopsis": "\"Intégrale regroupant les tomes 3 et 4Tome 3 :La résidence de Light est placée sous surveillance vidéo. L et Light se livrent un duel silencieux relayé par les caméras cachées dans la maison du jeune homme. Grâce à un habile stratagème, Light parvient à établir la preuve de son innocence. Cela n\u0027empêche pas L d\u0027avoir des soupçons de plus en plus forts et de passer à l\u0027action. Parviendra-t-il à démasquer le mystérieux Kira ?Tome 4Un second Kira, dont les méthodes diffèrent de celles de Light, a fait son apparition. Au quartier général d\u0027enquête, L contacte Light afin de lui demander sa collaboration. Ce dernier découvre alors le sens cahé du message envoyé par l\u0027autre Kira ! Light décide de préparer une rencontre? !\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2251,
            "title": "Death Note: Black Edition, Vol. 2",
            "author": "Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata, Yuki Kowalsky (translator)",
            "date": "2009",
            "genres": "Graphic Novels, Comics, Fantasy, Manga, Young Adult, Horror, Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Crime",
            "characters": "Light Yagami, Ryuk",
            "synopsis": "\"Intégrale regroupant les tomes 3 et 4Tome 3 :La résidence de Light est placée sous surveillance vidéo. L et Light se livrent un duel silencieux relayé par les caméras cachées dans la maison du jeune homme. Grâce à un habile stratagème, Light parvient à établir la preuve de son innocence. Cela n\u0027empêche pas L d\u0027avoir des soupçons de plus en plus forts et de passer à l\u0027action. Parviendra-t-il à démasquer le mystérieux Kira ?Tome 4Un second Kira, dont les méthodes diffèrent de celles de Light, a fait son apparition. Au quartier général d\u0027enquête, L contacte Light afin de lui demander sa collaboration. Ce dernier découvre alors le sens cahé du message envoyé par l\u0027autre Kira ! Light décide de préparer une rencontre? !\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2252,
            "title": "Nightmares and Dreamscapes",
            "author": "Stephen King ",
            "date": "1994",
            "genres": "Horror, Short Stories, Fiction, Fantasy, Thriller, Anthologies, Mystery, Supernatural, Collections, Suspense",
            "characters": "Matt Knaide, Candy Kane, Andy Estes, Ryan Stretton, Ramu, Oliver Stanley, Peoria Smith, Robbie Delray, Sissy Thomas, Orrin Campbell, Selida McCammon, Jagger Barney, Ron St. Pierre, Richard Rubinstein, Katie Weiderman, Constable Vette, Maddie Sullivan, Samuel D. Landry, Mrs. Hemphill, Vernon Klein, Andy Kingsbury, Lady Hull, Carlton Cagnon, Polly Weiderman, Johnny Brinkmayer, Gary Martin Paulson, Fred Moore, Burt Dorfman, John Squales, Graf Dracula, Ryan Iarrobino, Clive Banning, Lewis Evans, Doris Freeman, Merton Morrison, Briggs Sheridan, Tim Flanders, Mr. Jefferies, Jory Hull, La Plata, Clem Upshaw, Suzanne Holding, Matt Arsenault, Casey Kinney, Mrs. Scooter, Bedelia Aaronson, Cora Leonard, Phil Budreau, Douglas Keefer, Claire Bowie, Ray Sarch, General Mercantile, Peter Rosewall, Duke Rhineman, Phil Tarbox, Ezra Hannon, Boxcar Willie, Johnny Rosewall, Georgie Ronkler, Carlton Gagnon, Carl Stowe, Lord Albert Hull, Alden Osgood, George Sullivan, William Weiderman, Janet Brightwood, Reverend Chadband, Lou Reed, Mr. Lathrop, Clark Willingham, Old Clut, Violet Mitla, Mrs. Dattlebaum, Amigo Bill, Ching-Ling Soong, Henry Eden, Lenny Partridge, Joe Wilcox, Lester Olson, Cameron Stevens, Paul Jannings, Matt Hoyt, Mike Wentworth, Miss Rotrock, Candi Pulsifer, Kate Weiderman, Reverend Johnson, Mr. Slattery, Lonnie Freeman, Harris Burdick, Nick Trzaskos, Frank Daggett, Mama Delorme, Gloria Demmick, Richard Bachman, \"\"Officer O\u0027\u0027Bannion\"\", Richard Dees, Dennis Feeney, Mr. Oliver Stanley, Dave King, Mr. Reggie, Cal Partridge, Jeff Carson, Clivey, Buck Kendall, Harley McKissick, Maddie Pace, Jason Auger, Ardis McGill, William I. Hogan, Mr. Dolan, Gary Paulson, \"\"O\u0027\u0027Bannion\"\", Arthur Dorr, Jerry Tarkanian, Ellen Sarch, Tim Pollack, Milly Cousins, Elise Graham, Alex Trebek, Sonny Dotson, Mrs. Hemphills, Ted Vetter, Bill Hogan, Dwight Frye, Josh Jamieson, Matt Francke, Bobby Daggett, Peter Jefferies, Dan Bouchard, Mike Greenwells, Norman Rockwell, Albert Hull, Mr. Bryan Adams, Dwight Renfield, Buddy Jenkins, Timothy Urich, Thomas Wolfe, Darcy Sagamore, John Clutterbuck, J. J. Fiddler, Martha Rosewall, George Banning, Harvey Blocker, Lucy Doucette, Humphrey Dagbolt, Kevin Rochefort, Mike Pelkey, Jack Pace, Hyde Park, Alvin Coy, Dudley Rhinemann, Bill DeHorne, Rick Nelson, Stanley Sturgis, Owen King, Evvie, Trent Bradbury, Neil Waterman, Mike Tardif, Cappy MacFarland, Octavia Kinsolving, Bob Daggett, Norma Kamali, Stephen Hull, Mr. Jory Hull, Joe Newall, Howard Mitla, John Tell, Herb Yellin, Libby Grannit, Brandon Pearson, Roger Clemens, Mr. Hanning, Miss Sidley, Bill Tuggle, Mike Arnold, Ross Macdonald, Moira Richardson, Robert Farnham, Laura Stanton, Ryan Fernald, Paul Corliss, Dana Roy, Mary Willingham, Benny Ellis, Robert Fornoy, Dave Eamons, Mrs. Krutchmer, Sheila Farnham, Dave Mansfield, Mrs. Crossen, Matt Kinney, Leonard Freeman, Brian Bradbury, Billy Beck, Matt Knaide, Candy Kane, Andy Estes, Ryan Stretton, Ramu, Oliver Stanley, Peoria Smith, Robbie Delray, Sissy Thomas, Orrin Campbell, Selida McCammon, Jagger Barney, Ron St. Pierre, Richard Rubinstein, Catherine Evans, Katie Weiderman, Constable Vette, Maddie Sullivan, Samuel D. Landry, Mrs. Hemphill, Vernon Klein, Andy Kingsbury, Lady Hull, Carlton Cagnon, Polly Weiderman, Johnny Brinkmayer, Gary Martin Paulson, Burt Dorfman, John Squales, Graf Dracula, Ryan Iarrobino, Clive Banning, Lewis Evans, Doris Freeman, Merton Morrison, Briggs Sheridan, Tim Flanders, Mr. Jefferies, Jory Hull, La Plata, Clem Upshaw, Suzanne Holding, Matt Arsenault, Casey Kinney, Mrs. Scooter, Bedelia Aaronson, Cora Leonard, Phil Budreau, Douglas Keefer, Claire Bowie, Ray Sarch, General Mercantile, Peter Rosewall, Duke Rhineman, Phil Tarbox, Ezra Hannon, Boxcar Willie, Johnny Rosewall, Georgie Ronkler, Carlton Gagnon, Carl Stowe, Lord Albert Hull, Alden Osgood, George Sullivan, William Weiderman, Janet Brightwood, Reverend Chadband, Lou Reed, Mr. Lathrop, Clark Willingham, Old Clut, Violet Mitla, Mrs. Dattlebaum, Amigo Bill, Ching-Ling Soong, Henry Eden, Lenny Partridge, Joe Wilcox, Lester Olson, Cameron Stevens, Paul Jannings, Matt Hoyt, Mike Wentworth, Miss Rotrock, Candi Pulsifer, Kate Weiderman, Frank Davis, Reverend Johnson, Mr. Slattery, Lonnie Freeman, Harris Burdick, Nick Trzaskos, Frank Daggett, Mama Delorme, Gloria Demmick, Richard Bachman, \"\"Officer O\u0027\u0027Bannion\"\", Richard Dees, Dennis Feeney, Mr. Oliver Stanley, Dave King, Mr. Reggie, Cal Partridge, Jeff Carson, Clivey, Buck Kendall, Harley McKissick, Maddie Pace, Jason Auger, Ardis McGill, Mr. Dolan, Gary Paulson, \"\"O\u0027\u0027Bannion\"\", Arthur Dorr, Jerry Tarkanian, Ellen Sarch, Tim Pollack, Milly Cousins, Elise Graham, Alex Trebek, Sonny Dotson, Mrs. Hemphills, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, Ted Vetter, Bill Hogan, Dwight Frye, Josh Jamieson, Matt Francke, Bobby Daggett, Peter Jefferies, Dan Bouchard, Mike Greenwells, Cora Leonard Newall, Catherine Bradbury, Norman Rockwell, Albert Hull, Mr. Bryan Adams, Dwight Renfield, Buddy Jenkins, Timothy Urich, Thomas Wolfe, Darcy Sagamore, John Clutterbuck, J. J. Fiddler, Martha Rosewall, George Banning, Clyde Umney, Harvey Blocker, Lucy Doucette, Humphrey Dagbolt, Kevin Rochefort, Mike Pelkey, Jack Pace, Hyde Park, Alvin Coy, Dudley Rhinemann, Bill DeHorne, Rick Nelson, Stanley Sturgis, Owen King, Evvie, Trent Bradbury, Neil Waterman, Mike Tardif, Cappy MacFarland, Octavia Kinsolving, Bob Daggett, Norma Kamali, Stephen Hull, Mr. Jory Hull, Joe Newall, Howard Mitla, John Tell, Herb Yellin, Libby Grannit, Brandon Pearson, Roger Clemens, Mr. Hanning, Miss Sidley, Bill Tuggle, Mike Arnold, Ross Macdonald, Moira Richardson, Robert Farnham, Laura Stanton, Ryan Fernald, Paul Corliss, Dana Roy, Mary Willingham, Catherine Evans, Mavis Weld",
            "synopsis": "\"A solitary finger pokes out of a drain. Novelty teeth turn predatory. Flies settle and die on an old pair of sneakers in New York, and the Nevada desert swallows a Cadillac. Meanwhile the legend of Castle Rock returns... and grows on you. What does it all mean? What else could it mean? First there was Night Shift (1978), then Skeleton Crew (1985), and now Stephen King is back with a third collection of stories - a vast, many-chambered cave of a volume, with passages leading every which way to hell... and a few to glory.The long reach of Stephen King\u0027s imagination and the no-holds-barred force of his storytelling have never been so richly demonstrated. There\u0027s something here for readers of every stripe and predilection - classic tales of the macabre and the monstrous, cutting-edge explorations of the borderlands between good and evil, brilliant pastiches of Chandler and Conan Doyle, even a teleplay and a non-fiction bonus, a heartfelt piece of Little League baseball that first appeared in The New Yorker.In story after story, several published here for the first time, he will take you to places you\u0027ve never been before, places that are both dark and vividly illuminated. Fair warning: You will lose a good deal of sleep. But Stephen King, writing to beat the devil, will do your dreaming for you.Can you believe? Then come...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2253,
            "title": "Tegengif",
            "author": "Judith Visser",
            "date": "2006",
            "genres": "Thriller, Fiction",
            "characters": "Kimberley Franklin",
            "synopsis": "\"Wanneer de negentienjarige Kim ontdekt dat haar grote liefde Edwin haar bedrogen heeft neemt ze een drastische beslissing: dit zal haar nooit meer gebeuren. Zij besluit zich te wapenen tegen toekomstig hartzeer en stort zich in de prostitutie alwaar zij op zoek gaat naar een walging zo sterk, dat hij altijd werkzaam zal blijven als tegengif tegen de liefde. Wat volgt is een ontluisterende tocht door de wereld van de betaalde seks in Rotterdam, waarbij de avonturen en gevoelens van Kim in een meeslepende en niets verhullende stijl beschreven worden.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2254,
            "title": "Reaping Me Softly",
            "author": "Kate Evangelista ",
            "date": "Oct-12",
            "genres": "Paranormal, Young Adult, Romance, Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Ghosts, Supernatural, Death, Fiction, Urban Fantasy",
            "characters": "Arianne Wilson (Reaping Me Softly), Benjamin Freeman (Reaping Me Softly), Nikolas Clark (Reaping Me Softly)",
            "synopsis": "\"Ever since a near-death-experience on the operating table, seventeen-year-old Arianne Wilson can see dead people. Just as she’s learned to accept her new-found talents, she discovers that the boy she’s had a crush on since freshman year, Niko Clark, is a Reaper.At last they have something in common, but that doesn’t mean life is getting any easier. All while facing merciless bullying from the most powerful girl in school, Arianne’s world is turned upside down after Niko accidentally reaps the soul of someone she loves. This sends them both into a spiral that threatens to end Arianne’s life. But will Niko break his own Reaper’s code to save her? And what would the consequences be if he did?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2255,
            "title": "Arguably: Selected Essays",
            "author": "Christopher Hitchens",
            "date": "2011",
            "genres": "Nonfiction, Essays, Politics, Philosophy, History, Religion, Atheism, Journalism, Literature, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Idi Amin, Alexander II of Russia, Konrad Adenauer, Gertrude Bell, Saul Bellow, Gore Vidal, James Baldwin, Martin Amis, Jessica Mitford, Henry Adams, Joseph Alsop, Perry Anderson, Don Bachardy, Arthur Balfour, Julian Barnes, Walter Benjamin, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Salvador Allende, Anwar al-Awlaki, Benazir Bhutto, C.L.R. James, John Buchan, Allen Drury, Timothy Garton Ash, Arthur Koestler, Edward Said, Hector Hugh Munro, Victor Serge, Upton Sinclair, Edward Upward, W. Somerset Maugham, Horatio Alger, Jr, Charles, Prince of Wales, Diana, Princess of Wales, Kofi Annan, Hans Christian Andersen, Sami al-Araji, Peter Arnett, Raymond Aron, James Baker, James Bennet, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Charles Baudelaire, Karen Armstrong, David Aaronovitch, Walter Bagehot, Rebecca West, Hilary Mantel, Stephen Spender, J.K. Rowling, Stieg Larsson, André Malraux, Isabel Allende, Victor Klemperer, W.G. Sebald, Pope Benedict XVI, Joyce Cary, Karen Hughes, Mohamed Bouazizi, Kaspar Utz, Henry VIII of England, Peter Singer, Lancelot Andrewes, Ban Ki-moon, Ferhat Abbas, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Abbas Abdi, Abdullah Abdullah, James Abercrombie, Adunis, Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Jane Akello, Abdul Rahman al-Amoudi, Richard Aldington, Alexander I of Serbia, Alexander I of Yugoslavia, Haj Amin al-Husseini, Lorraine Ali, Monica Ali, Brooke Allen, Abu Hamza al-Masri, Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Azzam Alwash, Christiane Amanpour, Eric Ambler, Julian Amery, Henry Maxwell Andrews, Maya Angelou, James Jesus Angleton, Alfred Appel, Edward Victor Appleton, Benigno Aquino III, John Arlott, Nadeem Aslam, Rose Atim, Stefan Aust, Ayub Khan, Isaak Babel, David Baldacci, Katherine Balderston, Reza Baraheni, Francis Barber, Yetta Barshevsky, Nechervan Idris Barzani, Gary J. Bass, Walter Jackson Bate, James Bays, Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, Antony Beevor, Daniel Bell, Hilaire Belloc, James C. Bennett, Jeremy Bentham, Humphry Berkeley, Sandra Bernhard, John Berryman, Carlos Bertha, Michael Beschloss, Aneurin Bevan, Isaiah Berlin, Charles Dickens",
            "synopsis": "\"The first new book of essays by Christopher Hitchens since 2004, Arguably offers an indispensable key to understanding the passionate and skeptical spirit of one of our most dazzling writers, widely admired for the clarity of his style, a result of his disciplined and candid thinking. Topics range from ruminations on why Charles Dickens was among the best of writers and the worst of men to the haunting science fiction of J.G. Ballard; from the enduring legacies of Thomas Jefferson and George Orwell to the persistent agonies of anti-Semitism and jihad. Hitchens even looks at the recent financial crisis and argues for the enduring relevance of Karl Marx. The book forms a bridge between the two parallel enterprises of culture and politics. It reveals how politics justifies itself by culture, and how the latter prompts the former. In this fashion, Arguably burnishes Christopher Hitchens\u0027 credentials as (to quote Christopher Buckley) our \"\"greatest living essayist in the English language.\"\"\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2256,
            "title": "Creed",
            "author": "James Herbert",
            "date": "Published",
            "genres": "Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Paranormal, British Literature, Demons, Supernatural, Mystery, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Joseph Creed",
            "synopsis": "\"Sometimes horror is in the mind and sometimes it\u0027s real. Telling the difference isn\u0027t always easy. It wasn\u0027t for Joe Creed. He just photographed the unreal. Now he had to pay the price, because he always thought that demons were just a joke. But the joke was on him and it wasn\u0027t very funny. It was deadly.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2257,
            "title": "Vengeance Is Mine: A Novel Of Anne Boleyn, Katherine Howard, And Lady Rochford The Woman Who Helped Destroy Them Both",
            "author": "Brandy Purdy",
            "date": "Published",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Historical, 16th Century, Tudor Period",
            "characters": "Anne Boleyn, Catherine Howard, Jane Boleyn",
            "synopsis": "\"There was room for only one woman in George Boleyn\u0027s heart: his sister, the mercurial and fascinating Anne Boleyn, who was destined to change history and wear a crown. To his adoring wife, Lady Jane Rochford, he was cold and indifferent. When Anne failed to give Henry VIII the son she had promised him, and he was tiring of her tart tongue and tantrums, false charges of adultery were hastily concocted. Lady Rochford provided the crowning touch when she accused her husband and his beloved sister of incest. Both died upon the scaffold. Lady Rochford paid dearly for her treachery. She was left alone, shunned and friendless, until wild, sweet, wanton Katherine Howard danced into her life and became Henry\u0027s fifth queen. When Katherine, disgusted by the obese and impotent King\u0027s fumbling attempts to make love to her, took a lusty young lover Lady Rochford helped them meet. And when the truth came out, she was the first to betray them. As she sits in the Tower of London, being tormented by the ghosts of George and Anne Boleyn, and awaiting her own appointment with the headsman\u0027s axe, Lady Rochford takes up her pen. Vengeance Is Mine is her story.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2258,
            "title": "Desperately Seeking Epic",
            "author": "B.N. Toler ",
            "date": "B N Toler",
            "genres": "1E+13",
            "characters": "Romance, Contemporary Romance, Contemporary, New Adult, Death, Adult, Drama, Fiction, Childrens, Family",
            "synopsis": "\"Paul James loved Clara Bateman. Hating her would have been easier.She was the past, and he was hell-bent on keeping her there.Or so he thought...Craigslist Ad: DESPERATELY SEEKING EPIC"
          },
          {
            "id": 2259,
            "title": "L\u0027armata perduta",
            "author": "Valerio Massimo Manfredi",
            "date": "Nov-07",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Historical, Fiction, Historical Romance, Fantasy, Adventure, Military Fiction, Italian Literature, Novels, Ancient History",
            "characters": "Xenofonte, Abira",
            "synopsis": "\"Una delle più epiche avventure dell\u0027età antica: la lunghissima marcia, attraverso incredibili pericoli e peripezie, che diecimila mercenari greci dopo la disfatta del principe persiano Ciro, sotto le cui insegne si erano battuti, contro il fratello Artaserse alle porte di Babilonia - compiono per tornare in patria. È l\u0027impresa gloriosa e tragica documentata nel IV secolo a.C. da Senofonte nell\u0027Anabasi, che proprio Valerio Massimo Manfredi ha studiato e tradotto negli anni \u002780. Ma in questo romanzo le atrocità della guerra e l\u0027eroismo di ogni soldato, il fasto e le crudeli bizzarrie della corte persiana, le insidie di una natura selvaggia e le amicizie più indissolubili sono narrate in una prospettiva completamente inedita: dalla voce di una donna, la bellissima siriana Abira, che per amore di Xenos lascia ogni cosa e condivide il destino dei Diecimila. Attraverso gli occhi di Abira, le donne diventano le protagoniste della grande Storia.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2260,
            "title": "Peril at End House",
            "author": "Agatha Christie",
            "date": "2001",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Detective, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Audiobook, Murder Mystery, Thriller",
            "characters": "Nick Buckley, Maggie Buckley, Frederica Rice, Jim Lazarus, Commander George Challenger, Inspector Japp, Millie Croft, Arthur Hastings, Hercule Poirot, Ellen, Charles Vyse",
            "synopsis": "\"An Alternate Cover Edition of this ISBN can be found here.Hercule Poirot is vacationing on the Cornish coast when he meets Nick Buckly. Nick is the young and reckless mistress of End House, an imposing structure perched on the rocky cliffs of St. Loo.Poirot has taken a particular interest in the young woman who has recently narrowly escaped a series of life-threatening accidents. Something tells the Belgian sleuth that these so-called accidents are more than just mere coincidences or a spate of bad luck. It seems all too clear to him that someone is trying to do away with poor Nick, but who? And, what is the motive? In his quest for answers, Poirot must delve into the dark history of End House. The deeper he gets into his investigation, the more certain he is that the killer will soon strike again. And, this time, Nick may not escape with her life.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2261,
            "title": "Astérix gladiateur",
            "author": "René Goscinny, Albert Uderzo (Illustrateur)",
            "date": "2007",
            "genres": "Comics, Graphic Novels, Bande Dessinée, Fiction, Humor, France, Historical Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Childrens",
            "characters": "Asterix, Obelix, Julius Caesar, Grandimais, Assurancetourix",
            "synopsis": "\"Caligula Alavacomgetepus, préfet des Gaules veut faire forte impression à Rome et décide d’offrir à César rien moins qu’un Irréductible Gaulois !Souvent isolé dans la forêt pour exercer ses talents, que ses camarades goûtent modérément, le barde Assurancetourix fait une proie idéale. César, considérant l’offrande plutôt assourdissante, donne l’ordre de jeter le barde aux lions lors des prochains jeux du cirque. Astérix et Obélix partent pour Rome délivrer leur ami. Et si tous les chemins mènent à Rome, bonne nouvelle : avec Astérix gladiateur, les rires y sont garantis !\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2262,
            "title": "The War With Mr. Wizzle",
            "author": "Gordon Korman",
            "date": "1982",
            "genres": "Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Humor, Canada, Comedy, School, Juvenile, Contemporary, Middle Grade",
            "characters": "Bruno Wisitzki, Boots, Mr. Wizzle",
            "synopsis": "\"Walter C. Wizzle and and his computer are trying to take over Macdonald Hall! Wizzle is making everyone wear a tie and is giving out demerits and detentions like they\u0027re going out of style! Bruno and boots have had enough. If The Fish (Headmaster Sturgeon) won\u0027t do anything, they will. Wizzle has got to go!The boys form a coalition with their fellow students and the girls at Miss Scrimmage\u0027s Finishing School - and the Wizzle War in on! They build a machine to simulate earthquakes, program non-existent students into Wizzle\u0027s computer, even hide all his computer paper - replacing it with paper towels. nothing works. But when they match Wizzle with the girl of his dreams things begin to change. But for the better? Nobody knows what will happen once Bruno and Boots get started!\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2263,
            "title": "All Tomorrow\u0027s Parties",
            "author": "William Gibson",
            "date": "Jan-03",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Cyberpunk, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Novels, Dystopia, Fantasy, Near Future, Literature",
            "characters": "Colin Laney",
            "synopsis": "\"Although Colin Laney (from Gibson\u0027s earlier novel Idoru) lives in a cardboard box, he has the power to change the world. Thanks to an experimental drug that he received during his youth, Colin can see \"\"nodal points\"\" in the vast streams of data that make up the worldwide computer network. Nodal points are rare but significant events in history that forever change society, even though they might not be recognizable as such when they occur. Colin isn\u0027t quite sure what\u0027s going to happen when society reaches this latest nodal point, but he knows it\u0027s going to be big. And he knows it\u0027s going to occur on the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, which has been home to a sort of SoHo-esque shantytown since an earthquake rendered it structurally unsound to carry traffic.Although All Tomorrow\u0027s Parties includes characters from two of Gibson\u0027s earlier novels, it\u0027s not a direct sequel to either. It\u0027s a stand-alone book.-Craig E. Engler\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2264,
            "title": "Green Grass of Wyoming",
            "author": "Mary O\u0027Hara",
            "date": "2004",
            "genres": "Horses, Young Adult, Fiction, Animals, Childrens, Classics, Westerns, American, Romance, Historical Fiction",
            "characters": "Ken McLaughlin (Flicka), Rob McLaughlin (Flicka), Nell McLaughlin (Flicka), Howard McLaughlin (Flicka), Thunderhead (Flicka), Carey Marsh",
            "synopsis": "\"In the third book of the \"\"Flicka\"\" trilogy, Ken discovers to his horror that Thunderhead is roaming wild, causing trouble wherever he goes. He also has trouble at home, and thinks that his dreams can never come true; but then his feelings for Carey begin to change.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2265,
            "title": "Killashandra",
            "author": "Anne McCaffrey",
            "date": "Dec-86",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Romance, Space Opera, Adventure, Space, Music, Novels",
            "characters": "Killashandra",
            "synopsis": "\"At first Killashandra Ree\u0027s ambitions to become a Crystal Singer, get rich, and forget her past, were going just as she had hoped. But after she grew wealthy, a devastating storm turned her claim to useless rock. In short order she was broke, she had crystal sickness so bad she thought she was going to die, and the only way she could be true to the man she loved was to leave him....\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2266,
            "title": "Deepsix",
            "author": "Jack McDevitt",
            "date": "Jan-02",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Space Opera, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space, Adventure, Mystery, Speculative Fiction, Fantasy, Novels",
            "characters": "Priscilla Hutchins",
            "synopsis": "\"In the year 2204, tragedy and terror forced a scientific team to prematurely evacuate Maleiva Ill. Twenty-one years later, the opportunity for scientists to study this galactic rarity—a life-supporting planet—is about to vanish forever as a rogue gas giant has invaded the planetary system on a deadly collision course with the world they are now calling Deepsix.A superluminal pilot for the Academy of Science and Technology, Priscilla “Hutch” Hutchins is the only even remotely qualified professional within lightyears of Deepsix. With less than three weeks left before the disaster, she and a small scientific team—including Randall Nightingale a survivor of the original expedition who was made the scapegoat for its failure—must descend to the surface, and glean whatever they can about the doomed planet’s lifeforms and lost civilizations.There is more to this strange and complex world, however, than anyone could have imagined: hidden predators; stone cities under the ice; remnants of a warlike primitive society, yet with inexplicable hints of an impossible technology buried in the rubble... and in orbit around the soon to be demolished planet. The deeper Hutch and her team delve, the more puzzles are revealed within puzzles and startling discoveries lead only to greater and more perplexing questionsBut then the unthinkable occurs An earthquake destroys the explorers only means of escape As scientists and sightseers who have come to witness the spectacular end of Deepsix watch helplessly from miles above Hutch and her people must survive somehow on a hostile planet going rapidly mad. And with the clock ticking relentlessly toward an unavoidable apocalypse, they must find some way, any way to get off before Deepsix plunges like a pebble into the limitless depths of the rampaging gas giant.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2267,
            "title": "Los de Abajo",
            "author": "Mariano Azuela",
            "date": "2007",
            "genres": "Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, Spanish Literature, Latin American, Literature, Novels, Latin American Literature, Historical, School",
            "characters": "Camila, Demetrio Macías, Luis Cervantes, Don Mónico",
            "synopsis": "\"Durante la Revolución Mexicana, Mariano Azuela (1873-1952) fue médico de la facción la que comandaba Francisco Villa-, de ahí que algunas de sus más notables obras literarias estén inspiradas por aquellos hechos de armas. Entre todas ellas, Los de abajo sintetiza admirablemente lo que el ilustre escritor pensaba de la Revolución y cómo vio él mismo su furia destructora. Se trata de una historia descarnada, concebida con la sinceridad y la valentía de un hombre que nunca cedió a la tentación de adornar artificiosamente o de falsear los acontecimientos, y escrita con un lenguaje directo que aúna la belleza a la sencillez.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2268,
            "title": "The Dressmaker",
            "author": "Rosalie Ham",
            "date": "2000",
            "genres": "Fiction, Historical Fiction, Australia, Romance, Historical, Audiobook, Book Club, Adult, Drama, Chick Lit",
            "characters": "Myrtle (‘Tilly’) Dunnage, Teddy McSwiney, Evan Pettyman, Faith O’Brien, Reginald Blood",
            "synopsis": "\"A darkly satirical novel of love, revenge, and 1950s haute couture—now a major motion picture starring Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth, and Hugo Weaving After twenty years spent mastering the art of dressmaking at couture houses in Paris, Tilly Dunnage returns to the small Australian town she was banished from as a child. She plans only to check on her ailing mother and leave. But Tilly decides to stay, and though she is still an outcast, her lush, exquisite dresses prove irresistible to the prim women of Dungatar. Through her fashion business, her friendship with Sergeant Farrat—the town’s only policeman, who harbors an unusual passion for fabrics—and a budding romance with Teddy, the local football star whose family is almost as reviled as hers, she finds a measure of grudging acceptance. But as her dresses begin to arouse competition and envy in town, causing old resentments to surface, it becomes clear that Tilly’s mind is set on a darker design: exacting revenge on those who wronged her, in the most spectacular fashion.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2269,
            "title": "The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax",
            "author": "Dorothy Gilman",
            "date": "Dec-83",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Cozy Mystery, Adventure, Humor, Audiobook, Mystery Thriller, Thriller, Espionage, Suspense",
            "characters": "Mrs. Emily Pollifax, John Sebastian Farrell",
            "synopsis": "\"Mrs. Virgil (Emily) Pollifax of New Brunswick, New Jersey, was a widow with grown children. She was tired of attending her Garden Club meetings. She wanted to do something good for her country. So, naturally, she became a CIA agent. This time, the assignment sounds as tasty as a taco. A quick trip to Mexico City is on her agenda. Unfortunately, something goes wrong, and our dear Mrs. Pollifax finds herself embroiled in quite a hot Cold War—and her country\u0027s enemies find themselves entangled with one unbelievably feisty lady.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2270,
            "title": "The Princess in the Tower",
            "author": "Sharon Stewart ",
            "date": "2005",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Teen, Historical, French Revolution, France, 18th Century, Classics",
            "characters": "Marie Therese Charlotte of France",
            "synopsis": "\"The first book in a new series that picks up where the Royal Diaries left off! Previously published as The Dark Tower, this riveting novel is written as the diary of Princess Marie Thérèse Charlotte of France, daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, who was imprisoned during the French Revolution. One by one her parents and her brother were taken from her - Louis and Marie Antoinette beheaded, her brother dead of neglect.Though she lost everything, Mousseline, as she was called,was determined to be as brave and honourable as she could be during a time of tragedy and upheaval. A gripping story about a real princess that history nearly forgot! Shortlisted for both the Red Cedar Award and the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction when it was published in 1998, this is the first book in a new series from Scholastic which will feature royal-themed books in a format made popular by the Dear Canada and Royal Diaries series.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2271,
            "title": "The Devil On Horseback",
            "author": "Victoria Holt",
            "date": "1977",
            "genres": "Romance, Historical Romance, Historical Fiction, Gothic, Fiction, Mystery, Historical, Gothic Romance, Romantic Suspense, French Revolution",
            "characters": "Wilhelmina Maddox",
            "synopsis": "\"Minella Maddox grew up on a great English estate. But as the schoolmistress\u0027 daughter, her place was not, and never could be, at beautiful Derringham Manor. And that is where the trouble started, for Derringham\u0027s young heir thought he saw in Minella just the kind of wife he wanted. But a dark and cruelly handsome French count, who always got what he wanted, thought she was just the kind of mistress he had to have. Not for nothing was he called the Devil on Horseback. Yet Minella\u0027s humble heritage was to prove more precious that titles and riches, for it freed her to follow her heart, leading her into adventures and dangers she had never dreamed of. It put her directly in the path of another woman\u0027s hatred, swept her up into the deadly terrors of the French Revolution and, finally, carried her into the arms of the great and powerful man she loved.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2272,
            "title": "Heart of Gold",
            "author": "Michael Pryor ",
            "date": "2007",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Steampunk, Fiction, Magic, Adventure, Historical Fantasy, Science Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy",
            "characters": "Aubrey Fitzwilliam, Caroline Hepworth, Dr. Mordecai Tremaine, George Doyle",
            "synopsis": "\"At a loss after finishing their end-of-year exams, Aubrey and George travel to the Gallian capital, Lutetia, where it so happens that the lovely Caroline is studying natural history. Aubrey wants to pursue a cure for his condition - though his family have other ideas, and he\u0027s soon burdened with a royal mystery to solve, old letters to procure, a missing ornithologist to locate and a spot of diplomatic espionage. These tasks should keep Aubrey occupied - but that would be underestimating Aubrey\u0027s sense of curiosity and uncanny knack of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Someone is stealing people\u0027s souls and turning them into mindless monsters, and the country\u0027s magical lifeline, the Heart of Gold, has been stolen, leaving the city in chaos. Aubrey, George, and a somewhat reluctant Caroline are on the case . . .\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2273,
            "title": "The Last Duchess",
            "author": "Sharon Stewart ",
            "date": "Published",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Childrens, Young Adult, Fiction, Classics, Russia, Historical",
            "characters": "Grigori Rasputin, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia",
            "synopsis": "\"Малката Дуня бяга от родното си селце, разположено дълбоко в сибирската тайга. Тя не подозира, че една неочаквана среща ще я отведе в императорския дворец. Там Дуня се сприятелява с палавата и остроумна принцеса Анастасия. Животът им не би могъл да бъде по-прекрасен, но тъмните облаци на революцията надвисват над Русия. Дуня е изправена пред опасността да изгуби своите нови приятели и дори живота си...Канадската писателка Шарън Стюарт е родена пред 1944 г. Живее в град Торонто. Автор е на исторически книги за младите читатели. Най-голям успех постига с романа си \"\"Принцеса Анастация\"\" (1999 г.). В него тя майсторски разказва историята на младата принцеса от руското царско семейство.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2274,
            "title": "Deseo y Venganza",
            "author": "Nora Roberts ",
            "date": "2008",
            "genres": "Romance, Romantic Suspense, Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Contemporary, Mystery, Suspense, Chick Lit, Adult, Thriller",
            "characters": "Adrianne al Jaquir, Philip Chamberlain",
            "synopsis": "\"A los veinticinco años, la princesa Adrianne lleva una vida que la mayoría de la gente envidiaría. Bella y elegante, emplea los días en organizaciones benéficas y las noches volando, envuelta en glamour, de gala en gala. Pero esta pose de niña rica y consentida no es más que una estratagema, un esfuerzo calculado al milímetro para esconder una peligrosa verdad.Adrianne ha alimentado durante diez años el deseo de venganza. Cuando era niña, todo lo que vio en casa fue la crueldad que se escondía tras el matrimonio aparentemente ideal de sus padres, el reverso de un cuento de hadas. Ahora, Adrianne tiene el plan perfecto para hacer pagar a su famoso padre. Le arrebatará un objeto que él aprecia por encima de todas las cosas: el Sol y la Luna, un fabuloso collar de precio incalculable.No obstante, cuando está lista para la venganza, surge en su vida un hombre que parece adivinar hasta su último secreto. Philip Chamberlain es un tipo inteligente, encantador y enigmático que tiene sus razones para acercarse a la princesa Adrianne. Y solo cuando sea demasiado tarde Adrianne se dará cuenta del peligro que se cierne sobre ella... a la vez que se encontrará entre dos hombres imponentes: uno capaz de robarle la libertad, y otro con el poder de quitarle la vida.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2275,
            "title": "Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)",
            "author": "Apollonius of Rhodes, Richard L. Hunter (Translator)",
            "date": "1998",
            "genres": "Classics, Mythology, Poetry, Fiction, Fantasy, Epic, Greece, Literature, Adventure, Ancient",
            "characters": "Achilles (Greek hero), Athena (Greek goddess), Orpheus, Medea of Colchis, Castor, Pollux, Hylas, Atalanta, Chiron, Peleus, Pelias, Telamon, Heracles, Boreads, Philoctetes, Euphemus, Jason, the Argonaut, Aietes, Hypsipyle",
            "synopsis": "\"The Argonautica is the dramatic story of Jason\u0027s quest for the Golden Fleece and his relations with the dangerous princess Medea. The only surviving Greek epic to bridge the gap between Homer and late antiquity, this epic poem is the crowning literary achievement of the Ptolemaic court at Alexandria, written by Appolonius of Rhodes in the third century BC. Appollonius explores many of the fundamental aspects of life in a highly original way: love, deceit, heroism, human ignorance of the divine, and the limits of science, and offers a gripping and sometimes disturbing tale in the process. This major new prose translation combines readability with accuracy and an attention to detail that will appeal to general readers and classicists alike.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2276,
            "title": "And Eternity",
            "author": "Piers Anthony",
            "date": "Feb-91",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal, Magic, Mythology, Supernatural, Adult",
            "characters": "Orlene",
            "synopsis": "\"In Pursuit of the Ultimate GoodAfter an overwhelming succession of tragedies, life has finally, mercifully ended for Orlene, once-mortal daughter of Gaea.Joined in Afterlife by Jolie - her protector and the sometime consort of Satan himself - together they seek out a third: Vita, a very contemporary mortal with troubles, attractions, and an unsettling moral code uniquely her own.An extraordinary triumvirate, they embark on a great quest to reawaken the Incarnation of Good in a world where evil reigns - facing challenges that will test the very fiber of their beings with trials as numerous, as mysterious, and as devastating as the Incarnations themselves.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2277,
            "title": "Rules of Murder",
            "author": "Julianna Deering (pen name), DeAnna Julie Dodson ",
            "date": "Aug-13",
            "genres": "Mystery, Historical Fiction, Christian Fiction, Christian, Historical, Historical Mystery, Fiction, Romance, Cozy Mystery, Mystery Thriller",
            "characters": "Drew Farthering, Carrie Holland, Nick Dennison, Madeline Parker",
            "synopsis": "\"Drew Farthering loves a good mystery, although he generally expects to find it in the pages of a novel, not on the grounds of his country estate. When a weekend party at Farthering Place is ruined by murder and the police seem flummoxed, Drew decides to look into the crime himself. With the help of his best friend, Nick Dennison, an avid mystery reader, and Madeline Parker, a beautiful and whip-smart American debutante staying as a guest, the three try to solve the mystery as a lark, using the methods from their favorite novels.Soon, financial irregularities at Drew’s stepfather’s company come to light and it’s clear that all who remain at Farthering Place could be in danger. Trying hard to remain one step ahead of the killer–and trying harder to impress Madeline–Drew must decide how far to take this game\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2278,
            "title": "The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories",
            "author": "Agatha Christie",
            "date": "Jun-84",
            "genres": "Mystery, Short Stories, Fiction, Crime, Classics, British Literature, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, Detective, Cozy Mystery",
            "characters": "Miss Lemon, Parker Pyne, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple",
            "synopsis": "\"Mr. Parker Pyne must recover a priceless diamond stolen as a dinner party trick, while Hercule Poirot proves that a crowd is the best cloak for a murder, and Miss Marple solves a baffling crime by the fireside, in an anthology of mystery tales. Reissue.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2279,
            "title": "Deception",
            "author": "Amanda Quick , Jayne Ann Krentz ",
            "date": "May-94",
            "genres": "Romance, Historical Romance, Historical, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Regency, Mystery, Regency Romance, Pirates, Adult",
            "characters": "Olympia Wingfield, Jared Ryder, Viscount Chillhurst",
            "synopsis": "\"From a cozy cottage in rustic Dorset to a magnificent mansion steeped in secrets comes a dazzling tale of lost pirate gold and legendary love... Once Olympia Wingfield had been free to devote all her time to her true passion: the study of ancient legends and long-lost treasure. But now, with three hellion nephews to raise, the absentminded beauty has very little time for research. Which makes it seem all the more serendipitous when a handsome stranger strides into Olympia\u0027s library unannounced and proceeds to set her world to rights. Tall and dark, with long, windswept black hair, Jared Ryder, Viscount Chillhurst, is the embodiment of Olympia\u0027s most exotic dreams ... a daring pirate, masquerading in teacher\u0027s garb, whose plundering kisses and traveler\u0027s tales quickly win her heart. Yet all too soon innocent Olympia will discover that the enigmatic and wickedly sensual Chillhurst is no lowly tutor, but a future earl with a wealth of secrets-—the kind that will lead them both on a perilous quest for hidden fortune and a love worth more than gold.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2280,
            "title": "Sword-Born",
            "author": "Jennifer Roberson , Jim Burns (Illustrator)",
            "date": "Mar-99",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Romance, Sword and Sorcery, Epic Fantasy, Magic, High Fantasy, Own, Novels",
            "characters": "Tiger, Del",
            "synopsis": "\"TIGERLeft as an infant to die in the desert, and enslaved by the Southron tribe who found him, he had won his freedom and his name by slaying a deadly sandtiger. Now he was a legendary sword-dancer-possibly the best in the South. But his true origins were still unknown.DELBorn in the frozen North, she had seen her family brutally murdered and her youngest brother carried away to be sold into slavery. Compelled by her rage for vengeance, she had become the most deadly sword-singer in the North.In the three years since Tiger and Del\u0027s fateful meeting, these mismatched companions have become true partners, their alliance forged by blood, magic, danger, adventure...and something more.Exiled from both the North and the South, the two have now set sail to search for Tiger\u0027s homeland-but no journey is ever without complications for Tiger and Del. Shipwrecked, nearly drowned, abducted by pirates, bedeviled by magic, the Southron sword-dancer and the Northern sword-singer finally do arrive at their destination.But before the mystery of his origins can be solved, Tiger must face another truth about himself which may prove more dangerous than any sword-dance. His own personal brand of magic, long denied by Tiger, is finally manifesting. And because of its very uniqueness, Tiger\u0027s awakening power may prove his undoing.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2281,
            "title": "Vathek",
            "author": "William Beckford",
            "date": "1999",
            "genres": "Gothic, Classics, Horror, Fiction, Fantasy, 18th Century, Literature, Novels, Gothic Horror, British Literature",
            "characters": "Vathek, Carathis, Bababalouk, Morakanabad, Nouronihar, Goulchenrouz",
            "synopsis": "\"Beckford\u0027s Gothic novel, Vathek, an Arabian tale, was originally written in French when the author was 21. It is the story of Caliph Vathek, whose eye can kill at a glance, who makes a pact with the Devil, Eblis.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2282,
            "title": "The Best Friend",
            "author": "R.L. Stine ",
            "date": "Dec-92",
            "genres": "Horror, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Thriller, Mystery, Teen, Mystery Thriller, Novels, Juvenile",
            "characters": "Honey Perkins, Becka Norwood",
            "synopsis": "\"Best friends…to the end!Who is Honey Perkins? She’s been telling everyone in Shadyside that she’s Becka Norwood’s best friend. But Becka’s sure she’s never met Honey before.Honey systematically moves in on Becka’s life, copying her in every way. But when Becka presumes to have more than one “best friend,” the horrible accidents begin.Does Honey just want a friend? Becka wonders. Or does she want more—much more!\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2283,
            "title": "Ducktales: The Secret City Under the Sea",
            "author": "Paul S. Newman",
            "date": "1988",
            "genres": "Picture Books, Childrens",
            "characters": "Scrooge McDuck, Huey, Dewey, and Louie",
            "synopsis": "\"Scrooge McDuck, Gyro Gearloose, and Huey, Louie, and Dewey go in a submarine to search for the lost city of Atlantis\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2284,
            "title": "Journey to the West",
            "author": "Wu Cheng\u0027en, W.J.F. Jenner (Translator)",
            "date": "1993",
            "genres": "Classics, Fiction, Fantasy, China, Mythology, Literature, Chinese Literature, Asia, Adventure, Novels",
            "characters": "孙悟空, 猪八戒, 沙和尚, 玄奘",
            "synopsis": "\"First published in 1952, The Journey to the West, volume I, comprises the first twenty-five chapters of Anthony C. Yu\u0027s four-volume translation of Hsi-yu Chi, one of the most beloved classics of Chinese literature. The fantastic tale recounts the sixteen-year pilgrimage of the monk Hsüan-tsang (596-664), one of China\u0027s most illustrious religious heroes, who journeyed to India with four animal disciples in quest of Buddhist scriptures. For nearly a thousand years, his exploits were celebrated and embellished in various accounts, culminating in the hundred-chapter Journey to the West, which combines religious allegory with romance, fantasy, humor, and satire.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2285,
            "title": "Naughty Amelia Jane!",
            "author": "Enid Blyton, Deborah Allwright (Illustrator)",
            "date": "2001",
            "genres": "Childrens, Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Short Stories, British Literature, Young Adult, Adventure",
            "characters": "Amelia Jane",
            "synopsis": "\"Look out! Amelia snips the tail off pink rabbit, squirts Tom the soldier with water and gets up to mischief at the beach. The other toys try to teach the terror of the toy cupboard to be well-behaved, but will they succeed?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2286,
            "title": "The Continental Op",
            "author": "Dashiell Hammett",
            "date": "2004",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Noir, Short Stories, Crime, Detective, Classics, Hard Boiled, Thriller, Mystery Thriller",
            "characters": "The Continental Op",
            "synopsis": "\"Dashiell Hammett is the true inventor of modern detective fiction and the creator of the private eye, the isolated hero in a world where treachery is the norm. The Continental Op was his great first contribution to the genre and these seven stories, which first appeared in the magazine Black Mask, are the best examples of Hammett\u0027s early writing, in which his formidable literary and moral imagination is already operating at full strength. The Continental Op is the dispassionate fat man working for the Continental Detective Agency, modelled on the Pinkerton Agency, whose only interest is in doing his job in a world of violence, passion, desperate action and great excitement.The tenth clew.-The golden horseshoe.-The house in Turk Street.-The girl with the silver eyes.-The whosis kid.-The main death.-The farewell murder.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2287,
            "title": "Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons",
            "author": "Terrance Dicks",
            "date": "May-75",
            "genres": "Doctor Who, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Film, Horror",
            "characters": "Jo Grant, UNIT, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, The Master (Doctor Who), Captain Mike Yates, Autons, The Third Doctor, John Benton, The Doctor, The Second Master",
            "synopsis": "\"The evil Master leered at the Doctor, and triumphantly pointed out of the cabin window. The many-tentacled Nestene monster — spearhead of the second Auton invasion of Earth — crouched beside the radio tower!Part crab, part spider, part octopus, its single huge eye blazed with alien intelligence and deadly hatred...Can the Doctor outwit his rival Time Lord, the Master, and save the Earth from the Nestene horror?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2288,
            "title": "Rape of the Fair Country",
            "author": "Alexander Cordell",
            "date": "1998",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, British Literature, Novels, Classics, Historical",
            "characters": "Iestyn Mortymer",
            "synopsis": "\"Set in the turbulent times of the Industrial Revolution in 19th century Wales, this famous novel begins the story of the Mortymer family and the ironmaking communities of Blaenavon and Nantyglo.It is the book which launched Alexander Cordell in 1959 as a best selling author and was translated into numerous languages to sell millions of copies throughout the world. It is an enthralling story which has now been turned into both play and musical and is regarded as the finest of this popular author’s many novels.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2289,
            "title": "Mireasa fara voie",
            "author": "Jo Beverley",
            "date": "Jan-12",
            "genres": "Historical Romance, Romance, Historical, Regency, Historical Fiction, Regency Romance, Fiction, Audiobook, Adult, Drama",
            "characters": "Elizabeth Armitage, Lucien de Vaux",
            "synopsis": "\"Beth Armitage duce viata simpla pe care si-a dorit-o, caci slujba de profesoara la un pension de fete i-a oferit independenta la care a visat intotdeauna si, mai ales, libertatea de a nu fi supusa toanelor unui sot. Soarta insa i-a pregatit o surpriza neasteptata, cand afla ca originile ei nu sunt tocmai modeste, caci tata ii este ducele de Becraven. Obligata de acesta sa se marite cu Lucien de Vaux, marchiz de Arden, Beth se trezeste aruncata in lumea necunoscuta a aristocratiei pe care o dispretuieste atat de mult. Decisa sa-l urasca pe cel care i-a fost ales drept sot, Beth descopera ca are nevoie de toata puterea pentru a rezista farmecelor lui Lucien, caci, pentru prima oara in viata, inima ei pare gata sa se predea neconditionat.Romanele lui Jo Beverley s-au vandut in milioane de exemplare in intreaga lume si au fost rasplatite cu numeroase premii, printre care si cinci trofee RITA din partea Asociatiei Scriitorilor de Romane de Dragoste din America.Mireasa fara voie a castigat Premiul RITA si Premiul Golden Leaf, pentru cel mai bun roman istoric de dragoste.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2290,
            "title": "Lux perpetua",
            "author": "Andrzej Sapkowski",
            "date": "2006",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Polish Literature, Fiction, Audiobook, Historical, Historical Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Novels, Poland",
            "characters": "Reynevan",
            "synopsis": "\"Krótko po południu bombardy zamilkły. Blidy i trebusze przestały miotać pociski. Rozległ się grzmiący sygnał trąb. Załopotały rozwinięte sztandary i proporce. Rozbrzmiał bojowy wrzask. Pięć tysięcy taborytów runęło do szturmu na Plauen. Po dwóch godzinach było po wszystkim. Sforsowano po drabinach mury, rozwalono taranami bramy. Zgnieciono opór, obrońców wycięto w pień. Pardonu nie dawano. W trzeciej godzinie zdobyto zamek, wszyscy obrońcy poszli pod nóż. Krótko potem padł klasztor dominikański, ostatni punkt oporu.I wtedy zaczęła się rzeź.Reynevan, główny bohater tomów \"\"Narrenturm\"\" i \"\"Boży bojownicy\"\", nadal ma kłopoty, ciągle ktoś dybie na jego życie bądź przedstawia mu propozycję nie do odrzucenia. Prześladują go prozaiczni agenci wywiadu oraz siły nieczyste, wcale nie ukrywające swej diabelskiej proweniencji. Ale Reynevan żyje przecież w okrutnych i niebezpiecznych czasach. Na Śląsku i w Czechach, gdy przez ziemie te przetaczały się krucjaty i husyckie wyprawy odwetowe. Gdy nie znany słowa: \"\"Litość\"\" i z imieniem Boga na ustach wyrzynano tysiące niewinnych. Reinmar wierzy w religijną odnowę, staje po stronie zwolenników Husa, nawet gdy ci dokonują niewiarygodnych zbrodni. On, medyk i zielarz, idealista i bezinteresowny obrońca chorych i cierpiących, musi wcielić się w rolę husyckiego szpiega, dywersanta, zabójcy i bezlitosnego mściciela. Rozdarty pomiędzy obowiązkiem a głosem serca, stawia wszystko na jedną kartę, byle wyrwać ukochaną z rąk wrogów.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2291,
            "title": "Wielding a Red Sword",
            "author": "Piers Anthony",
            "date": "Dec-87",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Magic, Mythology, War, Paranormal, Adventure",
            "characters": "Orb Kaftan, Pride of the Kingdom, Rapture of Malachite",
            "synopsis": "\"Mym falls in love with Orb, then Princess Rapture in Honeymoon Castle, but father wants to force another marriage. In berserker rage, he takes office of War. He tries to ease suffering caused by human conflicts, When demoness Lila says pretty Princess Ligeia is trapped by Satan, he has to organize a rebellion in Hell to set everyone free. Author Note 24-pg bio 1-pg.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2292,
            "title": "Shadow Divers",
            "author": "Robert Kurson ",
            "date": "2004",
            "genres": "Nonfiction, History, Adventure, Biography, Audiobook, World War II, War, Mystery, Historical, Science",
            "characters": "John Chatterton, Richie Kohler",
            "synopsis": "\"In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a great historical mystery–and make history themselves.For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep wreck diving was more than a sport. Testing themselves against treacherous currents, braving depths that induced hallucinatory effects, navigating through wreckage as perilous as a minefield, they pushed themselves to their limits and beyond, brushing against death more than once in the rusting hulks of sunken ships.But in the fall of 1991, not even these courageous divers were prepared for what they found 230 feet below the surface, in the frigid Atlantic waters sixty miles off the coast of New Jersey: a World War II German U-boat, its ruined interior a macabre wasteland of twisted metal, tangled wires, and human bones–all buried under decades of accumulated sediment.No identifying marks were visible on the submarine or the few artifacts brought to the surface. No historian, expert, or government had a clue as to which U-boat the men had found. In fact, the official records all agreed that there simply could not be a sunken U-boat and crew at that location.Over the next six years, an elite team of divers embarked on a quest to solve the mystery. Some of them would not live to see its end. Chatterton and Kohler, at first bitter rivals, would be drawn into a friendship that deepened to an almost mystical sense of brotherhood with each other and with the drowned U-boat sailors–former enemies of their country. As the men’s marriages frayed under the pressure of a shared obsession, their dives grew more daring, and each realized that he was hunting more than the identities of a lost U-boat and its nameless crew.Author Robert Kurson’s account of this quest is at once thrilling and emotionally complex, and it is written with a vivid sense of what divers actually experience when they meet the dangers of the ocean’s underworld. The story of Shadow Divers often seems too amazing to be true, but it all happened, two hundred thirty feet down, in the deep blue sea.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2293,
            "title": "Heartfire",
            "author": "Orson Scott Card",
            "date": "2001",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Alternate History, Science Fiction Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction, Historical, Magic, Young Adult, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Alvin Maker",
            "synopsis": "\"Peggy is a Torch, able to see the fire burning in each person\u0027s heart. From the moment of Alvin Maker\u0027s birth, when the Unmaker first strove to kill him, she has protected him. Now they are married. But Alvin\u0027s destiny has taken them on separate journeys. But only one slender path exists that leads through the bloodshed, and it is Peggy\u0027s quest to set the world on that path to peace.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2294,
            "title": "The Secret of the Forgotten City",
            "author": "Carolyn Keene",
            "date": "1975",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Adventure, Juvenile, Mystery Thriller, Crime",
            "characters": "Nancy Drew, Ned Nickerson",
            "synopsis": "\"Rumors of a treasure hidden long ago in a city now buried under the Nevada desert lead Nancy, Bess and George to join a college sponsored archaeological dig in search of this priceless gold. Clues from an ancient stone with petroglyphs lead Nancy to the hidden treasure. Danger from a clever thief wanting this cache almost causes Nancy and Ned to lose their lives! This book is the original text. A revised text does not exist.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2295,
            "title": "The Bar Code Rebellion",
            "author": "Suzanne Weyn",
            "date": "Aug-06",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fiction, Adventure, Romance, Teen, Fantasy, Futuristic, Mystery",
            "characters": "Mfumbe Taylor, Kayla Reed",
            "synopsis": "\"Kayla has resisted getting the bar code tattoo, even though it\u0027s meant forfeiting a \"\"normal\"\" life. Without the tattoo, she\u0027s an exile. But she can\u0027t stay an exile for long. . . . For reasons she doesn\u0027t completely understand - but will soon discover - Kayla is at the center of a lethal conspiracy that will soon threaten the very notion of freedom. Kayla can either give in to the bar code, or she can join the resistance and fight it. The choice, to her, is clear:It\u0027s time to fight.They want your identity.They want your freedom.They can\u0027t have them.The bar code rebellion.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2296,
            "title": "Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno",
            "author": "Italo Calvino, Cesare Pavese (Afterword)",
            "date": "Sept-93",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Italian Literature, Italy, Novels, War, Historical Fiction, Literature, School, World War II",
            "characters": "Pin, Lupo Rosso, Cugino, Dritto, Mancino, Giglia, Kim, Pelle",
            "synopsis": "\"Pubblicato nel 1947, Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno è il romanzo d’esordio di Italo Calvino. Protagonista è un ragazzino, Pin, che vive in un clima di privazioni e confusione, nel periodo della Resistenza. Avendo rubato una pistola a un soldato tedesco, Pin decide di nasconderla in un sentiero sperduto, per lui quasi magico, dove i ragni fanno il nido. Il bambino entra poi in un gruppo di partigiani, ognuno con la sua storia e un indistinto, personale ideale da seguire. Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno è un romanzo di iniziazione alla vita, caratterizzato da un forte realismo, al quale s’intrecciano i fili del meraviglioso, del fantastico e del fiabesco. Una peculiarità stilistica che diventerà il tratto distintivo di Calvino negli anni della maturità.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2297,
            "title": "The Interpretation of Murder",
            "author": "Jed Rubenfeld",
            "date": "2007",
            "genres": "Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Crime, Thriller, Historical, Psychology, Mystery Thriller, Historical Mystery, Suspense",
            "characters": "Stratham Younger, Jimmy Littlemore, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung",
            "synopsis": "\"In this ingenious, suspenseful historical thriller, Sigmund Freud is drawn into the mind of a sadistic killer who is savagely attacking Manhattan’s wealthiest heiresses Inspired by Sigmund Freud’s only visit to America, The Interpretation of Murder is an intricate tale of murder and the mind’s most dangerous mysteries. It unfurls on a sweltering August evening in 1909 as Freud disembarks from the steamship George Washington, accompanied by Carl Jung, his rival and protégé. Across town, in an opulent apartment high above the city, a stunning young woman is found dangling from a chandelier—whipped, mutilated, and strangled. The next day, a second beauty—a rebellious heiress who scorns both high society and her less adventurous parents—barely escapes the killer. Yet Nora Acton, suffering from hysteria, can recall nothing of her attack. Asked to help her, Dr. Stratham Younger, America’s most committed Freudian analyst, calls in his idol, the Master himself, to guide him through the challenges of analyzing this high-spirited young woman whose family past has been as complicated as his own. The Interpretation of Murder leads readers from the salons of Gramercy Park, through secret passages, to Chinatown—even far below the currents of the East River where laborers are building the Manhattan Bridge. As Freud fends off a mysterious conspiracy to destroy him, Younger is drawn into an equally thrilling adventure that takes him deep into the subterfuges of the human mind. Richly satisfying, elegantly crafted, The Interpretation of Murder marks the debut of a brilliant, spectacularly entertaining new storyteller. In 2007 The Interpretation of Murder won the prestigious Best Read of the Year award from Richard and Judy\u0027s Bookclub in the UK (comparable to Oprah Winfrey in the USA).\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2298,
            "title": "The Sixth Wife",
            "author": "Suzannah Dunn",
            "date": "2007",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Tudor Period, British Literature, Romance, Adult, Adult Fiction, Womens, Elizabethan Period",
            "characters": "Thomas Seymour, Henry VIII of England, Catherine Parr, Elizabeth I of England, Edward VI of England, Jane Grey, Mary I of England",
            "synopsis": "\"\u0027The Sixth Wife\u0027 is a gripping novel of love, passion, betrayal and heartbreak. Catharine Parr survived Henry VIII to find true love with Thomas Seymour - only to realise that her love was based on a lie.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2299,
            "title": "The Moving Finger",
            "author": "Agatha Christie",
            "date": "2012",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Detective, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Audiobook, Murder Mystery, Cozy Mystery",
            "characters": "Jerry Burton, Joanna Burton, Megan Hunter, Aimée Griffith, Owen Griffith, Richard Symmington, Elsie Holland, Agnes Woddell, Maud Dane Calthrop, Miss Emily Barton, Mr. Pye, Florence Elford, Miss Partridge, Inspector Graves, Superintendent Nash, Mona Symmington, Miss Marple",
            "synopsis": "\"The placid village of Lymstock seems the perfect place for Jerry Burton to recuperate from his accident under the care of his sister, Joanna. But soon a series of vicious poison-pen letters destroys the village\u0027s quiet charm, eventually causing one recipient to commit suicide. The vicar, the doctor, the servants—all are on the verge of accusing one another when help arrives from an unexpected quarter. The vicar\u0027s houseguest happens to be none other than Jane Marple.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2300,
            "title": "Deseos",
            "author": "Kirsten Miller ",
            "date": "Jun-12",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal, Mystery, Teen, Magic, Young Adult Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural",
            "characters": "Haven Moore, Iain Morrow, Adam Rosier, Beau Decker",
            "synopsis": "\"Hace un año que Haven Moore escapó a Roma, dejando atrás a la Sociedad Ouroboros y a su diabólico líder, Adam Rosier. Ahora está de regreso en Nueva York con su amado Iain. Pero se supone que Iain está muerto. Y si Adam descubre el engaño, no les dará una segunda oportunidad. Mientras tanto, Beau Decker ha desaparecido. Su vida está en manos de Haven.Las Horae, un grupo de hermanas místicas, guardan la llave del destino de Beau. Ellas desean encerrar a Adam para siempre y Haven representa su única debilidad. Para salvar a Beau, Haven deberá seducir a Adam y conducirlo hasta la guarida de las Horae. Pero Adam Rosier siempre ha tenido una manera muy particular de seducirla. Y cuanto más cerca se encuentra Haven de su enemigo, más sucumbe a su encanto. La vida de Beau está en juego, pero esta vez Haven no puede confiar ni siquiera en ella misma. Cada decisión que tome cambiará su destino. ¿Qué tan lejos llegará por la gente que ama?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2301,
            "title": "What A Lady Wants",
            "author": "Victoria Alexander ",
            "date": "Feb-07",
            "genres": "Historical Romance, Romance, Historical, Regency, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Regency Romance, Victorian, Adult, Victorian Romance",
            "characters": "Felicity Melville, Nigel Cavendish",
            "synopsis": "\"One bachelor down . . . three more to go. Four most desirable gentlemen have wagered one shilling apiece and a bottle of cognac that will go to the last unmarried man standing . . .Nigel Cavendish knows he\u0027ll marry one day, but hopefully that day is many years—and many women—in the future! Until then, the handsome, unrepentant rake intends to enjoy life\u0027s pleasures to the fullest!From the moment Lady Felicity Melville spies the adventurous scoundrel climbing from a neighbor\u0027s window—with his comely conquest\u0027s husband in hot pursuit—she knows Nigel is the answer to her prayers . . . with a little reformation, of course! Felicity craves excitement and who in all of London is more exciting than the infamous Mr. Cavendish? So what\u0027s a girl to do but hatch a scheme to win what she so fervently desires. But her plan works too well when a game of chance and an errant pistol shot abruptly make them husband and wife—but in a way neither wanted.Now Felicity has to prove to her wayward husband that she\u0027s the only woman he could ever want . . . or need!\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2302,
            "title": "Iphigenie auf Tauris",
            "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe",
            "date": "1986",
            "genres": "Classics, Plays, German Literature, Drama, School, Fiction, Read For School, Mythology, Literature, 18th Century",
            "characters": "Orestes, Thoas, Pylades, Arkas, Iphigeneia, princess of Argos",
            "synopsis": "\"Da sie Diana ihr Leben verdankt, dient Iphigenie der Göttin auf der Insel Tauris als Priesterin, obwohl sie sich schmerzlich nach ihrer Heimat Griechenland sehnt. Als ihr Bruder Orest auf die Insel kommt und der Göttin geopfert werden soll, muss Iphigenie sich zwischen Pflicht und eigenen Wünschen entscheiden. Goethes Bearbeitung des antiken Stoffs, die er 1786 endgültig abschloss, besticht durch ihre glanzvolle Komposition und psychologische Tiefe: Mit seinem Drama »Iphigenie auf Tauris« schuf er eines der großen Meisterwerke der Weimarer Klassik.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2303,
            "title": "Essential The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 5",
            "author": "Stan Lee (Writer), Roy Thomas (Writer)",
            "date": "2002",
            "genres": "Comics, Graphic Novels, Marvel, Spider Man, Superheroes, Comic Book, Fantasy, Fiction, Classics",
            "characters": "Harry Osborn, Bobby Drake, Michael Morbius, Gwen Stacy, Norman Osborn, Peter Parker",
            "synopsis": "Amazing Spider-Man #90-113"
          },
          {
            "id": 2304,
            "title": "The Thirteen Problems",
            "author": "Agatha Christie",
            "date": "2002",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Short Stories, Classics, Detective, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Murder Mystery, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Raymond West, Sir Henry Clithering, Inspector Drewitt, Colonel Melchett, Joyce Joan Lemprière, Dr. Pender, Mr. Petherick, Colonel Bantry, Mrs. Bantry, Dr, Lloyd, Jane Helier, Miss Marple",
            "synopsis": "The Tuesday Night Club is a venue where locals challenge Miss Marple to solve recent crimes. One Tuesday evening a group gathers at Miss Marple’s house and the conversation turns to unsolved crimes. The case of the disappearing bloodstains; the thief who committed his crime twice over; the message on the death-bed of a poisoned man which read ‘heap of fish’; the strange case of the invisible will; a spiritualist who warned that ‘Blue Geranium’ meant death. Now pit your wits against the powers of deduction of the ‘Tuesday Night Club’."
          },
          {
            "id": 2305,
            "title": "Denial",
            "author": "Peter James",
            "date": "2006",
            "genres": "Crime, Thriller, Horror, Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Psychiatry",
            "characters": "Michael Tennent",
            "synopsis": "A young editor \u0026 a psychiatrist are devastated by the realisation that the man they considered to be mad actually holds the most terrifying truth of all. The man believes that God does exist and what\u0027s more he has the proof."
          },
          {
            "id": 2306,
            "title": "The Secret Seven Adventure",
            "author": "Enid Blyton",
            "date": "2006",
            "genres": "Childrens, Mystery, Adventure, Fiction, Classics, Young Adult, British Literature, Childrens Classics, Detective, Novels",
            "characters": "Peter (Secret Seven), Jack (Secret Seven), Janet (Secret Seven), George (Secret Seven), Pam (Secret Seven), Barbara (Secret Seven), Colin (Secret Seven)",
            "synopsis": "\"A priceless pearl necklace has been stolen, and the Secret Seven witnessed the thief making his escape. But where has he hidden the necklace?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2307,
            "title": "Rapture in Death",
            "author": "J.D. Robb , Susan Ericksen (Narrator), Satu Leveelahti (Translator)",
            "date": "Sept-06",
            "genres": "Mystery, Romance, Crime, Romantic Suspense, Fiction, Futuristic, Suspense, Science Fiction, Thriller, Mystery Thriller",
            "characters": "Eve Dallas, Roarke, Delia Peabody, Ryan Feeney, Charlotte Mira, Commander Jack Whitney, Mavis Freestone, Nadine Furst, Lawrence Charles Summerset, Leonardo (designer), Dickie Berenski, Dr. Morris",
            "synopsis": "\"They died with smiles on their faces. Three apparent suicides: a brilliant engineer, an infamous lawyer, and a controversial politician. Three strangers with nothing in common - and no obvious reasons for killing themselves. Lieutenant Eve Dallas found the deaths suspicious. And her instincts paid off when autopsies revealed small burns on the brains of the victims.Was it a genetic abnormality or a high-tech method of murder? Eve\u0027s investigation turned to the provocative world of virtual-reality games - where the same techniques used to create joy and desire could also prompt the mind to become the weapon of its own destruction...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2308,
            "title": "Mystery of the Glowing Eye",
            "author": "Carolyn Keene",
            "date": "1974",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Juvenile, Middle Grade, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Adventure",
            "characters": "Nancy Drew, Ned Nickerson, Marty King",
            "synopsis": "\"When Nancy eagerly agrees to help Carson Drew solve the mystery of the glowing eye, she cannot know Ned will be kidnapped! A puzzling note in his handwriting sets Nancy, Bess and George on a hazardous search for a bizarre criminal. The young detectives follow a maze of clues to locate the kidnapper’s hideout. Nancy must not only thwart the criminal but also must contend with the high-handed methods of a woman lawyer who tries to take the glowing eye mystery away from her. This book is the original text. A revised text does not exist.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2309,
            "title": "Three Hearts and Three Lions",
            "author": "Poul Anderson",
            "date": "Dec-03",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Classics, Time Travel, Science Fiction Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, Adventure, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy",
            "characters": "Holger Carlsen",
            "synopsis": "\"The gathering forces of the Dark Powers threatened the world of man. The legions of Faery, aided by trolls, demons and the Wild Hunt itself, were poised to overthrow the realms of light.And alone against the armies of Chaos stood one man, the knight of Three Hearts and Three Lions. Carlsen, a twentieth-century man snatched out of time to become again the legendary Holger Danske to fight for the world he had helped to build.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2310,
            "title": "Uma Villa em Itália",
            "author": "Elizabeth Edmondson, Isabel Alves (Translator)",
            "date": "2008",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Italy, Historical, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Travel, Historical Mystery",
            "characters": "Beatrice Malaspina, Delia Vaughan, Jessica Meldon, Dr. George Helsinger, Marjorie Swift, Lucius Wilde, Giles Slattery, Richard Meldon, Josiah Winthrop, Olivia Hawkins, Theo (The Villa in Italy), Miffy Wolfson, Elfrida",
            "synopsis": "\"Quatro pessoas aparentemente sem nada em comum vêem o seu nome mencionado no testamento de uma mulher que não conhecem. Quem foi Beatrice Malaspina e porque exige que compareçam na sua villa em Itália? Enquanto esperam pelas respostas, a magia do lugar começa a exercer os seus efeitos sobre eles: os frescos desbotados, os jardins exuberantes e a magnífica torre medieval não se assemelham a nada que já tenham visto. Aos poucos, quatro pessoas que sempre fizeram os possíveis por esconder os seus problemas descobrem que a mudança – e até mesmo a esperança – é possível. Mas a misteriosa Beatrice tem um segredo que os afectará a todos…\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2311,
            "title": "Le Bossu",
            "author": "Paul Féval père",
            "date": "2000",
            "genres": "Classics, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Adventure, France, French Literature, Historical, Novels, Romance, Literature",
            "characters": "Lagardère",
            "synopsis": "\"Est-il besoin de présenter l’histoire du chevalier de Lagardère qui, pour venir en aide à la malheureuse Aurore de Nevers, privée de son père, de son nom et de sa fortune, affronte les ennemis les plus cyniques et les plus corrompus ?En faisant surgir, dans le Paris de la Régence (1715-1722), possédé par la fièvre financière du système de Law, l’inoffensif bossu qui prête son dos aux spéculateurs et aux agioteurs de tout poil, Paul Féval (1817-1887) a donné à la littérature française une de ses figures les plus populaires, avec Jean Valjean, d’Artagnan et Cyrano.Intrigues, duels, guets-apens, coups de théâtre, sur la toile de fond d’un Paris aux ruelles sordides, menaçantes, et d’une Cour étincelante et dépravée : rien ne manque dans ce \"\"roman de cape et d’épée\"\", jusqu’au moment où la terrible \"\"botte de Nevers\"\" punira le crime et fera triompher la justice...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2312,
            "title": "Here Before Kilroy",
            "author": "Su Walton",
            "date": "1970",
            "genres": "Fiction",
            "characters": "Adam Bound",
            "synopsis": "\"As a boy, Adam Bound issues a challenge to the universe: \"\"I was here before Kilroy.\"\" And, amid the jostling interests of his friends at school, his twin cousins Maeve and Beatrice, and the rest of his adoptive family, he sets out to find the reason for existence.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2313,
            "title": "Diary ng Panget",
            "author": "HaveYouSeenThisGirL , Jan Irene Villar (Illustrator)",
            "date": "May-13",
            "genres": "Diary, Romance, Young Adult, Comedy, Humor, Love, Contemporary, Fiction, Media Tie In, Realistic Fiction",
            "characters": "Reah Rodriguez, Cross Sanford, Chad Jimenez",
            "synopsis": "\"Mahirap at panget si Girl tapos magnet siya ng mga poging mayayaman na boys? YES! Cliché? YES! So what makes this book special? This story has made a lot of people online laugh, as in hagalpak talaga with matching headbang pa! This is Eya\u0027s diary, a girl who believes she\u0027s ugly and will meet Cross Sandford, the most annoying nilalang ever. Samahan natin si Eya sa nakakaloka niyang adventure sa Willford Academy! A Cinderella story with a twist katatawanan! A story na pwedeng-pwede sa mga kabataan at pati na rin sa lagpas kabataan, para sa kababaihan, kalalakihan, binabae, o pusong lalaki. A very funny and kakilig story.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2314,
            "title": "Cursed Pirate Girl: The Collected Edition, Volume One",
            "author": "Jeremy A. Bastian",
            "date": "2012",
            "genres": "Graphic Novels, Comics, Fantasy, Fiction, Pirates, Adventure, Graphic Novels Comics, Young Adult, Art, Bande Dessinée",
            "characters": "Cursed Pirate Girl, Apollonia",
            "synopsis": "\"Adventures on and under the high seas lead a cursed pirate girl to encounter mythic creatures, gnarled and crusty pirates, and ghostly apparitions as she tries to find her lost father, one of the dreaded Pirate Captains of the mythical Omerta Seas. A whimsical swashbuckling tale of wonderland journeys and unimaginable dangers, starting in Port Elisabeth, Jamaica in the year 1728, and quickly heading across—and beneath—the waves. The first three issues of Cursed Pirate Girl are collected in this edition with an all-new epilogue.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2315,
            "title": "Daredevil, Volume 3",
            "author": "Mark Waid (Writer), Greg Rucka (Writer), Chris Samnee  (Artist), Marco Checchetto (Artist), Khoi Pham (Artist)",
            "date": "Sept-12",
            "genres": "Comics, Graphic Novels, Marvel, Superheroes, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Fiction, Adventure, Comix, American",
            "characters": "Matt Murdock, Frank Castle, Tony Stark, Peter Parker",
            "synopsis": "\"It\u0027s the meanest team-up you ever saw as Daredevil, Spider-Man and the Punisher find themselves caught up in an epic chase across Manhattan for the Omega Drive - a powerful and dangerous information source that could change the course of all their lives! Plus: It\u0027s lawyers in love as Matt Murdock finally makes some time for Assistant District Attorney Kirsten McDuffie. But when Megacrime strikes back at Daredevil, the sightless super hero finds himself imprisoned in Latveria for crimes against the state! And as the law firm of Nelson \u0026 Murdock undergoes a drastic change, Matt\u0027s \"\"happy go lucky\"\" veneer at last begins to peel back, revealing darker truths that may just end his heroic career.Collecting: Daredevil 11-15, Avenging Spider-Man 6, \u0026 The Punisher 10\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2316,
            "title": "The Search",
            "author": "Gordon Korman",
            "date": "Jul-06",
            "genres": "Adventure, Mystery, Realistic Fiction, Middle Grade, Fiction, Action, Childrens, Young Adult, Survival, Thriller",
            "characters": "Aiden Falconer, Meg Falconer",
            "synopsis": "\"MISSING!Where is Meg Falconer?Everybody wants to know. Her brother Aiden, who saw her kidnapped and is now trying to track her down, wants to know. The FBI, led by the very serious Agent Harris, wants to know. Her parents, who fear their pasts have something to do with why Meg was taken, want to know.Even Meg\u0027s kidnappers want to know. Because catching her doesn\u0027t always mean keeping her.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2317,
            "title": "Edward. Jurnalul unui hamster. 1990-1990",
            "author": "Miriam Elia, Ezra Elia, Radu Paraschivescu (Translator)",
            "date": "2012",
            "genres": "Humor, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Animals, Philosophy, Comedy, Comics, Graphic Novels Comics, Short Stories, Comic Book",
            "characters": "Edward the Hamster, Wolf the Hamster, Camilla the Hamster",
            "synopsis": "\"Avem de-a face cu o operă extraordinară: meditaţii pro­funde cu privire la natura captivităţii şi la suflet, împletite cu banalităţi mistuitoare ale vieţii de zi cu zi, iluminează micile pagini ale documentului. Edward destramă textura blazării şi ne sileşte să discutăm despre imboldul care-l face pe oricare dintre noi să pună tocul pe hârtie. Scurta lui viaţă se înfăţişează pe de-a-ntregul aici, dar cu siguran­ţă că vocea lui va avea ecou şi în secolele care vor urma.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2318,
            "title": "Starless Night",
            "author": "R.A. Salvatore",
            "date": "Aug-94",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Forgotten Realms, Fiction, Dungeons and Dragons, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Magic, Adventure, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Drizzt Do’Urden",
            "synopsis": "\"I can find no answers in Mithril Hall....The apparent serenity of Drizzt Do\u0027Urden, the brooding quiet, will show me nothing of the future designs of the drow. yet, for the sake of my friends, I must know those dark intentions. And so I fear that there remains only one place for me to look...The Underdark. A place of brooding darkness, where no shadows exist, and where Drizzt Do\u0027Urden does not wish to go. The noble dark elf must return there, though, must go back to find his friends in the gnome city of Blingdenstone, and on to Menzoberranzan, the city of drow. Only then can Drizzt discern what perils might reach out from that dark place to threaten his friends in Mithril Hall.he finds allies where he least expects them and enemies he htough long gone. His scimitars slash at monsters too evil to reside under the sunlight of the surface world, while his inner strength wrestles with the tumult of emotions assaulting the noble drow when he looks once more on his dreaded homeland. All the while Drizzt must fend off the weight of guilt he carries for a dear friend lost to him forever.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2319,
            "title": "Fever of the Bone",
            "author": "Val McDermid",
            "date": "2009",
            "genres": "Mystery, Crime, Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Detective, Novels, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Tony Hill, Carol Jordan",
            "synopsis": "\"Meet Tony Hill\u0027s most twisted adversary - a killer with a shopping list of victims, a killer unmoved by youth and innocence, a killer driven by the most perverted desires ...When teenager Jennifer Maidment\u0027s murdered and mutilated body is discovered, it is clear that there is a dangerous psychopath on the loose. But it\u0027s not long before Tony and DCI Carol Jordan realise it\u0027s just the start of a brutal and ruthless campaign targeting an apparently unconnected group of young people. Their chameleon-like killer is chatting with them online, pretending to share their interests and beliefs - and then luring them to their deaths.But just when Tony should be at the heart of the hunt, he\u0027s pushed to the margins by Carol\u0027s cost-cutting boss and replaced by a dangerously inexperienced profiler. Struggling with the newly awakened ghosts of his own past and desperate for distraction in his work, Tony battles to find the answers that will give him personal and professional satisfaction in his most nerve-shattering investigation yet.Psychologically gripping and relentlessly paced, \u0027Fever of the Bone\u0027 is the perfect introduction for those who have not yet discovered the damaged but brilliant criminal profiler Tony Hill and DCI Carol Jordan, best known from ITV\u0027s award-winning \u0027Wire in the Blood\u0027.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2320,
            "title": "W pustyni i w puszczy",
            "author": "Henryk Sienkiewicz",
            "date": "2003",
            "genres": "Classics, Polish Literature, Fiction, Adventure, Childrens, School, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Poland, Africa",
            "characters": "Kali, Staś Tarkowski, Nel Rawlison, Mea",
            "synopsis": "\"Staś Tarkowski i Nel Rawilison to dzieci inżynierów budujących Kanał Sueski w Egipcie, gdzie toczy się akurat \"\"święta wojna\"\" przeciwko kolonizatorom. Dzieci zostają porwane i od tej chwili zaczyna się ich podróż przez Afrykę, podczas której przeżywają przygodę za przygodą, jedną niebezpieczniejszą od drugiej.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2321,
            "title": "How to Lose an Extraterrestrial in 10 Days",
            "author": "Susan Grant ",
            "date": "Aug-07",
            "genres": "Romance, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Romance, Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Fantasy, Aliens, Fiction, Futuristic, Contemporary",
            "characters": "Reef, Evie Holloway",
            "synopsis": "\"Can a single mom who\u0027s afraid to lose her heart find love with a fugitive cyborg who\u0027s forgotten he has one?Evie hasn\u0027t forgiven Reef for invading her home and terrorizing her chihuahua, but agrees to a temporary stay to help Earth avoid an alien invasion. But does the suburban mom really want to shelter the alien hit man who almost offed her sister and future brother-in-law?Reef can\u0027t understand why these humans care about him, and has no memory of his life before he was conscripted and turned into a bio-engineered super solder. But as his computers fail, the man he once was emerges, and soon he’s determined to figure out how to navigate this thing called love.Read the hot and heartwarming conclusion to the OtherWorldly Men series today!The Borderlands Series:Book #1 WARLEADERBook #2 HUNTING THE WARLORD\u0027S DAUGHTERBook #3 RAIDER BORNThree Borderlands prequels: (The Otherworldly Men Series)Book #1 GUARDIAN ALIENBook #2 ROYAL RECRUITBook #3 CYBORG AND THE SINGLE MOM\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2322,
            "title": "The Abduction",
            "author": "Gordon Korman",
            "date": "May-06",
            "genres": "Mystery, Adventure, Childrens, Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Middle Grade, Action, Young Adult, Thriller, Suspense",
            "characters": "Aiden Falconer, Meg Falconer",
            "synopsis": "\"TRAPPED!It\u0027s every brother\u0027s worst fear: As Aiden and his sister, Meg, are walking home from school one day, a van pulls over and Meg is kidnapped. There\u0027s no way for Aiden to stop it from happening. He\u0027s the only witness to his sister\u0027s disappearance.Why has Meg been kidnapped? For ransom? As a vendetta against Meg and Aiden\u0027s parents? Or is there an even bigger conspiracy at work? While Meg fends off her kidnappers and plans an escape, Aiden must team up with the FBI to try to find her - tracking down clues only a brother could recognize.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2323,
            "title": "The Mystery of the Fire Dragon",
            "author": "Carolyn Keene",
            "date": "1961",
            "genres": "Mystery, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Adventure, Mystery Thriller, Crime",
            "characters": "Nancy Drew",
            "synopsis": "\"Eloise Drew asks her niece to investigate the disappearance of her neighbor, a young university student. In New York, Nancy, Bess and George are drawn into the intrigue and danger of a smuggling ring. Nancy plans a clever ruse: George is disguised as the missing Chinese girl! The girl detective is also suspicious of an unpleasant bookstore owner and his loud, overbearing female customer. A series of clues lead the girls to Hong Kong. Ned, who is studying in Hong Kong, joins them. The amateur detectives follow more clues to the international smuggling ring. This book is the original text. A revised text does not exist.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2324,
            "title": "Dark Lord of Derkholm",
            "author": "Diana Wynne Jones",
            "date": "Aug-03",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Humor, Magic, Dragons, Adventure, High Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy, Childrens",
            "characters": "Christopher \"\"Kit\"\" Rodriguez, Mara, Eric Brooks, Don, Derk, Shona, Callette, Lydda, Elda, Querida, Mr. Chesney",
            "synopsis": "\"Everyone - wizards, soldiers, farmers, elves, dragons, kings and queens alike - is fed up with Mr Chesney\u0027s Pilgrim Parties: groups of tourists from the world next door who descend en masse every year to take the Grand Tour. What they expect are all the trappings of a grand fantasy adventure, including the Evil Enchantress, Wizard Guides, the Dark Lord, Winged Minions, and all. And every year different people are chosen to play these parts. But now they\u0027ve had enough: Mr Chesney may be backed by a very powerful demon, but the Oracles have spoken. Now it\u0027s up to the Wizard Derk and his son Blade, this year\u0027s Dark Lord and Wizard Guide, not to mention Blade\u0027s griffin brothers and sisters, to save the world from Mr Chesney\u0027s depredations.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2325,
            "title": "Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned",
            "author": "Walter Mosley",
            "date": "1997",
            "genres": "Fiction, Short Stories, Mystery, African American, Crime, Literature, Mystery Thriller, American, Audiobook, Literary Fiction",
            "characters": "Socrates Fortlow",
            "synopsis": "\"In this cycle of 14 bittersweet stories, Walter Mosley breaks out of the genre-if not the setting-of his bestselling Easy Rawlins detective novels. Only eight years after serving out a prison sentence for murder, Socrates Fortlow lives in a tiny, two-room Watts apartment, where he cooks on a hot plate, scavenges for bottles, drinks and wrestles with his demons. Struggling to control a seemingly boundless rage-as well as the power of his massive \"\"rock-breaking\"\" hands-Socrates must find a way to live an honourable life as a black man on the margins of a white world, a task which takes every ounce of self-control he has.  Easy Rawlins fans might initially find themselves disappointed by the absence of a mystery to unravel. But it\u0027s a gripping inner drama that unfolds over the pages of these stories, as Socrates comes to grips with the chaos, poverty and violence around him. He tries to get and keep a job delivering groceries; takes in a young street kid named Darryl, who has his own murder to hide; and helps drive out the neighbourhood crack dealer. Throughout, Mosley captures the rhythms of Watts life in prose both lyrical and hard-edged, resulting in a haunting look at a life bounded by lust, violence, fear and a ruthlessly unsentimental moral vision.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2326,
            "title": "Skybowl",
            "author": "Melanie Rawn",
            "date": "1995",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Dragons, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Magic, Science Fiction, Epic, Adult",
            "characters": "Sioned, Pol, Meiglan",
            "synopsis": "\"With her widely acclaimed fantasy trilogy, Dragon Prince, Melanie Rawn opened an enchanted gateway to a spellbinding universe of Sunrunner\u0027s magic and sorcerous evil, telling the tale of one man\u0027s crusade to bring peace to a land divided into often warring kingdoms. In the first two novels of the best-selling Dragon Star trilogy, the peaceful reign of High Prince Rohan was shattered by a mysterious invasion force which began a devastating campaign against the people of the Desert and the Sunrunners. And now, Skybowl brings this magnificent epic work of fantasy to its dramatic close.With High Prince Pol\u0027s wife Meiglan held prisoner by the Warlord of the enemy, and Skybowl keep purposefully abandoned to this deadly foe, Pol\u0027s mother Sioned leads a daring mission into the castle, using all her years of experience as High Princess in a cunning attempt to strike at the heart of the invasion force. And even as Sinned carries out this perilous plan, Pol and his cousin Andry, Lord of the Sunrunners of Goddess Keep, are forced into an uneasy alliance. For only if they can overcome their longtime rivalry and suspicions of one another and draw upon their combined powers of Sunrunning and Sorcery, do they stand any chance of defeating the invaders who have sworn to destroy the people of the Desert down to the last newborn child....\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2327,
            "title": "Angel Fire East",
            "author": "Terry Brooks ",
            "date": "1999",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Magic, Horror, High Fantasy, Demons",
            "characters": "Nest Freemark, John Ross, Hawk (Shannara), Findo Gask",
            "synopsis": "\"Angel Fire East marks the close of Terry Brooks\u0027s Word and Void trilogy, which began with 1997\u0027s Running with the Demon. In this book, the story returns to Nest\u0027s native Hopewell, where once again Nest and John must face off against the Void. This time, the demon is the ancient Findo Gask, along with his sidekicks: a giant albino demon, a shapeless ur\u0027droch who lives only to kill, and a self-destructive psycho named Penny Dreadful.  The story begins when John Ross shows up at Nest Freemark\u0027s door with a young boy. He reveals that the boy, who he calls Little John, is actually a gypsy morph, a creature born of wild magic and capable of enormous deeds, for good or evil. Both sides have approximately one month to unravel Little John\u0027s secrets and recruit him for their cause. Because after one month, the magic that holds him together will tear him apart, and his powers will be lost forever.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2328,
            "title": "The Cat Who Turned On and Off",
            "author": "Lilian Jackson Braun",
            "date": "Jul-91",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Cats, Cozy Mystery, Animals, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Humor, Adult",
            "characters": "Jim Qwilleran, Koko, Yum Yum",
            "synopsis": "\"The team of Koko, the brilliant Siamese cat, and Qwilleran, the reporter with the perceptive moustache, is back in action - with an adorable female Siamese, Yum Yum, added to the household.When Qwilleran decides to do a feature series on Junktown, he gets more than he bargained for. Not the dope den he anticipated, Junktown is a haven for antique dealers and collectors - as strange a lot as the crafty reporter has ever encountered. When a mysterious fall ends the career - and the life - of one of Junktown\u0027s leading citizens, Qwilleran is convinced it was no accident. But, as usual, it takes Koko to prove he\u0027s right.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2329,
            "title": "The Ship Who Searched",
            "author": "Anne McCaffrey, Mercedes Lackey",
            "date": "1994",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space Opera, Romance, Adult, Space, Novels, Speculative Fiction",
            "characters": "Hypatia \"\"Tia\"\" Cade",
            "synopsis": "\"A young woman becomes paralyzed and must become a brainship—and find her Brawn, her human soul mate, so that she can discover a cure for her illness.Tia Cade is a headstrong, smart, and very normal girl until she contracts a terrible illness that leaves her with the bare semblance of life. Tia\u0027s only hope: to become the oldest person ever to train to be one of the legendary star travelers, the brainships. But now that Tia is free of her ravaged body, there still remains the task of finding the right partner to be her Brawn, the human element every brainship requires. And when the disease that debilitated Tia threatens thousands more, selecting a Brawn who is her true soul mate may allow Tia to find the origin of the terrible plague—and perhaps even a cure.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2330,
            "title": "Third Girl",
            "author": "Agatha Christie",
            "date": "2002",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Detective, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Audiobook, Murder Mystery, Thriller",
            "characters": "Ariadne Oliver, Mr. Goby, Hercule Poirot",
            "synopsis": "\"Poirot is approached by a girl who shared a flat with two other girls in London. She is convinced she is a murderer. With rumours of weapons and blood stains and no hard evidence can Poirot determine whether she\u0027s guilty, innocent or mad?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2331,
            "title": "The Sky Phantom",
            "author": "Carolyn Keene",
            "date": "1976",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Womens",
            "characters": "Nancy Drew, Bess Marvin, George Fayne, Bruce Fisher",
            "synopsis": "\"Nancy attends Excello Flying School in the Midwest to take lessons while Bess and George perfect their horseback riding. As an amateur sleuth, Nancy becomes busy investigating a mystery involving a hijacked plane and a missing pilot as well as an elusive sky phantom and horse thief and clues involving a strange magnetic cloud. This book is the original text. A revised text does not exist.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2332,
            "title": "Der goldne Topf",
            "author": "E.T.A. Hoffmann, Hartmut Steinecke (Contributor)",
            "date": "2004",
            "genres": "Classics, German Literature, Fantasy, School, Fiction, 19th Century, Germany, Romanticism, Literature, Read For School",
            "characters": "Anselmus, Veronika Paulmann, Serpentina",
            "synopsis": "\"Der goldne Topf, Hoffmanns »Märchen aus der neuen Zeit«, spielt virtuos mit den Ebenen des Wunderbaren und des Bürgerlich-Philiströsen. Der Weg des Studenten Anselmus von Dresden nach Atlantis wird phantasievoll-humoristisch erzählt und zugleich ironisch reflektiert. Seit langem und mit Recht gilt der Märchenroman als ein Höhepunkt romantischer Erzählkunst.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2333,
            "title": "Le Fléau 1/2",
            "author": "Stephen King , Jean-Pierre Quijano (Translator)",
            "date": "Jun-03",
            "genres": "Horror, Roman, Fiction, Science Fiction, American, Post Apocalyptic",
            "characters": "Stuart Redman, Glenn Bateman, Nick Andros, Tom Cullen, Nadine Cross, Fran Goldsmith, Harold Lauder, Joe/Leo Rockway, Mother Abigail Freemantle, Randall Flagg, Trashcan Man, The Anti-Christ, Judge Farris, Larry Underwood, General William Starkey, Major Len Creighton, The Rat Man, Captain Trips, Charles D. Campion, Lucy Swann, Lloyd Henreid, Julie Lawry, Ralph Brentner, Dayna Jurgens, United States Military, American Law Enforcement, Kojak",
            "synopsis": "\"Il a suffi que l\u0027ordinateur d\u0027un laboratoire ultra-secret de l\u0027armée américaine fasse une erreur d\u0027une nanoseconde pour que la chaîne de la mort se mette en marche. Le Fléau, inexorablement, se répand sur l\u0027Amérique et, de New York à Los Angeles, transforme un bel été en cauchemar. Avec un taux de contamination de 99,4 %. Dans ce monde d\u0027apocalypse émerge alors une poignée de survivants hallucinés. Ils ne se connaissent pas, pourtant chacun veut rejoindre celle que, dans leurs rêves, ils appellent Mère Abigaël : une vieille Noire de cent huit ans dont dépend leur salut commun. Mais ils savent aussi que sur cette terre dévastée rôde l\u0027Homme sans visage, l\u0027Homme Noir aux étranges pouvoirs, Randall Flagg. L\u0027incarnation des fantasmes les plus diaboliques, destinée à régner sur ce monde nouveau. C\u0027est la fin des Temps, et le dernier combat entre le Bien et le Mal peut commencer.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2334,
            "title": "Ratcatcher",
            "author": "James McGee ",
            "date": "Sept-06",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Mystery, Historical, Fiction, Historical Mystery, Crime, Adventure, British Literature, 19th Century, Steampunk",
            "characters": "Matthew Hawkwood",
            "synopsis": "\"A gripping historical thriller introducing Bow Street Runner Matthew Hawkwood - a sexy, dangerous and fascinating hero who hunts down thieves, spies and murderers in the crime-ridden streets of Regency London. Hunting down highwaymen was not the usual preserve of a Bow Street Runner. As the most resourceful of this elite band of investigators, Matthew Hawkwood was surprised to be assigned the case - even if it did involve the murder and mutilation of a naval courier. From the squalor of St Giles Rookery, London\u0027s notorious den of thieves and cutthroats, to the brightly lit salons of the aristocracy and the heart of the British government, Hawkwood relentlessly pursues his quarry. As the case unfolds and another body is discovered on the banks of the Thames, the true agenda begins to emerge. And only Hawkwood can stop a dastardly plot that will end British mastery of the seas forever.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2335,
            "title": "Mystery of the Tolling Bell",
            "author": "Carolyn Keene",
            "date": "1973",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Cozy Mystery",
            "characters": "Nancy Drew, Carson Drew, Bess Marvin, George Fayne",
            "synopsis": "\"While vacationing in a seaside town, Nancy learns her father has been kidnapped. She and Ned rescue Carson Drew and help him investigate a cosmetic company’s suspicious operations. Meanwhile, the girl sleuth is captivated by another mystery. Stories about the eerie moans from a cave carved in the jagged wall of the bluff compel her to explore. Several frightened townspeople claim to have seen a ghost, accompanied by the mournful sound of a tolling bell just before water rushes from the cave. During her searches, Nancy discovers the true cause and reasons behind these mysterious occurrences! This book is the revised text. The plot of the original story (©1946) is similar with minor revisions.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2336,
            "title": "Защита Лужина",
            "author": "Vladimir Nabokov, Владимир Набоков",
            "date": "2004",
            "genres": "Fiction, Russia, Classics, Russian Literature, Chess, Literature, Novels, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Drama",
            "characters": "Aleksandr Ivanovich Luzhin, Turati, Valentinov, Ivan Luzhin",
            "synopsis": "\"В книгу известного писателя Владимира Набокова (1899-1977) вошли романы \"\"Защита Лужина\"\", \"\"Подвиг\"\" и сборник \"\"Соглядатай\"\". В этих произведениях 30-х годов сошлись основные линии творчества Набокова-Сирина - прошлого и будущего и \"\"главная\"\" его тема - тема потусторонности, строящей жизнь помимо воли человека.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2337,
            "title": "Wraith Squadron",
            "author": "Aaron Allston",
            "date": "Feb-98",
            "genres": "Star Wars, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Space Opera, Science Fiction Fantasy, Media Tie In, Space, Novels, War",
            "characters": "Wedge Antilles, Warlord Zsinj",
            "synopsis": "\"They are the galaxy’s most elite fighting force. And as the battle against the Empire rages, the X-wing fighters risk life and machine to protect the Rebel Alliance. Now they must go on a daring undercover mission—as the crew of an Imperial warship.It is Wedge Antilles’ boldest creation: a covert-action unit of X-wing fighters, its pilots drawn from the dregs of other units, castoffs and rejects given one last chance. But before the new pilots can complete their training, the squadron’s base is attacked by former Imperial Admiral Trigit, and Wraith Squadron is forced to swing into action—taking over an Imperial warship and impersonating its crew. The mission: to gain vital intelligence about Trigit’s secret weapons, to sabotage the admiral’s plans, and to lure him into an Alliance trap. But the high-stakes gamble pits Wraith Squadron’s ragtag renegades against the Empire’s most brilliant master of guile and deception.Are they up to the challenge?If not, the penalty is instant death.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2338,
            "title": "A Melodia do Amor",
            "author": "Lesley Pearse",
            "date": "Oct-11",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Romance, Historical, Fiction, Historical Romance, Chick Lit, Drama, Adult, Contemporary, Young Adult",
            "characters": "Beth Bolton, Jack Child, Sam Bolton, Molly Bolton, Ruth Langworthy, Edward Langworthy, Theodore Cadogan",
            "synopsis": "\"Liverpool, 1893. Os sonhos de Beth são desfeitos quando ela, o irmão Sam e a irmã mais nova, Molly, ficam órfãos. As suas vidas, até então tranquilas e seguras, sofrem uma dramática reviravolta. Para escapar a um futuro de miséria e servidão, Sam e Beth decidem arriscar tudo, atravessar o Atlântico e partir à conquista do sonho americano. Mas Molly é demasiado pequena para os acompanhar e os irmãos vêem-se obrigados a tomar uma decisão que os marcará para sempre: deixá-la em Inglaterra, a cargo de uma família adoptiva. A bordo do navio para Nova Iorque não faltam vigaristas e trapaceiros, mas o talento de Beth com o violino conquista-lhe a alcunha de Cigana, a amizade de Theo, um carismático jogador de cartas, e do perspicaz Jack. Juntos, os jovens vão começar de novo num país onde todos os sonhos são possíveis. Para a romântica Beth, esta será a maior aventura da sua vida. Conseguirá a Cigana voltar a encontrar um verdadeiro lar? Uma história de amor incondicional e coragem sem limites. Um livro irresistível, da autora de Nunca me Esqueças, Procuro-te e Segue o Coração. A Melodia do Amor de Lesley Pearse\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2339,
            "title": "Mt. Vernon Love Story",
            "author": "Mary Higgins Clark",
            "date": "1968",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Romance, Historical, Mystery, Adult Fiction, Adult, Presidents, Historical Romance, Suspense",
            "characters": "John Adams, Mary Ball Washington, Sally Fairfax, George William Fairfax, Martha Washington, George Washington",
            "synopsis": "\"In Mount Vernon Love Story - famed suspense writer Mary Higgins Clark\u0027s long-out-of-print first novel - the bestselling author reveals the flesh-and-blood man who became the \"\"father of our country\"\" in a story that is charming, insightful, and immensely entertaining.  Always a lover of history, Mary Higgins Clark wrote this extensively researched biographical novel and titled it Aspire to the Heavens, after the motto of George Washington\u0027s mother. Published in 1969, the book was more recently discovered by a Washington family descendant and reissued as Mount Vernon Love Story. Dispelling the widespread belief that although George Washington married Martha Dandridge Custis, he reserved his true love for Sally Carey Fairfax, his best friend\u0027s wife, Mary Higgins Clark describes the Washington marriage as one full of tenderness and passion, as a bond between two people who shared their lives - even the bitter hardship of a winter in Valley Forge - in every way. In this author\u0027s skilled hands, the history, the love, and the man come fully and dramatically alive.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2340,
            "title": "Everlasting Desire",
            "author": "Amanda Ashley ",
            "date": "Oct-10",
            "genres": "Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Romance, Vampires, Fiction, Audiobook, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Contemporary, Romantic Suspense",
            "characters": "Megan DeLacey, Rhys Costain",
            "synopsis": "\"Desire Burns ForeverThe clientele at Shore\u0027s clothing store includes some of L.A.\u0027s sexiest bachelors. But none of them affects Megan DeLacey as deeply as the dark-eyed stranger who strides into her boutique one evening - and keeps returning, night after night. Megan is drawn to Rhys Costain even as she fears him. Because his reason for being there is clear - he wants Megan, with an intensity that\u0027s both tempting and terrifying.For almost five centuries, Rhys has lived alone, using women as it pleased him and never wanting more. As Master of the West Coast vampires, it\u0027s his duty to eliminate the ancient vampire who\u0027s draining humans on his turf, putting all of their kind at risk. But Megan\u0027s lush beauty and vibrant warmth is blinding him to a danger that will soon engulf them both - and tear him from the only woman who can satisfy his darkest hunger.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2341,
            "title": "Unnatural Exposure",
            "author": "Patricia Cornwell ",
            "date": "2000",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Murder Mystery, Detective, Adult, Medical",
            "characters": "Kay Scarpetta, Pete Marino, Lucy Farinelli, Benton Wesley, Keith Pleasants, Inspector Percy Ring",
            "synopsis": "\"See alternate cover edition hereVirginia Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta has a bloody puzzle on her hands: five headless, limbless cadavers in Ireland, plus four similar victims in a landfill back home. Is a serial butcher loose in Virginia? That\u0027s what the panicked public thinks, thanks to a local TV reporter who got the leaked news from her boyfriend, Scarpetta\u0027s vile rival, Investigator Percy Ring. But the butchered bodies are so many red herrings intended to throw idiots like Ring off the track. Instead of a run-of-the-mill serial killer, we\u0027re dealing with a shadowy figure who has plans involving mutant smallpox, mass murder, and messing with Scarpetta\u0027s mind by e-mailing her gory photos of the murder scenes, along with cryptic AOL chat-room messages. The coolest innovation: Scarpetta\u0027s gorgeous genius niece, Lucy, equips her with a DataGlove and a VPL Eyephone, and she takes a creepy virtual tour of the e-mailed crime scene.Unnatural Exposure boasts brisk storytelling, crackling dialogue, evocative prose about forensic-science sleuthing, and crisp character sketches, both of familiar characters like Scarpetta\u0027s gruff partner Pete Marino and bit players like the landfill employee falsely accused by Ring. Plus, let\u0027s face it: serial killers are old hat. Cornwell\u0027s most vivid villains are highly plausible backstabbing colleagues like Ring, who plots to destroy Lucy\u0027s FBI career by outing her as a lesbian. Some readers object to the rather abrupt ending, but, hey, it\u0027s less jarring than Hannibal\u0027s, and it\u0027s the logical culmination of Cornwell\u0027s philosophy about human nature. To illuminate the novel\u0027s finale, read Cornwell\u0027s remarks on paranoia in her Amazon.com interview. -Tim Appelo\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2342,
            "title": "Virus",
            "author": "Sarah Langan ",
            "date": "2007",
            "genres": "Horror, Fiction, Zombies, Thriller, Paranormal, Supernatural, Vampires, Mystery, Suspense, Mystery Thriller",
            "characters": "Lois Larkin",
            "synopsis": "\"Something lurking in the woods threatens to destroy an entire town in Sarah Langan\u0027s brilliantly crafted second novel.Lois Larkin should never have taken her class to the woods for the field trip. Preoccupied by the betrayal of her fianc� she never even notices when little James Walker doesn\u0027t get back on the bus and suddenly the quiet, prosperous town of Corpus Christi is plunged into tragedy and united in shock.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2343,
            "title": "Appointment with Death",
            "author": "Agatha Christie",
            "date": "2001",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Detective, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Audiobook, Murder Mystery, Thriller",
            "characters": "Sarah King, Mrs. Boynton, Colonel Carbury, Raymond Boynton, Lady Westholme, Carol Boynton, Lennox Boynton, Miss Pierce, Ginevra Boynton, Nadine Boynton, Hercule Poirot",
            "synopsis": "\"Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed her.With only 24 hours available to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark he’d overheard back in Jerusalem: ‘You see, don’t you, that she’s got to be killed?’ Mrs Boynton was, indeed, the most detestable woman he’d ever met.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2344,
            "title": "The Double Jinx Mystery",
            "author": "Carolyn Keene",
            "date": "1973",
            "genres": "Mystery, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Crime",
            "characters": "Nancy Drew",
            "synopsis": "A bird of ill omen is mysteriously left on the Drews’ front lawn. Did the person who put it there do so with the intent of jinxing Nancy and her father? This strange incident involves the girl detective in her father’s case concerning a rare bird farm threatened with destruction to make room for a high-rise apartment house complex. The use of jinxes to threaten those who oppose the construction leads Nancy to find the criminals behind the jinxing. This book is the original text. A revised text does not exist."
          },
          {
            "id": 2345,
            "title": "राधेय",
            "author": "रणजित देसाई",
            "date": "Apr-12",
            "genres": "Marathi, Mythology, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Indian Literature, India, Classics",
            "characters": "Krishna, Karna",
            "synopsis": "\"In Radheya, author Ranjeet Desai explores the eternal of question of doing what is right versus carrying out one’s duty, told through the eyes of Karna. Set against the backdrop of the Mahabharata, Desai attempts to make readers aware that although winning is usually the goal in every war, one should also be ready to face defeat.Through Radheya, readers will learn about Karna and the circumstances which earned him a memorable place in the Mahabharata. From early on, Karna was deprived of familial love. Throughout the course of his life, he suffered at the hands of others. He also felt discarded by his own mother Kunti and was also ridiculed by many because he was born in a lower class. Since Karna’s foundation years were so tumultuous, his immense strength was reduced and he often felt lonely.Nevertheless, through Radheya readers can visualize the development of Karna’s individuality and how he came to earn the title of fearless warrior. This novel is essentially a written tribute to the hero Karna who fought against his own family members while remaining loyal to his friend. Through Karna’s decisions and actions, Desai brings to life the impending dualities of life such as victory and defeat, and doing what is expected versus doing what is right. Through Karna, Desai has tried to universalize the “karma katha”.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2346,
            "title": "La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa",
            "author": "Dacia Maraini",
            "date": "Mar-06",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Italy, Fiction, Italian Literature, Historical, Classics, Feminism, Literature, 20th Century, Read For School",
            "characters": "Marianna Ucrìa, Pietro Ucrìa, Saro, Fila, Signoretto Ucrìa",
            "synopsis": "\"La protagonista dell\u0027opera è una sordomuta sposata giovanissima a uno zio. L\u0027handicap di Marianna diventa il perno del romanzo e l\u0027espediente che la scrittrice fa suo per esaltare i \"\"sensi\"\" intatti dell\u0027antenata in un ambiente siciliano sordido e fastoso dove i personaggi e gli episodi raccontano un universo segnato da tragedie, amori, infedeltà.Dacia Maraini ha raccontato come una donna possa correggere e determinare il proprio destino, costi quel che costi.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2347,
            "title": "Angelique and the King",
            "author": "Anne Golon, Serge Golon",
            "date": "1950",
            "genres": "Romance, Historical Fiction, Historical, Fiction, Historical Romance, France, Adventure, 17th Century, Novels, Russia",
            "characters": "Angélique, Louis XIV of France, Philippe du Plessis-Bellière",
            "synopsis": "\"Na haar moeilijke tijd in donker Parijs, weet Angelique door te dringen tot het slot van Versailles en een beter bestaan op te bouwen aan het hof van de Zonnekoning.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2348,
            "title": "Melodia al crepuscolo (Drake Sisters, #2)",
            "author": "Christine Feehan ",
            "date": "2011",
            "genres": "Romance, Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Fantasy, Christmas, Magic, Witches, Holiday, Contemporary, Adult",
            "characters": "Kate Drake, Matt Granite",
            "synopsis": "\"Kate ha deciso di tornare a Sea Haven, e non è solo la sua famiglia a riportarla a casa... Anche per lei è giunto il momento di guardare il proprio destino negli occhi. È una scrittrice di successo e una grande viaggiatrice, ma ora ha bisogno di fermarsi. Un mulino abbandonato le sembra il luogo adatto per ricominciare, e così decide di trasformarlo in una libreria. L’affascinante Matt Granite si offre di aiutarla nei lavori di ristrutturazione; l’amore che cova in segreto per lei lo spingerebbe a far di tutto pur di starle accanto. C’è qualcosa che lo attira inesorabilmente, e non si tratta solo della sua voce dolce e sensuale. Quando una scossa di terremoto fa cedere le fondamenta del mulino, Kate sente che una forza maligna e centenaria è stata liberata... ed è lì per lei. Nonostante Matt la segua giorno e notte, Kate sa che questo non basterà a proteggerla, e che sarà necessario raccogliere i poteri di tutte le sorelle Drake per sconfiggere l’oscurità che minaccia di cancellare per sempre la tranquillità di Sea Haven.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2349,
            "title": "The Warning",
            "author": "K.A. Applegate, Katherine Applegate",
            "date": "Mar-98",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Young Adult, Fiction, Fantasy, Childrens, Aliens, Middle Grade, Animals, Adventure, Shapeshifters",
            "characters": "Visser Three",
            "synopsis": "\"Jake has made an amazing discovery: a Web site about the Yeerks. Should the Animorphs investigate? If they do, they might walk right into a trap. And if they don\u0027t, they\u0027ll never know if they\u0027re fighting their enemies alone...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2350,
            "title": "The Clue of the Broken Locket",
            "author": "Carolyn Keene",
            "date": "1965",
            "genres": "Mystery, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Crime",
            "characters": "Nancy Drew",
            "synopsis": "\"Another vacation turns into a riddle for Nancy to solve while she visits a lakeside holiday area. Cecily Curtis seeks the girl sleuth’s help in solving two mysteries. One concerns her fiancé, a popular singer who believes his record company is cheating him. The other involves a hidden family treasure; the only clue is half of a gold locket. Strange circumstances provide Nancy with many opportunities to test her sleuthing skills and discover the astounding secrets of Pudding Stone Lodge. This book is the revised text. The plot of the original story (©1934) is different.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2351,
            "title": "Royal Wedding",
            "author": "Meg Cabot ",
            "date": "2015",
            "genres": "Romance, Young Adult, Contemporary, Chick Lit, Fiction, Adult, Adult Fiction, Humor, New Adult, Contemporary Romance",
            "characters": "Mia Thermopolis, Helen Thermopolis, Michael Moscovitz, Phillipe Renaldo, Clarisse Renaldo, Ivan Renaldo",
            "synopsis": "\"For Princess Mia, the past five years since college graduation have been a whirlwind of activity: living in New York City, running her new teen community center, being madly in love, and attending royal engagements. And speaking of engagements. Mia\u0027s gorgeous longtime boyfriend, Michael, managed to clear both their schedules just long enough for an exotic (and very private) Caribbean island interlude where he popped the question! Of course, Mia didn\u0027t need to consult her diary to know that her answer was a royal \"\"oui.\"\"But now Mia has a scandal of majestic proportions to contend with: her grandmother has leaked \"\"fake\"\" wedding plans to the press that could cause even normally calm Michael to become a runaway groom. Worse, a scheming politico is trying to force Mia\u0027s father from the throne, all because of of a royal secret that could leave Genovia without a stomach. Can Mia prove to everyone-especially herself-that she\u0027s not only ready to wed, but ready to rule as well?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2352,
            "title": "Doctor Who: Mission: Impractical",
            "author": "David A. McIntee",
            "date": "Jun-98",
            "genres": "Doctor Who, Science Fiction, Fiction, Media Tie In",
            "characters": "Ogrons, Frobisher, The Sixth Doctor, Sabalom Glitz, The Doctor",
            "synopsis": "\"When daring criminal Jack Chance masterminds the heist of a precious national treasure from the planet Veltroch, it is the first step in a chain of events that could lead to the destruction of two civilisations...Pursued by bounty hunters, the Sixth Doctor and his shapeshifting companion Frobisher run into old acquaintances Glitz and Dibber - notorious rogues who have become involved in something big: a covert government agency on Vandor Prime is forcing the pair to turn their criminal talents to its own ends.The Doctor and Frobisher are soon drawn into the mysterious scheme themselves - but what game is truly being played by the authorities? How is the group of Ogron raiders involved? And who is so desperate to see the Doctor dead?Caught in a web of deceit and pursued by ruthless killers, the Doctor\u0027s mission - should he decide to accept it - is to join Glitz\u0027s gang and pull off the crime of the century. And failure will result in an interstellar war costing the lives of millions...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2353,
            "title": "Nineteen Eighty",
            "author": "David Peace",
            "date": "2008",
            "genres": "Crime, Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Noir, Historical Fiction, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Literature, Novels",
            "characters": "Peter Hunter, Philip Evans, Sir John Reed, Peter Sutcliffe",
            "synopsis": "The third novel in the Red Riding quartet sees Yorkshire terrorised by the Ripper while the corrupt police familiar from 1974 and 1977 continue to prosper."
          },
          {
            "id": 2354,
            "title": "Mystery of Crocodile Island",
            "author": "Carolyn Keene",
            "date": "1978",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Mystery Thriller, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Crime, Adventure",
            "characters": "Nancy Drew, Bess Marvin",
            "synopsis": "\"Nancy investigates potential poachers at Crocodile Island, a dark, swampy setting with enough reptilian foes to make the locale worthy of its name. Soon Nancy, Bess and George to realize the reptilian foes are less dangerous than some human beings inhabiting the island. The resourceful detectives work diligently to uncover a sinister racket involving many unsuspecting victims. This book is the original text. A revised text does not exist.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2355,
            "title": "Nightshade Tavern",
            "author": "Laurell K. Hamilton ",
            "date": "Nov-05",
            "genres": "Urban Fantasy, Vampires, Paranormal, Fiction, Fantasy, Werewolves, Mystery, Horror, Paranormal Romance, Romance",
            "characters": "Anita Blake, Dolph Storr, Zerbrowski (Anita Blake series), Jean-Claude (Anita Blake series), Richard Zeeman, Edward \"\"Ted\"\" Forrester, Asher (Anita Blake series), Jason Schuyler, Nathaniel Graison, Damian (Anita Blake series), Micah Callahan",
            "synopsis": "Omnibus edition with both Obsidian Butterfly and Narcissus in Chains."
          },
          {
            "id": 2356,
            "title": "Pooh Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (A Little Golden Book)",
            "author": "Mary Packard (Adapted By), Russell Hicks (Illustrator), A.A. Milne (Original Story By)",
            "date": "1998",
            "genres": "Childrens, Picture Books, Classics, Fiction, Animals",
            "characters": "\"\"Winnie the Pooh (Disney\u0027\u0027s)\"\"",
            "synopsis": "\"Winnie the Pooh, the honey loving silly old bear attempts to get honey from a bee tree, so after climbing the tree didn\u0027t work, he borrows Christopher Robin\u0027s balloon, dunks himself in mud and floats to the top of the honey tree incognito as a little black rain cloud.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2357,
            "title": "Once Were Warriors",
            "author": "Alan Duff",
            "date": "1997",
            "genres": "Fiction, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Drama, Audiobook, Adult, Novels, Family, Classics, Abuse",
            "characters": "Jake Heke, Grace Heke, Nig Heke, Boogie Heke, Beth Heke",
            "synopsis": "\"This hard-hitting novel is frank and uncompromising in its portrayal of Maoris n New Zealand society. The driving force of writing carries the reader into a world of frustration, resentment and waste. It is a raw, powerful story, in which everyone is a victim until the strength and vision of one woman transcends brutality and leads the way to a new alternative.First part of what would later become the Once Were Warriors trilogy.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2358,
            "title": "Mystery of the Ivory Charm",
            "author": "Carolyn Keene",
            "date": "1974",
            "genres": "Mystery, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Crime",
            "characters": "Nancy Drew, Anita Allison",
            "synopsis": "\"Nancy determines whether an exquisite ivory elephant charm really protects its wearer from harm during her investigation of a circus performer who may be involved in a mysterious illegal scheme. The girl detective’s assignment becomes complicated when the elephant trainer’s young assistant seeks refuge at the Drew home from his cruel foster father. While following clues to help the boy find his real father, Nancy discovers an eerie abandoned house. As she probes, Nancy’s dangerous enemies thwart her efforts to discover a secret surrounding the unusual ivory charm. This book is the revised text. The plot of the original story (©1936) is similar with minor revisions.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2359,
            "title": "Phèdre",
            "author": "Jean Racine",
            "date": "2009",
            "genres": "Plays, Classics, France, Theatre, Drama, Fiction, French Literature, School, 17th Century, Literature",
            "characters": "Thésée, Phèdre, Hippolyte, Aricie, Oenone, Théramène, Ismène, Panope",
            "synopsis": "\"En 1677, Phèdre, la dernière grande tragédie de Racine, met en scène la mythique descente aux enfers d\u0027une incomprise. Vouée au malheur par son hérédité, Phèdre aime sans espoir son beau-fils Hippolyte. Lorsque son mari, Thésée, revient, il envoie injustement son fils à la mort. On assiste alors à l\u0027empoisonnement d\u0027une femme à la fois innocente et coupable. Ironie tragique qui démontre à quel point l\u0027amour peut se vivre comme une malédiction.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2360,
            "title": "Wege im Sand",
            "author": "Luanne Rice ",
            "date": "Published",
            "genres": "Fiction, Romance, Chick Lit, Family, Womens Fiction, Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, Love, Adult, Christian Fiction",
            "characters": "Stevie Moore, Nell, Emma Lincoln, Maddie Kilvert",
            "synopsis": "\"Luanne Rice is a rarity among novelists today; she\u0027s a true storyteller. Her unique ability to weave together the bonds of love and family with the challenges and rewards of everyday life has garnered her eight consecutive top-ten New York Times bestselling paperbacks. With Beach Girls, Luanne Rice returns to the place that she was born to write about-the Connecticut shore-to tell a story about a family of women whose lives encompass three generations, their histories intertwined with that of the mystic coastal town that has forever bound them to one another.Beach Girls explores the complex and contradictory territories of love, family and friendship. Luanne Rice\u0027s sensuous prose and unforgettably rich and textured characters guide us toward a truth that lies within and sometimes beyond our dreams-an enduring strength that we all must embrace to find our way home and into the hearts of those we cherish most. Beach Girls is an enthralling novel of haunting beauty that will resonate long after the final page is turned.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2361,
            "title": "The Haunted Bridge",
            "author": "Carolyn Keene, Mildred Benson (Ghostwriter)",
            "date": "1972",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Mystery Thriller, Juvenile, Adventure, Teen",
            "characters": "Nancy Drew, Carson Drew, Bess Marvin, George Fayne, Ned Nickerson, Mortimer Bartesque, Doctor Aikerman",
            "synopsis": "\"Nancy Drew is visiting Deer Mountain Lodge to help her father with a case involving jewel thieves and while there, comes across another mystery involving a haunted bridge! How Nancy solves both mysteries and competes in a golf tournament despite her injurred arm is exciting and fun reading. l\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2362,
            "title": "Daddy Was a Number Runner",
            "author": "Louise Meriwether",
            "date": "1971",
            "genres": "Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, Race, Young Adult, African American, Coming Of Age, Novels, New York, Literary Fiction",
            "characters": "Francine Coffin",
            "synopsis": "\"This bittersweet and sharply observed masterpiece recounts a year in the life of twelve-year-old France Coffin. It is the summer of 1934, and nowhere are the effects of the Great Depression more apparent than in Harlem. But Harlem is also home to a community\u0027s anger, humor, and vitality, the paradoxical cradle of young Francie\u0027s innocence and dreams - just like the daily numbers game played for the small glint of hope that it boldly promises but will never fulfill.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2363,
            "title": "The Witch Tree Symbol",
            "author": "Carolyn Keene",
            "date": "1975",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Juvenile, Adventure, Middle Grade, Mystery Thriller, Detective",
            "characters": "Nancy Drew",
            "synopsis": "\"When a neighbor asks Nancy to accompany her to an old uninhabited mansion, she finds a witch tree symbol that leads her to Pennsylvania Dutch country in pursuit of a cunning and ruthless thief. The friendly welcome the girl sleuth and her friends receive from the Amish people soon changes to hostility when it is rumored that Nancy is a witch! Superstition helps her enemy in his attempt to get her off his trail, but Nancy persistently uncovers one clue after another to outwit her dangerous adversary. This book is the revised text. The plot of the original story (©1955) is similar with minor revisions.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2364,
            "title": "Club Vampyre",
            "author": "Laurell K. Hamilton ",
            "date": "1997",
            "genres": "Vampires, Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, Paranormal, Horror, Fiction, Paranormal Romance, Romance, Zombies, Mystery",
            "characters": "Anita Blake, Dolph Storr, Zerbrowski (Anita Blake series), Jean-Claude (Anita Blake series), Richard Zeeman, Edward \"\"Ted\"\" Forrester, Malcolm (Anita Blake series), Bert Vaughn",
            "synopsis": "\"Club Vampyre brings together the first three Anita Blake novels, this collection looks at the adventures of the woman vampires call The Executioner.I\u0027m Anita Blake, expert on creatures of the night. Vampires call me The Executioner. What I call them isn\u0027t repeatable. Ever since the Supreme Court granted the undead equal rights, most people think vampires are just ordinary folks with fangs. I know better. I carry the scars. . . In my job - I\u0027m an animator; I raise the dead - I\u0027ve seen just about everything. I\u0027ve dined with shapeshifters, danced with werewolves and been wooed, but not won, by Jean-Claude, the most powerful bloodsucker in St. Louis. When a serial killer started murdering vampires, it was Jean-Claude who wanted me to find the killer. Later a rogue vamp named Alejandro hit town and wanted to make me his human servant. A war of the undead had begun. Over me. I\u0027d have been flattered, if my life weren\u0027t at stake.Books in this collection:* Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Bk 1)* The Laughing Corpse (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Bk 2)* Circus of the Damned (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Bk 3)\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2365,
            "title": "Native Tongue",
            "author": "Suzette Haden Elgin",
            "date": "2000",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Feminism, Dystopia, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Language, Classics, Womens",
            "characters": "Nazareth Chornyak",
            "synopsis": "\"Called \"\"fascinating\"\" by the New York Times upon its first publication in 1984, Native Tongue won wide critical praise and cult status, and has often been compared to the futurist fiction of Margaret Atwood. Set in the twenty-second century, the novel tells of a world where women are once again property, denied civil rights and banned from public life. Earth\u0027s wealth depends on interplanetary commerce with alien races, and linguists-a small, clannish group of families-have become the ruling elite by controlling all interplanetary communication. Their women are used to breed perfect translators for all the galaxies\u0027 languages.Nazareth Chornyak, the most talented linguist of the family, is exhausted by her constant work translating for trade organizations, supervising the children\u0027s language education, running the compound, and caring for the elderly men. She longs to retire to the Barren House, where women past childbearing age knit, chat, and wait to die. What Nazareth comes to discover is that a slow revolution is going on in the Barren Houses: there, word by word, women are creating a language of their own to free them from men\u0027s control.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2366,
            "title": "Tales of the Bounty Hunters",
            "author": "Kevin J. Anderson  (Editor), Dave Wolverton, Kathy Tyers , M. Shayne Bell, Daniel Keys Moran ",
            "date": "Dec-96",
            "genres": "Star Wars, Science Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories, Anthologies, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space, Space Opera, Adventure",
            "characters": "Boba Fett, Dengar, Zuckuss, Bossk, IG-88, 4-LOM",
            "synopsis": "\"In a wild and battle-scarred galaxy, assassins, pirates, smugglers, and cutthroats of every description roam at will, fearing only the professional bounty hunters--amoral adventurers who track down the scum of the universe...for a fee. When Darth Vader seeks to strike at the heart of the Rebellion by targeting Han Solo and the Millennium Falcon, he calls upon six of the most successful--and feared--hunters, including the merciless Boba Fett. They all have two things in common: lust for profit and contempt for life....Featuring original stories by Kevin J. Anderson, M. Shayne Bell, Daniel Keys Moran, Kathy Tyers, Dave Wolverton.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2367,
            "title": "In Every Heartbeat",
            "author": "Kim Vogel Sawyer ",
            "date": "Sept-10",
            "genres": "Christian Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Christian, Historical, Romance, Christian Romance, Historical Romance, Inspirational, Drama",
            "characters": "Libby Conley, Pete Leidig, Bennett Martin, Maelle Gallagher",
            "synopsis": "\"As three friends who grew up in the same orphanage head off to college together, they each harbor a cherished dream. Libby wishes to become a famous journalist, Pete plans to study to become a minister, and Bennett wants to join a fraternity and have as much fun as possible. But as tensions rise around the world on the brink of World War I, the friends\u0027 differing aspirations and opinions begin to divide them, as well. And when Libby makes a shocking discovery about Pete\u0027s family, will it drive a final wedge between the friends or bond them in ways they never anticipated?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2368,
            "title": "Tutankamon Olayı",
            "author": "Christian Jacq, Ebru Erbaş  (Translator)",
            "date": "Jun-99",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Egypt, Historical, Fiction, Roman, France, Novels, Ancient History, Biography Memoir, Adventure",
            "characters": "Howard Carter",
            "synopsis": "\"Mısır\u0027a yerleşmiş hayvan resimleri yapan genç, parasız bir ressam, on sekiz yaşında bir arkeolog... Seyahat ve macera tutkunu milyarder bir lord... Dünyaları böylesine ayrı iki insan hangi tesadüf sonucu biraraya gelir?Söz konusu olan bir tesadüf değil, binlerce yıldır, yaşamla ölümün birbirinden ayrılamadığı, insanların hayallerini süsleyen, garip ve devasa Krallar Vadisi\u0027nin kalbindeki el değmemiş mezarın karanlığında yatan altın maskeli bir firavundur...Arkeolog Carter ve sanata aşık Carnarvon Mısır\u0027a ve Krallar Vadisi\u0027ne aşık olacak, savaşa, kıskançlıklara, ihtiras kurbanlarına, çekemeyenlere rağmen Tutankamon\u0027u unutulmuşluğundan çekip çıkaracaklar. Tutankamon Olayı gerçekleşecek.Tutkuları alevlendiren, açgözlülükleri açığa çıkaran ve polisiye romanlar, macera romanları ve geleneksel romanlar arasında gerçekleşen bir olay. Tutankamon, tamamen Carter ve Carnarvon\u0027a borçlu olduğu bir yeniden dirilişle yetinmiyor. \"\"Çevresini saran lanetle, günün yıldızı ve tüm açgözlülerin hedefi haline geliyor.\"\"Tutankamon Olayı: Herbiri bir diğerinden daha gerçek ve daha inanılmaz dramlar, çılgınlıklarla dolu bir yarım yüzyılın öyküsü. Aşk, gerçek, altın ve ölümsüzlüğün izlerine rastlanan bir epik efsane. Christian Jacq bu eşsiz hikayeyi bir tarihçinin katı tutumu ve bir hayalperestin esin duygusuyla işliyor.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2369,
            "title": "The Sins of the Fathers",
            "author": "Lawrence Block ",
            "date": "2000",
            "genres": "Mystery, Crime, Fiction, Noir, Thriller, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Hard Boiled, New York, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Matthew Scudder",
            "synopsis": "\"The pretty young prostitute is dead. Her alleged murderer—a minister\u0027s son—hanged himself in his jail cell. The case is closed. But the dead girl\u0027s father has come to Matthew Scudder for answers, sending the unlicensed private investigator in search of terrible truths about a life that was lived and lost in a sordid world of perversion and pleasures.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2370,
            "title": "Dark Mirror",
            "author": "M.J. Putney",
            "date": "Mar-11",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Time Travel, Magic, Romance, Historical, Paranormal, Fiction, Historical Romance",
            "characters": "Victoria Mansfield",
            "synopsis": "\"At sixteen, Lady Victoria Mansfield, youngest daughter of the earl and countess of Fairmount, is destined for a charmed life and her choice of mates worthy of her status. Then she makes a terrifying discovery that will ruin her life and disgrace her family forever. Tory\u0027s blood is tainted... by magic.When a shocking accident forces Tory to reveal her despised skill, she is immediately exiled to Lackland Abbey, a reform school for young men and women in her position. Tory\u0027s greatest wish is to be cured so she can return home and perhaps recover some of her shattered life.Instead, curiosity and the lure of magic lead Tory to rebel students who have pledged their talents to protect England. As she joins them in their secret studies, she discovers her full powers - and is drawn to the handsome, enigmatic young Marquis of Allarde. But Allarde\u0027a reserve and haunting secret keep him away, though she can see equal longing in his eyes.Then Tory\u0027s pledge sweeps her and her friends into a perilous world of danger, challenge, and a triumph that saves Britain from conquest. Can danger also bring Tory and Allarde together, despite all that stands between them?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2371,
            "title": "The Phantom of Pine Hill",
            "author": "Carolyn Keene",
            "date": "1965",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Mystery Thriller, Juvenile, Detective, Crime",
            "characters": "Nancy Drew, Bess Marvin, George Fayne, Ned Nickerson, John Rorick, Mrs. Holman, Burt Eddleton, Dave Evans, Fred Jenkins",
            "synopsis": "\"Nancy, Bess and George visit Emerson for the university’s summer festivities. The girls are guests in a historic mansion on Pine Hill. Upon arriving, their host tells about the phantom haunting the mansion’s library. He also relates his family’s decades old saga of a lost French wedding gown and valuable gifts that went to the bottom of a nearby cove in the sinking of the Lucy Belle. Is there connection between the phantom and the old ship disaster? Nancy and her friends work diligently to solve the mystery of Pine Hill and to find the long-lost wedding treasures. This book is the original text. A revised text does not exist.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2372,
            "title": "The Autobiography of F.B.I. Special Agent Dale Cooper: My Life, My Tapes",
            "author": "Scott Frost",
            "date": "1991",
            "genres": "Fiction, Mystery, Tv, Crime, Film, Novels, Thriller, 20th Century, Contemporary, Fantasy",
            "characters": "Dale Cooper",
            "synopsis": "\"Former Eagle Scout and lifetime audio freak Dale Cooper brings us his autobiography, culled from his private collection of personal tape recordings beginning with his thirteenth birthday. Discover the secrets, never before seen on television, of Twin Peaks\u0027 most-wanted man, who scored a perfect 100 on his marksmanship test and once let a gentle, beautiful woman lead him astray. He\u0027s Dale Cooper - the man who seems too good to be true - and this is his story.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2373,
            "title": "Mildred Pierce",
            "author": "James M. Cain",
            "date": "2002",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Noir, Mystery, Historical Fiction, Crime, Novels, Literature, 20th Century, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Monty, Mildred, Veda, Bert",
            "synopsis": "\"Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness and determination. She used those attributes to survive a divorce in 1940s America with two children and to claw her way out of poverty, becoming a successful businesswoman. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men and an unreasoning devotion to her monstrous daughter.Out of these elements, Cain created a novel (later made into a film noir classic) of acute social observation and devastating emotional violence—and a heroine whose ambitions and sufferings are never less than recognizable.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2374,
            "title": "Şimdiki Çocuklar Harika",
            "author": "Aziz Nesin",
            "date": "May-83",
            "genres": "Turkish Literature, Turkish, Fiction, Humor, Childrens, Novels, Literature, 20th Century, Comedy, Roman",
            "characters": "Zeynep, Ahmet",
            "synopsis": "\"Şimdiki Çocuklar Harika, Aziz Nesin\u0027in 1967\u0027de yazdığı bir kitaptır. Bu kitapta Ahmet ve Zeynep ismlerinde iki çocuk ayrılıp mektuplaşma yoluyla birbirlerine yaşadıkları olayları anlatırlar. Ahmet ile Zeynep eskiden aynı okulda okumaktalardır, ancak Zeynep sonra Ankara\u0027ya taşınır. Mektuplaşmaya söz vermişlerdir. Ayrıca Zeynep\u0027in Metin, Ahmet\u0027in ise Fatoş adında birer kardeşleri vardır. Ahmet Zeynep\u0027e, Zeynep de Ahmet\u0027e, okulda, evlerinde yaşadıkları olayları anlatırlar. Başlarına gelenleri, arkadaşlarını, dostluklarını gibi. Bu kitap çocukların annelerine, babalarına ve öğretmenlerini nasıl gördüklerini anlatır ve çocukların kendini nasıl savunması gerektiğini öğretir.Türkiye\u0027nin sorunlarını eleştirmek için yazılmıştır. Eleştirdiği konuların bazıları; eğitim sistemi, ezbercilik, okulların sorunları, aile ilişkileridir. Burada anne ve babalara karşı da bazı sözler vardır.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2375,
            "title": "From Log-Cabin To White House: Life of James A. Garfield, Boyhood, Youth, Manhood, Assassination",
            "author": "William Makepeace Thayer",
            "date": "Published",
            "genres": "Biography, Nonfiction, History",
            "characters": "James A. Garfield",
            "synopsis": "\"Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2376,
            "title": "The Unquiet",
            "author": "J.D. Robb  (Contributor), Mary Blayney (Contributor), Patricia Gaffney (Contributor), Ruth Ryan Langan (Contributor), Mary Kay McComas (Contributor)",
            "date": "Oct-11",
            "genres": "Mystery, Romance, Anthologies, Fiction, Crime, Romantic Suspense, Suspense, Futuristic, Paranormal, Science Fiction",
            "characters": "Eve Dallas, Roarke",
            "synopsis": "\"features the In Death novella Chaos in DeathFive New York Timesbestselling authors-five superlative stories.From J.D. Robb:Eve and Roarke return to investigate a series of murders connected to a brilliant young surgeon in Chaos in Death.From Mary Blayney:A shopkeeper\u0027s solitude is complicated by a magic coin, a daring rogue, and dreams of her late husband, who whispers but one word...wish.From Patricia Gaffney:A lonely woman and a hotline psychic turn their astonishing connection to the other side into an unexpected romance.From Ruth Ryan Langan:The shattered soul of an angry spirit imprisoned in a Scottish manor house could be a young widow\u0027s only salvation.From Mary Kay McComas:A young ghost eases his brother\u0027s pain and guilt by inviting him into the dreams of an imaginative author of children\u0027s books.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2377,
            "title": "Disney\u0027s Pooh\u0027s Grand Adventure The Search for Christopher Robin (A Little Golden Book)",
            "author": "Justine Korman (Adapted By), Karl Geurs, Carter Crocker",
            "date": "1997",
            "genres": "Childrens, Picture Books, Fiction, Animals, Adventure",
            "characters": "\"\"Winnie the Pooh (Disney\u0027\u0027s)\"\", \"\"Eeyore (Disney\u0027\u0027s Winnie the Pooh)\"\", \"\"Rabbit (Disney\u0027\u0027s Winnie the Pooh)\"\", \"\"Tigger (Disney\u0027\u0027s Winnie the Pooh)\"\", \"\"Piglet (Disney\u0027\u0027s Winnie the Pooh)\"\"",
            "synopsis": "\"When they can\u0027t find Christopher Robin, Pooh and his friends undertake a perilous search for him, and learn they\u0027re smarter, braver, and more loyal than they ever dreamed they\u0027d be.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2378,
            "title": "Dampfnudelblues",
            "author": "Rita Falk ",
            "date": "2011",
            "genres": "Crime, Humor, German Literature, Audiobook, Mystery, Thriller, Comedy, Fiction",
            "characters": "Franz Eberhofer",
            "synopsis": "\"\"\"Stirb, du Sau!\"\", prangt es in roter Farbe von Höpfls Haus. Der Dienststellenleiter von der PI Landshut ruft an: Realschulrektor Höpfl ist nicht zum Unterricht erschienen. Ich soll da jetzt mal hinfahren und nachsehen. \"\"Stirb, du Sau!\"\", schießt es mir durch den Kopf. Und ich ahne nix Gutes.\"\"\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2379,
            "title": "The Awakened Mage",
            "author": "Karen Miller",
            "date": "Oct-07",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Magic, High Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Novels, Adult, Romance",
            "characters": "Asher of Restharven, Gar (Kingmaker, Kingbreaker)",
            "synopsis": "\"Asher has come a long way for a fisherman\u0027s son. Together with his friend Prince Gar, he has defended their kingdom against its bitterest enemy, but at great cost. Now the evil mage Morg is preparing for his most deadly assault. Desperate, trapped in a broken body, Morg has little time and fewer scruples.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2380,
            "title": "Catherine the Great",
            "author": "Henri Troyat",
            "date": "2000",
            "genres": "History, Biography, Nonfiction, Russia, Russian History, Historical, Biography Memoir, European History, 18th Century, France",
            "characters": "Catherine the Great",
            "synopsis": "\"Born a little German princess without a drop of Russian blood in her veins she came to embody Russia and as the country moved from war to war and conquest to conquest it was Catherine who became great. Those who served her throne, or her bed, were well rewarded while the serfs were condemned to ever-worsening conditions. Men were instruments of pleasure. The weak had to perish. The future belonged to men - and sometimes a man could have the outward appearance of a woman. She was proof of that. This literary tour de force paints an enthralling picture of Catherine, her seductions, her coaxings and her phenomenal devotion to politics and work, but it also brings the Russian court - with all its intrigues - brilliantly to life.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2381,
            "title": "The Line Of Polity",
            "author": "Neal Asher ",
            "date": "2004",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Space Opera, Fiction, Fantasy, Space, Cyberpunk, Aliens, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure, Hard Science Fiction",
            "characters": "Scar (Neal Asher), Dragon, Gant, Skellor, Eldene, Horace Blegg, Tomalon, Apis, Fethan, John Stanton, Cento, Thorn, Aiden, Mika, Ian Cormac, Jeremiah Tombs",
            "synopsis": "Outlink station Miranda has been destroyed by a nanomycelium and the very nature of this sabotage suggests that the alien bioconstruct Dragon - a creature as untrustworthy as it is gigantic - is somehow involved."
          },
          {
            "id": 2382,
            "title": "L\u0027Ingénu",
            "author": "Voltaire",
            "date": "2003",
            "genres": "Classics, France, Philosophy, Fiction, French Literature, 18th Century, Read For School, School, Novels, Literature",
            "characters": "Gordon, Mlle de Saint-Yves, \"\"L\u0027\u0027Ingénu\"\"",
            "synopsis": "\"Un jeune Huron d’ascendance bretonne débarque à Saint-Malo en 1689. Il découvre un coin de province française, retrouve une famille, reçoit le baptême, s’illustre par un fait d’armes contre les Anglais et, pour finir, tombe amoureux de la belle et dévote Mlle de Saint-Yves. Pour obtenir sa main, il doit revenir de la Cour avec un brevet d’officier. Il gagne donc Versailles. Mais ses éclats naïfs le conduisent à la Bastille...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2383,
            "title": "The Clue of the Black Keys",
            "author": "Carolyn Keene",
            "date": "1968",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Adventure, Mystery Thriller, Detective",
            "characters": "Nancy Drew",
            "synopsis": "\"During an archaeological expedition in Mexico, two professors, the senior Dr. Joshua Pitt and young Terry Scott find a clue to buried treasure. The clue was a cipher carved on a stone tablet. Before the older professor had time to translate it, he and the tablet disappeared! Terry tells Nancy of his suspicions of a Mexican couple, posing as scientists, who vanished the same night as Dr. Pitt. Nancy follows a tangled trail of clues that lead to Florida and Mexico and a secret of antiquity that can only be unlocked by three black keys. This book is the revised text. The plot of the original story (©1951) is similar with minor revisions.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2384,
            "title": "The Complete History of Jack the Ripper",
            "author": "Philip Sugden",
            "date": "2006",
            "genres": "Nonfiction, True Crime, History, Crime, Mystery, Horror, Historical, Biography, 19th Century, British Literature",
            "characters": "Jack the Ripper",
            "synopsis": "\"A comprehensive account of London\u0027s celebrated East End killer, revised and updated. The murders in London between 1888-91 attributed to Jack the Ripper constitute one of the most mysterious unsolved criminal cases. This story is the result of many years meticulous research. The author reassesses all the evidence and challenges everything we thought we knew about the Victorian serial killer and the vanished East End he terrorized.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2385,
            "title": "Michelangelo and the Pope\u0027s Ceiling",
            "author": "Ross King",
            "date": "2003",
            "genres": "History, Art, Nonfiction, Biography, Italy, Art History, Historical, European History, Religion, Architecture",
            "characters": "Michelangelo, Pope Julius II",
            "synopsis": "\"In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the newly restored Sistine Chapel. With little experience as a painter (though famed for his sculpture David), Michelangelo was reluctant to begin the massive project. Michelangelo and the Pope\u0027s Ceiling recounts the four extraordinary years Michelangelo spent laboring over the vast ceiling while the power politics and personal rivalries that abounded in Rome swirled around him. Battling against ill health, financial difficulties, domestic problems, the pope\u0027s impatience, and a bitter rivalry with the brilliant young painter Raphael, Michelangelo created scenes so beautiful that they are considered one of the greatest masterpieces of all time. A panorama of illustrious figures converged around the creation of this great work-from the great Dutch scholar Desiderius Erasmus to the young Martin Luther-and Ross King skillfully weaves them through his compelling historical narrative, offering uncommon insight into the intersection of art and history.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2386,
            "title": "Five Have a Mystery to Solve",
            "author": "Enid Blyton",
            "date": "2001",
            "genres": "Childrens, Adventure, Fiction, Mystery, Classics, Young Adult, Novels, British Literature, Childrens Classics, Teen",
            "characters": "George Kirrin (Famous Five), Dick Kirrin, Timmy, Anne (Famous Five), Julian (Famous Five)",
            "synopsis": "\"Whispering Island - another mysterious place, with a million stories sorrounding it . . . Is it haunted? The Five are intrigued, but scared, too. Are they brave enough to go there and find out . . . About The Author: Enid Blyton, 1896 - November 28, 1959 Enid Blyton was born in London in 1896. She was educated in a private school and thought that she would become a musician until she realized that writing was her passion. She attended Ipswich High School where she trained to become a kindergarten teacher and eventually opened her own school for infants. Blyton\u0027s first poem was published in 1917, entitled \"\"Have You-\"\" which appeared in Nash\u0027s Magazine. In 1922, her first book of verses was published, entitled \"\"Child Whispers.\"\" In 1926 she accepted a position editing the children\u0027s magazine \"\"Sunny Stories\"\" as well as writing the column \"\"Teachers World.\"\" Blyton\u0027s first full length children\u0027s book was published din 1938 and was titled \"\"The Secret Island.\"\" After working on the column for years, Blyton quit \"\"Teachers World\"\" in 1945 and also ended her stint as editor of \"\"Sunny Stories\"\" seven years later. In 1953 she started her own children\u0027s magazine called \"\"The Edith Blyton Magazine\"\" which featured stories about her characters and news on the clubs formed around them. Her most famous stories were those of the \"\"Famous Five\"\" The Magazine closed in 1959. In the 50\u0027s and 60\u0027s Blyton was criticized for the language in her book, for being to simple, but some 300 are still in print today. Blyton has published over 600 books in the course of her career. Enid Blyton died in her sleep on November 28, 1968. She was 72 years old.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2387,
            "title": "Dublörün Dilemması",
            "author": "Murat Menteş",
            "date": "Apr-05",
            "genres": "Turkish Literature, Fiction, Turkish, Novels, Roman, Adult, Royal Air Force",
            "characters": "Nuh Tufan, İbrahim Kurban, Rıza Silahlıpoda, Umur Samaz, Su Samaz, Habip Hobo, Ferruh Ferman, Dilara Dilemma",
            "synopsis": "\"\"\"Murat Menteş, okumacı, tartışmacı, kavgacı, yani kışkırtıcı bir yazar arkadaşım. Onunla çekişirken çiçek açarsınız. Yazarlık macerasını ben de merakla izliyorum. Peşinen söyleyeyim, fiktif, tümden hayal ürünü metinler sevmem, fakat Murat Menteş\u0027in birbiri peşi sıra kurduğu cümlelerin gücü, benim kendimce şikayetimi kuruntuya dönüştürdü. Ben, Murat\u0027ın yaşındayken kelimelerle kasap gibi boğuşuyordum; Murat aksine, kelimeleri kırbaçlayıp cümleler içinde düzene sokuyor ve bunu pek mahirce başarıyor. Bu yüzden Dublörün Dilemması çok canlı, renkli, inceden felsefi çığlıklarla bezeli bir kitap ve hızla yaklaşan bir yazarı işaretliyor... Böyledir, edebiyat kavgayla başlar, huzurla sona erer derler; gerçi ben görmedim, hayırlısı Murat için olsun!..\"\" - Nihat Genç\"\"Çok acayip. Çok tuhaf. Müthiş!.. Böyle bir kitabın yazıldığına inanamıyorum. Okuyun, siz de inanamayacaksınız!\"\" - Hakan Albayrak\"\"Dublörün Dilemması ilginç, heyecanlı, eğlenceli, derinlikli bir roman. Ama galiba en önemli özelliği, bize sözcüklerin gücünü hatırlatması. Hiperaktif bir zekanın ürünü, bu baş döndürücü macerayı okumak büyük keyif! Ben sevdim eller alsın.\"\" - Alper Canıgüz\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2388,
            "title": "The Broken Sword",
            "author": "Poul Anderson",
            "date": "Sept-02",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Fiction, Mythology, Classics, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction",
            "characters": "Scafloc, valgard",
            "synopsis": "\"Thor broke the sword Tyrfing to save the roots of Yggdrasil, the tree that binds earth, heaven and hell. Now the elves need the weapon for their war against the trolls. Only Scafloc, a human kidnapped and raised by elves, can hope to persuade Bolverk the ice-giant to make Tyrfing whole again. But Scafloc must also confront his shadow self, Valgard, the changeling in his place among men.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2389,
            "title": "Five on Finniston Farm",
            "author": "Enid Blyton",
            "date": "2001",
            "genres": "Childrens, Adventure, Fiction, Mystery, Classics, Young Adult, Middle Grade, British Literature, Novels, Childrens Classics",
            "characters": "George Kirrin (Famous Five), Dick Kirrin, Timmy, Tinker, Anne (Famous Five), Julian (Famous Five)",
            "synopsis": "\"There\u0027s a ruined castle on Finniston Farm, but only the dungeons remain - and nobody knows where they are! The Famous Five are determined to find them - and whatever is hidden in them - but they are not alone. Someone else wants to know, too. The question is: can the Five get there first?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2390,
            "title": "Aunt Dimity and the Duke",
            "author": "Nancy Atherton",
            "date": "1995",
            "genres": "Mystery, Cozy Mystery, Fiction, Romance, Paranormal, British Literature, Mystery Thriller, Fantasy, Supernatural, Adult Fiction",
            "characters": "Emma Porter, Derek Harris, Peter Harris, Nell Harris, Grayson Alexander",
            "synopsis": "\"Emma Porter is forty, fat, frumpy, and a passionate amateur gardener. When her longtime lover dumps her for a younger woman, Emma escapes the cloying sympathy of family and friends by setting out on a summer-long driving tour of England\u0027s glorious gardens. A Dimity-contrived coincidence brings her to Penford Hall, a sprawling Gothic mansion in Cornwall, where she finds a duke in search of a missing lantern with extraordinary powers. Suspecting there\u0027s more than one mystery to be solved at Penford Hall, Emma accepts the duke\u0027s invitation to stay on and restore the once glorious chapel garden to its former beauty. The dark rumors surrounding a rock star and the near-death of the duke\u0027s beautiful cousin confirm Emma\u0027s suspicions, and set her-with Aunt Dimity\u0027s ghostly guidance-on the path to Penford Hall\u0027s secrets and the pleasure of unexpected love.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2391,
            "title": "Infernal Devices",
            "author": "Philip Reeve ",
            "date": "2009",
            "genres": "Young Adult, Steampunk, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Fiction, Dystopia, Adventure, Post Apocalyptic, Audiobook, Teen",
            "characters": "Tom Natsworthy, Hester Shaw, Wren Natsworthy",
            "synopsis": "\"An alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.Teenager Wren, bored and desperate for adventure in static Anchorage, is the eager dupe of limpet sub Lost Boys, and she and her stolen Tin Book are taken in turn. Her parents Tom and Hester set off to rescue her, but the journey will stir up old needs, old secrets - and send them back into perilous waters.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2392,
            "title": "Black Hearts in Battersea",
            "author": "Joan Aiken, Robin Jacques (Illustrator)",
            "date": "1964",
            "genres": "Childrens, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Adventure, Fiction, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Alternate History, Historical, Mystery",
            "characters": "Dido Twite",
            "synopsis": "\"Simon, the foundling from the earlier book, The Wolves of Willoughy Chase, arrives in London to meet an old friend and pursue the study of painting, but he finds himself in the middle of a wicked crew\u0027s plan to overthrow good King James and the Duke and Duchess of Battersea.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2393,
            "title": "Aunt Dimity\u0027s Death",
            "author": "Nancy Atherton",
            "date": "1993",
            "genres": "Mystery, Cozy Mystery, Fiction, Paranormal, Romance, Ghosts, Fantasy, British Literature, Adult, Mystery Thriller",
            "characters": "Aunt Dimity Westwood, Lori Shepherd, William Willis",
            "synopsis": "Down-on-her-luck Lori Shepherd thought Aunt Dimity was a pretend character in her mother\u0027s bedtime stories ... until the Dickensian law firm of Willis \u0026 Willis offers the possibility of large inheritance - if she can discover the secret hidden in letters between Dimity and her mother. Plus 1-pg recipe Beth\u0027s Oatmeal Cookies."
          },
          {
            "id": 2394,
            "title": "Love in a Cold Climate",
            "author": "Nancy Mitford, Pauline Tennant (Introduction), Roland Pym (Illustrator)",
            "date": "1992",
            "genres": "Fiction, Classics, Romance, British Literature, Humor, 20th Century, Historical Fiction, Comedy, Literary Fiction, Novels",
            "characters": "Fanny Wincham, Polly Hampton, Lady Montdore, Lord Montdore, Uncle Montdore, Boy Dougdale, Patricia Dougdale, Cedric Hampton, Norma Cozens, Archie., Klugge",
            "synopsis": "\"No ISBNOne of Nancy Mitford’s most beloved novels, Love in a Cold Climate is a sparkling romantic comedy that vividly evokes the lost glamour of aristocratic life in England between the wars.Polly Hampton has long been groomed for the perfect marriage by her mother, the fearsome and ambitious Lady Montdore. But Polly, with her stunning good looks and impeccable connections, is bored by the monotony of her glittering debut season in London. Having just come from India, where her father served as Viceroy, she claims to have hoped that society in a colder climate would be less obsessed with love affairs. The apparently aloof and indifferent Polly has a long-held secret, however, one that leads to the shattering of her mother’s dreams and her own disinheritance. When an elderly duke begins pursuing the disgraced Polly and a callow potential heir curries favor with her parents, nothing goes as expected, but in the end all find happiness in their own unconventional ways.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2395,
            "title": "The Hunchback Assignments",
            "author": "Arthur Slade ",
            "date": "2009",
            "genres": "Steampunk, Fantasy, Young Adult, Science Fiction, Mystery, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Adventure, Historical, Teen",
            "characters": "Modo, Mr. Socrates, Octavia",
            "synopsis": "\"A gripping new series combines Steampunk, spying, and a fantastic Victorian London.The mysterious Mr. Socrates rescues Modo, a child in a traveling freak show. Modo is a hunchback with an amazing ability to transform his appearance, and Mr. Socrates raises him in isolation as an agent for the Permanent Association, a spy agency behind Brittania’s efforts to rule the empire. At 14, Modo is left on the streets of London to fend for himself. When he encounters Octavia Milkweed, another Association agent, the two uncover a plot by the Clockword Guild behind the murders of important men. Furthermore, a mad scientist is turning orphan children into automatons to further the goals of the Guild. Modo and Octavia journey deep into the tunnels under London and discover a terrifying plot against the British government. It’s up to them to save their country.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2396,
            "title": "The Turquoise",
            "author": "Anya Seton",
            "date": "1973",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Romance, Historical Romance, New York, Classics, Novels",
            "characters": "Santa Fe Cameron",
            "synopsis": "\"It is the story of a beautiful, gifted woman who leaves the magic mountains of her native New Mexico for the piratical, opulent, gaslit New York of the 1870s—only to end her search for happiness back in the high, thin air of Santa Fe. Santa Fe Cameron, named for the place of her birth, was the child of a Spanish mother and a Scotch father and inherited from both a high degree of psychic perceptivity. Natanay, an American Indian, saw this and gave the little orphan a turquoise amulet as a keepsake; this turquoise, the Indian symbol of the spirit, dominates her life.  For Santa Fe Cameron, life is made up of violent contrasts: the rough wagon of the gay young Irish medicine vendor who brings her East and the scented hansom cabs and carriages waiting before her own Fifth Avenue mansion; the glittering world of the Astors and a dreary cell in the Tombs. All the color, excitement, and rich period detail which distinguish Anya Seton’s novels are here, together with one of her most unusual heroines.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2397,
            "title": "The Hidden Window Mystery",
            "author": "Carolyn Keene",
            "date": "1975",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Juvenile, Middle Grade, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Cozy Mystery",
            "characters": "Nancy Drew",
            "synopsis": "\"Nancy is intrigued by a magazine article offering a large reward to anyone finding a missing medieval stained-glass window. She invites Bess and George to join her on a search in Charlottesville, Virginia. During the girls\u0027 investigation of Ivy Hall, an old rundown, southern mansion, rented by a superstitious actress, they encounter a hostile ghost. Eerie sounds come from a beautiful neighboring estate that is surrounded by a high brick wall. Could these mysterious noises and the ghost at Ivy Hall be connected? This book is the revised text. The plot of the original story (©1956) is similar with minor revisions.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2398,
            "title": "How Does Your Garden Grow? and Other Stories",
            "author": "Agatha Christie",
            "date": "2002",
            "genres": "Mystery, Crime, Short Stories, Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Detective",
            "characters": "Hercule Poirot",
            "synopsis": "\"How Does Your Garden Grow?: Complete \u0026 Unabridged With stories taken from \"\"Murder in the Mews\"\", each tale in this collection is entirely self-contained and features the character Hercule Poirot. Full description\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2399,
            "title": "Perceval, or, The Story of the Grail",
            "author": "Chrétien de Troyes, Ruth Harwood Cline (Translator)",
            "date": "1985",
            "genres": "Classics, Medieval, Poetry, Arthurian, France, Fiction, French Literature, Fantasy, Mythology, School",
            "characters": "Sir Gawain, Sir Perceval, Blanchefleur, Le Roi Pêcheur, King Arthur",
            "synopsis": "\"In this verse translation of Perceval; or, The Story of the Grail, Ruth Harwood Cline restores to life the thematically crucial Arthurian tale of the education of a knight in his search for the Holy Grail.Cline\u0027s translation, faithful to the highly synthetic, deliberately ornate nature of medieval French, follows Perceval from his home in Wales, through his rich and raucous adventures as a member of the fraternity of knights, to his climactic meeting with the Fisher King. Paralyzed by his first glimpse of the Grail, Perceval fails to save the ailing king. Distraught, the knight begins a new quest for the Grail, a journey on the road of penitence and faith. Perceval\u0027s venture, the true test of his knighthood, ends without conclusion; the death of author Chrétien de Troyes left unsaid and undetermined the success of Perceval\u0027s quest.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2400,
            "title": "The O\u0027Sullivan Twins",
            "author": "Enid Blyton",
            "date": "May-96",
            "genres": "Childrens, Fiction, Classics, Young Adult, School Stories, Boarding School, School, Adventure, 20th Century, Indonesian Literature",
            "characters": "\"\"Pat O\u0027\u0027Sullivan\"\", \"\"Isabel O\u0027\u0027Sullivan\"\", \"\"Alison O\u0027\u0027Sullivan\"\", Lucy Oriell",
            "synopsis": "\"An alternative cover edition for this book can be found here.It\u0027s the start of the Easter Term and Pat and Isabel are looking forward to meeting all their friends at St Clare\u0027s once more. The new girls prove to be a source of much amusement, and there is all the fun of boarding-school life as well.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2401,
            "title": "Emilia Galotti",
            "author": "Gotthold Ephraim Lessing",
            "date": "1986",
            "genres": "Classics, Plays, German Literature, School, Drama, Fiction, Read For School, 18th Century, Germany, Literature",
            "characters": "Emilia Galotti",
            "synopsis": "\"Mit dem 1772 erschienenen und uraufgeführten Drama Emilia Galotti schuf Gotthold Ephraim Lessing eines der bedeutendsten Beispiele für die Gattung des bürgerlichen Trauerspiels. Das Stück, das zu den Schlüsselwerken der Aufklärung und Empfindsamkeit gehört sowie als eines der ersten politischen Dramen der deutschen Literatur gilt, übt scharfe Kritik an der Willkürherrschaft des Adels. Dieser Macht kann das Bürgertums nur seine höhere Moral entgegensetzen. Die geplante Hochzeit der bürgerlichen Emilia Galotti mit dem ehrenhaften Grafen Appiani wird von Hettore Gonzaga, dem regierenden Prinzen von Guastalla, hintertrieben; nicht nur für Emilia endet die Intrige schließlich tödlich. In Emilia Galotti verzichtete Lessing – anders als noch in Miss Sara Sampson – auf allzu viel Emotionen und rührselige Elemente. Nachdenklich, nicht (nur) gerührt, soll das Publikum das Theater verlassen.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2402,
            "title": "Elisabeth: The Princess Bride, Austria - Hungary, 1853",
            "author": "Barry Denenberg",
            "date": "Apr-03",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Historical, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Middle Grade, Diary, Romance, 19th Century, Juvenile",
            "characters": "Empress Elisabeth of Austria",
            "synopsis": "\"Author Barry Denenberg brings us into the whirlwind that is the life of Princess Elisabeth of Austria. A free and impetuous spirit, Elisabeth is chosen at the age of fifteen (over her older sister) to be the wife of Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria. From that moment on, she is thrown into an intimidating world of restrictions and tremendous responsibilities. Feeling lonely and alienated, Elisabeth is forced to rely upon her own personal strength, which eventually leads her down the aisle and into an uncertain future.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2403,
            "title": "Prince of Wolves",
            "author": "Susan Krinard",
            "date": "Sept-94",
            "genres": "Romance, Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Werewolves, Shapeshifters, Fantasy, Fiction, Adult, Urban Fantasy, Contemporary Romance",
            "characters": "Joelle Randall, Luke Gevaudan",
            "synopsis": "\"Through with running from the past, Joelle Randall has come to the rugged Canadian Rockies determined to face her pain and begin anew. All she needed was a guide to lead her through the untamed mountain wilderness to the site where her parents\u0027 plane had crashed so long ago. But the only guide Joelle could find was Luke Gevaudan, a magnetically attractive loner with the feral grace of a wolf and eyes that glittered with a savage intensity. She couldn\u0027t know that Luke was the stuff of legends, one of the last survivors of an ancient race of werewolves... a man whose passion she would not be able to resist-no matter how terrible the price.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2404,
            "title": "Aftermath",
            "author": "Peter Robinson",
            "date": "2002",
            "genres": "Mystery, Crime, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Thriller, British Literature, Detective, Suspense, Canada, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, Vic Manson, Dr. Jenny Fuller, Ken Blackstone, Janet Taylor, Dennis Morrisey, Maggie Forrest",
            "synopsis": "\"The latest Inspector Banks paperback is set to follow the success of the hardback, taking Peter Robinson into the best-seller list.One phone call from a concerned neighbor has inadvertently led police to Terence Payne, the elusive serial killer known only as \"\"Chameleon.\"\" Now the fiend is in custody, perhaps dying, and a long nightmare appears to be over at last. But is it? In Acting Detective Superintendent Alan Banks\u0027s mind too many questions remain unanswered at the chamber of horrors the press will dub the \"\"House of Payne.\"\" Because the darkness has not yet lifted, the casualties are still mounting...and there are still monsters loose in the world.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2405,
            "title": "Kindred in Death",
            "author": "J.D. Robb ",
            "date": "2009",
            "genres": "Mystery, Romance, Crime, Romantic Suspense, Fiction, Futuristic, Suspense, Science Fiction, Thriller, Mystery Thriller",
            "characters": "Eve Dallas, Roarke",
            "synopsis": "\"When the newly promoted captain of the NYPSD and his wife return a day early from their vacation, they were looking forward to spending time with their bright and vivacious sixteen-year-old daughter who had stayed behind.Not even their worst nightmares could have prepared them for the crime scene that awaited them instead. Brutally murdered in her bedroom, Deena\u0027s body showed signs of trauma that horrified even the toughest of cops; including our own Lieutenant Eve Dallas, who was specifically requested by the captain to investigate.When the evidence starts to pile up, Dallas and her team think they are about to arrest their perpetrator; little do they know yet that someone has gone to great lengths to tease and taunt them by using a variety of identities. Overconfidence can lead to careless mistakes. But for Dallas, one mistake might be all she needs to bring justice.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2406,
            "title": "The Burden",
            "author": "Mary Westmacott (Pseudonym), Agatha Christie",
            "date": "1967",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Romance, Classics, Drama, Crime, Novels, British Literature, Gothic, Adult",
            "characters": "Laura Franklin, Shirley Franklin",
            "synopsis": "\"Laura Franklin bitterly resented the arrival of her younger sister Shirley, an enchanting baby loved by all the family. But Laura\u0027s emotions towards her sister changed dramatically one night, when she vowed to protect her with all her strength and love. While young Shirley longs for freedom and romance, Laura has to learn that loving can never be a one-sided affair, and the burden of her love for her sister has a dramatic effect on both their lives. For too long she had stayed quietly in the background of her stunning sister. Now there was a man that knew that Laura could love as passionately as her beutiful sister - if only she were given the chance. A story of consequences when love turns to obsession….\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2407,
            "title": "Walt Disney\u0027s Three Little Pigs (A Little Golden Book)",
            "author": "Al Dempster (Adapter)",
            "date": "1980",
            "genres": "Childrens, Picture Books, Classics, Fiction, Animals, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Young Adult, Kids, Short Stories",
            "characters": "Three Little Pigs, Big Bad Wolf",
            "synopsis": "Please don\u0027t delete. This edition doesn\u0027t have an ISBN."
          },
          {
            "id": 2408,
            "title": "Rite of Passage",
            "author": "Alexei Panshin",
            "date": "Nov-69",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Young Adult, Coming Of Age, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Dystopia, Adventure, Space Opera",
            "characters": "Mia Havero, Jimmy Dentremont, Daniel Kutsov",
            "synopsis": "In 2198 man lives precariously on hastily-established colony worlds and in seven giant starships. Mia Haveros ship tests its children by casting them out to live or die in a month of Trial in the hostile wilds of a colony world. Her trial is fast approaching and she must learn not only the skills that will keep her alive but the deeper courage to face herself and her world."
          },
          {
            "id": 2409,
            "title": "The Seventh Witch",
            "author": "Shirley Damsgaard ",
            "date": "2010",
            "genres": "Mystery, Paranormal, Witches, Cozy Mystery, Fantasy, Fiction, Paranormal Mystery, Urban Fantasy, Supernatural, Magic",
            "characters": "Ophelia Jensen, Tink, Dot Cameron, Ethan Clement, Abigal McDonald, Great-Aunt Mary",
            "synopsis": "\"This is the seventh and last installment of the enchanting mystery series featuring a small-town librarian psychic and her grandmother, and a benevolent witch.Small-town librarian and psychic Ophelia Jensen hails from a long line of wise and wonderfully gifted women. There\u0027s her grandmother, Abby, a talented witch, and her great-aunt Mary, who\u0027s about to celebrate her 100th birthday. But as Ophelia learns, when she and Abby travel to North Carolina for the centennial celebration, their family secrets aren\u0027t just magickal-they\u0027re murderous.Someone in the sweet Southern town wants Abby dead. Could it be a rogue witch in Ophelia\u0027s own family? A vengeful local witch desperate to settle a bitter feud decades in the making? Ophelia must use all her talents to save her loved ones-before the witching hour comes upon them, and bad blood turns deadly\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2410,
            "title": "Five on Kirrin Island Again",
            "author": "Enid Blyton",
            "date": "2001",
            "genres": "Childrens, Fiction, Adventure, Mystery, Classics, Young Adult, British Literature, Middle Grade, Novels, Juvenile",
            "characters": "Timothy, George Kirrin (Famous Five), Dick Kirrin, Tinker, Anne (Famous Five), Julian (Famous Five)",
            "synopsis": "\"What can Uncle Quentin be up to - all alone - on Kirrin Island. He won\u0027t let anyone visit - not even George and the rest of the Famous Five. But Quentin isn\u0027t really all alone on the island - somebody is watching his every move! About The Author: Enid Blyton, 1896 - November 28, 1959 Enid Blyton was born in London in 1896. She was educated in a private school and thought that she would become a musician until she realized that writing was her passion. She attended Ipswich High School where she trained to become a kindergarten teacher and eventually opened her own school for infants. Blyton\u0027s first poem was published in 1917, entitled \"\"Have You-\"\" which appeared in Nash\u0027s Magazine. In 1922, her first book of verses was published, entitled \"\"Child Whispers.\"\" In 1926 she accepted a position editing the children\u0027s magazine \"\"Sunny Stories\"\" as well as writing the column \"\"Teachers World.\"\" Blyton\u0027s first full length children\u0027s book was published din 1938 and was titled \"\"The Secret Island.\"\" After working on the column for years, Blyton quit \"\"Teachers World\"\" in 1945 and also ended her stint as editor of \"\"Sunny Stories\"\" seven years later. In 1953 she started her own children\u0027s magazine called \"\"The Edith Blyton Magazine\"\" which featured stories about her characters and news on the clubs formed around them. Her most famous stories were those of the \"\"Famous Five\"\" The Magazine closed in 1959. In the 50\u0027s and 60\u0027s Blyton was criticized for the language in her book, for being to simple, but some 300 are still in print today. Blyton has published over 600 books in the course of her career. Enid Blyton died in her sleep on November 28, 1968. She was 72 years old.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2411,
            "title": "The Murder at the Vicarage",
            "author": "Norma (Adapter, Illustrator), Wilmaury (Color), Agatha Christie",
            "date": "2008",
            "genres": "Mystery, Graphic Novels, Crime, Fiction, Detective, Classics, Sequential Art, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Miss Marple",
            "synopsis": "Miss Marple\u0027s first case is adapted into the first Miss Marple comic book in this long-awaited adaptation of one of Agatha Christie\u0027s most famous novels."
          },
          {
            "id": 2412,
            "title": "The Strange Umbrella and Other Stories",
            "author": "Enid Blyton, Sally Gregory (Illustrator)",
            "date": "Dec-89",
            "genres": "Childrens, Fantasy, Classics, Fiction",
            "characters": "Tiptap, Aunt Tabitha",
            "synopsis": "\"One of a selection of ever-popular short stories for the younger reader, with clear text and illustrated throughout. For Ages 5+This Enid Blyton book contains the stories:The Strange UmbrellaThe Enchanted MirrorSly-One\u0027s Ice-CreamStones for a HorseRipple gets a NecklaceThe Great Big Bumble-BeeThe Little ClockwinderIt\u0027s Going to RainThe Magic Silver ThreadBlackberry PieThe Singing ShellThe Frightened Teddy-BearThe Old BootThe Rabbit that Didn\u0027t Grow UpUpadee and the DragonThe Tale of Higgle and HumThe Surprising Easter Egg\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2413,
            "title": "Sharpe\u0027s Honour",
            "author": "Bernard Cornwell ",
            "date": "2004",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, War, Adventure, Military Fiction, Action, Audiobook, British Literature, Novels",
            "characters": "Richard Sharpe, Patrick Harper, Michael Hogan, Pierre Ducos, Thomas Leroy, La Marquesa",
            "synopsis": "\"The Vittoria Campaign is February to June 1813. Victory depends on the increasingly fragile alliance between Britain and Spain. Majpr Sharpe\u0027s enemy, Pierre Ducos, seizes a chance to both destroy the alliance and take revenge on Sharpe. The lovely spy, La Marquesa, traps Sharpe in a web of deadly intrigue; he is hunted by allies and enemies alike.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2414,
            "title": "Enter the Enchanted",
            "author": "Katherine Applegate",
            "date": "Sept-99",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Young Adult, Mythology, Fiction, Adventure, Young Adult Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Childrens, Magic, Science Fiction",
            "characters": "Merlin, David Levin, \"\"April O\u0027\u0027Brien\"\", Senna Wales, Jalil, Christopher",
            "synopsis": "\"There is a place that shouldn’t exist. But does. And there are creatures that shouldn’t exist. But do. Welcome to a land where all of your dreams and nightmares are very real—and often deadly. Welcome to Everworld.Jalil, David, April, and Chris still haven’t found Senna. They still haven’t found their way out of Everworld. And—though they have managed to stay alive—things are starting to get worse. Because Jalil and the others are about to encounter one of the most powerful of Everworld inhabitants. He is called Merlin.Merlin is the unseen force behind much of what happens in Everworld. And there is a good chance he knows where to find Senna. But he has his own agenda. And it doesn’t necessarily include helping Jalil and the others. Now, they’re about to discover what happens when you mess with Merlin…\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2415,
            "title": "The Great Gilly Hopkins",
            "author": "Katherine Paterson",
            "date": "1996",
            "genres": "Fiction, Childrens, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Realistic Fiction, Juvenile, Classics, Fostering, Family, School",
            "characters": "Galadriel Hopkins, Maime Trotter, William Ernest Teague",
            "synopsis": "\"Watch out world!The Great Gilly Hopkins is looking for a home. She\u0027s a foster kid who\u0027s been angry, lonely, and hurting for so long that\u0027s she\u0027s always ready for a fight. Be on the lookout for her best barracuda smile, the one she saves for well-meaning social workers. Watch out for her most fearful look, a cross between Dracula and Godzilla, used especially to scare shy foster brothers. Don\u0027t be fooled by her \"\"Who me?\"\" expression, guaranteed to trick foster parents, teachers, and anyone who gets in her way.It\u0027s Gilly Hopkins vs. the world! And so far, Gilly seems to be winning. But what she doesn\u0027t realize is that every time she wins, she really loses, until she discovers a love as formidable as any enemy she\u0027s ever known.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2416,
            "title": "Reckless",
            "author": "Amanda Quick , Jayne Ann Krentz ",
            "date": "Nov-92",
            "genres": "Romance, Historical Romance, Historical, Historical Fiction, Regency, Fiction, Mystery, Regency Romance, Adult, British Literature",
            "characters": "Gabriel Banner, Earl of Wylde, Lady Phoebe Layton",
            "synopsis": "\"From a crumbling fairy-tale castle on the stormy Sussex coast to a dazzling, dizzying masquerade ball comes an enchanting tale of a tarnished knight, a daring maiden, and a sweet, searing storybook love... At sixteen, Phoebe Layton had imagined that Gabriel Banner was a brave and valiant knight, a noble-hearted hero born to rescue ladies in distress. Which is why, eight years later, when she desperately needed help to carry out a vital quest, she could think of no one more suited than Gabriel. But when she lures her shining knight to a lonely midnight rendezvous, Phoebe finds herself sparring with a dangerously desirable man who is nothing like the hero of her dreams. And when he sweeps her into a torrid and blatantly unchivalrous embrace, she can\u0027t help but fear that she\u0027s made a dreadful mistake. It\u0027s a kiss that will seal Phoebe\u0027s fate. For now the exacting Earl of Wylde has a quest of his own-to possess the most intriguing, impulsive, outrageous female he has ever met...even if he has to slay a dragon to do it.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2417,
            "title": "The History Man",
            "author": "Malcolm Bradbury",
            "date": "1984",
            "genres": "Fiction, Humor, Novels, Comedy, Academia, Classics, British Literature, Literature, English Literature, 20th Century",
            "characters": "Howard Kirk, Flora Beniform",
            "synopsis": "\"Novel - Howard Kirk is the trendiest of radical tutors at a fashionable university campus. A self-appointed revolutionary hero, Howard always comes out on top. And Malcolm Bradbury dissects him in this savagely funny novel that has been universally acclaimed as one of the masterpieces of the decade.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2418,
            "title": "The Courtship of Princess Leia",
            "author": "Dave Wolverton",
            "date": "May-95",
            "genres": "Star Wars, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space Opera, Adventure, Novels, Media Tie In",
            "characters": "Luke Skywalker, Chewbacca, Prince Isolder, Warlord Zsinj, Teneniel Djo, Leia Organa, Han Solo",
            "synopsis": "\"Seeking rich, powerful allies to bring into the Rebel Alliance and a new home planet for the refugees of her native Alderaan, Princess Leia considers a proposal that could tip the balance of power against the evil Empire. The Hapes Consortium of 63 worlds is ruled by the Queen Mother, who wants Leia to marry her son, the dashing and wealthy Prince Isolder. Han Solo has always dreamed of marrying Leia himself, and now he makes a desperate last gamble to win her back. Soon he, Isolder, Luke Skywalker and Artoo will be at the center of an adventure leading to an awesome treasure, a group of Force-trained \"\"witches,\"\" and a showdown with an invincible foe.Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years!\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2419,
            "title": "Sharpe\u0027s Sword",
            "author": "Bernard Cornwell ",
            "date": "1994",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, War, Adventure, Military Fiction, Action, British Literature, Audiobook, Novels",
            "characters": "Richard Sharpe, Patrick Harper, Michael Hogan, Philippe Leroux, Thomas Leroy, La Marquesa, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington",
            "synopsis": "\"The greatest threat to Wellington\u0027s Salamanca Campaign is not Napoleon\u0027s Army but France\u0027s deadliest assassin.  He\u0027s already failed to kill Captain Richard Sharpe once.  Now, he\u0027s getting a second chance.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2420,
            "title": "Je L\u0027aimais",
            "author": "Anna Gavalda",
            "date": "2002",
            "genres": "Fiction, France, Romance, Novels, Contemporary, French Literature, Roman, Literature, Chick Lit, Drama",
            "characters": "Pierre Comte, Mathilde, Chloe",
            "synopsis": "\"Le dialogue d\u0027un homme de 65 ans et de sa belle-fille le soir dans une cuisine où pour la première fois, il se raconte et livre sa vie. Ou plutôt ce qu\u0027il n\u0027a pas vécu. Premier roman.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2421,
            "title": "The Women of the Cousins\u0027 War: The Duchess, the Queen and the King\u0027s Mother",
            "author": "Philippa Gregory , David Baldwin, Michael Jones",
            "date": "Published",
            "genres": "History, Nonfiction, Biography, Historical, British Literature, Tudor Period, Medieval, 15th Century, Womens, European History",
            "characters": "Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret Beaufort, Jacquetta Woodville",
            "synopsis": "\"Elizabeth Woodville, The White Queen (2009), Margaret Beaufort, The Red Queen (2010), and Jacquetta, Lady Rivers, The Rivers Woman (2011) are the subjects of the first three novels in Philippa Gregory\u0027s Cousins\u0027 War series, and of the three biographical essays in this book. Philippa Gregory and two historians, leading experts in their field who helped Philippa to research the novels, tell the extraordinary \u0027true\u0027 stories of the life of these women who until now have been largely forgotten by history, their background and times, highlighting questions which are raised in the fiction and illuminating the novels. With a foreword by Philippa Gregory - in which Philippa writes revealingly about the differences between history and fiction and examines the gaps in the historical record - and beautifully illustrated with rare portraits, The Women of the Cousins\u0027 War is an exciting new addition to the Philippa Gregory oeuvre.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2422,
            "title": "Ravished",
            "author": "Amanda Quick , Jayne Ann Krentz ",
            "date": "Dec-05",
            "genres": "Historical Romance, Romance, Historical, Regency, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Beauty and The Beast, Mystery, Regency Romance, Adult",
            "characters": "Harriet Pomeroy, Gideon Westbrook, Viscount St. Justin",
            "synopsis": "\"The New York Times bestselling author of Rendezvous presents a spellbinding new Regency historical destined to be a hot beach read this summer. Moving from the cozy confines of a tiny seaside village named Upper Biddleton to the glittering crush of a fashionable London soiree, Quick offers an enthralling tale of a mismatched couple poised to discover the rapture of love.There was no doubt about it. What Miss Harriet Pomeroy needed was a man. Someone powerful and clever who could help her rout the unscrupulous thieves who were using her beloved caves to hide their loot. But when Harriet summoned Gideon Westbrook, Viscount St. Justin, to her aid, she could not know that she was summoning the devil himself. . . . Dubbed the Beast of Blackthorne Hall for his scarred face and lecherous past, Gideon was strong and fierce and notoriously menacing. Yet Harriet could not find it in her heart to fear him. For in his tawny gaze she sensed a savage pain she longed to soothe . . . and a searing passion she yearned to answer. Now, caught up in the Beast’s clutches, Harriet must find a way to win his heart–and evade the deadly trap of a scheming villain who would see them parted for all time.RAVISHED is a retelling of the classic tale, Beauty and the Beast.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2423,
            "title": "Алтын-Толобас",
            "author": "Boris Akunin",
            "date": "2001",
            "genres": "Russia, Fiction, Mystery, Detective, Historical Fiction, Crime, Russian Literature, Adventure, Audiobook, Historical",
            "characters": "Nicholas Fandorin",
            "synopsis": "\"A Mosca, in una casa alquanto singolare, una cantina cela un tesoro favoloso. Un segreto condiviso solo da due persone, una delle quali adesso giace cadavere a pochi metri da quella raccolta inestimabile. L\u0027altra, costretta alla fuga, ha appena il tempo di imprimersi in testa un\u0027informazione fondamentale, da tramandare a tutti i costi... Secoli dopo, il giovane storico Nicholas Fandorin parte da Londra per recarsi finalmente in Russia, la terra dei suoi padri. Scopo del viaggio è riunire le due parti di un cimelio di famiglia: il testamento dell\u0027avo Cornelius von Dorn - mercenario al soldo dello zar nel 1675 -, di cui lo studioso possiede la metà sinistra. Impreparato al nuovo mondo postsovietico, l\u0027anglosassone è scioccato dall\u0027affarismo e dalla corruzione che vi pullulano. Ma questo è nulla in confronto a quanto gli si scatena contro una volta ricostituito l\u0027antico manoscritto: una lunga serie di fughe, inseguimenti e tentativi di omicidio. E mentre la proverbiale flemma anglosassone di Nicholas fa spazio a un inedito uomo d\u0027azione, egli si rende conto che le enigmatiche parole che sta cercando di interpretare sono la chiave per ritrovare una leggendaria fortuna perduta - la Libereia di Ivan il Terribile -, in cui si nasconde un oggetto ancora più prezioso, dai poteri terrificanti...\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2424,
            "title": "When the Sacred Ginmill Closes",
            "author": "Lawrence Block ",
            "date": "2000",
            "genres": "Mystery, Crime, Fiction, Detective, Noir, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, New York, Hard Boiled, American",
            "characters": "Matthew Scudder",
            "synopsis": "\"Downing a bourbon or two with a couple of cronies, Scudder witnesses a heist. The Morrisey brothers who run the joint are strangely submissive during the raid, but eager to see Scudder track down the thieves without involving the regular forces of law and order.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2425,
            "title": "2061: Odyssey Three",
            "author": "Arthur C. Clarke",
            "date": "Nov-97",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space, Classics, Novels, Fantasy, Adventure, Space Opera, Audiobook",
            "characters": "Heywood Floyd, HAL 9000, Dave Bowman",
            "synopsis": "\"Arthur C. Clarke, creator of one of the world\u0027s best-loved science fiction tales, revisits the most famous future ever imagined in this NEW YORK TIMES bestseller, as two expeditions into space become inextricably tangled. Heywood Floyd, survivor of two previous encounters with the mysterious monloiths, must again confront Dave Bowman, HAL, and an alien race that has decided that Mankind is to play a part in the evolution of the galaxy whether it wishes to or not. -This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2426,
            "title": "Norstrilia",
            "author": "Cordwainer Smith",
            "date": "Jul-85",
            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Novels, Space Opera, Short Stories, Anthologies, Book Club",
            "characters": "Rod McBan, \"\"C\u0027\u0027Mell\"\"",
            "synopsis": "\"Rod McBan 151st farms \u0027stroon\u0027, the immortality drug, and is the last scion of one of the oldest and most honourable families on Norstrilia, only source of stroon. But he\u0027s also a telepathic cripple and faces the ever-present risk of being culled under the government\u0027s draconian population laws.To protect himself, he uses his not-strictly-legal computer to play the market and amass an unimaginable fortune. But after he survives an assassination attempt, McBan discovers that having enough money to literally buy the Earth is no good if you\u0027re too dead to spend it . . .\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2427,
            "title": "Imitation in Death",
            "author": "J.D. Robb ",
            "date": "2008",
            "genres": "Mystery, Romance, Crime, Fiction, Romantic Suspense, Futuristic, Suspense, Science Fiction, Thriller, Mystery Thriller",
            "characters": "Eve Dallas, Roarke",
            "synopsis": "\"Summer, 2059. A man wearing a cape and a top hat approaches a prostitute on a dark, New York City street. Minutes later, the woman is dead. Left at the scene is a letter addressed to Lieutenant Eve Dallas, inviting her to play his game and unveil his identity. He signs it, \"\"Jack.\"\" Now Dallas is in pursuit of a murderer who knows as much about the history of serial killers as she does. He has studied the most notorious and the most vicious slayings in modern times. But he also wants to make his own mark. He has chosen his victim: Eve Dallas. And all Eve knows is that he plans to mimic the most infamous murderers of all starting with Jack the Ripper... \"\"Robb\u0027s energetic prose and hard-edged dialogue will keep readers engrossed.\"\" Publishers Weekly \"\"Edgy and raw.\"\" Booklist\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2428,
            "title": "Reunion in Death",
            "author": "J.D. Robb ",
            "date": "2004",
            "genres": "Mystery, Romance, Crime, Fiction, Futuristic, Romantic Suspense, Suspense, Science Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Thriller",
            "characters": "Eve Dallas, Roarke",
            "synopsis": "\"A birthday bash sets the scene for a frightening reunion with a killer from Eve Dallas\u0027s past. At exactly 7:30 p.m., Walter Pettibone arrived home to over a hundred friends and family shouting, surprise! It was his birthday. Although he had known about the planned event for weeks, the real surprise was yet to come. At 8:45 p.m., a woman with emerald eyes and red hair handed him a glass of champagne. One sip of birthday bubbly, and he was dead. The woman\u0027s name is Julie Dockport. No one at the party knew who she was. But Detective Eve Dallas remembers her all too well. Eve was personally responsible for her incarceration nearly ten years ago. And now, let out on good behavior, she still has nothing but bad intentions. It appears she wants to meet Dallas again - in a reunion neither will forget.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2429,
            "title": "Sharpe\u0027s Battle",
            "author": "Bernard Cornwell ",
            "date": "1995",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, War, Adventure, Military Fiction, Action, Audiobook, 19th Century, Military History",
            "characters": "Richard Sharpe, Patrick Harper, Michael Hogan, Guy Loup, Pierre Ducos",
            "synopsis": "\"Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Fuentes de Onoro, May 1811In the spring of 1811, while quartered in the crumbling Portuguese fort of San Isidro, Richard Sharpe and his men are attacked by an elite French unit commanded by the formidable Brigadier Loup, and suffer heavy losses. Sharpe has already clashed once with Loup, and the Frenchman has sworn to have his revenge. After the attack, Sharpe is faced with the ruin of his career and reputation, as the army\u0027s high command tries to blame him for the disaster. With thousands of French troops massing at a tiny village nearby, Sharpe\u0027s only hope is to redeem himself on the battlefield. To save his honour, Sharpe must lead his men to glory in the narrow streets of Fuentes de Onoro. The Complete Sharpe Collection with a new introduction by the author\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2430,
            "title": "Year of the Unicorn",
            "author": "Andre Norton",
            "date": "1977",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Science Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Magic, High Fantasy, Romance, Epic Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Novels",
            "characters": "Gillan, Herrel, Hyron",
            "synopsis": "\"There is a prequel called Horn Crown, http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11...Andre Norton enthralled readers for decades with thrilling tales of people challenged to the limits of their endurance in epic battles of good against evil. None are more memorable than her Witch World novels.Far from the besieged home of Simon and Jaelithe, in peaceful Norsdale, we meet Gillan, who longs to leave her dull life in a secluded country abbey. But when her wish comes true, she finds more than a little adventure. As she ventures out, not only is her life in danger, but also the power that lies within her, waiting to be discovered.\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2431,
            "title": "Walt Disney Pictures Presents The Little Mermaid Ariel\u0027s Underwater Adventure (A Little Golden Book)",
            "author": "Michael Teitelbaum, Ron Dias (Illustrator)",
            "date": "1989",
            "genres": "Childrens, Picture Books, Fantasy, Classics, Fairy Tales, Fiction, Kids, Media Tie In, Mermaids, Romance",
            "characters": "\"\"Ariel (Disney\u0027\u0027s The Little Mermaid)\"\", \"\"Flounder (Disney\u0027\u0027s The Little Mermaid)\"\"",
            "synopsis": "\"More than anything else, Princess Ariel longs to visit the world of humans. She even falls in love with a human named Prince Eric But will the Little Mermaid remain with the prince of her dreams without losing everything she loves?\""
          },
          {
            "id": 2432,
            "title": "The Cajun Cowboy",
            "author": "Sandra Hill ",
            "date": "Jun-04",
            "genres": "Romance, Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, Humor, Westerns, Chick Lit, Fiction, Southern, Adult, Novels",
            "characters": "Raoul \"\"Rusty\"\" Lanier, Charmaine LeDeux",
            "synopsis": "\"Charmaine LeDeux, who owns not one but two beauty salons on the Louisiana bayou, has a loan shark on her tail. As if that\u0027s not bad enough, Raoul Lanier, who she thought she divorced years ago, tells her that they\u0027re still married! Plus, they\u0027ve inherited his father\u0027s rundown cattle ranch together. Raoul promises to give her an honest-to-god real divorce this time if she\u0027ll sell him her half of the ranch. But she decides that the ranch is the perfect place for her after all; i.e., the perfect hideout for a woman who needs to lie low for a while.The last thing Raoul wants is for Charmaine to live with him, but Charmaine has always been stubborn. Soon she\u0027s taken over the house, adding feminine touches everywhere and having his three ranch hands eating out of her hand. When her belly-dancing great-aunt and the rest of the LeDeux clan come over for Thanksgiving dinner, Raoul knows he\u0027s lost the fight. He might as well give in to the temptation she still rouses in him. Now if he can only keep her safe from the Dixie mafia looking for her and convince her that he\u0027s worth a second chance at love.\""
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            "id": 2433,
            "title": "Once Burned",
            "author": "Peter David",
            "date": "Oct-98",
            "genres": "Star Trek, Science Fiction, Fiction, Media Tie In, Space, Science Fiction Fantasy, Tv, Novels, Collections",
            "characters": "Captain Mackenzie Calhoun",
            "synopsis": "\"There\u0027s a bar called \"\"The Captain\u0027s Table,\"\" where those who have commanded mighty vessels of every shape and era can meet, relax, and share a friendly drink or two with others of their calling. Sometimes a brawl may break out but it\u0027s all in the family, more or less. Just remember, the first round of drinks is always paid for with a story...even in Thallonian space. Six years ago, long before he took command of the Starship Excalibur, a young Starfleet officer named Mackenzie Calhoun served as first officer aboard the U.S.S. Grissom. Then disaster struck, and Calhoun took the blame. A court-martial led to his own angry resignation from Starfleet...or so it appeared. At long last Captain Calhoun reveals the true story behind the greatest tragedy of his life.\""
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            "title": "Frank Miller\u0027s Complete Sin City Library",
            "author": "Frank Miller",
            "date": "Aug-05",
            "genres": "Comics, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Crime, Comic Book, Noir, Collections, Mystery, Thriller",
            "characters": "Marv, Goldie, Dwight McCarthy, Miho, Mort, John Hartigan, Nancy Callahan, Mr. Klump, Mr. Shlubb",
            "synopsis": "\"This bundle contains all seven volumes of Frank Miller\u0027s landmark Sin City, the hard-boiled stories that started it all! The books that inspired the critically-acclaimed film, the now-infamous Marv, Dwight, Gail, Miho, Hartigan, Nancy, and theYellow Bastard will transport you to Sin City and show you the bloody lives they lead ... bloody by choice or by circumstance. Frank Miller\u0027s Sin City is a triumph for its fiercely independent creator, and has been honored with Eisner awards, Harvey awards, and the prestigious National Cartoonists\u0027 Award.\""
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            "author": "Matthew Woodring Stover",
            "date": "2002",
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            "characters": "Jacen Solo, Vergere",
            "synopsis": "\"From the depths of catastrophe, a glimmer of hope.After the capture of Coruscant, the mighty heart of the New Republic, a stunned galaxy fears that nothing can stop the Yuuzhan Vong. Still, that crushing defeat produces one small miracle: Jacen Solo is alive. Yet he can scarcely imagine himself in stranger circumstances.The young Jedi Knight is in the care of Vergere, a fascinating creature of mystery and power, her intentions hard to fathom, her cruelties rarely concealed. But this master of inscrutable arts has much to teach the young Jedi...for she holds the key to a new way to experience the Force, to take it to another level - dangerous, dazzling, perhaps deadly.In the wrong hands, the tremendous energies of the Force can be devastating. And there are others watching Jacen\u0027s progress closely, waiting patiently for the moment when he will be ready for their own dire purposes. Now, all is in shadows. Yet whatever happens, whether Jacen\u0027s newfound mastery unleashes light or darkness, he will never be the same Jedi again...\""
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            "title": "101 Dalmatians",
            "author": "Walt Disney Company, Justine Korman Fontes (Adaptor), Ron Dias (Illustrator), Bill Langley (Illustrator)",
            "date": "Jul-91",
            "genres": "Childrens, Picture Books, Fiction, Animals, Classics, Dogs, Adventure, Juvenile, Media Tie In, Fantasy",
            "characters": "Pongo (Disney), Perdita (Disney)",
            "synopsis": "There are more than 101 things to love about Disney’s 101 Dalmatians!"
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            "title": "The Worst Witch All at Sea",
            "author": "Jill Murphy",
            "date": "1994",
            "genres": "Fantasy, Childrens, Fiction, Witches, Magic, Middle Grade, Boarding School, Audiobook, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy",
            "characters": "Enid Nightshade, Mildred Hubble, Maud Spellbody, Miss Cackle, Miss Hardbroom, Ethel Hallow, Algernon Rowan-Webb, Tabby (Worst Witch)",
            "synopsis": "Loveable but accident-prone Mildred Hubble is possibly the worst witch ever to go to Miss Cackle\u0027s Academy for Witches... Mildred is in deep water on the school trip. This title is a story of life at a magical boarding school."
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            "id": 2438,
            "title": "Hellfire",
            "author": "John Saul",
            "date": "Aug-86",
            "genres": "Horror, Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Ghosts, Paranormal, Adult, Mystery Thriller, Supernatural, Novels",
            "characters": "Philip Sturgess",
            "synopsis": "\"The old mill has been silent for a hundred years, its dread secrets locked from view. Still, the people of Westover, Massachusetts, remember...and whisper of that terrible day when horrifying flames claimed eleven innocent young lives The day the mill\u0027s doors slammed shut - forever.But now, the last of the once-powerful Sturgess family is about to unlock those doors again...and unleash an elemental fury. For behind the padlocks, deep within the dark, abandoned building, a terrible vengeance waits. A vengeance conceived in...HELLFIRE\""
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            "id": 2439,
            "title": "Swimming Pool Sunday",
            "author": "Madeleine Wickham",
            "date": "2011",
            "genres": "Chick Lit, Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Drama, Adult, Womens Fiction, British Literature, Contemporary Romance, Roman",
            "characters": "Hugh Delaney, Ursula Delaney, Louise Kember, Katie Kember, Amelia Kember, Barnaby Kember",
            "synopsis": "\"One shimmeringly hot Sunday in May, the Delaneys open their pool to the whole village for charity. Louise is there with her daughters, and while the children splash and shriek in the cool blue waters, she basks in the sunshine, attempting to ignore her estranged husband and dreaming of the new man in her life, a charismatic lawyer. The day seems perfect. Then a sudden shocking accident changes everyone\u0027s lives forever. Recriminations start to fly. Whose fault was it? Louise\u0027s new lover insists that she sue the Delaneys. Her ex-husband isn\u0027t so sure. Opinion in the village is split. Old friendships start to crumble. New ones are formed. Will the repercussions from the accident ever end?\""
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            "title": "King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero",
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            "date": "2000",
            "genres": "Biography, Sports, Nonfiction, History, African American, Biography Memoir, American, Politics, Memoir, The United States Of America",
            "characters": "Muhammad Ali",
            "synopsis": "\"There were mythic sports figures before him-Jack Johnson, Babe Ruth, Joe Louis, Joe DiMaggio-but when Cassius Clay burst onto the sports scene from his native Louisville in the 1950s, he broke the mold. He changed the world of sports and went on to change the world itself. As Muhammad Ali, he would become the most recognized face on the planet. Ali was a transcendent athlete and entertainer, a heavyweight Fred Astaire, a rapper before rap was born. He was a mirror of his era, a dynamic figure in the racial and cultural battles of his time. This unforgettable story of his rise and self-creation, told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, places Ali in a heritage of great American originals. Cassius Clay grew up in the Jim Crow South and came of athletic age when boxers were at the mercy of the mob. From the start, Clay rebelled against everything and everyone who would keep him and his people down. He refused the old stereotypes and refused the glad hand of the mob. And, to the confusion and fury of white sportswriters, who were far more comfortable with the self-effacing Joe Louis, Clay came forward as a rebel, insistent on his political views, on his new religion, and, eventually, on a new name. His rebellion nearly cost him the chance to fight for the heavyweight championship of the world. King of the World features some of the pivotal figures of the 1960s-Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, John F. Kennedy-and its pivotal events: the civil rights movement, political assassinations, the war in Vietnam. Muhammad Ali is a great hero and a beloved figure in American life. King of the World takes us back to the days when his life was a series of battles, inside the ring and out. A master storyteller at the height of his powers, David Remnick has written a book worthy of America\u0027s most dynamic modern hero.\""
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            "title": "Family Album",
            "author": "Danielle Steel",
            "date": "1994",
            "genres": "Romance, Fiction, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Drama, Contemporary Romance, Adult Fiction, Novels, Family, Modern",
            "characters": "Faye Price",
            "synopsis": "\"Through forty years—from Hollywood\u0027s golden days in World War II to the present—Faye Price would create first a career as a legendary actress, then a family, and finally she would realize her dream of becoming one of Hollywood\u0027s first woman directors. But nothing was more precious to Faye than her five children. In a changing world, a milieu where family values are constantly challenged from without and within, the Thayers would face the greatest challenges and harshest test a family can endure, to emerge stronger, bound forever by loyalty and love. It is only when Faye is gone that they can each assess how far they have come, and how important their family album is.(\""
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            "title": "Missing Joseph",
            "author": "Elizabeth George ",
            "date": "1993",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Thriller, Detective, British Literature, Suspense, Murder Mystery, Adult",
            "characters": "Thomas Lynley, Barbara Havers",
            "synopsis": "\"Deborah and Simon St. James have taken a holiday in the winter landscape of Lancashire, hoping to heal the growing rift in their marriage. But in the barren countryside awaits bleak news: the vicar of Winslough, the man they had come to see, is dead - a victim of accidental poisoning. Unsatisfied with the inquest ruling and unsettled by the close association between the investigating constable and the woman who served the deadly meal, Simon calls in his old friend Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley. Together they uncover dark, complex relationships in this rural village, relationships that bring men and women together with passion, with grief, or with the intention to kill.\""
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            "author": "Bernard Cornwell ",
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            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, War, Adventure, Military Fiction, Action, Audiobook, 19th Century, British Literature",
            "characters": "Horatio Nelson, Richard Sharpe",
            "synopsis": "\"It is 1805 and Ensign Richard Sharpe is on his way home from India. The voyage should be a period of rest but his ship is riven with treachery and threatened by a formidable French warship, the Revenant, which is terrorizing British shipping in the Indian Ocean. An old opponent of Sharpe\u0027s is aboard his ship, and the voyage is further disturbed by the Lady Grace Hale, apparently as unreachable as she is beautiful.Sharpe also has friends, notably a captain of the Royal Navy who is hunting the Revenant and who rescues Sharpe when all seems lost. The hunt turns into a stern chase as the French warship races home, carrying a treaty that could ignite India into a new war against the British. When the Revenant encounters the combined French and Spanish fleets off Cadiz it seems that Sharpe\u0027s enemies have found safety, even as his enemies on board appear to have him trapped.Yet over the horizon is another fleet, led by Nelson, and Sharpe\u0027s revenge will cone in a savage climax when the two armadas meet on a clam October day off Cape Trafalgar.SHARPE\u0027S TRAFALGARCORNWELL\u0027S NARRATION OF THIS EPIC SEA-BATTLE IS QUITE MASTERLY AND SUPREMELY WELL RESEARCHED - OBSERVERCover Illustration: David Scutt\""
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            "author": "Dan McDaid, Jonathan Morris, Martin Geraghty (Illustrator), Ian Edginton, John Ross (Illustrator), Clayton Hickman (Commentary Introduction), Mike Collins  (Illustrator), Adrian Salmon (Illustrator), more…",
            "date": "Oct-09",
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            "synopsis": "\"Following The Betrothal of Sontar, this is a second collection of 10th Doctor comic strips from Doctor Who Magazine and the Doctor Who Storybooks.\""
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            "title": "Yer Demir Gök Bakır",
            "author": "Yaşar Kemal",
            "date": "1966",
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            "characters": "Uzunca Ali, Muhtar Sefer, Ökkeş Dağkurdu, Hüsne, Recep, Fatmaca, Memidik",
            "synopsis": "\"After a particularly bad season, a group of poor cotton-pickers are unable to pay their creditor, shopkeeper Adil Effendi. Overwhelmed with shame and guilt, they wait in terror for Adil to come and demand retribution. But when he inexplicably fails to appear, Adil begins to represent an irrational and tyrannical force, growing in their minds until they become sick with apprehension and obsessed with the terrible disaster that is sure to come upon them.In their despair they turn to Tashbash, a brave, decent and loyal man, investing him with virtue, grace and miraculous power. But the cotton-pickers have no idea of the effect of their idolatry on Tashbash, with his innocent doubts and mental torment, until his fate finally befalls him and the novel draws to its apposite close. Written with deep compassion and lyrical beauty, this is a novel alive with the acute observation of human nature.\""
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            "title": "Sharpe\u0027s Triumph",
            "author": "Bernard Cornwell ",
            "date": "1999",
            "genres": "Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, War, Adventure, Military Fiction, India, Audiobook, Action, Military History",
            "characters": "Richard Sharpe, Obadiah Hakeswill, William Dodd, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington",
            "synopsis": "\"Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Assaye, September 1803India, 1803. Sergeant Richard Sharpe witnesses a murderous act of treachery by an English officer who has defected from the East India Company to join the mercenary army of the Mahratta Confederation. In the hunt for the renegade Englishman, penetrates deep into the enemy\u0027s territory where he faces temptations more subtle than he has ever dreamed of. And behind him, relentlessly stalking him, comes his worst enemy, the baleful, twitching Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill who is determined to break Sharpe once and for all. The paths of treachery all lead to the small village of Assaye where Sir Arthur Wellesley, with a tiny British army, faces the Mahratta horde. Outnumbered and outgunned, Wellesley decides to fight, and Sharpe is plunged into the white heat of a battle that will make Wellesley\u0027s reputation. It will make Sharpe\u0027s name to, but only if he can survive the carnage and killing frenzy, for it is at Assaye that he at last realizes his ambition and has a chance to seize it. This major new novel will follow the adventures of Richard Sharpe in India, begun so excitingly in Sharpe\u0027s Tiger and culminating in the Battle of Assaye, which Wellington considered his greatest victory.\""
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            "title": "A Morning for Flamingos",
            "author": "James Lee Burke",
            "date": "2005",
            "genres": "Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Thriller, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Noir, Audiobook, Southern",
            "characters": "Dave Robicheaux",
            "synopsis": "\"A routine assignment transporting two death-row prisoners to their executions goes fatally wrong, leaving Dave Robicheaux brutally wounded and his partner dead. Obsessed with revenge, Dave is persuaded by the DEA to go undercover into the torrid sleepy depths of New Orleans, a volatile world of Mafia drug-running and Cajun voodoo magic. He becomes irrevocably snarled in the nightmarish web surrounding Mafia don Tony Cardo and must put himself against his own worst fears in order to survive.\""
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            "genres": "Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Speculative Fiction, American, Religion, Novels",
            "characters": "Francis Sandow",
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                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Romance, Gothic, Literature, Historical Fiction, 19th Century, Novels, Classic Literature, Historical</genres>
                <id>1006</id>
                <synopsis>"You can find the redesigned cover of this edition HERE.This best-selling Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1847 first edition of the novel. For the Fourth Edition, the editor has collated the 1847 text with several modern editions and has corrected a number of variants, including accidentals. The text is accompanied by entirely new explanatory annotations.New to the fourth Edition are twelve of Emily Bronte's letters regarding the publication of the 1847 edition of Wuthering Heights as well as the evolution of the 1850 edition, prose and poetry selections by the author, four reviews of the novel, and poetry selections by the author, four reviews of the novel, and Edward Chitham's insightful and informative chronology of the creative process behind the beloved work.Five major critical interpretations of Wuthering Heights are included, three of them new to the Fourth Edition. A Stuart Daley considers the importance of chronology in the novel. J. Hillis Miller examines Wuthering Heights's problems of genre and critical reputation. Sandra M. Gilbert assesses the role of Victorian Christianity plays in the novel, while Martha Nussbaum traces the novel's romanticism. Finally, Lin Haire-Sargeant scrutinizes the role of Heathcliff in film adaptations of Wuthering Heights. A Chronology and updated Selected Bibliography are also included."</synopsis>
                <title>Wuthering Heights</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel (Illustrator), Martin Gardner (Introduction)</author>
                <characters>The Hatter (Lewis Carroll), The Queen of Hearts (Lewis Carroll), The Cheshire Cat (Lewis Carroll), The White Rabbit (Lewis Carroll), Humpty Dumpty (Lewis Carroll), Tweedledum and Tweedledee (Lewis Carroll), The Dormouse (Lewis Carroll), The Red Queen (Lewis Carroll), The White Queen (Lewis Carroll), The White Knight (Lewis Carroll), The Mock Turtle (Lewis Carroll), The Jabberwock (Lewis Carroll), The Caterpillar (Lewis Carroll), Alice (Lewis Carroll), Dinah (Lewis Carroll), The March Hare (Lewis Carroll)</characters>
                <date>12/01/2000</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Childrens, Young Adult, Literature, Adventure, Novels, 19th Century, British Literature</genres>
                <id>1008</id>
                <synopsis>"""I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,"" said Alice, ""Because I'm not myself, you see.""When Alice sees a white rabbit take a watch out of its waistcoat pocket she decides to follow it, and a sequence of most unusual events is set in motion. This mini book contains the entire topsy-turvy stories of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, accompanied by practical notes and Martina Pelouso's memorable full-colour illustrations."</synopsis>
                <title>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland &amp; Through the Looking-Glass</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Veronica Roth </author>
                <characters>Albert, Drew Leighton (Divergent), Eric (Divergent), Beatrice Prior, Peter, Caleb Prior, Natalie Prior, Molly Atwood, Christina, Jeanine Matthews, Marcus Eaton, Tobias Eaton</characters>
                <date>02/28/12</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Dystopia, Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Adventure, Teen, Post Apocalyptic, Action</genres>
                <id>1010</id>
                <synopsis>"In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is—she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are—and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her."</synopsis>
                <title>Divergent</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>William Golding</author>
                <characters>Ralph, Piggy, Roger, Jack Merridew, Simon</characters>
                <date>10/01/1999</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Young Adult, School, Literature, Dystopia, Read For School, Novels, High School, Adventure</genres>
                <id>1011</id>
                <synopsis>"At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate; this far from civilization the boys can do anything they want. Anything. They attempt to forge their own society, failing, however, in the face of terror, sin and evil. And as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far from reality as the hope of being rescued. Labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, even a vision of the apocalypse, Lord of the Flies is perhaps our most memorable novel about “the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart.”"</synopsis>
                <title>Lord of the Flies</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine (Editor), Barbara A. Mowat (Editor), Paavo Emil Cajander (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Romeo Montague, Juliet Capulet, Tybalt, Mercutio, Benvolio, Friar Lawrence, Paris, Escalus, Montague, Lady Montague, Abram, Balthasar, Capulet, Lady Capulet, Sampson, Friar John</characters>
                <date>01/01/2004</date>
                <genres>Classics, Plays, Fiction, Romance, School, Drama, Read For School, Literature, High School, Poetry</genres>
                <id>1012</id>
                <synopsis>"In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a violent world, in which two young people fall in love. It is not simply that their families disapprove; the Montagues and the Capulets are engaged in a blood feud.In this death-filled setting, the movement from love at first sight to the lovers’ final union in death seems almost inevitable. And yet, this play set in an extraordinary world has become the quintessential story of young love. In part because of its exquisite language, it is easy to respond as if it were about all young lovers."</synopsis>
                <title>Romeo and Juliet</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Paulo Coelho , Alan R. Clarke (Translator), James Noel Smith (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Santiago, Alchemist, Melchizedek</characters>
                <date>04/15/14</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Philosophy, Novels, Spirituality, Literature, Self Help, Inspirational, Adventure</genres>
                <id>1013</id>
                <synopsis>"Paulo Coelho's enchanting novel has inspired a devoted following around the world. This story, dazzling in its powerful simplicity and soul-stirring wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried near the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest. No one knows what the treasure is, or if Santiago will be able to surmount the obstacles in his path. But what starts out as a journey to find worldly goods turns into a discovery of the treasure found within. Lush, evocative, and deeply humane, the story of Santiago is an eternal testament to the transforming power of our dreams and the importance of listening to our hearts.Illustration: Jim Tierney"</synopsis>
                <title>The Alchemist</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Fyodor Dostoyevsky, David McDuff (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, Porfiry Petrovich, Sofia Semyonovna Marmeladova, Avdotya Romanovna Raskolnikova, Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov, Dmitri Prokofich Razumikhin, Katerina Ivanovna Marmeladova, Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin, Pulcheria Alexandrovna Raskolnikov, Semyon Zakharovich Marmeladov, Andrei Semyonovich Lebezyatnikov, Alyona Ivanovna, Lizaveta Ivanovna, Zossimov, Nastasya Petrovna (“Nastenka, ” “Nastasyushka”), Ilya Petrovich (“Gunpowder”), Alexander Grigorievich Zamyotov, Nikolai Dementiev (“Mikolka”), Polina Mikhailovna Marmeladov (“Polya, ” “Polenka, ” “Polechka”)</characters>
                <date>12/31/02</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Russia, Literature, Russian Literature, Novels, Philosophy, Crime, 19th Century, School</genres>
                <id>1014</id>
                <synopsis>"Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute, can offer the chance of redemption."</synopsis>
                <title>Crime and Punishment</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Cassandra Clare </author>
                <characters>Alexander ""Alec"" Lightwood, Jonathan ""Jace"" Wayland, Valentine Morgenstern, Isabelle ""Izzy"" Sophia Lightwood, Magnus Bane, Jocelyn Fray, Luke Garroway, Clarissa ""Clary"" Fray, Simon Lewis</characters>
                <date>03/27/07</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Vampires, Supernatural, Angels, Magic</genres>
                <id>1015</id>
                <synopsis>"When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder― much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing―not even a smear of blood―to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?This is Clary's first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It's also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace's world with a vengeance when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know..."</synopsis>
                <title>City of Bones</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Orson Scott Card, Stefan Rudnicki (Narrator), Harlan Ellison (Narrator)</author>
                <characters>Dink, Bernard, Valentine Wiggin, Peter Wiggin, Mazer Rackham, Alai, Hyrum Graff, Andrew Wiggin, Petra Arkanian, ""Bean"", Major Anderson, Bonzo, Major Imbu</characters>
                <date>09/30/04</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Young Adult, Fantasy, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy, Dystopia, War, Audiobook, Adventure</genres>
                <id>1016</id>
                <synopsis>"Andrew ""Ender"" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more desperate. The result of genetic experimentation, Ender may be the military genius Earth desperately needs in a war against an alien enemy seeking to destroy all human life. The only way to find out is to throw Ender into ever harsher training, to chip away and find the diamond inside, or destroy him utterly. Ender Wiggin is six years old when it begins. He will grow up fast.But Ender is not the only result of the experiment. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway almost as long. Ender's two older siblings, Peter and Valentine, are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. While Peter was too uncontrollably violent, Valentine very nearly lacks the capability for violence altogether. Neither was found suitable for the military's purpose. But they are driven by their jealousy of Ender, and by their inbred drive for power. Peter seeks to control the political process, to become a ruler. Valentine's abilities turn more toward the subtle control of the beliefs of commoner and elite alike, through powerfully convincing essays. Hiding their youth and identities behind the anonymity of the computer networks, these two begin working together to shape the destiny of Earth-an Earth that has no future at all if their brother Ender fails.Source: hatrack.com"</synopsis>
                <title>Ender's Game</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>L.M. Montgomery</author>
                <characters>Marilla Cuthbert, Matthew Cuthbert, Diana Barry, Gilbert Blythe, Rachel Lynde, Anne Shirley, Jane Andrews, Ruby Gillis, Josie Pye, Prissy Andrews, Mr. Phillips, Mrs. Allan</characters>
                <date>05/06/2003</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade, Historical, Audiobook, Canada, Coming Of Age</genres>
                <id>1017</id>
                <synopsis>"As soon as Anne Shirley arrives at the snug white farmhouse called Green Gables, she is sure she wants to stay forever . . . but will the Cuthberts send her back to to the orphanage? Anne knows she's not what they expected—a skinny girl with fiery red hair and a temper to match. If only she can convince them to let her stay, she'll try very hard not to keep rushing headlong into scrapes and blurting out the first thing that comes to her mind. Anne is not like anyone else, the Cuthberts agree; she is special—a girl with an enormous imagination. This orphan girl dreams of the day when she can call herself Anne of Green Gables."</synopsis>
                <title>Anne of Green Gables</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>E.B. White, Garth Williams (Illustrator), Rosemary Wells (Illustrations)</author>
                <characters>Fern, Avery, Charlotte, Wilbur, Templeton</characters>
                <date>10/01/2001</date>
                <genres>Classics, Childrens, Fiction, Young Adult, Fantasy, Animals, Middle Grade, Juvenile, School, Chapter Books</genres>
                <id>1018</id>
                <synopsis>"This beloved book by E. B. White, author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic of children's literature that is ""just about perfect."" This high-quality paperback features vibrant illustrations colorized by Rosemary Wells!Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. These are the words in Charlotte's Web, high up in Zuckerman's barn. Charlotte's spiderweb tells of her feelings for a little pig named Wilbur, who simply wants a friend. They also express the love of a girl named Fern, who saved Wilbur's life when he was born the runt of his litter.E. B. White's Newbery Honor Book is a tender novel of friendship, love, life, and death that will continue to be enjoyed by generations to come. This edition contains newly color illustrations by Garth Williams, the acclaimed illustrator of E. B. White's Stuart Little and Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series, among many other books."</synopsis>
                <title>Charlotte's Web</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>John Steinbeck</author>
                <characters>George Milton, Lennie Small, Candy, Curley, ""Curley''s Wife"", Slim, Crooks, Whit, Carlson</characters>
                <date>01/08/2002</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, School, Historical Fiction, Literature, Read For School, Novels, High School, American, Classic Literature</genres>
                <id>1019</id>
                <synopsis>"The compelling story of two outsiders striving to find their place in an unforgiving world. Drifters in search of work, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie have nothing in the world except each other and a dream - a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch in California’s Salinas Valley, but their hopes are doomed as Lennie, struggling against extreme cruelty, misunderstanding and feelings of jealousy, becomes a victim of his own strength. Tackling universal themes such as the friendship of a shared vision, and giving voice to America’s lonely and dispossessed, Of Mice and Men has proved one of Steinbeck’s most popular works, achieving success as a novel, a Broadway play and three acclaimed films."</synopsis>
                <title>Of Mice and Men</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Bram Stoker, Nina Auerbach (Editor), David J. Skal (Editor)</author>
                <characters>Jonathan Harker, Lucy Westenra, Abraham Van Helsing, John Seward, Quincey Morris, Arthur Holmwood (later Lord Godalming), R.M. Renfield, Mina Harker, Quincey Harker, Peter Hawkins, Samuel F. Billington, Herr Leutner, Mr. Swales, Mr. Westenra, Mrs. Westenra, Lord Godalming (elder), Patrick Hennessey, Thomas Bilder, Sister Agatha (Dracula), Dr. Vincent, Thomas Snelling, Joseph Smollett, Sam Bloxam, Billington Junior, Attendant Hardy, Captain of the Demeter, Abramoff (Demeter Crew), Olgaren (Demeter Crew), Mate of the Demeter (Roumanian), Second Mate of the Demeter, Rufus Smith, Mr. Mackenzie, Mr. Steinkoff, Captain Donelson, Immanuel Hildesheim, Petrof Skinsky, Lady Godalming, Mrs. Seward, Dracula</characters>
                <date>05/12/1986</date>
                <genres>Classics, Horror, Fiction, Fantasy, Vampires, Gothic, Paranormal, Literature, Audiobook, Supernatural</genres>
                <id>1020</id>
                <synopsis>"You can find an alternative cover edition for this ISBN here and here.A rich selection of background and source materials is provided in three areas: Contexts includes probable inspirations for Dracula in the earlier works of James Malcolm Rymer and Emily Gerard. Also included are a discussion of Stoker's working notes for the novel and ""Dracula's Guest,"" the original opening chapter to Dracula. Reviews and Reactions reprints five early reviews of the novel. ""Dramatic and Film Variations"" focuses on theater and film adaptations of Dracula, two indications of the novel's unwavering appeal. David J. Skal, Gregory A. Waller, and Nina Auerbach offer their varied perspectives. Checklists of both dramatic and film adaptations are included.Criticism collects seven theoretical interpretations of Dracula by Phyllis A. Roth, Carol A. Senf, Franco Moretti, Christopher Craft, Bram Dijkstra, Stephen D. Arata, and Talia Schaffer.A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are included."</synopsis>
                <title>Dracula</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Aldous Huxley</author>
                <characters>John (Brave New World), Bernard Marx, Lenina Crowne, Helmholtz Watson, Mustapha Mond, The Warden, Pope, Linda (Brave New World), Fanny Crowne, The Director, The Arch-Community Songster</characters>
                <date>09/01/1998</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Literature, Novels, School, Fantasy, Philosophy, Science Fiction Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1021</id>
                <synopsis>"Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, inhabited by genetically modified citizens and an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society which is challenged by only a single individual: the story's protagonist."</synopsis>
                <title>Brave New World</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>J.D. Salinger</author>
                <characters>Holden Caulfield, Robert Ackley, Stradlater, Phoebe Caulfield, Allie Caulfield, D.B Caulfield, Sally Hayes, Holden Caufield, Robert Ackley, Stradlater, Phoebe Caulfield, Allie Caulfield, D.B Caulfield, Sally Hayes</characters>
                <date>01/30/01</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Young Adult, Literature, School, Novels, Coming Of Age, American, High School, Read For School</genres>
                <id>1022</id>
                <synopsis>"The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices-but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep. J.D. Salinger's classic novel of teenage angst and rebellion was first published in 1951. The novel was included on Time's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. It was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has been frequently challenged in the court for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality and in the 1950's and 60's it was the novel that every teenage boy wants to read."</synopsis>
                <title>The Catcher in the Rye</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>William Goldman</author>
                <characters>Buttercup, Westley, Prince Humperdinck, Inigo Montoya, Fezzik, Vizzini, Count Rugen, Miracle Max, The Dread Pirate Roberts, Ty Cobb</characters>
                <date>07/15/03</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Classics, Romance, Humor, Young Adult, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, Comedy, Fairy Tales</genres>
                <id>1023</id>
                <synopsis>"What happens when the most beautiful girl in the world marries the handsomest prince of all time and he turns out to be...well...a lot less than the man of her dreams?As a boy, William Goldman claims, he loved to hear his father read the S. Morgenstern classic, The Princess Bride. But as a grown-up he discovered that the boring parts were left out of good old Dad's recitation, and only the ""good parts"" reached his ears.Now Goldman does Dad one better. He's reconstructed the ""Good Parts Version"" to delight wise kids and wide-eyed grownups everywhere.What's it about? Fencing. Fighting. True Love. Strong Hate. Harsh Revenge. A Few Giants. Lots of Bad Men. Lots of Good Men. Five or Six Beautiful Women. Beasties Monstrous and Gentle. Some Swell Escapes and Captures. Death, Lies, Truth, Miracles, and a Little Sex.In short, it's about everything."</synopsis>
                <title>The Princess Bride</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Rick Riordan </author>
                <characters>Annabeth Chase, Grover Underwood, Luke Castellan, Zeus (God), Dionysus (mythology), Ares (god), Hades, Poseidon (God), Chiron, Percy Jackson</characters>
                <date>03/01/2006</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Mythology, Fiction, Middle Grade, Adventure, Childrens, Urban Fantasy, Greek Mythology, Magic</genres>
                <id>1024</id>
                <synopsis>"Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found herePercy Jackson is a good kid, but he can't seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse - Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him. When Percy's mom finds out, she knows it's time that he knew the truth about where he came from, and that he go to the one place he'll be safe. She sends Percy to Camp Half Blood, a summer camp for demigods (on Long Island), where he learns that the father he never knew is Poseidon, God of the Sea. Soon a mystery unfolds and together with his friends—one a satyr and the other the demigod daughter of Athena - Percy sets out on a quest across the United States to reach the gates of the Underworld (located in a recording studio in Hollywood) and prevent a catastrophic war between the gods."</synopsis>
                <title>The Lightning Thief</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Frances Hodgson Burnett</author>
                <characters>Mary Lennox, Colin Craven, Dickon Sowerby, Martha Sowerby, Ben Weatherstaff, Archibald Craven, Susan Sowerby, Mrs. Medlock, Dr. Craven</characters>
                <date>09/01/1998</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Childrens, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade, Literature, Fantasy, Historical, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1025</id>
                <synopsis>"""One of the most delightful and enduring classics of children's literature, The Secret Garden by Victorian author Frances Hodgson Burnett has remained a firm favorite with children the world over ever since it made its first appearance. Initially published as a serial story in 1910 in The American Magazine, it was brought out in novel form in 1911.  The plot centers round Mary Lennox, a young English girl who returns to England from India, having suffered the immense trauma by losing both her parents in a cholera epidemic. However, her memories of her parents are not pleasant, as they were a selfish, neglectful and pleasure-seeking couple. Mary is given to the care of her uncle Archibald Craven, whom she has never met. She travels to his home, Misselthwaite Manor located in the gloomy Yorkshire, a vast change from the sunny and warm climate she was used to. When she arrives, she is a rude, stubborn and given to stormy temper tantrums. However, her nature undergoes a gradual transformation when she learns of the tragedies that have befallen her strict and disciplinarian uncle whom she earlier feared and despised. Once when he's away from home, Mary discovers a charming walled garden which is always kept locked. The mystery deepens when she hears sounds of sobbing from somewhere within her uncle's vast mansion. The kindly servants ignore her queries or pretend they haven't heard, spiking Mary's curiosity.  The Secret Garden appeals to both young and old alike. It has wonderful elements of mystery, spirituality, charming characters and an authentic rendering of childhood emotions and experiences. Commonsense, truth and kindness, compassion and a belief in the essential goodness of human beings lie at the heart of this unforgettable story. It is the best known of Frances Hodgson Burnett's works, though most of us have definitely heard of, if not read, her other novel Little Lord Fauntleroy.  The book has been adapted extensively on stage, film and television and translated into all the world's major languages. In 1991, a Japanese anime version was launched for television in Japan. It remains a popular and beloved story of a child's journey into maturity, and a must-read for every child, parent, teacher and anyone who would enjoy this fascinating glimpse of childhood. One of the most delightful and enduring classics of children's literature, The Secret Garden by Victorian author Frances Hodgson Burnett has remained a firm favorite with children the world over ever since it made its first appearance. Initially published as a serial story in 1910 in The American Magazine, it was brought out in novel form in 1911."" "</synopsis>
                <title>The Secret Garden</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Khaled Hosseini </author>
                <characters>Laila, Mariam, Rasheed, Tariq</characters>
                <date>06/01/2007</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Novels, Historical, War, Adult Fiction, Adult, Drama, Literature</genres>
                <id>1026</id>
                <synopsis>"A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years—from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding—that puts the violence, fear, hope, and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a tale of two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep of war, where personal lives—the struggle to survive, raise a family, find happiness—are inextricable from the history playing out around them.Propelled by the same storytelling instinct that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once a remarkable chronicle of three decades of Afghan history and a deeply moving account of family and friendship. It is a striking, heart-wrenching novel of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love—a stunning accomplishment.-front flap"</synopsis>
                <title>A Thousand Splendid Suns</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Madeleine L'Engle</author>
                <characters>Meg Murry, Charles Wallace Murry, ""Calvin O''Keefe"", Dr. Kate Murry, Sandy Murry, Dennys Murry, Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, Mrs. Which</characters>
                <date>11/07/2017</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Classics, Young Adult, Science Fiction, Childrens, Middle Grade, Time Travel, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1027</id>
                <synopsis>"It was a dark and stormy night.Out of this wild night, a strange visitor comes to the Murry house and beckons Meg, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe on a most dangerous and extraordinary adventure—one that will threaten their lives and our universe.Winner of the 1963 Newbery Medal, A Wrinkle in Time is the first book in Madeleine L'Engle's classic Time Quintet."</synopsis>
                <title>A Wrinkle in Time</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>George R.R. Martin</author>
                <characters>Brandon Stark, Catelyn Stark, Tyrion Lannister, Daenerys Targaryen, Eddard Stark, Theon Greyjoy, Robb Stark, Arya Stark, Jaime Lannister, Joffrey Baratheon, Robert Baratheon, Tywin Lannister, Lysa Arryn, Petyr Baelish, Sansa Stark, Viserys Targaryen, Varys, Hodor, Beric Dondarrion, Thoros of Myr, Sandor Clegane, Samwell Tarly, Pyp, Tommen Baratheon, Stannis Baratheon, Grenn, Mace Tyrell, Septa Mordane, Jon Snow, Cersei Lannister, Jorah Mormont</characters>
                <date>08/28/05</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Adventure, Dragons, Audiobook, Epic</genres>
                <id>1028</id>
                <synopsis>"Here is the first volume in George R. R. Martin’s magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, George R. R. Martin’s stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction.A GAME OF THRONESLong ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom’s protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens.Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; and a determined woman undertakes the most treacherous of journeys. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.source: georgerrmartin.com"</synopsis>
                <title>A Game of Thrones</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Mark Twain, Guy Cardwell (Notes), John Seelye (Introduction), Walter Trier (Ilustrator)</author>
                <characters>Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, Jim Upton, Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer, Jim Upton</characters>
                <date>12/31/02</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literature, Young Adult, Adventure, School, Novels, Read For School, American</genres>
                <id>1029</id>
                <synopsis>"A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down the river with a runaway slave, encountering a family involved in a feud, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt who mistakes him for Tom."</synopsis>
                <title>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Alice Sebold</author>
                <characters>Susie Salmon, Clarissa, Holly, Jack Salmon, Abigail Salmon, Lindsey Salmon, Buckley Salmon, George Harvey</characters>
                <date>09/01/2006</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult, Contemporary, Fantasy, Crime, Adult, Adult Fiction, Drama, Novels</genres>
                <id>1030</id>
                <synopsis>"""My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973.""So begins the story of Susie Salmon, who is adjusting to her new home in heaven, a place that is not at all what she expected, even as she is watching life on earth continue without her - her friends trading rumors about her disappearance, her killer trying to cover his tracks, her grief-stricken family unraveling. Out of unspeakable tragedy and loss, The Lovely Bones succeeds, miraculously, in building a tale filled with hope, humor, suspense, even joy."</synopsis>
                <title>The Lovely Bones</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Maurice Sendak</author>
                <characters>Max Cannon</characters>
                <date>10/28/00</date>
                <genres>Childrens, Picture Books, Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Adventure, Young Adult, Animals, Kids, Monsters</genres>
                <id>1031</id>
                <synopsis>"Max, a wild and naughty boy, is sent to bed without his supper by his exhausted mother. In his room, he imagines sailing far away to a land of Wild Things. Instead of eating him, the Wild Things make Max their king."</synopsis>
                <title>Where the Wild Things Are</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Dr. Seuss</author>
                <characters>Sam-I-Am</characters>
                <date>10/28/88</date>
                <genres>Childrens, Picture Books, Classics, Fiction, Poetry, Fantasy, Humor, Kids, Food, Young Adult</genres>
                <id>1032</id>
                <synopsis>"“Do you like green eggs and ham?” asks Sam-I-am in this Beginner Book by Dr. Seuss. In a house or with a mouse? In a boat or with a goat? On a train or in a tree? Sam keeps asking persistently. With unmistakable characters and signature rhymes, Dr. Seuss’s beloved favorite has cemented its place as a children’s classic. In this most famous of cumulative tales, the list of places to enjoy green eggs and ham, and friends to enjoy them with, gets longer and longer. Follow Sam-I-am as he insists that this unusual treat is indeed a delectable snack to be savored everywhere and in every way. Originally created by Dr. Seuss, Beginner Books encourage children to read all by themselves, with simple words and illustrations that give clues to their meaning."</synopsis>
                <title>Green Eggs and Ham</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Homer, Robert Fagles (Translator), Bernard Knox (Introduction)</author>
                <characters>Odysseus, Penelope (wife of Odysseus), Helen of Troy, Achilles (Greek hero), Telemachus, Minerva, Polyphemus, Agamemnon</characters>
                <date>11/30/06</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Poetry, Mythology, Fantasy, School, Literature, Adventure, Read For School, Historical Fiction</genres>
                <id>1033</id>
                <synopsis>"Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turnsdriven time and again off course, once he had plunderedthe hallowed heights of Troy.So begins Robert Fagles' magnificent translation of the Odyssey, which Jasper Griffin in The New York Times Review of Books hails as ""a distinguished achievement.""If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey though life. Odysseus' reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces, during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance. In the myths and legends that are retold here, Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homer's original in a bold, contemporary idiom, and given us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery.Renowned classicist Bernard Knox's superb Introduction and textual commentary provide new insights and background information for the general reader and scholar alike, intensifying the strength of Fagles' translation.This is an Odyssey to delight both the classicist and the public at large, and to captivate a new generation of Homer's students.-Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, presents us with Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem in a stunning new modern-verse translation."</synopsis>
                <title>The Odyssey</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Yann Martel</author>
                <characters>Pi Patel, Richard Parker</characters>
                <date>08/29/06</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Fantasy, Classics, Adventure, Contemporary, Novels, Literature, Magical Realism, India, Philosophy</genres>
                <id>1034</id>
                <synopsis>"Life of Pi is a fantasy adventure novel by Yann Martel published in 2001. The protagonist, Piscine Molitor ""Pi"" Patel, a Tamil boy from Pondicherry, explores issues of spirituality and practicality from an early age. He survives 227 days after a shipwreck while stranded on a boat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker."</synopsis>
                <title>Life of Pi</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Charles Dickens, Richard Maxwell (Editor/Introduction)</author>
                <characters>Sydney Carton, Charles Darnay, Lucie Manette, Madame Therese Defarge, Dr. Alexandre Manette</characters>
                <date>10/28/03</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literature, Historical, Novels, School, Classic Literature, 19th Century, British Literature</genres>
                <id>1035</id>
                <synopsis>"After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror, and they soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine."</synopsis>
                <title>A Tale of Two Cities</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Sara Gruen </author>
                <characters>Jacob Jankowski, August (Water for Elephants), Rosie Noah, Camel, Uncle Al, Kinko/Walter, ""Marlena L''Arche"", Rosemary (Water for Elephants)</characters>
                <date>05/01/2007</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance, Historical, Adult, Adult Fiction, Contemporary, Book Club, Novels, Animals</genres>
                <id>1036</id>
                <synopsis>"Winner of the 2007 BookBrowse Award for Most Popular Book.An atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932, by the bestselling author of Riding Lessons. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, drifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there that he meets Marlena, the beautiful young star of the equestrian act, who is married to August, the charismatic but twisted animal trainer. He also meets Rosie, an elephant who seems untrainable until he discovers a way to reach her. Beautifully written, Water for Elephants is illuminated by a wonderful sense of time and place. It tells a story of a love between two people that overcomes incredible odds in a world in which even love is a luxury that few can afford."</synopsis>
                <title>Water for Elephants</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kurt Vonnegut Jr.</author>
                <characters>Billy Pilgrim, Kilgore Trout, Eliot Rosewater, Roland Weary, Paul Lazzaro, Edgar Derby, Robert Pilgrim, Valencia Merble, Barbara Pilgrim, Howard W. Campbell Jr., Montana Wildhack, Bertam Copeland Rumfoord</characters>
                <date>01/12/1999</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Science Fiction, War, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels, Time Travel, American, Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1037</id>
                <synopsis>"Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time, Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world's great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we fear most."</synopsis>
                <title>Slaughterhouse-Five</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Charlotte Gordon  (Introduction)</author>
                <characters>Elizabeth Lavenza, William Frankenstein, Robert Walton, Henry Clerval, Alphonse Frankenstein, Caroline Beaufort Frankenstein, Ernest Frankenstein, Justine Moritz, Agatha, Felix, Victor Frankenstein, The Monster, De Lacey, Safie</characters>
                <date>03/08/2018</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Gothic, Fantasy, School, Literature, Novels, 19th Century</genres>
                <id>1038</id>
                <synopsis>"Mary Shelley's seminal novel of the scientist whose creation becomes a monsterThis edition is the original 1818 text, which preserves the hard-hitting and politically charged aspects of Shelley's original writing, as well as her unflinching wit and strong female voice. This edition also includes a new introduction and suggestions for further reading by author and Shelley expert Charlotte Gordon, literary excerpts and reviews selected by Gordon and a chronology and essay by preeminent Shelley scholar Charles E. Robinson."</synopsis>
                <title>Frankenstein: The 1818 Text</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Lois Lowry </author>
                <characters>Rosemary (Lois Lowry), Jonas (Lois Lowry), The Giver (Lois Lowry), Gabriel (Lois Lowry), Asher (Lois Lowry), Fiona (Lois Lowry), Mother (Lois Lowry), Father (Lois Lowry), The Chief Elder (Lois Lowry), Lily (Lois Lowry)</characters>
                <date>01/24/06</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Fiction, Classics, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fantasy, School, Childrens, Middle Grade, Read For School</genres>
                <id>1039</id>
                <synopsis>Twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal world. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver does he begin to understand the dark secrets behind this fragile community.</synopsis>
                <title>The Giver</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Joseph Heller</author>
                <characters>Yossarian, Chaplain Tappman, Milo Minderbinder, Nately</characters>
                <date>09/04/2004</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, War, Historical Fiction, Humor, Literature, Novels, Unfinished, American, Historical</genres>
                <id>1040</id>
                <synopsis>"The novel is set during World War II, from 1942 to 1944. It mainly follows the life of Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 bombardier. Most of the events in the book occur while the fictional 256th Squadron is based on the island of Pianosa, in the Mediterranean Sea, west of Italy. The novel looks into the experiences of Yossarian and the other airmen in the camp, who attempt to maintain their sanity while fulfilling their service requirements so that they may return home."</synopsis>
                <title>Catch-22</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Frank Herbert</author>
                <characters>Stilgar, Vladimir Harkonnen, Duncan Idaho, Leto Atreides, Paul Atreides, Alia Atreides, Lady Jessica, Shaddam IV, Gurney Halleck</characters>
                <date>10/01/2019</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space Opera, Audiobook, Novels, Adventure, Adult</genres>
                <id>1041</id>
                <synopsis>"Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the “spice” melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness. Coveted across the known universe, melange is a prize worth killing for...When House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul’s family will set the boy on a journey toward a destiny greater than he could ever have imagined. And as he evolves into the mysterious man known as Muad’Dib, he will bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and unattainable dream."</synopsis>
                <title>Dune</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Stephen King , Bernie Wrightson (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Stuart Redman, Glenn Bateman, Nick Andros, Tom Cullen, Nadine Cross, Fran Goldsmith, Harold Lauder, Joe/Leo Rockway, Mother Abigail Freemantle, Randall Flagg, Trashcan Man, The Anti-Christ, Judge Farris, Larry Underwood, General William Starkey, Major Len Creighton, The Rat Man, Captain Trips, Charles D. Campion, Lucy Swann, Lloyd Henreid, Julie Lawry, Ralph Brentner, Dayna Jurgens, United States Military, American Law Enforcement, Kojak</characters>
                <date>05/01/1990</date>
                <genres>Horror, Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Post Apocalyptic, Thriller, Dystopia, Apocalyptic, Audiobook, Classics</genres>
                <id>1042</id>
                <synopsis>This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides - or are chosen.</synopsis>
                <title>The Stand</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Richard Adams</author>
                <characters>Bigwig, Fiver, El-Ahrairah, Hazel, Pipkin, Blackberry, Dandelion, Hyzenthlay, Frith, Silver (Watership Down), Kehaar, General Woundwort</characters>
                <date>06/28/75</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult, Animals, Childrens, Adventure, Literature, Novels, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1043</id>
                <synopsis>"Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition of ISBN13 9780380395866 here.Set in England's Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage and survival follows a band of very special creatures on their flight from the intrusion of man and the certain destruction of their home. Led by a stouthearted pair of friends, they journey forth from their native Sandleford Warren through the harrowing trials posed by predators and adversaries, to a mysterious promised land and a more perfect society."</synopsis>
                <title>Watership Down</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Charles Dickens, Παυλίνα Παμπούδη (Translator), Marisa Sestino (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Miss Havisham, Philip ""Pip"" Pirrip, Joseph ""Joe"" Gargery, Abel Magwitch, Herbert Pocket, John Wemmick, Dolge Orlick, Jaggers, Estella, Compeyson</characters>
                <date>10/28/98</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Literature, Historical Fiction, School, Novels, 19th Century, Classic Literature, British Literature, Victorian</genres>
                <id>1044</id>
                <synopsis>"'In what may be Dickens's best novel, humble, orphaned Pip is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman — and one day, under sudden and enigmatic circumstances, he finds himself in possession of ""great expectations."" In this gripping tale of crime and guilt, revenge and reward, the compelling characters include Magwitch, the fearful and fearsome convict; Estella, whose beauty is excelled only by her haughtiness; and the embittered Miss Havisham, an eccentric jilted bride"</synopsis>
                <title>Great Expectations</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Louisa May Alcott</author>
                <characters>Marmee, Meg March, Beth March, Amy March, Laurie Laurence, Mr. Laurence, Professor Bhaer, Mr. March, Hannah Brown, Aunt March, John Brooke, Jo March</characters>
                <date>04/06/2004</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Romance, Historical, Literature, Childrens, Classic Literature, Novels</genres>
                <id>1045</id>
                <synopsis>"Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcott’s most popular and enduring novel, Little Women. Here are talented tomboy and author-to-be Jo, tragically frail Beth, beautiful Meg, and romantic, spoiled Amy, united in their devotion to each other and their struggles to survive in New England during the Civil War.It is no secret that Alcott based Little Women on her own early life. While her father, the freethinking reformer and abolitionist Bronson Alcott, hobnobbed with such eminent male authors as Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne, Louisa supported herself and her sisters with ""woman’s work,” including sewing, doing laundry, and acting as a domestic servant. But she soon discovered she could make more money writing. Little Women brought her lasting fame and fortune, and far from being the ""girl’s book” her publisher requested, it explores such timeless themes as love and death, war and peace, the conflict between personal ambition and family responsibilities, and the clash of cultures between Europe and America."</synopsis>
                <title>Little Women</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>J.K. Rowling</author>
                <characters>Sirius Black, Draco Malfoy, Ron Weasley, Petunia Dursley, Vernon Dursley, Dudley Dursley, Severus Snape, Rubeus Hagrid, Lord Voldemort, Minerva McGonagall, Neville Longbottom, Fred Weasley, George Weasley, Percy Weasley, Ginny Weasley, Colin Creevey, Filius Flitwick, Lucius Malfoy, Pomona Sprout, Arthur Weasley, Molly Weasley, Cho Chang, Remus Lupin, Sybil Trelawney, Peter Pettigrew, Oliver Wood, Fleur Delacour, Viktor Krum, Bellatrix Lestrange, Alastor Moody, Bill Weasley, Luna Lovegood, Nymphadora Tonks, Dolores Umbridge, Dobby, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Padma Patil, Parvati Patil, Kreacher, Narcissa Malfoy, Horace Slughorn, Rufus Scrimgeour, Dean Thomas, Aberforth Dumbledore, James Potter, Lily Potter, Xenophilius Lovegood, Seamus Finnigan, Garrick Ollivander, Katie Bell, Griphook, James Sirius Potter, Teddy Lupin, Hugo Weasley, Albus Dumbledore, Lily Luna Potter, Albus Severus Potter, Rose Weasley, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Lavender Brown</characters>
                <date>07/21/07</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Magic, Childrens, Adventure, Audiobook, Middle Grade, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1046</id>
                <synopsis>"Harry Potter is leaving Privet Drive for the last time. But as he climbs into the sidecar of Hagrid’s motorbike and they take to the skies, he knows Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters will not be far behind.The protective charm that has kept him safe until now is broken. But the Dark Lord is breathing fear into everything he loves. And he knows he can’t keep hiding.To stop Voldemort, Harry knows he must find the remaining Horcruxes and destroy them.He will have to face his enemy in one final battle.-jkrowling.com"</synopsis>
                <title>Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Diana Gabaldon </author>
                <characters>Jamie Fraser, Ian Murray, Claire Randall Fraser, Jonathan Randall, Dougal MacKenzie, Colum MacKenzie, Geillis Duncan, Jenny Murray, Frank Randall, Laoghaire MacKenzie, Murtagh Fraser</characters>
                <date>07/26/05</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction, Time Travel, Historical, Historical Romance, Adult, Audiobook, Scotland</genres>
                <id>1047</id>
                <synopsis>"The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of Our Lord...1743. Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life, and shatter her heart. For here James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire—and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives."</synopsis>
                <title>Outlander</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jodi Picoult </author>
                <characters>Anna Fitzgerald, Sara Fitzgerald, Kate Fitzgerald, Brian Fitzgerald, Jesse Fitzgerald, Campbell Alexander, Julia Romana</characters>
                <date>02/01/2005</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Contemporary, Chick Lit, Young Adult, Drama, Adult, Adult Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Family, Novels</genres>
                <id>1048</id>
                <synopsis>"Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate—a life and a role that she has never challenged... until now. Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to question who she truly is. But unlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister—and so Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable, a decision that will tear her family apart and have perhaps fatal consequences for the sister she loves.A provocative novel that raises some important ethical issues, My Sister's Keeper is the story of one family's struggle for survival at all human costs and a stunning parable for all time."</synopsis>
                <title>My Sister's Keeper</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Matilda Wormwood, Miss Honey, Miss Trunchbull</characters>
                <date>06/01/1998</date>
                <genres>Childrens, Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Humor, Audiobook, Magic, Juvenile</genres>
                <id>1049</id>
                <synopsis>"Matilda is a little girl who is far too good to be true. At age five-and-a-half she's knocking off double-digit multiplication problems and blitz-reading Dickens. Even more remarkably, her classmates love her even though she's a super-nerd and the teacher's pet. But everything is not perfect in Matilda's world. For starters she has two of the most idiotic, self-centered parents who ever lived. Then there's the large, busty nightmare of a school principal, Miss (""The"") Trunchbull, a former hammer-throwing champion who flings children at will and is approximately as sympathetic as a bulldozer. Fortunately for Matilda, she has the inner resources to deal with such annoyances: astonishing intelligence, saintly patience, and an innate predilection for revenge.She warms up with some practical jokes aimed at her hapless parents, but the true test comes when she rallies in defense of her teacher, the sweet Miss Honey, against the diabolical Trunchbull. There is never any doubt that Matilda will carry the day. Even so, this wonderful story is far from predictable. Roald Dahl, while keeping the plot moving imaginatively, also has an unerring ear for emotional truth. The reader cares about Matilda because in addition to all her other gifts, she has real feelings."</synopsis>
                <title>Matilda</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Alice Walker</author>
                <characters>Nettie, Albert, Celie, Shug Avery, Miss Millie</characters>
                <date>12/10/2019</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Feminism, Historical, LGBT, African American, Literature, Novels, Adult</genres>
                <id>1050</id>
                <synopsis>"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Alice Walker's iconic modern classic is now a Penguin Book.A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance and silence. Through a series of letters spanning twenty years, first from Celie to God, then the sisters to each other despite the unknown, the novel draws readers into its rich and memorable portrayals of Celie, Nettie, Shug Avery and Sofia and their experience. The Color Purple broke the silence around domestic and sexual abuse, narrating the lives of women through their pain and struggle, companionship and growth, resilience and bravery. Deeply compassionate and beautifully imagined, Alice Walker's epic carries readers on a spirit-affirming journey towards redemption and love."</synopsis>
                <title>The Color Purple</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Betty Smith</author>
                <characters>Francie Nolan, Neeley Nolan, Katie Nolan, Johnny Nolan, Mary Rommely, Sissy Rommely, Eva ""Evy"" Rommely Flittman, Thomas Rommely, Sergeant McShane</characters>
                <date>05/30/06</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Coming Of Age, Historical, Literature, New York, Novels, Book Club</genres>
                <id>1051</id>
                <synopsis>"The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century, Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a poignant and moving tale filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, crowded with life and people and incident. The story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet formative years in the slums of Williamsburg has enchanted and inspired millions of readers for more than sixty years. By turns overwhelming, sublime, heartbreaking, and uplifting, the daily experiences of the unforgettable Nolans are raw with honesty and tenderly threaded with family connectedness - in a work of literary art that brilliantly captures a unique time and place as well as incredibly rich moments of universal experience."</synopsis>
                <title>A Tree Grows in Brooklyn</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Anthony Burgess</author>
                <characters>Pete, Alex Jacobi, Georgie, Dim</characters>
                <date>05/21/19</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Literature, Novels, Horror, Thriller, Crime, Modern Classics</genres>
                <id>1052</id>
                <synopsis>"In Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, criminals take over after dark. Teen gang leader Alex narrates in fantastically inventive slang that echoes the violent intensity of youth rebelling against society. Dazzling and transgressive, A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom. This edition includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first edition, and Burgess’s introduction, “A Clockwork Orange Resucked.”"</synopsis>
                <title>A Clockwork Orange</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Cormac McCarthy</author>
                <characters>The man, The boy</characters>
                <date>10/02/2006</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Post Apocalyptic, Classics, Horror, Literature, Novels, Apocalyptic, Contemporary</genres>
                <id>1053</id>
                <synopsis>"A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece.A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation."</synopsis>
                <title>The Road</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Dmitri Fyodorovich Karamazov, Ivan Fyodorovich Karamazov, Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov, Pavel Smerdyakov, Agrafena Alexandrovna Svetlova, Katerina Ivanovna Verkhovtseva, Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, Father Zosima, the Elder, Ilyusha, Nikolai Krassotkin</characters>
                <date>06/14/02</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Russia, Literature, Russian Literature, Philosophy, Novels, 19th Century, Classic Literature, Religion</genres>
                <id>1054</id>
                <synopsis>"The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons―the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, is social and spiritual striving, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian culture.This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky remains true to the verbalinventiveness of Dostoevsky’s prose, preserving the multiple voices, the humor, and the surprising modernity of the original. It is an achievement worthy of Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel."</synopsis>
                <title>The Brothers Karamazov</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Frank McCourt</author>
                <characters>Frank McCourt</characters>
                <date>10/03/2005</date>
                <genres>Nonfiction, Memoir, Biography, Classics, Ireland, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, History, Irish Literature, Historical</genres>
                <id>1055</id>
                <synopsis>"Imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion. This is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic.""When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood."" So begins the Pulitzer Prize winning memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank's mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank's father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages. Yet Malachy- exasperating, irresponsible and beguiling- does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story. Frank lives for his father's tales of Cuchulain, who saved Ireland, and of the Angel on the Seventh Step, who brings his mother babies. Perhaps it is story that accounts for Frank's survival. Wearing rags for diapers, begging a pig's head for Christmas dinner and gathering coal from the roadside to light a fire, Frank endures poverty, near-starvation and the casual cruelty of relatives and neighbors-yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence, exuberance and remarkable forgiveness. Angela's Ashes, imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion, is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic."</synopsis>
                <title>Angela's Ashes</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Richelle Mead </author>
                <characters>Vasilisa ""Lissa"" Dragomir, Dimitri Belikov, Christian Ozera, Mason Ashford, Victor Dashkov, Mia Rinaldi, Janine Hathaway, Natalie Dashkov, Edison ""Eddie"" Castile, Ellen Kirova, Rosemarie ""Rose"" Hathaway, Camille Conta, Stan Alto, Jesse Zeklos, Tatiana Ivashkov</characters>
                <date>08/16/07</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Fantasy, Vampires, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Supernatural, Paranormal Romance, Magic</genres>
                <id>1056</id>
                <synopsis>"ONLY A TRUE BEST FRIEND CAN PROTECT YOU FROM YOUR IMMORTAL ENEMIES...Lissa Dragomir is a Moroi princess: a mortal vampire with a rare gift for harnessing the earth's magic. She must be protected at all times from Strigoi; the fiercest vampires - the ones who never die. The powerful blend of human and vampire blood that flows through Rose Hathaway, Lissa's best friend, makes her a dhampir. Rose is dedicated to a dangerous life of protecting Lissa from the Strigoi, who are hell-bent on making Lissa one of them.After two years of freedom, Rose and Lissa are caught and dragged back to St. Vladimir's Academy, a school for vampire royalty and their guardians-to-be, hidden in the deep forests of Montana. But inside the iron gates, life is even more fraught with danger... and the Strigoi are always close by.Rose and Lissa must navigate their dangerous world, confront the temptations of forbidden love, and never once let their guard down, lest the evil undead make Lissa one of them forever..."</synopsis>
                <title>Vampire Academy</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Barbara Kingsolver</author>
                <characters>Orleanna Price, Ruth May Price, Rachel Rebeccah Price, Leah Price, Nathan Price, Dr Bud Wharton, Adah Price, Reverend &amp; Mrs. Underdown</characters>
                <date>07/05/2005</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Historical Fiction, Africa, Classics, Historical, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels, Religion, Adult Fiction</genres>
                <id>1057</id>
                <synopsis>"The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it - from garden seeds to Scripture - is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa."</synopsis>
                <title>The Poisonwood Bible</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Philip Pullman</author>
                <characters>Lyra Belacqua, Pantalaimon, Lord Asriel, Iorek Byrnison, Iofur Raknison, Marisa Coulter, Lee Scoresby, Roger Parslow, Serafina Pekkala, Hester, Farder Coram, John Faa, Billy Costa</characters>
                <date>04/16/96</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Adventure, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Steampunk, Middle Grade, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1058</id>
                <synopsis>"Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal-including her friend Roger. North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world.Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra: a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want-but what Lyra doesn't know is that to help one of them will be to betray the other."</synopsis>
                <title>The Golden Compass</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, John Rutherford (Translator), Roberto González Echevarría (Introduction)</author>
                <characters>Sancho Panza, Don Quijote de la Mancha</characters>
                <date>02/25/03</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Literature, Spanish Literature, Adventure, Novels, Historical Fiction, Spain, Humor, Classic Literature</genres>
                <id>1059</id>
                <synopsis>"Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances that he determines to become a knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, his exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray—he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants—Sancho acquires cunning and a certain sagacity. Sane madman and wise fool, they roam the world together, and together they have haunted readers' imaginations for nearly four hundred years.With its experimental form and literary playfulness, Don Quixote has been generally recognized as the first modern novel. The book has been enormously influential on a host of writers, from Fielding and Sterne to Flaubert, Dickens, Melville, and Faulkner, who reread it once a year, ""just as some people read the Bible."""</synopsis>
                <title>Don Quixote</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff  (Introduction)</author>
                <characters>Prometheus (mythology), Atlas, Dagny Taggart, John Galt, Hank Rearden, ""Francisco d''Anconia"", James Taggart</characters>
                <date>08/01/1999</date>
                <genres>Classics, Philosophy, Literature, Politics, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Economics, Novels, Audiobook, Fiction</genres>
                <id>1060</id>
                <synopsis>"This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world and did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators?Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies, but against those who needed him most, and his hardest battle against the woman he loved? What is the world’s motor — and the motive power of every man? You will know the answer to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the characters in this story. Tremendous in its scope, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life — from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy — to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction — to the philosopher who becomes a pirate — to the composer who gives up his career on the night of his triumph — to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad — to the lowest track worker in her Terminal tunnels. You must be prepared, when you read this novel, to check every premise at the root of your convictions.This is a mystery story, not about the murder — and rebirth — of man’s spirit. It is a philosophical revolution, told in the form of an action thriller of violent events, a ruthlessly brilliant plot structure and an irresistible suspense. Do you say this is impossible? Well, that is the first of your premises to check."</synopsis>
                <title>Atlas Shrugged</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Sirius Black, Draco Malfoy, Ron Weasley, Petunia Dursley, Vernon Dursley, Dudley Dursley, Severus Snape, Rubeus Hagrid, Minerva McGonagall, Neville Longbottom, Fred Weasley, George Weasley, Percy Weasley, Ginny Weasley, Colin Creevey, Filius Flitwick, Pomona Sprout, Arthur Weasley, Molly Weasley, Cho Chang, Marjorie Dursley, Cornelius Fudge, Remus Lupin, Sybil Trelawney, Peter Pettigrew, Poppy Pomfrey, Stan Shunpike, Oliver Wood, Cedric Diggory, Dean Thomas, Seamus Finnigan, Rolanda Hooch, Katie Bell, Ernie Prang, Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger</characters>
                <date>05/01/2004</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Magic, Childrens, Adventure, Middle Grade, Audiobook, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1061</id>
                <synopsis>"Harry Potter's third year at Hogwarts is full of new dangers. A convicted murderer, Sirius Black, has broken out of Azkaban prison, and it seems he's after Harry. Now Hogwarts is being patrolled by the dementors, the Azkaban guards who are hunting Sirius. But Harry can't imagine that Sirius or, for that matter, the evil Lord Voldemort could be more frightening than the dementors themselves, who have the terrible power to fill anyone they come across with aching loneliness and despair. Meanwhile, life continues as usual at Hogwarts. A top-of-the-line broom takes Harry's success at Quidditch, the sport of the Wizarding world, to new heights. A cute fourth-year student catches his eye. And he becomes close with the new Defense of the Dark Arts teacher, who was a childhood friend of his father. Yet despite the relative safety of life at Hogwarts and the best efforts of the dementors, the threat of Sirius Black grows ever closer. But if Harry has learned anything from his education in wizardry, it is that things are often not what they seem. Tragic revelations, heartwarming surprises, and high-stakes magical adventures await the boy wizard in this funny and poignant third installment of the beloved series.-scholastic.com"</synopsis>
                <title>Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ernest Hemingway</author>
                <characters>Santiago, Manolin</characters>
                <date>10/28/96</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Literature, Novels, American, School, Adventure, Classic Literature, Literary Fiction, 20th Century</genres>
                <id>1062</id>
                <synopsis>"Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereThis short novel, already a modern classic, is the superbly told, tragic story of a Cuban fisherman in the Gulf Stream and the giant Marlin he kills and loses — specifically referred to in the citation accompanying the author's Nobel Prize for literature in 1954."</synopsis>
                <title>The Old Man and the Sea</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Winnie the Pooh (A.A. Milne), Christopher Robin (A.A. Milne), Piglet (A.A. Milne), Owl (A.A. Milne), Kanga (A.A. Milne), Roo (A.A. Milne), Eeyore (A.A. Milne), Rabbit (A.A. Milne)</characters>
                <date>10/01/2001</date>
                <genres>Classics, Childrens, Fiction, Fantasy, Animals, Picture Books, Young Adult, Audiobook, Middle Grade, Juvenile</genres>
                <id>1063</id>
                <synopsis>"The adventures of Christopher Robin and his friends in which Pooh Bear uses a balloon to get honey, Piglet meets a Heffalump, and Eeyore has a birthday."</synopsis>
                <title>Winnie-the-Pooh</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Anne Rice</author>
                <characters>Lestat de Lioncourt, Claudia, Daniel Molloy, Louis de Pointe du Lac</characters>
                <date>08/31/04</date>
                <genres>Horror, Fantasy, Fiction, Vampires, Paranormal, Supernatural, Classics, Gothic, Urban Fantasy, Historical Fiction</genres>
                <id>1064</id>
                <synopsis>"This is the story of Louis, as told in his own words, of his journey through mortal and immortal life. Louis recounts how he became a vampire at the hands of the radiant and sinister Lestat and how he became indoctrinated, unwillingly, into the vampire way of life. His story ebbs and flows through the streets of New Orleans, defining crucial moments such as his discovery of the exquisite lost young child Claudia, wanting not to hurt but to comfort her with the last breaths of humanity he has inside. Yet, he makes Claudia a vampire, trapping her womanly passion, will, and intelligence inside the body of a small child. Louis and Claudia form a seemingly unbreakable alliance and even ""settle down"" for a while in the opulent French Quarter. Louis remembers Claudia's struggle to understand herself and the hatred they both have for Lestat that sends them halfway across the world to seek others of their kind. Louis and Claudia are desperate to find somewhere they belong, to find others who understand, and someone who knows what and why they are.Louis and Claudia travel Europe, eventually coming to Paris and the ragingly successful Theatre des Vampires-a theatre of vampires pretending to be mortals pretending to be vampires. Here they meet the magnetic and ethereal Armand, who brings them into a whole society of vampires. But Louis and Claudia find that finding others like themselves provides no easy answers and in fact presents dangers they scarcely imagined.Originally begun as a short story, the book took off as Anne wrote it, spinning the tragic and triumphant life experiences of a soul. As well as the struggles of its characters, Interview captures the political and social changes of two continents. The novel also introduces Lestat, Anne's most enduring character, a heady mixture of attraction and revulsion. The book, full of lush description, centers on the themes of immortality, change, loss, sexuality, and power.source: annerice.com"</synopsis>
                <title>Interview with the Vampire</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>John Irving </author>
                <characters>Owen Meany, John Wheelwright</characters>
                <date>10/28/90</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Contemporary, Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, Historical Fiction, Adult Fiction, Coming Of Age, American</genres>
                <id>1065</id>
                <synopsis>"Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen doesn't believe in accidents; he believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul is both extraordinary and terrifying. At moments a comic, self-deluded victim, but in the end the principal, tragic actor in a divine plan, Owen Meany is the most heartbreaking hero John Irving has yet created."</synopsis>
                <title>A Prayer for Owen Meany</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Herman Melville, Andrew Delbanco (Introduction), Tom Quirk (Notes), Rockwell Kent (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Elijah, Stubb, Captain Ahab, Ishmael, Queequeg, Starbuck, Tashtego, Dough-boy, Flask, Daggoo, Fedallah, Pippin (""Pip""), Moby Dick, Mapple Priest, Peleg, Bildad, Fleece, Perth, Peter Coffin, Aunt Charity, Mrs Hussey</characters>
                <date>02/21/03</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Literature, Adventure, Novels, Historical Fiction, American, Classic Literature, 19th Century, Unfinished</genres>
                <id>1066</id>
                <synopsis>"""It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it."" So Melville wrote of his masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. In part, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopaedia of whaling lore and legend, the book can be seen as part of its author's lifelong meditation on America. Written with wonderfully redemptive humour, Moby-Dick is also a profound inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception.This edition of Moby-Dick, which reproduces the definitive text of the novel, includes invaluable explanatory notes, along with maps, illustrations, and a glossary of nautical terms."</synopsis>
                <title>Moby-Dick or, the Whale</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Anita Diamant </author>
                <characters>Isaac (Bible), Dinah (Bible), Jacob (Bible)</characters>
                <date>10/28/97</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Religion, Book Club, Feminism, Adult, Adult Fiction, Womens, Novels</genres>
                <id>1067</id>
                <synopsis>"Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that are about her father, Jacob, and his dozen sons. Told in Dinah's voice, this novel reveals the traditions and turmoils of ancient womanhood—the world of the red tent. It begins with the story of her mothers—Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah—the four wives of Jacob. They love Dinah and give her gifts that sustain her through a hard-working youth, a calling to midwifery, and a new home in a foreign land. Dinah's story reaches out from a remarkable period of early history and creates an intimate connection with the past. Deeply affecting, The Red Tent combines rich storytelling with a valuable achievement in modern fiction: a new view of biblical women's society."</synopsis>
                <title>The Red Tent</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Sue Monk Kidd </author>
                <characters>Lily Owens, Rosaleen, August Boatwright, June Boatwright, May Boatwright, T. Ray Owens</characters>
                <date>01/28/03</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Classics, Adult Fiction, Historical, Contemporary, Adult, Coming Of Age, Chick Lit</genres>
                <id>1068</id>
                <synopsis>"Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted black ""stand-in mother,"" Rosaleen, insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily decides to spring them both free. They escape to Tiburon, South Carolina-a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters, Lily is introduced to their mesmerizing world of bees and honey, and the Black Madonna. This is a remarkable novel about divine female power, a story women will share and pass on to their daughters for years to come."</synopsis>
                <title>The Secret Life of Bees</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Cassandra Clare , Rita Sussekind (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Theresa ""Tessa"" Gray, Magnus Bane, William Herondale, James ""Jem"" Carstairs, Jessamine Lovelace, Henry Branwell, Charlotte Branwell, Nathaniel Gray, Camille Belcourt, Sophie Collins</characters>
                <date>08/31/10</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Paranormal, Romance, Steampunk, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Vampires, Angels</genres>
                <id>1069</id>
                <synopsis>"In a time when Shadowhunters are barely winning the fight against the forces of darkness, one battle will change the course of history forever. Welcome to the Infernal Devices trilogy, a stunning and dangerous prequel to the New York Times bestselling Mortal Instruments series.The year is 1878. Tessa Gray descends into London’s dark supernatural underworld in search of her missing brother. She soon discovers that her only allies are the demon-slaying Shadowhunters—including Will and Jem, the mysterious boys she is attracted to. Soon they find themselves up against the Pandemonium Club, a secret organization of vampires, demons, warlocks, and humans. Equipped with a magical army of unstoppable clockwork creatures, the Club is out to rule the British Empire, and only Tessa and her allies can stop them..."</synopsis>
                <title>Clockwork Angel</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Agatha Christie</author>
                <characters>Justice Lawrence John Wargrave, Vera Elizabeth Claythorne, Philip Lombard, General John Gordon Macarthur, Dr Edward George Armstrong, Anthony James Marston, William Henry Blore, Mr Thomas Rogers, Mrs Ethel Rogers, Emily Caroline Brent, Isaac Morris, Fred Narracott</characters>
                <date>05/03/2004</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Classics, Fiction, Crime, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, Adult, Suspense, Novels</genres>
                <id>1070</id>
                <synopsis>"First, there were ten—a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a little private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unknown to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they're unwilling to reveal—and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder. A famous nursery rhyme is framed and hung in every room of the mansion:""Ten little boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine. Nine little boys sat up very late; One overslept himself and then there were eight. Eight little boys traveling in Devon; One said he'd stay there then there were seven. Seven little boys chopping up sticks; One chopped himself in half and then there were six. Six little boys playing with a hive; A bumblebee stung one and then there were five. Five little boys going in for law; One got in Chancery and then there were four. Four little boys going out to sea; A red herring swallowed one and then there were three. Three little boys walking in the zoo; A big bear hugged one and then there were two. Two little boys sitting in the sun; One got frizzled up and then there was one. One little boy left all alone; He went out and hanged himself and then there were none.""When they realize that murders are occurring as described in the rhyme, terror mounts. One by one they fall prey. Before the weekend is out, there will be none. Who has choreographed this dastardly scheme? And who will be left to tell the tale? Only the dead are above suspicion."</synopsis>
                <title>And Then There Were None</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jeffrey Eugenides</author>
                <characters>Calliope Stephanides, Eleutherios Stephanides, Desdemona Stephanides, Sourmelina Zizmo, Miltiades Stephanides, Theodora Stephanides, Chapter Eleven, The Obscure Object, James Zizmo, Michael Antoniou</characters>
                <date>09/16/03</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, LGBT, Literary Fiction, Novels, Classics, Literature, Queer, Adult</genres>
                <id>1071</id>
                <synopsis>"Middlesex tells the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides, and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family, who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City and the race riots of 1967 before moving out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret, and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic."</synopsis>
                <title>Middlesex</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Mikhail Bulgakov, Katherine Tiernan O'Connor (Translator), Ellendea Proffer (Annotations and Afterword), Diana Lewis Burgin (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Lucifer, Pontius Pilate, Caiaphas, Woland, Behemot, Jesus, Master, Margarita Nicolaevna, Ivan Bezdomny, Yeshua Ha-Nozri, David (Bible)</characters>
                <date>03/28/96</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Russia, Fantasy, Russian Literature, Magical Realism, Literature, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century</genres>
                <id>1072</id>
                <synopsis>"The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece.An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and Pontius Pilate, The Master and Margarita is recognized as one of the essential classics of modern Russian literature. The novel's vision of Soviet life in the 1930s is so ferociously accurate that it could not be published during its author's lifetime and appeared only in a censored edition in the 1960s. Its truths are so enduring that its language has become part of the common Russian speech.One hot spring, the devil arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and an immense talking black cat with a fondness for chess and vodka. The visitors quickly wreak havoc in a city that refuses to believe in either God or Satan. But they also bring peace to two unhappy Muscovites: one is the Master, a writer pilloried for daring to write a novel about Christ and Pontius Pilate; the other is Margarita, who loves the Master so deeply that she is willing literally to go to hell for him. What ensues is a novel of inexhaustible energy, humor, and philosophical depth, a work whose nuances emerge for the first time in Diana Burgin's and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor's splendid English version.(back cover)"</synopsis>
                <title>The Master and Margarita</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Patrick Rothfuss </author>
                <characters>Bast, Denna, Ambrose, Kvothe, Simmon, Wilem, The Chandrian, Devi, Auri, Fela, Chronicler</characters>
                <date>04/28/07</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Magic, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adult, Adventure, Audiobook, Epic</genres>
                <id>1073</id>
                <synopsis>"Told in Kvothe's own voice, this is the tale of the magically gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen. The intimate narrative of his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-ridden city, his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, and his life as a fugitive after the murder of a king form a gripping coming-of-age story unrivaled in recent literature. A high-action story written with a poet's hand, The Name of the Wind is a masterpiece that will transport readers into the body and mind of a wizard."</synopsis>
                <title>The Name of the Wind</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Stephen King </author>
                <characters>Wendy Torrance, Danny Torrance, Dick Halloran, Horace Derwent, Stuart Ullman, Albert Shockley, Delberg Grady, Watson, Bill Edmonds, Charles Grondin, Sylvia Hunter Derwent, Howard Cottrell, Larry Durkin, Jack Torrance</characters>
                <date>07/01/1980</date>
                <genres>Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Classics, Fantasy, Mystery, Paranormal, Suspense, Novels, Adult</genres>
                <id>1074</id>
                <synopsis>"Jack Torrance's new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he'll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. But as the harsh winter weather sets in, the idyllic location feels ever more remote...and more sinister. And the only one to notice the strange and terrible forces gathering around the Overlook is Danny Torrance, a uniquely gifted five-year-old."</synopsis>
                <title>The Shining</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Mark Twain, Guy Cardwell (Annotations), John Seelye (Introduction)</author>
                <characters>Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer</characters>
                <date>02/28/06</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Adventure, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Literature, Childrens, School, Novels, American</genres>
                <id>1075</id>
                <synopsis>"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer revolves around the youthful adventures of the novel's schoolboy protagonist, Thomas Sawyer, whose reputation precedes him for causing mischief and strife. Tom lives with his Aunt Polly, half-brother Sid, and cousin Mary in the quaint town of St. Petersburg, just off the shore of the Mississippi River. St. Petersburg is described as a typical small-town atmosphere where the Christian faith is predominant, the social network is close-knit, and familiarity resides.  Unlike his brother Sid, Tom receives ""lickings"" from his Aunt Polly; ever the mischief-maker, would rather play hooky than attend school and often sneaks out his bedroom window at night to adventure with his friend, Huckleberry Finn ­ the town's social outcast. Tom, despite his dread of schooling, is extremely clever and would normally get away with his pranks if Sid were not such a ""tattle-tale.""  As punishment for skipping school to go swimming, Aunt Polly assigns Tom the chore of whitewashing the fence surrounding the house. In a brilliant scheme, Tom is able to con the neighborhood boys into completing the chore for him, managing to convince them of the joys of whitewashing. At school, Tom is equally as flamboyant, and attracts attention by chasing other boys, yelling, and running around. With his usual antics, Tom attempts to catch the eye of Becky Thatcher, a new girl in town, and persuades her to get ""engaged"" by kissing him. But their romance collapses when she learns Tom has been ""engaged"" previously to Amy Lawrence. Shortly after Becky shuns him, he accompanies Huckleberry Finn to the graveyard at night, where they witness the murder of Dr. Robinson.Excerpt:""TOM!"" No answer. ""TOM!"" No answer. ""What's gone with that boy,  I wonder? You TOM!"" No answer. The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never looked through them for so small a thing as a boy; they were her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for ""style,"" not service—she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well. She looked perplexed for a moment, and then said, not fiercely, but still loud enough for the furniture to hear: ""Well, I lay if I get hold of you I'll—"" She did not finish, for by this time she was bending down and punching under the bed with the broom, and so she needed breath to punctuate the punches with. She resurrected nothing but the cat. ""I never did see the beat of that boy!"""</synopsis>
                <title>The Adventures of Tom Sawyer</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Christopher Paolini </author>
                <characters>Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle), Saphira (The Inheritance Cycle), Roran Garrowsson, Arya (The Inheritance Cycle), Brom (The Inheritance Cycle), Orik (The Inheritance Cycle), Horst (The Inheritance Cycle), Murtagh (The Inheritance Cycle), Solembum, Queen Islanzadi, Angela the Herbalist</characters>
                <date>04/28/05</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Dragons, Adventure, Magic, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy, Childrens</genres>
                <id>1076</id>
                <synopsis>"An alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780375826696 can be found here.One boy...One dragon...A world of adventure. When Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy; perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter. But when the stone brings a dragon hatchling, Eragon soon realizes he has stumbled upon a legacy nearly as old as the Empire itself. Overnight his simple life is shattered, and he is thrust into a perilous new world of destiny, magic, and power. With only an ancient sword and the advice of an old storyteller for guidance, Eragon and the fledgling dragon must navigate the dangerous terrain and dark enemies of an Empire ruled by a king whose evil knows no bounds. Can Eragon take up the mantle of the legendary Dragon Riders? The fate of the Empire may rest in his hands."</synopsis>
                <title>Eragon</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Mark Haddon</author>
                <characters>Christopher John Francis Boone, Toby, Siobhan, Mr. Jeavons, Mrs. Alexander, Ed Boone, Judy Boone, Mr. Roger Shears, Mrs. Eileen Shears, Rhodri, Wellington</characters>
                <date>05/18/04</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult, Contemporary, Novels, Classics, Psychology, Literature, Realistic Fiction, Adult Fiction</genres>
                <id>1077</id>
                <synopsis>"Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow.Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, for fifteen-year-old Christopher everyday interactions and admonishments have little meaning. He lives on patterns, rules, and a diagram kept in his pocket. Then one day, a neighbor's dog, Wellington, is killed and his carefully constructive universe is threatened. Christopher sets out to solve the murder in the style of his favourite (logical) detective, Sherlock Holmes. What follows makes for a novel that is funny, poignant and fascinating in its portrayal of a person whose curse and blessing are a mind that perceives the world entirely literally."</synopsis>
                <title>The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Mitch Albom </author>
                <characters>Mitch Albom, Morrie Schwartz</characters>
                <date>10/28/00</date>
                <genres>Nonfiction, Memoir, Biography, Inspirational, Classics, Philosophy, Self Help, Contemporary, Adult, Biography Memoir</genres>
                <id>1078</id>
                <synopsis>"Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago.Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you? Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying of ALS - or motor neurone disease - Mitch visited Morrie in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final 'class': lessons in how to live."</synopsis>
                <title>Tuesdays with Morrie</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Sabine, Franz, Tomáš, Tereza, Karenin</characters>
                <date>10/27/09</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Philosophy, Literature, Novels, Czech Literature, Romance, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, 20th Century</genres>
                <id>1079</id>
                <synopsis>"In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. This magnificent novel juxtaposes geographically distant places, brilliant and playful reflections, and a variety of styles, to take its place as perhaps the major achievement of one of the world’s truly great writers."</synopsis>
                <title>The Unbearable Lightness of Being</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Wilson Rawls</author>
                <characters>Billy Colman, Old Dan, Little Ann</characters>
                <date>05/09/2000</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Animals, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade, School, Realistic Fiction, Read For School</genres>
                <id>1081</id>
                <synopsis>"A loving threesome, they ranged the dark hills and river bottoms of Cherokee country. Old Dan had the brawn. Little Ann had the brains, and Billy had the will to make them into the finest hunting team in the valley. Glory and victory were coming to them, but sadness waited too. Where the Red Fern Grows is an exciting tale of love and adventure you'll never forget."</synopsis>
                <title>Where the Red Fern Grows</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Draco Malfoy, Ron Weasley, Petunia Dursley, Vernon Dursley, Dudley Dursley, Severus Snape, Rubeus Hagrid, Lord Voldemort, Minerva McGonagall, Neville Longbottom, Fred Weasley, George Weasley, Percy Weasley, Ginny Weasley, Colin Creevey, Filius Flitwick, Gilderoy Lockhart, Lucius Malfoy, Pomona Sprout, Arthur Weasley, Molly Weasley, Cornelius Fudge, Poppy Pomfrey, Oliver Wood, Dobby, Parvati Patil, Dean Thomas, James Potter, Seamus Finnigan, Rolanda Hooch, Katie Bell, Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger</characters>
                <date>06/02/1999</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Magic, Childrens, Middle Grade, Adventure, Audiobook, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1082</id>
                <synopsis>"Ever since Harry Potter had come home for the summer, the Dursleys had been so mean and hideous that all Harry wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he’s packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange impish creature who says that if Harry returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike.And strike it does. For in Harry’s second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor and a spirit who haunts the girls’ bathroom. But then the real trouble begins – someone is turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possible be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects… Harry Potter himself!"</synopsis>
                <title>Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas E. Connolly (Annotations), Nina Baym (Introduction)</author>
                <characters>Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth, Pearl Prynne</characters>
                <date>02/27/03</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, School, Literature, High School, Read For School, Historical, Classic Literature, American</genres>
                <id>1083</id>
                <synopsis>"Nathaniel Hawthorne's THE SCARLET LETTER reaches to our nation's historical and moral roots for the material of great tragedy. Set in an early New England colony, the novel shows the terrible impact a single, passionate act has on the lives of three members of the community: the defiant Hester Prynne; the fiery, tortured Reverend Dimmesdale; and the obsessed, vengeful Chillingworth.With THE SCARLET LETTER, Hawthorne became the first American novelist to forge from our Puritan heritage a universal classic, a masterful exploration of humanity's unending struggle with sin, guilt and pride."</synopsis>
                <title>The Scarlet Letter</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Truman Capote</author>
                <characters>Perry Edward Smith, Richard Hickock, Herb Clutter, Bonnie Clutter, Nancy Clutter, Kenyon Clutter, Alvin Dewey</characters>
                <date>10/28/94</date>
                <genres>Nonfiction, Classics, True Crime, Crime, Mystery, History, Literature, Thriller, American, Biography</genres>
                <id>1084</id>
                <synopsis>"On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. At the center of his study are the amoral young killers Perry Smith and Dick Hickcock, who, vividly drawn by Capote, are shown to be reprehensible yet entirely and frighteningly human. In Cold Blood is a seminal work of modern prose, a remarkable synthesis of journalistic skill and powerfully evocative narrative."</synopsis>
                <title>In Cold Blood</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Chuck Palahniuk </author>
                <characters>The Narrator, Tyler Durden, Marla Singer</characters>
                <date>05/01/2018</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Contemporary, Classics, Thriller, Novels, Mystery, Adult, Literature, American, Adult Fiction</genres>
                <id>1085</id>
                <synopsis>"Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation’s most visionary satirist in this, his first book. Fight Club’s estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of Tyler Durden, an enigmatic young man who holds secret after-hours boxing matches in the basement of bars. There, two men fight ""as long as they have to."" This is a gloriously original work that exposes the darkness at the core of our modern world."</synopsis>
                <title>Fight Club</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Mitch Albom </author>
                <characters>Eddie, Marguerite, Tala, Blue Man, Steve Rogers, Ruby</characters>
                <date>09/23/03</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Inspirational, Contemporary, Fantasy, Adult, Spirituality, Classics, Adult Fiction, Philosophy, Novels</genres>
                <id>1086</id>
                <synopsis>"From the author of the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie, a novel that explores the unexpected connections of our lives, and the idea that heaven is more than a place; it's an answer. Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers. One by one, from childhood to soldier to old age, Eddie's five people revisit their connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his ""meaningless"" life, and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: ""Why was I here?"""</synopsis>
                <title>The Five People You Meet in Heaven</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Becca Fitzpatrick </author>
                <characters>Nora Grey, Jev ""Patch"" Cipriano, Vee Sky, Marcie Millar, Rixon, Elliot Saunders</characters>
                <date>10/13/09</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal, Angels, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1087</id>
                <synopsis>"A SACRED OATHA FALLEN ANGELA FORBIDDEN LOVERomance was not part of Nora Grey's plan. She's never been particularly attracted to the boys at her school, no matter how hard her best friend, Vee, pushes them at her. Not until Patch comes along. With his easy smile and eyes that seem to see inside her, Patch draws Nora to him against her better judgment.But after a series of terrifying encounters, Nora's not sure whom to trust. Patch seems to be everywhere she is and seems to know more about her than her closest friends. She can't decide whether she should fall into his arms or run and hide. And when she tries to seek some answers, she finds herself near a truth that is way more unsettling than anything Patch makes her feel.For she is right in the middle of an ancient battle between the immortal and those that have fallen - and, when it comes to choosing sides, the wrong choice will cost Nora her life."</synopsis>
                <title>Hush, Hush</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Alexandre Dumas, Robin Buss (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Edmond Dantès, Abbé Faria, Giovanni Bertuccio, Luigi Vampa, Haydée, Mercédès Mondego, Fernand Mondego, Albert de Morcerf, Baron Danglars, Gérard de Villefort, Valentine de Villefort, Noirtier de Villefort, Héloïse de Villefort, Pierre Morrel, Maximilien Morrel, Beauchamp, ""Franz d''Épinay"", Lucien Debray, Eugénie Danglars, Hermine Danglars, Benedetto, Kadrus (tailor, neighboring)</characters>
                <date>05/27/03</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Adventure, Literature, France, Historical, Classic Literature, Novels, Romance</genres>
                <id>1088</id>
                <synopsis>"Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. Dumas’ epic tale of suffering and retribution, inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, was a huge popular success when it was first serialized in the 1840s.Robin Buss’s lively English translation is complete and unabridged, and remains faithful to the style of Dumas’s original. This edition includes an introduction, explanatory notes and suggestions for further reading."</synopsis>
                <title>The Count of Monte Cristo</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Larry McMurtry</author>
                <characters>Captain Woodrow Call, Augustus ""Gus"" McCrae, Joshua Deets, Newt Dobbs, Pea Eye Parker, Lorena Wood</characters>
                <date>10/01/1999</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Historical Fiction, Westerns, Classics, Historical, Adventure, Novels, Literature, Audiobook, American</genres>
                <id>1089</id>
                <synopsis>"A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize— winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the third book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness of America.Journey to the dusty little Texas town of Lonesome Dove and meet an unforgettable assortment of heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers. Richly authentic, beautifully written, always dramatic, Lonesome Dove is a book to make us laugh, weep, dream, and remember."</synopsis>
                <title>Lonesome Dove</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Patrick Süskind, John E. Woods (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, Giuseppe Baldini, Madame Gaillard, Jeanne Bussie, Father Terrier, Grimal, The Plum Girl, Chénier, Marquis de Taillade-Espinasse, Madame Arnulfi, Dominique Druot, Antoine Richis, Laure Richis</characters>
                <date>10/28/87</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Historical, German Literature, Novels</genres>
                <id>1090</id>
                <synopsis>"An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder.In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift—an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille's genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and fresh-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the ""ultimate perfume""—the scent of a beautiful young virgin. Told with dazzling narrative brilliance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity."</synopsis>
                <title>Perfume: The Story of a Murderer</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Louis Sachar </author>
                <characters>Stanley Yelnats</characters>
                <date>09/02/2000</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Middle Grade, Realistic Fiction, Classics, Mystery, Adventure, School, Contemporary</genres>
                <id>1091</id>
                <synopsis>"Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful lot of holes.It doesn’t take long for Stanley to realize there’s more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. But what could be buried under a dried-up lake? Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment—and redemption."</synopsis>
                <title>Holes</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Alan Moore , Dave Gibbons (Illustrator/Letterer), John Higgins (Colorist)</author>
                <characters>Dr. Manhattan, Rorschach, Hollis Mason, Daniel Dreiberg, Sally Jupiter, Laurel Jupiter, Adrian Veidt, Edward Blake</characters>
                <date>10/28/05</date>
                <genres>Graphic Novels, Comics, Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Classics, Superheroes, Dystopia</genres>
                <id>1092</id>
                <synopsis>"This Hugo Award-winning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the concept of the super-hero is dissected as the heroes are stalked by an unknown assassin.One of the most influential graphic novels of all time and a perennial best-seller, Watchmen has been studied on college campuses across the nation and is considered a gateway title, leading readers to other graphic novels such as V for Vendetta, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and The Sandman series."</synopsis>
                <title>Watchmen</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Stephen King </author>
                <characters>Dick Halloran, Pennywise the Dancing Clown, Bill Denbrough, Richie Tozier, Eddie Kaspbrak, Stan Uris, Ben Hanscom, Beverly Marsh, Mike Hanlon, Frank Dodd, Henry Bowers, Audra Phillips, George Denbrough, Adrian Mellon, Patrick Hockstetter, American Law Enforcement</characters>
                <date>10/01/1987</date>
                <genres>Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Audiobook, Mystery, Adult, Paranormal, Classics, Novels</genres>
                <id>1093</id>
                <synopsis>"Welcome to Derry, Maine ...It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real ...They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them can withstand the force that has drawn them back to Derry to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name."</synopsis>
                <title>It</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Rick Riordan </author>
                <characters>Nico di Angelo, Thalia Grace, Tyson, Annabeth Chase, Demeter (Goddess), Luke Castellan, Hera, Hades, Will Solace, Percy Jackson</characters>
                <date>05/05/2009</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Mythology, Fiction, Middle Grade, Adventure, Childrens, Greek Mythology, Urban Fantasy, Magic</genres>
                <id>1094</id>
                <synopsis>"All year the half-bloods have been preparing for battle against the Titans, knowing the odds of victory are grim. Kronos's army is stronger than ever, and with every god and half-blood he recruits, the evil Titan's power only grows.While the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster Typhon, Kronos begins his advance on New York City, where Mount Olympus stands virtually unguarded. Now it's up to Percy Jackson and an army of young demigods to stop the Lord of Time. In this momentous final book in the New York Times best-selling series, the long-awaited prophecy surrounding Percy's sixteenth birthday unfolds. And as the battle for Western civilization rages on the streets of Manhattan, Percy faces a terrifying suspicion that he may be fighting against his own fate."</synopsis>
                <title>The Last Olympian</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Dante Alighieri, Allen Mandelbaum (Translator), Eugenio Montale (Introduction)</author>
                <characters>Virgilio (Publius Vergilius Maro), Lucifer, Odysseus, Achilles (Greek hero), Dante Alighieri, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Brutus, Attila the Hun, Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, Cleopatra, Trajan (emperor), Cerberus, Roland, Dido of Carthage, Julius Caesar, Charon (mythology), Beatrice (Dante), Francesca da Rimini, Saul (biblical king), Judas Iscariot, Mary (mother of Jesus)</characters>
                <date>08/01/1995</date>
                <genres>Classics, Poetry, Fiction, Literature, Religion, Philosophy, Fantasy, Italian Literature, Italy, Classic Literature</genres>
                <id>1095</id>
                <synopsis>"The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and encounter with his dead love, Beatrice; and finally, his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions of faith, desire and enlightenment, the poem is a brilliantly nuanced and moving allegory of human redemption. Dante Alighieri was born in Florence in 1265 and belonged to a noble but impoverished family. His life was divided by political duties and poetry, the most of famous of which was inspired by his meeting with Bice Portinari, whom he called Beatrice,including La Vita Nuova and The Divine Comedy. He died in Ravenna in 1321."</synopsis>
                <title>The Divine Comedy</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>J.M. Barrie, Michael Hague (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Peter Pan (J.M. Barrie), Wendy Darling (J.M. Barrie), The Twins, John Darling (J.M. Barrie), Michael Darling (J.M. Barrie), James Hook, Smee (J.M. Barrie), Nibs, Tootles, Slightly, Curly, Tinker Bell (J.M. Barrie)</characters>
                <date>10/01/2003</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Childrens, Adventure, Young Adult, Audiobook, Middle Grade, Fairy Tales, Literature</genres>
                <id>1096</id>
                <synopsis>"Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie Peter Pan, the mischievous boy who refuses to grow up, lands in the Darling's proper middle-class home to look for his shadow. He befriends Wendy, John and Michael and teaches them to fly (with a little help from fairy dust). He and Tinker Bell whisk them off to Never-land where they encounter the Red Indians, the Little Lost Boys, pirates and the dastardly Captain Hook."</synopsis>
                <title>Peter Pan</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>J.R.R. Tolkien</author>
                <characters>Gandalf, Bilbo Baggins, Thorin Oakenshield, Smaug, Elrond Half-elven, Gollum, Dwalin, Balin, Kili, Fili, Dori, Ori, Nori, Oin, Gloin, Bifur, Bofur, Bombur, Beorn, Bard the Bowman</characters>
                <date>08/15/02</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Classics, Fiction, Adventure, Young Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Childrens, Epic Fantasy, Novels</genres>
                <id>1097</id>
                <synopsis>"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.Written for J.R.R. Tolkien’s own children, The Hobbit met with instant critical acclaim when it was first published in 1937. Now recognized as a timeless classic, this introduction to the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, the wizard Gandalf, Gollum, and the spectacular world of Middle-earth recounts of the adventures of a reluctant hero, a powerful and dangerous ring, and the cruel dragon Smaug the Magnificent. The text in this 372-page paperback edition is based on that first published in Great Britain by Collins Modern Classics (1998), and includes a note on the text by Douglas A. Anderson (2001)."</synopsis>
                <title>The Hobbit, or There and Back Again</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Gabriel García Márquez, Edith Grossman (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Fermina Daza, Florentino Ariza, Juvenal Urbino, Lorenzo Daza, Aunt Escolástica, Hildebranda Sánchez, Trànsito Ariza, Leona Cassiani, América Vicuna</characters>
                <date>10/05/2003</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Romance, Magical Realism, Literature, Novels, Spanish Literature, Literary Fiction, Historical</genres>
                <id>1098</id>
                <synopsis>"In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is heartbroken, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs—yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again."</synopsis>
                <title>Love in the Time of Cholera</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Richelle Mead </author>
                <characters>Vasilisa ""Lissa"" Dragomir, Dimitri Belikov, Christian Ozera, Mason Ashford, Adrian Ivashkov, Victor Dashkov, Mia Rinaldi, Janine Hathaway, Jillian Mastrano, Edison ""Eddie"" Castile, Rosemarie ""Rose"" Hathaway, Camille Conta, Stan Alto, Jesse Zeklos, Tatiana Ivashkov, Ryan Aylesworth, Shane Reyes, Brandon Lazar, Dean Barnes</characters>
                <date>11/13/08</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Vampires, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Magic</genres>
                <id>1099</id>
                <synopsis>"WHAT IF FOLLOWING HER HEART MEANS ROSE COULD LOSE HER BEST FRIEND FOREVER?Lissa Dragomir is a Moroi princess: a mortal vampire with a rare gift for harnessing the earth's magic. She must be protected at all times from Strigoi; the fiercest vampires - the ones who never die. The powerful blend of human and vampire blood that flows through Rose Hathaway, Lissa's best friend, makes her a Dhampir. Rose is dedicated to a dangerous life of protecting Lissa from the Strigoi, who are hell-bent on making Lissa one of them.Rose knows it is forbidden to love another guardian. Her best friend, Lissa - the last Dragomir princess - must always come first. Unfortunately, when it comes to gorgeous Dimitri Belikov, some rules are meant to be broken...Then a strange darkness begins to grow in Rose's mind, and ghostly shadows warn of a terrible evil drawing nearer to the Academy's iron gates. The immortal undead are closing in, and they want vengeance for the lives Rose has stolen. In a heart-stopping battle to rival her worst nightmares, Rose will have to choose between life, love, and the two people who matter most... but will her choice mean that only one can survive?"</synopsis>
                <title>Shadow Kiss</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Douglas Adams</author>
                <characters>Zaphod Beeblebrox, Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Trillian, Marvin, the paranoid android</characters>
                <date>04/28/02</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Humor, Fantasy, Classics, Comedy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure, Novels, British Literature</genres>
                <id>1100</id>
                <synopsis>"At last in paperback in one complete volume, here are the five novels from Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker series. ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy""Seconds before the Earth is demolished for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is saved by Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised Guide. Together they stick out their thumbs to the stars and begin a wild journey through time and space.""The Restaurant at the End of the Universe""Facing annihilation at the hands of warmongers is a curious time to crave tea. It could only happen to the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his comrades as they hurtle across the galaxy in a desperate search for a place to eat.""Life, the Universe and Everything""The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky- so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals can avert Armageddon: mild-mannered Arthur Dent and his stalwart crew.""So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish""Back on Earth, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription conspires to thrust him back to reality. So to speak.""Mostly Harmless""Just when Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life, all hell breaks loose. Can he save the Earth from total obliteration? Can he save the Guide from a hostile alien takeover? Can he save his daughter from herself?Also includes the short story ""Young Zaphod Plays It Safe""."</synopsis>
                <title>The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ian McEwan</author>
                <characters>Briony Tallis, Emily Tallis, Cecilia Tallis, Leon Tallis, Lola Quincey, Jackson Quincey, Pierrot Quincey, Paul Marshall, Robbie Turner</characters>
                <date>03/28/03</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance, Classics, Historical, War, Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Literature, Novels</genres>
                <id>1101</id>
                <synopsis>"Ian McEwan’s symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from this master of English prose.On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses the flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant. But Briony’s incomplete grasp of adult motives and her precocious imagination bring about a crime that will change all their lives, a crime whose repercussions Atonement follows through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century."</synopsis>
                <title>Atonement</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Oscar Wilde</author>
                <characters>Lane, John Worthing, Algernon Montcrieff, Cecily Cardew, Gwendolen Fairfax, Miss Prism, Rev. Canon Chasuble, Merriman, Lady Bracknell</characters>
                <date>10/28/05</date>
                <genres>Classics, Plays, Fiction, Drama, Humor, Literature, School, Comedy, Theatre, Romance</genres>
                <id>1102</id>
                <synopsis>"Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements still delights readers more than a century after its 1895 publication and premiere performance. The rapid-fire wit and eccentric characters of The Importance of Being Earnest have made it a mainstay of the high school curriculum for decades.Cecily Cardew and Gwendolen Fairfax are both in love with the same mythical suitor. Jack Worthing has wooed Gwendolen as Ernest while Algernon has also posed as Ernest to win the heart of Jack's ward, Cecily. When all four arrive at Jack's country home on the same weekend the ""rivals"" to fight for Ernest's undivided attention and the ""Ernests"" to claim their beloveds pandemonium breaks loose. Only a senile nursemaid and an old, discarded hand-bag can save the day!This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader appreciate Wilde's wry wit and elaborate plot twists."</synopsis>
                <title>The Importance of Being Earnest</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Elizabeth Gilbert </author>
                <characters>Liz Gilbert, Felipe, Richard from Texas, Wayan</characters>
                <date>02/01/2007</date>
                <genres>Nonfiction, Memoir, Travel, Biography, Chick Lit, Romance, Spirituality, Contemporary, Biography Memoir, Autobiography</genres>
                <id>1103</id>
                <synopsis>"A celebrated writer's irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of life. Around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned thirty, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis. She had everything an educated, ambitious American woman was supposed to want—a husband, a house, a successful career. But instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she was consumed with panic, grief, and confusion. She went through a divorce, a crushing depression, another failed love, and the eradication of everything she ever thought she was supposed to be. To recover from all this, Gilbert took a radical step. In order to give herself the time and space to find out who she really was and what she really wanted, she got rid of her belongings, quit her job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the world—all alone. Eat, Pray, Love is the absorbing chronicle of that year. Her aim was to visit three places where she could examine one aspect of her own nature set against the backdrop of a culture that has traditionally done that one thing very well. In Rome, she studied the art of pleasure, learning to speak Italian and gaining the twenty-three happiest pounds of her life. India was for the art of devotion, and with the help of a native guru and a surprisingly wise cowboy from Texas, she embarked on four uninterrupted months of spiritual exploration. In Bali, she studied the art of balance between worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. She became the pupil of an elderly medicine man and also fell in love the best way—unexpectedly. An intensely articulate and moving memoir of self-discovery, Eat, Pray, Love is about what can happen when you claim responsibility for your own contentment and stop trying to live in imitation of society’s ideals. It is certain to touch anyone who has ever woken up to the unrelenting need for change."</synopsis>
                <title>Eat, Pray, Love</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Zora Neale Hurston</author>
                <characters>Eleanor, Sam Watson, Shelby, Janie Starks, Pheoby Watson, Nanny, Leafy, Johnny Taylor, Logan Killicks, Jody Starks, Tea Cake, Pearl Stone, Mrs. Sumpkins, Lulu Moss, ""Mis'' Washburn"", Mr. Washburn, Miss Nellie, Mayrella</characters>
                <date>05/30/06</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, School, African American, Literature, Novels, Feminism, Read For School, High School</genres>
                <id>1104</id>
                <synopsis>"Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person - no mean feat for a black woman in the '30s. Janie's quest for identity takes her through three marriages and into a journey back to her roots."</synopsis>
                <title>Their Eyes Were Watching God</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>L. Frank Baum, W.W. Denslow (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Uncle Henry, Dorothy Gale, Tin Woodman, Scarecrow, Cowardly Lion, Wicked Witch of the West, Wizard of Oz, Toto, Aunt Em, Good Witch of the North, Wicked Witch of the East, Boq, Stork, Queen of the Field Mice, Guardian of the Gates, Soldier with the Green Whiskers, Jellia Jamb, Gayelette, Quelala, Glinda, Munchkins, Kalidahs, Winged Monkeys, Winkies, Hammer-Heads, Uncle Henry, Dorothy Gale, Tin Woodman, Scarecrow, Cowardly Lion, Wicked Witch of the West, Wizard of Oz, Toto, Aunt Em, Good Wi</characters>
                <date>10/28/95</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Childrens, Young Adult, Adventure, Audiobook, Middle Grade, Magic, Literature</genres>
                <id>1105</id>
                <synopsis>"When Dorothy and her little dog Toto are caught in a tornado, they and their Kansas farmhouse are suddenly transported to Oz, where Munchkins live, monkeys fly and Wicked Witches rule. Desperate to return home, and with the Wicked Witch of the West on their trail, Dorothy and Toto - together with new friends the Tin Woodsman, Scarecrow and cowardly Lion - embark on a fantastic quest along the Yellow Brick Road in search of the Emerald City. There they hope to meet the legendary, all-powerful Wizard of Oz, who alone may hold the power to grant their every wish.Just as captivating as it was a hundred years ago, this is a story that all ages will love."</synopsis>
                <title>The Wonderful Wizard of Oz</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Dr. Seuss</author>
                <characters>Lorax, Swomee-Swans, Brown Bar-ba-loots, Humming-Fishes</characters>
                <date>02/24/98</date>
                <genres>Childrens, Picture Books, Fiction, Classics, Poetry, Fantasy, Environment, Young Adult, Kids, Juvenile</genres>
                <id>1106</id>
                <synopsis>"""UNLESS someone like you...cares a whole awful lot...nothing is going to get better...It's not."" Long before saving the earth became a global concern, Dr. Seuss, speaking through his character the Lorax, warned against mindless progress and the danger it posed to the earth's natural beauty. His classic cautionary tale is now available in an irresistible mini-edition, perfect for backpack or briefcase, for Arbor Day, Earth Day, and every day."</synopsis>
                <title>The Lorax</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Richelle Mead </author>
                <characters>Sydney Sage, Vasilisa ""Lissa"" Dragomir, Dimitri Belikov, Christian Ozera, Adrian Ivashkov, Mia Rinaldi, Janine Hathaway, Avery Lazar, Jillian Mastrano, Abe Mazur, Rosemarie ""Rose"" Hathaway, Olena Belikov</characters>
                <date>08/25/09</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Vampires, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Magic</genres>
                <id>1107</id>
                <synopsis>"Bound by love, but sworn to kill...The world thought Dimitri was dead. And to a certain extent, he was. But I hadn't been able to forget a conversation he and I had once had. We'd both agreed that we'd rather be dead - truly dead - than walk the world as Strigoi. It was time to honor our words.Guardian Rose Hathaway's life will never be the same. The recent attack on St. Vladimir's Academy devastated the entire Moroi world. Many are dead. And, for the few victims carried off by Strigoi, their fates are even worse. A rare tattoo now adorns Rose's neck; a mark that says she's killed far too many Strigoi to count.But only one victim matters... Dimitri Belikov. Rose must now choose one of two very different paths: honoring her life's vow to protect Lissa—her best friend and the last surviving Dragomir princess—or, dropping out of the Academy to strike out on her own and hunt down the man she loves. She'll have to go to the ends of the earth to find Dimitri and keep the promise he begged her to make. But the question is, when the time comes, will he want to be saved?Now, with everything at stake—and worlds away from St. Vladimir's and her unguarded, vulnerable, and newly rebellious best friend—can Rose find the strength to destroy Dimitri? Or, will she sacrifice herself for a chance at eternal love?Readers who fell in love with Rose, Lissa, and Dimitri won't want to miss Blood Promise, the much-anticipated, epic fourth novel in Richelle Mead's enthralling Vampire Academy series."</synopsis>
                <title>Blood Promise</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Pearl S. Buck</author>
                <characters>Wang Lung, O-lan</characters>
                <date>03/04/2009</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, China, Literature, Historical, Asia, Novels, School, Classic Literature</genres>
                <id>1108</id>
                <synopsis>"This tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works, nurturing the land as it nurtures him and his family. Nearby, the nobles of the House of Hwang consider themselves above the land and its workers; but they will soon meet their own downfall.Hard times come upon Wang Lung and his family when flood and drought force them to seek work in the city. The working people riot, breaking into the homes of the rich and forcing them to flee. When Wang Lung shows mercy to one noble and is rewarded, he begins to rise in the world, even as the House of Hwang falls."</synopsis>
                <title>The Good Earth</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Joseph Conrad, Aníbal Fernandes (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Charles Marlow, Kurtz</characters>
                <date>10/01/2003</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Literature, Africa, Historical Fiction, School, Novels, Read For School, Adventure, High School</genres>
                <id>1109</id>
                <synopsis>"Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, was originally a three-part series in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899. It is a story within a story, following a character named Charlie Marlow, who recounts his adventure to a group of men onboard an anchored ship. The story told is of his early life as a ferry boat captain. Although his job was to transport ivory downriver, Charlie develops an interest in investing an ivory procurement agent, Kurtz, who is employed by the government. Preceded by his reputation as a brilliant emissary of progress, Kurtz has now established himself as a god among the natives in “one of the darkest places on earth.” Marlow suspects something else of Kurtz: he has gone mad.A reflection on corruptive European colonialism and a journey into the nightmare psyche of one of the corrupted, Heart of Darkness is considered one of the most influential works ever written."</synopsis>
                <title>Heart of Darkness</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine (Editor), Barbara A. Mowat (Editor), Catherine Belsey (Contributor)</author>
                <characters>Robin Goodfellow, a Puck, Demetrius, Hermia, Lysander (Shakespeare), Theseus (mythology), Peaseblossom, Moth, Cobweb, Mustardseed, Oberon, Titania, Egeus, Philostrate, Peter Quince, Snug, Nick Bottom, Francis Flute, Tom Snout, Robin Starveling, Hippolyta, Hermia (Shakespeare), Helena (Shakespeare)</characters>
                <date>07/28/16</date>
                <genres>Classics, Plays, Fiction, Drama, Fantasy, School, Romance, Literature, Theatre, Poetry</genres>
                <id>1110</id>
                <synopsis>"Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start-Demetrius and Lysander both want Hermia but she only has eyes for Lysander. Bad news is, Hermia's father wants Demetrius for a son-in-law. On the outside is Helena, whose unreturned love burns hot for Demetrius. Hermia and Lysander plan to flee from the city under cover of darkness but are pursued by an enraged Demetrius (who is himself pursued by an enraptured Helena). In the forest, unbeknownst to the mortals, Oberon and Titania (King and Queen of the faeries) are having a spat over a servant boy. The plot twists up when Oberon's head mischief-maker, Puck, runs loose with a flower which causes people to fall in love with the first thing they see upon waking. Throw in a group of labourers preparing a play for the Duke's wedding (one of whom is given a donkey's head and Titania for a lover by Puck) and the complications become fantastically funny."</synopsis>
                <title>A Midsummer Night's Dream</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Cassandra Clare </author>
                <characters>Theresa ""Tessa"" Gray, Magnus Bane, William Herondale, James ""Jem"" Carstairs, Henry Branwell, Charlotte Branwell, Gideon Lightwood, Gabriel Lightwood, Sophie Collins, Cecily Herondale</characters>
                <date>09/05/2013</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Paranormal, Steampunk, Historical Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Angels, Fiction, Historical</genres>
                <id>1111</id>
                <synopsis>"Danger and betrayal, love and loss, secrets and enchantment are woven together in the breathtaking finale to the #1 New York Times bestselling Infernal Devices Trilogy, prequel to the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series.THE INFERNAL DEVICES WILL NEVER STOP COMINGA net of shadows begins to tighten around the Shadowhunters of the London Institute. Mortmain plans to use his Infernal Devices, an army of pitiless automatons, to destroy the Shadowhunters. He needs only one last item to complete his plan: he needs Tessa Gray.Charlotte Branwell, head of the London Institute, is desperate to find Mortmain before he strikes. But when Mortmain abducts Tessa, the boys who lay equal claim to her heart, Jem and Will, will do anything to save her. For though Tessa and Jem are now engaged, Will is as much in love with her as ever.As those who love Tessa rally to rescue her from Mortmain’s clutches, Tessa realizes that the only person who can save her is herself. But can a single girl, even one who can command the power of angels, face down an entire army?Danger and betrayal, secrets and enchantment, and the tangled threads of love and loss intertwine as the Shadowhunters are pushed to the very brink of destruction in the breathtaking conclusion to the Infernal Devices trilogy."</synopsis>
                <title>Clockwork Princess</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kahlil Gibran</author>
                <characters>Al Mustafa, Al Mitra</characters>
                <date>01/01/2010</date>
                <genres>Poetry, Philosophy, Classics, Fiction, Spirituality, Religion, Literature, Inspirational, Self Help, Novels</genres>
                <id>1112</id>
                <synopsis>"Kahlil Gibran’s masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Published in 1923, it has been translated into more than twenty languages, and the American editions alone have sold more than nine million copies.The Prophet is a collection of poetic essays that are philosophical, spiritual, and, above all, inspirational. Gibran’s musings are divided into twenty-eight chapters covering such sprawling topics as love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, housing, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death."</synopsis>
                <title>The Prophet</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Rick Riordan </author>
                <characters>Tyson, Annabeth Chase, Grover Underwood, Luke Castellan, Ares (god), Circe, Blackbeard, Chiron, Hermes, Polyphemus, Clarisse, Percy Jackson</characters>
                <date>04/01/2006</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Mythology, Fiction, Middle Grade, Adventure, Childrens, Urban Fantasy, Greek Mythology, Magic</genres>
                <id>1113</id>
                <synopsis>"The heroic son of Poseidon makes an action-packed comeback in the second must-read installment of Rick Riordan's amazing young readers series. Starring Percy Jackson, a ""half blood"" whose mother is human and whose father is the God of the Sea, Riordan's series combines cliffhanger adventure and Greek mythology lessons that results in true page-turners that get better with each installment.In this episode, The Sea of Monsters, Percy sets out to retrieve the Golden Fleece before his summer camp is destroyed, surpassing the first book's drama and setting the stage for more thrills to come."</synopsis>
                <title>The Sea of Monsters</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Amy Tan </author>
                <characters>Suyuan Woo, June Woo, Lindo Jong, Waverly Jong, An-Mei Hsu, Rose Hsu Jordan, Ying-Ying St. Clair, Lena St. Clair</characters>
                <date>09/21/06</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, China, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Adult, Literature, Asia, Novels</genres>
                <id>1114</id>
                <synopsis>"Four mothers, four daughters, four families, whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's telling the stories. In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Their daughters, who have never heard these stories, think their mothers' advice is irrelevant to their modern American lives – until their own inner crises reveal how much they've unknowingly inherited of their mothers' pasts. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery."</synopsis>
                <title>The Joy Luck Club</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jack London, Avi (Introduction)</author>
                <characters>Buck, Spitz, John Thornton, Francois (The Call of the Wild), Perrault (The Call of the Wild)</characters>
                <date>01/01/2001</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Adventure, Young Adult, Animals, Historical Fiction, Literature, School, Childrens, Novels</genres>
                <id>1115</id>
                <synopsis>"First published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is regarded as Jack London's masterpiece. Based on London's experiences as a gold prospector in the Canadian wilderness and his ideas about nature and the struggle for existence, The Call of the Wild is a tale about unbreakable spirit and the fight for survival in the frozen Alaskan Klondike."</synopsis>
                <title>The Call of the Wild</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Richard Bach , Russell Munson (Photographer)</author>
                <characters>Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Chiang, Fletcher Lynd Seagull</characters>
                <date>02/07/2006</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Philosophy, Fantasy, Spirituality, Inspirational, Self Help, Literature, Novels, Animals</genres>
                <id>1116</id>
                <synopsis>"This is a story for people who follow their hearts and make their own rules...people who get special pleasure out of doing something well, even if only for themselves...people who know there's more to this living than meets the eye: they’ll be right there with Jonathan, flying higher and faster than ever they dreamed.Jonathan Livingston Seagull is no ordinary bird. He believes it is every gull's right to fly, to reach the ultimate freedom of challenge and discovery, finding his greatest reward in teaching younger gulls the joy of flight and the power of dreams. The special 20th anniversary release of this spiritual classic!"</synopsis>
                <title>Jonathan Livingston Seagull</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Gustave Flaubert, Mark Overstall (Contributor), Paul De Man (Editor), Malcolm Bowie (Introduction), Margaret Mauldon (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Emma Bovary, Charles Bovary, Monsieur Homais, Berthe Bovary, Rodolphe Boulanger, Léon Dupuis</characters>
                <date>10/28/04</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, France, Literature, French Literature, Romance, 19th Century, Novels, Historical Fiction, Classic Literature</genres>
                <id>1117</id>
                <synopsis>"'Oh, why, dear God, did I marry him?'Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment, and when real life continues to fail to live up to her romantic expectations, the consequences are devastating. Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted: 'Madame Bovary, c'est moi.'This modern translation by Flaubert's biographer, Geoffrey Wall, retains all the delicacy and precision of the French original. The edition also contains a preface by the novelist Michèle Roberts."</synopsis>
                <title>Madame Bovary</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Norton Juster, Jules Feiffer (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Tock, Humbug, Milo</characters>
                <date>10/28/96</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Childrens, Classics, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Adventure, Humor, Science Fiction Fantasy, Juvenile</genres>
                <id>1118</id>
                <synopsis>"Librarian's Note: For an alternate cover edition of the same ISBN, click here.Hailed as “a classic. . . . humorous, full of warmth and real invention” (The New Yorker), this beloved story -first published more than fifty years ago- introduces readers to Milo and his adventures in the Lands Beyond. For Milo, everything’s a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he’s got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from a ticking watchdog named Tock, and even embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason! Somewhere along the way, Milo realizes something astonishing. Life is far from dull. In fact, it’s exciting beyond his wildest dreams. . . ."</synopsis>
                <title>The Phantom Tollbooth</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Suzanne Collins, Guillaume Fournier (Translator), Pilar Ramírez Tello  (Translator), Hanna Hörl (Illustrator), Sylke Hachmeister (Translator), Peter Klöss (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, Primrose Everdeen, Gale Hawthorne, Haymitch Abernathy, Cinna, Alma Coin, Coriolanus Snow</characters>
                <date>08/24/10</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Fiction, Fantasy, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Romance, Adventure, Teen, Action, Novels</genres>
                <id>1119</id>
                <synopsis>"The extraordinary, ground breaking New York Times bestsellers The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, along with the third book in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, are available for the first time ever in a beautiful boxset edition. Stunning, gripping, and powerful. The trilogy is now complete!"</synopsis>
                <title>The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Stieg Larsson, Reg Keeland (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Lisbeth Salander, Mikael Blomkvist, Alexander Zalachenko, Jan Bublanski, Sonja Modig, Peter Teleborian, Erika Berger, Ronald Niedermann, Annika Giannini, Dragan Armansky, Gunnar Björck, Harriet Vanger, Holger Palmgren, Nils Bjurman, Miriam Wu</characters>
                <date>07/28/09</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Contemporary, Sweden, Adult, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1120</id>
                <synopsis>"Part blistering espionage thriller, part riveting police procedural, and part piercing exposé on social injustice, The Girl Who Played with Fire is a masterful, endlessly satisfying novel.  Mikael Blomkvist, crusading publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation. On the eve of its publication, the two reporters responsible for the article are murdered, and the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to his friend, the troubled genius hacker Lisbeth Salander. Blomkvist, convinced of Salander’s innocence, plunges into an investigation. Meanwhile, Salander herself is drawn into a murderous game of cat and mouse, which forces her to face her dark past.From the Trade Paperback edition."</synopsis>
                <title>The Girl Who Played with Fire</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>James Dashner </author>
                <characters>Chuck, Teresa Agnes, Minho, Alby, Gally, Thomas, Ben, Newt</characters>
                <date>10/06/2009</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Post Apocalyptic, Mystery, Teen, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1121</id>
                <synopsis>"There are alternate cover editions for this ASIN here and here.If you ain’t scared, you ain’t human. When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his name. He’s surrounded by strangers—boys whose memories are also gone. Nice to meet ya, shank. Welcome to the Glade. Outside the towering stone walls that surround the Glade is a limitless, ever-changing maze. It’s the only way out—and no one’s ever made it through alive. Everything is going to change. Then a girl arrives. The first girl ever. And the message she delivers is terrifying. Remember. Survive. Run."</synopsis>
                <title>The Maze Runner</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Michael Ende, Ralph Manheim (Translator), Roswitha Quadflieg (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Bastian Balthazar Bux, Atreyu, Falkor, Karl Konrad Koreander, The Childlike Empress, Xayide, Gmork, Grograman, Morla, The Old Man of Wandering Mountain, Uyulala</characters>
                <date>10/28/97</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Classics, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Adventure, German Literature, Middle Grade, Science Fiction Fantasy, Books About Books</genres>
                <id>1122</id>
                <synopsis>"This epic work of the imagination has captured the hearts of millions of readers worldwide since it was first published more than a decade ago. Its special story within a story is an irresistible invitation for readers to become part of the book itself. And now this modern classic and bibliophile's dream is available in hardcover again.The story begins with a lonely boy named Bastian and the strange book that draws him into the beautiful but doomed world of Fantastica. Only a human can save this enchanted place by giving its ruler, the Childlike Empress, a new name. But the journey to her tower leads through lands of dragons, giants, monsters, and magic and once Bastian begins his quest, he may never return. As he is drawn deeper into Fantastica, he must find the courage to face unspeakable foes and the mysteries of his own heart. Readers, too, can travel to the wondrous, unforgettable world of Fantastica if they will just turn the page...-front flap"</synopsis>
                <title>The Neverending Story</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Robert Louis Stevenson, David W. Whitehead (Introduction), Richard S. Hartmetz  (Editor)</author>
                <characters>Jim Hawkins, Billy Bones, Doctor Livesey, Captain Smollet, Squire John Trelawney, Ben Gunn, Long John Silver</characters>
                <date>09/15/01</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Adventure, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Childrens, Literature, Pirates, Fantasy, Novels</genres>
                <id>1123</id>
                <synopsis>"""For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From the moment young Jim Hawkins first encounters the sinister Blind Pew at the Admiral Benbow Inn until the climactic battle for treasure on a tropic isle, the novel creates scenes and characters that have fired the imaginations of generations of readers. Written by a superb prose stylist, a master of both action and atmosphere, the story centers upon the conflict between good and evil - but in this case a particularly engaging form of evil. It is the villainy of that most ambiguous rogue Long John Silver that sets the tempo of this tale of treachery, greed, and daring. Designed to forever kindle a dream of high romance and distant horizons, Treasure Island is, in the words of G. K. Chesterton, 'the realization of an ideal, that which is promised in its provocative and beckoning map; a vision not only of white skeletons but also green palm trees and sapphire seas.' G. S. Fraser terms it 'an utterly original book' and goes on to write: 'There will always be a place for stories like Treasure Island that can keep boys and old men happy.'"</synopsis>
                <title>Treasure Island</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>George R.R. Martin</author>
                <characters>Brandon Stark, Catelyn Stark, Tyrion Lannister, Daenerys Targaryen, Robb Stark, Arya Stark, Jaime Lannister, Joffrey Baratheon, Tywin Lannister, Stannis Baratheon, Melisandre, Davos Seaworth, Lysa Arryn, Petyr Baelish, Sansa Stark, Varys, Hodor, Brienne of Tarth, Samwell Tarly, Sandor Clegane, Pyp, Grenn, Tommen Baratheon, Oswell Kettleback, Beric Dondarrion, Thoros of Myr, Jon Snow, Cersei Lannister, Jorah Mormont</characters>
                <date>03/04/2003</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Adult, Adventure, Dragons, Audiobook, Epic</genres>
                <id>1124</id>
                <synopsis>"An alternate cover for this isbn can be found here.Here is the third volume in George R.R. Martin's magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Game of Thrones and A Clash of Kings. Together, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction.Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as alliances are made and broken. Joffrey sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the Seven Kingdoms. His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced, victim of the sorceress who holds him in her thrall. Young Robb still rules the North from the fortress of Riverrun. Meanwhile, making her way across a blood-drenched continent is the exiled queen, Daenerys, mistress of the only three dragons still left in the world. And as opposing forces manoeuver for the final showdown, an army of barbaric wildlings arrives from the outermost limits of civilization, accompanied by a horde of mythical Others—a supernatural army of the living dead whose animated corpses are unstoppable. As the future of the land hangs in the balance, no one will rest until the Seven Kingdoms have exploded in a veritable storm of swords..."</synopsis>
                <title>A Storm of Swords</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ernest Hemingway</author>
                <characters>Frederic Henry, Catherine Barkley, Rinaldi</characters>
                <date>10/28/04</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, War, Literature, Novels, American, Romance, Classic Literature, School</genres>
                <id>1125</id>
                <synopsis>"A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield - the weary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the profound struggle between loyalty and desertion—this gripping, semiautobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep. Ernest Hemingway famously said that he rewrote his ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right."</synopsis>
                <title>A Farewell to Arms</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jay Asher , Knut Krüger (Übersetzer)</author>
                <characters>Clay Jensen, Hannah Baker, Bryce Walker, Jessica Davis, Justin Foley, Tyler Down, Courtney Crimsen, Alex Standall, Mr. Porter, Marcus Cooley, Zach Dempsey, Ryan Shaver, Jenny Kurtz</characters>
                <date>03/16/09</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Contemporary, Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Mystery, Mental Health, Teen, Audiobook, Romance, High School</genres>
                <id>1126</id>
                <synopsis>"You can’t stop the future. You can’t rewind the past.The only way to learn the secret . . . is to press play.Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker–his classmate and crush–who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah’s voice tells him that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he’ll find out why. Clay spends the night crisscrossing his town with Hannah as his guide. He becomes a firsthand witness to Hannah’s pain, and as he follows Hannah’s recorded words throughout his town, what he discovers changes his life forever."</synopsis>
                <title>Tote Mädchen lügen nicht</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Gregory Maguire, Douglas Smith (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Elphaba Thropp, Liir, Glinda Upland, Galinda Upland, Madam Morrible, Nessarose Thropp, Fiyero Tigelaar, The Wizard of Oz</characters>
                <date>10/28/00</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Retellings, Adult Fiction, Magic, Witches, Fairy Tales, Classics</genres>
                <id>1127</id>
                <synopsis>"When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious Witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil?Gregory Maguire creates a fantasy world so rich and vivid that we will never look at Oz the same way again. Wicked is about a land where animals talk and strive to be treated like first-class citizens, Munchkinlanders seek the comfort of middle-class stability, and the Tin Man becomes a victim of domestic violence. And then there is the little green-skinned girl named Elphaba, who will grow up to become the infamous Wicked Witch of the West, a smart, prickly, and misunderstood creature who challenges all our preconceived notions about the nature of good and evil.An astonishingly rich re-creation of the land of Oz, this book retells the story of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, who wasn't so wicked after all. Taking readers past the yellow brick road and into a phantasmagoric world rich with imagination and allegory, Gregory Maguire just might change the reputation of one of the most sinister characters in literature."</synopsis>
                <title>Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>James Clavell</author>
                <characters>John Blackthorne, Toranaga, Mariko, Jabu, Buntaró, Hiromacu, Martin Alvito, Jaemon, Išido, Ochiba</characters>
                <date>02/19/09</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Japan, Historical, Classics, Adventure, Asia, Literature, Novels, Japanese Literature</genres>
                <id>1128</id>
                <synopsis>"Alternate Cover for ISBN: 0440178002A bold English adventurer. An invincible Japanese warlord. A beautiful woman torn between two ways of life. All brought together in an extraordinary saga aflame with passion, conflict, ambition, and the struggle for power.Here is the world-famous novel of Japan that is the earliest book in James Clavell’s masterly Asian saga. Set in the year 1600, it tells the story of a bold English pilot whose ship was blown ashore in Japan, where he encountered two people who were to change his life: a warlord with his own quest for power, and a beautiful interpreter torn between two ways of life and two ways of love. The principal figures are John Blackthorne, whose dream it is to be the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe, to wrest control of the trade between Japan and China from Portuguese, and to return home a man of wealth and position; Toranaga, the most powerful feudal lord in Japan, who strives and schemes to seize ultimate power by becoming Shogun—the Supreme Military Dictator—and to unite the warring samurai fiefdoms under his own masterly and farsighted leadership; and the Lady Mariko, a Catholic convert whose conflicting loyalties to the Church and her country are compounded when she falls in love with Blackthorne, the barbarian intruder. In dramatizing how a Westerner, the representative man of his time, comes to be altered by his exposure to an alien culture, Mr. Clavell provides a spellbinding depiction of a nation seething with violence and intrigue as it moves from the medieval world to the modern."</synopsis>
                <title>Shōgun</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jonathan Safran Foer </author>
                <characters>Oskar Schell</characters>
                <date>04/04/2006</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Adult, Literary Fiction, Literature, New York, Young Adult</genres>
                <id>1129</id>
                <synopsis>"Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies. When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre, Oskar sets out to solve the mystery of a key he discovers in his father's closet. It is a search which leads him into the lives of strangers, through the five boroughs of New York, into history, to the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima, and on an inward journey which brings him ever closer to some kind of peace."</synopsis>
                <title>Extremely Loud &amp; Incredibly Close</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Agatha Christie</author>
                <characters>Samuel Edward Ratchett, Hector MacQueen, Masterman, Colonel Arbuthnot, Harriet Hubbard, Count Rudolf Andrenyi, Countess Elena Andrenyi, Princess Natalia Dragomiroff, Mary Debenham, Hildegarde Schmidt, Antonio Foscarel, Greta Ohlsson, Pierre Michel, Cyrus Hardman, Dr. Constantine, M. Bouc, Hercule Poirot</characters>
                <date>06/04/2007</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Classics, Fiction, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, Thriller, Detective, Adult, British Literature</genres>
                <id>1130</id>
                <synopsis>"Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside.Isolated and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must identify the murderer—in case he or she decides to strike again."</synopsis>
                <title>Murder on the Orient Express</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Philip Pullman</author>
                <characters>Lyra Belacqua, Will Parry, Mary Malone, Pantalaimon, Lord Asriel, Iorek Byrnison, Iofur Raknison, Marisa Coulter, Lee Scoresby, Roger Parslow, Stanislaus Grumman, Serafina Pekkala</characters>
                <date>09/23/03</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Adventure, Classics, Steampunk, Magic</genres>
                <id>1131</id>
                <synopsis>"The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass are available together in one volume perfect for any fan or newcomer to this modern fantasy classic series.These thrilling adventures tell the story of Lyra and Will—two ordinary children on a perilous journey through shimmering haunted otherworlds. They will meet witches and armored bears, fallen angels and soul-eating specters. And in the end, the fate of both the living—and the dead—will rely on them.Phillip Pullman’s spellbinding His Dark Materials trilogy has captivated readers for over twenty years and won acclaim at every turn. It will have you questioning everything you know about your world and wondering what really lies just out of reach."</synopsis>
                <title>His Dark Materials</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Frances Hodgson Burnett, Nancy Bond (Foreword)</author>
                <characters>Sara Crewe, Ralph Crewe, Maria Minchin, Ermengarde St. John, Becky, Lottie Legh, Thomas Carrisford, Ram Dass (A Little Princess)</characters>
                <date>02/26/02</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Childrens, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade, Historical, Literature, Juvenile, Novels</genres>
                <id>1132</id>
                <synopsis>"Sara Crewe, an exceptionally intelligent and imaginative student at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, is devastated when her adored, indulgent father dies. Now penniless and banished to a room in the attic, Sara is demeaned, abused, and forced to work as a servant. How this resourceful girl's fortunes change again is at the center of A Little Princess, one of the best-loved stories in all of children's literature. This unique and fully annotated edition appends excerpts from Frances Hodgson Burnett's original 1888 novella Sara Crewe and the stage play that preceded the novel, as well as an early story, ""Behind the White Brick,"" allowing readers to see how A Little Princess evolved. In his delightful introduction, U. C. Knoepflmacher considers the fairy-tale allusions and literary touchstones that place the book among the major works of Victorian literature, and shows it to be an exceptionally rich and resonant novel."</synopsis>
                <title>A Little Princess</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Thomas Keneally</author>
                <characters>Oskar Schindler, Amon Leopold Göth</characters>
                <date>02/17/94</date>
                <genres>History, Nonfiction, Classics, Holocaust, War, Historical, World War II, Biography, Literature, Media Tie In</genres>
                <id>1133</id>
                <synopsis>"In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur, but to them he became a saviour. This is the extraordinary story of Oskar Schindler, who risked his life to protect Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland and who was transformed by the war into a man with a mission, a compassionate angel of mercy."</synopsis>
                <title>Schindler's List</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Richelle Mead </author>
                <characters>Sydney Sage, Vasilisa ""Lissa"" Dragomir, Dimitri Belikov, Christian Ozera, Adrian Ivashkov, Victor Dashkov, Janine Hathaway, Jillian Mastrano, Abe Mazur, Natasha Ozera, Rosemarie ""Rose"" Hathaway</characters>
                <date>12/07/2010</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Vampires, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Magic</genres>
                <id>1134</id>
                <synopsis>"They come first.My vision was growing dimmer, the blackness and ghosts closing in. I swore it was like I could hear Robert whispering in my ear: The world of the dead won't give you up a second time. Just before the light completely vanished, I saw Dimitri's face join Lissa's. I wanted to smile. I decided then that if the two people I loved most were safe, I could leave this world.The dead could finally have me.Rose Hathaway has always played by her own rules. She broke the law when she ran away from St. Vladimir's Academy with her best friend and last surviving Dragomir princess, Lissa. She broke the law when she fell in love with her gorgeous, off-limits instructor, Dimitri. And she dared to defy Queen Tatiana, leader of the Moroi world, risking her life and reputation to protect generations of dhampir guardians to come.Now the law has finally caught up with Rose - for a crime she didn't even commit. She's in prison for the highest offense imaginable: the assassination of a monarch. She'll need help from both Dimitri and Adrian to find the one living person who can stall her execution and force the Moroi elite to acknowledge a shocking new candidate for the royal throne: Vasilisa Dragomir.But the clock on Rose's life is running out. Rose knows in her heart the world of the dead wants her back...and this time she is truly out of second chances. The big question is, when your whole life is about saving others, who will save you?Join Rose, Dimitri, Adrian, and Lissa in Last Sacrifice, the epic, unforgettable finale to Richelle Mead's international #1 bestselling Vampire Academy series."</synopsis>
                <title>Last Sacrifice</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Erin Morgenstern </author>
                <characters>Celia Bowen, Marco Alisdair, Isobel Martin, Penelope ""Poppet"" Aislin Murray, Winston ""Widget"" Aidan Murray, Bailey Clarke, Alexander H., Hector Bowen, Chandresh Christophe Lefevre, Friedrick Stefan Thiessen, Ethan Barris, Tara Burgess, Lainie Burgess, Tante Padva, Tsukiko</characters>
                <date>09/13/11</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Magic, Young Adult, Magical Realism, Adult, Audiobook, Historical</genres>
                <id>1135</id>
                <synopsis>"The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway—a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love—a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands. True love or not, the game must play out, and the fates of everyone involved, from the cast of extraordinary circus performers to the patrons, hang in the balance, suspended as precariously as the daring acrobats overhead. Written in rich, seductive prose, this spell-casting novel is a feast for the senses and the heart."</synopsis>
                <title>The Night Circus</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Lauren Kate </author>
                <characters>Lucinda Price, Daniel Grigori, Cameron ""Cam"" Briel, Arriane Alter, Pennyweather ""Penn"" Van Syckle Lockwood, Roland Sparks, ""Gabrielle ''Gabbe'' Givens"", ""Mary Margaret ''Molly'' Zane""</characters>
                <date>12/08/2009</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal, Angels, Paranormal Romance, Fiction, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy, Teen</genres>
                <id>1136</id>
                <synopsis>"There’s something achingly familiar about Daniel Grigori.Mysterious and aloof, he captures Luce Price’s attention from the moment she sees him on her first day at the Sword &amp; Cross boarding school in sultry Savannah, Georgia. He’s the one bright spot in a place where cell phones are forbidden, the other students are all screw-ups, and security cameras watch every move.Even though Daniel wants nothing to do with Luce—and goes out of his way to make that very clear—she can’t let it go. Drawn to him like a moth to a flame, she has to find out what Daniel is so desperate to keep secret… even if it kills her."</synopsis>
                <title>Fallen</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (Editor), Ted Nasmith (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Gandalf, Saruman, Elrond Half-elven, Galadriel, Finwë, Fingolfin, Celebrian, Bregor, Beren, Túrin Turambar, Húrin Thalion, Niënor, Glaurung, Fëanor, Tuor, Lúthien, Morgoth</characters>
                <date>11/15/04</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Classics, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Mythology, Literature, Novels, Adventure</genres>
                <id>1137</id>
                <synopsis>"A number-one New York Times bestseller when it was originally published, THE SILMARILLION is the core of J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginative writing, a work whose origins stretch back to a time long before THE HOBBIT.Tolkien considered THE SILMARILLION his most important work, and, though it was published last and posthumously, this great collection of tales and legends clearly sets the stage for all his other writing. The story of the creation of the world and of the the First Age, this is the ancient drama to which the characters in THE LORD OF THE RINGS look back and in whose events some of them, such as Elrond and Galadriel, took part. The three Silmarils were jewels created by Feanor, most gifted of the Elves. Within them was imprisoned the Light of the Two Trees of Valinor before the Trees themselves were destroyed by Morgoth, the first Dark Lord. Thereafter, the unsullied Light of Valinor lived on only in the Silmarils, but they were seized by Morgoth and set in his crown, which was guarded in the impenetrable fortress of Angband in the north of Middle-earth. THE SILMARILLION is the history of the rebellion of Feanor and his kindred against the gods, their exile from Valinor and return to Middle-earth, and their war, hopeless despite all their heroism, against the great Enemy.This second edition features a letter written by J.R.R. Tolkien describing his intentions for the book, which serves as a brilliant exposition of his conception of the earlier Ages of Middle-earth."</synopsis>
                <title>The Silmarillion</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ki Longfellow </author>
                <characters>Salome, John the Baptizer, Yeshu’a, Mary Magdalene</characters>
                <date>03/27/07</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Religion, Historical, Spirituality, Novels, Contemporary, Biblical Fiction, Literature, Biblical</genres>
                <id>1138</id>
                <synopsis>"Raised like sisters, Mariamne and Salome are indulged with riches, position, and learning—a rare thing for females in Jerusalem. But Mariamne has a further gift: an illness has left her with visions; she has the power of prophecy. It is her prophesying that drives the two girls to flee to Egypt, where they study philosophy, mathematics, and astronomy in the Great Library of Alexandria.After seven years they return to a Judaea where many now believe John the Baptizer is the messiah. Salome too begins to believe, but Mariamne, now called Magdalene, is drawn to his cousin, Yeshu'a, a man touched by the divine in the same way she was during her days of illness. Together they speak of sharing their direct experience of God; but Yeshu'a unexpectedly gains a reputation as a healer, and as the ill and the troubled flock to him, he and Magdalene are forced to make a terrible decision.This radical retelling of the greatest story ever told brings Mary Magdalene to life—not as a prostitute or demon-possessed—but as an educated woman who was truly the ""apostle to the apostles.""From the Hardcover edition."</synopsis>
                <title>The Secret Magdalene</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Toni Morrison</author>
                <characters>Baby Suggs, Sethe, Beloved, Paul D, Denver, Stamp Paid, Sixo, Halle, Schoolteacher</characters>
                <date>06/08/2004</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Magical Realism, Literature, African American, Historical, Novels, School, Literary Fiction</genres>
                <id>1139</id>
                <synopsis>"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past.Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Meanwhile Sethe’s house has long been troubled by the angry, destructive ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.Sethe works at beating back the past, but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly in her memory and in the lives of those around her. When a mysterious teenage girl arrives, calling herself Beloved, Sethe’s terrible secret explodes into the present.Combining the visionary power of legend with the unassailable truth of history, Morrison’s unforgettable novel is one of the great and enduring works of American literature."</synopsis>
                <title>Beloved</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>John Kennedy Toole, Walker Percy (Foreword)</author>
                <characters>Ignatius Jacques Reilly, Myrna Minkoff, Irene Reilly, Santa Battaglia, Angelo Mancuso, Lana Lee, Burma Jones</characters>
                <date>01/28/94</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Humor, Literature, Comedy, Novels, American, Literary Fiction, Audiobook, Contemporary</genres>
                <id>1140</id>
                <synopsis>"Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here""A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs.""Meet Ignatius J. Reilly, the hero of John Kennedy Toole's tragicomic tale, A Confederacy of Dunces. This 30-year-old medievalist lives at home with his mother in New Orleans, pens his magnum opus on Big Chief writing pads he keeps hidden under his bed, and relays to anyone who will listen the traumatic experience he once had on a Greyhound Scenicruiser bound for Baton Rouge. (""Speeding along in that bus was like hurtling into the abyss."") But Ignatius's quiet life of tyrannizing his mother and writing his endless comparative history screeches to a halt when he is almost arrested by the overeager Patrolman Mancuso-who mistakes him for a vagrant-and then involved in a car accident with his tipsy mother behind the wheel. One thing leads to another, and before he knows it, Ignatius is out pounding the pavement in search of a job.Over the next several hundred pages, our hero stumbles from one adventure to the next. His stint as a hotdog vendor is less than successful, and he soon turns his employers at the Levy Pants Company on their heads. Ignatius's path through the working world is populated by marvelous secondary characters: the stripper Darlene and her talented cockatoo; the septuagenarian secretary Miss Trixie, whose desperate attempts to retire are constantly, comically thwarted; gay blade Dorian Greene; sinister Miss Lee, proprietor of the Night of Joy nightclub; and Myrna Minkoff, the girl Ignatius loves to hate. The many subplots that weave through A Confederacy of Dunces are as complicated as anything you'll find in a Dickens novel, and just as beautifully tied together in the end. But it is Ignatius-selfish, domineering, and deluded, tragic and comic and larger than life-who carries the story. He is a modern-day Quixote beset by giants of the modern age. His fragility cracks the shell of comic bluster, revealing a deep streak of melancholy beneath the antic humor. John Kennedy Toole committed suicide in 1969 and never saw the publication of his novel. Ignatius Reilly is what he left behind, a fitting memorial to a talented and tormented life."</synopsis>
                <title>A Confederacy of Dunces</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kiera Cass </author>
                <characters>Aspen Leger, America Singer, Prince Maxon</characters>
                <date>04/24/12</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Romance, Dystopia, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Audiobook, Teen, Chick Lit, Young Adult Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1141</id>
                <synopsis>"For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to escape the life laid out for them since birth. To be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and priceless jewels. To live in a palace and compete for the heart of gorgeous Prince Maxon.But for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. It means turning her back on her secret love with Aspen, who is a caste below her. Leaving her home to enter a fierce competition for a crown she doesn't want. Living in a palace that is constantly threatened by violent rebel attacks.Then America meets Prince Maxon. Gradually, she starts to question all the plans she's made for herself—and realizes that the life she's always dreamed of may not compare to a future she never imagined."</synopsis>
                <title>The Selection</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Suzanne Collins</author>
                <characters>Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, Primrose Everdeen, Gale Hawthorne, Effie Trinket, Haymitch Abernathy, Cinna, Finnick Odair, Johanna Mason, President Coriolanus Snow, Madge Undersee, Caesar Flickerman, Twill, Cashmere, Gloss, Enobaria, Beetee, Wiress, Mags, Blight, Woof, Cecilia, Chaff, Seeder, Plutarch Heavensbee, Octavia (Hunger Games), Portia (hunger Games)</characters>
                <date>09/01/2009</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Dystopia, Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Adventure, Teen, Post Apocalyptic, Action</genres>
                <id>1142</id>
                <synopsis>"SPARKS ARE IGNITING.FLAMES ARE SPREADING.AND THE CAPITAL WANTS REVENGE.Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. Yet nothing is the way Katniss wishes it to be. Gale holds her at an icy distance. Peeta has turned his back on her completely. And there are whispers of a rebellion against the Capitol - a rebellion that Katniss and Peeta may have helped create.Much to her shock, Katniss has fueled an unrest that she's afraid she cannot stop. And what scares her even more is that she's not entirely convinced she should try. As time draws near for Katniss and Peeta to visit the districts on the Capitol's cruel Victory Tour, the stakes are higher than ever. If they can't prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that they are lost in their love for each other, the consequences will be horrifying. Katniss is about to be tested as never before."</synopsis>
                <title>Catching Fire</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Rick Riordan </author>
                <characters>Leo Valdez, Thalia Grace, Annabeth Chase, Hera, Juno, Rachel Elizabeth Dare, Jason Grace, Piper McLean, Will Solace</characters>
                <date>10/12/2010</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Mythology, Fiction, Middle Grade, Adventure, Childrens, Greek Mythology, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1143</id>
                <synopsis>"JASON HAS A PROBLEM. He doesn’t remember anything before waking up in a bus full of kids on a field trip. Apparently he has a girlfriend named Piper, and his best friend is a guy named Leo. They’re all students at the Wilderness School, a boarding school for “bad kids,"" as Leo puts it. What did Jason do to end up here? And where is here, exactly? Jason doesn't know anything—except that everything seems very wrong.PIPER HAS A SECRET. Her father has been missing for three days, ever since she had that terrifying nightmare about his being in trouble. Piper doesn’t understand her dream, or why her boyfriend suddenly doesn’t recognize her. When a freak storm hits during the school trip, unleashing strange creatures and whisking her, Jason, and Leo away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood, she has a feeling she’s going to find out, whether she wants to or not.LEO HAS A WAY WITH TOOLS. When he sees his cabin at Camp Half-Blood, filled with power tools and machine parts, he feels right at home. But there’s weird stuff, too—like the curse everyone keeps talking about, and some camper who's gone missing. Weirdest of all, his bunkmates insist that each of them—including Leo—is related to a god. Does this have anything to do with Jason's amnesia, or the fact that Leo keeps seeing ghosts?Join new and old friends from Camp Half-Blood in this thrilling first book in The Heroes of Olympus series. Best-selling author Rick Riordan has pumped up the action, humor, suspense, and mystery in an epic adventure that will leave readers panting for the next installment."</synopsis>
                <title>The Lost Hero</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Richelle Mead </author>
                <characters>Vasilisa ""Lissa"" Dragomir, Dimitri Belikov, Christian Ozera, Adrian Ivashkov, Victor Dashkov, Mia Rinaldi, Jillian Mastrano, Abe Mazur, Natasha Ozera, Rosemarie ""Rose"" Hathaway</characters>
                <date>05/18/10</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Vampires, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Magic</genres>
                <id>1144</id>
                <synopsis>"Salvation has its price . . .The words stunned Adrian for a moment, but he kept going. ""You're lying. What you're describing is impossible. There's no way to save a Strigoi. When they're gone, they're gone. They're dead. Undead. Forever.""Robert's next words weren't directed at Adrian. They were spoken to me. ""That which is dead doesn't always stay dead....""After a long and heartbreaking journey to Siberia, Dimitri’s birthplace, Rose Hathaway has finally returned to St. Vladimir’s—and to her best friend, Lissa Dragomir. It's graduation, and the girls can’t wait for their real lives outside the academy’s cold iron gates to finally begin. But even with the intrigue and excitement of court life looming, Rose’s heart still aches for Dimitri. He’s out there, somewhere.She failed to kill him when she had the chance, and now her worst fears are about to come true. Dimitri has tasted her blood, and she knows in her heart that he is hunting her. And if Rose won't join him, he won't rest until he has silenced her . . . forever.But Rose can't forget what she learned on her journey—whispers of a magic too impossible and terrifying to comprehend. A magic inextricably tied to Lissa that could hold the answer to all of Rose's prayers, but not without devastating consequences. Now Rose will have to decide what—and who—matters most to her. And in the end, is true love really worth the price?Fall in love with Rose and Dimitri all over again in Spirit Bound, the eagerly awaited fifth novel in Richelle Mead's enthralling Vampire Academy series."</synopsis>
                <title>Spirit Bound</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Cassandra Clare </author>
                <characters>Theresa ""Tessa"" Gray, Magnus Bane, William Herondale, James ""Jem"" Carstairs, Jessamine Lovelace, Henry Branwell, Charlotte Branwell, Nathaniel Gray, Gideon Lightwood, Gabriel Lightwood, Sophie Collins</characters>
                <date>12/06/2011</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Paranormal, Steampunk, Historical Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Angels, Vampires</genres>
                <id>1145</id>
                <synopsis>"In the magical underworld of Victorian London, Tessa Gray has at last found safety with the Shadowhunters. But that safety proves fleeting when rogue forces in the Clave plot to see her protector, Charlotte, replaced as head of the Institute. If Charlotte loses her position, Tessa will be out on the street—and easy prey for the mysterious Magister, who wants to use Tessa’s powers for his own dark ends.With the help of the handsome, self-destructive Will and the fiercely devoted Jem, Tessa discovers that the Magister’s war on the Shadowhunters is deeply personal. He blames them for a long-ago tragedy that shattered his life. To unravel the secrets of the past, the trio journeys from mist-shrouded Yorkshire to a manor house that holds untold horrors, from the slums of London to an enchanted ballroom where Tessa discovers that the truth of her parentage is more sinister than she had imagined. When they encounter a clockwork demon bearing a warning for Will, they realize that the Magister himself knows their every move—and that one of their own has betrayed them.Tessa finds her heart drawn more and more to Jem, but her longing for Will, despite his dark moods, continues to unsettle her. But something is changing in Will—the wall he has built around himself is crumbling. Could finding the Magister free Will from his secrets and give Tessa the answers about who she is and what she was born to do?As their dangerous search for the Magister and the truth leads the friends into peril, Tessa learns that when love and lies are mixed, they can corrupt even the purest heart."</synopsis>
                <title>Clockwork Prince</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Homer, Robert Fagles (Translator), Bernard Knox (Introduction)</author>
                <characters>Odysseus, Menelaus, Hector of Troy, Achilles (Greek hero), Sarpedon (king of Lycia), Patroclus, Agamemnon</characters>
                <date>11/01/1999</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Poetry, Mythology, Literature, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, School, Adventure, Historical</genres>
                <id>1146</id>
                <synopsis>"Gripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, 'The Iliad' is the story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles. Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic. If 'The Iliad' is the world's greatest war story, then 'The Odyssey' is literature's greatest evocation of every man's journey through life. Here again, Fagles has performed the translator's task magnificently, giving us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. Each volume contains a superb introduction with textual and critical commentary by renowned classicist Bernard Knox."</synopsis>
                <title>The Iliad/The Odyssey</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Arthur Miller, Christopher Bigs(Introduction)</author>
                <characters>Rev. Parris, Tituba, Abigail Williams, John Proctor, Elizabeth Proctor, Giles Corey, Rebecca Towne Nurse, Mary Warren, Deputy Governor Danforth</characters>
                <date>03/25/03</date>
                <genres>Classics, Plays, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Drama, School, Read For School, Historical, High School, Literature</genres>
                <id>1147</id>
                <synopsis>"""I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history,"" Arthur Miller wrote of his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town's most basic fears and suspicions; and when a young girl accuses Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch, self-righteous church leaders and townspeople insist that Elizabeth be brought to trial. The ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against neighbor brilliantly illuminates the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence.Written in 1953, The Crucible is a mirror Miller uses to reflect the anti-communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy's ""witch-hunts"" in the United States. Within the text itself, Miller contemplates the parallels, writing, ""Political opposition... is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.""WIth an introduction by Christopher Bigsby.(back cover)"</synopsis>
                <title>The Crucible</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kurt Vonnegut Jr.</author>
                <characters>Bokonon, Angela Hoenikker, Emily Hoenikker, Frank Hoenikker, Newt Hoenikker, ""Papa"" Monzano, Mona Aamons Monzano, John   --</characters>
                <date>10/28/99</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Science Fiction, Humor, Literature, Novels, Dystopia, American, Fantasy, 20th Century</genres>
                <id>1148</id>
                <synopsis>"Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it ...Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding 'fathers' of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he's the inventor of 'ice-nine', a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's three ecentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness. Felix Hoenikker's Death Wish comes true when his last, fatal gift to humankind brings about the end, that for all of us, is nigh..."</synopsis>
                <title>Cat's Cradle</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Arundhati Roy , Claude Demanuelli (Translator), Barbara Auer (Narrator), Diana Quick (Reading), Luana Stoica (trad.), Donada Peters (Narrator), Josep Julià Ballbé (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Rahel, Ammu, Mammachi, Chacko, Estha, Velutha, Baby Kochamma</characters>
                <date>10/28/97</date>
                <genres>Fiction, India, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Novels, Indian Literature, Literary Fiction, Literature, Classics, Asia</genres>
                <id>1149</id>
                <synopsis>"The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with chrome tailfins is stranded on the highway amid a Marxist workers' demonstration. Inside the car sit two-egg twins Rahel and Esthappen, and so begins their tale. . . .Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, they fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family-their lonely, lovely mother, Ammu (who loves by night the man her children love by day), their blind grandmother, Mammachi (who plays Handel on her violin), their beloved uncle Chacko (Rhodes scholar, pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher), their enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt), and the ghost of an imperial entomologist's moth (with unusually dense dorsal tufts).When their English cousin, Sophie Mol, and her mother, Margaret Kochamma, arrive on a Christmas visit, Esthappen and Rahel learn that Things Can Change in a Day. That lives can twist into new, ugly shapes, even cease forever, beside their river ""graygreen."" With fish in it. With the sky and trees in it. And at night, the broken yellow moon in it.The brilliantly plotted story uncoils with an agonizing sense of foreboding and inevitability. Yet nothing prepares you for what lies at the heart of it.The God of Small Things takes on the Big Themes-Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite Joy. Here is a writer who dares to break the rules. To dislocate received rhythms and create the language she requires, a language that is at once classical and unprecedented. Arundhati Roy has given us a book that is anchored to anguish, but fueled by wit and magic. -front flap"</synopsis>
                <title>The God of Small Things</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Tracy Chevalier </author>
                <characters>Johannes Vermeer, Griet, Pieter van Ruijven, Catharina Bolnes, Maria Thins, Tanneke, Pieter (Girl with a pearl earring), Antonie van Leeuwenhoek</characters>
                <date>10/28/05</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Classics, Art, Romance, Adult Fiction, Adult, Novels, Literature</genres>
                <id>1150</id>
                <synopsis>"With precisely 35 canvases to his credit, the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer represents one of the great enigmas of 17th-century art. The meager facts of his biography have been gleaned from a handful of legal documents. Yet Vermeer's extraordinary paintings of domestic life, with their subtle play of light and texture, have come to define the Dutch golden age. His portrait of the anonymous Girl with a Pearl Earring has exerted a particular fascination for centuries—and it is this magnetic painting that lies at the heart of Tracy Chevalier's second novel of the same title.Girl with a Pearl Earring centers on Vermeer's prosperous Delft household during the 1660s. When Griet, the novel's quietly perceptive heroine, is hired as a servant, turmoil follows. First, the 16-year-old narrator becomes increasingly intimate with her master. Then Vermeer employs her as his assistant—and ultimately has Griet sit for him as a model."</synopsis>
                <title>Girl with a Pearl Earring</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Thomas Harris</author>
                <characters>Jack Crawford, Hannibal Lecter, Clarice Starling</characters>
                <date>10/28/02</date>
                <genres>Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Crime, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Classics, Novels, Drama</genres>
                <id>1151</id>
                <synopsis>Hannibal Lecter. The ultimate villain of modern fiction. Read the five-million-copy bestseller that scared the world silent. The Silence of the Lambs. A young FBI trainee. An evil genius locked away for unspeakable crimes. A plunge into the darkest chambers of a psychopath's mind-in the deadly search for a serial killer. - back cover</synopsis>
                <title>The Silence of the Lambs</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Maggie Stiefvater </author>
                <characters>Grace Brisbane, Sam  Roth, Isabel Culpeper, Jack Culpeper, Geoffrey Beck, Olivia Marx, Rachel, William Koenig</characters>
                <date>08/01/2009</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal, Werewolves, Fiction, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy, Teen</genres>
                <id>1152</id>
                <synopsis>"For years, Grace has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf—her wolf—is a chilling presence she can't seem to live without.Meanwhile, Sam has lived two lives: In winter, the frozen woods, the protection of the pack, and the silent company of a fearless girl. In summer, a few precious months of being human… until the cold makes him shift back again.Now, Grace meets a yellow-eyed boy whose familiarity takes her breath away. It's her wolf. It has to be. But as winter nears, Sam must fight to stay human—or risk losing himself, and Grace, forever."</synopsis>
                <title>Shiver</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Scott Westerfeld </author>
                <characters>David Strorm, Tally Youngblood, Shay, Peris, Dr. Cable</characters>
                <date>02/08/2005</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, Teen, Adventure, Post Apocalyptic, Science Fiction Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1153</id>
                <synopsis>"Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. In just a few weeks she'll have the operation that will turn her from a repellent ugly into a stunning pretty. And as a pretty, she'll be catapulted into a high-tech paradise where her only job is to have fun.But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she wants to become a pretty. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world—and it isn't very pretty. The authorities offer Tally a choice: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. Tally's choice will change her world forever...."</synopsis>
                <title>Uglies</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Cassandra Clare </author>
                <characters>Alexander ""Alec"" Lightwood, Jonathan ""Jace"" Wayland, Isabelle ""Izzy"" Sophia Lightwood, Magnus Bane, Jordan Kyle, Maia Roberts, Jocelyn Fray, Luke Garroway, Camille Belcourt, Clarissa ""Clary"" Fray, Simon Lewis</characters>
                <date>04/05/2011</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Vampires, Fiction, Angels, Supernatural, Magic</genres>
                <id>1154</id>
                <synopsis>"The Mortal War is over, and sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is back home in New York, excited about all the possibilities before her. She’s training to become a Shadowhunter and to use her unique power. Her mother is getting married to the love of her life. Downworlders and Shadowhunters are at peace at last. And—most importantly of all—she can finally call Jace her boyfriend.But nothing comes without a price.Someone is murdering Shadowhunters, provoking tensions between Downworlders and Shadowhunters that could lead to a second, bloody war. Clary’s best friend, Simon, can’t help her—his mother just found out that he’s a vampire, and now he’s homeless. When Jace begins to pull away from her without explaining why, Clary is forced to delve into the heart of a mystery whose solution reveals her worst nightmare: she herself has set in motion a terrible chain of events that could lead to her losing everything she loves. Even Jace."</synopsis>
                <title>City of Fallen Angels</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Gaston Leroux, Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Erik, Christine Daaé, Madame Giry, Raoul de Chagny, La Carlotta, ""The Persian"", Count Phillippe de Chagny</characters>
                <date>12/30/87</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Horror, Romance, Gothic, Mystery, Historical Fiction, France, Literature, Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1155</id>
                <synopsis>"First published in French as a serial in 1909, The Phantom of the Opera is a riveting story that revolves around the young, Swedish Christine Daaé. Her father, a famous musician, dies, and she is raised in the Paris Opera House with his dying promise of a protective angel of music to guide her. After a time at the opera house, she begins hearing a voice, who eventually teaches her how to sing beautifully. All goes well until Christine's childhood friend Raoul comes to visit his parents, who are patrons of the opera, and he sees Christine when she begins successfully singing on the stage. The voice, who is the deformed, murderous 'ghost' of the opera house named Erik, however, grows violent in his terrible jealousy, until Christine suddenly disappears. The phantom is in love, but it can only spell disaster.Leroux's work, with characters ranging from the spoiled prima donna Carlotta to the mysterious Persian from Erik's past, has been immortalized by memorable adaptations. Despite this, it remains a remarkable piece of Gothic horror literature in and of itself, deeper and darker than any version that follows."</synopsis>
                <title>The Phantom of the Opera</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>John Grogan</author>
                <characters>Jenny, Patrick Grogan, Marley, Conor Grogan, Colleen Grogan, Família Grogan, John Grogan</characters>
                <date>10/18/05</date>
                <genres>Nonfiction, Animals, Memoir, Dogs, Biography, Humor, Biography Memoir, Adult, Contemporary, Autobiography</genres>
                <id>1156</id>
                <synopsis>"John and Jenny were just beginning their life together. They were young and in love, with a perfect little house and not a care in the world. Then they brought home Marley, a wiggly yellow furball of a puppy. Life would never be the same.Marley quickly grew into a barreling, ninety-seven-pound streamroller of a Labrador retriever, a dog like no other. He crashed through screen doors, gouged through drywall, flung drool on guests, stole women's undergarments, and ate nearly everything he could get his mouth around, including couches and fine jewelry. Obedience school did no good—Marley was expelled. Neither did the tranquilizers the veterinarian prescribed for him with the admonishment, ""Don't hesitate to use these.""And yet Marley's heart was pure. Just as he joyfully refused any limits on his behavior, his love and loyalty were boundless, too. Marley shared the couple's joy at their first pregnancy, and their heartbreak over the miscarriage. He was there when babies finally arrived and when the screams of a seventeen-year-old stabbing victim pierced the night. Marley shut down a public beach and managed to land a role in a feature-length movie, always winning hearts as he made a mess of things. Through it all, he remained steadfast, a model of devotion, even when his family was at its wit's end. Unconditional love, they would learn, comes in many forms."</synopsis>
                <title>Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Gail Carson Levine </author>
                <characters>Ella Varner, Lucinda, Mandy, Prince Charmont, Areida, Hattie, Olive Abroholos Elephanta</characters>
                <date>09/01/1998</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Romance, Fairy Tales, Childrens, Middle Grade, Retellings, Magic, Adventure</genres>
                <id>1157</id>
                <synopsis>"At birth, Ella is inadvertently cursed by an imprudent young fairy named Lucinda, who bestows on her the ""gift"" of obedience. Anything anyone tells her to do, Ella must obey. Another girl might have been cowed by this affliction, but not feisty Ella: ""Instead of making me docile, Lucinda's curse made a rebel of me. Or perhaps I was that way naturally."" When her beloved mother dies, leaving her in the care of a mostly absent and avaricious father, and later, a loathsome stepmother and two treacherous stepsisters, Ella's life and well-being seem to be in grave peril. But her intelligence and saucy nature keep her in good stead as she sets out on a quest for freedom and self-discovery as she tries to track down Lucinda to undo the curse, fending off ogres, befriending elves, and falling in love with a prince along the way. Yes, there is a pumpkin coach, a glass slipper, and a happily ever after, but this is the most remarkable, delightful, and profound version of Cinderella you'll ever read.Gail Carson Levine's examination of traditional female roles in fairy tales takes some satisfying twists and deviations from the original. Ella is bound by obedience against her will, and takes matters in her own hands with ambition and verve. Her relationship with the prince is balanced and based on humor and mutual respect; in fact, it is she who ultimately rescues him. Ella Enchanted has won many well-deserved awards, including a Newbery Honor."</synopsis>
                <title>Ella Enchanted</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Toru Okada, Kumiko Okada, Noboru Wataya, Malta Kano, May Kasahara, Creta Kano, Tokutaro Mamiya, Nutmeg Akasaka, Cinnamon Akasaka, Boris Gromov, Ushikawa</characters>
                <date>10/28/97</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Magical Realism, Japan, Japanese Literature, Fantasy, Contemporary, Literature, Novels, Mystery, Asia</genres>
                <id>1158</id>
                <synopsis>"Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II.In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat. Soon he finds himself looking for his wife as well in a netherworld that lies beneath the placid surface of Tokyo. As these searches intersect, Okada encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists: a psychic prostitute; a malevolent yet mediagenic politician; a cheerfully morbid sixteen-year-old-girl; and an aging war veteran who has been permanently changed by the hideous things he witnessed during Japan's forgotten campaign in Manchuria.Gripping, prophetic, suffused with comedy and menace, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force equal in scope to the masterpieces of Mishima and Pynchon.Three books in one volume: The Thieving Magpie, Bird as Prophet, The Birdcatcher. This translation by Jay Rubin is in collaboration with the author."</synopsis>
                <title>The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Stephen King </author>
                <characters>John Coffey, Paul Edgecomb, Percy Wetmore, American Law Enforcement, Brutus Howell</characters>
                <date>09/01/1996</date>
                <genres>Horror, Fiction, Fantasy, Thriller, Mystery, Supernatural, Paranormal, Crime, Drama, Historical Fiction</genres>
                <id>1159</id>
                <synopsis>"When it first appeared, one volume per month, Stephen King's THE GREEN MILE was an unprecedented publishing triumph: all six volumes ended up on the New York Times bestseller lists—simultaneously—and delighted millions of fans the world over.Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Depression-worn men of E Block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk the Green Mile, keeping a date with ""Old Sparky,"" Cold Mountain's electric chair. Prison guard Paul Edgecombe has seen his share of oddities in his years working the Mile. But he's never seen anyone like John Coffey, a man with the body of a giant and the mind of a child, condemned for a crime terrifying in its violence and shocking in its depravity. In this place of ultimate retribution, Edgecombe is about to discover the terrible, wondrous truth about Coffey, a truth that will challenge his most cherished beliefes... and yours."</synopsis>
                <title>The Green Mile</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>George R.R. Martin</author>
                <characters>Brandon Stark, Catelyn Stark, Tyrion Lannister, Daenerys Targaryen, Eddard Stark, Theon Greyjoy, Robb Stark, Arya Stark, Jaime Lannister, Joffrey Baratheon, Tywin Lannister, Stannis Baratheon, Melisandre, Davos Seaworth, Lysa Arryn, Petyr Baelish, Sansa Stark, Varys, Hodor, Brienne of Tarth, Rickon Stark, Rhaego, Gendry, Edric Storm, Lord High Captain Ser Imry Florent, Selyse Baratheon, Shireen Baratheon, Margaery Tyrell, Mace Tyrell, Ser Garlan Tyrell, Myrcella Baratheon, ""R''hllor"", Hoster Tully, Ser Brynden Tully, Jeor Mormont, Maester Cressen, Maester Pylos, PatchFace, Lord Steffon Baratheon, Cassana Baratheon, Aerys Targaryen II, Ser Harbert, Lord Gulian Swann, Ser Cortnay Penrose, Lord Selwyn the Evenstar, Beric Dondarrion, Thoros of Myr, Bryce Caron, Paxter Redwyne, Ardrian Celtigar, Monford Velaryon, Duram Bar Emmon, Salladhor Saan, Guncer Sunglass, Willem Darry, Robert Arryn, Ser Axell Florent, Syrio Forel, Lommy Greenhands, Hot Pie, Praed, ""Jaqen H''ghar"", Rorge, Reysen, Cutjack, Woth, Gerren, Urreg, Ser Ilyn Payne, Ser Arys Oakheart, Ser Boros Blount, Ser Meryn Trant, Ser Mandon Moore, Ser Preston Greenfield, Ser Gregor Clegane, Lord Gyles Rosby, Tanda Stokeworth, Lollys Stokeworth, Falyse Stokeworth, Jalabhar Xho, Ermesande Hayford, Tyrek Lannister, Ser Hobber Redwyne, Ser Horas Redwyne, Ser Balon Swann, Morros Slynt, Janos Slynt, Lothor Brune, Dontos Hollard, Ser Aron Santagar, Old Nan, Septa Mordane, Lord Bronn, Timett son of Timett, Shagga son of Dolf, Chella daughter of Cheyk, Tysha, Vardis Egen, Ser Barristan Selmy, Lancel Lannister, Captain Vylarr, Grey Wind, Nymeria, Shaggydog, Walder Frey, Little Walder Frey, Ser Stevron Frey, Black Walder Frey, Ser Emmon Frey, Red Walder Frey, Walder Rivers, White Walda, Ser Aenys Frey, Ser Rodrik Cassel, Beth Cassel, Farlen, Turnip, Maester Luwin, Septon Chayle, Hayhead, Mikken, Alebelly, Joseth, Shyra Errol, Tomard, TomToo, Jory Cassel, Qhorin Halfhand, Pypar, Todder, Othor, Ser Endrew Tarth, Conwy, Ser Alliser Thorne, Donal Noye, Thoren Smallwood, Jaremy Rykker, Waymar Royce, Ser Arnell, Dywen, Olyvar Frey, Ser Robin Ryger, Ser Cleos Frey, Genna Frey, Ser Edmure Tully, Lord Rickard Karstark, Willem Lannister, Tion Frey, Maester Vyman, Marq Piper, Karyl Vance, Jonos Bracken, Jason Mallister, Patrek Mallister, Greatjon Umber, Tytos Blackwood, Ser Desmond Grell, Burton Crakehall, Ser Amory Lorch, Ser Stafford Lannister, Daven Lannister, Allar Deem, Ser Jacelyn Bywater, Tobho Mott, Allard Seaworth, Dale Seaworth, Maric Seaworth, Matthos Seaworth, Devan Seaworth, Marya Seaworth, Septon Barre, Hubard Rambton, Yohn Royce, Balon Greyjoy, Alannys Greyjoy, Euron Greyjoy, Aeron Greyjoy, Rodrik Greyjoy, Maron Greyjoy, Lord Sawane, Goodbrother of Great Wyk, Sylas Sourmouth, Dagmer Cleftjaw, Maester Qalen, Maester Wendamyr, Rakharo, Aggo, Ko Jhogo, Doreah, Jhiqui, Rhaegal, Viserion, Drogon, Khal Pono, Mirri Maz Duur, Khal Jhaqo, Magister Illyrio, Lynesse Hightower, Lord Leyton Hightower, Gerold Hightower, Tregar Ormollen, Ryman Frey, Hosteen Frey, Pyat Pree, Xaro Xhoan Daxos, Quaithe of the Shadow, Bedwyck, Eddison Tollett, Jarman Buckwell, Ser Mallador Locke, Sheila Whent, Jeyne Poole, Maester Frenken, Podrick Payne, Ironbelly, Master Salloreon, Chataya, Alayaya, Wyman Manderly, Poxy Tym, Halys Hornwood, Daryn Hornwood, Larence Snow, Ser Wendel Manderly, Wylis Manderly, Roose Bolton, Domeric Bolton, Ramsay Snow, Reek, Mors Crowfood, Hother Umber, Robett Glover, Leobald Tallhart, Beren Tallhart, Benfred Tallhart, Ser Helman Tallhart, Howland Reed, Cley Cerwyn, Doran Martell, Trystane Martell, Elia of Dorne, Rhaenys Targaryen, Aegon Targaryen, Hallyne the Pyromancer, Meera Reed, Jojen Reed, Hallis Mollen, Jon Umber, Colen of Greenpools, Lord Estermont, Lord Mathis Rowan, Lady Oakheart, Lord Randyll Tarly, Lucas Blackwood, Ser Perwyn Frey, Jon Fossoway, Guyard Morrigen, Tanton Fossoway, Craster, Mance Rayder, Gared, Lark the Sisterman, Brown Bernarr, Sigrin the Shipwright, Otter Gimpknee, Rymolf Stormdrunk, Donnel Locke, Maester Colemon, The Tickler, Polliver, Dunsen, Mycah, Goodwife Amabel, Goodwife Harra, Weese, Quhuru Mo, Kevan Lannister, Alyn Stackspear, Whitesmile Wat, Lord Lefford, Ser Dunaver, Jodge, Harys Swyft, Maester Tothmure, Lord Vargo Hoat, Lord Lydden, Joss Stilwood, Eggon, Tobbot, Robar Royce, SER ROBERT BRAX, Lymond Vikary, Lord Jast, Martyn Lannister, Ser Parmen Crane, Emmon Cuy, Ser Gawen Wylde, Edwyn Frey, Petyr Frey, Aegon Frey, Stygg, Werlag, Urzen, Black Lorren, Gevin Harlaw, Lord Botley, Todric, Andrik the Unsmiling, Lord Drumm of Old Wyk, Qarl the Maid, Ser Addam Marbrand, Ser Lyonel Baratheon, Tuffleberry, Martyn Rivers, Rymund the Rhymer, Utherydes Wayn, Enger, Long Lew, Poul Pernford, Brandon the Shipwright, Mathos Mallarawan, Wendello Qar Deeth, Egon Emeros the Exquisite, Ser Osmund Kettleblack, Osney Kettleblack, Osfryd Kettleblack, Tygett Lannister, Alester Florent of Brightwater, Lord Meadows, Rattleshirt, Harma the Dogshead, Alfyn Crowkiller, Rickard Stark, The Weeping Man, Symon Silver Tongue, Ashara Dayne, Flement Brax, Pinkeye, Ser Cadwyn, Ben Blackthumb, Shagwell the Fool, Squint, Gariss, Gynir Rednose, Gelmarr the Grim, Squire Dalbridge, Stonesnake, Ygritte, Ethan Glover, Jeffory Mallister, Kyle Royce, Elbert Arryn, Porther, Hullen, Harridan, Ser Arneld, Strong Belwas, Arstan Whitebeard, Walton Steelshanks, Septon Utt, Qyburn, Faithful Ursywck, Elmar Frey, Ser Jared Frey, Harys Haigh, Ronel Rivers, Lord Crakehall, Philip Foote, Josmyn Peckledon, Willit, Dykk Harlaw, Endehar, Red Rolfe, Ulf the Ill, Harrag Sheepstealer, Kenned the Whale, Maester Ballabar, Ragwyle, Arthur Dayne, Dolorous Edd, Robin Flint, Lord Velaryon, Alysanne, Prince Rhaegar, Maester Aemon, King Harren, Hal Mollen, Fat Tom, Maekar Targaryens, Moon Boy, Bael the Bard, Ser Harys Swyft, Lord Rossart, Elenei, Durran Godsgrief, Azor Ahai, Lord Caswell, Chiswyck, Lord of Light, Lord Cerwyn, Lord Hornwood, Ser Mark Mullendore, Lord Celtigar, Ser Errol, Prince Tommen, Myraham, Lord Varner, King Daeron, Lady Lyanna, Lord Caron, Esgred, High Septon, Lady Selyse, Robert I Baratheon, Big Walder Frey, Donella Hornwood, SER ROBERT BRAX, Lymond Vikary, Lord Jast, Martyn Lannister, Ser Parmen Crane, Emmon Cuy, Ser Gawen Wylde, Edwyn Frey, Petyr Frey, Aegon Frey, Stygg, Werlag, Urzen, Black Lorren, Gevin Harlaw, Lord Botley, Todric, Andrik the Unsmiling, Lord Drumm of Old Wyk, Qarl the Maid, Ser Addam Marbrand, Ser Lyonel Baratheon, Tuffleberry, Martyn Rivers, Rymund the Rhymer, Utherydes Wayn, Enger, Long Lew, Poul Pernford, Brandon the Shipwright, Mathos Mallarawan, Wendello Qar Deeth, Egon Emeros the Exquisite, Ser Osmund Kettleblack, Osney Kettleblack, Osfryd Kettleblack, Tygett Lannister, Alester Florent of Brightwater, Lord Meadows, Rattleshirt, Harma the Dogshead, Alfyn Crowkiller, Rickard Stark, The Weeping Man, Symon Silver Tongue, Ashara Dayne, Flement Brax, Pinkeye, Ser Cadwyn, Ben Blackthumb, Shagwell the Fool, Squint, Gariss, Gynir Rednose, Gelmarr the Grim, Squire Dalbridge, Stonesnake, Ygritte, Ethan Glover, Jeffory Mallister, Kyle Royce, Elbert Arryn, Porther, Hullen, Harridan, Ser Arneld, Strong Belwas, Arstan Whitebeard, Walton Steelshanks, Septon Utt, Qyburn, Faithful Ursywck, Elmar Frey, Ser Jared Frey, Harys Haigh, Ronel Rivers, Lord Crakehall, Philip Foote, Josmyn Peckledon, Dykk Harlaw, Endehar, Red Rolfe, Ulf the Ill, Harrag Sheepstealer, Kenned the Whale, Maester Ballabar, Ragwyle, Arthur Dayne, Dolorous Edd, Robin Flint, Lord Velaryon, Alysanne, Prince Rhaegar, Maester Aemon, King Harren, Hal Mollen, Fat Tom, Maekar Targaryens, Moon Boy, Bael the Bard, Ser Harys Swyft, Lord Rossart, Elenei, Durran Godsgrief, Azor Ahai, Lord Caswell, Chiswyck, Lord of Light, Lord Cerwyn, Lord Hornwood, Ser Mark Mullendore, Lord Celtigar, Ser Errol, Prince Tommen, Myraham, Lord Varner, King Daeron, Lady Lyanna, Lord Caron, Esgred, High Septon, Lady Selyse, Ottyn Wythers, SER ROBERT BRAX, Lymond Vikary, Lord Jast, Martyn Lannister, Ser Parmen Crane, Emmon Cuy, Ser Gawen Wylde, Edwyn Frey, Petyr Frey, Aegon Frey, Stygg, Werlag, Urzen, Black Lorren, Gevin Harlaw, Lord Botley, Todric, Andrik the Unsmiling, Lord Drumm of Old Wyk, Qarl the Maid, Ser Addam Marbrand, Ser Lyonel Baratheon, Tuffleberry, Martyn Rivers, Rymund the Rhymer, Utherydes Wayn, Enger, Long Lew, Poul Pernford, Brandon the Shipwright, Mathos Mallarawan, Egon Emeros the Exquisite, Ser Osmund Kettleblack, Osney Kettleblack, Osfryd Kettleblack, Tygett Lannister, Alester Florent of Brightwater, Lord Meadows, Rattleshirt, Harma the Dogshead, Alfyn Crowkiller, Rickard Stark, The Weeping Man, Symon Silver Tongue, Ashara Dayne, Flement Brax, Pinkeye, Ser Cadwyn, Ben Blackthumb, Shagwell the Fool, Squint, Gariss, Gynir Rednose, Gelmarr the Grim, Squire Dalbridge, Stonesnake, Ygritte, Ethan Glover, Jeffory Mallister, Kyle Royce, Elbert Arryn, Porther, Hullen, Harridan, Ser Arneld, Strong Belwas, Arstan Whitebeard, Walton Steelshanks, Septon Utt, Qyburn, Faithful Ursywck, Elmar Frey, Ser Jared Frey, Harys Haigh, Ronel Rivers, Lord Crakehall, Philip Foote, Josmyn Peckledon, Willit, Dykk Harlaw, Endehar, Red Rolfe, Ulf the Ill, Harrag Sheepstealer, Kenned the Whale, Maester Ballabar, Ragwyle, Arthur Dayne, Dolorous Edd, Robin Flint, Lord Velaryon, Alysanne, Prince Rhaegar, Maester Aemon, King Harren, Hal Mollen, Fat Tom, Maekar Targaryens, Moon Boy, Bael the Bard, Ser Harys Swyft, Lord Rossart, Elenei, Durran Godsgrief, Azor Ahai, Lord Caswell, Chiswyck, Lord of Light, Lord Cerwyn, Lord Hornwood, Ser Mark Mullendore, Lord Celtigar, Ser Errol, Prince Tommen, Myraham, Lord Varner, King Daeron, Lady Lyanna, Lord Caron, Esgred, High Septon, Lady Selyse, Samwell Tarly, Asha Greyjoy, Sandor Clegane, Oswell Kettleback, Tommen Baratheon, Jon Snow, Cersei Lannister, Jorah Mormont</characters>
                <date>05/28/02</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Adult, Adventure, Dragons, Audiobook, Epic</genres>
                <id>1160</id>
                <synopsis>"A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. Two great leaders—Lord Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon—who hold sway over an age of enforced peace are dead, victims of royal treachery. Now, from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. It is a tale in which brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress; and wild men descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside. Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel...and the coldest hearts. For when kings clash, the whole land trembles.Here is the second volume in George R.R. Martin magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Game of Thrones and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, George R.R. Martin stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction."</synopsis>
                <title>A Clash of Kings</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows</author>
                <characters>Sophie Kintock, Juliet Ashton, Dawsey Adams, Susan Scott, Sidney Stark, Elizabeth McKenna, Isola Pribby, Markham V. Reynolds, Jr., Kit McKenna, Adelaide Addison, Eben Ramsey, Amelia Maugery, John Booker, Christian Hellman, Will Thisbee, Clovis Fossey, Thomson Stubbins, Clara Saussey, Sally Ann Frobisher</characters>
                <date>07/10/2018</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Romance, World War II, Book Club, War, Adult, Adult Fiction, Books About Books</genres>
                <id>1161</id>
                <synopsis>" #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE ON NETFLIX - A remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German Occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name. ""I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers."" January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she's never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb...As Juliet and her new correspondent exchange letters, Juliet is drawn into the world of this man and his friends—and what a wonderfully eccentric world it is. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society—born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi when its members were discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island—boasts a charming, funny, deeply human cast of characters, from pig farmers to phrenologists, literature lovers all.Juliet begins a remarkable correspondence with the society's members, learning about their island, their taste in books, and the impact the recent German occupation has had on their lives. Captivated by their stories, she sets sail for Guernsey, and what she finds will change her forever.Written with warmth and humor as a series of letters, this novel is a celebration of the written word in all its guises and of finding connection in the most surprising ways."</synopsis>
                <title>The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Hunter S. Thompson, Ralph Steadman (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Hunter S. Thompson</characters>
                <date>06/28/98</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Humor, Journalism, Novels, American, Literature, Contemporary, Travel, Comedy</genres>
                <id>1162</id>
                <synopsis>"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken."</synopsis>
                <title>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Isabel Allende , Magda Bogin (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Esteban Trueba, Clara del Valle, Férula Trueba, Blanca Trueba, Jaime Trueba, Nicolàs Trueba, Pedro Tercero Garcia, Alba Trueba, Esteban Garcia</characters>
                <date>08/30/05</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Magical Realism, Historical Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Spanish Literature, Literature, Historical, Novels, Latin American</genres>
                <id>1163</id>
                <synopsis>"In one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of the twentieth century, Isabel Allende weaves a luminous tapestry of three generations of the Trueba family, revealing both triumphs and tragedies. Here is patriarch Esteban, whose wild desires and political machinations are tempered only by his love for his ethereal wife, Clara, a woman touched by an otherworldly hand. Their daughter, Blanca, whose forbidden love for a man Esteban has deemed unworthy infuriates her father, yet will produce his greatest joy: his granddaughter Alba, a beautiful, ambitious girl who will lead the family and their country into a revolutionary future.The House of the Spirits is an enthralling saga that spans decades and lives, twining the personal and the political into an epic novel of love, magic, and fate."</synopsis>
                <title>The House of the Spirits</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Alex Haley</author>
                <characters>George Lincoln Rockwell, Alex Haley, Kunta Kinte</characters>
                <date>01/01/1977</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Classics, Historical, African American, Africa, Race, Literature, Audiobook, Novels</genres>
                <id>1164</id>
                <synopsis>"When he was a boy in Henning, Tennessee, Alex Haley's grandmother used to tell him stories about their family—stories that went back to her grandparents, and their grandparents, down through the generations all the way to a man she called ""the African."" She said he had lived across the ocean near what he called the ""Kamby Bolongo"" and had been out in the forest one day chopping wood to make a drum when he was set upon by four men, beaten, chained and dragged aboard a slave ship bound for Colonial America.Still vividly remembering the stories after he grew up and became a writer, Haley began to search for documentation that might authenticate the narrative. It took ten years and a half a million miles of travel across three continents to find it, but finally, in an astonishing feat of genealogical detective work, he discovered not only the name of ""the African""—Kunta Kinte—but the precise location of Juffure, the very village in The Gambia, West Africa, from which he was abducted in 1767 at the age of sixteen and taken on the Lord Ligonier to Maryland and sold to a Virginia planter.Haley has talked in Juffure with his own African sixth cousins. On September 29, 1967, he stood on the dock in Annapolis where his great-great-great-great-grandfather was taken ashore on September 29, 1767. Now he has written the monumental two-century drama of Kunta Kinte and the six generations who came after him—slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lumber mill workers and Pullman porters, lawyers and architects—and one author.But Haley has done more than recapture the history of his own family. As the first black American writer to trace his origins back to their roots, he has told the story of 25,000,000 Americans of African descent. He has rediscovered for an entire people a rich cultural heritage that slavery took away from them, along with their names and their identities. But Roots speaks, finally, not just to blacks, or to whites, but to all people and all races everywhere, for the story it tells is one of the most eloquent testimonials ever written to the indomitability of the human spirit."</synopsis>
                <title>Roots: The Saga of an American Family</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Stephen King </author>
                <characters>Paul Sheldon, Annie Wilkes</characters>
                <date>11/01/1988</date>
                <genres>Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, Mystery, Novels, Adult, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Drama</genres>
                <id>1165</id>
                <synopsis>"Alternate cover editions here and here.Paul Sheldon. He's a bestselling novelist who has finally met his biggest fan. Her name is Annie Wilkes and she is more than a rabid reader - she is Paul's nurse, tending his shattered body after an automobile accident. But she is also his captor, keeping him prisoner in her isolated house."</synopsis>
                <title>Misery</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Diana Wynne Jones</author>
                <characters>Michael (angel), Wizard Howl, Sophie Hatter, Calcifer, Witch of the Waste, Lily Angorian</characters>
                <date>08/01/2001</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Romance, Magic, Middle Grade, Childrens, Adventure, Classics, Young Adult Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1166</id>
                <synopsis>"An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found hereSophie has the great misfortune of being the eldest of three daughters, destined to fail miserably should she ever leave home to seek her fate. But when she unwittingly attracts the ire of the Witch of the Waste, Sophie finds herself under a horrid spell that transforms her into an old lady. Her only chance at breaking it lies in the ever-moving castle in the hills: the Wizard Howl's castle. To untangle the enchantment, Sophie must handle the heartless Howl, strike a bargain with a fire demon, and meet the Witch of the Waste head-on. Along the way, she discovers that there's far more to Howl—and herself—than first meets the eye."</synopsis>
                <title>Howl's Moving Castle</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Stieg Larsson, Reg Keeland (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Lisbeth Salander, Mikael Blomkvist, Alexander Zalachenko, Jan Bublanski, Sonja Modig, Peter Teleborian, Erika Berger, Ronald Niedermann, Annika Giannini, Dragan Armansky, Monica Figuerola, Torsten Edklinth, Dr. Anders Jonasson, Gunnar Björck</characters>
                <date>05/23/10</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Contemporary, Adult, Sweden, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1167</id>
                <synopsis>"The stunning third and final novel in Stieg Larsson's internationally best-selling trilogy.Lisbeth Salander - the heart of Larsson's two previous novels - lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She's fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she'll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she will plot revenge - against the man who tried to kill her, and the corrupt government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life.Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now Salander is fighting back.~from the jacket"</synopsis>
                <title>The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Donna Tartt</author>
                <characters>Richard Papen, Camilla Macaulay, Julian Morrow, Charles Macaulay, Henry Winter, Edmund Corcoran, Francis Abernathy</characters>
                <date>04/13/04</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Mystery, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Thriller, Classics, Adult, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Novels</genres>
                <id>1168</id>
                <synopsis>"Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality they slip gradually from obsession to corruption and betrayal, and at last - inexorably - into evil."</synopsis>
                <title>The Secret History</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Janet Fitch </author>
                <characters>Astrid Magnusson, Ingrid Magnusson</characters>
                <date>09/01/2001</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Contemporary, Drama, Adult Fiction, Coming Of Age, Adult, Novels, Chick Lit, Literary Fiction, Young Adult</genres>
                <id>1169</id>
                <synopsis>"Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, White Oleander tells the unforgettable story of Ingrid, a brilliant poet imprisoned for murder, and her daughter, Astrid, whose odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes-each its own universe, with its own laws, its own dangers, its own hard lessons to be learned-becomes a redeeming and surprising journey of self-discovery."</synopsis>
                <title>White Oleander</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Lauren Oliver </author>
                <characters>Hana Tate, Magdalena ""Lena"" Ella Haloway-Tiddle, Alex Sheathes, Carol Tiddle, Grace Tiddle</characters>
                <date>02/07/2012</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Dystopia, Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Teen, Audiobook, Love, Post Apocalyptic</genres>
                <id>1170</id>
                <synopsis>"There is an alternate cover edition for this ISBN13 here.In an alternate United States, love has been declared a dangerous disease, and the government forces everyone who reaches eighteen to have a procedure called the Cure. Living with her aunt, uncle, and cousins in Portland, Maine, Lena Haloway is very much looking forward to being cured and living a safe, predictable life. She watched love destroy her mother and isn't about to make the same mistake.But with ninety-five days left until her treatment, Lena meets enigmatic Alex, a boy from the ""Wilds"" who lives under the government's radar. What will happen if they do the unthinkable and fall in love?"</synopsis>
                <title>Delirium</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>William Shakespeare</author>
                <characters>Iago, Bianca, Othello, Miguel Cássio, Desdêmona, Emilia, Rodrigo</characters>
                <date>01/01/2004</date>
                <genres>Classics, Plays, Fiction, Drama, School, Literature, Theatre, Read For School, Poetry, Tragedy</genres>
                <id>1171</id>
                <synopsis>"In Othello, Shakespeare creates a powerful drama of a marriage that begins with fascination (between the exotic Moor Othello and the Venetian lady Desdemona), with elopement, and with intense mutual devotion and that ends precipitately with jealous rage and violent deaths. He sets this story in the romantic world of the Mediterranean, moving the action from Venice to the island of Cyprus and giving it an even more exotic coloring with stories of Othello's African past. Shakespeare builds so many differences into his hero and heroine—differences of race, of age, of cultural background—that one should not, perhaps, be surprised that the marriage ends disastrously. But most people who see or read the play feel that the love that the play presents between Othello and Desdemona is so strong that it would have overcome all these differences were it not for the words and actions of Othello's standard-bearer, Iago, who hates Othello and sets out to destroy him by destroying his love for Desdemona. As Othello succumbs to Iago's insinuations that Desdemona is unfaithful, fascination—which dominates the early acts of the play—turns to horror, especially for the audience. We are confronted by spectacles of a generous and trusting Othello in the grip of Iago's schemes; of an innocent Desdemona, who has given herself up entirely to her love for Othello only to be subjected to his horrifying verbal and physical assaults, the outcome of Othello's mistaken convictions about her faithlessness."</synopsis>
                <title>Othello</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>John Green </author>
                <characters>Margo Roth Spiegelman, Quentin  Jacobsen, Marcus ""Radar"" Lincoln, Lacey Pemberton, Ben Starling, Jason Worthington</characters>
                <date>09/22/09</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, Mystery, Realistic Fiction, Teen, Coming Of Age, Adventure, Young Adult Contemporary</genres>
                <id>1172</id>
                <synopsis>"Who is the real Margo?Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life—dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows. After their all-nighter ends, and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues—and they're for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees the girl he thought he knew..."</synopsis>
                <title>Paper Towns</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Anne Rice</author>
                <characters>Lestat de Lioncourt, Gabrielle de Lioncourt, Akasha, Marius de Romanus, Nicolas de Lenfrent, Louis de Pointe du Lac, Armand</characters>
                <date>08/31/04</date>
                <genres>Horror, Fantasy, Vampires, Fiction, Paranormal, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy, Gothic, Historical Fiction, Adult</genres>
                <id>1173</id>
                <synopsis>"Lestat. The vampire hero of Anne Rice's enthralling new novel is a creature of the darkest and richest imagination. Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the demonic, shimmering 1980s, he rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his eternal, terrifying existence. His is a mesmerizing story -- passionate, complex, and thrilling."</synopsis>
                <title>The Vampire Lestat</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Laurie Halse Anderson </author>
                <characters>Ivy Hall, Heather, Nichole Smythe Burnell, Melinda Sordino, Andy Evans, David Petrakis, Mr. Freeman, Rachel Bruin</characters>
                <date>01/15/19</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Fiction, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Teen, Mental Health, High School, Coming Of Age, School, Abuse</genres>
                <id>1174</id>
                <synopsis>"The first ten lies they tell you in high school.""Speak up for yourself—we want to know what you have to say."" From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether. Only her art class offers any solace, and it is through her work on an art project that she is finally able to face what really happened at that terrible party: she was raped by an upperclassman, a guy who still attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her. Her healing process has just begun when she has another violent encounter with him. But this time Melinda fights back, refuses to be silent, and thereby achieves a measure of vindication. In Laurie Halse Anderson's powerful novel, an utterly believable heroine with a bitterly ironic voice delivers a blow to the hypocritical world of high school. She speaks for many a disenfranchised teenager while demonstrating the importance of speaking up for oneself.Speak was a 1999 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature."</synopsis>
                <title>Speak</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Anna Brailovsky (Translator), Eva M. Martin (Translator), Constance Garnett (Translator), Martin Geeson (Narrator), Joseph Frank (Introduction)</author>
                <characters>Prince Myshkin, Nastasya Filippovna, Rogozhin</characters>
                <date>04/08/2003</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Russia, Russian Literature, Literature, Novels, Philosophy, 19th Century, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction</genres>
                <id>1175</id>
                <synopsis>"Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women—the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia—both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin’s honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moral emptiness of those around him. In her revision of the Garnett translation, Anna Brailovsky has corrected inaccuracies wrought by Garnett’s drastic anglicization of the novel, restoring as much as possible the syntactical structure of the original story."</synopsis>
                <title>The Idiot</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>William Shakespeare</author>
                <characters>Regan, Cordelia, Goneril, Leir of Britain, Fool, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Albany, Earl of Kent, Earl of Gloucester, Edgar, Edmund</characters>
                <date>01/01/2004</date>
                <genres>Classics, Plays, Drama, Fiction, School, Literature, Theatre, Poetry, Read For School, Tragedy</genres>
                <id>1176</id>
                <synopsis>"Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain that it represents. Its figures harden their hearts, engage in violence, or try to alleviate the suffering of others. Lear himself rages until his sanity cracks. What, then, keeps bringing us back to King Lear? For all the force of its language, King Lear is almost equally powerful when translated, suggesting that it is the story, in large part, that draws us to the play.The play tells us about families struggling between greed and cruelty, on the one hand, and support and consolation, on the other. Emotions are extreme, magnified to gigantic proportions. We also see old age portrayed in all its vulnerability, pride, and, perhaps, wisdom—one reason this most devastating of Shakespeare’s tragedies is also perhaps his most moving.The authoritative edition of King Lear from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes:-Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play-Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play-Scene-by-scene plot summaries-A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases-An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language-An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play-Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books-An annotated guide to further readingEssay by Susan SnyderThe Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare’s printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit Folger.edu."</synopsis>
                <title>King Lear</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>T.H. White</author>
                <characters>Merlin, Sir Lancelot, Sir Mordred, Queen Guinevere, King Arthur</characters>
                <date>06/15/87</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Arthurian, Mythology, Science Fiction Fantasy, Young Adult, Literature, Historical</genres>
                <id>1177</id>
                <synopsis>"T.H White′s masterful retelling of the Arthurian legend is an abiding classic. Here all five volumes that make up the story are published in one volume, as White himself always wished. Exquisite comedy offsets the tragedy of Arthur′s personal doom as White brings to life the major British epic of all time with brilliance, grandeur, warmth and charm."</synopsis>
                <title>The Once and Future King</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Neil Gaiman </author>
                <characters>Richard Mayhew, Door, Marquis de Carabas, Hunter, Mr. Croup, Mr. Vandemar, Islington, Jessica Bartram, Old Bailey</characters>
                <date>09/02/2003</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Science Fiction, Adventure, Horror, Adult, Young Adult</genres>
                <id>1178</id>
                <synopsis>"Under the streets of London there's a place most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, knights in armour and pale girls in black velvet. This is the city of the people who have fallen between the cracks.Richard Mayhew, a young businessman, is going to find out more than enough about this other London. A single act of kindness catapults him out of his workday existence and into a world that is at once eerily familiar and utterly bizarre. And a strange destiny awaits him down here, beneath his native city: Neverwhere."</synopsis>
                <title>Neverwhere</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jon Krakauer </author>
                <characters>Christopher McCandless</characters>
                <date>01/20/97</date>
                <genres>Nonfiction, Biography, Travel, Adventure, Classics, Memoir, Nature, Biography Memoir, School, Survival</genres>
                <id>1179</id>
                <synopsis>"Librarian's Note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereIn April, 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, a party of moose hunters found his decomposed body. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild.Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and, unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw away the maps. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild."</synopsis>
                <title>Into the Wild</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Cornelia Funke , Anthea Bell (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Meggie Folchart, Mortimer Folchart, Elinor Loredan, Farid, Resa Folchart, Staubfinger, Capricorn</characters>
                <date>05/01/2005</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Middle Grade, Adventure, Magic, Books About Books, Young Adult Fantasy, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1180</id>
                <synopsis>"Alternate cover edition: 9780439709101From internationally acclaimed storyteller Cornelia Funke, this bestselling, magical epic is now out in paperback!One cruel night, Meggie's father reads aloud from a book called INKHEART- and an evil ruler escapes the boundaries of fiction and lands in their living room. Suddenly, Meggie is smack in the middle of the kind of adventure she has only read about in books. Meggie must learn to harness the magic that has conjured this nightmare. For only she can change the course of the story that has changed her life forever.This is INKHEART-a timeless tale about books, about imagination, about life. Dare to read it aloud."</synopsis>
                <title>Inkheart</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Christopher Moore </author>
                <characters>Levi ""Biff"", Mary Magdalene, Jesus</characters>
                <date>05/25/04</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Humor, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Religion, Comedy, Historical, Audiobook, Adult, Adult Fiction</genres>
                <id>1181</id>
                <synopsis>"The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years—except Biff, the Messiah's best bud, who has been resurrected to tell the story in the divinely hilarious yet heartfelt work ""reminiscent of Vonnegut and Douglas Adams"" (Philadelphia Inquirer).Verily, the story Biff has to tell is a miraculous one, filled with remarkable journeys, magic, healings, kung fu, corpse reanimations, demons, and hot babes. Even the considerable wiles and devotion of the Savior's pal may not be enough to divert Joshua from his tragic destiny. But there's no one who loves Josh more—except maybe ""Maggie,"" Mary of Magdala—and Biff isn't about to let his extraordinary pal suffer and ascend without a fight."</synopsis>
                <title>Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Arthur Conan Doyle</author>
                <characters>Charles Baskerville, Inspector Lestrade, Henry Baskerville, Irene Adler, James Moriarty, Mrs Hudson (Conan Doyle series), John H. Watson, M.D., Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes, Dr. John Watson</characters>
                <date>10/01/1986</date>
                <genres>Classics, Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Short Stories, Detective, Literature, Mystery Thriller, Historical Fiction, Thriller</genres>
                <id>1182</id>
                <synopsis>"A study in scarlet -The sign of four -Adventures of Sherlock Holmes : A scandal in Bohemia ; The red-headed league ; A case of identity ; The Boscombe Valley mystery ; The five orange pips ; The man with the twisted lip ; The adventure of the blue carbuncle ; The adventure of the speckled band ; The adventure of the engineer's thumb ; The adventure of the noble bachelor ; The adventure of the beryl coronet ; The adventure of the copper beeches -Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes : Silver blaze ; The yellow face ; The stock-broker's clerk ; The ""Gloria Scott"" ; The Musgrave ritual ; The Reigate puzzle ; The crooked man ; The resident patient ; The Greek interpreter ; The naval treaty ; The final problem -The return of Sherlock Holmes : The adventure of the empty house ; The adventure of the Norwood builder ; The adventure of the dancing men ; The adventure of the solitary cyclist ; The adventure of the priory school ; The adventure of Black Peter ; The adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton ; The adventure of the six Napoleons ; The adventure of the three students ; The adventure of the golden pince-nez ; The adventure of the missing three-quarter ; The adventure of the abbey grange ; The adventure of the second stain. Volume 2. Introduction / by Loren D. Estleman -The hound of the Baskervilles -The valley of fear -His last bow : The adventure of Wisteria Lodge : The singular experience of Mr. John Scott Eccles ; The tiger of San Pedro ; The adventure of the cardboard box ; The adventure of the red circle ; The adventure of the Bruce-Partington plans ; The adventure of the dying detective ; The disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax ; The adventure of the devil's foot ; His last bow -The case-book of Sherlock Holmes : The adventure of the illustrious client ; The adventure of the blanched soldier ; The adventure of the Mazarin stone ; The adventure of the three gables ; The adventure of the Sussex vampire ; The adventure of the three Garridebs ; The problem of Thor Bridge ; The adventure of the creeping man ; The adventure of the lion's mane ; The adventure of the veiled lodger ; The adventure of Shoscombe old place ; The adventure of the retired colourman."</synopsis>
                <title>The Complete Sherlock Holmes</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Voltaire, Sara Gioacchino Corcos (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Pangloss, Cunegonde, Dr. Pangloss, Candide (Voltaire)</characters>
                <date>10/28/91</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Philosophy, France, Literature, Humor, French Literature, School, 18th Century, Novels</genres>
                <id>1183</id>
                <synopsis>"Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in ""the best of all possible worlds."" On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the philosophical optimism that proclaims that all disaster and human suffering is part of a benevolent cosmic plan. Fast, funny, often outrageous, the French philosopher's immortal narrative takes Candide around the world to discover that - contrary to the teachings of his distinguished tutor Dr. Pangloss - all is not always for the best. Alive with wit, brilliance, and graceful storytelling, Candide has become Voltaire's most celebrated work."</synopsis>
                <title>Candide</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>James Henry Trotter</characters>
                <date>09/10/2002</date>
                <genres>Childrens, Fantasy, Fiction, Classics, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Adventure, Juvenile, Humor, Chapter Books</genres>
                <id>1184</id>
                <synopsis>"When James accidentally drops some magic crystals by the old peach tree, strange things start to happen. The peach at the top of the tree begins to grow, and before long it's as big as a house. When James discovers a secret entranceway into the fruit and crawls inside, he meets wonderful new friends-the Old-Green-Grasshopper, the dainty Ladybug, and the Centipede of the multiple boots. After years of feeling like an outsider in his aunts' house, James finally found a place where he belongs. With a snip of the stem, the peach household starts rolling away-and the adventure begins!Roald Dahl's first and most widely celebrated book for young people continues to thrill readers around the world.""This is a stunning book to be cherished for its story, a superb fantasy.""-Chicago Tribune""A beautifully written, fantastic book.""-Christian Science Monitor"</synopsis>
                <title>James and the Giant Peach</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Tim Butcher </author>
                <characters>Henry Morton Stanley</characters>
                <date>01/03/2008</date>
                <genres>Travel, Nonfiction, Africa, History, Adventure, Memoir, Biography, Politics, Travelogue, Autobiography</genres>
                <id>1185</id>
                <synopsis>"A compulsively readable account of a journey to the Congo — a country virtually inaccessible to the outside world — vividly told by a daring and adventurous journalist.Ever since Stanley first charted its mighty river in the 1870s, the Congo has epitomized the dark and turbulent history of a failed continent. However, its troubles only served to increase the interest of Daily Telegraph correspondent Tim Butcher, who was sent to cover Africa in 2000. Before long he became obsessed with the idea of recreating Stanley’s original expedition — but travelling alone.Despite warnings Butcher spent years poring over colonial-era maps and wooing rebel leaders before making his will and venturing to the Congo’s eastern border. He passed through once thriving cities of this country and saw the marks left behind by years of abuse and misrule. Almost, 2,500 harrowing miles later, he reached the Atlantic Ocean, a thinner and a wiser man.Butcher’s journey was a remarkable feat. But the story of the Congo, vividly told in Blood River, is more remarkable still.From the Hardcover edition."</synopsis>
                <title>Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>John Milton, John Leonard (Editor, Contributor)</author>
                <characters>Michael (angel), Belial, Belzebub, Eve (Bible), Jesus, Raphael (angel), Satan, Mammon, God, Adam (Bible)</characters>
                <date>02/27/03</date>
                <genres>Classics, Poetry, Fiction, Literature, Religion, Fantasy, Philosophy, School, Classic Literature, Epic</genres>
                <id>1186</id>
                <synopsis>"John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The struggle rages across three worlds - heaven, hell, and earth - as Satan and his band of rebel angels plot their revenge against God. At the center of the conflict are Adam and Eve, who are motivated by all too human temptations but whose ultimate downfall is unyielding love.Marked by Milton's characteristic erudition, Paradise Lost is a work epic both in scale and, notoriously, in ambition. For nearly 350 years, it has held generation upon generation of audiences in rapt attention, and its profound influence can be seen in almost every corner of Western culture."</synopsis>
                <title>Paradise Lost</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>James Herriot</author>
                <characters>James Herriot, Siegfried Farnon, Tristan Farnon, Helen Alderson, Mrs. Hall, Mrs. Pumphrey, Tricky Woo, Granville Bennet, Diana Brompton, Herbert Jarvis, Broom, Charlie Dent, John Skipton, Copfield</characters>
                <date>04/15/98</date>
                <genres>Nonfiction, Animals, Memoir, Classics, Biography, Humor, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, British Literature, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1187</id>
                <synopsis>"The classic multimillion copy bestsellerDelve into the magical, unforgettable world of James Herriot, the world's most beloved veterinarian, and his menagerie of heartwarming, funny, and tragic animal patients.For over forty years, generations of readers have thrilled to Herriot's marvelous tales, deep love of life, and extraordinary storytelling abilities. For decades, Herriot roamed the remote, beautiful Yorkshire Dales, treating every patient that came his way from smallest to largest, and observing animals and humans alike with his keen, loving eye.In All Creatures Great and Small, we meet the young Herriot as he takes up his calling and discovers that the realities of veterinary practice in rural Yorkshire are very different from the sterile setting of veterinary school. Some visits are heart-wrenchingly difficult, such as one to an old man in the village whose very ill dog is his only friend and companion, some are lighthearted and fun, such as Herriot's periodic visits to the overfed and pampered Pekinese Tricki Woo who throws parties and has his own stationery, and yet others are inspirational and enlightening, such as Herriot's recollections of poor farmers who will scrape their meager earnings together to be able to get proper care for their working animals. From seeing to his patients in the depths of winter on the remotest homesteads to dealing with uncooperative owners and critically ill animals, Herriot discovers the wondrous variety and never-ending challenges of veterinary practice as his humor, compassion, and love of the animal world shine forth.James Herriot's memoirs have sold 80 million copies worldwide, and continue to delight and entertain readers of all ages"</synopsis>
                <title>All Creatures Great and Small</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Diane Setterfield </author>
                <characters>Margaret Lea, Emmeline March, Adeline March, Vida Winter, Aurelius Love</characters>
                <date>09/12/2006</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Mystery, Historical Fiction, Gothic, Books About Books, Adult, Historical, Fantasy, Book Club, Adult Fiction</genres>
                <id>1188</id>
                <synopsis>"All children mythologize their birth...So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter's collection of stories, which are as famous for the mystery of the missing thirteenth tale as they are for the delight and enchantment of the twelve that do exist. The enigmatic Winter has spent six decades creating various outlandish life histories for herself - all of them inventions that have brought her fame and fortune but have kept her violent and tragic past a secret. Now old and ailing, she at last wants to tell the truth about her extraordinary life. She summons biographer Margaret Lea, a young woman for whom the secret of her own birth, hidden by those who loved her most, remains an ever-present pain. Struck by a curious parallel between Miss Winter's story and her own, Margaret takes on the commission. As Vida disinters the life she meant to bury for good, Margaret is mesmerized. It is a tale of gothic strangeness featuring the Angelfield family, including the beautiful and willful Isabelle, the feral twins Adeline and Emmeline, a ghost, a governess, a topiary garden and a devastating fire. Margaret succumbs to the power of Vida's storytelling but remains suspicious of the author's sincerity. She demands the truth from Vida, and together they confront the ghosts that have haunted them while becoming, finally, transformed by the truth themselves. The Thirteenth Tale is a love letter to reading, a book for the feral reader in all of us, a return to that rich vein of storytelling that our parents loved and that we loved as children. Diane Setterfield will keep you guessing, make you wonder, move you to tears and laughter and, in the end, deposit you breathless yet satisfied back upon the shore of your everyday life."</synopsis>
                <title>The Thirteenth Tale</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Isaac Asimov</author>
                <characters>Hari Seldon, Hober Mallow, Salvor Hardin</characters>
                <date>06/01/2004</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Space Opera, Novels, Space, Audiobook, Speculative Fiction</genres>
                <id>1189</id>
                <synopsis>"For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future - to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire - both scientists and scholars - and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for a future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation.But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. Mankind's last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and be overrun - or fight them and be destroyed."</synopsis>
                <title>Foundation</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Toru Watanabe, Naoko, Midori Kobayashi, Reiko Ishida, Nagasawa</characters>
                <date>09/12/2000</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Japan, Romance, Japanese Literature, Contemporary, Novels, Literature, Literary Fiction, Asia, Magical Realism</genres>
                <id>1190</id>
                <synopsis>"Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. Toru begins to adapt to campus life and the loneliness and isolation he faces there, but Naoko finds the pressures and responsibilities of life unbearable. As she retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself reaching out to others and drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman.A magnificent blending of the music, the mood, and the ethos that was the sixties with the story of one college student's romantic coming of age, Norwegian Wood brilliantly recaptures a young man's first, hopeless, and heroic love."</synopsis>
                <title>Norwegian Wood</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>John Irving </author>
                <characters>Dr. Wilbur Larch, Candy Kendall, Wally Worthington, Rose Rose, Homer Wells</characters>
                <date>07/01/2000</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Literature, Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Novels, American, Adult Fiction, Historical</genres>
                <id>1191</id>
                <synopsis>"Raised from birth in the orphanage at St. Cloud's, Maine, Homer Wells has become the protege of Dr. Wilbur Larch, its physician and director. There Dr. Larch cares for the troubled mothers who seek his help, either by delivering and taking in their unwanted babies or by performing illegal abortions. Meticulously trained by Dr. Larch, Homer assists in the former, but draws the line at the latter. Then a young man brings his beautiful fiancee to Dr. Larch for an abortion, and everything about the couple beckons Homer to the wide world outside the orphanage ..."</synopsis>
                <title>The Cider House Rules</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Kafka Tamura, Sakura, Satoru Nakata, Oshima, Miss Saeki, Hoshino</characters>
                <date>01/03/2006</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Magical Realism, Japan, Fantasy, Japanese Literature, Contemporary, Novels, Literature, Literary Fiction, Asia</genres>
                <id>1192</id>
                <synopsis>"Kafka on the Shore, a tour de force of metaphysical reality, is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom. Their odyssey, as mysterious to them as it is to us, is enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerizing events. Cats and people carry on conversations, a ghostlike pimp employs a Hegel-quoting prostitute, a forest harbors soldiers apparently unaged since World War II, and rainstorms of fish (and worse) fall from the sky. There is a brutal murder, with the identity of both victim and perpetrator a riddle—yet this, along with everything else, is eventually answered, just as the entwined destinies of Kafka and Nakata are gradually revealed, with one escaping his fate entirely and the other given a fresh start on his own."</synopsis>
                <title>Kafka on the Shore</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Johanna Spyri, Beverly Cleary (Foreword), Angelo Rinaldi (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Heidi, Clara, Peter, Uncle Alm</characters>
                <date>11/15/02</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Childrens, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade, Historical, Juvenile, Childrens Classics, 19th Century</genres>
                <id>1193</id>
                <synopsis>"Little orphan Heidi goes to live high in the Alps with her gruff grandfather and brings happiness to all who know her on the mountain. When Heidi goes to Frankfurt to work in a wealthy household, she dreams of returning to the mountains and meadows, her friend Peter, and her beloved grandfather."</synopsis>
                <title>Heidi</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Cassandra Clare </author>
                <characters>Alexander ""Alec"" Lightwood, Jonathan ""Jace"" Wayland, Isabelle ""Izzy"" Sophia Lightwood, Magnus Bane, Jordan Kyle, Maia Roberts, Jocelyn Fray, Luke Garroway, Sebastian Morgenstern, Aline Penhallow, Camille Belcourt, Clarissa ""Clary"" Fray, Jonathan Morgenstern, Simon Lewis</characters>
                <date>05/08/2012</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Vampires, Angels, Fiction, Supernatural, Magic</genres>
                <id>1194</id>
                <synopsis>"The New York Times bestselling Mortal Instruments continues—and so do the thrills and danger for Jace, Clary, and Simon.What price is too high to pay, even for love? When Jace and Clary meet again, Clary is horrified to discover that the demon Lilith’s magic has bound her beloved Jace together with her evil brother Sebastian, and that Jace has become a servant of evil. The Clave is out to destroy Sebastian, but there is no way to harm one boy without destroying the other. As Alec, Magnus, Simon, and Isabelle wheedle and bargain with Seelies, demons, and the merciless Iron Sisters to try to save Jace, Clary plays a dangerous game of her own. The price of losing is not just her own life, but Jace’s soul. She’s willing to do anything for Jace, but can she still trust him? Or is he truly lost?Love. Blood. Betrayal. Revenge. Darkness threatens to claim the Shadowhunters in the harrowing fifth book of the Mortal Instruments series."</synopsis>
                <title>City of Lost Souls</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jostein Gaarder, Paulette Møller (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Charles Darwin, Cecilia Skotbu, Malaikat Ariel, Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, René Descartes, George Berkeley, John Locke, David Hume, St. Augustine, Baruch Spinoza, Sofie Amundsen, Jorunn, Jesus, Immanuel Kant, Socrates (philosopher), Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx</characters>
                <date>10/28/95</date>
                <genres>Philosophy, Fiction, Classics, Young Adult, Novels, Fantasy, Literature, Contemporary, Unfinished, Scandinavian Literature</genres>
                <id>1195</id>
                <synopsis>"An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found hereOne day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: ""Who are you?"" and ""Where does the world come from?"" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined."</synopsis>
                <title>Sophie's World</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Patrick Rothfuss </author>
                <characters>Bast, Denna, Ambrose, Kvothe, Simmon, Wilem, The Chandrian, Maer Alveron, Felurian, Devi, Tempi, Auri, Fela, Chronicler</characters>
                <date>03/01/2011</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Magic, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure, Audiobook, Adult, Epic</genres>
                <id>1196</id>
                <synopsis>"“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”My name is Kvothe.I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to Gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep.You may have heard of me.So begins the tale of a hero told from his own point of view — a story unequaled in fantasy literature. Now in The Wise Man's Fear, an escalating rivalry with a powerful member of the nobility forces Kvothe to leave the University and seek his fortune abroad. Adrift, penniless, and alone, he travels to Vintas, where he quickly becomes entangled in the politics of courtly society. While attempting to curry favor with a powerful noble, Kvothe uncovers an assassination attempt, comes into conflict with a rival arcanist, and leads a group of mercenaries into the wild, in an attempt to solve the mystery of who (or what) is waylaying travelers on the King's Road.All the while, Kvothe searches for answers, attempting to uncover the truth about the mysterious Amyr, the Chandrian, and the death of his parents. Along the way, Kvothe is put on trial by the legendary Adem mercenaries, is forced to reclaim the honor of the Edema Ruh, and travels into the Fae realm. There he meets Felurian, the faerie woman no man can resist, and who no man has ever survived ... until Kvothe.In The Wise Man's Fear, Kvothe takes his first steps on the path of the hero and learns how difficult life can be when a man becomes a legend in his own time."</synopsis>
                <title>The Wise Man's Fear</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kate Chopin</author>
                <characters>Edna Pontellier, Léonce Pontellier, Robert Lebrun, Alcée Arobin, Adèle Ratignolle, Mademoiselle Reisz</characters>
                <date>10/28/06</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Feminism, School, Literature, Historical Fiction, Read For School, High School, American, 19th Century</genres>
                <id>1197</id>
                <synopsis>"When first published in 1899, The Awakening shocked readers with its honest treatment of female marital infidelity. Audiences accustomed to the pieties of late Victorian romantic fiction were taken aback by Chopin's daring portrayal of a woman trapped in a stifling marriage, who seeks and finds passionate physical love outside the confines of her domestic situation.Aside from its unusually frank treatment of a then-controversial subject, the novel is widely admired today for its literary qualities. Edmund Wilson characterized it as a work ""quite uninhibited and beautifully written, which anticipates D. H. Lawrence in its treatment of infidelity."" Although the theme of marital infidelity no longer shocks, few novels have plumbed the psychology of a woman involved in an illicit relationship with the perception, artistry, and honesty that Kate Chopin brought to The Awakening."</synopsis>
                <title>The Awakening</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>William Styron</author>
                <characters>Stingo, Nathan Landau, Sophie Zawistowska</characters>
                <date>03/03/1992</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Holocaust, War, Historical, World War II, Literature, Novels, Literary Fiction</genres>
                <id>1198</id>
                <synopsis>Three stories are told: a young Southerner wants to become a writer; a turbulent love-hate affair between a brilliant Jew and a beautiful Polish woman; and of an awful wound in that woman's past-one that impels both Sophie and Nathan toward destruction.</synopsis>
                <title>Sophie's Choice</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Pat Conroy</author>
                <characters>Tom Wingo, Susan Lowenstein, Savannah Wingo, Luke Wingo</characters>
                <date>03/26/02</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Southern, Romance, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Literature, Drama, Novels, Adult Fiction</genres>
                <id>1199</id>
                <synopsis>"PAT CONROY has created a huge, brash thunderstorm of a novel, stinging with honesty and resounding with drama. Spanning forty years, this is the story of turbulent Tom Wingo, his gifted and troubled twin sister Savannah, and their struggle to triumph over the dark and tragic legacy of the extraordinary family into which they were born.Filled with the vanishing beauty of the South Carolina low country as well as the dusty glitter of New York City, The Prince of Tides is PAT CONROY at his very best."</synopsis>
                <title>The Prince of Tides</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kazuo Ishiguro</author>
                <characters>Kathy H., Ruth, Tommy</characters>
                <date>08/31/10</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult, Romance, Literature, British Literature</genres>
                <id>1200</id>
                <synopsis>"From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human.Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants them to be. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little contact with it.Within the grounds of Hailsham, Kathy grows from schoolgirl to young woman, but it’s only when she and her friends Ruth and Tommy leave the safe grounds of the school (as they always knew they would) that they realize the full truth of what Hailsham is.Never Let Me Go breaks through the boundaries of the literary novel. It is a gripping mystery, a beautiful love story, and also a scathing critique of human arrogance and a moral examination of how we treat the vulnerable and different in our society. In exploring the themes of memory and the impact of the past, Ishiguro takes on the idea of a possible future to create his most moving and powerful book to date."</synopsis>
                <title>Never Let Me Go</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Rick Riordan </author>
                <characters>Nico di Angelo, Octavian, Hera, Reyna, Juno, Hazel Levesque, Frank Zhang, Ella the Harpy, Percy Jackson</characters>
                <date>10/04/2011</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Mythology, Fiction, Middle Grade, Adventure, Greek Mythology, Urban Fantasy, Childrens, Young Adult Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1201</id>
                <synopsis>"PERCY IS CONFUSED. When he awoke from his long sleep, he didn't know much more than his name. His brain fuzz is lingering, even after the wolf Lupa told him he is a demigod and trained him to fight with the pen/sword in his pocket. Somehow Percy manages to make it to a camp for half-bloods, despite the fact that he has to keep killing monsters along the way. But the camp doesn't ring any bells with him. The only thing he can recall from his past is another name: Annabeth. HAZEL IS SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD. When she lived before, she didn't do a very good job of it. Sure, she was an obedient daughter, even when her mother was possessed by greed. But that was the problem—when the Voice took over her mother and commanded Hazel to use her ""gift"" for an evil purpose, Hazel couldn't say no. Now because of her mistake, the future of the world is at risk. Hazel wishes she could ride away from it all on the stallion that appears in her dreams.FRANK IS A KLUTZ. His grandmother says he is descended from heroes and can be anything he wants to be, but he doesn't see it. He doesn't even know who his father is. He keeps hoping Apollo will claim him, because the only thing he is good at is archery—although not good enough to win camp war games. His bulky physique makes him feel like an ox, especially in front of Hazel, his closest friend at camp. He trusts her completely—enough to share the secret he holds close to his heart.Beginning at the ""other"" camp for half-bloods and extending as far as the land beyond the gods, this breathtaking second installment of the Heroes of Olympus series introduces new demigods, revives fearsome monsters, and features other remarkable creatures, all destined to play a part in the Prophesy of Seven."</synopsis>
                <title>The Son of Neptune</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Fannie Flagg</author>
                <characters>Ruth, Mrs. Ninny Threadgoode, Evelyn Couch, Idgie</characters>
                <date>05/07/2002</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Historical Fiction, LGBT, Classics, Chick Lit, Southern, Historical, Humor, Queer, Adult Fiction</genres>
                <id>1202</id>
                <synopsis>"It's first the story of two women in the 1980s, of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women-of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth, who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern kind of Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder."</synopsis>
                <title>Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ernest Cline </author>
                <characters>Wade Owen Watts, Ogden Morrow, Parzival, Aech, James Donovan Halliday, Art3mis, Kira Morrow, Daito, Shoto, Nolan Sorrento</characters>
                <date>08/16/11</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Young Adult, Fantasy, Dystopia, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adult, Cyberpunk, Novels</genres>
                <id>1203</id>
                <synopsis>"Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereIN THE YEAR 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines, puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them. But when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win—and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape."</synopsis>
                <title>Ready Player One</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>George Eliot, Michel Faber (Introduction)</author>
                <characters>Dorothea Brooke, Celia Brooke, Will Ladislaw, Mary Garth, Rosamond Vincy, Sir James Chettam, Tertius Lydgate, Peter Featherstone, Edward Casaubon, Caleb Garth, Camden Farebrother, Joshua Rigg, John Raffles, Nicholas Bulstrode, Harriet Bulstrode, Arthur Brooke, Fred Vincy</characters>
                <date>10/28/04</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literature, 19th Century, Victorian, British Literature, Novels, Romance, Classic Literature</genres>
                <id>1204</id>
                <synopsis>"Taking place in the years leading up to the First Reform Bill of 1832, Middlemarch explores nearly every subject of concern to modern life: art, religion, science, politics, self, society, human relationships. Among her characters are some of the most remarkable portraits in English literature: Dorothea Brooke, the heroine, idealistic but naive; Rosamond Vincy, beautiful and egoistic: Edward Casaubon, the dry-as-dust scholar: Tertius Lydgate, the brilliant but morally-flawed physician: the passionate artist Will Ladislaw: and Fred Vincey and Mary Garth, childhood sweethearts whose charming courtship is one of the many humorous elements in the novel's rich comic vein."</synopsis>
                <title>Middlemarch</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jon Stone, Michael J. Smollin (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Grover</characters>
                <date>05/11/2004</date>
                <genres>Picture Books, Childrens, Fiction, Humor, Classics, Monsters, Storytime, Kids, Juvenile, Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1205</id>
                <synopsis>"Many adults name this book as their favorite Little Golden Book. Generations of kids have interacted with lovable, furry old Grover as he begs the reader not to turn the page—for fear of a monster at the end of the book. “Oh, I am so embarrassed,” he says on the last page . . . for, of course, the monster is Grover himself! This all-time favorite is now available as a Big Little Golden Book—perfect for lap-time reading."</synopsis>
                <title>The Monster at the End of this Book</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Helen Fielding , Хелен Филдинг</author>
                <characters>Bridget Jones, Mark Darcy, Daniel Cleaver</characters>
                <date>06/01/1999</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Chick Lit, Romance, Humor, Contemporary, Adult, Comedy, Adult Fiction, British Literature, Novels</genres>
                <id>1206</id>
                <synopsis>"Meet Bridget Jones—a 30-something Singleton who is certain she would have all the answers if she could:a. lose 7 poundsb. stop smokingc. develop Inner Poise""123 lbs. (how is it possible to put on 4 pounds in the middle of the night? Could flesh have somehow solidified becoming denser and heavier? Repulsive, horrifying notion), alcohol units 4 (excellent), cigarettes 21 (poor but will give up totally tomorrow), number of correct lottery numbers 2 (better, but nevertheless useless)...""Bridget Jones' Diary is the devastatingly self-aware, laugh-out-loud daily chronicle of Bridget's permanent, doomed quest for self-improvement — a year in which she resolves to: reduce the circumference of each thigh by 1.5 inches, visit the gym three times a week not just to buy a sandwich, form a functional relationship with a responsible adult, and learn to program the VCR.Over the course of the year, Bridget loses a total of 72 pounds but gains a total of 74. She remains, however, optimistic. Through it all, Bridget will have you helpless with laughter, and — like millions of readers the world round — you'll find yourself shouting, ""Bridget Jones is me!"""</synopsis>
                <title>Bridget Jones's Diary</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Virginia Woolf, Maureen Howard (Foreword)</author>
                <characters>Clarissa Dalloway, Septimus Warren Smith, Peter Walsh, Sally Seton</characters>
                <date>10/28/02</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Literature, Novels, British Literature, Feminism, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, School, English Literature</genres>
                <id>1207</id>
                <synopsis>"Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's life. When we meet her, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party preparation while in her mind she is something much more than a perfect society hostess. As she readies her house, she is flooded with remembrances of faraway times. And, met with the realities of the present, Clarissa reexamines the choices that brought her there, hesitantly looking ahead to the unfamiliar work of growing old.""Mrs. Dalloway was the first novel to split the atom. If the novel before Mrs. Dalloway aspired to immensities of scope and scale, to heroic journeys across vast landscapes, with Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf insisted that it could also locate the enormous within the everyday; that a life of errands and party-giving was every bit as viable a subject as any life lived anywhere; and that should any human act in any novel seem unimportant, it has merely been inadequately observed. The novel as an art form has not been the same since.""Mrs. Dalloway also contains some of the most beautiful, complex, incisive and idiosyncratic sentences ever written in English, and that alone would be reason enough to read it. It is one of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century.""-Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours"</synopsis>
                <title>Mrs. Dalloway</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Suzanne Collins</author>
                <characters>Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, Primrose Everdeen, Gale Hawthorne, Haymitch Abernathy, Finnick Odair, Johanna Mason, President Coriolanus Snow, President Coin</characters>
                <date>08/24/10</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Dystopia, Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Adventure, Teen, Post Apocalyptic, Science Fiction Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1208</id>
                <synopsis>"The final book in the ground-breaking HUNGER GAMES trilogy, this new foiled edition of MOCKINGJAY is available for a limited period of time. Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. And what's worse, President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe either. Not Katniss's family, not her friends, not the people of District 12."</synopsis>
                <title>Mockingjay</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>J.D. Salinger</author>
                <characters>Franny Glass, Zooey Glass, Buddy Glass, Lane Coutell, Bessie Glass</characters>
                <date>01/30/01</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Short Stories, Literature, American, Novels, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Adult Fiction, Adult</genres>
                <id>1209</id>
                <synopsis>"The short story, Franny, takes place in an unnamed college town and tells the tale of an undergraduate who is becoming disenchanted with the selfishness and inauthenticity she perceives all around her.The novella, Zooey, is named for Zooey Glass, the second-youngest member of the Glass family. As his younger sister, Franny, suffers a spiritual and existential breakdown in her parents' Manhattan living room - leaving Bessie, her mother, deeply concerned - Zooey comes to her aid, offering what he thinks is brotherly love, understanding, and words of sage advice.Salinger writes of these works: ""FRANNY came out in The New Yorker in 1955, and was swiftly followed, in 1957 by ZOOEY. Both stories are early, critical entries in a narrative series I'm doing about a family of settlers in twentieth-century New York, the Glasses. It is a long-term project, patently an ambiguous one, and there is a real-enough danger, I suppose that sooner or later I'll bog down, perhaps disappear entirely, in my own methods, locutions, and mannerisms. On the whole, though, I'm very hopeful. I love working on these Glass stories, I've been waiting for them most of my life, and I think I have fairly decent, monomaniacal plans to finish them with due care and all-available skill."""</synopsis>
                <title>Franny and Zooey</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Bryce Courtenay</author>
                <characters>""Doc"" Bradley Stanwick, Peekay, Geel Piet, Morris Levy, The Judge, Mrs. Boxall, Miss Bornstein</characters>
                <date>09/29/96</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Historical Fiction, Africa, Classics, South Africa, Coming Of Age, Historical, Young Adult, Novels, Book Club</genres>
                <id>1210</id>
                <synopsis>"In 1939, as Hitler casts his enormous, cruel shadow across the world, the seeds of apartheid take root in South Africa. There, a boy called Peekay is born. His childhood is marked by humiliation and abandonment, yet he vows to survive and conceives heroic dreams, which are nothing compared to what life actually has in store for him. He embarks on an epic journey through a land of tribal superstition and modern prejudice where he will learn the power of words, the power to transform lives and the power of one."</synopsis>
                <title>The Power of One</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>C.S. Lewis</author>
                <characters>Polly, Aslan, Digory Kirke, Jadis, Andrew Kirke, Sarah Houplin, Letitia Ketterley</characters>
                <date>05/04/2005</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Classics, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Adventure, Christian, Middle Grade, Christian Fiction, Magic</genres>
                <id>1211</id>
                <synopsis>"The secret passage to the house next door leads to a fascinating adventureNARNIA...where the woods are thick and cold, where Talking Beasts are called to life...a new world where the adventure begins.Digory and Polly meet and become friends one cold, wet summer in London. Their lives burst into adventure when Digory's Uncle Andrew, who thinks he is a magician, sends them hurtling to...somewhere else. They find their way to Narnia, newborn from the Lion's song, and encounter the evil sorceress Jadis before they finally return home."</synopsis>
                <title>The Magician's Nephew</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Neil Gaiman </author>
                <characters>Tristran Thorn, Yvaine, Victoria Forester, Dunstan Thorn, Madame Semele, Lady Una, Lord Primus, Lord Septimus, The Lilim, Mr. Monday</characters>
                <date>08/29/06</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Romance, Young Adult, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, Magic, Audiobook, Fairy Tales, Adult</genres>
                <id>1212</id>
                <synopsis>"Life moves at a leisurely pace in the tiny town of Wall—named after the imposing stone barrier which separates the town from a grassy meadow. Here, young Tristran Thorn has lost his heart to the beautiful Victoria Forester and for the coveted prize of her hand, Tristran vows to retrieve a fallen star and deliver it to his beloved. It is an oath that sends him over the ancient wall and into a world that is dangerous and strange beyond imagining..."</synopsis>
                <title>Stardust</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Lois Lowry </author>
                <characters>Annemarie Johansen, Ellen Rosen</characters>
                <date>02/09/1998</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Fiction, Classics, Childrens, Historical, Holocaust, Middle Grade, World War II, School</genres>
                <id>1213</id>
                <synopsis>"Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think of life before the war. It's now 1943 and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi soldiers marching through town. When the Jews of Denmark are ""relocated,"" Ellen moves in with the Johansens and pretends to be one of the family. Soon Annemarie is asked to go on a dangerous mission to save Ellen's life."</synopsis>
                <title>Number the Stars</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Veronica Roth </author>
                <characters>Beatrice Prior, Peter, Caleb Prior, Christina, Marcus Eaton, Tobias Eaton</characters>
                <date>10/22/13</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Dystopia, Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, Adventure, Teen, Post Apocalyptic, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1214</id>
                <synopsis>"The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered - fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories.But Tris's new reality is even more alarming than the one she left behind. Old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless. Explosive new truths change the hearts of those she loves. And once again, Tris must battle to comprehend to complexities of human nature - and of herself - while facing impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice, and love.Told from a riveting dual perspective, ALLEGIANT, by #1 New York Times best-selling author Veronica Roth, brings the DIVERGENT series to a powerful conclusion while revealing the secrets of the dystopian world that has captivated millions of readers in DIVERGENT and INSURGENT."</synopsis>
                <title>Allegiant</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Rainbow Rowell </author>
                <characters>Park Sheridan, Eleanor Douglas</characters>
                <date>02/26/13</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Audiobook, Teen, Coming Of Age, Young Adult Contemporary, High School</genres>
                <id>1215</id>
                <synopsis>"Eleanor is the new girl in town, and with her chaotic family life, her mismatched clothes and unruly red hair, she couldn't stick out more if she tried.Park is the boy at the back of the bus. Black T-shirts, headphones, head in a book - he thinks he's made himself invisible. But not to Eleanor... never to Eleanor.Slowly, steadily, through late-night conversations and an ever-growing stack of mix tapes, Eleanor and Park fall for each other. They fall in love the way you do the first time, when you're young, and you feel as if you have nothing and everything to lose."</synopsis>
                <title>Eleanor &amp; Park</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jojo Moyes </author>
                <characters>Will Traynor, Louisa ""Lou"" Clark, Camilla Traynor</characters>
                <date>07/30/13</date>
                <genres>Romance, Fiction, Contemporary, Chick Lit, Adult, Adult Fiction, Audiobook, Drama, Realistic Fiction, Contemporary Romance</genres>
                <id>1216</id>
                <synopsis>"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars, discover the love story that captured over 20 million hearts in Me Before You, After You, and Still Me.They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose . . .Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life—steady boyfriend, close family—who has barely been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex–Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after an accident. Will has always lived a huge life—big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel—and now he’s pretty sure he cannot live the way he is.Will is acerbic, moody, bossy—but Lou refuses to treat him with kid gloves, and soon his happiness means more to her than she expected. When she learns that Will has shocking plans of his own, she sets out to show him that life is still worth living.A Love Story for this generation and perfect for fans of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, Me Before You brings to life two people who couldn’t have less in common—a heartbreakingly romantic novel that asks, What do you do when making the person you love happy also means breaking your own heart?"</synopsis>
                <title>Me Before You</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Rick Riordan </author>
                <characters>Leo Valdez, Nico di Angelo, Annabeth Chase, Hades, Jason Grace, Piper McLean, Hazel Levesque, Frank Zhang, Percy Jackson</characters>
                <date>10/02/2012</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Mythology, Fiction, Middle Grade, Adventure, Greek Mythology, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Childrens</genres>
                <id>1217</id>
                <synopsis>"Annabeth is terrified. Just when she's about to be reunited with Percy—after six months of being apart, thanks to Hera—it looks like Camp Jupiter is preparing for war. As Annabeth and her friends Jason, Piper, and Leo fly in on the Argo II, she can't blame the Roman demigods for thinking the ship is a Greek weapon. With its steaming bronze dragon figurehead, Leo's fantastical creation doesn't appear friendly. Annabeth hopes that the sight of their praetor Jason on deck will reassure the Romans that the visitors from Camp Half-Blood are coming in peace.And that's only one of her worries. In her pocket, Annabeth carries a gift from her mother that came with an unnerving command: Follow the Mark of Athena. Avenge me. Annabeth already feels weighed down by the prophecy that will send seven demigods on a quest to find—and close—the Doors of Death. What more does Athena want from her?Annabeth's biggest fear, though, is that Percy might have changed. What if he's now attached to Roman ways? Does he still need his old friends? As the daughter of the goddess of war and wisdom, Annabeth knows she was born to be a leader—but never again does she want to be without Seaweed Brain by her sideNarrated by four different demigods, The Mark of Athena is an unforgettable journey across land and sea to Rome, where important discoveries, surprising sacrifices, and unspeakable horrors await. Climb aboard the Argo II, if you dare. . . ."</synopsis>
                <title>The Mark of Athena</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Garth Stein </author>
                <characters>Eve, Enzo, Denny Swift, Zoë</characters>
                <date>05/13/08</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Animals, Contemporary, Dogs, Adult Fiction, Audiobook, Adult, Book Club, Novels, Family</genres>
                <id>1218</id>
                <synopsis>"Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television extensively, and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race car driver.Through Denny, Enzo has gained tremendous insight into the human condition, and he sees that life, like racing, isn't simply about going fast. On the eve of his death, Enzo takes stock of his life, recalling all that he and his family have been through.A heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope, The Art of Racing in the Rain is a beautifully crafted and captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life ... as only a dog could tell it."</synopsis>
                <title>The Art of Racing in the Rain</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Brandon Sanderson </author>
                <characters>Kaladin Stormblessed, Dalinar Kholin, Shallan Davar, Jasnah Kholin, Adolin Kholin, Hoid</characters>
                <date>08/31/10</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Audiobook, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adult, Epic, Magic, Adventure</genres>
                <id>1219</id>
                <synopsis>"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, book one of The Stormlight Archive begins an incredible new saga of epic proportion.Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter.It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and suits of armor that transform ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Men trade kingdoms for Shardblades. Wars were fought for them, and won by them.One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains. There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery. In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies fight separately against a single foe, he struggles to save his men and to fathom the leaders who consider them expendable.Brightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called The Way of Kings. Troubled by over-powering visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own sanity.Across the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to train under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic, Dalinar's niece, Jasnah. Though she genuinely loves learning, Shallan's motives are less than pure. As she plans a daring theft, her research for Jasnah hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the war.The result of over ten years of planning, writing, and world-building, The Way of Kings is but the opening movement of the Stormlight Archive, a bold masterpiece in the making.Speak again the ancient oaths:Life before death.Strength before weakness.Journey before Destination.and return to men the Shards they once bore.The Knights Radiant must stand again."</synopsis>
                <title>The Way of Kings</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Gayle Forman </author>
                <characters>Teddy Hall, Kim Schein, Adam Wilde, Mia Hall</characters>
                <date>04/02/2009</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Teen, Music, Death, Audiobook, Young Adult Contemporary</genres>
                <id>1220</id>
                <synopsis>"Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.Just listen, Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel.I open my eyes wide now.I sit up as much as I can.And I listen.Stay, he says.Choices. Seventeen-year-old Mia is faced with some tough ones: Stay true to her first love—music—even if it means losing her boyfriend and leaving her family and friends behind?Then one February morning Mia goes for a drive with her family, and in an instant, everything changes. Suddenly, all the choices are gone, except one. And it's the only one that matters.If I Stay is a heartachingly beautiful book about the power of love, the true meaning of family, and the choices we all make."</synopsis>
                <title>If I Stay</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Anna Sewell</author>
                <characters>Black Beauty, Ginger</characters>
                <date>03/01/2003</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Childrens, Animals, Young Adult, Horses, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade, Adventure, Literature</genres>
                <id>1221</id>
                <synopsis>"Black Beauty spends his youth in a loving home, surrounded by friends and cared for by his owners. But when circumstances change, he learns that not all humans are so kind. Passed from hand to hand, Black Beauty witnesses love and cruelty, wealth and poverty, friendship and hardship . . . Will the handsome horse ever find a happy and lasting home? Carefully retold in clear contemporary language, and presented with delightful illustrations, these favorite classic stories capture the heart and imagination of young readers. By retelling the story in a shorter, simpler form, these books become highly engaging for children, and the color illustrations help with both comprehension and interest level. Black Beauty is part of a collectible series that has strong gift appeal."</synopsis>
                <title>Black Beauty</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>James Joyce, Seamus Deane (Editor), Jim Norton (Translation), Hans Walter Gabler, Jeri Johnson (Editor), J.M. Gaffney (Editor), Ludmila Savitzky (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Stephen Dedalus, Simon Dedalus, Fr. John Conmee, Mary Dedalus</characters>
                <date>03/25/03</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Literature, Irish Literature, Ireland, Novels, 20th Century, School, Literary Fiction, Classic Literature</genres>
                <id>1222</id>
                <synopsis>"The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce and a universal testament to the artist's 'eternal imagination'. Both an insight into Joyce's life and childhood, and a unique work of modernist fiction, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a novel of sexual awakening, religious rebellion and the essential search for voice and meaning that every nascent artist must face in order to blossom fully into themselves."</synopsis>
                <title>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jonathan Swift, Robert DeMaria Jr. (Editor)</author>
                <characters>Lemuel Gulliver</characters>
                <date>01/30/03</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Literature, Novels, Classic Literature, 18th Century, School, British Literature</genres>
                <id>1223</id>
                <synopsis>"For the last 250 years people everywhere have enjoyed reading about Lemuel Gulliver's travels in the strange countries of Lilliput and Brobdingnag. The people of these countries, with all their curiously human failings, come to life in Martin Aitchison's vivid illustrations. Here is a story to make you laugh - but to make you think, too."</synopsis>
                <title>Gulliver's Travels</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ann Patchett</author>
                <characters>Katsumi Hosokawa, Roxane Coss, Gen Watanabe, Carmen Lowell</characters>
                <date>08/02/2005</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Book Club, Novels, Music, Adult Fiction, Literature, Adult, Romance</genres>
                <id>1224</id>
                <synopsis>"In an unnamed South American country, a world-renowned soprano sings at a birthday party in honor of a visiting Japanese industrial titan. Alas, in the opening sequence, a ragtag band of 18 terrorists enters the vice-presidential mansion through the air conditioning ducts. Their quarry is the president, who has unfortunately stayed home to watch a favorite soap opera. And thus, from the beginning, things go awry.Among the hostages are Russian, Italian, and French diplomatic types. Swiss Red Cross negotiator Joachim Messner comes and goes, wrangling over terms and demands. Days stretch into weeks, the weeks into months. Joined by no common language except music, the 58 international hostages and their captors forge unexpected bonds. Time stands still, priorities rearrange themselves. Ultimately, of course, something has to give.Hearing opera sung live for the first time, a young priest reflects:  Never had he thought, never once, that such a woman existed, one who stood so close to God that God's own voice poured from her. How far she must have gone inside herself to call up that voice. It was as if the voice came from the center part of the earth and by the sheer effort and diligence of her will she had pulled it up through the dirt and rock and through the floorboards of the house, up into her feet, where it pulled through her, reaching, lifting, warmed by her, and then out of the white lily of her throat and straight to God in heaven. "</synopsis>
                <title>Bel Canto</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Bret Easton Ellis</author>
                <characters>Patrick Bateman, Evelyn Richards, Timothy Price, Paul Owen, Luis Carruthers, Courtney Lawrence</characters>
                <date>03/28/91</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Horror, Thriller, Classics, Crime, Contemporary, Mystery, Novels, Literature, American</genres>
                <id>1225</id>
                <synopsis>"Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and he works on Wall Street, he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking us to head-on collision with America's greatest dream—and its worst nightmare—American Psycho is bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognise but do not wish to confront."</synopsis>
                <title>American Psycho</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Alan Moore , David Lloyd (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Evey Hammond, Adam Susan, Eric Finch, Lewis Prothero, V</characters>
                <date>11/01/2005</date>
                <genres>Graphic Novels, Comics, Fiction, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Classics, Politics, Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1226</id>
                <synopsis>"""Remember, remember the fifth of November...""A frightening and powerful tale of the loss of freedom and identity in a chillingly believable totalitarian world, V for Vendetta stands as one of the highest achievements of the comics medium and a defining work for creators Alan Moore and David Lloyd.Set in an imagined future England that has given itself over to fascism, this groundbreaking story captures both the suffocating nature of life in an authoritarian police state and the redemptive power of the human spirit which rebels against it. Crafted with sterling clarity and intelligence, V for Vendetta brings an unequaled depth of characterization and verisimilitude to its unflinching account of oppression and resistance."</synopsis>
                <title>V for Vendetta</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Boy Narrator, The Grand High Witch, ""Boy''s Grandmother""</characters>
                <date>10/28/97</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Childrens, Fiction, Classics, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Witches, Magic, Humor, Juvenile</genres>
                <id>1227</id>
                <synopsis>"This is not a fairy-tale. This is about real witches. Real witches don't ride around on broomsticks. They don't even wear black cloaks and hats. They are vile, cunning, detestable creatures who disguise themselves as nice, ordinary ladies. So how can you tell when you're face to face with one? Well, if you don't know yet you'd better find out quickly-because there's nothing a witch loathes quite as much as children and she'll wield all kinds of terrifying powers to get rid of them."</synopsis>
                <title>The Witches</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Neil Gaiman , Dave McKean (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Nobody Owens, the man Jack, Silas, Mr. Owens, Mrs. Owens, Miss Lupescu, Scarlett Perkins, The Sleer, Liza Hempstock</characters>
                <date>09/30/08</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Horror, Paranormal, Childrens, Middle Grade, Audiobook, Ghosts, Supernatural</genres>
                <id>1228</id>
                <synopsis>"Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a perfectly normal boy. Well, he would be perfectly normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the world of the dead.There are dangers and adventures for Bod in the graveyard: the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer; a gravestone entrance to a desert that leads to the city of ghouls; friendship with a witch, and so much more.But it is in the land of the living that real danger lurks, for it is there that the man Jack lives and he has already killed Bod's family.A deliciously dark masterwork by bestselling author Neil Gaiman, with illustrations by award-winning Dave McKean."</synopsis>
                <title>The Graveyard Book</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jane Austen</author>
                <characters>Mr. Bennet, Mrs. Bennet, Jane Bennet, Elizabeth Bennet, Mary Bennet, Kitty Bennet, Lydia Bennet, Louisa Hurst, Caroline Bingley, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Georgiana Darcy, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Anne de Bourgh, Colonel Fitzwilliam, Mr. Gardiner, Mrs. Gardiner, Sir William Lucas, Lady Lucas, Charlotte Lucas, Maria Lucas, Lady Russell, Emma Woodhouse, Elinor Dashwood, Marianne Dashwood, Catherine Morland, Henry Tilney, Eleanor Tilney, General Tilney, John Thorpe, Isabella Thorpe, Fanny Price (Mansfield Park), Edmund Bertram, Henry Crawford, Mary Crawford, Sir Thomas Bertram, Lady Bertram, William Price, Tom Bertram, Maria Bertram, Julia Bertram, Mr. Rushworth, Mr. Yates, Mr. Price, Mrs. Price, Edward Ferrars, Charles Bingley, George Wickham, Mr. William Collins, George Knightley, Harriet Smith, Jane Fairfax, Frank Churchill, Henry Woodhouse, Colonel Brandon, Lady Middleton, John Middleton, Mr. Dashwood, Mrs. John Dashwood, Mrs. Dashwood, Philip Elton, Augusta Elton, Miss Bates, Isabella Woodhouse, John Knightley, Anne Elliot</characters>
                <date>06/17/96</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Literature, Historical, Classic Literature, Novels, Regency, British Literature</genres>
                <id>1229</id>
                <synopsis>"This volume contains the six major novels: ""Emma"", ""Mansfield Park"", ""Northanger Abbey"", ""Persuasion"", ""Sense and Sensibility"", ""Pride and Prejudice""."</synopsis>
                <title>The Complete Novels</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jack London, مها محمود صالح  (Translator)</author>
                <characters>White Fang</characters>
                <date>01/01/2001</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Adventure, Animals, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Literature, Childrens, Novels, American</genres>
                <id>1230</id>
                <synopsis>"White Fang is part dog and part wolf, and the lone survivor of his family. In his lonely world, he soon learns to follow the harsh law of the North-kill or be killed. But nothing in White Fang's life can prepare him for the cruel owner who turns him into a vicious killer. Will White Fang ever know the kindness of a gentle master?"</synopsis>
                <title>White Fang</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Unknown, Seamus Heaney (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Beowulf, Grendel, Onela, Unferth, Breca, Wiglaf, Wealhtheow, Hrothgar</characters>
                <date>02/17/01</date>
                <genres>Classics, Poetry, Fiction, Fantasy, School, Mythology, Literature, Medieval, Read For School, Epic</genres>
                <id>1231</id>
                <synopsis>"Beowulf is a major epic of Anglo-Saxon literature, probably composed between the first half of the seventh century and the end of the first millennium. The poem was inspired by Germanic and Anglo-Saxon oral tradition recounting the exploits of Beowulf, the hero who gave his name to the poem. Here, it's transcribed as a verse epic, onto which are grafted Christian additions."</synopsis>
                <title>Beowulf</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Natalie Babbitt</author>
                <characters>Winnie Foster, Angus Bain, Jesse Tuck, Mae Tuck, Miles Tuck</characters>
                <date>11/01/1985</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Classics, Fiction, Childrens, Middle Grade, School, Historical Fiction, Romance, Read For School</genres>
                <id>1232</id>
                <synopsis>"Doomed to - or blessed with - eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can. When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tucks take her home and explain why living forever at one age is less a blessing that it might seem. Complications arise when Winnie is followed by a stranger who wants to market the spring water for a fortune."</synopsis>
                <title>Tuck Everlasting</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Brandon Sanderson </author>
                <characters>Marsh, Vin, Elend Venture, Sazed, Kelsier, Dockson, Hammond, Breeze, Clubs, Spook, The Lord Ruler, Lord Renoux, Yeden, OreSeur</characters>
                <date>07/25/06</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Magic, Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Young Adult, Adventure</genres>
                <id>1233</id>
                <synopsis>"For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the ""Sliver of Infinity,"" reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler's most hellish prison. Kelsier ""snapped"" and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark.Kelsier recruited the underworld's elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, each of whom shares one of his many powers, and all of whom relish a high-stakes challenge. Only then does he reveal his ultimate dream, not just the greatest heist in history, but the downfall of the divine despot.But even with the best criminal crew ever assembled, Kel's plan looks more like the ultimate long shot, until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into his life. Like him, she's a half-Skaa orphan, but she's lived a much harsher life. Vin has learned to expect betrayal from everyone she meets, and gotten it. She will have to learn to trust, if Kel is to help her master powers of which she never dreamed.This saga dares to ask a simple question: What if the hero of prophecy fails?"</synopsis>
                <title>The Final Empire</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kami Garcia , Margaret Stohl </author>
                <characters>Ethan Wate, Lena Duchannes, Wesley ""Link"" Lincoln, Amma Treadeau, Macon Ravenwood</characters>
                <date>12/01/2009</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Fiction, Magic, Supernatural, Witches, Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1234</id>
                <synopsis>"Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power, and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town's oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them.In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything."</synopsis>
                <title>Beautiful Creatures</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Hermann Hesse, Basil Creighton (translator)</author>
                <characters>Mariecke, Harry Haller, Pablo Soler, Hermine</characters>
                <date>10/28/99</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Philosophy, German Literature, Literature, Novels, Germany, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Psychology</genres>
                <id>1235</id>
                <synopsis>"Steppenwolf is a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. This Faust-like and magical story is evidence of Hesse's searching philosophy and extraordinary sense of humanity as he tells of the humanization of a middle-aged misanthrope. Yet his novel can also be seen as a plea for rigorous self-examination and an indictment of the intellectual hypocrisy of the period. As Hesse himself remarked, ""Of all my books Steppenwolf is the one that was more often and more violently misunderstood than any of the others""."</synopsis>
                <title>Steppenwolf</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Christopher Paolini </author>
                <characters>Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle), Saphira (The Inheritance Cycle), Oromis (The Inheritance Cycle), Glaedr (The Inheritance Cycle), Roran Garrowsson, Hrothgar (The Inheritance Cycle), Arya (The Inheritance Cycle), Orik (The Inheritance Cycle), Horst (The Inheritance Cycle), Murtagh (The Inheritance Cycle), Solembum, Jeod Longshanks, The Twins, Nasuada, Queen Islanzadi, Jormundur, Lethrblaka, Albreich, Angela the Herbalist</characters>
                <date>03/13/07</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Dragons, Adventure, Magic, High Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1236</id>
                <synopsis>"Darkness falls…despair abounds…evil reigns…Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the mighty forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire. Now Eragon must travel to Ellesmera, land of the elves, for further training in the skills of the Dragon Rider. Ages 12+.Darkness falls…despair abounds…evil reigns…Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the mighty forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire. Now Eragon must travel to Ellesmera, land of the elves, for further training in the skills of the Dragon Rider: magic and swordsmanship. Soon he is on the journey of a lifetime, his eyes open to awe-inspring new places and people, his days filled with fresh adventure. But chaos and betrayal plague him at every turn, and nothing is what it seems. Before long, Eragon doesn't know whom he can trust.Meanwhile, his cousin Roran must fight a new battle–one that might put Eragon in even graver danger.Will the king's dark hand strangle all resistance? Eragon may not escape with even his life. . . ."</synopsis>
                <title>Eldest</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Robert Jordan</author>
                <characters>""Rand al''Thor"", ""Nynaeve al''Meara"", ""Egwene al''Vere"", Perrin Aybara, ""Al''Lan Mandragoran"", Matrim Cauthon, Moiraine Damodred, Loial, Thom Merrilin, Padan Fain, ""Ba''alzamon"", Elyas Machera, ""Tam al''Thor""</characters>
                <date>11/15/90</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, Adult, Audiobook, Epic</genres>
                <id>1237</id>
                <synopsis>"The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.When The Two Rivers is attacked by Trollocs-a savage tribe of half-men, half-beasts- five villagers flee that night into a world they barely imagined, with new dangers waiting in the shadows and in the light."</synopsis>
                <title>The Eye of the World</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>John Knowles, David Levithan  (Afterword)</author>
                <characters>Gene Forrester, Phineas</characters>
                <date>09/30/03</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, School, Coming Of Age, Literature, Read For School, High School, Novels</genres>
                <id>1238</id>
                <synopsis>"An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to the second world war.Set at a boys boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world.A bestseller for more than thirty years, A Separate Peace is John Knowles crowning achievement and an undisputed American classic."</synopsis>
                <title>A Separate Peace</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Art Spiegelman</author>
                <characters>Vladek Spiegelman, Anja Spiegelman, Art Spiegelman, Mala Spiegelman</characters>
                <date>10/02/2003</date>
                <genres>Graphic Novels, Comics, Nonfiction, History, Biography, Memoir, War, Historical, Holocaust, Graphic Novels Comics</genres>
                <id>1239</id>
                <synopsis>"Combined for the first time here are Maus I: A Survivor's Tale and Maus II - the complete story of Vladek Spiegelman and his wife, living and surviving in Hitler's Europe. By addressing the horror of the Holocaust through cartoons, the author captures the everyday reality of fear and is able to explore the guilt, relief and extraordinary sensation of survival - and how the children of survivors are in their own way affected by the trials of their parents. A contemporary classic of immeasurable significance."</synopsis>
                <title>The Complete Maus</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jane Austen, Kathryn Sutherland (Editor)</author>
                <characters>Fanny Price (Mansfield Park), Edmund Bertram, Henry Crawford, Mary Crawford, Sir Thomas Bertram, Lady Bertram, William Price, Tom Bertram, Maria Bertram, Julia Bertram, Mr. Rushworth, Mr. Yates, Mr. Price, Mrs. Price, Mrs. Norris</characters>
                <date>10/28/03</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Literature, 19th Century, Historical, British Literature, Classic Literature, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1240</id>
                <synopsis>"Adopted into the household of her uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, Fanny Price grows up a meek outsider among her cousins in the unaccustomed elegance of Mansfield Park. Soon after Sir Thomas absents himself on estate business in Antigua (the family's investment in slavery and sugar is considered in the Introduction in a new, post-colonial light), Mary Crawford and her brother Henry arrive at Mansfield, bringing with them London glamour, and the seductive taste for flirtation and theatre that precipitates a crisis. While Mansfield Park appears in some ways to continue where Pride and Prejudice left off, it is, as Kathryn Sutherland shows in her illuminating Introduction, a much darker work, which challenges 'the very values (of tradition, stability, retirement and faithfulness) it appears to endorse'. This new edition provides an accurate text based, for the first time since its original publication, on the first edition of 1814."</synopsis>
                <title>Mansfield Park</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Michael Chabon</author>
                <characters>Joe Kavalier, Sam Clay, Rosa Saks</characters>
                <date>08/25/01</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Historical Fiction, Novels, Literature, Historical, Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Comics, Jewish, New York</genres>
                <id>1241</id>
                <synopsis>"Joe Kavalier, a young Jewish artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdini-esque escape, has just smuggled himself out of Nazi-invaded Prague and landed in New York City. His Brooklyn cousin Sammy Clay is looking for a partner to create heroes, stories, and art for the latest novelty to hit America - the comic book. Drawing on their own fears and dreams, Kavalier and Clay create the Escapist, the Monitor, and Luna Moth, inspired by the beautiful Rosa Saks, who will become linked by powerful ties to both men. With exhilarating style and grace, Michael Chabon tells an unforgettable story about American romance and possibility."</synopsis>
                <title>The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier &amp; Clay</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Christopher Paolini </author>
                <characters>Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle), Saphira (The Inheritance Cycle), Oromis (The Inheritance Cycle), Glaedr (The Inheritance Cycle), Roran Garrowsson, Sloan (The Inheritance Cycle), Katrina (The Inheritance Cycle), Elva (The Inheritance Cycle), Arya (The Inheritance Cycle), Orik (The Inheritance Cycle), Murtagh (The Inheritance Cycle), Nasuada, Galbatorix, Blödhgarm, Lady Lorana, Queen Islanzadi, Menoa Tree, Rhunön, King Orrin, Fadawar (The Inheritance Cycle), Jormundur, Trianna (The Inheritance Cycle), Lethrblaka, Jarsha (The Inheritance Cycle), Angela the Herbalist</characters>
                <date>09/20/08</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Dragons, Magic, Adventure, High Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1242</id>
                <synopsis>"Oaths sworn... loyalties tested... forces collide.It's been only months since Eragon first uttered ""brisingr"", an ancient language term for fire. Since then, he's not only learned to create magic with words — he's been challenged to his very core. Following the colossal battle against the Empires warriors on the Burning Plains, Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have narrowly escaped with their lives. Still, there is more adventure at hand for the Rider and his dragon, as Eragon finds himself bound by a tangle of promises he may not be able to keep.First is Eragon's oath to his cousin, Roran: to help rescue Roran's beloved from King Galbatorix's clutches. But Eragon owes his loyalty to others, too. The Varden are in desperate need of his talents and strength — as are the elves and dwarves. When unrest claims the rebels and danger strikes from every corner, Eragon must make choices — choices that will take him across the Empire and beyond, choices that may lead to unimagined sacrifice.Eragon is the greatest hope to rid the land of tyranny. Can this once simple farm boy unite the rebel forces and defeat the king?"</synopsis>
                <title>Brisingr</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jerry Spinelli</author>
                <characters>Stargirl Caraway, Leo Borlock</characters>
                <date>09/28/02</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Fiction, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Romance, Middle Grade, Childrens, Teen, School, Coming Of Age</genres>
                <id>1243</id>
                <synopsis>"A celebration of nonconformity; a tense, emotional tale about the fleeting, cruel nature of popularity-and the thrill and inspiration of first love. Ages 12+Leo Borlock follows the unspoken rule at Mica Area High School: don't stand out-under any circumstances! Then Stargirl arrives at Mica High and everything changes-for Leo and for the entire school. After 15 years of home schooling, Stargirl bursts into tenth grade in an explosion of color and a clatter of ukulele music, enchanting the Mica student body.But the delicate scales of popularity suddenly shift, and Stargirl is shunned for everything that makes her different. Somewhere in the midst of Stargirl's arrival and rise and fall, normal Leo Borlock has tumbled into love with her.In a celebration of nonconformity, Jerry Spinelli weaves a tense, emotional tale about the fleeting, cruel nature of popularity-and the thrill and inspiration of first love."</synopsis>
                <title>Stargirl</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Nicholas Sparks </author>
                <characters>Savannah Lynn Curtis, John Tyree</characters>
                <date>10/30/06</date>
                <genres>Romance, Fiction, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Adult, Adult Fiction, Young Adult, Love, Contemporary Romance, Drama</genres>
                <id>1244</id>
                <synopsis>"An angry rebel, John dropped out of school and enlisted in the Army, not knowing what else to do with his life-until he meets the girl of his dreams, Savannah. Their mutual attraction quickly grows into the kind of love that leaves Savannah waiting for John to finish his tour of duty, and John wanting to settle down with the woman who has captured his heart. But 9/11 changes everything. John feels it is his duty to re-enlist. And sadly, the long separation finds Savannah falling in love with someone else. Dear John, the letter read... and with those two words, a heart was broken and two lives were changed forever. Returning home, John must come to grips with the fact that Savannah, now married, is still his true love—and face the hardest decision of his life."</synopsis>
                <title>Dear John</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Stephen King </author>
                <characters>Benjamin Mears, Susan Norton, Matt Burke, Mark Petrie, Father Donald Callahan, Mike Ryerson, Dr James Cody, Richard Throckett Straker, Danny Glick, Larry Crockett, Sonny James, Charles Boone, Loretta Starcher, Weasel Craig, Larry McLeod, Joe Crane, June Petrie, Hal Griffen, Dud Rogers, Cynthia Stowens, Buddy Bascomb, Nolly Gardener, Tookey, Miss Coogan, Royal Snow, Harriet Durham</characters>
                <date>10/28/91</date>
                <genres>Horror, Fiction, Vampires, Fantasy, Thriller, Paranormal, Supernatural, Audiobook, Adult, Mystery</genres>
                <id>1245</id>
                <synopsis>"Thousands of miles away from the small township of 'Salem's Lot, two terrified people, a man and a boy, still share the secrets of those clapboard houses and tree-lined streets. They must return to 'Salem's Lot for a final confrontation with the unspeakable evil that lives on in the town."</synopsis>
                <title>'Salem's Lot</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Becca Fitzpatrick </author>
                <characters>Nora Grey, Jev ""Patch"" Cipriano, Vee Sky, Marcie Millar, Rixon, Scott Parnell</characters>
                <date>10/19/10</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Fantasy, Angels, Paranormal, Romance, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1246</id>
                <synopsis>"Nora Grey's life is still far from perfect. Surviving an attempt on her life wasn't pleasant, but at least she got a guardian angel out of it. A mysterious, magnetic, gorgeous guardian angel. But despite his role in her life, Patch has been acting anything but angelic. He's more elusive than ever (if that's possible) and what's worse, he seems to be spending time with Nora's archenemy, Marcie Millar.Nora would have hardly noticed Scott Parnell, an old family friend who has moved back to town, if Patch hadn't been acting so distant. Even with Scott's totally infuriating attitude, Nora finds herself drawn to him - despite her lingering feelings that he is hiding something.If that weren't enough, Nora is haunted by images of her murdered father, and comes to question whether her Nephilim bloodline has anything to do with his death. Desperate to figure out what happened, she puts herself in increasingly dangerous situations to get the answer. But maybe some things are better left buried, because the truth could destroy everything - and everyone - she trusts."</synopsis>
                <title>Crescendo</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Michael Ondaatje</author>
                <characters>Kip, Hana, Geoffrey Clifton, Katharine Clifton, David Caravaggio, Ladislaus de Almásy, Gyges of Lydia, Candaules of Lydia</characters>
                <date>04/18/06</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, Romance, Historical, War, Canada, Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels</genres>
                <id>1247</id>
                <synopsis>"With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning."</synopsis>
                <title>The English Patient</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>John Steinbeck</author>
                <characters>Mr. Edwards, Ethel, Lee, Faye, Tom Hamilton, Cyrus Trask, Mrs. Trask, Alice Trask, Adam Trask, Charles Trask, Aron Trask, Caleb Trask, Samuel Hamilton, Liza Hamilton, George Hamilton, Will Hamilton, Joe Hamilton, Lizzie Hamilton, Una Hamilton, Dessie Hamilton, Olive Hamilton, Mollie Hamilton, Cathy Ames, Abra Bacon, Joe Valery</characters>
                <date>10/28/02</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels, American, Literary Fiction, Historical, Classic Literature, Adult</genres>
                <id>1248</id>
                <synopsis>"In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California’s Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons—whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.Adam Trask came to California from the East to farm and raise his family on the new rich land. But the birth of his twins, Cal and Aaron, brings his wife to the brink of madness, and Adam is left alone to raise his boys to manhood. One boy thrives nurtured by the love of all those around him; the other grows up in loneliness enveloped by a mysterious darkness.First published in 1952, East of Eden is the work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence. A masterpiece of Steinbeck's later years, East of Eden is a powerful and vastly ambitious novel that is at once a family saga and a modern retelling of the Book of Genesis.-jacket flap"</synopsis>
                <title>East of Eden</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>David Mitchell</author>
                <characters>Adam Ewing, Autua, Dr. Goose, Robert Frobisher, Rufus Sixsmith, Vyvyan Ayrs, Jocasta Ayrs, Eva van Outryve de Crommelynck, Luisa Rey, Timothy Cavendish, Sonmi~451, Zachry, Meronym, Hae-Joo Im, Mr. Meeks, Ernie Blacksmith, Nurse Noakes, Javier Gomez, Fay Li, Bill Smoke, Joe Napier, Yoona-939, Isaac Sachs, Old Georgie</characters>
                <date>08/17/04</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Dystopia, Contemporary, Novels, Literary Fiction, Literature, Historical</genres>
                <id>1249</id>
                <synopsis>"A postmodern visionary who is also a master of styles of genres, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian lore of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and Philip K. Dick. The result is brilliantly original fiction as profund as it is playful. Now in his new novel, David Mitchell explores with daring artistry fundamental questions of reality and identity.Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Along the way, Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite. . . .Abruptly, the action jumps to Belgium in 1931, where Robert Frobisher, a disinherited bisexual composer, contrives his way into the household of an infirm maestro who has a beguiling wife and a nubile daughter. . . . From there we jump to the West Coast in the 1970s and a troubled reporter named Luisa Rey, who stumbles upon a web of corporate greed and murder that threatens to claim her life. . . . And onward, with dazzling virtuosity, to an inglorious present-day England; to a Korean superstate of the near future where neocapitalism has run amok; and, finally, to a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history.But the story doesn’t end even there. The narrative then boomerangs back through centuries and space, returning by the same route, in reverse, to its starting point. Along the way, Mitchell reveals how his disparate characters connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky.As wild as a videogame, as mysterious as a Zen koan, Cloud Atlas is an unforgettable tour de force that, like its incomparable author, has transcended its cult classic status to become a worldwide phenomenon."</synopsis>
                <title>Cloud Atlas</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Robert M. Pirsig</author>
                <characters>Phaedrus, Sylvia Sutherland, John Sutherland, Chris</characters>
                <date>04/25/06</date>
                <genres>Philosophy, Fiction, Classics, Spirituality, Travel, Psychology, Literature, Self Help, Unfinished, Religion</genres>
                <id>1250</id>
                <synopsis>"Robert M. Pirsig's Zen &amp; the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is an examination of how we live, a meditation on how to live better set around the narration of a summer motorcycle trip across America's Northwest, undertaken by a father &amp; his young son."</synopsis>
                <title>Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Andy Weir </author>
                <characters>Mark Watney, Venkat Kapoor, Melissa Lewis, Rick Martinez, Beth Johanssen, Alex Vogel, Teddy Sanders, Mindy Park, Annie Montrose, Bruce Ng, Mitch Henderson, Chris Beck, Rich Purnell, Brendan Hutch</characters>
                <date>02/11/2014</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Audiobook, Adventure, Space, Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Thriller, Humor, Survival</genres>
                <id>1251</id>
                <synopsis>"Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there.After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he won’t have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old “human error” are much more likely to kill him first. But Mark isn’t ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills — and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit — he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?"</synopsis>
                <title>The Martian</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Nicholas Sparks </author>
                <characters>Will Blakelee, Veronica ""Ronnie"" Miller</characters>
                <date>09/08/2009</date>
                <genres>Romance, Fiction, Young Adult, Contemporary, Chick Lit, Adult, Realistic Fiction, Adult Fiction, Drama, Love</genres>
                <id>1252</id>
                <synopsis>"Alternate Cover Edition can be found hereSeventeen-year-old Veronica 'Ronnie' Miller’s life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alienated from her parents, especially her father . . . until her mother decides it would be in everyone’s best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Ronnie’s father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church. The tale that unfolds is an unforgettable story about love in its myriad forms - first love, the love between parents and children - that demonstrates, as only a Nicholas Sparks novel can, the many ways that deeply felt relationships can break our hearts . . . and heal them."</synopsis>
                <title>The Last Song</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Willa Cather</author>
                <characters>Ántonia Shimerda, Jim Burden, Josiah Burden, Emmaline Burden, Ambrosch Shimerda, Lena Lingard, Otto Fuchs, Jake Marpole, Mr. Shimerda, Mrs. Shimerda</characters>
                <date>02/20/00</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literature, School, American, Historical, Novels, Adult Fiction, Classic Literature</genres>
                <id>1253</id>
                <synopsis>"Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant life in the Nebraska heartland, with all its insistent bonds. Guiding the way are some of literature's most beguiling characters: the Russian brothers plagued by memories of a fateful sleigh ride, Antonia's desperately homesick father and self-indulgent mother, and the coy Lena Lingard. Holding the pastoral society's heart, of course, is the bewitching, free-spirited Antonia."</synopsis>
                <title>My Ántonia</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Tahereh Mafi</author>
                <characters>Adam Kent, Juliette Ferrars, Aaron Warner Anderson, Kenji Kishimoto, Castle</characters>
                <date>11/15/11</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Dystopia, Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction, Paranormal, Fiction, Supernatural, Post Apocalyptic, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1254</id>
                <synopsis>"I have a curseI have a giftI am a monsterI'm more than humanMy touch is lethalMy touch is powerI am their weaponI will fight backJuliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days.The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal. As long as she doesn’t hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don’t fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color.The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war – and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she’s exactly what they need right now.Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior."</synopsis>
                <title>Shatter Me</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Philip Pullman</author>
                <characters>Lyra Belacqua, Will Parry, Mary Malone, Pantalaimon, Lord Asriel, Iorek Byrnison, Marisa Coulter, Lee Scoresby, Roger Parslow, Stanislaus Grumman, Serafina Pekkala</characters>
                <date>09/09/2003</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Science Fiction, Childrens, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, Steampunk, Audiobook, Magic</genres>
                <id>1255</id>
                <synopsis>"Will is the bearer of the knife. Now, accompanied by angels, his task is to deliver that powerful, dangerous weapon to Lord Asriel - by the command of his dying father.But how can he go looking for Lord Asriel when Lyra is gone? Only with her help can he fathom the myriad plots and intrigues that beset him. The two great powers of the many worlds are lining up for war, and Will must find Lyra, for together they are on their way to battle, an inevitable journey that will even take them to the world of the dead..."</synopsis>
                <title>The Amber Spyglass</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Boris Pasternak, John Bayley (Introduction), Max Hayward (Translator), Manya Harari (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Yury Andreyevich Zhivago, Alexander Alexandrovich Gromeko, Markel Shchapov, Pavel Pavlovich Antipov, Rodyon Fyodorovich Guishar, Victor Ippolitovich Komarovsky, Kologrivov, Kuprik Tiverzin, Iosif Gimazetdinovich Galiullin, Nikolay Nikolayevich Vedenyapin, Nicky Dudorov, Misha Gordon, Antonina Alexandrovna Gromeko, Anna Ivanovna Gromeko, Amalia Karlovna Guishar, Larissa Fëdorovna Antipova, Anfim Yefimovitch Samdevyatov, Nadya Kologrigova, Evgraf Andreevič Zivago, Marina (Doctor Zhivago)</characters>
                <date>03/18/97</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Russia, Russian Literature, Literature, Romance, Novels, Historical, War</genres>
                <id>1256</id>
                <synopsis>"This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987. One of the results of its publication in the West was Pasternak's complete rejection by Soviet authorities; when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 he was compelled to decline it. The book quickly became an international best-seller.Dr. Yury Zhivago, Pasternak's alter ego, is a poet, philosopher, and physician whose life is disrupted by the war and by his love for Lara, the wife of a revolutionary. His artistic nature makes him vulnerable to the brutality and harshness of the Bolsheviks. The poems he writes constitute some of the most beautiful writing featured in the novel."</synopsis>
                <title>Doctor Zhivago</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Victor Hugo, Walter J. Cobb (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Quasimodo (Victor Hugo), Claude Frollo, Esmeralda, Gringoire, Captain Phoebus de Chateaupers</characters>
                <date>04/10/2001</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, France, Literature, French Literature, Gothic, Historical, Romance, Novels</genres>
                <id>1257</id>
                <synopsis>"This extraordinary historical novel, set in Medieval Paris under the twin towers of its greatest structure and supreme symbol, the cathedral of Notre-Dame, is the haunting drama of Quasimodo, the hunchback; Esmeralda, the gypsy dancer; and Claude Frollo, the priest tortured by the specter of his own damnation. Shaped by a profound sense of tragic irony, it is a work that gives full play to Victor Hugo's brilliant historical imagination and his remarkable powers of description."</synopsis>
                <title>The Hunchback of Notre-Dame</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Dante Alighieri, Anthony M. Esolen (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Virgilio (Publius Vergilius Maro), Odysseus, Dante Alighieri, Beatrice (diverse works), Paolo, Francesca, Charon (mythology)</characters>
                <date>12/09/2003</date>
                <genres>Classics, Poetry, Fiction, Literature, Religion, Fantasy, School, Italian Literature, Philosophy, Medieval</genres>
                <id>1258</id>
                <synopsis>"Of the great poets, Dante is one of the most elusive and therefore one of the most difficult to adequately render into English verse. In the Inferno, Dante not only judges sin but strives to understand it so that the reader can as well. With this major new translation, Anthony Esolen has succeeded brilliantly in marrying sense with sound, poetry with meaning, capturing both the poem’s line-by-line vigor and its allegorically and philosophically exacting structure, yielding an Inferno that will be as popular with general readers as with teachers and students. For, as Dante insists, without a trace of sentimentality or intellectual compromise, even Hell is a work of divine art.Esolen also provides a critical Introduction and endnotes, plus appendices containing Dante’s most important sources—from Virgil to Saint Thomas Aquinas and other Catholic theologians—that deftly illuminate the religious universe the poet inhabited."</synopsis>
                <title>Inferno</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Laura Esquivel, Thomas Christensen  (Translator), Carol Christensen (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Tita de la Garza, Gertrudis de la Garza, Rosaura de la Garza, Mamá Elena, Pedro Muzquiz, John Brown, Nacha, Chencha, Juan Alejandrez</characters>
                <date>09/16/93</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Romance, Magical Realism, Historical Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Food, Spanish Literature, Adult, Novels</genres>
                <id>1259</id>
                <synopsis>"Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit.The number one bestseller in Mexico and America for almost two years, and subsequently a bestseller around the world, Like Water For Chocolate is a romantic, poignant tale, touched with moments of magic, graphic earthiness, bittersweet wit - and recipes. A sumptuous feast of a novel, it relates the bizarre history of the all-female De La Garza family. Tita, the youngest daughter of the house, has been forbidden to marry, condemned by Mexican tradition to look after her mother until she dies. But Tita falls in love with Pedro, and he is seduced by the magical food she cooks. In desperation, Pedro marries her sister Rosaura so that he can stay close to her, so that Tita and Pedro are forced to circle each other in unconsummated passion. Only a freakish chain of tragedies, bad luck and fate finally reunite them against all the odds."</synopsis>
                <title>Like Water for Chocolate</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Diana Gabaldon </author>
                <characters>Jamie Fraser, Brianna Randall, Roger MacKenzie, Fergus Fraser, Ian Murray, Claire Randall Fraser, Jonathan Randall, Dougal MacKenzie, Colum MacKenzie, Geillis Duncan, Jenny Murray, Frank Randall, Murtagh Fraser</characters>
                <date>08/07/2001</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction, Time Travel, Historical, Historical Romance, Audiobook, Scotland, Adult</genres>
                <id>1260</id>
                <synopsis>"From the author of Outlander... a magnificent epic that once again sweeps us back in time to the drama and passion of 18th-century Scotland...For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to Scotland's majestic mist-shrouded hills. Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it birth: about the mystery of an ancient circle of standing stones ...about a love that transcends the boundaries of time ...and about James Fraser, a Scottish warrior whose gallantry once drew a young Claire from the security of her century to the dangers of his ....Now a legacy of blood and desire will test her beautiful copper-haired daughter, Brianna, as Claire's spellbinding journey of self-discovery continues in the intrigue-ridden Paris court of Charles Stuart ...in a race to thwart a doomed Highlands uprising ...and in a desperate fight to save both the child and the man she loves...."</synopsis>
                <title>Dragonfly in Amber</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kurt Vonnegut Jr.</author>
                <characters>Kilgore Trout, Eliot Rosewater, Rabo Karabekian, Dwayne Hoover, Francine Pefko, Kazak, Wayne Hoobler, Cyprian Ukwende, Celia Hoover, Harry LeSabre, Bunny Hoover, Beatrice Keedlser, Bonnie MacMahon</characters>
                <date>05/28/99</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Science Fiction, Humor, Literature, Novels, American, Literary Fiction, Audiobook, Comedy</genres>
                <id>1261</id>
                <synopsis>"Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereIn Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s  most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth."</synopsis>
                <title>Breakfast of Champions</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>the Big Friendly Giant, Queen Elizabeth II, Sophie (the BFG), The Fleshlumpeater, The Bonecruncher, The Manhugger, The Childchewer, The Meatdripper, The Gizzardgulper, The Maidmasher, The Bloodbottler, The Butcher Boy, Mary (the BFG), Mr. Tibbs (the BFG)</characters>
                <date>10/28/01</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Childrens, Fiction, Classics, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Humor, Adventure, Audiobook, Juvenile</genres>
                <id>1262</id>
                <synopsis>"Captured by a giant! The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, the Fleshlumpeater, the Bonecruncher, or any of the other giants-rather than the BFG-she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that they are flush-bunking off in England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she must stop them once and for all. And the BFG is going to help her!"</synopsis>
                <title>The BFG</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Leigh Bardugo </author>
                <characters>Inej Ghafa, Kaz Brekker, Jesper Fahey, Wylan Van Eck, Matthias Helvar, Nina Zenik</characters>
                <date>09/29/15</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, Romance, LGBT, High Fantasy, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1263</id>
                <synopsis>Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price—and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can’t pull it off alone. . . .A convict with a thirst for revengeA sharpshooter who can’t walk away from a wagerA runaway with a privileged pastA spy known as the WraithA Heartrender using her magic to survive the slumsA thief with a gift for unlikely escapesKaz’s crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction—if they don’t kill each other first.</synopsis>
                <title>Six of Crows</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Rohinton Mistry</author>
                <characters>Maneck Kohlah, Omprakash Darji, Ishvar Darji, Dina Dalal, Rustom Dalal, Nusswan Shroff, Vasantrao Valmik, Thakur Dharamsi, Ashraf Chacha, Rajaram, Shankar, Beggar Master</characters>
                <date>11/30/01</date>
                <genres>Fiction, India, Historical Fiction, Canada, Indian Literature, Asia, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Historical</genres>
                <id>1264</id>
                <synopsis>"With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers-a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native village-will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment and an uncertain future. As the characters move from distrust to friendship and from friendship to love, A Fine Balance creates an enduring panorama of the human spirit in an inhuman state."</synopsis>
                <title>A Fine Balance</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Laini Taylor </author>
                <characters>Madrigal, Karou, Akiva (Daughter of Smoke &amp; Bone), Kazimir, Zuzana, Issa, Brimstone, Thiago, Mik, Ziri</characters>
                <date>09/27/11</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Paranormal, Angels, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Magic, Young Adult Fantasy, Supernatural</genres>
                <id>1265</id>
                <synopsis>"Around the world, black hand prints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.In a dark and dusty shop, a devil’s supply of human teeth grows dangerously low.And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherworldly war.Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real, she’s prone to disappearing on mysterious ""errands"", she speaks many languages - not all of them human - and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she’s about to find out.When beautiful, haunted Akiva fixes fiery eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself?"</synopsis>
                <title>Daughter of Smoke &amp; Bone</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Robert Louis Stevenson, Vladimir Nabokov (Introduction), Mervyn Peake (Illustrator), Théo Varlet (Translation), Patrick Horgan (Narrator), Dan Chaon  (Afterword)</author>
                <characters>Mr Gabriel John Utterson, Dr. Hastie Lanyon, Dr. Henry Jekyll, Mr Edward Hyde, Richard Enfield, Poole (Jekyll &amp; Hyde)</characters>
                <date>09/02/2003</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Mystery, Gothic, Fantasy, Literature, 19th Century, School</genres>
                <id>1266</id>
                <synopsis>"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novella written by the famous Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886. The work is commonly known today as The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, or simply Jekyll &amp; Hyde. It is about a London lawyer named John Gabriel Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde."</synopsis>
                <title>The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Cassandra Clare </author>
                <characters>Alexander ""Alec"" Lightwood, Jonathan ""Jace"" Wayland, Isabelle ""Izzy"" Sophia Lightwood, Theresa ""Tessa"" Gray, Magnus Bane, Jordan Kyle, Maia Roberts, Jocelyn Fray, Luke Garroway, Sebastian Morgenstern, Clarissa ""Clary"" Fray, Simon Lewis</characters>
                <date>05/27/14</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Vampires, Angels, Fiction, Magic, Supernatural</genres>
                <id>1267</id>
                <synopsis>"In this dazzling and long-awaited conclusion to the acclaimed Mortal Instruments series, Clary and her friends fight the greatest evil they have ever faced: Clary's own brother.Sebastian Morgenstern is on the move, systematically turning Shadowhunter against Shadowhunter. Bearing the Infernal Cup, he transforms Shadowhunters into creatures out of nightmare, tearing apart families and lovers as the ranks of his Endarkened army swell.The embattled Shadowhunters withdraw to Idris - but not even the famed demon towers of Alicante can keep Sebastian at bay. And with the Nephilim trapped in Idris, who will guard the world against demons?When one of the greatest betrayals the Nephilim have ever known is revealed, Clary, Jace, Isabelle, Simon, and Alec must flee - even if their journey takes them deep into the demon realms, where no Shadowhunter has set foot before, and from which no human being has ever returned...Love will be sacrificed and lives lost in the terrible battle for the fate of the word in the thrilling final installment of the classic urban fantasy series The Mortal Instruments!"</synopsis>
                <title>City of Heavenly Fire</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Alyson Noel </author>
                <characters>Ever Bloom, Damen Auguste, Drina, Miles, Haven Turner</characters>
                <date>02/03/2009</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Vampires, Magic</genres>
                <id>1268</id>
                <synopsis>"The first book in Alyson Noël's extraordinary new Immortals series. Enter an enchanting new world, where true love never dies...After a horrible accident claims the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever Bloom can see people's auras, hear their thoughts, and know someone's entire life story by touching them. Going out of her way to avoid human contact to suppress her abilities, she has been branded a freak at her new high school—but everything changes when she meets Damen Auguste.Damen is gorgeous, exotic and wealthy. He's the only one who can silence the noise and random energy in her head—wielding a magic so intense, it's as though he can peer straight into her soul. As Ever is drawn deeper into his enticing world of secrets and mystery, she's left with more questions than answers. And she has no idea just who he really is—or what he is. The only thing she knows to be true is that she's falling deeply and helplessly in love with him."</synopsis>
                <title>Evermore</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Arthur Miller</author>
                <characters>Willy Loman, Linda Loman, Happy Loman, Biff Loman, Ben Loman, Howard Wagner</characters>
                <date>03/18/94</date>
                <genres>Plays, Classics, Fiction, Drama, School, Theatre, Literature, Read For School, High School, American</genres>
                <id>1269</id>
                <synopsis>"'For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine.'Willy Loman has been a salesman for 34 years. At 60, he is cast aside, his usefulness now exhausted. With no future to dream about he must face the crushing disappointments of his past. He takes one final brave action, but is he heroic at last?, or a self-deluding fool?"</synopsis>
                <title>Death of a Salesman</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Stephen King </author>
                <characters>John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, Jake Epping, Al Templeton, Harry Dunning, Marina Oswald, Bill Titus, Sadie Dunhill, Yellow Card Man, Deacon ""Deke"" Simmons, Ellen Dockerty, George de Mohrenschildt, Richie Tozier, Beverly Marsh</characters>
                <date>11/08/2011</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction, Time Travel, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller, Audiobook, Historical, Mystery</genres>
                <id>1270</id>
                <synopsis>"Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students—a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk.Not much later, Jake’s friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane—and insanely possible—mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake’s life—a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time."</synopsis>
                <title>11/22/63</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>John Berendt</author>
                <characters>Jim Williams, Danny Hansford</characters>
                <date>06/28/99</date>
                <genres>Nonfiction, True Crime, Mystery, Crime, History, Southern, Classics, Travel, Memoir, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1271</id>
                <synopsis>"A sublime and seductive reading experience. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, this enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city has become a modern classic.Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet it is a work of nonfiction. Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case.It is a spellbinding story peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters: the well-bred society ladies of the Married Woman's Card Club; the turbulent young redneck gigolo; the hapless recluse who owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man, woman, and child in Savannah; the aging and profane Southern belle who is the ""soul of pampered self-absorption""; the uproariously funny black drag queen; the acerbic and arrogant antiques dealer; the sweet-talking, piano-playing con artist; young blacks dancing the minuet at the black debutante ball; and Minerva, the voodoo priestess who works her magic in the graveyard at midnight. These and other Savannahians act as a Greek chorus, with Berendt revealing the alliances, hostilities, and intrigues that thrive in a town where everyone knows everyone else."</synopsis>
                <title>Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Tennessee Williams</author>
                <characters>Blanche DuBois, Stanley Kowalski, Stella Kowalski, Harold Mitchel, Eunice Hubbel, Steve Hubbel, Pablo Gonzales, Negro Woman, Baby, Matron, Doctor, Mexican Woman, Young Collector</characters>
                <date>12/01/1952</date>
                <genres>Plays, Classics, Drama, Fiction, School, Theatre, American, Literature, Read For School, High School</genres>
                <id>1272</id>
                <synopsis>"The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman and The Crucible), and Williams’ essay “The World I Live In.”It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and impact as when they first appeared—57 years after its Broadway premiere, Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire is one of those plays. The story famously recounts how the faded and promiscuous Blanche DuBois is pushed over the edge by her sexy and brutal brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski. Streetcar launched the careers of Marlon Brando, Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden, and solidified the position of Tennessee Williams as one of the most important young playwrights of his generation, as well as that of Elia Kazan as the greatest American stage director of the ’40s and ’50s."</synopsis>
                <title>A Streetcar Named Desire</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>David Foster Wallace</author>
                <characters>Hal Incadenza, Joelle Van Dyne, Michael Pemulis, Mario Incandenza, Ken Erdedy, Avril Incandenza, Orin Incandenza, Randy Lenz, Ortho Stice, Tiny Ewell, Poor Tony Krause, Clenette Henderson, Remy Marathe, Hugh Steeply, Pat Montesian, Ann Kittenplan, Trevor Axford, LaMont Chu, Geoffrey Day, Gerhardt Schtitt, Ted Schacht, Dr. James Orin Incandenza, Katherine Ann Gompert, Dr. Charles Tavis, Mildred L. Bonk, Harriet Bonk-Green, Jim Troelsch, Donald W. Gately, Bruce Green, Emil Minty, Lyle</characters>
                <date>10/28/05</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Humor, Unfinished, Literary Fiction, American, Philosophy</genres>
                <id>1273</id>
                <synopsis>"A gargantuan, mind-altering tragi-comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human—and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do."</synopsis>
                <title>Infinite Jest</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Niccolò Machiavelli, Rufus Goodwin (Translator), Benjamin Martinez (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Theseus (mythology), Alexander the Great, Cesare Borgia, Francesco Sforza, Niccolò Machiavelli, Pope Alexander VI, Louis XII of France</characters>
                <date>06/01/2003</date>
                <genres>Classics, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Politics, History, Political Science, Literature, Italian Literature, Italy, School</genres>
                <id>1274</id>
                <synopsis>"Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following observations, be Machiavellian as we understand the disparaging term? 1. So it is that to know the nature of a people, one need be a Prince; to know the nature of a Prince, one need to be of the people. 2. If a Prince is not given to vices that make him hated, it is unsusal for his subjects to show their affection for him. 3. Opportunity made Moses, Cyrus, Romulus, Theseus, and others; their virtue domi-nated the opportunity, making their homelands noble and happy. Armed prophets win; the disarmed lose. 4. Without faith and religion, man achieves power but not glory. 5. Prominent citizens want to command and oppress; the populace only wants to be free of oppression. 6. A Prince needs a friendly populace; otherwise in diversity there is no hope. 7. A Prince, who rules as a man of valor, avoids disasters, 8. Nations based on mercenary forces will never be solid or secure. 9. Mercenaries are dangerous because of their cowardice 10. There are two ways to fight: one with laws, the other with force. The first is rightly man’s way; the second, the way of beasts."</synopsis>
                <title>The Prince</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>William Shakespeare, Harold Bloom (Contributor), Rex Gibson (Editor)</author>
                <characters>Hamlet, Horatio, Polonius, Laertes, Gertrude, Marcellus, Rosencrantz and Guildentstern, Fortinbras, Bernardo, Francisco, Reynaldo, Osric, Voltimand, Cornelius, Claudius, Ophelia</characters>
                <date>08/01/2005</date>
                <genres>Classics, Plays, Fiction, Drama, School, Literature, Theatre, Read For School, High School, Poetry</genres>
                <id>1275</id>
                <synopsis>"Among Shakespeare's plays, ""Hamlet"" is considered by many his masterpiece. Among actors, the role of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is considered the jewel in the crown of a triumphant theatrical career. Now Kenneth Branagh plays the leading role and co-directs a brillant ensemble performance. Three generations of legendary leading actors, many of whom first assembled for the Oscar-winning film ""Henry V"", gather here to perform the rarely heard complete version of the play. This clear, subtly nuanced, stunning dramatization, presented by The Renaissance Theatre Company in association with ""Bbc"" Broadcasting, features such luminaries as Sir John Gielgud, Derek Jacobi, Emma Thompson and Christopher Ravenscroft. It combines a full cast with stirring music and sound effects to bring this magnificent Shakespearen classic vividly to life. Revealing new riches with each listening, this production of ""Hamlet"" is an invaluable aid for students, teachers and all true lovers of Shakespeare - a recording to be treasured for decades to come."</synopsis>
                <title>Hamlet</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Peter Salm (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Faust, Mephistopheles, Gretchen</characters>
                <date>07/01/1988</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Plays, Poetry, German Literature, Drama, Literature, Philosophy, School, Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1276</id>
                <synopsis>"Wielki uczony - wciąż spragniony wiedzy o sensie istnienia - zawiera pakt z diabłem. Chce absolutnego poznania i doskonałego szczęścia - jeśli zazna chwili, o której powie „trwaj, jesteś piękna!” szatan będzie mógł wziąć jego duszę do piekła. Mefistofeles ochoczo zgadza się na to - wszak sprawdzić wiarę Fausta pozwolił mu sam Bóg.Faust to dzieło życia Goethego, dramat o możliwościach ludzkiego poznania i sensie istnienia świata."</synopsis>
                <title>Faust, First Part</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Stephanie Perkins </author>
                <characters>Anna Oliphant, Étienne St. Clair, Meredith Chevalier, Rashmi, Joshua Wasserstein, Ellie, Bridgette Saunderwick, Christopher, Dave Higgenbottom, Sean Oliphant, Kevin Quiggley, Amanda Spitterton-Watts, Matt, Isla Martin</characters>
                <date>12/02/2010</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary, Chick Lit, Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, Teen, Young Adult Romance</genres>
                <id>1277</id>
                <synopsis>"Anna is looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a great job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. Which is why she is less than thrilled about being shipped off to boarding school in Paris-until she meets Étienne St. Clair. Smart, charming, beautiful, Étienne has it all...including a serious girlfriend. But in the City of Light, wishes have a way of coming true. Will a year of romantic near-misses end with their long-awaited French kiss?"</synopsis>
                <title>Anna and the French Kiss</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>George R.R. Martin</author>
                <characters>Arya Stark, Jaime Lannister, Petyr Baelish, Sansa Stark, Varys, Brienne of Tarth, Samwell Tarly, Arianne Martell, Victarion Greyjoy, Asha Greyjoy, Pyp, Tommen Baratheon, Thoros of Myr, Jon Snow, Cersei Lannister</characters>
                <date>10/28/11</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Adult, Adventure, Dragons, Audiobook, Epic</genres>
                <id>1278</id>
                <synopsis>"Crows will fight over a dead man's flesh, and kill each other for his eyes.Bloodthirsty, treacherous and cunning, the Lannisters are in power on the Iron Throne in the name of the boy-king Tommen. The war in the Seven Kingdoms has burned itself out, but in its bitter aftermath new conflicts spark to life.The Martells of Dorne and the Starks of Winterfell seek vengeance for their dead. Euron Crow's Eye, as black a pirate as ever raised a sail, returns from the smoking ruins of Valyria to claim the Iron Isles. From the icy north, where Others threaten the Wall, apprentice Maester Samwell Tarly brings a mysterious babe in arms to the Citadel.Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory will go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel and the coldest hearts."</synopsis>
                <title>A Feast for Crows</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>James Patterson </author>
                <characters>Maximum Ride, Jeb Batchelder, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, Angel (Maximum Ride), Erasers, Fang, Ari</characters>
                <date>05/05/2006</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Fiction, Adventure, Paranormal, Teen, Action, Mystery, Urban Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1279</id>
                <synopsis>"Six unforgettable kids — with no families, no homes — are running for their lives. Max Ride and her best friends have the ability to fly. And that's just the beginning of their amazing powers. But they don't know where they come from, who's hunting them, why they are different from all other humans... and if they're meant to save mankind — or destroy it."</synopsis>
                <title>The Angel Experiment</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ally Condie </author>
                <characters>Cassia Reyes, Ky Markham, Xander Carrow</characters>
                <date>11/30/10</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Dystopia, Romance, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Teen, Audiobook, Futuristic, Post Apocalyptic</genres>
                <id>1280</id>
                <synopsis>"In the Society, officials decide. Who you love. Where you work. When you die.Cassia has always trusted their choices. It’s hardly any price to pay for a long life, the perfect job, the ideal mate. So when her best friend appears on the Matching screen, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is the one…until she sees another face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. Now Cassia is faced with impossible choices: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she’s known and a path no one else has ever dared follow—between perfection and passion.Matched is a story for right now and storytelling with the resonance of a classic."</synopsis>
                <title>Matched</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>V.C. Andrews</author>
                <characters>Cathy Dollanganger, Chris Dollanganger, Cory Dollanganger, Carrie Dollanganger, Corrine Dollanganger, Olivia Foxworth</characters>
                <date>10/28/79</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Horror, Young Adult, Mystery, Classics, Romance, Gothic, Thriller, Drama, Adult</genres>
                <id>1281</id>
                <synopsis>"Such wonderful children. Such a beautiful mother. Such a lovely house. Such endless terror!It wasn't that she didn't love her children. She did. But there was a fortune at stake—a fortune that would assure their later happiness if she could keep the children a secret from her dying father.So she and her mother hid her darlings away in an unused attic.Just for a little while.But the brutal days swelled into agonizing years. Now Cathy, Chris, and the twins wait in their cramped and helpless world, stirred by adult dreams, adult desires, served a meager sustenance by an angry, superstitious grandmother who knows that the Devil works in dark and devious ways. Sometimes he sends children to do his work—children who—one by one—must be destroyed....'Way upstairs there are four secrets hidden. Blond, beautiful, innocent struggling to stay alive...."</synopsis>
                <title>Flowers in the Attic</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Chaim Potok</author>
                <characters>Reuven Malter, Danny Saunders</characters>
                <date>04/12/1987</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Jewish, Religion, School, Literature, Judaism, Novels</genres>
                <id>1282</id>
                <synopsis>"It is the now-classic story of two fathers and two sons and the pressures on all of them to pursue the religion they share in the way that is best suited to each. And as the boys grow into young men, they discover in the other a lost spiritual brother, and a link to an unexplored world that neither had ever considered before. In effect, they exchange places, and find the peace that neither will ever retreat from again. . . ."</synopsis>
                <title>The Chosen</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Anthony Doerr </author>
                <characters>Werner Pfennig, Marie-Laure LeBlanc, Frank Volkheimer, Etienne LeBlanc, Frederick (All the Light We Cannot See), Jutta Pfennig, Madame Manec, Reinhold von Rumpel, Frau Elena, Daniel LeBlanc, Dr. Hauptmann, Walter Bernd, Bastian</characters>
                <date>05/06/2014</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, War, World War II, Adult, Audiobook, France, Book Club, Adult Fiction</genres>
                <id>1283</id>
                <synopsis>"An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereFrom the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another."</synopsis>
                <title>All the Light We Cannot See</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Eoin Colfer</author>
                <characters>Artemis Fowl II, Domovoi Butler, Captain Holly Short, Commander Julius Root, Foaly, Mulch Diggums, Juliet Butler, Angeline Fowl, Captain Trouble Kelp, Briar Cudgeon, Nguyen Xuan, Corporal Grub Kelp, Professor Cumulus, Dr Jerbal Argon, Chix Verbil</characters>
                <date>04/01/2003</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Middle Grade, Childrens, Adventure, Science Fiction, Magic, Urban Fantasy, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1284</id>
                <synopsis>"Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is a millionaire, a genius, and above all, a criminal mastermind. But even Artemis doesn't know what he's taken on when he kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. These aren't the fairies of bedtime stories—they're dangerous! Full of unexpected twists and turns, Artemis Fowl is a riveting, magical adventure."</synopsis>
                <title>Artemis Fowl</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jeffrey Eugenides</author>
                <characters>Cecilia Lisbon, Lux Lisbon, Mary Lisbon, Therese Lisbon, Bonnie Lisbon</characters>
                <date>10/28/02</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Contemporary, Classics, Young Adult, Literary Fiction, Coming Of Age, Novels, Literature, Adult Fiction, Adult</genres>
                <id>1285</id>
                <synopsis>"The shocking thing about the girls was how nearly normal they seemed when their mother let them out for the one and only date of their lives. Twenty years on, their enigmatic personalities are embalmed in the memories of the boys who worshipped them and who now recall their shared adolescence: the brassiere draped over a crucifix belonging to the promiscuous Lux; the sisters' breathtaking appearance on the night of the dance; and the sultry, sleepy street across which they watched a family disintegrate and fragile lives disappear."</synopsis>
                <title>The Virgin Suicides</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Bernhard Schlink, Carol Brown Janeway (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Michael Berg, Hanna Schmitz</characters>
                <date>06/26/97</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Historical Fiction, German Literature, Classics, Holocaust, Romance, Historical, Germany, War, World War II</genres>
                <id>1286</id>
                <synopsis>"Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany.When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his lover—then she inexplicably disappears. When Michael next sees her, he is a young law student, and she is on trial for a hideous crime. As he watches her refuse to defend her innocence, Michael gradually realizes that Hanna may be guarding a secret she considers more shameful than murder."</synopsis>
                <title>The Reader</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jodi Picoult </author>
                <characters>Josie Cormier, Alex Cormier, Lacy Houghton, Lewis Houghton, Peter Houghton, Jordan McAfee, Patrick Ducharme</characters>
                <date>03/05/2007</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Contemporary, Chick Lit, Adult, Adult Fiction, Drama, Young Adult, Realistic Fiction, Mystery, Crime</genres>
                <id>1287</id>
                <synopsis>"In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn, color your hair, watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five....In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world, or you can just jump off it. In nineteen minutes, you can get revenge. Sterling is a small, ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens - until the day its complacency is shattered by a shocking act of violence. In the aftermath, the town's residents must not only seek justice in order to begin healing but also come to terms with the role they played in the tragedy. For them, the lines between truth and fiction, right and wrong, insider and outsider have been obscured forever. Josie Cormier, the teenage daughter of the judge sitting on the case, could be the state's best witness, but she can't remember what happened in front of her own eyes. And as the trial progresses, fault lines between the high school and the adult community begin to show, destroying the closest of friendships and families. Nineteen Minutes is New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult's most raw, honest, and important novel yet. Told with the straightforward style for which she has become known, it asks simple questions that have no easy answers: Can your own child become a mystery to you? What does it mean to be different in our society? Is it ever okay for a victim to strike back? And who - if anyone - has the right to judge someone else?"</synopsis>
                <title>Nineteen Minutes</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Rick Riordan </author>
                <characters>Nico di Angelo, Hades, Hazel Levesque, Annabeth Chase, Percy Jackson, Leo Valdez, Jason Grace, Piper McLean, Frank Zhang</characters>
                <date>10/08/2013</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Mythology, Fiction, Middle Grade, Adventure, Greek Mythology, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Magic</genres>
                <id>1288</id>
                <synopsis>"Hazel stands at a crossroads. She and the remaining crew of the Argo II could return home with the Athena Parthenos statue and try to stop Camp Half-Blood and Camp Jupiter from going to war. Or they could continue their quest to find the House of Hades, where they might be able to open the Doors of Death, rescue their friends Percy and Annabeth from Tartarus, and prevent monsters from being reincarnated in the mortal world. Whichever road they decide to take, they have to hurry, because time is running out. Gaea, the bloodthirsty Earth Mother, has set the date of August 1 for her rise to power.Annabeth and Percy are overwhelmed. How will the two of them make it through Tartarus? Starving, thirsty, and in pain, they are barely able to stumble on in the dark and poisonous landscape that holds new horrors at every turn. They have no way of locating the Doors of Death. Even if they did, a legion of Gaea's strongest monsters guards the Doors on the Tartarus side. Annabeth and Percy can't exactly launch a frontal assault.Despite the terrible odds, Hazel, Annabeth, Percy, and the other demigods of the prophecy know that there is only one choice: to attempt the impossible. Not just for themselves, but for everyone they love. Even though love can be the riskiest choice of all.Join the demigods as they face their biggest challenges yet in The House of Hades, the hair-raising penultimate book in the best-selling Heroes of Olympus series."</synopsis>
                <title>The House of Hades</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Gregory David Roberts</author>
                <characters>Lin Ford, Karla Saraanen, Lisa, Prabaker, Abdel Khader Khan, Abdullah Taheri, Nazeer, Didier</characters>
                <date>10/28/04</date>
                <genres>Fiction, India, Travel, Adventure, Contemporary, Novels, Asia, Historical Fiction, Unfinished, Crime</genres>
                <id>1289</id>
                <synopsis>"""It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.""So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel set in the underworld of contemporary Bombay. Shantaram is narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport who flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of a city where he can disappear.Accompanied by his guide and faithful friend, Prabaker, the two enter Bombay's hidden society of beggars and gangsters, prostitutes and holy men, soldiers and actors, and Indians and exiles from other countries, who seek in this remarkable place what they cannot find elsewhere.As a hunted man without a home, family, or identity, Lin searches for love and meaning while running a clinic in one of the city's poorest slums, and serving his apprenticeship in the dark arts of the Bombay mafia. The search leads him to war, prison torture, murder, and a series of enigmatic and bloody betrayals. The keys to unlock the mysteries and intrigues that bind Lin are held by two people. The first is Khader Khan: mafia godfather, criminal-philosopher-saint, and mentor to Lin in the underworld of the Golden City. The second is Karla: elusive, dangerous, and beautiful, whose passions are driven by secrets that torment her and yet give her a terrible power.Burning slums and five-star hotels, romantic love and prison agonies, criminal wars and Bollywood films, spiritual gurus and mujaheddin guerrillas – this huge novel has the world of human experience in its reach, and a passionate love for India at its heart. Based on the life of the author, it is by any measure the debut of an extraordinary voice in literature."</synopsis>
                <title>Shantaram</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Erik Larson </author>
                <characters>Daniel Burnham, H.H. Holmes</characters>
                <date>02/11/2003</date>
                <genres>Nonfiction, History, True Crime, Crime, Historical, Mystery, Audiobook, American History, Biography, Book Club</genres>
                <id>1290</id>
                <synopsis>"Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with such drama that readers may find themselves checking the book's categorization to be sure that 'The Devil in the White City' is not, in fact, a highly imaginative novel. Larson tells the stories of two men: Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible for the fair's construction, and H.H. Holmes, a serial killer masquerading as a charming doctor. Burnham's challenge was immense. In a short period of time, he was forced to overcome the death of his partner and numerous other obstacles to construct the famous ""White City"" around which the fair was built. His efforts to complete the project, and the fair's incredible success, are skillfully related along with entertaining appearances by such notables as Buffalo Bill Cody, Susan B. Anthony, and Thomas Edison. The activities of the sinister Dr. Holmes, who is believed to be responsible for scores of murders around the time of the fair, are equally remarkable. He devised and erected the World's Fair Hotel, complete with crematorium and gas chamber, near the fairgrounds and used the event as well as his own charismatic personality to lure victims. Combining the stories of an architect and a killer in one book, mostly in alternating chapters, seems like an odd choice but it works. The magical appeal and horrifying dark side of 19th-century Chicago are both revealed through Larson's skillful writing. - John Moe"</synopsis>
                <title>The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Francine Rivers </author>
                <characters>Angel, Michael Hosea</characters>
                <date>10/28/07</date>
                <genres>Christian Fiction, Christian, Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Historical, Historical Romance, Adult, Faith, Christian Romance</genres>
                <id>1291</id>
                <synopsis>"California’s gold country, 1850. A time when men sold their souls for a bag of gold and women sold their bodies for a place to sleep. Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. Sold into prostitution as a child, she survives by keeping her hatred alive. And what she hates most are the men who use her, leaving her empty and dead inside. Then she meets Michael Hosea. A man who seeks his Father’s heart in everything, Michael Hosea obeys God’s call to marry Angel and to love her unconditionally. Slowly, day by day, he defies Angel’s every bitter expectation until, despite her resistance her frozen heart begins to thaw. But with her unexpected softening come overwhelming feelings of unworthiness and fear. And so Angel runs. Back to the darkness, away from her husband’s pursuing love, terrified of the truth she can no longer deny: Her final healing must come from the One who loves her even more than Michael Hosea does…the One who will never let her go. A life-changing story of God’s unconditional, redemptive, all-consuming love.-back cover"</synopsis>
                <title>Redeeming Love</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Edith Wharton, Maureen Howard (Introduction)</author>
                <characters>Newland Archer, May Welland, Ellen Olenska, Mrs. Manson Mingott, Mrs. Augusta Welland</characters>
                <date>08/26/04</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance, Literature, American, Historical, Novels, New York, Classic Literature</genres>
                <id>1292</id>
                <synopsis>"Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people “dreaded scandal more than disease.”This is Newland Archer’s world as he prepares to marry the beautiful but conventional May Welland. But when the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a disastrous marriage, Archer falls deeply in love with her. Torn between duty and passion, Archer struggles to make a decision that will either courageously define his life—or mercilessly destroy it."</synopsis>
                <title>The Age of Innocence</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Dan Brown </author>
                <characters>Robert Langdon, Katherine Solomon, Peter Solomon, Inoue Sato, Warren Bellamy, Zachary Solomon, Turner Simkins</characters>
                <date>09/15/09</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Adventure, Historical Fiction, Crime, Novels, Adult</genres>
                <id>1293</id>
                <synopsis>"WHAT IS LOST...WILL BE FOUNDIn this stunning follow-up to the global phenomenon The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown demonstrates once again why he is the world's most popular thriller writer. The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storytelling - a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen truths...all under the watchful eye of Brown's most terrifying villain to date. Set within the hidden chambers, tunnels, and temples of Washington, DC., The Lost Symbol accelerates through a startling landscape toward an unthinkable finale.As the story opens, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned unexpectedly to deliver an evening lecture in the U.S. Capitol Building. Within minutes of his arrival, however, the night takes a bizarre turn. A disturbing object - artfully encoded with five symbols - is discovered in the Capitol Building. Langdon recognizes the object as an ancient invitation...one meant to usher its recipient into a long-lost world of esoteric wisdom.When Langdon's beloved mentor, Peter Solomon - a prominent Mason and philanthropist - is brutally kidnapped, Langdon realizes his only hope of saving Peter is to accept this mystical invitation and follow wherever it leads him. Langdon is instantly into a clandestine world of Masonic secrets, hidden history, and never-before-seen locations - all of which seem to be dragging him toward a single, inconceivable truth.As the world discovered in The Da Vinci Code and Angels &amp; Demons, Dan Brown's novels are brilliant tapestries of veiled histories, arcane symbols, and enigmatic codes. In this new novel, he again challenges readers with an intelligent, lightning-paced story that offers surprises at every turn. The Lost Symbol is exactly what Brown's fans have been waiting for...his most thrilling novel yet.(jacket)"</synopsis>
                <title>The Lost Symbol</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>John Steinbeck</author>
                <characters>Tom Joad, Rose of Sharon Joad Rivers, Ma Joad, Pa Joad, Uncle John Joad, Jim Casy, Al Joad, Ruthie Joad, Winfield Joad, Noah Joad, Grampa Joad, Granma Joad, Connie Rivers</characters>
                <date>04/10/2014</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels, School, American, Historical, Classic Literature, High School</genres>
                <id>1294</id>
                <synopsis>"The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers.First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics."</synopsis>
                <title>The Grapes of Wrath</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jane Austen, Alfred J. Mac Adam (Introduction)</author>
                <characters>Catherine Morland, Henry Tilney, Eleanor Tilney, General Tilney, John Thorpe, Isabella Thorpe, James Morland, Mrs. Morland, Mr. Morland, Mrs. Allen, Mr. Allen, Captain Tilney, Mrs. Thorpe</characters>
                <date>03/03/2005</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Gothic, Literature, 19th Century, Historical, British Literature, Classic Literature</genres>
                <id>1295</id>
                <synopsis>"Jane Austen's first novel—published posthumously in 1818—tells the story of Catherine Morland and her dangerously sweet nature, innocence, and sometime self-delusion. Though Austen's fallible heroine is repeatedly drawn into scrapes while vacationing at Bath and during her subsequent visit to Northanger Abbey, Catherine eventually triumphs, blossoming into a discerning woman who learns truths about love, life, and the heady power of literature. The satirical novel pokes fun at the gothic novel while earnestly emphasizing caution to the female sex."</synopsis>
                <title>Northanger Abbey</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>C.S. Lewis, Pauline Baynes (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Aslan, Lucy Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie, Eustace Scrubb, Prince Caspian, Reepicheep</characters>
                <date>09/01/2006</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Classics, Young Adult, Childrens, Adventure, Christian, Middle Grade, Christian Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1296</id>
                <synopsis>"The Dawn Treader will take you places you never dreamed existed. NARNIA... the world of wicked dragons and magic spells, where the very best is brought out of even the worst people, where anything can happen (and most often does)... and where the adventure begins.The Dawn Treader is the first ship Narnia has seen in centuries. King Caspian has built it for his voyage to find the seven lords, good men whom his evil uncle Miraz banished when he usurped the throne. The journey takes Edmund, Lucy, and their cousin Eustace to the Eastern Islands, beyond the Silver Sea, toward Aslan's country at the End of the World."</synopsis>
                <title>The Voyage of the Dawn Treader</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>James Joyce, Jeri Johnson (Editor, Introduction and Notes)</author>
                <characters>Mariecke, Bantam Lyons, John Corley, Fr. Flynn, Jimmy Doyle, Matthew Lenehan, Mrs. Mooney, Polly Mooney, Mr. Doran, Little Chandler, Ignatius Gallaher, Farrington, Tom Farrington, Joe Donnelly, Mr. Duffy, Mrs. Sinico, Charles Stewart Parnell, Mrs. Kearney, Kathleen Kearney, Mr. Kernan, Gabriel Conroy</characters>
                <date>03/15/01</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Short Stories, Ireland, Literature, Irish Literature, 20th Century, School, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction</genres>
                <id>1297</id>
                <synopsis>"This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemism, reveals to the Irish their unromantic realities. Each of the 15 stories offers glimpses into the lives of ordinary Dubliners, and collectively they paint a portrait of a nation."</synopsis>
                <title>Dubliners</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Sarah J. Maas </author>
                <characters>Amarantha, Feyre Archeron, Tamlin, Lucien Vanserra, Rhysand, Nesta Archeron, Elain Archeron</characters>
                <date>05/05/2015</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, New Adult, Retellings, Fiction, Magic, Fae, Young Adult Fantasy, Paranormal</genres>
                <id>1298</id>
                <synopsis>"Feyre's survival rests upon her ability to hunt and kill – the forest where she lives is a cold, bleak place in the long winter months. So when she spots a deer in the forest being pursued by a wolf, she cannot resist fighting it for the flesh. But to do so, she must kill the predator and killing something so precious comes at a price ...Dragged to a magical kingdom for the murder of a faerie, Feyre discovers that her captor, his face obscured by a jewelled mask, is hiding far more than his piercing green eyes would suggest. Feyre's presence at the court is closely guarded, and as she begins to learn why, her feelings for him turn from hostility to passion and the faerie lands become an even more dangerous place. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose him forever."</synopsis>
                <title>A Court of Thorns and Roses</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>P.C. Cast , Kristin Cast </author>
                <characters>Zoey Redbird, Nyx (House of Night), Erik Night, Stevie Rae Johnson, Neferet, Heath Luck, Aphrodite LaFont, Kalona, Sylvia Redbird, Erin Bates, Shaunee Cole, Damien Maslin, James Stark, Jack Twist, Darius Langley</characters>
                <date>09/23/08</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Vampires, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Fiction, Supernatural, Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy, Magic</genres>
                <id>1299</id>
                <synopsis>"Zoey Redbird's adventures at vampyre finishing school take a wild and dangerous turn as loyalties are tested and shocking true intentions come to light, in this spellbinding fourth novel in the House of Night series."</synopsis>
                <title>Untamed</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jonathan Safran Foer </author>
                <characters>Alexander Perchov, Jonathan Safran Foer</characters>
                <date>04/01/2003</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Novels, Literature, Holocaust, Literary Fiction, Jewish, Magical Realism, Historical</genres>
                <id>1300</id>
                <synopsis>"With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man - also named Jonathan Safran Foer - sets out to find the woman who may or may not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war; an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior; and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape and into an unexpected past."</synopsis>
                <title>Everything Is Illuminated</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Sarah J. Maas </author>
                <characters>Celaena Sardothien, Chaol Westfall, Prince Dorian Havilliard, Princess Nehemia Ytger, Archer Finn, Kaltain Rompier</characters>
                <date>08/27/13</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Magic, Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy, New Adult, High Fantasy, Fae, Paranormal</genres>
                <id>1301</id>
                <synopsis>"""A line that should never be crossed is about to be breached.It puts this entire castle in jeopardy—and the life of your friend.""From the throne of glass rules a king with a fist of iron and a soul as black as pitch. Assassin Celaena Sardothien won a brutal contest to become his Champion. Yet Celaena is far from loyal to the crown. She hides her secret vigilantly; she knows that the man she serves is bent on evil.Keeping up the deadly charade becomes increasingly difficult when Celaena realizes she is not the only one seeking justice. As she tries to untangle the mysteries buried deep within the glass castle, her closest relationships suffer. It seems no one is above questioning her allegiances—not the Crown Prince Dorian; not Chaol, the Captain of the Guard; not even her best friend, Nehemia, a foreign princess with a rebel heart.Then one terrible night, the secrets they have all been keeping lead to an unspeakable tragedy. As Celaena's world shatters, she will be forced to give up the very thing most precious to her and decide once and for all where her true loyalties lie... and whom she is ultimately willing to fight for."</synopsis>
                <title>Crown of Midnight</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Maya Angelou</author>
                <characters>""Marguerite Johnson ''Maya''"", Bailey Johnson Jr., ""Annie Henderson ''Momma''"", Uncle Willie, Bailey Johnson, Vivian Baxter</characters>
                <date>11/28/93</date>
                <genres>Nonfiction, Classics, Memoir, Biography, Autobiography, Poetry, Feminism, African American, Biography Memoir, Race</genres>
                <id>1302</id>
                <synopsis>"Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local ""powhitetrash."" At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (""I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare"") will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read."</synopsis>
                <title>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Isaac Asimov</author>
                <characters>Susan Calvin, Mike Donovan</characters>
                <date>06/28/04</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Classics, Short Stories, Science Fiction Fantasy, Robots, Fantasy, Audiobook, Novels, Speculative Fiction</genres>
                <id>1303</id>
                <synopsis>"Isaac Asimov's I, Robot launches readers on an adventure into a not-so-distant future where man and machine , struggle to redefinelife, love, and consciousness—and where the stakes are nothing less than survival. Filled with unforgettable characters, mind-bending speculation, and nonstop action, I, Robot is a powerful reading experience from one of the master storytellers of our time. I, ROBOT They mustn't harm a human being, they must obey hitman orders, and they must protect their own existence...but only so long as that doesn't violate rules one and two. With these Three Laws of Robotics, humanity embarked on perhaps its greatest adventure: the invention of the first positronic man. It was a bold new era of evolution that would open up enormous possibilities—and unforeseen risks. For the scientists who invented the earliest robots weren't content that their creations should ' remain programmed helpers, companions, and semisentient worker-machines. And soon the robots themselves; aware of their own intelligence, power, and humanity, aren't either. As humans and robots struggle to survive together—and sometimes against each other—on earth and in space, the future of both hangs in the balance. Human men and women confront robots gone mad, telepathic robots, robot politicians, and vast robotic intelligences that may already secretly control the world. And both are asking the same questions: What is human? And is humanity obsolete? In l, Robot Isaac Asimov changes forever our perception of robots, and human beings and updates the timeless myth of man's dream to play god. with all its rewards—and terrors.-front flap"</synopsis>
                <title>I, Robot</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>John Steinbeck</author>
                <characters>Kino, Juana, Coyotito, Juan Tomas, Apolonia</characters>
                <date>01/08/2002</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Literature, School, Historical Fiction, Novels, Read For School, American, Classic Literature, High School</genres>
                <id>1304</id>
                <synopsis>"Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the kings of Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant son with meager subsistence. Then, on a day like any other, Kino emerges from the sea with a pearl as large as a sea gull’s egg, as “perfect as the moon.” With the pearl comes hope, the promise of comfort and of security…A story of classic simplicity, based on a Mexican folk tale, The Pearl explores the secrets of man’s nature, greed, the darkest depths of evil, and the luminous possibilities of love."</synopsis>
                <title>The Pearl</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kiera Cass </author>
                <characters>Aspen Leger, America Singer, Prince Maxon</characters>
                <date>05/06/2014</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Romance, Dystopia, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Audiobook, Teen, Chick Lit, Young Adult Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1305</id>
                <synopsis>"The time has come for one winner to be crowned.When she was chosen to compete in the Selection, America never dreamed she would find herself anywhere close to the crown—or to Prince Maxon's heart. But as the end of the competition approaches, and the threats outside the palace walls grow more vicious, America realizes just how much she stands to lose—and how hard she'll have to fight for the future she wants."</synopsis>
                <title>The One</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Upton Sinclair, Earl Lee  (Foreword), Kathleen DeGrave (Introduction)</author>
                <characters>Jurgis, Ona Lukoszaite, Teta Elzbieta Lukoszaite</characters>
                <date>04/01/2003</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literature, Politics, School, Novels, Historical, Classic Literature, American</genres>
                <id>1306</id>
                <synopsis>"For nearly a century, the original version of Upton Sinclair's classic novel has remained almost entirely unknown. When it was published in serial form in 1905, it was a full third longer than the censored, commercial edition published in book form the following year. That expurgated commercial edition edited out much of the ethnic flavor of the original, as well as some of the goriest descriptions of the meat-packing industry and much of Sinclair's most pointed social and political commentary. The text of this new edition is as it appeared in the original uncensored edition of 1905. It contains the full 36 chapters as originally published, rather than the 31 of the expurgated edition. A new foreword describes the discovery in the 1980s of the original edition and its subsequent suppression, and a new introduction places the novel in historical context by explaining the pattern of censorship in the shorter commercial edition."</synopsis>
                <title>The Jungle</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Stephen King </author>
                <characters>Carrie White, Margaret White, Tommy Ross, Chris Hargensen, Sue Snell, Rita Desjardin, Billy Nolan</characters>
                <date>11/01/2005</date>
                <genres>Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Paranormal, Fantasy, Classics, Supernatural, Adult, Novels, Adult Fiction</genres>
                <id>1307</id>
                <synopsis>"A modern classic, Carrie introduced a distinctive new voice in American fiction - Stephen King. The story of misunderstood high school girl Carrie White, her extraordinary telekinetic powers, and her violent rampage of revenge, remains one of the most barrier-breaking and shocking novels of all time.Make a date with terror and live the nightmare that is...Carrie-back cover"</synopsis>
                <title>Carrie</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>David Guterson</author>
                <characters>Kabuo Miyamoto, Ishmael Chambers, Hatsue Miyamoto, Carl Heine</characters>
                <date>09/26/95</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Historical, Literature, Novels, Romance, Classics, Literary Fiction, Adult Fiction</genres>
                <id>1308</id>
                <synopsis>"Gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric—a masterpiece of suspense San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. In the course of the ensuing trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than a man's guilt. For on San Pedro, memories of a charmed love affair between a white boy and the Japanese girl who grew up to become Kabuo's wife; memories of land desired, paid for, and lost. Above all, San Piedro is haunted by the memory of what happened to its Japanese residents during World War II, when an entire community was sent into exile while its neighbors watched."</synopsis>
                <title>Snow Falling on Cedars</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Diana Gabaldon </author>
                <characters>Jamie Fraser, Brianna Randall, Roger MacKenzie, Fergus Fraser, Marsali Fraser, Ian Murray, Lord John Grey, Claire Randall Fraser, Geillis Duncan, Jenny Murray, Stephen Bonnet, Young Ian Murray, William Ransom, Laoghaire MacKenzie, Mr. Willoughby, Joan MacKimmie, Michael Murray</characters>
                <date>08/07/2001</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction, Time Travel, Historical, Historical Romance, Adult, Audiobook, Scotland</genres>
                <id>1309</id>
                <synopsis>"From the author of the breathtaking bestsellers Outlander and Dragonfly in Amber, the extraordinary saga continues.Their passionate encounter happened long ago by whatever measurement Claire Randall took. Two decades before, she had traveled back in time and into the arms of a gallant eighteenth-century Scot named Jamie Fraser. Then she returned to her own century to bear his child, believing him dead in the tragic battle of Culloden. Yet his memory has never lessened its hold on her... and her body still cries out for him in her dreams.Then Claire discovers that Jamie survived. Torn between returning to him and staying with their daughter in her own era, Claire must choose her destiny. And as time and space come full circle, she must find the courage to face the passion and pain awaiting her...the deadly intrigues raging in a divided Scotland... and the daring voyage into the dark unknown that can reunite or forever doom her timeless love."</synopsis>
                <title>Voyager</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Robert Graves</author>
                <characters>Nero (emperor), Caligula, Livia Drusa, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus, Agrippina the Elder, Tiberius Claudius Caesar, Augustus, Valeria Messalina</characters>
                <date>10/23/89</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Classics, Historical, Literature, Italy, Novels, British Literature, Audiobook, 20th Century</genres>
                <id>1310</id>
                <synopsis>"Into the 'autobiography' of Clau-Clau-Claudius, the pitiful stammerer who was destined to become Emperor in spite of himself, Graves packs the everlasting intrigues, the depravity, the bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius, soon to culminate in the deified insanity of Caligula.I, Claudius and its sequel, Claudius the God, are among the most celebrated, as well the most gripping historical novels ever written.Cover illustration: Brian Pike"</synopsis>
                <title>I, Claudius</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Sarah J. Maas </author>
                <characters>Celaena Sardothien, Chaol Westfall, Prince Dorian Havilliard, Manon Blackbeak, Rowan Whitethorn</characters>
                <date>09/02/2014</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Magic, New Adult, Young Adult Fantasy, Fiction, Fae, High Fantasy, Paranormal</genres>
                <id>1311</id>
                <synopsis>"Celaena has survived deadly contests and shattering heartbreak-but at an unspeakable cost. Now, she must travel to a new land to confront her darkest truth . . . a truth about her heritage that could change her life-and her future-forever. Meanwhile, brutal and monstrous forces are gathering on the horizon, intent on enslaving her world. Will Celaena find the strength to not only fight her inner demons, but to take on the evil that is about to be unleashed?"</synopsis>
                <title>Heir of Fire</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>David Sedaris</author>
                <characters>David Sedaris</characters>
                <date>10/28/01</date>
                <genres>Nonfiction, Humor, Memoir, Essays, Short Stories, Comedy, Biography, Audiobook, Biography Memoir, Autobiography</genres>
                <id>1312</id>
                <synopsis>"David Sedaris' move to Paris from New York inspired these hilarious pieces, including the title essay, about his attempts to learn French from a sadistic teacher who declares that every day spent with you is like having a caesarean section. His family is another inspiration. You Can't Kill the Rooster is a portrait of his brother, who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. And no one hones a finer fury in response to such modern annoyances as restaurant meals presented in ludicrous towers of food and cashiers with six-inch fingernails."</synopsis>
                <title>Me Talk Pretty One Day</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>P.C. Cast , Kristin Cast </author>
                <characters>Zoey Redbird, Nyx (House of Night), Erik Night, Stevie Rae Johnson, Neferet, Heath Luck, Aphrodite LaFont, Sylvia Redbird, Loren Blake, Erin Bates, Shaunee Cole, Damien Maslin, Jack Twist, Darius Langley</characters>
                <date>03/04/2008</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Vampires, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Fiction, Supernatural, Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy, Magic</genres>
                <id>1313</id>
                <synopsis>"Dark forces are at work at the House of Night and Zoey Redbird’s adventures at the school take a mysterious turn. Her best friend, Stevie Rae, is undead and struggling to maintain a grip on her humanity. Zoey finds herself in the very unexpected and rare situation of having three boyfriends. Mix a little bloodlust into the equation and the situation has the potential to spell social disaster. Just when it seems things couldn’t get any tougher, vampyres start turning up dead. Really dead. It looks like the People of Faith are tired of living side-by-side with vampyres. But, as Zoey and her friends so often find out, how things appear rarely affects the truth…"</synopsis>
                <title>Chosen</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>E.M. Forster</author>
                <characters>Lucy Honeychurch, Charlotte Bartlett, George Emerson, Mr. Emerson, Rev. Arthur Beebe, Eleanor Lavish, Cecil Vyse, Freddy Honeychurch, Rev. Cuthbert Eager, Miss Alan</characters>
                <date>01/01/2005</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Literature, Italy, British Literature, 20th Century, Novels, Classic Literature</genres>
                <id>1314</id>
                <synopsis>"""But you do,"" he went on, not waiting for contradiction. ""You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you, and no other word expresses it ...""Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her, until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. Her eyes are opened by the unconventional characters she meets at the Pension Bertolini: flamboyant romantic novelist Eleanor Lavish, the Cockney Signora, curious Mr Emerson and, most of all, his passionate son George.Lucy finds herself torn between the intensity of life in Italy and the repressed morals of Edwardian England, personified in her terminally dull fiancé Cecil Vyse. Will she ever learn to follow her own heart?"</synopsis>
                <title>A Room with a View</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Charles Dickens, Nicola Bradbury (Annotations), Hablot Knight Browne (Illustrations)</author>
                <characters>Esther Summerson, Lady Dedlock, John Jarndyce, Sir Leicester Dedlock</characters>
                <date>01/06/2006</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Literature, 19th Century, Victorian, Historical Fiction, British Literature, Novels, Classic Literature, Mystery</genres>
                <id>1315</id>
                <synopsis>"Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The obscure case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs, the romance of Esther Summerson and the secrets of her origin, the sleuthing of Detective Inspector Bucket and the fate of Jo the crossing-sweeper, these are some of the lives Dickens invokes to portray London society, rich and poor, as no other novelist has done. Bleak House, in its atmosphere, symbolism and magnificent bleak comedy, is often regarded as the best of Dickens. A 'great Victorian novel', it is so inventive in its competing plots and styles that it eludes interpretation."</synopsis>
                <title>Bleak House</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Plato, Desmond Lee (Translator), Maria Helena da Rocha Pereira (Translator), Benjamin Jowett (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Adeimantus, Polemarchus, Cleitophon, Socrates (philosopher)</characters>
                <date>02/25/03</date>
                <genres>Philosophy, Classics, Nonfiction, Politics, History, School, Literature, Political Science, Ancient, College</genres>
                <id>1316</id>
                <synopsis>"Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classic text is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation, other questions are raised: what is goodness?; what is reality?; and what is knowledge? The Republic also addresses the purpose of education and the role of both women and men as guardians of the people. With remarkable lucidity and deft use of allegory, Plato arrives at a depiction of a state bound by harmony and ruled by philosopher kings."</synopsis>
                <title>The Republic</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>C.S. Lewis</author>
                <characters>Aslan, Lucy Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie, Eustace Scrubb, Jill Pole, Jewel, The Anti-Christ, Puzzle, King Tirian, Digory Kirke, Peter Pevensie, Reepicheep, Shift</characters>
                <date>06/20/05</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Classics, Young Adult, Childrens, Christian, Adventure, Middle Grade, Christian Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1317</id>
                <synopsis>"This edition of Lewis's classic fantasy fiction is packaged specifically for adults. Complementing the look of the author's non-fiction books, and anticipating the forthcoming Narnia feature films, this edition contains an exclusive P.S. section about the history of the book, plus a round-up of the first six titles."</synopsis>
                <title>The Last Battle</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>William Peter Blatty</author>
                <characters>Lankester Merrin, Pazuzu, Damien Karras, Regan MacNeil, Chris MacNeil</characters>
                <date>02/01/1994</date>
                <genres>Horror, Fiction, Classics, Paranormal, Thriller, Supernatural, Fantasy, Religion, Audiobook, Adult</genres>
                <id>1318</id>
                <synopsis>"Four decades after it first terrified the world, William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist is back! An extraordinary classic work of horror and dark paranormal suspense. In this stunning 40th Anniversary Edition, a desperate mother and two priests fight to free the soul of a little girl from a supernatural entity of pure malevolence."</synopsis>
                <title>The Exorcist</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Neil Gaiman , Dave McKean (illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Coraline Jones, Mrs. Jones, Mr. Jones, The Cat, The Other Mother, The Other Father, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, Mr. Bobo</characters>
                <date>08/29/06</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Horror, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Middle Grade, Audiobook, Paranormal, Adventure, Supernatural</genres>
                <id>1319</id>
                <synopsis>"The day after they moved in, Coraline went exploring....In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close. The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own. Only it's different. At first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. The food is better. The toy box is filled with wind-up angels that flutter around the bedroom, books whose pictures writhe and crawl and shimmer, little dinosaur skulls that chatter their teeth. But there's another mother, and another father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Other children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors. Coraline is their only hope of rescue. She will have to fight with all her wits and all the tools she can find if she is to save the lost children, her ordinary life, and herself. Critically acclaimed and award-winning author Neil Gaiman will delight readers with his first novel for all ages."</synopsis>
                <title>Coraline</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Hermann Hesse, Thomas Mann (Introduction)</author>
                <characters>Emil Sinclair, Max Demian</characters>
                <date>12/07/1996</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Philosophy, Literature, German Literature, Novels, Germany, 20th Century, Coming Of Age, Spirituality</genres>
                <id>1320</id>
                <synopsis>"Wie alle Hauptwerke Hermann Hesses hat auch der Demian, den der damals 40jährige Autor mitten im Ersten Weltkrieg schrieb, eine ebenso ungewöhnliche wie spannende Entstehungs- und Wirkungsgeschichte. Daß dieses im Herbst 1917 vollendete Buch erst im Juni 1919, ein halbes Jahr nach Kriegsende, veröffentlicht wurde, lag an der Unbekanntheit des Verfassers. Denn Hesse hatte das Manuskript dem Verlag als das Erstlingswerk eines kranken jungen Dichters empfohlen, des zeitkritischen Poeten Emil Sinclair, der bisher nur in Zeitungen und Zeitschriften durch pazifistische Mahnrufe und Erzählungen aufgefallen war (die gleichfalls von Hesse stammten). Doch trotz des Inkognitos erlebte das Buch eine geradezu stürmische Aufnahme und wurde noch im Erscheinungsjahr mit dem Fontane-Preis für das beste Erstlingswerk eines Nachwuchsautors ausgezeichnet. Thomas Mann verglich die elektrisierende Wirkung des Buches mit der von Goethes Werther, da es »mit unheimlicher Genauigkeit den Nerv der Zeit traf und eine ganze Jugend, die wähnte aus ihrer Mitte sei ihr ein Künder ihres tiefsten Lebens entstanden, zu dankbarem Entzücken hinriß«. Bis zur Entdeckung des Pseudonyms im Mai 1920 erschienen drei Auflagen, denen dann unter Hesses eigenem Namen zu seinen Lebzeiten noch 93 weitere folgten."</synopsis>
                <title>Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Rick Yancey</author>
                <characters>Evan Walker, Cassie Sullivan, Sammy Sullivan, Ben Parish, Colonel Alexander</characters>
                <date>05/07/2013</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Fiction, Aliens, Fantasy, Post Apocalyptic, Romance, Audiobook, Apocalyptic</genres>
                <id>1321</id>
                <synopsis>"After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one.Now, it's the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth's last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie's only hope for rescuing her brother-or even saving herself. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. To give up or to get up."</synopsis>
                <title>The 5th Wave</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Julie Kagawa </author>
                <characters>Meghan Chase, Puck, Grimalkin, ""Ash - Ashallayn'' Darkmyr Tallyn"", Ethan Chase, Machina The Iron King</characters>
                <date>01/19/10</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Paranormal, Fae, Fairies, Magic, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1322</id>
                <synopsis>"Meghan Chase has a secret destiny; one she could never have imagined.Something has always felt slightly off in Meghan's life, ever since her father disappeared before her eyes when she was six. She has never quite fit in at school or at home.When a dark stranger begins watching her from afar, and her prankster best friend becomes strangely protective of her, Meghan senses that everything she's known is about to change.But she could never have guessed the truth - that she is the daughter of a mythical faery king and is a pawn in a deadly war. Now Meghan will learn just how far she'll go to save someone she cares about, to stop a mysterious evil, no faery creature dare face; and to find love with a young prince who might rather see her dead than let her touch his icy heart."</synopsis>
                <title>The Iron King</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Benjamin Alire Sáenz </author>
                <characters>Aristotle ""Ari"" Mendoza, Dante Quintana</characters>
                <date>02/21/12</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, LGBT, Contemporary, Romance, Fiction, Audiobook, Realistic Fiction, Queer, Coming Of Age, Young Adult Contemporary</genres>
                <id>1323</id>
                <synopsis>"A lyrical novel about family and friendship from critically acclaimed author Benjamin Alire Sáenz. Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the loners start spending time together, they discover that they share a special friendship-the kind that changes lives and lasts a lifetime. And it is through this friendship that Ari and Dante will learn the most important truths about themselves and the kind of people they want to be."</synopsis>
                <title>Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Lauren Kate </author>
                <characters>Lucinda Price, Daniel Grigori, Arriane Alter, Cameron Briel, Shelby Sterris, Miles Fisher, Mary Margaret  Zane, Roland Sparks, Gabrielle Givens, Dawn Casterly, Lillith Clout</characters>
                <date>09/28/10</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Fantasy, Angels, Romance, Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Teen</genres>
                <id>1324</id>
                <synopsis>"Hell on earth.That’s what it’s like for Luce to be apart from her fallen angel boyfriend, Daniel. It took them an eternity to find one another, but now he has told her he must go away. Just long enough to hunt down the Outcasts—immortals who want to kill Luce. Daniel hides Luce at Shoreline, a school on the rocky California coast with unusually gifted students: Nephilim, the offspring of fallen angels and humans.At Shoreline, Luce learns what the Shadows are, and how she can use them as windows to her previous lives. Yet the more Luce learns, the more she suspects that Daniel hasn’t told her everything. He’s hiding something—something dangerous. What if Daniel’s version of the past isn’t actually true? What if Luce is really meant to be with someone else?"</synopsis>
                <title>Torment</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Richelle Mead </author>
                <characters>Sydney Sage, Dimitri Belikov, Adrian Ivashkov, Jillian Mastrano, Abe Mazur, Edison ""Eddie"" Castile, Zoe Sage</characters>
                <date>08/23/11</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Vampires, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Magic, Supernatural, Paranormal Romance, Fiction</genres>
                <id>1325</id>
                <synopsis>"I wasn't free of my past, not yet.Sydney's blood is special. That's because she's an alchemist - one of a group of humans who dabble in magic and serve to bridge the worlds of humans and vampires. They protect vampire secrets - and human lives. But the last encounter Sydney had with vampires got her in deep trouble with the other alchemists. And now with her allegiances in question, her future is on the line.When Sydney is torn from her bed in the middle of the night, at first she thinks she's still being punished for her complicated alliance with dhampir Rose Hathaway. But what unfolds is far worse. Jill Dragomir - the sister of Moroi Queen Lissa Dragomir - is in mortal danger, and the Moroi must send her into hiding. To avoid a civil war, Sydney is called upon to act as Jill's guardian and protector, posing as her roommate in the unlikeliest of places: a human boarding school in Palm Springs, California. The last thing Sydney wants is to be accused of sympathizing with vampires. And now she has to live with one.The Moroi court believe Jill and Sydney will be safe at Amberwood Prep, but threats, distractions, and forbidden romance lurk both outside - and within - the school grounds. Now that they're in hiding, the drama is only just beginning."</synopsis>
                <title>Bloodlines</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>William Makepeace Thackeray, John Carey (Editor/Introduction)</author>
                <characters>Amelia Sedley, Rebecca Sharp, William Dobbin, George Osborne, Rawdon Crawley, Jos Sedley, Sir Pitt Crawley, Matilda Crawley</characters>
                <date>01/30/03</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literature, 19th Century, British Literature, Victorian, Romance, Classic Literature, Novels</genres>
                <id>1326</id>
                <synopsis>"A novel that chronicles the lives of two women who could not be more different: Becky Sharp, an orphan whose only resources are her vast ambitions, her native wit, and her loose morals; and her schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a typically naive Victorian heroine, the pampered daughter of a wealthy family."</synopsis>
                <title>Vanity Fair</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Terry Goodkind</author>
                <characters>Richard Cypher, Kahlan Amnell, ""Zeddicus Zu''l Zorander"", Darken Rahl</characters>
                <date>04/14/03</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Magic, Adventure, Romance, Adult, Epic</genres>
                <id>1327</id>
                <synopsis>"In the aftermath of the brutal murder of his father, a mysterious woman, Kahlan Amnell, appears in Richard Cypher's forest sanctuary seeking help . . . and more. His world, his very beliefs, are shattered when ancient debts come due with thundering violence. In a dark age it takes courage to live, and more than mere courage to challenge those who hold dominion, Richard and Kahlan must take up that challenge or become the next victims. Beyond awaits a bewitching land where even the best of their hearts could betray them. Yet, Richard fears nothing so much as what secrets his sword might reveal about his own soul. Falling in love would destroy them—for reasons Richard can't imagine and Kahlan dare not say.In their darkest hour, hunted relentlessly, tormented by treachery and loss, Kahlan calls upon Richard to reach beyond his sword—to invoke within himself something more noble. Neither knows that the rules of battle have just changed . . . or that their time has run out.This is the beginning. One book. One Rule. Witness the birth of a legend."</synopsis>
                <title>Wizard's First Rule</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Elizabeth Gaskell</author>
                <characters>Margaret Hale, Frederick Hale, Mr. Hale, Mrs. Hale, Mr. Bell, Dixon, Mrs. Hannah Thornton, Fanny Thornton, Bessy Higgins, Nicholas Higgins, John   Thornton</characters>
                <date>01/13/94</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Historical, 19th Century, Victorian, Literature, British Literature, Historical Romance</genres>
                <id>1328</id>
                <synopsis>"When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the north of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of Milton, Margaret becomes aware of the poverty and suffering of the local mill workers and develops a passionate sense of social justice. This is intensified by her tempestuous relationship with the mill-owner and self-made man, John Thornton, as their fierce opposition over his treatment of his employees masks a deeper attraction.In North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell skillfully fuses individual feeling with social concern, and in Margaret Hale creates one of the most original heroines of Victorian literature."</synopsis>
                <title>North and South</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Evelyn Waugh</author>
                <characters>Charles Ryder, Lord Sebastian Flyte, Lady Julia Flyte, Rex Mottram, Anthony Blanche</characters>
                <date>01/30/82</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literature, British Literature, Novels, 20th Century, LGBT, Literary Fiction, Historical</genres>
                <id>1329</id>
                <synopsis>"The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly-disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian at Oxford, then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia, Charles comes finally to recognize only his spiritual and social distance from them."</synopsis>
                <title>Brideshead Revisited</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>W. Somerset Maugham, Benjamin DeMott (Introduction), Maeve Binchy (Afterword)</author>
                <characters>Philip Carey, Mildred Rogers, Norah Nesbit, Thorpe Athelny, Sally Athelny, Hayward, Emily Wilkinson, Louisa Carey, Dr. South, Harry Griffiths, Fanny Price (Of Human Bondage), Frederick Lawson, Cronshaw, Ruth Chalice, Dr. Tyrell, Betty Athelny</characters>
                <date>01/02/2007</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Literature, Novels, British Literature, Literary Fiction, Romance, 20th Century, Classic Literature, Coming Of Age</genres>
                <id>1330</id>
                <synopsis>"From a tormented orphan with a clubfoot, Philip Carey grows into an impressionable young man with a voracious appetite for adventure and knowledge. His cravings take him to Paris at age eighteen to try his hand at art, then back to London to study medicine. But even so, nothing can sate his nagging hunger for experience. Then he falls obsessively in love, embarking on a disastrous relationship that will change his life forever.…Marked by countless similarities to Maugham’s own life, his masterpiece is “not an autobiography,” as the author himself once contended, “but an autobiographical novel; fact and fiction are inexorably mingled; the emotions are my own.”"</synopsis>
                <title>Of Human Bondage</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Max Brooks </author>
                <characters>Zombies, Kwang Jing-shu, Nury Televaldi, Stanley MacDonald, Todd Wainio, Maria Zhuganova, Jesika Hendricks, Joe Muhammad</characters>
                <date>09/12/2006</date>
                <genres>Horror, Fiction, Zombies, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Post Apocalyptic, Dystopia, Audiobook, Apocalyptic, War</genres>
                <id>1331</id>
                <synopsis>"The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.Ranging from the now infamous village of New Dachang in the United Federation of China, where the epidemiological trail began with the twelve-year-old Patient Zero, to the unnamed northern forests where untold numbers sought a terrible and temporary refuge in the cold, to the United States of Southern Africa, where the Redeker Plan provided hope for humanity at an unspeakable price, to the west-of-the-Rockies redoubt where the North American tide finally started to turn, this invaluable chronicle reflects the full scope and duration of the Zombie War.Most of all, the book captures with haunting immediacy the human dimension of this epochal event. Facing the often raw and vivid nature of these personal accounts requires a degree of courage on the part of the reader, but the effort is invaluable because, as Mr. Brooks says in his introduction, ""By excluding the human factor, aren't we risking the kind of personal detachment from history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it? And in the end, isn't the human factor the only true difference between us and the enemy we now refer to as 'the living dead'?""Note: Some of the numerical and factual material contained in this edition was previously published under the auspices of the United Nations Postwar Commission."</synopsis>
                <title>World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Libba Bray </author>
                <characters>Gemma Doyle, Kartik, Ann Bradshaw, Felicity Worthington, Pippa Cross</characters>
                <date>12/09/2003</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Paranormal, Romance, Magic, Teen, Young Adult Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1332</id>
                <synopsis>"In this debut gothic novel mysterious visions, dark family secrets and a long-lost diary thrust Gemma and her classmates back into the horrors that followed her from India. (Ages 12+)It's 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma's reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she's been followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence's most powerful girls—and their foray into the spiritual world—lead to?"</synopsis>
                <title>A Great and Terrible Beauty</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Anne Rice</author>
                <characters>Rowan Mayfair, Michael James Timothy Curry, Aaron Lightner, Lasher, Deirdre Mayfair, Stella Mayfair, Mary Beth Mayfair, Antha Mayfair, Carlotta Mayfair, Ellie Mayfair, Julien Mayfair, Marie Claudette Mayfair Landry, Angélique Mayfair, Katherine Mayfair, Remy Mayfair, Graham Franklin, Lionel Mayfair, Belle Mayfair, Darcy Monahan, Sean Lacy, Petyr van Abel, Deborah Mayfair de Montcleve, Suzanne Mayfair, Lestan Mayfair, Marguerite Mayfair, Tyrone Clifford McNamara, Augustin Mayfair, Jeannette Mayfair, Cortland Mayfair, Barclay Mayfair, Garland Mayfair, Corrington Mayfair, Daniel McIntyre, Nancy Mayfair, Millie Mayfair, Amanda Grady Mayfair, Sean McIntyre, Alice Mayfair</characters>
                <date>11/04/2004</date>
                <genres>Horror, Fantasy, Fiction, Paranormal, Witches, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy, Gothic, Magic, Adult</genres>
                <id>1333</id>
                <synopsis>"From the author of the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles comes a huge, hypnotic novel of witchcraft and the occult through four centuries.Demonstrating, once again, her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of legend, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of witches—a family given to poetry and to incest, to murder and to philosophy; a family that, over the ages, is itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous, and seductive being.On the veranda of a great New Orleans house, now faded, a mute and fragile woman sits rocking... and The Witching Hour begins.It begins in our time with a rescue at sea.  Rowan Mayfair, a beautiful woman, a brilliant practitioner of neurosurgery—aware that she has special powers but unaware that she comes from an ancient line of witches—finds the drowned body of a man off the coast of California and brings him to life.  He is Michael Curry, who was born in New Orleans and orphaned in childhood by fire on Christmas Eve, who pulled himself up from poverty, and who now, in his brief interval of death, has acquired a sensory power that mystifies and frightens him.As these two, fiercely drawn to each other, fall in love and—in passionate alliance—set out to solve the mystery of her past and his unwelcome gift, the novel moves backward and forward in time from today's New Orleans and San Francisco to long-ago Amsterdam and a château in the France of Louis XIV.  An intricate tale of evil unfolds—an evil unleashed in seventeenth-century Scotland, where the first ""witch,"" Suzanne of the Mayfair, conjures up the spirit she names Lasher... a creation that spells her own destruction and torments each of her descendants in turn.From the coffee plantations of Port au Prince, where the great Mayfair fortune is made and the legacy of their dark power is almost destroyed, to Civil War New Orleans, as Julien—the clan's only male to be endowed with occult powers—provides for the dynasty its foothold in America, the dark, luminous story encompasses dramas of seduction and death, episodes of tenderness and healing.  And always—through peril and escape, tension and release—there swirl around us the echoes of eternal war: innocence versus the corruption of the spirit, sanity against madness, life against death.  With a dreamlike power, the novel draws us, through circuitous, twilight paths, to the present and Rowan's increasingly inspired and risky moves in the merciless game that binds her to her heritage. And in New Orleans, on Christmas Eve, this strangest of family sagas is brought to its startling climax."</synopsis>
                <title>The Witching Hour</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kelley Armstrong </author>
                <characters>Chloe Saunders, Derek Souza, ""Victoria ''Tori'' Enright"", ""Rachelle ''Rae'' Rogers"", Simon Bae</characters>
                <date>07/01/2008</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Supernatural, Magic, Romance, Ghosts, Werewolves, Fiction</genres>
                <id>1334</id>
                <synopsis>"Chloe Saunders used to have a relatively normal life.But now she finds herself in the middle of some really strange situations because:~She suddenly starts seeing dead people.~She gets locked up in a group home for unstable teens.~The group home isn't what it seems. My name is Chloe Saunders and my life will never be the same again.All I wanted was to make friends, meet boys, and keep on being ordinary. I don't even know what that means anymore. It all started on the day that I saw my first ghost—and the ghost saw me.Now there are ghosts everywhere and they won't leave me alone. To top it all off, I somehow got myself locked up in Lyle House, a ""special home"" for troubled teens. Yet the home isn't what it seems. Don't tell anyone, but I think there might be more to my housemates than meets the eye. The question is, whose side are they on? It's up to me to figure out the dangerous secrets behind Lyle House... before its skeletons come back to haunt me."</synopsis>
                <title>The Summoning</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Alan Paton</author>
                <characters>Stephen Kumalo, Absalom Kumalo, Msimangu, James Jarvis</characters>
                <date>11/25/03</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Africa, Historical Fiction, South Africa, Literature, School, Novels, Historical, Read For School</genres>
                <id>1335</id>
                <synopsis>"Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa’s history, was an immediate worldwide bestseller in 1948. Alan Paton’s impassioned novel about a black man’s country under white man’s law is a work of searing beauty.Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.The eminent literary critic Lewis Gannett wrote, “We have had many novels from statesmen and reformers, almost all bad; many novels from poets, almost all thin. In Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country the statesman, the poet and the novelist meet in a unique harmony.” Cry, the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son, Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its lyricism, unforgettable for character and incident, Cry, the Beloved Country is a classic work of love and hope, courage and endurance, born of the dignity of man."</synopsis>
                <title>Cry, the Beloved Country</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Dalton Trumbo</author>
                <characters>Joe Bonham</characters>
                <date>08/01/2000</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, War, Historical Fiction, Horror, Literature, Novels, World War I, Politics, American</genres>
                <id>1336</id>
                <synopsis>"This was no ordinary war. This was a war to make the world safe for democracy. And if democracy was made safe, then nothing else mattered - not the millions of dead bodies, nor the thousands of ruined lives... This is no ordinary novel. This is a novel that never takes the easy way out: it is shocking, violent, terrifying, horrible, uncompromising, brutal, remorseless and gruesome... but so is war. Winner of the National Book Award."</synopsis>
                <title>Johnny Got His Gun</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Joanne Harris </author>
                <characters>Caro Clairmont, Josephine Bonnet, Anouk Rocher, Vianne Rocher, Roux, Francis Reynaud, Armande Voizin, Paul-Marie Muscat, Luc Clairmont, Guillaume Duplessis</characters>
                <date>11/01/2000</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Romance, Magical Realism, France, Fantasy, Contemporary, Food, Chick Lit, Historical Fiction, Adult</genres>
                <id>1337</id>
                <synopsis>"A timeless novel of a straitlaced village's awakening to joy and sensuality - every page offers a description of chocolate to melt in the mouths of chocoholics, francophiles, armchair gourmets, cookbook readers, and lovers of passion everywhere.Illuminating Peter Mayle's South of France with a touch of Laura Esquivel's magic realism, Chocolat is a timeless novel of a straitlaced village's awakening to joy and sensuality. In tiny Lansquenet, where nothing much has changed in a hundred years, beautiful newcomer Vianne Rocher and her exquisite chocolate shop arrive and instantly begin to play havoc with Lenten vows. Each box of luscious bonbons comes with a free gift: Vianne's uncanny perception of its buyer's private discontents and a clever, caring cure for them. Is she a witch? Soon the parish no longer cares, as it abandons itself to temptation, happiness, and a dramatic face-off between Easter solemnity and the pagan gaiety of a chocolate festival. Chocolat's every page offers a description of chocolate to melt in the mouths of chocoholics, francophiles, armchair gourmets, cookbook readers, and lovers of passion everywhere. It's a must for anyone who craves an escapist read, and is a bewitching gift for any holiday."</synopsis>
                <title>Chocolat</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jeaniene Frost </author>
                <characters>Bones (Night Huntress series), Catherine Crawfield-Russell, Spade (Night Huntress series), Tate Bradley, Don Williams</characters>
                <date>10/30/07</date>
                <genres>Paranormal, Vampires, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Adult, Supernatural, Fiction, New Adult</genres>
                <id>1338</id>
                <synopsis>"Flirting With The Grave…Half-vampire Catherine Crawfield is going after the undead with a vengeance, hoping that one of these deadbeats is her father – the one responsible for ruining her mother’s life. Then she’s captured by Bones, a vampire bounty hunter, and is forced into an unlikely partnership.In exchange for help finding her father, Cat agrees to train with the sexy night stalker until her battle reflexes are as sharp as his fangs. She’s amazed she doesn’t end up as his dinner – are there actually good vampires? Pretty soon Bones will have her convinced that being half-dead doesn’t have to be all bad. But before she can enjoy her status as kick-ass demon hunter, Cat and Bones are pursued by a group of killers. Now Cat will have to choose a side … and Bones is turning out to be as tempting as any man with a heartbeat."</synopsis>
                <title>Halfway to the Grave</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Greg Mortenson , David Oliver Relin</author>
                <characters>Greg Mortenson, Syed Abbas, Ali, Sarah Bishop</characters>
                <date>01/30/07</date>
                <genres>Nonfiction, Memoir, Biography, Travel, Education, Book Club, Biography Memoir, Pakistan, Inspirational, History</genres>
                <id>1339</id>
                <synopsis>"The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban’s backyardAnyone who despairs of the individual’s power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan’s treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers and promised to build them a school. Over the next decade he built fifty-five schools—especially for girls—that offer a balanced education in one of the most isolated and dangerous regions on earth. As it chronicles Mortenson’s quest, which has brought him into conflict with both enraged Islamists and uncomprehending Americans, Three Cups of Tea combines adventure with a celebration of the humanitarian spirit."</synopsis>
                <title>Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Simone Elkeles </author>
                <characters>Alex Fuentes, Brittany Ellis</characters>
                <date>12/23/08</date>
                <genres>Romance, Young Adult, Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, High School, Fiction, New Adult, Realistic Fiction, Chick Lit, Young Adult Romance</genres>
                <id>1340</id>
                <synopsis>"A fresh, urban twist on the classic tale of star-crossed lovers.When Brittany Ellis walks into chemistry class on the first day of senior year, she has no clue that her carefully created 'perfect' life is about to unravel before her eyes. She's forced to be lab partners with Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, and he is about to threaten everything she's worked so hard for: her flawless reputation, her relationship with her boyfriend, and the secret that her home life is anything but perfect. Alex is a bad boy and he knows it. So when he makes a bet with his friends to lure Brittany into his life, he thinks nothing of it. But soon Alex realizes Brittany is a real person with real problems, and suddenly the bet he made in arrogance turns into something much more.In a passionate story about looking beneath the surface, Simone Elkeles breaks through the stereotypes and barriers that threaten to keep Brittany and Alex apart."</synopsis>
                <title>Perfect Chemistry</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Victoria Aveyard </author>
                <characters>Kilorn Warren, Gisa Barrow, Tiberias Calore ""Cal"" VII, Mare Molly Barrow, Maven Calore, Evangeline Samos, Diana Farley, Tiberias Calore VI, Elara Merandus, Julian Jacos, Lucas Samos</characters>
                <date>02/10/2015</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Dystopia, Romance, Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy, Magic, Science Fiction, Audiobook, Paranormal</genres>
                <id>1341</id>
                <synopsis>"This is a world divided by blood—red or silver. The Reds are commoners, ruled by a Silver elite in possession of god-like superpowers. And to Mare Barrow, a seventeen-year-old Red girl from the poverty-stricken Stilts, it seems like nothing will ever change. That is until she finds herself working in the Silver Palace. Here, surrounded by the people she hates the most, Mare discovers that, despite her red blood, she possesses a deadly power of her own. One that threatens to destroy the balance of power. Fearful of Mare's potential, the Silvers hide her in plain view, declaring her a long-lost Silver princess, now engaged to a Silver prince. Despite knowing that one misstep would mean her death, Mare works silently to help the Red Guard, a militant resistance group, and bring down the Silver regime. But this is a world of betrayal and lies, and Mare has entered a dangerous dance—Reds against Silvers, prince against prince, and Mare against her own heart."</synopsis>
                <title>Red Queen</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Wilkie Collins, Matthew Sweet (Annotations)</author>
                <characters>Walter Hartright, Marian Halcombe, Anne Catherick, Sir Percival Glyde, Count Fosco, Frederick Fairlie, Laura Fairlie, Madame Fosco, Mr. Gilmore</characters>
                <date>02/27/03</date>
                <genres>Classics, Mystery, Fiction, Gothic, Horror, 19th Century, Victorian, Historical Fiction, Literature, British Literature</genres>
                <id>1342</id>
                <synopsis>"'In one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop... There, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth, stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white'The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter becomes embroiled in the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his 'charming' friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons, and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors of English country houses and the madhouse, The Woman in White is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism.Matthew Sweet's introduction explores the phenomenon of Victorian 'sensation' fiction, and discusses Wilkie Collins's biographical and societal influences. Included in this edition are appendices on theatrical adaptations of the novel and its serialisation history."</synopsis>
                <title>The Woman in White</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Dan Brown </author>
                <characters>Vittoria Vetra, Robert Langdon, Leonardo Vetra, Gunther Glick, Maximilian Kohler, Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca</characters>
                <date>04/01/2006</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Crime, Historical Fiction, Novels, Adult</genres>
                <id>1343</id>
                <synopsis>"World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization - the Illuminati. In a desperate race to save the Vatican from a powerful time bomb, Langdon joins forces in Rome with the beautiful and mysterious scientist Vittoria Vetra. Together they embark on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, and deserted cathedrals, and into the depths of the most secretive vault on earth...the long-forgotten Illuminati lair.(back cover)"</synopsis>
                <title>Angels &amp; Demons</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Sarah Dessen </author>
                <characters>Annabel Greene, Owen Armstrong, Whitney Greene</characters>
                <date>04/06/2006</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Chick Lit, Teen, Music, Young Adult Contemporary, High School</genres>
                <id>1344</id>
                <synopsis>"Last year, Annabel was ""the girl who has everything"" — at least that's the part she played in the television commercial for Kopf's Department Store.This year, she's the girl who has nothing: no best friend because mean-but-exciting Sophie dropped her, no peace at home since her older sister became anorexic, and no one to sit with at lunch. Until she meets Owen Armstrong.Tall, dark, and music-obsessed, Owen is a reformed bad boy with a commitment to truth-telling. With Owen's help, maybe Annabel can face what happened the night she and Sophie stopped being friends."</synopsis>
                <title>Just Listen</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Sarah Dessen </author>
                <characters>Macy Queen, Wes Baker, Monica Palmetto, Kristy Palmetto, Bert Baker, Caroline Queen, Jason Talbot, Deborah Queen</characters>
                <date>05/11/2004</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, Chick Lit, Realistic Fiction, Teen, Young Adult Contemporary, Young Adult Romance, High School</genres>
                <id>1345</id>
                <synopsis>"That's what Macy has to look forward to while her boyfriend, Jason, is away at Brain Camp. Days will be spent at a boring job in the library, evenings will be filled with vocabulary drills for the SATs, and spare time will be passed with her mother, the two of them sharing a silent grief at the traumatic loss of Macy's father.But sometimes, unexpected things can happen—things such as the catering job at Wish, with its fun-loving, chaotic crew. Or her sister's project of renovating the neglected beach house, awakening long-buried memories. Things such as meeting Wes, a boy with a past, a taste for Truth-telling, and an amazing artistic talent, the kind of boy who could turn any girl's world upside down. As Macy ventures out of her shell, she begins to question her sheltered life."</synopsis>
                <title>The Truth About Forever</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Deborah Harkness </author>
                <characters>Sarah Bishop, Sean Ryder, Diana Bishop, Matthew Clairmont, Emily Mather, Miriam Shephard, Hamish Osborne, Marcus Whitmore, Ysabeau de Clermont, Baldwin de Clairmont, Elias Ashmole, Peter Knox, Stephen Proctor, Rebecca Bishop, Juliette Durand, Agatha Wilson, Nathaniel Wilson, Gillian Chamberlain, Marthe (Vampire), Chris Roberts</characters>
                <date>02/28/11</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Romance, Paranormal, Vampires, Witches, Magic, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural</genres>
                <id>1346</id>
                <synopsis>"A richly inventive novel about a centuries-old vampire, a spellbound witch, and the mysterious manuscript that draws them together. Deep in the stacks of Oxford's Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in the course of her research. Descended from an old and distinguished line of witches, Diana wants nothing to do with sorcery; so after a furtive glance and a few notes, she banishes the book to the stacks. But her discovery sets a fantastical underworld stirring, and a horde of daemons, witches, and vampires soon descends upon the library. Diana has stumbled upon a coveted treasure lost for centuries-and she is the only creature who can break its spell. Debut novelist Deborah Harkness has crafted a mesmerizing and addictive read, equal parts history and magic, romance and suspense. Diana is a bold heroine who meets her equal in vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont, and gradually warms up to him as their alliance deepens into an intimacy that violates age-old taboos. This smart, sophisticated story harks back to the novels of Anne Rice, but it is as contemporary and sensual as the Twilight series-with an extra serving of historical realism."</synopsis>
                <title>A Discovery of Witches</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Neal Shusterman </author>
                <characters>Lev Calder, Connor Lassiter, Risa Ward</characters>
                <date>11/06/2007</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Teen, Thriller, Adventure, Survival</genres>
                <id>1347</id>
                <synopsis>"Connor, Risa, and Lev are running for their lives.The Second Civil War was fought over reproductive rights. The chilling resolution: Life is inviolable from the moment of conception until age thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, parents can have their child ""unwound,"" whereby all of the child's organs are transplanted into different donors, so life doesn't technically end. Connor is too difficult for his parents to control. Risa, a ward of the state, is not enough to be kept alive. And Lev is a tithe, a child conceived and raised to be unwound. Together, they may have a chance to escape and to survive."</synopsis>
                <title>Unwind</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Irvine Welsh</author>
                <characters>Mark Renton, Simon Williamson</characters>
                <date>07/11/1994</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Contemporary, Classics, Novels, Thriller, Mystery, Scotland, Crime, Drama, Dark</genres>
                <id>1348</id>
                <synopsis>"The bestselling novel by Irvine Welsh that provided the inspiration for Danny Boyle’s hit film Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fuckin embarrassment tae the selfish, fucked-up brats ye've produced. Choose life."</synopsis>
                <title>Trainspotting</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>John Steinbeck</author>
                <characters>Eddie, ""Doc"" Bradley Stanwick, Dora, Lee Chong, Mack, Hughie, Gay, Hazel, Eddie, Doc, Dora, Lee Chong, Mack</characters>
                <date>02/05/2002</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Literature, Historical Fiction, American, Novels, Literary Fiction, Classic Literature, 20th Century, The United States Of America</genres>
                <id>1349</id>
                <synopsis>"Cannery Row is a book without much of a plot. Rather, it is an attempt to capture the feeling and people of a place, the cannery district of Monterey, California, which is populated by a mix of those down on their luck and those who choose for other reasons not to live ""up the hill"" in the more respectable area of town. The flow of the main plot is frequently interrupted by short vignettes that introduce us to various denizens of the Row, most of whom are not directly connected with the central story. These vignettes are often characterized by direct or indirect reference to extreme violence: suicides, corpses, and the cruelty of the natural world.The ""story"" of Cannery Row follows the adventures of Mack and the boys, a group of unemployed yet resourceful men who inhabit a converted fish-meal shack on the edge of a vacant lot down on the Row.Sweet Thursday is the sequel to Cannery Row."</synopsis>
                <title>Cannery Row</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat (Editor), Paul Werstine (Editor), Robert Jackson (Editor), Gail Kern Paster (Contributor)</author>
                <characters>boy, Hero (Much ado), Ursula (Shakespeare), Don Pedro, Beatrice (diverse works), Claudio, Benedick, Don John, Leonato, Dogberry, Friar Francis, Verges, Magaret, Balthazar (Much Ado About Nothing), Borachio, Conrade, A Sexton, The Watch, Innogen, Antonio</characters>
                <date>10/28/04</date>
                <genres>Classics, Plays, Fiction, Drama, Romance, School, Theatre, Literature, Humor, Comedy</genres>
                <id>1350</id>
                <synopsis>"In Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare includes two quite different stories of romantic love. Hero and Claudio fall in love almost at first sight, but an outsider, Don John, strikes out at their happiness. Beatrice and Benedick are kept apart by pride and mutual antagonism until others decide to play Cupid."</synopsis>
                <title>Much Ado About Nothing</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Marcel Proust, Lydia Davis (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Narrator/Marcel, Baron de Charlus, Mme Swann, Gilberte Swann, Cottard, Odette de Crécy, Charles Swann, Françoise de Combray, Madame Verdurin</characters>
                <date>11/30/04</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, France, Literature, French Literature, Novels, 20th Century, Philosophy, Literary Fiction, Unfinished</genres>
                <id>1351</id>
                <synopsis>"Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century. But since its original prewar translation there has been no completely new version in English. Now, Penguin brings Proust's masterpiece to new audiences throughout the world, beginning with Lydia Davis's internationally acclaimed translation of the first volume, Swann's Way.Swann's Way is one of the preeminent novels of childhood: a sensitive boy's impressions of his family and neighbors, all brought dazzlingly back to life years later by the taste of a madeleine. It also enfolds the short novel ""Swann in Love,"" an incomparable study of sexual jealousy that becomes a crucial part of the vast, unfolding structure of In Search of Lost Time. The first volume of the work that established Proust as one of the finest voices of the modern age — satirical, skeptical, confiding, and endlessly varied in its response to the human condition — Swann's Way also stands on its own as a perfect rendering of a life in art, of the past re-created through memory."</synopsis>
                <title>Swann's Way</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Tatiana de Rosnay </author>
                <characters>Julia Jarmond, Sarah Starzynski, Zoë Tézac, Bertrand Tézac, Michel Starzynski, Wladyslaw Starzynski, Rywka Starzynski, William Rainsferd, Edouard Tézac, Jules Dufaure, Genevieve Dufaure</characters>
                <date>06/28/07</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Holocaust, Historical, World War II, France, War, Book Club, Adult, Adult Fiction</genres>
                <id>1352</id>
                <synopsis>"Paris, July 1942: Ten-year-old Sarah is brutally arrested with her family in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, the most notorious act of French collaboration with the Nazis. but before the police come to take them, Sarah locks her younger brother, Michel, in their favorite hiding place, a cupboard in the family's apartment. She keeps the key, thinking that she will be back within a few hours.Paris, May 2002: On Vel' d'Hiv's sixtieth anniversary, Julia Jarmond, an American journalist, is asked by her Paris-based American magazine to write an article about this black day in France's past. Julia has lived in Paris for nearly twenty-five years, married a Frenchman, and she is shocked both by her ignorance about the event and the silence that still surrounds it. In the course of her investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connects her to Sarah. Julia finds herself compelled to retrace the girl's ordeal, from the terrible days spent shut in at the Vel' d'Hiv' to the camps and beyond. As she probes into Sarah's past, she begins to question her own place in France and to reevaluate her marriage and her life.Writing about the fate of her country with a pitiless clarity, Tatiana de Rosnay offers us a brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation and reveals the taboos and denial surrounding this painful episode in French history.(front flap)"</synopsis>
                <title>Sarah's Key</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Sherrilyn Kenyon </author>
                <characters>Styxx of Didymos, Apollymi, Strykerius, Artemis Agrotera, Soteria ""Tory"" Eleni Athena Kafieri, Ryssa of Didymos, Jaden (Acheron), Apollo (Styxx), Acheron ""Ash"" Parthenopaeus</characters>
                <date>08/05/2008</date>
                <genres>Paranormal Romance, Paranormal, Romance, Fantasy, Vampires, Urban Fantasy, Mythology, Adult, Fiction, Demons</genres>
                <id>1353</id>
                <synopsis>"Eleven thousand years ago a god was born. Cursed into the body of a human, Acheron endured a lifetime of hatred. His human death unleashed an unspeakable horror that almost destroyed the earth. Brought back against his will, he became the sole defender of mankind.Only it was never that simple…For centuries, he has fought for our survival and hidden a past he never wants revealed.Now his survival, and ours, hinges on the very woman who threatens him. Old enemies reawaken and unite to kill them both.War has never been deadlier… or more fun."</synopsis>
                <title>Acheron</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kiera Cass </author>
                <characters>Celeste White, Elise Whisks, Aspen Leger, America Singer, Prince Maxon, Kriss Ambers</characters>
                <date>04/23/13</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Romance, Dystopia, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Audiobook, Teen, Chick Lit, Young Adult Romance</genres>
                <id>1354</id>
                <synopsis>"The Selection began with thirty-five girls. Now with the group narrowed down to the six Elite, the competition to win Prince Maxon's heart is fiercer than ever—and America is still struggling to decide where her heart truly lies. Is it with Maxon, who could make her life a fairy tale? Or with her first love, Aspen?America is desperate for more time. But the rest of the Elite know exactly what they want—and America's chance to choose is about to slip away."</synopsis>
                <title>The Elite</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Becca Fitzpatrick </author>
                <characters>Nora Grey, Jev ""Patch"" Cipriano, Vee Sky, Marcie Millar, Scott Parnell, Hank Millar, Blythe Gray</characters>
                <date>10/04/2011</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Fantasy, Angels, Paranormal, Romance, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1355</id>
                <synopsis>"Nora Grey can't remember the past five months of her life. After the initial shock of waking up in a cemetery and being told that she has been missing for weeks - with no one knowing where she was or who she was with - she tried to get her life back on track. Go to school, hang out with her best friend, Vee, and dodge mom's creepy new boyfriend.But there is this voice in the back of her head, an idea that she can almost reach out and touch. Visions of angel wings and unearthly creatures that have nothing to do with the life she knows.And this unshakable feeling that a part of her is missing.Then Nora crosses paths with a sexy stranger, whom she feels a mesmerizing connection to. He seems to hold all the answers...and her heart. Every minute she spends with him grows more and more intense until she realizes she could be falling in love. Again."</synopsis>
                <title>Silence</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>J.D. Salinger</author>
                <characters>Seymour Glass, Beatrice Glass Tannenbaum</characters>
                <date>01/30/01</date>
                <genres>Short Stories, Fiction, Classics, Literature, American, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, The United States Of America, Novels, Adult Fiction</genres>
                <id>1356</id>
                <synopsis>"Nine Stories (1953) is a collection of short stories by American fiction writer J. D. Salinger published in April 1953. It includes two of his most famous short stories, ""A Perfect Day for Bananafish"" and ""For Esmé – with Love and Squalor"". (Nine Stories is the U.S. title; the book is published in many other countries as For Esmé - with Love and Squalor, and Other Stories.)The stories are:""A Perfect Day for Bananafish""""Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut""""Just Before the War with the Eskimos""""The Laughing Man""""Down at the Dinghy""""For Esmé – with Love and Squalor""""Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes""""De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period""""Teddy"""</synopsis>
                <title>Nine Stories</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>J.R.R. Tolkien</author>
                <characters>Frodo Baggins, Meriadoc Brandybuck, Peregrin Took, Gandalf, Aragorn, Gimli, Bilbo Baggins, Saruman, Éowyn, Éomer, Elrond Half-elven, Arwen Undómiel, Galadriel, Faramir, Gollum, Legolas, Sam Gamgee</characters>
                <date>07/12/1974</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Classics, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Literature, Novels, Magic</genres>
                <id>1357</id>
                <synopsis>"In the third volume of The Lord of the Rings trilogy the good and evil forces join battle, and we see that the triumph of good is not absolute. The Third Age of Middle-earth ends, and the age of the dominion of Men begins."</synopsis>
                <title>The Return of the King</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jennifer Niven </author>
                <characters>Theodore Finch, Violet Markey</characters>
                <date>01/06/2015</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance, Fiction, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Realistic Fiction, Audiobook, Young Adult Contemporary, Teen</genres>
                <id>1358</id>
                <synopsis>"The Fault in Our Stars meets Eleanor and Park in this exhilarating and heart-wrenching love story about a girl who learns to live from a boy who intends to die.Soon to be a major motion picture starring Elle Fanning! Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister’s recent death. When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it’s unclear who saves whom. And when they pair up on a project to discover the “natural wonders” of their state, both Finch and Violet make more important discoveries: It’s only with Violet that Finch can be himself—a weird, funny, live-out-loud guy who’s not such a freak after all. And it’s only with Finch that Violet can forget to count away the days and start living them. But as Violet’s world grows, Finch’s begins to shrink. This is an intense, gripping novel perfect for fans of Jay Asher, Rainbow Rowell, John Green, Gayle Forman, and Jenny Downham from a talented new voice in YA, Jennifer Niven."</synopsis>
                <title>All the Bright Places</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jon Krakauer </author>
                <characters>Rob Hall, Jon Krakauer</characters>
                <date>10/19/99</date>
                <genres>Nonfiction, Adventure, Memoir, Travel, Biography, History, Survival, Mountaineering, Biography Memoir, Sports</genres>
                <id>1359</id>
                <synopsis>"A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that ""suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down."" He was wrong. The storm, which claimed five lives and left countless more-including Krakauer's-in guilt-ridden disarray, would also provide the impetus for Into Thin Air, Krakauer's epic account of the May 1996 disaster."</synopsis>
                <title>Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Thomas Hardy, Rosemarie Morgan (Editor/Introduction), Shannon Russell (Editor/Introduction)</author>
                <characters>Gabriel Oak, Bathsheba Everdene, William Boldwood, Francis Troy, Fanny Robin</characters>
                <date>02/27/03</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, 19th Century, Literature, British Literature, Victorian, Classic Literature, Novels</genres>
                <id>1360</id>
                <synopsis>"Far from the Madding Crowd was Thomas Hardy's first major literary success, and it edited with an introduction and notes by Rosemarie Morgan and Shannon Russell in Penguin Classics.Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues, threatening the stability of the whole community. The first of his works set in the fictional county of Wessex, Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with his evocative descriptions of rural life and landscapes, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships."</synopsis>
                <title>Far From the Madding Crowd</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Pittacus Lore</author>
                <characters>Henri Smith, Sarah Hart, Mark James, Sam Goode, Bernie Kosar, Mogadorians, Number 6, John Smith (Pittacus Lore)</characters>
                <date>08/03/2010</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Fiction, Aliens, Romance, Paranormal, Adventure, Teen, Action</genres>
                <id>1361</id>
                <synopsis>"Nine of us came here. We look like you. We talk like you. We live among you. But we are not you. We can do things you dream of doing. We have powers you dream of having. We are stronger and faster than anything you have ever seen. We are the superheroes you worship in movies and comic books-but we are real.Our plan was to grow, and train, and become strong, and become one, and fight them. But they found us and started hunting us first. Now all of us are running. Spending our lives in shadows, in places where no one would look, blending in. We have lived among you without you knowing.But they know.They caught Number One in Malaysia.Number Two in England.And Number Three in Kenya.They killed them all.I am Number Four.I am next."</synopsis>
                <title>I Am Number Four</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Charlaine Harris </author>
                <characters>Sookie Stackhouse, Bill Compton, Sam Merlotte, Jason Stackhouse, Eric Northman, Tara Thornton, Pam Ravenscroft, Alcide Herveaux</characters>
                <date>04/01/2005</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Vampires, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Fiction, Mystery, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Adult</genres>
                <id>1362</id>
                <synopsis>"Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in Bon Temps, Louisiana. She has only a few close friends, because not everyone appreciates Sookie’s gift: she can read minds. That’s not exactly every man’s idea of date bait – unless they’re undead; vampires and the like can be tough to read. And that’s just the kind of guy Sookie’s been looking for. Maybe that’s why, when she comes across a naked vampire, she doesn’t just drive on by. He hasn’t got a clue who he is, but Sookie has: Eric looks just as scary and sexy – and dead – as ever. But now he has amnesia, he’s sweet, vulnerable, and in need of Sookie’s help – because whoever took his memory now wants his life."</synopsis>
                <title>Dead to the World</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jane Austen, Deidre Shauna Lynch (Introduction), James Kinsley (Editor)</author>
                <characters>Lady Russell, Charles Musgrove, Admiral Croft, Elizabeth Elliot, Frederick Wentworth, Lady Russell, Mary Musgrove, Sophia Croft, Sir Walter Elliot, Louisa Musgrove, Captain James Benwick, William Elliot, Mrs. Smith, Anne Elliot, Henrietta Musgrave, Captain Harville</characters>
                <date>03/18/04</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Literature, Historical, 19th Century, British Literature, Classic Literature, Historical Romance</genres>
                <id>1363</id>
                <synopsis>"Twenty-seven-year old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her friend Lady Russell that such a match is unworthy. The breakup produces in Anne a deep and long-lasting regret. When later Wentworth returns from sea a rich and successful captain, he finds Anne's family on the brink of financial ruin and his own sister a tenant in Kellynch Hall, the Elliot estate. All the tension of the novel revolves around one question: Will Anne and Wentworth be reunited in their love?Jane Austen once compared her writing to painting on a little bit of ivory, 2 inches square. Readers of Persuasion will discover that neither her skill for delicate, ironic observations on social custom, love, and marriage nor her ability to apply a sharp focus lens to English manners and morals has deserted her in her final finished work."</synopsis>
                <title>Persuasion</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Garth Nix </author>
                <characters>Sabriel, Touchstone, Mogget, Abhorsen, Kerrigor, Rogir</characters>
                <date>09/30/96</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Magic, Young Adult Fantasy, High Fantasy, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Teen</genres>
                <id>1364</id>
                <synopsis>"Sent to a boarding school in Ancelstierre as a young child, Sabriel has had little experience with the random power of Free Magic or the Dead who refuse to stay dead in the Old Kingdom. But during her final semester, her father, the Abhorsen, goes missing, and Sabriel knows she must enter the Old Kingdom to find him. With Sabriel, the first installment in the Abhorsen series, Garth Nix exploded onto the fantasy scene as a rising star, in a novel that takes readers to a world where the line between the living and the dead isn't always clear—and sometimes disappears altogether."</synopsis>
                <title>Sabriel</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Abraham Verghese </author>
                <characters>Thomas Stone, Sister Mary Joseph Praise, Marion Stone, Shiva Stone</characters>
                <date>02/03/2009</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Historical Fiction, Africa, Book Club, Medicine, Ethiopia, Medical, Novels, Literary Fiction, Historical</genres>
                <id>1365</id>
                <synopsis>"A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel - an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home.Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother’s death in childbirth and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Yet it will be love, not politics—their passion for the same woman—that will tear them apart and force Marion, fresh out of medical school, to flee his homeland. He makes his way to America, finding refuge in his work as an intern at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. When the past catches up to him—nearly destroying him—Marion must entrust his life to the two men he thought he trusted least in the world: the surgeon father who abandoned him and the brother who betrayed him.An unforgettable journey into one man’s remarkable life, and an epic story about the power, intimacy, and curious beauty of the work of healing others.(front flap)"</synopsis>
                <title>Cutting for Stone</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Shannon Hale </author>
                <characters>Razo, Geric, Enna, Princess Anidori-Kiladra, Finn, Selia</characters>
                <date>05/01/2005</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Fairy Tales, Romance, Fiction, Retellings, Middle Grade, Adventure, Young Adult Fantasy, Magic</genres>
                <id>1366</id>
                <synopsis>"Mythopoeic Fantasy Award nominee for Children's Literature 2010 (The Books of Bayern series).She was born with her eyes closed and a word on her tongue, a word she could not taste. Her name was Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, and she spent the first years of her life listening to her aunt’s stories and learning the language of the birds, especially the swans. And when she was older, she watched as a colt was born, and she heard the first word on his tongue, his name, Falada.From the Grimm's fairy tale of the princess who became a goose girl before she could become queen, Shannon Hale has woven an incredible, original, and magical tale of a girl who must find her own unusual talents before she can lead the people she has made her own."</synopsis>
                <title>The Goose Girl</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Dodie Smith</author>
                <characters>Cassandra Mortmain, Rose Mortmain, James Mortmain, Topaz Mortmain, Thomas Mortmain, Stephen Colly, Simon Cotton, Neil Cotton, Miss Marcy, Audrey Fox-Cotton, Leda Fox-Cotton</characters>
                <date>03/31/98</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Romance, Coming Of Age, Historical, British Literature, Novels, Adult Fiction</genres>
                <id>1367</id>
                <synopsis>"Through six turbulent months of 1934, 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain keeps a journal, filling three notebooks with sharply funny yet poignant entries about her home, a ruined Suffolk castle, and her eccentric and penniless family. By the time the last diary shuts, there have been great changes in the Mortmain household, not the least of which is that Cassandra is deeply, hopelessly, in love."</synopsis>
                <title>I Capture the Castle</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Tennessee Williams, Robert Bray (Introduction)</author>
                <characters>Amanda Wingfield, Laura Wingfield, ""Jim O''Connor"", Tom Wingfield</characters>
                <date>06/17/99</date>
                <genres>Plays, Classics, Drama, Fiction, School, Theatre, Literature, Read For School, High School, American</genres>
                <id>1368</id>
                <synopsis>"No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. As Williams's first popular success, it launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career, of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, Menagaerie has been the bravura piece for great actresses from Jessica Tandy to Joanne Woodward, and is studied and performed in classrooms and theatres around the world. The Glass Menagerie (in the reading text the author preferred) is now available only in its New Directions Paperbook edition. A new introduction by the editor of The Tennessee Williams Annual Review, Robert Bray, reappraises the play more than half a century after it won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. This edition of The Glass Menagerie also includes Williams's essay on the impact of sudden fame on a struggling writer, ""The Catastrophe of Success,"" as well as a short section of Williams's own ""Production Notes."" (back cover)"</synopsis>
                <title>The Glass Menagerie</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>William Shakespeare</author>
                <characters>Viola, Count Orsino, Sebastian, Sir Toby Belch, Malvolio, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Feste, Sebastion, Olivia</characters>
                <date>07/01/2004</date>
                <genres>Classics, Plays, Drama, Fiction, School, Romance, Theatre, Literature, Poetry, Read For School</genres>
                <id>1369</id>
                <synopsis>"Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays with love and power. The Countess Olivia, a woman with her own household, attracts Duke (or Count) Orsino. Two other would-be suitors are her pretentious steward, Malvolio, and Sir Andrew Aguecheek.Onto this scene arrive the twins Viola and Sebastian; caught in a shipwreck, each thinks the other has drowned. Viola disguises herself as a male page and enters Orsino’s service. Orsino sends her as his envoy to Olivia—only to have Olivia fall in love with the messenger. The play complicates, then wonderfully untangles, these relationships."</synopsis>
                <title>Twelfth Night</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Alexandra Bracken </author>
                <characters>Charles ""Chubs"" Carrington Meriwether IV (The Darkest Minds), Ruby Elizabeth Daly (The Darkest Minds), Liam Stewart (The Darkest Minds), Suzume Kimura, Clancy Gray (The Darkest Minds)</characters>
                <date>12/18/12</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Dystopia, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Paranormal, Fiction, Adventure, Supernatural, Young Adult Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1370</id>
                <synopsis>"When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that gets her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government “rehabilitation camp.” She might have survived the mysterious disease that’s killed most of America’s children, but she and the others have emerged with something far worse: frightening abilities they cannot control.Now sixteen, Ruby is one of the dangerous ones.When the truth comes out, Ruby barely escapes Thurmond with her life. Now she’s on the run, desperate to find the one safe haven left for kids like her—East River. She joins a group of kids who escaped their own camp. Liam, their brave leader, is falling hard for Ruby. But no matter how much she aches for him, Ruby can’t risk getting close. Not after what happened to her parents.When they arrive at East River, nothing is as it seems, least of all its mysterious leader. But there are other forces at work, people who will stop at nothing to use Ruby in their fight against the government. Ruby will be faced with a terrible choice, one that may mean giving up her only chance at a life worth living."</synopsis>
                <title>The Darkest Minds</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Chuck Palahniuk </author>
                <characters>Shannon McFarland, Brandy Alexander, Evie Cottrell, Manus Kelley, The Rhea Sisters</characters>
                <date>05/01/2018</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Contemporary, Thriller, Mystery, Novels, Dark, Adult, Humor, Adult Fiction, Drama</genres>
                <id>1371</id>
                <synopsis>"She's a catwalk model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden motor 'accident' leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she goes from being the beautiful centre of attention to being an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists.Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from being a real woman, who will teach her that reinventing yourself means erasing your past and making up something better, and that salvation hides in the last place you'll ever want to look.The narrator must exact revenge upon Evie, her best friend and fellow model; kidnap Manus, her two-timing ex-boyfriend; and hit the road with Brandy in search of a brand-new past, present and future."</synopsis>
                <title>Invisible Monsters</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Michael Cunningham </author>
                <characters>Clarissa Vaughan, Laura Brown, Virginia Woolf</characters>
                <date>10/28/02</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, LGBT, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, Historical, American</genres>
                <id>1372</id>
                <synopsis>"In 1920s London, Virginia Woolf is fighting against her rebellious spirit as she attempts to make a start on her new novel. A young wife and mother, broiling in a suburb of 1940s Los Angeles, yearns to escape and read her precious copy of Mrs Dalloway. And Clarissa Vaughan steps out of her smart Greenwich village apartment in 1990s New York to buy flowers for a party she is hosting for a dying friend.The Hours recasts the classic story of Woolf's Mrs Dalloway in a startling new light. Moving effortlessly across the decades and between England and America, this exquisite novel intertwines the worlds of three unforgettable women."</synopsis>
                <title>The Hours</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Diana Gabaldon </author>
                <characters>Jamie Fraser, Brianna Randall, Roger MacKenzie, Fergus Fraser, Marsali Fraser, Ian Murray, Claire Randall Fraser, Geillis Duncan, Stephen Bonnet, Young Ian Murray, Duncan Innes</characters>
                <date>10/16/18</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction, Time Travel, Historical, Historical Romance, Audiobook, Adult, Adventure</genres>
                <id>1373</id>
                <synopsis>"In this breathtaking novel, rich in history and adventure, #1 New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon continues the story of Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser that started with the now-classic novel Outlander and continued in Dragonfly in Amber and Voyager. Once again spanning continents and centuries, Gabaldon has created a work of sheer brilliance. What if you knew someone you loved was going to die? What if you thought you could save them? How much would you risk to try?Claire Randall has gone to find Jamie Fraser, the man she loved more than life, and has left half her heart behind with their daughter, Brianna. Claire gave up Jamie to save Brianna, and now Bree has sent her mother back to the Scottish warrior who was willing to give his life to save them both. But a chilling discovery in the pages of history suggests that Jamie and Claire's story doesn't have a happy ending.Brianna dares a terrifying leap into the unknown in search of her mother and the father she has never met, risking her own future to try to change history . . . and to save their lives. But as Brianna plunges into an uncharted wilderness, a heartbreaking encounter may strand her forever in the past . . . or root her in the place she should be, where her heart and soul belong."</synopsis>
                <title>Drums of Autumn</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Melissa Marr </author>
                <characters>Aislinn, Keenan, Leslie, Irial, Evan Dennison, Jimmy, Sorcha, Rianne, Niall, Cerise Mar, Donia, Beira, Tavish, Mitchell Price, Seth (Wicked Lovely), Moira (Wicked Lovely)</characters>
                <date>06/12/2007</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Fairies, Fae, Fiction, Paranormal Romance, Magic</genres>
                <id>1374</id>
                <synopsis>"Rule #3: Don't stare at invisible faeries.Aislinn has always seen faeries. Powerful and dangerous, they walk hidden in the mortal world. Aislinn fears their cruelty - especially if they learn of her Sight - and wishes she were as blind to their presence as other teens.Rule #2: Don't speak to invisible faeries.Now faeries are stalking her. One of them, Keenan, who is equal parts terrifying and alluring, is trying to talk to her, asking questions Aislinn is afraid to answer.Rule #1: Don't ever attract their attention.But it's too late. Keenan is the Summer King, who has sought his queen for nine centuries. Without her, summer itself will perish. He is determined that Aislinn will become the Summer Queen at any cost — regardless of her plans or desires.Suddenly none of the rules that have kept Aislinn safe are working anymore, and everything is on the line: her freedom; her best friend, Seth; her life; everything.Faery intrigue, mortal love, and the clash of ancient rules and modern expectations swirl together in Melissa Marr's stunning twenty-first-century faery tale."</synopsis>
                <title>Wicked Lovely</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Cecelia Ahern</author>
                <characters>Holly Kennedy, Frank Kennedy, Jack Kennedy, Gerry Clark, Sharon McCarthy, Denise Hennessey, Daniel Connolly, Elizabeth Kennedy, Ciara Kennedy, Declan Kennedy, Richard Kennedy, John McCarthy, ""Tom O''Connor""</characters>
                <date>01/05/2005</date>
                <genres>Romance, Chick Lit, Fiction, Contemporary, Adult, Contemporary Romance, Love, Adult Fiction, Drama, Ireland</genres>
                <id>1375</id>
                <synopsis>"A novel about holding on, letting go, and learning to love again.Now in paperback, the endearing novel that captured readers' hearts and introduced a fresh new voice in women's fiction Cecelia Ahern. Holly couldn't live without her husband Gerry, until the day she had to. They were the kind of young couple who could finish each other's sentences. When Gerry succumbs to a terminal illness and dies, 30-year-old Holly is set adrift, unable to pick up the pieces. But with the help of a series of letters her husband left her before he died and a little nudging from an eccentric assortment of family and friends, she learns to laugh, overcome her fears, and discover a world she never knew existed. The kind of enchanting novel with cross-generational appeal that comes along once in a great while, PS, I Love You is a captivating love letter to the world!"</synopsis>
                <title>P.S. I Love You</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Sarah J. Maas </author>
                <characters>Celaena Sardothien, Chaol Westfall, Rowan Whitethorn, Dorian Havilliard, Aedion Ashryver, Aelin Ashryver Galathynius</characters>
                <date>09/01/2015</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Magic, New Adult, Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy, Fae, High Fantasy, Paranormal</genres>
                <id>1376</id>
                <synopsis>"Everyone Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her. But she’s at last returned to the empire—for vengeance, to rescue her once-glorious kingdom, and to confront the shadows of her past…She has embraced her identity as Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen. But before she can reclaim her throne, she must fight.She will fight for her cousin, a warrior prepared to die for her. She will fight for her friend, a young man trapped in an unspeakable prison. And she will fight for her people, enslaved to a brutal king and awaiting their lost queen’s triumphant return.The fourth volume in the New York Times bestselling series continues Celaena’s epic journey and builds to a passionate, agonizing crescendo that might just shatter her world."</synopsis>
                <title>Queen of Shadows</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>P.C. Cast , Kristin Cast </author>
                <characters>Zoey Redbird, Nyx (House of Night), Erik Night, Stevie Rae Johnson, Neferet, Heath Luck, Aphrodite LaFont, Kalona, Sylvia Redbird, Darius Langley</characters>
                <date>03/10/2009</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Vampires, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Fiction, Supernatural, Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy, Magic</genres>
                <id>1377</id>
                <synopsis>"What if the hottest guy in the world was hiding a nameless evil, and all he wanted was you? At the start of this heart-pounding new installment of the bestselling House of Night series, Zoey’s friends have her back again and Stevie Rae and the red fledglings aren’t Neferet’s secrets any longer. But an unexpected danger has emerged. Neferet guards her powerful new consort, Kalona, and no one at the House of Night seems to understand the threat he poses. Kalona looks gorgeous, and he has the House of Night under his spell. A past life holds the key to breaking his rapidly spreading influence, but what if this past life shows Zoey secrets she doesn’t want to hear and truths she can’t face?"</synopsis>
                <title>Hunted</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Charles Dickens, Joe L. Wheeler (Contributor)</author>
                <characters>Timothy Cratchit, Bob Cratchit, Jacob Marley, Ebenezer Scrooge</characters>
                <date>09/23/99</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Christmas, Fantasy, Literature, Historical Fiction, Audiobook, Holiday, 19th Century, Classic Literature</genres>
                <id>1378</id>
                <synopsis>"'If I had my way, every idiot who goes around with Merry Christmas on his lips, would be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. Merry Christmas? Bah humbug!'Introduction and Afterword by Joe WheelerTo bitter, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, Christmas is just another day. But all that changes when the ghost of his long-dead business partner appears, warning Scrooge to change his ways before it's too late. Part of the Focus on the Family Great Stories collection, this edition features an in-depth introduction and discussion questions by Joe Wheeler to provide greater understanding for today's reader. ""A Christmas Carol"" captures the heart of the holidays like no other novel."</synopsis>
                <title>A Christmas Carol</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Peter S. Beagle </author>
                <characters>The Last Unicorn, Mommy Fortuna, Schmendrick, Molly Grue, King Haggard, Prince Lír</characters>
                <date>07/28/08</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Classics, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, Unicorns, Fairy Tales</genres>
                <id>1379</id>
                <synopsis>"alternate cover editions can be found here, here and hereShe was magical, beautiful beyond belief—and completely alone...The unicorn had lived since before memory in a forest where death could touch nothing. Maidens who caught a glimpse of her glory were blessed by enchantment they would never forget. But outside her wondrous realm, dark whispers and rumours carried a message she could not ignore: ""Unicorns are gone from the world.""Aided by a bumbling magician and an indomitable spinster, she set out to learn the truth. but she feared even her immortal wisdom meant nothing in a world where a mad king's curse and terror incarnate lived only to stalk the last unicorn to her doom..."</synopsis>
                <title>The Last Unicorn</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Laura Ingalls Wilder, Caroline Quiner Ingalls, Charles Ingalls, Mary Ingalls</characters>
                <date>01/01/2007</date>
                <genres>Classics, Historical Fiction, Childrens, Fiction, Young Adult, Historical, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Family, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1380</id>
                <synopsis>"Based on the real-life adventures of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House in the Big Woods is the first book in the award-winning Little House series, which has captivated generations of readers. This edition features the classic black-and-white artwork from Garth Williams.Little House in the Big Woods takes place in 1871 and introduces us to four-year-old Laura, who lives in a log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods of Wisconsin. She shares the cabin with her Pa, her Ma, her sisters Mary and Carrie, and their lovable dog, Jack.Pioneer life isn’t easy for the Ingalls family, since they must grow or catch all their own food as they get ready for the cold winter. But they make the best of every tough situation. They celebrate Christmas with homemade toys and treats, do their spring planting, bring in the harvest in the fall, and make their first trip into town. And every night, safe and warm in their little house, the sound of Pa’s fiddle lulls Laura and her sisters into sleep.The nine books in the timeless Little House series tell the story of Laura’s real childhood as an American pioneer, and are cherished by readers of all generations. They offer a unique glimpse into life on the American frontier, and tell the heartwarming, unforgettable story of a loving family."</synopsis>
                <title>Little House in the Big Woods</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Dan Simmons, Gary Ruddell (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Siri, Martin Silenus, Sol Weintraub, Consul, The Shrike, Rachel Weintraub, Brawne Lamia, Fedmahn Kassad, Meina Gladstone, Melio Arundez, Tyrena Wingreen-Feif, A. Bettik, Sad King Billy, Paul Duré, Lenar Hoyt, Het Masteen, Sarai Weintraub, John Keats</characters>
                <date>03/28/90</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Space Opera, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Time Travel, Horror, Space, Novels</genres>
                <id>1381</id>
                <synopsis>"On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved riddles of their lives. Each carries a desperate hope—and a terrible secret. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands."</synopsis>
                <title>Hyperion</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Cormac McCarthy</author>
                <characters>Ed Tom Bell, Llewelyn Moss, Anton Chigurh, Carla Jean Moss, Dead Dawg, Carson Wells, Deputy Wendell, Loretta Bell</characters>
                <date>07/11/2006</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Thriller, Crime, Westerns, Mystery, Literature, Novels, Classics, Contemporary, American</genres>
                <id>1382</id>
                <synopsis>"In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, the setting of his famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law–in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell–can contain.As Moss tries to evade his pursuers–in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives–McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines. No Country for Old Men is a triumph."</synopsis>
                <title>No Country for Old Men</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Barbara Kingsolver</author>
                <characters>Taylor Greer, Turtle Greer, Lou Ann Ruiz, Estevan, Esperanza, Mattie</characters>
                <date>03/01/1989</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Contemporary, Novels, Literary Fiction, Adult Fiction, Adult, School, Classics, Literature, Realistic Fiction</genres>
                <id>1383</id>
                <synopsis>"Clear-eyed and spirited, Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away. But when she heads west with high hopes and a barely functional car, she meets the human condition head-on. By the time Taylor arrives in Tucson, Arizona, she has acquired a completely unexpected child, a three-year-old American Indian girl named Turtle, and must somehow come to terms with both motherhood and the necessity for putting down roots. Hers is a story about love and friendship, abandonment and belonging, and the discovery of surprising resources in apparently empty places."</synopsis>
                <title>The Bean Trees</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Maggie Stiefvater </author>
                <characters>Blue Sargent, Richard ""Dick"" Campbell Gansey III, Adam Parrish, Ronan Lynch, Noah (The Raven Cycle)</characters>
                <date>09/18/12</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Paranormal, Romance, Fiction, Magic, Urban Fantasy, Audiobook, Supernatural, Young Adult Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1384</id>
                <synopsis>"“There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.”It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. He has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.From Maggie Stiefvater, the bestselling and acclaimed author of the Shiver trilogy and The Scorpio Races, comes a spellbinding new series where the inevitability of death and the nature of love lead us to a place we’ve never been before."</synopsis>
                <title>The Raven Boys</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Lemony Snicket , Brett Helquist (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Count Olaf, Klaus Baudelaire, Sunny Baudelaire, Arthur Poe, Violet Baudelaire, Justice Strauss</characters>
                <date>09/30/99</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Fantasy, Middle Grade, Mystery, Adventure, Audiobook, Humor, Juvenile</genres>
                <id>1385</id>
                <synopsis>"Dear Reader,I'm sorry to say that the book you are holding in your hands is extremely unpleasant. It tells an unhappy tale about three very unlucky children. Even though they are charming and clever, the Baudelaire siblings lead lives filled with misery and woe. From the very first page of this book when the children are at the beach and receive terrible news, continuing on through the entire story, disaster lurks at their heels. One might say they are magnets for misfortune.In this short book alone, the three youngsters encounter a greedy and repulsive villain, itchy clothing, a disastrous fire, a plot to steal their fortune, and cold porridge for breakfast.It is my sad duty to write down these unpleasant tales, but there is nothing stopping you from putting this book down at once and reading something happy, if you prefer that sort of thing.With all due respect,Lemony Snicket"</synopsis>
                <title>The Bad Beginning</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Edmond Rostand, Eteel Lawson (Introduction), Lowell Bair (Translation)</author>
                <characters>Cyrano de Bergerac, Roxane, Christian de Neuvillette, Count de Guiche, Ragueneau, Le Bret</characters>
                <date>08/05/2003</date>
                <genres>Classics, Plays, Fiction, Drama, France, Romance, Theatre, School, Literature, Historical Fiction</genres>
                <id>1386</id>
                <synopsis>"This is Edmond Rostand's immortal play in which chivalry and wit, bravery and love are forever captured in the timeless spirit of romance. Set in Louis XIII's reign, it is the moving and exciting drama of one of the finest swordsmen in France, gallant soldier, brilliant wit, tragic poet-lover with the face of a clown. Rostand's extraordinary lyric powers gave birth to a universal hero-Cyrano De Bergerac-and ensured his own reputation as author of one of the best-loved plays in the literature of the stage.This translation, by the American poet Brian Hooker, is nearly as famous as the original play itself, and is generally considered to be one of the finest English verse translations ever written."</synopsis>
                <title>Cyrano de Bergerac</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Orson Scott Card</author>
                <characters>Andrew Wiggin</characters>
                <date>08/15/94</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Young Adult, Audiobook, Space, Aliens, Novels, Space Opera</genres>
                <id>1387</id>
                <synopsis>"Now available in mass market, the revised, definitive edition of the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning classic. In this second book in the saga set 3,000 years after the terrible war, Ender Wiggin is reviled by history as the Xenocide-the destroyer of the alien Buggers. Now, Ender tells the true story of the war and seeks to stop history from repeating itself. ...In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War.Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery...and the truth.Speaker for the Dead, the second novel in Orson Scott Card's Ender Quintet, is the winner of the 1986 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1987 Hugo Award for Best Novel."</synopsis>
                <title>Speaker for the Dead</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ellen Raskin</author>
                <characters>Samuel W. Westing, Turtle Wexler, Flora Baumbach, Christos Theodorakis, Denton Deere, J.J. Ford, Alexander McSouthers, Grace Wexler, James Hoo, Berthe Erica Crowe, Otis Amber, Douglas Hoo, Theo Theodorakis, Sydelle Pulaski, Angela Wexler, Sandy Hoo, Jake Wexler</characters>
                <date>04/12/2004</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Young Adult, Fiction, Middle Grade, Childrens, Classics, School, Mystery Thriller, Juvenile, Realistic Fiction</genres>
                <id>1388</id>
                <synopsis>"A bizarre chain of events begins when sixteen unlikely people gather for the reading of Samuel W. Westing's will. And though no one knows why the eccentric, game-loving millionaire has chosen a virtual stranger—and a possible murderer—to inherit his vast fortune, one thing's for sure: Sam Westing may be dead ... but that won't stop him from playing one last game!"</synopsis>
                <title>The Westing Game</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jhumpa Lahiri</author>
                <characters>Dev, Elliot, Miranda, Shobha, Lilia, Shukumar, Mr. Pirzada, Mr. Das, Mrs. Das, Mr. Kapasi, Boori Maa, Mrs. Dalal, Laxmi, Mrs. Sen, Sanjeev, Twinkle</characters>
                <date>05/22/00</date>
                <genres>Short Stories, Fiction, India, Contemporary, Literature, Literary Fiction, Indian Literature, Asia, Adult Fiction, Adult</genres>
                <id>1389</id>
                <synopsis>"Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereNavigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In ""A Temporary Matter,"" published in The New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple faces the heartbreak of a stillborn birth while their Boston neighborhood copes with a nightly blackout. In the title story, an interpreter guides an American family through the India of their ancestors and hears an astonishing confession. Lahiri writes with deft cultural insight reminiscent of Anita Desai and a nuanced depth that recalls Mavis Gallant."</synopsis>
                <title>Interpreter of Maladies</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Rick Riordan </author>
                <characters>Bast, Isis, Anubis, Osiris, Horus (God), Carter Kane, Sadie Kane, Zia Rashid, Thoth, Khufu, Sekhmet, Julius Kane, Geb, Nut, Set, Nephthys, Serket, Sobek (Death Comes as the End), Shu, Nekhbet, Apophis, Philip II of Macedon (The albino crocodile)</characters>
                <date>05/04/2010</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Mythology, Middle Grade, Adventure, Fiction, Childrens, Magic, Urban Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1390</id>
                <synopsis>"Since his mother's death six years ago, Carter Kane has been living out of a suitcase, traveling the globe with his father, the brilliant Egyptologist, Dr. Julius Kane. But while Carter's been homeschooled, his younger sister, Sadie, has been living with their grandparents in London. Sadie has just what Carter wants—school friends and a chance at a ""normal"" life. But Carter has just what Sadie longs for—time with their father. After six years of living apart, the siblings have almost nothing in common. Until now.On Christmas Eve, Sadie and Carter are reunited when their father brings them to the British Museum, with a promise that he's going to ""make things right."" But all does not go according to plan: Carter and Sadie watch as Julius summons a mysterious figure, who quickly banishes their father and causes a fiery explosion.Soon Carter and Sadie discover that the gods of Ancient Egypt are waking, and the worst of them—Set—has a frightening scheme. To save their father, they must embark on a dangerous journey—a quest that brings them ever closer to the truth about their family and its links to the House of Life, a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs."</synopsis>
                <title>The Red Pyramid</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Donna Tartt</author>
                <characters>Boris Pavlikovsky (The Goldfinch), Theo Decker, Pippa, Hobie</characters>
                <date>10/22/13</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Audiobook, Art, Adult, Novels, Adult Fiction, Mystery, Literature</genres>
                <id>1391</id>
                <synopsis>"It begins with a boy. Theo Decker, a thirteen-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his unbearable longing for his mother, he clings to one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art.As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love-and at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.The Goldfinch combines vivid characters, mesmerizing language, and suspense, while plumbing with a philosopher's calm the deepest mysteries of love, identity, and art. It is an old-fashioned story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention, and the ruthless machinations of fate."</synopsis>
                <title>The Goldfinch</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>William Shakespeare, Roma Gill</author>
                <characters>Gaius Cassius Longinus, Brutus, Calpurnia (wife of Caesar), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, Marcus Antonius, Augustus, Julius Caesar, Portia Catonis, Marcus Tullius Cicero</characters>
                <date>10/17/02</date>
                <genres>Classics, Plays, Fiction, Drama, School, Historical Fiction, Literature, Read For School, Theatre, High School</genres>
                <id>1392</id>
                <synopsis>"The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the greatest playwright in the English language. This exclusive collection of the Bard's best works has been designed specifically for readers new to Shakespeare's rich literary legacy. Each play is presented complete and unabridged, in large print. Every book is well illustrated, and starts with a commentary and character summary. Scene synopses and character summaries clarify confusing plots, while incisive essays explore the historical context and Shakespeare's sources. Each book ends with a complete list of Shakespeare's plays and a brief chronology of the Bard's life. The detailed explanatory notes are written clearly and positioned right next to the text-no more squinting at microscopic footnotes or flipping pages back and forth in search of endnotes! The new edition of the series features new covers and new illustrations, including both new drawings and photos from recent productions of Shakespeare's plays around the globe. In addition, the notes and the introductory material have been completely revised in line with new research and in order to make them clearer and more accessible. Finally, the entire text has been redesigned and reset to enhance readability. The new edition achieves the feat of unprecedented clarity of presentation without any cuts to the original text or the detailed explanations."</synopsis>
                <title>Julius Caesar</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>L.M. Montgomery</author>
                <characters>Marilla Cuthbert, Diana Barry, Gilbert Blythe, Rachel Lynde, Anne Shirley, Davy Keith, Dora Keith, Paul Irving, Stephen Irving, Lavender Lewis, J. A. Harrison, Jane Andrews, Charlotta the Fourth, Anthony Pye</characters>
                <date>10/06/1997</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Childrens, Historical, Romance, Canada, Audiobook, Middle Grade</genres>
                <id>1393</id>
                <synopsis>"At sixteen, Anne is grown up...almost. Her gray eyes shine like evening stars, but her red hair is still as peppery as her temper. In the years since she arrived at Green Gables as a freckle-faced orphan, she has earned the love of the people of Avonlea and a reputation for getting into scrapes. But when Anne begins her job as the new schoolteacher, the real test of her character begins. Along with teaching the three Rs, she is learning how complicated life can be when she meddles in someone else's romance, finds two new orphans at Green Gables, and wonders about the strange behaviour of the very handsome Gilbert Blythe. As Anne enters womanhood, her adventures touch the heart and the funny bone."</synopsis>
                <title>Anne of Avonlea</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>W. Bruce Cameron </author>
                <characters>Ethan, Bailey, Heather</characters>
                <date>07/28/10</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Animals, Dogs, Contemporary, Adult, Fantasy, Audiobook, Adult Fiction, Humor, Young Adult</genres>
                <id>1394</id>
                <synopsis>"This is the remarkable story of one endearing dog's search for his purpose over the course of several lives. More than just another charming dog story, this touches on the universal quest for an answer to life's most basic question: Why are we here? Surprised to find himself reborn as a rambunctious golden haired puppy after a tragically short life as a stray mutt, Bailey's search for his new life's meaning leads him into the loving arms of 8 year old Ethan. During their countless adventures Bailey joyously discovers how to be a good dog. But this life as a beloved family pet is not the end of Bailey's journey. Reborn as a puppy yet again, Bailey wonders, will he ever find his purpose? Heartwarming, insightful, and often laugh out loud funny, this book is not only the emotional and hilarious story of a dog's many lives, but also a dog's eye commentary on human relationships and the unbreakable bonds between man and man's best friend. This story teaches us that love never dies, that our true friends are always with us, and that every creature on earth is born with a purpose.-front flap"</synopsis>
                <title>A Dog's Purpose</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Leif Enger</author>
                <characters>Rube Land, Swede Land, Davy Land, Jeremiah Land</characters>
                <date>08/07/2002</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Historical Fiction, Book Club, Adult Fiction, Adult, Literary Fiction, Novels, Contemporary, Coming Of Age, Family</genres>
                <id>1395</id>
                <synopsis>"Once in a great while, we encounter a novel in our voluminous reading that begs to be read aloud. Leif Enger's debut, Peace Like a River, is one such work. His richly evocative novel, narrated by an asthmatic 11-year-old named Reuben Land, is the story of Reuben's unusual family and their journey across the frozen Badlands of the Dakotas in search of his fugitive older brother. Charged with the murder of two locals who terrorized their family, Davy has fled, understanding that the scales of justice will not weigh in his favor. But Reuben, his father, Jeremiah—a man of faith so deep he has been known to produce miracles—and Reuben's little sister, Swede, follow closely behind the fleeing Davy.Affecting and dynamic, Peace Like a River is at once a tragedy, a romance, and an unflagging exploration into the spirituality and magic possible in the everyday world, and in that of the world awaiting us on the other side of life. In Enger's superb debut effort, we witness a wondrous celebration of family, faith, and spirit, the likes of which we haven't seen in a long, long time—and the birth of a classic work of literature."</synopsis>
                <title>Peace Like a River</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Lionel Shriver </author>
                <characters>Eva Khatchadourian, Kevin Khatchadourian, Franklin Plaskett, Celia Khatchadourian</characters>
                <date>07/03/2006</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Contemporary, Thriller, Horror, Crime, Drama, Adult, Literary Fiction, Psychology, Book Club</genres>
                <id>1396</id>
                <synopsis>" The gripping international bestseller about motherhood gone awry.Eva never really wanted to be a mother - and certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher who tried to befriend him, all two days before his sixteenth birthday. Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with marriage, career, family, parenthood, and Kevin's horrific rampage in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her estranged husband, Franklin. Uneasy with the sacrifices and social demotion of motherhood from the start, Eva fears that her alarming dislike for her own son may be responsible for driving him so nihilistically off the rails. "</synopsis>
                <title>We Need to Talk About Kevin</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Patrick Ness</author>
                <characters>""Conor O''Malley""</characters>
                <date>05/07/2015</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Horror, Contemporary, Middle Grade, Magical Realism, Childrens, Death, Paranormal</genres>
                <id>1397</id>
                <synopsis>"The bestselling novel about love, loss and hope from the twice Carnegie Medal-winning Patrick Ness. Conor has the same dream every night, ever since his mother first fell ill, ever since she started the treatments that don't quite seem to be working. But tonight is different. Tonight, when he wakes, there's a visitor at his window. It's ancient, elemental, a force of nature. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor. It wants the truth. Patrick Ness takes the final idea of the late, award-winning writer Siobhan Dowd and weaves an extraordinary and heartbreaking tale of mischief, healing and above all, the courage it takes to survive."</synopsis>
                <title>A Monster Calls</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Iain Banks</author>
                <characters>Frank Cauldhame, Eric Cauldhame, Angus Cauldhame, Mrs Clamp, Diggs</characters>
                <date>10/28/98</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Horror, Thriller, Mystery, Contemporary, Dark, Drama, Suspense, Novels, Classics</genres>
                <id>1398</id>
                <synopsis>"Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his father outside a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least, unconventional. Frank's mother abandoned them years ago: his elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital; and his father measures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale. Frank has turned to strange acts of violence to vent his frustrations. In the bizarre daily rituals there is some solace. But when news comes of Eric's escape from the hospital Frank has to prepare the ground for his brother's inevitable return - an event that explodes the mysteries of the past and changes Frank utterly.The Wasp Factory is a work of horrifying compulsion: horrifying, because it enters a mind whose realities are not our own, whose values of life and death are alien to our society; compulsive, because the humour and compassion of that mind reach out to us all. A novel of extraordinary originality, imagination and comic ferocity."</synopsis>
                <title>The Wasp Factory</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Maria V. Snyder </author>
                <characters>Valek, Maren, Commander Ambrose, Janco, Yelena Zaltana, Ari, Rand, General Brazell</characters>
                <date>03/01/2007</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Magic, Fiction, Paranormal, High Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy, Adventure, New Adult</genres>
                <id>1399</id>
                <synopsis>"Choose: A quick death… or slow poison...About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. She'll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace—and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia.And so Yelena chooses to become a food taster. But the chief of security, leaving nothing to chance, deliberately feeds her Butterfly's Dust—and only by appearing for her daily antidote will she delay an agonizing death from the poison.As Yelena tries to escape her new dilemma, disasters keep mounting. Rebels plot to seize Ixia and Yelena develops magical powers she can't control. Her life is threatened again and choices must be made. But this time the outcomes aren't so clear..."</synopsis>
                <title>Poison Study</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>J.R.R. Tolkien, Peter S. Beagle  (Introduction)</author>
                <characters>Frodo Baggins, Meriadoc Brandybuck, Peregrin Took, Gandalf, Aragorn, Gimli, Boromir, Bilbo Baggins, Eriol, Rúmil, Treebeard, Saruman, Éowyn, Éomer, Elrond Half-elven, Arwen Undómiel, Galadriel, Faramir, Gollum, Legolas, Sam Gamgee</characters>
                <date>09/05/2003</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Classics, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Novels, Literature, Magic</genres>
                <id>1400</id>
                <synopsis>"The Fellowship was scattered. Some were bracing hopelessly for war against the ancient evil of Sauron. Some were contending with the treachery of the wizard Saruman. Only Frodo and Sam were left to take the accursed Ring of Power to be destroyed in Mordor–the dark Kingdom where Sauron was supreme. Their guide was Gollum, deceitful and lust-filled, slave to the corruption of the Ring. Thus continues the magnificent, bestselling tale of adventure begun in The Fellowship of the Ring, which reaches its soul-stirring climax in The Return of the King."</synopsis>
                <title>The Two Towers</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, H.T. Willetts (Translation)</author>
                <characters>Ivan Denisovich Shukhov</characters>
                <date>03/16/05</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Russia, Historical Fiction, Russian Literature, Literature, Novels, Historical, 20th Century, School</genres>
                <id>1401</id>
                <synopsis>"The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literature. The story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, it graphically describes his struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. An unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin's forced work camps, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is one of the most extraordinary literary documents to have emerged from the Soviet Union and confirms Solzhenitsyn's stature as ""a literary genius whose talent matches that of Dosotevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy""-Harrison SalisburyThis unexpurgated 1991 translation by H. T. Willetts is the only authorized edition available, and fully captures the power and beauty of the original Russian."</synopsis>
                <title>One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Anne Rice</author>
                <characters>Lestat de Lioncourt, Gabrielle de Lioncourt, Maharet, Akasha, Enkil, Mael, Khayman, Jesse Miriam Reeves, Marius de Romanus, Daniel Molloy, Louis de Pointe du Lac, Armand</characters>
                <date>11/29/97</date>
                <genres>Horror, Fantasy, Vampires, Fiction, Paranormal, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy, Gothic, Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1402</id>
                <synopsis>"Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereIn 1976, a uniquely seductive world of vampires was unveiled in the now-classic Interview with the Vampire . . . in 1985, a wild and voluptous voice spoke to us, telling the story of The Vampire Lestat.  In The Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice continues her extraordinary ""Vampire Chronicles"" in a feat of mesmeric storytelling, a chillingly hypnotic entertainment in which the oldest and most powerful forces of the night are unleashed on an unsuspecting world.Three brilliantly colored narrative threads intertwine as the story unfolds:- The rock star known as Vampire Lestat, worshipped by millions of spellbound fans, prepares for a concert in San Francisco.  Among the audience-pilgrims in a blind swoon of adoration-are hundreds of vampires, creatures who see Lestat as a ""greedy fiend risking the secret prosperity of all his kind just to be loved and seen by mortals,"" fiends themselves who hate Lestat's power and who are determined to destroy him . . . - The sleep of certain men and women-vampires and mortals scattered around the world-is haunted by a vivid, mysterious dream: of twins with fiery red hair and piercing green eyes who suffer an unspeakable tragedy.  It is a dream that slowly, tauntingly reveals its meaning to the dreamers as they make their way toward each other-some to be destroyed on the journey, some to face an even more terrifying fate at journey's end . . . - Akasha-Queen of the Damned, mother of all vampires, rises after a 6,000 year sleep and puts into motion a heinous plan to ""save"" mankind from itself and make ""all myths of the world real"" by elevating herself and her chosen son/lover to the level of the gods: ""I am the fulfillment and I shall from this moment be the cause"" . . . These narrative threads wind sinuously across a vast, richly detailed tapestry of the violent, sensual world of vampirism, taking us back 6,000 years to its beginnings.  As the stories of the ""first brood"" of blood drinkers are revealed, we are swept across the ages, from Egypt to South America to the Himalayas to all the shrouded corners of the globe where vampires have left their mark. Vampires are created-mortals succumbing to the sensation of ""being enptied, of being devoured, of being nothing."" Vampires are destroyed.  Dark rituals are performed-the rituals of ancient creatures prowling the modern world.  And, finally, we are brought to a moment in the twentieth century when, in an astonishing climax, the fate of the living dead-and perhaps of the living, all the living-will be decided.From the Hardcover edition."</synopsis>
                <title>The Queen of the Damned</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins</author>
                <characters>The Anti-Christ, Nicolae Carpathia, Rayford Steele, Cameron ""Buck"" Williams, Bruce Barnes</characters>
                <date>09/01/2000</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Christian, Christian Fiction, Religion, Fantasy, Thriller, Christianity, Science Fiction, Apocalyptic, Spirituality</genres>
                <id>1403</id>
                <synopsis>"An airborne Boeing 747 is headed to London when, without any warning, passengers mysteriously disappear from their seats. Terror and chaos slowly spread not only through the plane but also worldwide as unusual events continue to unfold. For those who have been left behind, the apocalypse has just begun..."</synopsis>
                <title>Left Behind</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jasper Fforde </author>
                <characters>Thursday Next, Jane Eyre, Acheron Hades, Jack Schitt, Landen Parke-Laine, Pickwick, Emma, Lady Hamilton, ""Thursday''s Dad (name unknown)"", Braxton Hicks, Mrs. Nakajima, Joffy Next, Polly Next, Wednesday Next, Spike Stoker, Mycroft Next, Edward Rochester</characters>
                <date>02/25/03</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Humor, Science Fiction, Books About Books, Time Travel, Alternate History, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adult</genres>
                <id>1404</id>
                <synopsis>"Great Britain circa 1985: time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. Baconians are trying to convince the world that Francis Bacon really wrote Shakespeare, there are riots between the Surrealists and Impressionists, and thousands of men are named John Milton, an homage to the real Milton and a very confusing situation for the police. Amidst all this, Acheron Hades, Third Most Wanted Man In the World, steals the original manuscript of Martin Chuzzlewit and kills a minor character, who then disappears from every volume of the novel ever printed! But that's just a prelude . . .Hades' real target is the beloved Jane Eyre, and it's not long before he plucks her from the pages of Bronte's novel. Enter Thursday Next. She's the Special Operative's renowned literary detective, and she drives a Porsche. With the help of her uncle Mycroft's Prose Portal, Thursday enters the novel to rescue Jane Eyre from this heinous act of literary homicide. It's tricky business, all these interlopers running about Thornfield, and deceptions run rampant as their paths cross with Jane, Rochester, and Miss Fairfax. Can Thursday save Jane Eyre and Bronte's masterpiece? And what of the Crimean War? Will it ever end? And what about those annoying black holes that pop up now and again, sucking things into time-space voids . . .Suspenseful and outlandish, absorbing and fun, The Eyre Affair is a caper unlike any other and an introduction to the imagination of a most distinctive writer and his singular fictional universe."</synopsis>
                <title>The Eyre Affair</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Christopher Paolini </author>
                <characters>Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle), Saphira (The Inheritance Cycle), Glaedr (The Inheritance Cycle), Roran Garrowsson, Sloan (The Inheritance Cycle), Katrina (The Inheritance Cycle), Elva (The Inheritance Cycle), Arya (The Inheritance Cycle), Orik (The Inheritance Cycle), Murtagh (The Inheritance Cycle), Solembum, Nasuada, Galbatorix, Blödhgarm, King Orrin, Angela the Herbalist</characters>
                <date>11/08/2011</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Dragons, Fiction, Magic, Adventure, High Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1405</id>
                <synopsis>"It began with Eragon... It ends with Inheritance.Not so very long ago, Eragon — Shadeslayer, Dragon Rider — was nothing more than a poor farm boy, and his dragon, Saphira, only a blue stone in the forest. Now the fate of an entire civilization rests on their shoulders.Long months of training and battle have brought victories and hope, but they have also brought heartbreaking loss. And still, the real battle lies ahead: they must confront Galbatorix. When they do, they will have to be strong enough to defeat him. And if they cannot, no one can. There will be no second chance.The Rider and his dragon have come further than anyone dared to hope. But can they topple the evil king and restore justice to Alagaësia? And if so, at what cost?This is the spellbinding conclusion to Christopher Paolini's worldwide bestselling Inheritance cycle."</synopsis>
                <title>Inheritance</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Lauren Oliver </author>
                <characters>Kent McFuller, Ally Harris, Samantha Kingston, Lindsay Edgecombe, Elody, Juliet Sykes, Izzy Kingston, Rob Cokran</characters>
                <date>10/25/10</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Realistic Fiction, Teen, Paranormal, Death, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1406</id>
                <synopsis>"For popular high school senior Samantha Kingston, February 12—""Cupid Day""—should be one big party, a day of valentines and roses and the privileges that come with being at the top of the social pyramid. And it is … until she dies in a terrible accident that night.However, she still wakes up the next morning. In fact, Sam lives the last day of her life seven times, until she realizes that by making even the slightest changes, she may hold more power than she ever imagined.Before I Fall is now a major motion picture Zoey Deutch, Halston Sage, and Kian Lawley. Named to numerous state reading lists, the novel was also recognized as a Best Book of the Year by Amazon.com, Barnes &amp; Noble, The Daily Beast, NPR, and Publishers Weekly."</synopsis>
                <title>Before I Fall</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Stephen King , Peter Straub </author>
                <characters>Jack Sawyer</characters>
                <date>09/15/01</date>
                <genres>Horror, Fantasy, Fiction, Thriller, Adventure, Mystery, Supernatural, Audiobook, Paranormal, Science Fiction</genres>
                <id>1407</id>
                <synopsis>"On a brisk autumn day, a twelve-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: his father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is about to change. For he has been chosen to make a journey back across America-and into another realm.One of the most influential and heralded works of fantasy ever written, The Talisman is an extraordinary novel of loyalty, awakening, terror, and mystery. Jack Sawyer, on a desperate quest to save his mother's life, must search for a prize across an epic landscape of innocents and monsters, of incredible dangers and even more incredible truths. The prize is essential, but the journey means even more. Let the quest begin. . . ."</synopsis>
                <title>The Talisman</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Gayle Forman </author>
                <characters>Teddy Hall, Kim Schein, Adam Wilde, Mia Hall</characters>
                <date>04/05/2011</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Music, New Adult, Teen, Audiobook, Young Adult Contemporary</genres>
                <id>1408</id>
                <synopsis>"It's been three years since the devastating accident... three years since Mia walked out of Adam's life forever.Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Juilliard's rising star and Adam is LA tabloid fodder, thanks to his new rock star status and celebrity girlfriend. When Adam gets stuck in New York by himself, chance brings the couple together again, for one last night. As they explore the city that has become Mia's home, Adam and Mia revisit the past and open their hearts to the future - and each other.Told from Adam's point of view in the spare, lyrical prose that defined If I Stay, Where She Went explores the devastation of grief, the promise of new hope, and the flame of rekindled romance."</synopsis>
                <title>Where She Went</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>C.S. Lewis</author>
                <characters>Aslan, Lucy Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie, Prince Caspian, Trumpkin, Peter Pevensie, Susan Pevensie, Reepicheep, Bacchus (god), Silenus, Nikabrik, King Miraz, Dr. Cornelius, Trufflehunter</characters>
                <date>06/20/05</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Classics, Young Adult, Childrens, Adventure, Christian, Middle Grade, Christian Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1409</id>
                <synopsis>"The four Pevensies help Caspian battle Miraz and ascend his rightful throneNARNIA... the land between the lamp-post and the castle of Cair Paravel, where animals talk, where magical things happen... and where the adventure begins.Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy are returning to boarding school when they are summoned from the dreary train station (by Susan's own magic horn) to return to the land of Narnia—the land where they had ruled as kings and queens and where their help is desperately needed."</synopsis>
                <title>Prince Caspian</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kim Edwards </author>
                <characters>Phoebe, Al, Dr. David Henry, Norah Henry, Bree, Paul Henry</characters>
                <date>05/30/06</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Adult, Historical Fiction, Book Club, Drama, Chick Lit, Novels, Family</genres>
                <id>1410</id>
                <synopsis>"On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Down's Syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split-second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret. But Caroline, the nurse, cannot leave the infant. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child herself. So begins this story that unfolds over a quarter of a century - in which these two families, ignorant of each other, are yet bound by the fateful decision made that long-ago winter night. Norah Henry, who knows only that her daughter died at birth, remains inconsolable; her grief weighs heavily on their marriage. And Paul, their son, raises himself as best he can, in a house grown cold with mourning. Meanwhile, Phoebe, the lost daughter, grows from a sunny child to a vibrant young woman whose mother loves her as fiercely as if she were her own."</synopsis>
                <title>The Memory Keeper's Daughter</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Patrick Ness</author>
                <characters>Ben, Aaron, Hildy, Todd Hewitt, Viola Eade, Mayor Prentiss, Cillian, Manchee (Dog), Davy Prentiss, Jr.</characters>
                <date>07/22/14</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Adventure, Teen, Audiobook, Thriller, Post Apocalyptic</genres>
                <id>1411</id>
                <synopsis>"Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men think, and they hear everything he thinks. Todd is just a month away from becoming a man, but in the midst of the cacophony, he knows that the town is hiding something from him - something so awful Todd is forced to flee with only his dog, whose simple, loyal voice he hears too. With hostile men from the town in pursuit, the two stumble upon a strange and eerily silent creature: a girl. Who is she? Why wasn't she killed by the germ like all the females on New World? Propelled by Todd's gritty narration, readers are in for a white-knuckle journey in which a boy on the cusp of manhood must unlearn everything he knows in order to figure out who he truly is."</synopsis>
                <title>The Knife of Never Letting Go</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Karen Marie Moning </author>
                <characters>MacKayla Lane, Rowena, ""Dani O''Malley"", Jericho Barrons, ""V''lane"", Christian MacKeltar, Inspector Jayne, Ryodan, Queen Aoibheal, Darroc, Cruce, Lor</characters>
                <date>01/18/11</date>
                <genres>Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Paranormal Romance, Fae, Adult, Fiction, Magic, Supernatural</genres>
                <id>1412</id>
                <synopsis>"“Evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it’s good.” — MacKayla Lane was just a child when she and her sister, Alina, were given up for adoption and banished from Ireland forever. — Twenty years later, Alina is dead and Mac has returned to the country that expelled them to hunt her sister’s murderer. But after discovering that she descends from a bloodline both gifted and cursed, Mac is plunged into a secret history: an ancient conflict between humans and immortals who have lived concealed among us for thousands of years.What follows is a shocking chain of events with devastating consequences, and now Mac struggles to cope with grief while continuing her mission to acquire and control the Sinsar Dubh - a book of dark, forbidden magic scribed by the mythical Unseelie King, containing the power to create and destroy worlds.In an epic battle between humans and Fae, the hunter becomes the hunted when the Sinsar Dubh turns on Mac and begins mowing a deadly path through those she loves.Who can she turn to? Who can she trust? Who is the woman haunting her dreams? More important, who is Mac herself and what is the destiny she glimpses in the black and crimson designs of an ancient tarot card?From the luxury of the Lord Master’s penthouse to the sordid depths of an Unseelie nightclub, from the erotic bed of her lover to the terrifying bed of the Unseelie King, Mac’s journey will force her to face the truth of her exile, and to make a choice that will either save the world . . . or destroy it."</synopsis>
                <title>Shadowfever</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Michael Grant </author>
                <characters>Sam Temple, Astrid Ellison, Caine Soren, Diana Ladris, Drake Merwin, Quinn Gaither, Lana Lazar, Little Pete</characters>
                <date>06/24/08</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Paranormal, Romance, Adventure, Supernatural, Teen</genres>
                <id>1413</id>
                <synopsis>"In the blink of an eye, everyone disappears. Gone. Except for the young.There are teens, but not one single adult. Just as suddenly, there are no phones, no internet, no television. No way to get help. And no way to figure out what's happened.Hunger threatens. Bullies rule. A sinister creature lurks. Animals are mutating. And the teens themselves are changing, developing new talents—unimaginable, dangerous, deadly powers—that grow stronger by the day. It's a terrifying new world. Sides are being chosen, a fight is shaping up. Townies against rich kids. Bullies against the weak. Powerful against powerless. And time is running out: On your 15th birthday, you disappear just like everyone else..."</synopsis>
                <title>Gone</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Richard Wright</author>
                <characters>Bigger Thomas, Mary Dalton, Mrs. Dalton, Henry Dalton, Jan Erlone, Boris Max, Mrs. Thomas, Buddy Thomas, Vera Thomas</characters>
                <date>08/02/2005</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, African American, Literature, Race, Novels, School, American, Banned Books</genres>
                <id>1414</id>
                <synopsis>"Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic.Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America."</synopsis>
                <title>Native Son</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Michael Shaara</author>
                <characters>Robert E. Lee, George Pickett, James Longstreet, Joshua Chamberlain</characters>
                <date>08/12/1987</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Civil War, War, Historical, Military Fiction, Classics, American History, American Civil War, School</genres>
                <id>1415</id>
                <synopsis>"In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation's history, two armies fought for two dreams. One dreamed of freedom, the other of a way of life. Far more than rifles and bullets were carried into battle. There were memories. There were promises. There was love. And far more than men fell on those Pennsylvania fields. Shattered futures, forgotten innocence, and crippled beauty were also the casualties of war. The Killer Angels is unique, sweeping, unforgettable—a dramatic re-creation of the battleground for America's destiny."</synopsis>
                <title>The Killer Angels</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Umberto Eco, William Weaver (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Jacopo Belbo, Diotallevi, Casaubon, Signor Casaubon, Belbo, Dr. Diotallevi, Aglie, Sergei Witte, Elie de Cyon, Mary Lena, Hugues de Champagne, Artois, Gabriel Naudé, de Maistre, Theo Fox, Dufy, Abbé Barruel, Monsieur Rodin, Philippe Nizier Anselme Vachot, Péladan, Justine Glinka, Leo Fox</characters>
                <date>03/05/2007</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Mystery, Historical Fiction, Literature, Classics, Italian Literature, Thriller, Novels, Italy, Philosophy</genres>
                <id>1416</id>
                <synopsis>"Foucault's Pendulum is divided into ten segments represented by the ten Sefiroth. The novel is full of esoteric references to the Kabbalah. The title of the book refers to an actual pendulum designed by the French physicist Léon Foucault to demonstrate the rotation of the earth, which has symbolic significance within the novel.Bored with their work, and after reading too many manuscripts about occult conspiracy theories, three vanity publisher employees (Belbo, Diotallevi and Casaubon) invent their own conspiracy for fun. They call this satirical intellectual game ""The Plan,"" a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlled—a point located in Paris, France, at Foucault’s Pendulum. But in a fateful turn the joke becomes all too real.The three become increasingly obsessed with The Plan, and sometimes forget that it's just a game. Worse still, other conspiracy theorists learn about The Plan, and take it seriously. Belbo finds himself the target of a real secret society that believes he possesses the key to the lost treasure of the Knights Templar.Orchestrating these and other diverse characters into his multilayered semioticadventure, Eco has created a superb cerebral entertainment."</synopsis>
                <title>Foucault's Pendulum</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>James Dashner </author>
                <characters>Brenda (Maze Runner), Teresa Agnes, Minho, Thomas, Newt, Aris Jones, Jorge</characters>
                <date>10/12/2010</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Post Apocalyptic, Teen, Audiobook, Mystery</genres>
                <id>1417</id>
                <synopsis>Solving the Maze was supposed to be the end.    Thomas was sure that escape from the Maze would mean freedom for him and the Gladers. But WICKED isn’t done yet. Phase Two has just begun. The Scorch.   There are no rules. There is no help. You either make it or you die.   The Gladers have two weeks to cross through the Scorch—the most burned-out section of the world. And WICKED has made sure to adjust the variables and stack the odds against them.   Friendships will be tested. Loyalties will be broken. All bets are off.    There are others now. Their survival depends on the Gladers’ destruction—and they’re determined to survive.</synopsis>
                <title>The Scorch Trials</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Karen Marie Moning </author>
                <characters>MacKayla Lane, Rowena, Jericho Barrons, ""V''lane"", Lord Master, Malluce</characters>
                <date>10/31/06</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Paranormal Romance, Fae, Adult, Fiction, Supernatural, Vampires</genres>
                <id>1418</id>
                <synopsis>"""My name is MacKayla, Mac for short. I'm a sidhe-seer, one who sees the Fae, a fact I accepted only recently and very reluctantly.My philosophy is pretty simple - any day nobody's trying to kill me is a good day in my book. I haven't had many good days lately. Not since the walls between Man and Fae came down. But then, there's not a sidhe-seer alive who's had a good day since then.""When MacKayla's sister was murdered, she left a single clue to her death, a cryptic message on Mac's cell phone. Journeying to Ireland in search of answers, Mac is soon faced with an even greater challenge: staying alive long enough to master a power she had no idea she possessed - a gift that allows her to see beyond the world of man, into the dangerous realm of the Fae.As Mac delves deeper into the mystery of her sister's death, her every move is shadowed by the dark, mysterious Jericho...while at the same time, the ruthless V'lane - an alpha Fae who makes sex an addiction for human women - closes in on her. As the boundary between worlds begins to crumble, Mac's true mission becomes clear: to find the elusive Sinsar Dubh before someone else claims the all-powerful Dark Book - because whoever gets to it first holds nothing less than complete control both worlds in their hands."</synopsis>
                <title>Darkfever</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Nicole Krauss</author>
                <characters>Alma Singer, Leo Gursky, Zvi Litvinoff</characters>
                <date>05/17/06</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Novels, Literary Fiction, Book Club, Adult Fiction, Adult, Love</genres>
                <id>1419</id>
                <synopsis>"An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found hereFourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother's loneliness. Believing she might discover it in an old book her mother is lovingly translating, she sets out in search of its author. Across New York an old man called Leo Gursky is trying to survive a little bit longer. He spends his days dreaming of the lost love who, sixty years ago in Poland, inspired him to write a book. And although he doesn't know it yet, that book also survived: crossing oceans and generations, and changing lives..."</synopsis>
                <title>The History of Love</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Scott Westerfeld </author>
                <characters>David Strorm, Tally Youngblood, Shay, Dr. Cable, Andrew Simpson Smith, Peris, Zane (Uglies)</characters>
                <date>11/01/2005</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, Teen, Adventure, Post Apocalyptic, Science Fiction Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1420</id>
                <synopsis>"Gorgeous. Popular. Perfect.Perfectly wrong.Tally has finally become pretty. Now her looks are beyond perfect, her clothes are awesome, her boyfriend is totally hot, and she's completely popular. It's everything she's ever wanted.But beneath all the fun - the nonstop parties, the high-tech luxury, the total freedom - is a nagging sense that something's wrong. Something important. Then a message from Tally's ugly past arrives. Reading it, Tally remembers what's wrong with pretty life, and the fun stops cold.Now she has to choose between fighting to forget what she knows and fighting for her life - because the authorities don't intend to let anyone with this information survive."</synopsis>
                <title>Pretties</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Robert Ludlum</author>
                <characters>Jason Bourne, Marie St. Jacques</characters>
                <date>03/24/05</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Espionage, Adventure, Action, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Novels</genres>
                <id>1421</id>
                <synopsis>"Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereWho is Jason Bourne? Is he an assassin, a terrorist, a thief? Why has he got four million dollars in a Swiss bank account? Why has someone tried to murder him?...Jason Bourne does not know the answer to any of these questions. Suffering from amnesia, he does not even know that he is Jason Bourne. What manner of man is he? What are his secrets? Who has he killed?"</synopsis>
                <title>The Bourne Identity</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Brandon Sanderson </author>
                <characters>Kaladin Stormblessed, Dalinar Kholin, Shallan Davar, Jasnah Kholin, Eshonai, Adolin Kholin, Hoid, Lift</characters>
                <date>03/04/2014</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Audiobook, Magic, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic, Adult, Adventure</genres>
                <id>1422</id>
                <synopsis>"Words of Radiance, Book Two of the Stormlight Archive, continues the immersive fantasy epic that The Way of Kings began.Expected by his enemies to die the miserable death of a military slave, Kaladin survived to be given command of the royal bodyguards, a controversial first for a low-status ""darkeyes."" Now he must protect the king and Dalinar from every common peril as well as the distinctly uncommon threat of the Assassin, all while secretly struggling to master remarkable new powers that are somehow linked to his honorspren, Syl.The Assassin, Szeth, is active again, murdering rulers all over the world of Roshar, using his baffling powers to thwart every bodyguard and elude all pursuers. Among his prime targets is Highprince Dalinar, widely considered the power behind the Alethi throne. His leading role in the war would seem reason enough, but the Assassin's master has much deeper motives.Brilliant but troubled Shallan strives along a parallel path. Despite being broken in ways she refuses to acknowledge, she bears a terrible burden: to somehow prevent the return of the legendary Voidbringers and the civilization-ending Desolation that will follow. The secrets she needs can be found at the Shattered Plains, but just arriving there proves more difficult than she could have imagined.Meanwhile, at the heart of the Shattered Plains, the Parshendi are making an epochal decision. Hard pressed by years of Alethi attacks, their numbers ever shrinking, they are convinced by their war leader, Eshonai, to risk everything on a desperate gamble with the very supernatural forces they once fled. The possible consequences for Parshendi and humans alike, indeed, for Roshar itself, are as dangerous as they are incalculable."</synopsis>
                <title>Words of Radiance</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>A.S. Byatt</author>
                <characters>Maud Bailey, Roland Michell, Christabel LaMotte, Randolph Henry Ash, Leonora Stern, Mortimer Cropper, James Blackadder, Beatrice Nest, Val, Euan MacIntyre, Ellen Ash, Blanche Glover, Sabine de Kerkoz</characters>
                <date>10/01/1991</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance, Classics, Mystery, Historical, Literary Fiction, Literature, British Literature, Poetry</genres>
                <id>1423</id>
                <synopsis>"Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets. As they uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire—from spiritualist séances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany—what emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of passions and ideas.Man Booker Prize Winner (1990)"</synopsis>
                <title>Possession</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Thomas Pynchon</author>
                <characters>Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop, Pig Bodine</characters>
                <date>10/31/06</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Science Fiction, Literature, Historical Fiction, Novels, American, War, Unfinished, 20th Century</genres>
                <id>1424</id>
                <synopsis>"Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the 20th century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative, and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force."</synopsis>
                <title>Gravity's Rainbow</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Richard Matheson</author>
                <characters>Robert Neville</characters>
                <date>09/15/97</date>
                <genres>Horror, Fiction, Science Fiction, Vampires, Short Stories, Fantasy, Post Apocalyptic, Classics, Dystopia, Zombies</genres>
                <id>1425</id>
                <synopsis>"Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth...but he is not alone. Every other man, woman, and child on Earth has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood.By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn.How long can one man survive in a world of vampires?I am legend -Buried talents -The near departed -Prey -Witch war -Dance of the dead -Dress of white silk -Mad house -The funeral -From shadowed places -Person to person."</synopsis>
                <title>I Am Legend and Other Stories</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Sophocles, J.E. Thomas (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Oedipus, Tiresias, Creon, Jocasta (Greek Mythology), Sphinx (Greek mythology)</characters>
                <date>06/22/06</date>
                <genres>Classics, Plays, Fiction, Drama, School, Mythology, Read For School, Theatre, Literature, High School</genres>
                <id>1426</id>
                <synopsis>"""...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?""Sophocles' Oedipus Rex has never been surpassed for the raw and terrible power with which its hero struggles to answer the eternal question, ""Who am I?"" The play, a story of a king who acting entirely in ignorance kills his father and marries his mother, unfolds with shattering power; we are helplessly carried along with Oedipus towards the final, horrific truth. To make Oedipus more accessible for the modern reader, our Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Classics includes a glossary of the more difficult words, as well as convenient sidebar notes to enlighten the reader on aspects that may be confusing or overlooked. We hope that the reader may, through this edition, more fully enjoy the beauty of the verse, the wisdom of the insights, and the impact of the drama."</synopsis>
                <title>Oedipus Rex</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Marissa Meyer </author>
                <characters>Linh Cinder, Queen Levana, Scarlet Benoit, Ze’ev ""Wolf"" Kesley, Emperor Kai, Ran Kesley, Carswell Thorne, Iko, Aimery Park, Linh Adri, Linh Pearl, Michelle Benoit</characters>
                <date>02/05/2013</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Dystopia, Retellings, Fiction, Fairy Tales, Audiobook, Adventure</genres>
                <id>1427</id>
                <synopsis>"Cinder returns in the second thrilling installment of the New York Times-bestselling Lunar Chronicles.She’s trying to break out of prison—even though if she succeeds, she’ll be the Commonwealth’s most wanted fugitive. Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit’s grandmother is missing. It turns out there are many things Scarlet doesn’t know about her grandmother and the grave danger she has lived in her whole life. When Scarlet encounters Wolf, a street fighter who may have information as to her grandmother’s whereabouts, she has no choice but to trust him, though he clearly has a few dark secrets of his own. As Scarlet and Wolf work to unravel one mystery, they find another when they cross paths with Cinder. Together, they must stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen who will do anything to make Prince Kai her husband, her king, her prisoner."</synopsis>
                <title>Scarlet</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Tamora Pierce </author>
                <characters>Alanna of Trebond, Thom of Trebond, Coram Smythesson, George Cooper, Jonathan of Conte, Raoul of Goldenlake, Gareth of Naxen the Second (Gary), Alex of Tirrigan, Duke Roger of Conte</characters>
                <date>01/01/2005</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Magic, Adventure, Young Adult Fantasy, High Fantasy, Middle Grade, Childrens, Teen</genres>
                <id>1428</id>
                <synopsis>"From now on I'm Alan of Trebond, the younger twin. I'll be a knight.And so young Alanna of Trebond begins the journey to knighthood. Though a girl, Alanna has always craved the adventure and daring allowed only for boys; her twin brother, Thom, yearns to learn the art of magic. So one day they decide to switch places: Thom heads for the convent to learn magic; Alanna, pretending to be a boy, is on her way to the castle of King Roald to begin her training as a page.  But the road to knighthood is not an easy one. As Alanna masters the skills necessary for battle, she must also learn to control her heart and to discern her enemies from her allies.Filled with swords and sorcery, adventure and intrigue, good and evil, Alanna's first adventure begins - one that will lead to the fulfillment of her dreams and the magical destiny that will make her a legend in her land."</synopsis>
                <title>Alanna: The First Adventure</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Andre Dubus III</author>
                <characters>Colonel Behrani, Kathy Nicolo, Sheriff Lester Burdon</characters>
                <date>10/02/2018</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Adult Fiction, Novels, Literature, Book Club, Adult, Drama, Suspense</genres>
                <id>1429</id>
                <synopsis>"In this “page-turner with a beating heart” (Boston Globe), a recovering alcoholic and addict down on her luck struggles to hold on to her home in California. But this becomes contested territory when a recent immigrant from the Middle East—a former colonel in the Iranian Air Force—becomes determined to restore his family’s dignity through buying the house. When the woman’s lover, a married cop, intervenes, he goes to extremes to win her love. Andre Dubus III’s unforgettable characters—people with ordinary flaws, looking for a small piece of ground to stand on—careen toward inevitable conflict. An “affecting, subtle portrait of two hostile but equally fragile camps” (The New Yorker), their tragedy paints a shockingly true picture of the country we still live in today, two decades after this book’s first publication."</synopsis>
                <title>House of Sand and Fog</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>David McCullough</author>
                <characters>John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Dickinson, Abigail Adams, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson</characters>
                <date>05/22/01</date>
                <genres>History, Biography, Nonfiction, American History, Presidents, Politics, Historical, Biography Memoir, American Revolution, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1430</id>
                <synopsis>"The enthralling, often surprising story of John Adams, one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived.In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot - ""the colossus of independence,"" as Thomas Jefferson called him - who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second President of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war; who was learned beyond all but a few and regarded by some as ""out of his senses""; and whose marriage to the wise and valiant Abigail Adams is one of the moving love stories in American history. Like his masterly, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Truman, David McCullough's John Adams has the sweep and vitality of a great novel. It is both a riveting portrait of an abundantly human man and a vivid evocation of his time, much of it drawn from an outstanding collection of Adams family letters and diaries. In particular, the more than one thousand surviving letters between John and Abigail Adams, nearly half of which have never been published, provide extraordinary access to their private lives and make it possible to know John Adams as no other major American of his founding era. As he has with stunning effect in his previous books, McCullough tells the story from within - from the point of view of the amazing eighteenth century and of those who, caught up in events, had no sure way of knowing how things would turn out. George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, the British spy Edward Bancroft, Madame Lafayette and Jefferson's Paris ""interest"" Maria Cosway, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, the scandalmonger James Callender, Sally Hemings, John Marshall, Talleyrand, and Aaron Burr all figure in this panoramic chronicle, as does, importantly, John Quincy Adams, the adored son whom Adams would live to see become President. Crucial to the story, as it was to history, is the relationship between Adams and Jefferson, born opposites - one a Massachusetts farmer's son, the other a Virginia aristocrat and slaveholder, one short and stout, the other tall and spare. Adams embraced conflict; Jefferson avoided it. Adams had great humor; Jefferson, very little. But they were alike in their devotion to their country. At first they were ardent co-revolutionaries, then fellow diplomats and close friends. With the advent of the two political parties, they became archrivals, even enemies, in the intense struggle for the presidency in 1800, perhaps the most vicious election in history. Then, amazingly, they became friends again, and ultimately, incredibly, they died on the same day - their day of days - July 4, in the year 1826. Much about John Adams's life will come as a surprise to many readers. His courageous voyage on the frigate Boston in the winter of 1778 and his later trek over the Pyrenees are exploits that few would have dared and that few readers will ever forget. It is a life encompassing a huge arc - Adams lived longer than any president. The story ranges from the Boston Massacre to Philadelphia in 1776 to the Versailles of Louis XVI, from Spain to Amsterdam, from the Court of St. James's, where Adams was the first American to stand before King George III as a representative of the new nation, to the raw, half-finished Capital by the Potomac, where Adams was the first President to occupy the White House. This is history on a grand scale - a book about politics and war and social issues, but also about human nature, love, religious faith, virtue, ambition, friendship and betrayal, and the far-reaching consequences of noble ideas. Above all, John Adams is an enthralling, often surprising story of one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived."</synopsis>
                <title>John Adams</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Janet Evanovich </author>
                <characters>Ranger (Rangeman CEO), Lula, Grandma Mazur, Jimmy Alpha, Joe Morelli, Stephanie Plum</characters>
                <date>10/28/06</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Humor, Chick Lit, Romance, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Contemporary, Adult, Comedy</genres>
                <id>1431</id>
                <synopsis>"You've lost your job as a department store lingerie buyer, your car's been repossessed, and most of your furniture and small appliances have been sold off to pay last month's rent. Now the rent is due again. And you live in New Jersey. What do you do?If you're Stephanie Plum, you become a bounty hunter. But not just a nickel-and-dime bounty hunter; you go after the big money. That means a cop gone bad. And not just any cop. She goes after Joe Morelli, a disgraced former vice cop who is also the man who took Stephanie's virginity at age 16 and then wrote details on a bathroom wall. With pride and rent money on the line, Plum plunges headlong into her first case, one that pits her against ruthless adversaries - people who'd rather kill than lose.In Stephanie Plum, Evanovich has created a resourceful and humorous character who stands apart from the pack of gritty female detectives."</synopsis>
                <title>One for the Money</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Madeline Miller </author>
                <characters>Achilles (Greek hero), Peleus, Patroclus, Thetis (mythology)</characters>
                <date>09/20/11</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Mythology, LGBT, Romance, Historical, Retellings, Audiobook, Adult</genres>
                <id>1432</id>
                <synopsis>"Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. By all rights their paths should never cross, but Achilles takes the shamed prince as his friend, and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine their bond blossoms into something deeper - despite the displeasure of Achilles' mother Thetis, a cruel sea goddess. But then word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped. Torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus journeys with Achilles to Troy, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they hold dear.Profoundly moving and breathtakingly original, this rendering of the epic Trojan War is a dazzling feat of the imagination, a devastating love story, and an almighty battle between gods and kings, peace and glory, immortal fame and the human heart."</synopsis>
                <title>The Song of Achilles</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Marie Lu </author>
                <characters>June Iparis, Daniel Altan Wing</characters>
                <date>11/05/2013</date>
                <genres>Dystopia, Young Adult, Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Adventure, Action, Audiobook, Teen</genres>
                <id>1433</id>
                <synopsis>"He is a Legend.She is a Prodigy.Who will be Champion?  June and Day have sacrificed so much for the people of the Republic—and each other—and now their country is on the brink of a new existence. June is back in the good graces of the Republic, working within the government’s elite circles as Princeps-Elect, while Day has been assigned a high-level military position. But neither could have predicted the circumstances that will reunite them: just when a peace treaty is imminent, a plague outbreak causes panic in the Colonies, and war threatens the Republic’s border cities. This new strain of plague is deadlier than ever, and June is the only one who knows the key to her country’s defense. But saving the lives of thousands will mean asking the one she loves to give up everything. With heart-pounding action and suspense, Marie Lu’s bestselling trilogy draws to a stunning conclusion."</synopsis>
                <title>Champion</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Shirley Jackson, Laura Miller (Introduction)</author>
                <characters>Dr. John Montague, Eleanor Vance, Theodora (The Haunting of Hill House), Luke Sanderson, Mrs. Montague, Arthur Parker (The Haunting of Hill House), Mrs. Dudley</characters>
                <date>11/28/06</date>
                <genres>Horror, Classics, Fiction, Gothic, Mystery, Paranormal, Audiobook, Ghosts, Thriller, Supernatural</genres>
                <id>1434</id>
                <synopsis>"It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a ""haunting""; Theodora, the lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own."</synopsis>
                <title>The Haunting of Hill House</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Robin Hobb </author>
                <characters>Verity Farseer, The Fool, Sean Galen, FitzChivalry Farseer, Burrich, Lady Patience, Shrewd, Chade Fallstar, Regal Farseer, Nighteyes, Kettricken</characters>
                <date>03/01/1996</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Magic, Adventure, Adult, Audiobook, Young Adult</genres>
                <id>1435</id>
                <synopsis>"In a faraway land where members of the royal family are named for the virtues they embody, one young boy will become a walking enigma.Born on the wrong side of the sheets, Fitz, son of Chivalry Farseer, is a royal bastard, cast out into the world, friendless and lonely. Only his magical link with animals - the old art known as the Wit - gives him solace and companionship. But the Wit, if used too often, is a perilous magic, and one abhorred by the nobility.So when Fitz is finally adopted into the royal household, he must give up his old ways and embrace a new life of weaponry, scribing, courtly manners; and how to kill a man secretly, as he trains to become a royal assassin."</synopsis>
                <title>Assassin's Apprentice</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin (Translator), Philip Gabriel (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Aomame Masami, Tengo Kawana, Fuka-Eri, Komatsu</characters>
                <date>10/25/11</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Fantasy, Magical Realism, Japan, Science Fiction, Japanese Literature, Contemporary, Literature, Novels, Dystopia</genres>
                <id>1436</id>
                <synopsis>"The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that bears a question.” Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unraveled. As Aomame’s and Tengo’s narratives converge over the course of this single year, we learn of the profound and tangled connections that bind them ever closer: a beautiful, dyslexic teenage girl with a unique vision; a mysterious religious cult that instigated a shoot-out with the metropolitan police; a reclusive, wealthy dowager who runs a shelter for abused women; a hideously ugly private investigator; a mild-mannered yet ruthlessly efficient bodyguard; and a peculiarly insistent television-fee collector.A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell’s — 1Q84 is Haruki Murakami’s most ambitious undertaking yet: an instant best seller in his native Japan, and a tremendous feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers."</synopsis>
                <title>1Q84</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>John Fowles</author>
                <characters>Nicholas Urfe, Alison Kelly, Maurice Conchis, Julie Holmes, June Holmes, Lily de Seitas, Joe Harrison, Sandy Mitford, Demetriades, Joan Kemp, John Leverrier, John Briggs</characters>
                <date>01/04/2001</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Mystery, Literature, Novels, Literary Fiction, Greece, British Literature, Contemporary</genres>
                <id>1437</id>
                <synopsis>"This daring literary thriller, rich with eroticism and suspense, is one of John Fowles's best-loved and bestselling novels and has contributed significantly to his international reputation as a writer of the first degree. At the center of The Magus is Nicholas Urfe, a young Englishman who accepts a teaching position on a remote Greek island, where he befriends a local millionaire. The friendship soon evolves into a deadly game, in which reality and fantasy are deliberately manipulated, and Nicholas finds that he must fight not only for his sanity but for his very survival."</synopsis>
                <title>The Magus</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Margaret Atwood </author>
                <characters>Snowman, Oryx, Crake</characters>
                <date>03/30/04</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Post Apocalyptic, Fantasy, Canada, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Novels</genres>
                <id>1438</id>
                <synopsis>"Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey–with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake–through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride. Margaret Atwood projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining."</synopsis>
                <title>Oryx and Crake</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>P.C. Cast , Kristin Cast </author>
                <characters>Zoey Redbird, Dragon, Nyx (House of Night), Erik Night, Stevie Rae Johnson, Neferet, Heath Luck, Aphrodite LaFont, Kalona, Sylvia Redbird, Erin Bates, Shaunee Cole, Damien Maslin, James Stark, Jack Twist, Rephaim, Darius Langley</characters>
                <date>10/23/09</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Vampires, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy, Magic</genres>
                <id>1439</id>
                <synopsis>"So…you’d think after banishing an immortal being and a fallen High Priestess, saving Stark’s life, biting Heath, getting a headache from Erik, and almost dying, Zoey Redbird would catch a break. Sadly, a break is not in the House of Night school forecast for the High Priestess in training and her gang.Juggling three guys is anything but a stress reliever, especially when one of them is a sexy Warrior who is so into protecting Zoey that he can sense her emotions. Speaking of stress, the dark force lurking in the tunnels under the Tulsa Depot is spreading, and Zoey is beginning to believe Stevie Rae could be responsible for a lot more than a group of misfit red fledglings. Aphrodite’s visions warn Zoey to stay away from Kalona and his dark allure, but they also show that it is Zoey who has the power to stop the evil immortal.Soon it becomes obvious that Zoey has no choice: if she doesn’t go to Kalona he will exact a fiery vengeance on those closest to her. Will Zoey have the courage to chance losing her life, her heart, and her soul?"</synopsis>
                <title>Tempted</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Marissa Meyer </author>
                <characters>Princess Winter, Linh Cinder, Queen Levana, Scarlet Benoit, Ze’ev ""Wolf"" Kesley, Emperor Kai, Carswell Thorne, Iko, Crescent Moon ""Cress"" Darnel, Jacin Clay, Dr. Dmitri Erland, Sybil Mira, Aimery Park, Linh Adri</characters>
                <date>02/04/2014</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Retellings, Dystopia, Fiction, Fairy Tales, Audiobook, Adventure</genres>
                <id>1440</id>
                <synopsis>"In this third book in the Lunar Chronicles, Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, now with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they're plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and her army.Their best hope lies with Cress, a girl imprisoned on a satellite since childhood who's only ever had her netscreens as company. All that screen time has made Cress an excellent hacker. Unfortunately, she's just received orders from Levana to track down Cinder and her handsome accomplice.When a daring rescue of Cress goes awry, the group is separated. Cress finally has her freedom, but it comes at a higher price. Meanwhile, Queen Levana will let nothing prevent her marriage to Emperor Kai. Cress, Scarlet, and Cinder may not have signed up to save the world, but they may be the only hope the world has."</synopsis>
                <title>Cress</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Dan Brown </author>
                <characters>Robert Langdon, Sienna Brooks, Laurence Knowlton, Christoph Brüder, Elizabeth Sinskey, Bertrand Zobrist, Jonathan Ferris</characters>
                <date>05/14/13</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Historical Fiction, Adventure, Novels, Crime, Adult</genres>
                <id>1441</id>
                <synopsis>"Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon awakens in an Italian hospital, disoriented and with no recollection of the past thirty-six hours, including the origin of the macabre object hidden in his belongings. With a relentless female assassin trailing them through Florence, he and his resourceful doctor, Sienna Brooks, are forced to flee. Embarking on a harrowing journey, they must unravel a series of codes, which are the work of a brilliant scientist whose obsession with the end of the world is matched only by his passion for one of the most influential masterpieces ever written, Dante Alighieri's The Inferno.  Dan Brown has raised the bar yet again, combining classical Italian art, history, and literature with cutting-edge science in this sumptuously entertaining thriller."</synopsis>
                <title>Inferno</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Diana Gabaldon </author>
                <characters>Jamie Fraser, Brianna Randall, Roger MacKenzie, Jeremiah MacKenzie, Fergus Fraser, Marsali Fraser, Germain Fraser, Malva Christie, Tom Christie, Lord John Grey, Jocasta Cameron, Duncan Innes, Claire Randall Fraser, Stephen Bonnet, Young Ian Murray, William Ransom, Lizzie Wemyss, Jo Beardsley, Kezzie Beardsley</characters>
                <date>08/29/06</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Romance, Fiction, Fantasy, Time Travel, Historical, Historical Romance, Audiobook, Adult, Adventure</genres>
                <id>1442</id>
                <synopsis>"A Breath of Snow and Ashes continues the extraordinary story of 18th-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his 20th-century wife, Claire.The year is 1772, and on the eve of the American Revolution, the long fuse of rebellion has already been lit. Men lie dead in the streets of Boston, and in the backwoods of North Carolina, isolated cabins burn in the forest.With chaos brewing, the governor calls upon Jamie Fraser to unite the backcountry and safeguard the colony for King and Crown. But from his wife Jamie knows that three years hence the shot heard round the world will be fired, and the result will be independence — with those loyal to the King either dead or in exile. And there is also the matter of a tiny clipping from The Wilmington Gazette, dated 1776, which reports Jamie’s death, along with his kin. For once, he hopes, his time-traveling family may be wrong about the future."</synopsis>
                <title>A Breath of Snow and Ashes</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Terry Pratchett</author>
                <characters>Nobby Nobbs, Carrot Ironfoundersson, Sam Vimes, Young Sam Vimes, Havelock Vetinari, Sybil Deidre Olgivanna Ramkin, DEATH, Cheery Littlebottom, Reg Shoe, Detritus, Monks of History, Buggy Swires, Fred Colon, Lu-Tze, John Keel</characters>
                <date>10/27/11</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Comedy, Time Travel, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Audiobook, Novels, High Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1443</id>
                <synopsis>"'Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come round again. That's why they're called revolutions. People die, and nothing changes.'For a policeman, there can be few things worse than a serial killer at loose in your city. Except, perhaps, a serial killer who targets coppers, and a city on the brink of bloody revolution. The people have found their voice at last, the flags and barricades are rising...And the question for a policeman, an officer of the law, a defender of the peace, is:Are you with them, or are you against them?"</synopsis>
                <title>Night Watch</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Paulo Coelho , Margaret Jull Costa (Translator), Kâmuran Şipal (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Boston ""Mari"" Maribu, Athena (Greek goddess), Veronika, Eduard, Dr. Igor, Zedka</characters>
                <date>06/01/2006</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Contemporary, Philosophy, Novels, Psychology, Romance, Drama, Mental Health, Literature, Spirituality</genres>
                <id>1444</id>
                <synopsis>"In his latest international bestseller, the celebrated author of The Alchemist addresses the fundamental questions asked by millions: What am I doing here today? and Why do I go on living?Twenty-four-year-old Veronika seems to have everything she could wish for: youth and beauty, plenty of attractive boyfriends, a fulfilling job, and a loving family. Yet something is lacking in her life. Inside her is a void so deep that nothing could possibly ever fill it. So, on the morning of November 11, 1997, Veronika decides to die. She takes a handful of sleeping pills expecting never to wake up.Naturally Veronika is stunned when she does wake up at Villete, a local mental hospital, where the staff informs her that she has, in fact, partially succeeded in achieving her goal. While the overdose didn't kill Veronika immediately, the medication has damaged her heart so severely that she has only days to live.The story follows Veronika through the intense week of self-discovery that ensues. To her surprise, Veronika finds herself drawn to the confinement of Villete and its patients, who, each in his or her individual way, reflect the heart of human experience. In the heightened state of life's final moments, Veronika discovers things she has never really allowed herself to feel before: hatred, fear, curiosity, love, and sexual awakening. She finds that every second of her existence is a choice between living and dying, and at the eleventh hour emerges more open to life than ever before.In Veronika Decides to Die, Paulo Coelho takes the reader on a distinctly modern quest to find meaning in a culture overshadowed by angst, soulless routine, and pervasive conformity. Based on events in Coelho's own life, Veronika Decides to Die questions the meaning of madness and celebrates individuals who do not fit into patterns society considers to be normal. Poignant and illuminating, it is a dazzling portrait of a young woman at the crossroads of despair and liberation, and a poetic, exuberant appreciation of each day as a renewed opportunity."</synopsis>
                <title>Veronika Decides to Die</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Barbara Kingsolver</author>
                <characters>Deanna Wolfe, Eddie Bondo, Lusa Maluf Landowski, Garnett Walker, Nannie Rawley</characters>
                <date>10/16/01</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Contemporary, Nature, Novels, Literary Fiction, Adult, Adult Fiction, Literature, Environment, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1445</id>
                <synopsis>"Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia.From her outpost in an isolated mountain cabin, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region. She is caught off-guard by a young hunter who invades her most private spaces and confounds her self-assured, solitary life. On a farm several miles down the mountain, Lusa Maluf Landowski, a bookish city girl turned farmer's wife, finds herself unexpectedly marooned in a strange place where she must declare or lose her attachment to the land that has become her own. And a few more miles down the road, a pair of elderly feuding neighbors tend their respective farms and wrangle about God, pesticides, and the possibilities of a future neither of them expected.Over the course of one humid summer, these characters find their connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with whom they share a place. Prodigal Summer demonstrates a balance of narrative, drama and ideas that is characteristic of Barbara Kingsolver's finest work."</synopsis>
                <title>Prodigal Summer</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Louis de Bernières</author>
                <characters>Pelagia, Antonio Corelli, Mandras, Dr Iannis</characters>
                <date>08/29/95</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance, Classics, War, Historical, Greece, World War II, Novels, Literature</genres>
                <id>1446</id>
                <synopsis>"Captain Corelli’s Mandolin is set in the early days of the second world war, before Benito Mussolini invaded Greece. Dr Iannis practices medicine on the island of Cephalonia, accompanied by his daughter, Pelagia, to whom he imparts much of his healing art. Even when the Italians do invade, life isn’t so bad—at first anyway. The officer in command of the Italian garrison is the cultured Captain Antonio Corelli, who responds to a Nazi greeting of “Heil Hitler” with his own “Heil Puccini”, and whose most precious possession is his mandolin. It isn't long before Corelli and Pelagia are involved in a heated affair-despite her engagement to a young fisherman, Mandras, who has gone off to join Greek partisans. Love is complicated enough in wartime, even when the lovers are on the same side. And for Corelli and Pelagia, it becomes increasingly difficult to negotiate the minefield of allegiances, both personal and political, as all around them atrocities mount, former friends become enemies and the ugliness of war infects everyone it touches. British author Louis de Bernières is well known for his forays into magical realism in such novels as The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts, Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord and The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman. Here he keeps it to a minimum, though certainly the secondary characters with whom he populates his island—the drunken priest, the strongman, the fisherman who swims with dolphins—would be at home in any of his wildly imaginative Latin American fictions. Instead, de Bernières seems interested in dissecting the nature of history as he tells his ever-darkening tale from many different perspectives. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin works on many levels, as a love story, a war story and a deconstruction of just what determines the facts that make it into the history books."</synopsis>
                <title>Corelli's Mandolin</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ally Carter </author>
                <characters>Liz Sutton, Macey McHenry, Josh Abram, Rebecca ""Bex"" Baxter, Kim Lee, Tina Walters, Cammie Morgan</characters>
                <date>05/01/2006</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Romance, Mystery, Contemporary, Fiction, Espionage, Chick Lit, Adventure, Teen, Realistic Fiction</genres>
                <id>1447</id>
                <synopsis>"Cammie Morgan is a student at the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women, a fairly typical all-girls school—that is, if every school taught advanced martial arts in PE and the latest in chemical warfare in science, and students received extra credit for breaking CIA codes in computer class. The Gallagher Academy might claim to be a school for geniuses, but it's really a school for spies. Even though Cammie is fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man in seven different ways, she has no idea what to do when she meets an ordinary boy who thinks she's an ordinary girl. Sure, she can tap his phone, hack into his computer, or track him through town with the skill of a real ""pavement artist""—but can she maneuver a relationship with someone who can never know the truth about her? Cammie Morgan may be an elite spy-in-training, but in her sophomore year, she's on her most dangerous mission—falling in love."</synopsis>
                <title>I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Diana Gabaldon , Janos Farkas (translator)</author>
                <characters>Jamie Fraser, Brianna Randall, Roger MacKenzie, Jeremiah MacKenzie, Fergus Fraser, Marsali Fraser, Germain Fraser, Jocasta Cameron, Duncan Innes, Claire Randall Fraser, Stephen Bonnet, Young Ian Murray</characters>
                <date>08/30/05</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Romance, Fiction, Fantasy, Time Travel, Historical, Historical Romance, Audiobook, Adult, Adventure</genres>
                <id>1448</id>
                <synopsis>"The year is 1771, and war is coming. Jamie Fraser’s wife tells him so. Little as he wishes to, he must believe it, for hers is a gift of dreadful prophecy—a time-traveler’s certain knowledge. Claire’s unique view of the future has brought him both danger and deliverance in the past; her knowledge of the oncoming revolution is a flickering torch that may light his way through the perilous years ahead—or ignite a conflagration that will leave their lives in ashes."</synopsis>
                <title>The Fiery Cross</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Thomas Mann, John E. Woods (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Hans Castorp, Ludovico Settembrini, Joachim Ziemssen, Hermine Kleefeld, Clavdia Chauchat, Pieter Peeperkorn</characters>
                <date>10/28/96</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, German Literature, Literature, Philosophy, Novels, Germany, 20th Century, Nobel Prize, Literary Fiction</genres>
                <id>1449</id>
                <synopsis>"In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devoted exclusively to sickness, as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting the first symptoms of its own terminal irrationality. The Magic Mountain is a monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, a book that pulses with life in the midst of death."</synopsis>
                <title>The Magic Mountain</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ann Brashares</author>
                <characters>Bridget Vreeland, Tibby Rollins, Carmen Lowell, Lena Kaligaris, Effie Kaligaris, Duncan Howe, Al Lowell, Eric Richman, Kostos Dounas</characters>
                <date>09/11/2001</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Fiction, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Romance, Teen, Realistic Fiction, Childrens, Coming Of Age, Young Adult Contemporary</genres>
                <id>1450</id>
                <synopsis>"Carmen got the jeans at a thrift shop. They didn’t look all that great: they were worn, dirty, and speckled with bleach. On the night before she and her friends part for the summer, Carmen decides to toss them. But Tibby says they’re great. She'd love to have them. Lena and Bridget also think they’re fabulous. Lena decides that they should all try them on. Whoever they fit best will get them. Nobody knows why, but the pants fit everyone perfectly. Even Carmen (who never thinks she looks good in anything) thinks she looks good in the pants. Over a few bags of cheese puffs, they decide to form a sisterhood and take the vow of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants . . . the next morning, they say good-bye. And then the journey of the pants — and the most memorable summer of their lives — begins."</synopsis>
                <title>The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>E.L. Konigsburg</author>
                <characters>Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Claudia Kincaid, James Kincaid</characters>
                <date>06/02/2003</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Childrens, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Mystery, Classics, Realistic Fiction, Adventure, Juvenile, School</genres>
                <id>1451</id>
                <synopsis>"When suburban Claudia Kincaid decides to run away, she knows she doesn’t just want to run from somewhere, she wants to run to somewhere — to a place that is comfortable, beautiful, and, preferably, elegant. She chooses the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Knowing her younger brother Jamie has money and thus can help her with a serious cash-flow problem, she invites him along.Once settled into the museum, Claudia and Jamie find themselves caught up in the mystery of an angel statue that the museum purchased at auction for a bargain price of $225. The statue is possibly an early work of the Renaissance master, Michelangelo, and therefore worth millions. Is it? Or isn’t it? Claudia is determined to find out. Her quest leads her to Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, the remarkable old woman who sold the statue, and to some equally remarkable discoveries about herself."</synopsis>
                <title>From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Muriel Barbery, Alison Anderson  (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Renée Michel, Paloma Josse, Kakuro Ozu</characters>
                <date>09/02/2008</date>
                <genres>Fiction, France, Contemporary, Philosophy, Book Club, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Adult Fiction, Adult</genres>
                <id>1452</id>
                <synopsis>"A moving, funny, triumphant novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us.We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. Renée, the concierge, is witness to the lavish but vacuous lives of her numerous employers. Outwardly she conforms to every stereotype of the concierge: fat, cantankerous, addicted to television. Yet, unbeknownst to her employers, Renée is a cultured autodidact who adores art, philosophy, music, and Japanese culture. With humor and intelligence she scrutinizes the lives of the building's tenants, who for their part are barely aware of her existence. Then there's Paloma, a twelve-year-old genius. She is the daughter of a tedious parliamentarian, a talented and startlingly lucid child who has decided to end her life on the sixteenth of June, her thirteenth birthday. Until then she will continue behaving as everyone expects her to behave: a mediocre pre-teen high on adolescent subculture, a good but not an outstanding student, an obedient if obstinate daughter. Paloma and Renée hide both their true talents and their finest qualities from a world they suspect cannot or will not appreciate them. They discover their kindred souls when a wealthy Japanese man named Ozu arrives in the building. Only he is able to gain Paloma's trust and to see through Renée's timeworn disguise to the secret that haunts her. This is a moving, funny, triumphant novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us."</synopsis>
                <title>The Elegance of the Hedgehog</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Raymond Chandler</author>
                <characters>Philip Marlowe, Vivian Regan, Carmen Sternwood, General Guy Sternwood, Eddie Mars, Rusty Regan, Arthur Gwynn Geiger, Owen Taylor, Agnes Lozelle, Joe Brody, Harry Jones, Mona Mars, Carol Lundgren, Lash Camino, Bernie Ohls</characters>
                <date>07/12/1988</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Classics, Crime, Noir, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Thriller, Novels, American</genres>
                <id>1453</id>
                <synopsis>"Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid....He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. This is the Code of the Private Eye as defined by Raymond Chandler in his 1944 essay 'The Simple Act of Murder.' Such a man was Philip Marlowe, private eye, an educated, heroic, streetwise, rugged individualist and the hero of Chandler's first novel, The Big Sleep. This work established Chandler as the master of the 'hard-boiled' detective novel, and his articulate and literary style of writing won him a large audience, which ranged from the man in the street to the most sophisticated intellectual."</synopsis>
                <title>The Big Sleep</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Nicholas Sparks </author>
                <characters>Theresa Osborne, Garrett Blake</characters>
                <date>12/01/1999</date>
                <genres>Romance, Fiction, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Adult, Adult Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Love, Drama, Novels</genres>
                <id>1454</id>
                <synopsis>"Shimmering with suspense and emotional intensity - takes readers on a hunt for the truth about a man and his memories, and about both the heartbreaking fragility and enormous strength of love.Nicholas Sparks is our very best chronicler of the human heart. His stunning first novel, The Notebook, has been given by friend to friend and lover to lover all over the world as a testament to the timeless power of love. But if we thought he could never again move us so deeply, he now shows us he can-in a story that renews our faith in destiny...in the ability of true lovers to find each other no matter where, no matter when... Message In A Bottle Thrown to the waves, and to fate, the bottle could have ended up anywhere. Instead, it is found just three weeks after it begins its journey. Theresa Osborne, divorced and the mother of a twelve-year-old son, picks it up during a seaside vacation from her job as a Boston newspaper columnist. Inside is a letter that opens with: My Dearest Catherine, I miss you my darling, as I always do, but today is particularly hard because the ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together... For ""Garrett,"" the man who signs the letter, the message is the only way he knows to express his undying love for a woman he has lost. For Theresa, wary of romance since her husband shattered her trust, the message raises questions that intrigue her. Who are Garrett and Catherine? Where is he now? What is his story? Challenged by the mystery, and pulled to find Garrett by emotions she does not fully understand, Theresa begins a search that takes her to a sunlit coastal town and an unexpected confrontation. Brought together by chance-or something more powerful-Theresa and Garrett are people whose lives are about to touch for a purpose, in a tale that resonates with our deepest hopes for finding that special someone and everlasting love. Shimmering with suspense and emotional intensity, Message in a Bottle takes readers on a hunt for the truth about a man and his memories, and about both the heartbreaking fragility and enormous strength of love. For those who cherished The Notebook and readers waiting to discover the magic of Nicholas Sparks's storytelling, here is his new, achingly lovely novel of happenstance, desire, and the choices that matter most..."</synopsis>
                <title>Message in a Bottle</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Dee Brown</author>
                <characters>Sitting Bull, Red Cloud, Ely Parker, Cochise, Quanah Parker, Kicking Bird, Ten Bears, Crazy Horse, Chief Joseph, Geronimo, Manuelito, Little Crow</characters>
                <date>01/23/01</date>
                <genres>History, Nonfiction, American History, Classics, Historical, War, Politics, Race, Native Americans, Westerns</genres>
                <id>1455</id>
                <synopsis>"Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling history The New York Times called ""Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking...Impossible to put down.""Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. A national bestseller in hardcover for more than a year after its initial publication, it has sold almost four million copies and has been translated into seventeen languages. For this elegant thirtieth-anniversary edition—published in both hardcover and paperback—Brown has contributed an incisive new preface.Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown allows the great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes to tell us in their own words of the battles, massacres, and broken treaties that finally left them demoralized and defeated. A unique and disturbing narrative told with force and clarity, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee changed forever our vision of how the West was really won."</synopsis>
                <title>Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Marie Lu </author>
                <characters>June Iparis, Daniel Altan Wing</characters>
                <date>01/29/13</date>
                <genres>Dystopia, Young Adult, Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Adventure, Teen, Action, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1456</id>
                <synopsis>"Injured and on the run, it has been seven days since June and Day barely escaped Los Angeles and the Republic with their lives. Day is believed dead having lost his own brother to an execution squad who thought they were assassinating him. June is now the Republic's most wanted traitor. Desperate for help, they turn to the Patriots - a vigilante rebel group sworn to bring down the Republic. But can they trust them or have they unwittingly become pawns in the most terrifying of political games?"</synopsis>
                <title>Prodigy</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Alexander McCall Smith </author>
                <characters>Precious Ramotswe, Silvia Potokwani, Charlie the older apprentice, Note Mokoti, Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni, Violet Sepotho, Grace Makutsi, Fanwell the younger apprentice, Obed Ramotswe</characters>
                <date>02/06/2003</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Africa, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Botswana, Detective, Adult Fiction, Adult, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1457</id>
                <synopsis>"Precious Ramotswe has only just set up shop as Botswana's No.1 (and only) lady detective when she is hired to track down a missing husband, uncover a con man, and follow a wayward daughter. However, the case that tugs at her heart, and lands her in danger, is a missing eleven-year-old boy, who may have been snatched by witch doctors."</synopsis>
                <title>The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Erich Segal</author>
                <characters>Oliver Barrett IV, Jennifer Cavilleri</characters>
                <date>01/08/2002</date>
                <genres>Romance, Fiction, Classics, Contemporary, Chick Lit, Novels, Love, Love Story, Adult, Drama</genres>
                <id>1458</id>
                <synopsis>"Oliver Barrett IV, a wealthy jock from a stuffy WASP family on his way to a Harvard degree and a career in law . . . Jenny Cavilleri, a sharp-tongued, working-class beauty studying music at Radcliffe . . .Opposites in nearly every way, Oliver and Jenny are kindred spirits from vastly different worlds. Falling deeply and powerfully, their attraction to one another defies everything they have ever believed—as they share a passion far greater than anything they dreamed possible . . . and explore the wonder of a love that must end too soon.One of the most adored novels of our time, this is the book that defined a generation—a story of uncompromising devotion, of life as it really is . . . and love that changes everything."</synopsis>
                <title>Love Story</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Rachel Caine </author>
                <characters>Michael Glass, Shane Collins, Eve Rosser, Claire Danvers</characters>
                <date>10/03/2006</date>
                <genres>Vampires, Young Adult, Paranormal, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Paranormal Romance, Ghosts</genres>
                <id>1459</id>
                <synopsis>"From the author of the popular Weather Warden series comes the debut of an exciting new series set in Morganville, Texas, where you would be well advised to avoid being out after dark.College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation. When Claire heads off-campus, the imposing old house where she finds a room may not be much better. Her new roommates don't show many signs of life, but they'll have Claire's back when the town's deepest secrets come crawling out, hungry for fresh blood. Will she be able to face the town's terror or will she drown like everyone else?"</synopsis>
                <title>Glass Houses</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jules Verne, Anthony Bonner (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Pierre Aronnax, Ned Land, Captain Nemo</characters>
                <date>04/01/2002</date>
                <genres>Classics, Science Fiction, Fiction, Adventure, Fantasy, France, Literature, Steampunk, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1460</id>
                <synopsis>"When an unidentified “monster” threatens international shipping, French oceanographer Pierre Aronnax and his unflappable assistant Conseil join an expedition organized by the US Navy to hunt down and destroy the menace. After months of fruitless searching, they finally grapple with their quarry, but Aronnax, Conseil, and the brash Canadian harpooner Ned Land are thrown overboard in the attack, only to find that the “monster” is actually a futuristic submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by a shadowy, mystical, preternaturally imposing man who calls himself Captain Nemo. Thus begins a journey of 20,000 leagues—nearly 50,000 miles—that will take Captain Nemo, his crew, and these three adventurers on a journey of discovery through undersea forests, coral graveyards, miles-deep trenches, and even the sunken ruins of Atlantis. Jules Verne’s novel of undersea exploration has been captivating readers ever since its first publication in 1870, and Frederick Paul Walter’s reader-friendly, scientifically meticulous translation of this visionary science fiction classic is complete and unabridged down to the smallest substantive detail."</synopsis>
                <title>Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Sophie Kinsella </author>
                <characters>Becky Bloomwood, Luke Brandon, Susan Cleath-Stuart, Tarquin Cleath-Stuart, Alicia Billington</characters>
                <date>11/04/2003</date>
                <genres>Chick Lit, Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Humor, Adult, Adult Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Comedy, Young Adult</genres>
                <id>1461</id>
                <synopsis>"Becky Bloomwood has a fabulous flat in London’s trendiest neighborhood, a troupe of glamorous socialite friends, and a closet brimming with the season’s must-haves. The only trouble is, she can’t actually afford it—not any of it. Her job writing at Successful Saving magazine not only bores her to tears, it doesn’t pay much at all. And lately Becky’s been chased by dismal letters from the bank—letters with large red sums she can’t bear to read. She tries cutting back. But none of her efforts succeeds. Her only consolation is to buy herself something . . . just a little something. Finally a story arises that Becky actually cares about, and her front-page article catalyzes a chain of events that will transform her life—and the lives of those around her—forever."</synopsis>
                <title>Confessions of a Shopaholic</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Dean Koontz </author>
                <characters>Odd Thomas, Stormy Llewellyn, Chief Wyatt Porter, Robert Thomas ""Fungus Man"" Robertson, Little Ozzie</characters>
                <date>08/29/06</date>
                <genres>Horror, Fiction, Mystery, Fantasy, Thriller, Paranormal, Suspense, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy, Mystery Thriller</genres>
                <id>1462</id>
                <synopsis>"""The dead don't talk. I don't know why."" But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as an ordinary guy, if possessed of a certain measure of talent at the Pico Mundo Grill and rapturously in love with the most beautiful girl in the world, Stormy Llewellyn.Maybe he has a gift, maybe it's a curse, Odd has never been sure, but he tries to do his best by the silent souls who seek him out. Sometimes they want justice, and Odd's otherworldly tips to Pico Mundo's sympathetic police chief, Wyatt Porter, can solve a crime. Occasionally they can prevent one. But this time it's different.A mysterious man comes to town with a voracious appetite, a filing cabinet stuffed with information on the world's worst killers, and a pack of hyena-like shades following him wherever he goes. Who the man is and what he wants, not even Odd's deceased informants can tell him. His most ominous clue is a page ripped from a day-by-day calendar for August 15.Today is August 14.In less than twenty-four hours, Pico Mundo will awaken to a day of catastrophe. As evil coils under the searing desert sun, Odd travels through the shifting prisms of his world, struggling to avert a looming cataclysm with the aid of his soul mate and an unlikely community of allies that includes the King of Rock 'n' Roll. His account of two shattering days when past and present, fate and destiny converge is the stuff of our worst nightmares, and a testament by which to live: sanely if not safely, with courage, humor, and a full heart that even in the darkness must persevere."</synopsis>
                <title>Odd Thomas</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Walter Scott, Graham Tulloch (Editor, Introduction)</author>
                <characters>Little John, Robin of Locksley, Richard I of England, Wilfred of Ivanhoe, John of England, Rebecca of York, Isaac of York, Brian de Bois-Guilbert, Reginald Front-de-Boeuf, Cedric of Rotherwood, Maurice De Bracy, Waldemar Fitzurse, Maid Marion, Black Knight, Prince John Lackland, Robert von der Normandie, Bruder Gurth, Iorlvaux, Le Noir-Fainéant, Ivanhoe</characters>
                <date>03/30/00</date>
                <genres>Classics, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Adventure, Literature, Historical, Romance, Classic Literature, Novels, 19th Century</genres>
                <id>1463</id>
                <synopsis>"For this novel, Scott moved far away from the setting of his own turbulent time. He went back to the late 12th century, and to England rather than the Scottish settings of all his previous novels. He connected his writing Ivanhoe with his concerns about contemporary events.Scott drew together the apparently opposing themes of historical reality and chivalric romance, social realism and high adventure, past and present."</synopsis>
                <title>Ivanhoe</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kristin Hannah </author>
                <characters>Vianne Mauriac, Isabelle Rossignol</characters>
                <date>02/03/2015</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, World War II, War, Audiobook, Adult, France, Adult Fiction, Romance</genres>
                <id>1464</id>
                <synopsis>"In love we find out who we want to be.In war we find out who we are.FRANCE, 1939In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says good-bye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn’t believe that the Nazis will invade France…but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent. When a German captain requisitions Vianne’s home, she and her daughter must live with the enemy or lose everything. Without food or money or hope, as danger escalates all around them, she is forced to make one impossible choice after another to keep her family alive.Vianne’s sister, Isabelle, is a rebellious eighteen-year-old, searching for purpose with all the reckless passion of youth. While thousands of Parisians march into the unknown terrors of war, she meets Gaëtan, a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within France, and she falls in love as only the young can…completely. But when he betrays her, Isabelle joins the Resistance and never looks back, risking her life time and again to save others.With courage, grace and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of World War II and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the women’s war. The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France—a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime."</synopsis>
                <title>The Nightingale</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Orson Scott Card</author>
                <characters>Andrew Wiggin, ""Bean"", Nikolai Delphiki, Volescu, Sister Carlotta, Poke</characters>
                <date>05/19/02</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Young Adult, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Adventure, Space, War, Novels</genres>
                <id>1465</id>
                <synopsis>"Welcome to Battleschool.Growing up is never easy. But try living on the mean streets as a child begging for food and fighting like a dog with ruthless gangs of starving kids who wouldn't hesitate to pound your skull into pulp for a scrap of apple. If Bean has learned anything on the streets, it's how to survive. And not with fists. He is way too small for that. But with brains.Bean is a genius with a magician's ability to zero in on his enemy and exploit his weakness.What better quality for a future general to lead the Earth in a final climactic battle against a hostile alien race, known as Buggers. At Battleschool Bean meets and befriends another future commander - Ender Wiggins - perhaps his only true rival.Only one problem: for Bean and Ender, the future is now.Ender's Shadow is the book that launched The Shadow Series, and the parallel novel to Orson Scott Card's science fiction classic, Ender's Game."</synopsis>
                <title>Ender's Shadow</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Virgil, Robert Fitzgerald (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Venus (Goddess), Jupiter (God), Aeneas, Juno, Priam, Ixion, Iris (Greek), Mercury (mythology) Marvel), Turnus (King of the Rutuli), Vulcan (God), Neoptolemus, Dido of Carthage, Misenus, Anchises, Sybil (Ancient oracle), Ascanius, Charon (mythology), Camilla (mythology), Lavinia (mythology), Pallas (son of Evander)</characters>
                <date>06/16/90</date>
                <genres>Classics, Poetry, Fiction, Mythology, Literature, School, Epic, Fantasy, Ancient, Classic Literature</genres>
                <id>1466</id>
                <synopsis>"The Aeneid – thrilling, terrifying and poignant in equal measure – has inspired centuries of artists, writers and musicians.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is translated by J. W. Mackail and has an afterword by Coco Stevenson.Virgil’s epic tale tells the story of Aeneas, a Trojan hero, who flees his city after its fall, with his father Anchises and his young son Ascanius – for Aeneas is destined to found Rome and father the Roman race. As Aeneas journeys closer to his goal, he must first prove his worth and attain the maturity necessary for such an illustrious task. He battles raging storms in the Mediterranean, encounters the fearsome Cyclopes, falls in love with Dido, Queen of Carthage, travels into the Underworld and wages war in Italy."</synopsis>
                <title>The Aeneid</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Tahereh Mafi</author>
                <characters>Adam Kent, Juliette Ferrars, Aaron Warner Anderson, Kenji Kishimoto</characters>
                <date>02/05/2013</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Dystopia, Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction, Paranormal, Fiction, New Adult, Post Apocalyptic, Supernatural</genres>
                <id>1467</id>
                <synopsis>"The thrilling second installment in New York Times bestselling author Tahereh Mafi’s Shatter Me series.It should have taken Juliette a single touch to kill Warner. But his mysterious immunity to her deadly power has left her shaken, wondering why her ultimate defense mechanism failed against the person she most needs protection from.She and Adam were able to escape Warner’s clutches and join up with a group of rebels, many of whom have powers of their own. Juliette will finally be able to actively fight against The Reestablishment and try to fix her broken world. And perhaps these new allies can help her shed light on the secret behind Adam’s—and Warner’s—immunity to her killer skin.Juliette’s world is packed with high-stakes action and tantalizing romance, perfect for fans of the Red Queen series by Victoria Aveyard and the Darkest Minds trilogy by Alexandra Bracken.Ransom Riggs, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, raved: ""A thrilling, high-stakes saga of self-discovery and forbidden love, the Shatter Me series is a must-read for fans of dystopian young-adult literature—or any literature!"""</synopsis>
                <title>Unravel Me</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jane Austen, Fiona Stafford (Introduction/Notes)</author>
                <characters>Emma Woodhouse, George Knightley, Harriet Smith, Jane Fairfax, Frank Churchill, Henry Woodhouse, Mr. Woodhouse, Mrs. Weston, Philip Elton, Augusta Elton, Mr Weston, Mrs Anne Weston, Miss Bates, Isabella Woodhouse, John Knightley, Mr. Elton, Mrs. Elton</characters>
                <date>05/06/2003</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Literature, Historical, 19th Century, Classic Literature, Audiobook, British Literature</genres>
                <id>1468</id>
                <synopsis>"An alternative cover of this ISBN can be found here.Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma organizes the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village and plays matchmaker with devastating effect."</synopsis>
                <title>Emma</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Wallace Stegner</author>
                <characters>Lyman Ward, Susan Burling Ward, Oliver Ward, Rodman Ward, Frank Sargent, Ada Topham, Shelly Rasmussen, Ellen Ward</characters>
                <date>05/28/92</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, Literature, Westerns, Literary Fiction, Novels, Book Club, Historical, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1469</id>
                <synopsis>"Wallace Stegner's Pultizer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery—personal, historical, and geographical. Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents' remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving civilization into the surface of America's western frontier. But his research reveals even more about his own life than he's willing to admit. What emerges is an enthralling portrait of four generations in the life of an American family."</synopsis>
                <title>Angle of Repose</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Rosamunde Pilcher</author>
                <characters>Penelope Keeling</characters>
                <date>04/06/2004</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Chick Lit, Adult Fiction, Historical, British Literature, Contemporary, Family, Novels</genres>
                <id>1470</id>
                <synopsis>"Artist's daughter Penelope Keeling can look back on a full and varied life: a Bohemian childhood in London and Cornwall, an unhappy wartime marriage, and the one man she truly loved. She has brought up three children - and learned to accept them as they are. Yet she is far too energetic and independent to settle sweetly into pensioned-off old-age. And when she discovers that her most treasured possession, her father's painting, The Shell Seekers, is now worth a small fortune, it is Penelope who must make the decisions that will determine whether her family can continue to survive as a family, or be split apart."</synopsis>
                <title>The Shell Seekers</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jonathan Franzen</author>
                <characters>Alfred Lambert, Enid Lambert, Gary Lambert</characters>
                <date>09/02/2002</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Contemporary, Novels, Literary Fiction, Literature, American, Family, The United States Of America, Unfinished, Adult Fiction</genres>
                <id>1471</id>
                <synopsis>"Winner of the National Book Award for FictionNominated for the National Book Critics Circle AwardAn American Library Association Notable BookJonathan Franzen's third novel, The Corrections, is a great work of art and a grandly entertaining overture to our new century: a bold, comic, tragic, deeply moving family drama that stretches from the Midwest at mid-century to Wall Street and Eastern Europe in the age of greed and globalism. Franzen brings an old-time America of freight trains and civic duty, of Cub Scouts and Christmas cookies and sexual inhibitions, into brilliant collision with the modern absurdities of brain science, home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental healthcare, and the anti-gravity New Economy. With The Corrections, Franzen emerges as one of our premier interpreters of American society and the American soul.Enid Lambert is terribly, terribly anxious. Although she would never admit it to her neighbors or her three grown children, her husband, Alfred, is losing his grip on reality. Maybe it's the medication that Alfred takes for his Parkinson's disease, or maybe it's his negative attitude, but he spends his days brooding in the basement and committing shadowy, unspeakable acts. More and more often, he doesn't seem to understand a word Enid says.Trouble is also brewing in the lives of Enid's children. Her older son, Gary, a banker in Philadelphia, has turned cruel and materialistic and is trying to force his parents out of their old house and into a tiny apartment. The middle child, Chip, has suddenly and for no good reason quit his exciting job as a professor at D--- College and moved to New York City, where he seems to be pursuing a ""transgressive"" lifestyle and writing some sort of screenplay. Meanwhile the baby of the family, Denise, has escaped her disastrous marriage only to pour her youth and beauty down the drain of an affair with a married man-or so Gary hints.Enid, who loves to have fun, can still look forward to a final family Christmas and to the ten-day Nordic Pleasurelines Luxury Fall Color Cruise that she and Alfred are about to embark on. But even these few remaining joys are threatened by her husband's growing confusion and unsteadiness. As Alfred enters his final decline, the Lamberts must face the failures, secrets, and long-buried hurts that haunt them as a family if they are to make the corrections that each desperately needs."</synopsis>
                <title>The Corrections</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Toni Morrison</author>
                <characters>Pauline Breedlove, Cholly Breedlove, Pecola Breedlove</characters>
                <date>09/06/2005</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, African American, Race, Literature, Novels, Literary Fiction, School, American</genres>
                <id>1472</id>
                <synopsis>"The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove. Pecola prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the year the marigolds in the Breedloves' garden do not bloom. Pecola's life does change- in painful, devastating ways.What its vivid evocation of the fear and loneliness at the heart of a child's yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment. The Bluest Eye remains one of Toni Morrisons's most powerful, unforgettable novels- and a significant work of American fiction."</synopsis>
                <title>The Bluest Eye</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ayn Rand</author>
                <characters>Liberty, Equality</characters>
                <date>12/01/1999</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Philosophy, Dystopia, Science Fiction, School, Literature, Read For School, Politics, Novels</genres>
                <id>1473</id>
                <synopsis>"Anthem has long been hailed as one of Ayn Rand's classic novels, and a clear predecessor to her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. In Anthem, Rand examines a frightening future in which individuals have no name, no independence, and no values. Equality 7-2521 lives in the dark ages of the future where all decisions are made by committee, all people live in collectives, and all traces of individualism have been wiped out. Despite such a restrictive environment, the spark of individual thought and freedom still burns in him-a passion which he has been taught to call sinful. In a purely egalitarian world, Equality 7-2521 dares to stand apart from the herd-to think and choose for himself, to discover electricity, and to love the woman of his choice. Now he has been marked for death for committing the ultimate sin. In a world where the great ""we"" reign supreme, he has rediscovered the lost and holy word-""I."""</synopsis>
                <title>Anthem</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Stephen King </author>
                <characters>Dale Barbara, Julia Shumway, James Rennie, Junior Rennie, Eric ""Rusty"" Everett, Joseph ""Scarecrow Joe"" McClatchey, Brenda Perkins, Frank DeLesseps, Carter Thibodeau, Melvin Searles, Georgia Roux, Andy Sanders, Phil ""The Chef"" Bushey, Peter Randolph, United States Military, American Law Enforcement, Dale ""Barbie"" Barbara, James ""Big Jim"" Rennie, Bill Allnut, Sarah Allnut, Mabel Alston, Private Clint Ames, Tommy Anderson, Willow Anderson, Elsa Andrews, Aidan Patrick Appleton, Alice Rachel Appleton, Marty Arsenault, Donnie Baribeau, Chaz Bender, Kayla Bevins, Harriet Bigelow, Fernald ""Fern"" Bowie, Stewart Bowie, Joe Boxer, Clayton Brassey, Freeman Brown, Gina Buffalino, Michela Burpee, Romeo ""Rommie"" Burpee, Little Walter Bushey, Phil Bushey, Sammy Bushey, Billy Cale, Jack Cale, Ernie Calvert, Joanie Calvert, Lucien Calvert, Norrie Calvert, Ed Carty, Carrie Carver, Deanna Carver, Johnny Carver, Eddie Chalmers, Pamela Chen, Henrietta Clavard, John Clavard, Reverend Lester Coggins, Cindy Collins, Hanna Compton, Mrs. Connaught, Lauren Conree, Rance Conroy, Arletta Coombs, Anderson Cooper, Mary Lou Costas, Colonel James O. Cox, Wanda Crumley, Wendell Crumley, Wanda Debec, Frederick ""Fred""  Howard Denton, Alden Dinsmore, Oliver ""Ollie"" Dinsmore, Rory Dinsmore, Shelley Dinsmore, Russ Dorr, Alva Drake, Benny Drake, Norman Drake, Coralee Dumagen, Marta Edmunds, Brendan Ellerbee, Myra Evans, Erik ""Rusty"" Everett, Janelle Everett, Judy Everett, Linda Everett, Rusty Evers, George Frederick, Lois Freeman, Will Freeman, Jack Evans, Randall Killian, Ricky Killian, Roger Killian, Leo Lamoine, George Lathrop, Reverend Piper Libby, Rupert ""Rupe"" Libby, Corrie Macintosh, Suzanne Malveaux, Toby Manning, Thurston Marshall, Angie McCain, LaDonna McCain, Mr. McCain, Claire McClatchey, Joe McClatchey, Sam McClatchey, James McMurtry, Lennie Meechum, Stacey Moggin, Tabby Morrell, Frieda Morrison, Henry Morrison, Charles ""Stubby"" Norman, Howard ""Duke"" Perkins, Major Gene Ray, Doc Rayburn, Nora Robichaud, Bob Roux, Helen Roux, Andrew ""Andy"" DeLois Sanders, Claudette Sanders, Dorothy ""Dodee""  Sanders, Sea Dogs, Melvin ""Mel"" Searles, Petra Searles, Jimmy Sirois, Carolyn Sturges, Chuck Thompson, Al Timmons, Ginny Tomlinson, Nell Toomey, Aubrey Towle, Johnny Trent, Douglas Twitchell, Miz Rose Twitchell, Jessie Vachon, Ellen Vanedestine</characters>
                <date>11/10/2009</date>
                <genres>Horror, Fiction, Science Fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Mystery, Suspense, Audiobook, Adult, Drama</genres>
                <id>1474</id>
                <synopsis>"On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as “the dome” comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when—or if—it will go away.Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens—town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician’s assistant at the hospital, a selectwoman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing—even murder—to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Because time isn’t just short. It’s running out.source: stephenking.com"</synopsis>
                <title>Under the Dome</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Charlaine Harris </author>
                <characters>Sookie Stackhouse, Bill Compton, Sam Merlotte, Jason Stackhouse, Eric Northman, Tara Thornton, Pam Ravenscroft, Barry ""Bellboy"" Horowitz</characters>
                <date>04/01/2004</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Vampires, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Fiction, Mystery, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Adult</genres>
                <id>1475</id>
                <synopsis>"Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is having a streak of bad luck. First her co-worker is killed, and no one seems to care. Then she comes face to-face with a beastly creature that gives her a painful and poisonous lashing. Enter the vampires, who graciously suck the poison from her veins (like they didn't enjoy it).The point is: they saved her life. So when one of the bloodsuckers asks for a favor, she obliges - and soon Sookie's in Dallas, using her telepathic skills to search for a missing vampire. She's supposed to interview certain humans involved, but she makes one condition: the vampires must promise to behave and let the humans go unharmed. But that's easier said than done, and all it takes is one delicious blonde and one small mistake for things to turn deadly...."</synopsis>
                <title>Living Dead in Dallas</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Walter M. Miller Jr., Mary Doria Russell  (Introduction)</author>
                <characters>Isaac Edward Leibowitz, Benjamin Eleazar bar Joshua</characters>
                <date>05/09/2006</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Post Apocalyptic, Classics, Dystopia, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Religion, Apocalyptic, Speculative Fiction</genres>
                <id>1476</id>
                <synopsis>"In a nightmarish ruined world slowly awakening to the light after sleeping in darkness, the infant rediscoveries of science are secretly nourished by cloistered monks dedicated to the study and preservation of the relics and writings of the blessed Saint Isaac Leibowitz. From here the story spans centuries of ignorance, violence, and barbarism, viewing through a sharp, satirical eye the relentless progression of a human race damned by its inherent humanness to recelebrate its grand foibles and repeat its grievous mistakes."</synopsis>
                <title>A Canticle for Leibowitz</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Rudyard Kipling, Alev Lytle Croutier (Afterword)</author>
                <characters>Mowgli (Rudyard Kipling), Bagheera (Rudyard Kipling), Hathin, Shere Khan, Baloo (Rudyard Kipling), Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Nagaina, Darzee, Messua, Akela, Kaa, Tabaqui, Nag</characters>
                <date>05/03/2005</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Childrens, Fantasy, Adventure, Short Stories, Literature, Animals, Young Adult, India</genres>
                <id>1477</id>
                <synopsis>"The Jungle Books can be regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children. But they also constitute a complex literary work of art in which the whole of Kipling's philosophy of life is expressed in miniature. They are best known for the 'Mowgli' stories; the tale of a baby abandoned and brought up by wolves, educated in the ways and secrets of the jungle by Kaa the python, Baloo the bear, and Bagheera the black panther. The stories, a mixture of fantasy, myth, and magic, are underpinned by Kipling's abiding preoccupation with the theme of self-discovery, and the nature of the 'Law'."</synopsis>
                <title>The Jungle Books</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kerstin Gier</author>
                <characters>Grace Shepherd, Leslie Hay, Gideon de Villiers, Cynthia Dale, Gwendolyn Shepherd, Gordan Gelderman, James Augustus Peregrine Pympoole-Bothame</characters>
                <date>01/06/2009</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Time Travel, Romance, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction, Fiction, Paranormal, Historical, Mystery</genres>
                <id>1478</id>
                <synopsis>"Manchmal ist es ein echtes Kreuz, in einer Familie zu leben, die jede Menge Geheimnisse hat. Der Überzeugung ist zumindest die 16-jährige Gwendolyn.Bis sie sich eines Tages aus heiterem Himmel im London um die letzte Jahrhundertwende wiederfindet. Und ihr klar wird, dass ausgerechnet sie das allergrößte Geheimnis ihrer Familie ist. Was ihr dagegen nicht klar ist: Dass man sich zwischen den Zeiten möglichst nicht verlieben sollte. Denn das macht die Sache erst recht kompliziert!"</synopsis>
                <title>Rubinrot</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Helen Keller</author>
                <characters>Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller</characters>
                <date>05/01/1990</date>
                <genres>Nonfiction, Biography, Classics, Memoir, History, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, Historical, Disability, Inspirational</genres>
                <id>1479</id>
                <synopsis>"When she was 19 months old, Helen Keller (1880–1968) suffered a severe illness that left her blind and deaf. Not long after, she also became mute. Her tenacious struggle to overcome these handicaps-with the help of her inspired teacher, Anne Sullivan-is one of the great stories of human courage and dedication. In this classic autobiography, first published in 1903, Miss Keller recounts the first 22 years of her life, including the magical moment at the water pump when, recognizing the connection between the word ""water"" and the cold liquid flowing over her hand, she realized that objects had names. Subsequent experiences were equally noteworthy: her joy at eventually learning to speak, her friendships with Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edward Everett Hale and other notables, her education at Radcliffe (from which she graduated cum laude), and-underlying all-her extraordinary relationship with Miss Sullivan, who showed a remarkable genius for communicating with her eager and quick-to-learn pupil."</synopsis>
                <title>The Story of My Life</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ray Bradbury</author>
                <characters>William Halloway, James Nightshade, Charles Halloway</characters>
                <date>03/01/1998</date>
                <genres>Horror, Fantasy, Fiction, Classics, Science Fiction, Young Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Halloween, Audiobook, Mystery</genres>
                <id>1480</id>
                <synopsis>"One of Ray Bradbury’s best-known and most popular novels, Something Wicked This Way Comes, now featuring a new introduction and material about its longstanding influence on culture and genre.For those who still dream and remember, for those yet to experience the hypnotic power of its dark poetry, step inside. The show is about to begin. Cooger &amp; Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. The carnival rolls in sometime after midnight, ushering in Halloween a week early. A calliope’s shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. Two boys will discover the secret of its smoke, mazes, and mirrors; two friends who will soon know all too well the heavy cost of wishes…and the stuff of nightmares.Few novels have endured in the heart and memory as has Ray Bradbury’s unparalleled literary masterpiece Something Wicked This Way Comes. Scary and suspenseful, it is a timeless classic in the American canon."</synopsis>
                <title>Something Wicked This Way Comes</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Maggie Stiefvater </author>
                <characters>Shelby, Grace Brisbane, Sam  Roth, Cole St. Clair, Isabel Culpeper, Jack Culpeper, Geoffrey Beck, Olivia Marx</characters>
                <date>07/13/10</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal, Werewolves, Fiction, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy, Teen</genres>
                <id>1481</id>
                <synopsis>"the longing.Once Grace and Sam have found each other, they know they must fight to stay together. For Sam, this means a reckoning with his werewolf past. For Grace, it means facing a future that is less and less certain.the loss.Into their world comes a new wolf named Cole, whose past is full of hurt and danger. He is wrestling with his own demons, embracing the life of a wolf while denying the ties of being a human.the linger.For Grace, Sam, and Cole, life a constant struggle between two forces - wolf and human - with love baring its two sides as well. It is harrowing and euphoric, freeing and entrapping, enticing and alarming. As their world falls apart, love is what lingers. But will it be enough?"</synopsis>
                <title>Linger</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Katherine Dunn</author>
                <characters>Olympia ""Oly"" Binewski, Arturo ""Arty"" Binewski, Al Binewski</characters>
                <date>06/11/2002</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Horror, Fantasy, Contemporary, Novels, Literary Fiction, Dark, Adult Fiction, Adult, Literature</genres>
                <id>1482</id>
                <synopsis>"Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out—with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes—to breed their own exhibit of human oddities. There’s Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan . . . Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins . . . albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him the family’s most precious—and dangerous—asset.As the Binewskis take their act across the backwaters of the U.S., inspiring fanatical devotion and murderous revulsion; as its members conduct their own Machiavellian version of sibling rivalry, Geek Love throws its sulfurous light on our notions of the freakish and the normal, the beautiful and the ugly, the holy and the obscene. Family values will never be the same."</synopsis>
                <title>Geek Love</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Henry James, Patricia Crick (Annotations)</author>
                <characters>Isabel Archer, Lydia Touchett, Ralph Touchett, Lord Warburton, Gilbert Osmond, Edward Rosier, Caspar Goodwood, Pansy Osmond, Madame Merle, Henrietta Stackpole</characters>
                <date>09/30/03</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Literature, 19th Century, Novels, American, Historical Fiction, Classic Literature, Romance, Victorian</genres>
                <id>1483</id>
                <synopsis>"When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to determine her own fate, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. She then finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gilbert Osmond, who, beneath his veneer of charm and cultivation, is cruelty itself. A story of intense poignancy, Isabel's tale of love and betrayal still resonates with modern audiences."</synopsis>
                <title>The Portrait of a Lady</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kate DiCamillo </author>
                <characters>Winn-Dixie, India Opal Buloni, Otis, Miss Franny Block, Gloria Dump, The Preacher, Amanda Wilkinson</characters>
                <date>08/06/2001</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Childrens, Realistic Fiction, Middle Grade, Young Adult, Animals, Classics, School, Dogs, Juvenile</genres>
                <id>1484</id>
                <synopsis>"Kate DiCamillo's beloved, best-selling debut novel is now available in a paperback digest edition.Kate DiCamillo's first published novel, like Winn-Dixie himself, immediately proved to be a keeper—a New York Times bestseller, a Newbery Honor winner, the inspiration for a popular film, and most especially, a cherished classic that touches the hearts of readers of all ages. It's now available in a paperback digest format certain to bring this tale's magic to an even wider circle of fans.The summer Opal and her father, the preacher, move to Naomi, Florida, Opal goes into the Winn-Dixie supermarket—and comes out with a dog. A big, ugly, suffering dog with a sterling sense of humor. A dog she dubs Winn-Dixie. Because of Winn-Dixie, the preacher tells Opal ten things about her absent mother, one for each year Opal has been alive. Winn-Dixie is better at making friends than anyone Opal has ever known, and together they meet the local librarian, Miss Franny Block, who once fought off a bear with a copy of WAR AND PEACE. They meet Gloria Dump, who is nearly blind but sees with her heart, and Otis, an ex-con who sets the animals in his pet shop loose after hours, then lulls them with his guitar.Opal spends all that sweet summer collecting stories about her new friends and thinking about her mother. But because of Winn-Dixie or perhaps because she has grown, Opal learns to let go, just a little, and that friendship—and forgiveness—can sneak up on you like a sudden summer storm."</synopsis>
                <title>Because of Winn-Dixie</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Thomas Hardy, Patricia Ingham, Dennis Taylor  (With), Jenny Sterlin (Narrator), Mark Oxford, James Oliver Smith Jr. (Editor)</author>
                <characters>Jude Fawley, Arabella Donn, Sue Bridehead</characters>
                <date>12/01/2006</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Literature, 19th Century, Victorian, Novels, British Literature, Historical Fiction, Classic Literature, English Literature</genres>
                <id>1485</id>
                <synopsis>"Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to the town of Christminster where he finds work as a stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, freethinking 'New Woman'."</synopsis>
                <title>Jude the Obscure</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Pierce Brown </author>
                <characters>Darrow, Cassius au Bellona, Mustang, Sevro au Barca, Fitchner au Barca</characters>
                <date>01/28/14</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult, Dystopia, Fiction, Audiobook, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adult, Adventure, Space</genres>
                <id>1486</id>
                <synopsis>"""I live for the dream that my children will be born free,"" she says. ""That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them.""""I live for you,"" I say sadly.Eo kisses my cheek. ""Then you must live for more.""Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations.Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children.But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity already reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and sprawling parks spread across the planet. Darrow—and Reds like him—are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class.Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow sacrifices everything to infiltrate the legendary Institute, a proving ground for the dominant Gold caste, where the next generation of humanity's overlords struggle for power. He will be forced to compete for his life and the very future of civilization against the best and most brutal of Society's ruling class. There, he will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies... even if it means he has to become one of them to do so."</synopsis>
                <title>Red Rising</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>William Shakespeare</author>
                <characters>Fleance, Seyward, Young Siward, Seyton, First Witch, Second Witch, Third Witch, Lady Macduff, Lady Macbeth</characters>
                <date>07/01/2013</date>
                <genres>Classics, Plays, Fiction, Drama, School, Literature, Read For School, Theatre, High School, Poetry</genres>
                <id>1487</id>
                <synopsis>"One night on the heath, the brave and respected general Macbeth encounters three witches who foretell that he will become king of Scotland. At first sceptical, he’s urged on by the ruthless, single-minded ambitions of Lady Macbeth, who suffers none of her husband’s doubt. But seeing the prophecy through to the bloody end leads them both spiralling into paranoia, tyranny, madness, and murder.This shocking tragedy - a violent caution to those seeking power for its own sake - is, to this day, one of Shakespeare’s most popular and influential masterpieces."</synopsis>
                <title>Macbeth</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jhumpa Lahiri</author>
                <characters>Ashoke Ganguli, Ashima Ganguli, Gogol/Nikhil Ganguli, Sonia/Sonali Ganguli, Maxine, Moushumi Mazoomdar</characters>
                <date>09/01/2004</date>
                <genres>Fiction, India, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Novels, Indian Literature, Literature, Book Club, Adult Fiction, Adult</genres>
                <id>1488</id>
                <synopsis>"Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation. Her stories are one of the very few debut works - and only a handful of collections - to have won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Among the many other awards and honors it received were the New Yorker Debut of the Year award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the highest critical praise for its grace, acuity, and compassion in detailing lives transported from India to America.In The Namesake, Lahiri enriches the themes that made her collection an international bestseller: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation, and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations. Here again Lahiri displays her deft touch for the perfect detail — the fleeting moment, the turn of phrase — that opens whole worlds of emotion.The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. On the heels of their arranged wedding, Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli settle together in Cambridge, Massachusetts. An engineer by training, Ashoke adapts far less warily than his wife, who resists all things American and pines for her family. When their son is born, the task of naming him betrays the vexed results of bringing old ways to the new world. Named for a Russian writer by his Indian parents in memory of a catastrophe years before, Gogol Ganguli knows only that he suffers the burden of his heritage as well as his odd, antic name. Lahiri brings great empathy to Gogol as he stumbles along the first-generation path, strewn with conflicting loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs. With penetrating insight, she reveals not only the defining power of the names and expectations bestowed upon us by our parents, but also the means by which we slowly, sometimes painfully, come to define ourselves."</synopsis>
                <title>The Namesake</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>James Dashner </author>
                <characters>Brenda (Maze Runner), Teresa Agnes, Minho, Gally, Thomas, Newt, Aris Jones, Jorge</characters>
                <date>10/11/2011</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Post Apocalyptic, Teen, Audiobook, Action</genres>
                <id>1489</id>
                <synopsis>"It’s the end of the line. WICKED has taken everything from Thomas: his life, his memories, and now his only friends—the Gladers. But it’s finally over. The trials are complete, after one final test. Will anyone survive? What WICKED doesn’t know is that Thomas remembers far more than they think. And it’s enough to prove that he can’t believe a word of what they say. The truth will be terrifying. Thomas beat the Maze. He survived the Scorch. He’ll risk anything to save his friends. But the truth might be what ends it all.  The time for lies is over."</synopsis>
                <title>The Death Cure</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Paula Hawkins </author>
                <characters>Rachel Watson, Anna Watson, Tom Watson, Megan Hipwell, Scott Hipwell, Kamal Abdic</characters>
                <date>01/13/15</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Contemporary, Adult, Audiobook, Adult Fiction</genres>
                <id>1490</id>
                <synopsis>"An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She’s even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. “Jess and Jason,” she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy. And then she sees something shocking. It’s only a minute until the train moves on, but it’s enough. Now everything’s changed. Now Rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives she’s only watched from afar. Now they’ll see; she’s much more than just the girl on the train..."</synopsis>
                <title>The Girl on the Train</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ned Vizzini, Rachel Cohn (Foreword)</author>
                <characters>Aaron, Nia, Craig Gilner, Noelle</characters>
                <date>05/01/2007</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Fiction, Contemporary, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Realistic Fiction, Romance, Psychology, Coming Of Age, Teen</genres>
                <id>1491</id>
                <synopsis>"Ambitious New York City teenager Craig Gilner is determined to succeed at life - which means getting into the right high school to get into the right job. But once Craig aces his way into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School, the pressure becomes unbearable. He stops eating and sleeping until, one night, he nearly kills himself.Craig's suicidal episode gets him checked into a mental hospital, where his new neighbors include a transsexual sex addict, a girl who has scarred her own face with scissors, and the self-elected President Armelio. There, Craig is finally able to confront the sources of his anxiety.Ned Vizzini, who himself spent time in a psychiatric hospital, has created a remarkably moving tale about the sometimes unexpected road to happiness."</synopsis>
                <title>It's Kind of a Funny Story</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kristin Cashore</author>
                <characters>Brocker (Graceling Realm), Roen (Graceling Realm), Nash (Graceling Realm), Brigan (Graceling Realm), Leck (Graceling Realm), Garan (Graceling Realm), Archer (Graceling Realm), Fire (Graceling Realm)</characters>
                <date>10/05/2009</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, High Fantasy, Teen, Paranormal</genres>
                <id>1492</id>
                <synopsis>"It is not a peaceful time in the Dells. The young King Nash clings to his throne while rebel lords in the north and south build armies to unseat him. The mountains and forests are filled with spies and thieves and lawless men.This is where Fire lives. With a wild, irresistible appearance and hair the color of flame, Fire is the last remaining human monster. Equally hated and adored, she had the unique ability to control minds, but she guards her power, unwilling to steal the secrets of innocent people. Especially when she has so many of her own.Then Prince Brigan comes to bring her to King City, The royal family needs her help to uncover the plot against the king. Far away from home, Fire begins to realize there's more to her power than she ever dreamed. Her power could save the kingdom.If only she weren't afraid of becoming the monster her father was."</synopsis>
                <title>Fire</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Agatha Christie</author>
                <characters>Colonel Race, Simon  Doyle, Parker Pyne, Hercule Poirot, Linnet Ridgeway, Jacqueline de Bellefort, Mrs. Allerton, Tim Allerton, Dr. Carl Bessner, Miss Bowers, Jim Fanthorp, Ferguson, Salomè Otterbourne, Rosalie Otterbourne, Andrew Pennington, Cornelia Robson, Marie Van Schuyler, Joanna Southwood</characters>
                <date>10/28/78</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Audiobook, Thriller, British Literature, Egypt</genres>
                <id>1493</id>
                <synopsis>"The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything - until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: 'I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.' Yet in this exotic setting, nothing is ever quite what it seems..."</synopsis>
                <title>Death on the Nile</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Terry Pratchett</author>
                <characters>Rincewind, Twoflower, The Luggage, DEATH</characters>
                <date>09/13/05</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Comedy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Magic, Adventure, High Fantasy, Novels</genres>
                <id>1494</id>
                <synopsis>"Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent, bestselling novels have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody next to the likes of Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.The Color of Magic is Terry Pratchett's maiden voyage through the now-legendary land of Discworld. This is where it all begins - with the tourist Twoflower and his wizard guide, Rincewind.On a world supported on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown), a gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out. There's an avaricious but inept wizard, a naive tourist whose luggage moves on hundreds of dear little legs, dragons who only exist if you believe in them, and of course THE EDGE of the planet..."</synopsis>
                <title>The Color of Magic</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Brandon Sanderson </author>
                <characters>Marsh, Vin, Elend Venture, Sazed, Hammond, Breeze, Spook</characters>
                <date>10/14/08</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Magic, Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Adventure, Epic</genres>
                <id>1495</id>
                <synopsis>"Tricked into releasing the evil spirit Ruin while attempting to close the Well of Ascension, new emperor Elend Venture and his wife, the assassin Vin, are now hard-pressed to save the world."</synopsis>
                <title>The Hero of Ages</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Philippe Forget, Dr. Riaz-ul-Hassan (Translator), Edla Valdna (Translator), Hugo Flintzer (Illustrator), R. Dillon Boylan (Translation), Charles Louis De Sevelinges, Robert Graves, more…</author>
                <characters>Werther, Albert Kestner, Charlotte Buff Kestner</characters>
                <date>02/08/2005</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, German Literature, Literature, Romance, Germany, School, Novels, 18th Century, Romanticism</genres>
                <id>1496</id>
                <synopsis>"This is Goethe's first novel, published in 1774. Written in diary form, it tells the tale of an unhappy, passionate young man hopelessly in love with Charlotte, the wife of a friend - a man who he alternately admires and detests. 'The Sorrows of Young Werther' became an important part of the 'Sturm und Drang movement, and greatly influenced later 'Romanticism'. The work is semi-autobiographical - in 1772, two years before the novel was published, Goethe had passed through a similar tempestuous period, when he lost his heart to Charlotte Buff, who was at that time engaged to his friend Johann Christian Kestner."</synopsis>
                <title>The Sorrows of Young Werther</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Lisa Genova </author>
                <characters>Alice Howland, Lydia Howland, John Howland, Anna Howland, Tom Howland, Tamara Moyer, Dr. Davis</characters>
                <date>07/06/2007</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Contemporary, Psychology, Book Club, Adult Fiction, Adult, Audiobook, Medical, Realistic Fiction, Drama</genres>
                <id>1497</id>
                <synopsis>"Still Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph. D in neuroscience from Harvard University. Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer's disease. Fiercely independent, Alice struggles to maintain her lifestyle and live in the moment, even as her sense of self is being stripped away. In turns heartbreaking, inspiring and terrifying, Still Alice captures in remarkable detail what's it's like to literally lose your mind..."</synopsis>
                <title>Still Alice</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Robert A. Heinlein</author>
                <characters>Manuel Garcia ""Mannie"" O''Kelly-Davis, Wyoming ""Wyoh"" Knott, Professor Bernardo de la Paz, Adam Selene, Stuart Rene ""Stu"" LaJoie, HOLMES IV</characters>
                <date>03/14/05</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Audiobook, Politics, Space, Novels, Speculative Fiction</genres>
                <id>1498</id>
                <synopsis>"It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of a former penal colony on the Moon against its masters on the Earth. It is a tale of a culture whose family structures are based on the presence of two men for every woman, leading to novel forms of marriage and family. It is the story of the disparate people, a computer technician, a vigorous young female agitator, and an elderly academic who become the movement's leaders, and of Mike, the supercomputer whose sentience is known only to the revolt's inner circle, who for reasons of his own is committed to the revolution's ultimate success."</synopsis>
                <title>The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Chuck Palahniuk </author>
                <characters>Victor Mancini, Denny, Ida Mancini, Paige Marshall</characters>
                <date>06/28/02</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Contemporary, Humor, Novels, Literature, Adult, American, Adult Fiction, Dark, Literary Fiction</genres>
                <id>1499</id>
                <synopsis>"Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows himself to be “saved” by fellow patrons who, feeling responsible for Victor’s life, go on to send checks to support him. When he’s not pulling this stunt, Victor cruises sexual addiction recovery workshops for action, visits his addled mom, and spends his days working at a colonial theme park. His creator, Chuck Palahniuk, is the visionary we need and the satirist we deserve."</synopsis>
                <title>Choke</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ray Bradbury</author>
                <characters>Douglas Spaulding, Tom Spaulding</characters>
                <date>07/28/00</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult, Short Stories, Coming Of Age, Literature, Novels, American</genres>
                <id>1500</id>
                <synopsis>"The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. Of half-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandma's belly-busting dinner. It was a summer of sorrows and marvels and gold-fuzzed bees. A magical, timeless summer in the life of a twelve-year-old boy named Douglas Spaulding—remembered forever by the incomparable Ray Bradbury.Woven into the novel are the following short stories: Illumination, Dandelion Wine, Summer in the Air, Season of Sitting, The Happiness Machine, The Night, The Lawns of Summer, Season of Disbelief, The Last-the Very Last, The Green Machine, The Trolley, Statues, The Window, The Swan, The Whole Town's Sleeping, Goodbye Grandma, The Tarot Witch, Hotter Than Summer, Dinner at Dawn, The Magical Kitchen, Green Wine for Dreaming."</synopsis>
                <title>Dandelion Wine</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>P.L. Travers, Júlia Sardà (Illustrator), Mary Shepard (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Jane Whitefield, Michael Banks, Mary  Poppins</characters>
                <date>06/01/2006</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fantasy, Childrens, Fiction, Middle Grade, Audiobook, Young Adult, Juvenile, Magic, Adventure</genres>
                <id>1501</id>
                <synopsis>"By P.L. Travers, the author featured in the major motion picture, Saving Mr. Banks. From the moment Mary Poppins arrives at Number Seventeen Cherry-Tree Lane, everyday life at the Banks house is forever changed. It all starts when Mary Poppins is blown by the east wind onto the doorstep of the Banks house. She becomes a most unusual nanny to Jane, Michael, and the twins. Who else but Mary Poppins can slide up banisters, pull an entire armchair out of an empty carpetbag, and make a dose of medicine taste like delicious lime-juice cordial? A day with Mary Poppins is a day of magic and make-believe come to life!"</synopsis>
                <title>Mary Poppins</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Becca Fitzpatrick </author>
                <characters>Nora Grey, Jev ""Patch"" Cipriano, Vee Sky, Marcie Millar, Scott Parnell</characters>
                <date>10/23/12</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Fantasy, Angels, Romance, Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1502</id>
                <synopsis>"Nora and Patch thought their troubles were behind them. Hank is gone and they should be able to put his ugly vendetta to rest. But in Hank's absence, Nora has become the unwitting head of the Nephilim and must finish what Hank began. Which ultimately means destroying the fallen angels - destroying Patch.Nora will never let that happen, so she and Patch make a plan: lead everyone to believe they have broken up, and work the system from the inside. Nora will convince the Nephilim that they are making a mistake in fighting the fallen angels, and Patch will find out everything he can from the opposing side. They will end this war before it can even begin.But the best-laid plans often go awry. Nora is put through the paces in her new role and finds herself drawn to an addictive power she never anticipated.As the battle lines are drawn, Nora and Patch must confront the differences that have always been between them and either choose to ignore them or let them destroy the love they have always fought for."</synopsis>
                <title>Finale</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kelley Armstrong </author>
                <characters>Chloe Saunders, Derek Souza, ""Victoria ''Tori'' Enright"", ""Rachelle ''Rae'' Rogers"", Simon Bae</characters>
                <date>04/28/09</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Supernatural, Romance, Magic, Werewolves, Ghosts, Fiction</genres>
                <id>1503</id>
                <synopsis>"If you had met me a few weeks ago, you probably would have described me as an average teenage girl - someone normal. Now my life has changed forever and I’m as far away from normal as it gets. A living science experiment - not only can I see ghosts, but I was genetically altered by a sinister organization called Edison Group. What does that mean? For starters. I'm a teenage necromancer whose powers are out of control: I raise the dead without even trying. Trust me, that is not a power you want to have. Ever.Now I’m running for my life with three of my supernatural friends - a charming sorcerer, a cynical werewolf, and a disgruntled witch - and we have to find someone who can help us before the Edison Group finds us first. Or die trying."</synopsis>
                <title>The Awakening</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Chuck Palahniuk </author>
                <characters>Tender Branson, Fertility Hollis, The Agent, The Caseworker, Primus</characters>
                <date>05/01/2018</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Contemporary, Thriller, Novels, Humor, Dark, Literature, American, Audiobook, Adult</genres>
                <id>1504</id>
                <synopsis>"From the author of the underground sensation Fight Club comes this wickedly incisive second novel, a mesmerizing, unnerving, and hilarious vision of cult and post-cult life.Tender Branson—last surviving member of the so-called Creedish Death Cult—is dictating his life story into the flight recorder of Flight 2039, cruising on autopilot at 39,000 feet somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. He is all alone in the airplane, which will crash shortly into the vast Australian outback. Before it does, he will unfold the tale of his journey from an obedient Creedish child and humble domestic servant to an ultra-buffed, steroid- and collagen-packed media messiah, author of a best-selling autobiography, Saved from Salvation, and the even better selling Book of Very Common Prayer (The Prayer to Delay Orgasm, The Prayer to Prevent Hair Loss, The Prayer to Silence Car Alarms). He'll reveal the truth of his tortured romance with the elusive and prescient Fertility Hollis, share his insight that ""the only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage,"" and deny responsibility for the Tender Branson Sensitive Materials Sanitary Landfill, a 20,000-acre repository for the nation's outdated pornography. Among other matters both bizarre and trenchant.Not since Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night and Jerzy Kosinski's Being There has there been as dark and telling a satire on the wages of fame and the bedrock lunacy of the modern world. Unpredictable, compelling, and unforgettable, Survivor is Chuck Palahniuk at his deadpan peak; and it cements his place as one of the most original writers in fiction today."</synopsis>
                <title>Survivor</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Richard Yates</author>
                <characters>Frank Wheeler, April Wheeler, Shep Campbell, Milly Campbell</characters>
                <date>02/01/2001</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Novels, American, Literature, Literary Fiction, Contemporary, 20th Century, Modern Classics</genres>
                <id>1505</id>
                <synopsis>"In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model American couple: bright, beautiful, talented, with two young children and a starter home in the suburbs. Perhaps they married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank's job is dull. And April never saw herself as a housewife. Yet they have always lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner. But now that certainty is now about to crumble. With heartbreaking compassion and remorseless clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April mortgage their spiritual birthright, betraying not only each other, but their best selves."</synopsis>
                <title>Revolutionary Road</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>John Green </author>
                <characters>Colin Singleton, Lindsey Lee Wells, Katherine Carter, Hassan Harbish</characters>
                <date>09/21/06</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, Realistic Fiction, Teen, Humor, Coming Of Age, Young Adult Contemporary, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1506</id>
                <synopsis>"Katherine V thought boys were grossKatherine X just wanted to be friendsKatherine XVIII dumped him in an e-mailK-19 broke his heartWhen it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton's type happens to be girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact.On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed-up child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, Judge Judy-loving best friend riding shotgun-but no Katherines. Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship, avenge Dumpees everywhere, and finally win him the girl.Love, friendship, and a dead Austro-Hungarian archduke add up to surprising and heart-changing conclusions in this ingeniously layered comic novel about reinventing oneself."</synopsis>
                <title>An Abundance of Katherines</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Sophocles, J.E. Thomas (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Antigone, Ismene (sister of Antigone), Eurydice (wife of Creon), Haemon, Tiresias, Creon</characters>
                <date>12/01/2005</date>
                <genres>Classics, Plays, Drama, Fiction, School, Read For School, Mythology, Theatre, Literature, High School</genres>
                <id>1507</id>
                <synopsis>"The curse placed on Oedipus lingers and haunts a younger generation in this new and brilliant translation of Sophocles' classic drama. The daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, Antigone is an unconventional heroine who pits her beliefs against the King of Thebes in a bloody test of wills that leaves few unharmed. Emotions fly as she challenges the king for the right to bury her own brother. Determined but doomed, Antigone shows her inner strength throughout the play.Antigone raises issues of law and morality that are just as relevant today as they were more than two thousand years ago. Whether this is your first reading or your twentieth, Antigone will move you as few pieces of literature can.To make this quintessential Greek drama more accessible to the modern reader, this Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary of difficult terms, a list of vocabulary words, and convenient sidebar notes. By providing these, it is our intention that readers will more fully enjoy the beauty, wisdom, and intent of the play."</synopsis>
                <title>Antigone</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Brian Selznick</author>
                <characters>Hugo Cabret, George Méliès, Isabelle</characters>
                <date>03/28/07</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Graphic Novels, Middle Grade, Fantasy, Mystery, Historical, Picture Books</genres>
                <id>1508</id>
                <synopsis>"Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric, bookish girl and a bitter old man who runs a toy booth in the station, Hugo's undercover life, and his most precious secret, are put in jeopardy. A cryptic drawing, a treasured notebook, a stolen key, a mechanical man, and a hidden message from Hugo's dead father form the backbone of this intricate, tender, and spellbinding mystery."</synopsis>
                <title>The Invention of Hugo Cabret</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Neil Gaiman </author>
                <characters>Lettie Hempstock, Ursula Monkton, The Nameless Boy, Ginnie Hempstock, Old Mrs. Hempstock</characters>
                <date>06/18/13</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Magical Realism, Audiobook, Young Adult, Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adult Fiction, Paranormal</genres>
                <id>1509</id>
                <synopsis>"Sussex, England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy.Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie—magical, comforting, wise beyond her years—promised to protect him, no matter what.A groundbreaking work from a master, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out. It is a stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark."</synopsis>
                <title>The Ocean at the End of the Lane</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Terry Pratchett</author>
                <characters>The Librarian, Great God Om, Brutha, Exquisitor Vorbis, Didactylos, Simony, Urn</characters>
                <date>08/01/2005</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Comedy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Religion, Science Fiction, Audiobook, Novels, High Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1510</id>
                <synopsis>"Just because you can't explain it, doesn't mean it's a miracle.' Religion is a controversial business in the Discworld. Everyone has their own opinion, and indeed their own gods. Who come in all shapes and sizes. In such a competitive environment, there is a pressing need to make one's presence felt. And it's certainly not remotely helpful to be reduced to be appearing in the form of a tortoise, a manifestation far below god-like status in anyone's book. In such instances, you need an acolyte, and fast. Preferably one who won't ask too many questions..."</synopsis>
                <title>Small Gods</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>F. Scott Fitzgerald, Amor Towles  (Introduction)</author>
                <characters>Dick Diver, Nicole Diver, Rosemary Hoyt, Elsie Speers, Abe North, Franz Gregorovius, Baby Warren, Tommy Barban</characters>
                <date>07/01/1995</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Literature, American, Novels, Romance, 20th Century, France, Literary Fiction, Modern Classics</genres>
                <id>1511</id>
                <synopsis>"Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise. A profound study of the romantic concept of character, Tender Is the Night is lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative."</synopsis>
                <title>Tender Is the Night</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander (Translator), H.P. van den Aardweg (Translator), Hayden Carruth (Introduction)</author>
                <characters>Antoine Roquentin, ""l''Autodidacte"", Anny</characters>
                <date>10/28/69</date>
                <genres>Philosophy, Fiction, Classics, France, Literature, French Literature, Novels, 20th Century, Nobel Prize, Unfinished</genres>
                <id>1512</id>
                <synopsis>"Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogues his every feeling and sensation about the world and people around him. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which ""spread at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of our time, the time of purple suspenders and broken chair seats; it is made of wide, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain."" Roquentin's efforts to try and come to terms with his life, his philosophical and psychological struggles, give Sartre the opportunity to dramatize the tenets of his Existentialist creed.The introduction for this edition of Nausea by Hayden Carruth gives background on Sartre's life and major works, a summary of the principal themes of Existentialist philosophy, and a critical analysis of the novel itself."</synopsis>
                <title>Nausea</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Justin Cronin , Dominique Haas (Traduction)</author>
                <characters>Brad Wolgast, Lacey Antoinette Kudoto, Phil Doyle, Giles Babcock, Olson Hand, Theo Jaxon, Ida Jaxon, Sara Fisher, Mausami Patal, Caleb ""Hightop"" Jones, Amy Harper Bellafonte, Peter Jaxon, Anthony Lloyd Carter, Michael ""The Circuit"" Fisher, Hollis Wilson, Alicia Donadio, Jonas Abbott Lear</characters>
                <date>06/08/2010</date>
                <genres>Horror, Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Post Apocalyptic, Vampires, Dystopia, Thriller, Apocalyptic, Paranormal</genres>
                <id>1513</id>
                <synopsis>"IT HAPPENED FAST.THIRTY-TWO MINUTES FOR ONE WORLD TO DIE, ANOTHER TO BE BORN.First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. All that remains for the stunned survivors is the long fight ahead and a future ruled by fear-of darkness, of death, of a fate far worse.As civilization swiftly crumbles into a primal landscape of predators and prey, two people flee in search of sanctuary. FBI agent Brad Wolgast is a good man haunted by what he's done in the line of duty. Six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte is a refugee from the doomed scientific project that has triggered apocalypse. Wolgast is determined to protect her from the horror set loose by her captors, but for Amy, escaping the bloody fallout is only the beginning of a much longer odyssey-spanning miles and decades-toward the time an place where she must finish what should never have begun.With The Passage, award-winning author Justin Cronin has written both a relentlessly suspenseful adventure and an epic chronicle of human endurance in the face of unprecedented catastrophe and unimaginable danger. Its inventive storytelling, masterly prose, and depth of human insight mark it as a crucial and transcendent work of modern fiction.(front flap)"</synopsis>
                <title>The Passage</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kelley Armstrong </author>
                <characters>Chloe Saunders, Derek Souza, ""Victoria ''Tori'' Enright"", Simon Bae</characters>
                <date>04/06/2010</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Supernatural, Werewolves, Magic, Ghosts, Fiction</genres>
                <id>1514</id>
                <synopsis>"Chloe Saunders is fifteen and would love to be normal. Unfortunately, Chloe happens to be a genetically engineered necromancer who can raise the dead without even trying. She and her equally gifted (or should that be 'cursed'?) friends are now running for their lives from the evil corporation that created them.As if that's not enough, Chloe is struggling with her feelings for Simon, a sweet-tempered sorcerer, and his brother Derek, a not so sweet-tempered werewolf. And she has a horrible feeling she's leaning towards the werewolf...Definitely not normal."</synopsis>
                <title>The Reckoning</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Robert A. Heinlein</author>
                <characters>Juan Rico</characters>
                <date>05/15/87</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Classics, Military Fiction, War, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space Opera, Fantasy, Space, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1515</id>
                <synopsis>"The historians can’t seem to settle whether to call this one ""The Third Space War"" (or the fourth), or whether ""The First Interstellar War"" fits it better. We just call it “The Bug War."" Everything up to then and still later were ""incidents,"" ""patrols,"" or ""police actions."" However, you are just as dead if you buy the farm in an ""incident"" as you are if you buy it in a declared war...In one of Robert A. Heinlein’s most controversial bestsellers, a recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the Universe—and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry against mankind’s most alarming enemy."</synopsis>
                <title>Starship Troopers</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Edith Wharton</author>
                <characters>Ethan Frome, Mrs. Hale, Zeena Frome, Mattie Silver, Mrs. Ned Hale, Denis Eady, Jotham Powell, Harmon Gow, Michael Eady, Lawyer Varnum, Ned Hale, Orin Silver, Andrew Hale, Aunt Martha Pierce, Mrs. Frome, Mrs. Homan, Dr. Buck, Eliza Spears, Aunt Philura Maple, Daniel Byrne, Dr. Kidder, Mrs. Varnum</characters>
                <date>10/28/05</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Literature, School, Romance, Historical Fiction, American, Novels, High School, Classic Literature</genres>
                <id>1516</id>
                <synopsis>"The classic novel of despair, forbidden emotions, and sexual undercurrents set against the austere New England countrysideEthan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeena's vivacious cousin enters their household as a hired girl, Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent.In one of American fiction's finest and most intense narratives, Edith Wharton moves this ill-starred trio toward their tragic destinies. Different in both tone and theme from Wharton's other works, Ethan Frome has become perhaps her most enduring and most widely read book."</synopsis>
                <title>Ethan Frome</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Tim Butcher </author>
                <characters>Gavrilo Princip</characters>
                <date>05/01/2014</date>
                <genres>History, Nonfiction, World War I, War, Travel, Biography, Politics, European History, 20th Century, Biography Memoir</genres>
                <id>1517</id>
                <synopsis>"On a summer morning in Sarajevo a hundred years ago, a teenage assassin named Gavrilo Princip fired not just the opening shots of the First World War but the starting gun for modern history, when he killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Yet the events Princip triggered were so monumental that his own story has been largely overlooked, his role garbled and motivations misrepresented.The Trigger puts this right, filling out as never before a figure who changed our world and whose legacy still has an impact on all of us today. Born a penniless backwoodsman, Princip’s life changed when he trekked through Bosnia and Serbia to attend school. As he ventured across fault lines of faith, nationalism and empire, so tightly clustered in the Balkans, radicalisation slowly transformed him from a frail farm boy into history’s most influential assassin.By retracing Princip’s journey from his highland birthplace, through the mythical valleys of Bosnia to the fortress city of Belgrade and ultimately Sarajevo, Tim Butcher illuminates our understanding both of Princip and the places that shaped him. Tim uncovers details about Princip that have eluded historians for a century and draws on his own experience, as a war reporter in the Balkans in the 1990s, to face down ghosts of conflicts past and present.The Trigger is a rich and timely work that brings to life both the moment the world first went to war and an extraordinary region with a potent hold over history."</synopsis>
                <title>The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Andrew Davidson </author>
                <characters>Marianne Engel</characters>
                <date>01/01/2008</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Romance, Historical, Contemporary, Adult, Gothic, Paranormal, Adult Fiction</genres>
                <id>1518</id>
                <synopsis>"An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time.The narrator of The Gargoyle is a very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexually adept, who dwells in the moral vacuum that is modern life. As the book opens, he is driving along a dark road when he is distracted by what seems to be a flight of arrows. He crashes into a ravine and suffers horrible burns over much of his body. As he recovers in a burn ward, undergoing the tortures of the damned, he awaits the day when he can leave the hospital and commit carefully planned suicide—for he is now a monster in appearance as well as in soul. A beautiful and compelling, but clearly unhinged, sculptress of gargoyles by the name of Marianne Engel appears at the foot of his bed and insists that they were once lovers in medieval Germany. In her telling, he was a badly injured mercenary and she was a nun and scribe in the famed monastery of Engelthal who nursed him back to health. As she spins their tale in Scheherazade fashion and relates equally mesmerizing stories of deathless love in Japan, Iceland, Italy, and England, he finds himself drawn back to life—and, finally, in love. He is released into Marianne's care and takes up residence in her huge stone house. But all is not well. For one thing, the pull of his past sins becomes ever more powerful as the morphine he is prescribed becomes ever more addictive. For another, Marianne receives word from God that she has only twenty-seven sculptures left to complete—and her time on earth will be finished. Already an international literary sensation, the Gargoyle is an Inferno for our time. It will have you believing in the impossible."</synopsis>
                <title>The Gargoyle</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Winston Groom</author>
                <characters>Forrest Gump, Lieutenant Dan Taylor, Forrest Gump Jnr, Jenny Curran</characters>
                <date>10/01/2002</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Humor, Historical Fiction, Classics, Media Tie In, Novels, Drama, Adventure, Contemporary, Historical</genres>
                <id>1519</id>
                <synopsis>"At 6'6"" and 240lbs, Forrest Gump is difficult to ignore. This satire follows him from the football dynasties of Bear Bryant to Vietnam, and from encounters with Presidents Johnson and Nixon to pow-wows with Chairman Mao. It also takes in Harvard University, a Hollywood set, and a NASA mission.""Forrest Gump is line bred out of Voltaire and Huck Finn; its humour is wild and coarse, a satire right on the money. It is not the less honest for being so funny, for bringing the woebegone archangels of our culture and history to judgement. Anyone who doesn't read this book deserves to spend the winter in North Dakota"" (Jim Harrison)""A superbly controlled satire"" (The Washington Post)""Rollicking, bawdy... A good time... Poking fun at everything"" (People)""Winston Groom has created the ideal citizen for the modern world - a perfect idiot"" (P.J. O'Rourke)""Joyously madcap"" (Publishers Weekly)"</synopsis>
                <title>Forrest Gump</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Mary Doria Russell </author>
                <characters>Emilio Sandoz, Jimmy Quinn, Vincenzo Giuliani, John Candotti, Johannes Voelker, Edward Behr, Sofia Mendez, Anne Edwards, George Edwards, Alan Pace, Felipe Reyes, D.W. Yarbrough, Marc Robichaux, Supaari, Askama, Hlavin Kitheri</characters>
                <date>09/08/1997</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Religion, Science Fiction Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Aliens, Adult, Book Club, Novels</genres>
                <id>1520</id>
                <synopsis>"In 2019, humanity finally finds proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post in Puerto Rico picks up exquisite singing from a planet that will come to be known as Rakhat. While United Nations diplomats endlessly debate a possible first contact mission, the Society of Jesus quietly organizes an eight-person scientific expedition of its own. What the Jesuits find is a world so beyond comprehension that it will lead them to question what it means to be ""human""."</synopsis>
                <title>The Sparrow</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Markus Zusak , Emmanuel Pailler</author>
                <characters>Audrey, Ed Kennedy, Milla Johnson, Marvin Harris, Ritchie Sánchez</characters>
                <date>05/09/2006</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Fiction, Mystery, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Teen, Audiobook, Australia, Adult, Coming Of Age</genres>
                <id>1521</id>
                <synopsis>"protect the diamondssurvive the clubsdig deep through the spadesfeel the heartsEd Kennedy is an underage cabdriver without much of a future. He's pathetic at playing cards, hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey, and utterly devoted to his coffee-drinking dog, the Doorman. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery.That's when the first ace arrives in the mail.That's when Ed becomes the messenger.Chosen to care, he makes his way through town helping and hurting (when necessary) until only one question remains: Who's behind Ed's mission?"</synopsis>
                <title>I Am the Messenger</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Angie Thomas </author>
                <characters>Khalil, Starr, Seven</characters>
                <date>02/28/17</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Fiction, Contemporary, Audiobook, Realistic Fiction, Race, Social Justice, Teen, Young Adult Contemporary, African American</genres>
                <id>1522</id>
                <synopsis>"An alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780062498533 can be found here.Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr.But what Starr does—or does not—say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life.Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, this is a powerful and gripping YA novel about one girl's struggle for justice."</synopsis>
                <title>The Hate U Give</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jamie McGuire </author>
                <characters>Abby Abernathy, Travis Maddox</characters>
                <date>04/02/2013</date>
                <genres>Romance, New Adult, Contemporary, Young Adult, Contemporary Romance, College, Fiction, Chick Lit, Fighters, Love</genres>
                <id>1523</id>
                <synopsis>"How much is too much to love? Travis Maddox learned two things from his mother before she died: Love hard. Fight harder.Finally, the highly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Beautiful Disaster.Can you love someone too much?Travis Maddox learned two things from his mother before she died: Love hard. Fight harder.In Walking Disaster, the life of Travis is full of fast women, underground gambling, and violence. But just when he thinks he is invincible, Abby Abernathy brings him to his knees.Every story has two sides. In Beautiful Disaster, Abby had her say. Now it’s time to see the story through Travis’s eyes."</synopsis>
                <title>Walking Disaster</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Karen Marie Moning </author>
                <characters>MacKayla Lane, Rowena, ""Dani O''Malley"", Jericho Barrons, ""V''lane"", Lord Master, ""Derek O''Bannion"", Christian MacKeltar, Ryodan, Darroc</characters>
                <date>08/18/09</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal Romance, Fae, Adult, Fiction, Magic, Supernatural</genres>
                <id>1524</id>
                <synopsis>"MacKayla Lane lies naked on the cold stone floor of a church, at the mercy of the erotic Fae master she once swore to kill. Far from home, unable to control her sexual hungers, MacKayla is now fully under the Lord Master’s spell.…In New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning’s stunning new novel, the walls between human and Fae worlds have come crashing down. And as Mac fights for survival on Dublin’s battle-scarred streets, she will embark on the darkest—and most erotically charged—adventure of her life.He has stolen her past, but MacKayla will never allow her sister’s murderer to take her future. Yet even the uniquely gifted sidhe-seer is no match for the Lord Master, who has unleashed an insatiable sexual craving that consumes Mac’s every thought—and thrusts her into the seductive realm of two very dangerous men, both of whom she desires but dares not trust. As the enigmatic Jericho Barrons and the sensual Fae prince V’lane vie for her body and soul, as cryptic entries from her sister’s diary mysteriously appear and the power of the Dark Book weaves its annihilating path through the city, Mac’s greatest enemy delivers a final challenge.…It’s an invitation Mac cannot refuse, one that sends her racing home to Georgia, where an even darker threat awaits. With her parents missing and the lives of her loved ones under siege, Mac is about to come face-to-face with a soul-shattering truth—about herself and her sister, about Jericho Barrons…and about the world she thought she knew."</synopsis>
                <title>Dreamfever</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jules Verne, Michael Glencross (Translator, Annotations), Brian W. Aldiss (Introduction)</author>
                <characters>Fix, Phileas Fogg, Jean Passepartout, Aouda</characters>
                <date>02/26/04</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Adventure, Science Fiction, France, Travel, Fantasy, Literature, Historical Fiction, Novels</genres>
                <id>1525</id>
                <synopsis>"One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passepartout. Passing through exotic lands and dangerous locations, they seize whatever transportation is at hand—whether train or elephant—overcoming set-backs and always racing against the clock."</synopsis>
                <title>Around the World in Eighty Days</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>John Irving </author>
                <characters>John Berry, Franny Berry, Frank Berry, Win Berry, Lilly Berry</characters>
                <date>10/22/82</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Contemporary, Literature, Novels, Literary Fiction, Classics, American, Humor, The United States Of America, Adult Fiction</genres>
                <id>1526</id>
                <synopsis>"“The first of my father’s illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels.” So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they “dream on” in a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel by the remarkable author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and Last Night in Twisted River."</synopsis>
                <title>The Hotel New Hampshire</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Stephen King </author>
                <characters>Stephen King</characters>
                <date>07/28/02</date>
                <genres>Nonfiction, Writing, Memoir, Biography, Reference, Autobiography, Audiobook, Biography Memoir, Books About Books, Horror</genres>
                <id>1527</id>
                <synopsis>"""Long live the King"" hailed Entertainment Weekly upon the publication of Stephen King's On Writing. Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer's craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have. King's advice is grounded in his vivid memories from childhood through his emergence as a writer, from his struggling early career to his widely reported near-fatal accident in 1999 - and how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery. Brilliantly structured, friendly and inspiring, On Writing will empower and entertain everyone who reads it - fans, writers, and anyone who loves a great story well told.(back cover)"</synopsis>
                <title>On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kate Morton </author>
                <characters>Cassandra Ryan, ""Nell O''Connor"", Eliza Makepeace, Rose Mountrachet</characters>
                <date>06/01/2008</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Historical, Australia, Romance, Adult Fiction, Adult, British Literature, Book Club</genres>
                <id>1528</id>
                <synopsis>"A foundling, an old book of dark fairy tales, a secret garden, an aristocratic family, a love denied, and a mystery. The Forgotten Garden is a captivating, atmospheric and compulsively readable story of the past, secrets, family and memory from the international best-selling author Kate Morton.Cassandra is lost, alone and grieving. Her much loved grandmother, Nell, has just died and Cassandra, her life already shaken by a tragic accident ten years ago, feels like she has lost everything dear to her. But an unexpected and mysterious bequest from Nell turns Cassandra’s life upside down and ends up challenging everything she thought she knew about herself and her family.Inheriting a book of dark and intriguing fairytales written by Eliza Makepeace—the Victorian authoress who disappeared mysteriously in the early twentieth century—Cassandra takes her courage in both hands to follow in the footsteps of Nell on a quest to find out the truth about their history, their family and their past; little knowing that in the process, she will also discover a new life for herself."</synopsis>
                <title>The Forgotten Garden</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Robert James Waller</author>
                <characters>Robert Kincaid, Francesca Johnson</characters>
                <date>09/01/1995</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Romance, Classics, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Novels, Adult Fiction, Adult, Love, Drama</genres>
                <id>1529</id>
                <synopsis>"The story of Robert Kincaid, the photographer and free spirit searching for the covered bridges of Madison County, and Francesca Johnson, the farm wife waiting for the fulfillment of a girlhood dream, THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY gives voice to the longings of men and women everywhere-and shows us what it is to love and be loved so intensely that life is never the same again."</synopsis>
                <title>The Bridges of Madison County</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jeffrey Archer</author>
                <characters>William Kane, Abel Rosnovski</characters>
                <date>03/13/04</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Historical Fiction, Thriller, Drama, Classics, Novels, Historical, Mystery, Contemporary, Mystery Thriller</genres>
                <id>1530</id>
                <synopsis>"Born on the same day near the turn of the century on opposite sides of the world, both men are brought together by fate and the quest of a dream. These two men - ambitious, powerful, ruthless - are locked in a relentless struggle to build an empire, fuelled by their all-consuming hatred. Over 60 years and three generations, through war, marriage, fortune, and disaster, Kane and Abel battle for the success and triumph that only one man can have."</synopsis>
                <title>Kane and Abel</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Scott Westerfeld </author>
                <characters>David Strorm, Tally Youngblood, Shay, Dr. Cable, Andrew Simpson Smith, Peris, Zane (Uglies)</characters>
                <date>05/09/2006</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, Teen, Adventure, Post Apocalyptic, Futuristic</genres>
                <id>1531</id>
                <synopsis>"""Special Circumstances"": The words have sent chills down Tally's spine since her days as a repellent, rebellious ugly. Back then Specials were a sinister rumor - frighteningly beautiful, dangerously strong, breathtakingly fast. Ordinary pretties might live their whole lives without meeting a Special. But Tally's never been ordinary.And now she's been turned into one of them: a superamped fighting machine, engineered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid.The strength, the speed, and the clarity and focus of her thinking feel better than anything Tally can remember. Most of the time. One tiny corner of her heart still remembers something more.Still, it's easy to tune that out - until Tally's offered a chance to stamp out the rebels of the New Smoke permanently. It all comes down to one last choice: listen to that tiny, faint heartbeat, or carry out the mission she's programmed to complete. Either way, Tally's world will never be the same."</synopsis>
                <title>Specials</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>William Faulkner</author>
                <characters>Quentin Compson III, Thomas Sutpen, Jason Compson III, Shreve, Rosa Coldfield, Ellen Coldfield, Henry Sutpen, Judith Sutpen, Charles Bon, Wash Jones, Jim Bond</characters>
                <date>11/30/90</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Literature, American, Novels, Historical Fiction, Southern, Southern Gothic, 20th Century, Literary Fiction</genres>
                <id>1532</id>
                <synopsis>"Published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! is considered by many to be William Faulkner's masterpiece. Although the novel's complex and fragmented structure poses considerable difficulty to readers, the book's literary merits place it squarely in the ranks of America's finest novels. The story concerns Thomas Sutpen, a poor man who finds wealth and then marries into a respectable family. His ambition and extreme need for control bring about his ruin and the ruin of his family. Sutpen's story is told by several narrators, allowing the reader to observe variations in the saga as it is recounted by different speakers. This unusual technique spotlights one of the novel's central questions: To what extent can people know the truth about the past?"</synopsis>
                <title>Absalom, Absalom!</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Dennis Lehane </author>
                <characters>Teddy Daniels, Chuck Aule, Dr. John Cawley, Dr. Jeremiah Naehring</characters>
                <date>04/27/04</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Horror, Suspense, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Novels, Psychological Thriller, Adult Fiction</genres>
                <id>1533</id>
                <synopsis>"The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this remote and barren island, despite having been kept in a locked cell under constant surveillance. As a killer hurricane relentlessly bears down on them, a strange case takes on even darker, more sinister shades—with hints of radical experimentation, horrifying surgeries, and lethal countermoves made in the cause of a covert shadow war. No one is going to escape Shutter Island unscathed, because nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. But then neither is Teddy Daniels."</synopsis>
                <title>Shutter Island</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Terry Pratchett</author>
                <characters>Albert, DEATH, Mort, Ysabel, Keli</characters>
                <date>02/06/2001</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Comedy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Magic, Novels, Death, Science Fiction</genres>
                <id>1534</id>
                <synopsis>"Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestseller in England, where they have catapulted him into the highest echelons of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.In this Discworld installment, Death comes to Mort with an offer he can't refuse - especially since being, well, dead isn't compulsory. As Death's apprentice, he'll have free board and lodging, use of the company horse, and he won't need time off for family funerals. The position is everything Mort thought he'd ever wanted, until he discovers that this perfect job can be a killer on his love life."</synopsis>
                <title>Mort</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Richelle Mead </author>
                <characters>Sydney Sage, Dimitri Belikov, Adrian Ivashkov, Jillian Mastrano, Edison ""Eddie"" Castile, Angeline Dawes, Sonya Karp, Keith Darnell, Tom Darnell</characters>
                <date>06/12/2012</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Vampires, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Magic, Supernatural, Paranormal Romance, Fiction</genres>
                <id>1535</id>
                <synopsis>"Sydney Sage is an Alchemist, one of a group of humans who dabble in magic and serve to bridge the worlds of humans and vampires. Alchemists protect vampire secrets - and human lives.Sydney would love to go to college, but instead, she's been sent into hiding at a posh boarding school in Palm Springs, California - tasked with protecting Moroi princess Jill Dragomir from assassins who want to throw the Moroi court into civil war. Formerly in disgrace, Sydney is now praised for her loyalty and obedience, and held up as the model of an exemplary Alchemist.But the closer she grows to Jill, Eddie, and especially Adrian, the more she finds herself questioning her age-old Alchemist beliefs, her idea of family, and her sense of what it means to truly belong. Her world becomes even more complicated when magical experiments show Sydney may hold the key to prevent becoming Strigoi - the fiercest vampires, the ones who don't die. But it's her fear of being just that - special, magical, powerful - that scares her more than anything. Equally daunting is her new romance with Braydon, a cute, brainy guy who seems to be her match in every way. Yet, as perfect as he seems, Sydney finds herself being drawn to someone else - someone forbidden to her.When a shocking secret threatens to tear the vampire world apart, Sydney's loyalties are suddenly tested more than ever before. She wonders how she's supposed to strike a balance between the principles and dogmas she's been taught, and what her instincts are now telling her.Should she trust the Alchemists - or her heart?"</synopsis>
                <title>The Golden Lily</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jeaniene Frost </author>
                <characters>Denise MacGregor, Bones (Night Huntress series), Catherine Crawfield-Russell, Spade (Night Huntress series), Mencheres, Tate Bradley, Don Williams, Ian Flannery, Annette De Witt, Maximus (Night Huntress series)</characters>
                <date>04/29/08</date>
                <genres>Vampires, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Romance, Fantasy, Adult, Supernatural, Fiction, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1536</id>
                <synopsis>"You can run from the grave, but you can’t hide…Half-vampire Cat Crawfield is now Special Agent Cat Crawfield, working for the government to rid the world of the rogue undead. She’s still using everything Bones, her sexy and dangerous ex, taught her, but when Cat is targeted for assassination, the only man who can help her is the vampire she left behind.Being around Bones awakens all her emotions, from the adrenaline rush of slaying vamps side by side to the reckless passion that consumed them. But a price on her head – wanted: dead or half-alive – means her survival depends on teaming up with Bones. And no matter how hard Cat tries to keep things professional between them, she’ll find that desire lasts forever … and Bones won’t let her get away again."</synopsis>
                <title>One Foot in the Grave</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>James Frey</author>
                <characters>James Frey</characters>
                <date>09/22/05</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Contemporary, Psychology, Biography Memoir, Adult, Book Club, Novels, Mental Health, Adult Fiction, Drama</genres>
                <id>1537</id>
                <synopsis>"Intense, unpredictable, and instantly engaging, this is a story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation as it has never been told before. It is also the introduction of a bold and talented literary voice. Before considering reading this book, please see the BookBrowse note on the book jacket/review page.BookBrowse Note: January 9th 2006: An article in the Smoking Gun claimed that James Frey (author of A Million Little Pieces and My Friend Leonard) fabricated key parts of his books. They cited police records, court documents and interviews with law enforcement agents which belie a number of Frey's claims regarding criminal charges against him, jail terms and his fugitive status.In an interview with the Smoking Gun, Frey admitted that he had 'embellished central details' in A Million Little Pieces and backtracked on claims he made in the book.January 26th 2006. Frey's publisher stated that while it initially stood by him, after further questioning of the author, the house has ""sadly come to the realization that a number of facts have been altered and incidents embellished."" It will be adding a a publisher's note and author's note to all future editions of A Million Little Pieces."</synopsis>
                <title>A Million Little Pieces</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Dennis Lehane </author>
                <characters>Dave Boyle, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus</characters>
                <date>02/01/2001</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Drama, Novels, Adult, Contemporary</genres>
                <id>1538</id>
                <synopsis>"Boston, 1975. East Buckingham è un quartiere in cui tutti conoscono tutti. Nessuno dei suoi abitanti se ne mai andato, se non quei ragazzi che la guerra ha strappato dalle proprie case per non restituirli più. Crescere in una periferia come questa non è certo il modo migliore per dare alla propria vita grandi prospettive. Ma è qui che Sean, Jimmy e Dave sono nati, e la loro esistenza sarebbe stata uguale a quella di tanti altri se non fosse arrivata quella dannata mattina. La mattina in cui Dave, con i suoi occhi spenti pieni di lacrime è salito sul sedile posteriore di quella macchina. Ed è scomparso per quattro, terribili giorni. Venticinque anni dopo, la violenza torna a segnare la vita di Dave. Questa volta però gli sguardi che si posano su di lui non sono compassionevoli, ma carichi d'odio e disprezzo. Reazione più che naturale di fronte all'omicidio di una ragazza di diciannove anni di cui Dave è accusato. E, quasi che il destino volesse rinsaldare un tragico legame, la vittima è la figlia di Jimmy, mentre Sean, diventato poliziotto, è incaricato delle indagini."</synopsis>
                <title>Mystic River</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Rick Riordan </author>
                <characters>Leo Valdez, Nico di Angelo, Thalia Grace, Annabeth Chase, Demeter (Goddess), Grover Underwood, Hera, Hades, Reyna, Juno, Rachel Elizabeth Dare, Jason Grace, Piper McLean, Hazel Levesque, Frank Zhang, Will Solace, Percy Jackson</characters>
                <date>10/07/2014</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Mythology, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Fiction, Adventure, Greek Mythology, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Childrens</genres>
                <id>1539</id>
                <synopsis>"Nico had warned them. Going through the House of Hades would stir the demigods' worst memories. Their ghosts would become restless. Nico may actually become a ghost if he has to shadow-travel with Reyna and Coach Hedge one more time. But that might be better than the alternative: allowing someone else to die, as Hades foretold.Jason's ghost is his mother, who abandoned him when he was little. He may not know how he is going to prove himself as a leader, but he does know that he will not break promises like she did. He will complete his line of the prophecy: To storm or fire the world must fall.Reyna fears the ghosts of her ancestors, who radiate anger. But she can't allow them to distract her from getting the Athena Parthenos to Camp Half-Blood before war breaks out between the Romans and Greeks. Will she have enough strength to succeed, especially with a deadly hunter on her trail?Leo fears that his plan won't work, that his friends might interfere. But there is no other way. All of them know that one of the Seven has to die in order to defeat Gaea, the Earth Mother.Piper must learn to give herself over to fear. Only then will she be able to do her part at the end: utter a single word.Heroes, gods, and monsters all have a role to play in the climactic fulfillment of the prophecy in The Blood of Olympus, the electrifying finale of the best-selling Heroes of Olympus series."</synopsis>
                <title>The Blood of Olympus</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jeanne DuPrau</author>
                <characters>Lina Mayfleet, Doon Harrow</characters>
                <date>2003</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Dystopia, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Fiction, Middle Grade, Childrens, Adventure, Post Apocalyptic, Teen</genres>
                <id>1540</id>
                <synopsis>"An alternate cover edition can be found here.Many hundreds of years ago, the city of Ember was created by the Builders to contain everything needed for human survival. It worked…but now the storerooms are almost out of food, crops are blighted, corruption is spreading through the city and worst of all—the lights are failing. Soon Ember could be engulfed by darkness…But when two children, Lina and Doon, discover fragments of an ancient parchment, they begin to wonder if there could be a way out of Ember. Can they decipher the words from long ago and find a new future for everyone? Will the people of Ember listen to them?"</synopsis>
                <title>The City of Ember</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Irving Stone</author>
                <characters>""Lorenzo de'' Medici"", Michelangelo, Pope Clement VII, Francesco Granacci, Pietro Torrigiani, Pope Julius II, Leonardo da Vinci</characters>
                <date>1961</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Art, Classics, Italy, Historical, Art History, Literature, Biography Memoir, Novels</genres>
                <id>1541</id>
                <synopsis>"Celebrating the 500th anniversary of Michelangelo’s David, New American Library releases a special edition of Irving Stone’s classic biographical novel—in which both the artist and the man are brought to life in full. A masterpiece in its own right, this novel offers a compelling portrait of Michelangelo’s dangerous, impassioned loves, and the God-driven fury from which he wrested the greatest art the world has ever known."</synopsis>
                <title>The Agony and the Ecstasy</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Yevgeny Zamyatin, Clarence Brown (Translator, Introduction)</author>
                <characters>D-503, I-330, S-4711, O-90, R-13</characters>
                <date>1993</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Classics, Russia, Russian Literature, Literature, Novels, 20th Century, Science Fiction Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1542</id>
                <synopsis>"The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet RussiaYevgeny Zamyatin's We is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand. In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the all-powerful 'Benefactor', the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState live out lives devoid of passion and creativity - until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: he has an individual soul. Set in the twenty-sixth century AD, We is the classic dystopian novel and was the forerunner of works such as George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. It was suppressed for many years in Russia and remains a resounding cry for individual freedom, yet is also a powerful, exciting and vivid work of science fiction. Clarence Brown's brilliant translation is based on the corrected text of the novel, first published in Russia in 1988 after more than sixty years' suppression."</synopsis>
                <title>We</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Dan Brown </author>
                <characters>Rachel Sexton, Michael Tolland, Thomas Sedgewick Sexton, Corky Marlinson, Zachary Herney, William Pickering, Gabrielle Ashe, Marjorie Tench, Lawrence Ekstrom</characters>
                <date>Dec-02</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Crime, Novels, Science Fiction, Action</genres>
                <id>1543</id>
                <synopsis>"A shocking scientific discovery. A conspiracy of staggering brilliance. A thriller unlike any you've ever read....When a NASA satellite discovers an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory—a victory with profound implications for NASA policy and the impending presidential election. To verify the authenticity of the find, the White House calls upon the skills of intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton. Accompanied by a team of experts, including the charismatic scholar Michael Tolland, Rachel travels to the Arctic and uncovers the unthinkable: evidence of scientific trickery—a bold deception that threatens to plunge the world into controversy. But before she can warn the President, Rachel and Michael are ambushed by a deadly team of assassins. Fleeing for their lives across a desolate and lethal landscape, their only hope for survival is to discover who is behind this masterful plot. The truth, they will learn, is the most shocking deception of all."</synopsis>
                <title>Deception Point</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Stephen King , Dave McKean (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Eddie Dean, Jake Chambers, Roland Deschain, Alain Johns, Susannah Dean (The Dark Tower), Cuthbert Allgood, The Crimson King, Susan Delgado, Captain Trips</characters>
                <date>Oct-03</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Westerns, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Post Apocalyptic, Novels</genres>
                <id>1544</id>
                <synopsis>"Roland, Eddie, Susannah, Jake, and Jake’s pet bumbler survive Blaine the Mono’s final crash, only to find themselves stranded in an alternate version of Topeka, Kansas, one that has been ravaged by the superflu virus. While following the deserted I-70 toward a distant glass palace, they hear the atonal squalling of a thinny, a place where the fabric of existence has almost entirely worn away. While camping near the edge of the thinny, Roland tells his ka-tet a story about another thinny, one that he encountered when he was little more than a boy. Over the course of one long magical night, Roland transports us to the Mid-World of long-ago and a seaside town called Hambry, where Roland fell in love with a girl named Susan Delgado, and where he and his old tet-mates Alain and Cuthbert battled the forces of John Farson, the harrier who—with a little help from a seeing sphere called Maerlyn’s Grapefruit—ignited Mid-World’s final war."</synopsis>
                <title>Wizard and Glass</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Simon Brodbeck (Introduction), Juan Mascaró (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Arjuna, Krishna, Sanjaya, King Dhrtarastra, Dhrstadyumna, Dronacharya</characters>
                <date>2003</date>
                <genres>Religion, Philosophy, Classics, Spirituality, Nonfiction, Poetry, India, Hinduism, Mythology, History</genres>
                <id>1545</id>
                <synopsis>"The Bhagavad Gita is an early epic poem that recounts the conversation between Arjuna the warrior and his charioteer Krishna, the manifestation of God. In the moments before a great battle, the dialogue sets out the important lessons Arjuna must learn to change the outcome of the war he is to fight, and culminates in Krishna revealing to the warrior his true cosmic form, counselling him to search for the universal perfection of life. Ranging from instructions on yoga postures to dense moral discussion, the Gita is one of the most important Hindu texts, as well as serving as a practical guide to living well."</synopsis>
                <title>The Bhagavad Gita</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Robert Musil, Burton Pike (Editor), Sophie Wilkins (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Ulrich, Franz Joseph I of Austria, Dr. Paul Arnheim</characters>
                <date>1995</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Philosophy, Literature, German Literature, Novels, 20th Century, Historical Fiction, Germany, Literary Fiction</genres>
                <id>1546</id>
                <synopsis>"Set in Vienna on the eve of World War I, this great novel of ideas tells the story of Ulrich, ex-soldier and scientist, seducer and skeptic, who finds himself drafted into the grandiose plans for the 70th jubilee of the Emperor Franz Josef. This new translation - published in two elegant volumes - is the first to present Musil's complete text, including material that remained unpublished during his lifetime."</synopsis>
                <title>The Man Without Qualities</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Paulo Coelho , Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Mariecke, Ralph</characters>
                <date>2003</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Romance, Novels, Contemporary, Philosophy, Literature, Adult, Spirituality, Drama, Brazil</genres>
                <id>1547</id>
                <synopsis>"Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that “love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer. . . .” A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune.Maria’s despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome young painter. In this odyssey of self-discovery, Maria has to choose between pursuing a path of darkness—sexual pleasure for its own sake—or risking everything to find her own “inner light” and the possibility of sacred sex, sex in the context of love."</synopsis>
                <title>Eleven Minutes</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Italo Calvino, William Weaver (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Marco Polo, Kublai Khan</characters>
                <date>1974</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Short Stories, Magical Realism, Italian Literature, Literature, Italy, Architecture, Novels</genres>
                <id>1548</id>
                <synopsis>"""Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, but the emperor of the Tartars does continue listening to the young Venetian with greater attention and curiosity than he shows any other messenger or explorer of his."" So begins Italo Calvino's compilation of fragmentary urban images. As Marco tells the khan about Armilla, which ""has nothing that makes it seem a city, except the water pipes that rise vertically where the houses should be and spread out horizontally where the floors should be,"" the spider-web city of Octavia, and other marvelous burgs, it may be that he is creating them all out of his imagination, or perhaps he is recreating fine details of his native Venice over and over again, or perhaps he is simply recounting some of the myriad possible forms a city might take."</synopsis>
                <title>Invisible Cities</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Art Spiegelman</author>
                <characters>Vladek Spiegelman, Anja Spiegelman, Art Spiegelman, Mala Spiegelman</characters>
                <date>Jun-18</date>
                <genres>Graphic Novels, Comics, History, Nonfiction, Memoir, Holocaust, Biography, Historical, War, Graphic Novels Comics</genres>
                <id>1549</id>
                <synopsis>"Maus raconte la vie de Vladek Spiegelman, rescapé juif des camps nazis, et de son fils, auteur de bandes dessinées, qui cherche un terrain de réconciliation avec son père, sa terrifiante histoire et l'Histoire. Des portes d'Auschwitz aux trottoirs de New York se déroule en deux temps (les années 30 et les années 70) le récit d'une double survie : celle du père, mais aussi celle du fils, qui se débat pour survivre au survivant. Ici, les Nazis sont des chats et les Juifs des souris."</synopsis>
                <title>Maus: Un survivant raconte, tome 1: Mon père saigne l'histoire</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Günter Grass, Ralph Manheim (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Oskar Matzerath</characters>
                <date>2005</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, German Literature, Historical Fiction, Literature, Germany, Magical Realism, Novels, Nobel Prize, War</genres>
                <id>1550</id>
                <synopsis>On his third birthday Oskar decides to stop growing. Haunted by the deaths of his parents and wielding his tin drum Oskar recounts the events of his extraordinary life; from the long nightmare of the Nazi era to his anarchic adventures in post-war Germany.</synopsis>
                <title>The Tin Drum</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Nevil Shute</author>
                <characters>Jean Paget, Joe Harman</characters>
                <date>2000</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, Australia, Romance, War, Historical, World War II, Literature, Novels</genres>
                <id>1551</id>
                <synopsis>"Nevil Shute's most beloved novel, a tale of love and war, follows its enterprising heroine from the Malayan jungle during World War II to the rugged Australian outback.Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman living in Malaya, is captured by the invading Japanese and forced on a brutal seven-month death march with dozens of other women and children. A few years after the war, Jean is back in England, the nightmare behind her. However, an unexpected inheritance inspires her to return to Malaya to give something back to the villagers who saved her life. Jean's travels leads her to a desolate Australian outpost called Willstown, where she finds a challenge that will draw on all the resourcefulness and spirit that carried her through her war-time ordeals."</synopsis>
                <title>A Town Like Alice</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Henry James</author>
                <characters>Flora (Turn of the Screw), Miles (Turn of the Screw), Mrs. Grose, Peter Quint, Miss Jessel</characters>
                <date>1994</date>
                <genres>Classics, Horror, Fiction, Gothic, Mystery, Literature, 19th Century, Ghosts, Audiobook, Paranormal</genres>
                <id>1552</id>
                <synopsis>"A very young woman's first job: governess for two weirdly beautiful, strangely distant, oddly silent children, Miles and Flora, at a forlorn estate...An estate haunted by a beckoning evil.Half-seen figures who glare from dark towers and dusty windows- silent, foul phantoms who, day by day, night by night, come closer, ever closer. With growing horror, the helpless governess realizes the fiendish creatures want the children, seeking to corrupt their bodies, possess their minds, own their souls...But worse-much worse- the governess discovers that Miles and Flora have no terror of the lurking evil.For they want the walking dead as badly as the dead want them."</synopsis>
                <title>The Turn of the Screw</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Nicholas Sparks </author>
                <characters>Adrienne Willis, Paul Flanner</characters>
                <date>Aug-04</date>
                <genres>Romance, Fiction, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Adult, Adult Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Love, Drama, Novels</genres>
                <id>1553</id>
                <synopsis>"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks comes a tender story of hope and joy; of sacrifice and forgiveness - a moving reminder that love is possible at any age, at any time, and often comes when we least expect it. At forty-five, Adrienne Willis must rethink her entire life when her husband abandons her for a younger woman. Reeling with heartache and in search of a respite, she flees to the small coastal town of Rodanthe, North Carolina to tend to a friend's inn for the weekend. But when a major storm starts moving in, it appears that Adrienne's perfect getaway will be ruined - until a guest named Paul Flanner arrives. At fifty-four, Paul has just sold his medical practice and come to Rodanthe to escape his own shattered past. Now, with the storm closing in, two wounded people will turn to each other for comfort - and in one weekend set in motion feelings that will resonate throughout the rest of their lives.Did You Know?--The main characters' names were Christmas presents to Nicholas's in-laws (Paul and Adrienne)?This was Nicholas's first book to debut at #1?"</synopsis>
                <title>Nights in Rodanthe</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Stephen King </author>
                <characters>The Crimson King, American Law Enforcement, Ted Brautigan, Bobby Garfield, Liz Garfield, Carol Gerber, John Sullivan, Peter Riley, Willie Shearman, Ronnie Malenfant</characters>
                <date>2001</date>
                <genres>Horror, Fiction, Fantasy, Short Stories, Thriller, Suspense, Supernatural, Mystery, War, Historical Fiction</genres>
                <id>1554</id>
                <synopsis>"Five interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War.Stephen King, whose first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974, the year before the last U.S. troops withdrew from Vietnam, is the first hugely popular writer of the TV generation. Images from that war - and the protests against it - had flooded America's living rooms for a decade. Hearts in Atlantis, King's newest fiction, is composed of five interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War. In Part One, ""Low Men in Yellow Coats,"" eleven-year-old Bobby Garfield discovers a world of predatory malice in his own neighborhood. He also discovers that adults are sometimes not rescuers but at the heart of the terror. In the title story, a bunch of college kids get hooked on a card game, discover the possibility of protest...and confront their own collective heart of darkness, where laughter may be no more than the thinly disguised cry of the beast. In ""Blind Willie"" and ""Why We're in Vietnam,"" two men who grew up with Bobby in suburban Connecticut try to fill the emptiness of the post-Vietnam era in an America which sometimes seems as hollow - and as haunted - as their own lives. And in ""Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling,"" this remarkable book's denouement, Bobby returns to his hometown where one final secret, the hope of redemption, and his heart's desire may await him. Full of danger, full of suspense, most of all full of heart, Stephen King's new book will take some readers to a place they have never been...and others to a place they have never been able to completely leave."</synopsis>
                <title>Hearts in Atlantis</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Stephen Crane</author>
                <characters>Henry Fleming</characters>
                <date>2006</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, War, Civil War, Literature, Historical, School, Young Adult, American</genres>
                <id>1556</id>
                <synopsis>"Henry Fleming has joined the Union army because of his romantic ideas of military life, but soon finds himself in the middle of a battle against a regiment of Confederate soldiers. Terrified, Henry deserts his comrades. Upon returning to his regiment, he struggles with his shame as he tries to redeem himself and prove his courage.The Red Badge of Courage is Stephen Crane’s second book, notable for its realism and the fact that Crane had never personally experienced battle. Crane drew heavy inspiration from Century Magazine, a periodical known for its articles about the American Civil War. However, he criticized the articles for their lack of emotional depth and decided to write a war novel of his own. The manuscript was first serialized in December 1894 by The Philadelphia Press and quickly won Crane international acclaim before he died in June 1900 at the age of 28."</synopsis>
                <title>The Red Badge of Courage</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Stephen King </author>
                <characters>Leland Gaunt, Brian Rusk, Cora Rusk, Polly Chalmers, Alan Pangborn, Norris Ridgewick, Danforth Keeton, Netitia Cobb, Wilma Jerzyck, Sally Ratcliffe, Lester Pratt, Frank Jewett, Ace Merrill, Sean Rusk, Myrtle Keeton, George T. Nelson, Hugh Priest, Seaton Thomas, Henry Payton, Slopey Dodd, Henry Beaufort</characters>
                <date>1992</date>
                <genres>Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Supernatural, Mystery, Paranormal, Suspense, Adult, Novels</genres>
                <id>1557</id>
                <synopsis>"Leland Gaunt opens a new shop in Castle Rock called Needful Things. Anyone who enters his store finds the object of his or her lifelong dreams and desires: a prized baseball card, a healing amulet. In addition to a token payment, Gaunt requests that each person perform a little ""deed,"" usually a seemingly innocent prank played on someone else from town. These practical jokes cascade out of control and soon the entire town is doing battle with itself. Only Sheriff Alan Pangborn suspects that Gaunt is behind the population's increasingly violent behavior."</synopsis>
                <title>Needful Things</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Frank Miller, Klaus Janson (Illustrator), Lynn Varley (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Oliver Queen, Harvey Dent, Alfred Pennyworth, Carrie Kelley, James Gordon, Selina Kyle, Bruce Wayne, Joker, Superman</characters>
                <date>Nov-12</date>
                <genres>Comics, Graphic Novels, Batman, Fiction, Comic Book, Graphic Novels Comics, Dc Comics, Superheroes, Fantasy, Classics</genres>
                <id>1558</id>
                <synopsis>"This masterpiece of modern comics storytelling brings to vivid life a dark world and an even darker man. Together with inker Klaus Janson and colorist Lynn Varley, writer/artist Frank Miller completely reinvents the legend of Batman in his saga of a near-future Gotham City gone to rot, ten years after the Dark Knight's retirement. Crime runs rampant in the streets, and the man who was Batman is still tortured by the memories of his parents' murders. As civil society crumbles around him, Bruce Wayne's long-suppressed vigilante side finally breaks free of its self-imposed shackles. The Dark Knight returns in a blaze of fury, taking on a whole new generation of criminals and matching their level of violence. He is soon joined by this generation's Robin—a girl named Carrie Kelley, who proves to be just as invaluable as her predecessors.But can Batman and Robin deal with the threat posed by their deadliest enemies, after years of incarceration have made them into perfect psychopaths? And more important, can anyone survive the coming fallout of an undeclared war between the superpowers—or a clash of what were once the world's greatest superheroes?Over fifteen years after its debut, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns remains an undisputed classic and one of the most influential stories ever told in the comics medium.Collecting Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #1-4"</synopsis>
                <title>Batman: The Dark Knight Returns</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Margaret Atwood </author>
                <characters>Grace Marks</characters>
                <date>Dec-96</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Mystery, Historical, Canada, Classics, Literary Fiction, Crime, Literature, Novels</genres>
                <id>1559</id>
                <synopsis>"It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders.An up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens to her story while bringing her closer and closer to the day she cannot remember. What will he find in attempting to unlock her memories?Captivating and disturbing, Alias Grace showcases best-selling, Booker Prize-winning author Margaret Atwood at the peak of her powers."</synopsis>
                <title>Alias Grace</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Stendhal, Roger Gard (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Julien Sorel, Mathilde de la Mole, Valenod, Pirard, Chélan, Fouqué, Elisa, Madame de Rênal, Marquis de la Mole</characters>
                <date>2002</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, France, French Literature, Literature, 19th Century, Novels, Historical Fiction, Romance, Classic Literature</genres>
                <id>1560</id>
                <synopsis>"Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon realizing that success can only be achieved by adopting the subtle code of hypocrisy by which society operates, he begins to achieve advancement through deceit and self-interest. His triumphant career takes him into the heart of glamorous Parisian society, along the way conquering the gentle, married Madame de Rênal, and the haughty Mathilde. But then Julien commits an unexpected, devastating crime - and brings about his own downfall. The Red and the Black is a lively, satirical portrayal of French society after Waterloo, riddled with corruption, greed, and ennui, and Julien - the cold exploiter whose Machiavellian campaign is undercut by his own emotions - is one of the most intriguing characters in European literature."</synopsis>
                <title>The Red and the Black</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Stephen King </author>
                <characters>Johnny Smith, Greg Stillson, Frank Dodd, American Law Enforcement</characters>
                <date>Aug-80</date>
                <genres>Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Mystery, Suspense, Paranormal, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Novels</genres>
                <id>1561</id>
                <synopsis>"Johnny, the small boy who skated at breakneck speed into an accident that for one horrifying moment plunged him into The Dead Zone. Johnny Smith, the small-town schoolteacher who spun the wheel of fortune and won a four-and-a-half-year trip into The Dead Zone. John Smith, who awakened from an interminable coma with an accursed power—the power to see the future and the terrible fate awaiting mankind in The Dead Zone.~"</synopsis>
                <title>The Dead Zone</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>John Williams, John McGahern (Contributor)</author>
                <characters>William Stoner</characters>
                <date>2006</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Literature, Novels, American, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, The United States Of America, 20th Century, Americana</genres>
                <id>1562</id>
                <synopsis>"William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a “proper” family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied; his wife and daughter turn coldly away from him; a transforming experience of new love ends under threat of scandal. Driven ever deeper within himself, Stoner rediscovers the stoic silence of his forebears and confronts an essential solitude.John Williams’s luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world."</synopsis>
                <title>Stoner</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Mervyn Peake, Anthony Burgess (Introduction), Quentin Crisp (Introduction)</author>
                <characters>Titus Groan, Steerpike, Dr. Alfred Prunesquallor, Lord Sepulchrave, Mr. Flay, Abiatha Swelter, Gertrude Groan, Fuchsia Groan, Keda, Nannie Slagg, Cora Groan, Clarice Groan</characters>
                <date>Dec-95</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Classics, Gothic, Novels, Literature, Science Fiction Fantasy, Horror, 20th Century, Science Fiction</genres>
                <id>1563</id>
                <synopsis>"A doomed lord, an emergent hero, and a dazzling array of bizarre creatures inhabit the magical world of the Gormenghast novels which, along with Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, reign as one of the undisputed fantasy classics of all time. At the center of it all is the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, who stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that form Gormenghast Castle and its kingdom, unless the conniving Steerpike, who is determined to rise above his menial position and control the House of Groan, has his way.In these extraordinary novels, Peake has created a world where all is like a dream - lush, fantastical, and vivid. Accompanying the text are Peake's own drawings, illustrating the whole assembly of strange and marvelous creatures that inhabit Gormenghast.Also featuring:Introductory essays by Anthony Burgess and Quentin CrispTwelve critical essays, curated by Peake scholar Peter G. WinningtonFragment of the unpublished novel, Titus Awakes"</synopsis>
                <title>The Gormenghast Novels</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>John Fowles</author>
                <characters>Sarah Woodruff, Charles Smithson, Ernestina Freeman, Sam Farrow, Dr Grogan</characters>
                <date>2009</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Romance, Historical, Literature, British Literature, Novels, Literary Fiction, 20th Century</genres>
                <id>1564</id>
                <synopsis>"The scene is the village of Lyme Regis on Dorset's Lyme Bay...""the largest bite from the underside of England's out-stretched southwestern leg."" The major characters in the love-intrigue triangle are Charles Smithson, 32, a gentleman of independent means &amp; vaguely scientific bent; his fiancée, Ernestina Freeman, a pretty heiress daughter of a wealthy &amp; pompous dry goods merchant; &amp; Sarah Woodruff, mysterious &amp; fascinating...deserted after a brief affair with a French naval officer a short time before the story begins. Obsessed with an irresistible fascination for the enigmatic Sarah, Charles is hurtled by a moment of consummated lust to the brink of the existential void. Duty dictates that his engagement to Tina must be broken as he goes forth once again to seek the woman who has captured his Victorian soul &amp; gentleman's heart."</synopsis>
                <title>The French Lieutenant's Woman</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Henryk Sienkiewicz, W.S. Kuniczak (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Nero (emperor), Lygia, Marcus Vinicius, Paul of Tarsus, Ursus, Petronius, Chilo Chilonides, Simon Peter</characters>
                <date>2006</date>
                <genres>Classics, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Polish Literature, Historical, Literature, Religion, Romance, Christian, Novels</genres>
                <id>1565</id>
                <synopsis>"This glorious saga unfolds against the backdrop of ancient Rome-from the Forum to the Coliseum, from banquet halls to summer retreats in Naples, from the luxurious houses of the nobility to the hovels of the poor, Quo Vadis richly depicts a place and time still captivating to the modern imagination. This radiant translation by W.S. Kuniczak restores the original glory and richness of master storyteller Henryk Sienkiewicz's epic tale.Set at a turning point in history (A.D. 54-68), as Christianity replaces the era of corruption and immorality that marked Nero's Rome, Quo Vadis abounds with compelling characters, including:Vinicius, the proud centurion who has fallen deeply in love with a mysterious young woman who disappears the night they meet;Ligia, the elusive beauty. Vinicius will not easily win her love, for she is a Christian, one of the group of dedicated believers led by the apostle Peter. Christians are rare in pagan, hedonistic Rome, and suffer great persecution;Petronius, uncle to Vinicius, an elegant, witty courtier who scoffs at love and religion but finds his nephew's passion charming; andNero himself, enemy of all Christians, a despotic emperor who plunges Rome deeper and deeper into depravity. The decadence of his banquets is staggering; and even worse, his mad laughter is heard echoing in the amphitheater as gladiators duel to the death.As Nero's appalling plans for the Christians become ever clearer, time appears to be running out for the young lovers. Vinicius must come to understand the true meaning of Ligia's religion before it is too late.Grand in scope and ambition, Quo Vadis explores the themes of love, desire and profound moral courage. Lavish descriptions, vivid dialogue and brilliantly drawn characters make this one of the world's greatest epics. Beloved by children and adults the world over, Quo Vadis has been the subject of five films, two of them in English."</synopsis>
                <title>Quo Vadis</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Terry Pratchett</author>
                <characters>Nobby Nobbs, Carrot Ironfoundersson, Sam Vimes, Cut Me Own Throat Dibbler, Havelock Vetinari, Sybil Deidre Olgivanna Ramkin, DEATH, The Librarian, Lupine Wonse, Fred Colon</characters>
                <date>Aug-01</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Comedy, Dragons, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Magic, Novels, High Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1566</id>
                <synopsis>"This is where the dragons went. They lie ... not dead, not asleep, but ... dormant. And although the space they occupy isn't like normal space, nevertheless they are packed in tightly. They could put you in mind of a can of sardines, if you thought sardines were huge and scaly. And presumably, somewhere, there's a key...GUARDS! GUARDS! is the eighth Discworld novel - and after this, dragons will never be the same again!"</synopsis>
                <title>Guards! Guards!</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>China Miéville </author>
                <characters>Lin, Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin, Yagharek, Mr. Motley, Derkhan Blueday, Lemuel Pigeon, Bentham Rudgutter, Construct Council</characters>
                <date>Aug-03</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Steampunk, Urban Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction Fantasy, New Weird, Weird Fiction, Speculative Fiction</genres>
                <id>1567</id>
                <synopsis>"Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies the city of New Crobuzon, where the unsavory deal is stranger to no one-not even to Isaac, a gifted and eccentric scientist who has spent a lifetime quietly carrying out his unique research. But when a half-bird, half-human creature known as the Garuda comes to him from afar, Isaac is faced with challenges he has never before encountered. Though the Garuda's request is scientifically daunting, Isaac is sparked by his own curiosity and an uncanny reverence for this curious stranger. Soon an eerie metamorphosis will occur that will permeate every fiber of New Crobuzon-and not even the Ambassador of Hell will challenge the malignant terror it evokes."</synopsis>
                <title>Perdido Street Station</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New (Editor), Christopher Ricks (Introduction)</author>
                <characters>Tristram Shandy, Uncle Toby, Trim, Yorick, Mr. Shandy, Mrs. Shandy</characters>
                <date>2003</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Literature, 18th Century, Humor, Novels, British Literature, English Literature, Classic Literature, Irish Literature</genres>
                <id>1568</id>
                <synopsis>"No one description will fit this strange, eccentric, endlessly complex masterpiece. It is a fiction about fiction-writing in which the invented world is as much infused with wit and genius as the theme of inventing it. It is a joyful celebration of the infinite possibilities of the art of fiction, and a wry demonstration of its limitations. This Penguin Classic contains Christopher Ricks's introductory essay, itself a classic of English literary criticism, together with a new introduction on the recent critical history and influence of Tristram Shandy by Melvyn New. The text and notes are based on the acclaimed Florida Edition, making the scholarship of the Florida editors readily available for the first time."</synopsis>
                <title>The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Nancy Farmer </author>
                <characters>El Patron, Tam Lin, Maria Mendoza, Chacho, Fidelito, Ton-Ton</characters>
                <date>May-04</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Fiction, Fantasy, Teen, Adventure, School, Middle Grade, Childrens</genres>
                <id>1569</id>
                <synopsis>"With undertones of vampires, Frankenstein, dragons' hoards, and killing fields, Matt's story turns out to be an inspiring tale of friendship, survival, hope, and transcendence. A must-read for teenage fantasy fans.At his coming-of-age party, Matteo Alacrán asks El Patrón's bodyguard, ""How old am I?...I know I don't have a birthday like humans, but I was born."" ""You were harvested,"" Tam Lin reminds him. ""You were grown in that poor cow for nine months and then you were cut out of her."" To most people around him, Matt is not a boy, but a beast. A room full of chicken litter with roaches for friends and old chicken bones for toys is considered good enough for him. But for El Patrón, lord of a country called Opium—a strip of poppy fields lying between the U.S. and what was once called Mexico—Matt is a guarantee of eternal life. El Patrón loves Matt as he loves himself for Matt is himself. They share identical DNA."</synopsis>
                <title>The House of the Scorpion</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Arthur Koestler, Daphne Hardy (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Nicolas Salmanovitch Rubashov</characters>
                <date>Mar-84</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Politics, Russia, Literature, Novels, Dystopia, 20th Century, Thriller</genres>
                <id>1570</id>
                <synopsis>"Darkness at Noon (from the German: Sonnenfinsternis) is a novel by the Hungarian-born British novelist Arthur Koestler, first published in 1940. His best-known work tells the tale of Rubashov, a Bolshevik 1917 revolutionary who is cast out, imprisoned and tried for treason by the Soviet government he'd helped create.Darkness at Noon stands as an unequaled fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an aging revolutionary, imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the Party to which he has dedicated his life. As the pressure to confess preposterous crimes increases, he relives a career that embodies the terrible ironies and human betrayals of a totalitarian movement masking itself as an instrument of deliverance. Almost unbearably vivid in its depiction of one man's solitary agony, it asks questions about ends and means that have relevance not only for the past but for the perilous present. It is —- as the Times Literary Supplement has declared —- ""A remarkable book, a grimly fascinating interpretation of the logic of the Russian Revolution, indeed of all revolutionary dictatorships, and at the same time a tense and subtly intellectualized drama."""</synopsis>
                <title>Darkness at Noon</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Aravind Adiga</author>
                <characters>Balram Halwai, Ashok, Kishan, Kusum, Stork</characters>
                <date>2008</date>
                <genres>Fiction, India, Contemporary, Indian Literature, Novels, Literature, Literary Fiction, Asia, Book Club, Crime</genres>
                <id>1571</id>
                <synopsis>"Introducing a major literary talent, The White Tiger offers a story of coruscating wit, blistering suspense, and questionable morality, told by the most volatile, captivating, and utterly inimitable narrator that this millennium has yet seen. Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells us the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life—having nothing but his own wits to help him along. Born in the dark heart of India, Balram gets a break when he is hired as a driver for his village's wealthiest man, two house Pomeranians (Puddles and Cuddles), and the rich man's (very unlucky) son. From behind the wheel of their Honda City car, Balram's new world is a revelation. While his peers flip through the pages of Murder Weekly (""Love - Rape - Revenge!""), barter for girls, drink liquor (Thunderbolt), and perpetuate the Great Rooster Coop of Indian society, Balram watches his employers bribe foreign ministers for tax breaks, barter for girls, drink liquor (single-malt whiskey), and play their own role in the Rooster Coop. Balram learns how to siphon gas, deal with corrupt mechanics, and refill and resell Johnnie Walker Black Label bottles (all but one). He also finds a way out of the Coop that no one else inside it can perceive. Balram's eyes penetrate India as few outsiders can: the cockroaches and the call centers; the prostitutes and the worshippers; the ancient and Internet cultures; the water buffalo and, trapped in so many kinds of cages that escape is (almost) impossible, the white tiger. And with a charisma as undeniable as it is unexpected, Balram teaches us that religion doesn't create virtue, and money doesn't solve every problem - but decency can still be found in a corrupt world, and you can get what you want out of life if you eavesdrop on the right conversations. The White Tiger recalls The Death of Vishnu and Bangkok 8 in ambition, scope, and narrative genius, with a mischief and personality all its own. Amoral, irreverent, deeply endearing, and utterly contemporary, this novel is an international publishing sensation —and a startling, provocative debut."</synopsis>
                <title>The White Tiger</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Sidney Sheldon</author>
                <characters>Tracy Whitney, Maximilian, Don Orsatti, Joe Romano</characters>
                <date>1985</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Romance, Suspense, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Drama, Contemporary, Novels</genres>
                <id>1572</id>
                <synopsis>"This is a story of intrigue and revenge. Tracy Whitney is young, beautiful and intelligent - and about to marry into wealth and glamour. Until, suddenly, she is betrayed, framed by a ruthless Mafia gang, abandoned by the man she loves. Only her ingenuity saves her and helps her fight back."</synopsis>
                <title>If Tomorrow Comes</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Terry Brooks </author>
                <characters>Shea Ohmsford, Flick, Allanon, Menion, Balinor, Hendel, Durin, Dayel</characters>
                <date>Apr-99</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, Young Adult, Adult, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1573</id>
                <synopsis>"Living in peaceful Shady Vale, Shea Ohmsford knew little of the troubles that plagued the rest of the world. Then the giant, forbidding Allanon revealed that the supposedly dead Warlock Lord was plotting to destroy the world. The sole weapon against this Power of Darkness was the Sword of Shannara, which could only be used by a true heir of Shannara-Shea being the last of the bloodline, upon whom all hope rested. Soon a Skull Bearer, dread minion of Evil, flew into the Vale, seeking to destroy Shea. To save the Vale, Shea fled, drawing the Skull Bearer after him...."</synopsis>
                <title>The Sword of Shannara</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Frederick Forsyth</author>
                <characters>the Jackal, Claude Lebel, Victor Kowalski, Jacqueline Dumas</characters>
                <date>Sept-79</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Crime, Espionage, Suspense, Historical Fiction, Drama, Mystery Thriller, Novels</genres>
                <id>1574</id>
                <synopsis>"Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.The Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with opaque, gray eyes. A killer at the top of his profession. A man unknown to any secret service in the  world. An assassin with a contract to kill the world's most heavily guarded man.One  man with a rifle who can change the course of history. One man whose mission is so secretive not even his employers know his name. And as the minutes count down to the final act of execution, it seems that there is no power on earth that can stop the Jackal."</synopsis>
                <title>The Day of the Jackal</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Nick Hornby</author>
                <characters>Will Burrows, Fiona Waters, Ellie</characters>
                <date>2000</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Contemporary, Humor, British Literature, Novels, Adult Fiction, Adult, Comedy, Literature, Coming Of Age</genres>
                <id>1575</id>
                <synopsis>"'How cool was Will Freeman?'Too cool! At thirty-six, he's as hip as a teenager. He's single, child-free, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He's also found a great way to score with women: attend single parents' groups full of available (and grateful) mothers, all hoping to meet a Nice Guy.Which is how Will meets Marcus, the oldest twelve-year-old on the planet. Marcus is a bit strange: he listens to Joni Mitchell and Mozart, looks after his mum and has never owned a pair of trainers. But Marcus latches on to Will - and won't let go. Can Will teach Marcus how to grow up cool? And can Marcus help Will just to grow up?"</synopsis>
                <title>About a Boy</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Sidney Sheldon</author>
                <characters>Eve, Alexandra Jones, Anthony ""Tony"" Blackwell, Kate Blackwell, David Blackwell, Jamie Mcgregor, Salomon van der Merwe, Margaret van der Merwe, Dr. Peter Templeton</characters>
                <date>1993</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Romance, Drama, Novels, Crime, Historical Fiction</genres>
                <id>1576</id>
                <synopsis>"One of Sidney Sheldon's most popular and bestselling titles, repackaged and reissued for a new generation of fans. Kate Blackwell is one of the richest and most powerful women in the world. She is an enigma, a woman surrounded by a thousand unanswered questions. Her father was a diamond prospector who struck it rich beyond his wildest dreams. Her mother was the daughter of a crooked Afrikaaner merchant. Her conception was itself an act of hate-filled vengeance. At the extravagent celebrations of her ninetieth birthday, there are toasts from a Supreme Court Judge and a telegram from the White House. And for Kate there are ghosts, ghosts of absent friends and of enemies. Ghosts from a life of blackmail and murder. Ghosts from an empire spawned by naked ambition! Sidney Sheldon is one of the most popular storytellers in the world. This is one of his best-loved novels, a compulsively readable thriller, packed with suspense, intrigue and passion. It will recruit a new generation of fans to his writing."</synopsis>
                <title>Master of the Game</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Terry Pratchett</author>
                <characters>Nanny Ogg, Tiffany Aching, Nac Mac Feegle, Granny Weatherwax</characters>
                <date>2004</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Humor, Comedy, Magic, Science Fiction Fantasy, Childrens, Adventure, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1577</id>
                <synopsis>"Librarian's Note: For an alternate cover edition of the same ISBN, click here.""Another world is colliding with this one,"" said the toad. ""All the monsters are coming back.""""Why?"" said Tiffany.""There's no one to stop them.""There was silence for a moment.Then Tiffany said, ""There's me.""Armed only with a frying pan and her common sense, Tiffany Aching, a young witch-to-be, is all that stands between the monsters of Fairyland and the warm, green Chalk country that is her home. Forced into Fairyland to seek her kidnapped brother, Tiffany allies herself with the Chalk's local Nac Mac Feegle - aka the Wee Free Men - a clan of sheep-stealing, sword-wielding, six-inch-high blue men who are as fierce as they are funny. Together they battle through an eerie and ever-shifting landscape, fighting brutal flying fairies, dream-spinning dromes, and grimhounds - black dogs with eyes of fire and teeth of razors - before ultimately confronting the Queen of the Elves, absolute ruler of a world in which reality intertwines with nightmare. And in the final showdown, Tiffany must face her cruel power alone...In a riveting narrative that is equal parts suspense and humor, Carnegie Medalist Terry Pratchett returns to his internationally popular Discworld with a breathtaking tale certain to leave fans, new and old, enthralled."</synopsis>
                <title>The Wee Free Men</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Rachel Caine </author>
                <characters>Michael Glass, Shane Collins, Eve Rosser, Claire Danvers</characters>
                <date>Jan-09</date>
                <genres>Vampires, Young Adult, Paranormal, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Paranormal Romance, Teen</genres>
                <id>1578</id>
                <synopsis>"In the college town of Morganville, vampires and humans coexist in (relatively) bloodless harmony. Then comes Bishop, the master vampire who threatens to abolish all order, revive the forces of the evil dead, and let chaos rule. But Bishop isn't the only threat. Violent black cyclone clouds hover, promising a storm of devastating proportions as student Claire Danvers and her friends prepare to defend Morganville against elements both natural and unnatural."</synopsis>
                <title>Lord of Misrule</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson</author>
                <characters>George Dorn, Joseph Malik, Hagbard Celine, Saul Goodman, Barney Muldoon, Simon Moon, Stella Maris, John Dillinger</characters>
                <date>Dec-83</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Humor, Philosophy, Conspiracy Theories, Novels, Occult, Politics, Science Fiction Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1579</id>
                <synopsis>"It was a deadly mistake. Joseph Malik, editor of a radical magazine, had snooped into rumors about an ancient secret society that was still alive and kicking. Now his offices have been bombed, he's missing, and the case has landed in the lap of a tough, cynical, streetwise New York detective. Saul Goodman knows he's stumbled onto something big—but even he can't guess how far into the pinnacles of power this conspiracy of evil has penetrated.Filled with sex and violence—in and out of time and space—the three books of The Illuminatus! Trilogy are only partly works of the imagination. They tackle all the cover-ups of our time—from who really shot the Kennedys to why there's a pyramid on a one-dollar bill—and suggest a mind-blowing truth."</synopsis>
                <title>The Illuminatus! Trilogy</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Barbara Kingsolver</author>
                <characters>Cosima ""Codi"" Noline, Homer Noline, Halimeda ""Hallie"" Noline, Emelina Domingo, Loyd Peregrina, J.T. Domingo</characters>
                <date>1991</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Adult, Literature, Realistic Fiction, Womens, Romance</genres>
                <id>1580</id>
                <synopsis>"""Animals dream about the things they do in the day time just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life."" So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher. But when Codi Noline returns to her hometown, Loyd's advice is painfully out of her reach. Dreamless and at the end of her rope, Codi comes back to Grace, Arizona to confront her past and face her ailing, distant father. What she finds is a town threatened by a silent environmental catastrophe, some startling clues to her own identity, and a man whose view of the world could change the course of her life. Blending flashbacks, dreams, and Native American legends, Animal Dreams is a suspenseful love story and a moving exploration of life's largest commitments. With this work, the acclaimed author of The Bean Trees and Homeland and Other Stories sustains her familiar voice while giving readers her most remarkable book yet."</synopsis>
                <title>Animal Dreams</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen</author>
                <characters>Gustav Mohr, Isak Dinesen</characters>
                <date>1992</date>
                <genres>Nonfiction, Africa, Classics, Memoir, Biography, Travel, History, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, Kenya</genres>
                <id>1581</id>
                <synopsis>"Out of Africa is Isak Dinesen's memoir of her years in Africa, from 1914 to 1931, on a four-thousand-acre coffee plantation in the hills near Nairobi. She had come to Kenya from Denmark with her husband, and when they separated she stayed on to manage the farm by herself, visited frequently by her lover, the big-game hunter Denys Finch-Hatton, for whom she would make up stories ""like Scheherazade."" In Africa, ""I learned how to tell tales,"" she recalled many years later. ""The natives have an ear still. I told stories constantly to them, all kinds."" Her account of her African adventures, written after she had lost her beloved farm and returned to Denmark, is that of a master storyteller, a woman whom John Updike called ""one of the most picturesque and flamboyant literary personalities of the century."""</synopsis>
                <title>Out of Africa</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ivo Andrić, Lovett F. Edwards (Translator), William H. McNeill (Introduction)</author>
                <characters>Franz Ferdinand, Karađorđe Petrović, Sokollu Mehmed Pasha, Abidaga, Fata Avdagina, Radisav, Alihodja Mutevelić, Osman Effendi Karamanli, the man from Plvelje, Pop Nikola, Mula Ibrahim, Arif Beg, Shemsibeg Branković, Milan Glasinčanin, Lotte Apfelmaier, Gregor Fedun, Janko Stiković, Fehim Bhatijarević, Nikola Glasičanin, Zorka</characters>
                <date>1977</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, Literature, Historical, Novels, Nobel Prize, War, 20th Century, Serbian Literature</genres>
                <id>1582</id>
                <synopsis>"A vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late sixteenth century to the beginning of World War I, The Bridge on the Drina earned Ivo Andric the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961. A great stone bridge built three centuries ago in the heart of the Balkans by a Grand Vezir of the Ottoman Empire dominates the setting of Andric's stunning novel. Spanning generations, nationalities, and creeds, the bridge stands witness to the countless lives played out upon it: Radisav, the workman, who tries to hinder its construction and is impaled on its highest point; to the lovely Fata, who throws herself from its parapet to escape a loveless marriage; to Milan, the gambler, who risks everything in one last game on the bridge with the devil his opponent; to Fedun, the young soldier, who pays for a moment of spring forgetfulness with his life. War finally destroys the span, and with it the last descendant of that family to which the Grand Vezir confided the care of his pious bequest - the bridge."</synopsis>
                <title>The Bridge on the Drina</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Cormac McCarthy</author>
                <characters>Cornelius Suttree, Gene Harrogate</characters>
                <date>May-92</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Literature, Southern Gothic, Novels, Classics, American, Southern, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Gothic</genres>
                <id>1583</id>
                <synopsis>"This compelling novel has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living alone and in exile in a disintegrating houseboat on the wrong side of the Tennessee River close by Knoxville. He stays at the edge of an outcast community inhabited by eccentrics, criminals and the poverty-stricken. Rising above the physical and human squalor around him, his detachment and wry humour enable him to survive dereliction and destitution with dignity."</synopsis>
                <title>Suttree</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Carrie Ryan </author>
                <characters>Mary, Travis, Harry Adams, Cass, Jed</characters>
                <date>Jul-09</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Zombies, Horror, Dystopia, Fantasy, Fiction, Post Apocalyptic, Romance, Paranormal, Science Fiction</genres>
                <id>1584</id>
                <synopsis>"In Mary's world there are simple truths. The Sisterhood always knows best. The Guardians will protect and serve. The Unconsecrated will never relent. And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the fence that protects the village from the Forest of Hands and Teeth. But, slowly, Mary’s truths are failing her. She’s learning things she never wanted to know about the Sisterhood and its secrets, and the Guardians and their power, and about the Unconsecrated and their relentlessness. When the fence is breached and her world is thrown into chaos, she must choose between her village and her future—between the one she loves and the one who loves her. And she must face the truth about the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Could there be life outside a world surrounded by so much death?"</synopsis>
                <title>The Forest of Hands and Teeth</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Paullina Simons</author>
                <characters>Tatiana Metanova, Alexander Barrington</characters>
                <date>2008</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Romance, Historical, Historical Romance, Fiction, Russia, War, Adult, World War II, Love</genres>
                <id>1585</id>
                <synopsis>"Tatiana is eighteen years old, pregnant, and widowed when she escapes war-torn Leningrad to find a new life in America. But the ghosts of her past do not rest easily. She becomes consumed by the belief that her husband, Red Army officer Alexander Belov, is still alive and needs her desperately.Meanwhile, oceans and continents away in the Soviet Union, Alexander barely escapes execution, and is forced to lead a battalion of soldiers considered expendable by the Soviet high command. Yet Alexander is determined to take his men through the ruins of Europe in one last desperate bid to escape Stalin's death machine and somehow find his way to Tatiana once again."</synopsis>
                <title>Tatiana and Alexander</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Dr. Seuss</author>
                <characters>Sally, The Cat in the Hat</characters>
                <date>2000</date>
                <genres>Childrens, Picture Books, Fiction, Classics, Poetry, Humor, Fantasy, Cats, Animals, Juvenile</genres>
                <id>1586</id>
                <synopsis>"The Cat in the Hat returns for more out-of-control fun in this wintry Beginner Book by Dr. Seuss. It’s a snowy day and Dick and Sally are stuck shovelling . . . until the Cat in the Hat arrives to liven things up (to say the least!). Featuring the Cat’s helpers Little Cat A, Little Cat B, and so on through the alphabet, and ending with a gigantic Voom, 'The Cat in the Hat Comes Back' is a riotous, fun-filled follow-up to Dr. Seuss’s classic 'The Cat in the Hat.'."</synopsis>
                <title>The Cat in the Hat Comes Back</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Willa Cather</author>
                <characters>Alexandra Bergson</characters>
                <date>1992</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literature, American, Historical, Novels, Westerns, 20th Century, Classic Literature</genres>
                <id>1587</id>
                <synopsis>"O Pioneers! (1913) was Willa Cather's first great novel, and to many it remains her unchallenged masterpiece. No other work of fiction so faithfully conveys both the sharp physical realities and the mythic sweep of the transformation of the American frontier—and the transformation of the people who settled it. Cather's heroine is Alexandra Bergson, who arrives on the wind-blasted prairie of Hanover, Nebraska, as a girl and grows up to make it a prosperous farm. But this archetypal success story is darkened by loss, and Alexandra's devotion to the land may come at the cost of love itself.At once a sophisticated pastoral and a prototype for later feminist novels, O Pioneers! is a work in which triumph is inextricably enmeshed with tragedy, a story of people who do not claim a land so much as they submit to it and, in the process, become greater than they were."</synopsis>
                <title>O Pioneers!</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Madeleine L'Engle</author>
                <characters>Meg Murry, Charles Wallace Murry, ""Calvin O''Keefe"", Echthroi, Mrs. Murry, Proginoskes</characters>
                <date>Mar-76</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Science Fiction, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1588</id>
                <synopsis>"Every time a star goes out, another Echthros has won a battle.Just before Meg Murry's little brother, Charles Wallace, falls deathly ill, he sees dragons in the vegetable garden. The dragons turn out to be Proginoskes, a cherubim composed out wings and eyes, wind and flame. It is up to Meg and Proginoskes, along with Meg's friend Calvin, to save Charles Wallace's life. To do so, they must travel deep within Charles Wallace to attempt to defeat the Echthroi—those who hate—and restore brilliant harmony and joy to the rhythm of creation, the song of the universe."</synopsis>
                <title>A Wind in the Door</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ursula K. Le Guin</author>
                <characters>Lebannen, Ged</characters>
                <date>1979</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Classics, Epic Fantasy, Magic, Dragons, Speculative Fiction</genres>
                <id>1589</id>
                <synopsis>"As long ago as forever and as far away as Selidor, there lived the dragonlord and Archmage, Sparrowhawk, the greatest of the great wizards - he who, when still a youth, met with the evil shadow-beast; he who later brought back the Ring of Erreth-Akbe from the Tombs of Atuan; and he who, as an old man, rode the mighty dragon Kalessin back from the land of the dead. And then, the legends say, Sparrowhawk entered his boat, Lookfar, turned his back on land, and without wind or sail or oar moved westward over the sea and out of sight.Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore - Ursula Le Guin's brilliant and magical trilogy.Cover Illustration: Jonathan Field"</synopsis>
                <title>The Earthsea Trilogy</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Meg Cabot </author>
                <characters>Hector de Silva (Jesse), Susannah ""Suze"" Simon, Paul Slater, Kelly Prescott, Father Dominic, Jake Ackerman (Sleepy), Brad Ackerman (Dopey), David Ackerman (Doc), Sister Ernestine</characters>
                <date>2006</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Paranormal, Fantasy, Romance, Ghosts, Supernatural, Fiction, Teen, Chick Lit, Mystery</genres>
                <id>1590</id>
                <synopsis>"This time it's life or death.Suze has gotten used to ghosts. She's a mediator, after all, and communicating with the dead is all in a day's work. So she certainly never expected to fall in love with one: Jesse, a nineteenth-century hottie. But when she discovers that she has the power to determine who becomes a ghost in the first place, Suze begins to freak. It means she can alter the course of history... and prevent Jesse's murder, keeping him from ever becoming a ghost - and from ever meeting Suze.Will Jesse choose to live without her, or die to love her?"</synopsis>
                <title>Twilight</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Dan Simmons</author>
                <characters>Martin Silenus, Sol Weintraub, Consul, The Shrike, Rachel Weintraub, Brawne Lamia, Fedmahn Kassad, Meina Gladstone, Melio Arundez, Tyrena Wingreen-Feif, John Keats</characters>
                <date>Dec-95</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Space Opera, Science Fiction Fantasy, Time Travel, Audiobook, Space, Speculative Fiction, Horror</genres>
                <id>1591</id>
                <synopsis>"In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention. On the world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secrets they contain mean that nothing-nothing anywhere in the universe-will ever be the same."</synopsis>
                <title>The Fall of Hyperion</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Robin Hobb </author>
                <characters>Althea Vestrit, Ephron Vestrit, Ronica Vestrit, Keffria Vestrit, Kyle Haven, Wintrow Vestrit, Malta Vestrit, Vivacia, Paragon, Brashen Trell, Amber (Liveship Traders), Kennit</characters>
                <date>Mar-99</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure, Dragons, Magic, Adult, Pirates</genres>
                <id>1592</id>
                <synopsis>"Wizardwood, a sentient wood.The most precious commodity in the world.Like many other legendary wares, it comes only from the Rain River Wilds.But how can one trade with the Rain Wilders, when only a liveship fashioned from wizardwood can negotiate the perilous waters of the Rain River? Rare and valuable a liveship will quicken only when three members, from successive generations, have died on board. The liveship Vivacia is about to undergo her quickening as Althea Vestrit’s father is carried on deck in his death-throes. Althea waits for the ship that she loves more than anything else in the world to awaken. Only to discover that the Vivacia has been signed away in her father’s will to her brutal brother-in-law, Kyle Haven...Others plot to win or steal a liveship. The Paragon, known by many as the Pariah, went mad, turned turtle, and drowned his crew. Now he lies blind, lonely, and broken on a deserted beach. But greedy men have designs to restore him, to sail the waters of the Rain Wild River once more.Cover illustration by John Howe"</synopsis>
                <title>Ship of Magic</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Eça de Queirós, Ester de Lemos (Introdução)</author>
                <characters>Carlos da Maia, João da Ega, Maria Eduarda, Afonso da Maia, Maria Monforte, Eusébiozinho, Alencar, Conde de Gouvarinho, Sousa Neto, Palma Cavalão, Dâmaso Salcede, Steinbroken, Cohen, Craft, Condessa de Gouvarinho, Cruges, Tancredo, Sr. Guimarães, Rufino</characters>
                <date>Apr-03</date>
                <genres>Classics, Portuguese Literature, Fiction, Romance, Portugal, School, Literature, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Novels</genres>
                <id>1593</id>
                <synopsis>"Biblioteca Ulisseia de Autores Portugueses #15Os Maias é uma das obras mais conhecidas do escritor português Eça de Queiroz. O livro foi publicado no Porto em 1888. A acção de Os Maias passa-se em Lisboa, na segunda metade do século XIX, e apresenta-nos a história de três gerações da família Maia. A acção inicia-se no Outono de 1875, quando Afonso da Maia, nobre e pobre proprietário, se instala no Ramalhete com o neto recém formado em Medicina. Neste momento faz-se uma longa descrição da casa - ""O Ramalhete,"" cujo nome tem origem num painel de azulejos com um ramo de girassóis, e não em algo fresco ou campestre, tal como o nome nos remete a pensar. Afonso da Maia era o personagem mais simpático do romance e aquele que o autor mais valorizou, pois não se lhe conhecem defeitos. É um homem de carácter, culto e requintado nos gostos. Em jovem aderiu aos ideais do Liberalismo e foi obrigado, por seu pai, a sair de casa e a instalar-se em Inglaterra. Após o pai falecer regressa a Lisboa para casar com Maria Eduarda Runa, mas pouco tempo depois escolhe o exílio por razões de ordem política. Há em Os Maias um retrato da Lisboa da epóca. Carlos, que mora na Rua das Janelas Verdes, caminha com frequência até ao Rossio (embora, por vezes, vá a cavalo ou de carruagem). Algumas das lojas citadas no livro ainda existem - a Casa Havaneza, no Chiado, por exemplo. É possível seguir os diferentes percursos de Carlos ou do Ega pelas suas da Baixa lisboeta, ainda que algumas tenham mudado de nome. No final do livro, quando Carlos volta a Lisboa muitos anos depois, somos levados a ver as novidades - a Avenida da Liberdade, que substituiu o Passeio Público, e que é descrita como uma coisa nova, e feia pela sua novidade, exactamente como nos anos 70 se falava das casas de emigrante. O romance veicula sobre o país uma perspectiva muito derrotista, muito pessimista. Tirando a natureza (o Tejo, Sintra, Santa Olávia...), é tudo uma choldra ignóbil. Predomina uma visão de estrangeirado, de quem só valoriza as civilizações superiores - da França e Inglaterra, principalmente. Os políticos são mesquinhos, ignorantes ou corruptos (Gouvarinho, Sousa Neto...); os homens das Letras sao boémios e dissolutos, retrógrados ou distantes da realidade concreta (Alencar, Ega...: lembre-se o que se passou no Sarau do Teatro da Trindade); os jornalistas boémios e venais (Palma...); os homens do desporto não conseguem organizar uma corrida de cavalos, pois não há hipódromo à altura, nem cavalos, nem cavaleiros, as pessoas não vestem como o evento exigia, as senhoras traziam vestidos de missa. Para cúmulo de tudo isto, os protagonistas acabam vencidos da vida. Apesar de ser isto referido no fim do livro, pode-se ver que ainda há alguma esperanca implícita, nas passagens em que Carlos da Maia e João da Ega dizem que o apetite humano é a causa de todos os seus problemas e que portanto nunca mais terão apetites, mas logo a seguir dizem que lhes está a apetecer um ""prato de paio com ervilhas,"" ou quando dizem que a pressa não leva a nada e que a vida deve ser levada com calma mas começam a correr para apanhar o americano (eléctrico). Mais do que crítica de costumes, o romance mostra-nos um país - sobretudo Lisboa - que se dissolve, incapaz de se regenerar. Quando o autor escreve mais tarde A Cidade e as Serras, expõe uma atitude muito mais construtiva: o protagonista regenera-se pela descoberta das raízes rurais ancestrais não atingidas pela degradação da civilização, num movimento inverso ao que predomina n'Os Maias."</synopsis>
                <title>Os Maias</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Stephen King </author>
                <characters>Mike Noonan, Mattie Devore, Kyra Devore, Max Devore, Jo Noonan, Sara Tidwell</characters>
                <date>Jun-99</date>
                <genres>Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Fantasy, Paranormal, Suspense, Supernatural, Ghosts, Adult</genres>
                <id>1594</id>
                <synopsis>"Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write, and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he calls Sara Laughs, Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside getaway. There, he finds his beloved Yankee town held in the grip of a powerful millionaire, Max Devore, whose vindictive purpose is to take his three-year-old granddaughter, Kyra, away from her widowed young mother, Mattie. As Mike is drawn into Mattie and Kyra's struggle, as he falls in love with both of them, he is also drawn into the mystery of Sara Laughs, now the site of ghostly visitations and escalating terrors. What are the forces that have been unleashed here—and what do they want of Mike Noonan?It is no secret that King is one of our most mesmerizing storytellers. In Bag of Bones, he proves to be one of our most moving as well.(back cover)"</synopsis>
                <title>Bag of Bones</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Armistead Maupin</author>
                <characters>Mary Ann Singleton, Michael Tolliver, Anna  Madrigal, Mona Ramsey, Brian Hawkins</characters>
                <date>1989</date>
                <genres>Fiction, LGBT, Queer, Humor, Gay, Classics, Contemporary, Novels, American, Literature</genres>
                <id>1595</id>
                <synopsis>"San Francisco, 1976. A naïve young secretary, fresh out of Cleveland, tumbles headlong into a brave new world of laundromat Lotharios, pot-growing landladies, cut throat debutantes, and Jockey Shorts dance contests. The saga that ensues is manic, romantic, tawdry, touching, and outrageous—unmistakably the handiwork of Armistead Maupin."</synopsis>
                <title>Tales of the City</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Meg Cabot , Jenny Carroll</author>
                <characters>Susannah ""Suze"" Simon, Hector de Silva (Jesse), Father Dominic, Andy Ackerman, Jake Ackerman (Sleepy), Brad Ackerman (Dopey), David Ackerman (Doc), Adam McTavish, CeeCee Webb, Bryce Martinson, Gina Augustin</characters>
                <date>2005</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Ghosts, Fiction, Supernatural, Mystery, Chick Lit, Teen</genres>
                <id>1596</id>
                <synopsis>"Suze is a mediator - a liaison between the living and the dead. In other words, she sees dead people. And they won't leave her alone until she helps them resolve their unfinished business with the living. But Jesse, the hot ghost haunting her bedroom, doesn't seem to need her help. Which is a relief, because Suze has just moved to sunny California and plans to start fresh, with trips to the mall instead of the cemetery, and surfing instead of spectral visitations. But the very first day at her new school, Suze realizes it's not that easy. There's a ghost with revenge on her mind ... and Suze happens to be in the way."</synopsis>
                <title>Shadowland</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Paulo Coelho , Montserrat Mira (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Brida</characters>
                <date>2006</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Fantasy, Philosophy, Novels, Romance, Spirituality, Inspirational, Literature, Magical Realism, Contemporary</genres>
                <id>1597</id>
                <synopsis>"O livro conta a história de Brida O' Fern, uma irlandesa de 21 anos em busca da magia e dos poderes ocultos. Durante sua busca, Brida conhece um mago, Mago de Folk, que promete ensiná-la através da Tradição do Sol, que explica tudo através da natureza e de suas manifestações divinas. Mas Brida toma, na verdade, como mestra, Wicca, uma bela mulher que lhe ensina através da Tradição da Lua, a antiga Tradição das Bruxas, que explica o Universo através da Sabedoria e do Tempo. Sua evolução espiritual e sua busca pela Outra Parte (a famosa alma gêmea) estão retratadas neste livro emocionante e tão interessante quanto os outros livros do autor - segue contudo, o estilo altamente ""místico"" como ""O Diário de um Mago"" e ""O Alquimista""."</synopsis>
                <title>Brida</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Michael Crichton</author>
                <characters>Jack Forman, Julia Forman</characters>
                <date>2006</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror, Suspense, Mystery, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure, Novels, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1598</id>
                <synopsis>"In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles - micro-robots - has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive.It has been programmed as a predator. It is evolving swiftly, becoming more deadly with each passing hour.Every attempt to destroy it has failed.And we are the prey."</synopsis>
                <title>Prey</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Hubert SelJr., Gilbert Sorrentino (Editor)</author>
                <characters>Harry Black</characters>
                <date>2000</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Thriller, Contemporary, Dark, New York, American, Crime, Novels, Mystery</genres>
                <id>1599</id>
                <synopsis>"Few novels have caused as much debate as Hubert Selby Jr.'s notorious masterpiece, Last Exit to Brooklyn, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.Described by various reviewers as hellish and obscene, Last Exit to Brooklyn tells the stories of New Yorkers who at every turn confront the worst excesses in human nature. Yet there are moments of exquisite tenderness in these troubled lives. Georgette, the transvestite who falls in love with a callous hoodlum; Tralala, the conniving prostitute who plumbs the depths of sexual degradation; and Harry, the strike leader who hides his true desires behind a boorish masculinity, are unforgettable creations. Last Exit to Brooklyn was banned by British courts in 1967, a decision that was reversed the following year with the help of a number of writers and critics including Anthony Burgess and Frank Kermode.Hubert Selby, Jr. (1928-2004) was born in Brooklyn, New York. At the age of 15, he dropped out of school and went to sea with the merchant marines. While at sea he was diagnosed with lung disease. With no other way to make a living, he decided to try writing: 'I knew the alphabet. Maybe I could be a writer.' In 1964 he completed his first book, Last Exit to Brooklyn, which has since become a cult classic. In 1966, it was the subject of an obscenity trial in the UK. His other books include The Room, The Demon, Requiem for a Dream, The Willow Tree and Waiting Period. In 2000, Requiem for a Dream was adapted into a film starring Jared Leto and Ellen Burstyn, and directed by Darren Aronofsky.'Last Exit to Brooklyn will explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America, and still be eagerly read in 100 years'Allen Ginsberg'An urgent tickertape from hell'Spectator"</synopsis>
                <title>Last Exit to Brooklyn</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Carlos Ruiz Zafón</author>
                <characters>Marina Marchetti, German Blau, Oscar Drai</characters>
                <date>1999</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Young Adult, Mystery, Fantasy, Horror, Gothic, Historical Fiction, Spanish Literature, Spain, Romance</genres>
                <id>1600</id>
                <synopsis>"Quince años mas tarde, la memoria de aquel dia ha vuelto a mi. He visto a aquel muchacho vagando entre las brumas de la estacion de Francia y el nombre de Marina se ha encendido de nuevo como una herida fresca. Todos tenemos un secreto encerrado bajo llave en el atico del alma. este es el mio.En la Barcelona de 1980 Oscar Drai suena despierto, deslumbrado por los placeres mocernistas cercanos al internado en el que estudia. En una de sus escapadas conoce a Marina, una chica audaz que comparte con oscar la aventura de adentrarse en un enigma doloroso del pasado de la ciudad. Un misterioso personaje de la posguerra se propuso el mayor desafio imaginable, pero su ambicion lo arrastro por sendas siniestras cucyas consecuencias debe pagar alguien todavia hoy."</synopsis>
                <title>Marina</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Anne Rice</author>
                <characters>Lestat de Lioncourt, David Talbot</characters>
                <date>2005</date>
                <genres>Horror, Fantasy, Vampires, Fiction, Paranormal, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy, Gothic, Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1601</id>
                <synopsis>"In a gripping feat of storytelling, Anne Rice continues the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles that began with the now-classic Interview with the Vampire. For centuries, Lestat—vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals—has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living dead. Now he is alone. And in his overwhelming need to destroy his doubts and his loneliness, Lestat embarks on the most dangerous enterprise he has undertaken in all the years of his haunted existence. Praise for The Tale of the Body Thief  “Tinged with mystery, full of drama . . . The story is involving, the twists surprising.”—People   “Rice is our modern messenger of the occult, whose nicely updated dark-side passion plays twist and turn in true Gothic form.”—San Francisco Chronicle  “Fast-paced . . . . mesmerizing . . . silkenly sensuous . . . No one writing today matches her deftness with the erotic.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution  “Hypnotic . . . masterful.”—CosmopolitanFrom the Paperback edition."</synopsis>
                <title>The Tale of the Body Thief</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Stephen King </author>
                <characters>Edgar Freemantle, Jerome Wireman, Elizabeth Eastlake, Dr. Xander Kamen, Jack Cantori, Perse (Duma Key), Candy Brown, Mary Ire, Pam Freemantle, Ilse Freemantle</characters>
                <date>Jan-08</date>
                <genres>Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Supernatural, Mystery, Audiobook, Suspense, Paranormal, Novels</genres>
                <id>1602</id>
                <synopsis>"From the Flap:NO MORE THAN A DARK PENCIL LINE ON A BLANK PAGE. A HORIZON LINE, MAYBE, BUT ALSO A SLOT FOR BLACKNESS TO POUR THROUGH . . . A terrible construction site accident takes Edgar Freemantle's right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. A marriage that produced two lovely daughters suddenly ends, and Edgar begins to wish he hadn't survived the injuries that could have killed him. He wants out. His psychologist, Dr. Kamen, suggests a ""geographic cure,"" a new life distant from the Twin Cities and the building business Edgar grew from scratch. And Kamen suggests something else. ""Edgar does anything make you happy?"" ""I used to sketch."" ""Take it up again. You need hedges . . . hedges against the night.""Edgar leaves Minnesota for a rented house on Duma Key, a stunningly beautiful, eerily undeveloped splinter of the Florida coast. The sun setting into the Gulf of Mexico and the tidal rattling of shells on the beach call out to him, and Edgar draws. A visit from Ilse, the daughter he dotes on, starts his movement out of solitude. He meets a kindred spirit in Wireman, a man reluctant to reveal his own wounds, and then Elizabeth Eastlake, a sick old woman whose roots are tangled deep in Duma Key. Now Edgar paints, sometimes feverishly, his exploding talent both a wonder and a weapon. Many of his paintings have a power that cannot be controlled. When Elizabeth's past unfolds and the ghosts of her childhood begin to appear, the damage of which they are capable is truly devastating.The tenacity of love, the perils of creativity, the mysteries of memory and the nature of the supernatural-Stephen King gives us a novel as fascinating as it is gripping and terrifying."</synopsis>
                <title>Duma Key</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kōbō Abe, E. Dale Saunders (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Niki Jumpei</characters>
                <date>1991</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Japan, Japanese Literature, Classics, Literature, Novels, Asia, Magical Realism, Literary Fiction, Asian Literature</genres>
                <id>1603</id>
                <synopsis>"The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, suspense and the existential novel. After missing the last bus home following a day trip to the seashore, an amateur entomologist is offered lodging for the night at the bottom of a vast sand pit. But when he attempts to leave the next morning, he quickly discovers that the locals have other plans. Held captive with seemingly no chance of escape, he is tasked with shoveling back the ever-advancing sand dunes that threaten to destroy the village. His only companion is an odd young woman, and together their fates become intertwined as they work side by side through this Sisyphean of tasks."</synopsis>
                <title>The Woman in the Dunes</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Alan Moore , Eddie Campbell (illustrator), Pete Mullins (illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Aleister Crowley, Oscar Wilde, Jack the Ripper, William Morris, Frederick George Abberline, Joseph Merrick, Queen Victoria</characters>
                <date>2007</date>
                <genres>Graphic Novels, Comics, Horror, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Crime, Comic Book, Mystery, Historical</genres>
                <id>1604</id>
                <synopsis>"""I shall tell you where we are. We're in the most extreme and utter region of the human mind. A dim, subconscious underworld. A radiant abyss where men meet themselves. Hell, Netley. We're in Hell."" Having proved himself peerless in the arena of reinterpreting superheroes, Alan Moore turned his ever-incisive eye to the squalid, enigmatic world of Jack the Ripper and the Whitechapel murders of 1888. Weighing in at 576 pages, From Hell is certainly the most epic of Moore's works and remarkably and is possibly his finest effort yet in a career punctuated by such glorious highlights as Watchmen and V for Vendetta. Going beyond the myriad existing theories, which range from the sublime to the ridiculous, Moore presents an ingenious take on the slaughter. His Ripper's brutal activities are the epicentre of a conspiracy involving the very heart of the British Establishment, including the Freemasons and The Royal Family. A popular claim, which is transformed through Moore's exquisite and thoroughly gripping vision, of the Ripper crimes being the womb from which the 20th century, so enmeshed in the celebrity culture of violence, received its shocking, visceral birth. Bolstered by meticulous research that encompasses a wide spectrum of Ripper studies and myths and coupled with his ability to evoke sympathies in such monstrous characters, Moore has created perhaps the finest examination of the Ripper legacy, observing far beyond society's obsessive need to expose Evil's visage. Ultimately, as Moore observes, Jack's identity and his actions are inconsequential to the manner in which society embraced the Fear: ""It's about us. It's about our minds and how they dance. Jack mirrors our hysterias. Faceless, he is the receptacle for each new social panic."" Eddie Campbell's stunning black and white artwork, replete with a scratchy, dirty sheen, is perfectly matched to the often-unshakeable intensity of Moore's writing. Between them, each murder is rendered in horrifying detail, providing the book's most unnerving scenes, made more so in uncomfortable, yet lyrical moments as when the villain embraces an eviscerated corpse, craving understanding; pleading that they ""are wed in legend, inextricable within eternity"". Though technically a comic, the term hardly begins to describe From Hell's inimitable grandeur and finesse, as it takes the medium to fresh heights of ingenuity and craftsmanship. Moore and Campbell's autopsy on the emaciated corpse of the Ripper myth has divulged a deeply disturbing yet undeniably captivating masterpiece. —Danny Graydon"</synopsis>
                <title>From Hell</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Anne Rice</author>
                <characters>Lestat de Lioncourt, Quinn Tyrrell, Mona Mayfair</characters>
                <date>2003</date>
                <genres>Vampires, Horror, Fantasy, Fiction, Paranormal, Supernatural, Witches, Urban Fantasy, Gothic, Adult</genres>
                <id>1605</id>
                <synopsis>"Lestat is back, saviour and demon, presiding over a gothic story of family greed and hatred through generations, a terrifying drama of blood lust and betrayal, possession and matricide. Blackwood Farm with its grand Southern mansion, set among dark cypress swamps in Louisiana, harbours terrible blood-stained secrets and family ghosts. Heir to them all is Quinn Blackwood, young, rash and beautiful, himself a 'bloodhunter' whom Lestat takes under his wing. But Quinn is in thrall not only to the past and his own appetites but, even more dangerously, to a companion spirit, a 'goblin' succubus who could destroy him and others. Only the unearthly power of Lestat combined with the earthly powers of the Mayfair clan could hope to save Quinn from himself and his ghosts, or to rescue the doomed girl Quinn loves from her own mortality. Shocking, savage and richly erotic, this novel with the deceptively gentle title bring us Anne Rice at her most powerfully disturbing. Here are vampires and witches, men and women, demons and a doppelganger, caught up in a maelstrom of death and destruction, blood and fire, cruelty and fate."</synopsis>
                <title>Blackwood Farm</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Holly Black </author>
                <characters>Kaye Fierch, Ellen Fierch, Cornelius Stone, Rath Roiben Rye, Janet Stone</characters>
                <date>Apr-04</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal, Fiction, Fairies, Romance, Fae, Young Adult Fantasy, Magic</genres>
                <id>1606</id>
                <synopsis>"Welcome to the realm of very scary faeries!Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and independent, she travels from city to city with her mother's rock band until an ominous attack forces Kaye back to her childhood home. There, amid the industrial, blue-collar New Jersey backdrop, Kaye soon finds herself an unwilling pawn in an ancient power struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms - a struggle that could very well mean her death."</synopsis>
                <title>Tithe</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Anne Rice</author>
                <characters>Marius de Romanus, David Talbot, Pandora</characters>
                <date>May-01</date>
                <genres>Vampires, Horror, Fantasy, Fiction, Paranormal, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Gothic, Historical</genres>
                <id>1607</id>
                <synopsis>"Anne Rice, creator of the Vampire Lestat, the Mayfair witches and the amazing worlds they inhabit, now gives us the first in a new series of novels linked together by the fledgling vampire David Talbot, who has set out to become a chronicler of his fellow Undead.The novel opens in present-day Paris in a crowded café, where David meets Pandora. She is two thousand years old, a Child of the Millennia, the first vampire ever made by the great Marius. David persuades her to tell the story of her life. Pandora begins, reluctantly at first and then with increasing passion, to recount her mesmerizing tale, which takes us through the ages, from Imperial Rome to eighteenth-century France to twentieth-century Paris and New Orleans. She carries us back to her mortal girlhood in the world of Caesar Augustus, a world chronicled by Ovid and Petronius. This is where Pandora meets and falls in love with the handsome, charismatic, lighthearted, still-mortal Marius. This is the Rome she is forced to flee in fear of assassination by conspirators plotting to take over the city. And we follow her to the exotic port of Antioch, where she is destined to be reunited with Marius, now immortal and haunted by his vampire nature, who will bestow on her the Dark Gift as they set out on the fraught and fantastic adventure of their two turbulent centuries together."</synopsis>
                <title>Pandora</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>John Steinbeck</author>
                <characters>Danny, Pablo Soler, Pilon, Jesus Maria Corcoran, Pirate, Torelli</characters>
                <date>Jul-01</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Literature, Novels, American, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, The United States Of America, Classic Literature</genres>
                <id>1608</id>
                <synopsis>"""Steinbeck is an artist; and he tells the stories of these lovable thieves and adulterers with a gentle and poetic purity of heart and of prose."" - New York Herald TribuneAdopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, Steinbeck created a ""Camelot"" on a shabby hillside above the town of Monterey,California and peopled it with a colorful band of knights. At the center of the tale is Danny, whose house, like Arthur's castle, becomes a gathering place for men looking for adventure, camaraderie, and a sense of belonging. These ""knights"" are paisanos, men of mixed heritage, whose ancestors settled California hundreds of years before. Free of ties to jobs and other complications of the American way of life, they fiercely resist the corrupting tide of honest toil in the surrounding ocean of civil rectitude.As Steinbeck chronicles their deeds-their multiple loves, their wonderful brawls, their Rabelaisian wine-drinking-he spins a tale as compelling and ultimately as touched by sorrow as the famous legends of the Round Table, which inspired him."</synopsis>
                <title>Tortilla Flat</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ernest Hemingway</author>
                <characters>David Bourne, Catherine Bourne, Marita</characters>
                <date>2003</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Literature, Novels, American, Romance, France, Literary Fiction, 20th Century, Classic Literature</genres>
                <id>1609</id>
                <synopsis>"A sensational bestseller when it appeared in 1986, The Garden of Eden is the last uncompleted novel of Ernest Hemingway, which he worked on intermittently from 1946 until his death in 1961. Set on the Côte d'Azur in the 1920s, it is the story of a young American writer, David Bourne, his glamorous wife, Catherine, and the dangerous, erotic game they play when they fall in love with the same woman. ""A lean, sensuous narrative...taut, chic, and strangely contemporary,"" The Garden of Eden represents vintage Hemingway, the master ""doing what nobody did better"" (R. Z. Sheppard, Time)."</synopsis>
                <title>The Garden of Eden</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Terry Pratchett</author>
                <characters>The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Nanny Ogg, DEATH, Susan Sto Helit, Death of Rats, The Auditors, Ronny Soak, Monks of History, Lu-Tze</characters>
                <date>2008</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Comedy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Time Travel, Science Fiction, High Fantasy, Novels</genres>
                <id>1610</id>
                <synopsis>"Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed.And on Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where it's wasted (like underwater - how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities, where there's never enough time.But the construction of the world's first truly accurate clock starts a race against, well, time, for Lu Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd. Because it will stop time. And that will only be the start of everyone's problems.Thief of Time comes complete with a full supporting cast of heroes and villains, yetis, martial artists and Ronnie, the fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse (who left before they became famous)."</synopsis>
                <title>Thief of Time</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>E.B. White, Fred Marcellino (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Serena, Sam Beaver, Louis the swan</characters>
                <date>2000</date>
                <genres>Classics, Childrens, Fiction, Animals, Fantasy, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Chapter Books, School</genres>
                <id>1611</id>
                <synopsis>"Swan SongLike the rest of his family, Louis is a trumpeter swan. But unlike his four brothers and sisters, Louis can't trumpet joyfully. In fact, he can't even make a sound. And since he can't trumpet his love, the beautiful swan Serena pays absolutely no attention to him.Louis tries everything he can think of to win Serena's affection—he even goes to school to learn to read and write. But nothing seems to work. Then his father steals him a real brass trumpet. Is a musical instrument the key to winning Louis his love?"</synopsis>
                <title>The Trumpet of the Swan 50th Anniversary</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Mahbod Seraji </author>
                <characters>Pasha Shahed, Zari, Ahmed, Faheemeh</characters>
                <date>2009</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Iran, Romance, Historical, Cultural, Novels, Asia, Coming Of Age, Drama</genres>
                <id>1612</id>
                <synopsis>"From ""a striking new talent""(Sandra Dallas, author of Tallgrass) comes an unforgettable debut novel of young love and coming of age in an Iran headed toward revolution. In this poignant, eye-opening and emotionally vivid novel, Mahbod Seraji lays bare the beauty and brutality of the centuries-old Persian culture, while reaffirming the human experiences we all share. In a middle-class neighborhood of Iran's sprawling capital city, 17-year-old Pasha Shahed spends the summer of 1973 on his rooftop with his best friend Ahmed, joking around one minute and asking burning questions about life the next. He also hides a secret love for his beautiful neighbor Zari, who has been betrothed since birth to another man. But the bliss of Pasha and Zari's stolen time together is shattered when Pasha unwittingly acts as a beacon for the Shah's secret police. The violent consequences awaken him to the reality of living under a powerful despot, and lead Zari to make a shocking choice..."</synopsis>
                <title>Rooftops of Tehran</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Sidney Sheldon</author>
                <characters>Alette Peters, Ashley Patterson, Toni Prescott, Steven Patterson, David Singer, Sandra Singer, Jesse Quiller, Gilbert Keller, Emily Quiller, Joseph Kincaid, Jim Cleary, Samuel Blake, Richard Melton</characters>
                <date>Aug-99</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Novels, Romance, Drama, Psychology</genres>
                <id>1613</id>
                <synopsis>"She had read about stalkers, but they belonged in a different, faraway world. She had no idea who it could be, who would want to harm her. She was trying desperately not to panic, but lately her sleep had been filled with nightmares, and she had awakened each morning with a feeling of impending doom.Thus begins Sidney Sheldon's chilling new novel, Tell Me Your Dreams. Three beautiful young women are suspected of committing a series of brutal murders. The police make an arrest that leads to one of the most bizarre murder trials of the century. Based on actual events, Sheldon's novel races from London to Rome to the city of Quebec to San Francisco, with a climax that will leave the reader stunned."</synopsis>
                <title>Tell Me Your Dreams</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Robertson Davies</author>
                <characters>Dunstan Ramsay, Boy Staunton</characters>
                <date>2002</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Canada, Classics, Historical Fiction, Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, Canadian Literature, School, Historical</genres>
                <id>1614</id>
                <synopsis>"Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross and destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and myth collide. As Ramsay tells his story, it begins to seem that from boyhood, he has exerted a perhaps mystical, perhaps pernicious, influence on those around him. His apparently innocent involvement in such innocuous events as the throwing of a snowball or the teaching of card tricks to a small boy in the end prove neither innocent nor innocuous. Fifth Business stands alone as a remarkable story told by a rational man who discovers that the marvelous is only another aspect of the real."</synopsis>
                <title>Fifth Business</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Susanna Kearsley </author>
                <characters>Carrie McClelland, Sophia Paterson, John Moray, Graham Keith</characters>
                <date>2010</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Romance, Fiction, Historical, Time Travel, Scotland, Historical Romance, Fantasy, Contemporary, Adult</genres>
                <id>1615</id>
                <synopsis>"In the spring of 1708, an invading Jacobite fleet of French and Scottish soldiers nearly succeeded in landing the exiled James Stewart in Scotland to reclaim his crown.Now, Carrie McClelland hopes to turn that story into her next bestselling novel. Settling herself in the shadow of Slains Castle, she creates a heroine named for one of her own ancestors and starts to write.But when she discovers her novel is more fact than fiction, Carrie wonders if she might be dealing with ancestral memory, making her the only living person who knows the truth—the ultimate betrayal—that happened all those years ago, and that knowledge comes very close to destroying her.…"</synopsis>
                <title>The Winter Sea</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Stephen King </author>
                <characters>Charlene ""Charlie""  McGee, Andrew ""Andy""  McGee, John Rainbird, Captain James ""Cap"" Hollester, Vicky Tomlinson, Patrick Hockstetter, Irv Manders, Norma Manders, Doctor Joseph Wanless, Doctor Herman Pynchot, Albert Steinowitz, Orv  ""OJ"" Jamieson, Orville Bates</characters>
                <date>1998</date>
                <genres>Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Paranormal, Supernatural, Suspense, Adult, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1616</id>
                <synopsis>"The Department of Scientific Intelligence (aka ""The Shop"") never anticipated that two participants in their research program would marry and have a child. Charlie McGee inherited pyrokinetic powers from her parents, who had been given a low-grade hallucinogen called ""Lot Six"" while at college. Now the government is trying to capture young Charlie and harness her powerful firestarting skills as a weapon.-stephenking.com"</synopsis>
                <title>Firestarter</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Mario Vargas Llosa, Edith Grossman (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Urania Cabral, Agustín Cabral, Rafael Trujillo, Johnny Abbes García, Ramfis Trujillo, Joaquín Balaguer, Antonio Imbert Barrera, Antonio de la Maza</characters>
                <date>2003</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Historical Fiction, Novels, Spanish Literature, Latin American, Literature, Nobel Prize, Latin American Literature, Historical, Politics</genres>
                <id>1617</id>
                <synopsis>"Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic - and finds herself reliving the events of 1961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a nation of three million people. Rafael Trujillo, the depraved ailing dictator whom Dominicans call the Goat, controls his inner circle with a combination of violence and blackmail. In Trujillo's gaudy palace, treachery and cowardice have become the way of life. But Trujillo's grasp is slipping away. There is a conspiracy against him, and a Machiavellian revolution already underway that will have bloody consequences of its own. In this 'masterpiece of Latin American and world literature, and one of the finest political novels ever written' (""Bookforum""), Mario Vargas Llosa recounts the end of a regime and the birth of a terrible democracy, giving voice to the historical Trujillo and the victims, both innocent and complicit, drawn into his deadly orbit."</synopsis>
                <title>The Feast of the Goat</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jhumpa Lahiri</author>
                <characters>Ruma</characters>
                <date>2008</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Short Stories, India, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Literature, Indian Literature, Book Club, Adult Fiction, Adult</genres>
                <id>1618</id>
                <synopsis>"Eight stories—longer and more emotionally complex than any Lahiri has yet written—that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they enter the lives of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers.From the internationally best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction: eight stories—longer and more emotionally complex than any she has yet written—that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they enter the lives of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers.In the stunning title story, Ruma, a young mother in a new city, is visited by her father, who carefully tends the earth of her garden, where he and his grandson form a special bond. But he’s harboring a secret from his daughter, a love affair he’s keeping all to himself. In “A Choice of Accommodations,” a husband’s attempt to turn an old friend’s wedding into a romantic getaway weekend with his wife takes a dark, revealing turn as the party lasts deep into the night. In “Only Goodness,” a sister eager to give her younger brother the perfect childhood she never had is overwhelmed by guilt, anguish, and anger when his alcoholism threatens her family. And in “Hema and Kaushik,” a trio of linked stories—a luminous, intensely compelling elegy of life, death, love, and fate—we follow the lives of a girl and boy who, one winter, share a house in Massachusetts. They travel from innocence to experience on separate, sometimes painful paths, until destiny brings them together again years later in Rome. Unaccustomed Earth is rich with Jhumpa Lahiri’s signature gifts: exquisite prose, emotional wisdom, and subtle renderings of the most intricate workings of the heart and mind. It is a masterful, dazzling work of a writer at the peak of her powers."</synopsis>
                <title>Unaccustomed Earth</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Andrzej Sapkowski</author>
                <characters>Dandelion, Yennefer, Ciri (Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon), Visenna, Eithné, Braenn, Essi Daven, Geralt of Rivia</characters>
                <date>1994</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Short Stories, Polish Literature, Audiobook, High Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, Adult, Epic Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1619</id>
                <synopsis>"„Miecz przeznaczenia” jest zbiorem opowiadań stanowiących swoistą kontynuację przygód Geralta ze zbioru „Ostatnie życzenie”, a zarazem poprzedza historię opisaną w „Sadze o wiedźminie”. Generalnie opowiadania składające się na omawiany zbiór nie różnią się niczym od napisanych wcześniej. Geralt dzięki swojej sile, odwadze i inteligencji walczy z potworami bądź w inny sposób stara się pomagać ludziom. Świat, w którym rozgrywa się akcja, jest przedstawiony w sposób niezwykle plastyczny, co sprawia, iż można go sobie bez większych problemów wyobrazić. Książka przesiąknięta jest emocjami, marzeniami i wartościami. Na kartach opowiadań widzimy miłość, poświęcenie, honor, determinację spowodowaną zamiarem udzielenia pomocy ukochanemu, przywiązanie do własnej ziemi."</synopsis>
                <title>Miecz przeznaczenia</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Madeleine L'Engle</author>
                <characters>Meg Murry, Charles Wallace Murry, ""Mrs. O''Keefe"", Mad Dog Branzillo, Gaudior, Echthroi, Harcels, Madoc Gywnedd, Brandon Llawcae, Matthew Maddox, Chuck Maddox, Sandy Murry, Dennys Murry</characters>
                <date>Jan-81</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Science Fiction, Childrens, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy, Time Travel, Middle Grade, Adventure</genres>
                <id>1620</id>
                <synopsis>"In this companion volume to A Wrinkle In Time (Newbery Award winner) and A Wind In The Door fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace and the unicorn Gaudior undertake a perilous journey through time in a desperate attempt to stop the destruction of the world by the mad dictator Madog Branzillo. They are not alone in their quest. Charles Wallace's sister, Meg - grown and expecting her first child, but still able to enter her brother's thoughts and emotions by ""kything"" - goes with him in spirit."</synopsis>
                <title>A Swiftly Tilting Planet</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Lois McMaster Bujold </author>
                <characters>Miles Vorkosigan</characters>
                <date>2003</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Space Opera, Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Adventure, Military Fiction, Space, Speculative Fiction</genres>
                <id>1621</id>
                <synopsis>"Between the seemingly impossible tasks of living up to his warrior-father's legend and surmounting his own physical limitations, Miles Vorkosigan faces some truly daunting challenges. Shortly after his arrival on Beta Colony, Miles unexpectedly finds himself the owner of an obsolete freighter and in more debt than he ever thought possible. Propelled by his manic ""forward momentum,"" the ever-inventive Miles creates a new identity for himself as the commander of his own mercenary fleet to obtain a lucrative cargo; a shipment of weapons destined for a dangerous warzone."</synopsis>
                <title>The Warrior's Apprentice</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Sophie Kinsella </author>
                <characters>Eric Ross, Jon, Lexi Smart, sister Amy, Fi</characters>
                <date>2008</date>
                <genres>Chick Lit, Romance, Fiction, Contemporary, Adult, Humor, Contemporary Romance, Adult Fiction, Audiobook, British Literature</genres>
                <id>1622</id>
                <synopsis>"When twenty-eight-year-old Lexi Smart wakes up in a London hospital, she’s in for a big surprise. Her teeth are perfect. Her body is toned. Her handbag is Vuitton. Having survived a car accident—in a Mercedes no less—Lexi has lost a big chunk of her memory, three years to be exact, and she’s about to find out just how much things have changed.Somehow Lexi went from a twenty-five-year-old working girl to a corporate big shot with a sleek new loft, a personal assistant, a carb-free diet, and a set of glamorous new friends. And who is this gorgeous husband—who also happens to be a multimillionaire? With her mind still stuck three years in reverse, Lexi greets this brave new world determined to be the person she…well, seems to be. That is, until an adorably disheveled architect drops the biggest bombshell of all.Suddenly Lexi is scrambling to catch her balance. Her new life, it turns out, comes complete with secrets, schemes, and intrigue. How on earth did all this happen? Will she ever remember? And what will happen when she does?With the same wicked humor and delicious charm that have won her millions of devoted fans, Sophie Kinsella, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Shopaholic &amp; Baby, returns with an irresistible new novel and a fresh new heroine who finds herself in a life-changing and utterly hilarious predicament…"</synopsis>
                <title>Remember Me?</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>T. Coraghessan Boyle </author>
                <characters>Delany Mossbacher, Candido Rincon, America Rincon</characters>
                <date>1995</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Contemporary, Book Club, School, Literature, Novels, Literary Fiction, American, Audiobook, Adult Fiction</genres>
                <id>1623</id>
                <synopsis>"Topanga Canyon is home to two couples on a collision course. Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher lead an ordered sushi-and-recycling existence in a newly gated hilltop community: he a sensitive nature writer, she an obsessive realtor. Mexican illegals Cándido and América Rincón desperately cling to their vision of the American Dream as they fight off starvation in a makeshift camp deep in the ravine. And from the moment a freak accident brings Cándido and Delaney into intimate contact, these four and their opposing worlds gradually intersect in what becomes a tragicomedy of error and misunderstanding."</synopsis>
                <title>The Tortilla Curtain</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Terry Pratchett</author>
                <characters>Nobby Nobbs, Nanny Ogg, DEATH, Agnes Nitt, The Librarian, Death of Rats, Detritus, Granny Weatherwax</characters>
                <date>1995</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Comedy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Witches, Audiobook, Magic, High Fantasy, Comic Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1624</id>
                <synopsis>"The Ghost in the bone-white mask who haunts theAnkh-Morpork Opera House was always considered a benign presence - some would even say lucky - until he started killing people. The sudden rash of bizarre backstage deaths now threatens to mar the operatic debut of country girl Perdita X. (nee Agnes) Nitt, she of the ample body and ampler voice.Perdita's expected to hide in the chorus and sing arias out loud while a more petitely presentable soprano mouths the notes. But at least it's an escape from scheming Nanny Ogg and old Granny Weatherwax back home, who want her to join their witchy ranks.Once Granny sets her mind on something, however, it's difficult - and often hazardous - to dissuade her. And no opera-prowling phantom fiend is going to keep a pair of determined hags down on the farm after they've seen Ankh-Morpork."</synopsis>
                <title>Maskerade</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>D.J. MacHale </author>
                <characters>Bobby Pendragon, Andy Mitchell, Press Tilton, Shannon Pendragon, Courtney Chetwynde, Mark Dimond, Saint Dane, Traveler Alder</characters>
                <date>Sept-02</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Science Fiction, Adventure, Middle Grade, Childrens, Young Adult Fantasy, Teen, Magic</genres>
                <id>1625</id>
                <synopsis>"Librarian Note: Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereDENDURONBOBBY PENDRAGON is a seemingly normal fourteen-year-old boy. He has a family, a home, and even Marley, his beloved dog. But there is something very special about Bobby.He is going to save the world.And not just Earth as we know it. Bobby is slowly starting to realize that life in the cosmos isn't quite what he thought it was. And before he can object, he is swept off to an alternate dimension known as Denduron, a territory inhabited by strange beings, ruled by a magical tyrant, and plagued by dangerous revolution.If Bobby wants to see his family again, he's going to have to accept his role as savior, and accept it wholeheartedly. Because, as he is about to discover, Denduron is only the beginning....Cover illustration by Victor Lee"</synopsis>
                <title>The Merchant of Death</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Sidney Sheldon</author>
                <characters>Noelle Page, Lawrence ""Larry"" Douglas, Catherine Alexander, Constantin ""Costa"" Demiris, Napoleon Chotas</characters>
                <date>1975</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Romance, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Novels, Crime, Drama, Contemporary</genres>
                <id>1626</id>
                <synopsis>"Paris...Washington...a peaceful Midwestern campus...a fabulous villa in Greece...all part of a terrifying web of intrigue and treachery as a ruthless trio of human beings - an incredibly beautiful film star, a legendary Greek tycoon, a womanizing international adventurer- use an innocent American girl as a bewildered, horror-stricken pawn in a desperate game of vengeance and betrayal, love and lust, life and death..."</synopsis>
                <title>The Other Side of Midnight</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Bill Watterson</author>
                <characters>Calvin, Hobbes</characters>
                <date>Sept-88</date>
                <genres>Comics, Humor, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Comedy, Childrens, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Comic Strips, Classics</genres>
                <id>1627</id>
                <synopsis>"Perhaps the most brilliant comic strip ever created, Calvin and Hobbes continues to entertain with dazzling cartooning and tremendous humor.Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes has been a worldwide favorite since its introduction in 1985. The strip follows the richly imaginative adventures of Calvin and his trusty tiger, Hobbes. Whether a poignant look at serious family issues or a round of time-travel (with the aid of a well-labeled cardboard box), Calvin and Hobbes will astound and delight you.Beginning with the day Hobbes sprang into Calvin's tuna fish trap, the first two Calvin and Hobbes collections, Calvin and Hobbes and Something Under The Bed Is Drooling, are brought together in this treasury. Including black-and-white dailies and color Sundays, The Essential Calvin and Hobbes also features an original full-color 16-page story."</synopsis>
                <title>The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Robert Jordan</author>
                <characters>""Rand al''Thor"", ""Nynaeve al''Meara"", ""Egwene al''Vere"", Perrin Aybara, ""Al''Lan Mandragoran"", Matrim Cauthon, Min Farshaw, Elayne Trakand, Aviendha, Siuan Sanche</characters>
                <date>Dec-06</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic, Adventure, Audiobook, Magic, Adult</genres>
                <id>1628</id>
                <synopsis>"The dead are walking, men die impossible deaths, and it seems as though reality itself has become unstable: All are signs of the imminence of Tarmon Gai'don, the Last Battle, when Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, must confront the Dark One as humanity's only hope. But Rand dares not fight until he possesses all the surviving seals on the Dark One's prison and has dealt with the Seanchan, who threaten to overrun all nations this side of the Aryth Ocean and increasingly seem too entrenched to be fought off. But his attempt to make a truce with the Seanchan is shadowed by treachery that may cost him everything. Whatever the price, though, he must have that truce. And he faces other dangers.The winds of time have become a storm, and things that everyone believes are fixed in place forever are changing before their eyes. Even the White Tower itself is no longer a place of safety. Now Rand, Perrin and Mat, Egwene and Elayne, Nynaeve and Lan, and even Loial, must ride those storm winds, or the Dark One will triumph."</synopsis>
                <title>Knife of Dreams</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Stephen R. Donaldson</author>
                <characters>Thomas Covenant</characters>
                <date>Nov-89</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction, Adventure, High Fantasy, Epic, Unfinished, Young Adult</genres>
                <id>1629</id>
                <synopsis>"He called himself Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever because he dared not believe in the strange alternate world in which he suddenly found himself.Yet the Land tempted him. He had been sick; now he seemed better than ever before. Through no fault of his own, he had been outcast, unclean, a pariah. Now he was regarded as a reincarnation of the Land's greatest hero-Berek Halfhand-armed with the mystic power of White Gold. That power alone could protect the Lords of the Land from the ancient evil of Despiser, Lord Foul. Only...Covenant had no idea of how the power could be used!Thus begins one of the most remarkable epic fantasies ever written..."</synopsis>
                <title>Lord Foul's Bane</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Rachel Caine </author>
                <characters>Claire Danvers, Monica Morrell, Michael Glass, Eve Rosser</characters>
                <date>Nov-10</date>
                <genres>Vampires, Young Adult, Paranormal, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Supernatural, Paranormal Romance, Fiction, Teen</genres>
                <id>1630</id>
                <synopsis>"Deep in the heart of Texas, Morganville is a small college town full of laid-back students and eccentric townies, not to mention the sort of creatures you wouldn't want to run into after dark. Despite their obvious differences, the human and vampire residents of Morganville have learned to coexist, but that doesn't stop genius student Claire Danvers from keeping up her guard. Because in Morganville, nothing is as it seems...While developing a new system to maintain the town's defenses, Claire discovers a way to use the vampires' powers to help keep outsiders from spreading news of Morganville's ""unique"" situation once they've crossed the city limits.But the new system has an unexpected and possibly deadly consequence: People inside the town start forgetting who and what they are - even the vampires. And when Claire's boyfriend, Shane, and her best friend, Eve, start treating her like a perfect stranger, Claire realizes she has to figure out a way to pull the plug on her experiment - before she forgets how to save herself... and Morganville."</synopsis>
                <title>Ghost Town</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Bill Watterson, G.B. Trudeau (Foreword)</author>
                <characters>Calvin, Hobbes</characters>
                <date>May-87</date>
                <genres>Comics, Humor, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Childrens, Comedy, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Classics, Comic Strips</genres>
                <id>1631</id>
                <synopsis>"This is the first collection of the popular comic strip that features Calvin, a rambunctious 6-year-old boy, and his stuffed tiger, Hobbes, who comes charmingly to life."</synopsis>
                <title>Calvin and Hobbes</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ildefonso Falcones</author>
                <characters>Joan, Arnau, Guillem, Aladis, Mar (Ildefonso Falcones)</characters>
                <date>Mar-06</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Spain, Spanish Literature, Medieval, Roman, Novels, Romance, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1632</id>
                <synopsis>"Siglo XIV. La ciudad de Barcelona se encuentra en su momento de mayor prosperidad; ha crecido hacia la Ribera, el humilde barrio de los pescadores, cuyos habitantes deciden construir, con el dinero de unos y el esfuerzo de otros, el mayor templo mariano jamás conocido: Santa María de la Mar.Una construcción que es paralela a la azarosa historia de Arnau, un siervo de la tierra que huye de los abusos de su señor feudal y se refugia en Barcelona, donde se convierte en ciudadano y, con ello, en hombre libre.El joven Arnau trabaja como palafrenero, estibador, soldado y cambista. Una vida extenuante, siempre al amparo de la catedral de la mar, que le iba a llevar de la miseria del fugitivo a la nobleza y la riqueza. Pero con esta posición privilegiada también le llega la envidia de sus pares, que urden una sórdida conjura que pone su vida en manos de la Inquisición...""La catedral del mar"" es una trama en la que se entrecruzan lealtad y venganza, traición y amor, guerra y peste, en un mundo marcado por la intolerancia religiosa, la ambición material y la segregación social. Todo ello convierte esta obra no sólo en una novela absorbente, sino también en la más fascinante y ambiciosa recreación de las luces y sombras de la época feudal."</synopsis>
                <title>La catedral del mar</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jennifer Donnelly </author>
                <characters>Andi Alpers, Alexandrine Paradis</characters>
                <date>2011</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Historical, Fiction, Time Travel, Fantasy, Contemporary, Romance, Teen, France</genres>
                <id>1633</id>
                <synopsis>"BROOKLYN: Andi Alpers is on the edge. She’s angry at her father for leaving, angry at her mother for not being able to cope, and heartbroken by the loss of her younger brother, Truman. Rage and grief are destroying her. And she’s about to be expelled from Brooklyn Heights’ most prestigious private school when her father intervenes. Now Andi must accompany him to Paris for winter break.PARIS: Alexandrine Paradis lived over two centuries ago. She dreamed of making her mark on the Paris stage, but a fateful encounter with a doomed prince of France cast her in a tragic role she didn’t want—and couldn’t escape. Two girls, two centuries apart. One never knowing the other. But when Andi finds Alexandrine’s diary, she recognizes something in her words and is moved to the point of obsession. There’s comfort and distraction for Andi in the journal’s antique pages—until, on a midnight journey through the catacombs of Paris, Alexandrine’s words transcend paper and time, and the past becomes suddenly, terrifyingly present."</synopsis>
                <title>Revolution</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Raymond Chandler</author>
                <characters>Moose Malloy, Philip Marlowe, Lindsay Marriott, Jessie Florian, Anne Riordan, Mrs. Lewin Lockridge Grayle, Jules Amthor, Laire Brunette, Dr. Sonderborg, Lewin Lockridge Grayle, Detective-Lieutenant Carl Randall, Nulty, Chief John Wax</characters>
                <date>Aug-92</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Noir, Classics, Detective, Mystery Thriller, American, Thriller, Novels</genres>
                <id>1634</id>
                <synopsis>"Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, another murder, a fortune-teller, a couple more murders, and more corruption than your average graveyard."</synopsis>
                <title>Farewell, My Lovely</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Conn Iggulden</author>
                <characters>Genghis Khan, Börte Üjin, Yesugei, Bekter, Khasar, Kachiun, Temüge, Hoelun</characters>
                <date>Mar-08</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Fantasy, Asia, War, Adventure, Audiobook, Military Fiction, Action</genres>
                <id>1635</id>
                <synopsis>"From the author of the bestselling ""The Dangerous Book for Boys"" He was born Temujin, the son of a khan, raised in a clan of hunters migrating across the rugged steppe. Temujin's young life was shaped by a series of brutal acts: the betrayal of his father by a neighboring tribe and the abandonment of his entire family, cruelly left to die on the harsh plain. But Temujin endured-and from that moment on, he was driven by a singular fury: to survive in the face of death, to kill before being killed, and to conquer enemies who could come without warning from beyond the horizon.  Through a series of courageous raids against the Tartars, Temujin's legend grew. And so did the challenges he faced-from the machinations of a Chinese ambassador to the brutal abduction of his young wife, Borte. Blessed with ferocious courage, it was the young warrior's ability to learn, to imagine, and to judge the hearts of others that propelled him to greater and greater power. Until Temujin was chasing a vision: to unite many tribes into one, to make the earth tremble under the hoofbeats of a thousand warhorses, to subject unknown nations and even empires to his will. ""From the Hardcover edition."""</synopsis>
                <title>Genghis: Birth of an Empire</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Art Spiegelman</author>
                <characters>Vladek Spiegelman, Anja Spiegelman, Art Spiegelman, Mala Spiegelman</characters>
                <date>Sept-92</date>
                <genres>Graphic Novels, Comics, Nonfiction, History, Memoir, Holocaust, Biography, Historical, War, Graphic Novels Comics</genres>
                <id>1636</id>
                <synopsis>"Acclaimed as a quiet triumph and a brutally moving work of art, the first volume of Art Spieglman's Maus introduced readers to Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story, and History itself. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), succeeds perfectly in shocking us out of any lingering sense of familiararity with the events described, approaching, as it does, the unspeakable through the diminutive.This second volume, subtitled And Here My Troubles Began, moves us from the barracks of Auschwitz to the bungalows of the Catskills. Genuinely tragic and comic by turns, it attains a complexity of theme and a precision of thought new to comics and rare in any medium. Maus ties together two powerful stories: Vladek's harrowing tale of survival against all odds, delineating the paradox of daily life in the death camps, and the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. At every level this is the ultimate survivor's tale - and that too of the children who somehow survive even the survivors."</synopsis>
                <title>Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Benito Taibo</author>
                <characters>Young Adult, Contemporary, Spanish Literature, Fiction, Coming Of Age, Drama</characters>
                <date>Destino</date>
                <genres>9.78607E+12</genres>
                <id>1637</id>
                <synopsis>"Una grandiosa e increíble aventura para ser todo... excepto normal. </synopsis>
                <title>Persona normal</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Frank McCourt</author>
                <characters>Frank McCourt</characters>
                <date>1999</date>
                <genres>Nonfiction, Memoir, Biography, Autobiography, Ireland, Biography Memoir, Irish Literature, History, Historical, New York</genres>
                <id>1638</id>
                <synopsis>"The sequel to Frank McCourt's memoir of his Irish Catholic boyhood, Angela's Ashes, picks up the story in October 1949, upon his arrival in America. Though he was born in New York, the family had returned to Ireland due to poor prospects in the United States. Now back on American soil, this awkward 19-year-old, with his ""pimply face, sore eyes, and bad teeth,"" has little in common with the healthy, self-assured college students he sees on the subway and dreams of joining in the classroom. Initially, his American experience is as harrowing as his impoverished youth in Ireland, including two of the grimmest Christmases ever described in literature. McCourt views the U.S. through the same sharp eye and with the same dark humor that distinguished his first memoir: race prejudice, casual cruelty, and dead-end jobs weigh on his spirits as he searches for a way out. A glimpse of hope comes from the army, where he acquires some white-collar skills, and from New York University, which admits him without a high school diploma. But the journey toward his position teaching creative writing at Stuyvesant High School is neither quick nor easy. Fortunately, McCourt's openness to every variety of human emotion and longing remains exceptional; even the most damaged, difficult people he encounters are richly rendered individuals with whom the reader can't help but feel uncomfortable kinship. The magical prose, with its singing Irish cadences, brings grandeur and beauty to the most sorrowful events, including the final scene, set in a Limerick graveyard. -Wendy Smith"</synopsis>
                <title>'Tis</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jenny Carroll, Meg Cabot </author>
                <characters>Susannah ""Suze"" Simon, Hector de Silva (Jesse), Father Dominic, Jake Ackerman (Sleepy), Brad Ackerman (Dopey), CeeCee Webb, Gina Augustin, David Ackerman (Doc), Kelly Prescott, Scott Turner, Adam McTavish</characters>
                <date>2005</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Paranormal, Fantasy, Romance, Ghosts, Supernatural, Fiction, Teen, Mystery, Chick Lit</genres>
                <id>1639</id>
                <synopsis>"Accidents happen. With ghostly consequences, if you're Susannah Simon.The RLS Angels are out for blood, and only Suze can stop them - since she's the only one who can see them. The four ghostly teenagers died in a terrible car accident, for which they blame Suze's classmate Michael... and they'll stop at nothing until he's joined them in the realm of the dead.As Suze desperately fends off each attempt on Michael's life, she finds she can relate to the Angels' fury. Because their deaths turn out not to have been accidental at all. And their killer is only too willing to strike again."</synopsis>
                <title>Reunion</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Julia Alvarez </author>
                <characters>Patria Mirabal de Gonzalez, Minerva Mirabal de Tavarez, Maria Teresa Mirabal de Guzman, Bélgica Adela Mirabal de Reyes</characters>
                <date>Aug-95</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, School, Classics, Novels, Adult Fiction, Book Club, Latin American, Adult</genres>
                <id>1640</id>
                <synopsis>"Set during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic in 1960, this extraordinary novel tells the story of the Mirabal sisters, three young wives and mothers who are assassinated after visiting their jailed husbands. From the author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents comes this tale of courage and sisterhood set in the Dominican Republic during the rise of the Trujillo dictatorship. A skillful blend of fact and fiction, In the Time of the Butterflies is inspired by the true story of the three Mirabal sisters who, in 1960, were murdered for their part in an underground plot to overthrow the government. Alvarez breathes life into these historical figures-known as ""las mariposas,"" or ""the butterflies,"" in the underground-as she imagines their teenage years, their gradual involvement with the revolution, and their terror as their dissentience is uncovered.  Alvarez's controlled writing perfectly captures the mounting tension as ""the butterflies"" near their horrific end. The novel begins with the recollections of Dede, the fourth and surviving sister, who fears abandoning her routines and her husband to join the movement. Alvarez also offers the perspectives of the other sisters: brave and outspoken Minerva, the family's political ringleader; pious Patria, who forsakes her faith to join her sisters after witnessing the atrocities of the tyranny; and the baby sister, sensitive Maria Teresa, who, in a series of diaries, chronicles her allegiance to Minerva and the physical and spiritual anguish of prison life.  In the Time of the Butterflies is an American Library Association Notable Book and a 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award nominee."</synopsis>
                <title>In the Time of the Butterflies</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Terry Pratchett</author>
                <characters>Teppic, Dios, Ptraci, Maldito Bastardo, Mericet, Broncalo, Ptaclusp, Koomi, Teppicamon XVII</characters>
                <date>2008</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Comedy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Magic, Novels, Science Fiction, High Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1641</id>
                <synopsis>"It's bad enough being new on the job, but Teppic hasn't a clue as to what a pharaoh is supposed to do. After all, he's been trained at Ankh-Morpork's famed assassins' school, across the sea from the Kingdom of the Sun. First, there's the monumental task of building a suitable resting place for Dad - a pyramid to end all pyramids. Then there are the myriad administrative duties, such as dealing with mad priests, sacred crocodiles, and marching mummies. And to top it all off, the adolescent pharaoh discovers deceit, betrayal - not to mention a headstrong handmaiden - at the heart of his realm."</synopsis>
                <title>Pyramids</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Meg Cabot </author>
                <characters>Hector de Silva (Jesse), Father Dominic, Susannah ""Suze"" Simon, Paul Slater, Kelly Prescott, Rick Slater, Andy Ackerman, Jake Ackerman (Sleepy), Brad Ackerman (Dopey), David Ackerman (Doc), Neil Jankow</characters>
                <date>2005</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Paranormal, Fantasy, Romance, Ghosts, Supernatural, Fiction, Teen, Chick Lit, Mystery</genres>
                <id>1642</id>
                <synopsis>"Is it possible to be haunted by someone who isn't even dead?Suze is used to trouble, but this time she's in deep: Ghostly Jesse has her heart, but Paul Slater, a real flesh-and-blood guy, is warm for her form. And mediator Paul knows how to send Jesse to the Great Beyond. For good.Paul claims he won't do anything to Jesse as long as Suze will go out with him. Fearing she'll lose Jesse forever, Suze agrees. But even if Suze can get Jesse to admit his true feelings for her, what kind of future can she have with a guy who's already dead?"</synopsis>
                <title>Haunted</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Anne McCaffrey</author>
                <characters>Jaxom, Ruth (The White Dragon)</characters>
                <date>Jul-86</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Science Fiction, Dragons, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Young Adult, High Fantasy, Adult, Speculative Fiction, Adventure</genres>
                <id>1643</id>
                <synopsis>"Jaxom, a rebellious young aristocrat, and Ruth, his white dragon, fly into another time to retrieve the queen's stolen egg, thereby averting a dragonrider war, and find their planet threatened once again by a Threadfall."</synopsis>
                <title>The White Dragon</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>James Grady </author>
                <characters>Ronald Malcolm</characters>
                <date>May-74</date>
                <genres>Thriller, Fiction, Mystery, Drama, Crime, Suspense, Espionage, Novels, Mystery Thriller, Adult Fiction</genres>
                <id>1644</id>
                <synopsis>"CIA operative Malcolm, code-named Condor, discovers his colleagues butchered in a blood-spattered office, he realizes that only an oversight by the assassins has saved his life. He contacts CIA headquarters for help but when an attempted rendezvous goes wrong, it quickly becomes clear that no one can be trusted. Malcolm disappears into the streets of Washington, hoping to evade the killers long enough to unravel the conspiracy—but will that be enough to save his life?"</synopsis>
                <title>Six Days of the Condor</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jenny Carroll, Meg Cabot </author>
                <characters>Susannah ""Suze"" Simon, Hector de Silva (Jesse), Father Dominic, CeeCee Webb, Tad Beaumont, Andy Ackerman, Jake Ackerman (Sleepy), Brad Ackerman (Dopey), David Ackerman (Doc)</characters>
                <date>2005</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Paranormal, Fantasy, Romance, Ghosts, Supernatural, Fiction, Mystery, Teen, Chick Lit</genres>
                <id>1645</id>
                <synopsis>"Ghosts ruin everything. Especially your love life.Everything is going great for Suze. Her new life in California is a whirlwind of parties and excellent hair days. Tad Beaumont, the hottest boy in town, has even asked Suze out on her very first date. Suze is so excited that she's willing to ignore her misgivings about Tad... particularly the fact that he's not Jesse, whose ghostly status - not to mention apparent disinterest in her - make him unattainable.What Suze can't ignore, however, is the ghost of a murdered woman whose death seems directly connected to dark secrets hidden in none other than Tad Beaumont's past."</synopsis>
                <title>Ninth Key</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Masashi Kishimoto, Katy Bridges (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Sasuke Uchiha, Kakashi Hatake, Iruka, Hiruzen Saratobi, Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno</characters>
                <date>Feb-14</date>
                <genres>Manga, Fantasy, Comics, Graphic Novels, Young Adult, Fiction, Adventure, Comics Manga, Anime, Action</genres>
                <id>1646</id>
                <synopsis>"Naruto is a ninja-in-training with an incorrigible knack for mischief. His wild antics amuse his teammates, but Naruto is completely serious about one thing: becoming the world's greatest ninja! UZUMAKI NARUTO Twelve years ago the Village Hidden in the Leaves was attacked by a fearsome threat. A nine-tailed fox spirit claimed the life of the village leader, the Hokage, and many others. Today, the village is at peace, and a troublemaking kid named Naruto is struggling to graduate from Ninja Academy. His goal may be to become Hokage, but his true destiny will be much more complicated. The adventure begins now!"</synopsis>
                <title>Naruto, Vol. 01: Uzumaki Naruto</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Lynn Flewelling </author>
                <characters>Alec í Amasa of Kerry, Seregil í Korit Solun Meringil Bôkthersa</characters>
                <date>Sept-96</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, LGBT, M M Romance, Fiction, Romance, High Fantasy, Queer, Magic, Adventure, Gay</genres>
                <id>1647</id>
                <synopsis>"When young Alec of Kerry is taken prisoner for a crime he didn’t commit, he is certain that his life is at an end. But one thing he never expected was his cellmate. Spy, rogue, thief, and noble, Seregil of Rhiminee is many things–none of them predictable. And when he offers to take on Alec as his apprentice, things may never be the same for either of them. Soon Alec is traveling roads he never knew existed, toward a war he never suspected was brewing. Before long he and Seregil are embroiled in a sinister plot that runs deeper than either can imagine, and that may cost them far more than their lives if they fail. But fortune is as unpredictable as Alec’s new mentor, and this time there just might be…Luck in the Shadows."</synopsis>
                <title>Luck in the Shadows</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>David Sedaris</author>
                <characters>David Sedaris</characters>
                <date>2004</date>
                <genres>Humor, Nonfiction, Memoir, Essays, Short Stories, Comedy, Audiobook, Biography, Biography Memoir, Autobiography</genres>
                <id>1648</id>
                <synopsis>"David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother’s wedding. He mops his sister’s floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn’t it? In his newest collection of essays, David Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface. His world is alive with obscure desires and hidden motives — a world where forgiveness is automatic and an argument can be the highest form of love. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim is another unforgettable collection from one of the wittiest and most original writers at work today.-davidsedarisbooks.com"</synopsis>
                <title>Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Steven Erikson </author>
                <characters>Kalam Mekhar, Quick Ben, Raest, Kruppe, Baruk, Anomander Rake, Whiskeyjack, Crokus, Sorry</characters>
                <date>Jan-05</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Epic, Science Fiction Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Magic, Adult, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1649</id>
                <synopsis>"The Malazan Empire simmers with discontent, bled dry by interminable warfare, bitter infighting and bloody confrontations with the formidable Anomander Rake and his Tiste Andii, ancient and implacable sorcerers. Even the imperial legions, long inured to the bloodshed, yearn for some respite. Yet Empress Laseen's rule remains absolute, enforced by her dread Claw assassins.For Sergeant Whiskeyjack and his squad of Bridgeburners, and for Tattersail, surviving cadre mage of the Second Legion, the aftermath of the siege of Pale should have been a time to mourn the many dead. But Darujhistan, last of the Free Cities of Genabackis, yet holds out. It is to this ancient citadel that Laseen turns her predatory gaze.However, it would appear that the Empire is not alone in this great game. Sinister, shadowbound forces are gathering as the gods themselves prepare to play their hand...Conceived and written on a panoramic scale, Gardens of the Moon is epic fantasy of the highest order-an enthralling adventure by an outstanding new voice."</synopsis>
                <title>Gardens of the Moon</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Robin Hobb </author>
                <characters>The Fool, FitzChivalry Farseer, Chade Fallstar, Kettricken, Dutiful Farseer, Thick</characters>
                <date>Dec-03</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, Dragons, Epic, Adult</genres>
                <id>1650</id>
                <synopsis>"The acclaimed Farseer and Liveship Traders trilogies established Robin Hobb as one of the most splendidly imaginative practitioners of world-class fantasy. Now, in Book 2 of her most stunning trilogy yet, Hobb continues the soul-shattering tale of FitzChivalry Farseer. With rich characters, breathtaking magic, and sweeping action, Golden Fool brings the reluctant adventurer further into the fray in an epic of sacrifice, salvation, and untold treachery.Golden FoolPrince Dutiful has been rescued from his Piebald kidnappers and the court has resumed its normal rhythms. But for FitzChivalry Farseer, a return to isolation is impossible. Though gutted by the loss of his wolf bondmate, Nighteyes, Fitz must take up residence at Buckkeep and resume his tasks as Chade’s apprentice assassin. Posing as Tom Badgerlock, bodyguard to Lord Golden, FitzChivalry becomes the eyes and ears behind the walls. And with his old mentor failing visibly, Fitz is forced to take on more burdens as he attempts to guide a kingdom straying closer to civil strife each day.The problems are legion. Prince Dutiful’s betrothal to the Narcheska Elliania of the Out Islands is fraught with tension, and the Narcheska herself appears to be hiding an array of secrets. Then, amid Piebald threats and the increasing persecution of the Witted, FitzChivalry must ensure that no one betrays the Prince’s secret—a secret that could topple the Farseer throne: that he, like Fitz, possesses the dread “beast magic.”Meanwhile, FitzChivalry must impart to the Prince his limited knowledge of the Skill: the hereditary and addictive magic of the Farseers. In the process, they discover within Buckkeep one who has a wild and powerful talent for it, and whose enmity for Fitz may have disastrous consequences for all.Only Fitz’s enduring friendship with the Fool brings him any solace. But even that is shattered when unexpected visitors from Bingtown reveal devastating secrets from the Fool’s past. Now, bereft of support and adrift in intrigue, Fitz’s biggest challenge may be simply to survive the inescapable and violent path that fate has laid out for him.From the Hardcover edition."</synopsis>
                <title>Golden Fool</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Andrea Hirata</author>
                <characters>A Ling, Lintang, Ikal, Muslimah Hafsari, Harfan Effendy Noor, Floriana, Mahar</characters>
                <date>2008</date>
                <genres>Novels, Fiction, Indonesian Literature, Childrens, Asia, Young Adult, Education, Literature, Adventure, Inspirational</genres>
                <id>1651</id>
                <synopsis>"Begitu banyak hal menakjubkan yang terjadi dalam masa kecil para anggota Laskar Pelangi. Sebelas orang anak Melayu Belitong yang luar biasa ini tak menyerah walau keadaan tak bersimpati pada mereka. Tengoklah Lintang, seorang kuli kopra cilik yang genius dan dengan senang hati bersepeda 80 kilometer pulang pergi untuk memuaskan dahaganya akan ilmu—bahkan terkadang hanya untuk menyanyikan Padamu Negeri di akhir jam sekolah. Atau Mahar, seorang pesuruh tukang parut kelapa sekaligus seniman dadakan yang imajinatif, tak logis, kreatif, dan sering diremehkan sahabat-sahabatnya, namun berhasil mengangkat derajat sekolah kampung mereka dalam karnaval 17 Agustus. Dan juga sembilan orang Laskar Pelangi lain yang begitu bersemangat dalam menjalani hidup dan berjuang meraih cita-cita. Selami ironisnya kehidupan mereka, kejujuran pemikiran mereka, indahnya petualangan mereka, dan temukan diri Anda tertawa, menangis, dan tersentuh saat membaca setiap lembarnya. Buku ini dipersembahkan buat mereka yang meyakini the magic of childhood memories, dan khususnya juga buat siapa saja yang masih meyakini adanya pintu keajaiban lain untuk mengubah dunia: pendidikan."</synopsis>
                <title>Laskar Pelangi</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Robert Ludlum</author>
                <characters>Jason Bourne</characters>
                <date>2004</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Espionage, Action, Adventure, Drama, Crime, Mystery Thriller</genres>
                <id>1652</id>
                <synopsis>"A killer with no face, no identity and a name the world wanted to forget:Jason BourneReenter the shadowy world of Jason Bourne, an expert assassin still plagued by the splintered nightmares of his former life. This time the stakes are higher than ever. For someone else has taken on the Bourne identity—a ruthless killer who must be stopped or the world will pay a devastating price. To succeed, the real Jason Bourne must maneuver through the dangerous labyrinth of international espionage—an exotic world filled with CIA plots, turncoat agents, and ever-shifting alliances—all the while hoping to find the truth behind his haunted memories and the answers to his own fragmented past. This time there are two Bournes—and one must die."</synopsis>
                <title>The Bourne Supremacy</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>C.G. Jung, Aniela Jaffé (Editor), Richard Winston (Translator), Clara Winston (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Carl Gustav Jung</characters>
                <date>Apr-89</date>
                <genres>Psychology, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Biography, Memoir, Autobiography, Spirituality, Psychoanalysis, Science, History</genres>
                <id>1653</id>
                <synopsis>"In the spring of 1957, when he was eighty-one years old, C. G. Jung undertook the telling of his life story. At regular intervals he had conversations with his colleague and friend Aniela Jaffé, and collaborated with her in the preparation of the text based on these talks. On occasion, he was moved to write entire chapters of the book in his own hand, and he continued to work on the final stages of the manuscript until shortly before his death on June 6, 1961."</synopsis>
                <title>Memories, Dreams, Reflections</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Philip K. Dick</author>
                <characters>Palmer Eldritch</characters>
                <date>2010</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Novels, Speculative Fiction, Dystopia, American, Classics, Religion, Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1654</id>
                <synopsis>"Dick at his wildest and strangest - a mystifying but brilliant book - SF: 100 Best NovelsIn the overcrowded world and cramped space colonies of the late 21st century, tedium can be endured through the drug Can-D, which enables users to inhabit a shared illusory world. When industrialist Palmer Eldritch returns from an interstellar trip, he brings with him a new drug, Chew-Z. It is far more potent than Can-D, but threatens to plunge the world into a permanent state of drugged illusion controlled by the mysterious Eldritch.Cover illustration: Chris Moore"</synopsis>
                <title>The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Piers Anthony</author>
                <characters>Sabrina, Cherie, Martha, Bink, Chester, Crombie, Beauregard, Chameleon, Chilk, Donald The Shade, Gap Dragon, Hastings, Hermin the Hermit, Humfrey, Jama, Justin Tree, Manticora, Munly, Numbo, Potipher, Spring of Life, Storm King, Zink, Iris (Piers Anthony), Millie, Trent, Bigfoot, Roland, Bianca, Sally</characters>
                <date>Sept-77</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Science Fiction Fantasy, Young Adult, Magic, Adventure, Science Fiction, High Fantasy, Comedy</genres>
                <id>1655</id>
                <synopsis>"Xanth was the enchanted land where magic ruled - where every citizen had a special spell only he could cast. It was a land of centaurs and dragons and basilisks.For Bink of North Village, however, Xanth was no fairy tale. He alone had no magic. And unless he got some - and got some fast! - he would be exiled. Forever!But the Good Magician Humfrey was convinced that Bink did indeed have magic. In fact, both Beauregard the genie and the magic wall chart insisted that Bink had magic. Magic as powerful as any possessed by the King or by Good Magician Humfrey - or even by the Evil Magician TrentBe that as it may, no one could fathom the nature of Bink's very special magic. Bink was in despair. This was even worse than having no magic at all..and he would still be exiled!"</synopsis>
                <title>A Spell for Chameleon</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ernest Hemingway</author>
                <characters>Harry Morgan</characters>
                <date>1999</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Literature, Novels, American, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Classic Literature, The United States Of America, Modern Classics</genres>
                <id>1656</id>
                <synopsis>"To Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him into the world of the wealthy and dissipated yachtsmen who throng the region, and involve him in a strange and unlikely love affair.Harshly realistic, yet with one of the most subtle and moving relationships in the Hemingway oeuvre, To Have and Have Not is literary high adventure at its finest."</synopsis>
                <title>To Have and Have Not</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Andrzej Sapkowski</author>
                <characters>Dandelion, Yennefer, Triss Merigold, Ciri (Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon), Francesca Findabair, Geralt of Rivia, Philippa Eilhart, Milva, Zoltan Chivay, Percival Schuttenbach, Emiel Regis Rohellec Terzieff-Godefroy, Cahir Mawr Dyffryn aep Ceallach, Assire var Anahid, Fringilla Vigo</characters>
                <date>1996</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Polish Literature, Audiobook, High Fantasy, Adventure, Epic Fantasy, Adult, Magic, Science Fiction Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1657</id>
                <synopsis>"Cztery królestwa ogarnia wojenne szaleństwo.Piękna Filippa Eilhart powołuje tajną lożę czarodziejek.Wiedźmina dręczą sny.Andrzej Sapkowski, arcymistrz świtowej fantasy, po raz kolejny zaprasza do swej krainy Nigdy-Nigdy i przedstawia trzeci tom wychwalanej przez krytykę i uwielbianej przez czytelników wiedźmińskiej sagi.Geralt, wyleczony przez driady z ran odniesionych w czasie nieudanego puczu na wyspie Thanedd, wyrusza na poszukiwanie przeznaczonego mu Dziecka Niespodzianki. Oprócz nieodłącznego Jaskra, trubadura i domorosłego filozofa, do kompanii wiedźmina przystępują: pełna temperamentu łuczniczka Milva, nilfgaardzki rycerz - koszmar ze snów Ciri, którego poszukująnajlepsi szpiedzy Cesarstwa, sprytny gnom zwiadowca, pięciu rubasznych krasnoludów oraz noszący się staroświecko i pachnący intensywnie ziołami cyrulik - osobnik jakby nie z tej bajki."</synopsis>
                <title>Chrzest ognia</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Mikhail Sholokhov</author>
                <characters>Grigore Pantelejevic Melehov, Aksinja Astahova, Natalija Mironovna</characters>
                <date>1996</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Russia, Russian Literature, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels, War, Nobel Prize, 20th Century</genres>
                <id>1658</id>
                <synopsis>"And Quiet Flows the Don or Quietly Flows the Don (Тихий Дон, lit. ""The Quiet Don"") is 4-volume epic novel by Russian writer Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov. The 1st three volumes were written from 1925 to '32 &amp; published in the Soviet magazine October in 1928–32. The 4th volume was finished in 1940. The English translation of the 1st three volumes appeared under this title in 1934. The novel is considered one of the most significant works of Russian literature in the 20th century. It depicts the lives &amp; struggles of Don Cossacks during WWI, the Russian Revolution &amp; Russian Civil War. In 1965, Sholokhov was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for this novel. The authorship of the novel is contested by some literary critics &amp; historians, who believe it wasn't entirely written by Sholokhov."</synopsis>
                <title>And Quiet Flows the Don</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>William Gibson</author>
                <characters>Hubertus Bigend, Cayce Pollard</characters>
                <date>Feb-05</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Cyberpunk, Mystery, Thriller, Science Fiction Fantasy, Novels, Speculative Fiction, Espionage, Literature</genres>
                <id>1659</id>
                <synopsis>"Cayce Pollard is an expensive, spookily intuitive market-research consultant. In London on a job, she is offered a secret assignment: to investigate some intriguing snippets of video that have been appearing on the Internet. An entire subculture of people is obsessed with these bits of footage, and anybody who can create that kind of brand loyalty would be a gold mine for Cayce's client. But when her borrowed apartment is burgled and her computer hacked, she realizes there's more to this project than she had expected.Still, Cayce is her father's daughter, and the danger makes her stubborn. Win Pollard, ex-security expert, probably ex-CIA, took a taxi in the direction of the World Trade Center on September 11 one year ago, and is presumed dead. Win taught Cayce a bit about the way agents work. She is still numb at his loss, and, as much for him as for any other reason, she refuses to give up this newly weird job, which will take her to Tokyo and on to Russia. With help and betrayal from equally unlikely quarters, Cayce will follow the trail of the mysterious film to its source, and in the process will learn something about her father's life and death."</synopsis>
                <title>Pattern Recognition</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Roger Zelazny, Tim White (illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Random of Amber, Brand of Amber, Corwin of Amber, Eric of Amber, Benedict of Amber, Caine of Amber, Bleys of Amber, Julian of Amber, Gérard of Amber, Florimel of Amber, Deirdre of Amber, Fiona of Amber, Llewella of Amber</characters>
                <date>Mar-86</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Classics, Adventure, High Fantasy, Audiobook, Magic</genres>
                <id>1660</id>
                <synopsis>"Amber, the one real world, wherein all others, including our own Earth, are but Shadows. Amber burns in Corwin's blood. Exiled on Shadow Earth for centuries, the prince is about to return to Amber to make a mad and desperate rush upon the throne. From Arden to the blood-slippery Stairway into the Sea, the air is electrified with the powers of Eric, Random, Bleys, Caine, and all the princes of Amber whom Corwin must overcome. Yet, his savage path is blocked and guarded by eerie structures beyond imagining; impossible realities forged by demonic assassins and staggering horrors to challenge the might of Corwin's superhuman fury.' to 'Awakening in an Earth hospital unable to remember who he is or where he came from, Corwin is amazed to learn that he is one of the sons of Oberon, King of Amber, and is the rightful successor to the crown in a parallel world."</synopsis>
                <title>Nine Princes in Amber</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Richelle Mead </author>
                <characters>Eugenie Markham, Dorian, Kiyo Marquez, Volusian, Jasmine Delaney, Maiwenn</characters>
                <date>2009</date>
                <genres>Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, Paranormal, Fae, Paranormal Romance, Romance, Adult, Magic, Supernatural, Fiction</genres>
                <id>1661</id>
                <synopsis>"Eugenie Markham is a shaman for hire. She's paidto bind and banish creatures from theOtherworld.But something happened after her last battle. She became queen of the Thorn Land. With her kingdom in tatters, her love life in chaos, and eager to avoid the prophecy about her firstborn destroying mankind, the job's really not all it's cracked up to be.Now young girls are disappearing from the Otherworld, and no one seems willing to find out why. Or to put an end to it. Not that Eugenie's fazed by spilling fey blood, but this enemy is shrewd, subtle, and dangerous - and nursing a very personal grudge.Eugenie must venture deep into the Otherworld and trust in a power she can barely control. She may be a reluctant queen, but she's vowed to do her duty, even if it means facing the darkest and deadliest side of her nature."</synopsis>
                <title>Thorn Queen</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Douglas Preston , Lincoln Child</author>
                <characters>Aloysius X.L. Pendergast, Constance Greene, Diogenes Pendergast, Laura Hayward, Viola Maskelene, Count Isidor Fosco, Locke Bullard, Jeremy Grove, Nigel Cutforth, Bryce Harriman, Rev. Wayne P. Buck, Lady Evelyn Milbanke, ""Vincent D''Agosta""</characters>
                <date>May-05</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Thriller, Fiction, Horror, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Adventure, Audiobook, Novels</genres>
                <id>1662</id>
                <synopsis>"Art critic Jeremy Grove is found dead, his face frozen in a mask of terror. His body temperature is grotesquely high; he is discovered in a room barricaded from the inside; the smell of brimstone is everywhere... and the unmistakable imprint of a claw is burned into the wall. As more bodies are discovered - their only connection the bizarre but identical manner of death - the world begins to wonder if the Devil has, in fact, come to collect his due.Teaming with Police Officer Vincent D'Agosta (The Relic), Agent Pendergast is determined to solve this case that appears to defy everything except supernatural logic.©2004 Douglas Preston (P)2011 Hachette"</synopsis>
                <title>Brimstone</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Anthony Horowitz </author>
                <characters>Richard Cole, Matt Freeman, Jayne Deverill</characters>
                <date>Oct-06</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Horror, Fiction, Paranormal, Adventure, Supernatural, Mystery, Magic, Thriller</genres>
                <id>1663</id>
                <synopsis>"He always knew he was different.First there were the dreams.Then the deaths began. When Matt Freeman gets into trouble with the police, he's sent to be fostered in Yorkshire. It's not long before he senses there's something wrong with his guardian; with the whole village. Then Matt learns about the Old Ones and begins to understand just how he is different. But no one will believe him; no one can help. There is no proof. There is no logic. There is just the Gate."</synopsis>
                <title>Raven's Gate</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jeanne DuPrau</author>
                <characters>Lina Mayfleet, Doon Harrow</characters>
                <date>2004</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Dystopia, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Middle Grade, Post Apocalyptic, Childrens, Adventure, Teen</genres>
                <id>1664</id>
                <synopsis>"An alternate cover can be found here.The sequel to the critically acclaimed The City of Ember continues the story of Lina and Doon, who have emerged from the underground city to the exciting new world above. When anonymous acts of vandalism push them toward violence, it's up to Lina and Doon to discover who's behind the vandalism and why."</synopsis>
                <title>The People of Sparks</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>أثير عبدالله النشمي </author>
                <characters>جمان, عبد العزيز</characters>
                <date>2009</date>
                <genres>Novels, Romance, Fiction, Romantic, Love, Unfinished, Drama, Literature</genres>
                <id>1665</id>
                <synopsis>"""أجلس اليوم إلى جوارك، أندب أحلامي الحمقى.. غارقة في حبي لك ولا قدرة لي على انتشال بقايا أحلامي من بين حطامك..""، ""أحببتك أكثر مما ينبغي، وأحببتني أقل مما أستحق!""تبدأ الكاتبة السعودية روايتها بنفس المقطع الذي تنتهي به، لتروي بينهما قصة ""جمانة"" و""عزيز"" التي ""لن تنتهي!"".تبوح المرأة بتفاصيل مشاعرها تجاه الرجل الذي تحب، والأهم أنها تحاول التعبير عن حالتها الذهنية في تناقضها الحتمي مع حالة الحب الذي تكنّ. فالشرخ الذي يولّد عذابات جمة لا دواء لها، لا بد قائم بين عقلها وقوة مشاعرها، وعطائها الذي لا حدود له للمحبوب: ""كنت على استعداد لأن أصغر فتكبر..لأن أفشل لتنجح، لأن أخبو لتلمع..""، ونوعية حبها الذي لا يقدره بل يتجاهله أو يقوم باستغلاله لصالح أهداف أقل أهمية منه بكثير، وأقل قيمة. ""ما زلت لا أدرك، لا أدرك كيف يتلاعب رجل بامرأة تحبه من دون أن يخاف للحظة مما يفعله نحوها!""في كل مرة و""بعد كل خيبة أمل.. بعد كل محنة وكل نزوة.. كنت أحاول لملمة أجزائي لنفتح مجدداً صفحة بيضاء أخرى..""، لكن ""البدايات الجديدة ما هي إلا كذبة"".تستعيد الكاتبة ذكرياتها معه منذ البداية في مقهى خارج الوطن الذي غادرته للدراسة: ""الوطن الذي لو لم أغادره لما حدث كل هذا.. أتكون أنت عقابي على مغادرة وطن أحبني!..""، وفكرة العقاب والثواب التي يسخر منها عزيز، تؤمن هي بها: ""مؤمنة أنا بيوم الحساب أكثر من أي شيء،"" لأنها تأمل عبرها أن ينال عزيز عقابه على ما اقترفه بحقها.قالت لهما العجوز الهندية غريبة الأطوار، دون سابق معرفة: ""هي متعبة منك..منك فقط..وأنت متعب من كل شيء..""، وقالت لها ""هيفاء"" صديقتها الكويتية التي تتخاصم دائما وعزيز، بأنه لا يستحقها، وتقول جمانة له اليوم ""حبي لك كان أعمى يا عزيز..وأن هيفاء رأت فيك ما لم أره..""، رأت الكذب المتسلسل والخيانة والإنكار الذي يشكك الآخر بنفسه وبعقله وإحساسه، وهي صفات تتجاهلها المرأة التي تحب رجلاً يحبها لكنه غير قادر على الالتزام بها. قال لها بصراحة: ""اسمعي.. أنا رجل لعوب.. أشرب وأعربد وأعاشر النساء.. لكنني أعود إليك في كل مرة..""، وكانت تتحمل الأذى: ""تؤذينني عمداً وكأنك تفرغ في نفسي أحقادك وأوجاعك وأمراضك، تؤذيني عمداً باسم الحبّ.."". وهي بالرغم من كل الحقائق والوقائع تعترف: ""لم أبكِ بحرقة إلا بسببك ولم أضحك من أعماقي إلا معك.. أليست بمعادلة صعبة..؟ يحلل لها زياد صديقهما المشترك الوضع: ""أحببته لدرجة أخافته!.. لم يكن قادراً على ضمك لقائمة نسائه ولم يتمكن من الابتعاد عنك.. أحبك لدرجة أنه كان يخشى عليك من نفسه.. كما كان يخشى منك في الوقت ذاته..""كيف يلتقيان، وهو يؤمن بأن الغاية تبرر الوسيلة، وهي تؤمن ""بأن الوسيلة أحياناً أهم من الغاية!""؟""قلت لي يوماً بأن حكايات الحبّ الشرقية غالباً ما تنتهي بمأساة. واليوم أعرف بأنك كنت محقاً في هذا..""تنقل الرواية بصدق عميق ما يدور في أعماق المرأة في حالة حب،ّ من أحاسيس وأفكار وتناقضات، إذ تظن أن الخيار الصعب إلى أقسى مداه يكمن في الحفاظ على مشاعر الحبّ الجياشة واستمرارها، على حساب التنكّر للذات الواعية والمدركة لتلاعب الطرف الآخر بها، لكنها بأي حال، وحتى في حال دفع الحساب، لن تحصل على مبتغاها."</synopsis>
                <title>أحببتك أكثر مما ينبغي</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Charlie Higson</author>
                <characters>Deke, Lewis, Ollie, Achilleus (From The Enemy), Callum, David King, Jester, Maxie, Blue, Arran, Small Sam, Whitney, Freak</characters>
                <date>2010</date>
                <genres>Zombies, Horror, Young Adult, Dystopia, Post Apocalyptic, Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Thriller, Apocalyptic</genres>
                <id>1666</id>
                <synopsis>"Charlie Higson's The Enemy is the first in a jaw-dropping zombie horror series for teens. Everyone over the age of fourteen has succumbed to a deadly zombie virus and now the kids must keep themselves alive.When the sickness came, every parent, police officer, politician - every adult fell ill. The lucky ones died. The others are crazed, confused and hungry. Only children under fourteen remain, and they're fighting to survive.Now there are rumours of a safe place to hide. And so a gang of children begin their quest across London, where all through the city - down alleyways, in deserted houses, underground - the grown-ups lie in wait.But can they make it there - alive?This edition contains the first chapter of the second book The Dead."</synopsis>
                <title>The Enemy</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>William Shakespeare, Cynthia Marshall (Essay), Barbara A. Mowat (Editor), Paul Werstine (Editor)</author>
                <characters>Cleopatra, Marcus Antonius</characters>
                <date>2005</date>
                <genres>Classics, Plays, Drama, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Theatre, Literature, Romance, Poetry, School</genres>
                <id>1667</id>
                <synopsis>"A romantic tragedy about the relationship between Mark Antony and the Queen of Egypt, including notes and critical commentary."</synopsis>
                <title>Antony and Cleopatra</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Orson Scott Card</author>
                <characters>Alvin Maker, Taleswapper, Reverend Thrower, Alvin Miller, Faith Miller</characters>
                <date>Apr-88</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Alternate History, Science Fiction, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Young Adult, Historical, Magic, Speculative Fiction</genres>
                <id>1668</id>
                <synopsis>"In an alternate version of frontier America, young Alvin is the seventh son of a seventh son, and such a birth is powerful magic. Yet even in the loving safety of his home, dark forces reach out to destroy him."</synopsis>
                <title>Seventh Son</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Oscar Wilde, Inga Moore (Illustrator), Giada Riondino (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Minister Mr Otis, Lord Canterville, Rev. Augustus Dampier, Duke of Cheshire</characters>
                <date>1997</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Short Stories, Fantasy, Horror, Humor, Gothic, Ghosts, Paranormal, 19th Century</genres>
                <id>1669</id>
                <synopsis>"This is Oscar Wilde's tale of the American family moved into a British mansion, Canterville Chase, much to the annoyance of its tired ghost. The family - which refuses to believe in him - is in Wilde's way a commentary on the British nobility of the day - and on the Americans, too. The tale, like many of Wilde's, is rich with allusion, but ends as sentimental romance..."</synopsis>
                <title>The Canterville Ghost</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jim Butcher </author>
                <characters>Bernard, Amara, Miles, Isana, Gaius Sextus, Fidelius, Doroga, Tavi, Lady Aquataine</characters>
                <date>Feb-10</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Magic, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure, Audiobook, Epic, Young Adult</genres>
                <id>1670</id>
                <synopsis>"For centuries, the people of Alera have relied on the power of the furies to protect them from outside invaders. But the gravest threat might be closer than they think.Tavi has escaped the Calderon Valley and the mysterious attack of the Marat on his homeland. But he is far from safe, as trying to keep up the illusion of being a student while secretly training as one of the First Lord's spies is a dangerous game. And he has not yet learned to use the furies, making him especially vulnerable.When the attack comes it's on two fronts. A sudden strike threatens the First Lord's life and threatens to plunge the land into civil war. While in the Calderon Valley, the threat faced from the Marat is dwarfed by an ancient menace. And Tavi must learn to harness the furies if he has any chance of fighting the greatest threat Alera has ever known . . ."</synopsis>
                <title>Academ's Fury</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>George Kranky, Grandma, Mrs. Kranky, Mr. Killy Kranky</characters>
                <date>2003</date>
                <genres>Childrens, Fiction, Fantasy, Classics, Middle Grade, Young Adult, Humor, Novels, Chapter Books, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1671</id>
                <synopsis>"George's Grandma is a grizzly, grumpy, selfish old woman with pale brown teeth and a small puckered up mouth like a dog's bottom. Four times a day she takes a large spoonful of medicine, but it doesn't seem to do her any good. She's always just as poisonous after she's taken it as she was before. When George is left to look after her one morning, it's just the chance he needs . . ."</synopsis>
                <title>George's Marvellous Medicine</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Stephen King </author>
                <characters>Rose McClendon Daniels, Norman Daniels, American Law Enforcement</characters>
                <date>1995</date>
                <genres>Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Supernatural, Suspense, Paranormal, Mystery, Audiobook, Adult</genres>
                <id>1672</id>
                <synopsis>"Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereRoused by a single drop of blood, Rosie Daniels wakes up to the chilling realisation that her husband is going to kill her. And she takes flight - with his credit card. Alone in a strange city, Rosie begins to build a new life: she meets Bill Steiner and she finds an odd junk shop painting, 'Rose Madder', which strangely seems to want her as much as she wants it. But it's hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder. Rose-maddened and on the rampage, Norman is a corrupt cop with a dog's instinct for tracking people. And he's getting close. Rosie can feel just how close he's getting..."</synopsis>
                <title>Rose Madder</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Alison Weir</author>
                <characters>Anne Boleyn, Thomas More, Catherine of Aragon, Jane Seymour, Catherine Howard, Anne of Cleves, Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Francis I of France, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas Wolsey, Henry VIII of England, George Boleyn, Jane Boleyn, Catherine Parr</characters>
                <date>1992</date>
                <genres>History, Nonfiction, Biography, Historical, Tudor Period, British Literature, Biography Memoir, European History, Audiobook, 16th Century</genres>
                <id>1673</id>
                <synopsis>"Weir has tirelessly made her way through the entire labyrinth of Tudor history to tell the collective story of the six wives of Henry VIII-a vivid, full-blooded portrait of six very different women-in a work of sound and brilliant scholarship. Illustrations."</synopsis>
                <title>The Six Wives of Henry VIII</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Bill Watterson</author>
                <characters>Calvin, Hobbes</characters>
                <date>1992</date>
                <genres>Comics, Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels, Childrens, Comedy, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Comic Strips, Cartoon</genres>
                <id>1674</id>
                <synopsis>"They're back: Calvin, the six-year-old dirty tricksmeister and master of indignation and his warm, cuddly philosopher sidekick, Hobbes. A tiger whose idea of adventure is to lie on his back by the fire and have his stomach rubbed. In six short years this unlikely duo has captured the hearts, the minds, and, most of all, the funny bones of America. They are the most phenomenal success story in syndication - and publishing - history. In only six years, they appear in more than 2,100 newspapers worldwide, and Calvin and Hobbes wins as many readership polls as Calvin has excesses. All seven of Bill Watterson's collections have sold a million copies within a year of publication. This treasury collection contains a never-before-published full-color section, as well as the cartoons appearing in 'The Revenge of the Baby-Sat' and 'Scientific Progress Goes ""Boink.""' All Sunday cartoons are presented full-page and full-color."</synopsis>
                <title>The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Vikas Swarup</author>
                <characters>Ram Mohammad Thomas</characters>
                <date>2005</date>
                <genres>Fiction, India, Contemporary, Asia, Novels, Drama, Audiobook, Romance, Indian Literature, Adult Fiction</genres>
                <id>1675</id>
                <synopsis>"Vikas Swarup's spectacular debut novel opens in a jail cell in Mumbai, India, where Ram Mohammad Thomas is being held after correctly answering all twelve questions on India's biggest quiz show, Who Will Win a Billion? It is hard to believe that a poor orphan who has never read a newspaper or gone to school could win such a contest. But through a series of exhilarating tales Ram explains to his lawyer how episodes in his life gave him the answer to each question.Ram takes us on an amazing review of his own history - from the day he was found as a baby in the clothes donation box of a Delhi church to his employment by a faded Bollywood star to his adventure with a security-crazed Australian army colonel to his career as an overly creative tour guide at the Taj Mahal.Vikas Swarup's Q &amp; A is a beguiling blend of high comedy, drama, and romance that reveals how we know what we know - not just about trivia, but about life itself. Cutting across humanity in all its squalor and glory, Vikas Swarup presents a kaleidoscopic vision of the struggle between good and evil - and what happens when one boy has no other choice in life but to survive."</synopsis>
                <title>Q &amp; A</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Reşat Nuri Güntekin</author>
                <characters>Kamran, Feride</characters>
                <date>1992</date>
                <genres>Turkish Literature, Classics, Turkish, Fiction, Romance, Novels, Roman, Historical Fiction, Literature, Drama</genres>
                <id>1676</id>
                <synopsis>"Reşat Nuri Güntekin'in 1922 yılında ilk kez Vakit gazetesinde tefrika edilen en tanınmış eseridir. Fransız Lisesi mezunu gencecik, delişmen bir kız olan Feride'nin serüveni yaşadığı derin bir hayal kırıklığı sonrasında nişanlısını, ailesini İstanbul'da bırakarak Anadolu'nun küçük bir köyüne öğretmen olmasıyla başlar. Daha sonra bu köyü diğer kasabalar, şehirler izler. Önceleri her gittiği yerde Kurtuluş Savaşı'nın etkileri görülür, güç koşulların, sefaletin izlerine rastlanır. Sonraları farklı kültürden gelen genç, yalnız ve bağımsız bir kızın toplumsal yaşamdaki zorlukları, çatışan değer yargıları, karşısına dikilen çıkar ilişkileri, Feride'nin iç dünyasındaki fırtınalar ve derin yalnızlıkla iç içe geçerek okurun karşısına çıkar. Çalıkuşu, gerçekçi yönelimin ilk dönemlerinden olan bir başyapıttır."</synopsis>
                <title>Çalıkuşu</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Agatha Christie</author>
                <characters>Anne Beddingfeld, Colonel Race, The Honourable Mrs Suzanne Blair, Sir Eustace Pedler, MP, Guy Pagett, Arthur Minks, Henry Flemming, Mrs Flemming, Lord Nasby, Mrs Caroline James, Harry Rayburn, Rev. Edward Chichester, Nadina (The man in the Brown Suit)</characters>
                <date>2002</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Mystery Thriller, Detective, British Literature, Romance, Adventure, Thriller</genres>
                <id>1677</id>
                <synopsis>"Newly-orphaned Anne Beddingfeld is a nice English girl looking for a bit of adventure in London. But she stumbles upon more than she bargained for! Anne is on the platform at Hyde Park Corner tube station when a man falls onto the live track, dying instantly. A doctor examines the man, pronounces him dead, and leaves, dropping a note on his way. Anne picks up the note, which reads ""17.1 22 Kilmorden Castle"". The next day the newspapers report that a beautiful ballet dancer has been found dead there- brutally strangled. A fabulous fortune in diamonds has vanished. And now, aboard the luxury liner Kilmorden Castle, mysterious strangers pillage her cabin and try to strangle her. What are they looking for? Why should they want her dead? Lovely Anne is the last person on earth suited to solve this mystery... and the only one who can! Anne's journey to unravel the mystery takes her as far afield as Africa and the tension mounts with every step... and Anne finds herself struggling to unmask a faceless killer known only as 'The Colonel'...."</synopsis>
                <title>The Man in the Brown Suit</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Oğuz Atay</author>
                <characters>Selim Işık, Turgut Özben</characters>
                <date>Jan-84</date>
                <genres>Turkish Literature, Turkish, Fiction, Novels, Literature, Roman, Classics, Unfinished, Literary Fiction, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1678</id>
                <synopsis>"Türk edebiyatının en önemli eserlerinden biri olan Tutunamayanlar'ı Berna Moran, ""hem söyledikleri hem de söyleyiş biçimiyle bir başkaldırı"" olarak niteler. Moran'a göre ""Oğuz Atay'ın mizah gücü, duyarlılığı ve kullandığı teknik incelikler, Tutunamayanlar'ı büyük bir yeteneğin ürünü yapmış, yapıttaki bu yetkinlik Türk romanını çağdaş roman anlayışıyla aynı hizaya getirmiş ve ona çok şey kazandırmıştır."" Küçük burjuva dünyasını zekice alaya alan Atay ""saldırısını, tutunanların anlamayacağı, reddedeceği türden bir romanla yapar."" Tutunamayanlar, 1970 TRT Roman Ödülü'nü kazanmıştı."</synopsis>
                <title>Tutunamayanlar</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>John Grisham </author>
                <characters>Adam Hall, Sam Cayhall</characters>
                <date>Jan-06</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Legal Thriller, Crime, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Law, Drama, Novels</genres>
                <id>1679</id>
                <synopsis>"In the corridors of Chicago's top law firm: Twenty -six-year-old Adam Hall stands on the brink of a brilliant legal career. Now he is risking it all for a death-row killer and an impossible case.Maximum Security Unit, Mississippi State Prison: Sam Cayhall is a former Klansman and unrepentant racist now facing the death penalty for a fatal bombing in 1967. He has run out of chances - except for one: the young, liberal Chicago lawyer who just happens to be his grandson.While the executioners prepare the gas chamber, while the protesters gather and the TV cameras wait, Adam has only days, hours, minutes to save his client. For between the two men is a chasm of shame, family lies, and secrets - including the one secret that could save Sam Cayhall's life... or cost Adam his.-back cover"</synopsis>
                <title>The Chamber</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Eoin Colfer</author>
                <characters>Conor Broekhart, Isabella Trudeau, Declan Broekhart, Catherine Broekhart, Linus Wynter, Nicholas Trudeau, Hugo Bonvilain</characters>
                <date>2008</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Fantasy, Steampunk, Historical Fiction, Adventure, Fiction, Science Fiction, Historical, Teen, Action</genres>
                <id>1680</id>
                <synopsis>"In the 1890s Conor and his family live on the sovereign Saltee Islands, off the Irish coast. Conor spends his days studying the science of flight with his tutor and exploring the castle with the king’s daughter, Princess Isabella. But the boy’s idyllic life changes forever the day he discovers a deadly conspiracy against the king. When Conor tries to intervene, he is branded a traitor and thrown into jail on the prison island of Little Saltee. There, he has to fight for his life, as he and the other prisoners are forced to mine for diamonds in inhumane conditions.There is only one way to escape Little Saltee, and that is to fly. So Conor passes the solitary months by scratching drawings of flying machines on the prison walls. The months turn into years; but eventually the day comes when Conor must find the courage to trust his revolutionary designs and take to the air."</synopsis>
                <title>Airman</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ravinder Singh</author>
                <characters>Ravinder Singh, Khushi</characters>
                <date>2011</date>
                <genres>Romance, Fiction, Love, Indian Literature, Love Story, Romantic, Novels, India, Contemporary, Young Adult</genres>
                <id>1681</id>
                <synopsis>"Do love stories ever die?. . . How would you react when a beautiful person comes into your life, and then goes away from you . . . forever?Not all love stories are meant to have a perfect ending. I Too Had a Love Story is one such saga. It is the tender and heartfelt tale of Ravin and Khushi—two people who found each other on a matrimonial site and fell in love . . . until life put their love to the ultimate test.Romantic, emotional and sincere, this heartbreaking true life story has already touched a million hearts. This bestselling novel is a must-read for anyone who believes in the magic of love . . ."</synopsis>
                <title>I Too Had a Love Story</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Paul Zindel</author>
                <characters>John Conlan, Lorraine Jensen, Angelo ""Pigman"" Pignati</characters>
                <date>2005</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Young Adult, Classics, School, Realistic Fiction, Read For School, Teen, Childrens, High School, Contemporary</genres>
                <id>1682</id>
                <synopsis>"Librarian note: an alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereWhen sophomores John and Lorraine played a practical joke a few months ago on a stranger named Angelo Pignati, they had no idea what they were starting. Virtually overnight, almost against their will, the two befriended the lonely old man; it wasn't long before they were more comfortable in his house than their own. But now Mr. Pignati is dead. And for John and Lorraine, the only way to find peace is to write down their friend's story - the story of the Pigman."</synopsis>
                <title>The Pigman</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ann Brashares</author>
                <characters>Bridget Vreeland, Tibby Rollins, Carmen Lowell, Lena Kaligaris</characters>
                <date>Dec-04</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Fiction, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Romance, Teen, Realistic Fiction, Childrens, Coming Of Age, Young Adult Contemporary</genres>
                <id>1683</id>
                <synopsis>"With a bit of last summer's sand in the pockets, the Traveling Pants and the Sisterhood that wears them embark on their second summer together.Bridget: Impulsively sets off for Alabama, wanting to both confront and avoid her demons... but she can't keep the truth from the Pants.Carmen: Is concerned that her mother is making a fool of herself over a man. When she discovers that her mom borrowed the Pants to wear on a date, she's certain of it.Tibby: Makes a movie she'd like to be proud of... while the Pants keep alive the memory of a friend who could see beyond appearances.Lena: Has spent months hiding from love... only to find that she's at last ready to put on the Pants and let them lead her where they will."</synopsis>
                <title>The Second Summer of the Sisterhood</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Ciriaco Morón Arroyo (Editor)</author>
                <characters>Segismundo, Rosaura, Basílio</characters>
                <date>2001</date>
                <genres>Plays, Classics, Drama, Spanish Literature, Theatre, Fiction, School, Spain, Poetry, Literature</genres>
                <id>1684</id>
                <synopsis>"He aquí la creación más lograda y de carácter más universal de Calderón. La vida es sueño es, en síntesis, la plasmación barroca de la idea de la fugacidad de la vida con todos los aditamentos geniales de construcción, caracteres y estilo que el autor supo imprimirle. Con este pesimismo radical sobre el valor de la vida humana se interfiere el libre albedrío como afirmación personal de Segismundo —“¿y teniendo yo más vida / tengo menos libertad?”—. Estos dos principios combinados crean una riqueza enorme de sentidos, que en esta edición son desmenuzados críticamente por Ciriaco Morón Arroyo."</synopsis>
                <title>La vida es sueño</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Nancy Garden</author>
                <characters>Liza Winthrop, Annie Kenyon, Ms. Stevenson, Ms. Widmer, Mrs. Poindexter, Ms. Baxter, Chad Winthrop, Sally Jarrell, Jennifer Piccolo</characters>
                <date>1992</date>
                <genres>LGBT, Young Adult, Romance, Fiction, Queer, Lesbian, Contemporary, Classics, Realistic Fiction, Coming Of Age</genres>
                <id>1685</id>
                <synopsis>"This groundbreaking book is the story of two teenage girls whose friendship blossoms into love and who, despite pressures from family and school that threaten their relationship, promise to be true to each other and their feelings. The book has been banned from many school libraries and publicly burned in Kansas City. Of the author and the book, the Margaret A. Edwards Award committee said, “Using a fluid, readable style, Garden opens a window through which readers can find courage to be true to themselves.”"</synopsis>
                <title>Annie on My Mind</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ferenc Molnár</author>
                <characters>Nemecsek Ernő, Boka János, Geréb Dezső, Áts Feri</characters>
                <date>1998</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Hungarian Literature, Childrens, Hungary, School, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels</genres>
                <id>1686</id>
                <synopsis>"The war between two groups of Hungarian boys living in Budapest. One with Hungarian national colours (red, white, green) is defending the square from redshirts (from Garibaldi's redshirts), who want to occupy the square."</synopsis>
                <title>The Paul Street Boys</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>George Eliot, Edmund White (Introduction)</author>
                <characters>Daniel Deronda, Gwendolen Harleth, Mirah Lapidoth, Sir Hugo Mallinger, Henleigh Mallinger Grandcourt</characters>
                <date>2002</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, 19th Century, Victorian, British Literature, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels, Romance, Jewish</genres>
                <id>1687</id>
                <synopsis>"A beautiful young woman stands poised over the gambling tables in an expensive hotel. She is aware of, and resents, the gaze of an unusual young man, a stranger, who seems to judge her, and find her wanting. The encounter will change her life.The strange young man is Daniel Deronda, brought up with his own origins shrouded in mystery, searching for a compelling outlet for his singular talents and remarkable capacity for empathy. Deronda's destiny will change the lives of many."</synopsis>
                <title>Daniel Deronda</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Nelson DeMille </author>
                <characters>John Corey</characters>
                <date>Nov-05</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Drama, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Novels, Adult Fiction, Action</genres>
                <id>1688</id>
                <synopsis>"Based on true events, but unlike anything you've ever read before, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille has created what may be his finest work to date.It is dusk on July 17, 1996. A man and a woman who are married-but not to each other-make love on a Long Island beach as a video camera records their pleasure...and something more. Out over the ocean, TWA Flight 800 suddenly explodes with 230 victims on board, the terrible blast illuminating the sky. The government's verdict is mechanical failure. But the videotape may tell another story-if it can be found.Now on the fifth anniversary of the crash, two members of the Federal Anti-Terrorist Task Force set out to reopen the case; John Corey, an ex-NYPD detective, and his wife, Kate Mayfield, a career FBI agent. Together, they hunt for the crucial video...and race towed an elusive truth even more horrifying than the crash itself.-back cover"</synopsis>
                <title>Night Fall</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kiran Desai</author>
                <characters>Jemubhai Patel</characters>
                <date>2005</date>
                <genres>Fiction, India, Historical Fiction, Indian Literature, Novels, Asia, Literary Fiction, Literature, Contemporary, Book Club</genres>
                <id>1689</id>
                <synopsis>"In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas lives an embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace, when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judge’s cook watches over her distractedly, for his thoughts are often on his son, Biju, who is hopscotching from one gritty New York restaurant to another. Kiran Desai’s brilliant novel, published to huge acclaim, is a story of joy and despair. Her characters face numerous choices that majestically illuminate the consequences of colonialism as it collides with the modern world."</synopsis>
                <title>The Inheritance of Loss</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Janet Evanovich </author>
                <characters>Ranger (Rangeman CEO), Lula, Randy Briggs, Joe Morelli, Stephanie Plum, Tank</characters>
                <date>Jun-00</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Humor, Chick Lit, Romance, Crime, Comedy, Contemporary, Mystery Thriller, Adult</genres>
                <id>1690</id>
                <synopsis>"Stephanie Plum has a whole lot of trouble on her doorstep.Her Uncle Fred has disappeared and Grandma Mazur is convinced he's been abducted by aliens.Meanwhile, Cousin Vinnie has asked her to bring in the vertically challenged Randy Briggs who's jumped bail. But instead of coming quietly, he has taken up residence in Stephanie's closet. The mysterious man called Bunchy is trailing Stephanie in the hope of tracking down Fred. And Benito Ramirez is back from jail, quoting Scripture and vowing to introduce Stephanie to God - face to face.Thankfully Joe Morelli, the irresistible cop, is still around to give her the odd sleepless night - though now he faces tough competition from the enigmatic Ranger..."</synopsis>
                <title>High Five</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jonathan Coe </author>
                <characters>Sarah, Robert, Terry, Gregory</characters>
                <date>May-99</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Contemporary, British Literature, Novels, Literature, Romance, Literary Fiction, Psychology, Drama, Adult Fiction</genres>
                <id>1691</id>
                <synopsis>"Like a surreal and highly caffeinated version of The Big Chill, Jonathan Coe's new novel follows four students who knew each other in college in the eighties. Sarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real events. Robert has his life changed forever by the misunderstandings that arise from her condition. Terry spends his wakeful nights fueling his obsession with movies. And an increasingly unstable doctor, Gregory, sees sleep as a life-shortening disease which he must eradicate.But after ten years of fretful slumber and dreams gone bad, the four reunite in their college town to confront their disorders. In a Gothic cliffside manor being used as a clinic for sleep disorders, they discover that neither love, nor lunacy, nor obsession ever rests."</synopsis>
                <title>The House of Sleep</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Luke Rhinehart</author>
                <characters>Luke Rhinehart</characters>
                <date>1999</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Psychology, Novels, Thriller, Contemporary, Classics, American, Philosophy, Literature, Humor</genres>
                <id>1692</id>
                <synopsis>"The cult classic that can still change your life...Let the dice decide! This is the philosophy that changes the life of bored psychiatrist Luke Rhinehart - and in some ways changes the world as well. Because once you hand over your life to the dice, anything can happen. Entertaining, humorous, scary, shocking, subversive, The Dice Man is one of the cult bestsellers of our time."</synopsis>
                <title>The Dice Man</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Rick Riordan </author>
                <characters>Nico di Angelo, Thalia Grace, Persephone (Goddess), Hades, Percy Jackson</characters>
                <date>Feb-09</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Mythology, Fiction, Adventure, Short Stories, Middle Grade, Greek Mythology, Childrens, Novella</genres>
                <id>1693</id>
                <synopsis>"The goddess Persephone has summoned Percy, Thalia, and Nico to the Underworld in order to retrieve Hades' powerful sword before it falls into the wrong hands. Flip the book over for lots more ancient Greek fun with Terry Deary's 'Groovy Greeks' - it's history with the nasty bits left in!"""</synopsis>
                <title>Percy Jackson and the Sword of Hades</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Andrzej Sapkowski</author>
                <characters>Dandelion, Yennefer, Triss Merigold, Ciri (Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon), Iskra, Skomlik, Aplegatt, Francesca Findabair, Geralt of Rivia, Emhyr var Emreis, Sigismund Dijkstra, Philippa Eilhart, Margarita Laux–Antille, Tessaia de Vries, Codringher, Fenn, Vilgefortz, Giselher, Mistle, Kayleigh</characters>
                <date>1995</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Polish Literature, Audiobook, High Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, Epic Fantasy, Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1694</id>
                <synopsis>"Czas pogardy - tom drugi sagi o wiedźminie. Nastał czas pogardy, czas miecza i topora, czas wilczej zamieci. Wśród wojennej zawieruchy znaleźli się Geralt, Yennefer i Ciri, ale każde z nich gdzie indziej. Ciri czuje się porzucona, zapomniana, musi sama borykać się z trudami wędrówki..."</synopsis>
                <title>Czas pogardy</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>George MacDonald Fraser, Gino D'Achille (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Harry Paget Flashman</characters>
                <date>1999</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Humor, Historical, Adventure, Comedy, War, Classics, Novels, India</genres>
                <id>1695</id>
                <synopsis>"Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world.Can a man be all bad? When Harry Flashman’s adventures as the reluctant secret agent in Afghanistan lead him to join the exclusive company of Lord Cardigan’s Hussars and play a part in the disastrous Retreat from Kabul, it culminates in the rascal’s finest – and most dishonest – turn."</synopsis>
                <title>Flashman</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>David Eddings</author>
                <characters>Garion, Polgara, Belgarath, Layla, ""Ce''Nedra"", Silk, Barak, Fulrach, Anheg, Rhodar, Cho-Hag, Islena, Porenn, Silar, Hettar, Durnik, Lellodrin, Mandorallen, Arianaa, Nerinaa, Ran Borune XXIII, Sadi, Aldur, Beltira, Belkira, Beldin, Gorim, Relg, Yarbleck, Greldik, Merel, Poledra, Korodullin, Drosta lek Thun, Morin, Javelina, Varana, Errand</characters>
                <date>Mar-88</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Adventure, Young Adult, Magic, Epic, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1696</id>
                <synopsis>"Garion has slain the evil God Torak and been crowned King of Riva. The Prophecy was fulfilled—or so it seemed. While the strange child Errand was growing up in the Vale of Aldur with Polgara and Durnik, showing only occasional flashes of inexplicable knowledge and power, Garion was learning to rule and to be the husband of his fiery little Queen Ce’Nedra. Eleven years passed.Then suddenly the Voice of Prophecy cried out a warning: “Beware Zandramas!” Not even Belgarath the Sorcerer knew who or what Zandramas was. But Garion discovered hints in a previously obscured part of the Mrin Codex. Worse, he learned that the Dark Prophecy was still waging its ancient struggle against the Prophecy of Light. Again, great evil was brewing in the East. And again, Garion found himself a pawn, caught between the two ancient Prophecies, with the fate of the world somehow resting on him."</synopsis>
                <title>Guardians of the West</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Barack Obama</author>
                <characters>Barack Obama</characters>
                <date>2004</date>
                <genres>Nonfiction, Biography, Memoir, Politics, Autobiography, History, Biography Memoir, Audiobook, Race, African American</genres>
                <id>1697</id>
                <synopsis>"In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey—first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother’s family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father’s life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance."</synopsis>
                <title>Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Anthony Horowitz </author>
                <characters>Alex Rider, Alan Blunt, Jack Starbright, Smithers, Dr Grief, Mrs Jones</characters>
                <date>2001</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Adventure, Fiction, Mystery, Action, Espionage, Thriller, Childrens, Teen, Realistic Fiction</genres>
                <id>1698</id>
                <synopsis>"MI6 assigns Alex Rider, 14, undercover at an elite prep school for teen rebels after two fathers are assassinated. Principal Dr Grief and vicious cigar-smoking Mrs Stellenbosch are the only teachers. All the students act studious, perfect - and identical. When Alex finds the plot, the villains find him, and the mountain peak has only a black ski run escape."</synopsis>
                <title>Point Blank</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Andrzej Sapkowski</author>
                <characters>Dandelion, Yennefer, Triss Merigold, Ciri (Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon), Geralt of Rivia, Emhyr var Emreis, Sigismund Dijkstra, Vilgefortz, Milva, Zoltan Chivay, Emiel Regis Rohellec Terzieff-Godefroy, Cahir Mawr Dyffryn aep Ceallach, Fringilla Vigo, Leo Bonhart, Angouleme, Jarre, Nimue, Condwiramurs, Galhad, ""Avallac''h"", Eredin, Oberon Muircetach, Boreas Mun, Isengrim Faoiltiarna, Milo Vanderbeck, Iola the Second, Shani, Marti Sodergren, Julia Abatemarco, Yarpen Zigrin, Anna Henrietta of Toussaint</characters>
                <date>2001</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Polish Literature, Adventure, High Fantasy, Audiobook, Epic Fantasy, Magic, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adult</genres>
                <id>1699</id>
                <synopsis>"Length: 20 hours and 18 minutesThe Witcher returns in this action-packed sequel to The Tower of Swallows, in the New York Times best-selling series that inspired The Witcher video games.After walking through the portal in the Tower of Swallows while narrowly escaping death, Ciri finds herself in a completely different world...an Elven world. She is trapped, with no way out. Time does not seem to exist, and there are no obvious borders or portals to cross back into her home world.But this is Ciri, the child of prophecy, and she will not be defeated. She knows she must escape to finally rejoin the Witcher, Geralt, and his companions - and also to try to conquer her worst nightmare. Leo Bonhart, the man who chased, wounded, and tortured Ciri, is still on her trail. And the world is still at war.Translated from the original Polish by David French."</synopsis>
                <title>Pani Jeziora</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Timothy Zahn </author>
                <characters>Luke Skywalker, Jacen Solo, Mara Jade, Thrawn, Jaina Solo, Gilad Pellaeon, Wedge Antilles, Talon Karrde, Mon Mothma, Khabarakh, ""Joruus C''baoth"", ""Borsk Fey''lya"", Garm Bel Iblis</characters>
                <date>Feb-94</date>
                <genres>Star Wars, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Space Opera, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Adventure, Novels, Space</genres>
                <id>1700</id>
                <synopsis>"The embattled Republic reels from the attacks of Grand Admiral Thrawn, who has marshaled the remnants of the Imperial forces and driven the Rebels back with an abominable technology recovered from the Emperor's secret fortress: clone soldiers. As Thrawn mounts his final siege, Han and Chewbacca struggle to form a coalition of smugglers for a last-ditch attack against the empire, while Leia holds the Alliance together and prepares for the birth of her Jedi twins. Overwhelmed by the ships and clones at Thrawn's command, the Republic has one last hope-sending a small force, led by Luke Skywalker, into the very stronghold that houses Thrawn's terrible cloning machines. There a final danger awaits, as the Dark Jedi C'baoth directs the battle against the Rebels and builds his strength to finish what he had already started: the destruction of Luke Skywalker.Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years!"</synopsis>
                <title>The Last Command</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Meg Cabot </author>
                <characters>Mia Thermopolis, Lilly Moscovitz, Helen Thermopolis, Frank Gianini, Michael Moscovitz, ""Grandmère"" Clarisse Renaldo</characters>
                <date>2006</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Romance, Chick Lit, Fiction, Contemporary, Teen, Childrens, Humor, Realistic Fiction, High School</genres>
                <id>1701</id>
                <synopsis>"No one ever said being a princess was easy.Just when Mia thought she had the whole princess thing under control, things get out of hand, fast. First, there's an unexpected announcement from her mother. Then Grandmère arranges a national primetime interview for the brand-new crown princess of Genovia. On top of that, intriguing, exasperating letters from a secret admirer begin to arrive.Before she even has the chance to wonder who those letters are from, Mia is swept up in a whirlwind of royal intrigue the likes of which haven't been seen since volume I of The Princess Diaries."</synopsis>
                <title>Princess in the Spotlight</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Michael West </author>
                <characters>Preacher, Earl L. Preston Jr., Carol Miyagi, Dante ""The Horror Show"" Vianello, Roger Hays, Larry Neuhaus, Peggy Hern, Alan Everson, Barbara DeParle, Karl Tellstrom, Christine DeParle</characters>
                <date>Mar-12</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Horror, Mythology, Urban Fantasy, Mermaids, Fiction, Greek Mythology, Paranormal, Thriller, Monsters</genres>
                <id>1702</id>
                <synopsis>"Man no longer worships the old gods; forgotten and forsaken, they have become nothing more than myth and legend. But all that is about to change. After the ruins of a vast, ancient civilization are discovered on the ocean floor, Coast Guard officers find a series of derelict ships drifting in the current—high-priced yachts and leaking fishing boats, all ransacked, splattered in blood, their crews missing and presumed dead. And that's just the beginning. Vacationing artist Larry Neuhaus has just witnessed a gruesome shark attack, a young couple torn apart right before his eyes....at least, he thinks it was a shark. And when one of these victims turns out to be the only son of Roger Hays, the most powerful man in the country, things go from bad to worse. Now, to stop the carnage, Larry and his new-found friends must work together to unravel a mystery as old as time, and face an enemy as dark as the ocean depths."</synopsis>
                <title>Poseidon’s Children</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Scott Turow </author>
                <characters>Rusty Sabich, Alejandro ""Sandy"" Stern</characters>
                <date>1988</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Crime, Legal Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Law, Audiobook, Novels</genres>
                <id>1703</id>
                <synopsis>"Hailed as the most suspenseful and compelling novel in decades. Presumed Innocent brings to life our worst nightmare: that of an ordinary citizen facing conviction for the most terrible of all crimes. It's the stunning portrayal of one man's all-too-human, all-consuming fatal attraction for a passionate woman who is not his wife, and the story of how his obsession puts everything he loves and values on trial—including his own life. It's a book that lays bare a shocking world of betrayal and murder, as well as the hidden depths of the human heart. And it will hold you and haunt you ... long after you have reached its shattering conclusion."</synopsis>
                <title>Presumed Innocent</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Władysław Szpilman, Anthea Bell (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Władysław Szpilman, Władysław Szpilman</characters>
                <date>1999</date>
                <genres>Nonfiction, History, Holocaust, Biography, War, Memoir, World War II, Historical, Poland, Classics</genres>
                <id>1704</id>
                <synopsis>"The last live broadcast on Polish Radio, on September 23, 1939, was Chopin's Nocturne in C# Minor, played by a young pianist named Wladyslaw Szpilman, until his playing was interrupted by German shelling. It was the same piece and the same pianist, when broadcasting was resumed six years later. The Pianist is Szpilman's account of the years inbetween, of the death and cruelty inflicted on the Jews of Warsaw and on Warsaw itself, related with a dispassionate restraint borne of shock. Szpilman, now 88, has not looked at his description since he wrote it in 1946 (the same time as Primo Levi's If This Is A Man?; it is too personally painful. The rest of us have no such excuse.  Szpilman's family were deported to Treblinka, where they were exterminated; he survived only because a music-loving policeman recognised him. This was only the first in a series of fatefully lucky escapes that littered his life as he hid among the rubble and corpses of the Warsaw Ghetto, growing thinner and hungrier, yet condemned to live. Ironically it was a German officer, Wilm Hosenfeld, who saved Szpilman's life by bringing food and an eiderdown to the derelict ruin where he discovered him. Hosenfeld died seven years later in a Stalingrad labour camp, but portions of his diary, reprinted here, tell of his outraged incomprehension of the madness and evil he witnessed, thereby establishing an effective counterpoint to ground the nightmarish vision of the pianist in a desperate reality. Szpilman originally published his account in Poland in 1946, but it was almost immediately withdrawn by Stalin's Polish minions as it unashamedly described collaborations by Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Poles and Jews with the Nazis. In 1997 it was published in Germany after Szpilman's son found it on his father's bookcase. This admirably robust translation by Anthea Bell is the first in the English language. There were 3,500,000 Jews in Poland before the Nazi occupation; after it there were 240,000. Wladyslaw Szpilman's extraordinary account of his own miraculous survival offers a voice across the years for the faceless millions who lost their lives. -David Vincent"</synopsis>
                <title>The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kazuo Ishiguro</author>
                <characters>Sir Gawain, Beatrice (diverse works), Axl, Wistan, Edwin, Querig, Ivor, Father Jonus, Lord Brennus</characters>
                <date>Mar-15</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Audiobook, Novels, Historical, Literature, British Literature, Magical Realism</genres>
                <id>1705</id>
                <synopsis>"""You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's a journey we must go on, and no more delay...""The Buried Giant begins as a couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years.Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in nearly a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge, and war."</synopsis>
                <title>The Buried Giant</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Janet Evanovich </author>
                <characters>Ranger (Rangeman CEO), Lula, Grandma Mazur, Kenny Mancuso, Joyce Bernhardt, Joe Morelli, Stephanie Plum, Spiro Stiva</characters>
                <date>Jun-96</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Humor, Chick Lit, Romance, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Comedy, Contemporary, Adult</genres>
                <id>1706</id>
                <synopsis>"This one's double the fun!Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is still learning the ropes at her cousin Vinnie's bail bond office, so when she sets out on the trail of Kenny Mancuso - a suspiciously wealthy, working class Trenton boy who has just shot his best friend - the stakes are higher than ever. That Mancuso is distantly related to vice cop Joe Morelli - who is trying to beat Stephanie to the punch - only makes the hunt more thrilling...Taking pointers from her bounty hunter pal, Ranger, and using her pistol packing Grandma Mazur as a decoy, Stephanie is soon closing in on her mark. But Morelli and his libido are worthy foes. And a more sinister kind of enemy has made his first move... and his next move might be Stephanie's last."</synopsis>
                <title>Two for the Dough</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>C. Rajagopalachari (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Dushashana, Bhimasena, Bhurisravas, Yayati, Jarasandha, Yudhisthira, Dhrstadyumna, King Dhrtarastra, Shikhandhi, Bhigna, Ghatotkacha, Vyasadeva, Kripa, Rukma, Sanjaya, Panchali, Yavakrida, Kicaka, Vaisampayana, Sauti, Thirisoolam, Good Yudhishthir, Takshaka, Abhimanyu, Dronacharya, Dhritarashtra, Gadura, Vasuki, Matsya, Pandu, Dhritarastra, Brahmanas, Drona, Kacha, Dhananjaya, Hastina, Rakshasa, Kunti, Dwaipayana, Dushmanta, Ashvatthama, Sisupala, Duhsasan, Dwarka, Gandhari, Sindhu, Aswapati, Chedi, Shakuni, Aswatthama, Dhrtarastra, Duhsasana, Jayadratha, Vidura, Devayani, Dhristadyumna, Dharmaputra, Sikhandin, Dushashana, Bhimasena, Bhurisravas, Yayati, Jarasandha, Yudhisthira, Dhrstadyumna, King Dhrtarastra, Shikhandhi, Bhigna, Ghatotkacha, Vyasadeva, Kripa, Rukma, Sanjaya, Panchali, Yavakrida, Kicaka, Hastinapura, Subhadra, Hidimbi, Matali, Kuvera, Kritavarma, Visnu, Drorta, Virata, Dmna, Droha, Duhiasana</characters>
                <date>1951</date>
                <genres>Classics, Mythology, Religion, Fiction, India, Philosophy, Epic, Poetry, Spirituality, Indian Literature</genres>
                <id>1707</id>
                <synopsis>"Originally published in the year 1951, the huge popularity of the book has resulted in the book being re-printed several times. Centuries ago, it was proclaimed of the Mahabharata: ""What is not in it, is nowhere."" But even now, we can use the same words about it. He who knows it not, knows not the heights and depths of the soul; he misses the trials and tragedy and the beauty and grandeur of life. The Mahabharata is not a mere epic; it is a romance telling the tale of heroic men and women, and of some who were divine. It is a whole literature in itself, containing a code of life, a philosophy of social and ethical relations, and speculative thought on human problems that is hard to rival."</synopsis>
                <title>Mahabharata</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Holly Black </author>
                <characters>Kaye Fierch, Ellen Fierch, Janet Stone, Cornelius Stone, Rath Roiben Rye</characters>
                <date>Oct-06</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Urban Fantasy, Fairies, Paranormal, Fiction, Romance, Fae, Magic, Young Adult Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1708</id>
                <synopsis>"When seventeen-year-old Valerie runs away to New York City, she's trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city's labyrinthine subway system. But there's something eerily beguiling about Val's new friends. And when one talks Val into tracking down the lair of a mysterious creature with whom they are all involved, Val finds herself torn between her newfound affection for an honorable monster and her fear of what her new friends are becoming."</synopsis>
                <title>Valiant</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kazuo Ishiguro</author>
                <characters>Sophie, Mr. Ryder, Gustav, Leo Brodsky, Miss Collins, Miss Stratmann, Mr. Hoffman, Stephan Hoffman, Boris</characters>
                <date>1995</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Literature, Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Novels, British Literature, Fantasy, Unfinished, Japan, 20th Century</genres>
                <id>1709</id>
                <synopsis>"Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. But then as he traverses a landscape by turns eerie and comical – and always strangely malleable, as a dream might be - he comes steadily to realise he is facing the most crucial performance of his life.Ishiguro's extraordinary and original study of a man whose life has accelerated beyond his control was met on publication by consternation, vilification – and the highest praise."</synopsis>
                <title>The Unconsoled</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Henry Roth, Alfred Kazin (Introduction), Hana Wirth-Nesher (Afterword)</author>
                <characters>David Schearl</characters>
                <date>1994</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Jewish, New York, Novels, American, Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction</genres>
                <id>1710</id>
                <synopsis>"When Henry Roth published Call It Sleep, his first novel, in 1934, it was greeted with critical acclaim. But in that dark Depression year, books were hard to sell, and the novel quickly dropped out of sight, as did its twenty-eight-year-old author. Only with its paperback publication in 1964 did the novel receive the recognition it deserves. Call It Sleep was the first paperback ever to be reviewed on the front page of The New York Times Book Review, and it proceeded to sell millions of copies both in the United States and around the world. Call It Sleep is the magnificent story of David Schearl, the “dangerously imaginative” child coming of age in the slums of New York."</synopsis>
                <title>Call It Sleep</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kate Quinn </author>
                <characters>Titus Flavius Domitianus, Vibia Sabina, Lepida Pollia</characters>
                <date>Dec-19</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Historical, Romance, Fiction, Historical Romance, Italy, Adult, Ancient History, Drama, Roman</genres>
                <id>1711</id>
                <synopsis>"The first in an unforgettable historical saga from the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Alice Network. First-century Rome: A ruthless emperor watches over all-and fixes his gaze on one young woman... Thea is a slave girl from Judaea, purchased as a toy for the spiteful heiress Lepida Pollia. Now she has infuriated her mistress by capturing the attention of Rome's newest and most savage gladiator-and though his love brings Thea the first happiness of her life, their affair ends quickly when a jealous Lepida tears them apart.Remaking herself as a singer for Rome's aristocrats, Thea unwittingly attracts another admirer: the charismatic Emperor of Rome. But the passions of an all-powerful man come with a heavy price, and Thea finds herself fighting for both her soul and her sanity. Many have tried to destroy the Emperor: a vengeful gladiator, an upright senator, a tormented soldier, a Vestal Virgin. But in the end, the life of Domitian lies in the hands of one woman: the Emperor's mistress."</synopsis>
                <title>Mistress of Rome</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Terry Pratchett</author>
                <characters>Rincewind, The Luggage, Eric</characters>
                <date>Jul-08</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Comedy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Magic, Adventure, Adult, Science Fiction</genres>
                <id>1712</id>
                <synopsis>"Discworld's only demonology hacker, Eric, is about to make life very difficult for the rest of Ankh-Morpork's denizens. This would-be Faust is very bad...at his work, that is. All he wants is to fulfill three little wishes:to live forever, to be master of the universe, and to have a stylin' hot babe.But Eric isn't even good at getting his own way. Instead of a powerful demon, he conjures, well, Rincewind, a wizard whose incompetence is matched only by Eric's. And as if that wasn't bad enough, that lovable travel accessory the Luggage has arrived, too. Accompanied by his best friends, there's only one thing Eric wishes now - that he'd never been born!"</synopsis>
                <title>Eric</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Carolyn Keene, Mildred Benson (Ghostwriter)</author>
                <characters>Nancy Drew, Carson Drew, Hannah Gruen, Helen Corning, Allison Horner, Abigail Rowen, Nathan Gombet, Rosemary Turnbull, Floretta Turnbull</characters>
                <date>1996</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Mystery Thriller, Juvenile, Adventure, Crime</genres>
                <id>1713</id>
                <synopsis>"Nancy Drew is alarmed when Nathan Gombet threatens her father. Gombet sold a piece of land for a railroad bridge through Carson Drew and now believes that he was cheated. Meanwhile, valuable objects are disappearing from rooms in the Turnbull mansion even while the Turnbull sisters, Rosemary and Florette, are at home in their locked house. Having heard about her reputation for solving mysteries, the sisters invite Nancy Drew to stay in the mansion and discover the thief. In seeking to solve the mysterious happenings in an old stone mansion, Nancy uses her courage and powers of deduction and tackles a situation that would have appalled a far older person."</synopsis>
                <title>The Hidden Staircase</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Pat Barker</author>
                <characters>Robert Graves, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Billy Prior, Dr. William Rivers, Sarah Lumb, David Burns, Dr. Lewis Yealland</characters>
                <date>Published</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, War, Historical, World War I, British Literature, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels, 20th Century</genres>
                <id>1714</id>
                <synopsis>"Regeneration, one in Pat Barker's series of novels confronting the psychological effects of World War I, focuses on treatment methods during the war and the story of a decorated English officer sent to a military hospital after publicly declaring he will no longer fight. Yet the novel is much more. Written in sparse prose that is shockingly clear—the descriptions of electronic treatments are particularly harrowing—it combines real-life characters and events with fictional ones in a work that examines the insanity of war like no other. Barker also weaves in issues of class and politics in this compactly powerful book. Other books in the series include The Eye in the Door and the Booker Award winner The Ghost Road."</synopsis>
                <title>Regeneration</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Cormac McCarthy</author>
                <characters>John Grady Cole, Billy Parham</characters>
                <date>Jul-99</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Westerns, Literature, Novels, Historical Fiction, American, Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Classics, Adventure</genres>
                <id>1715</id>
                <synopsis>"The concluding volume of the Border trilogy. In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award-winning author of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing fashions a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier. It is 1952 and John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands in New Mexico, not far from the proving grounds of Alamogordo and the cities of El Paso and Juarez. Their life is made up of trail drives and horse auctions and stories told by campfire light. They value that life all the more because they know it is about to change forever.The change comes when John Grady falls in love with a beautiful, ill-starred Mexican prostitute and sets in motion a chain of events as violent as they are unstoppable. Haunting in its beauty, filled with sorrow, humor, and awe, Cities of the Plain is a genuine American epic."</synopsis>
                <title>Cities of the Plain</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ian Fleming</author>
                <characters>James Bond</characters>
                <date>2002</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Espionage, Adventure, Crime, Suspense, Drama, Novels, Classics</genres>
                <id>1716</id>
                <synopsis>"Ian Fleming’s fifth James Bond novel.James Bond is marked for death by the Soviet counterintelligence agency SMERSH in Ian Fleming’s masterful spy thriller, and the novel that President John F. Kennedy named one of his favourite books of all time.SMERSH stands for ‘Death to Spies’ and there’s no secret agent they’d like to disgrace and destroy more than 007, James Bond. But ensnaring the British Secret Service’s most lethal operative will require a lure so tempting even he can’t resist. Enter Tatiana Romanova, a ravishing Russian spy whose ‘defection’ springs a trap designed with clockwork precision.Her mission: seduce Bond, then flee to the West on the Orient Express. Waiting in the shadows are two of Ian Fleming’s most vividly drawn villains: Red Grant, SMERSH’s deadliest assassin, and the sinister operations chief Rosa Klebb-five feet four inches of pure killing power.Bursting with action and intrigue, From Russia with Love is one of the best-loved books in the Bond canon-an instant classic that set the standard for sophisticated literary spycraft for decades to come."</synopsis>
                <title>From Russia With Love</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>René Goscinny, Jean-Jacques Sempé</author>
                <characters>Nicolas</characters>
                <date>1988</date>
                <genres>France, Fiction, Childrens, Classics, Humor, French Literature, Short Stories, School, Young Adult, Middle Grade</genres>
                <id>1717</id>
                <synopsis>"La maîtresse est inquiète, le photographe s'éponge le front, le Bouillon devient tout rouge, les mamans ont mauvaise mine, les papas font les guignols, le directeur part à la retraite, quant à l'inspecteur, il est reparti aussi vite qu'il était venu. Pourtant, à l'école ou en famille, Geoffroy, Agnan, Eudes, Rufus, Clotaire, Maixent, Alceste, Joachim... et le Petit Nicolas sont - presque - toujours sages."</synopsis>
                <title>Le Petit Nicolas</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Rudyard Kipling, Edward W. Said (Editor)</author>
                <characters>""Kimball O''Hara (Kim)"", Teshoo Lama</characters>
                <date>1981</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, India, Historical Fiction, Adventure, Literature, Novels, British Literature, Historical, Asia</genres>
                <id>1718</id>
                <synopsis>"Kim is set in an imperialistic world; a world strikingly masculine, dominated by travel, trade and adventure, a world in which there is no question of the division between white and non-white.Two men - a boy who grows into early manhood and an old ascetic priest, the lama - are at the center of the novel. A quest faces them both. Born in India, Kim is nevertheless white, a sahib. While he wants to play the Great Game of Imperialism, he is also spiritually bound to the lama. His aim, as he moves chameleon-like through the two cultures, is to reconcile these opposing strands, while the lama searches for redemption from the Wheel of Life. A celebration of their friendship in a beautiful but often hostile environment, 'Kim' captures the opulence of India's exotic landscape, overlaid by the uneasy presence of the British Raj."</synopsis>
                <title>Kim</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kurt Vonnegut Jr.</author>
                <characters>Paul Proteus</characters>
                <date>Sept-06</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Science Fiction, Classics, Dystopia, Literature, Novels, American, Humor, Science Fiction Fantasy, Literary Fiction</genres>
                <id>1719</id>
                <synopsis>"Kurt Vonnegut’s first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines. Paul’s rebellion is vintage Vonnegut—wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality.Alternate cover edition here"</synopsis>
                <title>Player Piano</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Douglas Adams</author>
                <characters>Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect</characters>
                <date>1992</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Humor, Fantasy, Comedy, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure, British Literature, Novels</genres>
                <id>1720</id>
                <synopsis>"Charting the whole of Arthur Dent's odyssey through space are:THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY.One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, this seems already to be more than he can cope with. Sadly, however, the weekend has only just begun, and the Galaxy is a very very very large and startling place.THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE.When all questions of space, time, matter and the nature of being have been resolved, only one question remains -- ""Where shall we have dinner?"" The Restaurant at the End of the Universe provides the ultimate gastronomic experience, and for once there is no morning after to worry about.LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING.In consequence of a number of stunning catastrophes, Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a hideously miserable cave on prehistoric Earth. However, just as he thinks that things cannot possibly get any worse, they suddenly do. He discovers that the Galaxy is not only mind-boggling big and bewildering but also that most of the things that happen in it are staggeringly unfair.SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH.Just as Arthur Dent's sense of reality is in its dickiest state he suddenly finds the girl of his dreams. He finds her in the last place in the Universe in which he would expect to find anything at all, but which 3,976,000 people will find oddly familiar. They go in search of God's Final Message to His Creation and, in a dramatic break with tradition, actually find it."</synopsis>
                <title>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Timothy Zahn </author>
                <characters>Luke Skywalker, Lando Calrissian, Mara Jade, Thrawn, Gilad Pellaeon, Wedge Antilles, Talon Karrde, Leia Organa, Khabarakh, ""Joruus C''baoth"", ""Borsk Fey''lya"", Garm Bel Iblis, Han Solo</characters>
                <date>Apr-93</date>
                <genres>Star Wars, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Space Opera, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Adventure, Novels, Space</genres>
                <id>1721</id>
                <synopsis>"The dying Empire's most cunning and ruthless warlord—Grand Admiral Thrawn—has taken command of the remnants of the Imperial fleet and launched a massive campaign aimed at the New Republic's destruction. Meanwhile, Han and Lando Calrissian race against time to find proof of treason inside the highest Republic Council—only to discover instead a ghostly fleet of warships that could bring doom to their friends and victory to their enemies.Yet most dangerous of all is a new Dark Jedi, risen from the ashes of a shrouded past, consumed by bitterness… and scheming to corrupt Luke Skywalker to the Dark Side."</synopsis>
                <title>Dark Force Rising</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Richard Matheson</author>
                <characters>Richard Collier, Elise McKenna</characters>
                <date>Jan-99</date>
                <genres>Time Travel, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical, Classics, Historical Romance, Adult</genres>
                <id>1722</id>
                <synopsis>"Somewhere in Time is the powerful story of a love that transcends time and space, written by one of the Grand Masters of modern fantasy.Matheson's classic novel tells the moving, romantic story of a modern man whose love for a woman he has never met draws him back in time to a luxury hotel in San Diego in 1896, where he finds his soul mate in the form of a celebrated actress of the previous century. Somewhere in Time won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and the 1980 movie version, starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour, remains a cult classic whose fans continue to hold yearly conventions to this day. "</synopsis>
                <title>Somewhere In Time</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kathy Reichs </author>
                <characters>Temperance Brennan, Andrew Ryan, Luc Claudel, Pierre LaManche</characters>
                <date>Jun-98</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Drama, Adult, Adult Fiction, Novels</genres>
                <id>1723</id>
                <synopsis>"Her life is devoted to justice; for those she never even knew. In the year since Temperance Brennan left behind a shaky marriage in North Carolina, work has often preempted her weekend plans to explore Quebec. When a female corpse is discovered meticulously dismembered and stashed in trash bags, Temperance detects an alarming pattern and she plunges into a harrowing search for a killer. But her investigation is about to place those closest to her, her best friend and her own daughter, in mortal danger..."</synopsis>
                <title>Déjà Dead</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Primo Levi, Stuart J. Woolf (Translator), Paul Bailey (Introduction)</author>
                <characters>Primo Levi, Alberto (If this is a man), Charles (If this is a man), Arthur (If this is a man), Jean ""Pikolo"", Lorenzo Perrone</characters>
                <date>1987</date>
                <genres>Nonfiction, History, Biography, Holocaust, Classics, Memoir, War, Italian Literature, World War II, Autobiography</genres>
                <id>1724</id>
                <synopsis>"'With the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, dutiful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was profoundly in touch with the minutest workings of the most endearing human events and with the most contemptible. What has survived in Levi's writing isn't just his memory of the unbearable, but also, in The Periodic Table and The Wrench, his delight in what made the world exquisite to him. He was himself a magically endearing man, the most delicately forceful enchanter I've ever known' - Philip Roth."</synopsis>
                <title>If This Is a Man • The Truce</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Émile Zola, Gerhard Krüger (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Nana Coupeau, Philippe Hugon, Count Muffat</characters>
                <date>2002</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, France, French Literature, 19th Century, Literature, Historical Fiction, Novels, Romance, Roman</genres>
                <id>1725</id>
                <synopsis>"Wenn die üppige blonde Nana auf der Bühne des Pariser Varietétheaters steht, spürt jeder: sie hat keinen Funken Talent. Doch das macht nichts, denn sie hat etwas anderes ... Nana, das Kind aus der Gosse, Tochter einer Wäscherin, ausgestattet mit großen sinnlichen Reizen, steigt auf zur begehrtesten Kurtisane der Pariser Gesellschaft. Sie wird zum Idol, dem sich die Männer zu Füßen werfen. Bankiers bringen ihr ein ganzes Vermögen zum Opfer, Aristokraten ihre Würde, Jünglinge nehmen sich ihretwegen das Leben. Nana in ihrer grenzenlosen Gier und Verschwendungssucht schreitet ungerührt über sie hinweg, schön wie eine Sumpfblüte, Sinnbild einer untergehenden Ära."</synopsis>
                <title>Nana</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Charles Dickens, Jonathan Lethem (Introduction)</author>
                <characters>Mr. Dombey, Paul Dombey, Florence Dombey, Miss Tox</characters>
                <date>2003</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Literature, 19th Century, Victorian, British Literature, Audiobook, Classic Literature, Novels, Historical Fiction</genres>
                <id>1726</id>
                <synopsis>"Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens’s story of a powerful man whose callous neglect of his family triggers his professional and personal downfall, showcases the author’s gift for vivid characterization and unfailingly realistic description. As Jonathan Lethem contends in his Introduction, Dickens’s “genius . . . is at one with the genius of the form of the novel itself: Dickens willed into existence the most capacious and elastic and versatile kind of novel that could be, one big enough for his vast sentimental yearnings and for every impulse and fear and hesitation in him that countervailed those yearnings too. Never parsimonious and frequently contradictory, he always gives us everything he can, everything he’s planned to give, and then more.” This Modern Library Paperback Classic was set from the 1867 “Charles Dickens” edition."</synopsis>
                <title>Dombey and Son</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Sidney Sheldon</author>
                <characters>Mary Ashley, Mike Slade, Louis Desforges</characters>
                <date>1994</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Romance, Novels, Crime, Contemporary, Drama</genres>
                <id>1727</id>
                <synopsis>This classic best-selling thriller races from the White House to the romance of Paris and the shady menace of Cold War Bucharest as a young woman ambessador faces unseen and powerful enemies plotting her and her children's destruction.</synopsis>
                <title>Windmills of the Gods</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Unknown, Burton Raffel (Translator), Neil D. Isaacs (Afterword)</author>
                <characters>Morgan le Fay, Sir Gawain, Sir Bertilak de Haute Desert, King Arthur</characters>
                <date>Nov-01</date>
                <genres>Classics, Poetry, Fantasy, Fiction, Medieval, Arthurian, School, Mythology, Literature, Read For School</genres>
                <id>1728</id>
                <synopsis>"Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's masterworks and of the great Old English poems, including ""Beowulf."" This edition includes a Preface by Raffel and a new Introduction. Revised reissue."</synopsis>
                <title>Sir Gawain and the Green Knight</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Sherrilyn Kenyon </author>
                <characters>Caillen Dagan, Syn Wade, Nykyrian Quiakides, Kiara Zamir, Jayne, Pitala, Askel Quiakides, Arast Quiakides, Hauk, Keifer Zamir</characters>
                <date>Oct-09</date>
                <genres>Romance, Paranormal Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Paranormal, Aliens, Adult, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Futuristic</genres>
                <id>1729</id>
                <synopsis>"In the Ichidian Universe, The League and their ruthless assassins rule all. Expertly trained and highly valued, the League Assassins are the backbone of the government. But not even the League is immune to corruption . . .Command Assassin Nykyrian Quikiades once turned his back on the League—and has been hunted by them ever since. Though many have tried, none can kill him or stop him from completing his current mission: to protect Kiara Zamir, a woman whose father’s political alliance has made her a target. As her world becomes even deadlier, Kiara must entrust her life to the same kind of beast who once killed her mother and left her for dead. Old enemies and new threaten them both and the only way they can survive is to overcome their suspicions and learn to trust in the very ones who threaten them the most: each other."</synopsis>
                <title>Born of Night</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Meg Cabot </author>
                <characters>Jane Harris, Cal Langdon</characters>
                <date>2005</date>
                <genres>Chick Lit, Romance, Fiction, Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, Adult, Humor, Young Adult, Adult Fiction, Comedy</genres>
                <id>1730</id>
                <synopsis>"Cartoonist Jane Harris is delighted by the prospect of her first-ever trip to Europe. But it's hate at first sight for Jane and Cal Langdon, and neither is too happy at the prospect of sharing a villa with one another for a week-not even in the beautiful and picturesque Marches countryside. But when Holly and Mark's wedding plans hit a major snag that only Jane and Cal can repair, the two find themselves having to put aside their mutual dislike for one another in order to get their best friends on the road to wedded bliss-and end up on a road themselves ... one neither of them ever expected."</synopsis>
                <title>Every Boy's Got One</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>V.S. Naipaul</author>
                <characters>Mohun Biswas, Shama</characters>
                <date>2003</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Literature, India, Novels, Nobel Prize, Literary Fiction, Indian Literature, 20th Century, Contemporary</genres>
                <id>1731</id>
                <synopsis>"Mohun Biswas has spent his 46 years of life striving for independence. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning of his father, he yearns for a place he can call home. He marries into the Tulsi family, on whom he becomes dependent, but rebels and takes on a succession of occupations in a struggle to weaken their hold over him."</synopsis>
                <title>A House for Mr Biswas</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>David Eddings</author>
                <characters>Garion, Polgara, Belgarath, ""Ce''Nedra"", Silk, Issa, Barak, Asharak, Hettar, Durnik, Lellodrin, Mandorallen, Arianaa, Brill, Nerinaa, Ran Borune XXIII, Sadi, Salmissra, Mayaserana</characters>
                <date>Nov-82</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, Young Adult, Audiobook, Epic</genres>
                <id>1732</id>
                <synopsis>"The Trail of Prophecy...Legends told of how the evil God Torak had coveted the power of the Orb of Aldur, until defeated in a final battle. But prophecy spoke of a time when he would awake and again seek dominance over the world. Now the Orb has been stolen by a priest of Torak, and that time was at hand. The master Sorcerer Belgarath and his daughter Polgara the arch-Sorceress were on the trail of the Orb, seeking to regain it before the final disaster. And with them went Garion, a simple farm boy only months before, but now the focus of the struggle. He has never believed in sorcery and wanted no part of it. Yet with every league they traveled, the power grew in him, forcing him to acts of wizardry he could not accept. This continues the magnificent epic of The Belgariad, began in Pawn of Prophecy, set among strange lands against a background of a war of men, Kings, and Gods that had spanned seven thousand years - a novel of strange fate and a prophecy that must come true!"</synopsis>
                <title>Queen of Sorcery</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Darren Shan </author>
                <characters>Darren Shan</characters>
                <date>May-06</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Horror, Vampires, Paranormal, Fiction, Supernatural, Adventure, Urban Fantasy, Middle Grade</genres>
                <id>1733</id>
                <synopsis>"Book 11 of The Saga Of Darren Shan. Darren's going home. Back to where everything started. The town's changed a lot in the years that he's been away - but then, so has Darren.Plagued by nightmares of what the future seems to hold, Darren feels uneasy revisiting the place where he was re-born as a child of the night, as though the universe (as though destiny) is plotting to throw something very nasty at him on the streets of his old home."</synopsis>
                <title>Lord of the Shadows</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>David Eddings</author>
                <characters>Garion, Polgara, Belgarath, Layla, ""Ce''Nedra"", Silk, Barak, Fulrach, Anheg, Rhodar, Cho-Hag, Islena, Porenn, Silar, Hettar, Durnik, Lellodrin, Mandorallen, Arianaa, Ran Borune XXIII, Sadi, Gorim, Relg, Taur Urgas, Taiba, Greldik, Brand, Merel, Joran, Poledra, Beldaran, Olban, Vordai, Korodullin, Morin</characters>
                <date>May-84</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, Young Adult, Epic, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1734</id>
                <synopsis>"A magnificent epic set against a history of seven thousand years of the struggles of Gods and Kings and men - of strange lands and events - of fate and a prophecy that must be fulfilled!THE BELGARIADIt had all begun with the theft of the Orb that had so long protected the West from the evil God Torak. Before that, Garion had been a simple farm boy. Afterward, he discovered that his aunt was really the Sorceress Polgara and his grandfather was Belgarath, the Eternal Man. Then, on the long quest to recover the Orb, Garion found to his dismay that he, too, was a sorcerer.Now, at last, the Orb was regained and the quest was nearing its end. Of course, the questors still had to escape from this crumbling enemy fortress and flee across a desert filled with Murgo soldiers searching for them, while Grolim Hierarchs strove to destroy them with dark magic. Then, somehow, they must manage to be in Riva with the Orb by Erastide.After that, however, Garion was sure that his part in these great events would be finished.But the Prophecy still held future surprises for Garion - and for the little Princess Ce'Nedra!THUS CONTINUES BOOK FOUR OF THE BELGARIAD"</synopsis>
                <title>Castle of Wizardry</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Harry Thompson</author>
                <characters>Charles Darwin, Robert Fitzroy, Bartholomew James Sulivan, Orundellico</characters>
                <date>2005</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Adventure, Literary Fiction, Travel, Literature, Historical Romance, Evolution, Modern</genres>
                <id>1735</id>
                <synopsis>"1828 - Brilliant young naval officer Robert FitzRoy is given the captaincy of HMS Beagle, surveying the wilds of Tierra del Fuego, aged just twenty-three. He takes a passenger: a young trainee cleric and amateur geologist named Charles Darwin. This is the story of a deep friendship between two men, and the twin obsessions that tore it apart, leading one to triumph and the other to disaster..."</synopsis>
                <title>This Thing of Darkness</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Octavia E. Butler</author>
                <characters>Lilith lyapo, Ahajas, Dichaan, Tediin, Nikanj, Kahguyaht, Peter Van Weerden, Jean Pelerin, Gabriel Rinaldi, Curt Loehr, Celene Ivers, Ray Ordway, Victor Dominic, Beatrice Dwyer, Allison Zeigler, Hillary Ballard, Jdahya, Tate</characters>
                <date>Apr-97</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Aliens, Post Apocalyptic, Speculative Fiction, Dystopia, Horror, Adult</genres>
                <id>1736</id>
                <synopsis>"Lilith Iyapo has just lost her husband and son when atomic fire consumes Earth—the last stage of the planet’s final war. Hundreds of years later Lilith awakes, deep in the hold of a massive alien spacecraft piloted by the Oankali—who arrived just in time to save humanity from extinction. They have kept Lilith and other survivors asleep for centuries, as they learned whatever they could about Earth. Now it is time for Lilith to lead them back to her home world, but life among the Oankali on the newly resettled planet will be nothing like it was before.The Oankali survive by genetically merging with primitive civilizations—whether their new hosts like it or not. For the first time since the nuclear holocaust, Earth will be inhabited. Grass will grow, animals will run, and people will learn to survive the planet’s untamed wilderness. But their children will not be human. Not exactly."</synopsis>
                <title>Dawn</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Erich Maria Remarque, Denver Lindley (translator)</author>
                <characters>Ernst Graeber, Elisabeth Kruse, Prof. Pohlmann, Alfons Binding</characters>
                <date>1954</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, War, Historical Fiction, German Literature, Germany, Novels, Romance, World War II, Literature</genres>
                <id>1737</id>
                <synopsis>"In de kou en omgeven door alle verschrikkingen van het oostfront verheugt Ernst Graeber zich op niets meer dan zijn verlof. Thuis, in Duitsland, zal het leven wel weer goed zijn.Maar als de jonge soldaat terugkomt is zijn ouderlijk huis gebombardeerd en blijken zijn ouders vermist. Graeber gaat naar hen op zoek, terwijl op hetzelfde moment de Endsieg verkondigd wordt door de nazi’s – en vooral door zijn schoolvriend Binding, inmiddels een belangrijk man bij de Gestapo en verantwoordelijk voor talloze arrestaties van ‘joodse verraders’. Verbijsterd ziet hij dat ook aan het ‘thuisfront’ wanhoop, overlevingsdrift en geweld het laatste restje medemenselijkheid aan het opvreten zijn. Op een avond komt hij tussen de puinhopen van de verwoeste en ontredderde stad Elisabeth tegen, de dochter van de huisarts. Samen beleven de soldaat en de jonge vrouw midden in de chaos een paar dagen geluk, en voor enkele momenten lukt het Graeber om de gedachte dat hij weer terug moet naar het front opzij te duwen.Terug aan het front verzet hij zich voor het eerst en op zijn manier tegen het nazi-credo van de Untermenschen en laat enkele Russische gevangenen ontsnappen. Maar zij reageren daarop heel anders dan hij verwacht en gehoorzamen aan de logica van deze en iedere oorlog: oog om oog, tand om tand."</synopsis>
                <title>A Time to Love and a Time to Die</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Andrzej Sapkowski</author>
                <characters>Dandelion, Yennefer, Triss Merigold, Ciri (Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon), Iskra, Geralt of Rivia, Rience, Sigismund Dijkstra, Vilgefortz, Giselher, Mistle, Milva, Emiel Regis Rohellec Terzieff-Godefroy, Cahir Mawr Dyffryn aep Ceallach, Vysogota of Corvo, Leo Bonhart, Stefan ""Tawny Owl"" Skellen, Angouleme, Esterad Thyssen, Crach an Craite, Joanna ""Kenna"" Selborne, Schirrù</characters>
                <date>2001</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Polish Literature, High Fantasy, Audiobook, Adventure, Epic Fantasy, Magic, Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1738</id>
                <synopsis>"Ciri staje przed swoim przeznaczeniem. Drakkar wiozący Yennefer trafia w oko czarodziejskiego cyklonu. Czy wśród przyjaciół wiedźmina ukrywa się zdrajca? Czwarta, przedostatnia odłona epopei o świecie wiedźmina i wojnach, jakie nim wstrząsają. W zagubionej wśród bagien chacie pustelnika ciężko ranna Ciri powraca do zdrowia. Jej tropem podążają bezlitośni zabójcy z Nilfgaardu. Tymczasem drużyna Geralta, unikając coraz to nowych niebezpieczeństw, dociera wreszcie do ukrywjących się druidów. Czy wiedźminowi uda się odnaleźć Ciri? Jaką rolę odegra osnuta legendą Wieża Jaskółki?"</synopsis>
                <title>Wieża Jaskółki</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>LaVyrle Spencer</author>
                <characters>Will Parker, Eleanor Dinsmore</characters>
                <date>1991</date>
                <genres>Romance, Historical Romance, Historical, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Westerns, World War II, Contemporary, Adult, Western Romance</genres>
                <id>1739</id>
                <synopsis>"LOVE IN A STRANGER'S EYES...ELLYIn town, they called her ""Crazy Widow Dinsmore."" But Elly was no stranger to their ridicule-she had been an outsider all her life, growing up in a boarded-up old house under the strict eye of her eccentric grandparents. Now she was all alone, with two little boys to raise, and a third child on the way.WILLHe drifted into Whitney, Georgia, one lazy afternoon in the summer of 1941, hoping to put his lonely past behind him. He yearned for the tenderness he had never known, the home he'd never had. All he needed was for someone to give him a chance.Then he saw her classified ad: WANTED-A husband. When he stepped across Elly Dinsmore's cluttered yard, Will Parker knew he had come home at last ..."</synopsis>
                <title>Morning Glory</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Terry Pratchett</author>
                <characters>Rincewind, The Luggage, Havelock Vetinari, DEATH, The Librarian, Nijel the Destroyer, Conina</characters>
                <date>Apr-08</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Comedy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Magic, Audiobook, Adventure, High Fantasy, Science Fiction</genres>
                <id>1740</id>
                <synopsis>"When last seen, the singularly inept wizard Rincewind had fallen off the edge of the world. Now magically, he's turned up again, and this time he's brought the Luggage.But that's not all....Once upon a time, there was an eighth son of an eighth son who was, of course, a wizard. As if that wasn't complicated enough, said wizard then had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son - a wizard squared (that's all the math, really). Who of course, was a source of magic - a sourcerer."</synopsis>
                <title>Sourcery</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Simon Winchester</author>
                <characters>Dr. William Chester Minor, Sir James Murray</characters>
                <date>2005</date>
                <genres>Nonfiction, History, Biography, Language, Books About Books, Historical, True Crime, Audiobook, Biography Memoir, Linguistics</genres>
                <id>1741</id>
                <synopsis>"The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary - and literary history. The compilation of the OED, begun in 1857, was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected, the overseeing committee, led by Professor James Murray, discovered that one man, Dr. W. C. Minor, had submitted more than ten thousand. When the committee insisted on honoring him, a shocking truth came to light: Dr. Minor, an American Civil War veteran, was also an inmate at an asylum for the criminally insane."</synopsis>
                <title>The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Meg Cabot </author>
                <characters>Mia Thermopolis, Kenny Showalter, Lilly Moscovitz, Helen Thermopolis, Frank Gianini, Michael Moscovitz, Boris Pelkowski, ""Grandmère"" Clarisse Renaldo, Sebastiano, Tina Hakim Baba</characters>
                <date>2006</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Romance, Chick Lit, Fiction, Contemporary, Teen, Childrens, Humor, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult Contemporary</genres>
                <id>1742</id>
                <synopsis>"Princess Mia may seem like the luckiest girl ever.But the truth is, Mia spends all her time doing one of three things: preparing for her nerve-racking entrée into Genovian society, slogging through the congestion unique to Manhattan in December, and avoiding further smooching from her hapless boyfriend, Kenny.For Mia, being princess is not the fairy tale it's supposed to be . . . or is it?"</synopsis>
                <title>Princess in Love</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Daniel Clowes</author>
                <characters>Enid Coleslaw, Rebecca Doppelmeyer</characters>
                <date>Apr-01</date>
                <genres>Comics, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Young Adult, Comic Book, Coming Of Age, Comix, Contemporary, American</genres>
                <id>1743</id>
                <synopsis>"Ghost World has become a cultural and generational touchstone, and continues to enthrall and inspire readers over a decade after its original release as a graphic novel. Originally serialized in the pages of the seminal comic book Eightball throughout the mid-1990s, this quasi-autobiographical story (the name of one of the protagonists is famously an anagram of the author's name) follows the adventures of two teenage girls, Enid and Becky, two best friends facing the prospect of growing up, and more importantly, apart. Daniel Clowes is one of the most respected cartoonists of his generation, and Ghost World is his magnum opus. Adapted into a major motion picture directed by Terry Zwigoff (director of the acclaimed documentary Crumb), which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. This graphic novel is a must for any self-respecting comics fan's library."</synopsis>
                <title>Ghost World</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jacqueline Kelly </author>
                <characters>Calpurnia Virginia Tate, Granddaddy Walter Tate</characters>
                <date>2009</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Fiction, Middle Grade, Historical, Childrens, Juvenile, Coming Of Age, Family, Realistic Fiction</genres>
                <id>1744</id>
                <synopsis>"Calpurnia Virginia Tate is eleven years old in 1899 when she wonders why the yellow grasshoppers in her Texas backyard are so much bigger than the green ones. With a little help from her notoriously cantankerous grandfather, an avid naturalist, she figures out that the green grasshoppers are easier to see against the yellow grass, so they are eaten before they can get any larger.As Callie explores the natural world around her, she develops a close relationship with her grandfather, navigates the dangers of living with six brothers, and comes up against just what it means to be a girl at the turn of the century.Debut author Jacqueline Kelly deftly brings Callie and her family to life, capturing a year of growing up with unique sensitivity and a wry wit."</synopsis>
                <title>The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Yukio Mishima, Michael Gallagher  (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Kiyoaki Matsugae, Satoko Ayakura, Shigekuni Honda, Shigeyuki Iinuma</characters>
                <date>Nov-00</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Japan, Japanese Literature, Historical Fiction, Classics, Literature, Asia, Novels, Romance, Asian Literature</genres>
                <id>1745</id>
                <synopsis>"Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - rich provincial families, a new and powerful political and social elite.Kiyoaki has been raised among the elegant Ayakura family - members of the waning aristocracy - but he is not one of them. Coming of age, he is caught up in the tensions between the old and the new, and his feelings for the exquisite, spirited Satoko, observed from the sidelines by his devoted friend Honda. When Satoko is engaged to a royal prince, Kiyoaki realises the magnitude of his passion."</synopsis>
                <title>Spring Snow</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Abolqasem Ferdowsi, Dick Davis (Translator), جلال خالقی مطلق (Editor), Azar Nafisi  (Foreword)</author>
                <characters>Sohrab, Rostam, Esfandiar, Simorgh &amp;...</characters>
                <date>2006</date>
                <genres>Poetry, Classics, History, Iran, Mythology, Literature, Epic, Medieval, Historical, Nonfiction</genres>
                <id>1746</id>
                <synopsis>"Among the great works of world literature, perhaps one of the least familiar to English readers is the ""Shahnameh: ThePersian Book of Kings,"" the national epic of Persia. This prodigious narrative, composed by the poet Ferdowsi between the years 980 and 1010, tells the story of pre- Islamic Iran, beginning in the mythic time of Creation and continuing forward to the Arab invasion in the seventh century. As a window on the world, ""Shahnameh"" belongs in the company of such literary masterpieces as Dante's ""Divine Comedy,"" the plays of Shakespeare, the epics of Homer- classics whose reach and range bring whole cultures into view. In its pages are unforgettable moments of national triumph and failure, human courage and cruelty, blissful love and bitter grief.In tracing the roots of Iran, ""Shahnameh"" initially draws on the depths of legend and then carries its story into historical times, when ancient Persia was swept into an expanding Islamic empire. Now Dick Davis, the greatest modern translator of Persian poetry, has revisited that poem, turning the finest stories of Ferdowsi's original into an elegant combination of prose and verse. For the first time in English, in the most complete form possible, readers can experience ""Shahnameh"" in the same way that Iranian storytellers have lovingly conveyed it in Persian for the past thousand years."</synopsis>
                <title>Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Patricia A. McKillip</author>
                <characters>Morgon, Prince of Hed, Raederle of An, Deth, Eliard of Hed, Tristan of Hed, Mathom of An, Duac of An, Rood of An, Heureu of Ymris, Eriel, Astrin of Ymris, The Morgol, Lyra of Herun, Har the Wolf-King, Danan of Isig, Ghisteslwchlohm, Yrth, Aloil, Nun, Iff of the Unpronounceable Name, Suth, Talies, Ohm, Tel</characters>
                <date>Mar-99</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, Classics, Speculative Fiction</genres>
                <id>1747</id>
                <synopsis>"For over twenty years, Patricia A. McKillip has captured the hearts and imaginations of thousands of readers. And although her renowned Riddle-Master trilogy-The Riddle-Master of Hed, Heir of Sea and Fire, and Harpist in the Wind-has been long out of print, it is considered her most enduring and beloved work. Now it is collected in one volume for the first time-the epic journeys of a young prince in a strange land, where wizards have long since vanished...but where magic is waiting to be reborn."</synopsis>
                <title>Riddle-Master</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Agatha Christie</author>
                <characters>John Ingles, Arthur Hastings, Hercule Poirot, Abe Ryland, Inspector Japp, Li Chang Yen, Dr. Ridgeway, An unexpected guest, Number Four, Countess Rossakoff, Madame Olivier, Achille Poirot</characters>
                <date>2002</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Thriller, Audiobook, British Literature, Novels</genres>
                <id>1748</id>
                <synopsis>"Framed in the doorway of Poirot’s bedroom stood an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The man’s gaunt face stared for a moment, then he swayed and fell. Who was he? Was he suffering from shock or just exhaustion? Above all, what was the significance of the figure 4, scribbled over and over again on a sheet of paper? Poirot finds himself plunged into a world of international intrigue, risking his life to uncover the truth about ‘Number Four’."</synopsis>
                <title>The Big Four</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Sofi Oksanen </author>
                <characters>Aliide Truu, Zara Pekk, Hans Eerikinpoika Pekk, Ingel</characters>
                <date>2008</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Historical Fiction, Finnish Literature, Historical, Contemporary, Scandinavian Literature, Novels, Literary Fiction, Literature, Crime</genres>
                <id>1749</id>
                <synopsis>"Ikääntynyt Aliide Truu asuu yksin taloaan Viron maaseudulla. Maa on itsenäistynyt edellisenä vuonna ja maareformi on alkanut. Vanhan naisen arjen katkaisee pihalle pyörtynyt parikymppinen Zara. Tultuaan tajuihinsa Zara kertoo pakenevansa väkivaltaista miestään. Kohtaaminen nostaa Aliiden mieleen repivät muistot nuoruuden traagisesta rakkaudesta ja valinnoista, jotka sinetöivät hänen lähimpiensä kohtalon. Omiin epätoivoisiin ratkaisuihinsa pakotetun Zaran tilanne puolestaan osoittaa, että vaikka aika on toinen, vaino ei ole loppunut, muuttanut vain muotoaan.Puhdistuksen syvintä ydintä on petos, johon epätoivoiset tunteet ajavat. Romaani avaa myös Viron vaiettua lähihistoriaa yhden suvun kokemusten kautta.Kirja antaa äänen sodan, kommunismin ja sorron uhreille. 1940-luvulla koettujen nöyryytysten ohella teoksessa nousee esiin nykynaisiin epävakaissa yhteiskunnallisissa olosuhteissa kohdistuva hyväksikäyttö."</synopsis>
                <title>Puhdistus</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Catherine Anderson </author>
                <characters>Alex Montgomery, Annie Trimble</characters>
                <date>Jan-96</date>
                <genres>Historical Romance, Romance, Historical, Westerns, Historical Fiction, Adult, Disability, Western Romance, Abuse, Fiction</genres>
                <id>1750</id>
                <synopsis>"Annie Trimble lives in a solitary world that no one enters or understands. As delicate and beautiful as the tender blossoms of the Oregon spring, she is shunned by a town that misinterprets her affliction. But cruelty cannot destroy the love Annie holds in her heart. Alex Montgomery is horrified to learn his wild younger brother forced himself on a helpless ""idiot girl."" Tormented by guilt, Alex agrees to marry her and raise the baby she carries as his own. But he never dreams he will grow to cherish his lovely, mute, and misjudged Annie; her childlike innocence, her womanly charms and the wondrous way she views her world. He becomes determined to break through the wall of silence surrounding her; to heal... and to be healed by Annie's sweet song of love."</synopsis>
                <title>Annie's Song</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kathy Reichs </author>
                <characters>Temperance Brennan, Andrew Ryan</characters>
                <date>May-06</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Crime, Fiction, Thriller, Drama, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Novels, Murder Mystery, Dark</genres>
                <id>1751</id>
                <synopsis>"Assaulted by the bitter cold of a Montreal winter, the American-born Dr. Temperance Breman, Forensic Anthropologist for the Province of Quebec, digs for a corpse where Sister Elisabeth Nicolet, dead over a century and now a candidate for sainthood, should lie in her grave. A strange, small coffin, buried in the recesses of a decaying church, holds the first clue to the cloistered nun's fate. The puzzle surrounding Sister Elisabeth's life and death provides a welcome contrast to discoveries at a burning chalet, where scorched and twisted bodies await Tempe's professional expertise. Who were these people? What brought them to this gruesome fate? Homicide Detective Andrew Ryan, with whom Tempe has a combustive history, joins her in the arson investigation. From the fire scene they are drawn into the worlds of an enigmatic and controversial professor, a mysterious commune, and a primate colony on a Carolina island."</synopsis>
                <title>Death du Jour</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Douglas Coupland </author>
                <characters>Daniel Underwood</characters>
                <date>1995</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Humor, Contemporary, Canada, Novels, Literature, Technology, Geek, Literary Fiction, Computers</genres>
                <id>1752</id>
                <synopsis>"Narrated in the form of a Powerbook entry by Dan Underwood, a computer programmer for Microsoft, this state-of-the-art novel about life in the '90s follows the adventures of six code-crunching computer whizzes. Known as ""microserfs,"" they spend upward of 16 hours a day ""coding"" (writing software) as they eat ""flat"" foods (such as Kraft singles, which can be passed underneath closed doors) and fearfully scan the company email to see what the great Bill might be thinking and whether he is going to ""flame"" one of them. Seizing the chance to be innovators instead of cogs in the Microsoft machine, this intrepid bunch strike out on their own to form a high-tech start-up company named Oop! in Silicon Valley. Living together in a sort of digital flophouse -""Our House of Wayward Mobility"" - they desperately try to cultivate well-rounded lives and find love amid the dislocated, subhuman whir and buzz of their computer-driven world.Funny, illuminating and ultimately touching, Microserfs is the story of one generation's very strange and claustrophobic coming of age."</synopsis>
                <title>Microserfs</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Steven Brust , Olaf Schenk (Übersetzer)</author>
                <characters>Vlad Taltos, Aliera, Morollan, Mellar, Loiosh</characters>
                <date>2005</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Dragons, Science Fiction, Adventure, Epic Fantasy, Magic, Mystery</genres>
                <id>1753</id>
                <synopsis>"Vlad Taltos ist ein Hexer, freiberuflicher Attentäter, lebt als Ostländer (also Mensch) unter Dragaeranern und nennt einen reptilischen Vertrauten mit beissendem Humor sein Eigen. Und er ist in Schwierigkeiten, denn er muss einen Krieg verhindern, in dem sich seine besten Freunde und daneben auch die großen Familien von Dragaera gegenseitig auslöschen würden...The first to be published, this is actually the fourth novel in the timeline of the VLAD TALTOS series. The books recount the adventures of the wisecracking hired killer Vlad, a human on a planet mainly inhabited by the long-lived, extremely tall sorcerers known as the Dragaerans. One of the most powerful bosses in the Jhereg-Dragaera's premier criminal organization-hires Vlad, one of their guild members, to assassinate Mellar, who stole millions from the Jhereg leadership and fled. Unfortunately, this thief turns out to be protected in a way that makes it difficult for Vlad to do his job without gaining the permanent enmity of a friend. The reader also learns more about Vlad's past in this, and in other, lives."</synopsis>
                <title>Jhereg</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar</author>
                <characters>Hayri İrdal, Halit Ayarcı, Dr. Ramiz, Muvakkit Nuri Efendi, Seyit Lûtfullah, Abdüsselam Bey, Aristidi Efendi, Yangeldi Asaf Bey, Topal İsmail</characters>
                <date>2005</date>
                <genres>Turkish Literature, Fiction, Turkish, Classics, Literature, Roman, Novels, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Modern Classics</genres>
                <id>1754</id>
                <synopsis>"Şiirlerinde sembolist bir dil kullanan Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar romanlarında gerçekçi ve sosyal sorunlara eğilen bir tarzı tercih etmiştir.Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü Türk insanının doğu ve batı arasında bocalamasını irdeleyen bir başucu romanıdır.Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü, içeriğini ve konusunu romanın karakterlerinden Nuri Efendi (Saat Ustası), Mübarek (Ayaklı ve yaşlı bir İngiliz yapımı duvar saati), Halit Ayarcı ve saat-zaman-insan ilişkilerinden almaktadır.Anlatım, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’ın kendine has simgeci anlatımıyla birleşip, zaman zaman gelişen olaylarla birlikte başkalaşmaktadır. İnsanların popülerliğe ve paraya verdiği önemin, insanların nasıl bir anda yüz değiştirebileceğinin altı çizilmektedir.İki uygarlık arasında bocalayan toplumumuzun yanlış tutumlarını, davranışlarını alaya alan eleştirel bir romandır. Yapıt çocukluğu II. Abdülhamit döneminde geçen, Meşrutiyet ve Cumhuriyet dönemlerinde de yaşayan Hayri İrdal'ın anıları şeklinde kurgulanmıştır. Roman dört bölümden oluşmaktadır: Büyük Ümitler, Küçük Hakikatler, Sabaha Doğru, Her Mevsimin Bir Sonu Vardır."</synopsis>
                <title>Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Patricia C. Wrede , Caroline Stevermer </author>
                <characters>Cecelia Rushton, Katherine Talgarth, James Tarleton, Thomas Schofield, Miranda Tanistry, Dorothea Griscomb, Sir Hilary Bedrick, Georgina Talgarth, Oliver Rushton, Sylvia Schofield</characters>
                <date>2004</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Romance, Historical, Magic, Mystery, Regency, Historical Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1755</id>
                <synopsis>"A great deal is happening in London and the country this season.For starters, there's the witch who tried to poison Kate at the Royal College of Wizards. There's also the man who seems to be spying on Cecelia. (Though he's not doing a very good job of it-so just what are his intentions?) And then there's Oliver. Ever since he was turned into a tree, he hasn't bothered to tell anyone where he is.Clearly, magic is a deadly and dangerous business. And the girls might be in fear for their lives . . . if only they weren't having so much fun!"</synopsis>
                <title>Sorcery &amp; Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kathleen E. Woodiwiss</author>
                <characters>Shanna Trahern, Ruark Beauchamp</characters>
                <date>2000</date>
                <genres>Romance, Historical Romance, Historical, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Adult, Pirates, Adventure, Chick Lit, British Literature</genres>
                <id>1756</id>
                <synopsis>"an alternate cover edition can be found hereBehind the foreboding walls of Newgate Prison, a pact is sealed in secret - as a dashing and doomed criminal consents to wed a beautiful heiress . . . in return for one night of unparalleled pleasure.In the fading echoes of hollow wedding vows, a promise is broken - as a sensuous free-spirit flees to a lush Caribbean paradise, abandoning the handsome stranger she married to the gallows. But Ruark Beauchamp's destiny is now eternally intertwined with his exquisite, tempestuous Shanna's. And no iron ever forged can imprison his magnificent passion . . . and no hangman's noose will deny him the ecstasy that is rightfully his."</synopsis>
                <title>Shanna</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>José Rodrigues dos Santos</author>
                <characters>Tomás Noronha</characters>
                <date>2006</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Thriller, Romance, Portuguese Literature, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Portugal, Roman, Religion, Novels</genres>
                <id>1757</id>
                <synopsis>"""Nas escadarias do Museu Egípcio, em pleno Cairo, Tomás Noronha é abordado por uma desconhecida. Chama-se Ariana Pakravan, é iraniana e traz consigo a cópia de um documento inédito, um velho manuscrito com um estranho título e um poema enigmático.O inesperado encontro lança Tomás numa empolgante aventura, colocando-o na rota da crise nuclear com o Irão e da mais importante descoberta jamais efectuada por Albert Einstein, um achado que o conduz ao maior de todos os mistérios. A prova científica da existência de Deus.Uma história de amor, uma intriga de traição, uma perseguição implacável, uma busca espiritual que nos leva à mais espantosa revelação mística de todos os tempos.Baseada nas últimas e mais avançadas descobertas científicas nos campos da física, da cosmologia e da matemática, A Fórmula de Deus transporta-nos numa surpreendente viagem até às origens do tempo, à essência do universo e ao sentido da vida."""</synopsis>
                <title>A Fórmula de Deus</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>L.P. Hartley, Colm Tóibín (Introduction)</author>
                <characters>Leo Colston, Marcus Maudsley, Marian Maudsley, Ted Burgess, Hugh Trimingham, Denys Maudsley</characters>
                <date>2002</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, British Literature, 20th Century, Coming Of Age, Novels, Literary Fiction, Literature, Modern Classics</genres>
                <id>1758</id>
                <synopsis>"""The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.""Summering with a fellow schoolboy on a great English estate, Leo, the hero of L. P. Hartley's finest novel, encounters a world of unimagined luxury. But when his friend's beautiful older sister enlists him as the unwitting messenger in her illicit love affair, the aftershocks will be felt for years. The inspiration for the brilliant Joseph Losey/Harold Pinter film starring Julie Christie and Alan Bates, The Go-Between is a masterpiece—a richly layered, spellbinding story about past and present, naiveté and knowledge, and the mysteries of the human heart. This volume includes, for the first time ever in North America, Hartley's own introduction to the novel."</synopsis>
                <title>The Go-Between</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Annette Curtis Klause</author>
                <characters>Zoë, Simon</characters>
                <date>Oct-92</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Vampires, Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal, Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Horror</genres>
                <id>1759</id>
                <synopsis>"Zoe is wary when, in the dead of night, the beautiful yet frightening Simon comes to her house. Simon seems to understand the pain of loneliness and death and Zoe's brooding thoughts of her dying mother.Simon is one of the undead, a vampire, seeking revenge for the gruesome death of his mother three hundred years before. Does Simon dare ask Zoe to help free him from this lifeless chase and its insufferable loneliness?"</synopsis>
                <title>The Silver Kiss</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Raymond E. Feist</author>
                <characters>Pug, Tomas Megarson, Kulgan, Dolgan, Borric conDoin, Arutha conDoin, Carline conDoin, Martin Longbow, Laurie of Tyr-Sog, Kasumi Shinzawai, Aglaranna of Elvandar, Macros the Black, Ashen-Shugar, Ichindar</characters>
                <date>Jan-93</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Magic, Adventure, Epic, Science Fiction, Adult</genres>
                <id>1760</id>
                <synopsis>"He held the fate of two worlds in his hands... Once he was an orphan called Pug, apprenticed to a sorcerer of the enchanted land of Midkemia.. Then he was captured and enslaved by the Tsurani, a strange, warlike race of invaders from another world.There, in the exotic Empire of Kelewan, he earned a new name-Milamber. He learned to tame the unnimagined powers that lay withing him. And he took his place in an ancient struggle against an evil Enemy older than time itself."</synopsis>
                <title>Magician: Master</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Susan Vreeland</author>
                <characters>Galileo Galilei, Artemisia Gentileschi, ""Cosimo II de'' Medici"", Palmira Stiattesi, Pierantonio Stiattesi, Orazio Gentileschi, Graziella, Renata</characters>
                <date>Jan-03</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Art, Italy, Historical, Art History, Womens, 17th Century, Adult Fiction, Novels</genres>
                <id>1761</id>
                <synopsis>"From extraordinary highs - patronage by the Medicis, friendship with Galileo and, most importantly of all, beautiful and outstandingly original paintings - to rape by her father's colleague, torture by the Inquisition, life-long struggles for acceptance by the artistic Establishment, and betrayal by the men she loved, Artemisia was a bold and brilliant woman who lived as she wanted, and paid a high price."</synopsis>
                <title>The Passion of Artemisia</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>W. Somerset Maugham</author>
                <characters>Julia Lambert, Michael Gosselyn, Thomas Fennell, Jimmie Langdon</characters>
                <date>2001</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, British Literature, 20th Century, Romance, Novels, English Literature, Literature, Theatre, Classic Literature</genres>
                <id>1762</id>
                <synopsis>"In Theatre, W. Somerset Maugham–the author of the classic novels Of Human Bondage and Up at the Villa–introduces us to Julia Lambert, a woman of breathtaking poise and talent whose looks have stood by her forty-six years. She is a star stage actress England–so good, in fact, that perhaps she never stops acting.It seems that noting can ruffle her satin feathers, until a quiet stranger who challenges Julia's very sense of self. As a result, she will endure rejection for the first time, her capacity as a mother will be affronted, and her ability to put on whatever face she desired for her public will prove limited. In Theatre, Maugham subtly exposes the tensions and triumphs that occur when acting and reality blend together, and–for Julia–ultimately reverse."</synopsis>
                <title>Theatre</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Sidney Sheldon</author>
                <characters>Dana Evans, Oliver Russell, Leslie Stewart, Peter Tager, Senator Todd Davis, Henry Chambers, Jan Davis</characters>
                <date>1998</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Romance, Novels, Crime, Drama, Adult</genres>
                <id>1763</id>
                <synopsis>"He wanted power. Oliver Russell is fated to rise to the pinnacle of power, President of the United States. She wanted revenge. Leslie Stewart is his betrayed fiancee. Amassing her own media empire, on her fortieth birthday, she looks back. What went wrong?"</synopsis>
                <title>The Best Laid Plans</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>C.J. Sansom</author>
                <characters>Matthew Shardlake, Mark Poer, Thomas Cromwell, Abbot Fabian, Brother Edwig, Brother Gabriel of Ashford, Brother Guy of Malton, Brother Hugh, Brother Jude, Brother Mortimus of Kelso, Joan Woode, Robin Singleton, Alice Fewterer, Simon Whelplay, Ralph Spenlay, Master Bugge, Jerome Wentworth, Lawrence Goodhaps, Brother Athelstan, Gilbert Copynger, Joan Stumpe, Orphan Stonegarden, Thomas Oldknoll, Master Hodges</characters>
                <date>2004</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Mystery, Fiction, Historical, Crime, Historical Mystery, British Literature, Tudor Period, Mystery Thriller, Thriller</genres>
                <id>1764</id>
                <synopsis>"Henry VIII has ordered the dissolution of the monasteries and England is full of informers. At the monastery of Scarnsea, events have spiralled out of control with the murder of Commissioner Robin Singleton. Matthew Shardlake, a lawyer, and his assistant are sent to investigate."</synopsis>
                <title>Dissolution</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Anthony Horowitz </author>
                <characters>Alex Rider, Alan Blunt, Jack Starbright, Smithers, Mrs Jones</characters>
                <date>2007</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Adventure, Fiction, Espionage, Action, Mystery, Thriller, Childrens, Teen, Middle Grade</genres>
                <id>1765</id>
                <synopsis>No sooner has Alex splashed down off the coast of Australia than he finds himself sucked into another adventure. This time he's working for ASIS - the Australian Secret Service - and his target is the criminal underworld of South-East Asia: the ruthless world of the Snakehead.</synopsis>
                <title>Snakehead</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Frank E. Peretti</author>
                <characters>Reed Shelton, Beck Shelton</characters>
                <date>Oct-06</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Christian Fiction, Christian, Horror, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Adult</genres>
                <id>1766</id>
                <synopsis>"Something's out there... Reed Shelton organized this survival weekend. Hired the best guide in the region. Meticulously trained, studied, and packed while encouraging his wife, Beck, to do the same. But little did they know that surviving the elements would become the least of their worries. During their first night of camping, an unearthly wail pierces the calm of the forest. Then someone—no, something—emerges from the dense woods and begins pursuing them. Everything that follows is a blur to Reed—except for the unforgettable image of a huge creature carrying his wife into the darkness. Dependant on the efforts of a small town and a band of friends, Reed knows they have little time to find Beck. Even more important, he soon realizes that they aren't the only ones doing the hunting. Something much faster, more relentless—and definitely not human—has begun to hunt them."</synopsis>
                <title>Monster</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Shirley Jackson</author>
                <characters>Tessie Hutchinson, Bill Hutchinson, Mr. Summers, Mr. Graves</characters>
                <date>1990</date>
                <genres>Short Stories, Classics, Horror, Fiction, Dystopia, School, Read For School, Science Fiction, Literature, Adult</genres>
                <id>1767</id>
                <synopsis>"Shirley Jackson's ""The Lottery"" is a memorable and terrifying masterpiece, fueled by a tension that creeps up on you slowly without any clear indication of why. This is just a townful of people, after all, choosing their numbers for the annual lottery. What's there to be scared of?"</synopsis>
                <title>The Lottery</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>D.J. MacHale </author>
                <characters>Bobby Pendragon, Aja Killian, Tom Dorney, Courtney Chetwynde, Mark Dimond, Saint Dane</characters>
                <date>Aug-04</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Science Fiction, Adventure, Childrens, Middle Grade, Young Adult Fantasy, Teen, Time Travel</genres>
                <id>1768</id>
                <synopsis>"Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here and hereBREAKING THE RULESJust when fifteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon thinks he understands his purpose as a Traveler - to protect the territories of Halla from the evil Saint Dane - he is faced with an impossible choice. The inhabitants of Eelong are in danger of being wiped out by a mysterious plague. The only way Bobby can stop it is to bring the antidote from another territory. Since moving items between territories is forbidden by the Traveler rules, if Bobby chooses to save Eelong he could endanger himself, his friends, and the future of every other being in Halla."</synopsis>
                <title>Black Water</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>William Saroyan</author>
                <characters>Tiger, Laura, Tracy</characters>
                <date>1989</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, American, Short Stories, 20th Century, Novels, Czech Literature, Mine, The United States Of America, Magical Realism</genres>
                <id>1769</id>
                <synopsis>The story of Tracy's Tiger was adapted into an original musical in two acts for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2007 season. The Saroyan story was transplanted from New York to 1950s San Francisco for the musical.</synopsis>
                <title>Tracy's Tiger</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Lois McMaster Bujold </author>
                <characters>Ivan VorPatril, Simon Illyan, Gregor Vorbarra, Alys Vorpatril, Miles Vorkosigan</characters>
                <date>2005</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Space Opera, Mystery, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Space, Audiobook, Adventure, Military Fiction</genres>
                <id>1770</id>
                <synopsis>"Forced to abandon his undercover role as leader of the Dendarii Mercenaries, Miles Vorkosigan persuades Emperor Gregor to appoint him Imperial Auditor so he can penetrate Barrayar’s intelligence and security operations (ImpSec). Simon Illyan, head of ImpSec and Miles’ former boss, is failing physically and mentally, and Miles sets out to find out why - and who, if anyone, is behind Illyan’s rapid decline. Library Journal calls Miles “one of the genre’s most enterprising and engaging heroes”. A Hugo and Nebula Award finalist."</synopsis>
                <title>Memory</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Raymond Khoury </author>
                <characters>Sean Reilly, Tess Chaykin, William Vance, Monsignor de Angelis</characters>
                <date>Dec-06</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Thriller, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Adventure, Historical, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Action, Crime</genres>
                <id>1771</id>
                <synopsis>"""It has served us well, this myth of Christ.""Pope Leo X, 16th CenturyIn a hail of fire and flashing sword, as the burning city of Acre falls from the hands of the West in 1291, The Last Templar opens with a young Templar knight, his mentor, and a handful of others escaping to the sea carrying a mysterious chest entrusted to them by the Order's dying Grand Master. The ship vanishes without a trace.In present day Manhattan, four masked horsemen dressed as Templar Knights emerge from Central Park and ride up the Fifth Avenue steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art during the blacktie opening of a Treasures of the Vatican exhibit. Storming through the crowds, the horsemen brutally attack anyone standing between them and their prize. Attending the gala, archaeologist Tess Chaykin watches in silent terror as the leader of the horsemen hones in on one piece in particular, a strange geared device. He utters a few cryptic Latin words as he takes hold of it with reverence before leading the horsemen out and disappearing into the night.In the aftermath, an FBI investigation is led by anti-terrorist specialist Sean Reilly. Soon, he and Tess are drawn into the dark, hidden history of the crusading Knights, plunging them into a deadly game of cat and mouse with ruthless killers as they race across three continents to recover the lost secret of the Templars."</synopsis>
                <title>The Last Templar</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Rodman Philbrick</author>
                <characters>Spaz, Ryter</characters>
                <date>2000</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Fiction, Adventure, Post Apocalyptic, Fantasy, Middle Grade, Teen, Childrens</genres>
                <id>1772</id>
                <synopsis>"This fast-paced action novel is set in a future where the world has been almost destroyed. Like the award-winning novel Freak the Mighty, this is Philbrick at his very best.It's the story of an epileptic teenager nicknamed Spaz, who begins the heroic fight to bring human intelligence back to the planet. In a world where most people are plugged into brain-drain entertainment systems, Spaz is the rare human being who can see life as it really is. When he meets an old man called Ryter, he begins to learn about Earth and its past. With Ryter as his companion, Spaz sets off an unlikely quest to save his dying sister - and in the process, perhaps the world."</synopsis>
                <title>The Last Book in the Universe</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Chris d'Lacey</author>
                <characters>David Rain, Elizabeth Pennykettle, Lucy Pennykettle</characters>
                <date>Jul-07</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Dragons, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Magic, Middle Grade, Adventure, Urban Fantasy, Juvenile</genres>
                <id>1773</id>
                <synopsis>"Secrets will be revealed when fire and ice collide...In the exciting sequel to The Fire Within, David must uncover the truth behind the mysterious clay dragons. David's quest is to discover the link between the fire of the last known dragon on Earth and the icy regions of the Arctic. It's a journey that will change his life forever, a journey that will bring him to the very heart of the legend of dragons and the mysterious, ancient secret of the icefire..."</synopsis>
                <title>Icefire</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Laurie R. King , Martina Petranović (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Mary Russell, Inspector Lestrade, Margery Childe, Veronica Beaconsfield, Mrs Hudson (Conan Doyle series), Sherlock Holmes (Russell &amp; Holmes series), Dr. John Watson</characters>
                <date>2000</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Crime, Historical Mystery, Historical, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, Detective, Adult</genres>
                <id>1774</id>
                <synopsis>"A Monstrous Regiment of Women continues Mary Russell's adventures as a worthy student of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and as an ever more skilled sleuth in her own right. Looking for respite in London after a stupefying visit from relatives, Mary encounters a friend from Oxford. The young woman introduces Mary to her current enthusiasm, a strange and enigmatic woman named Margery Childe, who leads something called ""The New Temple of God."" It seems to be a charismatic sect involved in the post-World War I suffrage movement, with a feminist slant on Christianity. Mary is curious about the woman, and intrigued. Is the New Temple a front for something more sinister? When a series of murders claims members of the movement's wealthy young female volunteers and principal contributors, Mary, with Holmes in the background, begins to investigate. Things become more desperate than either of them expected as Mary's search plunges her into the worst danger she has yet faced."</synopsis>
                <title>A Monstrous Regiment of Women</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Anne McCaffrey</author>
                <characters>Lessa, ""F''lar"", Masterharper Robinton, ""F''nor"", Sebell, ""F''lor"", Petiron, Merelan, Gennell, Fax</characters>
                <date>1999</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Science Fiction, Dragons, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adult, Young Adult, Music, Adventure, High Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1775</id>
                <synopsis>"MasterSinger Merelan and Harper Petiron were a brilliant and devoted couple. Merelan was the most outstanding soprano ever heard on Pern, and was often the only one who could master Petiron's technically accomplished compositions. When, after a long and difficult birth, Robinton was born to them, it should have been the culmination of a unique partnership.But Petiron, almost from the first day, had no time for his son, refusing to see the incredible talent the boy possessed, ignoring his achievements and maintaining a strict and disapproving vigilance over him at all times.Carefully, secretly, the Harper Hall took over, training the greatest talent Pern had ever seen - a talent that was more than just musical, for Robinton was able to talk to the dragons of Pern.As constant sadness beset his personal life, so a startling career sent him like a meteor through the Holds and Weyrs of Pern until, as MasterHarper, he became part of the great plan to rescue Lessa from the brutal rule of Holder Fax - Lessa, who was to be the saviour of the dragons of Pern."</synopsis>
                <title>The Masterharper of Pern</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Saul Bellow, Luciano Bianciardi (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Eugene Henderson, Romilayu, King Dahfu</characters>
                <date>1996</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Literature, Africa, Novels, American, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Nobel Prize, The United States Of America</genres>
                <id>1776</id>
                <synopsis>"Henderson has come to Africa on a spiritual safari, a quest for the truth. His feats of strength, his passion for life, and, most importantly, his inadvertant success in bringing rain have made him a god-like figure among the tribes."</synopsis>
                <title>Henderson the Rain King</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Joe Hill , Gabriel Rodríguez (Artist)</author>
                <characters>Tyler Locke, Kinsey Locke, Bode Locke</characters>
                <date>Feb-13</date>
                <genres>Graphic Novels, Comics, Horror, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Mystery, Paranormal, Supernatural</genres>
                <id>1777</id>
                <synopsis>"Locke &amp; Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them. Home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all..."</synopsis>
                <title>Locke &amp; Key, Volume 1: Welcome to Lovecraft</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Florencia Bonelli </author>
                <characters>Eliah Al-Saud, Matilde Martínez</characters>
                <date>Dec-10</date>
                <genres>Romance, Contemporary Romance, Contemporary, France, Adult, Historical Fiction, Action, Medical, Drama, Spanish Literature</genres>
                <id>1778</id>
                <synopsis>"Matilde Martínez es una pediatra decidida a cambiar el mundo. Eliah Al-Saud es un soldado profesional, demasiado cínico para creer que es posible cambiarlo. Sin embargo, cuando Eliah y Matilde se conocen, la atracción es innegable, y, pese a sus diferencias, caen rendidos ante la pasión que los domina. Su romance se convertirá en una aventura peligrosa, con el conflicto palestino-israelí y una amenaza atómica como telones de fondo. Una adictiva novela contemporánea en la que dos personajes intensos y cautivadores lucharán por sus vidas y las de sus seres queridos, pero ¿conseguirán también salvar su amor?"</synopsis>
                <title>París</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>David Brin </author>
                <characters>Gordon Krantz</characters>
                <date>Dec-97</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Post Apocalyptic, Dystopia, Apocalyptic, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Adventure, War</genres>
                <id>1779</id>
                <synopsis>"This is the story of a lie that became the most powerful kind of truth. A timeless novel as urgently compelling as War Day or Alas, Babylon, David Brin's The Postman is the dramatically moving saga of a man who rekindled the spirit of America through the power of a dream, from a modern master of science fiction.He was a survivor-a wanderer who traded tales for food and shelter in the dark and savage aftermath of a devastating war. Fate touches him one chill winter's day when he borrows the jacket of a long-dead postal worker to protect himself from the cold. The old, worn uniform still has power as a symbol of hope, and with it he begins to weave his greatest tale, of a nation on the road to recovery."</synopsis>
                <title>The Postman</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky</author>
                <characters>Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Saddam Hussein, Matt Taibbi</characters>
                <date>2002</date>
                <genres>Politics, Nonfiction, History, Philosophy, Sociology, Economics, Journalism, Political Science, Society, Psychology</genres>
                <id>1780</id>
                <synopsis>"In this pathbreaking work, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political agendas of the privileged groups that dominate domestic society, the state, and the global order.Based on a series of case studies—including the media’s dichotomous treatment of “worthy” versus “unworthy” victims, “legitimizing” and “meaningless” Third World elections, and devastating critiques of media coverage of the U.S. wars against Indochina—Herman and Chomsky draw on decades of criticism and research to propose a Propaganda Model to explain the media’s behavior and performance. Their new introduction updates the Propaganda Model and the earlier case studies, and it discusses several other applications. These include the manner in which the media covered the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement and subsequent Mexican financial meltdown of 1994-1995, the media’s handling of the protests against the World Trade Organization, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund in 1999 and 2000, and the media’s treatment of the chemical industry and its regulation. What emerges from this work is a powerful assessment of how propagandistic the U.S. mass media are, how they systematically fail to live up to their self-image as providers of the kind of information that people need to make sense of the world, and how we can understand their function in a radically new way."</synopsis>
                <title>Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Chris d'Lacey</author>
                <characters>David Rain, Elizabeth Pennykettle, Lucy Pennykettle</characters>
                <date>Mar-07</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Dragons, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Middle Grade, Magic, Urban Fantasy, Adventure, Juvenile</genres>
                <id>1781</id>
                <synopsis>"A magical adventure about the power of dragons...When David moves in with Elizabeth Pennykettle and her eleven-year-old daughter, Lucy, he discovers a collection of clay dragons that come to life. David's own special dragon inspires him to write a story, which reveals the secrets behind a mystery. In order to solve the mystery and save his dragon, David must master the magic of the fire within - not only with his hands but also with his heart."</synopsis>
                <title>The Fire Within</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Mercedes Lackey</author>
                <characters>Vanyel Ashkevron, Yfandes, Savil Ashkevron, Tylendel Frelennye</characters>
                <date>1990</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Magic, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, LGBT, Romance, Young Adult, Gay</genres>
                <id>1782</id>
                <synopsis>"The Last Herald-Mage contains Magic's Pawn, Magic's Promise and Magic's Price."</synopsis>
                <title>The Last Herald-Mage</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Karen Miller</author>
                <characters>Asher of Restharven, Gar (Kingmaker, Kingbreaker)</characters>
                <date>Sept-07</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Magic, High Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure, Adult, Young Adult, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1783</id>
                <synopsis>"Enter the kingdom of Lur, where to use magic unlawfully means death. The Doranen have ruled Lur with magic since arriving as refugees centuries ago. Theirs was a desperate flight to escape the wrath of a powerful mage who started a bitter war in their homeland. To keep Lur safe, the native Olken inhabitants agreed to abandon their own magic. Magic is now forbidden to them, and any who break this law are executed. Asher left his coastal village to make his fortune. Employed in the royal stables, he soon finds himself befriended by Prince Gar and given more money and power than he'd ever dreamed possible. But the Olken have a secret; a prophecy. The Innocent Mage will save Lur from destruction and members of The Circle have dedicated themselves to preserving Olken magic until this day arrives. Unbeknownst to Asher, he has been watched closely. As the Final Days approach, his life takes a new and unexpected turn ..."</synopsis>
                <title>The Innocent Mage</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>David Eddings</author>
                <characters>Garion, Polgara, Belgarath, ""Ce''Nedra"", Silk, Barak, Hettar, Durnik, Mandorallen, Brill, Mara, Aldur, Beltira, Belkira, Beldin, Gorim, Relg, Ul, Yarbleck, Taur Urgas, Taiba, Poledra, Errand</characters>
                <date>Jun-83</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Adventure, Young Adult, Magic, Epic, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1784</id>
                <synopsis>"Ce'Nedra, Imperial Princess of Tolnedra, is confused. Everyone knows the tales of the Orb protecting the West from the evil god Torak are just silly legends. But here she is, forced to join a dangerous quest to recover that stolen Orb. No one believes in sorcery, but Garion's aunt and grandfather seem to be the fabled sorcerers Polgara and Belgarath, who would have to be thousands of years old.Even young Garion is learning to do sorcery. He's just a farm boy, totally unsuitable for an Imperial Princess. Yet for some reason, she has the urge to teach him, brush back his tangled hair, and comfort him. But he is going to a strange tower in the center of all he believes evil, to face some horrible, powerful magician, and she can't be there to watch over him. She may never see him again!Thus continues The Belgariad, an epic prophecy still unfolding."</synopsis>
                <title>Magician's Gambit</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>David Baldacci </author>
                <characters>Luther Whitney, Kate Whitney, President Alan Richmond, Christy Sullivan, Walter Sullivan, Bill Burton, Tim Collin, Gloria Russell, Seth Frank, Sandy Lord, Jack Graham, Jennifer Ryce Baldwin</characters>
                <date>2003</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, Politics, Action, Novels</genres>
                <id>1785</id>
                <synopsis>"A grizzled professional cat burglar gets trapped inside the bedroom closet of one of the world's richest men, only to witness, through a one-way mirror, two Secret Service agents kill the billionaire's trampy young wife as she tries to fight off the drunken sexual advances of the nation's chief executive. Running for his life, but not before he picks up a bloodstained letter opener that puts the president at the scene of the crime, the burglar becomes the target of a clandestine manhunt orchestrated by leading members of the executive branch.Meanwhile, Jack Graham, once a public defender and now a high-powered corporate attorney, gets drawn into the case because the on-the-lam burglar just happens to be the father of his former financee, a crusading Virginia prosecutor. Embroidering the narrative through assorted plot whorls are the hero's broken romance; his conflict over selling out for financial success; the prosecutor's confused love-hate for her burglar father; the relentless investigation by a northern Virginia career cop; the dilemma of government agents trapped in a moral catch-22; the amoral ambitions of a sexy White House Chief of Staff; and the old burglar's determination to bring down the ruthless president. Meanwhile, lurking at the novel's center like a venomous spider is the sociopathic president."</synopsis>
                <title>Absolute Power</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kate Brian</author>
                <characters>Megan Meade, Evan McGowan, Finn McGowan, Doug McGowan, Miller McGowan, Hailie</characters>
                <date>Oct-06</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary, Chick Lit, High School, Teen, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult Romance, Fiction, Young Adult Contemporary</genres>
                <id>1786</id>
                <synopsis>"When she was nine, Megan Meade met a group of terrible, mean, Popsicle-goo-covered boys, the sons of her father's friend - the McGowan boys. Now, seven years later, Megan's army doctor parents are shipping off to Korea and Megan is being sent to live with the little monsters, who are older now and quite different than she remembered them.  Living in a house with seven boys will give Megan, who has never even been kissed, the perfect opportunity to learn everything there is to know about boys. And she'll send all her notes to her best friend, Tracy, in...  Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys  Observation #1: Being an army brat sucks. Except that this is definitely a better alternative to moving to Korea.  Observation #2: Forget evil, laughing, little monsters. These guys have been touched by the Abercrombie gods. They are a blur of toned, suntanned perfection.  Observation #3: I need a lock on my door. STAT.  Observation #4: Three words: six-pack abs.  Observation #5: Do not even get me started on the state of the bathroom. I'm thinking of calling in a hazmat team. Seriously.  Observation #6: These boys know how to make enemies. Big time.  Megan Meade will have to juggle a new school, a new family, a new crush - on the boy next door, as in next bedroom door - and a new life. Will she survive the McGowan boys?"</synopsis>
                <title>Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Simon Beckett</author>
                <characters>David Hunter</characters>
                <date>Jan-10</date>
                <genres>Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Audiobook, German Literature, British Literature, Adult</genres>
                <id>1787</id>
                <synopsis>"In plain black letters were the words Anthropological Research Facility,' but it was better known but another, less formal name. Most people just called it The Body Farm.The victim has been bound and torturer, the body decomposed beyond recognition...A second body is found.In America to escape the violence that nearly killed him, forensics expert David Hunter needs to know whether he is still up to the job of confronting death in all its strange and terrible forms.Then a body is found in a remote cabin out in the woods. And then another...Pushed deep into the heart of a terrifying manhunt, Hunter begins to wonder if they're on the trail of a maniac who simply cannot be stopped.Shocking, cunning and heart-stoppingly exciting, here is the new crime thriller from a No. 1 intentional bestselling storyteller.(back cover)"</synopsis>
                <title>Whispers of the Dead</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Tove Jansson, David McDuff (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Moomintroll, Moominmamma, Sniff, Tulippa, Moominpappa</characters>
                <date>2006</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Childrens, Fiction, Classics, Finnish Literature, Scandinavian Literature, Swedish Literature, Adventure, Middle Grade, Picture Books</genres>
                <id>1788</id>
                <synopsis>"The Moomins and the Great Flood is the first book about the Moomins, originally published in 1945. It´s the story about Moominmamma and Moomintroll´s search for the missing Moominpappa and how they found their way to the Moominvalley."</synopsis>
                <title>The Moomins and the Great Flood</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Simon Wiesenthal</author>
                <characters>Simon Wiesenthal, Karl S.</characters>
                <date>1998</date>
                <genres>Nonfiction, Holocaust, Philosophy, History, Religion, Memoir, World War II, Spirituality, Biography, School</genres>
                <id>1789</id>
                <synopsis>"While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying SS man. Haunted by the crimes in which he'd participated, the soldier wanted to confess to-&amp; obtain absolution from-a Jew. Faced with the choice between compassion &amp; justice, silence &amp; truth, Wiesenthal said nothing. But even years after the war had ended, he wondered: Had he done the right thing? What would you have done in his place?In this important book, 53 distinguished men &amp; women respond to Wiesenthal's questions. They are theologians, political leaders, writers, jurists, psychiatrists, human rights activists, Holocaust survivors &amp; victims of attempted genocides in Bosnia, Cambodia, China &amp; Tibet. Their responses, as varied as their experiences of the world, remind us that Wiesenthal's questions are not limited to events of the past. Often surprising, always thought provoking, The Sunflower will challenge you to define your beliefs about justice, compassion &amp; responsibility."</synopsis>
                <title>The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Sabahattin Ali</author>
                <characters>Kuyucaklı Yusuf, Kaymakam Selahattin Bey, Muazzez</characters>
                <date>Jan-99</date>
                <genres>Turkish Literature, Fiction, Turkish, Classics, Roman, Novels, Literature, 20th Century, Audiobook, Read For School</genres>
                <id>1790</id>
                <synopsis>"""Bu manasız ve yabancı hayatta bir tek şeye hakikaten sarılmış, hakikaten inanır gibi olmuştu. Bu da karısı idi. Muazzez'in varlığı Yusuf için büyük, boşlukları dolduracak mahiyette bir şey değildi, fakat onun yokluğu müthişti. Onun bu kadar sebepsiz yere, bu kadar insafsızca Yusuf'un hayatından koparılması çıldırtacak kadar acı idi. Hayatında asıl aradığı şeyin Muazzez olmadığını biliyordu, fakat Muazzez olmadan bunu aramaya muktedir olamayacağını sanıyordu.""Kuyucaklı Yusuf, Türk edebiyatının belki de en romantik kahramanıdır. Hayatın ve insanların zalimliği karşısındaki naif duruşu ile bir yandan trajik bir sona ilerlerken, bir yandan da yaşadığı lirik aşk hikayesinin kahramanı olarak edebiyat tarihinde yerini almıştır.Sabahattin Ali büyük romanı Kuyucaklı Yusuf'ta lirik ve romantik bir kahramanın yanı sıra, zalim ve ağulu bir taşra portresini bütün aktörleriyle gözümüzde canlandırır."</synopsis>
                <title>Kuyucaklı Yusuf</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Taylor Caldwell</author>
                <characters>Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh, Harry Zieff, Bernadette Hennessey Armagh, Elizabeth Healey Hennessey, Charles Desmond, Rory Armagh, Mary Armag, Marjorie Chisholm, Ed Healey, Sean Armagh, Courtney Wickersham, Tom Hennessey, Katherine Hennessey, Kevin Armagh, Honora Houlihan, Miss Emmy, Claudia, Martinique</characters>
                <date>Apr-89</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Romance, Classics, Novels, Historical Romance, Drama, American, Literature</genres>
                <id>1791</id>
                <synopsis>"This is a great surging novel about the amassing of a colossal fortune, the political power that comes with it, and the operation of a curse laid on an Irish-American dynasty and the ruthless driving man who founded it.Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh was thirteen years old when he first saw America through a dirty porthole on the steerage deck of The Irish Queen. It was the early 1850's and he was a penniless immigrant, an orphan cast on a hostile shore to make a home for himself and his younger brother and infant sister. Some seventy years later, from his deathbed, Joseph Armagh last glimpsed his adopted land from the gleaming windows of a palatial estate. A multi-millionaire, one of the most powerful and feared men, Joseph Armagh had indeed found a home. CAPTAINS AND KINGS is the story of the price that was paid for it in the consuming, single-minded determination of a man clawing his way to the top; in the bitter-sweet bliss of the love of a beautiful woman; in the almost too-late enjoyment of extraordinary children; and in the curse which used the hand of fate to strike in the very face of success itself.Once again, Taylor Caldwell has looked into America's roistering past as a setting for a drama of the consequences of savage ambition - and its meaning then and now."</synopsis>
                <title>Captains and the Kings</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Nick Bantock</author>
                <characters>Griffin Moss, Sabine Strohem</characters>
                <date>2001</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Art, Fantasy, Romance, Graphic Novels, Mystery, Magical Realism, Adult Fiction, Adult, Contemporary</genres>
                <id>1792</id>
                <synopsis>"It all started with a mysterious and seemingly innocent postcard, but from that point nothing was to remain the same in the life of Griffin Moss, a quiet, solitary artist living in London. His logical, methodical world was suddenly turned upside down by a strangely exotic woman living on a tropical island thousands of miles away. Who is Sabine? How can she ""see"" what Griffin is painting when they have never met? Is she a long-lost twin? A clairvoyant? Or a malevolent angel? Are we witnessing the flowering of a magical relationship or a descent into madness?This stunning visual novel unfolds in a series of postcards and letters, all brilliantly illustrated with whimsical designs, bizarre creatures, and darkly imagined landscapes. Inside the book, Griffin and Sabine's letters are to be found nestling in their envelopes, permitting the reader to examine the intimate correspondence of these inexplicably linked strangers. This truly innovative novel combines a strangely fascinating story with lush artwork in an altogether original format."</synopsis>
                <title>Griffin and Sabine</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Raymond E. Feist</author>
                <characters>Pug, Tomas Megarson, Arutha conDoin, Martin Longbow, Laurie of Tyr-Sog, Macros the Black, Ashen-Shugar, Jimmy the Hand, Murmandamus, Baru the Serpentslayer, Roald of Tyr-Sog, Guy du Bas-Tyra</characters>
                <date>1987</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Magic, Adventure, Epic, Science Fiction, Adult</genres>
                <id>1793</id>
                <synopsis>"A Darkness at Sethanon is the stunning climax to Raymond E. Feist's brilliant epic fantasy trilogy, the Riftwar Saga. Here be dragons and sorcery, swordplay, quests, pursuits, intrigues, stratagems, journeys to the darkest realms of the dead and titanic battles between the forces of good and darkest evil. Here is the final dramatic confrontation between Arutha and Murmandamus - and the perilous quest of Pug the magician and Tomas the warrior for Macros the Black. A Darkness at Sethanon is heroic fantasy of the highest excitement and on the grandest scale, a magnificent conclusion to one of the great fantasy sagas of our time."</synopsis>
                <title>A Darkness At Sethanon</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>D.J. MacHale </author>
                <characters>Bobby Pendragon, Traveler Loor, Andy Mitchell, Saangi, Bokka, Courtney Chetwynde, Mark Dimond, Saint Dane, Traveler Alder</characters>
                <date>Jun-06</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Science Fiction, Fiction, Adventure, Childrens, Middle Grade, Teen, Young Adult Fantasy, Time Travel</genres>
                <id>1794</id>
                <synopsis>"THE BATTLE CONTINUES.THE STRUGGLE OF GOOD VERSUS EVIL continues as Bobby Pendragon follows Saint Dane to the territory of Zadaa. Saint Dane's influence has fueled the fire of discontent between two warring tribes: the Rokador and the Batu. This is also the territory where the Traveler Loor lives as a member of the Batu. Together she and Bobby must work to thwart Saint Dane's efforts to destroy Zadaa.But as Bobby pursues Saint Dane, he begins to notice changes in himself. He is no longer a flip kid looking for excitement. He is a young man beginning to see this quest as more than a series of adventures. He is also learning that as a Traveler, he has powers no normal human should have.Cover illustration by Victor Lee"</synopsis>
                <title>The Rivers of Zadaa</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jack Kerouac</author>
                <characters>Leo Percepied, Julian Alexander, Frank Carmody, Sam Vedder</characters>
                <date>1994</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Literature, Novels, American, The United States Of America, 20th Century, Americana, Romance, Literary Fiction</genres>
                <id>1795</id>
                <synopsis>"Jack Kerouac, one of the great voices of the Beat generation and author of the classic On the Road, here continues his peregrinations in postwar, underground San Francisco. ""The subterraneans"" come alive at night, travel along dark alleyways, and live in a world filled with paint, poetry, music, smoke, and sex. Simmering in the center of it all is the brief affair between Leo Percepied, a writer, and Mardou Fox, a black woman ten years younger. Just at the moment when she is coolly leaving him, Leo realizes his passion for passion, his inability to function without it, and the puzzling futility of seeking redemption and fulfillment through writing."</synopsis>
                <title>The Subterraneans</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Astrid Lindgren</author>
                <characters>Tjorven Grankvist, Pelle Melkersson, Malin Melkersson, Melker Melkersson, Johan Melkersson, Niklas Melkersson, Nisse Grankvist, Marta Grankvist, Teddy Grankvist, Freddy Grankvist, Stina</characters>
                <date>2007</date>
                <genres>Childrens, Fiction, Classics, Swedish Literature, Scandinavian Literature, Sweden, Middle Grade, 20th Century, German Literature, Adventure</genres>
                <id>1796</id>
                <synopsis>"Ferien auf Saltkrokan! Pelle, seine große Schwester Malin und seine beiden Brüder entdecken auf der kleinen Insel die unberührte Natur der schwedischen Schären. Sie baden im Meer, fangen Fische, sammeln Pfifferlinge und feiern Mittsommer. Nichts aber ist schöner für Pelle, als gemeinsam mit Tjorven, dem Inselmädchen, und ihrem großen Bernhardinerhund Bootsmann über die Felsen und durch den Wald zu streifen und dabei von einem Abenteuer ins nächste zu stolpern."</synopsis>
                <title>Ferien auf Saltkrokan</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kay Redfield Jamison </author>
                <characters>Kay Redfield Jamison</characters>
                <date>Oct-96</date>
                <genres>Psychology, Nonfiction, Memoir, Mental Health, Biography, Mental Illness, Biography Memoir, Autobiography, Science, Health</genres>
                <id>1797</id>
                <synopsis>The personal memoir of a manic depressive and an authority on the subject describes the onset of the illness during her teenage years and her determined journey through the realm of available treatments.</synopsis>
                <title>An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Agatha Christie</author>
                <characters>Michael Rogers, Fenella Goodman, Greta Andersen</characters>
                <date>2007</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Mystery Thriller, Thriller, Audiobook, Detective, British Literature, Novels</genres>
                <id>1798</id>
                <synopsis>"Gipsy’s Acre was a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea – and in Michael Rogers it stirred a child-like fantasy. There, amongst the dark fir trees, he planned to build a house, find a girl and live happily ever after. Yet, as he left the village, a shadow of menace hung over the land. For this was the place where accidents happened. Perhaps Michael should have heeded the locals’ warnings: ‘There’s no luck for them as meddles with Gipsy’s Acre.’ Michael Rogers is a man who is about to learn the true meaning of the old saying ‘In my end is my beginning.’The title Endless Night was taken from William Blake’s Auguries of Innocence and describes Christie’s favourite theme in the novel: a “twisted” character, who always chooses evil over good.Christie finished Endless Night in six weeks, as opposed to the three-four months that most of her other novels took. Despite being in her seventies while writing it, she told an interviewer that being Michael, the twenty-something narrator, “wasn’t difficult. After all, you hear people like him talking all the time.”The book is dedicated to Christie's relative ""Nora Prichard from whom I first heard the legend of Gipsy's Acre."" Gipsy's Acre was a field on the Welsh moors."</synopsis>
                <title>Endless Night</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Susan Elizabeth Phillips </author>
                <characters>Sugar Beth Carey, Colin Byrne</characters>
                <date>2006</date>
                <genres>Romance, Contemporary Romance, Contemporary, Chick Lit, Fiction, Humor, Adult, Audiobook, Southern, Adult Fiction</genres>
                <id>1799</id>
                <synopsis>"In high school Sugar Carey had reigned supreme. She alone had decided what or who was cool. Her spiral perm had been the perm against which all others were measured, and her opinion on which boys were acceptable to date the only one that counted. A beautiful, blonde - if not always benevolent - dictator, she had a reputation for being the wild child in her home town, the girl most likely to set the world on fire, and leave a trail of destruction in her wake. When she left home she swore she'd never return. Only now, fifteen years and several husbands later, she's run out of money, luck and options...But Sugar arrives back home to discover that everyone else is living her life. Her half sister is married to Sugar's high school sweetheart, the teacher she schemed to get fired is now a successful novelist and owns her old house. She also discovers that people have long memories - especially where Sugar is concerned..."</synopsis>
                <title>Ain't She Sweet?</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Mary Higgins Clark</author>
                <characters>Katie</characters>
                <date>2003</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Adult, Adult Fiction, Romance, Contemporary</genres>
                <id>1800</id>
                <synopsis>This hospital-based horror tale features abduction and a research project that violates every principle of modern medicine. This is a reissue of a novel by a popular author often described as the 'Queen of Suspense'.</synopsis>
                <title>The Cradle Will Fall</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Durjoy Datta </author>
                <characters>Arman Kashyup, Kajal Khurana, Pihu Malhotra, Dushyant Roy, Zarah Mirza</characters>
                <date>Sept-12</date>
                <genres>Romance, Fiction, Indian Literature, India, Love, Romantic, Young Adult, Love Story, Contemporary, Novels</genres>
                <id>1801</id>
                <synopsis>"On a lazy Sunday morning, two young people are wheeled into Room No. 509 of GKL super specialty hospital.A brilliant nineteen year old medical student, suffering from an incurable, fatal disease hurtling her at a slow, painful, uncertain death.A wasteful twenty five year old drug addict, with no appreciation of life, with every organ system of his body slowly shutting down.Two prodigious doctors, fighting their own demons from the past, try to keep these two patients alive, putting their medical licenses at risk.Death looms in the tiny 12X13 foot room as they fight for every breath of their lives, even as the doctors put them through unapproved experimental treatments to prolong their lives.How will the last month of pain and struggle change their lives? How will it transform the doctors who work steadfastly to make them live a little longer?"</synopsis>
                <title>Till The Last Breath</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Daniel Keyes</author>
                <characters>Billy Milligan</characters>
                <date>Oct-81</date>
                <genres>Nonfiction, Psychology, Biography, True Crime, Crime, American, Thriller, Mental Illness, Mental Health, True Story</genres>
                <id>1802</id>
                <synopsis>"Billy Milligan can be anyone he wants to be . . . except himself. Out of control of his actions, Billy Milligan was a man tormented by twenty-four distinct personalities battling for supremacy over his body—a battle that culminated when he awoke in jail, arrested for the kidnap and rape of three women. In a landmark trial, Billy was acquitted of his crimes by reason of insanity caused by multiple personality—the first such court decision in history—bringing to public light the most remarkable and harrowing case of multiple personality ever recorded.Twenty-four people live inside Billy Milligan. Philip, a petty criminal; Kevin, who dealt drugs and masterminded a drugstore robbery; April, whose only ambition was to kill Billy's stepfather; Adalana, the shy, lonely, affection-starved lesbian who “used” Billy's body in the rapes that led to his arrest; David, the eight-year-old “keeper of pain”; and all of the others, including men, women, several children, both boys and girls, and the Teacher, the only one who can put them all together. You will meet each in this often shocking true story. And you will be drawn deeply into the mind of this tortured young man and his splintered, terrifying world."</synopsis>
                <title>The Minds of Billy Milligan</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Florencia Bonelli </author>
                <characters>Eliah Al-Saud</characters>
                <date>Aug-11</date>
                <genres>Romance, Contemporary Romance, Historical Fiction, Africa, Contemporary, Action</genres>
                <id>1803</id>
                <synopsis>"""Él es un señor de la guerra. Ella, una luchadora por la paz.""La cirujana pediátrica Matilde Martínez viaja desde París con destino al Congo guiada por una ilusión: aliviar el sufrimiento de los nifios castigados por la violencia y el hambre que imperan en ese país africano. Ha dejado atrás una historia de amor difícil, que no consigue olvidar.Por su parte, el soldado profesional Eliah Al-Saud llega al Congo movido por una ambición: hacerse de una mina de coltán, el mineral más codiciado por los fabricantes de teléfonos móviles, que le redituará grandes beneficios económicos. Pero sobre todo llega al Congo para recuperar a Matilde, a quien considera la razón de su vida.Los traumas y secretos que los distanciaron en París siguen latentes y, rodeados por un contexto cruel e injusto, la reconciliación parece imposible.En el marco de la Segunda Guerra del Congo, más conocida como Guerra del Coltán, y amenazados por grupos guerrilleros de mucho poder, Matilde y Eliah intentarán por todos los medios que triunfe el amor sobre la guerra."</synopsis>
                <title>Congo</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Eduardo Mendoza</author>
                <characters>Onofre Bouvila</characters>
                <date>1987</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Spanish Literature, Spain, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels, Humor, Roman, Contemporary, Drama</genres>
                <id>1804</id>
                <synopsis>"En 1887, Onofre Bouvila, un joven campesino arruinado, llega a la gran ciudad que todavía no lo es, Barcelona, y encuentra su primer trabajo como repartidor de panfletos anarquistas entre los obreros que trabajan en la Exposición Universal del ańo siguiente. El lector deberá seguir la espectacular historia del ascenso de Bouvila, que lo llevará a convertirse en uno de los hombres más ricos e influyentes del país con métodos no del todo ortodoxos."</synopsis>
                <title>La ciudad de los prodigios</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Noel Streatfeild, Diane Goode (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Pauline Fossil, Petrova Fossil, Posy Fossil</characters>
                <date>Sept-03</date>
                <genres>Childrens, Classics, Fiction, Middle Grade, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Childrens Classics, Juvenile, British Literature, Realistic Fiction</genres>
                <id>1805</id>
                <synopsis>"An alternate cover edition for this ISBN from 1993 can be found herePauline, Petrova and Posy are orphans determined to help out their family by attending the Children's Academy of Dancing and Stage Training. But when they vow to make a name for themselves, they have no idea it's going to be such hard work! They launch themselves into the world of show business, complete with working papers, the glare of the spotlight, and practice, practice, practice! Pauline is destined for the movies. Posy is a born dancer. But practical Petrova finds she'd rather pilot a plane than perform a pirouette. Each girl must find the courage to follow her dream."</synopsis>
                <title>Ballet Shoes</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>محمد المنسي قنديل , Mohamed Mansi Qandil</author>
                <characters>نور الله, علي, طيف, لطف الله, سيد قطب, Timur, Gamal Abdel Nasser</characters>
                <date>Jun-11</date>
                <genres>Novels, Fiction, Literature, Egypt, Historical Fiction, Unfinished, Contemporary, Egyptian Literature, Asia, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1806</id>
                <synopsis>عندما يقوم «علي» الطبيب المصري الشاب برحلة إلى مدينة «سمرقند»، بحثًا عن سر قديم ويتقابل مع رجل أسطوري هو «نور الله» الذي يقود سيارته ويوجه مصيره، ويخوضان معًا مغامرة في أماكن مدهشة.. وتأخذ الرحلة أيضًا بعدها في الزمان فتستكشف بعضًا من ماضي هذه الأرض الغضة والغنية بالتاريخ والأساطير، وتخوض في تعقيدات الحاضر بكل ما فيه من مؤامرات وعنف وجنس. إنها رواية تستكشف أرضًا جديدة وتخوض في تضاريس لم تصل إليها الرواية العربية من قبل، وتطرح أسئلة تتعلق بالهوية والذات والمصير الإنساني</synopsis>
                <title>قمر على سمرقند</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Thea Beckman</author>
                <characters>Mariecke, Rudolf Wega, Fibonacci</characters>
                <date>1974</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Historical, Fantasy, Dutch Literature, Time Travel, Adventure, Classics</genres>
                <id>1807</id>
                <synopsis>"De zestienjarige Dolf uit Amstelveen geeft zich op als proefkonijn: hij zal door een materie-transmitter teruggeflitst worden naar de Middeleeuwen om daar één middag een kijkje te nemen. Maar door een foute berekening komt hij in het jaar 1212 terecht in een Kinderkruistocht die net uit Keulen is vertrokken en niet op het riddertoernooi in Montgivray in Midden-Frankrijk dat hij zo graag wilde bijwonen.Verbijsterd ziet hij duizenden gelovige – en vooral goedgelovige – kinderen, aan wie wonderen zijn beloofd, zingend aan hem voorbijtrekken. Zij zijn van plan met hun blote handen het Heilige Land van de Saracenen te bevrijden.Om vijf uur diezelfde middag moet Dolf weer op de afgesproken plek staan om teruggeflitst te worden naar de twintigste eeuw – tenminste, als er niets fout gaat…Lengte: 11 uur 26 minuten"</synopsis>
                <title>Kruistocht in spijkerbroek</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Tad Williams </author>
                <characters>Fritti Tailchaser, Pouncequick, Roofshadow</characters>
                <date>Dec-00</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Animals, Cats, Young Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Animal Fiction, Adventure, Adult, Novels</genres>
                <id>1808</id>
                <synopsis>"Meet Fritti Tailchaser, a ginger tom cat of rare courage and curiosity, a born survivor in a world of heroes and villains, of powerful feline gods and whiskery legends about those strange furless, erect creatures called M’an.“The hour of Unfolding Dark had begun, and the rooftop where Tailchaser lay was smothered in shadow. He was deep in a dream of leaping and flying when he felt an unusual tingling in his whiskers. Fritti Tailchaser, hunterchild of the Folk, came suddenly awake and sniffed the air. Ears pricked and whiskers flared straight, he sifted the evening breeze. Nothing unusual. Then what had awakened him? Pondering, he splayed his claws and began a spine-limbering stretch that finally ended at the tip of his reddish tail.”Join Tailchaser on his magical quest to rescue his catfriend Hushpad on a quest that will take him all the way to cat hell and beyond."</synopsis>
                <title>Tailchaser's Song</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ted Dekker </author>
                <characters>Brad Raines, Nikki Holden, Paradise, Quinton Gauld</characters>
                <date>2010</date>
                <genres>Christian, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, Fiction, Christian Fiction, Mystery, Adult Fiction, Romance, Detective</genres>
                <id>1809</id>
                <synopsis>A string of exquisite young women have been murdered by a single individual who leaves his signature with each body: a pristine bridal veil. FBI agent Brad Raines must turn to a most unusual source for help.</synopsis>
                <title>The Bride Collector</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Yaşar Kemal</author>
                <characters>İnce Memed, Abdi Ağa</characters>
                <date>Jan-04</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Turkish Literature, Turkish, Classics, Literature, Historical Fiction, Novels, Roman, 20th Century, Adventure</genres>
                <id>1810</id>
                <synopsis>"Otuz iki yıllık bir zaman diliminde yazılan İnce Memed dörtlüsü düzene başkaldıran Memed'in ve insan ilişkileri, doğası ve renkleriyle Çukurova'nın öyküsüdür. Yaşar Kemal'in söyleyişiyle ""içinde başkaldırma kurduyla doğmuş"" bir insanın, ""mecbur adam""ın romanı.Abdi Ağa'nın zulmüyle köyünü terk etmek zorunda kalan Memed, Ağa'nın yeğeniyle evlendirilmek üzere olan Hatçe'yi kaçırır. Abdi Ağa'yı yaralayan, yeğenini de öldüren Memed eşkıya Deli Durdu'ya katılır, ancak kıyıcılığına katlanamadığı Deli Durdu'dan iki arkadaşıyla birlikte ayrılır. Memed, sıradan bir köy çocuğuyken, zulmedenler için eşkıyaya, köylüler içinse bir kurtarıcıya dönüşür. ""Bir yaşam biçimini bir halkın portresi olarak böylesine veren bu romandan daha iyisi yazılamazdı."" - The New York Times Book Review, (A.B.D.) ""Şaşırtıcı, orijinal bir kitap."" - Sunday Times, (İngiltere) ""Epik boyutlara ulaşan ve muhteşem bir sona ulaşmak için hız kazanan öyküye kendinizi kaptırıyorsunuz."" - Sunday Times, (İngiltere) ""Yaşar Kemal, şaşılacak ölçüde yaratıcı.""- The Bookseller, (İngiltere)""Yaşar Kemal, karakterlerini unutulmaz, seçkin ve gerçek hayattan daha da gerçekçi kılan detay zenginliği ile Rus edebiyatının kalitesine ulaşıyor.""- Sunday Telegraph, (İngiltere)"</synopsis>
                <title>İnce Memed 1</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Vladimir Nabokov, Michael Scammell (Translator), Dmitri Nabokov (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, Elizaveta Pavlovna, Zina Mertz</characters>
                <date>2017</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Russia, Classics, Russian Literature, Literature, Novels, 20th Century, Germany, Literary Fiction, Modern Classics</genres>
                <id>1811</id>
                <synopsis>"The Gift is the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his native Russian and the crowning achievement of that period in his literary career.  It is also his ode to Russian literature, evoking the works of Pushkin, Gogol, and others in the course of its narrative:  the story of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished émigré poet living in Berlin, who dreams of the book he will someday write-a book very much like The Gift itself."</synopsis>
                <title>The Gift</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Margaret Atwood </author>
                <characters>Marian McAlpin, Ainsley Tewce, Peter Wollander</characters>
                <date>Jun-98</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Feminism, Canada, Classics, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Canadian Literature, Womens</genres>
                <id>1812</id>
                <synopsis>"Marian is determined to be ordinary. She lays her head gently on the shoulder of her serious fiancé and quietly awaits marriage. But she didn't count on an inner rebellion that would rock her stable routine, and her digestion. Marriage à la mode, Marian discovers, is something she literally can't stomach... The Edible Woman is a funny, engaging novel about emotional cannibalism, men and women, and the desire to be consumed."</synopsis>
                <title>The Edible Woman</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Banana Yoshimoto, Giorgio Amitrano (Translator), Michael Emmerich (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Shirakawa Maria, Yamamoto Tsugumi, Yamamoto Yoko, Kyoichi</characters>
                <date>2002</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Japan, Japanese Literature, Contemporary, Asia, Asian Literature, Novels, Literature, Young Adult, Adult</genres>
                <id>1813</id>
                <synopsis>"Banana Yoshimoto's novels of young life in Japan have made her an international sensation. Goodbye Tsugumi is an offbeat story of a deep and complicated friendship between two female cousins that ranks among her best work. Maria is the only daughter of an unmarried woman. She has grown up at the seaside alongside her cousin Tsugumi, a lifelong invalid, charismatic, spoiled, and occasionally cruel. Now Maria's father is finally able to bring Maria and her mother to Tokyo, ushering Maria into a world of university, impending adulthood, and a ""normal"" family. When Tsugumi invites Maria to spend a last summer by the sea, a restful idyll becomes a time of dramatic growth as Tsugumi finds love and Maria learns the true meaning of home and family. She also has to confront both Tsugumi's inner strength and the real possibility of losing her. Goodbye Tsugumi is a beguiling, resonant novel from one of the world's finest young writers."</synopsis>
                <title>Goodbye Tsugumi</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Robert Walser, Christopher Middleton (Translator, Introduction)</author>
                <characters>Jakob von Gunten, Herr Benjamenta</characters>
                <date>1999</date>
                <genres>Fiction, German Literature, Classics, Literature, Novels, 20th Century, Germany, Literary Fiction, Short Stories, Modern Classics</genres>
                <id>1814</id>
                <synopsis>"The Swiss writer Robert Walser is one of the quiet geniuses of twentieth-century literature. Largely self-taught and altogether indifferent to worldly success, Walser wrote a range of short stories, essays and four novels, of which Jakob von Gunten is widely recognized as the finest. It tells the story of a seventeen-year-old runaway from an old family who enrolls in a school for servants. The Institute, run by the domineering Herr Benjamenta and his beautiful but ailing sister, is a deeply mysterious place: the faculty lies asleep in a single room. The students though subject to fierce discipline, come and go at will. Jakob, an irrepressibly subversive presence, keeps a journal in which he records his quirky impressions of the school as well as his own quickly changing enthusiasms and uncertainties, deliberations and dreams. And in the end, as the Institute itself dissolves around him like a dream, he steps out boldly to explore still-unimagined worlds."</synopsis>
                <title>Jakob von Gunten</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kurt Vonnegut Jr.</author>
                <characters>Rabo Karabekian</characters>
                <date>2011</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Humor, Literature, Novels, Science Fiction, American, Art, Literary Fiction, Contemporary</genres>
                <id>1815</id>
                <synopsis>"Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy-one, wants to be left alone on his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked inside his potato barn. But then a voluptuous young widow badgers Rabo into telling his life story—and Vonnegut in turn tells us the plain, heart-hammering truth about man’s careless fancy to create or destroy what he loves."</synopsis>
                <title>Bluebeard</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Evelyn Waugh</author>
                <characters>Dennis Barlow, Aimée Thanatogenos, Mr. Joyboy, Francis Hinsley, Sir Ambrose Abercrombie</characters>
                <date>Nov-01</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Humor, Literature, British Literature, Novels, Death, 20th Century, Comedy, Literary Fiction</genres>
                <id>1816</id>
                <synopsis>"Following the death of a friend, British poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering the artificial Hollywood paradise of the Whispering Glades Memorial Park. Within its golden gates, death, American-style, is wrapped up and sold like a package holiday. There, Dennis enters the fragile and bizarre world of Aimée, the naïve Californian corpse beautician, and Mr Joyboy, the master of the embalmer's art...A dark and savage satire on the Anglo-American cultural divide, The Loved One depicts a world where love, reputation, and death cost a very great deal.This is an alternate cover edition: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...."</synopsis>
                <title>The Loved One</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Conn Iggulden</author>
                <characters>Brutus, Gaius Marius, Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Julius Caesar</characters>
                <date>Feb-04</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, War, Fantasy, Roman, Adventure, Italy, Novels, Action</genres>
                <id>1817</id>
                <synopsis>"Rarely, if ever, does a new writer dazzle us with such a vivid imagination and storytelling, flawlessly capturing the essence of a land, a people, a legend. Conn Iggulden is just such a writer, bringing to vivid life one of the most fascinating eras in human history. In a true masterpiece of historical fiction, Iggulden takes us on a breathtaking journey through ancient Rome, sweeping us into a realm of tyrants and slaves, of dark intrigues and seething passions. What emerges is both a grand romantic tale of coming-of-age in the Roman Empire and a vibrant portrait of the early years of a man who would become the most powerful ruler on earth: Julius Caesar. On the lush Italian peninsula, a new empire is taking shape. At its heart is the city of Rome, a place of glory and decadence, beauty and bloodshed. Against this vivid backdrop, two boys are growing to manhood, dreaming of battles, fame, and glory in service of the mightiest empire the world has ever known. One is the son of a senator, a boy of privilege and ambition to whom much has been given and from whom much is expected. The other is a bastard child, a boy of strength and cunning, whose love for his adoptive family-and his adoptive brother-will be the most powerful force in his life. As young Gaius and Marcus are trained in the art of combat-under the tutelage of one of Rome's most fearsome gladiators-Rome itself is being rocked by the art of treachery and ambition, caught in a tug-of-war as two rival generals, Marius and Sulla, push the empire toward civil war. For Marcus, a bloody campaign in Greece will become a young soldier's proving ground. For Gaius, the equally deadly infighting of the Roman Senate will be the battlefield where he hones his courage and skill. And for both, the love of an extraordinary slave girl will be an honor each will covet but only one will win. The two friends are forced to walk different paths, and by the time they meet again everything will have changed. Both will have known love, loss, and violence. And the land where they were once innocent will be thrust into the grip of bitter conflict-a conflict that will set Roman against Roman...and put their friendship to the ultimate test. Brilliantly interweaving history and adventure, Conn Iggulden conjures a stunning array of contrasts-from the bloody stench of a battlefield to the opulence of the greatest city in history, from the tenderness of a lover to the treachery of an assassin. Superbly rendered, grippingly told, Emperor, The Gates of Rome is a work of vaulting imagination from a powerful new voice in historical fiction. ""From the Hardcover edition."""</synopsis>
                <title>The Gates of Rome</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Pierre Bottero</author>
                <characters>Ellana Caldin</characters>
                <date>Dec-06</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, France, Young Adult, Roman, Fiction, Childrens, Novels, Adventure, Middle Grade, Sci Fi Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1818</id>
                <synopsis>"Seule survivante d'un groupe de pionniers après l'attaque de leur caravane par des Raïs, au nord de l'Empire, une fillette est recueillie par le peuple des Petits. Elle grandit dans la Forêt Maison à l'écart des hommes et décide, à l'adolescence, de partir en quête de ses origines. En chemin, sous le nom d'Ellana, elle croise le plus grand des marchombres, le maître Jilano Alhuïn, qui la prend pour élève et l'initie aux secrets de sa guilde. Un apprentissage semé d'embûches, de rencontres et d'inimitiés…"</synopsis>
                <title>Ellana</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Chris d'Lacey</author>
                <characters>David Rain, Suzanna Martindale, Elizabeth Pennykettle, Lucy Pennykettle</characters>
                <date>Mar-07</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Dragons, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Middle Grade, Magic, Adventure, Urban Fantasy, Mystery</genres>
                <id>1819</id>
                <synopsis>"There is a fire star coming, signaling a time of new beginnings. A time for dragons to rise again...A research trip to the Arctic and a contract for a new book - life can't get much better for David Rain. But as soon as David finds himself in the icy climes, he begins to write his legend of bears, dragons, and the mmysterious fire star. Soon he realizes that his tale is starting to mirror real life, and that an old enemy is on her way to meet him.Can David thwart her terrible master plan? Or will his world be destroyed forever?"</synopsis>
                <title>Fire Star</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kurt Vonnegut Jr.</author>
                <characters>Rudy Waltz</characters>
                <date>2010</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Humor, Classics, Literature, Science Fiction, American, Novels, Contemporary, Horror, Literary Fiction</genres>
                <id>1820</id>
                <synopsis>"Deadeye Dick is Kurt Vonnegut’s funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrors—a double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation, an annihilation of a city by a neutron bomb—Rudy Waltz, aka Deadeye Dick, takes us along on a zany search for absolution and happiness. Here is a tale of crime and punishment that makes us rethink what we believe . . . and who we say we are."</synopsis>
                <title>Deadeye Dick</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Dylan Thomas</author>
                <characters>Dylan Thomas, Dai Bread, Polly Garter, Nogood Boyo, Gossamer Beynon, Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard, Captain Cat</characters>
                <date>1954</date>
                <genres>Poetry, Plays, Classics, Drama, Fiction, Theatre, Literature, British Literature, 20th Century, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1821</id>
                <synopsis>"A moving and hilarious account of a spring day in a small Welsh coastal town, Under Milk Wood is ""lyrical, impassioned and funny, an Our Town given universality"" (The New Statesman and Nation)."</synopsis>
                <title>Under Milk Wood</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Larry Correia</author>
                <characters>Owen Zastava Pitt</characters>
                <date>2009</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Horror, Fiction, Paranormal, Vampires, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Action, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1822</id>
                <synopsis>"Five days after Owen Zastava Pitt pushed his insufferable boss out of a fourteenth story window, he woke up in the hospital with a scarred face, an unbelievable memory, and a job offer. It turns out that monsters are real. All the things from myth, legend, and B-movies are out there, waiting in the shadows. Officially secret, some of them are evil, and some are just hungry. On the other side are the people who kill monsters for a living. Monster Hunter International is the premier eradication company in the business. And now Owen is their newest recruit. It’s actually a pretty sweet gig, except for one little problem. An ancient entity known as the Cursed One has returned to settle a centuries old vendetta. Should the Cursed One succeed, it means the end of the world, and MHI is the only thing standing in his way. With the clock ticking towards Armageddon, Owen finds himself trapped between legions of undead minions, belligerent federal agents, a cryptic ghost who has taken up residence inside his head, and the cursed family of the woman he loves. Business is good... Welcome to Monster Hunter International."</synopsis>
                <title>Monster Hunter International</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Daniel Wallace</author>
                <characters>William Bloom, Edward Bloom, Sandra Kay Templeton, Jenny Hill</characters>
                <date>2004</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Fantasy, Magical Realism, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Humor, Adult, Media Tie In, Novels, Literature</genres>
                <id>1823</id>
                <synopsis>"He could outrun anybody, and he never missed a day of school. He saved lives, tamed giants. Animals loved him. People loved him. Women loved him (and he loved them back). And he knew more jokes than any man alive.Now, as he lies dying, Edward Bloom can't seem to stop telling jokes -or the tall tales that have made him, in his son's eyes, an extraordinary man. Big Fish is the story of this man's life, told as a series of legends and myths inspired by the few facts his son, William, knows. Through these tales -hilarious and wrenching, tender and outrageous- William begins to understand his elusive father's great feats, and his great failings."</synopsis>
                <title>Big Fish</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Isaac Asimov</author>
                <characters>Elijah Baley, R. Daneel Olivaw, Gladia Delmarre</characters>
                <date>1996</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Mystery, Robots, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy, Crime, Novels, Detective, Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1824</id>
                <synopsis>"A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot servants. To this strange and provocative planet comes Detective Elijah Baley, sent from the streets of New York with his positronic partner, the robot R. Daneel Olivaw, to solve an incredible murder that has rocked Solaria to its foundations. The victim had been so reclusive that he appeared to his associates only through holographic projection. Yet someone had gotten close enough to bludgeon him to death while robots looked on. Now Baley and Olivaw are faced with two clear impossibilities: Either the Solarian was killed by one of his robots - unthinkable under the laws of Robotics - or he was killed by the woman who loved him so much that she never came into his presence!"</synopsis>
                <title>The Naked Sun</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Raymond E. Feist</author>
                <characters>Pug, Arutha conDoin, Martin Longbow, Laurie of Tyr-Sog, Jimmy the Hand, Anita of Krondor, Murmandamus, Brother Dominic of Sarth, Baru the Serpentslayer, Roald of Tyr-Sog</characters>
                <date>1986</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Magic, Adventure, Epic, Science Fiction, Novels</genres>
                <id>1825</id>
                <synopsis>"A poisoned bolt has struck down the Princess Anita on the day of her wedding to Prince Arutha of Krondor.To save his beloved, Arutha sets out in search of the mystic herb called Silverthorn that only grows in the dark and forbidding land of the Spellweavers.Accompanied by a mercenary, a minstrel, and a clever young thief, he will confront an ancient evil and do battle with the dark powers that threaten the enchanted realm of Midkemia."</synopsis>
                <title>Silverthorn</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Murat Menteş</author>
                <characters>Şebnem Şibumi, Enver Paşa, Hayati Tehlike, Mr. Spock, Abdülcabbar, Ruhiye Hanım, Müntekim Gıcırbey, papağan Huduni, cin Jajha, Atom Bombacıyan, Uçan Kız, Abidin Dandini, Leyla Kalahari</characters>
                <date>Nov-09</date>
                <genres>Turkish Literature, Turkish, Roman, Fiction, Novels</genres>
                <id>1826</id>
                <synopsis>"“Öldürdüğüm insanlarla iyi arkadaşolacağımızı düşünmüşümdür hep.”Dublörün Dilemması’nın yazarından komik, hızlı, şoke edici bir roman daha.Gönül İşleri Bakanlığı’nda basın müşaviri dövüş ustası Fu.Başkalarının intikamını alarak hayatını kazanan Gıcırbey.Tarih öğretmeni dilber Şebnem Şibumi.Padişah yorganları satıcısı Enver Paşa.Dul gangster Hayati Tehlike.Mr. Spock, Abdülcabbar, Ruhiye Hanım, papağan Huduni, cin Jajha, Atom Bombacıyan, Uçan Kız, Abidin Dandini, Leyla Kalahari ve diğerleri..."</synopsis>
                <title>Korkma Ben Varım</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Mark Twain</author>
                <characters>Roxana Langley, ""David Pudd''nhead Wilson"", Roxanne</characters>
                <date>1984</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Literature, Humor, Historical Fiction, American, Mystery, 19th Century, School, Novels</genres>
                <id>1827</id>
                <synopsis>"At the beginning of Pudd'nhead Wilson a young slave woman, fearing for her infant's son's life, exchanges her light-skinned child with her master's.  From this rather simple premise Mark Twain fashioned one of his most entertaining, funny, yet biting novels.  On its surface, Pudd'nhead Wilson possesses all the elements of an engrossing nineteenth-century mystery:  reversed identities, a horrible crime, an eccentric detective, a suspenseful courtroom drama, and a surprising, unusual solution.  Yet it is not a mystery novel.  Seething with the undercurrents of antebellum southern culture, the book is a savage indictment in which the real criminal is society, and racial prejudice and slavery are the crimes.  Written in 1894, Pudd'nhead Wilson glistens with characteristic Twain humor, with suspense, and with pointed irony:  a gem among the author's later works."</synopsis>
                <title>Pudd'nhead Wilson</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>L.J. Smith </author>
                <characters>Rowan Redfern, Ash Redfern, Kestrel Redfern, Mary-Lynnette Carter, John Quinn, Jade Redfern, Mark Carter, Jeremy Lovett, Bunny Marten, Vic Kimble, Todd Akers</characters>
                <date>Aug-96</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Vampires, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Supernatural, Paranormal Romance, Witches</genres>
                <id>1828</id>
                <synopsis>"Unearthly Beauty There's something strange about the new girls in town. Briar Creek, Oregon, has never seen anything like the supernatural grace of Rowan, Kestrel, and Jade, three sisters who move into the dilapidated old house next to Mark and Mary-Lynnette Carter. Mark is obsessed with Jade- but she and her sisters have a secret. And when Mark and Mary-Lynnette follow them into the woods one night, they are plunged into a nightmare beyond their imagination. Because the sisters are fugitives from the Night World, and their brother Ash is hot on the trail behind them. He's ruthless, gorgeous, and he has orders to bring the girls back at all costs. And when he sees Mary-Lynette, he decides to take her too..."</synopsis>
                <title>Daughters of Darkness</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Patricia Cornwell </author>
                <characters>Jack the Ripper</characters>
                <date>Nov-03</date>
                <genres>Nonfiction, True Crime, History, Crime, Mystery, Biography, Historical, Thriller, Horror, British Literature</genres>
                <id>1829</id>
                <synopsis>"Now updated with new material that brings the killer's picture into clearer focus.In the fall of 1888, all of London was held in the grip of unspeakable terror.  An elusive madman calling himself Jack the Ripper was brutally butchering women in the slums of London’s East End.  Police seemed powerless to stop the killer, who delighted in taunting them and whose crimes were clearly escalating in violence from victim to victim.  And then the Ripper’s violent spree seemingly ended as abruptly as it had begun.  He had struck out of nowhere and then vanished from the scene.  Decades passed, then fifty years, then a hundred, and the Ripper’s bloody sexual crimes became anemic and impotent fodder for puzzles, mystery weekends, crime conventions, and so-called “Ripper Walks” that end with pints of ale in the pubs of Whitechapel.  But to number-one New York Times bestselling novelist Patricia Cornwell, the Ripper murders are not cute little mysteries to be transformed into parlor games or movies but rather a series of terrible crimes that no one should get away with, even after death.  Now Cornwell applies her trademark skills for meticulous research and scientific expertise to dig deeper into the Ripper case than any detective before her—and reveal the true identity of this fabled Victorian killer.In Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper, Case Closed, Cornwell combines the rigorous discipline of twenty-first century police investigation with forensic techniques undreamed of during the late Victorian era to solve one of the most infamous and difficult serial murder cases in history.  Drawing on unparalleled access to original Ripper evidence, documents, and records, as well as archival, academic, and law-enforcement resources, FBI profilers, and top forensic scientists, Cornwell reveals that Jack the Ripper was none other than a respected painter of his day, an artist now collected by some of the world’s finest museums: Walter Richard Sickert.It has been said of Cornwell that no one depicts the human capability for evil better than she.   Adding layer after layer of circumstantial evidence to the physical evidence discovered by modern forensic science and expert minds, Cornwell shows that Sickert, who died peacefully in his bed in 1942, at the age of 81, was not only one of Great Britain’s greatest painters but also a serial killer, a damaged diabolical man driven by megalomania and hate.  She exposes Sickert as the author of the infamous Ripper letters that were written to the Metropolitan Police and the press.  Her detailed analysis of his paintings shows that his art continually depicted his horrific mutilation of his victims, and her examination of this man’s birth defects, the consequent genital surgical interventions, and their effects on his upbringing present a casebook example of how a psychopathic killer is created.New information and startling revelations detailed in Portrait of a Killer include:- How a year-long battery of more than 100 DNA tests—on samples drawn by Cornwell’s forensics team in September 2001 from original Ripper letters and Sickert documents—yielded the first shadows of the 75- to 114 year-old genetic evid..."</synopsis>
                <title>Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Winifred Watson</author>
                <characters>Guinevere Pettigrew, Delysia Langford</characters>
                <date>2000</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Humor, Romance, British Literature, Historical, Chick Lit, Audiobook, 20th Century</genres>
                <id>1830</id>
                <synopsis>"Miss Pettigrew, an approaching-middle-age governess, was accustomed to a household of unruly English children. When her employment agency sends her to the wrong address, her life takes an unexpected turn. The alluring nightclub singer, Delysia LaFosse, becomes her new employer, and Miss Pettigrew encounters a kind of glamour that she had only met before at the movies. Over the course of a single day, both women are changed forever."</synopsis>
                <title>Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Don DeLillo</author>
                <characters>Eric Packer, Elise Shifrin, Benno Levin, Torval</characters>
                <date>2003</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Contemporary, Novels, American, Literature, Literary Fiction, New York, Americana, The United States Of America, 21st Century</genres>
                <id>1831</id>
                <synopsis>"It is a stunningly eventful day in the life of Eric Packer, a multi-billionaire who has recently married the heiress of a vast European fortune. A violent protest is being staged by anti-globalist groups and Eric fears that he may be a target. He is very much the target, but not by the protestors."</synopsis>
                <title>Cosmopolis</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Laurie R. King </author>
                <characters>Mary Russell, Inspector Lestrade, Dorothy Ruskin, Colonel Dennis Edwards, Erica Rogers, Mrs Hudson (Conan Doyle series), Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes (Russell &amp; Holmes series)</characters>
                <date>2001</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical, Historical Mystery, Crime, British Literature, Detective, Audiobook, Mystery Thriller</genres>
                <id>1832</id>
                <synopsis>"The year is 1923 and Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell receive a visit from Dorothy Ruskin, an amateur archaeologist. She shows them a scrap of ancient writing that is supposedly Mary Magdalene's. Soon afterwards she is murdered — but why?"</synopsis>
                <title>A Letter of Mary</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Brendan Behan, Benedict Kiely (Afterword)</author>
                <characters>Brendan Behan</characters>
                <date>Published</date>
                <genres>Irish Literature, Ireland, Memoir, Biography, Nonfiction, Autobiography, Classics, History, Banned Books, 20th Century</genres>
                <id>1833</id>
                <synopsis>"This miracle of autobiography and prison literature begins: ""Friday, in the evening, the landlady shouted up the stairs: 'Oh God, oh Jesus, oh Sacred Heart, Boy, there's two gentlemen here to see you.' I knew by the screeches of her that the gentlemen were not calling to inquire after my health . . . I grabbed my suitcase, containing Pot. Chlor., Sulph Ac, gelignite, detonators, electrical and ignition, and the rest of my Sinn Fein conjurer's outfit, and carried it to the window . . ."" The men were, of course, the police, and seventeen-year-old Behan. He spent three years as a prisoner in England, primarily in Borstal (reform school), and was then expelled to his homeland, a changed but hardly defeated rebel. Once banned in the Irish Republic, Borstal Boy is both a riveting self-portrait and a clear look into the problems, passions, and heartbreak of Ireland."</synopsis>
                <title>Borstal Boy</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>James Ellroy</author>
                <characters>Deputy Danny Upshaw, Turner ""Buzz"" Meeks, lieutenant Malcolm Considine</characters>
                <date>1994</date>
                <genres>Crime, Fiction, Mystery, Noir, Thriller, Detective, Historical Fiction, Hard Boiled, Mystery Thriller, Suspense</genres>
                <id>1834</id>
                <synopsis>"1950s Los Angeles: The City of Angels has become the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hunts and insanely violent killings are terrorising the community. Three men are plunged into a maelstrom of violence and deceit when their lives become inextricably linked as each one confronts his own personal darkness. Told with Ellroy's characteristically forceful and relentless style, The Big Nowhere is the link between the Black Dahlia and LA Confidential in his masterwork, The LA Quartet. It is as powerful and thrilling as crime fiction gets."</synopsis>
                <title>The Big Nowhere</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Enid Blyton</author>
                <characters>George Kirrin (Famous Five), Dick Kirrin, Timmy, Anne (Famous Five), Julian (Famous Five)</characters>
                <date>2001</date>
                <genres>Childrens, Adventure, Mystery, Fiction, Classics, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Novels, British Literature, Childrens Classics</genres>
                <id>1835</id>
                <synopsis>"The Five find adventure, when they spend Easter vacation at Mr. Lenoir's sinister house Smuggler's Top. Set high above an eerie marsh, the house is honeycombed with hidden staircases and tunnels that once served as a hideaway for smugglers. When strange lights begin to appear, the Five suspect that the tunnels are once more in use."</synopsis>
                <title>Five Go to Smuggler's Top</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Alexandre Dumas, David Coward (Editor), Auguste Maquet (Co-Author)</author>
                <characters>""D''Artagnan"", Athos, Porthos, Aramis, Oliver Cromwell, Anne of Austria, Cardinal Mazarino, Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland</characters>
                <date>1993</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Adventure, France, Historical, French Literature, Literature, 19th Century, Novels</genres>
                <id>1836</id>
                <synopsis>"'At this game, whoever does not kill is killed.'Twenty Years After (1845), the sequel to The Three Musketeers, is a supreme creation of suspense and heroic adventure.Two decades have passed since the musketeers triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady. Time has weakened their resolve, and dispersed their loyalties. But treasons and stratagems still cry out for justice: civil war endangers the throne of France, while in England Cromwell threatens to send Charles I to the scaffold. Dumas brings his immortal quartet out of retirement to cross swords with time, the malevolence of men, and the forces of history. But their greatest test is a titanic struggle with the son of Milady, who wears the face of Evil."</synopsis>
                <title>Twenty Years After</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Sarah Vowell</author>
                <characters>Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth, Edwin Booth, Theodore Roosevelt, William McKinley, James A. Garfield, Charles Guiteau, Leon Czolgosz, Robert Todd Lincoln</characters>
                <date>2006</date>
                <genres>Nonfiction, History, Humor, Travel, Essays, Audiobook, Memoir, American History, Politics, Historical</genres>
                <id>1837</id>
                <synopsis>"Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit, probity, and an irreverent sense of humor. With Assassination Vacation, she takes us on a road trip like no other—a journey to the pit stops of American political murder and through the myriad ways they have been used for fun and profit, for political and cultural advantage.From Buffalo to Alaska, Washington to the Dry Tortugas, Vowell visits locations immortalized and influenced by the spilling of politically important blood, reporting as she goes with her trademark blend of wisecracking humor, remarkable honesty, and thought-provoking criticism. We learn about the jinx that was Robert Todd Lincoln (present at the assassinations of Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley) and witness the politicking that went into the making of the Lincoln Memorial. The resulting narrative is much more than an entertaining and informative travelogue—it is the disturbing and fascinating story of how American death has been manipulated by popular culture, including literature, architecture, sculpture, and—the author's favorite— historical tourism. Though the themes of loss and violence are explored and we make detours to see how the Republican Party became the Republican Party, there are all kinds of lighter diversions along the way into the lives of the three presidents and their assassins, including mummies, show tunes, mean-spirited totem poles, and a nineteenth-century biblical sex cult."</synopsis>
                <title>Assassination Vacation</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Robert Louis Stevenson</author>
                <characters>Richard III of England, Richard ""Dick"" Shelton, Joanna Sedley</characters>
                <date>2001</date>
                <genres>Classics, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Adventure, Historical, Literature, Young Adult, British Literature, Romance, 19th Century</genres>
                <id>1838</id>
                <synopsis>"From the beloved author of Treasure Island Originally serialized in a periodical of boys' adventure fiction, The Black Arrow is a swashbuckling portrait of a young man's journey to discover the heroism within himself. Young Dick Shelton, caught in the midst of England's War of the Roses, finds his loyalties torn between the guardian who will ultimately betray him and the leader of a secret fellowship, The Black Arrow. As Shelton is drawn deeper into this conspiracy, he must distinguish friend from foe and confront war, shipwreck, revenge, murder, and forbidden love, as England's crown threatens to topple around him."</synopsis>
                <title>The Black Arrow</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Sidney Sheldon</author>
                <characters>Robert Bellamy</characters>
                <date>1991</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Science Fiction, Novels, Crime, Contemporary, Romance</genres>
                <id>1839</id>
                <synopsis>"OPERATION DOOMSDAY ... ACTIVE ... Commander Robert Bellamy of US Naval Intelligence is dispatched on a top secret mission. A weather balloon carrying sensitive military information has crashed in Switzerland. Bellamy must locate the ten witnesses to the incident so that they can be sworn to secrecy. But as he conducts his search Bellamy begins to suspect that he, too, is being hunted, by an unknown lethal force, that what he was told about the balloon was only one part of an almost unbelievable happening... From Washington to Zurich, Rome and Paris, the story unfolds to reveal Bellamy's past: why the women he loves the most cannot return his love, why his friends become his deadly enemies, and why the world must never learn the incredible secret hidden on the Swiss Alps... "</synopsis>
                <title>The Doomsday Conspiracy</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>J.D. Robb </author>
                <characters>Eve Dallas, Roarke, Delia Peabody, Ryan Feeney, Charlotte Mira, Ian McNab, Commander Jack Whitney, Mavis Freestone, Nadine Furst, Lawrence Charles Summerset, Chief Harrison Tibble, Brian Kelly</characters>
                <date>2004</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Romance, Crime, Romantic Suspense, Fiction, Futuristic, Suspense, Science Fiction, Thriller, Mystery Thriller</genres>
                <id>1840</id>
                <synopsis>"He is an expert with the latest technology...a madman with the mind of a genius and the heart of a killer. He quietly stalks his prey. Then he haunts the police with cryptic riddles about the crimes he is about to commit-always solved moments too late to save his victims' lives.Police lieutenant Eve Dallas found the first victim butchered in his own home. The second lost his life in a vacant luxury apartment. The two men had little in common. Both suffered unspeakable torture before their deaths. And both had ties to an ugly secret of ten years past-a secret shared by none other than Eve's new husband, Roarke."</synopsis>
                <title>Vengeance in Death</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kinley MacGregor</author>
                <characters>Caledonia MacNeely (Callie), Sin MacAllister</characters>
                <date>2003</date>
                <genres>Historical Romance, Romance, Historical, Medieval, Scotland, Historical Fiction, Medieval Romance, Fiction, Adult, Beauty and The Beast</genres>
                <id>1841</id>
                <synopsis>"Stunning Caledonia MacNeely fights an unfamiliar shiver when she is offered in marriage to the infamous ′Lord Sin′. Though Callie fears this mysterious knight - less for the dark whispers that damn him than for the burning desire he invokes - she is under order of the English King. And with the fate of her troubled clan hanging in the balance, she has little recourse."</synopsis>
                <title>Born in Sin</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Bill Watterson, Pat Oliphant (Foreword)</author>
                <characters>Calvin, Hobbes</characters>
                <date>1988</date>
                <genres>Comics, Humor, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Comic Strips, Graphic Novels Comics, Comedy, Comic Book, Childrens, Cartoon</genres>
                <id>1842</id>
                <synopsis>"Calvin is a rambunctious six-year-old whose manic antics threaten world peace. Hobbes is his stuffed tiger who comes alive when adults aren't around. The saga of their daily exploits won cartoonist Bill Watterson the coveted Reuben Award for ""Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year."" Something Under the Bed Is Drooling is a jewel."</synopsis>
                <title>Something Under the Bed is Drooling</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Georg Miggel </author>
                <characters>Theo Lindner</characters>
                <date>2009</date>
                <genres>Crime, Fiction</genres>
                <id>1843</id>
                <synopsis>"Lieber Herr Miggel,Streitgenossen habe ich genossen über den 1. Mai, sehr gut wie Familienumfeld und Charakter zusammen kommen, die Rivalitäten innerhalb und zwischen den Kanzleien, die Komik der präzisen Erfassung der steuerlichen Problematik des Lösegeldes, alles um nur nicht auf den Punkt zu kommen, glaubhaft wie größte jurisitische Rationalität bemüht wird um höchste Irratonalität anzugehen. Das steigert sich alles schön bis zur Mitte, dann treten die Streitgenossen und mit ihnen die Story auf der Stelle. Auch das überraschende Ende ist nicht ganz so überraschend, man hat irgendso eine zweite ebene erwartet, wenn auch nicht diese.Das schwächt den pay-off (Hornberger Schiessen). Sicher gute Vorlage für einen TV Krimi/Gesellschaftsdrama, allerdings in USA eher als bei uns; ich höre die Anwaltsserien haben hier wenig Zuspruch, bin da ber kein Spezialist.Jedenfalls eine empfehlenswerte Lektüre.KomplimentIhrVolker SchlöndorffIt only seems to start Theo Lindner, an internationally active law firm partner and father, an ordinary working day: In an unexpected meeting scheduled, he learns that his colleague Joachim Peters has been the victim of a kidnapping - the 20 million euro ransom to the members of the Board of their private pay. Within the firm a thrilling tug of war starts at the adequate handling of the emergency, on the one hand, anyone can associate a potential victim of the kidnap victims to identify the other hand, see all their material well-being threatened for years to come. The situation is alarming and, as encrypted, the second sign of life references to Peters' whereabouts, and he seems to contain Theo Lindner, with whom he privately nothing extraordinary, explicitly send out greetings. A breathtaking, exciting thriller in the legal environment, authentic and psychologically brilliant.Nur scheinbar beginnt für Theo Lindner, Partner einer international agierenden Anwaltskanzlei und Familienvater, ein ganz normaler Arbeitstag in Berlin: In einer unvorhergesehen anberaumten Sitzung erfährt er, dass sein Kollege Joachim Peters Opfer einer Entführung geworden ist – die 25 Millionen DM Lösegeld sollen die Mitglieder der Sozietät aus ihrem Privatvermögen berappen. Innerhalb der Sozietät beginnt ein nervenaufreibendes Tauziehen um den adäquaten Umgang mit der Notlage, denn einerseits kann sich jeder Teilhaber als potenzielles Opfer mit dem Entführten identifizieren, andererseits empfinden alle ihr materielles Wohlergehen auf Jahre hinaus bedroht.Die Lage spitzt sich zu, als das zweite Lebenszeichen verschlüsselte Hinweise auf Peters’ Aufenthaltsort zu enthalten scheint und er Theo Lindner, mit dem ihn privat nichts außergewöhnlich verbindet, explizit Grüße zukommen lässt …Ein atemberaubend spannender Krimi im Juristen-Milieu, authentisch und psychologisch brillant."</synopsis>
                <title>Notwendige Streitgenossen</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Rebecca Gablé</author>
                <characters>Isaac, Robin, Agnes, Conrad, Maria, Stephen, Geoffrrey Dermond, Mortimer, Leofric</characters>
                <date>May-01</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Historical, German Literature, Fiction, Audiobook, British Literature, Medieval, Fantasy, Roman, Drama</genres>
                <id>1844</id>
                <synopsis>"Nach dem Tod seines Vaters, des ehemaligen Earl of Walsingham, reißt der zwölfjährige Robin aus der Klosterschule aus und verdingt sich als Stallknecht auf dem Gut, das einst seiner Familie gehörte. Als Sohn eines angeblichen Hochverräters zählt er zu den Besitzlosen und ist der Willkür der Obrigkeit ausgesetzt. Besonders Mortimer, der Sohn des neuen Earl, schikaniert Robert, wo er kann. Zwischen den Jungen wächst eine tödliche Feindschaft. Aber Robin geht seinen Weg, der ihn schließlich zurück in die Welt von Hof, Adel und Ritterschaft führt. An der Seite des charismatischen Duke of Lancaster erlebt er Feldzüge, Aufstände und politische Triumphe - begegnet Frauen, die ebenso schön wie gefährlich sind. Doch das Rad der Fortuna dreht sich unaufhörlich, und während ein junger, unfähiger König England ins Verderben zu reißen droht, steht Robin plötzlich wieder seinem alten Todfeind gegenüber."</synopsis>
                <title>Das Lächeln der Fortuna</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Alastair Reynolds</author>
                <characters>Purslane, Abigail Gentian, Hesperus, Madame Kleinfelter</characters>
                <date>2010</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Space Opera, Audiobook, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Space, Hard Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Mystery</genres>
                <id>1845</id>
                <synopsis>"Six million years ago, at the dawn of the star-faring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones, which she called shatterlings. But now, someone is eliminating the Gentian line. Campion and Purslane—two shatterlings who have fallen in love and shared forbidden experiences—must determine exactly who, or what, their enemy is, before they are wiped out of existence."</synopsis>
                <title>House of Suns</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay</author>
                <characters>Apu, Sarbajaya, Durga</characters>
                <date>Sept-75</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, India, Novels, Indian Literature, Drama, Literary Fiction, Asia, Family, Literature</genres>
                <id>1846</id>
                <synopsis>"Pather Panchali deals with the life of the Roy family, consisting of Harihar, Sarbajaya, Apu and Durga, both in their ancestral village Nishchindipur in rural Bengal and later when they move to Varanasi in search of a better life, as well as the anguish and loss they face during their travels.It first appeared as a serial in a Calcutta periodical in 1928 and was published as a book the next year; it was the first published novel written by the author. It was followed in 1932 by a sequel Aparajito, which was later also adapted into a film of the same name by Satyajit Ray."</synopsis>
                <title>Pather Panchali: Song of the Road</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Colleen McCullough</author>
                <characters>Spartacus, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Marcus Licinius Crassus, Julius Caesar, Marcus Tullius Cicero</characters>
                <date>1994</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Roman, Ancient History, Italy, Novels, Ancient, War, Literature</genres>
                <id>1847</id>
                <synopsis>"They were blessed by the gods at birth with wealth and privilege. In a time of cataclysmic upheaval, a bold new generation of Romans vied for greatness amid the disintegrating remnants of their beloved Republic. But there was one who towered above them all - a brilliant and beautiful boy whose ambition was unequaled, whose love was legend and whose glory was Rome's. A boy they would one day call ""Caesar."""</synopsis>
                <title>Fortune's Favorites</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Richard Ford</author>
                <characters>Frank Bascombe</characters>
                <date>2003</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Novels, Literature, American, Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Classics, Americana, The United States Of America</genres>
                <id>1848</id>
                <synopsis>"A visionary account of American life-and the long-awaited sequel to one of the most celebrated novels of the past decade-Independence Day reveals a man and our country with unflinching comedy and the specter of hope and even permanence, all of which Richard Ford evokes with a keen intelligence, perfect emotional pitch, and a voice invested with absolute authority."</synopsis>
                <title>Independence Day</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Brian Celio</author>
                <characters>Luke Adams, Teodora Vallano, Vincent Vallano, Ivy Pineda, Zach Pessini, Teresa Cazzata, Dr. Rosenbaum, Rick Vallano, Aunt Stella, Uncle Alfonse, Eddie Hughes, Dante Zielinski, Jeremiah O’Malley, Anthony Durkin, Father Carr, Edward Pineda, Sandy Pineda, Holly Pineda, Jack McArdle, Abigail McArdle, Brian Seaver, Andrea No-Last-Name, Agent Ralphie, Hi-I’m-Thai Chick, Anson, Jackson Price, Eli Perez, Wes Parsons, Renee Baughman, Zia Filomena, Steve O’Malley, Kelly O’Malley, Big Joe, Sandino Camilleri, Glenn the Racist, Bob Fontana, Niki Fontana, Roland le Maître D, Billy Modo, Ron Adams, Grace Adams, Milvio, Gennaro, Razzle, Screwy Squirrel, ""The Ol'' Warhorse"", Quorra Vallano, Jean-Pierre</characters>
                <date>Mar-09</date>
                <genres>Counter Culture, Fiction</genres>
                <id>1849</id>
                <synopsis>"Some consider this a serious story about love, art, and the madness in embracing both. Others consider it a tortured artist satire in disguise."</synopsis>
                <title>Catapult Soul</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Stefan Zweig, Olivier Bournac (Translator), جواد شیخ‌الاسلامی (Translator), Alzir Hella (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Roland</characters>
                <date>Oct-08</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, German Literature, Literature, 20th Century, Novels, LGBT, Germany, Novella, Short Stories</genres>
                <id>1850</id>
                <synopsis>"Au soir de sa vie, un vieux professeur se souvient de l'aventure qui, plus que les honneurs et la réussite de sa carrière, a marqué sa vie. A dix-neuf ans, il a été fasciné par la personnalité d'un de ses professeurs ; l'admiration et la recherche inconsciente d'un Père font alors naître en lui un sentiment mêlé d'idolâtrie, de soumission et d'un amour presque morbide. Freud a salué la finesse et la vérité avec laquelle l'auteur d'Amok et du Joueur d'échecs restituait le trouble d'une passion et le malaise qu'elle engendre chez celui qui en est l'objet. Paru en 1926, ce récit bref et profond connut un succès fulgurant, en raison de la nouveauté audacieuse du sujet. Il demeure assurément l'un des chefs-d'œuvre du grand écrivain autrichien."</synopsis>
                <title>La Confusion des sentiments</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Thomas P. Whitney (Translator), Georgi Plekhanov (Quoted), Leon Trotsky (Quoted)</author>
                <characters>Joseph Stalin, Mikhail Ryumin, Viktor Abakumov</characters>
                <date>1974</date>
                <genres>History, Nonfiction, Russia, Classics, Politics, Biography, Russian Literature, Literature, Memoir, Philosophy</genres>
                <id>1851</id>
                <synopsis>"Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society"</synopsis>
                <title>The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books I-II</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni </author>
                <characters>Anju &amp; Sudha, Gouri, Pishi, and Nalini</characters>
                <date>2000</date>
                <genres>Fiction, India, Contemporary, Book Club, Indian Literature, Novels, Asia, Adult, Cultural, Historical Fiction</genres>
                <id>1852</id>
                <synopsis>"Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family; her cousin Sudha is the daughter of the black sheep of the family. Sudha is as beautiful, tenderhearted, and serious as Anju is plain, whip-smart, and defiant. yet since the day they were born, Sudha and Anju have been bonded in ways even their mothers cannot comprehend.The cousins' bond is shattered, however, when Sudha learns a dark family secret. Urged into arranged marriages, their lives take sudden, opposite turns: Sudha becomes the dutiful daughter-in-law of a rigid small-town household, while Anju goes to America with her new husband and learns to live her own life of secrets. Then tragedy strikes them both, and the women discover that, despite the distance that has grown between them, they have only each other to turn to. Set in the two worlds of India and America, this is an exceptionally moving novel of love, friendship, and compelling courage."</synopsis>
                <title>Sister of My Heart</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Eça de Queirós, Carlos Reis (Introdução)</author>
                <characters>Jacinto, José Fernandes, Jacinto Galião, Cintinho, Grilo, Joaninha</characters>
                <date>1992</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Portuguese Literature, Portugal, Literature, Romance, Novels, School, Adult, 19th Century</genres>
                <id>1853</id>
                <synopsis>"Biblioteca Ulisseia de Autores Portugueses #5José Maria de Eça de Queiroz (Póvoa de Varzim, 25 de novembro de 1845 — Neuilly-sur-Seine, 16 de agosto de 1900), escritor e ensaísta, foi um dos nomes mais importantes da literatura portuguesa. De nome completo José Maria de Eça de Queirós nasceu a Novembro de 1845, numa casa na Praça do Almada, em Póvoa de Varzim. O seu pai, José Maria de Almeida de Teixeira de Queirós, nascido no Brasil e vindo para Portugal com um ano de idade, provinha de uma família de magistrados perseguidos pelos seus ideais liberais que defendiam uma doutrina constitucional. Eça foi internado no Colégio da Lapa, no Porto, de onde saiu em 1861, com dezasseis anos, para a Universidade de Coimbra, onde estudou Direito. Num ambiente boémio da cidade universitária de Coimbra estes jovens reuniam-se para trocar ideias, livros e formas para renovar a vida política e cultural portuguesa, que estava a viver uma autêntica revolução social com a introdução dos novos meios de transportes ferroviários que traziam, todos os dias, novidades do centro da Europa, influenciando esta geração para novas ideologias e valores. Foi nesse grupo que Eça conheceu os futuros escritores e poetas, Teófilo Braga, Ramalho Ortigão, Guerra Junqueiro, Guilherme de Azevedo, Oliveira Martins, entre outros; mas sobretudo, foi aí que travou amizade com Antero de Quental, um jovem carismático a quem os membros do grupo chamavam de líder e que incentivou os restantes a seguir e a difundir as então recentes correntes ideológicas e literárias europeias: o Positivismo, o Socialismo e o Realismo-Naturalismo. Notabilizou-se pela originalidade e riqueza do seu estilo e linguagem, nomeadamente pelo realismo descritivo e pela crítica social constantes nos seus romances mas, tal como o crítico literário, Jacinto Prado Coelho disse: ""foi mais analista social do que psicólogo; ironizou Portugal porque muito o amava e o queria melhor."""</synopsis>
                <title>A Cidade e as Serras</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Maud Hart Lovelace, Vera Neville (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Betsy Ray, Tacy Kelly</characters>
                <date>1980</date>
                <genres>Classics, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Historical, Juvenile, Childrens Classics, Middle Grade, Family</genres>
                <id>1854</id>
                <synopsis>"High School is Heaven! It's Betsy Ray's freshman year at Deep Valley High School, and she and her best childhood chum, Tacy Kelly, are loving every minute. Betsy and Tacy find themselves in the midst of a new crowd of friends, with studies aplenty (including Latin and-ugh-algebra), parties and picnics galore, Sunday night lunches at home-and boys!There's Cab Edwards, the jolly boy next door; handsome Herbert Humphreys; and the mysteriously unfriendly, but maddeningly attractive, Joe Willard. Betsy likes them all, but no boy in particular catches her fancy until she meets the new boy in town, Tony Markham . . . the one she and Tacy call the Tall Dark Handsome Stranger. He's sophisticated, funny, and dashing-and treats Betsy just like a sister. Can Betsy turn him into a beau?An entertaining picture of school clubs, fudge parties, sings around the piano, and Sunday-night suppers in Betsy's hospitable home.' 'Chicago Tribune."</synopsis>
                <title>Heaven to Betsy</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Arthur Japin</author>
                <characters>Giacomo Casanova</characters>
                <date>2006</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Dutch Literature, Literature, Roman, Novels, School, Read For School, Italy, Historical</genres>
                <id>1855</id>
                <synopsis>"In zijn memoires vermeldt Casanova terloops dat Lucia een van de weinige vrouwen is die hij ooit onrecht heeft aangedaan. Maar hoe? Wat is er werkelijk gebeurd? Waarom deed Lucia afstand van haar geluk? ""Een schitterend gebrek"" is haar verhaal, het verslag van een uitzonderlijk leven."</synopsis>
                <title>Een schitterend gebrek</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ahmad Fuadi </author>
                <characters>Alif, Raja, Atang, Said, Dulmajid, Baso, Randai, Sarah, Amak, Kiai Rais, Ustad Salman, Tyson</characters>
                <date>Aug-09</date>
                <genres>Novels, Fiction, Indonesian Literature, Islam, Inspirational, Religion, Drama, Unfinished, Adventure, True Story</genres>
                <id>1856</id>
                <synopsis>"Alif lahir di pinggir Danau Maninjau dan tidak pernah menginjak tanah di luar ranah Minangkabau. Masa kecilnya adalah berburu durian runtuh di rimba Bukit Barisan, bermain bola di sawah berlumpur dan tentu mandi berkecipak di air biru Danau Maninjau.Tiba-tiba saja dia harus naik bus tiga hari tiga malam melintasi punggung Sumatera dan Jawa menuju sebuah desa di pelosok Jawa Timur. Ibunya ingin dia menjadi Buya Hamka walau Alif ingin menjadi Habibie. Dengan setengah hati dia mengikuti perintah Ibunya: belajar di pondok.Di kelas hari pertamanya di Pondok Madani (PM), Alif terkesima dengan “mantera” sakti man jadda wajada. Siapa yang bersungguh-sungguh pasti sukses.Dia terheran-heran mendengar komentator sepakbola berbahasa Arab, anak menggigau dalam bahasa Inggris, merinding mendengar ribuan orang melagukan Syair Abu Nawas dan terkesan melihat pondoknya setiap pagi seperti melayang di udara.Dipersatukan oleh hukuman jewer berantai, Alif berteman dekat dengan Raja dari Medan, Said dari Surabaya, Dulmajid dari Sumenep, Atang dari Bandung dan Baso dari Gowa. Di bawah menara masjid yang menjulang, mereka berenam kerap menunggu maghrib sambil menatap awan lembayung yang berarak pulang ke ufuk. Di mata belia mereka, awan-awan itu menjelma menjadi negara dan benua impian masing-masing. Kemana impian jiwa muda ini membawa mereka? Mereka tidak tahu. Yang mereka tahu adalah: Jangan pernah remehkan impian, walau setinggi apa pun. Tuhan sungguh Maha Mendengar.Bagaimana perjalanan mereka ke ujung dunia ini dimulai? Siapa horor nomor satu mereka? Apa pengalaman mendebarkan di tengah malam buta di sebelah sungai tempat jin buang anak? Bagaimana sampai ada yang kasak-kusuk menjadi mata-mata misterius? Siapa Princess of Madani yang mereka kejar-kejar? Kenapa mereka harus botak berkilat-kilat? Bagaimana sampai Icuk Sugiarto, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ibnu Rusyd, bahkan Maradona sampai akhirnya ikut campur? Ikuti perjalanan hidup yang inspiratif ini langsung dari mata para pelakunya. Negeri Lima Menara adalah buku pertama dari sebuah trilogi."</synopsis>
                <title>Negeri 5 Menara</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Sidney Sheldon</author>
                <characters>Jack Stone, Kemal, Dana Evans, Richard Melton, Jeff Connors, Matt Baker, Taylor Winthrop, Gary Winthrop, Julie Winthrop, Joan Sinisi, Howard Wharton, Dorothy Wharton, Elliot Cromwell, Roger Hudson, Pamela Hudson, Marcel Falcon</characters>
                <date>Jul-01</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Novels, Romance, Drama, Contemporary</genres>
                <id>1857</id>
                <synopsis>"Washington TV anchorwoman Dana Evans (from Best Laid Plans) suspects the accidents befalling the rich Winthrop family, killing all five members, were murders. Like Chicken Little and the sky falling, she chases clues across the world to unravel an international conspiracy. The inheritance goes to charity, so money is not the motive. Her Sarajevo ward Kemal gets expelled, a prosthetic arm, then often naps afternoons under care of kindly new housekeeper. Unseen agents follow her, bug hotel rooms, while an evil mastermind voice overhears taped conversations and supervises regular secret auctions, inviting armed wealthy customers. Witnesses and informants die before, and after meetings. Friends become foes, nobody can be trusted."</synopsis>
                <title>The Sky is Falling</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Richard Brautigan</author>
                <characters>Vida</characters>
                <date>Jan-73</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Novels, Romance, Literature, American, Books About Books, 20th Century, Humor, Literary Fiction, Adult Fiction</genres>
                <id>1858</id>
                <synopsis>"A reclusive young man works in a San Francisco library for unpublishable books. Life's losers, an astonishing number of whom seem to be writers, can bring their manuscripts to the library, where they will be welcomed, registered and shelved. They will not be read, but they will be cherished. In comes Vida, with her manuscript. Her book is about her gorgeous body, in which she feels uncomfortable. The librarian makes her feel comfortable, and together they live in the back of the library until the trip to Tijuana changes them in ways neither of them had ever expected."</synopsis>
                <title>The Abortion</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ian Fleming</author>
                <characters>James Bond, M, Tiffany Case, Felix Leiter</characters>
                <date>2003</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Thriller, Espionage, Mystery, Adventure, Classics, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Action, Spy Thriller</genres>
                <id>1859</id>
                <synopsis>"""Listen, Bond,"" said Tiffany Case. ""It’d take more than Crabmeat Ravigotte to get me into bed with a man. In any event, since it’s your check, I’m going to have caviar, and what the English call 'cutlets,' and some pink champagne. I don’t often date a good-looking Englishman and the dinner’s going to live up to the occasion.""Meet Tiffany Case, a cold, gorgeous, devil-may-care blonde; the kind of girl you could get into a lot of trouble with—if you wanted. She stands between James Bond and the leaders of a diamond-smuggling ring that stretches from Africa via London to the States. Bond uses her to infiltrate this gang, but once in America the hunter becomes the hunted. Bond is in real danger until help comes from an unlikely quarter, the ice-maiden herself …"</synopsis>
                <title>Diamonds Are Forever</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Eoin Colfer</author>
                <characters>Artemis Fowl II, Domovoi Butler, Foaly, Mulch Diggums</characters>
                <date>2004</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Science Fiction, Adventure, Childrens, Short Stories, Urban Fantasy, Magic, Middle Grade</genres>
                <id>1860</id>
                <synopsis>"Mulch Diggums, a dwarf on the run from the Lower Elements Police, is trying to get his hands on the priceless Fei Fei tiara. But stealing it seems too easy. That's because it is too easy. Artemis Fowl, the legendary twelve-year-old criminal mastermind, has set him up. He needs Mulch's help...This is an Eoin Colfer's fantastic new Artemis adventure especially for World Book Day."</synopsis>
                <title>The Seventh Dwarf</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ayu Utami</author>
                <characters>Parang Jati, Sandi Yuda</characters>
                <date>Jun-08</date>
                <genres>Novels, Indonesian Literature, Fiction, Literature, Romance, Adult, Philosophy, Spirituality, Historical, Unfinished</genres>
                <id>1861</id>
                <synopsis>"Yuda, ""si iblis"", seorang pemanjat tebing dan petaruh yang melecehkan nilai-nilai masyarakat. Parang Jati, ""si malaikat"", seorang pemuda berjari duabelas yang dibentuk oleh ayah angkatnya untuk menanggung duka dunia. Marja, ""si manusia"", seorang gadis bertubuh kuda feji dan berjiwa matahari.Mereka terlibat dalam segitiga cinta yang lembut, di antara pengalaman-pengalaman keras yang berawal dari sebuah kejadian aneh- orang mati yang bangkit dari kubur- menuju penyelamatan perbukitan gamping di selatan Jawa.Di antara semua itu, Bilangan Fu sayup-sayup menyingkapkan diri.Pengarang menamai nafas novelnya ""spiritualisme kritis"". Yaitu, yang mengangkat wacana spiritual- keagamaan, kebatinan, maupun mistik- ke dalam kerangka yang menghormatinya sekaligus bersikap kritis kepadanya, yang mengangkat wacana keberimanan, tanpa terjebak dalam dakwah hitam dan putih.Novel ini adalah manifesto Ayu Utami tentang sebuah sikap yang dianggap perlu diutamakan di zaman ini: sikap religius ataupun spiritual, yang kritis."</synopsis>
                <title>Bilangan Fu</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Giles Milton</author>
                <characters>Nathaniel Courthope, Captain of the Swan</characters>
                <date>2005</date>
                <genres>History, Nonfiction, Food, Travel, Adventure, Asia, Historical, Biography, World History, 17th Century</genres>
                <id>1862</id>
                <synopsis>"The tiny island of Run is an insignificant speck in the middle of the Indonesian archipelago-remote, tranquil, and now largely ignored. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, however, Run's harvest of nutmeg turned it into the most lucrative of the Spice Islands, precipitating a fierce and bloody battle between the all-powerful Dutch East India Company and a small band of ragtag British adventurers led by the intrepid Nathaniel Courthope. The outcome of the fighting was one of the most spectacular deals in history: Britain ceded Run to Holland, but in return was given another small island, Manhattan. A brilliant adventure story of unthinkable hardship and savagery, the navigation of uncharted waters, and the exploitation of new worlds, Nathaniel's Nutmeg is a remarkable chapter in the history of the colonial powers."</synopsis>
                <title>Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Alessandro Baricco</author>
                <characters>Dann Rail, Jun Rail, Hector Horeau, Pekish, Pehnt, Mormy</characters>
                <date>Oct-97</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Italian Literature, Novels, Italy, Contemporary, Roman, Unfinished, 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction</genres>
                <id>1863</id>
                <synopsis>"Il primo libro di narrativa di Baricco: il romanzo è ambientato nell'Ottocento, in una cittadina immaginaria, Quinnipak; è generoso nel presentare storie e personaggi, ciascuno con i suoi sogni e caratteri. E tra questi ci sono il signore e la signora Rail, che si amano di un amore tutto loro, e il bambino Penth con il suo amico Pekisch, e due bande che partono dagli estremi del paese per incontrarsi. La narrazione è costruita come un montaggio cinematografico e orchestrata come una partitura musicale."</synopsis>
                <title>Castelli di rabbia</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ann Coulter</author>
                <characters>Mumia Abu-Jamal, Alger Hiss</characters>
                <date>2006</date>
                <genres>Politics, Nonfiction, Humor, Audiobook, Religion, Political Science, Cultural, History, Evolution, Womens</genres>
                <id>1864</id>
                <synopsis>"""If a martian landed in America and set out to determine the nation's official state religion, he would have to conclude it is liberalism, while Christianity and Judaism are prohibited by law. Many Americans are outraged by liberal hostility to traditional religion. But as Ann Coulter reveals in this, her most explosive book yet, to focus solely on the Left's attacks on our Judeo-Christian tradition is to miss a larger point: liberalism ""is"" a religion-a godless one. And it is now entrenched as the state religion of this county. Though liberalism rejects the idea of God and reviles people of faith, it bears all the attributes of a religion. In ""Godless,"" Coulter throws open the doors of the Church of Liberalism, showing us its sacraments (abortion), its holy writ (""Roe v. Wade""), its martyrs (from Soviet spy Alger Hiss to cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal), its clergy (public school teachers), its churches (government schools, where prayer is prohibited but condoms are free), its doctrine of infallibility (as manifest in the ""absolute moral authority"" of spokesmen from Cindy Sheehan to Max Cleland), and its cosmology (in which mankind is an inconsequential accident). Then, of course, there's the liberal creation myth: Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. For liberals, evolution is the touchstone that separates the enlightened from the benighted. But Coulter neatly reverses the pretense that liberals are rationalists guided by the ideals of free inquiry and the scientific method. She exposes the essential truth about Darwinian evolution that liberals refuse to confront: ""it is bogus science."" Writing with a keen appreciation for genuine science, Coulter reveals that the so-called gaps in the theory of evolution are all there is-Darwinism is nothing but a gap. After 150 years of dedicated searching into the fossil record, evolution's proponents have failed utterly to substantiate its claims. And a long line of supposed evidence, from the infamous Piltdown Man to the ""evolving"" peppered moths of England, has been exposed as hoaxes. Still, liberals treat those who question evolution as religious heretics and prohibit students from hearing about real science when it contradicts Darwinism. And these are the people who say they want to keep faith out of the classroom? Liberals' absolute devotion to Darwinism, Coulter shows, has nothing to do with evolution's scientific validity and everything to do with its refusal to admit the possibility of God as a guiding force. They will brook no challenges to the official religion. Fearlessly confronting the high priests of the Church of Liberalism and ringing with Coulter's razor-sharp wit, ""Godless"" is the most important and riveting book yet from one of today's most lively and impassioned conservative voices. ""Liberals love to boast that they are not 'religious, ' which is what one would expect to hear from the state-sanctioned religion. Of course liberalism is a religion. It has its own cosmology, its own miracles, its own beliefs in the supernatural, its own churches, its own high priests, its own saints, its own total worldview, and its own explanation of the existence of the universe. In other words, liberalism contains all the attributes of what is generally known as 'religion.'"" -From Godless"</synopsis>
                <title>Godless: The Church of Liberalism</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Victoria Holt</author>
                <characters>Gilly, Martha Leigh, Connan TreMellyn, Alvean TreMellyn, Mrs. Polgrey, Celestine Nansellock, Peter Nansellock, Linda Treslyn, Alice TreMellyn</characters>
                <date>1960</date>
                <genres>Romance, Gothic, Mystery, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical Romance, Gothic Romance, Historical, Suspense, Romantic Suspense</genres>
                <id>1865</id>
                <synopsis>"Mount Mellyn stood as proud and magnificent as she had envisioned... But what about its master-Connan TreMellyn? Was Martha Leigh's new employer as romantic as his name sounded? As she approached the sprawling mansion towering above the cliffs of Cornwall, an odd chill of apprehension overcame her. TreMellyn's young daugher, Alvean, proved as spoiled and difficult as the three governesses before Martha had discovered. But it was the girl's father whose cool, arrogant demeanor unleashed unfamiliar sensations and turmoil-even as whispers of past tragedy and present danger begin to insinuate themselves into Martha's life. Powerless against her growing desire for the enigmatic Connan, she is drawn deeper into family secrets-as passion overpowers reason, sending her head and heart spinning. But though evil lurks in the shadows, so does love-and the freedom to find a golden promise forever..."</synopsis>
                <title>Mistress of Mellyn</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Philip Roth</author>
                <characters>Nathan Zuckerman, E.I. Lonoff, Hope Lonoff, Amy Bellette, Felix Abravanel</characters>
                <date>2005</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Novels, Literary Fiction, Literature, American, Jewish, Classics, Contemporary, 20th Century, Americana</genres>
                <id>1866</id>
                <synopsis>"When talented young writer Nathan Zuckerman makes his pilgrimage to sit at the feet of his hero, the reclusive master of American Literature, E. I. Lonoff, he soon finds himself enmeshed in the great Jewish writer's domestic life, with all its complexity, artifice and drive for artistic truth. As Nathan sits in breathlessly awkward conversation with his idol, a glimpse of a dark-haired beauty through a closing doorway leaves him reeling. He soon learns that the entrancing vision is Amy Bellette, but her position in the Lonoff household - student? mistress? - remains tantalisingly unclear. Over a disturbed and confusing dinner, Nathan gleans snippets of Amy's haunting Jewish background, and begins to draw his own fantastical conclusions..."</synopsis>
                <title>The Ghost Writer</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Charles Stross </author>
                <characters>Bob Howard, Dominique ""Mo"" O''Brien</characters>
                <date>Jan-06</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Humor, Lovecraftian, Thriller, Science Fiction Fantasy, Paranormal</genres>
                <id>1867</id>
                <synopsis>"NEVER VOLUNTEER FOR ACTIVE DUTY ...Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob's under a desk restoring lost data. His world was dull and safe - but then he went and got Noticed. Now, Bob is up to his neck in spycraft, parallel universes, dimension-hopping terrorists, monstrous elder gods and the end of the world. Only one thing is certain: it will take more than a full system reboot to sort this mess out ...This is the first novel in the Laundry Files."</synopsis>
                <title>The Atrocity Archives</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Federico García Lorca, Allen Josephs (Editor), Juan Caballero (Editor)</author>
                <characters>La Madre, La Novia, La Suegra, La Mujer de Leonardo, La Criada, Leonardo, La Luna, La Muerte (como Mendiga)</characters>
                <date>2005</date>
                <genres>Plays, Classics, Spanish Literature, Drama, Theatre, Spain, Poetry, School, Fiction, Literature</genres>
                <id>1868</id>
                <synopsis>"El tema de esta obra surgio a raiz de una noticia aparecida en prensa: dos amantes se fugan en la vispera de la boda de la mujer con otro hombre. Garia Lorca convierte la realidad en poesia. En su obra hay ansias de libertad, andalucismo, simbolismo y muerte, pero por encima de todo, poesia dramatica. Bodas de sangre es, pues, una obra teatral donde las desgarradas pasiones de sus protagonistas se desatan ante la atenta mirada de la luna, personificacion hermosa y terrible de la muerte."</synopsis>
                <title>Bodas de sangre</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Mary Westmacott (Pseudonym), Agatha Christie</author>
                <characters>Kate Dawson, Joan Scudamore, Rodney Scudamore, Blanche Haggard, Tony Scudamore, Averil Harrison-Wilmott, Barbara Wray, William Wray, Myrna Randolph, Michael Callaway, Nobby Reid, Charles Edward Sherston, Leslie Adeline Sherston, Edward Harrison-Wilmott, Agnes</characters>
                <date>Apr-97</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Classics, Drama, Crime, British Literature, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1869</id>
                <synopsis>"Returning from a visit to her daughter in Iraq, Joan Scudamore finds herself unexpectedly alone and stranded in an isolated rest house by flooding of the railway tracks. This sudden solitude compels Joan to assess her life for the first time ever and face up to many of the truths about herself. Looking back over the years, Joan painfully re-examines her attitudes, relationships and actions and becomes increasingly uneasy about the person who is revealed to her."</synopsis>
                <title>Absent in the Spring</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Cassandra Clare , Hye-Kyung Baek (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Theresa ""Tessa"" Gray, William Herondale, James ""Jem"" Carstairs</characters>
                <date>Sept-13</date>
                <genres>Graphic Novels, Fantasy, Manga, Young Adult, Romance, Steampunk, Paranormal, Historical Fiction, Vampires, Comics</genres>
                <id>1870</id>
                <synopsis>"A prequel to Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments series, The Infernal Devices is the story of Tessa Gray, a sixteen-year-old American girl traveling alone to Victorian London who runs afoul of the city’s sordid supernatural underworld. Rescued by the Shadowhunters of the London Institute, Tessa quickly finds herself caught up in an intrigue that may very well destroy her new friends – including the two enigmatic young men, Jem and Will, who have taken her under their wing…"</synopsis>
                <title>The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Prince</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Bettina Belitz</author>
                <characters>Elisabeth Sturm, Colin Jerimiah Blackburn, Leopold Sturm, Tilmann Schütz, Tessa</characters>
                <date>2010</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, German Literature, Romance, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Young Adult Fantasy, Fiction, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1871</id>
                <synopsis>"Es gibt genau einen Grund, warum Elisabeth Sturm nicht mit fliegenden Fahnen vom platten Land zurück nach Köln geht, und dieser Grund heißt Colin. Der arrogante, unnahbare, aber leider auch äußerst faszinierende Colin gibt Ellie ein Rätsel nach dem anderen auf, und obwohl sie sich mit aller Macht dagegen wehrt, kann sie sich seiner Ausstrahlung nicht entziehen.Bald muss Ellie einsehen, dass Colin viel mehr mit ihrer Familie verbindet, als sie sich je vorstellen könnte. Ihr Vater Leo verbirgt ein Geheimnis, das ihn und Colin zu erbitterten Gegnern macht – und das Ellie in tödliche Gefahr bringt. Dass sie mit ihren seltsamen nächtlichen Träumen den Schlüssel zu dem Rätsel in der Hand hält, begreift Ellie erst, als ihre Gefühle für Colin alles zu zerstören drohen, was sie liebt."</synopsis>
                <title>Splitterherz</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Nicholas Evans</author>
                <characters>Helen Ross, Luke Calder, Buck Calder</characters>
                <date>1999</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Romance, Animals, Drama, Contemporary, Nature, Wolves, Adult Fiction, Mystery, Adult</genres>
                <id>1872</id>
                <synopsis>"Helen Ross is a 29-year-old biologist, sent into a hostile place to protect the wolves from those who seek to destroy them. She struggles for survival and for self-esteem, embarking on a love affair with the 18-year-old son of her most powerful opponent, brutal and charismatic rancher, Buck Calder."</synopsis>
                <title>The Loop</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jo Nesbø </author>
                <characters>Harry Hole</characters>
                <date>2007</date>
                <genres>Crime, Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Scandinavian Literature, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Nordic Noir, Audiobook, Suspense</genres>
                <id>1873</id>
                <synopsis>"A 14-year old girl is raped at one of the Salvation Army summer camps. Twelve years later, at a Christmas concert in a square in Oslo, a Salvation Army soldier is executed by a man in the crowd. A press photographer has caught a suspect on one of the photos of the concert. Beate Lønn, the identification expert, is confused by how the face can change from one photo to the next. Inspector Harry Hole’s search for the faceless man takes place on the seamy side of the city, among those who seek eternal – or just momentary – redemption. And the gunman has not yet completed his mission."</synopsis>
                <title>Frelseren</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>L. Frank Baum</author>
                <characters>Uncle Henry, Dorothy Gale, Tin Woodman, Scarecrow, Cowardly Lion, Tik-Tok, Billina, Princess Ozma, Nome King, Jack Pumpkinhead, Soldier with the Green Whiskers, Jellia Jamb, Glinda, Jinjur, Princess Langwidere, Hungry Tiger, Kaliko, Queen of Ev, Evring, Evardo, The Saw-Horse</characters>
                <date>1907</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Classics, Fiction, Childrens, Young Adult, Adventure, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Audiobook, Magic</genres>
                <id>1874</id>
                <synopsis>"Readers of all ages will welcome the chance to be reunited with Dorothy Gale and such beloved characters as the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Cowardly Lion, as well as to meet new favorites such as the Hungry Tiger, whose appetite is never satisfied; Princess Langwidere, who has thirty heads; Billina, a talking chicken; and Tiktok, a mechanical man.Blown overboard while sailing with her uncle, Dorothy finds herself in the fairy realm of Ev. She sets out with her friends to rescue the Queen of Ev and her ten children, who have been imprisoned by the cruel Nome King. But even Ozma, the wise Ruler of Oz, is no match for the clever king, and it's up to Dorothy to save everyone from terrible danger. But will the Nome King's enchantments be too much even for the plucky little girl from Kansas?"</synopsis>
                <title>Ozma of Oz</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Neil Gaiman , Yoshitaka Amano (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Dream of the Endless, Matthew the Raven, Cain (DC Comics), Abel (DC Comics), Mildred (Hecatae), Mordred/Morganna (Hecatae), Cynthia (Hecatae)</characters>
                <date>2000</date>
                <genres>Graphic Novels, Fantasy, Comics, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Mythology, Comic Book, Horror, Japan, Art</genres>
                <id>1875</id>
                <synopsis>"Sandman fans should feel lucky that master fantasy writer Neil Gaiman discovered the mythical world of Japanese fables while researching his translation of Hayao Miyazaki's film Princess Mononoke. At the same time, while preparing for the Sandman 10th anniversary, he met Yoshitaka Amano, his artist for the 11th Sandman book. Amano is the famed designer of the Final Fantasy game series. The product of Gaiman's immersion in Japanese art, culture, and history, Sandman: Dream Hunters is a classic Japanese tale (adapted from ""The Fox, the Monk, and the Mikado of All Night's Dreaming"") that he has subtly morphed into his Sandman universe.Like most fables, the story begins with a wager between two jealous animals, a fox and a badger: which of them can drive a young monk from his solitary temple? The winner will make the temple into a new fox or badger home. But as the fox adopts the form of a woman to woo the monk from his hermitage, she falls in love with him. Meanwhile, in far away Kyoto, the wealthy Master of Yin-Yang, the onmyoji, is plagued by his fears and seeks tranquility in his command of sorcery. He learns of the monk and his inner peace; he dispatches demons to plague the monk in his dreams and eventually kill him to bring his peace to the onmyoji. The fox overhears the demons on their way to the monk and begins her struggle to save the man whom at first she so envied.Dream Hunters is a beautiful package. From the ink-brush painted endpapers to the luminous page layouts-including Amano's gate-fold painting of Morpheus in a sea of reds, oranges, and violets-this book has been crafted for a sensuous reading experience. Gaiman has developed as a prose stylist in the last several years with novels and stories such as Neverwhere and Stardust, and his narrative rings with a sense of timelessness and magic that gently sustains this adult fairy tale. The only disappointment here is that the book is so brief. One could imagine this creative team being even better suited to a longer story of more epic proportions. On the final page of Dream Hunters, in fact, Amano suggest that he will collaborate further with Mr. Gaiman in the future. Readers of Dream Hunters will hope that Amano's dream comes true. -Patrick O'Kelley"</synopsis>
                <title>The Sandman: The Dream Hunters</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Frank Herbert</author>
                <characters>""John Roe O''Neill""</characters>
                <date>Dec-83</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Post Apocalyptic, Horror, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Dystopia, Thriller, Speculative Fiction, Apocalyptic</genres>
                <id>1876</id>
                <synopsis>"The White Plague, a marvelous and terrifyingly plausible blend of fiction and visionary theme, tells of one man who is pushed over the edge of sanity by the senseless murder of his family and who, reappearing several months later as the so-called Madman, unleashes a terrible plague upon the human race—one that zeros in, unerringly and fatally, on women."</synopsis>
                <title>The White Plague</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ngaio Marsh</author>
                <characters>Nigel Bathgate, Sir Hubert Handesley, Charles Rankin, Arthur Wilde, Angela North, Marjorie Wilde, Rosamund Grant, Doctor Foma Tokareff, Vassily Ivanovitch, Mr. Sumiloff, Detective-Sergeant Bailey, Roderick Alleyn</characters>
                <date>2000</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Detective, Classics, British Literature, Historical, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, Murder Mystery</genres>
                <id>1877</id>
                <synopsis>"At Sir Hubert Handesley's country house party, five guests have gathered for the uproarious parlor game of ""Murder."" Yet no one is laughing when the lights come up on an actual corpse, the good-looking and mysterious Charles Rankin. Scotland Yard's Inspector Roderick Alleyn arrives to find a complete collection of alibis, a missing butler, and an intricate puzzle of betrayal and sedition in the search for the key player in this deadly game."</synopsis>
                <title>A Man Lay Dead</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Cecelia Ahern</author>
                <characters>Steve, Kitty Logan, Constance &amp; Bob</characters>
                <date>2013</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Chick Lit, Romance, Contemporary, Audiobook, Adult Fiction, Adult, Ireland, Irish Literature, Novels</genres>
                <id>1878</id>
                <synopsis>"Internationally bestselling author Cecelia Ahern delivers her biggest and most compelling book yet—a tale of secrets, second chances, and the hidden connections that unite our livesScandal has derailed journalist Kitty Logan's career, a setback that is soon compounded by an even more devastating loss. Constance, the woman who taught Kitty everything she knew, is dying. At her mentor's bedside, Kitty asks her, ""What is the one story you always wanted to write?""The answer lies in a single sheet of paper buried in Constance's office—a list of one hundred names—with no notes or explanation. But before Kitty can ask her friend, it is too late.Determined to unlock the mystery and rebuild her own shaky confidence, Kitty throws herself into the investigation, tracking down each of the names on the list and uncovering their connection. Meeting these ordinary people and learning their stories, Kitty begins to piece together an unexpected portrait of Constance's life... and starts to understand her own."</synopsis>
                <title>One Hundred Names</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Zeynep Korkmaz (Editor)</author>
                <characters>Mustafa Kemal Atatürk</characters>
                <date>1991</date>
                <genres>History, Turkish Literature, Turkish, Politics, Nonfiction, Classics, Biography, Education, Historical, Literature</genres>
                <id>1879</id>
                <synopsis>"Atatürk`ün kendi kaleminden çıkan bu eser, yine Atatürk tarafından Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi`nin 15-20 Ekim 1927 tarihleri arasında Ankara`da toplanan ikinci kurultayında 36,5 saat süren ve altı günde okunarak tarihi bir hitabeye dayandığı için NUTUK adını almıştır.1919 senesi Mayısının 19. günü Samsun'a çıktım. Vaziyet ve manzara-i umumiye: Osmanlı Devleti'nin dahil bulunduğu grup, Harb-i Umumide mağlup olmuş, Osmanlı ordusu her tarafta zedelenmiş, şeriaiti ağır bir mütarekename imzalanmış. Büyük harbin uzun seneleri zarfında, millet, yorgun ve fakir bir halde. Millet ve memleketi Harb-i Umumiye sevk edenler, kendi hayatları endişesine düşerek, memleketten firar etmişler. Saltanat ve hilafet mevkiini işgal eden Vahdettin, mütereddi, şahsını ve yalnız tahtını temin edebileceğini tahayyül ettiği deni tedbirler araştırmakta. Damat Ferit Paşa'nın riyasetindeki kabine; aciz, haysiyetsiz, cebin, yalnız Padişah'ın iradesine tabi ve onunla beraber şahıslarını vikaye edebilecek herhangi bir vaziyete razı.Ordu'nun elinden esliha ve cephanesi alınmış ve alınmakta...İtilaf Devletleri, mütareke ahkamına rivayete lüzum görmüyorlar. Birer vesile ile, İtilaf donanmaları ve askerleri İstanbul'da. Adana vilayeti Fransızlar; Urfa, Maraş, Ayıntap İngilizler tarafından işgal edilmiş. Antalya ve Konya'da, İtalyan kıtaat-ı askeriyesi; Merzifon ve Samsun'da İngiliz askerleri bulunuyor. Her tarafta, ecnebi zabit ve memurları ve hususi adamları faaliyette. Nihayet, mebde-i kelam kabul ettiğimiz tarihten dört gün evvel, 15 Mayıs 1919'da İtilaf Devletleri'nin muvafakatiyle Yunan ordusu İzmir'e ihraç ediliyor.(Kitabın İçinden)"</synopsis>
                <title>Nutuk</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Beverly Cleary</author>
                <characters>Ramona Quimby, Beezus Quimby</characters>
                <date>Jan-82</date>
                <genres>Childrens, Fiction, Middle Grade, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult, Classics, Chapter Books, Juvenile, Humor, Kids</genres>
                <id>1880</id>
                <synopsis>"Mr. Quimby's going to college, Mrs. Quimby's going to work. Now that Ramona is eight, she can go to a new school with a new teacher and ride the bus all by herself. But after school she has to stay with Grandmother Kemp and be nice to that bratty little Willa Jean until Beezus�who's tempermental enough to ruin anyone's day�comes to take her home. Life isn't as easy for Ramona as it used to be. All the Quimbys have to adjust, and Ramona gets her chance to prove that she's ""big enough for her family to depend on."""</synopsis>
                <title>Ramona Quimby, Age 8</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Bill Watterson</author>
                <characters>Calvin, Hobbes</characters>
                <date>1990</date>
                <genres>Comics, Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels, Comic Strips, Comic Book, Comedy, Graphic Novels Comics, Childrens, Cartoon</genres>
                <id>1881</id>
                <synopsis>"In Calvin and Hobbes book Weirdos From Another Planet!, this power-packed extravaganza of creative energy and imagination feature the childhood fun and fantasy that was a Watterson trademark. Weirdos From Another Planet! is out of this world!"</synopsis>
                <title>Weirdos from Another Planet!</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Lesley Pearse</author>
                <characters>Belle Brooks</characters>
                <date>Feb-11</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Romance, Fiction, Historical Romance, Chick Lit, Adult, Drama, Mystery, Contemporary, Crime</genres>
                <id>1882</id>
                <synopsis>"London 1910Fifteen year-old Belle has lived in a brothel in Seven Dials all her life, with no understanding of what happens in the rooms upstairs. But her innocence is shattered when she witnesses the murder of one of the girls and, subsequently snatched from the streets by the killer, she is sold into prostitution in Paris.No longer mistress of her own fate, Belle is blown across the globe to sensuous New Orleans where she comes of age and learns to enjoy life as a courtesan. Yet thoughts of home - and the knowledge her status as golden girl cannot last - compel her to break out of her gilded cage.But Belle finds escaping tougher than she imagined, for her life is threatened by desperate men who crave her beauty and attention. Armed only with resourcefulness and spirit, she has a long and dangerous journey ahead of her.Will courage be enough to sustain her? Can she make it back to her family and friends and find her chance at true happiness?"</synopsis>
                <title>Belle</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Florencia Bonelli </author>
                <characters>Laura Escalante, Nahueltruz Guor</characters>
                <date>Sept-08</date>
                <genres>Romance, Historical Romance, Historical Fiction, Historical, Adult Fiction</genres>
                <id>1883</id>
                <synopsis>"Dicen que los indios jamás olvidan una ofensa, que la venganza entre ellos es cosa sagrada y que todo lo que tienen de agradecidos y humanitarios lo tienen de rencorosos y vengativos. Y aunque Lorenzo Rosas vista a la última moda parisina y hable tres lenguas, en su fuero íntimo sigue siendo Nahueltruz Guor, el ranquel que seis años atrás juro destruir a la culpable de su desdicha: Laura Escalante.En la sociedad porteña ella es conocida corno la viuda de Riglos, una mujer hermosa, rica, inalcanzable. Dueña de una editorial, se mide ideológicamente con figuras de la talla de Sarmiento y MansÜla y escribe un folletín que mantiene en vilo a muchas lectoras. Se le atribuyen, además, varios affaires, el más resonante con el general Julio Roca, quien se apresta para su conquista del indio. Pero lo cierto es que, detrás de esa imagen de mujer fatal, Laura esconde un alma sensible y un corazón destrozado.El rencor de Nahueltruz parece tan profundo como el amor que ella siente por él. En medio de esta lucha de voluntades poderosas, los fantasmas del pasado reaparecen para complicar la situación y se interponen nuevos obstáculos y malentendidos. ¿Podrá Nahueltruz vencer el odio que lo domina y perdonarla?"</synopsis>
                <title>La vuelta del ranquel</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Richard Powers</author>
                <characters>Stuart Ressler, Jeanette Koss</characters>
                <date>1991</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Literature, Music, Novels, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, American, Romance, Unfinished, 20th Century</genres>
                <id>1884</id>
                <synopsis>"A national bestseller, voted by Time as the #1 novel of 1991, selected as one of the ""Best Books of 1991"" by Publishers Weekly, and nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award-a magnificent story that probes the meaning of love, science, music, and art, by the brilliant author of Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance."</synopsis>
                <title>The Gold Bug Variations</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Florencia Bonelli </author>
                <characters>Laura Escalante, Nahueltruz Guor, Blanca Montes, Mariano Rosas</characters>
                <date>Mar-10</date>
                <genres>Romance, Historical Romance, Historical Fiction, Historical, Adult</genres>
                <id>1885</id>
                <synopsis>"Un relato de amor apasionado, donde indios, blancos y mujeres cautivas entretejen una trama que perdura para siempre en la mente del oyente. Corre el año 1873 y la sociedad portea se consolida alrededor de las familias con apellidos ilustres. Laura Escalante, hija de un general de la Nación, es una joven bellísima con ideas claras y convicciones fuertes. Cuando viaja a Córdoba para atender a su hermano enfermo, conoce al indio ranquel Nahueltruz Guor y su vida cambia para siempre. Un amor irrefrenable, enfrentado a todos y a todo, incluso a ellos mismos, los hace transitar momentos dolorosos, llenos de aventuras, desencuentros y acción, en el marco de la pica lucha entre indios y blancos que ha definido a nuestro país desde entonces.Florencia Bonelli, con maestra narrativa y un profundo conocimiento de la historia argentina, ofrece en Indias blancas un relato de amor apasionado, donde indios, blancos, y mujeres cautivas entretejen una trama que perdura para siempre en la mente del oyente.  Please note: This audiobook is in Castilian Spanish."</synopsis>
                <title>Indias blancas</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ludwig Bemelmans</author>
                <characters>Madeline, Miss Clavel, Doctor Cohn</characters>
                <date>1989</date>
                <genres>Picture Books, Childrens, Classics, Fiction, France, Kids, Poetry, Realistic Fiction, Juvenile, Young Adult</genres>
                <id>1886</id>
                <synopsis>"Madeline is one of the best-loved characters in children's literature. Set in picturesque Paris, this tale of a brave little girl's trip to the hospital was a Caldecott Honor Book in 1940 and has as much appeal today as it did then. The combination of a spirited heroine, timelessly appealing art, cheerful humor, and rhythmic text makes Madeline a perennial favorite with children of all ages."</synopsis>
                <title>Madeline</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Bill Watterson</author>
                <characters>Calvin, Hobbes</characters>
                <date>1991</date>
                <genres>Humor, Comics, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Strips, Comic Book, Comedy, Childrens, Cartoon</genres>
                <id>1887</id>
                <synopsis>"The praise and popularity of Calvin and Hobbes continue to escalate as the hottest comic strip around reaches its fifth birthday. With keen insight, Bill Watterson depicts life through the eyes of a child, and the limits of our imaginations are challenged as we accompany Calvin and Hobbes while they stir up trouble, travel through time, transmogrify themselves-and just have fun in everything they do."</synopsis>
                <title>The Revenge of the Baby-Sat</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Terry Brooks </author>
                <characters>Nest Freemark, John Ross</characters>
                <date>Aug-99</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Magic, Epic Fantasy, Demons, Horror, Epic</genres>
                <id>1888</id>
                <synopsis>"Eight centuries ago the first Knight of the Word was commissioned to combat the demonic evil of the Void. Now that daunting legacy has passed to John Ross - along with powerful magic and the knowledge that his actions are all that stand between a living hell and humanity's future.Then, after decades of service to the Word, an unspeakable act of violence shatters John Ross's weary faith. Haunted by guilt, he turns his back on his dread gift, settling down to build a normal life, untroubled by demons and nightmares.But a fallen Knight makes a tempting prize for the Void, which could bend the Knight's magic to its own evil ends. And once the demons on Ross's trail track him to Seattle, neither he nor anyone close to him will be safe. His only hope is Nest Freemark, a college student who wields an extraordinary magic all her own. Five years earlier, Ross had aided Nest when the future of humanity rested upon her choice between Word and Void. Now Nest must return the favor. She must restore Ross's faith, or his life - and hers - will be forfeit..."</synopsis>
                <title>A Knight of the Word</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Conn Iggulden</author>
                <characters>Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, Brutus, Marcus Licinius Crassus, Vercingetorix, Marcus Antonius, Augustus, Julius Caesar</characters>
                <date>Jan-06</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, War, Roman, Fantasy, Military Fiction, Action, Adventure, Novels</genres>
                <id>1889</id>
                <synopsis>"From the author of the bestselling The Dangerous Book for Boys With his acclaimed Emperor novels, author Conn Iggulden brings a dazzling world to life–the rich, complex world of ancient Rome as seen through the eyes of one extraordinary man: Julius Caesar. Now Iggulden returns to the story of Julius Caesar and a realm that stretches from the sands of North Africa to the coast of Britain. Against this magnificent backdrop, Caesar, his first victories under his belt and a series of key alliances in place, makes his move toward power and glory–and commands his famous legions on one of history’s bloodiest and most daring military campaigns. It is the heart of the first century B.C. For Julius Caesar, the time has come to enter the treacherous political battleground that has become Rome. Having proved his valor in the slaves’ revolt, Caesar is strengthened by the love and vision of a beautiful older woman, and by the sword of his loyal friend, Marcus Brutus. And when he is appointed to a new position of power, Caesar manages to do what none of the other great figures of his time could: capture the hearts of the Roman people themselves. Crushing a rebellion, bringing order to the teeming city, Caesar then makes the move that will change history. He leaves Rome for the foothills of the Alps. And with an army made in his own image, he begins a daring charge through Gaul, across the English Channel, and to the wilds of tribal Britain. Here, in a series of cataclysmic clashes, the legend of Julius Caesar will be forged. And while Caesar and Brutus pit their lives–and those of their men–against the armies of the wilderness, their political adversaries in Rome grow at once more fearful and more formidable. So when the fighting at the dominion’s edge is over, the greatest danger to Julius Caesar will await him on the Tiber–with a man who wants Rome himself. From the clash of armies to the heat of a woman’s seduction, from the thunder of battle to the orgies of pleasure and plunder that follow in a warrior’s wake, Emperor: The Field of Swords captures in riveting detail a world being shaped by a brilliant civilization. And in this extraordinary novel, the fate of Rome is being driven by the ambitions of a single man. A man with an unmatched genius for power.From the Hardcover edition."</synopsis>
                <title>The Field of Swords</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Conn Iggulden</author>
                <characters>Brutus, Cleopatra, Augustus, Julius Caesar</characters>
                <date>Apr-07</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, War, Fantasy, Roman, Adventure, Action, Novels, Ancient</genres>
                <id>1890</id>
                <synopsis>"The year is 53 B.C. Fresh from victory in Gaul, Julius Caesar leads battle-hardened legions across the Rubicon river–threatening Rome herself. Even the master strategist Pompey is caught unprepared by the strike, and forced to abandon his city. The armies of Rome will face each other at last in civil war, led by the two greatest generals ever to walk the seven hills. Thus begins Conn Iggulden’s towering saga of Julius Caesar as he approaches his final destiny—a destiny that will be decided not by legions but by his friend Brutus and an Egyptian queen named Cleopatra, who will bear his only son....For Caesar, the campaign against Pompey will test his military genius and his appetite for glory to their limits, as the greatest fighting machine the world has ever seen divides against itself in a bloody conflict that will set brother against brother until victory or death. But for Caesar, another kingdom beckons—a world of ancient mysteries and languid sensuality, where a beautiful, bewitching woman waits to snare his heart. The Gods of War follows Julius Caesar through politics and passion, ruthless ambition and private grief, and into the corruption of power itself. Those he has loved will play a part in his triumphs—as will the jealousy and hatred of his enemies.From the spectacles of the arena to the whispered lies of conspirators, Conn Iggulden brings to life a world of monumental drama. And at its heart is one extraordinary friendship—marked by fierce loyalty and bitter betrayal, with dark events shrouded in noble ideals.From the Hardcover edition."</synopsis>
                <title>The Gods of War</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Stephen R. Donaldson</author>
                <characters>Angus Thermopyle, Nick Succorso, Morn Hyland, Davies Hyland</characters>
                <date>Jul-92</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Space Opera, Science Fiction Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Space, Adventure, Thriller, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1891</id>
                <synopsis>"Author of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, one of the most acclaimed fantasy series of all time, master storyteller Stephen R. Donaldson returns with this exciting and long-awaited new series that takes us into a stunningly imagined future to tell a timeless story of adventure and the implacable conflict of good and evil within each of us.Angus Thermopyle was an ore pirate and a murderer; even the most disreputable asteroid pilots of Delta Sector stayed locked out of his way.  Those who didn't ended up in the lockup-or dead.  But when Thermopyle arrived at Mallory's Bar &amp; Sleep with a gorgeous woman by his side the regulars had to take notice.  Her name was Morn Hyland, and she had been a police officer-until she met up with Thermopyle.But one person in Mallory's Bar wasn't intimidated.  Nick Succorso had his own reputation as a bold pirate and he had a sleek frigate fitted for deep space.  Everyone knew that Thermopyle and Succorso were on a collision course.  What nobody expected was how quickly it would be over-or how devastating victory would be.  It was common enough example of rivalry and revenge-or so everyone thought.  The REAL story was something entirely different.In The Real Story, Stephen R. Donaldson takes us to a remarkably detailed world of faster-than-light travel, politics, betrayal, and a shadowy presence just outside our view to tell the fiercest, most profound story he has ever written."</synopsis>
                <title>The Gap Into Conflict: The Real Story</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Richard Matheson</author>
                <characters>Scott Carey</characters>
                <date>2002</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Horror, Fiction, Fantasy, Classics, American, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy, Family, Adventure</genres>
                <id>1892</id>
                <synopsis>"While on holiday, Scott Carey is exposed to a cloud of radioactive spray shortly after he accidentally ingests insecticide. The radioactivity acts as a catalyst for the bug spray, causing his body to shrink at a rate of approximately 1/7 of an inch per day. A few weeks later, Carey can no longer deny the truth: not only is he losing weight, he is also shorter than he was and deduces, to his dismay, that his body will continue to shrink."</synopsis>
                <title>The Shrinking Man</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kathleen E. Woodiwiss</author>
                <characters>Heather Simmons, Brandon Birmingham</characters>
                <date>Apr-72</date>
                <genres>Romance, Historical Romance, Historical, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Adult, Chick Lit, Regency, Classics, Pirates</genres>
                <id>1893</id>
                <synopsis>"Doomed to a life of unending toil, Heather Simmons fears for her innocence — until a shocking, desperate act forces her to flee... and to seek refuge in the arms of a virile and dangerous stranger.A lusty adventurer married to the sea, Captain Brandon Birmingham courts scorn and peril when he abducts the beautiful fugitive from the tumultuous London dockside. But no power on Earth can compel him to relinquish his exquisite prize. For he is determined to make the sapphire-eyed lovely his woman... and to carry her off to far, uncharted realms of sensuous, passionate love."</synopsis>
                <title>The Flame and the Flower</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Lee Child </author>
                <characters>Jacob ""Jake"" Mark, Susan Mark, Theresa Lee, John Sansom, Jack Reacher</characters>
                <date>Apr-09</date>
                <genres>Thriller, Fiction, Mystery, Crime, Suspense, Action, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, Adventure, Terrorism</genres>
                <id>1894</id>
                <synopsis>"Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of tell-tale signs. Mostly because they're nervous. By definition they're all first-timers.There are twelve things to look for: No one who has worked in law enforcement will ever forget them.New York City. The subway, two o'clock in the morning. Jack Reacher studies his fellow passengers. Four are OK. The fifth isn't.The train brakes for Grand Central Station. Will Reacher intervene, and save lives? Or is he wrong? Will his intervention cost lives - including his own?"</synopsis>
                <title>Gone Tomorrow</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Caleb Carr </author>
                <characters>Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, Stevie Taggert, Cyrus Montrose, Sara Howard, John Schuyler Moore, Marcus Isaacson, Lucius Isaacson, Elspeth Hunter</characters>
                <date>1997</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Crime, Thriller, Historical, Mystery Thriller, Historical Mystery, Suspense, Horror</genres>
                <id>1895</id>
                <synopsis>"In The Angel of Darkness, Caleb Carr brings back the vivid world of his bestselling The Alienist but with a twist: this story is told by the former street urchin Stevie Taggert, whose rough life has given him wisdom beyond his years. Thus New York City, and the groundbreaking alienist Dr. Kreizler himself, are seen anew. It is June 1897. A year has passed since Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a pioneer in forensic psychiatry, tracked down the brutal serial killer John Beecham with the help of a team of trusted companions and a revolutionary application of the principles of his discipline. Kreizler and his friends-high-living crime reporter John Schuyler Moore; indomitable, derringer-toting Sara Howard; the brilliant (and bickering) detective brothers Marcus and Lucius Isaacson; powerful and compassionate Cyrus Montrose; and Stevie Taggert, the boy Kreizler saved from a life of street crime-have returned to their former pursuits and tried to forget the horror of the Beecham case. But when the distraught wife of a Spanish diplomat begs Sara's aid, the team reunites to help find her kidnapped infant daughter. It is a case fraught with danger, since Spain and the United States are on the verge of war. Once again, Caleb Carr proves his brilliant ability to re-create the past, both high life and low. As the horror unfolds, Delmonico's still serves up wondrous meals, and a summer trip to the elegant gambling parlors of Saratoga provides precious keys to the murderer's past. At the same time, we go on revealing journeys into Stevie's New York, a place where poor and neglected children-then as now-turn to crime and drugs at shockingly early ages. Peppered throughout are characters taken from real life and rendered with historical vigor, including suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton; painter Albert Pinkham Ryder; and Clarence Darrow, who thunders for the defense in a tense courtroom drama during which the sanctity of American motherhood itself is put on trial. Fast-paced and chilling, The Angel of Darkness is a tour de force, a novel of modern evil in old New York."</synopsis>
                <title>The Angel of Darkness</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Hernán Rivera Letelier, صالح علماني (Translator)</author>
                <characters>María Margarita</characters>
                <date>2011</date>
                <genres>Novels, Fiction, Audiobook, Latin American Literature, Literature, Historical Fiction, Roman, Novella, Latin American, Contemporary</genres>
                <id>1896</id>
                <synopsis>«ماريا مارجريتا » فتاة يافعة من إحدى القرى الصغيرة بتشيلي اشتهرت بقدرتها العجيبة على إعادة سرد قصص الأفلام ببراعة. فكلما عُرِض فيلم جديد في سينما القرية، جمع السكان لها النقود لكي تشاهده، أيا كان نوعه، سواء كان هذا الفيلم أحدث أفلام مارلين منرو، أو جاري كوبر، أو حتى فيلمًا غنائيًّا من المكسيك، فتشاهد الفتاة الفيلم، ثم تعود بدورها لتحكيه لهم بطريقتها الجذابة. يسرد لنا إيرنان ريبيرا لتيلير بأسلوبه السحري الرقيق والمؤثر قصة يسترجع فيها ذكريات دور السينما في أوج مجدها بأمريكا اللاتينية.</synopsis>
                <title>راوية الأفلام</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>John Connolly </author>
                <characters>Charlie Parker</characters>
                <date>Mar-04</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Fiction, Horror, Mystery Thriller, Supernatural, Suspense, Paranormal, Detective</genres>
                <id>1897</id>
                <synopsis>"John Connolly thrilled readers with his bestselling novels, ""Every Dead Thing, Dark Hollow,"" and ""The Killing Kind."" Now he delivers spellbinding suspense as Charlie Parker races to unravel a brutal crime committed in the Deep South. After years of suffering unfathomable pain and guilt over the murders of his wife and daughter, private detective Charlie Parker has finally found some measure of peace. As he and his lover, Rachel, are awaiting the birth of their first child and settling into an old farmhouse in rural Maine, Parker has found the kind of solace often lost to those who have been touched by true evil.But darkness soon descends when Parker gets a call from Elliot Norton, an old friend from his days as a detective with the NYPD. Now practicing law in Charleston, South Carolina, Elliot is defending a young black man accused of raping and killing his white girlfriend, the daughter of a powerful Southern millionaire. Reluctantly, Parker agrees to help Elliot and by doing so ventures into a living nightmare, a bloody dreamscape haunted by the specter of a hooded woman and a black car waiting for a passenger who never arrives. Beginning as an investigation into a young woman's death, it is a fast-moving descent into an abyss where forces conspire to destroy all that Parker holds dear.Hailed as a ""master storyteller"" ""(The London Express)"" by critics stateside and abroad, Connolly has once again delivered a riveting and suspenseful story that draws readers toward the horrifying crossroads of the past and present, of the living and the dead. ""We are trapped not only by our own history but by the histories of all those with whom we choose to share our lives,"" hewrites. As chillingly as it is beautifully rendered, ""The White Road"" is sure to tread a frightening path for even the most world-weary crime fiction fan."</synopsis>
                <title>The White Road</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>William Gibson</author>
                <characters>Molly Millions</characters>
                <date>Dec-89</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Cyberpunk, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Dystopia, Novels, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Canada, Medical</genres>
                <id>1898</id>
                <synopsis>"William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date... The Mona Lisa Overdrive. Enter Gibson's unique world - lyric and mechanical, erotic and violent, sobering and exciting - where multinational corporations and high tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into the computer-generated universe known as cyberspace. Into this world comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with internationally famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell. Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspace without a computer. Now, from inside cyberspace, a kidnapping plot is masterminded by a phantom entity who has plans for Mona, Angie, and all humanity, plans that cannot be controlled... or even known. And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy Yakuza, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes... or so they think."</synopsis>
                <title>Mona Lisa Overdrive</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>L.J. Smith </author>
                <characters>Thea Sophia Harman, Poppy North, Ash Redfern, James Rasmussen, Blaise Harman, Thierry Descouedres, Phillip North, Cliff Hilgard, Jasper R. Rasmussen, Owen Franklin</characters>
                <date>Jun-96</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Vampires, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Witches</genres>
                <id>1899</id>
                <synopsis>"The diagnosis for Poppy was death. there was no hope-until James, her best friend and secret love, appeared in the hospital. But this was a James she didn't know. He offered Poppy eternal life. Only he could open the door to the Night World. They're soulmates-but can she follow him into death and beyond?"</synopsis>
                <title>Secret Vampire</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Nancy Springer </author>
                <characters>Enola Holmes</characters>
                <date>2008</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Historical, Fiction, Middle Grade, Childrens, Adventure, Juvenile, British Literature</genres>
                <id>1900</id>
                <synopsis>"When Enola Holmes encounters her friend Lady Cecily hiding behind a pink fan, she finds it peculiar. Cecily is being held hostage in an abysmal orphanage, forced into a miserable marriage. Enola joins forces with the much older famous brother Sherlock who she has fought desperately to elude, and risks her own freedom to rescue her friend."</synopsis>
                <title>The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Nancy Springer , Peter Ferguson (Cover Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Enola Holmes, Mrs. Mary Watson, Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes</characters>
                <date>2008</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Historical, Fiction, Middle Grade, Childrens, Adventure, Juvenile, British Literature</genres>
                <id>1901</id>
                <synopsis>"Everyone knows Dr. Watson is Sherlock Holmes' right-hand man - so when he goes missing, it's a shock. Even Sherlock hasn't, well, the slightest clue as to where he could be. Enola is intrigued, but weary; she's still hiding from her older brothers - and getting involved could be disastrous. But when a bizarre bouquet shows up at the Watson residence, full of convolvulus, hawthorn, and white poppies, Enola must act. She dons her most discerning disguise yet to find the sender - and quickly, for Enola knows the blossoms symbolize death!Hold your breath, because Enola's about to take it away. The stakes are higher and the mystery deeper than ever before in this third installment of this Edgar Award nominated, critically acclaimed series."</synopsis>
                <title>The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Conn Iggulden</author>
                <characters>Brutus, Julius Caesar</characters>
                <date>Feb-05</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Roman, Fantasy, War, Adventure, Novels, Italy, Action</genres>
                <id>1902</id>
                <synopsis>"The acclaimed author of Emperor: The Gates of Rome returns to the extraordinary life of Julius Caesar in a new novel that takes us further down the path to glory . . . as Caesar comes into his own as a man, warrior, senator, husband, and leader.In a sparsely settles region of North Africa, a band of disheveled soldiers turn their eyes toward one man among them: their leader, Julius Caesar. The soldiers are Roman legionaries. And their quarry is a band of pirates who dared to kidnap Julius Caesar for ransom. Now, as Caesar exacts his revenge and builds a legend far from Rome, his friend Marcus Brutus is fighting battles of another sort, rising to power in the wake of the assassination of a dictator. Once Brutus and Caesar were as close as brothers, devoted to the same ideals and attracted to the same forbidden women. Now they will be united again by a shock wave from the north, where a gladiator named Spartacus is building an army of seventy thousand slaves—to fight a cataclysmic battle against Rome itself."</synopsis>
                <title>The Death of Kings</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Bill Watterson</author>
                <characters>Calvin, Hobbes</characters>
                <date>1991</date>
                <genres>Comics, Humor, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Comic Book, Graphic Novels Comics, Comedy, Comic Strips, Childrens, Cartoon</genres>
                <id>1903</id>
                <synopsis>"In this collection, Calvin and his tiger-striped sidekick Hobbes are hilarious whether the two are simply lounging around philosophizing about the future of mankind or plotting their latest money-making scheme. Chock-full of the familiar adventures of Spaceman Spiff, findings of Dad's popularity poll, and time travel to the Jurassic Age, Scientific Progress Goes ""Boink"" is guaranteed to set scientific inquiry back an eon—and advance the reading pleasure of all Calvin and Hobbes fans."</synopsis>
                <title>Scientific Progress Goes Boink</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ellis Peters</author>
                <characters>Brother Cadfael, Brother Jerome, Prior Robert Pennant, Abbot Heribert, Brother John, Brother Columbanus, Father Huw, Rhisiart, Sioned, Engelard, Peredur, Bened, Annest</characters>
                <date>1994</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Crime, Historical Mystery, Medieval, Mystery Thriller, Detective, British Literature</genres>
                <id>1904</id>
                <synopsis>"Ellis Peters' introduction to the murderous medieval world of Brother Cadfael...A Morbid Taste for BonesIn the remote Welsh mountain village of Gwytherin lies the grave of Saint Winifred. Now, in 1137, the ambitious head of Shrewsbury Abbey has decided to acquire the sacred remains for his Benedictine order. Native Welshman Brother Cadfael is sent on the expedition to translate and finds the rustic villagers of Gwytherin passionately divided by the Benedictine's offer for the saint's relics. Canny, wise, and all too wordly, he isn't surprised when this taste for bones leads to bloody murder.The leading opponent to moving the grave has been shot dead with a mysterious arrow, and some say Winifred herself held the bow. Brother Cadfael knows a carnal hand did the killing. But he doesn't know that his plan to unearth a murderer may dig up a case of love and justice...where the wages of sin may be scandal or Cadfael's own ruin."</synopsis>
                <title>A Morbid Taste for Bones</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Stephen Fry</author>
                <characters>Douglas Adams, Hugh Laurie, Alastair Cooke, Emma Thompson, Stephen Fry, Rowan Atkinson, Ben Elton, Simon Gray</characters>
                <date>2010</date>
                <genres>Nonfiction, Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, Humor, Audiobook, Biography Memoir, Comedy, British Literature, LGBT</genres>
                <id>1905</id>
                <synopsis>"Thirteen years ago, Moab Is My Washpot, Stephen Fry's autobiography of his early years, was published to rave reviews and was a huge best seller. In the years since, Stephen Fry has moved into a completely new stratosphere, both as a public figure, and a private man. Now he is not just a multi-award-winning comedian and actor, but also an author, director, and presenter."</synopsis>
                <title>The Fry Chronicles</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Suzanne Weyn</author>
                <characters>Kayla Reed</characters>
                <date>Sept-04</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Teen, Mystery, Adventure, Futuristic</genres>
                <id>1906</id>
                <synopsis>"The bar code tattoo. Everybody's getting it. It will make your life easier, they say. It will hook you in. It will become your identity.But what if you say no? What if you don't want to become a code? For Kayla, this one choice changes everything. She becomes an outcast in her high school. Dangerous things happen to her family. There's no option but to run . . . for her life.Individuality vs. conformity.Identity vs. access.Freedom vs. control.The bar code tattoo."</synopsis>
                <title>The Bar Code Tattoo</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Charlotte Brontë</author>
                <characters>William Crimsworth</characters>
                <date>May-99</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Romance, 19th Century, Victorian, Literature, Historical Fiction, British Literature, Classic Literature, Novels</genres>
                <id>1907</id>
                <synopsis>"The Professor was the first novel by Charlotte Brontë. It was originally written before Jane Eyre and rejected by many publishing houses, but was eventually published posthumously in 1857. The book is the story of a young man, William Crimsworth. It describes his maturation, his loves and his eventual career as a professor at an all-girl's school. The story is based upon Charlotte Brontë's experiences in Brussels, where she studied as a language student in 1842."</synopsis>
                <title>The Professor</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Frans G. Bengtsson, Michael Meyer (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Orm Tostesson</characters>
                <date>1994</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Adventure, Classics, Historical, Sweden, Fantasy, Swedish Literature, Scandinavian Literature, Novels</genres>
                <id>1908</id>
                <synopsis>"The book is set in the late 10th century &amp; follows the adventures of Orm (""serpent""), called ""Red"" for his hair &amp; his temper, a native of Scania. The story portrays the political situation of Europe in the later Viking Age, Andalusia under Al-Mansur Ibn Abi Aamir, Denmark under Harold Bluetooth, followed by the struggle between Eric the Victorious &amp; Sweyn Forkbeard of Denmark, Ireland under Brian Boru, England under Ethelred the Unready, the Battle of Maldon, all before the backdrop of the gradual Christianisation of Scandinavia, contrasting the pragmatic Norse pagan outlook with Islam &amp; Christianity."</synopsis>
                <title>The Long Ships</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Agatha Christie</author>
                <characters>Chief Inspector Dermot Craddock, Dr. Haydock, Dolly Bantry, Miss Marple, Marina Gregg, Jason Rudd, Lola Brewster, Ardwyck Fenn, ""Giuseppe (The Mirror Crack''d from Side to Side)"", Ella Zielinsky, Dr. Maurice Gilchrist, Hailey Preston, Margot Bence, William Tiddler, Councillor Allcock and Mrs. Allcock, Cherry Baker, Gladys Dixon, ""Heather Babcock (The Mirror Crack''d from Side to Side)""</characters>
                <date>2002</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Mystery Thriller, Detective, British Literature, Murder Mystery, Adult, Cozy Mystery</genres>
                <id>1909</id>
                <synopsis>"One minute, silly Heather Badcock had been gabbling on at her movie idol, the glamorous Marina Gregg. The next, Heather suffered a massive seizure. But for whom was the deadly poison really intended?Marina’s frozen expression suggested she had witnessed something horrific. But, while others searched for material evidence, Jane Marple conducted a very different investigation – into human nature."</synopsis>
                <title>The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>William Pène du Bois</author>
                <characters>William Waterman Sherman, Mr. F</characters>
                <date>1986</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Childrens, Fantasy, Classics, Adventure, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade, Juvenile, School</genres>
                <id>1910</id>
                <synopsis>"Professor William Waterman Sherman intends to fly across the Pacific Ocean. But through a twist of fate, he lands on the secret island of Krakatoa where he discovers a world of unimaginable wealth, eccentric inhabitants, and incredible balloon inventions. Winner of the 1948 Newbery Medal, this classic fantasy-adventure is a joy for all ages."</synopsis>
                <title>The Twenty-One Balloons</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Bernard Cornwell </author>
                <characters>Thomas of Hookton, Guy Vexille</characters>
                <date>Sept-04</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Medieval, Fantasy, Adventure, War, France, British Literature, Military Fiction</genres>
                <id>1911</id>
                <synopsis>"From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the sequel to The Archer’s Tale and Vagabond—the spellbinding tale of a young man, a fearless archer, who sets out wanting to avenge his family’s honor and winds up on a quest for the Holy Grail.Already a seasoned veteran of King Edward's army, young Thomas of Hookton possesses the fearlessness of a born leader and an uncanny prowess with the longbow. Now, at the head of a small but able band of soldiers, he has been dispatched to capture the castle of Astarac. But more than duty to his liege has brought him to Gascony, home of his forebears and the hated black knight who brutally slew Thomas's father. It is also the last place where the Holy Grail was reported seen. Here, also, a beautiful and innocent, if not pious, woman is to be burned as a heretic. Saving the lady, Genevieve, from her dread fate will brand Thomas an infidel, forcing them to flee together across a landscape of blood and fire. And what looms ahead is a battle to the death that could ultimately shape the future of Christendom."</synopsis>
                <title>Heretic</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Agatha Christie</author>
                <characters>Hercule Poirot, Lady Lucy Angkatell, Sir Henry Angkatell, Dr John Christow, Gerda Christow, Henrietta Savernake, Inspector Grange, Veronica Cray, Midge Hardcastle, David Angkatell, Gudgeon</characters>
                <date>2002</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Detective, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Audiobook, Murder Mystery, Adult</genres>
                <id>1912</id>
                <synopsis>"Lady Angkatell, intrigued by the criminal mind, has invited Hercule Poirot to her estate for a weekend house party. The Belgian detective's arrival at the Hollow is met with an elaborate tableau staged for his amusement: a doctor lies in a puddle of red paint, his timid wife stands over his body with a gun while the other guests look suitably shocked. But this is no charade. The paint is blood and the corpse real!"</synopsis>
                <title>The Hollow</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Stephen R. Donaldson</author>
                <characters>Thomas Covenant</characters>
                <date>1994</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, American, Adventure, High Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1913</id>
                <synopsis>"The magnificent saga of Thomas Covenant continues in Stephen Donaldson's highly acclaimed second epic fantasy trilogy, together in one volume."</synopsis>
                <title>The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Susan Elizabeth Phillips </author>
                <characters>Heath Champion, Annabelle Granger, Portia Powers, Bodie Gray</characters>
                <date>Aug-06</date>
                <genres>Romance, Contemporary Romance, Contemporary, Chick Lit, Sports, Sports Romance, Fiction, Humor, Adult, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1914</id>
                <synopsis>"You met quarterback Kevin Tucker in This Heart of Mine. Now get ready to meet his shark of an agent, Heath Champion, and Annabelle Granger, the girl least likely to succeed.Annabelle's endured dead-end jobs, a broken engagement . . . even her hair's a mess! But that's going to change now that she's taken over her late grandmother's matchmaking business. All Annabelle has to do is land the Windy City's hottest bachelor as her client, and she'll be the most sought-after matchmaker in town.Why does the wealthy, driven, and gorgeous sports agent Heath Champion need a matchmaker, especially a red-haired screw-up like Annabelle Granger? True, she's entertaining, and she does have a certain quirky appeal. But Heath is searching for the ultimate symbol of success - the perfect wife. And to make an extraordinary match, he needs an extraordinary matchmaker, right?Soon everyone in Chicago has a stake in the outcome, and a very big question: When the determined matchmaker promised she'd do anything to keep her star client happy . . . did she mean anything? If Annabelle isn't careful, she just might find herself going heart-to-heart with the toughest negotiator in town."</synopsis>
                <title>Match Me If You Can</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Michelle Sagara</author>
                <characters>Kaylin Neya, Severn, Tiamaris, Lord Nightshade</characters>
                <date>Aug-09</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Magic, Dragons, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Paranormal, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Mystery, Young Adult</genres>
                <id>1915</id>
                <synopsis>"Don't ask. Don't tell. Stay alive.A member of the elite Hawk force that protects the City of Elantra, Kaylin Neya has sacrificed much to earn the respect of the winged Aerians and immortal Barrani she works alongside. But the mean streets she escaped as a child aren't the ones she's vowed to give her life guarding. Those were much darker…Kaylin's moved on with her life—and is keeping silent about the shameful things she's done to stay alive. But when the city's oracles warn of brewing unrest in the outer fiefdoms, a mysterious visitor from Kaylin's past casts her under a cloud of suspicion. Thankfully, if she's anything, she's a survivor…"</synopsis>
                <title>Cast in Silence</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Agatha Christie</author>
                <characters>Inspector Japp, Hercule Poirot, Jane Grey, Madame Angéligue Giselle, James Ryder, Monsieur Armand Dupont, Daniel Clancy, Doctor Bryant, Norman Gale, Countess of Horbury, Venetia Kerr, Jean Dupont</characters>
                <date>2001</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Crime, Fiction, Classics, Detective, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Audiobook, Murder Mystery, Thriller</genres>
                <id>1916</id>
                <synopsis>"A woman is killed by a poisoned dart in the enclosed confines of a commercial passenger plane…From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp.What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind him, in seat No.2, sat the slumped, lifeless body of a woman."</synopsis>
                <title>Death in the Clouds</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Elizabeth George </author>
                <characters>Thomas Lynley, Barbara Havers, Lady Helen Clyde, Simon St. James, Deborah St. James</characters>
                <date>Jun-89</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Thriller, Detective, British Literature, Adult, Suspense, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1917</id>
                <synopsis>"To this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldale's lush green valleys. Three hundred years ago, as legend goes, the frightened Yorkshire villagers smothered a crying babe in Keldale Abbey, where they'd hidden to escape the ravages of Cromwell's raiders.Now into Keldale's pastoral web of old houses and older secrets comes Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton. Along with the redoubtable Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, Lynley has been sent to solve a savage murder that has stunned the peaceful countryside. For fat, unlovely Roberta Teys has been found in her best dress, an axe in her lap, seated in the old stone barn beside her father's headless corpse. Her first and last words were ""I did it. And I'm not sorry.""Yet as Lynley and Havers wind their way through Keldale's dark labyrinth of secret scandals and appalling crimes, they uncover a shattering series of revelations that will reverberate through this tranquil English valley—and in their own lives as well."</synopsis>
                <title>A Great Deliverance</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Karl Bruckner</author>
                <characters>Sadako Sasaki</characters>
                <date>2006</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Childrens, Historical Fiction, Classics, Young Adult, Historical, German Literature, School, War, Novels</genres>
                <id>1918</id>
                <synopsis>"6. August 1945, 8 Uhr 15 Minuten - die kleine Sadako Sasaki erlebt den Atombombenabwurf über Hiroshima scheinbar unbeschadet. 10 Jahre später: Sadako, eine begeisterte Radfahrerin, wird bei einem Rennen von einer plötzlichen Schwäche befallen und es stellt sich heraus, dass sie an der Strahlenkrankheit leidet. Einer japanischen Tradition zufolge wird jedem, der tausend Papierkraniche faltet, ein sehnlicher Wunsch in Erfüllung gehen. Sadako klammert sich an diese Legende und an das Leben, selbst als die Ärzte sie aufgegeben haben. Unbeirrt arbeitet sie an den Kranichen, doch beim 990. versagen ihre Kräfte ..."</synopsis>
                <title>Sadako will leben</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Laurie R. King </author>
                <characters>Mary Russell, Ali Hazr, Mahmoud Hazr, Sherlock Holmes</characters>
                <date>2003</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Historical Mystery, Crime, British Literature, Detective, Adult, Mystery Thriller</genres>
                <id>1919</id>
                <synopsis>"Hours after Holmes and Russell return from solving the murky riddle of The Moor, a bloodied but oddly familiar stranger pounds desperately on their front door, pleading for their help. When he recovers, he lays before them the story of the enigmatic Marsh Hughenfort, younger brother of the Duke of Beauville, returned to England upon his brother's death, determined to learn the truth about the untimely death of the hall's expected heir — a puzzle he is convinced only Holmes and Russell can solve. It's a mystery that begins during the Great War of 1918, when young Gabriel Hughenfort, the late Duke's only son, died amidst scandalous rumors that have haunted the family ever since. While Holmes heads to London to uncover the truth of Gabriel's war record, Russell joins an ill-fated shooting party. A missing diary, a purloined bundle of letters, and a trail of ominous clues comprise a mystery that will call for Holmes's cleverest disguises and Russell's most daring journeys into the unknown, from an English hamlet to the city of Paris to the wild prairie of the New World. The trap is set, the game is afoot, but can they catch an elusive villain in the act of murder before they become his next victims?"</synopsis>
                <title>Justice Hall</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>J.B. Priestley</author>
                <characters>Arthur Birling, Sheila Birling, Eric Birling, Edna, Gerald Croft, Inspector Goole</characters>
                <date>1987</date>
                <genres>Plays, Classics, School, Fiction, Mystery, Drama, Crime, Read For School, Theatre, Historical</genres>
                <id>1920</id>
                <synopsis>"The action of the play occurs in an English industrial city, where a young girl commits suicide and an eminently respectable British family is subject to a routine inquiry in connection with the death. An inspector calls to interrogate the family, and during the course of his questioning, all members of the group are implicated lightly or deeply in the girl's undoing. The family, closely knit and friendly at the beginning of the evening, is shown up as selfish, self-centered or cowardly, its good humor turning to acid, and good fellowship to dislike, before the evening is over. The surprising revelation, however, is in the inspector..."</synopsis>
                <title>An Inspector Calls</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Agatha Christie</author>
                <characters>Harley Quin, ""Mr. Satterthwaite (Dead Man''s Mirror)""</characters>
                <date>2003</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Short Stories, Classics, British Literature, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Fantasy, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>1921</id>
                <synopsis>"Harley Quin is an enigma. Even his friend Mr Satterthwaite is unable to understand how the man seems to appear and disappear almost like a trick of the light - and when he does appear it's usually in the sparkle of sunshine, or surrounded by a spectrum of coloured light pouring through a stained glass window...In fact, the only consistent thing about the Mysterious Mr Quin is that his presence is always a harbinger of love ... or death."</synopsis>
                <title>The Mysterious Mr. Quin</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Don DeLillo</author>
                <characters>Bill Gray, Karen Janney, George Haddad</characters>
                <date>1992</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Novels, Literature, American, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, The United States Of America, 20th Century, American Fiction, United States</genres>
                <id>1922</id>
                <synopsis>"""One of the most intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America"" (The New York Times), Don DeLillo presents an extraordinary new novel about words and images, novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch-individualist. At the heart of the book is Bill Gray, a famous reclusive writer who escapes the failed novel he has been working on for many years and enters the world of political violence, a nightscape of Semtex explosives and hostages locked in basement rooms. Bill's dangerous passage leaves two people stranded: his brilliant, fixated assistant, Scott, and the strange young woman who is Scott's lover—and Bill's."</synopsis>
                <title>Mao II</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Susan Cooper </author>
                <characters>Will Stanton, Simon Drew, Merry Lyon, Jane Drew, Barnabas Drew</characters>
                <date>1997</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Middle Grade, Arthurian, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, Magic, Classics</genres>
                <id>1923</id>
                <synopsis>"Simon, Jane, and Barney, enlisted by their mysterious great-uncle, arrive in a small coastal town to recover a priceless golden grail stolen by the forces of evil - Dark. They are not at first aware of the strange powers of another boy brought to help, Will Stanton - nor of the sinister significance of the Greenwitch, an image of leaves and branches that for centuries has been cast into the sea for good luck in fishing and harvest. Their search for the grail sets into motion a series of distubing, sometimes dangerous events that, at their climax, bring forth a gift that, for a time at least, will keep the Dark from rising."</synopsis>
                <title>Greenwitch</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Satyajit Ray (Author &amp; Illustrator), সমীর সরকার (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Newton, Professor Shonku</characters>
                <date>Jan-03</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller, Childrens, Classics, Short Stories, Humor</genres>
                <id>1924</id>
                <synopsis>"প্রফেসর শঙ্কু কে? তিনি এখন কোথায়? এটুকু জানা গেছে যে তিনি একজন বৈজ্ঞানিক। কেউ কেউ বলে তিনি নাকি একটা ভীষণ পরীক্ষা করতে গিয়ে প্রাণ হারিয়েছেন। আবার এও শোনা যায় যে তিনি কোনো অজ্ঞাত অঞ্চলে গা ঢাকা দিয়ে নিজের কাজ করে যাচ্ছেন, সময় হলেই আত্মপ্রকাশ করবেন।প্রফেসর শঙ্কুর প্রতিটি ডায়েরিতে কিছু না কিছু আশ্চর্য অভিজ্ঞতার বিবরণ আছে। কাহিনীগুলো সত্য কি মিথ্যা, সম্ভব কি অসম্ভব, সে বিচার পাঠকরা করবেন!"</synopsis>
                <title>শঙ্কু সমগ্র</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Sheri S. Tepper</author>
                <characters>Sylvia, Stavia, Chernon, Morgot, Jerby, Dawid, Beneda, Myra Morgotdoughter</characters>
                <date>1999</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Dystopia, Feminism, Post Apocalyptic, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Womens, Gender</genres>
                <id>1925</id>
                <synopsis>"Tepper's finest novel to date is set in a post-holocaust feminist dystopia that offers only two political alternatives: a repressive polygamist sect that is slowly self-destructing through inbreeding and the matriarchal dictatorship called Women's Country. Here, in a desperate effort to prevent another world war, the women have segregated most men into closed military garrisons and have taken on themselves every other function of government, industry, agriculture, science and learning.The resulting manifold responsibilities are seen through the life of Stavia, from a dreaming 10-year-old to maturity as doctor, mother and member of the Marthatown Women's Council. As in Tepper's Awakeners series books, the rigid social systems are tempered by the voices of individual experience and, here, by an imaginative reworking of The Trojan Woman that runs through the text. A rewarding and challenging novel that is to be valued for its provocative ideas."</synopsis>
                <title>The Gate to Women's Country</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Frederick Exley</author>
                <characters>Fred Exley, Bunny Sue Allorgee, Earl Exley, Mrs. Exley, ""Mr. Blue (A Fan''s Notes)"", Patience Exley, Christopher Plumpton</characters>
                <date>Sept-88</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Sports, Novels, Literature, American, Football, Literary Fiction, Classics, 20th Century, Drinking</genres>
                <id>1926</id>
                <synopsis>"This fictional memoir, the first of an autobiographical trilogy, traces a self professed failure's nightmarish decent into the underside of American life and his resurrection to the wisdom that emerges from despair."</synopsis>
                <title>A Fan's Notes</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Cecily von Ziegesar</author>
                <characters>Serena van der Woodsen, Blair Waldorf, Nate Archibald, Charles ""Chuck"" Bass, Dan Humphrey, Jenny Humphrey, Vanessa Abrams</characters>
                <date>May-05</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Chick Lit, Fiction, Contemporary, Romance, Teen, High School, Drama, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult Contemporary</genres>
                <id>1927</id>
                <synopsis>"Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where my friends and I are the princes and princesses of private school, and graduation is just an excuse to throw a fabulous party - as if we need a reason.Enter the world of Gossip Girl- a world where jealousy and betrayal are always in fashion.We're nearly done with high school - forever! - but before we head off to the Ivy of our choice we've got plenty to keep us busy: B found S kissing N in the shower. Steamy! Even B can see that S and N would make the hottest couple ever, right? Wrong. B's about to strut down the revenge runway, and I have a front row seat. We'll see if this catfight looks good on the catwalk. Time to hide behind my oversized Chanel sunglasses to watch the show . . . .You know you love me,gossip girl"</synopsis>
                <title>Nothing Can Keep Us Together</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Michael Dobbs </author>
                <characters>John F. Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev</characters>
                <date>Feb-08</date>
                <genres>History, Nonfiction, Politics, American History, War, Russia, Military Fiction, Military History, Historical, Presidents</genres>
                <id>1928</id>
                <synopsis>"In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict over the placement of missiles in Cuba. Veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs has pored over previously untapped American, Soviet, and Cuban sources to produce the most authoritative book yet on the Cuban missile crisis. In his hour-by-hour chronicle of those near-fatal days, Dobbs reveals some startling new incidents that illustrate how close we really did come to Armageddon. Here, for the first time, are gripping accounts of Khrushchev's plan to destroy the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo; the accidental overflight of the Soviet Union by an American spy plane; the movement of Soviet nuclear warheads around Cuba during the tensest days of the crisis; the activities of CIA agents inside Cuba; and the crash landing of an American F-106 jet with a live nuclear weapon on board. Dobbs takes us inside the White House and the Kremlin as Kennedy and Khrushchev-rational, intelligent men separated by an ocean of ideological suspicion-agonize over the possibility of war. He shows how these two leaders recognized the terrifying realities of the nuclear age while Castro-never swayed by conventional political considerations-demonstrated the messianic ambition of a man selected by history for a unique mission. As the story unfolds, Dobbs brings us onto the decks of American ships patrolling Cuba; inside sweltering Soviet submarines and missile units as they ready their warheads; and onto the streets of Miami, where anti-Castro exiles plot the dictator's overthrow. Based on exhaustive new research and told in breathtaking prose, here is ariveting account of history's most dangerous hours, full of lessons for our time."</synopsis>
                <title>One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Martina Cole</author>
                <characters>Maura Ryan, Michael Ryan</characters>
                <date>2005</date>
                <genres>Crime, Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Drama, Contemporary, Modern, British Literature, Contemporary Romance</genres>
                <id>1929</id>
                <synopsis>"No one thinks a seventeen-year-old girl can take on the hard men of London's gangland, but it's a mistake to underestimate Maura Ryan: she's tough, clever and beautiful —and she's determined that nothing will stand in her way. Which makes her one very dangerous lady.Together, she and her brother Michael are unbeatable: the Queen and King of organised crime, they run the pubs and clubs, the prostitutes and pimps of the West End. With Maura masterminding it, they pull off an audicious gold bullion robbery and have much of the Establishment in their pockets.But notoriety has its price. The police are determined to put Maura away once and for all —and not everyone in the family thinks that's such a bad idea. When it comes to the crunch, Maura has to face the pain of lost love in her past —and the dangerous lady discovers her heart is not made entirely of stone."</synopsis>
                <title>Dangerous Lady</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Hergé, Michael Turner (Translator), Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Tintin, Thomson &amp; Thompson, Bianca Castafiore, Professor Hector Alembick, Snowy</characters>
                <date>1997</date>
                <genres>Comics, Graphic Novels, Bande Dessinée, Adventure, Fiction, Childrens, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, France, Mystery</genres>
                <id>1930</id>
                <synopsis>"Tintin finds a lost briefcase and returns it to the owner, Professor Hector Alembick, who is a sigilographer, an expert on seals. He shows Tintin his collection of seals, including one which belonged to the Syldavian King Ottokar IV. Tintin then discovers that he and Alembick are under surveillance by some strange men. Tintin's flat is even bombed in an attempt to kill him. Suspecting a Syldavian connection, Tintin offers to accompany Alembick to Syldavia for research.On the plane Tintin begins to suspect his companion. The Alembick travelling with him doesn't smoke and doesn't seem to need the spectacles he wears, while the Alembick he first met smoked heavily and had very poor eyesight. During a layover, Tintin fakes a fall and grabs Alembick's beard, thinking it is false and Alembick is an imposter. However, it is (for Alembick) painfully real. Tintin decides to let the matter drop but then, while flying over Syldavia, it is the pilot of the plane who opens a trap door and Tintin drops out, landing in a haywagon.Tintin has a hunch that a plot is afoot to steal the sceptre of King Ottokar IV. In Syldavia, the reigning King must possess the sceptre to rule or he will be forced to abdicate. Every year he rides in a parade during St. Vladimir's Day carrying it, while the people sing the national anthem. Tintin succeeds in warning the reigning King, Muskar XII, despite the efforts of the conspirators. He and the King rush to the royal treasure room to find Alembick, the royal photographer and some guards unconscious and the sceptre missing.Tintin's friends Thomson and Thompson are summoned to investigate but their theory on how the sceptre was stolen proves bad and painful for them. Later on, Tintin notices a spring cannon in a toy shop and this gives him the clue. Professor Alembick had asked for some photographs to be taken of the sceptre, but the camera was a spring cannon in disguise, which allowed him to catapult it out of the castle into a nearby forest.Searching the forest, Tintin spots the sceptre being found by agents of the neighbouring country, Borduria. Following them all the way to the border, he wrests the sceptre from them. In the wallet of one of the thieves he discovers papers that show that the theft of the sceptre was just part of a major plan for the taking over of Syldavia by their long-time political rival, Borduria.Tintin steals a Me-109 from a Bordurian airfield (whose squadron is being kept ready to take part in the envisioned ""Anschluss"" of Syldavia) to fly it back to the King in time. He is shot down by the Syldavians who have naturally opened fire on an enemy aircraft violating their airspace. He manages to make the rest of the journey by foot.Meanwhile the Interior Minister informs the King that rumours have been spreading that the sceptre has been stolen and that there have been riots against local Bordurian businesses, acts which would justify a Bordurian takeover of the country. The King is about to abdicate when Snowy runs in with the sceptre (which had fallen out of Tintin's pocket).Tintin then gives the King the papers he took from the man who stole the sceptre. They prove that the plot was masterminded by Müsstler, leader of the Iron Guard, a local political party. The King takes action by having Müsstler and his associates arrested and the army mobilised along the Bordurian frontier. In response, the Bordurian leader pulls his own troops back from the border, though he stresses his own country's ""desire for peace"" and criticises Syldavia's ""strange"" behaviour.The next day is St. Vladimir's Day and Tintin is made a Knight of the Order of the Golden Pelican, the first non-Syldavian to receive such an honour. Further inquiries by the authorities reveal that, in a classic Ruritanian plot device, Professor Alembick is one of a pair of identical twins: Hector Alembick was kidnapped and replaced with his brother Alfred who left for Syldavia in his place.Tintin and Snowy return home by a flying boat with Thomson and Thompson, who suffer momentary panic when the aircraft appears to be falling into the sea at the end of the flight. The reader is treated to a rare ""wink to the camera"" from Tintin, who points out their error, and they laugh about it so much that they do indeed fall into the sea as they disembark."</synopsis>
                <title>King Ottokar's Sceptre</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Roald Dahl</author>
                <characters>Uncle Oswald Hendryks Cornelius</characters>
                <date>1987</date>
                <genres>Short Stories, Fiction, Humor, Classics, Adult, British Literature, Fantasy, Literature, Comedy, Contemporary</genres>
                <id>1931</id>
                <synopsis>"In Switch Bitch four tales of seduction and suspense are told by the grand master of the short story, Roald Dahl.Topping and tailing this collection are The Visitor and Bitch, stories featuring Dahl's notorious hedonist Oswald Hendryks Cornelius (or plain old Uncle Oswald) whose exploits are frequently as extraordinary as they are scandalous. In the middle, meanwhile, are The Great Switcheroo and The Last Act, two stories exploring a darker side of desire and pleasure.In the black comedies of Switch Bitch Roald Dahl brilliantly captures the ins and outs, highs and lows of sex.'Dahl is too good a storyteller to become predictable' Daily TelegraphRoald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today."</synopsis>
                <title>Switch Bitch</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Mario Vargas Llosa, Edith Grossman (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Tomás Carreño, Corporal Lituma</characters>
                <date>1996</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Latin American, Novels, Literature, Spanish Literature, Mystery, Nobel Prize, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Crime</genres>
                <id>1932</id>
                <synopsis>"In an isolated community in the Peruvian Andes, a series of mysterious disappearances has occurred. Army corporal Lituma and his deputy Tom�s believe the Shining Path guerrillas are responsible, but the townspeople have their own ideas about the forces that claimed the bodies of the missing men. This riveting novel is filled with unforgettable characters, among them disenfranchised Indians, eccentric local folk, and a couple performing strange cannibalistic sacrifices. As the investigation moves forward, Tom�s entertains Lituma with the surreal tale of a precarious love affair.Death in the Andes is both a fascinating detective novel and an insightful political allegory. Mario Vargas Llosa offers a panoramic view of Peruvian society, from the recent social upheaval to the cultural influences in its past."</synopsis>
                <title>Death in the Andes</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Hergé</author>
                <characters>Tintin, Captain Archibald Haddock, Zorrino, Thomson &amp; Thompson, Snowy, Professor Calculus</characters>
                <date>2002</date>
                <genres>Comics, Graphic Novels, Bande Dessinée, Adventure, Fiction, Childrens, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, France, Mystery</genres>
                <id>1933</id>
                <synopsis>"After The Seven Crystal Balls set the eerie stage, Tintin and his friends continue their adventures in Peru. There Tintin rescues an orange-seller named Zorrino from being bullied, and the young man becomes their guide in their quest to find the Temple of the Sun. But they find more than they bargained for and end up in a hot spot. The perils of this engaging two-part adventure are especially harrowing in their combination of the supernatural and the real, although the resolution is a little too deus ex machina. Calculus and the Thompsons provide their usual comic relief."</synopsis>
                <title>Prisoners of the Sun</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Robert Crais</author>
                <characters>Elvis Cole, Joe Pike, Ellen Lang, Lou Poitras, Lt. Baishe</characters>
                <date>1999</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Suspense, Action, Audiobook, Noir</genres>
                <id>1934</id>
                <synopsis>"Taking the mystery community by storm, this Elvis Cole novel was nominated for the Edgar, Anthony, Shamus, and Macavity awards and won both the Anthony and Macavity for Best Novel of the Year.When Ellen Lang's husband disappears with their son, she hires Elvis Cole to track him down. A quiet and seemingly submissive wife, Ellen can't even write a check without him. All she wants is to get him and her son back—no questions asked. The search for Ellen's errant husband leads Elvis into the seamier side of Hollywood. He soon learns that Mort Lang is a down-on-his-luck talent agent who associates with a schlocky movie producer, and the last place he was spotted was at a party thrown by a famous and very well-connected ex-Matador. But no one has seen him since—including his B-movie girlfriend.At the same time the police find Mort in his parked car with four gunshots in his chest —and no kid in sight—Ellen disappears. Now nothing is what it seems, and the heat is on. It's up to Elvis Cole and his partner Joe Pike to find the connection between sleazy Hollywood players and an ex-Matador."</synopsis>
                <title>The Monkey's Raincoat</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Benyamin</author>
                <characters>Hakim, Najeeb, Hamid</characters>
                <date>Aug-08</date>
                <genres>Fiction, India, Novels, Indian Literature, Literature, Classics, Asia, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Asian Literature</genres>
                <id>1935</id>
                <synopsis>"ലക്ഷകണക്കിനു മലയാളികള്‍ ഗള്‍ഫില്‍ ജീവിക്കുന്നു, ലക്ഷങ്ങള്‍ ജീവിച്ചു തിരിച്ചു പോയിരിക്കുന്നു. ഇതില്‍ എത്ര പേര്‍ മരുഭൂമിയുടെ തീക്ഷ്‌ണത സത്യമായും അനുഭവിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്. ആ തീക്ഷ്ണത തൊട്ടറിഞ്ഞ, അഥവാ മണല്‍‌പരപ്പിലെ ജീവിതം ചുട്ടുപൊള്ളിച്ച നജീബ് എന്നയാളുടെ അനുഭവമാണ് ആടുജീവിതത്തിനു പ്രേരണയായതെന്ന് നോവലിസ്‌റ്റ് ബെന്യാമിന്‍ പറയുന്നു. പ്രവാസജീവിതത്തിലെ തികച്ചും വ്യത്യസ്‌തമായ ഒരേട്."</synopsis>
                <title>ആടുജീവിതം | Aatujeevitham</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Serdar Özkan</author>
                <characters>Diana (goddess)</characters>
                <date>2012</date>
                <genres>Turkish Literature, Fiction, Turkish, Fantasy, Novels, Literature, Philosophy, Mystery, Roman, Spirituality</genres>
                <id>1936</id>
                <synopsis>"29 DİLDE, 40’TAN FAZLA ÜLKEDE BASILAN ULUSLARARASI BİR BESTSELLERKanada’dan Japonya’ya, Brezilya’dan Endonezya’ya yüzbinlerce okurun gönlünde taht kuran KAYIP GÜL genç Türk romancı Serdar Özkan’ın ilk romanı.Tüm zamanların en çok okunan ve sevilen kitaplarından St. Exupéry'nin Küçük Prens'i, Richard Bach'ın Martı'sı ve Paulo Coelho'nun Simyacı'sına denk tutulan Kayıp Gül, bugüne kadar 29 dile çevrildi, birçok ülkede haftalarca bestseller listelerinde yeraldı.Kayıp Gül'ün kahramanı Diana'nın peşine takılan okur, başta Türk kültürüne olmak üzere, Yunan mitolojisinden Yunus Emre'ye; William Blake'ten Sokrates'e; doğu mistisizminden Küçük Prens'e; Meryem Ana'dan Nasrettin Hoca'ya; modern yaşantıdan metafiziğe; gerçek dünyadan güllerin ve düşlerin dünyasına gizemli bir yolculuğa çıkıyor.“Çağdas bir fabl, derin ve bilgece - St. Exupéry'nin başyapıtı Küçük Prens'in tadında.” DPA - ALMANYA“Muhteşem bir öykü. Bu romanın yaptığı muhteşem. Denilebilir ki, bu romanın bizi birleştirmeye gücü var.” TVA Televizyonu - KANADA“Türklerin Küçük Prens’i tüm dünyayı büyülüyor.” Helsinki Sanomat - FİNLANDİYA“Gerçek mutluluğu aramak üzerine ilham verici harikulade bir öykü.” Magazin 2000plus – ALMANYA“Büyük bir global başarı. Simyacı, Küçük Prens ve Martı'yı sevenlerin mutlaka okuması gereken bir kitap.” Air Beletrina - SLOVENYA“Kayıp Gül Doğu ile Batı arasında bir köprü.” Vijesti - SIRBİSTAN ve KARADAĞ“Kayıp Gül hayatımda okuduğum en güzel öykülerden biri. Kitabı bitirdiğiniz zaman, kendinizi bir hediye almış gibi hissediyorsunuz. Ben öyle hissettim.” Christine Michaud, TVA Televizyonu - KANADA""Çok başarılı, masalsı bir roman."" Prof. Talât Sait Halman - Bilkent Üni. Edebiyat Fakültesi Dekanı""Serdar Özkan genç ve yetenekli bir romancı, onun adını önümüzdeki yıllarda sık sık duyacağınıza sizi temin edebilirim."" İskender Pala – Kasım 2003"</synopsis>
                <title>Kayıp Gül</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kenzaburō Ōe, John Bester (translator)</author>
                <characters>Mitsusaburo Nedokoro, Takashi Nedokoro</characters>
                <date>1998</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Japan, Japanese Literature, Literature, Asia, Novels, Classics, Nobel Prize, Asian Literature, 20th Century</genres>
                <id>1937</id>
                <synopsis>"Two brothers, Takashi and Mitsu, return from Tokyo to the village of their childhood. The selling of their family home leads them to an inescapable confrontation with their family history. Their attempt to escape the influence of the city ends in failure as they realize that its tentacles extend to everything in the countryside, including their own relationship. In 1994, Kenzaburo Oe was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Signalling out The Silent Cry, the Nobel Committee stated that his poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament.  Kenzaburo Oe is one of the great writers of the century and The Silent Cry is his masterpiece."</synopsis>
                <title>The Silent Cry</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Stephen Jones (Editor), Pat Cadigan , Paul McAuley , Robert Hood , Michael Marshall Smith , Tim Lebbon , Christopher Fowler, Paul Finch , more…</author>
                <characters>Zombies</characters>
                <date>2010</date>
                <genres>Zombies, Horror, Fiction, Post Apocalyptic, Science Fiction, Anthologies, Fantasy, Apocalyptic, Short Stories, Dystopia</genres>
                <id>1938</id>
                <synopsis>"In the near future, a desperate and ever-more controlling UK government attempts to restore a sense of national pride with a New Festival of Britain. But construction work on the site of an old church in south London releases a centuries-old plague that turns its victims into flesh-hungry ghouls whose bite or scratch passes the contagion - a supernatural virus which has the power to revive the dead - on to others.'The Death' soon sweeps across London and the whole country descends into chaos. When a drastic attempt to eradicate the outbreak at source fails, the plague spreads quickly to mainland Europe and then across the rest of the world.Told through a series of interconnected eyewitness narratives - text messages, e-mails, blogs, letters, diaries and transcripts - this is an epic story of a world plunged into chaos as the dead battle the living for total domination."</synopsis>
                <title>Zombie Apocalypse!</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Paul Auster</author>
                <characters>Mr. Bones, Willy G Christmas</characters>
                <date>May-00</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Dogs, Animals, Novels, Contemporary, American, Literature, The United States Of America, Literary Fiction, 20th Century</genres>
                <id>1939</id>
                <synopsis>"Mr. Bones, the canine hero of Paul Auster's astonishing new book, is the sidekick and confidant of Willy G. Christmas, a brilliant and troubled homeless man from Brooklyn. As Willy's body slowly expires, he sets off with Mr. Bones for Baltimore in search of his high school English teacher and a new home for his companion. Mr. Bones is our witness during their journey, and out of his thoughts, Paul Auster has spun one of the richest, most compelling tales in American fiction."</synopsis>
                <title>Timbuktu</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Patrick Hamilton</author>
                <characters>George Harvey Bone, Netta Longdon, Peter (Hangover Square), Mickey (Hangover Square), Johnnie Littlejohn, Eddie Carstairs</characters>
                <date>2006</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, British Literature, Mystery, Crime, Modern Classics, Novels, Literature, Noir, 20th Century</genres>
                <id>1940</id>
                <synopsis>"Hamilton captures the edgy, obsessive and eventually murderous mindset of a romantically frustrated British man in this WWII-era novel. London 1939, and in the grimy publands of Earls Court, George Harvey Bone is pursuing a helpless infatuation with Netta who is cool, contemptuous and hopelessly desirable to George. George is adrift in hell, until something goes click in his head and he realizes that he must kill her."</synopsis>
                <title>Hangover Square</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Guram Dochanashvili</author>
                <characters>დომენიკო, მიჩინიო, მარშალი ბეტანკური, მენდეს მესიელი, ალექსანდრო, გვეგვე, ტერეზა, დულიო, მამიდა არიადნა, კონჩეტინა, ჯულიო, ჟოაო აბადო, მოხუცი სანტოსი, დონ დიეგო, ზე მორეირა, მანუელო კოსტა, პოლოვნიკი სეზარი, ჩიჩიო, ოთო ექიმი</characters>
                <date>2011</date>
                <genres>Georgian, Fiction, Magical Realism</genres>
                <id>1941</id>
                <synopsis>"თანამედროვე ქართველი კლასიკოსი მწერალის გურამ დოჩანაშვილის ყველაზე ცნობილი ნაწარმოები. ""სამოსელი პირველის"" სიუჟეტი თავგადასავლის მაძიებელი ჭაბუკის დომენიკოს ტიპური ამბავია, რომელზეც დიდად იმოქმედა იდუმალებით მოცული კაცის - ლტოლვილის ნაამბობმა. დომენიკო ტოვებს მშობლიურ სახლ-კარს, მამას და მიდის ""ლამაზ ქალაქში"". თანდათან მრავალი ადამიანთან ურთიერთობისას, იგი მიხვდება, თუ რა არის მეგობრობა, სიყვარული, სიკეთე, ბოროტება, გულწფელობა, პატიოსნება. ეს არის წიგნი სიკეთისა და ბოროტების შეცნობაზე, მას თამამად შეიძლება ვუწოდოთ ""ცხოვრების წიგნი""."</synopsis>
                <title>სამოსელი პირველი</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Isabel Abedi</author>
                <characters>Lucian, Faye, Rebecca Wolff, Marjanne Wolff, Suse Rossmann, Sebastian (Isabel Abedi), Alec Reed, Mr. Tyger</characters>
                <date>2009</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Paranormal, Angels, German Literature, Contemporary, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Paranormal Romance</genres>
                <id>1942</id>
                <synopsis>"Es fühlt sich an wie ein Riss. Ein hauchfeiner Riss, tief in Rebeccas Innerem. Als ob ihr jemand mit der Pinzette ein Härchen ausgerupft hätte. Was bleibt: ein sonderbares Gefühl von Leere und der Angst. Doch dann taucht Lucian auf, wie aus dem Nichts. Ein Junge ohne Vergangenheit, jemand, der sich nicht erinnern kann, wer er ist oder wo er herkommt. Aber Lucian gibt Rebecca mit einem Mal das Gefühl, dass sie nicht mehr allein ist."</synopsis>
                <title>Lucian</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Brandon Sanderson </author>
                <characters>Alcatraz Smedry</characters>
                <date>Oct-09</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Middle Grade, Humor, Childrens, Adventure, Audiobook, Urban Fantasy, Science Fiction</genres>
                <id>1943</id>
                <synopsis>"When Alcatraz and Grandpa Smedry make a pilgrimage to the Free Kingdom city of Crystallia, the Smedry home base, Alcatraz is shocked to see that he is, in fact, a legend. When he was a baby he was stolen by the Evil Librarians, and his mother, a Librarian herself, was behind the whole scheme. Now, with his estranged father, who is acting indeed strange, Bastille, who has been stripped of her armor, and Grandpa Smedry, who is, as always, late to everything (that's his Talent), Alcatraz tries to save a city under siege. From who? Why, the Librarians of course!"</synopsis>
                <title>Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Simon Sebag Montefiore </author>
                <characters>Joseph Stalin</characters>
                <date>2007</date>
                <genres>History, Biography, Nonfiction, Russia, Politics, Russian History, Biography Memoir, Historical, European History, War</genres>
                <id>1944</id>
                <synopsis>"Based on ten years' astonishing new research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic, dangerous boy became a student priest, romantic poet, gangster mastermind, prolific lover, murderous revolutionary, and the merciless politician who shaped the Soviet Empire in his own brutal image: How Stalin became Stalin."</synopsis>
                <title>Young Stalin</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Lois McMaster Bujold </author>
                <characters>Lady Ekaterin Vorkosigan, Bel Thorne, Miles Vorkosigan</characters>
                <date>2003</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Space Opera, Fiction, Mystery, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space, Audiobook, Military Fiction, Adventure</genres>
                <id>1945</id>
                <synopsis>"A rich Komarran merchant fleet has been impounded at Graf Station, in distant Quaddiespace, after a bloody incident on the station docks involving a security officer from the convoy's Barrayaran military escort. Lord Miles Vorkosigan of Barrayar and his wife, Lady Ekaterin, have other things on their minds, such as getting home in time to attend the long-awaited births of their first children. But when duty calls in the voice of Barrayar's Emperor Gregor, Miles, Gregor's youngest Imperial Auditor (a special high-level troubleshooter) has no choice but to answer.Waiting on Graf Station are diplomatic snarls, tangled loyalties, old friends, new enemies, racial tensions, lies and deceptions, mysterious disappearances, and a lethal secret with wider consequences than even Miles anticipates: a race with time for life against death in horrifying new forms.The downside of being a troubleshooter comes when trouble starts shooting back . . ."</synopsis>
                <title>Diplomatic Immunity</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Joe Hill , Gabriel Rodríguez (Artist)</author>
                <characters>Tyler Locke, Kinsey Locke, Bode Locke</characters>
                <date>Feb-13</date>
                <genres>Graphic Novels, Comics, Horror, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Supernatural, Paranormal, Adult</genres>
                <id>1946</id>
                <synopsis>"Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez's Locke &amp; Key unwinds into its fourth volume in Keys to the Kingdom. With more keys making themselves known, and the depths of the Locke family's mystery ever-expanding, Dodge's desperation to end his shadowy quest drives the inhabitants of Keyhouse ever closer to a revealing conclusion."</synopsis>
                <title>Locke &amp; Key, Vol. 4: Keys to the Kingdom</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Joe Hill , Gabriel Rodríguez (Artist)</author>
                <characters>Tyler Locke, Kinsey Locke, Bode Locke</characters>
                <date>Feb-13</date>
                <genres>Graphic Novels, Comics, Horror, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Mystery, Paranormal, Supernatural</genres>
                <id>1947</id>
                <synopsis>"The dead plot against the living, the darkness closes in on Keyhouse, and a woman is shattered beyond repair, in the third storyline of the Eisner-nominated series, Locke &amp; Key! Dodge continues his relentless quest to find the key to the black door, and raises an army of shadows to wipe out anyone who might get in his way. Surrounded and outnumbered, the Locke children find themselves fighting a desperate battle, all alone, in a world where the night itself has become their enemy."</synopsis>
                <title>Locke &amp; Key, Vol. 3: Crown of Shadows</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>John Ajvide Lindqvist</author>
                <characters>Gustav Mahler, David Zetterberg</characters>
                <date>2009</date>
                <genres>Horror, Zombies, Fiction, Fantasy, Swedish Literature, Paranormal, Supernatural, Sweden, Scandinavian Literature, Novels</genres>
                <id>1948</id>
                <synopsis>"Something very peculiar is happening in Stockholm. There's a heatwave on and people cannot turn their lights out or switch their appliances off. Then the terrible news breaks. In the city morgue, the dead are waking up..."</synopsis>
                <title>Handling the Undead</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Danielle Steel</author>
                <characters>Danina ""Granny Dan"" Petroskova</characters>
                <date>2000</date>
                <genres>Romance, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical, Chick Lit, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Romance, Russia, Adult</genres>
                <id>1949</id>
                <synopsis>Op 17-jarige leeftijd is Danina Petroskova prima ballerina geworden. Maar gebeurtenissen zowel dichtbij als ver weg slaan de grond onder haar dansende voeten weg… Deze roman verscheen eerder onder de titel Oma Danina.</synopsis>
                <title>Granny Dan</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Juli Zeh</author>
                <characters>Ada, Alev El Quamar, Szymon Smutek</characters>
                <date>Mar-06</date>
                <genres>Fiction, German Literature, Contemporary, Roman, Germany, Novels, Literature, Thriller, Young Adult, Literary Fiction</genres>
                <id>1950</id>
                <synopsis>"Ada ist mit 12 Jahren auf erschreckende Weise erwachsen geworden. Vor zwei Jahren nämlich hat die hochintelligente Schülerin, neu am Bonner Ernst-Bloch-Gymnasium und im Unterricht gern in die Rolle der Lehrerin schlüpfend, beschlossen, alles als „gleich gültig“ anzusehen. Nur der Sport- und Deutschlehrer Smutek und Höfi, der Geschichtslehrer, können ihr Paroli bieten. Aber dann kommt der ebenso attraktive wie kluge Halbägypter Alev ins Spiel, dem alle „Prinzessinnen“ der Schule zu Füßen liegen. Ada und Alev scheinen wie geschaffen für ein Experiment jenseits moralischer Konventionen, bei dem es vor allem um die gleichberechtigten Startanlagen der Teilnehmer geht. Das intellektuelle Kräftemessen beginnt - und weitet sich bald zu einer Obsession. Aber wer hält die Fäden in der Hand? Wie kann man Realität und Fiktion auseinanderhalten? Und: Gibt es eine Möglichkeit auszusteigen? Ada, so hieß schon einmal die (12-jährige) Heldin eines Buchs, in dem es um Spieltriebe in Internatsumgebung ging: um erotische Spiele, aber auch um solche mit Form und Inhalt. Ada oder Das Verlangen heißt dieses Buch, und der Meister adoleszenter Erotik, Vladmir Nabokov, hat es Ende der sechziger Jahre geschrieben. Ada erscheint darin als „anmutiger Computer“, dem der „Wortzirkus“ das größte Vergnügen bereitet. Und tatsächlich ist ADA ja auch der Name einer raffinierten, zur Strukturprüfung anderer Programme verwendeten Programmiersprache: unbewusst durchschauend und „intelligent dumm“ wie die Protagonistin von Zehs Spieltrieb eben. Auf beide Traditionen spielt Zehs Roman mehr als deutlich an: auch dies Teil einer intertextuellen Strategie, die das Buch um eine weitere Nuance bereichert. All diese Ebenen hat Zeh auf eine faszinierend konsequente, atmosphärisch überaus dichte Weise zu einer philosophischen Pubertätsgeschichte mit Liebes- und Krimielementen miteinander verwoben. Und sie hat dies so spielerisch leicht getan, das ihr faszinierender Roman auf hohem Niveau bestens, teils sogar vergnüglich lesbar geblieben ist. -Thomas Köster"</synopsis>
                <title>Spieltrieb</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Edgar Rice Burroughs, Michael Whelan (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Dejah Thoris, John Carter, Tars Tarkas, Carthoris</characters>
                <date>Jan-63</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Classics, Adventure, Pulp, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Sword and Planet, Aliens</genres>
                <id>1951</id>
                <synopsis>"After the long exile on Earth, John Carter finally returned to his beloved Mars. But beautiful Dejah Thoris, the woman he loved, had vanished. Now he was trapped in the legendary Eden of Mars - an Eden from which none ever escaped alive."</synopsis>
                <title>The Gods of Mars</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Michael West </author>
                <characters>Preacher, Benedict, Earl L. Preston Jr., Carol Miyagi, Dante ""The Horror Show"" Vianello, Alan Everson, Vivian Song, Kari Hannigan, Chud, Dr. Graeme King, Uzuri ""Zuri"" Shujaa, Agent Andrews, Dr. Kathy Ward, Detective Roy Perry</characters>
                <date>May-14</date>
                <genres>Horror, Fantasy, Mythology, Yeti, Paranormal, Science Fiction, Monsters, Dragons, Aliens, Werewolves</genres>
                <id>1952</id>
                <synopsis>"Terrifying creatures exist all around us, hiding in plain sight. Ancient. Deadly. They gather in secret, conspiring, dreaming of nothing less than humanity's destruction, and their numbers are growing.Earl Preston knows the danger all too well. After tangling with a horde of mythological sea monsters in Colonial Bay, he has been tasked with finding these beasts and exposing their plans whatever they may be. But Earl is not the only one with a mystery on their hands. At the very top of the world, Carol Miyagi has stumbled onto an artifact from Earth's past, something magnificent held captive in a prison of ice and snow. Now, Carol and Earl must work quickly to decipher the will of the gods-a plot that defies imagination-and to stop their followers from carrying it out.They thought the nightmare was over, but they are about to discover that the horror has only just begun."</synopsis>
                <title>Hades' Disciples</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Molière</author>
                <characters>Angélique, Argan, Béline, Louison, Béralde, Cléante, Monsieur Diafoirus, Thomas Diafoirus, Monsieur Purgon, Monsieur Fleurant</characters>
                <date>1998</date>
                <genres>Classics, Plays, France, Theatre, Fiction, Drama, French Literature, School, Humor, 17th Century</genres>
                <id>1953</id>
                <synopsis>"Le Malade imaginaire est la dernière comédie et en même temps la dernière pièce écrite par Molière. Il s'agit d'une comédie-ballet en trois actes.Dans la satire outrageante de Molière sur la médecine et ses praticiens on peut dire que le riche Argan “jouit” d'une mauvaise santé. Les laxatifs, suppositoires, saignées, et les opinions deuxième et troisième des charlatans éminents sont à l'ordre du jour et l’enfer de Toinette, sa servante qui ose lui contredire. Sa fille Angélique est amoureuse de Cléante, mais Argan veut la marier à Thomas Diafoirus, un médecin qui ne vaut rien, qui peut assurer à son beau-père des soins de santé pour la durée de sa vie. Cléante se déguise en professeur de musique pour pouvoir voir son amour, mais Béline, la deuxième épouse d’Argan, menace de les dénoncer. Une Toinette déguisée, des sages conseils de son frère Béralde, et une scène de mort truquée, vont enfin montrer à Argan qui il peut faire confiance."</synopsis>
                <title>Le Malade imaginaire</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Curtis Jobling </author>
                <characters>Hector of Troy, Drew Ferran, Prince Lucas, Lady Gretchen, Whitley</characters>
                <date>2011</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Werewolves, Middle Grade, Adventure, Paranormal, Fiction, Shapeshifters, Childrens, Supernatural</genres>
                <id>1954</id>
                <synopsis>"Imagine a world ruled by Werelords - men and women who can shift at will into bears, lions, and serpents. When Drew suddenly discovers he's not only a werewolf but the long-lost heir to the murdered Wolf King's throne, he must use his wits and newfound powers to survive in a land suddenly full of enemies. Drew's the only one who can unite the kingdom in a massive uprising against its tyrant ruler, Leopold the Lion. But the king is hot on Drew's tail and won't rest until he's got the rebel Wolf's head."</synopsis>
                <title>Rise of the Wolf</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>José Saramago, Giovanni Pontiero (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Raimundo Silva, Dom Afonso Henriques</characters>
                <date>2000</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Portugal, Historical Fiction, Portuguese Literature, Literature, Novels, Nobel Prize, Romance, Classics, 20th Century</genres>
                <id>1955</id>
                <synopsis>"""If proofreaders were given their freedom and did not have their hands and feet tied by a mass of prohibitions more binding than the penal code, they would soon transform the face of the world, establish the kingdom of universal happiness, giving drink to the thirsty, food to the famished, peace to those who live in turmoil, joy to the sorrowful ... for they would be able to do all these things simply by changing the words ..."" The power of the word is evident in Portuguese author José Saramago's novel, The History of the Siege of Lisbon. His protagonist, a proofreader named Raimundo Silva, adds a key word to a history of Portugal and thus rewrites not only the past, but also his own life.  Brilliantly translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero, The History of the Siege of Lisbon is a meditation on the differences between historiography, historical fiction, and ""stories inserted into history."" The novel is really two stories in one: the reimagined history of the 1147 siege of Lisbon that Raimundo feels compelled to write and the story of Raimundo's life, including his unexpected love affair with the editor, Maria Sara. In Saramago's masterful hands, the strands of this complex tale weave together to create a satisfying whole."</synopsis>
                <title>The History of the Siege of Lisbon</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>يوسف زيدان , Youssef Ziedan</author>
                <characters>شاب سودانى, نورا</characters>
                <date>2013</date>
                <genres>Novels, Literature, Fiction, Egyptian Literature, Politics, Egypt, Unfinished</genres>
                <id>1956</id>
                <synopsis>«وأما الأخبار التى بأيدينا الآن، فإنما نتَّبع فيها غالب الظن، لا العلم المحقق» – ابن النفيسبطل هذه الرواية شاب مصري سوداني يتسم بالبراءة والتدين، ويعمل كمرشد سياحي في الأقصر وأسوان. كانت أقصى أحلام هذا الشاب هي الزواج من فتاة نوبية جميلة ليبدأ حياة سعيدة هانئة، ولكن نظام حياته المسالم والممل ينقلب رأسا على عقب بعد مقابلة مع أسامة بن لادن في السودان في أوائل التسعينيات.تأسرنا الرواية بإيقاعها المتسارع لنتتبع مصير بطلها من الأقصر للخليج لأوزبكستان ثم أفغانستان ومعتقل جوانتانامو. لغة يوسف زيدان الشعرية تجعلنا نعيش تجربة إنسانية فريدة، حيث يختلط الواقع بالخيال وننطلق مع البطل في رحلة لنكتشف خبايا النفس والعالم</synopsis>
                <title>محال</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Hergé</author>
                <characters>Tintin, Captain Archibald Haddock, Snowy, Philippulus the Prophet, Professor Decimus Phostle, Captain Chester</characters>
                <date>2002</date>
                <genres>Comics, Graphic Novels, Bande Dessinée, Adventure, Fiction, Childrens, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, France, Mystery</genres>
                <id>1957</id>
                <synopsis>"A huge fireball comes hurtling towards Earth from space! Tintin sets sail with Captain Haddock to find the meteorite in the stormy Arctic Ocean, but a valuable metal is contained in the meteorite and Tintin's attempts to reach it are met with relentless sabotage."</synopsis>
                <title>The Shooting Star</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Yukio Mishima, Meredith Weather(Translator)</author>
                <characters>Shinji Kubo, Terukichi Miyata, Chiyoko, Yasuo Kawamoto</characters>
                <date>2000</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Japan, Japanese Literature, Classics, Romance, Literature, Asia, Novels, Asian Literature, 20th Century</genres>
                <id>1958</id>
                <synopsis>"Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. It tells of Shinji, a young fisherman and Hatsue, the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. Shinji is entranced at the sight of Hatsue in the twilight on the beach and they fall in love. When the villagers' gossip threatens to divide them, Shinji must risk his life to prove his worth."</synopsis>
                <title>The Sound of Waves</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Roger Zelazny, Tim White (illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Random of Amber, Brand of Amber, Corwin of Amber, Benedict of Amber, Bleys of Amber, Fiona of Amber, King Oberon of Amber, Merlin of Amber</characters>
                <date>Published</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Audiobook, High Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, Speculative Fiction</genres>
                <id>1959</id>
                <synopsis>"Amber, the one real world of which all others – including our own Earth – are but Shadows...For untold millennia, the cosmic Pattern sustained order in Amber and all the known worlds. But now the forces of Chaos have succeeded in disrupting the Pattern, unleashing destructive forces beyond measure... forces meant to reshape the universe.To save Amber, Corwin, prince of the blood, champion of the perfect realm, must undertake the most perilous journey of his life. A journey that will take him through all the terrors of Shadows to the enemy's last stonghold. A journey beyond the very edge of existence... to the Courts of Chaos."</synopsis>
                <title>The Courts of Chaos</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Alexandra Potter </author>
                <characters>Charlotte Merryweather</characters>
                <date>2009</date>
                <genres>Chick Lit, Romance, Fiction, Contemporary, Magic, Adult, Time Travel, Contemporary Romance, Humor, British Literature</genres>
                <id>1960</id>
                <synopsis>"At age thirty-one, American Charlotte Merryweather has spent ten years in London pursuing personal and professional perfection. Yet her present-day success- heading her own PR company, owning a gorgeous apartment, planning a future with her devoted boyfriend- only heightens the shock of a visit from the past.  ""Lottie,"" Charlotte's twenty-one-year-old self, drives onto the scene at the wheel of a rusty, orange Volkswagen Beetle identical to Charlotte's first UK ride. Charlotte pursues a friendship aimed to bestow upon Lottie a decade of wisdom. Yet Charlotte's prosperous polish proves a pale substitute for Lottie's innate, youthful graces- openness, passion, and kindness. Will the student become the teacher in this witty turnabout?"</synopsis>
                <title>Who's That Girl?</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Frederick Forsyth</author>
                <characters>Harold Philby, John Preston, Jim Rawlings, George Berenson, Jan Marais, Sir Nigel Irvine</characters>
                <date>1996</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Thriller, Espionage, Mystery, Suspense, Spy Thriller, Novels, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Action</genres>
                <id>1961</id>
                <synopsis>"Professional thief Jim Rawlings breaks into the apartment of a senior civil servant, and unintentionally discovers stolen top secret documents. Although one of the most notorious thieves in London, he is enough of a patriot to anonymously send the documents to MI5 so that they might locate the traitor. In Moscow, British defector Kim Philby drafts a memorandum for the Soviet General Secretary stating that, if the Labour Party wins the next general election in the United Kingdom (scheduled for sometime in the subsequent eighteen months), the ""hard left"" of the party will oust the moderate populist Neil Kinnock in favour of a radical new leader who will adopt a true Marxist-Leninist manifesto, including the expulsion of all American forces from the United Kingdom and the country's withdrawal from and repudiation of NATO. In conjunction with a GRU general, an academic named Krilov, and a master strategist, Philby devises ""Plan Aurora"" to ensure a Labour victory by exploiting the party's support for unilateral disarmament - although it is noted that the strategist, a nuclear physicist and chess Grand Master, has come up with most of the plan's strategy."</synopsis>
                <title>The Fourth Protocol</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Clifford D. Simak</author>
                <characters>Mary, Enoch Wallace, Lucy Fisher, Winslowe</characters>
                <date>1992</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Hugo Awards, Classics, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Aliens, Speculative Fiction, Audiobook, Space</genres>
                <id>1962</id>
                <synopsis>"Enoch Wallace is an ageless hermit, striding across his untended farm as he has done for over a century, still carrying the gun with which he had served in the Civil War. But what his neighbors must never know is that, inside his unchanging house, he meets with a host of unimaginable friends from the farthest stars.More than a hundred years before, an alien named Ulysses had recruited Enoch as the keeper of Earth's only galactic transfer station. Now, as Enoch studies the progress of Earth and tends the tanks where the aliens appear, the charts he made indicate his world is doomed to destruction. His alien friends can only offer help that seems worse than the dreaded disaster. Then he discovers the horror that lies across the galaxy..."</synopsis>
                <title>Way Station</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Isaac Asimov</author>
                <characters>R. Daneel Olivaw, Keldon Amadiro, Gladia Delmarre, R. Giskard Reventlov</characters>
                <date>1996</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Robots, Mystery, Classics, Novels, Fantasy, Space Opera, Detective</genres>
                <id>1963</id>
                <synopsis>"Long after his humiliating defeat at the hands of Earthman Elijah Baley, Keldon Amadiro embarked on a plan to destroy planet Earth. But even after his death, Baley's vision continued to guide his robot partner, R. Daneel Olivaw, who had the wisdom of a great man behind him and an indestructable will to win...."</synopsis>
                <title>Robots and Empire</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kurt Held</author>
                <characters>Zora, Branko</characters>
                <date>2003</date>
                <genres>Childrens, German Literature, Classics, Fiction, Young Adult, Adventure, Middle Grade, Roman, Kids, Germany</genres>
                <id>1964</id>
                <synopsis>"Eine Stadt am Adriatischen Meer ist Schauplatz dieses Romans. Branco, der Sohn eines fahrenden Geigers und einer Tabakarbeiterin, verliert seine Mutter. Er hat kein Zuhause mehr. Bald verdächtigt man ihn des Diebstahls und sperrt ihn ein. Doch Zora, das Mädchen mit den roten Haaren, befreit ihn, und er wird in die Bande der jungen Uskoken aufgenommen, die in der alten Burg hausen. Nicht Romantik, sondern Hunger und Not haben sie zusammengetrieben. Sie kämpfen ums tägliche Brot, gegen Entbehrungen und Verfolgung. So Ernst die Lage der Kinder oft ist, so herrlich sind die Einfälle, mit denen sie ihren Widersachern begegnen, und um so selbstloser wird ihre Kameradschaft. Mögen die Erwachsenen sich auch von ihnen abwenden: sie finden aneinander Halt, und ein eigenes Ehrgefühl bewahrt sie vor Schlechtem. Ihre wilden Streiche bringen jedoch die Bürgerschaft gegen sie auf, und es droht das Gefängnis. Da weiß aber ihr Beschützer, ein alter Fischer, die Stadtväter zu überzeugen, dass es zum Besten aller ist, sich der Kinder anzunehmen. So finden die Rote Zora und ihre Bande endlich Arbeit und ein Zuhause."</synopsis>
                <title>Die rote Zora und ihre Bande</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jan Guillou</author>
                <characters>Richard I of England, Heraclius, Saladin, Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, Arn Magnusson, Birger Brosa, Canute I of Sweden, Wilfred of Ivanhoe, Guy of Lusignan, Arnold of Torroja, Roger de Moulins, Raynald of Châtillon, Gerard de Ridefort, Raymond III of Tripoli, Cecilia Johansdotter of Sweden, Magnus Minniskiöld</characters>
                <date>2010</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Swedish Literature, Scandinavian Literature, Medieval, Adventure, War, Novels, Sweden</genres>
                <id>1965</id>
                <synopsis>"Tempelriddaren är den spännande fortsättningen på Vägen till Jerusalem. Arn är 27 år och redan en ärrad veteran bland korsfararna i Det heliga landet. Mycket har han hunnit lära sig under de tio år som gått sedan han red bort från Arnäs i Västergötland för sin tjugoåriga botgöringstjänst i Palestina. Den trosvissa övertygelse om uppdragets rättfärdighet som den 17-årige rekryten hade vid sin ankomst till korsfararriket har fått sig många törnar. Och nu, som borgherre i garnisonen i Gaza och med uppdraget att upprätthålla lag och ordning i trakten, får han allt oftare erfara att han har mera besvär med de nyanlända korsfararna - som antingen styrs av överdrivet kristet nit eller alltför ohöljd plundringslust - än med landets luttrade urinvånare. Hemma i Sverige har under tiden Cecilia, Arns ungdomskärlek som till straff för deras älskog sattes i det stränga Gudhems kloster, fött deras barn, en gosse som växer upp hos Arns farbror Birger Brosa. Cecilia ber om undret att Arn måtte komma åter, och även Birger som manövrerar slugt i de svenska maktstriderna hoppas på Arns återkomst."</synopsis>
                <title>The Knight Templar</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Kikuji, Mrs. Ota, Fumiko</characters>
                <date>1996</date>
                <genres>Japan, Fiction, Japanese Literature, Classics, Asia, Literature, Novels, Asian Literature, Nobel Prize, Romance</genres>
                <id>1966</id>
                <synopsis>"An alternate cover of this ISBN can be found here.Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s Thousand Cranes is a luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead.   While attending a traditional tea ceremony in the aftermath of his parents’ deaths, Kikuji encounters his father’s former mistress, Mrs. Ota. At first Kikuji is appalled by her indelicate nature, but it is not long before he succumbs to passion—a passion with tragic and unforeseen consequences, not just for the two lovers, but also for Mrs. Ota’s daughter, to whom Kikuji’s attachments soon extend. Death, jealousy, and attraction convene around the delicate art of the tea ceremony, where every gesture is imbued with profound meaning."</synopsis>
                <title>Thousand Cranes</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Agatha Christie</author>
                <characters>Superintendent Battle, Lady Eileen Brent, Bill Eversleigh, George Lomax, Tredwell, Clement Edward Alistair Brent, Lord Caterham, Jimmy Thesinger, Sir Oswald Coote, Lady Maria Coote, Rupert Bateman, Gerald Wade, Lorraine Wade, Herr Eberhard, Countess Anna Radzky, Mr. Mosgorovsky, John Bauer, Ronny Devereux</characters>
                <date>2001</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Mystery Thriller, Detective, British Literature, Thriller, Murder Mystery, Adult</genres>
                <id>1967</id>
                <synopsis>"Gerry Wade é por todos conhecido como um inveterado dorminhoco. Aquando de uma festa organizada em Chimneys, o seu grupo de amigos decide pregar-lhe uma partida memorável. Na cidade vizinha compram oito relógios despertadores, com os quais estão decididos a sobressaltá-lo durante o sono. A noite passa mas as suas expectativas saem goradas quando o atroador toque dos relógios não exerce qualquer efeito sobre Gerry. Tinham razão ao esperar um efeito surpreendente, mas não podiam imaginar que fosse tão trágico. Poderá o relógio desaparecido explicar tão fatal mistério?"</synopsis>
                <title>The Seven Dials Mystery</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Friedrich Schiller, Jaan Kärner (-Translator)</author>
                <characters>Daniel Foster, Franz Moor, Karl Moor, Maximilian Moor, Amalia von Edelreich, Spiegelberg, Schweizer, Schufterle, Roller, Grimm, Razmann, Kosinsky, Schwarz, Pastor Moser, Hermann</characters>
                <date>1986</date>
                <genres>Classics, Plays, German Literature, Drama, Fiction, School, 18th Century, Germany, Literature, Theatre</genres>
                <id>1968</id>
                <synopsis>Mit seinem 1781 erschienenen leidenschaftlichen Drama der Selbtstzerstörung einer Familie machte Schiller bei der Uraufführung am Mannheimer Nationaltheater 1782 Sensation. Fortan galt er den Zeitgenossen als ein deutscher Shakespeare. Die Themen und Motive des Sturm-und-Drang-Stücks blieben für Schiller bis zu seinen letzen klassischen Werken verbindlich und haben bis heute nichts von ihrer Faszination verloren.</synopsis>
                <title>Die Räuber</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>P.B. Kerr</author>
                <characters>Nimrod, John Gaunt, Philippa Gaunt</characters>
                <date>2006</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Adventure, Middle Grade, Childrens, Magic, Mythology, Young Adult Fantasy, Novels</genres>
                <id>1969</id>
                <synopsis>"Sequel to the NY TIMES Bestseller, The Akhenaten Adventure. John and Phillipa Gaunt, 12 year old twins who recently discovered themselves to be descended from a long line of djinn (which are commonly called genies) and who are now in possession of great magical powers, have only just returned from their adventures battling an evil djinn in Cairo and London. Now the mystery surrounding a powerful book of djinn magic lures the twins straight into their next extraordinary adventure. 8.5 x 5.25 x 1.2"""</synopsis>
                <title>The Blue Djinn of Babylon</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Martin Suter</author>
                <characters>Urs Blank</characters>
                <date>Dec-01</date>
                <genres>Fiction, German Literature, Contemporary, Roman, Novels, School, Thriller, Crime, Drama, Literary Fiction</genres>
                <id>1970</id>
                <synopsis>"Starwirtschaftsanwalt Urs Blank, fünfundvierzig, Fachmann für Fusionsverhandlungen, hat seine Gefühle im Griff. Doch dann gerät sein Leben aus den Fugen. Ein Trip mit halluzinogenen Pilzen führt zu einer gefährlichen Persönlichkeitsveränderung, aus der ihn niemand zurückzuholen vermag. Blank flieht in den Wald. Bis er endlich begreift: Es gibt nur einen Weg, um sich aus diesem Alptraum zu befreien."</synopsis>
                <title>Die dunkle Seite des Mondes</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Elizabeth George </author>
                <characters>Thomas Lynley, Barbara Havers, Lady Helen Clyde, Winston Nkata, Kenneth Fleming, Miriam Whitelaw, Olivia Whitelaw, Jean Cooper, Jimmy Cooper, Chris Faraday, Isabelle Ardery</characters>
                <date>1994</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Detective, British Literature, Murder Mystery, Suspense, Contemporary</genres>
                <id>1971</id>
                <synopsis>"""The story begins with my father, actually, and the fact that I'm the one who's answerable for his death.  It was not my first crime, as you will see, but it is the one my mother couldn't forgive.""In her astonishing New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Elizabeth George reveals the even darker truth behind this startling confession. Playing for the Ashes is a rich tale of passion, murder and love in which Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers once again find themselves embroiled in a case where nothing—and no one—is really what it seems.  Intense, suspenseful and brilliantly written, Playing for theAshes will make readers ""search out the sleuthing pair's first six adventures...a treasure,"" as Cosmopolitan predicted in their review."</synopsis>
                <title>Playing for the Ashes</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Hergé</author>
                <characters>Tintin, Thomson &amp; Thompson, Roberto Rastapopoulos, Snowy, Mitsuhirato, Chang</characters>
                <date>2002</date>
                <genres>Comics, Graphic Novels, Bande Dessinée, Adventure, Fiction, France, Graphic Novels Comics, Childrens, Comic Book, Mystery</genres>
                <id>1972</id>
                <synopsis>"Tintin och Milou fortsätter sin asiatiska resa till Shanghai i Kina, för att försöka lösa mysteriet med farao Kih-Oskhs cigarrer. Tintin räddar den lille pojken Tchang Tchong-Jen från att drunkna, och de blir goda vänner. Jakten på narkotikaligan leder dem till tillhållet Blå lotus, där det står klart att skumma saker försiggår ... Hergé träffade Tchang på riktigt under sitt arbete med ""Blå lotus"" och deras vänskap kom att betyda mycket för honom; den öppnade hans ögon på flera sätt och gav honom ökad respekt för andra kulturer. Tintin som tidigare varit en representant för gängse uppfattningar börjar nu aktivt bekämpa fördomar. Detta visar sig tydligt i kommande böcker, där Hergé också varit medveten om vikten av noggrann research!"</synopsis>
                <title>The Blue Lotus</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Todd Strasser , Morton Rhue</author>
                <characters>David Collins, Laurie Saunders, Amy Smith, Ben Ross, Robert Billings, Christy Ross</characters>
                <date>Mar-05</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Fiction, School, Classics, Historical Fiction, Read For School, Contemporary, Psychology, Realistic Fiction, Historical</genres>
                <id>1973</id>
                <synopsis>"The Wave is based on a true incident that occurred in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969.The powerful forces of group pressure that pervaded many historic movements such as Nazism are recreated in the classroom when history teacher Burt Ross introduces a ""new"" system to his students. And before long The Wave, with its rules of ""strength through discipline, community, and action"", sweeps from the classroom through the entire school. And as most of the students join the movement, Laurie Saunders and David Collins recognize the frightening momentum of The Wave and realize they must stop it before it's too late."</synopsis>
                <title>The Wave</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Enid Blyton</author>
                <characters>Timothy, George Kirrin (Famous Five), Dick Kirrin, Anne (Famous Five), Julian (Famous Five)</characters>
                <date>2001</date>
                <genres>Childrens, Fiction, Adventure, Mystery, Classics, Young Adult, Middle Grade, British Literature, Novels, Juvenile</genres>
                <id>1975</id>
                <synopsis>"There's a thief at Kirrin Cottage! The Famous Five think they know who it is, but they need to prove it! Where can they find evidence? The discovery of an old map and very unusual hiding place is all they need to get to the bottom of this mystery and uncover the true culprit!"</synopsis>
                <title>Five Go Adventuring Again</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Linda Howard</author>
                <characters>Caroline Evans, Joe ""Breed"" Mackenzie</characters>
                <date>Jul-00</date>
                <genres>Romance, Contemporary Romance, Contemporary, Romantic Suspense, Military Fiction, Suspense, Fiction, Chick Lit, Adult, Mystery</genres>
                <id>1976</id>
                <synopsis>"Night Wing — the revolutionary test plane with a top secret weapons system — was Colonel Joe ""Breed"" Mackenzie's number-one priority. And weapons expert Caroline Evans was his number-one distraction. True, the stubborn blonde was giving him the cold shoulder, but Joe hadn't become the best of the best by giving up. Then he discovered someone on the inside was sabotaging Night Wing, and with her late hours and specialized expertise, Caroline seemed the obvious choice. Now Joe had to choose between allegiance to his country and love for his prime suspect..."</synopsis>
                <title>Mackenzie's Mission</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Takashi Matsuoka, Ary Nilandari  (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Genji Okumichi, Lady Shizuka, Emily Gibson</characters>
                <date>2005</date>
                <genres>Japan, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Historical, Fiction, Japanese Literature, Novels, Romance, Asian Literature, Indonesian Literature</genres>
                <id>1977</id>
                <synopsis>"Mengetahui masa depan dan mengetahui masa lampau adalah dua hal yang bermakna sama. Apa bedanya mengetahui hal yang tak terelakkan dengan mengetahui apa yang telah terjadi?Aki-no-Hashi(1311)Sesosok wanita hadir, mengiris keheningan menara tertinggi Kastel Awan Burung Gereja. Kecantikannya memukau, kelembutannya menghanyutkan, dan keanggunannya menebarkan pesona. Tetapi, kemunculannya selalu berselubung misteri. Benarkah dia Lady Shizuka, sang putri sihir dari masa lampau? Benarkah dia penentu sejarah klan Okumichi? Dan mengapa dia juga muncul di hadapan Emily Gibson, wanita asing yang bukan keturunannya?Samurai: Jembatan Musim Gugur menguak kelanjutan kisah hidup Genji Okumichi, sang Daimyo Akaoka dalam Samurai: Kastel Awan Burung Gereja. Kisah ini pun menyibak kekuatan cinta yang mampu menjungkirbalikkan dunia, perpaduan kekuatan ragawi dan kehalusan pekerti, dan mengedepankan ketulusan sejati dalam menyikapi takdir, meskipun akhir hidup sudah di depan mata."</synopsis>
                <title>Jembatan Musim Gugur</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Louise Bagshawe </author>
                <characters>Lucy Evans, Oliver McCleod, Victoria Cobham, Todd Mayle</characters>
                <date>Published</date>
                <genres>Chick Lit, Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Adult, Womens Fiction, New Adult, Humor</genres>
                <id>1978</id>
                <synopsis>"The heroine this novel is a tomboy. She loves her Doc Martens, heavy metal, and hanging out with her best friend, Ollie. She may have been born on a Tuesday, but graceful she isn't. However, Grace's world is about to change. Ollie gets engaged, and her new boss wants her to smarten up. Grace tries to turn herself into the kind of girl she thinks they want her to be - with hilarious and unexpected results."</synopsis>
                <title>Tuesday's Child</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Joe Hill , Gabriel Rodríguez (Artist)</author>
                <characters>Tyler Locke, Kinsey Locke, Bode Locke, Zack Wells</characters>
                <date>Jul-13</date>
                <genres>Graphic Novels, Horror, Comics, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Paranormal, Supernatural, Adult</genres>
                <id>1979</id>
                <synopsis>"Locke &amp; Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them.... and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all...! After the gruesome murder of their father, the Locke kids, Tyler, Kinsey and Bode move with their mother Nina to the ancestral family home, Keyhouse. They soon discover that the house is full of secrets when they start finding magical keys which hold impossible powers such as turning people into ghosts, or being able to erase someone's memories. They are not the only ones who know of the keys; a demonic creature known as Dodge is also after the keys, with the goal of opening the Black Door, which will allow the demons of hell to enter our world. The sprawling tale of the Locke family and their mastery of the 'whispering steel' thunders to new heights as the true history of the family is revealed to Tyler and Kinsey. Zack Wells assumes a new form, Tyler and Kinsey travel through time.Tyler and Kinsey Locke have no idea that their now-deceased nemesis, Lucas ""Dodge"" Caravaggio, has taken over the body of their younger brother, Bode. With unrestricted access to Keyhouse, Dodge's ruthless quest to find the Omega Key and open the Black Door is almost complete. But Tyler and Kinsey have a dangerous key of their own — one that can unlock all the secrets of Keyhouse by opening a gateway to the past. The time has come for the Lockes to face theri own legacy and the darkness behind the Black Door. Because if they don't learn from their family history, they may be doomed to repeat it, and time is running out!Colonel Adam Crais's minutemen are literally trapped between a rock and a hard place; in the first days of the Revolutionary War, they find themselves hiding beneath 120 feet of New England stone, with a full regiment of redcoats waiting for them in the daylight... and a door into hell in the cavern below. The black door is open, and it's up to a 16-year-old smith named Ben Locke to find a way to close it. The biggest mysteries of the Locke &amp; Key series are resolved as Clockworks opens, not with a bang, but with the thunderous crash of English cannons.Contents:Clockworks [Locke &amp; Key • 5] / graphic format novella by Joe Hill; interior artwork by Gabriel Rodriguez and Jay Fotos 1 The Locksmith's Son 2 SMASH! 3 The Tamers of the Tempest 4 The Whispering Iron 5 Grown-Ups 6 CurtainThe Known Keys (Clockworks) [Locke &amp; Key • 5.5] [Excerpts from the Diary of Benjamin Pierce Locke, 1757-1799] / shortfiction by Joe Hill; interior artwork by Gabriel Rodriguez...to be concluded in Locke &amp; Key: OMEGAStorytellers: Joe Hill, author, Gabriel Rodriguez, Illustrator. Series edited by Chris Ryall. Collection edited by Justin Eisinger.."</synopsis>
                <title>Locke &amp; Key, Vol. 5: Clockworks</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Thea Beckman</author>
                <characters>Christian, Thura, Kunz, Kolbe, Hannah-Dottir, Armina-Dottir, Rajo, Anouk</characters>
                <date>2003</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Childrens, Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Post Apocalyptic, 20th Century, Dutch Literature, Historical Fiction</genres>
                <id>1980</id>
                <synopsis>"Zes eeuwen na de Derde Wereldoorlog. De aarde is door een kernoorlog gekanteld en bijna verwoest. Het ijs op het vroegere Groenland, dat nu Thule heet, is gesmolten en het land heeft een heerlijk klimaat. De mensen leven in harmonie met de natuur. Het land wordt door vrouwen geregeerd, zonder leger, zonder wapens.Op een dag verschijnt er een onbekend schip in de fjord. Algauw blijkt dat de opvarenden van het schip, afkomstig uit het Badense Rijk, van plan zijn Thule te veroveren. Bij een land zonder wapens, geregeerd door vrouwen, moet dat toch niet moeilijk zijn! De Badeners stuiten echter op onverwachte tegenstand.Kinderen van Moeder Aarde is deel 1 in de Thule-trilogie."</synopsis>
                <title>Kinderen van Moeder Aarde</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ernest Shackleton, Peter King (Editor), Frank Hurley (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Ernest Shackleton</characters>
                <date>Nov-99</date>
                <genres>History, Nonfiction, Adventure, Biography, Travel, Memoir, Historical, Survival, Classics, Autobiography</genres>
                <id>1981</id>
                <synopsis>"In 1914, as the shadow of war falls across Europe, a party led by veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton sets out to become the first to traverse the Antarctic continent. Their initial optimism is short-lived, however, as the ice field slowly thickens, encasing the ship Endurance in a death-grip, crushing their craft, and marooning 28 men on a polar ice floe.In an epic struggle of man versus the elements, Shackleton leads his team on a harrowing quest for survival over some of the most unforgiving terrain in the world. Icy, tempestuous seas full of gargantuan waves, mountainous glaciers and icebergs, unending brutal cold, and ever-looming starvation are their mortal foes as Shackleton and his men struggle to stay alive.What happened to those brave men forever stands as a testament to their strength of will and the power of human endurance.This is their story, as told by the man who led them."</synopsis>
                <title>South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Iain Banks</author>
                <characters>Cameron Colley</characters>
                <date>2003</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Contemporary, Scotland, Novels, British Literature, Science Fiction, Modern</genres>
                <id>1982</id>
                <synopsis>"A few spliffs, a spot of milkd S&amp;M, phone through the copy of tomorrow's front page, catch up with the latest from your mystery source - could be big, could be very big - in fact, just a regular day at the office for free-wheeling, substance abusing Cameron Colley, a fully paid-up Gonzo hack on an Edinburgh newspaper. The source is pretty thin, but Cameron senses a scoop and checks out a series of bizarre deaths from a few years ago - only to find that the police are checking out a series of bizarre deaths that are happening right now. And Cameron just might know more about it that he'd care to admit..."</synopsis>
                <title>Complicity</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Stephen R. Donaldson</author>
                <characters>Thomas Covenant</characters>
                <date>Nov-89</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction, Adventure, Epic, High Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Dark Fantasy</genres>
                <id>1983</id>
                <synopsis>"After scant days in his ""real"" world, Thomas Covenant found himself again summoned to the Land. There forty bitter years had passed, while Lord Foul, immortal enemy of the Land, moved to fulfill his prophecy of doom.The Council of Lords found their spells useless, now that Foul the Despiser held the Illearth Stone, ancient source of evil power, High Lord Elena turned in desperation to Covenant and the legendary white hold magic of his ring. And nobody knew how to use the white hold-least of all, Thomas Covenant.Thus continues one of the most remarkable epic fantasies ever written..."</synopsis>
                <title>The Illearth War</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Patricia A. McKillip</author>
                <characters>Morgon, Prince of Hed, Raederle of An</characters>
                <date>1979</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Magic, Young Adult, Science Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Adventure, Adult</genres>
                <id>1984</id>
                <synopsis>"In the midst of conflict and unrest the Prince of Hed solves the puzzle of his future when he learns to harp the wind, discovers who the shape changers are, and understands his own relationship to Deth, harpist of the wizard Ohm."</synopsis>
                <title>Harpist in the Wind</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Lilith Saintcrow </author>
                <characters>Eddie, Dante Valentine, Gabriel ""Gabe"" Anderson, Japhrimel, Lucas Villalobos</characters>
                <date>2007</date>
                <genres>Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, Paranormal, Demons, Fiction, Paranormal Romance, Romance, Magic, Supernatural, Adult</genres>
                <id>1985</id>
                <synopsis>"Dante Valentine, Necromancer and bounty hunter, just wants to be left alone. But the Devil has other ideas. The Prince wants Dante. And he wants her now. And Dante and her lover, Japhrimel, have no choice but to answer the Prince's summons. And to fulfill a seemingly simple task: become the Devil's Right Hand, hunt down four demons that have escaped from Hell, and earn His gratitude. It's a shame that nothing is ever easy when it comes to the Devil. Because of course, he doesn't tell Dante the whole truth: there is a rebellion brewing in Hell. And there is a good chance that Lucifer is about to be pushed off the throne. But Dante is getting really tired of being pushed around. And this time, she might be angry enough to take on the Devil himself..."</synopsis>
                <title>The Devil's Right Hand</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Julia Gregson </author>
                <characters>Rose, Victoria Kitchen, Guy, Viva</characters>
                <date>Jun-08</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, India, Romance, Historical, Asia, Travel, Chick Lit, British Literature, Novels</genres>
                <id>1986</id>
                <synopsis>"Autumn 1928. The Kaiser-i-Hind is en route to Bombay. In Cabin D38, Viva Hollowat, an inexperienced chaperone, is worried she's made a terrible mistake. Her advert in The Lady has resulted in three unsettling charges to be escorted to India.Rose, a beautiful, dangerously naive English girl, is about to be married to the cavalry officer she has met only a handful of times.Victoria, the bridesmaid, is determined to lose her virginity on the journey before finding a husband of her own in India. And overshadowing all three of them, the malevolent presence of Guy Glover, a strange and disturbed schoolboy.Three potential Memsahibs with a myriad of reasons for leaving England, but the cargo of hopes and secrets they carry has done little to prepare them for what lies ahead.From the parties of the wealthy Bombay socialites to the poverty of the orphans on Tamarind Street, East of the Sun is everything a historical novel should be: alive with glorious detail, fascinating characters and masterful storytelling."</synopsis>
                <title>East of the Sun</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Robert Graves</author>
                <characters>Oedipus, Artemis (Goddess), Demeter (Goddess), Theseus (mythology), Ajax (Greek hero), Odysseus, Penelope (wife of Odysseus), Helen of Troy, Menelaus, Paris, Hector of Troy, Achilles (Greek hero), Pandora (mythology), Orestes, Zeus (God), Dionysus (mythology), Ares (god), Eris, Perseus, Prometheus (mythology), Athena (Greek goddess), Hera, Atlas, Persephone (Goddess), Hades, Hephaestus, Eros, Eurydice, Orpheus, Medusa, Aeneas, Osiris, Asclepius, Electra, Poseidon (God), Medea of Colchis, Chiron, Sarpedon (king of Lycia), Priam, Daedalus, Thoth, Arachne (mythology), Erinyes, Cassandra (of Troy), Ganymede (mythology), Boreas, Cadmus (mythology), Europa, Hermaphroditus, Ixion, Leto (mythology), Minos, Narcissus, Niobe (mythology), Pan (Greek), Pegasus, Scylla, Tiresias, Hermes, Silenus, Rhea (Greek), Heracles, Cerberus, Aphrodite, Creon, Iris (Greek), Minotaur, Sisyphus, Hydra of Lerna, Cronos (Greek), Hestia (Goddess), Atropos (mythology), Gaia (Greek), Antiope (mythology), Hecate (mythology), Apollo (Greek god), Clytemnestra (wife of Agamemnon), Pygmalion (Greek), Uranus (Greek), Oceanus (Greek), Charon (mythology), Sphinx (Greek mythology), Hyperion (mythology), Selene (mythology), Eos (mythology), Helius (mythology), Styx (Goddess), Icarus (mythology), Thetis (mythology), Galatea (mythology), Echo (mythology), Tantalus, Adonis (mythology), Myrrha, Euterpe (mythology), Ariadne (mythology), Priapus, Procrustes (mythology), Agamemnon</characters>
                <date>1992</date>
                <genres>Mythology, Classics, Nonfiction, History, Reference, Religion, Greece, Greek Mythology, Literature, Philosophy</genres>
                <id>1987</id>
                <synopsis>"Combines in a single volume the complete text of the definitive two-volume classic, citing all the ancient myths. For a full appreciation of literature or visual art, knowledge of the Greek myths is crucial. In this much-loved collection, poet and scholar Robert Graves retells the immortal stories of the Greek myths. Demeter mourning her daughter Persephone, Icarus flying too close to the sun, Theseus and the Minotaur … all are captured here with the author’s characteristic erudition and flair.The Greek Myths is the culmination of years of research and careful observation, however what makes this collection extraordinary is the imaginative and poetic style of the retelling. Drawing on his experience as a novelist and poet, Graves tells the fantastic stories of Ancient Greece in a style that is both absorbing and easy for the general reader to understand. Each story is accompanied by Graves’ interpretation of the origins and deeper meaning of the story, giving a reader an unparalleled insight into the customs and development of the Greek world."</synopsis>
                <title>The Greek Myths</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Nancy Mitford</author>
                <characters>Linda Radlett, Matthew Radlett, Fanny Wincham, Aunt Emily, David Warbeck, Lord Merlin, Sadie Radlett, Jassy, Matt, Robin and Vicki Radlett, Louisa Radlett, The Bolter, Tony Kroesig, Christian Talbot, Fabrice Sauveterre, Alfred Wincham, Lavender Davis</characters>
                <date>1999</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Romance, Historical Fiction, British Literature, Humor, 20th Century, Historical, Novels, Modern Classics</genres>
                <id>1988</id>
                <synopsis>"Few aristocratic English families of the twentieth century enjoyed the glamorous notoriety of the infamous Mitford sisters. Nancy Mitford's most famous novel, The Pursuit of Love satirizes British aristocracy in the twenties and thirties through the amorous adventures of the Radletts, an exuberantly unconventional family closely modelled on Mitford's own.The Radletts of Alconleigh occupy the heights of genteel eccentricity, from terrifying Lord Alconleigh (who, like Mitford's father, used to hunt his children with bloodhounds when foxes were not available), to his gentle wife, Sadie, their wayward daughter Linda, and the other six lively Radlett children. Mitford's wickedly funny prose follows these characters through misguided marriages and dramatic love affairs, as the shadow of World War II begins to close in on their rapidly vanishing world."</synopsis>
                <title>The Pursuit of Love</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Daphne du Maurier</author>
                <characters>John Baxter, Laura Baxter</characters>
                <date>1971</date>
                <genres>Short Stories, Horror, Fiction, Classics, Gothic, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, British Literature, 20th Century</genres>
                <id>1989</id>
                <synopsis>The title novella of this collection features John and Laura who are on holiday in Venice. But it is a dangerous place for them as they are being followed by two old sisters and there is a killer on the loose.</synopsis>
                <title>Don't Look Now</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>L.J. Smith </author>
                <characters>Nick Armstrong, Cassie Blake, Faye Chamberlain, Diana Meade, Adam Conant, Laurel Quincey, Melanie Glaser, Deborah Armstrong, Chris Henderson, Doug Henderson, Susan Whitler</characters>
                <date>1992</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Witches, Romance, Magic, Supernatural, Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance</genres>
                <id>1990</id>
                <synopsis>Cassie is initiated into her hometown's coven of witches but her love for the coven leader's boyfriend could prove deadly.</synopsis>
                <title>The Initiation</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Charles Dickens, David Paroissien (Annotations)</author>
                <characters>Edwin Drood, Edwin Drood, Rosa Bud, Dick Datchery, John Jasper, Neville Landless, Rev. Septimus Crisparkle, Dupin, Pater Brown, Marlowe, Helena Landless, Hiram Grewgious, Miss Twinkleton, Luke Honeythunder, Mr. Tartar, Thomas Sapsea, Hercule Poirot, Jules Maigret, Charles Dickens, Sherlock Holmes</characters>
                <date>2002</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Mystery, 19th Century, Literature, Victorian, British Literature, Gothic, Historical Fiction, Novels</genres>
                <id>1991</id>
                <synopsis>"Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel, and one that has puzzled readers and inspired writers since its publication, The Mystery of Edwin Drood is edited with an introduction by David Paroissien in Penguin Classics.Edwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa Bud when he comes of age, but when they find that duty has gradually replaced affection, they agree to break off the engagement. Shortly afterwards, in the middle of a storm on Christmas Eve, Edwin disappears, leaving nothing behind but some personal belongings and the suspicion that his jealous uncle John Jasper, madly in love with Rosa, is the killer. And beyond this presumed crime there are further intrigues: the dark opium dens of the sleepy cathedral town of Cloisterham, and the sinister double life of Choirmaster Jasper, whose drug-fuelled fantasy life belies his respectable appearance. Dickens died before completing The Mystery of Edwin Drood, leaving its tantalising mystery unsolved and encouraging successive generations of readers to turn detective.This edition contains an introduction by David Paroissien, discussing the novel's ending, with a chronology, notes, original illustrations by Samuel Luke Fildes, appendices on opium use in the nineteenth century, the 'Sapsea Fragment' and Dickens's plans for the story's conclusion.Charles Dickens is one of the best-loved novelists in the English language, whose 200th anniversary was celebrated in 2012. His most famous books, including Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield and The Pickwick Papers, have been adapted for stage and screen and read by millions.If you enjoyed The Mystery of Edwin Drood, you might like Dickens's Little Dorrit, also available in Penguin Classics."</synopsis>
                <title>The Mystery of Edwin Drood</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Enid Blyton</author>
                <characters>George Kirrin (Famous Five), Dick Kirrin, Timmy, Tinker, Anne (Famous Five), Julian (Famous Five)</characters>
                <date>2001</date>
                <genres>Childrens, Adventure, Fiction, Mystery, Classics, Young Adult, Middle Grade, British Literature, Juvenile, Novels</genres>
                <id>1992</id>
                <synopsis>"A caravan holiday for the Famous Five is bound to be an adventure! And when they stumble across a circus troupe, the gang are thrilled. But some of the circus people have more sinister plans than just clowning around..."</synopsis>
                <title>Five Go Off in a Caravan</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>William Goldman</author>
                <characters>Henry""Doc"" Levy, Thomas ""Babe"" Levy, Dr. Christian Szell, Peter Janeway, Elsa Opel</characters>
                <date>1976</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Espionage, Novels, Classics, Adventure</genres>
                <id>1993</id>
                <synopsis>"Tom ""Babe"" Levy is a runner in every sense: racing tirelessly toward his goals of athletic and academic excellence-and endlessly away from the specter of his famous father's scandal-driven suicide. But an unexpected visit from his beloved older brother will set in motion a chain of events that plunge Babe into a vortex of terror, treachery, and murder-and force him into a race for his life . . . and for the answer to the fateful question, ""Is it safe?"""</synopsis>
                <title>Marathon Man</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Alper Canıgüz</author>
                <characters>Alper Kamu, Onur Çalışkan, Metin Bilgin</characters>
                <date>2004</date>
                <genres>Turkish Literature, Turkish, Fiction, Roman, Novels, Contemporary, Detective, Literature, Mystery</genres>
                <id>1994</id>
                <synopsis>"""Beş yaş insanın en olgun çağıdır; sonra çürüme başlar.Ben Alper Kamu, birkaç ay önce beş yaşına bastım. Doğum günüm yaklaşırken vaktimin büyük kısmını pencerenin önünde, dışarıdaki insanları izleyerek geçiriyordum. Hızlanarak, yavaşlayarak, türlü sesler çıkararak ve bir yerlere bakarak yaşayıp gidiyorlardı. Bür gün onlardan biri haline geleceğimi düşünmek beni hasta ediyordu. Ne yazık ki bundan kaçış yoktu. Zaman acımasızdı ve ben hızla yaşlanıyordum. Hayatımdaki tek iyi şey artık anaokuluna gitmek zorunda olmayışımdı. Zarardan kar. Uzun süre annem ile babama anaokulunun bana göre bir yer olmadığını anlatmaya çalışmıştım aslında. Bütün rasyonel dayanaklarıyla. Hiçbir işe yaramamıştı maalesef. İlla ki uykumda kan ter içinde tepinmek, servis minibüsü kapıya geldiğinde küçük çaplı bir sinir krizi geçirmek gibi yöntemlere başvurmam gerekecekti derdimi anlamaları için. Kepazelik. İnsanı kendinden utandırıyorlardı.""Alper Canıgüz, kıvrak ve sürükleyici diliyle, beş yaşındaki bir çocuğun içine düştüğü bir hikayeyi anlatıyor. Yaşının avantajıyla her yere girip çıkan, hem filozof hem fırlama bir oğlan... Hikayeyi ve ""karakteri"" çevreleyen semt hayatı ve mahalle atmosferi de, bizzat karakter kazanıyor anlatıda...Polisiye, fantastik ve mizahi edebiyatın tatlarını ustaca kaynaştıran, olağanüstü özgün, çok iddialı bir kitap."</synopsis>
                <title>Oğullar ve Rencide Ruhlar</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Barış Bıçakçı</author>
                <characters>Ender Eşik, Çetin Aras, Nihal</characters>
                <date>2004</date>
                <genres>Turkish Literature, Turkish, Fiction, Novels, Roman, Literature, Literary Fiction, Contemporary</genres>
                <id>1995</id>
                <synopsis>"Sıkı bir dostluk... Aslında hikâye onların hikâyesi, Ender’in ve Çetin’in... Günün birinde hayatlarına bir genç kız girer. Şimdi düşünme, hatırlama ve kendini didikleme zamanıdır.“Nihal’e başından beri olduğumuzdan farklı göründük. Böyle gerekmişti. Koruyucu, kollayıcı, soğukkanlı, ne yapması gerektiğini bilen, Nihal düzgün yürüsün, üniversiteyi uzatmadan bitirsin, yaşadığı felaketten makul adımlarla uzaklaşsın diye asfalt döşeyen iki orta yaşlı, deneyimli erkek. Biri göbekli, diğeri kel.”Barış Bıçakçı, bu çağa özgü lâf kalabalığından; dil, duygu, düşünce kirliliğinden paçalarına tek damla çamur bulaştırmadan çıkabilen, şaşırtıcı bir içışığı cömertçe yayan bir yazar. Nefes alır gibi, su içer gibi yazıyor."</synopsis>
                <title>Bizim Büyük Çaresizliğimiz</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>J.V. Jones</author>
                <characters>Melliandra, Tawl, Prince Kylock</characters>
                <date>1997</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, Epic, Young Adult, Speculative Fiction</genres>
                <id>1996</id>
                <synopsis>"THE BOOK OF WORDS is a thrilling new fantasy adventure series, where the lethal conspiracies and deadly intrigues of the mighty can be countered only by the power of magic.At vast Castle Harvell, Where King Lesketh lies dying, two fates collide. In her regal suite, young Melliandra, the daughter of an influential lord, rebels against her forced betrothal to the sinister Prince Kylock. In the kitchens, an apprentice named Jack is terrified by his sudden, uncontrolled power to work miracles. Together they flee the castle, stalked by a sorcer who has connived for decades to control the crown, committing supernatural murder to advance his schemes.Meanwhile, a young knight begins a quest leaving behind his home and family to seek out the treacherous Isle of Larn, where lies a clue to his desperate search for the truth.And a wondrous epic of darkness and beauty begins..."</synopsis>
                <title>The Baker's Boy</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>L.J. Smith </author>
                <characters>Thea Sophia Harman, Eric Ross, Blaise Harman, Edgith Harman, Dani Naete Mella Abforth, Vivienne Morrigan, Selene Lucna, Kevin Imamura, Pilar Osorio, Rosamund Ross, Luke Price, Alaric Breedlove, Rendy Marik, Kishi Hirata, Claire Blessingway, Nathaniel Long, Lawai Dcua, Chang Xi, Nana Buruku</characters>
                <date>Oct-96</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Vampires, Romance, Witches, Urban Fantasy, Magic, Fiction, Supernatural</genres>
                <id>1997</id>
                <synopsis>"Blaise's black magic is powerful. The only way Thea can fight back is to use her own white magic, to bewitch Eric herself as a bluff. But soon Thea finds herself getting too close to Eric, feeling forbidden emotions, breaking Night World laws by falling in love. As halloween and the Night of the Witch draw closer, can Thea save Eric and herself from Blaise's revenge?"</synopsis>
                <title>Spellbinder</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>L.J. Smith </author>
                <characters>Maya, Thea Sophia Harman, Ash Redfern, Hannah Snow, Thierry Descouedres, Paul Win-field, Chris Grady, Catherine Clovis, Lupe Acevedo, Gillian Lennox, John Quinn, David Blackburn, Rashel Jordan, Eric Ross, James Rasmussen, Poppy North</characters>
                <date>Apr-97</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Vampires, Paranormal, Fantasy, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Supernatural, Paranormal Romance, Fiction, Witches</genres>
                <id>1998</id>
                <synopsis>"Eternal Love Hannah Snow's life was so together. Friends, terrific grades, dreams of a career in paleontology. Everything was perfect... until the notes started appearing. Notes in her own handwriting, warning her of the danger that was coming. Dead Before Seventeen.The psychiatrist was supposed to help. But what came out of the age regressions were memories of another time, another life. And of a stranger who tore her world apart... a vampire who killed a village in his rage. Until, in the eyes of a dying human girl, he recognized his soulmate.Now the stranger is back. He has searched for Hannah throughout the years, trying to make amends, waiting for her to be born. Now he is Thierry, the Lord of the Night World- and nothing in heaven or hell will keep him from his soulmate again. But if her destiny is death, can even Theirry's love protect her?"</synopsis>
                <title>Soulmate</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Günter Grass, Ralph Manheim (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Oskar Matzerath, Joachim Mahlke</characters>
                <date>1997</date>
                <genres>Fiction, German Literature, Classics, Germany, Literature, Historical Fiction, Nobel Prize, Novels, War, 20th Century</genres>
                <id>1999</id>
                <synopsis>"An alternate cover for this isbn can be found here.To compensate for his unusually large Adam’s apple—source of both discomfort and distress—fourteen year old Joachim Mahlke turns himself into athlete and ace diver. Soon he is known to his peers and his nation as “The Great Mahlke”. But to his enemies, he remains a target. He is different and doomed in a country scarred by the war.Cat and Mouse was first published in 1961, two years after Gunter Grass’ controversial and applauded masterpiece, The Tin Drum. Once again Grass turns his attention on Danzig. With a subtle blend of humour and power, Cat and Mouse ostensibly relates the rise of Mahlke from clown to hero. But Mahlke’s outlandish antics hide the darkness at the heart of a nation torn by Nazi violence, the war, and its aftermath."</synopsis>
                <title>Cat and Mouse</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>George MacDonald, Michael R. Phillips (editor)</author>
                <characters>Malcolm MacPhail</characters>
                <date>1991</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Christian Fiction, Historical Fiction, Christian, Classics, Historical, Romance, Adult Fiction, 19th Century, Mystery</genres>
                <id>2000</id>
                <synopsis>"The discovery of a woman's body in an old house overlooking the sea leads to revelations concerning Malcolm MacPhail, a Scottish fisherman."</synopsis>
                <title>The Fisherman's Lady</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Martin Amis</author>
                <characters>Samson Young, Guy Clinch, Keith Talent, Nicola Six</characters>
                <date>Feb-03</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Mystery, Novels, British Literature, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, Crime</genres>
                <id>2001</id>
                <synopsis>"London Fields is Amis's murder story for the end of the millennium. The murderee is Nicola Six, a ""black hole"" of sex and self-loathing intent on orchestrating her own extinction. The murderer may be Keith Talent, a violent lowlife whose only passions are pornography and darts. Or is the killer the rich, honorable, and dimly romantic Guy Clinch?"</synopsis>
                <title>London Fields</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Peter Buwalda</author>
                <characters>Joni Sigerius, Aaron Bever, Siem Sigerius</characters>
                <date>Sept-10</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Dutch Literature, Literature, Roman, Novels, Contemporary, Thriller, 21st Century, School, Adult</genres>
                <id>2002</id>
                <synopsis>"Joni Sigerius, de dochter van de rector magnificus van de Twentse universiteit, drijft samen met haar vriend Aaron een handeltje dat ze maar liever voor haar krachtige en briljante vader verborgen houdt. Het is in het jaar van de vuurwerkramp dat ook in het gezin de boel explodeert. Niet alleen lopen Joni en Aaron tegen de lamp, die zomer komt ook de enige en echte zoon van Sigerius vrij uit de Scheveningse gevangenis. Acht jaar later pas – Joni verdient inmiddels miljoenen in Los Angeles – verneemt Aaron wat er zich in 2000 werkelijk heeft afgespeeld."</synopsis>
                <title>Bonita Avenue</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Lisa Gardner </author>
                <characters>Pierce Quincy, Rainie Conner</characters>
                <date>2001</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Thriller, Suspense, Fiction, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Romantic Suspense, Murder Mystery, Romance, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>2003</id>
                <synopsis>"FBI Agent Pierce Quincy is haunted by his daughter's death in a drunk-driving accident. Pierce knew about his daughter's problem with alcohol, and about her loneliness. And so, he is sure, did the man who killed her. Rainie Conner is an ex-cop with a past overshadowed by violence. She was once involved with Pierce in a harrowing case that brought them together personally and professionally. Then, he came to her rescue. Now it is time for her to help him. This killer is different. He has an insatiable hunger for revenge - and for fear. He isn't satisfied with taking his victims' lives - he wants to get inside their minds and strip them of every defence. And his target is Quincy's surviving daughter. Rainie believes that the only way to stop him is to put herself directly into the killer's murderous path and herself become - the next accident."</synopsis>
                <title>The Next Accident</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>J. Bernlef</author>
                <characters>Maarten Klein, Vera Klein</characters>
                <date>1985</date>
                <genres>Dutch Literature, Fiction, Literature, School, Classics, Roman, Contemporary, Read For School, Adult, Novels</genres>
                <id>2004</id>
                <synopsis>"Maarten Klein verliest langzaam maar zeker zijn greep op de werkelijkheid. Hij kan heden en verleden niet meer onderscheiden, wil plotseling weer naar zijn werk en ziet zijn echtgenote voor een vreemde aan. 'Achter me in de deuropening staat een vrouw. Haar bruine haar valt met een lok schuin naar rechts over haar voorhoofd. [...] Ze houdt me in de gaten.' Meer nog dan een verhaal over dementie is Hersenschimmen een liefdesgeschiedenis, met een overmijdelijk tragisch einde."</synopsis>
                <title>Hersenschimmen</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>L.J. Smith </author>
                <characters>Galen Drache, Raksha Keller, Iliana Harman, Winfrith Arlin, Nissa Johnson</characters>
                <date>Jan-98</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Fantasy, Vampires, Paranormal, Romance, Witches, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Paranormal Romance</genres>
                <id>2005</id>
                <synopsis>"Keller is a black panther. A least when she's not being a tough, no-nonsense seventeen-year-old girl. She's a shapeshifter who grew up on the streets and will do whatever it takes to survive. But when Circle Daybreak hires her to protect a new Wild Power, Keller meets her match."</synopsis>
                <title>Witchlight</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Mary Higgins Clark</author>
                <characters>Kay Lansing, Grace Carrington, Peter Carrington, Susan Althorp</characters>
                <date>2007</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Romance, Adult, Murder Mystery, Adult Fiction</genres>
                <id>2006</id>
                <synopsis>"When Kay Lansing marries wealthy widower Peter Carrington, she is well aware of the rumours surrounding the mysterious death of Peter's first wife Grace, who was found floating in the family pool ten years ago, pregnant at the time. Kay also discovers that Peter is a chronic sleepwalker who suffers from periodic nightmares. When the police arrive at her doorstep with a warrant for Peter's arrest in connection with another murder - that of a woman Peter had escorted to a high school senior prom twenty-two years ago - Kay begins to fear that she has married a sleepwalking murderer, and she resolves to find out the truth behind the puzzling deaths. But are the two deaths linked? And why does a melody that Kay cannot identify keep playing in her head every time she approaches the family chapel?"</synopsis>
                <title>I Heard That Song Before</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Donna Leon</author>
                <characters>Commissario Guido Brunetti, Ispettore Vianello, Vice-Questore Patta</characters>
                <date>2002</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Crime, Italy, Fiction, Audiobook, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Thriller, Contemporary, Police</genres>
                <id>2007</id>
                <synopsis>"The murder of two clam fishermen off the island of Pellestrina, south of the Lido on the Venetian lagoon, draws Commissario Brunetti into the close-knit community of the island, bound together by a code of loyalty and a suspicion of outsiders worthy of the Mafia. When the boss' secretary Signorina Elettra volunteers to visit the island, where she has relatives, Brunetti finds himself torn between his duty to solve the murders, concerns for Elettra's safety, and his not entirely straightforward feelings for her ..."</synopsis>
                <title>A Sea of Troubles</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Roger Zelazny</author>
                <characters>Random of Amber, Brand of Amber, Corwin of Amber, Eric of Amber, Benedict of Amber, Caine of Amber, Bleys of Amber, Julian of Amber, Gérard of Amber, Florimel of Amber, Deirdre of Amber, Fiona of Amber, Llewella of Amber</characters>
                <date>Apr-86</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Audiobook, High Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, Urban Fantasy</genres>
                <id>2008</id>
                <synopsis>"Across the worlds of Shadow, Corwin, prince of blood royal, heir to the throne of Amber, gathers his forces for an assault that will yield up to him the crown that is rightfully his. But, a growing darkness of his own doing threatens his plans, an evil that stretches to the heart of the perfect kingdom itself where the demonic forces of Chaos mass to annihilate Amber and all who would rule there.One of the most revered names in sf and fantasy, the incomparable Roger Zelazny was honored with numerous prizes—including six Hugo and three Nebula Awards—over the course of his legendary career. Among his more than fifty books, arguably Zelazny’s most popular literary creations were his extraordinary Amber novels. The Guns of Avalon is the second book of The Chronicles of Amber."</synopsis>
                <title>The Guns of Avalon</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Walter Isaacson </author>
                <characters>Benjamin Franklin</characters>
                <date>Jun-04</date>
                <genres>Biography, History, Nonfiction, American History, Biography Memoir, Politics, American Revolution, Audiobook, Historical, Business</genres>
                <id>2009</id>
                <synopsis>"Benjamin Franklin is the Founding Father who winks at us. An ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings, he seems made of flesh rather than of marble. In bestselling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin seems to turn to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle from behind his new-fangled spectacles. By bringing Franklin to life, Isaacson shows how he helped to define both his own time and ours.He was, during his 84-year life, America's best scientist, inventor, diplomat, writer, and business strategist, and he was also one of its most practical—though not most profound—political thinkers. He proved by flying a kite that lightning was electricity, and he invented a rod to tame it. He sought practical ways to make stoves less smoky and commonwealths less corrupt. He organized neighborhood constabularies and international alliances, local lending libraries and national legislatures. He combined two types of lenses to create bifocals and two concepts of representation to foster the nation's federal compromise. He was the only man who shaped all the founding documents of America: the Albany Plan of Union, the Declaration of Independence, the treaty of alliance with France, the peace treaty with England, and the Constitution. And he helped invent America's unique style of homespun humor, democratic values, and philosophical pragmatism.But the most interesting thing that Franklin invented, and continually reinvented, was himself. America's first great publicist, he was, in his life and in his writings, consciously trying to create a new American archetype. In the process, he carefully crafted his own persona, portrayed it in public, and polished it for posterity.Through it all, he trusted the hearts and minds of his fellow ""leather-aprons"" more than he did those of any inbred elite. He saw middle-class values as a source of social strength, not as something to be derided. His guiding principle was a ""dislike of everything that tended to debase the spirit of the common people."" Few of his fellow founders felt this comfort with democracy so fully, and none so intuitively.In this colorful and intimate narrative, Isaacson provides the full sweep of Franklin's amazing life, from his days as a runaway printer to his triumphs as a statesman, scientist, and Founding Father. He chronicles Franklin's tumultuous relationship with his illegitimate son and grandson, his practical marriage, and his flirtations with the ladies of Paris. He also shows how Franklin helped to create the American character and why he has a particular resonance in the twenty-first century."</synopsis>
                <title>Benjamin Franklin: An American Life</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Piers Anthony</author>
                <characters>Orb Kaftan, Parry, Niobe Kaftan, Luna Kaftan, Magician Kaftan, Cedric Kaftan, Pacian Kaftan</characters>
                <date>Oct-86</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Mythology, Magic, Paranormal, Adventure, Supernatural</genres>
                <id>2010</id>
                <synopsis>"THE WOMAN WHO WANTED REVENGEWhen the man Niobe loved was shot, she learned that she had been the target, in a devious plot of the Devil's. Hoping for revenge, Niobe accepted a position as one of the three Aspects of Fate, only to find that Satan's plots were tangled into the very Tapestry of Fate. Now the Evil One was laying a trap to ruin Niobe's granddaughter Luna, who threatened his plans—and he had tricked her son into Hell.Niobe's only chance to save her son and Luna was to accept a challenge by the Prince of Deceit—a challenge to be decided in Hell and in a maze of Satan's devising."</synopsis>
                <title>With a Tangled Skein</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Donna Leon</author>
                <characters>Commissario Guido Brunetti</characters>
                <date>1995</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Italy, Detective, Audiobook, Mystery Thriller, Thriller, Contemporary, Murder Mystery</genres>
                <id>2011</id>
                <synopsis>The Anonymous Venetian</synopsis>
                <title>The Anonymous Venetian</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Suzanne Enoch</author>
                <characters>Alexandra Gallant, Lucien Balfour</characters>
                <date>Mar-00</date>
                <genres>Historical Romance, Romance, Historical, Regency, Regency Romance, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Adult, British Literature, Humor</genres>
                <id>2012</id>
                <synopsis>"Lessons In LoveA governess must never be alone with a man. Her reputation mustn't have even a hint of scandal. She must never reveal personal emotions. No matter how strong the provocation by her employer. A governess never questions her employer's commands. Even when he's tempting her to forsake respectability for desire? She must never, ever, fall in love with someone above her station. Especially a rake—no matter how devastating his kisses may be.Alexandra Gallant is a governess extraordinaire—and if it weren't for that unfortunate incident at her last position, she wouldn't now be forced into the employ of Lucien Balfour, the most notorious rake in London. Though the sinfully attractive earl hired her to teach his young cousin, his seductive whispers and toe-curling kisses suggest he has something far less respectable in mind...and that will never happen. For although Lucien seems determined to teach her about pleasure, she has a few lessons to teach him about love!"</synopsis>
                <title>Reforming a Rake</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Tana French </author>
                <characters>Frank Mackey, Holly Mackey, Antoinette Conway, Stephen Moran</characters>
                <date>Aug-19</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Thriller, Ireland, Audiobook, Adult, Suspense, Irish Literature</genres>
                <id>2013</id>
                <synopsis>"An alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.A year ago a boy was found murdered at a girlsʼ boarding school, and the case was never solved. Detective Stephen Moran has been waiting for his chance to join Dublin’s Murder Squad when sixteen-year-old Holly Mackey arrives in his office with a photo of the boy with the caption: “I KNOW WHO KILLED HIM.” Stephen joins with Detective Antoinette Conway to reopen the case—beneath the watchful eye of Holly’s father, fellow detective Frank Mackey. With the clues leading back to Holly’s close-knit group of friends, to their rival clique, and to the tangle of relationships that bound them all to the murdered boy, the private underworld of teenage girls turns out to be more mysterious and more dangerous than the detectives imagined."</synopsis>
                <title>The Secret Place</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Katherine Applegate</author>
                <characters>David Levin, ""April O''Brien"", Senna Wales, Jalil, Christopher</characters>
                <date>Jul-99</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Mythology, Fiction, Adventure, Childrens, Young Adult Fantasy, Science Fiction, Teen, Urban Fantasy</genres>
                <id>2014</id>
                <synopsis>"There is a place that shouldn’t exist. But does. And there are creatures that shouldn’t exist. But do. Welcome to a land where all of your dreams and nightmares are very real—and often deadly. Welcome to Everworld.David’s life was pretty normal. School. Friends. Girlfriend. Actually, Senna was probably the oddest aspect of his life. She was beautiful. Smart. But there was something very different about her. Something strange.And on the day it began, everything happened so quickly. One moment, Senna was with him. The next, she was swallowed up by the earth, her screams echoing from far, far away. David couldn’t just let her go. Neither could the others. His friends—and hers. So, they followed. And found themselves in a world they could have never imagined. Now they have to find Senna and get home without losing their lives. Or their minds. Or both…"</synopsis>
                <title>Search for Senna</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Morris Gleitzman</author>
                <characters>Jamal</characters>
                <date>2004</date>
                <genres>Childrens, Fiction, School, Young Adult, Read For School, Adventure, Middle Grade, War, Australia, Family</genres>
                <id>2015</id>
                <synopsis>"Jamal and Bibi have a dream: To lead Australia to football glory in the next World Cup. But first they must face pirates, storms, and assassins. Can Jamal and his family survive their incredible journey and get to Australia?"</synopsis>
                <title>Boy Overboard</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Michael A. Stackpole </author>
                <characters>Corran Horn, Wedge Antilles, Ysanne Isard, Kirtan Loor, Ooryl Qrygg</characters>
                <date>Feb-96</date>
                <genres>Star Wars, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Space Opera, Science Fiction Fantasy, Novels, Media Tie In, Adventure, Space</genres>
                <id>2016</id>
                <synopsis>"They are sleek, swift, and deadly. They are the X-wing fighters. And as the struggle rages across the vastness of space, the fearless men and women who pilot them risk both their lives and their machines. Their mission: to defend the Rebel Alliance against a still-powerful and battle-hardened Imperial foe in a last-ditch effort to control the stars!Its very name strikes fear into enemy hearts. So when Rebel hero Wedge Antilles rebuilds the legendary Rogue Squadron, he seeks out only the best - the most skilled, the most daring X-wing pilots. Through arduous training and dangerous missions, he weeds out the weak from the strong, assembling a group of hard-bitten warriors willing to fight, ready to die. Antilles knows the grim truth: that even with the best X-wing jockeys in the galaxy, many will not survive their near-suicidal missions. But when Rogue Squadron is ordered to assist in the assault on the heavily fortified Imperial stronghold of Black Moon, even the bravest must wonder if any at all will survive. . . . "</synopsis>
                <title>Rogue Squadron</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>John Allison , Lissa Treiman (Illustrator), Whitney Cogar (Colors)</author>
                <characters>Susan Ptolemy, Nadia, Daisy Wooton, Esther de Groot, Ed Gemmell, Graham McGraw</characters>
                <date>Dec-15</date>
                <genres>Graphic Novels, Comics, Young Adult, Contemporary, Graphic Novels Comics, Fiction, Humor, LGBT, New Adult, Realistic Fiction</genres>
                <id>2017</id>
                <synopsis>"Susan, Esther, and Daisy started at university three weeks ago and became fast friends. Now, away from home for the first time, all three want to reinvent themselves. But in the face of handwringing boys, “personal experimentation,” influenza, mystery-mold, nu-chauvinism, and the willful, unwanted intrusion of “academia,” they may be lucky just to make it to spring alive. Going off to university is always a time of change and growth, but for Esther, Susan, and Daisy, things are about to get a little weird.Collects issues #1-4."</synopsis>
                <title>Giant Days, Vol. 1</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Licia Troisi</author>
                <characters>Sennar, Nihal, mezzelfo</characters>
                <date>Apr-05</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, High Fantasy, Magic, Dragons, Fiction, Adventure, Young Adult Fantasy, Romance, Italian Literature</genres>
                <id>2018</id>
                <synopsis>"Mentre l'esercito delle Terre ancora libere dal potere del Tiranno crolla sotto l'avanzata delle truppe nemiche e degli agghiaccianti schieramenti dei fantasmi, Nihal, l'ultimo mezzelfo del Mondo Emerso, è in viaggio con il giovane mago Sennar per una missione disperata: recuperare le otto pietre di un talismano dai poteri infiniti, capace di porre fine alla guerra. Ciascuna delle otto Terre del Mondo Emerso nasconde all'interno di un santuario una delle pietre dedicate agli Spiriti della natura: Acqua, Luce, Mare, Tempo, Fuoco, Terra, Oscurità, Aria. Se Nihal riuscirà a raggiungere tutti i santuari e a riunire le pietre del talismano, potrà chiamare a raccolta gli Spiriti e annullare ogni forma di magia, comprese le terribili armi del Tiranno. Nella Terra dell'Acqua, intanto, il maestro di Nihal, lo gnomo Ido, scopre di avere un nuovo e terribile nemico che rischia di trascinarlo verso un passato da cui sembra impossibile riscattarsi. "</synopsis>
                <title>Il talismano del potere</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Licia Troisi</author>
                <characters>Sennar, Nihal, mezzelfo</characters>
                <date>Oct-04</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, High Fantasy, Dragons, Magic, Fiction, Adventure, Young Adult Fantasy, Romance, Childrens</genres>
                <id>2019</id>
                <synopsis>"Proseguono le avventure della giovane guerriera Nihal, l'ultimo mezzoelfo esistente nel Mondo Emerso, e dell'inseparabile amico mago Sennar. Insieme combattono contro le forze del Tiranno deciso a conquistare le Terre libere e ad assoggettarne tutti gli abitanti per mezzo della stregoneria. Adesso Nihal è alle prese con il mistero della Lacrima, una pietra che sembra dotata di enormi poteri, mentre Sennar è partito alla ricerca delle Terre Sommerse, un continente di cui i secoli hanno cancellato le tracce. Per ritrovarlo, Sennar è costretto a imbarcarsi su una nave pirata e combattere contro i mostri del mare."</synopsis>
                <title>La missione di Sennar</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kim Harrison </author>
                <characters>Rachel Morgan, Ivy Tamwood, Jenks</characters>
                <date>Jul-06</date>
                <genres>Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, Paranormal, Vampires, Fiction, Witches, Romance, Mystery, Paranormal Romance, Werewolves</genres>
                <id>2020</id>
                <synopsis>"Even in the Holllows - Cincinnati's home to all supernatural folk - vampires and werewolves can make strange bedfellows. Just ask Rachel Morgan, private investigator and witch. First her never-do-well boyfriend disappears into the night. Then the hunky protege of vampire crimelord Piscary starts eyeing her curves... not to mention her throat. Throw in a demon or two keen to singe her hide - or take her soul - and you'd think she was the poster child for doom instead of one savvy spellcaster. Luckily she shares her business and the deconsecrated church she calls home with roomies Ivy, lithe living vampire, and Jenks, the world's crankiest pixie. For it'll take more than boots to grind down the hell-magic and mayhem that surround her. EVERY WHICH WAY BUT DEAD finds Rachel in a battle of wits and spells, going head to head with nemesis Trent Kalamack and the dark magic he's long ago forged in becoming a drug lord. Who would have guessed Rachel's own father had been his partner? But as she reels from tis blistering truth, arch-demon Algaliarept returns to claim her as his familiar, a bargain she'd struck in exchange for his testifying against Piscary. The price of failing to comply? Her soul whisked off to the darkest ever-after... In A FISTFUL OF CHARMS, Rachel's former boyfriend, Nick, has stolen the focus, a cursed Were statue able to create new Weres through biting rather than birthing. The statue is the stuff of legend - and ultimate power. for it would give Weres dominion over vampires ... and spark all-out war. To stop a bloodbath no one wants, Rachel will pull out every stop, spell and incantation to save the day. -- from book's dustjacket"</synopsis>
                <title>Dead Witches Tell No Tales (The Hollows, #3-4)</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Manuel de Pedrolo, Jordi Fornas i Martínez (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Alba, Dídac</characters>
                <date>Feb-95</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Young Adult, Classics, School, Dystopia, Childrens, Novels, High School, Drama</genres>
                <id>2021</id>
                <synopsis>"Amb el títol de ""Mecanoscrit del segon origen"" és conegut, l'any 7138 de la nova era, el llibre que més de quatre mil anys enrere havia estat rescatat de l'oblit i que ocasionà fins i tot serioses discussions entre els entesos d'aquell temps. ¿Obra de ciència-ficció, com pretén l'erudit Eli Raures, o memòries autèntiques d'un dels pocs sobrevivents de la catàstrofe que destruí la civilització, com opina el marxant d'antiguitats Olguen Dalmasas? ¿És l'Alba, la seva protagonista, un personatge de novel·la o bé la mare de la humanitat que s'ha refet gairebé a partir de zero? Aquesta noia de catorze anys, ""verge i bruna"", com diu ella mateixa, es dreça del text amb un poder de suggestió tan extraordinari que costa de creure que algú, ni que sigui Manuel de Pedrolo, pugui haver-la inventada. D'on l'ha treta? D'on li ha vingut, el mecanoscrit?"</synopsis>
                <title>Mecanoscrit del segon origen</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Nancy Springer , Peter Ferguson (Cover Illustrator )</author>
                <characters>Enola Holmes, Sherlock Holmes, Dr. John Watson</characters>
                <date>2007</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Historical, Fiction, Middle Grade, Childrens, Adventure, Juvenile, Historical Mystery</genres>
                <id>2022</id>
                <synopsis>"Enola's name backwards spells ""alone,"" and alone she is, in the world's biggest, darkest, dirtiest city. She is being hunted down by the world's most famous detective - her own brother, Sherlock Holmes. For the sake of freedom she must elude him, but what can she do to ease her loneliness?When she discovers a hidden cache of brilliant charcoal drawings, she feels as if she's a soul mate to the girl who drew them - but that girl, young Lady Cecily, has disappeared without a trace. Braving midnight streets where murderers roam, Enola must unravel the clues - a leaning ladder, a shifty-eyed sales clerk, political pamphlets - to find the left-handed lady, but in order to save Lady Cecily from a powerful villain, Enola risks revealing more than she should. Will her own lonely heart betray her?In this second installment of the acclaimed Enola Holmes Mysteries, two-time Edgar Award winner Nancy Springer brings us all the danger and intrigue of Victorian London as she continues the adventures of one of the wittiest and most exciting new heroines in today's literature."</synopsis>
                <title>The Case of the Left-Handed Lady</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Agatha Christie</author>
                <characters>Tommy Beresford, ""Tuppence"" Beresford, Albert Batt</characters>
                <date>2001</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Detective, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Thriller, Adult, Novels</genres>
                <id>2023</id>
                <synopsis>"The final words of the dying man...the code names of Hitler's most dangerous agents...the mysterious clue that sends Tommy and Tuppence to a seaside resort on a mission of wartime intelligence. But not as husband and wife. As strangers, meeting by chance, setting an elaborate trap for an elusive killer."</synopsis>
                <title>N or M?</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Sharon Creech</author>
                <characters>Finnie family, Carl Ray, Alex Cheevey, Furtz Family, ""Mary Lou''s Friends"", Mary Lou Finney</characters>
                <date>2004</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Middle Grade, Childrens, Contemporary, Family, Romance, Humor, Coming Of Age</genres>
                <id>2024</id>
                <synopsis>"Mary Lou Finney is less than excited about her assignment to keep a journal over the summer. Boring! Then cousin Carl Ray comes to stay with her family, and what starts out as the dull dog days of summer quickly turns into the wildest roller coaster ride of all time. A wonderful story of contemporary teen life."</synopsis>
                <title>Absolutely Normal Chaos</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Dorothy L. Sayers</author>
                <characters>Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey, Mervyn Bunter, Harriet Vane, Gerald, Duke of Denver, Helen, Duchess of Denver, Chief Inspector Charles Parker, Gerald ""Saint-George"" Wimsey, William Noakes, Martha Ruddle, Frank Crutchley, Bert Ruddle, Joseph Sellon, Agnes Twitterton, The Reverend Simon Goodacre, Superintendent Kirk, Mrs. Goodacre, ""Franklin, the lady''s maid"", Honoria Lucasta, Dowager Duchess of Denver</characters>
                <date>Feb-06</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Romance, Classics, British Literature, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Historical Fiction, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>2025</id>
                <synopsis>"Lord Peter Wimsey and his bride, mystery writer Harriet Vane, start their honeymoon with murder. The former owner of Talboys estate is dead in the cellar with a misspelled ""notise"" to the milkman, not a spot of blood on his smashed skull, and £600 in his pocket."</synopsis>
                <title>Busman's Honeymoon</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>William Edmund Barrett</author>
                <characters>Homer Smith</characters>
                <date>Feb-95</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Christian, Religion, Christian Fiction, Media Tie In, Novels, Faith, Catholic</genres>
                <id>2026</id>
                <synopsis>"One of the most beloved of modern classics returns with a beautiful new cover. The enchanting story of two unlikely friends, a black ex-GI and the head of a group of German nuns, The Lilies of the Field tells the story of their impossible dream-to build a chapel in the desert."</synopsis>
                <title>The Lilies of the Field</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Danielle Steel</author>
                <characters>Micheal Hillyard, Nancy McAllister</characters>
                <date>1999</date>
                <genres>Romance, Fiction, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, Novels, Adult, Drama, Love, Adult Fiction</genres>
                <id>2027</id>
                <synopsis>"Young architect Micheal Hillyard and artist Nancy McAllister are determined to get married despite his wealthy mother's disapproval. Then minutes before their wedding, a terrifying accident and a cruel deception separate Micheal and Nancy-perhaps forever. Each pursues a new life-Nancy in California, Micheal in New York. But eventually nothing-and no one-can keep them apart as they keep their vow never to say good-bye."</synopsis>
                <title>The Promise</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Mark Hodder </author>
                <characters>Sir Richard Francis Burton, Algernon Charles Swinburne</characters>
                <date>Mar-11</date>
                <genres>Steampunk, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Alternate History, Fiction, Mystery, Time Travel, Historical Fiction, Historical, Adventure</genres>
                <id>2028</id>
                <synopsis>"It is 1862, though not the 1862 it should be. . . . Time has been altered, and Sir Richard Francis Burton, the king’s agent, is one of the few people who know that the world is now careening along a very different course from that which Destiny intended. When a clockwork-powered man of brass is found abandoned in Trafalgar Square, Burton and his assistant, the wayward poet Algernon Swinburne, find themselves on the trail of the stolen Garnier Collection—black diamonds rumored to be fragments of the Lemurian Eye of Naga, a meteorite that fell to Earth in prehistoric times. His investigation leads to involvement with the media sensation of the age: the Tichborne Claimant, a man who insists that he’s the long lost heir to the cursed Tichborne estate. Monstrous, bloated, and monosyllabic, he’s not the aristocratic Sir Roger Tichborne known to everyone, yet the working classes come out in force to support him. They are soon rioting through the streets of London, as mysterious steam wraiths incite all-out class warfare. From a haunted mansion to the Bedlam madhouse, from South America to Australia, from séances to a secret labyrinth, Burton struggles with shadowy opponents and his own inner demons, meeting along the way the philosopher Herbert Spencer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Florence Nightingale, and Charles Doyle (father of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle). Can the king’s agent expose a plot that threatens to rip the British Empire apart, leading to an international conflict the like of which the world has never seen? And what part does the clockwork man have to play? Burton and Swinburne’s second adventure—The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man—is filled with eccentric steam-driven technology, grotesque characters, and a deepening mystery that pushes forward the three-volume story arc begun in The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack."</synopsis>
                <title>The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Enid Blyton</author>
                <characters>George Kirrin (Famous Five), Dick Kirrin, Timmy, Anne (Famous Five), Anne, Julian (Famous Five), Julian, Dick, George, Timmy</characters>
                <date>2001</date>
                <genres>Childrens, Adventure, Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult, Classics, Middle Grade, British Literature, Childrens Classics, Novels</genres>
                <id>2029</id>
                <synopsis>"Bleak and eerie, Mystery Moor is well-known for its spooky atmosphere, but is there something really scary out there? The Famous Five are intrigued, but the unfriendly travellers camped on the moor aren't letting on. The gang risk treacherous conditions to follow them over the moor - but what danger will they find at the end of their trail?Cover illustration: Richard Jones"</synopsis>
                <title>Five Go to Mystery Moor</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Enid Blyton</author>
                <characters>George Kirrin (Famous Five), Dick Kirrin, Timmy, Tinker, Anne (Famous Five), Julian (Famous Five)</characters>
                <date>2001</date>
                <genres>Childrens, Adventure, Fiction, Mystery, Classics, Young Adult, British Literature, Juvenile, Middle Grade, Childrens Classics</genres>
                <id>2030</id>
                <synopsis>"Spook trains in the dead of night! And they seem to vanish into thin air - but where do they go? The Famous Five are on to it! But discovery of an unusual underground tunnel system, and a secret train-service, has them puzzled. If they follow the tracks, will they solve the mystery?"</synopsis>
                <title>Five Go Off to Camp</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Agatha Christie</author>
                <characters>Hercule Poirot</characters>
                <date>2001</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Short Stories, Classics, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, British Literature, Murder Mystery</genres>
                <id>2031</id>
                <synopsis>"The very first collection of superb short stories featuring Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings…First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond… then came the ‘suicide’ that was murder… the mystery of the absurdly cheap flat… a suspicious death in a locked gun-room… a million dollar bond robbery… the curse of a pharaoh’s tomb… a jewel robbery by the sea… the abduction of a Prime Minister… the disappearance of a banker… a phone call from a dying man… and, finally, the mystery of the missing will.What links these fascinating cases? Only the brilliant deductive powers of Hercule Poirot!1. The Adventure of The Western Star2. The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor3. The Adventure of The Cheap Flat4. The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge5. The Million Dollar Bond Robbery6. The Adventure of The Egyptian Tomb7. The Jewel Robbery at The Grand Metropolitan8. The Kidnapped Prime Minister9. The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim10. The Adventure of The Italian Nobleman11. The Case of The Missing Will"</synopsis>
                <title>Poirot Investigates</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Anthony Horowitz </author>
                <characters>Inspector Lestrade, James Moriarty, Edmund Carstairs, Tobias Finch, Cornelius Stillman, Bill McParland, Catherine Carstairs, Mr. Kirby, Margaret Kirby, Patrick the nephew, Eliza Carstairs, Wiggins, a Baker Street Irregular, Ross Dixon, Sally Dixon, Lord Alec Ravenshaw, Isaiah Creer, Constable Stanley Perkins, Inspector J. Harriman, Lord Horace Blackwater, Dr. Thomas Ackland, Dr. Percy Trevalayan, Mr. Hawkins, Rivers, ""Keelan O''Donaghue"", Dr. Asmodeus Silkin, Reverend Charles Fitzsimmons, Joanna Fitzsimmons, ""Rourke O''Donaghue"", Jason Bratby, Mrs Hudson (Conan Doyle series), Mary Morstan, Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes, Dr. John Watson</characters>
                <date>Nov-11</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Crime, Historical, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, Thriller, Historical Mystery</genres>
                <id>2032</id>
                <synopsis>"For the first time in its one-hundred-and-twenty-five-year history, the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate has authorized a new Sherlock Holmes novel.Once again, THE GAME’S AFOOT…London, 1890. 221B Baker St. A fine art dealer named Edmund Carstairs visits Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson to beg for their help. He is being menaced by a strange man in a flat cap – a wanted criminal who seems to have followed him all the way from America. In the days that follow, his home is robbed, his family is threatened. And then the first murder takes place.Almost unwillingly, Holmes and Watson find themselves being drawn ever deeper into an international conspiracy connected to the teeming criminal underworld of Boston, the gaslit streets of London, opium dens and much, much more. And as they dig, they begin to hear the whispered phrase-the House of Silk-a mysterious entity that connects the highest levels of government to the deepest depths of criminality. Holmes begins to fear that he has uncovered a conspiracy that threatens to tear apart the very fabric of society.The Arthur Conan Doyle Estate chose the celebrated, #1 New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz to write The House of Silk because of his proven ability to tell a transfixing story and for his passion for all things Holmes. Destined to become an instant classic, The House of Silk brings Sherlock Holmes back with all the nuance, pacing, and almost superhuman powers of analysis and deduction that made him the world’s greatest detective, in a case depicting events too shocking, too monstrous to ever appear in print…until now.(front flap)"</synopsis>
                <title>The House of Silk</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Orson Scott Card</author>
                <characters>Nafai ""Nyef"", Volemak ""Volya"", Elemak ""Elya"", Mebbekew ""Meb"", Issib ""Issya"", Luet ""Lutya"", Hushidh ""Shuya"", Eiadh ""Edhya"", (Lady) Rasa, Shedemei ""Shedya"", Zdorab ""Zodya""</characters>
                <date>Jan-96</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adult, Audiobook, Religion, Novels, Space, Speculative Fiction</genres>
                <id>2033</id>
                <synopsis>"Earthfall, the fourth volume in Orson Scott Card's space opera Homecoming seriesThe Oversoul of the colony planet Harmony selected the family of Wetchik to carry it back to long-lost Earth. Now grown to a tribe in the years of their journey to Harmony's hidden starport, they are ready at last to take a ship to the stars. But from the beginning there has been bitter dispute between Nafai and Elemak, Wetchick's youngest son and his oldest.On board the starship Bailica, the children of the tribe will become pawns in the struggle. Two factions are each making secret plans to awaken the children, and themselves, early from the cold-sleep capsules in which they will pass the long decades of the journey. Each side hopes to gain years of influence on the minds of the children, winning their loyalty in the struggle for control of reclaimed Earth.But the Oversoul is truly in control of this journey. It has downloaded a complete copy of itself to the Ship's computers. And only Nafai, who wears the Cloak of the Starmaster by the Oversoul's command, really understand what this will mean to all their plans for the future.Homecoming seriesThe Memory of EarthThe Call of EarthThe Ships of EarthEarthfallEarthborn"</synopsis>
                <title>Earthfall</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Bill Watterson</author>
                <characters>Calvin, Hobbes</characters>
                <date>Mar-89</date>
                <genres>Comics, Humor, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Comic Strips, Comic Book, Comedy, Graphic Novels Comics, Childrens, Cartoon</genres>
                <id>2034</id>
                <synopsis>"The spirit of childhood leaps to life again with boundless energy and magic in Yukon Ho!, a collection of adventures featuring rambunctious six-year-old Calvin and his co-conspirator tiger-chum, Hobbes. Picking up where The Essential Calvin and Hobbes left off, Yukon Ho! is a delight!"</synopsis>
                <title>Yukon Ho!</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>David Niven</author>
                <characters>David Niven</characters>
                <date>1976</date>
                <genres>Biography, Nonfiction, Memoir, Autobiography, Film, Humor, History, Media Tie In, Biography Memoir, British Literature</genres>
                <id>2035</id>
                <synopsis>"David Niven recalls his time in Hollywood during its heyday. He recounts stories and anecdotes of the stars, producers, directors, tycoons and oddballs, many of whom were his friends."</synopsis>
                <title>Bring on the Empty Horses</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Enid Blyton</author>
                <characters>George Kirrin (Famous Five), Dick Kirrin, Timmy, Tinker, Anne (Famous Five), Julian (Famous Five)</characters>
                <date>2001</date>
                <genres>Childrens, Adventure, Fiction, Mystery, Classics, Young Adult, Middle Grade, British Literature, Childrens Classics, Novels</genres>
                <id>2036</id>
                <synopsis>Features a contemporary cover treatment that brings The Famous Five into the 21st Century.</synopsis>
                <title>Five Go to Billycock Hill</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Mary Stewart</author>
                <characters>Gilly</characters>
                <date>1988</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Gothic, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Historical, Romantic Suspense, British Literature, Suspense</genres>
                <id>2037</id>
                <synopsis>"The story is about a lonely child who is made to see the world through her cousin's unusual eyes. When the child becomes a young woman, she inherits her dead cousin's house as well as her reputation among the local community as a witch. However, as she finds out, this is no normal community, and worries quickly present themselves."</synopsis>
                <title>Thornyhold</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Daniel Quinn</author>
                <characters>Jared Osborne</characters>
                <date>Dec-97</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Philosophy, Spirituality, Environment, Novels, Religion, Literature, Anthropology, Adult Fiction, Classics</genres>
                <id>2038</id>
                <synopsis>"An Adventure of the Mind and SpiritFather Jared Osborne has received an extraordinary assignment from his superiors: Investigate an itinerant preacher stirring up deep trouble in central Europe. His followers all him B, but his enemies say he’s something else: the Antichrist. However, the man Osborne tracks across a landscape of bars, cabarets, and seedy meeting halls is no blasphemous monster—though an earlier era would undoubtedly have rushed him to the burning stake. For B claims to be enunciating a gospel written not on any stone or parchment but in our very genes, opening up a spiritual direction for humanity that would have been unimaginable to any of the prophets or saviors of traditional religion. Pressed by his superiors for a judgment, Osborne is driven to penetrate B’s inner circle, where he soon finds himself an anguished collaborator in the dismantling of his own religious foundations. More than a masterful novel of adventure and suspense, The Story of B is a rich source of compelling ideas from an author who challenges us to rethink our most cherished beliefs."</synopsis>
                <title>The Story of B</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Charles R. Cross</author>
                <characters>Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic, Dave Grohl, Nirvana, Courtney Love</characters>
                <date>2001</date>
                <genres>Music, Biography, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Memoir, Audiobook, Rock N Roll, Pop Culture, Autobiography, The United States Of America</genres>
                <id>2039</id>
                <synopsis>"The art of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain was all about his private life, but written in a code as obscure as T.S. Eliot's. Now Charles Cross has cracked the code in the definitive biography Heavier Than Heaven, an all-access pass to Cobain's heart and mind. It reveals many secrets, thanks to 400-plus interviews, and even quotes Cobain's diaries and suicide notes and reveals an unreleased Nirvana masterpiece. At last we know how he created, how lies helped him die, how his family and love life entwined his art-plus, what the heck ""Smells Like Teen Spirit"" really means. (It was graffiti by Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna after a double date with Dave Grohl, Cobain, and the ""over-bored and self-assured"" Tobi Vail, who wore Teen Spirit perfume; Hanna wrote it to taunt the emotionally clingy Cobain for wearing Vail's scent after sex-a violation of the no-strings-attached dating ethos of the Olympia, Washington, ""outcast teen"" underground. Cobain's stomach-churning passion for Vail erupted in six or so hit tunes like ""Aneurysm"" and ""Drain You."")  Cross uncovers plenty of news, mostly grim and gripping. As a teen, Cobain said he had ""suicide genes,"" and his clan was peculiarly defiant: one of his suicidal relatives stabbed his own belly in front of his family, then ripped apart the wound in the hospital. Cobain was contradictory: a sweet, popular teen athlete and sinister berserker, a kid who rescued injured pigeons and laughingly killed a cat, a talented yet astoundingly morbid visual artist. He grew up to be a millionaire who slept in cars (and stole one), a fiercely loyal man who ruthlessly screwed his oldest, best friends. In fact, his essence was contradictions barely contained. Cross, the coauthor of Nevermind: Nirvana, the definitive book about the making of the classic album, puts numerous Cobain-generated myths to rest. (Cobain never lived under a bridge-that Aberdeen bridge immortalized in the 12th song on Nevermind was a tidal slough, so nobody could sleep under it.) He gives the fullest account yet of what it was like to be, or love, Kurt Cobain. Heavier Than Heaven outshines the also indispensable Come As You Are. It's the deepest book about pop's darkest falling star. -Tim Appelo "</synopsis>
                <title>Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Satyajit Ray, Gopa Majumdar (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Pradosh C. Mitter-Feluda</characters>
                <date>2000</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Detective, Short Stories, India, Thriller, Crime, Classics, Adventure, Indian Literature</genres>
                <id>2040</id>
                <synopsis>"Between 1965 and 1992, Satyajit Ray wrote a total of 35 Feluda stories, featuring the master sleuth Pradosh C. Mitter, AKA Feluda. The plots involve murder, mystery and adventure, most of the times in exotic locations, narrated in a racy, humorous style by the detective's cousin-cum-assistant Topeshranjan Mitter AKA Topshe, and in most cases, accompanied by the funny Lalmohan Ganguly AKA Jatayu, who himself was a famous crime writer. All of this makes for enormously entertaining fare - and it is no wonder that each Feluda book has been a best-seller. All the stories are now available together in this two volume omnibus. For the first time ever, the stories are arranged in chronological order of composition, and one can note Feluda's development from an unknown amateur detective to a famous investigator. This first volume contains some of the best Feluda stories ever written."</synopsis>
                <title>The Complete Adventures of Feluda, Vol. 1</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>David Liss </author>
                <characters>Benjamin Weaver</characters>
                <date>2001</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Mystery, Historical, Historical Mystery, 18th Century, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Crime</genres>
                <id>2041</id>
                <synopsis>"Benjamin Weaver, a Jew and an ex-boxer, is an outsider in eighteenth-century London, tracking down debtors and felons for aristocratic clients. The son of a wealthy stock trader, he lives estranged from his family - until he is asked to investigate his father’s sudden death. Thus Weaver descends into the deceptive world of the English stock jobbers, gliding between coffee houses and gaming houses, drawing rooms and bordellos. The more Weaver uncovers, the darker the truth becomes, until he realizes that he is following too closely in his father’s footsteps - and they just might lead him to his own grave. An enthralling historical thriller, A Conspiracy of Paper will leave readers wondering just how much has changed in the stock market in the last three hundred years ..."</synopsis>
                <title>A Conspiracy of Paper</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>James Lee Burke</author>
                <characters>Dave Robicheaux</characters>
                <date>2005</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Noir, Audiobook, Suspense, Southern</genres>
                <id>2042</id>
                <synopsis>"Detective Dave Robicheaux has fought too many battles: in Vietnam, with killers and hustlers, with police brass, and with the bottle. Lost without his wife's love, Robicheaux's haunted soul mirrors the intensity and dusky mystery of New Orleans' French Quarter - the place he calls home, and the place that nearly destroys him when he becomes involved in the case of a young prostitute whose body is found in a bayou. Thrust into the world of drug lords and arms smugglers, Robicheaux must face down a subterranean criminal world and come to terms with his own bruised heart in order to survive."</synopsis>
                <title>The Neon Rain</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Sandra Brown </author>
                <characters>Lucky Tyler, Devon Haines</characters>
                <date>Feb-91</date>
                <genres>Romance, Contemporary Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, Chick Lit, Audiobook, Mystery, Adult, Westerns, Western Romance</genres>
                <id>2043</id>
                <synopsis>"Lucky Tyler attracted trouble-and women-like a lightning rod. But the night he stepped in to rescue a mysterious redhead in a seedy bar, he got more than he bargained for!The lady excited him, challenged him, drove him wild with desire-then vanished without a trace. Lucky was desperate to find her, to brand her with his heat-and when the police were called in to investigate a suspicious fire at Tyler Drilling, his family business, he needed her for an alibi!Torn between anguish and ecstasy, Devon Haines tried to refuse Lucky's pleas for help, but the reckless blue-eyed devil wouldn't take no as an answer from her... not when his touch could make her burn, could make her his.Framed by old enemies, Lucky knew his only hope to clear himself rested on solving the crime, but Devon feared when his innocence was proved, she would lose the handsome cowboy who possessed her heart and soul Would the tragic vow that made their love forbidden cost her forever in his arms?"</synopsis>
                <title>Texas! Lucky</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Iris Murdoch, A.S. Byatt (Introduction)</author>
                <characters>Dora Greenfield, Paul Greenfield, Peter Topglass, Toby Gashe, Catherine Fawley, Nick Fawley, James Tayper Pace, Mark Stafford, Margaret Stafford, Patchway, Father Bob Joyce, Sister Ursula, Mother Clare, Noel Spens, Michael Meade</characters>
                <date>2001</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, British Literature, Literature, Novels, Religion, Literary Fiction, Philosophy, LGBT, 20th Century</genres>
                <id>2044</id>
                <synopsis>"A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns. A new bell, legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. Dora Greenfield, erring wife, returns to her husband. Michael Mead, leader of the community, is confronted by Nick Fawley, with whom he had disastrous homosexual relations, while the wise old Abbess watches and prays and exercises discreet authority. And everyone, or almost everyone, hopes to be saved, whatever that may mean....Iris Murdoch's funny and sad novel has themes of religion, the fight between good and evil, and the terrible accidents of human frailty."</synopsis>
                <title>The Bell</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Deeanne Gist </author>
                <characters>Tillie Reese, Mack Danvers, Mackenzie Danver, Ora Lou Danvers, Mrs Winters, Lucy Lewers, Dixie Brown, Edith Stuyvesant Dresser Vanderbilt, Earl Danver, George Washington Vanderbilt III, Forbus Sloop, Mrs Sloop, Captain Hovious, Mr. Tarwater, Doc Kuppenheimer, Artie Alsup, Aaron James, Pilkerton, Allan Reese, Daphne Devine, Ora Lou Danver, Mrs. Reese, Mary Pamela DePriest, Leonard Vaughan, Ikey, Herbert Reese, Irene Martin, Louis Blomberg, Mr. Sterling, Tolene, Alice Breeding, Homer Nash, Bubby</characters>
                <date>2010</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Romance, Christian Fiction, Historical, Historical Romance, Christian, Fiction, Christian Romance, Christian Historical Fiction, Chick Lit</genres>
                <id>2045</id>
                <synopsis>"From the day she arrives at the Biltmore, Tillie Reese is dazzled—by the riches of the Vanderbilts and by Mack Danvers, a mountain man turned footman. When Tillie is enlisted to help tame Mack's rugged behavior by tutoring him in the ways of refined society, the resulting sparks threaten Tillie's efforts to be chosen as Edith Vanderbilt's lady's maid. But the stakes rise even higher when Mack and Tillie become entangled in a cover-up at the town orphanage. They could both lose their jobs...and their hearts."</synopsis>
                <title>Maid to Match</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay</author>
                <characters>ব্যোমকেশ বক্সী</characters>
                <date>May-95</date>
                <genres>Detective, Mystery, Thriller, Fiction, Classics, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Novels, Collections, Young Adult</genres>
                <id>2046</id>
                <synopsis>"Byomkesh Bakshi (Bengali: ব্যোমকেশ বক্সী) is a fictional detective in Bengali literature created by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay. He is one of the most famous detective characters in Bengali literature. This book contains all of his stories in one volume, including one incomplete story. শরদিন্দু অমনিবাস (প্রথম-দ্বাদশ খণ্ড) গ্রন্থে সঙ্কলিত শরদিন্দু বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়ের যাবতীয় রচনা বিষয় অনুসারে এক একটি খণ্ডে বিন্যস্ত করার নব পরিকল্পনা অনুযায়ী লেখকের সমুদয় গোয়েন্দা কাহিনী একত্রে ব্যোমকেশ সমগ্র নামে প্রকাশ করা হল। শরদিন্দু অমনিবাস-এর প্রথম, দ্বিতীয় ও দ্বাদশ খণ্ডে বিধৃত ব্যোমকেশ সংক্রান্ত অন্যান্য রচনাগুলিও যেমন, সুকুমার সেনের 'ব্যোমকেশ উপন্যাস', প্রতুলচন্দ্র গুপ্তের 'ব্যোমকেশ, সত্যবতী, সত্যবতীর গাড়ি' ও 'ব্যোমকেশ ও সত্যবতীর প্রস্থান' এবং পার্থ চট্টোপাধ্যায়ের 'ব্যোমকেশের সঙ্গে সাক্ষাৎকার' এই গ্রন্থে (শেষোক্ত দুটি দ্বিতীয় সংস্করণে) যুক্ত করা হয়েছে।শরদিন্দু বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায় ব্যোমকেশ চরিত্রটি নিয়ে ৩৩টি কাহিনী রচনা করেছেন। এর মাঝে ১টি অসম্পূর্ণ। এই কাহিনীগুলি হলঃসত্যান্বেষী, পথের কাঁটা, সীমান্ত-হীরা,মাকড়সার রস, অর্থমনর্থম্‌, চোরাবালি, অগ্নিবাণ, উপসংহার, রক্তমুখী নীলা, ব্যোমকেশ ও বরদা, চিত্রচোর, দুর্গরহস্য, চিড়িয়াখানা, আদিম রিপু, বহ্নি-পতঙ্গ, রক্তের দাগ, মণিমন্ডন, অমৃতের মৃত্যু, শৈলরহস্য, অচিন পাখি, কহেন কবি কালিদাস, অদৃশ্য ত্রিকোণ, খুঁজি খুঁজি নারি, অদ্বিতীয়, মগ্নমৈনাক, দুষ্টচক্র, হেঁয়ালির ছন্দ, রুম নম্বর দুই, ছলনার ছন্দ, শজারুর কাঁটা, বেণীসংহার, লোহার বিস্কুট, বিশুপাল বধ (অসমাপ্ত) ।"</synopsis>
                <title>ব্যোমকেশ সমগ্র</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Alice Munro</author>
                <characters>Juliet</characters>
                <date>Nov-05</date>
                <genres>Short Stories, Fiction, Canada, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Literature, Nobel Prize, Canadian Literature, Womens, Book Club</genres>
                <id>2047</id>
                <synopsis>"The incomparable Alice Munro’s bestselling and rapturously acclaimed Runaway is a book of extraordinary stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises, from the title story about a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable of leaving her husband, to three stories about a woman named Juliet and the emotions that complicate the luster of her intimate relationships. In Munro’s hands, the people she writes about–women of all ages and circumstances, and their friends, lovers, parents, and children–become as vivid as our own neighbors. It is her miraculous gift to make these stories as real and unforgettable as our own. (back cover)RunawayChanceSoonSilencePassionTrespassesTricks"</synopsis>
                <title>Runaway</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Chris d'Lacey</author>
                <characters>David Rain, Elizabeth Pennykettle, Lucy Pennykettle, Suzanna Martindale, Alexa Martindale, Christopher Apak</characters>
                <date>2009</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Dragons, Young Adult, Fiction, Middle Grade, Magic, Childrens, Adventure, Science Fiction, Juvenile</genres>
                <id>2048</id>
                <synopsis>"With the Earth on the brink of recolonisation by dragons, David Rain is sent on an important mission: to seek out and destroy a trace of dark fire, the deadliest force in the universe. But with success could come a terrible price, the sacrifice of a beloved clay dragon. How much does the life of one small dragon count?"</synopsis>
                <title>Dark Fire</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jack Vance</author>
                <characters>Guyal, Liane, Turjan, ""T''sais"", Ulan Dhor, Pandelume, ""T''sain""</characters>
                <date>Mar-77</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Science Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy, Dying Earth, Post Apocalyptic, Speculative Fiction, High Fantasy</genres>
                <id>2049</id>
                <synopsis>"Seekers of wisdom and beauty include lovely lost women, eccentric wizards and man-eating melancholy deodands. Twk-men ride dragonflies and trade information for salt. There are monsters and demons. Each being is morally ambiguous: the evil are charming, the good are dangerous."</synopsis>
                <title>The Dying Earth</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Piers Anthony</author>
                <characters>Parry, Orlene, Norton</characters>
                <date>Oct-84</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Time Travel, Magic, Mythology, Adventure, Paranormal</genres>
                <id>2050</id>
                <synopsis>"THE MAN WHO LIVED BACKWARDWhen life seemed pointless to Norton, he accepted the position as the Incarnation of Time, even though it meant living backward from present to past. The other seemingly all-powerful incantations of Immortality—Death, Fate, War, and Nature—made him welcome. Even Satan greeted him with gifts. But he soon discovered that the gifts were cunning traps and he had become enmeshed in a complex scheme of the Evil One to destroy all that was good.In the end, armed only with the Hourglass, Norton was forced to confront the immense power of Satan directly. And though Satan banished him to Hell, he was resolved to fight on."</synopsis>
                <title>Bearing an Hourglass</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Rachel Hawthorne</author>
                <characters>Daniel Foster, Rafe Lowell, Lindsey Lancaster, Brittany Reed, Mason Keane, Dr. Keane, Lucas Wilde, Connor McCandless, Kayla Madison</characters>
                <date>2009</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Paranormal, Werewolves, Romance, Fantasy, Shapeshifters, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Teen, Fiction</genres>
                <id>2051</id>
                <synopsis>"I've loved him forever, but he can never be mine.Brittany is determined to prove herself to the Dark Guardians. And yet she's been keeping a devastating secret: She hasn't experienced any of the intense, early signs of change that mark a Dark Guardian's transformation. The only intense feelings she has are for Connor - and she's kept that a secret, too. But she knows she'll never truly have Connor's love if she's not a Shifter like him.At the first full moon after her birthday, her greatest fear is realized: She doesn't transform. Brittany is so desperate to become a wolf that she'll go to extremes she never thought possible... and put all the Dark Guardians in incredible danger."</synopsis>
                <title>Dark of the Moon</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Enid Blyton</author>
                <characters>Jo, Timothy, George Kirrin (Famous Five), Dick Kirrin, Tinker, Anne (Famous Five), Julian (Famous Five)</characters>
                <date>Sept-01</date>
                <genres>Childrens, Adventure, Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult, Classics, Middle Grade, Childrens Classics, Novels, British Literature</genres>
                <id>2052</id>
                <synopsis>"The Famous Five are having a brilliant time - on holiday in horse-drawn caravans - and they've discovered a ruined castle nearby! The castle looked deserted from a distance - but is that a face at the window? Or is it a trick of the light? The Famous Five just have to find out! Just who is hiding in the castle? About The Author: Enid Blyton, 1896 - November 28, 1959 Enid Blyton was born in London in 1896. She was educated in a private school and thought that she would become a musician until she realized that writing was her passion. She attended Ipswich High School where she trained to become a kindergarten teacher and eventually opened her own school for infants. Blyton's first poem was published in 1917, entitled ""Have You-"" which appeared in Nash's Magazine. In 1922, her first book of verses was published, entitled ""Child Whispers."" In 1926 she accepted a position editing the children's magazine ""Sunny Stories"" as well as writing the column ""Teachers World."" Blyton's first full length children's book was published din 1938 and was titled ""The Secret Island."" After working on the column for years, Blyton quit ""Teachers World"" in 1945 and also ended her stint as editor of ""Sunny Stories"" seven years later. In 1953 she started her own children's magazine called ""The Edith Blyton Magazine"" which featured stories about her characters and news on the clubs formed around them. Her most famous stories were those of the ""Famous Five"" The Magazine closed in 1959. In the 50's and 60's Blyton was criticized for the language in her book, for being to simple, but some 300 are still in print today. Blyton has published over 600 books in the course of her career. Enid Blyton died in her sleep on November 28, 1968. She was 72 years old."</synopsis>
                <title>Five Have a Wonderful Time</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Dorothy Canfield Fisher</author>
                <characters>Elizabeth Ann, Aunt Harriet, Cousin Frances, Abigail Putney, Henry Putney, Ann Putney</characters>
                <date>1996</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Childrens, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade, Young Adult, Juvenile, Historical, Literature, School</genres>
                <id>2053</id>
                <synopsis>"For all of her nine years, fragile Elizabeth Ann has heard her Aunt Frances refer in whispers to her ""horrid Putney cousins."" But when her aunt can no longer care for her, Elizabeth Ann must leave her sheltered life to live in the wilds of Vermont with those distant relatives.In the beginning, Elizabeth Ann is shocked by country living-pets are allowed to sleep in the house and children are expected to do chores! But with country living comes independence and responsibility, and in time, Elizabeth Ann finds herself making friends and enjoying her new family. When the year is up and Aunt Frances comes to get her niece, she finds a healthier, prouder girl with a new name-Betsy-and a new outlook on life.Understood Betsy has delighted generations of young readers since it was first published by Henry Holt and Company in 1917."</synopsis>
                <title>Understood Betsy</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Michelle Harrison </author>
                <characters>Raven, Amos, Tanya, Fabian, Rowan, Warwick, Gredin, Mad Morag, Florence</characters>
                <date>Feb-11</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Middle Grade, Young Adult, Fiction, Adventure, Fairies, Mystery, Magic, Childrens, Paranormal</genres>
                <id>2054</id>
                <synopsis>"Red is now living at Elvesden Manor under her real name, Rowan, and trying to put the past behind her. But staying on the straight and narrow isn’t as easy as she had hoped . . . Hounded by those who would like her to participate once more in the changeling trade, Rowan is also haunted by dreams of the Hedgewitch’s cottage and the chained-up Eldritch, who swore revenge when she left him there.Her past is about to catch up with her, but can she, Tanya and Fabian prevent it consuming her altogether?"</synopsis>
                <title>13 Secrets</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>John Christopher</author>
                <characters>Will, Henry, Beanpole</characters>
                <date>Apr-03</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Young Adult, Fiction, Dystopia, Fantasy, Childrens, Post Apocalyptic, Adventure, Aliens, Science Fiction Fantasy</genres>
                <id>2055</id>
                <synopsis>"Long ago, the Tripods—huge, three-legged machines—descended upon Earth and took control. Now people unquestioningly accept the Tripods' power. They have no control over their thoughts or their lives.But for a brief time in each person's life—in childhood—he is not a slave. For Will, his time of freedom is about to end—unless he can escape to the White Mountains, where the possibility of freedom still exists."</synopsis>
                <title>The White Mountains</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Shana Abe </author>
                <characters>Aedan of Kelmere, Ronan MacMhuirich, Ruri Kell, Iain MacInnes, Ione of Kell, Leila de Sant Severe</characters>
                <date>May-08</date>
                <genres>Romance, Fantasy, Mermaids, Paranormal Romance, Paranormal, Fiction, Historical Romance, Historical, Fantasy Romance, Magic</genres>
                <id>2056</id>
                <synopsis>"Shana Abe has entranced countless readers with her passion-filled novels of adventure, intrigue, and romance. Now the author of The Secret Swan delivers a gift from the sea: three hauntingly beautiful tales connected by a legend, a locket, and a love beyond time. 531 a.d.: The tiny island of Kell is said to be enchanted, inhabited by an extraordinary creature who comforts shipwrecked sailors passing into the next world. Prince Aedan of the Isles believes in no such nonsense until he awakens on Kell itself and meets the sensuous siren who rescued him from the sea. 1721: Ronan MacMhuirich, Earl of Kell, is the target of an unlikely assassin: Leila, a mysterious woman from an exotic land. But his irresistibly beautiful would-be slayer is in just as much danger as Ronan when she falls for this man with a magic of his own. 2004: What do you do when you inherit a Scottish island you never knew existed and find yourself pursued by a handsome stranger who wants to buy it from you? That's what happens to Ruri Kell when she accepts Iain MacInness' invitation to visit her birthright, and listens to a proposition as sinfully tempting as everything else about him. Three seductive love stories, three passionate couples, all linked by one of the most romantic myths of all."</synopsis>
                <title>The Last Mermaid</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ian Rankin </author>
                <characters>Inspector John Rebus</characters>
                <date>1999</date>
                <genres>Crime, Mystery, Fiction, Scotland, Thriller, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Murder Mystery, Noir, Novels</genres>
                <id>2057</id>
                <synopsis>"A call from an old friend brings back memories and more than a little guilt for DI John Rebus of the Lothian and Borders police. Suddenly it seems Edinburgh’s streets are crowded with the lost and forgotten.Stalking a poisoner at the local zoo, Rebus hits upon a freed paedophile, camera in hand. Outing the man rouses the vigilantes and leaves Rebus with mixed feelings and another weight on his conscience. But the straw that looks like breaking Rebus’s back comes courtesy of the US government. Feted by the tabloid press and put under Rebus’s watchful eye, a convicted murderer is looking to play games with Rebus as his pawn..."</synopsis>
                <title>Dead Souls</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ian Rankin </author>
                <characters>Inspector John Rebus</characters>
                <date>2005</date>
                <genres>Crime, Mystery, Fiction, Scotland, Thriller, Detective, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Murder Mystery, Police</genres>
                <id>2058</id>
                <synopsis>"Tough and complex, Detective John Rebus gets personally involved in a case when he rescues a young Bosnian girl forced into prostitution. Add to that the hunt for an elderly Nazi accused of slaughtering a French village, and Rebus wonders just how evil humans can be. But when his daughter is mortally injured, he just might make a deal with the devil to find the culprit. Rankin won critical acclaim for his novel ""Black and Blue."" Optioned for a BBC film series. Martin's Press.The Hanging Gardens of Babylon... The hanging of four French villagers in World War II... The hanging of an old man in a Scottish cemetary... Seemingly random facts linked to one man... Detective Inspector John Rebus is buried under a pile of paperwork generated by his investigations into a suspected war criminal, and his immediate supervisors are more than happy to have him tucked away in a quiet backwater for several months. However, the escalating dispute between upstart Tommy Telford and Big Ger Cafferty's gang soon gives Rebus an escape clause. Telford is known to have close ties to a man nicknamed Mr. Pink Eyes, a brutal gangster running a lucrative business bringing Chechen refugees into Britain to work as prostitutes. And when Rebus takes under his wing a distraught Bosnian call girl, it gives him a personal reason to make sure Telford takes the high road out of town. Within days, Rebus's daughter is the victim of an all-too-professional hit-and-run, and Rebus knows that there's nothing he won't do to bring down prime suspect Tommy Telford-even if it means cutting a deal with the devil. A chilling glimpse into the darkest extremes of human cruelty, a page-turning literary thriller, this ninth entry in Ian Rankin's award-winning series confirms his reputation as a writer of rare and lasting gifts.top"</synopsis>
                <title>The Hanging Garden</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ian Rankin </author>
                <characters>Siobhan Clarke, ""Big Ger"" Cafferty, Inspector John Rebus</characters>
                <date>2007</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Crime, Fiction, Scotland, Thriller, Detective, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Novels, Murder Mystery</genres>
                <id>2059</id>
                <synopsis>Free Delivery if order value from the seller is greater than 399. Used Book in good condition. No missing/ torn pages. No stains. Note: The above used product classification has been solely undertaken by the seller. Amazon shall neither be liable nor responsible for any used product classification undertaken by the seller. A-to-Z Guarantee not applicable on used products.</synopsis>
                <title>Exit Music</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ian Rankin </author>
                <characters>Inspector John Rebus</characters>
                <date>2007</date>
                <genres>Crime, Mystery, Fiction, Scotland, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Novels, Audiobook, Police</genres>
                <id>2060</id>
                <synopsis>"The sixteenth Inspector Rebus novel from 'Britain's No.1 crime writer' DAILY MIRROR.A murder has been committed - but as the victim was a rapist, recently released from prison, no one is too concerned about the crime. That is, until Detective Inspector John Rebus and DS Siobhan Clarke uncover evidence that a serial killer is on the loose ...When Rebus also starts looking into the apparent suicide of an MP, he is abruptly warned off the case, not least because the G8 leaders have gathered in Scotland, and Rebus's bosses want him well out of the way. But Rebus has never been one to stick to the rules, and when Siobhan has a very personal reason for hunting down a riot cop, it looks as though both Rebus and Clarke may be up against their own side ..."</synopsis>
                <title>The Naming of the Dead</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>J.D. Robb </author>
                <characters>Eve Dallas, Roarke, Nyle Sumner, Ezra Trent, Delia Peabody, Ryan Feeney, Charlotte Mira, Ian McNab, Louise Dimatto, Charles Monroe</characters>
                <date>2004</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Romance, Crime, Fiction, Romantic Suspense, Futuristic, Suspense, Science Fiction, Audiobook, Thriller</genres>
                <id>2061</id>
                <synopsis>"Dante had been courting his victim in cyberspace for weeks before meeting her in person. A few sips of wine and a few hours later, she was dead. The murder weapon: a rare, usually undetectable date-rape drug with a street value of a quarter million dollars. Lieutenant Eve Dallas is playing and replaying the clues in her mind. The candlelight, the music, the rose petals strewn across the bed - a seduction meant for his benefit, not hers. He hadn't intended to kill her. But now that he has, he is left with only two choices: to either hole up in fear and guilt or start hunting again. . ."</synopsis>
                <title>Seduction in Death</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ian Rankin </author>
                <characters>Inspector John Rebus</characters>
                <date>1998</date>
                <genres>Crime, Mystery, Fiction, Scotland, Thriller, Detective, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Audiobook, Novels</genres>
                <id>2062</id>
                <synopsis>"Drafted down to the Big Smoke thanks to a supposed expertise in the modus operandi of serial killers, Inspector John Rebus is on a train south from Edinburgh. His Scotland Yard opposite number, George Flight, isn’t too happy at yet more interference. It’s bad enough having several Chief Inspectors on your back without being hounded at every turn by an upstart Jock. Rebus is going to have to deal with racial prejudice as well as the predations of a violent maniac. When he’s offered a serial killer profile of the Wolfman by an attractive lady psychologist, it’s too good an opportunity to turn down. But in finding an ally, he may have given his enemies an easy means of attack."</synopsis>
                <title>Tooth and Nail</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Yasunari Kawabata, J. Martin Holman (Translator), Vanja Lantz (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Chieko, Shige, Takichiro</characters>
                <date>2006</date>
                <genres>Japan, Fiction, Japanese Literature, Historical Fiction, Classics, Asia, Nobel Prize, Literature, Novels, Asian Literature</genres>
                <id>2063</id>
                <synopsis>"The Old Capital is one of the three novels cited specifically by the Nobel Committee when they awarded Kawabata the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. With the ethereal tone and aesthetic styling characteristic of Kawabata's prose, The Old Capital tells the story of Chieko, the adopted daughter of a Kyoto kimono designer, Takichiro, and his wife, Shige.Set in the traditional city of Kyoto, Japan, this deeply poetic story revolves around Chieko who becomes bewildered and troubled as she discovers the true facets of her past. With the harmony and time-honored customs of a Japanese backdrop, the story becomes poignant as Chieko’s longing and confusion develops."</synopsis>
                <title>The Old Capital</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Carolyn Keene</author>
                <characters>Nancy Drew, Bess Marvin, George Fayne</characters>
                <date>1957</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Cozy Mystery</genres>
                <id>2064</id>
                <synopsis>"Nancy, Bess and George visit New Orleans for Mardi Gras. While on vacation for the festivities, the three friends become involved with pirates, ghosts, and investigating an old showboat, rumored to be haunted, that must be restored in time for the gala celebrations. This book is the original text. A revised text does not exist."</synopsis>
                <title>The Haunted Showboat</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Samuel Beckett</author>
                <characters>Nell, Hamm, Clov, Nagg</characters>
                <date>1989</date>
                <genres>Plays, Drama, Classics, Fiction, Theatre, Irish Literature, Literature, France, 20th Century, School</genres>
                <id>2065</id>
                <synopsis>"Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories, and poetry has earned him an uncontested place as one of the greatest writers of our time. Endgame, originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett himself, is now considered by many critics to be his greatest single work. A pinnacle of Beckett's characteristic raw minimalism, it is a pure and devastating distillation of the human essence in the face of approaching death."</synopsis>
                <title>Endgame</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Bernard Cornwell </author>
                <characters>Richard Sharpe, Obadiah Hakeswill, William Lawford, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington</characters>
                <date>2003</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, War, Adventure, Military Fiction, India, Audiobook, Action, British Literature</genres>
                <id>2066</id>
                <synopsis>"The prequel to the series, describing Sharpe's experiences in India. Sharpe’s Tiger describes the adventures of the raw young private soldier Richard Sharpe in India, before the Peninsular War.Sharpe and the rest of his battalion, along with the rising star of the general staff Arthur Wellesley, are about to embark upon the siege of Seringapatam, island citadel of the Tippoo of Mysore. The British must remove this potentate from his tiger throne, but he has gone to extraordinary lengths to defend his city from attack. And always he is surrounded by tigers, both living and ornamental…any prisoner of the Tippoo can expect a savage end.When a senior British officer is captured by the Tippoo's forces Sharpe is offered a chance to attempt a rescue, a chance he snatched in order to escape from the tyrannical Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill. But in fleeing Hakeswill he enters the confusing, exotic and dangerous world of the Tippoo and Sharpe will need all his wits just to stay alive, let alone save the British army from catastrophe.With the same meticulous research and attention to detail that distinguishes the rest of the bestselling series of Sharpe novels, Bernard Cornwell has recreated the I 799 campaign against Seringapatam which made the British masters of southern India, a campaign that pitted brutalized soldiers against an ancient and splendid civilization. Set against a background of dazzling wealth, ruinous poverty, gorgeous palaces, sudden cruelty and pitiless battles, Sharpe’s Tiger is his greatest adventure yet."</synopsis>
                <title>Sharpe's Tiger</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Alison Weir</author>
                <characters>Anne Boleyn, Thomas More, Catherine of Aragon, Jane Seymour, Catherine Howard, Anne of Cleves, Henry VII of England, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas Cranmer, Thomas Wolsey, Henry VIII of England, Catherine Parr, Elizabeth I of England, Edward VI of England, Mary I of England</characters>
                <date>2008</date>
                <genres>History, Nonfiction, Biography, Tudor Period, Historical, British Literature, 16th Century, Biography Memoir, European History, Medieval</genres>
                <id>2067</id>
                <synopsis>"Henry VIII, renowned for his command of power and celebrated for his intellect, presided over one of the most magnificent–and dangerous–courts in Renaissance Europe. Never before has a detailed, personal biography of this charismatic monarch been set against the cultural, social, and political background of his glittering court. Now Alison Weir, author of the finest royal chronicles of our time, brings to vibrant life the turbulent, complex figure of the King. Packed with colorful description, meticulous in historical detail, rich in pageantry, intrigue, passion, and luxury, Weir brilliantly renders King Henry VIII, his court, and the fascinating men and women who vied for its pleasures and rewards. The result is an absolutely spellbinding read."</synopsis>
                <title>Henry VIII: The King and His Court</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ian Rankin </author>
                <characters>Detective John Rebus</characters>
                <date>Published</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Crime, Fiction, Scotland, Thriller, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Contemporary, Murder Mystery, Suspense</genres>
                <id>2068</id>
                <synopsis>"John Rebus returns to investigate the disappearances of three women from the same road over ten years.  For the last decade, Nina Hazlitt has been ready to hear the worst about her daughter's disappearance. But with no sightings, no body, and no suspect, the police investigation ground to a halt long ago, and Nina's pleas to the cold case department have led her nowhere.  Until she meets the newest member of the team: former Detective John Rebus.  Rebus has never shied away from lost causes - one of the many ways he managed to antagonize his bosses when he was on the force. Now he's back as a retired civilian, reviewing abandoned files. Necessary work, but it's not exactly scratching the itch he feels to be in the heart of the action.  Two more women have gone missing from the same road where Sally Hazlitt was last seen. Unlike his skeptical colleagues, Rebus can sense a connection - but pursuing it leads him into the crosshairs of adversaries both old and new.  Rebus may have missed the thrill of the hunt, but he's up against a powerful enemy who's got even less to lose.  On the twentieth anniversary of Ian Rankin's first American publication comes a novel bursting with the vitality and suspense that made its author one of crime fiction's most dazzling stars. Standing in Another Man's Grave is the triumphant return of John Rebus, and a riveting story of sin, redemption, and revenge."</synopsis>
                <title>Standing in Another Man's Grave</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Zizou Corder</author>
                <characters>Sergei, Charlie Ashanti, Ninu, Raja Boris, Rafi Sadler</characters>
                <date>2006</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Adventure, Fiction, Childrens, Animals, Middle Grade, Science Fiction, Mystery, Cats</genres>
                <id>2069</id>
                <synopsis>"At the end of LIONBOY: THE CHASE Charlie Ashanti has restored the lions to their home in the wilds of Morocco and been reunited in the port town of Essaouira with his parents, Magdalen and Aneba. But just as Charlie is beginning to think that his adventures might be over, who should reappear but the nasty lion-tamer Maccomo and the raffish Rafi. Before he knows it, Charlie has been kidnapped once again and is in the hold of a ship bound he knows not where. All is not lost, however. Eventually the entire cast of the LIONBOY trilogy find themselves on a Caribbean island, the home of the sinister Corporacy. Can Charlie bring the story to a triumphant conclusion by vanquishing the Corporacy and ridding the world of its nefarious schemes?"</synopsis>
                <title>The Truth</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Carolyn Keene</author>
                <characters>Nancy Drew, Bess Marvin, George Fayne, Hannah Gruen, Dick Milton, Officer Murphy, Mr. Soong, Mrs. Wendell</characters>
                <date>1967</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Detective</genres>
                <id>2070</id>
                <synopsis>"A rare and valuable Chinese vase is stolen from a pottery shop and Dick Milton, the owner, asks Nancy for help. The young sleuth is tasked to find the thief, the missing ornament and to locate a leaning chimney. This chimney marks a discovery that will solve Dick’s financial problems. During her investigations, Nancy finds the leaning chimney, but it only leads her into more puzzles. Are there connections between the theft of the rare vase, a number of similar crimes and the strange disappearance of a Chinese pottery expert and his daughter? This book is the revised text. The plot of the original story (©1949) is similar with minor revisions."</synopsis>
                <title>The Clue of the Leaning Chimney</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Enid Blyton</author>
                <characters>George Kirrin (Famous Five), Dick Kirrin, Tinker, Julian (Famous Five)</characters>
                <date>Oct-01</date>
                <genres>Childrens, Adventure, Fiction, Mystery, Classics, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Childrens Classics, British Literature, Mystery Thriller</genres>
                <id>2071</id>
                <synopsis>"New and contemporary cover treatment brings The Famous Five into the 21st Century, and to a whole new generation of readers!"</synopsis>
                <title>Five Have Plenty of Fun</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Mary Norton</author>
                <characters>Charles Wilson , Carey Wilson, Eglantine Price, Emelius Jones, Paul Wilson</characters>
                <date>1983</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Childrens, Classics, Fiction, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Adventure, Magic, Juvenile, Time Travel</genres>
                <id>2072</id>
                <synopsis>"In The Magic Bedknob, Carey, Charles and Paul 6 find prim Miss Price injured by falling off her broomstick. For their silence, she bespells a bedknob to carry them where-ever and when-ever. In Bonfires and Broomsticks two years later, they bring necromancer Emelius Jones to visit. But his neighbors want to burn him at the stake for disappearing in the Great Fire of London."</synopsis>
                <title>Bedknob and Broomstick</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Carolyn Keene</author>
                <characters>Nancy Drew</characters>
                <date>1967</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Adventure</genres>
                <id>2073</id>
                <synopsis>"Lovely young Carla Ponce, a resident of Peru, invites Nancy, Bess and George to visit her and solve a mystery that promises to lead to a fabulous treasure. A clue is carved on an intriguing wooden plaque belonging to Carla’s family. When a notorious gang headed by El Gato steals the priceless relic, Nancy quickly recovers the old plaque. Through clever deductions, perseverance, and dangerous adventures, Nancy and her friends help to capture a ring of vicious smugglers and make an astounding archaeological discovery. This book is the original text. A revised text does not exist."</synopsis>
                <title>The Clue in the Crossword Cipher</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Natalia Ginzburg, Cesare Garboli (Contributor)</author>
                <characters>Natalia Ginzburg</characters>
                <date>1999</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Italian Literature, Italy, Classics, Novels, Literature, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Audiobook, Womens</genres>
                <id>2074</id>
                <synopsis>"Lessico famigliare è la storia di una famiglia ebrea, quella della stessa scrittrice, che si svolge a Torino fra gli anni Trenta e Cinquanta. Natalia, l'ultima dei cinque figli Levi, è la voce narrante. Con assoluto rispetto della verità, e, per certi versi, mantenendo l'incanto della fanciullezza, l'autrice non solo ripercorre con la memoria le vicende dei suoi cari, ma ne fissa per sempre anche il linguaggio (che, come sappiamo, è unico per ogni nucleo famigliare), i motti, le abitudini radicate."</synopsis>
                <title>Lessico famigliare</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>John Dos Passos, Daniel Aaron (Editor), Townsend Ludington (Editor)</author>
                <characters>Mac Smith, Janey Williams, J. Ward Moorehouse, Eleanor Stoddard, Charley Anderson, Joe Williams, Richard Ellsworth Savage, Eveline Hutchins, Daughter, Ben Compton, Mary French, Margo Dowling</characters>
                <date>1996</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Literature, American, Novels, Historical Fiction, Politics, 20th Century, The United States Of America, United States</genres>
                <id>2075</id>
                <synopsis>"In the novels that make up the U.S.A.trilogy—The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money—Dos Passos creates an unforgettable collective portrait of America, shot through with sardonic comedy and brilliant social observation. He interweaves the careers of his characters and the events of their time with a narrative verve and breathtaking technical skill that make U.S.A. among the most compulsively readable of modern classics.A startling range of experimental devices captures the textures and background noises of 20th-century life: ""Newsreels"" with blaring headlines; autobiographical ""Camera Eye"" sections with poetic stream-of-consciousness; ""biographies"" evoking emblematic historical figures like J.P. Morgan, Henry Ford, John Reed, Frank Lloyd Wright, Thorstein Veblen, and the Unknown Soldier. Holding everything together is sheer storytelling power, tracing dozens of characters from the Spanish-American War to the onset of the Depression.The U.S.A. trilogy is filled with American speech: labor radicals and advertising executives, sailors and stenographers, interior decorators and movie stars. Their crisscrossing destinies take in wars and revolutions, desperate love affairs and harrowing family crises, corrupt public triumphs and private catastrophes, in settings that include the trenches of World War I, insurgent Mexico, Hollywood studios in the silent era, Wall Street boardrooms, and the tumultuous streets of Boston just before the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti."</synopsis>
                <title>U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>William Golding</author>
                <characters>Edmund Talbot, Reverend Colley, Zenobia Brocklebank, Captain Anderson, Miss Granham, Deverel, Cumbershum, Wheeler, Summers, Billy Rogers, Mr. Prettiman</characters>
                <date>2001</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, Nobel Prize, Historical, Literary Fiction, British Literature, Literature, Australia, 20th Century</genres>
                <id>2076</id>
                <synopsis>"The first volume of William Golding's Sea Trilogy.Sailing to Australia in the early years of the nineteenth century, Edmund Talbot keeps a journal to amuse his godfather back in England. Full of wit and disdain, he records the mounting tensions on the ancient, stinking warship where officers, sailors, soldiers and emigrants jostle in the cramped spaces below decks. Then a single passenger, the obsequious Reverend Colley, attracts the animosity of the sailors, and in the seclusion of the fo'castle something happens to bring him into a 'hell of degradation', where shame is a force deadlier than the sea itself."</synopsis>
                <title>Rites of Passage</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>David A. McIntee</author>
                <characters>Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, The Master (Doctor Who), Harry Sullivan, The Second Master</characters>
                <date>Jan-98</date>
                <genres>Doctor Who, Science Fiction, Fiction, Media Tie In</genres>
                <id>2077</id>
                <synopsis>"The Doctor and Jo have gone off in the TARDIS, leaving the Brigadier and UNIT facing a deadly mystery - and a moral dilemma...Robbery and murder are on the increase in Britain as disputes between underworld gangs escalate into open warfare on the streets. The Master seems inextricably linked to the chaos - despite the fact he is safely under lock and key.Meanwhile UNIT is called in when a plane missing in strange circumstances is rediscovered - contaminated with radiation and particle damage that cannot possibly have occurred on Earth.As the mystery deepens, what little light they can shed on the matter leads the Brigadier to believe that with the Doctor away, Earth's only hope may lie with its greatest enemy..."</synopsis>
                <title>Doctor Who: The Face of the Enemy</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Elizabeth Goudge</author>
                <characters>Mary Lindsay</characters>
                <date>1963</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, Christian Fiction, Christian, British Literature, Novels, Adult, Adult Fiction, Historical</genres>
                <id>2078</id>
                <synopsis>"Mary Lindsay met her little niece and namesake only once, but she saw in the quiet, imaginative child a kindred spirit to inherit her ancient house. Fifty years later her niece inherited the house with no knowledge of it beyond her indelible childhood memories, and no experience at all of living in the country.Mary Lindsay is a born and bred Londoner who has enjoyed her city life-a prestigious job, and friends with whom she takes in the city pleasures of theatre, art and…As a retired businesswoman living in a rural house inherited from her aunt finds consolation for a failed romance with a married blind man by learning more about her aunt and herself."</synopsis>
                <title>The Scent of Water</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>M, Takami Nieda (Translator)</author>
                <characters>L Lawliet</characters>
                <date>Jan-16</date>
                <genres>Manga, Mystery, Fiction, Light Novel, Fantasy, Thriller, Crime, Novels, Young Adult, Comics</genres>
                <id>2079</id>
                <synopsis>"In an alternative continuity in the Death Note setting, ace detective L's name has been written in a Death Note. He has twenty-three days to bring a terrorist group to justice, or they will use a deadly new virus to change the world—by killing off most of humanity."</synopsis>
                <title>Death Note: L, Change the WorLd</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Souad</author>
                <characters>Souad, Ayah, Ibu, Kainat, Noura, Assad, Hussein, Faiez, Marwan, Jacqueline, Hassan, Edmond Kaiser, Antonio, Laetitia, Nadia</characters>
                <date>2005</date>
                <genres>Nonfiction, Biography, Memoir, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, Feminism, Islam, Religion, True Story, Womens</genres>
                <id>2080</id>
                <synopsis>"When Souad was seventeen she fell in love. In her village, as in so many others, sex before marriage was considered a grave dishonour to one's family and was punishable by death. This was her crime. Her brother-in-law was given the task of arranging her punishment. One morning while Souad was washing the family's clothes, he crept up on her, poured petrol over her and set her alight.In the eyes of their community he was a hero. An execution for a 'crime of honour' was a respectable duty unlikely to bring about condemnation from others. It certainly would not have provoked calls for his prosecution. More than five thousand cases of such honour killings are reported around the world each year and many more take place that we hear nothing about.Miraculously, Souad survived rescued by the women of her village, who put out the flames and took her to a local hospital. Horrifically burned, and abandoned by her family and community, it was only the intervention of a European aid worker that enabled Souad to receive the care and sanctuary she so desperately needed and to start her life again. She has now decided to tell her story and uncover the barbarity of honour killings, a practice which continues to this day.Burned Alive is a shocking testimony, a true story of almost unbelievable cruelty. It speaks of amazing courage and fortitude and of one woman's determination to survive. It is also a call to break the taboo of silence that surrounds this most brutal of practices and which ignores the plight of so many other women who are also victims of traditional violence."</synopsis>
                <title>Burned Alive</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Mahathir Mohamad, مهاتير محمد</author>
                <characters>Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad, Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad, Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, Mahathir bin Mohamad, Mahathir Mohamad, Tun Mahathir Mohamad, Tun Mahathir bin Mohamad, Tun Mahathir, Tun Dr. Mahathir, Tun Dr Mahathir, Chedet, ""Che'' Det"", Che Det, Dr M, Tun M, C.H.E. Det</characters>
                <date>1996</date>
                <genres>Nonfiction, Politics, History, Asia, Research, Political Science</genres>
                <id>2081</id>
                <synopsis>"In The Malay Dilemma, former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad examines and analyses the make-up of the Malays and the problem of racial harmony in Malaysia. First published in 1970, the book seeks to explain the causes for the 13 May 1969 riots in Kuala Lumpur.Dr Mahathir sets out his view as to why the Malays are economically backward and why they feel they must insist upon immigrants becoming real Malaysians speaking in due course nothing but Malay, as do immigrants to America or Australia speak nothing but the language of what the author calls ""the definitive people"". He argues that the Malays are the rightful owners of Malaya. He also argues that immigrants are guests until properly absorbed, and that they are not properly absorbed until they have abandoned the language and culture of their past."</synopsis>
                <title>The Malay Dilemma</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Osamu Dazai</author>
                <characters>Kazuko, ""Kazuko''s mother"", Naoji, Uehara, Wada</characters>
                <date>May-03</date>
                <genres>Japan, Fiction, Japanese Literature, Classics, Literature, Asia, Novels, 20th Century, Historical Fiction, Asian Literature</genres>
                <id>2082</id>
                <synopsis>敗戦後、元華族の母と離婚した“私”は財産を失い、伊豆の別荘へ行った。最後の貴婦人である母と、復員してきた麻薬中毒の弟・直治、無頼の作家上原、そして新しい恋に生きようとする29歳の私は、没落の途を、滅びるものなら、華麗に滅びたいと進んでいく。戦後の太宰治の代表作品。語註や著名人の「鑑賞」もついて感想文に最適。</synopsis>
                <title>斜陽 [Shayō]</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ilana Tan</author>
                <characters>Naomi Ishida, Danny Jo (Jo In-Ho), Miho Nakajima, Christopher Scott, Julie Hathaway, Anna Jo, Bobby Shin, Kim Dong-Min</characters>
                <date>Feb-10</date>
                <genres>Romance, Indonesian Literature, Novels, Fiction, Young Adult, Contemporary, Chick Lit, Adult, Drama, Collections</genres>
                <id>2083</id>
                <synopsis>"Gadis itu tidak menyukainya. Kenapa? Astaga, ia—Danny Jo—adalah orang yang baik. Sungguh! Ia selalu bersikap ramah, sopan dan menyenangkan. Lalu kenapa Naomi Ishida menjauhinya seperti wabah penyakit? Bagaimana mereka bisa bekerja sama dalam pembuatan video musik ini kalau gadis itu mengacuhkannya setiap saat? Kesalahan apa yang sudah dia lakukan? Bagaimanapun juga Danny bukan orang yang gampang menyerah. Ia akan mencoba mendekati Naomi untuk mencari tahu alasan gadis itu memusuhinya. Tetapi ada dua hal yang tidak diperhitungkan Danny. Yang pertama adalah kemungkinan ia akan jatuh cinta pada Naomi Ishida yang dingin, misterius, dan penuh rahasia itu. Dan yang kedua adalah kemungkinan ia akan menguak rahasia gelap yang bisa menghancurkan mereka berdua dan orang-orang yang mereka sayangi."</synopsis>
                <title>Spring in London</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Floortje Zwigtman</author>
                <characters>Adrian Mayfield</characters>
                <date>2007</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Historical Fiction, LGBT, Historical, Fiction, Gay, Queer, M M Romance, Romance, Literature</genres>
                <id>2084</id>
                <synopsis>Het spannende en romantische vervolg op 'Schijnbewegingen'. Het voert de lezer opnieuw mee naar het opwindende en rebelse Londen van het fin de siècle.</synopsis>
                <title>Tegenspel</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Olaf Stapledon</author>
                <characters>John Wainwright</characters>
                <date>Mar-12</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy, Novels, British Literature, Fantasy, Philosophy, 20th Century, Literature</genres>
                <id>2085</id>
                <synopsis>"Odd John is the story of a mutated superman - a young man who must accept that he is different, and decide what to do with his gifts."</synopsis>
                <title>Odd John</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Arthur Conan Doyle, David Stuart Davies  (Introduction)</author>
                <characters>Mordecai Smith, Brother Bartholomew, Morstan, Mrs. Bemstone, Bartholomew Sholto</characters>
                <date>2004</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Classics, Fiction, Crime, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Literature, 19th Century, Victorian, British Literature</genres>
                <id>2086</id>
                <synopsis>"'Doctor Watson, Mr Sherlock Holmes' - The most famous introduction in the history of crime fiction takes place in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet, bringing together Sherlock Holmes, the master of science detection, and John H. Watson, the great detective's faithful chronicler. This novel not only establishes the magic of the Holmes myth but also provides the reader with a dramatic adventure yarn which ranges from the foggy, gas-lit streets of London to the burning plains of Utah.The Sign of the Four, the second Holmes novel, presents the detective with one of his greatest challenges. The theft of the Agna treasure in India forms a catalyst for treachery, deceit and murder.With these two classic novels, A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four, you have the brilliant foundation of the Sherlock Holmes canon. Reading pleasure rarely comes any finer."</synopsis>
                <title>A Study in Scarlet &amp; The Sign of the Four</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Lion Feuchtwanger</author>
                <characters>Duchess Margarete of Tyrol</characters>
                <date>Dec-76</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, German Literature, Classics, Historical, Literature</genres>
                <id>2087</id>
                <synopsis>"Die Meisterin der Intrigen Margarete, Herzogin von Tirol, ist eine wichtige Figur auf dem Schachbrett der europäischen Geschichte. Sicher im Urteil und rasch im Handeln, zwingt sie selbst ihren Gegnern Achtung ab. Doch ihre groteske Hässlichkeit macht sie zum Gespött der Leute. Auf grausame Weise sucht sie zu erlangen, was der Schönheit von selbst zufällt: Macht und Liebe."</synopsis>
                <title>Die hässliche Herzogin Margarete Maultasch</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Peter David</author>
                <characters>Deanna Troi, Data, Wesley Crusher, William Thomas Riker</characters>
                <date>Jul-93</date>
                <genres>Star Trek, Science Fiction, Fiction, Romance, Star Trek The Next Generation, Science Fiction Fantasy, Media Tie In, Time Travel, Fantasy, Space Opera</genres>
                <id>2088</id>
                <synopsis>"Years before they served together on board the ""U.S.S. Enterprise."" Commander William Riker and ship's counselor Deanna Troi had a tempestuous love affair on her home planet of Betazed. Now, their passions have cooled and they serve together as friends. Yet the memories of that time linger and Riker and Troi remain ""Imzadi"" - a powerful Betazoid term that describes the enduring bond they still share. During delicate negotiations with an aggressive race called the Sindareen. Deanna Troi mysteriously falls ill...and dies. But her death is only the beginning of the adventure for Commander Riker - an adventure that will take him across time, pit him against one of his closest friends, and force him to choose between Starfleet's strictest rule and the one he calls ""Imzadi."""</synopsis>
                <title>Imzadi</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jacek Dukaj</author>
                <characters>Hieronim Berbelek</characters>
                <date>2003</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Polish Literature, Science Fiction, Fiction, Poland, Novels, Philosophy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Steampunk</genres>
                <id>2089</id>
                <synopsis>"Starogrecki świat pięciu żywiołów pod władzą formy w opowieści o sile ludzkiego ducha i o tym, co nieopisywalne."</synopsis>
                <title>Inne Pieśni</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>J.J. Voskuil</author>
                <characters>Maarten Koning, Nicolien Koning</characters>
                <date>2000</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Literature, Dutch Literature, Roman, Humor</genres>
                <id>2090</id>
                <synopsis>"In dit laatste deel van Het Bureau ziet Maarten Koning zich al op de eerste dag na zijn afscheid gesteld voor de vraag wat hij met zijn leven moet aanvangen. Hij begint met kleine klusjes in huis, merkt dat hij daarbij Nicolien in de weg loopt die het ontwend is om de hele dag met zijn tweeën te zijn, loopt een blokje om, pakt de fiets en gaat een keer bij het Bureau langs om de drukproeven terug te brengen van het Bulletin, waarvoor hij tot het eind van het jaar nog de verantwoordelijkheid heeft.Geleidelijk vindt hij een evenwicht, waarin gevoelens van onbestemdheid afgewisseld worden door die van gelukzaligheid en vrijheid. Af en toe bezoekt hij het Bureau, waar hij plaatsneemt aan het bureau van Beerta, op de zolderkamer die men hem als een pied à terre gelaten heeft om het werk af te ronden voor de commissies waarvan hij nog deel uitmaakt zolang zijn opvolger niet is aangewezen en ingewerkt.Als die opvolger eenmaal is aangetreden, sluipt gaandeweg een gevoel van vervreemding binnen. Het gedrag van zijn vroegere medewerkers begint geleidelijk te veranderen. En als op een dag zijn zolderkamer ontruimd blijkt te zijn, ontwikkelen de gebeurtenissen, die leiden tot het onthutsende slot, waarop de titel van dit deel de lezer al enigszins heeft voorbereid, zich snel."</synopsis>
                <title>De dood van Maarten Koning</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Michael Pryor </author>
                <characters>Aubrey Fitzwilliam, Caroline Hepworth, Dr. Mordecai Tremaine, George Doyle</characters>
                <date>2006</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Steampunk, Fiction, Magic, Adventure, Science Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy, Mystery, Urban Fantasy</genres>
                <id>2091</id>
                <synopsis>"Aubrey Fitzwilliam is the son of a prominent ex-prime minister. He's also brilliant at magic, but he's stuck at military school. At least he has his best friend, George, there to back him up. George would follow Aubrey anywhere - and with Aubrey's talent for thinking up impulsive and daring schemes that will get them both in trouble, that's no easy thing to do. At a weekend shooting party at Prince Albert's country estate, the boys find themselves in a hotbed of intrigue and politics. They discover a golem, a magical creature built to perform one task: to kill Prince Albert. Aubrey and George are hailed as heroes for foiling the attempt on the prince's life - but who sent the golem, and why? Aubrey is far too curious to let the authorities handle this one, and he and George start investigating."</synopsis>
                <title>Blaze of Glory</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Lauren Brooke</author>
                <characters>Amy Fleming, Jack Bartlett, Lou Fleming, Ty Baldwin, Matt Trewin, Scott Trewin, Val Grant, Carl Anderson, Larry Boswell, Max Satchwell, Nancy Satchwell, Melanie Satchwell, Hannah Boswell, Shelley Boswell, Ashley Grant</characters>
                <date>Jun-00</date>
                <genres>Horses, Young Adult, Childrens, Fiction, Animals, Contemporary, Middle Grade, Realistic Fiction, Juvenile, Coming Of Age</genres>
                <id>2092</id>
                <synopsis>"Heartland is a horse farm nestled in the hills of Virginia, but it's much more than that. Heartland is like no other place - it's a place where the scars of the past can be healed, a place where frightened and abused horses learn to trust again.Amy hasn't seen Spartan since the accident - that stormy night that changed their lives forever. Now Spartan is coming to Heartland. He's not the same horse. He's filled with an anger that seems directed at Amy. At the sight of her, he lashes out - teeth bared, hooves flailing. Amy has so much healing to do on her own, it seems she's the last person who could help Spartan. But she might also be the only one."</synopsis>
                <title>After the Storm</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Andreas Eschbach</author>
                <characters>Jesus, Peter Eisenhardt</characters>
                <date>2000</date>
                <genres>Thriller, Science Fiction, Fiction, German Literature, Fantasy, Time Travel, Religion, Mystery, Adventure, Contemporary</genres>
                <id>2093</id>
                <synopsis>"Kurz vor der Jahrtausendwende läßt uns Andreas Eschbach einen Blick in die Zukunft werfen. Er dreht aber die Uhren zurück: Wie kommt die Bedienungsanleitung für eine Videokamera in ein 2000 Jahre altes Grab in Israel?Der Entdecker Stephen Foxx hat nur eine Erklärung: Jemand muß versucht haben, Videoaufnahmen von Jesus Christus zu machen! Der Tote im Grab ist demnach ein Mann der Zukunft, der in die Vergangenheit reiste, um sich dort ein Bild von der Wahrheit zu machen: Lebte Jesus wirklich?Mit dieser Frage begibt sich der Leser auf eine äußerst turbulente Zeitreise. Das Geheimnis, soviel sei verraten, wird schließlich gelüftet - aber ganz anders, als alle Beteiligten erwarten."</synopsis>
                <title>Das Jesus-Video</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Juli Zeh</author>
                <characters>Sebastian, Oskar, Maike, Liam, Dabbeling, Rita Skura, Schilf</characters>
                <date>May-09</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Germany, Mystery, German Literature, Crime, Thriller, Contemporary, Novels, Science Fiction, Literature</genres>
                <id>2094</id>
                <synopsis>"Ein liebender Kommissar, ein tödliches Missverständnis und die verflixte Beschaffenheit der Welt.Sebastian kann mit seinem Leben mehr als zufrieden sein. Vielleicht hat er ein bisschen zu viel von seinem physikalischen Talent zugunsten seiner Familie aufgegeben. Sein alter Freund Oskar, auch er ein Genie der theoretischen Physik, erinnert ihn zuweilen daran. Als Sebastian seinen Sohn in ein Ferienlager fahren will, findet er sich unversehens in einem Alptraum wieder. Der Sohn wird entführt, und er bekommt ihn erst wieder, wenn er einen Mord begeht …"</synopsis>
                <title>Schilf</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Cate Tiernan</author>
                <characters>Nastasya Crowe, Reyn</characters>
                <date>Oct-12</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Paranormal, Romance, Magic, Urban Fantasy, Supernatural, Paranormal Romance, Fiction, Teen</genres>
                <id>2095</id>
                <synopsis>"You can run from your past, but it will always catch up.Nastasya has lived for hundreds of years, but for some reason it never seems to get any easier. She’s left behind her days of debauchery to find peace and forgiveness at River’s Edge, a safe haven for wayward immortals. There she’s uncovered her family’s epic history, reclaimed her magickal powers, and met Reyn, whom she dubs “the Viking god.” Just as she settles into her new life, Nastasya learns that her old friends might be in town....Reuniting with her gorgeous and dangerous ex-best-friend, Innocencio, Nas wonders if she’ll ever be truly free of her dark legacy. Is Incy dangerous, power-hungry, and wicked? Or is he the only one who truly understands Nas’s darkness? Either way, Nas is desperate to find out who she really is-even if the answer kills her."</synopsis>
                <title>Darkness Falls</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Patricia Cornwell </author>
                <characters>Kay Scarpetta, Pete Marino, Lucy Farinelli, Benton Wesley, T.N. McGovern, Kenneth Sparkes, Betty Foster – Kenneth Sparkes horse trainer, based in Beaverdam</characters>
                <date>2000</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Murder Mystery, Detective, Adult, Adult Fiction</genres>
                <id>2096</id>
                <synopsis>"A farmhouse destroyed by fireA body amongst the ruinsDr Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner and consulting pathologist for the federal law enforcement agency ATF, is called out to a farmhouse in Virginia which has been destroyed by fire. In the ruins of the house she finds a body which tells a story of a violent and grisly murder.The fire has come at the same time as another even more incendiary horror: Carrie Grethen, a killer who nearly destroyed the lives of Scarpetta and those closest to her, has escaped from a forensic psychiatric hospital. Her whereabouts is unknown, but her ultimate destination is not, for Carrie has begun to communicate with Scarpetta, conveying her deadly - if cryptic - plans for revenge.Chillingly mesmeric in tone, labyrinthine in structure, Point of Origin is Patricia Cornwell at her most dazzling."</synopsis>
                <title>Point of Origin</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Emily Brightwell</author>
                <characters>Mrs Hepzibah Jeffries, Inspector Gerald Witherspoon</characters>
                <date>1995</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Cozy Mystery, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Historical Mystery, Crime, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>2097</id>
                <synopsis>"Inspector Witherspoon of Scotland Yard resorts once again to his housekeeping super-sleuth, Mrs. Jeffries, when a girl flower-peddler is killed on a foggy night in Victorian London."</synopsis>
                <title>Mrs. Jeffries on the Trail</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jo Nesbø </author>
                <characters>Harry Hole, Ellen Gjelten, Ståle Aune, Tom Waaler, Rakel Fauke, Sindre Fauke, Even Juul, Daniel Gudeson, Gudbrand Johansen, Edvard Mosken</characters>
                <date>2009</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Crime, Fiction, Thriller, Scandinavian Literature, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Nordic Noir, Audiobook, Historical Fiction</genres>
                <id>2098</id>
                <synopsis>"Als der norwegische Staatsschutz Hinweise auf ein geplantes Attentat auf den Thronfolger erhält, beginnt für Harry Hole ein Alptraum aus Lügen und Verrat. Die Spur der Verdächtigen führt in das dunkelste Kapitel norwegischer Vergangenheit: Eine Gruppe von Nazikollaborateuren hat im Untergrund ihr verhängnisvolles Netz gewoben und Harry sieht sich mit einem mörderischen Filz von Intrigen und Verblendung konfrontiert."</synopsis>
                <title>The Redbreast</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Honoré de Balzac, Francisco Calvo Serraller (contributor), Nglalil Rudin (Translator), Ana Iribas (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Nicolas Poussin</characters>
                <date>2001</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Art, France, Literature, French Literature, 19th Century, Short Stories, Novels, Novella</genres>
                <id>2099</id>
                <synopsis>"A New York Review Books Original One of Honore de Balzac's most celebrated tales, ""The Unknown Masterpiece"" is the story of a painter who, depending on one's perspective, is either an abject failure or a transcendental genius-or both. The story, which has served as an inspiration to artists as various as Cezanne, Henry James, Picasso, and New Wave director Jacques Rivette, is, in critic Dore Ashton's words, a ""fable of modern art."" Published here in a new translation by poet Richard Howard, ""The Unknown Masterpiece"" appears, as Balzac intended, with ""Gambara,"" a grotesque and tragic novella about a musician undone by his dreams.Discurso artístico #5"</synopsis>
                <title>La obra maestra desconocida</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Alison Uttley</author>
                <characters>Penelope Taberner Cameron</characters>
                <date>1997</date>
                <genres>Time Travel, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Childrens, Fiction, Historical, Young Adult, Science Fiction, Classics, Middle Grade</genres>
                <id>2100</id>
                <synopsis>"While visiting Thackers Manor in 1934, dreamy Penelope becomes involved in a 16th century plot to rescue Mary, Queen of Scots. A beloved time travel story that has endured for generations."</synopsis>
                <title>A Traveller in Time</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Paul Cornell </author>
                <characters>The Seventh Doctor, Ace, Bernice Summerfield, UNIT, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, The Monk, Vardan, The Doctor</characters>
                <date>Feb-94</date>
                <genres>Doctor Who, Science Fiction, Fiction</genres>
                <id>2101</id>
                <synopsis>"'This time, anarchy's real. There are power cuts and Wilson's resignation, a great upheaval of unease. But now there's real fear too. Real panic. And that's not how it's supposed to be.'Somebody has been toying with the Doctor's past, testing him, threatening him, leading him on a chase that has brought the TARDIS to London in 1976 - where reality has been altered once again.Black Star terrorists foment riots in the streets. The Queen barely escapes assassination. A fearful tension is rising. Something is going to happen. Something bad.Meanwhile, Benny's the lead singer in a punk band. Ace can't talk to her or the Doctor without an argument starting, so she's made murderous plans of her own. The Doctor's alone - he doesn't know who his enemy is, and even the Brigadier has disowned him.As usual, it's up to the Doctor to protect the world. And he can't even protect himself."</synopsis>
                <title>Doctor Who: No Future</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (Editor)</author>
                <characters>Sigurd, Gudrún</characters>
                <date>May-09</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Poetry, Fiction, Mythology, Classics, Literature, Historical Fiction, Medieval, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic</genres>
                <id>2102</id>
                <synopsis>"Many years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien composed his own version, now published for the first time, of the great legend of Northern antiquity, in two closely related poems to which he gave the titles The New Lay of the Völsungs and The New Lay of Gudrún.In the ""Lay of the Völsungs"" is told the ancestry of the great hero Sigurd, the slayer of Fáfnir most celebrated of dragons, whose treasure he took for his own; of his awakening of the Valkyrie Brynhild, who slept surrounded by a wall of fire, and of their betrothal; and of his coming to the court of the great princes who were named the Niflungs (or Nibelungs), with whom he entered into blood-brotherhood. In that court there sprang great love but also great hate, brought about by the power of the enchantress of the Niflungs, skilled in the arts of magic, of shape-changing and potions of forgetfulness.In scenes of dramatic intensity, of confusion of identity, thwarted passion, jealousy, and bitter strife, the tragedy of Sigurd and Brynhild, of Gunnar the Niflung and Gudrún his sister, mounts to its end in the murder of Sigurd at the hands of his blood-brothers, the suicide of Brynhild, and the despair of Gudrún. In the ""Lay of Gudrún"" her fate after the death of Sigurd is told, her marriage against her will to the mighty Atli, ruler of the Huns (the Attila of history), his murder of her brothers the Niflung lords, and her hideous revenge.Deriving his version primarily from his close study of the ancient poetry of Norway and Iceland known as the Poetic Edda (and where no old poetry exists, from the later prose work Völsunga Saga), J.R.R. Tolkien employed a verse-form of short stanzas whose lines embody in English the exacting alliterative rhythms and the concentrated energy of the poems of the Edda."</synopsis>
                <title>The Legend of Sigurd &amp; Gudrún</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Simone de Beauvoir</author>
                <characters>Suzon, Jean Blomart, Mm. Blomart, M. Blomart, Marcel Ledru, Jacques Ledru, Perrun, Martin (The Blood Of Others), Helene (The Blood Of Others), Laurent (The Blood Of Others), Louise (The Blood Of Others), Madeleine (The Blood Of Others), Elisabeth (The Blood Of Others), Denise (The Blood Of Others)</characters>
                <date>1964</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Philosophy, Classics, France, French Literature, Literature, Novels, Feminism, Historical Fiction, 20th Century</genres>
                <id>2103</id>
                <synopsis>"Jean Blomart, patriot leader against the German forces of occupation, waits throughout an endless night for his lover, Helene, to die. He is the one who sent her on the mission that led to her death, and before morning, he must ultimately decide how many others to send to a similar fate."</synopsis>
                <title>The Blood of Others</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Astrid Lindgren</author>
                <characters>Emil, Ida</characters>
                <date>1975</date>
                <genres>Childrens, Classics, Fiction, Swedish Literature, Scandinavian Literature, Sweden, Humor, Adventure, Young Adult, 20th Century</genres>
                <id>2104</id>
                <synopsis>"Emil i Lönneberga hette en pojke som bodde i Lönneberga. Det var en liten besvärlig en, inte riktigt så snäll som du. Fast såg snäll ut, det gjorde han visst det. När han inte skrek. Han hade runda blå ögon och ett runt rödblommigt ansikte och ljust, ulligt hår. Alltihop såg snällt ut på något sätt, så man kunde tro att Emil var en riktig liten ängel. men det skulle man bara inte inbilla sig."</synopsis>
                <title>Emil i Lönneberga</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Laura London, Sharon Curtis, Tom Curtis</author>
                <characters>Merri Wilding, Devon Crandall</characters>
                <date>2003</date>
                <genres>Romance, Historical Romance, Historical, Pirates, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Adventure, Adult, Regency, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>2105</id>
                <synopsis>"SHE LONGED FOR A PIRATE'S KISSES, FOR A GOLDEN ROGUE'S CARESS...Every lady of breeding knows. No one has a good time on a pirate ship. No one, that is, but the pirates. Yet there she was, Merry Wilding - kidnapped in error, taken from a ship bound from New York to England, spirited away in a barrel and swept aboard the infamous Black Joke....There she was, trembling with pleasure in the arms of her achingly handsome, sensationally sensual, golden-haired captor - Devon. From the storm-tossed Atlantic to the languid waters of the Gulf Stream, from a smuggler's den to a gilded mansion, Merry struggled to escape...to escape the prison of her own reckless passions, the bondage of sweet, bold desire..."</synopsis>
                <title>The Windflower</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Bill Napier</author>
                <characters>Harry Blake, Zola Khan</characters>
                <date>2007</date>
                <genres>Thriller, Fiction, Mystery, Adventure, Historical Fiction, Suspense, Crime, Historical, Mystery Thriller</genres>
                <id>2106</id>
                <synopsis>"As an antique map dealer in a small English town, Harry Blake appreciates the quiet life. But when a local landowner asks him to value a 400 year old journal and twelve hours later he is brutally murdered, Harry's peace of mind is shattered. What does the dusty journal contain that is a matter of life or death? Why is someone prepared to pay Harry a fortune to steal it? He turns to marine historian Zola Khan to uncover the mysteries. The trail of the journal leads him into a world of deadly Elizabethan conspiracies, and the thread of history takes him through a thousand years of religious intrigue back to the blood-soaked Crusades. And he finally learns that at stake are millions of dollars and a plan to trigger nothing less than war..."</synopsis>
                <title>Der 77. Grad</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar</author>
                <characters>Mümtaz, Nuran, İhsan, Suat</characters>
                <date>Sept-14</date>
                <genres>Turkish Literature, Fiction, Turkish, Classics, Novels, Roman, Literature, Historical Fiction, Unfinished, The World</genres>
                <id>2107</id>
                <synopsis>"Tanpınar, kültürümüzü bir ""iç âlem medeniyeti""nin tezahürü olarak görür. Bu medeniyeti, belirli bir ahlâkı taşıyan ""mânevi vazifelerine inanmış, muayyen bir ruh nizamından geçmiş, nefislerini terbiye etmiş"" insanlar meydana getirmiştir.Huzur'un kahramanlarından Mümtaz, roman boyunca kendisini ""huzur""a kavuşturacak bir ""iç nizam""ı aramaktadır. Eserde hastalık, ölüm, tabiat, kozmik unsurlar, medeniyet, sosyal meseleler, çeşitli ruh halleri ve estetik fikirler iç içe verilir. Ancak bütün bunların üzerinde romana hâkim olan Mümtaz'la Nuran'ın aşklarıdır. İstanbul, bu aşkın yaşandığı çevre olmaktan çıkarak, âdeta bir roman kahramanı gibi ele alınır.Huzur için, belli bir dünya görüşüne, bir hayat nizamına kavuşamamış Cumhuriyet aydınlarının ""huzursuzlukları""nı dile getiriyor denebilir."</synopsis>
                <title>Huzur</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Brian W. Aldiss</author>
                <characters>Colin Charteris</characters>
                <date>2001</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Post Apocalyptic, Novels, Literature, Surreal, Poetry, Dystopia, British Literature</genres>
                <id>2108</id>
                <synopsis>"When an undeclared Acid Head War breaks out, Britain is the first to be devastated by Psycho-Chemical Aerosols-tasteless, odourless, colourless psychedelic drugs, which distort the minds of thousands of civilians into extreme terror or extreme joy. When the warped citizens of Europe proclaim Colin Charteris their hero, he finds himself leading an unfathomable crusade in a devastated world. Perhaps Aldiss's most experimental work, this first appeared in several parts as the 'Acid Head War' series in New Worlds. Set in a Europe some years after a flare-up in the Middle East led to Europe being attacked with bombs releasing huge quantities of long-lived hallucinogenic drugs. Into an England with a population barely maintaining a grip on reality comes a young Serb, who himself starts coming under the influence of the ambient aerosols &amp; finds himself leading a messianic crusade. The narration &amp; dialog reflects the shattering of language under the influence of the drugs, in mutating phrases &amp; puns &amp; allusions, in a deliberate echo of Finnegans Wake.-Wikipedia"</synopsis>
                <title>Barefoot in the Head</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Donato Carrisi, Howard Curtis (translator)</author>
                <characters>Mila Vasquez</characters>
                <date>2015</date>
                <genres>Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Italy, Italian Literature, Suspense, Detective, France</genres>
                <id>2109</id>
                <synopsis>"Set in the world of his record-breaking, prize-winning debut, The Whisperer, The Vanished Ones is the new literary thriller from Donato Carrisi - intelligent, exhilarating and incredibly compelling."</synopsis>
                <title>The Vanished Ones</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Thea Beckman</author>
                <characters>Hasse Simonsdochter, Jan van Schaffelaar, Gerrit van Wou</characters>
                <date>1989</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Childrens, Fiction, Historical, Young Adult, Adventure, Dutch Literature, Romance, Novels, 20th Century</genres>
                <id>2110</id>
                <synopsis>"In de tijd van de Hoekse en Kabeljauwse twisten is Kampen een belangrijke handelsstad, maar Hasse, dochter van een mandenvlechter, vindt het er maar druk en benauwd. Ze trekt er liever op uit met haar zelfgemaakte pijl en boog om langs de IJssel te zwerven. Haar ouders willen heel graag dat ze gaat trouwen, maar Hasse neemt haar eigen beslissingen. Ze 'verbidt' Jan van Schaffelaar, dat wil zeggen, ze redt hem van het schavot door met hem te trouwen. Samen trekken ze naar de Veluwe, waar hij als aanvoerder van een troep huurlingen de belangen van de hertog van Gelre behartigt. Hasse geniet van het vrije ongebonden leven. Als jongen verkleed doet ze mee met de overvallen en als boogschutter weet ze het respect van de mannen af te dwingen. Als de compagnie in Barneveld in het nauw wordt gedreven vraagt Hasse zich angstig af hoe ze de belegering zullen overleven."</synopsis>
                <title>Hasse Simonsdochter</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Euripides, J.B. Mello e Souza (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Artemis (Goddess), Theseus (mythology), Hippolytus, Phaedra, Aphrodite</characters>
                <date>2006</date>
                <genres>Plays, Classics, Drama, Fiction, Mythology, Theatre, Tragedy, Greece, Ancient, Poetry</genres>
                <id>2111</id>
                <synopsis>"Na leitura de 'Hipólito', o leitor moderno talvez se surpreenda com o que lhe parecerá ser uma inversão de valores: uma deusa castigar duramente um jovem que delibera e age dentro da mais estrita correção! No entanto, sob a perspectiva da religiosidade grega, a altivez do jovem é também sua fonte de hýbris, isto é, de descomedimento, pois ao reverenciar apenas Ártemis, a deusa da vida selvagem, e se recusar a cultuar Afrodite, a deusa do amor, Hipólito desconsidera o princípio básico da piedade grega, que é o de prestar honras a todos os deuses."</synopsis>
                <title>Hipólito</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>R.A. MacAvoy</author>
                <characters>Damiano Delstrego, Saara, Gaspare</characters>
                <date>Jun-85</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Historical, Historical Fantasy, Angels, Alternate History, Supernatural, Italy</genres>
                <id>2112</id>
                <synopsis>"This novel is a sequel to Damiano. Set against the turbulent backdrop of the Italian Renaissance this alternate history takes place in a world where real faith-based magic exists. Our hero is Damiano Dalstrego. He is a wizard's son, an alchemist and the heir to dark magics. Shattered by the demonic fury of his dark powers, Damiano Delstrego has forsaken his magical heritage to live as a mortal man. Accompanied only by the guidance of the Archanagel Raphael, the chidings of a brash young rogue, and the memory of a beautiful pagan witch, Damiano journeys across a plague-ridden French countryside in search of peace. But the Father of Lies reaches out once again to grasp him. And to avert the hellish destiny awaiting him, Damiano must challenge the greatest forces of darkness, armed only with the power of his love and the music of his lute. The final volume of this story is Raphael."</synopsis>
                <title>Damiano's Lute</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Charles Stross </author>
                <characters>Liz Kavanaugh, Anwar Hussein, Stuart Jackson, Dorothy</characters>
                <date>2011</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Cyberpunk, Mystery, Crime, Near Future, Scotland, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>2113</id>
                <synopsis>"DI Liz Kavanaugh: You realise policing internet porn is your life and your career went down the pan five years ago. But when a fetishist dies on your watch, the Rule 34 Squad moves from low priority to worryingly high profile. Anwar: As an ex-con, you'd like to think your identity fraud days are over. Especially as you've landed a legit job (through a shady mate). Although now that you're Consul for a shiny new Eastern European Republic, you've no idea what comes next. The Toymaker: Your meds are wearing off and people are stalking you through Edinburgh's undergrowth. But that's ok, because as a distraction, you're project manager of a sophisticated criminal operation. But who's killing off potential recruits? So how do bizarre domestic fatalities, dodgy downloads and a European spamming network fit together? The more DI Kavanaugh learns, the less she wants to find out."</synopsis>
                <title>Rule 34</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Lauren Brooke</author>
                <characters>Amy Fleming, Jack Bartlett, Lou Fleming, Ty Baldwin, Soraya Martin, Matt Trewin, Scott Trewin, Val Grant, Ashley Grant, Ben Stillman, Claire Whitely, Mrs. Whitely</characters>
                <date>Feb-01</date>
                <genres>Horses, Young Adult, Childrens, Animals, Fiction, Middle Grade, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Juvenile, Teen</genres>
                <id>2114</id>
                <synopsis>"Heartland is a horse farm nestled in the hills of Virginia, but it's much more than that. Heartland is like no other place - it's a place where the scars of the past can be healed, a place where frightened and abused horses learn to trust again.Amy knows that Ty is important to Heartland - and to her. Ty is the only other person who truly understands the meaning of Heartland, who is as dedicated to rescuing and curing horses as she is. But their friendship is thrown off balance when Ben, the new stable hand, arrives. And by the time Amy realizes she's pushed Ty away, he may have decided to leave Heartland forever."</synopsis>
                <title>Taking Chances</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jen Calonita </author>
                <characters>Kaitlin Burke, Sky Mackenzie, Austin Meyers, Nadine Cobb, Alexis Holden, Meg Burke, Matthew Burke, Liz Mendes, Rodney (SOMHL), Laney Peters, Heidi Caldwell, Maria Meadow, Tom Pullman</characters>
                <date>May-08</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Romance, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Fiction, Teen, High School, Middle Grade, Young Adult Contemporary</genres>
                <id>2115</id>
                <synopsis>"The filming for sure-to-be-blockbuster movie Pretty Young Assassins has wrapped, and teen movie star Kaitlin Burke returns to life on the set of prime-time drama Family Affair. After ten seasons of filming the hit favorite TV show, Kaitlin would have thought that she could see any curveballs coming, but with a plotting new actress on set, all bets are off. The new diva, Alexis, makes even Kaitlin's long-time nemesis Sky seem like a puppy in comparison. Can Kaitlin keep her sane boyfriend, her insane job, and her composure in the face of this new star power?"</synopsis>
                <title>Family Affairs</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Hector Malot</author>
                <characters>Perrine</characters>
                <date>1996</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Childrens, France, Novels, Young Adult, Classic Literature, Adventure, Historical, Literature</genres>
                <id>2116</id>
                <synopsis>"A los 12 años, Perrine se encuentra huérfana, sola y pobre en París. Antes de morir, su madre le dice que debe buscar a su abuelo que vive en un pueblo distante. Pero este ignora la existencia de la nieta…"</synopsis>
                <title>En Familia</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Honoré de Balzac, Carlos Pujol (Prólogo), Pedro Darnell (Traductor)</author>
                <characters>Joseph Fouché, Henri de Marsay, Laurence de Cinq-Cygne, Paul-Marie Simeuse, Marie-Paul Simeuse, Michon</characters>
                <date>2008</date>
                <genres>Classics, France, French Literature, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Literature, Novels, 19th Century, Unfinished</genres>
                <id>2117</id>
                <synopsis>"«De un Asunto tenebroso, que se publicó en forma de folletín entre enero y febrero de 1841, suele decirse que fue la primera novela policíaca del mundo. Rigurosamente coetánea es otra gran pieza fundacional del género, Los asesinatos de la calle Morgue , del americano Poe, aparecida este mismo año, pero se trata de un relato breve que no hace más que establecer las clásicas reglas de la investigación como desafío al ingenio. La obra de Balzac tiene una amplitud mucho mayor, y no sólo por el número de páginas; vemos como la ficción invade la Historia con mayúscula para servirse de ella, pero también para explicarla, y como el enigma llega a adquirir luego secretas resonancias casi inconfesables. »Balzac trabaja con situaciones que no admiten ningún grado de asepsia: sentimientos humanos por una parte; por otra, altos intereses políticos. Novela policíaca, desde luego, pero de ningún modo inocente; todo lo contrario, cargada de complejísimos supuestos de todo orden que hacen que éste sea un relato detectivesco heterodoxo, impuro, como dicen los teóricos, pero gracias a ello novela en el sentido propio de la palabra.» Del prólogo de Carlos Pujol."</synopsis>
                <title>Un Asunto Tenebroso</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Chingiz Aitmatov, Hartmut Herboth (Übersetzer)</author>
                <characters>Dshamilja, Danijar, Seït</characters>
                <date>2004</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Russia, Romance, Asia, Russian Literature, Historical Fiction, Novels, Literature, Short Stories</genres>
                <id>2118</id>
                <synopsis>"Der 15-jährige Said erzählt die Geschichte seiner jungen, verheirateten Schwägerin Dshamilja. Während ihr ungeliebter Ehemann an der Front steht, lernt die selbstbewusste, lebensfrohe Dshamilja den scheuen, träumerischen Danijar kennen und lieben. Der junge Said erzählt mit den Augen eines Kindes, das zu verstehen beginnt, welch eine Macht die Liebe sein kann. Denn Dshamilja sagt sich von ihrem Heimatort und den alten Traditionen los und zieht in die Ferne."</synopsis>
                <title>Dshamilja</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>M.R. Graham </author>
                <characters>Rowan, Daniel Leland, Signe</characters>
                <date>Oct-12</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Paranormal, Horror, Historical Fiction, Historical</genres>
                <id>2119</id>
                <synopsis>"With Nazi bombs falling from the sky and fires consuming London, reluctant immortal Daniel Leland finds himself in an uncomfortable position. As a halfhearted employee of the British government, blackmailed into submission, he is forced to use his peculiar talent for murder in the service of the Crown. But as the assignments become impossibly challenging, the limits of that talent are tested. The Luftwaffe is not the most explosive thing to menace Great Britain, and even dead things can die again. There is more at stake than the questionable life of a lone agent, more at stake than Daniel Leland would care to admit."</synopsis>
                <title>The Wailing</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Gianni Rodari, Raul Verdini (Illustrator), Pan Rova (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Cipollino</characters>
                <date>1978</date>
                <genres>Childrens, Fiction, Italian Literature, Classics, Fantasy, Russia, Italy, Adventure, Fairy Tales, Dystopia</genres>
                <id>2120</id>
                <synopsis>"Als Zwiebelchen seinen Vater besucht, der vom Statthalter Zitrone ins Gefängnis geworfen wurde, gibt ihm der Alte zum Abschied einen Rat: Pack deine Siebensachen, zieh in die Welt hinaus und studiere die Schurken! Noch weiß Zwiebelchen nicht, wobei ihm ein solches Studium helfen könnte. Doch eins schwört er: Den Vater und all die anderen unschuldig Eingekerkerten wird er eines Tages befreien.Die Geschichte von Zwiebelchen und seinen Freunden, die mutig gegen Ungerechtigkeit und Grausamkeit kämpfen, ist vielen Lesern bereits zu einem Lieblingsbuch geworden."</synopsis>
                <title>Zwiebelchen (Alex Taschenbücher, #33)</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kemal Tahir</author>
                <characters>Osman Gazi, Orhan Gazi, Kerimcan, Bacıbey, Mavro, Aslıhan, Pir Elvan, Kel Derviş, Kaplan Çavuş, Şeyh Edebali, Akçakoca</characters>
                <date>Mar-16</date>
                <genres>Turkish Literature, Turkish, Roman, Literature, Classics, Novels, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical</genres>
                <id>2121</id>
                <synopsis>"'Devlet Ana', Osmanlı kurulmadan önceki Anadolu'nun görünümünü ve Anadolu insanının özlemlerini anlatırken, onların güçlü, güvenli, adaletli bir devlete duyduğu ihtiyacı da açığa çıkarmaktadır. Kemal Tahir'in en önemli romanı olarak gösterilen 'Devlet Ana', onun düşünce yapısını da en iyi yansıtan eserlerinden biri sayılmaktadır.""Kemal Tahir, tarihi ve toplumu hakkındaki orijinal ve sağlam görüşlerinden hareket ettiği için hem 'mahalli ağızları', hem Türkçe'nin küçümsenmiş ve unutulmuş nesir dilini hem de yeni imkanlarını kaynaştırarak ve aşarak kullanabilmiştir. Eserlerindeki eşsiz dil ve üslup güzelliğinin kaynağı bu davranıştadır. Daha önceki romanlarında da görülen bu özellik 'Devlet Ana'da en yüce noktasına erişmiştir. Türkçe'nin unutulmuş olan dehası bütün boyutları, zenginliği ve haslığıyla ilk olarak Kemal Tahir'in eserlerinde kendini göstermektedir.""- Selahattin Hilav-"</synopsis>
                <title>Devlet Ana</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Robert Schneider</author>
                <characters>Johannes Elias Alder</characters>
                <date>2004</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, German Literature, Novels, School, Historical Fiction, Historical, Roman, Drama, Music</genres>
                <id>2122</id>
                <synopsis>" Robert Schneider siedelt seinen Roman über das verkannte musikalische Genie Johannes Elias Alder in dem rauhen, vorarlbergischen Bergdorf Eschberg an, dessen Einwohner nur über alltägliche Dinge sprechen, sich ansonsten in Andeutungen ergehen und im Zweifelsfall lieber schweigen als reden. Elias, der von Geburt an anders ist als die Bauern, wird von diesen Menschen gemieden und von seiner eigenen Mutter abgelehnt. So wie die drei Feuer, die das Dorf nach und nach auslöschen, so löscht die Enttäuschung über drei wichtige Menschen (Mutter, Vater und die unerwiderte Liebe zu Elsbeth) schließlich das Leben des zweiundzwanzigjährigen Elias aus. Dieser Roman, der vordergründig sehr nüchtern, ja fast wie eine Chronik erzählt ist, bezieht seine Atmosphäre aus winzigen Details - der Hut des Vaters als einziger Trost für den kleinen Jungen, die sparsame, aber umso deutlicher entsetzte Reaktion des jugendlichen Elias, als er sieht wie sein Vater einen Menschen umbringt. Das Buch hat mich von Anfang bis zum Ende in seinen Bann gezogen. Ich habe es nicht - wie Elias Canetti schrieb - mit Freude gelesen, sondern mit einer großen Beklemmung und gleichzeitiger Begeisterung für den einzigartigen Stil Schneiders. Die Geschichte des Musikers Johannes Elias Alder wird mich sicher immer begleiten. -Cornelia Rediger "</synopsis>
                <title>Schlafes Bruder</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Marcus Pfister</author>
                <characters>Rainbow Fish</characters>
                <date>1992</date>
                <genres>Picture Books, Childrens, Fiction, Animals, Classics, Fantasy, Kids, Storytime, Juvenile, School</genres>
                <id>2123</id>
                <synopsis>"The Rainbow Fish is an international bestseller and a modern classic. Eye-catching foilstamping, glittering on every page, offers instant child-appeal, but it is the universal message at the heart of this simple story about a beautiful fish, who learns to make friends by sharing his most prized possessions, that gives the book its lasting value."</synopsis>
                <title>The Rainbow Fish</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>K.A. Applegate, Katherine Applegate</author>
                <characters>Elfangor</characters>
                <date>Dec-97</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Young Adult, Fiction, Fantasy, Childrens, Aliens, Middle Grade, Adventure, Animals, War</genres>
                <id>2124</id>
                <synopsis>"Relates the story of Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul, the Andalite war-prince responsible for creating the human animorphs on Earth."</synopsis>
                <title>The Andalite Chronicles</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Deanna Raybourn </author>
                <characters>Lady Julia Grey, Nicholas Brisbane, Portia, Lady Bettiscombe, Lord March, Morag, Magda, Eglamour ""Plum"" March, Lysander March, Violante, Alessandro Fornacci, Charlotte King, Lucy, Emma Phipps, Aunt Dorcas, Sir Cedric Eastley, Henry Ludlow, Lucian Snow</characters>
                <date>2008</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Historical Fiction, Historical, Romance, Historical Mystery, Fiction, Historical Romance, Victorian, British Literature, Mystery Thriller</genres>
                <id>2125</id>
                <synopsis>"Fresh from a six-month sojourn in Italy, Lady Julia returns home to Sussex to find her father's estate crowded with family and friends— but dark deeds are afoot at the deconsecrated abbey, and a murderer roams the ancient cloisters. Much to her surprise, the one man she had hoped to forget—the enigmatic and compelling Nicholas Brisbane—is among her father's houseguests… and he is not alone. Not to be outdone, Julia shows him that two can play at flirtation and promptly introduces him to her devoted, younger, titled Italian count.But the homecoming celebrations quickly take a ghastly turn when one of the guests is found brutally murdered in the chapel, and a member of Lady Julia's own family confesses to the crime. Certain of her cousin's innocence, Lady Julia resumes her unlikely and deliciously intriguing partnership with Nicholas Brisbane, setting out to unravel a tangle of deceit before the killer can strike again. When a sudden snowstorm blankets the abbey like a shroud, it falls to Lady Julia and Nicholas Brisbane to answer the shriek of murder most foul."</synopsis>
                <title>Silent in the Sanctuary</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Karin Slaughter , Walter Lewis (Narrator)</author>
                <characters>Martin Reed, Detective Anther Albada</characters>
                <date>Jul-08</date>
                <genres>Thriller, Fiction, Crime, Mystery, Audiobook, Short Stories, Humor, Suspense, Adult, Mystery Thriller</genres>
                <id>2126</id>
                <synopsis>"Crime fiction obsessive Martin Reed is the proverbial butt of everyone's jokes. Working as a glorified accountant at Southern Toilet Supply and still living with his cantankerous mother, he has become resigned to the world in which he lives."</synopsis>
                <title>Martin Misunderstood</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Lauren Brooke</author>
                <characters>Amy Fleming, Jack Bartlett, Lou Fleming, Ty Baldwin, Soraya Martin, Matt Trewin, Scott Trewin, Val Grant, Ashley Grant, Lisa Stillman, Ben Stillman, Eliza Chittick</characters>
                <date>Oct-00</date>
                <genres>Horses, Young Adult, Childrens, Fiction, Animals, Middle Grade, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Juvenile, Teen</genres>
                <id>2127</id>
                <synopsis>"Heartland is a horse farm nestled in the hills of Virginia, but it's much more than that. Heartland is like no other place - it's a place where the scars of the past can be healed, a place where frightened and abused horses learn to trust again.Pegasus is all Amy has left of her past, but he's steadily growing weaker. Amy's trying to care for him and hold Heartland together. She's trying to do just what her mother would have done, but everything is beginning to unravel. It will take all Amy's courage to let go of her mother's legacy, but it is the only way she will break free and find her own."</synopsis>
                <title>Breaking Free</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Norah Lofts</author>
                <characters>Hortense de Beauharnais</characters>
                <date>1971</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Historical, France, Fiction, Romance</genres>
                <id>2128</id>
                <synopsis>"Hortense Beauharnais finds herself rubbing shoulders with royalty as her mother remarries to become Napoleon Bonaparte's wife. As Napoleon struggles for power on the battlefields of Europe, so Hortense charts her way through the French court - a chessboard world where the motives are jealousy and greed and the prizes are thrones of conquered countries. Despite attempts to retain her individuality, Hortense finds herself married to Napoleon's brother Louis, but her heart is with Charles de Flahaut, a gallant young officer. Unwilling to cross her stepfather, Hortense must wait and see if time will take her to her lover."</synopsis>
                <title>A Rose for Virtue</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Betty Neels</author>
                <characters>Abigail Trent, Dominic van Wijkelen, Charity Dawson, Everard van Tijlen</characters>
                <date>Jul-02</date>
                <genres>Romance, Fiction, British Literature, Contemporary Romance, Harlequin Romance</genres>
                <id>2129</id>
                <synopsis>"Sister Charity Dawson loved her job but there was one problem. Like the other humble members of St. Simon's nursing staff, she had to put up with the arrogant Dr. Everard van Tijlen. When Charity apparently discovered that the distinguished doctor's exorbitant fees funded a playboy lifestyle, she hit the roof. Everard might well have an engaging boyish smile, but he needed to be taken down a peg or two. And Charity knew just how to do it."</synopsis>
                <title>The Gemel Ring</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Christopher Priest</author>
                <characters>Richard Grey, Susan Kewley</characters>
                <date>2005</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Contemporary, British Literature, Literature, Mystery, Thriller, Novels</genres>
                <id>2130</id>
                <synopsis>"Cameraman Richard Grey's memory has blanked out the few weeks before he was injured in a car bomb explosion. When he is visited by a girl who seems to have been his lover, his attempts to recall the forgotten period produce an odyssey through France and conflicting accounts of what happened. When Susan Kewley speaks to him of that time, he finds himself glimpsing a terrible twilight world - the world of the glamour."</synopsis>
                <title>The Glamour</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Larry Niven</author>
                <characters>Larry Greenberg</characters>
                <date>Apr-00</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Space Opera, Science Fiction Fantasy, Hard Science Fiction, Aliens, Classics, Speculative Fiction, Novels, Space</genres>
                <id>2131</id>
                <synopsis>"Larry Greenberg's telepathic tendencies had been trained and developed to a critical level. The trouble was that if these psychic interchanges were strong enough, a man could end up not knowing who he really was. And when Larry's mind is taken over by a sinister alien force, he has to fight to retain his sanity - and divert a disaster that threatens all mankind...""Snappy, ingenious, and upbeat."" - GalaxyMade the 1st ballot for the 1967 Nebula"</synopsis>
                <title>The World of Ptavvs</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Alan Moore , J.H. Williams III, Mick Gray</author>
                <characters>Promethea</characters>
                <date>Published</date>
                <genres>Comics, Graphic Novels, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Mythology, Superheroes, Comix, Magic</genres>
                <id>2132</id>
                <synopsis>"The first graphic novel from America's Best Comics, like all titles from ABC, is written and created by Alan Moore, writer of Watchmen, the classic Swamp Thing, and V for Vendetta. Boasting some of Moore's most powerful writing in years, this volume introduces Promethea, a powerful figure who appeared in Victorian children's stories and turn-of-the-century comic strips and gains new life through Sophie Bangs, a college student in alternate-reality New York City. But as this exotic heroine leaps into battle, will Sophie's personality be able to reemerge when the battle is over?"</synopsis>
                <title>Promethea: Book One</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Diane Duane , Kathryn Parise (Designed by)</author>
                <characters>Rhiow, Saash, Urruah, Arhu</characters>
                <date>Mar-99</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult, Cats, Animals, Urban Fantasy, Magic, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Contemporary</genres>
                <id>2133</id>
                <synopsis>"Rhiow seems a perfectly ordinary New York City cat. Or so her humans think - but she is much more than she appears. With her partners Saash and Urruah, she collaborates with human wizards to protect the earth from dark forces and maintain the network of magical gateways that connect to different realities. But amid this amazing secret animal world lies a danger that threatens not only the cats of the world, but humans as well."</synopsis>
                <title>The Book of Night with Moon</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Joseph Gelinek</author>
                <characters>Daniel Paniagua</characters>
                <date>2008</date>
                <genres>Thriller, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Mystery, Music, Crime</genres>
                <id>2134</id>
                <synopsis>"Svet klasične muzike potresa prava revolucija kada poznati dirigent Ronald Tomas izvede na privatnom koncertu navodnu rekonstrukciju prvog stava mitske Desete simfonije Ludviga van Betovena. Jedan od gostiju na tom događaju, mladi muzikolog Danijel Panijagva, počinje da sumnja: Možda Betovenova Deseta simfonija zaista postoji i sada se nalazi u Tomasovim rukama? Možda je genije iz Bona pobedio „prokletstvo desete simfonije“, po kojem svi kompozitori umiru kada je jednom napišu?Nakon okrutnog ubistva, počinje opasna igra u koju su pored Danijela upleteni i jedna žena sudija, lukavi detektiv za ubistva i razne moćne organizacije čiji su članovi uticajni biznismeni i Napoleonovi potomci. Svi oni bore se da pronadu sveti gral klasične muzike. Niko od njih ne zna da je odgovor na njihova pitanja u kontroverznoj Betovenovoj prošlosti i njegovoj zabranjenoj ljubavi koja je sve do danas ostala neotkrivena..."</synopsis>
                <title>La décima sinfonía</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>LaVyrle Spencer</author>
                <characters>Anna Reardon, Karl Lindstrom</characters>
                <date>1995</date>
                <genres>Romance, Historical Romance, Historical, Westerns, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Western Romance, Adult, Chick Lit, 19th Century</genres>
                <id>2135</id>
                <synopsis>"From the streets of 19th-century Boston to the harsh frontier-she wove a web of deception to ensnare her man!Lovely, fiery-tempered Anna Reardon was forced to lie to get out of the street urchin's life that shamed her ... to become Karl Lindstrom's mail-order bride in the beautiful, treacherous Minnesota wilderness.Karl forgave Anna for her deceptions-but there was still one shameful, burning secret that she had to hide from him, knowing its revelation would destroy the love that had become her very life!"</synopsis>
                <title>The Endearment</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Thomas E. Gaddis, James O. Long</author>
                <characters>Carl Panzram</characters>
                <date>Jun-02</date>
                <genres>True Crime, Nonfiction, Biography, Psychology, Crime, History, Memoir, Biography Memoir, Autobiography, Dark</genres>
                <id>2136</id>
                <synopsis>"""In my lifetime I have murdered 21 human beings, I have committed thousands of burglaries, robberies, larcenies, arsons and last but not least I have committed sodomy on more than 1,000 male human beings. For all of these things I am not the least bit sorry. I have no conscience so that does not worry me. I don't believe in man, God nor Devil. I hate the whole damn human race including myself.""Carl Panzram, who called himself the ""world's worst murderer,"" wrote these words in a full autobiography and confession he prepared for the one friend in his life-a young prison guard named Henry Lesser. PANZRAM: A JOURNAL OF MURDER, combines these brutally forthright memoirs with the commentary of authors Gaddis and Long, into a compelling chronicle of the forces that engender hate. The authors provide a historical and sociological framework for Panzram's own words, using this uniquely detailed self-analysis by a mass murderer to depict what happens when an intelligent and unbreakable personality that has been interminably and unmercifully abused strikes back in vengeance.  PANZRAM arrives as a gripping warning from America's recent past to our newly repressive era of prison-industrial complex, death penalty abuse, and unprecedentedly high rates of incarceration from a man who walked the halls of Death Row with a blindingly clear vision. Introduction by Harold Schechter, author of Deranged and Deviant.(ISBN 1-878923-14-5)(ISBN 13: 9781878923141)NOTE: There are 2 different versions of this book with the same ISBN numbers. Different cover and amount of pages."</synopsis>
                <title>Panzram: A Journal of Murder</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Nick Cohen</author>
                <characters>George W. Bush, Paul Wolfowitz, Tony Blair, Noam Chomsky, Slobodan Milošević, Christopher Hitchens, Martin Amis, Saddam Hussein, Edward Said, George Galloway, Nick Cohen, Eric Hobsbawm, Harold Pinter, Robert Fisk, Azar Nafisi, Margaret Thatcher, Virginia Woolf</characters>
                <date>2007</date>
                <genres>Politics, Nonfiction, Philosophy, History, Journalism, Society, War, Sociology, Essays, Jewish</genres>
                <id>2137</id>
                <synopsis>"From the witty and excoriating voice of journalist Nick Cohen, a powerful and irreverent dissection of the agonies, idiocies and compromises of mainstream liberal thought. He comes from the Left. When he was a child, his mother would search supermarket shelves for politically reputable citrus fruit, and despair. Aged 13, when he learned his kind and thoughtful English teacher voted Conservative, he nearly fell off his chair: 'To be good, you had to be on the Left.' Today he's no less confused. When he looks around him, in the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq, he sees a community of Left-leaning liberals standing on their heads. Why do apologies for a militant Islam standing for everything the liberal-Left is against come from a section of it? After the US/UK wars in Bosnia and Kosovo against Milosevic's ethnic cleansers, why were some on the Left denying the existence of Serb concentration camps? Why is Palestine a cause for the liberal-Left, but not, for instance, China, the Sudan, Zimbabwe or North Korea? Why can't those who say they support the Palestinian cause tell you what type of Palestine they'd like to see? After the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington DC, why were you as likely to read that a conspiracy of Jews controlled US or UK foreign policy in a liberal literary journal as in a neo-Nazi rag? It's easy to know what the Left is fighting against-the evils of Bush and corporations-but what and who are they fighting for? As he tours the follies of the Left, he asks us to reconsider what it means to be liberal today. With the angry satire of Swift, he reclaims the values of democracy and solidarity that united the movement against fascism, asking: What's Left?."</synopsis>
                <title>What's Left?</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Manly Wade Wellman</author>
                <characters>Silver John</characters>
                <date>Feb-80</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Horror, Short Stories, Fiction, Weird Fiction, Pulp, Science Fiction Fantasy, Collections, Science Fiction, Adventure</genres>
                <id>2138</id>
                <synopsis>"There's a traveling man the Carolina mountain folk call Silver John for the silver strings strung on his guitar. In his wanderings, John encounters a parade of benighted forest creatures, mountain spirits, and shapeless horrors from the void of history with only his enduring spirit, playful wit, and the magic of his guitar to preserve him. Manly Wade Wellman's Silver John is one of the most beloved figures in fantasy, a true American folk hero of the literary age. For the first time the ""Planet Stories"" edition of ""Who Fears the Devil?"" collects all of John's adventures published throughout Wellman's life, including two stories about John before he got his silver-stringed guitar that have never previously appeared in a Silver John collection. Lost, out of print, or buried in expensive hardcover editions, the seminal, unforgettable tales of ""Who Fears the Devil?"" stand ready for a new generation ready to continue the folk tradition of Silver John!"</synopsis>
                <title>Who Fears The Devil?</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Isaac Asimov, Ralph McQuarrie (Illustrator), Marcel Bieger (Translator), Ingrid Herrmann (Translator), Fredy Köpsell (Translator)</author>
                <characters>R. Daneel Olivaw, Lije Bailey, Susan Calvin</characters>
                <date>1994</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories, Robots, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Anthologies, Fantasy, Audiobook, Collections</genres>
                <id>2139</id>
                <synopsis>"From Isaac Asimov, the Hugo Award-winning Grand Master of Science Fiction whose name is synonymous with the science of robotics, comes five decades of robot visions: thirty-four landmark stories and essays—including three rare tales—gathered together in one volume. Meet all of Asimov’s most famous creations including: Robbie, the very first robot that his imagination brought to life; Susan Calvin, the original robot psychologist; Stephen Byerley, the humanoid robot; and the famous human/robot detective team of Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw, who have appeared in such bestselling novels as The Robots of Dawn and Robots and Empire.Let the master himself guide you through the key moments in the fictional history of robot-human relations—from the most primitive computers and mobile machines to the first robot to become a man.(back cover)Contents: Robot Visions • cover and interior artwork by Ralph McQuarrie Introduction: The Robot Chronicles • essay by Isaac Asimov Robot Visions / short story by Isaac Asimov Too Bad! (1989) / short story by Isaac Asimov Robbie (1940) / short story by Isaac Asimov (variant of Strange Playfellow) Reason [Mike Donovan] (1941) / short story by Isaac Asimov Liar! [Susan Calvin] (1941) / short story by Isaac Asimov Runaround [Mike Donovan] (1942) / novelette by Isaac Asimov Evidence [Susan Calvin] (1946) / novelette by Isaac Asimov Little Lost Robot [Susan Calvin] (1947) / novelette by Isaac Asimov The Evitable Conflict [Susan Calvin] (1950) / novelette by Isaac Asimov Feminine Intuition [Susan Calvin] (1969) / novelette by Isaac Asimov The Bicentennial Man (1976) / novelette by Isaac Asimov Someday (1956) / short story by Isaac Asimov Think! (1977) / short story by Isaac Asimov Segregationist (1967) / short story by Isaac Asimov Mirror Image [Elijah Bailey/R. Daneel Olivaw] (1972) / short story by Isaac Asimov Lenny [Susan Calvin] (1958) / short story by Isaac Asimov Galley Slave [Susan Calvin] (1957) / novelette by Isaac Asimov Christmas Without Rodney (1988) / short story by Isaac Asimov Essays by Isaac Asimov: Robots I Have Known (1954); The New Teachers (1976); Whatever You Wish (1977); The Friends We Make (1977); Our Intelligent Tools (1977); The Laws of Robotics (1979); Future Fantastic (1989); The Machine and the Robot (1978); The New Profession (1979); The Robot As Enemy? (1979); Intelligences Together (1979); My Robots (1987); The Laws of Humanics (1987); Cybernetic Organism (1987); The Sense of Humor (1988); Robots in Combination (1988).The volume features many black-and-white illustrations by Ralph McQuarrie."</synopsis>
                <title>Roboter-Visionen</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kinley MacGregor</author>
                <characters>Kerrigan, Seren of York, Merlin, Liam the God, Morgen le Fey, Blaise, Elaine, Alethea</characters>
                <date>2007</date>
                <genres>Romance, Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Paranormal, Historical Romance, Historical, Time Travel, Magic, Adult, Fantasy Romance</genres>
                <id>2140</id>
                <synopsis>"El nuevo rey de Camelot ya no luce una brillante armadura: Arturo y sus caballeros han caído y gobierna un nuevo monarca. En el bosque más oscuro, un joven terrorífico se ha convertido en el hombre más poderoso del mundo. Despiadado y desenfrenado, Karrigan ha dejado de ser humano hace tiempo. Entretanto, en el corazón de Londres, una joven y energética campesina llamada Seren sueña con ser libre, pero aún no imagina que huyendo de su destino acabará por encontrarlo."</synopsis>
                <title>La espada de la oscuridad</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Enid Blyton</author>
                <characters>George Kirrin (Famous Five), Dick Kirrin, Timmy, Tinker, Anne (Famous Five), Julian (Famous Five)</characters>
                <date>2001</date>
                <genres>Childrens, Adventure, Fiction, Mystery, Classics, Young Adult, Middle Grade, British Literature, Novels, Juvenile</genres>
                <id>2141</id>
                <synopsis>"Julian, Dick and Anne arrive in Kirrin Cottage to stay with George (real name Georgina) for the holidays. They plan to spend time exploring Kirrin Island but their happiness is spoilt when Aunt Fanny falls ill and has to leave with Uncle Quentin to be treated in a far-off hospital. They are cared for by Aunt Fanny's temporary cook, Mrs Stick, who is accompanied by her husband and their ghastly son Edgar. The Sticks and the four children come to hate each other. Mrs Stick repeatedly tries to poison George's dog Timmy, prompting George to hatch a secret plan to run away to Kirrin Island. When Julian catches her leaving, she decides to allow the other children to go with her.The children find evidence of other people visiting the island and suspect smugglers. The discovery of a young girl's toys and clothes point to something sinister going on."</synopsis>
                <title>Five Run Away Together</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Wolfgang Leonhard</author>
                <characters>Wolfgang Leonhard, Wilhelm Pieck, Walter Ulbricht, Susanne Leonhard, Paul Wandel, Rudolf Herrnstadt, Alfred Kurella, Ernő Gerő, Fritz Erpenbeck, Anton Ackermann, Otto Grotewohl</characters>
                <date>2005</date>
                <genres>Biography, German Literature, Nonfiction, Russia, Autobiography, History</genres>
                <id>2142</id>
                <synopsis>" Wolfgang Leonhards 1954 erstmals erschienenes Buch Die Revolution entläßt ihre Kinder, ist längst zu einem Klassiker der Kommunismusforschung avanciert. Zu Recht, denn auch nach 45 Jahren hat es nichts von seiner Aktualität und Brillanz verloren. Wer die inneren Funktionsmechanismen des Stalinismus verstehen will, kommt an Leonhards Buch nicht vorbei. Doch was macht das Besondere seiner Arbeit aus? Der Autor genießt einen entscheidenden Vorteil bei der Analyse des Stalinismus: Die Erfahrungen eines zehnjährigen Lebens in der Sowjetunion und der vierjährigen Tätigkeit als Funktionär im zentralen Apparat der SED-Führung. 1935 nach Moskau emigriert, erlebte Leonhard die große stalinistische Säuberung der Jahre 1936 bis 1938 und wurde ab 1942 auf der Schule der Kommunistischen Internationale zum Funktionär ausgebildet. Im Mai 1945 kehrte er zusammen mit Walter Ulbricht nach Deutschland zurück. Bis zu seiner überraschenden Flucht nach Jugoslawien im März 1949 war er im Zentralkomitee der KPD/SED mit der ideologischen Schulung der Parteifunktionäre betraut. In dieser Funktion lernte Leonhard viele der damaligen Repräsentanten der sowjetischen Besatzungszone und der späteren DDR persönlich kennen. Es ist diese intime Kenntnis der inneren Mechanismen des Systems: Die Möglichkeit, sich in die Menschen der kommunistischen Welt hineinzudenken und die Fähigkeit, die für viele so rätselhafte ideologische Wortklauberei entziffern zu können, die sein Werk auszeichnen. Vieles, was dem Außenstehenden oft so unwahrscheinlich anmutet, erscheint dem früheren Funktionär ""von drüben"" wie ein offenes Buch. Diese Kenntnisse befähigen Leonhard, die Entwicklungen in der kommunistischen Welt objektiv zu analysieren. ""Gleichermaßen entfernt von primitivem Antikommunismus und den Haßgefühlen, aber auch von Schönfärberei und Illusionen"", wie er 1990 anläßlich der Neuauflage von Die Revolution entläßt ihre Kinder schrieb. Es ist dieser unverfälschte Blick eines Insiders, der dem Buch jenes Maß an Authentizität und Glaubwürdigkeit verleiht, das es bis heute auszeichnet. -Stephan Fingerle"</synopsis>
                <title>Die Revolution entlässt ihre Kinder</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Mary Stewart</author>
                <characters>Nicola Ferris</characters>
                <date>1996</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Romance, Suspense, Romantic Suspense, Gothic, Greece, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Historical Fiction</genres>
                <id>2143</id>
                <synopsis>"Young, beautiful, and adventurous Nicola Ferris loves her life as a secretary at the British Embassy on Greece. On leave from her job as a secretary in Athens, has been looking forward to a quiet week's holiday in the lush island of Crete, enjoying the wild flowers and the company of her cousin Frances. Then on her day off, her impulse led her on a little-used path into the foreboding White Mountains. She links up with two hiking companions who have inadvertently stumbled upon a scene of blood vengeance, that involving a young Englishman and a group of people tied together by blood and the bonds of greed.For the first time in her life Nicola meets a man and a situation she cannot deal with... A man in hiding - for reasons he could not explain. Warned to stay away, Nicola was unable to obey. And before she realized what she had uncovered, she found herself thrust into the midst of an alarming plot in which she would become the prey... And suddenly the life Nicola adores is in danger of coming to an abrupt, brutal, and terrifying end...."</synopsis>
                <title>The Moonspinners</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, G. Roux (Illustrator), John Jay Allen (Editor)</author>
                <characters>Sancho Panza, Don Quijote de la Mancha, Dulcinea</characters>
                <date>2016</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Spanish Literature, Literature, Novels, Spain, Humor, Adventure, College, Fantasy</genres>
                <id>2144</id>
                <synopsis>"Hace más de un cuarto de siglo que Ediciones Cátedra publicó por primera vez una edición del ""Quijote"" en la colección Letras Hispánicas, a cargo del profesor John Jay Allen. En 1986, el profesor Allen modificó en parte la introducción a la luz de algunos estudios que habían ido apareciendo después de la primera edición. Posteriormente el texto también fue revisado teniendo en cuenta las nuevas lecturas y enmiendas que la crítica erudita y los investigadores han ido incorporando durante los últimos años. Coincidiendo con el cuarto centenario de la publicación del Quijote, Ediciones Cátedra, y una vez más el cuidado del profesor Allen, ofrece una edición renovada y puesta al día de la obra maestra de Cervantes.Here are the adventures of that bumbling, infinitely compassionate knight, Don Quijote, and his shrewdly simple squire, Sancho Panza. Part parody and part cautionary tale, Don Quijote is one of the world's great literary works."</synopsis>
                <title>Don Quijote de la Mancha II: Segunda Parte del Ingenioso Caballero Don Quijote de la Mancha</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Dylan Thomas</author>
                <characters>Dylan Thomas</characters>
                <date>1968</date>
                <genres>Short Stories, Fiction, Poetry, Literature, British Literature, Classics, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Biography Memoir, Irish Literature</genres>
                <id>2145</id>
                <synopsis>"The 'Young Dog' of the title is of course Thomas himself, &amp; this volume of autobiographical stories by the great modern poet, who shows his waggish humor at its best, his exuberance &amp; verbal magic in spectacular display. It also shows him a spinner of tales &amp; a creator of memorable characters.The peachesA visit to Grandpa'sPatricia, Edith &amp; ArnoldThe fightExtraordinary little coughJust like little dogsWhere Tawe flowsWho do you wish was with usOld GarboOne warm Saturday"</synopsis>
                <title>Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Christine Feehan </author>
                <characters>Ken Norton, Briony Jenkins, Jack Norton</characters>
                <date>Nov-06</date>
                <genres>Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Romance, Fantasy, Romantic Suspense, Military Fiction, Contemporary, Suspense, Urban Fantasy, Adult</genres>
                <id>2146</id>
                <synopsis>"Jack Norton is a GhostWalker, a genetically enhanced sniper with a merciless sense of justice, a phantom welcomed by the anonymity of the night. But a mission to rescue his brother in the jungle has left him vulnerable to rebel forces. His only salvation is his power of telepathy. Then he meets Briony, an unusual beauty on a mission of her own. But they share more than the sweltering heat ... Briony shares the GhostWalker powers. Yet she's different. She doesn't know what she is, or what she's capable of. But her enemies do. And Jack and Briony's flight will take them into frightening conspiracy of mind and body - across the globe and into the heart of darkness, where the shocking truth is something neither of them could have foreseen - or can escape..."</synopsis>
                <title>Conspiracy Game</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Isaac Asimov</author>
                <characters>Susan Calvin, Mike Donovan</characters>
                <date>1968</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories, Classics, Robots, Anthologies, Fantasy, Collections, Science Fiction Fantasy, Short Story Collection</genres>
                <id>2147</id>
                <synopsis>"The Rest of the Robots is the third timeless, amazing and amusing volume of Isaac Asimov's robot stories, offering golden insights into robot thought processes. Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics have since been programmed into real computers the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and used as the outline for a legal robotic charter in Korea. ROBOT TONY is the first robot designed to perform domestic duties by the US Robots and Mechanical Men Corporation. Is it Tony's fault that the lady of the house where he's field tested falls in love with him?ROBOT AL was intended for shipment to a mining outfit on the moon. Instead, he's loose in the mountains of Virginia...building from scraps of junk his very own, very dangerous disintegrator.ROBOT LENNY answers workaday questions in babytalk. So why is Dr Susan Calvin, the world's top robopsychologist, fascinated by this messed up specimen of an industrial robot?"</synopsis>
                <title>The Rest of the Robots</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Nigel McCrery</author>
                <characters>Mark Lapslie</characters>
                <date>2009</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Crime, British Literature, Murder Mystery, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Novels</genres>
                <id>2148</id>
                <synopsis>"A visceral thriller from the creator of the hit BBC drama Silent Witness, introducing synaesthetic detective DCI Mark Lapslie. I've looked into the eyes of women who have banged nine-inch nails into the skulls of their victims with hammers ... we evaluate them, trying to determine whether they have actually changed, or whether there's still a core of evil within them...Before his diagnosis, DCI Mark Lapslie thought everyone was like him. Now he knows he suffers from synaethesthesia - a rare neurological condition that has cross-wired his senses. The sickening clamour of sounds he can taste has smothered his marriage and stifled his career. At the scene of a fatal traffic accident, Lapslie's interest isn't in the recently deceased driver, rather the desiccated corpse found lying next to him. Something about the body stirs a fleeting recollection at the back of Lapslie's mind... he can't quite put his finger on it, but he can almost taste it... Memories haunt Violet Chambers. Taking tea with her friend Daisy, she knows it's time to move on. As Daisy falls to the floor, eyes streaming, face burning, Violet calmly waits. Black hellebore is remarkably potent. It won't be long now. Discover the other books in the DCI Mark Lapslie series: Tooth and Claw, Scream, Thirteenth Coffin and Flesh and Blood."</synopsis>
                <title>Core of Evil</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Enid Blyton</author>
                <characters>""Philip ''Pip'' Hilton"", ""Margaret ''Daisy'' Dakin"", Buster the Dog, ""Laurence ''Larry'' Daykin"", ""Frederick Algernon ''Fatty'' Trotteville"", ""Elizabeth ''Bets'' Hilton""</characters>
                <date>May-91</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Childrens, Adventure, Fiction, Crime, Novels, Young Adult, Female Authors, Classics, Teen</genres>
                <id>2149</id>
                <synopsis>"Larry, Daisy, Fatty, Pip, Bets and Buster are immediately on the trail when two robberies take place in the village, and though the thief has left enormous footprints, it seems as if he is able to enter houses without being seen."</synopsis>
                <title>The Mystery of the Invisible Thief</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Carolyn Keene</author>
                <characters>Nancy Drew</characters>
                <date>1970</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Adventure</genres>
                <id>2150</id>
                <synopsis>"When Carson Drew’s Turkish client vanishes, Nancy is determined to decipher the clues woven into the decorative border of an Oriental rug. The coded message starts her on a quest for a missing mannequin. What happened to the attractive figure that was displayed in the large window of his rug shop? Who is trying to keep Nancy from finding it—and why? Tracking down the intricate trail of clues to solve this mystery, Nancy and her friends travel to Turkey. This book is the original text. A revised text does not exist."</synopsis>
                <title>The Mysterious Mannequin</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kimberly Lang </author>
                <characters>Lorelei LaBlanc, Donovan St. James</characters>
                <date>Mar-13</date>
                <genres>Romance, Contemporary Romance, Contemporary, Harlequin, Category Romance, New Adult, Chick Lit</genres>
                <id>2151</id>
                <synopsis>"Waking up in a stranger's bed is not how socialite Lorelei LaBlanc planned on spending the morning after the night before.From now on…:A) No more secret hookups with Donovan St. James—he's the last man on earth she'd want to share a room with, never mind a king-size bed.B) Maintain a professional persona at all times. After all, he's a hard-hitting journalist who's always on the lookout for the latest scoop …and she's perfect tabloid fodder.C) Keep friends close but enemies closer. Donovan may look like the ultimate poster boy but his intentions are anything but PG rated…."</synopsis>
                <title>The Taming of a Wild Child</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>J.J. Voskuil</author>
                <characters>Maarten Koning, Nicolien Koning</characters>
                <date>Apr-97</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Literature, Dutch Literature, Roman, 20th Century, Classics, Humor, Novels</genres>
                <id>2152</id>
                <synopsis>"Meneer Beerta is het eerste deel van Het Bureau, een roman in zeven delen, die de menselijke verhoudingen op en rondom een wetenschappelijk instituut tussen de jaren 1957 en 1987 tot onderwerp heeft. Hoofdpersoon is Maarten Koning, die ook in Bij nader inzien - het debuut van J.J. Voskuil uit 1963 - centraal stond.Maarten Koning ervaart de maatschappij waarin hij een plaats moet vinden als bedreigend en past zich moeilijk aan. Dat scherpt zijn blik voor zijn eigen tekortkomingen en die van zijn collega’s. In zijn ogen is de wereld waarin zij leven een schijnwereld, waarin mensen hun behoefte aan aandacht, erkenning of macht verbergen achter, schijnbaar zinvolle, maar in werkelijkheid zinloze werkzaamheden. Deze verborgen behoeften van mensen die elkaar niet hebben uitgezocht maar wel dag in dag uit met elkaar moeten verkeren, zijn aanleiding tot talloze wrijvingen en spanningen, een enkele maal met een tragische afloop, maar meestal komisch.Meneer Beerta beschrijft de jaren tussen 1957 en 1965 en eindigt met de pensionering van Beerta als directeur. Maarten heeft hem in zijn studietijd leren kennen als een beminnelijke scepticus en dat trekt hem aan. Van het geïdealiseerde beeld dat hij van hem heeft zal in de loop van het boek weinig overblijven, al verliest hij zijn sympathie niet. Tegelijkertijd is de lezer getuige van zijn vergeefse pogingen bondgenoten te zoeken in zijn afkeer van de in zijn ogen loze pretenties van de mensen waartussen hij terecht is gekomen."</synopsis>
                <title>Meneer Beerta</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Honoré de Balzac</author>
                <characters>Henri de Marsay, Armand de Montriveau, Antoinette de Langeais, Marquis de Roquenrolles</characters>
                <date>1998</date>
                <genres>France, Classics, Fiction, French Literature, Literature, 19th Century, Romance, Roman, Novels</genres>
                <id>2153</id>
                <synopsis>"A l'égal de la princesse de Clèves et de la Sanseverina, la duchesse de Langeais est l'une des grandes divinités féminines de notre littérature. Elle réunit en sa personne le triple prestige de la beauté, de la naissance et du malheur. Issue d'un sang illustre, Antoinette de Navarreins voit le jour en 1794, sous la Terreur, une bien sombre étoile qui sera pour elle la marque du destin. Quelque vingt ans plus tard, séparée de son mari abhorré que lui avait imposé un père indifférent, c'est l'une des gloires mondaines du Faubourg Saint-Germain. Mais que dissimule la coquetterie glacée de cette aristocratique Célimène ? Et par quel étrange sortilège l'incandescente passion d'Armand de Montriveau va-t-elle à son tour la consumer ? Comme tout vrai chef-d'œuvre, ce "" roman noir "" - primitivement intitulé "" Ne touchez pas à la hache "" - est pour partie une autobiographie sublimée, c'est-à-dire le contraire d'un roman à clefs. "" Moi seul sais ce qu'il y a d'horrible dans La Duchesse de Langeais "", confiait Balzac à l'un de ses proches. C'est pourquoi l'œuvre conserve, depuis plus d'un siècle et demi, son mystère et sa force de séduction."</synopsis>
                <title>La Duchesse De Langeais</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Roger Peyrefitte, Edward Hyams (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Lucien Rouvière, Georges de Sarre, Alexandre Motier</characters>
                <date>1968</date>
                <genres>France, LGBT, Fiction, Gay, French Literature, Queer, Classics, Novels, Roman</genres>
                <id>2154</id>
                <synopsis>"Special Friendships is a 1943 novel by French writer Roger Peyrefitte, probably his best known work today, which won the coveted prix Renaudot. Largely autobiographical, it deals with an intimate relationship between two boys at a Roman Catholic boarding school and how it is destroyed by a priest's will to protect them from homosexuality."</synopsis>
                <title>Special Friendships</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Iris Johansen </author>
                <characters>Nell Calder, Nicholas Tanek, Paul Maritz, Philippe Gardeaux, Jamie Reardon, Tania Vlados</characters>
                <date>Dec-96</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Thriller, Fiction, Suspense, Romance, Romantic Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Contemporary, Adult</genres>
                <id>2155</id>
                <synopsis>"If fate suddenly made you more beautiful than you ever dreamed possible, would it be the beginning of a fairy tale, or your worst nightmare?The brutal attack should have killed anybody, but Nell Calder did more than survive. She emerged a woman transformed, with an exquisite beauty found only in fairy tales. Nell Calder deserved a happy ending. Instead, her descent into terror has just begun.Her attacker is still on the hunt, determined to finish what he's started. And Nell, protected by a new face, is just as determined to fight back and take her revenge. But to catch her prey, she will have to expose herself—even if it makes her a killer's prime target."</synopsis>
                <title>The Ugly Duckling</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Mrs. O.F. Walton</author>
                <characters>Kenneth Fortescue, Marjorie Douglas</characters>
                <date>Published</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Mystery, Christian Fiction, Classics, Romance, Christian, Childrens, Historical Fiction</genres>
                <id>2156</id>
                <synopsis>"In this intriguing mystery, Captain Fortesque finds himself torn between two loyalties. Having been educated in the finest schools of England, he enjoyed acceptance in high society, but kept his true upbringing a secret. Then the day came that changed the course of his life. It all started with the mysterious note that could only be read after his father’s death. Will he be able to endure the dramatic challenges he will now face?In the meantime, everything in Daisy Bank seemed crooked and out of shape. Across stretches of dark stagnant water, Marjorie wandered over the wilderness of ashes, wondering how anything could grow in such poor and barren soil. But she learns that even in the midst of that bleak, coal-mining region, she can be ‘a tree of the Lord’s planting,’ bringing sunshine and growth to the dark, dreary world in which she finds herself."</synopsis>
                <title>The Lost Clue</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</author>
                <characters>Faust, Mephistopheles, Werther, Gretchen</characters>
                <date>1998</date>
                <genres>Classics, German Literature, Theatre, Historical Fiction, Fiction</genres>
                <id>2157</id>
                <synopsis>"Goethe es el alemán de fama perpetua, grande entre los grandes de todos los tiempos. Universal por su genio, no se le resistió ningún género literario: fue poeta, novelista, pensador, autor dramático y hombre de ciencia de fecundas instituciones. El libro imperecedero de Goethe es Fausto, obra inconmensurable, a la vez drama, misterio, poema simbólico y filosófico. Más de seis décadas de la vida de Goethe laboraron en la composición de Fausto, tragedia que ha sido denominada ""la segunda Biblia de los alemanes"". Fausto es la obra capital de Goethe. La idea v la realización palpitaron en el pecho del poeta desde su inquieta infancia hasta los días apacibles y melancólicos de su vejez. Puede decirse que Fausto es Goethe. El genial alemán estuvo siempre obsesionado por la búsqueda de la Verdad y éste es asimismo el gran drama de Fausto. Werther, esa célebre novela romántica de Goethe, tuvo su origen, como tantas poesías del autor, en un asunto amoroso."</synopsis>
                <title>Fausto / Werther</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>John le Carré</author>
                <characters>Issa, Annabel, Tommy Brue</characters>
                <date>2009</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Thriller, Espionage, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Spy Thriller, Suspense, Crime, Terrorism, Germany</genres>
                <id>2158</id>
                <synopsis>"Chi è lo sconosciuto gracile e male in arnese, avvolto in un cappottone nero, in cui Melik, immigrato turco di seconda generazione nato ad Amburgo, continua a imbattersi? Dopo l'11 settembre la vita del giovane, devoto musulmano e promessa della boxe, soffre di equilibri precari, e lui farebbe di tutto pur di non cacciarsi nei guai. Ma sua madre, che considera un dovere prestare aiuto a un compagno di fede, decide di dare ospitalità allo straniero. Lo strano ragazzo, che dice di chiamarsi Yssa Karpov, rivela di essere un profugo ceceno fuggito da un carcere russo e di essere entrato in Germania clandestinamente con l'intenzione di studiare medicina, grazie anche all'aiuto che gli verrà fornito da Tommy Brue. Peccato che Brue non abbia idea di chi lui sia. Il ceceno, però, è in possesso di una misteriosa parola d'ordine capace di ridestare improvvisamente il passato: ""lipizzano"". Quando Brue sente questo termine per bocca di Annabel Richter, avvocato specializzato nell'assistenza agli immigrati a cui Yssa si è rivolto, sa che non si riferisce alla nobile razza di cavalli di origine slovena. Lipizzano è la parola in codice con cui suo padre indicava ingenti e loschi capitali travasati dall'Unione Sovietica nelle casse della sua banca. John le Carré torna con una storia che si confronta con gli aspetti più ambigui della contemporaneità, ponendo l'accento sulle contraddizioni delle democrazie occidentali e sull'arroganza del potere nei confronti dei più deboli."</synopsis>
                <title>Yssa il buono</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Hakan Günday</author>
                <characters>Afgan, Barbaros, Cenk, Hakan</characters>
                <date>Oct-07</date>
                <genres>Turkish Literature, Turkish, Novels, Fiction</genres>
                <id>2159</id>
                <synopsis>"Piçlerin çocukları olmaz.Piçler, aşık oldukları kadınların kendilerini kurtaracaklarını düşünür. Oysa hiçbir kadın dünyaya bir piçi kurtarmak için gelmemiştir.Piçlere sır verilebilir. Ölümleriyle son bulan sırdaşlıkları vardır.Piçlerin cinsel hayatı düzensizdir.Piçlerin bedenleri ve akılları, diğer insanlarınkilerin aksine nasırlaşmaz. Onların nasırlaşan tek yerleri ruhlarıdır.Piçler sadece kendi aşklarına saygı duyarlar. En yakın dostlarının kadınlarına dil ve el uzatabilirler. Bu durumda piç tabii ki suçlu, ancak piçlik meşrudur. Piçler düzensiz hayatlarında düzenli olarak içki içerler. Belli sayıdaki kadehten sonra sarhoş olup sızarlar. Sızdıkları yerin adı huzurdur.Piçlerin babalarıyla olan ilişkileri mezar taşı kadar soğuk, yeni dökülmüş kan kadar sıcaktır.Piçler insan öldüremedikleri, ağır suçlar işleyemedikleri, korkak ve hain oldukları için yaşadıkları yerleri zorunlu kalmadıkça terk edemezler.Piçin davranış ve tercihlerini sadece bir başka piç kabul edilebilir olarak değerlendirir ve ""Neden?"" diye sormaz. ""Neden"" sorusu piçliği yok eder."</synopsis>
                <title>Piç</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Tana French </author>
                <characters>Michael Kennedy, Detective Quigley, ""Superintendent O''Kelly"", Richie Curran, Dina Kennedy</characters>
                <date>2012</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Ireland, Thriller, Audiobook, Suspense, Adult, Contemporary</genres>
                <id>2160</id>
                <synopsis>"Mick “Scorcherˮ Kennedy is the star of the Dublin Murder Squad. He plays by the books and plays hard, and thatʼs how the biggest case of the year ends up in his hands. On one of the half-abandoned “luxuryˮ developments that litter Ireland, Patrick Spain and his two young children have been murdered. His wife, Jenny, is in intensive care. At first, Scorcher thinks itʼs going to be an easy solve, but too many small things canʼt be explained: the half-dozen baby monitors pointed at holes smashed in the Spainsʼ walls, the files erased from the familyʼs computer, the story Jenny told her sister about a shadowy intruder slipping past the houseʼs locks. And this neighborhood—once called Broken Harbor—holds memories for Scorcher and his troubled sister, Dina: childhood memories that Scorcher thought he had tightly under control."</synopsis>
                <title>Broken Harbor</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn (Introduction)</author>
                <characters>Dwight D. Eisenhower, ""Conor Cruise O''Brien"", Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Lyndon B. Johnson, Samuel P. Huntington, Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King, Karl Marx</characters>
                <date>2002</date>
                <genres>Politics, History, Nonfiction, Essays, Political Science, Philosophy, The United States Of America, War, American, United States</genres>
                <id>2161</id>
                <synopsis>"American Power and the New Mandarins is Noam Chomsky’s first political book, widely considered to be among the most cogent and powerful statements against the American war in Vietnam. Long out of print, this collection of early, seminal essays helped to establish Chomsky as a leading critic of United States foreign policy. These pages mount a scathing critique of the contradictions of the war, and an indictment of the mainstream, liberal intellectuals—the “new mandarins”—who furnished what Chomsky argued was the necessary ideological cover for the horrors visited on the Vietnamese people.As America’s foreign entanglements deepen by the month, Chomsky’s lucid analysis is a sobering reminder of the perils of imperial diplomacy. With a new foreword by Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States, American Power and the New Mandarins is a renewed call for independent analysis of America’s role in the world."</synopsis>
                <title>American Power and the New Mandarins: Historical and Political Essays</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Agatha Christie</author>
                <characters>Miss Marple</characters>
                <date>1997</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Short Stories, Fiction, Classics, Crime, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Detective, Anthologies, Murder Mystery</genres>
                <id>2162</id>
                <synopsis>"Elderly Miss Jane Marple from St Mary's Mead village applies skills of observation and deduction to mysteries, usually to murder from books Tuesday Club, Regatta, Three Blind Mice.Tuesday Club1 Tuesday Night Club2 Idol House of Astarte3 Ingots of Gold4 Bloodstained Pavement5 Motive v Opportunity6 Thumbmark of St Peter7 Blue Geranium8 Companion9 Four Suspects10 Christmas Tragedy11 Herb of Death12 Affair at the Bungalow13 Death by DrowningRegatta14 Miss Marple Tells a StoryThree Blind Mice15 Strange Jest16 Tape Measure17 Perfect Maid18 CaretakerDouble Sin19 Greenshaw's Folly20 Sanctuary"</synopsis>
                <title>Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Mike Tucker</author>
                <characters>The Seventh Doctor, Ace, The Master (Doctor Who), Bev Tarrant, The Doctor, The Third Master</characters>
                <date>Jun-01</date>
                <genres>Doctor Who, Science Fiction, Audiobook, Fiction, Plays, Media Tie In, British Literature, Time Travel</genres>
                <id>2163</id>
                <synopsis>"On nineteenth Century Earth artist Edvard Munch hears an infinite scream pass through nature. Centuries later his painting of that Scream hangs in a gallery on the barren dust world Duchamp 331.Why is there a colony of artists on a planet that is little more than a glorified garage? What is the event that the passengers of the huge, opulent pleasure cruiser 'Gallery' are hoping to see? And what is hidden in the crates that litter the cargo hold?The Doctor's diary indicates that the painting is about to be destroyed in 'mysterious circumstances', and when he and Ace arrive on Duchamp 331, those circumstances are well underway."</synopsis>
                <title>Doctor Who: Dust Breeding</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Matthew Reilly</author>
                <characters>Shane Schofield, Elizabeth Gant, Gena Newman, Sarah Hensleigh, Kirsty Hensleigh, James Renshaw, Trevor Barnaby, Andrew Trent, Abby Sinclair</characters>
                <date>2000</date>
                <genres>Thriller, Fiction, Action, Adventure, Military Fiction, Suspense, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Science Fiction, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>2164</id>
                <synopsis>"At a remote US ice station in Antarctica, a team of scientists has made an amazing discovery. They found something unbelievable buried deep below the surface - trapped inside a layer of ice 400 million years old.Something made of metal...something which shouldn't be there...it's the discovery of a lifetime, a discovery of immeasurable value. And a discovery men will kill for.Led by the enigmatic Lieutenant Shane Schofield, a crack team of US Marines is rushed to the ice station to secure this bizarre discovery for their nation. Meanwhile other countries have developed the same ideas, and are ready to pursue it swiftly and ruthlessly. Fortunately, Schofield's men are a tough unit, all set to follow their leader into hell.They soon discover they just did..."</synopsis>
                <title>Ice Station</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ken Follett </author>
                <characters>Judy Madox</characters>
                <date>Nov-01</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Crime, Historical Fiction, Audiobook, Action</genres>
                <id>2165</id>
                <synopsis>"Ein kleines, verschwiegenes Tal in Kalifornien. Hier lebt seit den sechziger Jahren eine Hippie-Kommune. Nun aber soll ihr Dorf einem Stausee weichen. Doch die ""Kinder von Eden"" wollen sich nicht aus ihrem Paradies vertreiben lassen und greifen in ihrer Not zu einem wahnwitzigen Plan: Sie drohen der Regierung, ein Erdbeben stattfinden zu lassen, das entsetzliche Folgen haben wird. Niemand nimmt ihre Ankündigung ernst. Nur die junge FBI-Agentin Judy Maddox , die bereits auf der Abschußliste ihrer Vorgesetzten steht, hat ihre Zweifel und versucht, die Katastrophe zu verhindern. Aber dann überschlagen sich die Ereignisse ... (Amazon.de)"</synopsis>
                <title>Die Kinder Von Eden</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Roger Zelazny</author>
                <characters>Random of Amber, Brand of Amber, Corwin of Amber, Benedict of Amber, Julian of Amber, Gérard of Amber, Deirdre of Amber, Fiona of Amber, Flora of Amber</characters>
                <date>Nov-86</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Audiobook, Magic, Adventure, Epic</genres>
                <id>2166</id>
                <synopsis>"He who rules Amber rules the one true world. He who thwarts Amber invites the wrath of Amber betrayed. An unseen enemy of immense strength has seized a Prince of the Blood, and now threatens the perfect kingdom by striking at the very core of its power - the secret knowledge of Shadow.When Corwin summons forces to defend the throne, he finds himself challenged by royal conspirators, hideous demons, supernatural patterns and the ominous unknown that suddenly transcends all he ever suspected about the true nature of Amber.One of the most revered names in sf and fantasy, the incomparable Roger Zelazny was honored with numerous prizes—including six Hugo and three Nebula Awards—over the course of his legendary career. Among his more than fifty books, arguably Zelazny’s most popular literary creations were his extraordinary Amber novels."</synopsis>
                <title>Sign of the Unicorn</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kimberly Lang </author>
                <characters>Vivienne LaBlanc, Connor Mansfield</characters>
                <date>Feb-13</date>
                <genres>Romance, Contemporary Romance, Harlequin, Contemporary, Chick Lit, Adult, Category Romance, Harlequin Romance</genres>
                <id>2167</id>
                <synopsis>"Southern debutante Vivienne LaBlanc can't believe bad-boy rock star Connor Mansfield is back in town for the New Orleans annual Saints and Sinners pageant. He has a reputation as wicked as his devilish smile, and Vivi has no intention of becoming one of his latest groupies! He once crushed her high school heart, so playing the saint to Connor's sinner should be easy. But how can Vivi get those less-than-angelic thoughts out of her head-especially when Connor's so good at tempting her to be bad?"</synopsis>
                <title>The Downfall of a Good Girl</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kevin Wilson </author>
                <characters>Caleb Fang, Camille Fang, Annie Fang, Buster Fang</characters>
                <date>Aug-11</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Humor, Contemporary, Art, Adult Fiction, Novels, Family, Literary Fiction, Adult, Book Club</genres>
                <id>2168</id>
                <synopsis>"Mr. and Mrs. Fang called it art.Their children called it mischief.Performance artists Caleb and Camille Fang dedicated themselves to making great art. But when an artist’s work lies in subverting normality, it can be difficult to raise well-adjusted children. Just ask Buster and Annie Fang. For as long as they can remember, they starred (unwillingly) in their parents’ madcap pieces. But now that they are grown up, the chaos of their childhood has made it difficult to cope with life outside the fishbowl of their parents’ strange world.When the lives they’ve built come crashing down, brother and sister have nowhere to go but home, where they discover that Caleb and Camille are planning one last performance -– their magnum opus -– whether the kids agree to participate or not. Soon, ambition breeds conflict, bringing the Fangs to face the difficult decision about what’s ultimately more important: their family or their art."</synopsis>
                <title>The Family Fang</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Dennis Lehane </author>
                <characters>Angie Gennaro, Patrick Kenzie, Bubba Rogowski</characters>
                <date>1997</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Noir, Suspense, Audiobook, Adult</genres>
                <id>2169</id>
                <synopsis>"Pat Kenzie riceve da una nota psichiatra l'incarico di proteggere il figlio perseguitato da minacce e messaggi anonimi. Sembra un caso di facile soluzione. È l'inizio di un incubo. Una serie di terrificanti omicidi, apparentemente senza legame, lo riporta di prepotenza nel passato, agli anni dell'adolescenza, vissuti nel quartiere degradato di Dorchester a Boston. Le vittime, su cui l'assassino ha infierito orribilmente, crocifiggendole e mutilandole, sono tutte persone che Pat Kenzie ha conosciuto. Nel corso di una frenetica caccia all'uomo, condotta anche con l'aiuto di Angie Gennaro e del fedele Bubba Rogowski, Pat si rende conto che il prossimo bersaglio potrebbe essere lui..."</synopsis>
                <title>Darkness, Take My Hand</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Peter Maas, Питър Маас, Явор Въжаров (Translator)</author>
                <characters>American Law Enforcement, Frank Serpico</characters>
                <date>1990</date>
                <genres>Biography, Nonfiction, True Crime, Crime, History, New York, Biography Memoir, Media Tie In, Memoir, American History</genres>
                <id>2170</id>
                <synopsis>"В своя художествено документален роман „Серпико“ известният американски журналист и писател Питър Маас представя детайлна картина на полицейския апарат в САЩ. В книгата, силно въздействуваща преди всичко с фактите и особено популярна благодарение на екранизацията й (с Ал Пачино в главната роля), се изобличава безпринципността на тези, чийто дълг е да преследват закононарушителите, разкрива се покварата сред т.нар. „пазители на реда“. С реални факти, данни, дати, цифри и имена са описани ред скандални афери на висши и нисши полицейски служители. Франк Серпико, героят на тази достоверна история, се опълчва срещу бездушието и подкупността на своите колеги. Тъжна е равносметката на този самотен бунтар, когато на тридесет и шест години — пенсиониран и инвалид за цял живот — той е изправен пред въпроса: „А сега накъде?…“"</synopsis>
                <title>Серпико</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Euclides da Cunha</author>
                <characters>Antônio Conselheiro</characters>
                <date>2005</date>
                <genres>History, Brazil, Classics, Nonfiction, War, Literature, Portuguese Literature, Politics, Latin American, 20th Century</genres>
                <id>2171</id>
                <synopsis>"Este livro é dividido em três partes:A Terra é uma descrição detalhada feita pelo cientista Euclides da Cunha, mostrando todas as características do lugar, o clima, as secas, a terra, enfim.O Homem é uma descrição feita pelo sociólogo e antropólogo Euclides da Cunha, que mostra o habitante do lugar, sua relação com o meio, sua gênese etnológica, seu comportamento, crença e costume; mas depois se fixa na figura de Antônio Conselheiro, o líder de Canudos. Apresenta se caráter, seu passado e relatos de como era a vida e os costumes de Canudos, como relatados por visitantes e habitantes capturados. Estas duas partes são essencialmente descritivas, pois na verdade “armam o palco” e “introduzem os personagens” para a verdadeira história, a Guerra de Canudos, relatada na terceira parte,A Luta é uma descrição feita pelo jornalista e ser humano Euclides da Cunha, relatando as quatro expedições a Canudos, criando o retrato real só possível pela testemunha ocular da fome, da peste, da miséria, da violência e da insanidade da guerra. Retratando minuciosamente movimento de tropas, o autor constantemente se prende à individualidade das ações e mostra casos isolados marcantes que demonstram bem o absurdo de um massacre que começou por um motivo tolo – Antônio Conselheiro reclamando um estoque de madeira não entregue – escalou para um conflito onde havia paranóia nacional pois suspeitava-se que os “monarquistas” de Canudos, liderados pelo “famigerado e bárbaro Bom Jesus Conselheiro” tinham apoio externo. No final, foi apenas um massacre violento onde estavam todos errados e o lado mais fraco resistiu até o fim com seus derradeiros defensores – um velho, dois adultos e uma criança."</synopsis>
                <title>Os Sertões</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Steffen Kopetzky</author>
                <characters>Karl Dönitz, Wilhelm Souchon, Sebastian Stichnote, Lucien Camus, Oskar von Niedermayer, Max von Oppenheim</characters>
                <date>Oct-16</date>
                <genres>German Literature, Historical, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Novels</genres>
                <id>2172</id>
                <synopsis>"Geheimexpedition des Deutschen Reichs an den Hindukusch: Nach einem Plan des Orientkenners Freiherr Max von Oppenheim ziehen sechzig Mann mit der Bagdadbahn, zu Pferd und auf Kamelen durch Wüsten und Gebirge. Das Ziel: den Emir von Afghanistan und die Stämme der Paschtunen im Namen des Islam zum Angriff auf Britisch-Indien zu bewegen. Der junge Marinefunker Sebastian Stichnote liegt mit seinem Schiff vor der Küste Albaniens. Aus der Enge der Giesinger Gerberei seiner Brüder hat ihn das Fernweh hinaus auf See und zur vielstimmigen Funktechnik gezogen. Diese gibt ihm das Gefühl, mit dem ganzen Kosmos in Kontakt zu stehen. Als der Erste Weltkrieg beginnt, muss die unterlegene deutsche Flotte durchs Mittelmeer nach Konstantinopel fliehen. Stichnote hat es nach den ersten Seegefechten eilig, sein Schiff so schnell wie möglich zu verlassen und schließt sich als Funkoffizier einer geheimen Expedition nach Kabul an. Ihre Reise führt sie nach Syrien, Bagdad, Teheran, Isfahan und schließlich durch die persische Wüste. Am Ende hängt der Erfolg der Expedition von Stichnote ab, der mit allem brechen muss, was ihm einst heilig war."</synopsis>
                <title>Risiko</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Patrick Gale</author>
                <characters>Garfield, Morwenna, Hedley, Rachel Kelly, Antony</characters>
                <date>2008</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Contemporary, Art, Literary Fiction, Mental Health, British Literature, Book Club, Novels, Family, Mental Illness</genres>
                <id>2173</id>
                <synopsis>"When troubled artist Rachel Kelly dies painting obsessively in her attic studio in Penzance, her saintly husband and adult children have more than the usual mess to clear up. She leaves behind an extraordinary and acclaimed body of work - but she also leaves a legacy of secrets and emotional damage that will take months to unravel."</synopsis>
                <title>Notes from an Exhibition</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Greg Keyes</author>
                <characters>Alfred Bester</characters>
                <date>Mar-99</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Babylon 5, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Tv, Space Opera, Fantasy, Media Tie In</genres>
                <id>2174</id>
                <synopsis>"The child of their greatest heroes-he was destined to become their darkest enemy . . .In the twenty-second century, the discovery of human telepaths led to terror and bloodshed, and to the creation of the Psi Corps-a government agency of elite telepaths who were used to control their own kind. Under the command of a power-mad politician, the Corps became a ruthless tool of oppression, and the telepath underground was formed. Matthew and Fiona Dexter led the resistance to its greatest victories. But when they were martyred for the cause, their only child was claimed by the very forces they had died opposing.Raised from infancy within the Psi Corps, Alfred Bester was a telepath of exceptional ability, determined to make his mark by transforming himself into a master of deceit. Schooled in hate but tormented by shards of conscience, he wrestled with the seductiveness of the sinister cause he served. But slowly stripped of humanity by the war between decency and betrayal, he surrendered his soul-and rose to become the most dreaded figure of his time . . . Book Two in the gripping new epic trilogy that uncovers the secret history of the Psi Corps."</synopsis>
                <title>Deadly Relations: Bester Ascendant</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Roger Zelazny</author>
                <characters>Random of Amber, Brand of Amber, Corwin of Amber, Ganelon</characters>
                <date>Jun-77</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Audiobook, Adventure, Magic, Epic</genres>
                <id>2175</id>
                <synopsis>"Across the mysterious Black Road, demons swarm into Shadow. The ancient, secret source of the royal family's power is revealed, &amp; an unholy pact between a prince of the realm &amp; the forces of Chaos threaten all the known worlds with absolute obliteration. The hour of battle is at hand. Now Corwin and the remaining princes of Amber must call upon all their superhuman powers to defeat their brother-turned-traitor before he can walk the magical Pattern that created Amber and remake the universe in his own image."</synopsis>
                <title>The Hand of Oberon</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>A.S. Byatt</author>
                <characters>Frederica Potter</characters>
                <date>1996</date>
                <genres>Fiction, British Literature, Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Contemporary, Historical, Modern, 20th Century</genres>
                <id>2176</id>
                <synopsis>"From the author of The New York Times bestseller Possession, comes a highly acclaimed novel which captures in brilliant detail the life of one extended English family-and illuminates the choices they must make between domesticity and ambition, life and art. Toni Morrison, author of Beloved, writes of Byatt: ""When it comes to probing characters her scalpel is sure but gentle. She is a loving surgeon""."</synopsis>
                <title>Still Life</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Evelyn Waugh</author>
                <characters>William Boot, John Courtney Boot, Mr Salter</characters>
                <date>2003</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Humor, Novels, British Literature, Journalism, Literature, Comedy, 20th Century, Africa</genres>
                <id>2177</id>
                <synopsis>"Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the ""Daily Beast"", has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another. Acting on a dinner-party tip from Mrs Algernon Smith, he feels convinced that he has hit on just the chap to cover a promising little war in the African Republic of Ishmaelia. One of Waugh's most exuberant comedies, ""Scoop"" is a brilliantly irreverent satire of ""Fleet Street"" and its hectic pursuit of hot news."</synopsis>
                <title>Scoop</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jun Mochizuki</author>
                <characters>Oz Vessalius, Xerxes Break, Alice, Gilbert Nightray, Ada Vessalius, Sharon Rainsworth</characters>
                <date>Jul-11</date>
                <genres>Manga, Fantasy, Graphic Novels, Mystery, Comics, Shonen, Comics Manga, Supernatural, Young Adult, Action</genres>
                <id>2178</id>
                <synopsis>"Though Oz’s sudden appearance in the midst of Pandora wreaks havoc, the initially chilly reception to the prison-breaker runs more than warm when Jack Vessalius, hero of the tragedy of Sablier and the man from Alice’s memories, manifests in Oz’s body. Sensing Oz’s resultant inner turmoil, Uncle Oscar drags Oz and company on a “mission” to Lutwidge Academy, where Oz’s little sister, Ada, is a student. But some carefree fun and a tearful reunion ten years in the making is not all for which Oz must prepare himself: crimson-cloaked foes are lying in wait to torture him for answers about the events of a hundred years ago…"</synopsis>
                <title>Pandora Hearts, Volume 6</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Luca Tarenzi</author>
                <characters>Azazel (Demon), Eleonora, Arioch, Khaled, Cesare, Sofia, Anna, Hadraniel, Caethel, Il Filosofo</characters>
                <date>Feb-11</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Italian Literature</genres>
                <id>2179</id>
                <synopsis>"In una Milano buia e sferzata dalla pioggia, Lena sta inseguendo la sua amica Sofia, misteriosamente caduta in uno stato di trance. Davanti alla mole imponente della stazione Centrale, tra i marmi dievolmente illuminati dalla luce dei lampioni, la giovane assiste a un incredibile duello: un'immensa creatura di fuoco sta per annientare un ragazzo nudo e coperto di sangue. D'istinto Lena interviene e permette al giovane di approfittare di un attimo di distrazione dell'avversario per rovesciare le sorti della battaglia e decapitarlo con la sua stessa spada. Solo che l'assalitore era un angelo e il giovane, Arioch, un demone appena evocato per uccidere Sofia. Lena è determinata, coraggiosa, testarda e per salvare la sua migliore amica è disposta a tutto, anche a mettersi contro un demone. Arioch è antico come il mondo, violento, sanguinario e ha una missione cui è vincolato. E, purtroppo per Lena, ha anche due occhi penetranti e stregati..."</synopsis>
                <title>Quando il diavolo ti accarezza</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Agatha Christie</author>
                <characters>Victoria Jones, Edward Goring, Henry Carmichael, Richard Baker, Mr. &amp; Mrs. Clayton, Marcus Tio, Sir Rupert Crofton Lee, Lionel Shrivenham, Anna Scheele, Mr. Dakin, Dr. Pauncefoot Jones, Mr. &amp; Mrs. Hamilton Clipp, Mrs. Cardew Trench, Dr. Rathbone, Captain Crosbie</characters>
                <date>2011</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Thriller, British Literature, Adventure, Novels</genres>
                <id>2180</id>
                <synopsis>"تم اختيار بغداد كموقع لعقد قمة سرية بين القوتين العظميين. ولكن الخبر تسرب للأسف, وهناك منظمة سرية في الشرق الأوسط تخطط لإفساد الاجتماع. وفي قلب هذا الموقف الملتهب؛ سقطت فيكتوريا جونز, وهي فتاة محبة للمغامرات لكنها تجد نفسها في موقف لاتحسد عليه عندما يقتحم عميل سري جريح الغرفة التي تنزل فيها بأحد الفنادق ثم يخر صريعاً, وتحاول فيكتوريا أن تجد معنى للكلمات التي نطق بها : "" ... الشيطان... البصرة... ليفارج...""."</synopsis>
                <title>جريمة في بغداد</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Andy McDermott</author>
                <characters>Nina Wilde, Eddie Chase, Lady Sophia Blackwood, Richard Yuen Xuan, Victor Dalton, René Corvus, Hector Amoros</characters>
                <date>2008</date>
                <genres>Adventure, Thriller, Fiction, Action, Mystery, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Suspense, Archaeology, Romance</genres>
                <id>2181</id>
                <synopsis>"An ancient warriorFor archaeologist Nina Wilde it's the opportunity of a lifetime. Her studies of an ancient text have convinced her that a tomb containing the remains of legendary warrior Hercules may actually exist. If she can locate it, it will be the most important historical find ever to be unearthed.An incredible treasureAs Nina and Eddie Chase, her ex-SAS bodyguard, begin their search it's clear that others want to find the tomb - and the unimaginable riches contained within. Then Chase's attention is diverted by the re-appearance of a face from his past...A lethal enemyNina and Chase are soon following a violent trail of corruption and conspiracy around the globe. From Switzerland to Shanghai, Botswana to London, it's a race against time to find the Tomb of Hercules before it falls into the most evil of hands..."</synopsis>
                <title>The Tomb of Hercules</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kim Stanley Robinson</author>
                <characters>Maya Toitovna, Hiroko Ai, Simon Frasier, Sax Russell, Peter Clayborne, Arthur Randolph</characters>
                <date>May-93</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Hugo Awards, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space, Speculative Fiction, Space Opera, Hard Science Fiction, Politics, Fantasy</genres>
                <id>2182</id>
                <synopsis>"In the Nebula Award winning Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson began his critically acclaimed epic saga of the colonization of Mars, Now the Hugo Award winning Green Mars continues the thrilling and timeless tale of humanity's struggle to survive at its farthest frontier.Nearly a generation has passed since the first pioneers landed, but the transformation of Mars to an Earthlike planet has just begun. The plan is opposed by those determined to preserve the planet's hostile, barren beauty. Led by rebels like Peter Clayborne, these young people are the first generation of children born on Mars. They will be joined by original settlers Maya Toitovna, Simon Frasier, and Sax Russell. Against this cosmic backdrop, passions, rivalries, and friendships explode in a story as spectacular as the planet itself."</synopsis>
                <title>Green Mars</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Henry James, Patricia Crick, Tony Tanner</author>
                <characters>Eugenia, the Baroness Munster, Felix Young, Gertrude Wentworth, Charlotte Wentworth, Clifford Wentworth, Robert Acton</characters>
                <date>1996</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, American, 19th Century, Novels, Literature, Historical Fiction, The United States Of America, American Classics, Classic Literature</genres>
                <id>2183</id>
                <synopsis>"Eugenia, the daughter of American expatriates, is the morganatic wife of a German prince, who is being urged to divorce her in favor of a state marriage. She and her artist brother, Felix, travel to Boston to meet distant cousins relatives, partially in hopes of making a wealthy marriage.  Its wit, gaiety, and what Rebecca West calls its ""clear sunlit charm"" have made this masterly short novel one of the most popular of James's novels."</synopsis>
                <title>The Europeans</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Michael Robotham </author>
                <characters>Joseph O’Loughlin</characters>
                <date>2010</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Audiobook, British Literature, Adult, Psychological Thriller</genres>
                <id>2184</id>
                <synopsis>"Ray Hegarty, a highly respected former detective, lies dead in his daughter Sienna's bedroom. She is found covered in his blood. Everything points to her guilt, but psychologist Joe O'Loughlin isn't convinced.Fourteen-year-old Sienna is the best friend of Joe's daughter, and he has watched her grow up and seen the troubled look in her eyes. Against the advice of the police, he launches his own investigation, embarking upon a hunt that will lead him to a predatory schoolteacher, a conspiracy of silence and a race-hate trial that is captivating the nation."</synopsis>
                <title>Bleed for Me</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Joanna Chmielewska</author>
                <characters>Joanna</characters>
                <date>Feb-09</date>
                <genres>Polish Literature, Crime, Mystery, Humor, Fiction, Detective, Poland, Comedy, Womens, Contemporary</genres>
                <id>2185</id>
                <synopsis>"Bohaterka, Joanna, architekt zatrudniony w pracowni projektowej, zostaje każdorazowo wplątana w niezwykłe intrygi kryminalne (odrębne w każdym tomie), których odgałęzienia sięgają Danii, Francji, Brazylii i innych krajów. Dzięki zastosowaniu niekonwencjonalnych metod prywatnego śledztwa Joanna, otoczona przyjaciółmi, zwłaszcza związanymi z Danią, rozwiązuje tajemnice licznych morderstw i kradzieży. Każdy tom stanowi całkowicie odrębną całość o cyklu można w tym przypadku mówić dzięki tożsamości głównej bohaterki oraz kilku innych postaci przewijających się przez kolejne, fabularnie niezależne, tomy. Książka w dwóch wersjach kolorystycznych okładki białej lub czerwonej."</synopsis>
                <title>Wszystko czerwone</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>George Mann</author>
                <characters>Veronica Hobbes, Sir Maurice Newbury, Sir Charles Bainbridge</characters>
                <date>2008</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Science Fiction, Historical Fiction, Steampunk, Alternate History, Zombies, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure</genres>
                <id>2186</id>
                <synopsis>"Welcome to the bizarre and dangerous world of Victorian London, a city teetering on the edge of revolution. Its people are ushering in a new era of technology, dazzled each day by new inventions. Airships soar in the skies over the city, whilst ground trains rumble through the streets and clockwork automatons are programmed to carry out menial tasks in the offices of lawyers, policemen and journalists. But beneath this shiny veneer of progress lurks a sinister side. For this is also a world where ghostly policemen haunt the fog-laden alleyways of Whitechapel, where cadavers can rise from the dead and where Sir Maurice Newbury, Gentleman Investigator for the Crown, works tirelessly to protect the Empire from her foes. When an airship crashes in mysterious circumstances, Sir Maurice and his recently appointed assistant Miss Veronica Hobbes are called in to investigate. Meanwhile, Scotland Yard is baffled by a spate of grisly murders and a terrifying plague is ravaging the slums of the city. So begins an adventure quite unlike any other, a thrilling steampunk mystery and the first in the series of ""Newbury &amp; Hobbes"" investigations."</synopsis>
                <title>The Affinity Bridge</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ian Rankin </author>
                <characters>Inspector John Rebus</characters>
                <date>2005</date>
                <genres>Crime, Mystery, Fiction, Scotland, Detective, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Audiobook, Murder Mystery</genres>
                <id>2187</id>
                <synopsis>"An illegal immigrant is found murdered in an Edinburgh housing scheme: a racist attack, or something else entirely? Rebus is drawn into the case, but has other problems: his old police station has closed for business, and his masters would rather he retire than stick around. But Rebus is that most stubborn of creatures. As Rebus investigates, he must visit an asylum seekers' detention centre, deal with the sleazy Edinburgh underworld, and maybe even fall in love... Siobhan meanwhile has problems of her own. A teenager has disappeared from home and Siobhan is drawn into helping the family, which will mean travelling closer than is healthy towards the web of a convicted rapist. Then there's the small matter of the two skeletons - a woman and an infant - found buried beneath a concrete cellar floor in Fleshmarket Close. The scene begins to look like an elaborate stunt - but whose, and for what purpose? And how can it tie to the murder on the unforgiving housing-scheme known as Knoxland?"</synopsis>
                <title>Fleshmarket Close</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Andy McDermott</author>
                <characters>Nina Wilde, Eddie Chase, Lady Sophia Blackwood, Victor Dalton</characters>
                <date>2009</date>
                <genres>Adventure, Thriller, Fiction, Action, Mystery, Historical Fiction, Suspense, Audiobook, Mystery Thriller, Romance</genres>
                <id>2188</id>
                <synopsis>"An incredible discoveryArchaeologist Nina Wilde has unearthed an amazing find: a dive site containing evidence of a settlement that existed over a hundred thousand years before any previously known culture. Could a completely undiscovered civilisation have once ruled the earth?A merciless foeBefore Nina can consider the evidence further, her research boat is attacked and her proof stolen. Determined to solve the mystery, Nina and Eddie Chase, her fiance, embarked on a quest for answers. But at every step they are hunted by a clandestine religious group, the Covenant of Genesis.A shocking revelationThe Covenant, representatives from three of the world's most powerful religions, will stop at nothing to keep Nina's discovery secret. But why? Such a discovery would contradict the creation mythology they share.. but could it be that they are also seek to claim for themselves the most valuable archaeological prize of all time?"</synopsis>
                <title>The Covenant of Genesis</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>H.P. Lovecraft, Mariana Enríquez (Prologue)</author>
                <characters>Richard Upton Pickman</characters>
                <date>Jun-10</date>
                <genres>Horror, Short Stories, Fiction, Lovecraftian, Classics, Fantasy, Weird Fiction, Gothic, Supernatural, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>2189</id>
                <synopsis>"El modelo de Pickman es uno de los mejores cuentos de Howard Phillips Lovecraft. La historia gira en torno de Richard Upton Pickman, un desaparecido pintor, cuyos cuadros han cruzado la frontera de lo excéntrico para entrar en lo perversamente grotesco.Pero el suspenso y el horror del relato no están directamente ligados a los vívidos lienzos del artista, sino al modelo en el que fueron inspirados.Es una obra extraña para Lovecraft, cercana a ciertos clásicos de Poe, en la que convierte a toda la ciudad de Boston en un laberinto de pasadizos subterráneos que conectan el cementerio con el mar; túneles y sótanos donde se arrastran y susurran horrores sin nombre. Varios críticos consideran que el final de este relato es uno de los mejores y más escalofriantes de la literatura de terror."</synopsis>
                <title>El modelo Pickman</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Sebastian Barry</author>
                <characters>Willie Dunne</characters>
                <date>Oct-05</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Historical Fiction, Ireland, War, Irish Literature, World War I, Historical, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels</genres>
                <id>2190</id>
                <synopsis>"Irish author and playwright Sebastian Barry has created a powerful new novel about divided loyalties and the realities of war.In 1914, Willie Dunne, barely eighteen years old, leaves behind Dublin, his family, and the girl he plans to marry in order to enlist in the Allied forces and face the Germans on the Western Front. Once there, he encounters a horror of violence and gore he could not have imagined and sustains his spirit with only the words on the pages from home and the camaraderie of the mud-covered Irish boys who fight and die by his side.  Dimly aware of the political tensions that have grown in Ireland in his absence, Willie returns on leave to find a world split and ravaged by forces closer to home. Despite the comfort he finds with his family, he knows he must rejoin his regiment and fight until the end. With grace and power, Sebastian Barry vividly renders Willie’s personal struggle as well as the overwhelming consequences of war."</synopsis>
                <title>A Long Long Way</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Eileen Cook , Maryvonne Ssossé (Traduction)</author>
                <characters>Sophie Kintock, Nick McKenna, Doug Chase</characters>
                <date>Nov-09</date>
                <genres>Chick Lit, Romance, Fiction, Contemporary, Humor, Contemporary Romance, Canada, Adult, Adult Fiction, Novels</genres>
                <id>2191</id>
                <synopsis>"On dit souvent que l'amour rend aveugle. Pas dans le cas de Sophie Kintock, qui, après une rupture, se découvre un don de double vue jusque-là insoupçonné !Quand Doug la quitte après six ans de vie commune, Sophie, libraire à Vancouver, est prête à tout pour le récupérer. C'est pourquoi, lorsqu'elle apprend que sa nouvelle petite amie, la pulpeuse Melanie, s'intéresse au paranormal, elle a une idée aussi folle que diabolique : proposer à sa rivale une fausse consultation de voyance destinée à faire rompre les tourtereaux. Mais rien ne va se passer comme prévu, car Sophie se retrouve vite dépassée par le succès inattendu de ses nouveaux talents... Eileen Cook signe une comédie désopilante portée par une héroïne au caractère bien trempé, maladroite et attachante à souhait."</synopsis>
                <title>Ne dites pas à ma mère que je suis voyante, elle me croit libraire à Vancouver</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Thomas Pynchon</author>
                <characters>Zoyd Wheeler, Brock Vond, Hector Zuñiga, Prairie, Frenesi Gates</characters>
                <date>Jun-95</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Literature, Novels, American, Literary Fiction, 20th Century, The United States Of America, Classics, Humor, Contemporary</genres>
                <id>2192</id>
                <synopsis>"A group of Americans in Northern California in 1984 are struggling with the consequences of their lives in the sixties, still run by the passions of those times - sexual and political - which have refused to die. Among them is Zoyd Wheeler who is preparing for his annual act of televised insanity (for which he receives a government stipend) when an unwelcome face appears from out of his past.An old nemesis, federal prosecutor Brock Vond, storms into Vineland at the head of a heavily armed strike force. Soon Zoyd and his daughter, Prairie, go into hiding while Vond begins a relationship with Zoyd's ex-wife and uses Prairie as a pawn against the mother she never knew she had.Part daytime drama, part political thriller, Vineland is a strange evocation of a twentieth-century America headed for a less than harmonic future."</synopsis>
                <title>Vineland</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>John Connolly </author>
                <characters>Marianne Elliott, Joe Dupree, Edward Molloch, Willard, Sharon Macy</characters>
                <date>May-05</date>
                <genres>Thriller, Horror, Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Supernatural, Fantasy, Paranormal</genres>
                <id>2193</id>
                <synopsis>"New York Times bestselling author John Connolly masterfully intertwines mystery, emotion, violence, and the supernatural in this raw and gripping thriller.He has been told the girl's last words, and he feels unaccountably afraid. The dead ones. They were dead, but they had lights. Why do the dead need light?Three hundred years ago, the settlers on the small Maine island of Sanctuary were betrayed to their enemies and slaughtered. Since then, the island has known peace. Until now. A gang of four men are descending on Sanctuary, intent on committing a brutal and relentless massacre. All that stands in their way are rookie police officer Sharon Macie and the strange, troubled officer Joe Dupree.But Joe is no ordinary policeman. He knows the island has been steeped in blood once and that it will never again tolerate the shedding of innocent blood. The band of killers who are set to desecrate Sanctuary will unleash the fury of its ghosts upon themselves and all who stand by them. On Sanctuary, all hell is about to break loose ..."</synopsis>
                <title>Bad Men</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Gene Brewer</author>
                <characters>Prot, Gene</characters>
                <date>2004</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Psychology, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Humor, Space, Novels, Philosophy</genres>
                <id>2194</id>
                <synopsis>"When a man who claims to be from outer space is brought into the Manhattan Institute, the mental ward seems to be just the place for him. Clever, inscrutable and utterly charismatic, Robert Porter calls himself 'prot' and has no traceable background - but he claims that he is an inhabitant of the planet K-PAX, a perfect world without wars."</synopsis>
                <title>K-PAX The Trilogy</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Franklin W. Dixon</author>
                <characters>Frank Hardy, Mr. Morton, Chet Morton, Iola Morton, Joe Hardy, Fenton Hardy, Mrs. Morton, Laura Hardy, Keith Alden, Roger Alden</characters>
                <date>1968</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Adventure, Classics, Detective, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Novels</genres>
                <id>2195</id>
                <synopsis>"Racing cars! Mystery! Adventure! These elements combine to give Frank and Joe Hardy one of the most dangerous and intriguing cases of their careers.It all starts when their father, Fenton Hardy, is engaged by an experimental race car and motor designer to investigate a series of mysterious accidents. Three of his drivers have crashed because the windshields of their cars were suddenly crazed, thus cutting off forward vision. Frank and Joe uncover one slim clue. Each of the drivers had seen a signpost marked DANGER shortly before the accident. The young detectives investigate, only to discover that the signposts have vanished. What happened to them? And what sinister purpose did they serve?The attempted theft of a secret experimental motor and the kidnapping of a famous race horse are part of this thrilling case, which proves to be as sinister as the signposts themselves."</synopsis>
                <title>The Sinister Sign Post</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Dale Brown </author>
                <characters>Patrick McLanahan, Brad Elliott, ""Harold ''Hal'' Briggs""</characters>
                <date>1993</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Military Fiction, Thriller, Action, War, Adventure, Aviation, Science Fiction, Drama, Novels</genres>
                <id>2196</id>
                <synopsis>"In 1988, after a breathtaking raid into Soviet territory, Flt Lt David Luger sacrificed himself to save his friends. They escaped to safety, and Luger was left for dead in deepest Siberia. Four years later it is discovered that Luger survived, so a rescue mission is launched."</synopsis>
                <title>Night of the Hawk</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Dina Anastasio (Adaptation), Sharon Ross (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>""Mickey Mouse (Disney''s)""</characters>
                <date>1988</date>
                <genres>Childrens, Picture Books, Fiction, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Classics, Animals</genres>
                <id>2197</id>
                <synopsis>"Retells the traditional tale of Jack and the beanstalk with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy playing major roles."</synopsis>
                <title>Walt Disney's Mickey and the Beanstalk</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Émile Zola</author>
                <characters>Gervaise Macquart, Eugène Rougon</characters>
                <date>Sept-85</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, France, French Literature, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels, Roman, Historical</genres>
                <id>2198</id>
                <synopsis>"La fortuna de los Rougon (1871) es la primera novela de la serie Les Rougon Macquart, de Émile Zola.La historia comienza con Adelaida Touque, hija de campesinos acomodados, que vive en una ciudad de la región de Provenza llamada Plassans (trasunto de Aix-en-Provence y de Lorgues). Adelaida se casa con un jardinero empleado de la familia, Rougon, con quien tiene un hijo, Pierre. Viuda muy joven, se convierte (ante la incredulidad y el rechazo de la sociedad de su entorno) en la amante de un cazador furtivo y contrabandista, Macquart, con el que tendrá dos hijos bastardos, Úrsula y Antonio. A la muerte de su amante, Adelaida caerá en una especie de abandono y semilocura. El hijo mayor de Adelaida, Pierre, que va a personificar la ambición y el ansia de poder, reniega de su condición de campesino y se convierte en un pequeño comerciante burgués gracias al matrimonio interesado con Felicidad Puech. Ambos conspirarán para hacerse con el poder en Plassans con ocasión del golpe de Estado de Napoleón III que acaba con la I República francesa e instaura el llamado II Imperio."</synopsis>
                <title>The Fortune of the Rougons</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Andy McDermott</author>
                <characters>Nina Wilde, Eddie Chase, Victor Dalton, Hector Amoros, Bernd Rust, Jack Mitchell</characters>
                <date>2008</date>
                <genres>Adventure, Thriller, Fiction, Action, Mystery, Historical Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Fantasy, Audiobook, Archaeology</genres>
                <id>2199</id>
                <synopsis>"The third brilliant adventure thriller featuring archaeologist Nina Wilde, in which Nina must find Excalibur, King Arthur's beloved sword. Said to make whoever holds it unstoppable in battle, the sword Excalibur has been coveted across the ages, and thought lost for over a thousand years. With a cryptic message to archaeologist Nina Wilde, this may be about to change. Historian Bernd Rust believes he can locate Excalibur...and that the sword is the key to harnessing an incredible source of energy. Nina is sceptical - until she and Rust are attacked by mercenaries determined to steal his research. Nina and her boyfriend, ex-SAS soldier Eddie Chase, are soon propelled into a deadly race to find Excalibur. From the deserts ofSyria to the arctic wastes of Russia, Nina and Chase must battle a merciless enemy who plans to use the sword's powers to plunge the world into a new era of war..."</synopsis>
                <title>The Secret of Excalibur</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Amy Miles </author>
                <characters>Roseline Enescue, Gabriel Marston, Sadie Hughes, William Hughes, Nicolae Dalma, Vladimir Enescue, Lucien Enescue, Sorin Funar, Fane Dalca</characters>
                <date>2011</date>
                <genres>Vampires, Paranormal, Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Amazon</genres>
                <id>2200</id>
                <synopsis>"Roseline Enescue didn't ask to become an Immortal, to have all of the guests at her wedding slaughtered, or be forced into marriage with a man whose lust for blood would one day ignite the vampire legend. Willing to risk everything for a chance at a normal life, Roseline escapes to America. Terrified her husband Vladimir will find her, Roseline enrolls as a senior in Chicago's elite Rosewood Prep school. Mingling with humans is the last place he would look for her. But her transition into the human world isn't easy. Mortal men flock after her while cutthroat girls plot her demise. Yet Roseline remains relatively unfazed by the petty hysteria until she falters into the arms of Gabriel Marston, reluctant MVP quarterback, unwilling ladies man, and sensitive artist in hiding. Troubled by the bond that pulls her towards the mortal boy, Roseline tries to ignore him, but Gabriel is persistent. As their lives entwine, Roseline begins to realize that Gabriel is much more than he appears. His ability to toss a football the entire length of the field and grind concrete into dust pales in comparison to the glowing blue cross tattoo that mysteriously appears on his forearms. Despite the forbidden bond between them, Roseline can't help wondering what Gabriel is: He's not human. He's not Immortal. So just what is he?"</synopsis>
                <title>Forbidden</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Charles de Coster</author>
                <characters>Thyl Ulenspiegel, Lamme Goedzak</characters>
                <date>2005</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Belgian, Historical, 19th Century, Belgium, Literature, France, Roman</genres>
                <id>2201</id>
                <synopsis>"Tijl Uilenspiegel is de legendarische grappige held, het prototype van de rondzwervende vagebond. Zijn naam duikt voor het eerst op in Middeleeuwse teksten. Oorspronkelijk waren de Uilenspiegelverhalen alleen bedoeld als volksvermaak en is de Tijl die erin wordt opgevoerd op slechts één ding uit: grappen maken ten koste van alles en iedereen, over alle rangen en standen heen.In 1867 geeft schrijver Charles de Coster die figuur echter een heldhaftiger tintje: in een historische roman smeedt hij Tijl Uilenspiegel om tot een Vlaamse vrijheidsheld die vecht tegen de Spaanse overheersing in de 16de eeuw. Charles de Coster laat Uilenspiegel in Damme geboren worden op hetzelfde ogenblik dat in Spanje de zoon van Keizer Karel het levenslicht ziet. Na een conflict met de pastoor moet Uilenspiegel een boetereis naar Rome ondernemen. Bij zijn thuiskomst in Damme vindt hij zijn vader, Klaas, op de brandstapel omdat die onderdak heeft gegeven aan een ketter. In een droom krijgen Tijl en zijn vriendin Nele het bevel op zoek te gaan naar ""de Zeven"" en ""de Gordel"". Samen met zijn vriend, Lamme Goedzak, gaat Uilenspiegel op stap..."</synopsis>
                <title>De legende en de heldhaftige vroolijke en roemrijke daden van Uilenspiegel en Lamme Goedzak in Vlaanderenland en elders</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Danielle Steel</author>
                <characters>Samantha Taylor, Tate Jordan</characters>
                <date>Dec-82</date>
                <genres>Romance, Fiction, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, Drama, Novels, Adult Fiction, Horses, Animals</genres>
                <id>2202</id>
                <synopsis>"Samantha Taylor is shattered when her husband leaves her for another woman. She puts her advertising career on hold and seeks refuge at a friend's California ranch, where she loses herself in the daily labor of ranch life. Here, she discovers the healing powers of trusted friends, simple joys, and hard work. She also meets Tate Jordan, the ranch foreman, and a tumultuous relationship ensues. When Tate disappears and a fall from a horse changes Samantha's life forever, she is confined to a wheelchair and must look deep inside herself to finds the courage to begin again. Now, fighting the battles of the handicapped, she finds new challenges, new loves, and even the adopted child she's always longed for.From the Paperback edition."</synopsis>
                <title>Palomino</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Joe R. Lansdale</author>
                <characters>Hap Collins, Leonard Pine</characters>
                <date>2001</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Crime, Fiction, Thriller, Noir, Humor, Mystery Thriller, Horror, Suspense, The United States Of America</genres>
                <id>2203</id>
                <synopsis>"Here comes Trudy back into Hap's life, thirty-six but looking ten years younger, with long blonde hair and legs that begin under her chin, and the kind of walk that'll make a man run his car off the road. Here comes trouble, says Leonard, and he's right. She was always trouble, but she had this laugh when she was happy in bed that could win Hap over every time. Trudy has a proposition: an easy two hundred thousand dollars, tax-free. It's just a simple matter of digging it up ...Hap Collins and Leonard Pine, white and black, straight and gay, are the unlikeliest duo in crime fiction. Savage Season is their debut."</synopsis>
                <title>Savage Season</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Enid Blyton</author>
                <characters>""Philip ''Pip'' Hilton"", ""Margaret ''Daisy'' Dakin"", Buster the Dog, ""Laurence ''Larry'' Daykin"", ""Frederick Algernon ''Fatty'' Trotteville"", ""Elizabeth ''Bets'' Hilton""</characters>
                <date>2003</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Childrens, Fiction, Adventure, Classics, Detective, British Literature, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Mystery Thriller</genres>
                <id>2204</id>
                <synopsis>"An adventure for the Five Find-Outers and their dog. Fatty, Larry, Daisy, Pip, Bets and Buster become involved in a very peculiar situation when a series of unsigned letters are sent to various people in Peterswood."</synopsis>
                <title>The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Johanna Lindsey</author>
                <characters>Garrick Haardrad, Brenna Carmarham</characters>
                <date>Sept-80</date>
                <genres>Historical Romance, Romance, Historical, Historical Fiction, Medieval, Fiction, Adult, Medieval Romance, Viking Romance, M F Romance</genres>
                <id>2205</id>
                <synopsis>"NEVER A VIKING'S CAPTIVELovely and dauntless, abducted by invaders from across an icy sea, Lady Brenna vowed vengeance - swearing no Viking brute would be her master...no barbarian would enslave her noble Celtic heart.FOREVER A VIKING'S LOVEYet Garrick Haardrad, the proud and powerful son of a ruthless Viking chieftan, claims her with a primitive abandon that leaves her breathless, igniting fires of passion that blaze through the cold Nordic nights and forge the unbreakable bonds of a fiery, eternal love."</synopsis>
                <title>Fires of Winter</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Iain Banks</author>
                <characters>Isis Whit</characters>
                <date>1995</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Contemporary, Religion, Novels, Scotland, Modern, Literature, British Literature, Coming Of Age, Literary Fiction</genres>
                <id>2206</id>
                <synopsis>"Isis Whit is no ordinary teenager. An innocent in the ways of the world, an ingenue when it comes to fashion, she does however rejoice in some neat healing powers, a way with animals and the exalted status of Elect of God of the Luskentyrian Sect. Part of the 1995 Scottish Book Fortnight promotion."</synopsis>
                <title>Whit</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jackie Collins</author>
                <characters>Sharleen, Kris Phoenix, Bobby Mondella, Rafealla LeSerre, Cybil Wilde, Marcus Citroen, Nova Citroen, Buzz Darke, Odile Ronet, Rupert Egerton, Rasta Stanley, Ollie Stoltz, Rocket Fabrizzi, Nichols Kline</characters>
                <date>1988</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Romance, Chick Lit, Contemporary Romance, Novels, Adult Fiction, Contemporary, Womens Fiction, Drama, Amazon</genres>
                <id>2207</id>
                <synopsis>"Music was their business - pleasure was their game.Rock Star blows the lid off the hard-driving lifestyles of today's music superstars.Kris Phoenix - The legendary and wildly sexy guitar hero,Bobby Mondella - Black soul superstar with a past,Rafealla - An exotically beautiful girl who comes between them with a vengeance.Rock Star takes you on a dangerous trip through the jungle of broken dreams and blackmail, hit records and hit men...a jungle of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll.Rock Star is a love story that burns.Feel the heat..."</synopsis>
                <title>Rock Star</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>K.A. Applegate, Katherine Applegate</author>
                <characters>Visser Three</characters>
                <date>Jul-98</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Young Adult, Fiction, Fantasy, Aliens, Childrens, Middle Grade, Animals, Adventure, War</genres>
                <id>2208</id>
                <synopsis>"Cassie's had it. After the last mission, she realizes she's getting tired of missions. Tired of battles. Tired of being an Animorph. She decides that she just can't do it anymore. So she quits."</synopsis>
                <title>The Departure</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Hal Clement</author>
                <characters>Barlennnan, Charles Lackland</characters>
                <date>Oct-74</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Hard Science Fiction, Aliens, Speculative Fiction, Space Opera, 20th Century, Space, Adventure</genres>
                <id>2209</id>
                <synopsis>"Cover Artist: Ed EmshwillerMission of Gravity is an sf novel by Hal Clement. The title is a play on words, one meaning ""the force which pulls"" &amp; the other being ""extremely serious or important"". It was serialized in Astounding Science Fiction, 4–7/53. Its 1st cloth publication was in '54. It was 1st published in paper in '58. Along with the novel itself, many editions (&amp; most recent editions) of the book also include Whirligig World, an essay on creating the planet Mesklin that was published in the 6/53 Astounding. He published two sequels, a '70 novel called Star Light &amp; a '73 short story called Lecture Demonstration. Mission of Gravity was nominated for a Retro Hugo Award for '54.For a profit &amp; adventure Barlennan would sail thousands of miles across uncharted waters, into regions where gravity played strange tricks. He'd dare the perils of strange tribes &amp; stranger creatures-even dicker with those aliens from beyond the skies, though the concept of another world was unknown to the inhabitants of the planet of Mesklin. But in spite of the incredible technology of the strangers &amp; without regard for their enormous size, Barlennan had the notion of turning the deal to an unsuspected advantage for himself-a considerable enterprise for a being very much resembling a 15"" caterpillar!"</synopsis>
                <title>Mission of Gravity</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Gordon Korman</author>
                <characters>Aiden Falconer, Meg Falconer</characters>
                <date>Jun-05</date>
                <genres>Adventure, Mystery, Fiction, Middle Grade, Childrens, Young Adult, Thriller, Action, Realistic Fiction, Survival</genres>
                <id>2210</id>
                <synopsis>"NOWHERE TO HIDE.Aiden and Meg Falconer are out to find the evidence that will free their parents from a life sentence in prison. But in order to do that, they have to live undercover. Ever since they broke out of a juvenile detention facility, they've been chased by the FBI... and by a strange killer they've nicknamed Hairless Joe. Now their story has hit the airwaves, and suddenly everyone is looking for them. They think they can hide with an old family friend... but when Meg is thrown in jail, the danger and adventure only increase.EVERYWHERE TO RUN."</synopsis>
                <title>The Fugitive Factor</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Charles Lewinsky, Elly Schippers (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Salomon Meijer, Janki Meijer, Golde Meijer, Mimi Meijer, Chanele Meijer, Pinchas Pomeranz, Zalman Kamionker, Hinda Meijer, Alfred Meijer, Ruben Kamionker, Désirée Pomeranz, François Meijer, Arthur Meijer, Mina Kahn, Joni Leibowitz, Rachel Kamionker, Lea Kamionker, Felix Grün, Hillel Rosenthal, Rosa Recha Meijer</characters>
                <date>Jan-09</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Historical Fiction, Roman, Literature, Historical, Novels, Jewish, Judaism, German Literature, World War II</genres>
                <id>2211</id>
                <synopsis>"Als op een nacht in 1871 een ver familielid bij de deur van de Meijers aanklopt, kan niemand vermoeden dat hun leven vanaf dat moment radicaal zal veranderen. Hun wereld in het dorp Endingen is op dat moment klein, maar nog intact. Dan duikt wervelwind Janki op, een ver familielid, al weet niemand er het fijne van. Een jaar later heeft hij een bruid de aangenomen dochter annex dienstmeid Chanele, een vrouw die op vele momenten een beslissende rol gaat spelen in het leven van de Meijers en een stoffenwinkel in Baden. Vijf generaties beslaat de geschiedenis van de Meijers, een geschiedenis vol liefdesgeluk en levensdroefenis, en vol strijd om succes en acceptatie. Van de kleine, gave wereld van Endingen, waar veehandelaar Salomon Meijer zijn altijd opgevouwen paraplu tot een symbool van zijn betrouwbaarheid heeft gemaakt, gaat het naar het mooiste warenhuis van Zürich, en voorbij de landsgrenzen. En steeds raakt de wereld een stukje meer uit zijn voegen."</synopsis>
                <title>Het lot van de familie Meijer</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Simon Sebag Montefiore </author>
                <characters>Wilhelm II, German Emperor, T.E. Lawrence, Herod the Great, Pontius Pilate, Richard I of England, Saladin, Conrad of Montferrat, Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, Baldwin V of Jerusalem, Sibylla of Jerusalem, Herod Antipas, Yasser Arafat, Muhammad, Yitzhak Rabin, Al-Adil I, Godfrey of Bouillon, Baldwin I, Baldwin II, King of Jerusalem, Melisende, Fulk, King of Jerusalem, Baldwin III, Amalric I, Guy of Lusignan, Isabella I of Jerusalem, Henry II, Count of Champagne, Herod Agrippa, Jesus, Winston Churchill</characters>
                <date>2011</date>
                <genres>History, Nonfiction, Religion, Israel, Biography, Politics, Travel, Historical, Jewish, Islam</genres>
                <id>2212</id>
                <synopsis>"Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today’s clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel–Palestine conflict, this is the epic history of 3,000 years of faith, slaughter, fanaticism and coexistence.How did this small, remote town become the Holy City, the ‘centre of the world’ and now the key to peace in the Middle East? In a dazzling narrative, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals this ever-changing city in its many incarnations, bringing every epoch and character blazingly to life. Jerusalem’s biography is told through the wars, love affairs and revelations of the men and women – kings, empresses, prophets, poets, saints, conquerors and whores – who created, destroyed, chronicled and believed in Jerusalem. As well as the many ordinary Jerusalemites who have left their mark on the city, its cast varies from Solomon, Saladin and Suleiman the Magnificent to Cleopatra, Caligula and Churchill; from Abraham to Jesus and Muhammad; from the ancient city of Jezebel, Nebuchadnezzar, Herod and Nero to the modern times of the Kaiser, Disraeli, Mark Twain, Rasputin and Lawrence of Arabia.Drawing on new archives, current scholarship, his own family papers and a lifetime’s study, Montefiore illuminates the essence of sanctity and mysticism, identity and empire in a unique chronicle of the city that is believed will be the setting for the Apocalypse. This is how Jerusalem became Jerusalem, and the only city that exists twice – in heaven and on earth."</synopsis>
                <title>Jerusalem: The Biography</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Philip K. Dick</author>
                <characters>Ben Tallchief, Seth Morley, Mary Morley</characters>
                <date>Jun-94</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Novels, Speculative Fiction, Religion, Science Fiction Fantasy, Mystery, American, 20th Century, Philosophy</genres>
                <id>2213</id>
                <synopsis>"Fourteen strangers come to Delmak-O. Thirteen of them were transferred by the usual authorities. One got there by praying. But once they arrived on that treacherous planet, whose very atmosphere seemed to induce paranoia and psychosis, the newcomers tound that even prayer was useless. For on Delmak-O, God is either absent or intent on destroying His creations. At once a wrenching metaphysical thriller and an ingenious meditation on the nature of divinity, A Maze of Death is Philip K. Dick at his most dizzyingly provocative."</synopsis>
                <title>A Maze of Death</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, Monimala Dhar (Translator)</author>
                <characters>ব্যোমকেশ বক্সী</characters>
                <date>Jan-03</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Crime, Detective, India, Short Stories, Fiction, Classics, Indian Literature, Suspense, Thriller</genres>
                <id>2214</id>
                <synopsis>"In the early 30s, a detective by the name of Byomkesh Bakshi made an entry into the world of Bengali fiction. This book contains seven of his most entertaining adventures, competently translated. At each reading, one can only marvel at the writer's genius."</synopsis>
                <title>Byomkesh Bakshi Stories</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Danielle Steel, Maria Grazia Griffini (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Charles Waterson</characters>
                <date>2007</date>
                <genres>Romance, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Chick Lit, Paranormal, Historical, Historical Romance, Mystery, Contemporary Romance</genres>
                <id>2215</id>
                <synopsis>"Una promozione richiama a New York l'architetto Charles Waterstone, che lascia Londra oppresso dalla malinconia per la fine del suo matrimonio. Ma un'imprevista, e magica, vacanza nel New England gli cambierà la vita. Nel castello che prende in affitto aleggia infatti il fantasma di una donna temeraria e passionale che, a distanza di due secoli, può ancora infondere speranza e coraggio a chi è disposto ad ascoltarla. Ed è grazie a lei che Charles ritrova la voglia di aprirsi al futuro d'amore che lo attende."</synopsis>
                <title>Il fantasma</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>David Weber</author>
                <characters>Dahak</characters>
                <date>Oct-91</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Space Opera, Fiction, Military Fiction, Military Science Fiction, Fantasy, Space, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, War</genres>
                <id>2216</id>
                <synopsis>"For Lt. Commander Colin Maclntyre, it began as a routine training flight over the Moon. For Dahak, a self-aware Imperial battleship, it began millennia ago when that powerful artificial intelligence underwent a mutiny in the face of the enemy. The mutiny was never resolved-Dahak was forced to maroon not just the mutineers but the entire crew on prehistoric Earth. Dahak has been helplessly waiting as the descendants of the loyal crew regressed while the mutineers maintained control of technology that kept them alive as the millennia passed. But now Dahak's sensors indicate that the enemy that devastated the Imperium so long ago has returned-and Earth is in their path. For the sake of the planet, Dahak must mobilize its defenses. And that it cannot do until the mutineers are put down. So Dahak has picked Colin Maclntyre to be its new captain. Now Maclntyre must mobilize humanity to destroy the mutineers once and for all-or Earth will become a cinder in the path of galactic conquest."</synopsis>
                <title>Mutineers' Moon</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Mary Higgins Clark</author>
                <characters>Darcy Scott, Erin Kelley, Nona Roberts, ""Vince D''Ambrosio"", Chris Sheridan, Michael Nash, Jay Stratton, Doug Fox, Gus Boxer, Len Parker</characters>
                <date>Mar-92</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Adult, Romance, Adult Fiction, Murder Mystery</genres>
                <id>2217</id>
                <synopsis>"A serial killer leaves one dancing shoe on a foot of the victims who answer his personal ads. When Erin dies, her best friend places ads to entice the villain already targeting her next. New York police detective Vince D'Ambrosio takes a personal interest. New boyfriend Dr Michael Nash is supportive. A stalker may surprise everyone."</synopsis>
                <title>Loves Music, Loves to Dance</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Compton Mackenzie</author>
                <characters>Donald MacDonald of Ben Nevis</characters>
                <date>2000</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Scotland, Historical Fiction, Classics, Humor, Comedy, Literature, British Literature</genres>
                <id>2218</id>
                <synopsis>"The ancient clan spirit is not yet dead in the Scottish highlands, with Donald MacDonald of Ben Nevis ruling the roost at wild, craggy Glenbogle Castle. Woe betide those who trespass on this Chieftain's kingdom... So when a hapless bunch of Sassenach hikers invades the glens, camping on Ben Nevis's beloved land and disturbing his prized grouse, they are in for the shock of a lifetime, as the MacDonald clan prepare to do battle with the unfortunate travelers. Kilt swinging and sporran flying, fortified with whisky, with his two stout daughters at his side and the welcome support of American millionaire Chester Royde, Ben Nevis wages war on the hikers in the ancient manner of his ancestors (which involves roasting and dungeons among other dubious punishments), with hilarious results...."</synopsis>
                <title>The Monarch of the Glen</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Patricia Briggs</author>
                <characters>Adam Hauptman, Zee (Siebold Adelbertsmiter), Mercy Thompson</characters>
                <date>Jun-08</date>
                <genres>Urban Fantasy, Paranormal, Fantasy, Vampires, Werewolves, Paranormal Romance, Shapeshifters, Romance, Adult, Magic</genres>
                <id>2219</id>
                <synopsis>"Omnibus edition of Moon Called, Blood Bound ANDIron Kissed."</synopsis>
                <title>Preying For Mercy</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>John Connolly </author>
                <characters>Mrs Abernathy, The Great Malevolence, Samuel Johnson (John Connolly)</characters>
                <date>2009</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult, Horror, Humor, Supernatural, Paranormal, Science Fiction, Demons, Urban Fantasy</genres>
                <id>2220</id>
                <synopsis>"Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund, Boswell, are trying to show initiative by trick-or-treating a full three days before Halloween which is how they come to witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Road. The Abernathys don't mean any harm by their flirtation with the underworld, but when they unknowingly call forth Satan himself, they create a gap in the universe. A gap in which a pair of enormous gates is visible. The gates to Hell. And there are some pretty terrifying beings just itching to get out...Can one small boy defeat evil? Can he harness the power of science, faith, and love to save the world as we know it?Bursting with imagination, The Gates is about the pull between good and evil, physics and fantasy. It is about a quirky and eccentric boy who is impossible not to love, and the unlikely cast of characters who give him the strength to stand up to a demonic power.John Connolly manages to re-create the magical and scary world of childhood that we've all left behind but so love to visit. And for those of you who thought you knew everything you could about particle physics and the universe, think again. This novel makes anything seem possible."</synopsis>
                <title>The Gates</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Enid Blyton</author>
                <characters>""Philip ''Pip'' Hilton"", ""Margaret ''Daisy'' Dakin"", Buster the Dog, ""Laurence ''Larry'' Daykin"", Inspector Jenks, ""Frederick Algernon ''Fatty'' Trotteville"", ""Elizabeth ''Bets'' Hilton""</characters>
                <date>2002</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Childrens, Fiction, Adventure, Middle Grade, Detective, Young Adult, British Literature, Juvenile, Whodunit</genres>
                <id>2221</id>
                <synopsis>"In the cold and foggy Christmas holidays, it doesn't seem as though the Five Find-Outers and Dog will have anything exciting to investigate. Fatty's got some wonderful new disguises, but there doesn't seem to be any mystery for them at all this time. Then Pip stumbles on a single furnished room in an otherwise deserted house. They try to find out whom the house belongs to, but they're not making much progress - until Fatty decides to go to the house to see what he can uncover. Suddenly trapped by the men inside, he writes a note to his friends, apparently innocuous enough, but with another secret message hidden beneath it. Mr Goon has tried investigating the house too, but only ends up locked in the coal cellar and covered in dust. The rest of the Find-Outers call Inspector Jenks to help Fatty, and find the house has been a place for storing stolen goods and the men inside are wanted criminals. Another mystery safely solved!"</synopsis>
                <title>The Mystery of the Secret Room</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Martina Cole</author>
                <characters>Sue Dalston, Matilda Enderby</characters>
                <date>Published</date>
                <genres>Crime, Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Abuse, Drama, Audiobook, Modern, Contemporary</genres>
                <id>2222</id>
                <synopsis>"Danger and violence have always been part of Sue Dalston's East End upbringing. Unloved by her mother, abused by her father, and brutalised throughout her entire marriage, she smashed her husband's skull in a final act of desperation. All that keeps her sane is knowing that she's done it to protect her four children. At last, they are safe from harm. When she is celled up with murderess Matilda Enderby, their fates become inextricably linked. And no one - least of all Sue - could have predicted the consequences..."</synopsis>
                <title>Two Women</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Keith Laumer</author>
                <characters>Science Fiction</characters>
                <date>Fanucci</date>
                <genres>1E+13</genres>
                <id>2223</id>
                <synopsis>"I Classici della Fantascienza e della Fantasy 5I VolumeRaccolta completa di tutte le avventure di Retief, scritte da Keith Laumer. Il volume contiene: Racconti:-Il gigante assassino</synopsis>
                <title>Il ciclo di Retief vol.1</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Terry Goodkind</author>
                <characters>Mariska, Abby, ""Zeddicus Zu''l Zorander"", Jana, Delora, Mother Confessor, Panis Rahl, Anargo, Helsa, Erilyn, Thomas (Terry Goodkind)</characters>
                <date>Nov-04</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Magic, Adventure, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic, Adult, American</genres>
                <id>2224</id>
                <synopsis>"A milestone of storytelling set in the world of The Sword of Truth, Debt of Bones is the story of young Abby's struggle to win the aid of the wizard Zedd Zorander, the most important man alive. Abby is trapped, not only between both sides of the war, but in a mortal conflict between two powerful men. For Zedd, who commands power most men can only imagine, granting Abby's request would mean forsaking his sacred duty. With the storm of the final battle about to break, both Abby and Zedd are caught in a desperate fight to save the life of a child....but neither can escape the shadow of an ancient betrayal. With time running out, their only choice may be a debt of bones. The world-for Zedd, for Abby,for everyone-will never again be the same."</synopsis>
                <title>Debt of Bones</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Tess Gerritsen </author>
                <characters>Jordan Tavistock, Beryl Tavistock, Richard Wolf, Hugh Tavistock, Claude Daumier</characters>
                <date>2004</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Fiction, Romance, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Romantic Suspense, Harlequin, American</genres>
                <id>2225</id>
                <synopsis>"Old secrets die hard....The quiet scandal surrounding her parents' deaths twenty years ago has always haunted Beryl Tavistock. Now she's decided that the only way to exorcise the ghosts of the past is to search for the truth. Beryl starts asking dangerous questions, and the answers are proving that old secrets die hard. Caught in what's become a deadly game of cat-and-mouse, her quest takes her from the rain-slick streets of Paris to the sun-drenched isles of Greece. And as she gets pulled into a world of espionage, Beryl quickly discovers that she needs help. Richard Wolf, an ex-CIA agent and a man she's only just met, is her only hope. But in a world where trust is a double-edged sword, friends become enemies, and enemies become killers . . ."</synopsis>
                <title>In Their Footsteps</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Denise Hunter </author>
                <characters>Samantha Owen, Landon Reed</characters>
                <date>Oct-07</date>
                <genres>Christian Fiction, Romance, Christian, Contemporary, Fiction, Christian Romance, Contemporary Romance, Chick Lit, Inspirational, Clean Romance</genres>
                <id>2226</id>
                <synopsis>"On the beautiful island of Nantucket, salt and roses scent the air, waves sparkle over hidden currents, and a storm-tossed soul seeks safe harbor.When Samantha Owen's estranged stepfather dies, she inherits his cottage in Nantucket-a place she left years ago, never planning to return. As a single mom, Sam can't afford to pass up on a financial windfall like ocean-front property. So she travels home to fix up the house and sell it . . . never suspecting that Landon Reed still lives two doors down. As their long-dormant romance begins to bud again, Sam must face the fact that Landon still doesn't know why she left the island. Will the secrets she's hidden all these years tear them apart . . . or is Landon's love really as unconditional as he claims?Denise Hunter weaves a heart-tugging tale of shattered trust and enduring love . . . all in a romantic seaside setting."</synopsis>
                <title>Surrender Bay</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>David Lodge</author>
                <characters>Bernard Walsh</characters>
                <date>1993</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Humor, Novels, British Literature, Contemporary, Literature, Comedy, 20th Century, English Literature, Travel</genres>
                <id>2227</id>
                <synopsis>"Paradise, tourist style. It's a very long way from home.Bernard Walsh is in Hawaii on family business, escorting his querulous father to the bedside of a long-forgotten aunt. His mission transports him from quiet obscurity in Rummridge, England, to a lush tropical playground, from cloistered solitude into the unfamiliar company of package tourists: honeymooners; young women looking for Mr. Nice; families nuclear and fissile. But it is the island itself that holds the most astonishing surprises, as an accidental encounter opens up to Bernard possibilities of life, and love, never dreamed of in his normally overcast habitat. Paradise News is an enchanting-and very funny-portrait of the late flowering of an honest man."</synopsis>
                <title>Paradise News</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Marcin Bruczkowski</author>
                <characters>Pawel</characters>
                <date>Nov-05</date>
                <genres>Polish Literature, Travel, Asia, Nonfiction</genres>
                <id>2228</id>
                <synopsis>"Autor Bezsenności w Tokio tym razem zabiera Czytelników do Singapuru - nie tylko o czwartej rano... Bohaterami powieści są Paweł - polski perkusista-hobbysta, jego przyjaciele z zespołu i ich dziewczyny. Różnią ich kolory skóry, języki, religie, temperamenty, łączy wspólna pasja: muzyka. Jak potoczy się kariera Pawła i Highway 69?Dowcipnie, zaskakująco i przewrotnie Autor pokazuje realia życia w Singapurze. Posługuje się potocznym językiem muzyków, a jednocześnie bezpiecznie przeprowadza przez zawiłości Singlish. Dla smakoszy - nie zabraknie opowieści o miejscowych przysmakach i przepisów kulinarnych."</synopsis>
                <title>Singapur, czwarta rano</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>John Connolly </author>
                <characters>Rachel Honeybourne (Beauty), Angel, Charlie Parker, Louis, Brightwell</characters>
                <date>Feb-06</date>
                <genres>Thriller, Mystery, Crime, Horror, Fiction, Supernatural, Paranormal, Mystery Thriller, Fantasy, Suspense</genres>
                <id>2229</id>
                <synopsis>"When a young woman disappears from the streets of New York City, ties of friendship and blood inevitably draw ingenious, tortured detective Charlie Parker into the search. Soon he discovers links to a church of bones in Eastern Europe, a 1944 slaughter at a French monastery, and to the myth of an object known as the Black Angel - considered by evil men to be beyond priceless. But the Black Angel is not a legend. It is real. It lives. It dreams. And the mystery of its existence may contain the secret of Parker's own origins."</synopsis>
                <title>The Black Angel</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Franklin W. Dixon</author>
                <characters>Frank Hardy, Chet Morton, Joe Hardy, Fenton Hardy, Aunt Gertrude, Biff Hooper, Tony Prito, Mike Onslow, George Haskins, Lenny Haskins, Hank Shale, John Coulson, James Coulson, Bart Dawson, Bob Dodge, Ben Tinker, Jim Burke, Sheriff Kenner, Big Al, Slim, Ira Kleeder, Hopkins, Zeke, Robby, Nick, Whitlow</characters>
                <date>Jun-03</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Adventure, Classics, Detective, Juvenile, Audiobook, Middle Grade</genres>
                <id>2230</id>
                <synopsis>"Timber wolves, a Rocky Mountain blizzard, and a mine cave-in are only a few of the perils Frank and Joe Hardy encounter during their search for the principal members of a notorious gang responsible for a payroll robbery. In the old Montana mining camp of Lucky Lode, the young detectives puzzle over a series of mysterious events. A piano-playing ghost haunts the long-abandoned dance hall. Eerie blue lights flash from the hilltop cemetery in the dark of night. Strange men arrange a meeting at Shadow the Bear. A suspect disappears through a curtain of frozen ice. How are these events related to the men who kidnapped the boys in Chicago? Who booby-trapped the helicopter which flew the young detectives to the ghost town? And what ever happened to Bart Dawson who seemingly deserted his gold-mining partners twenty-five years ago? Clue by clue, Frank and Joe cleverly fit into place the scattered pieces of this dangerous puzzle and come up with the astonishing solution."</synopsis>
                <title>Hunting for Hidden Gold</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Carole Wilkinson</author>
                <characters>Ping, Long Kai Duan, Hua</characters>
                <date>2007</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Dragons, Young Adult, Adventure, Fiction, Childrens, Historical Fiction, Magic, Middle Grade, Historical</genres>
                <id>2231</id>
                <synopsis>"Book jacket: In the time of the Han Dynasty in ancient China, a young orphan struggles to fulfill her destiny. Ping has survived her days as a slave at Huangling Palace, but new challenges await her in the desolate mountains of Tai Shan. The wise dragon, Danzi, is no longer around to guide her, and now it is up to Ping to take care of the baby dragon, Kai. Food is scarce, and she must constantly be on the lookout for enemies. Things seem to get better when fate leads them back to the Imperial Palace, to the Garden of the Purple Dragon. Yet even within these hallowed walls, Ping and Kai are not as they believe."</synopsis>
                <title>Garden of the Purple Dragon</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>A.A. Milne, George Desantis (Adaptor)</author>
                <characters>""Gopher (Disney''s Winnie the Pooh)"", ""Winnie the Pooh (Disney''s)"", ""Rabbit (Disney''s Winnie the Pooh)"", ""Christopher Robin (Disney''s Winnie the Pooh)""</characters>
                <date>1974</date>
                <genres>Childrens, Picture Books, Fiction, Animals</genres>
                <id>2232</id>
                <synopsis>Please don't delete. This edition doesn't have an ISBN.</synopsis>
                <title>Winnie-the-Pooh Meets Gopher (Little Golden Book)</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>William Gibson, Bruce Sterling</author>
                <characters>Charles Babbage, Sybil Gerard, Edward ""Leviathan"" Mallory, Laurence Oliphant</characters>
                <date>Feb-92</date>
                <genres>Steampunk, Science Fiction, Fiction, Alternate History, Cyberpunk, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Novels</genres>
                <id>2233</id>
                <synopsis>"1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. And three extraordinary characters race toward a rendezvous with history - and the future: Sybil Gerard - dishonored woman and daughter of a Luddite agitator; Edward ""Leviathan"" Mallory - explorer and paleontologist; Laurence Oliphant - diplomat and spy. Their adventure begins with the discovery of a box of punched Engine cards of unknown origin and purpose. Cards someone wants badly enough to kill for...Part detective story, part historical thriller, The Difference Engine is the first collaborative novel by two of the most brilliant and controversial science fiction authors of our time. Provocative, compelling, intensely imagined, it is a startling extension of Gibson's and Sterling's unique visions - in a new and totally unexpected direction!"</synopsis>
                <title>The Difference Engine</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Beatrix Potter</author>
                <characters>Jemima Puddle-Duck</characters>
                <date>2002</date>
                <genres>Childrens, Picture Books, Classics, Fiction, Animals, Fantasy, Juvenile, British Literature, Short Stories, Childrens Classics</genres>
                <id>2234</id>
                <synopsis>"The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck is an original classic by Beatrix Potter.Poor Jemima. All she wants to do is lay her eggs in peace, and be allowed to hatch them herself. At last she flies off and finds the perfect place. Little does the silly duck realise that the charming gentleman who has lent her his woodshed is busily planning a delicious meal of . . . roast duck!Jemima was a real duck belonging to Beatrix Potter, who lived at her farm, Hill Top. The story also features Beatrix's own sheepdog, Kep, who thankfully manages to save Jemima from a nasty fate!Beatrix Potter is regarded as one of the world's best-loved children's authors of all time. From her first book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, published by Frederick Warne in 1902, she went on to create a series of stories based around animal characters including Mrs. Tiggy-winkle, Benjamin Bunny, Jemima Puddle-duck, Mr. Jeremy Fisher and Tom Kitten.Her humorous, lively tales and beautiful illustrations have become a natural part of childhood. With revenue from the sales of her books, Beatrix Potter bought a farm - Hill Top - in the English Lake District, where she later became a farmer and prize-winning sheep breeder. She launched the now vast merchandise programme by patenting the very first Peter Rabbit doll in 1903. The product range continues to grow today with licences around the world including baby clothing and bedding, nursery decor products and collectables. Upon her death, Beatrix Potter left 14 farms and over 4000 acres of Lake District farmland to the National Trust so that the place that she loved would remain undeveloped and protected for future generations to enjoy.Today Beatrix Potter's original 23 tales are still published by Frederick Warne, alongside a wide range of other formats including baby books, activity books and gift and sound books.The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck is number nine in Beatrix Potter's series of 23 little books. Look out for the rest!1 The Tale of Peter Rabbit2 The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin3 The Tailor of Gloucester4 The Tale of Benjamin Bunny5 The Tale of Two Bad Mice6 The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle7 The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher8 The Tale of Tom Kitten9 The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck10 The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies11 The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse12 The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes13 The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse 14 The Tale of Mr. Tod15 The Tale of Pigling Bland16 The Tale of Samuel Whiskers17 The Tale of The Pie and the Patty-Pan18 The Tale of Ginger and Pickles19 The Tale of Little Pig Robinson20 The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit21 The Story of Miss Moppet22 Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes23 Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes"</synopsis>
                <title>The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Arto Paasilinna</author>
                <characters>Akseli Jaatinen, Irene Koponen</characters>
                <date>Feb-07</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Humor, Finnish Literature, Novels, Comedy, European Literature, Roman</genres>
                <id>2235</id>
                <synopsis>"L'ingénieur Akseli Jaatinen a été chargé de construire un nouveau pont dans le village de Kuusmäki, à l'endroit même où, pendant la guerre civile de 1918, une sanglante bataille a opposé blancs et rouges – épisode dont la mémoire continue de diviser les habitants de la commune, par ailleurs peu enclins à se laisser bousculer dans leur train-train.Dans ce milieu fermé, Jaatinen aura vite fait de s'attirer des inimitiés par ses méthodes peu conformistes. De bisbilles en provocations, les relations se tendent entre les notables locaux et le nouveau venu, qui se fait non seulement rosser et humilier, mais aussi finalement renvoyer de son poste d'ingénieur. Mais Jaatinen n'est pas homme à se laisser faire. Méthodiquement, il met en œuvre une diabolique vengeance dont ses persécuteurs se mordront amèrement les doigts...Les ponts que construit l'ingénieur Jaatinen sont une métaphore puissante de la solidarité entre les hommes, et sa quête du bonheur laisse entrevoir ce que pourrait être une humanité ouverte et soucieuse d'autrui."</synopsis>
                <title>Un homme heureux</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Laurent Gounelle, Işık Ergüden (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Audrey, Catherine, Alan Greenmor, Yves Dubreuil</characters>
                <date>Jun-12</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Psychology, Contemporary, France, Self Help, Roman, French Literature, Literature, Personal Development, Novels</genres>
                <id>2236</id>
                <synopsis>"Mutluluğun kapını çalmasını bekleme, sen ona gitHayatını değiştirecek roman bu işte!Bir düşünün. İntihar etmek üzeresiniz. Bir adam hayatınızı kurtarıyor, ama karşılığında sizinle bir anlaşma yapıyor. Bundan sonra o ne söylerse sorgusuz sualsiz yapacaksınız. Kendi iyiliğiniz için... Çaresiz, kabul ediyorsunuz ve hayatınızın iplerini tıpkı bir kukla gibi başkasının ellerine bırakıyorsunuz. Ve hayatınız eskisinden çok daha güzel oluyor. Yine de şüpheleriniz var: Bu adam aslında kim? Çevresindeki gizemli kişilerin sırrı ne? Sizden aslında ne istiyor?Tanrı Daima Tebdil-i Kıyafet Gezer, kendi kendimize koyduğumuz engelleri, korkularımızı ve önyargılarımızı nasıl aşacağımızın, kaderimiz sandığımız mutsuz bir yaşamı, bizi mutluluğa götüren bir yolculuğa nasıl dönüştüreceğimizin hikâyesi.""Laurent Gounelle bir mutluluk fabrikatörü... Eğer mutluluğun bir reçetesi varsa, Gounelle o reçeteyi biliyor olmalı.""Le Figaro""Yeni Coelho.""L'Express""İnsanın kendini arayışı ve başkasını anlaması hakkındaki bu benzersiz roman, kendine güven ve özgürlük üzerine işe yarar tavsiyeler veriyor.""France Soir""Sürükleyici ve kolay okunan bir kitap. Hem iyi bir kişisel gelişim kitabı hem de güzel bir roman. Bayıldım!""Critiques Libres""Sonuna kadar gizemini koruyan, mizahi ve şiirsel bir roman.""L'est-éclair"</synopsis>
                <title>Tanrı Daima Tebdil-i Kıyafet Gezer</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Tracy Grant </author>
                <characters>Simon Tanner, Malcolm Rannoch Charles Fraser</characters>
                <date>2003</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Historical Fiction, Romance, Historical, Historical Mystery, Fiction, Regency, Espionage, Historical Romance, Suspense</genres>
                <id>2237</id>
                <synopsis>"June-July 1817 The task had taken shape thanks to the inconvenient way secrets had of bubbling to the surface. It went without saying that it was going to be difficult. But then, murder always was…  The London docks.  Beneath a silent moon, a mysterious exile slips back into the city to complete a nefarious mission that began decades before.  On that same night, London's titled, wealthy and beautiful waltz the night away at Glenister House. Among the guests aristocratic Charles Fraser, a former spy recently returned from the Napoleonic Wars, and his bride Mélanie, who has charmed London society but hides her own secrets. In the brilliance of Mayfair, a visitor from their past pulls Charles and Mélanie back into the world of danger and espionage they thought they had left behind. But this time, the intrigues are rooted in Charles's complex and troubled family. Melanie and Charles Fraser have traded the moment-to-moment dangers of the war-ravaged Continent for the glittering world of the British ton. But beneath the shimmering veneer of London society, they discover an establishment that is rotten to its very core. An assassination and a trail of clues that lead back to the French Revolution itself plunge Charles and Melanie once more into the danger that has always been the common ground in their marriage. As they search for the truth, they find that the answers cut shockingly close to their own friends and family - including the seemingly perfect Honoria Talbot.  A secret society, and the dangerous liaisons of the Fraser family lead Charles and Mélanie from the glittering ballrooms and shadowy streets of London to the Fraser estate on the Scottish coast. This is a deadly game that could shake the fate of nations: but for Charles, the stakes are the lives of those he holds most dear, and the love of the enigmatic woman who shares his name...and his bed. "</synopsis>
                <title>Beneath a Silent Moon</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ruskin Bond</author>
                <characters>Binya, Bijju, Ram Bharosa</characters>
                <date>Published</date>
                <genres>Fiction, India, Short Stories, Childrens, Indian Literature, Novella, Classics, Asian Literature, Novels, Adventure</genres>
                <id>2238</id>
                <synopsis>"'The umbrella was like a flower, a great blue flower that had sprung up on the dry brown hillside.'In exchange for her lucky leopard's claw pendant, Binya acquires a beautiful blue umbrella that makes her the envy of everyone in the village, especially Ram Bharosa, the shopkeeper. It is the prettiest umbrella in the whole village and she carries it everywhere she goes. The Blue Umbrella is a short and humorous novella set in the hills of Garhwal. Written in simple yet witty language, it captures life in a village - where ordinary characters become heroic, and others find opportunities to redeem themselves."</synopsis>
                <title>The Blue Umbrella</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Martin Amis</author>
                <characters>Mike Hoolihan, Jennifer Rockwell, Tom Rockwell, Trader Faulkner</characters>
                <date>1999</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Mystery, Crime, Novels, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, British Literature, Detective, Noir, Literature</genres>
                <id>2239</id>
                <synopsis>"Detective Mike Hoolihan has seen it all. A fifteen-year veteran of the force, she's gone from walking a beat, to robbery, to homicide. But one case-this case-has gotten under her skin.When Jennifer Rockwell, darling of the community and daughter of a respected career cop-now top brass-takes her own life, no one is prepared to believe it. Especially her father, Colonel Tom. Homicide Detective Mike Hoolihan, longtime colleague and friend of Colonel Tom, is ready to ""put the case down."" Suicide. Closed. Until Colonel Tom asks her to do the one thing any grieving father would ask: take a second look.Not since his celebrated novel Money has Amis turned his focus on America to such remarkable effect. Fusing brilliant wordplay with all the elements of the classic whodunit, Amis exposes a world where surfaces are suspect (no matter how perfect), where paranoia is justified (no matter how pervasive), and where power and pride are brought low by the hidden recesses of our humanity."</synopsis>
                <title>Night Train</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Alex Marwood</author>
                <characters>Jade Walker, Annabel Oldacre, Amber Gordon, Kirsty Lindsay, Chloe Francis, Jackie Jacobs, Martin Bagshawe</characters>
                <date>Jun-12</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Audiobook, British Literature, Adult Fiction, Adult</genres>
                <id>2240</id>
                <synopsis>"One summer morning, three little girls meet for the first time. By the end of the day, two will be charged with murder. Twenty-five years later, journalist Kirsty Lindsay is reporting on a series of sickening attacks on young female tourists in a seaside town when her investigation leads her to interview funfair cleaner Amber Gordon. For Kirsty and Amber, it's the first time they've seen each other since that dark day when they were just children. But with new lives - and families - to protect, will they really be able to keep their wicked secret hidden?"</synopsis>
                <title>The Wicked Girls</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Fatou Diome</author>
                <characters>Salie</characters>
                <date>2006</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Africa, France, School, Senegal, French Literature, Novels, Read For School, Contemporary, African Literature</genres>
                <id>2241</id>
                <synopsis>"Salie vit en France. Son frère, Madické, rêve de l'y rejoindre et compte sur elle. Mais comment lui expliquer la face cachée de l'immigration, lui qui voit la France comme une terre promise où réussissent les footballeurs sénégalais, où vont se réfugier ceux qui, comme Sankèle, fuient leur destin tragique ? Comment empêcher Madické et ses camarades de laisser courir leur imagination, quand l'homme de Barbès, de retour au pays, gagne en notabilité, escamote sa véritable vie d'émigré et les abreuve de récits où la France passe pour la mythique Arcadie ? Les relations entre Madické et Salie nous dévoilent l'inconfortable situation des "" venus de France "", écrasés par les attentes démesurées de ceux qui sont restés au pays et confrontés à la difficulté d'être l'autre partout. Distillant leurre et espoir, Le Ventre de l'Atlantique charrie entre l'Europe et l'Afrique des destins contrastés, saisis dans le tourbillon des sentiments contraires, suscités par l'irrésistible appel de l'Ailleurs. Car, même si la souffrance de ceux qui restent est indicible, il s'agit de partir, voguer, libre comme une algue de l'Atlantique. Ce premier roman, sans concession, est servi par une écriture pleine de souffle et d'humour."</synopsis>
                <title>Le Ventre de l'Atlantique</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Richard S. Dubelman</author>
                <characters>Liz Dutton, Holly Hobbie, Danny Sutton, John Dutton, Agatha Dutton, Melville Dutton</characters>
                <date>Published</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Childrens, Young Adult</genres>
                <id>2242</id>
                <synopsis>"Not a trace is found of celebrated arcaeologist Melville Dutton, who mysteriously vanished in the trackless jungles of Central America. His quest-the greatest of Maya ruins-the lost Jaguar City. Hope for the survival of the charismatic explorer is eventually abandoned. Only his daughter, Liz, tormented by a recurring nightmare, steadfastly believes that her father is alive.On a snowy Thanksgiving in her grandparents' New England farmhouse, Liz is entranced by a portrait of her ancestor-a breathtakingly beautiful teen-age girl. The haunting picture, painted in 1803, seems to glow with an indefinable magic. Flames dance wildly in the old stone fireplace... heatwaves shimmer... definition is obscurred... then--Holly Hobbie. Is this intelligent, graceful young girl in colonial dress another of Liz's dreams? Or the portrait come to life?The author takes us along with Holly and Liz on a fascinating odyssey triggered by scattered clues-the snarling jaguar pendant, Dutton's last jungle diaries, cryptic Maya inscriptions-all crucial in linking their destiny with that of Mel Dutton.-Excerpt of book jacket description."</synopsis>
                <title>The Adventures of Holly Hobbie</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Agatha Christie</author>
                <characters>Superintendent Battle, Lady Eileen Brent, Bill Eversleigh, George Lomax, Tredwell, Clement Edward Alistair Brent, Lord Caterham, Anthony Cade, Virginia Revel</characters>
                <date>2001</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Detective, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Audiobook, Thriller, Murder Mystery</genres>
                <id>2243</id>
                <synopsis>"A bit of adventure and quick cash is all that good-natured drifter Anthony Cade is looking for when he accepts a messenger job from an old friend. It sounds so simple: deliver the provocative memoirs of a recently deceased European count to a London publisher. Little did Anthony suspect that a simple errand to deliver the manuscript on behalf of his friend would drop him right in the middle of an international conspiracy, and he begins to realize that it has placed him in serious danger. Why were Count Stylptich's memoirs so important? And what was ""King Victor"" really after? The parcel holds ore than scandalous royal secrets - because it contains a stash of letters that suggest blackmail. Someone would stop at nothing to prevent the monarchy being restored in faraway Herzoslovakia.Wherever ravishing Virginia Revel went, death seemed sure to follow. First her husband died. The next to perish was a foreign prince whose ruthless power was matched by his scandalous passions. Then a bungling blackmailer followed them into the grave. Murder, blackmail, stolen letters, and a fabulous missing jewel: all under the not always co-operative eyes of Scotland Yard and the Surete. All threads lead to Chimneys, one of England's historic country house estates, where a master murderer mingled with the aristocratic guests. Virginia could turn to only one person to prove her innocence and end her nightmare, and she could only pray that she had not put her life into the hands of the man who was out to take it...."</synopsis>
                <title>The Secret of Chimneys</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ahmet Ümit</author>
                <characters>Başkomiser Nevzat, Komiser Ali, Nizam Kara, Kriminolog Zeynep, İhsan Yıldızeli, Engin Akça</characters>
                <date>Oct-13</date>
                <genres>Turkish Literature, Roman, Turkish, Fiction, Crime, Mystery, Novels, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Thriller</genres>
                <id>2244</id>
                <synopsis>"""Aşk, yaşamı; cinayet, ölümü sıradanlıktan kurtarır."" Yılbaşı gecesi işlenen bir cinayet... Tarlabaşı’nın arka sokaklarında bulunan bir erkek cesedi. Öldürülmüş erkeklerin en yakışıklısı, belki de en kötüsü. Karanlık sırların ortaya çıkardığı utanç verici bir gerçek. Gururlarının kurbanı olmuş erkekler, onların hayatlarını yaşamak zorunda olan kadınlar. Bu cinayetler yatağında, bu kötülükler bahçesinde, bu insan eti satılan can pazarında masumiyetini korumaya çalışan bir adam. Bir zamanlar İstanbul’un en gözde yeri olan Beyoğlu’nun hazin hikâyesi. Karanlık...  Soğuk havayla iyice ağırlaşan bir karanlık. Uzaklardan şarkılar geliyor kulağına, neşeli kadın çığlıkları, ayarını yitirmiş sarhoş naraları, biri küfrediyor belki ana avrat, belki ağlıyor biri hıçkıra hıçkıra, belki biri sessizce ölüyor bu gürültünün, bu hengâmenin ortasında. Umurunda değil. Hepsinden sıyrılmış, sadece öfke...  Nereye gittiğini bilmeden yürüyor, nefret tarafından kuşatılmış olarak. Kıskançlık denen o canavar, çelikten pençesine almış yüreğini, habire sıkıyor. “Kadınlar,” diyor bir ses zihninin derinliklerinden...  “Kadınlar, onlarla oynayamazsın... Oynadığını zannedersin ama bir de bakmışsın, asıl oyuncak sen olmuşsun.” Hayatına giren kadınların yüzleri beliriyor sokağın zemininde. Birer birer düşüyor görüntüleri ayaklarının dibine. Hepsinin boynu bükük, hepsinin gözlerinde keder. Hepsi üzgün... Aldırmıyor, bir su birikintisiymiş gibi basıp geçiyor üzerlerinden ama yeniden düşüyor görüntüler zemine. “Kadınlar,” diyor o ses yine, “Kadınlardan asla kurtulamazsın, hayaletleri hayatın boyunca seni takip eder.”"</synopsis>
                <title>Beyoğlu'nun En Güzel Abisi</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>David Lodge</author>
                <characters>Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp</characters>
                <date>1979</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Humor, Novels, Literature, British Literature, Academia, Comedy, Contemporary, 20th Century, Literary Fiction</genres>
                <id>2245</id>
                <synopsis>"Anyone intrigued by differences between American and British academic institutions will find this an amusing and accurate send-up. David Lodge, portraying two American and British professors who replace one another at their respective institutions, gives greed, pettiness, and pretense full rein."</synopsis>
                <title>Changing Places</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Milena Wójtowicz</author>
                <characters>Małgorzata Brzeska</characters>
                <date>Jan-07</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Polish Literature, Urban Fantasy, Vampires</genres>
                <id>2246</id>
                <synopsis>"(notka z tylnej okładki)Potrzebujesz tony humoru, funta zagadek kryminalnych przyprawionych słodko-gorzkimi perypetiami bohaterki? Sięgnij po ""Załatwiaczkę"" i załatwione!Małgorzata wyjeżdża na studia do Anglii. Nie spodziewa się, że w spadku po życzliwej staruszce dostanie dom i ekscentryczne zajęcie. Nie przypuszcza, że na dziesięć lat wciągnie ją w swe tryby Korporacja... Załatwiaczy. Poznaj wampira - uwodziciela, czarodzieja - działacza społecznego, przedsiębiorczego czytacza marzeń czy wróżkę z wyrokiem w zawieszeniu...A tak na marginesie - znajomi nie znaleźli Ci jeszcze roboty w Anglii? Zadzwoń do ZAŁATWIACZKI"</synopsis>
                <title>Załatwiaczka</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Franklin W. Dixon</author>
                <characters>Frank Hardy, Mr. Morton, Chet Morton, Iola Morton, Callie Shaw, Joe Hardy, Fenton Hardy, Aunt Gertrude, Roberts, Ken Blake, Oscar Smuff, Mr. Reed, Ezra Collig, Miss Benson, Mrs. Morton, Tony Prito, Mr. Markel, Mr. Evans, Mr. Docker, Mrs. Smith, Paul Blum, Laura Hardy</characters>
                <date>2002</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Adventure, Detective, Middle Grade, Mystery Thriller, Juvenile</genres>
                <id>2247</id>
                <synopsis>"Determined to learn the secret of the old mill, Frank and Joe employ a clever ruse to gain entrance and become trapped. There they unravel two mysteries, one involving a counterfeiting case and the other, a national security case their father is working on."</synopsis>
                <title>The Secret of the Old Mill</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Lee Nelson</author>
                <characters>Butch Cassidy</characters>
                <date>Published</date>
                <genres>Westerns, Historical, Adventure, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Lds Fiction, Novels, Lds, Young Adult</genres>
                <id>2248</id>
                <synopsis>"The story of the Mormon farm boy from Southern Utah who put together the longest string of successful bank and train robberies in the history of the American West. Unlike most cowboy outlaws of his day, Butch Cassidy defended the poor and oppressed, refused to shoot people, and shared his stolen wealth with those in need.  Early in his outlaw career, Butch discovered true love. Her name was Mary, and the love they shared lasted for decades. However, Pinkerton agents, law officers, bank detectives and bounty hunters chased Cassidy relentlessly, making it impossible for him to leave the outlaw life, eventually pushing him to seek refugein Argentina and Bolivia. But in the end Butch outsmarted them all."</synopsis>
                <title>Cassidy</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jude Deveraux</author>
                <characters>Kane Taggert, Cole Hunter, ""Jackie O''Neill"", William Montgomery, Cale Anderson, Dorie Lathan</characters>
                <date>1994</date>
                <genres>Romance, Historical Romance, Historical, Fiction, Anthologies, Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, Historical Fiction, Adult, Short Stories</genres>
                <id>2249</id>
                <synopsis>"original cover of the paperback edition of Jude Deveraux's The Invitation with ISBN 0-671-74458-5Jackie O'Neill was a daredevil pilot and a true American heroine...a woman so beautiful men stopped in their tracks to watch her walk down the street, her long confident strides eating up the earth. After years of nonstop excitement - of traveling around the globe in a chaotic rags-to-riches-to-rags whirl with her late husband, Charley - Jackie had returned to Eternity, Colorado, near her hometown of Chandler. She wanted to put down roots, start a business, maybe someday fall in love again. But she never dreamed that the man who might make all her wishes come true was William Montgomery...little Billy, the lovesick boy who dogged her every step when she was a teenager...little Billy, who was now definitely a man, handsome, sexy, rich, and still madly in love with Jackie O'Neill....In THE INVITATION, MATCHMAKERS, and A PERFECT ARRANGEMENT, Jude Deveraux brings us three novellas destined to delight us with her special brand of whimsy, while touching our hearts with the delicious romance that only comes from the imagination of America's most beloved storyteller."</synopsis>
                <title>The Invitation</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata, Yuki Kowalsky (translator)</author>
                <characters>Light Yagami, Ryuk</characters>
                <date>2009</date>
                <genres>Graphic Novels, Comics, Fantasy, Manga, Young Adult, Horror, Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Crime</genres>
                <id>2250</id>
                <synopsis>"Intégrale regroupant les tomes 3 et 4Tome 3 :La résidence de Light est placée sous surveillance vidéo. L et Light se livrent un duel silencieux relayé par les caméras cachées dans la maison du jeune homme. Grâce à un habile stratagème, Light parvient à établir la preuve de son innocence. Cela n'empêche pas L d'avoir des soupçons de plus en plus forts et de passer à l'action. Parviendra-t-il à démasquer le mystérieux Kira ?Tome 4Un second Kira, dont les méthodes diffèrent de celles de Light, a fait son apparition. Au quartier général d'enquête, L contacte Light afin de lui demander sa collaboration. Ce dernier découvre alors le sens cahé du message envoyé par l'autre Kira ! Light décide de préparer une rencontre? !"</synopsis>
                <title>Death Note: Black Edition, Vol. 2</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata, Yuki Kowalsky (translator)</author>
                <characters>Light Yagami, Ryuk</characters>
                <date>2009</date>
                <genres>Graphic Novels, Comics, Fantasy, Manga, Young Adult, Horror, Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Crime</genres>
                <id>2251</id>
                <synopsis>"Intégrale regroupant les tomes 3 et 4Tome 3 :La résidence de Light est placée sous surveillance vidéo. L et Light se livrent un duel silencieux relayé par les caméras cachées dans la maison du jeune homme. Grâce à un habile stratagème, Light parvient à établir la preuve de son innocence. Cela n'empêche pas L d'avoir des soupçons de plus en plus forts et de passer à l'action. Parviendra-t-il à démasquer le mystérieux Kira ?Tome 4Un second Kira, dont les méthodes diffèrent de celles de Light, a fait son apparition. Au quartier général d'enquête, L contacte Light afin de lui demander sa collaboration. Ce dernier découvre alors le sens cahé du message envoyé par l'autre Kira ! Light décide de préparer une rencontre? !"</synopsis>
                <title>Death Note: Black Edition, Vol. 2</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Stephen King </author>
                <characters>Matt Knaide, Candy Kane, Andy Estes, Ryan Stretton, Ramu, Oliver Stanley, Peoria Smith, Robbie Delray, Sissy Thomas, Orrin Campbell, Selida McCammon, Jagger Barney, Ron St. Pierre, Richard Rubinstein, Katie Weiderman, Constable Vette, Maddie Sullivan, Samuel D. Landry, Mrs. Hemphill, Vernon Klein, Andy Kingsbury, Lady Hull, Carlton Cagnon, Polly Weiderman, Johnny Brinkmayer, Gary Martin Paulson, Fred Moore, Burt Dorfman, John Squales, Graf Dracula, Ryan Iarrobino, Clive Banning, Lewis Evans, Doris Freeman, Merton Morrison, Briggs Sheridan, Tim Flanders, Mr. Jefferies, Jory Hull, La Plata, Clem Upshaw, Suzanne Holding, Matt Arsenault, Casey Kinney, Mrs. Scooter, Bedelia Aaronson, Cora Leonard, Phil Budreau, Douglas Keefer, Claire Bowie, Ray Sarch, General Mercantile, Peter Rosewall, Duke Rhineman, Phil Tarbox, Ezra Hannon, Boxcar Willie, Johnny Rosewall, Georgie Ronkler, Carlton Gagnon, Carl Stowe, Lord Albert Hull, Alden Osgood, George Sullivan, William Weiderman, Janet Brightwood, Reverend Chadband, Lou Reed, Mr. Lathrop, Clark Willingham, Old Clut, Violet Mitla, Mrs. Dattlebaum, Amigo Bill, Ching-Ling Soong, Henry Eden, Lenny Partridge, Joe Wilcox, Lester Olson, Cameron Stevens, Paul Jannings, Matt Hoyt, Mike Wentworth, Miss Rotrock, Candi Pulsifer, Kate Weiderman, Reverend Johnson, Mr. Slattery, Lonnie Freeman, Harris Burdick, Nick Trzaskos, Frank Daggett, Mama Delorme, Gloria Demmick, Richard Bachman, ""Officer O''Bannion"", Richard Dees, Dennis Feeney, Mr. Oliver Stanley, Dave King, Mr. Reggie, Cal Partridge, Jeff Carson, Clivey, Buck Kendall, Harley McKissick, Maddie Pace, Jason Auger, Ardis McGill, William I. Hogan, Mr. Dolan, Gary Paulson, ""O''Bannion"", Arthur Dorr, Jerry Tarkanian, Ellen Sarch, Tim Pollack, Milly Cousins, Elise Graham, Alex Trebek, Sonny Dotson, Mrs. Hemphills, Ted Vetter, Bill Hogan, Dwight Frye, Josh Jamieson, Matt Francke, Bobby Daggett, Peter Jefferies, Dan Bouchard, Mike Greenwells, Norman Rockwell, Albert Hull, Mr. Bryan Adams, Dwight Renfield, Buddy Jenkins, Timothy Urich, Thomas Wolfe, Darcy Sagamore, John Clutterbuck, J. J. Fiddler, Martha Rosewall, George Banning, Harvey Blocker, Lucy Doucette, Humphrey Dagbolt, Kevin Rochefort, Mike Pelkey, Jack Pace, Hyde Park, Alvin Coy, Dudley Rhinemann, Bill DeHorne, Rick Nelson, Stanley Sturgis, Owen King, Evvie, Trent Bradbury, Neil Waterman, Mike Tardif, Cappy MacFarland, Octavia Kinsolving, Bob Daggett, Norma Kamali, Stephen Hull, Mr. Jory Hull, Joe Newall, Howard Mitla, John Tell, Herb Yellin, Libby Grannit, Brandon Pearson, Roger Clemens, Mr. Hanning, Miss Sidley, Bill Tuggle, Mike Arnold, Ross Macdonald, Moira Richardson, Robert Farnham, Laura Stanton, Ryan Fernald, Paul Corliss, Dana Roy, Mary Willingham, Benny Ellis, Robert Fornoy, Dave Eamons, Mrs. Krutchmer, Sheila Farnham, Dave Mansfield, Mrs. Crossen, Matt Kinney, Leonard Freeman, Brian Bradbury, Billy Beck, Matt Knaide, Candy Kane, Andy Estes, Ryan Stretton, Ramu, Oliver Stanley, Peoria Smith, Robbie Delray, Sissy Thomas, Orrin Campbell, Selida McCammon, Jagger Barney, Ron St. Pierre, Richard Rubinstein, Catherine Evans, Katie Weiderman, Constable Vette, Maddie Sullivan, Samuel D. Landry, Mrs. Hemphill, Vernon Klein, Andy Kingsbury, Lady Hull, Carlton Cagnon, Polly Weiderman, Johnny Brinkmayer, Gary Martin Paulson, Burt Dorfman, John Squales, Graf Dracula, Ryan Iarrobino, Clive Banning, Lewis Evans, Doris Freeman, Merton Morrison, Briggs Sheridan, Tim Flanders, Mr. Jefferies, Jory Hull, La Plata, Clem Upshaw, Suzanne Holding, Matt Arsenault, Casey Kinney, Mrs. Scooter, Bedelia Aaronson, Cora Leonard, Phil Budreau, Douglas Keefer, Claire Bowie, Ray Sarch, General Mercantile, Peter Rosewall, Duke Rhineman, Phil Tarbox, Ezra Hannon, Boxcar Willie, Johnny Rosewall, Georgie Ronkler, Carlton Gagnon, Carl Stowe, Lord Albert Hull, Alden Osgood, George Sullivan, William Weiderman, Janet Brightwood, Reverend Chadband, Lou Reed, Mr. Lathrop, Clark Willingham, Old Clut, Violet Mitla, Mrs. Dattlebaum, Amigo Bill, Ching-Ling Soong, Henry Eden, Lenny Partridge, Joe Wilcox, Lester Olson, Cameron Stevens, Paul Jannings, Matt Hoyt, Mike Wentworth, Miss Rotrock, Candi Pulsifer, Kate Weiderman, Frank Davis, Reverend Johnson, Mr. Slattery, Lonnie Freeman, Harris Burdick, Nick Trzaskos, Frank Daggett, Mama Delorme, Gloria Demmick, Richard Bachman, ""Officer O''Bannion"", Richard Dees, Dennis Feeney, Mr. Oliver Stanley, Dave King, Mr. Reggie, Cal Partridge, Jeff Carson, Clivey, Buck Kendall, Harley McKissick, Maddie Pace, Jason Auger, Ardis McGill, Mr. Dolan, Gary Paulson, ""O''Bannion"", Arthur Dorr, Jerry Tarkanian, Ellen Sarch, Tim Pollack, Milly Cousins, Elise Graham, Alex Trebek, Sonny Dotson, Mrs. Hemphills, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, Ted Vetter, Bill Hogan, Dwight Frye, Josh Jamieson, Matt Francke, Bobby Daggett, Peter Jefferies, Dan Bouchard, Mike Greenwells, Cora Leonard Newall, Catherine Bradbury, Norman Rockwell, Albert Hull, Mr. Bryan Adams, Dwight Renfield, Buddy Jenkins, Timothy Urich, Thomas Wolfe, Darcy Sagamore, John Clutterbuck, J. J. Fiddler, Martha Rosewall, George Banning, Clyde Umney, Harvey Blocker, Lucy Doucette, Humphrey Dagbolt, Kevin Rochefort, Mike Pelkey, Jack Pace, Hyde Park, Alvin Coy, Dudley Rhinemann, Bill DeHorne, Rick Nelson, Stanley Sturgis, Owen King, Evvie, Trent Bradbury, Neil Waterman, Mike Tardif, Cappy MacFarland, Octavia Kinsolving, Bob Daggett, Norma Kamali, Stephen Hull, Mr. Jory Hull, Joe Newall, Howard Mitla, John Tell, Herb Yellin, Libby Grannit, Brandon Pearson, Roger Clemens, Mr. Hanning, Miss Sidley, Bill Tuggle, Mike Arnold, Ross Macdonald, Moira Richardson, Robert Farnham, Laura Stanton, Ryan Fernald, Paul Corliss, Dana Roy, Mary Willingham, Catherine Evans, Mavis Weld</characters>
                <date>1994</date>
                <genres>Horror, Short Stories, Fiction, Fantasy, Thriller, Anthologies, Mystery, Supernatural, Collections, Suspense</genres>
                <id>2252</id>
                <synopsis>"A solitary finger pokes out of a drain. Novelty teeth turn predatory. Flies settle and die on an old pair of sneakers in New York, and the Nevada desert swallows a Cadillac. Meanwhile the legend of Castle Rock returns... and grows on you. What does it all mean? What else could it mean? First there was Night Shift (1978), then Skeleton Crew (1985), and now Stephen King is back with a third collection of stories - a vast, many-chambered cave of a volume, with passages leading every which way to hell... and a few to glory.The long reach of Stephen King's imagination and the no-holds-barred force of his storytelling have never been so richly demonstrated. There's something here for readers of every stripe and predilection - classic tales of the macabre and the monstrous, cutting-edge explorations of the borderlands between good and evil, brilliant pastiches of Chandler and Conan Doyle, even a teleplay and a non-fiction bonus, a heartfelt piece of Little League baseball that first appeared in The New Yorker.In story after story, several published here for the first time, he will take you to places you've never been before, places that are both dark and vividly illuminated. Fair warning: You will lose a good deal of sleep. But Stephen King, writing to beat the devil, will do your dreaming for you.Can you believe? Then come..."</synopsis>
                <title>Nightmares and Dreamscapes</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Judith Visser</author>
                <characters>Kimberley Franklin</characters>
                <date>2006</date>
                <genres>Thriller, Fiction</genres>
                <id>2253</id>
                <synopsis>"Wanneer de negentienjarige Kim ontdekt dat haar grote liefde Edwin haar bedrogen heeft neemt ze een drastische beslissing: dit zal haar nooit meer gebeuren. Zij besluit zich te wapenen tegen toekomstig hartzeer en stort zich in de prostitutie alwaar zij op zoek gaat naar een walging zo sterk, dat hij altijd werkzaam zal blijven als tegengif tegen de liefde. Wat volgt is een ontluisterende tocht door de wereld van de betaalde seks in Rotterdam, waarbij de avonturen en gevoelens van Kim in een meeslepende en niets verhullende stijl beschreven worden."</synopsis>
                <title>Tegengif</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kate Evangelista </author>
                <characters>Arianne Wilson (Reaping Me Softly), Benjamin Freeman (Reaping Me Softly), Nikolas Clark (Reaping Me Softly)</characters>
                <date>Oct-12</date>
                <genres>Paranormal, Young Adult, Romance, Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Ghosts, Supernatural, Death, Fiction, Urban Fantasy</genres>
                <id>2254</id>
                <synopsis>"Ever since a near-death-experience on the operating table, seventeen-year-old Arianne Wilson can see dead people. Just as she’s learned to accept her new-found talents, she discovers that the boy she’s had a crush on since freshman year, Niko Clark, is a Reaper.At last they have something in common, but that doesn’t mean life is getting any easier. All while facing merciless bullying from the most powerful girl in school, Arianne’s world is turned upside down after Niko accidentally reaps the soul of someone she loves. This sends them both into a spiral that threatens to end Arianne’s life. But will Niko break his own Reaper’s code to save her? And what would the consequences be if he did?"</synopsis>
                <title>Reaping Me Softly</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Christopher Hitchens</author>
                <characters>Idi Amin, Alexander II of Russia, Konrad Adenauer, Gertrude Bell, Saul Bellow, Gore Vidal, James Baldwin, Martin Amis, Jessica Mitford, Henry Adams, Joseph Alsop, Perry Anderson, Don Bachardy, Arthur Balfour, Julian Barnes, Walter Benjamin, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Salvador Allende, Anwar al-Awlaki, Benazir Bhutto, C.L.R. James, John Buchan, Allen Drury, Timothy Garton Ash, Arthur Koestler, Edward Said, Hector Hugh Munro, Victor Serge, Upton Sinclair, Edward Upward, W. Somerset Maugham, Horatio Alger, Jr, Charles, Prince of Wales, Diana, Princess of Wales, Kofi Annan, Hans Christian Andersen, Sami al-Araji, Peter Arnett, Raymond Aron, James Baker, James Bennet, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Charles Baudelaire, Karen Armstrong, David Aaronovitch, Walter Bagehot, Rebecca West, Hilary Mantel, Stephen Spender, J.K. Rowling, Stieg Larsson, André Malraux, Isabel Allende, Victor Klemperer, W.G. Sebald, Pope Benedict XVI, Joyce Cary, Karen Hughes, Mohamed Bouazizi, Kaspar Utz, Henry VIII of England, Peter Singer, Lancelot Andrewes, Ban Ki-moon, Ferhat Abbas, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Abbas Abdi, Abdullah Abdullah, James Abercrombie, Adunis, Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Jane Akello, Abdul Rahman al-Amoudi, Richard Aldington, Alexander I of Serbia, Alexander I of Yugoslavia, Haj Amin al-Husseini, Lorraine Ali, Monica Ali, Brooke Allen, Abu Hamza al-Masri, Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Azzam Alwash, Christiane Amanpour, Eric Ambler, Julian Amery, Henry Maxwell Andrews, Maya Angelou, James Jesus Angleton, Alfred Appel, Edward Victor Appleton, Benigno Aquino III, John Arlott, Nadeem Aslam, Rose Atim, Stefan Aust, Ayub Khan, Isaak Babel, David Baldacci, Katherine Balderston, Reza Baraheni, Francis Barber, Yetta Barshevsky, Nechervan Idris Barzani, Gary J. Bass, Walter Jackson Bate, James Bays, Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, Antony Beevor, Daniel Bell, Hilaire Belloc, James C. Bennett, Jeremy Bentham, Humphry Berkeley, Sandra Bernhard, John Berryman, Carlos Bertha, Michael Beschloss, Aneurin Bevan, Isaiah Berlin, Charles Dickens</characters>
                <date>2011</date>
                <genres>Nonfiction, Essays, Politics, Philosophy, History, Religion, Atheism, Journalism, Literature, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>2255</id>
                <synopsis>"The first new book of essays by Christopher Hitchens since 2004, Arguably offers an indispensable key to understanding the passionate and skeptical spirit of one of our most dazzling writers, widely admired for the clarity of his style, a result of his disciplined and candid thinking. Topics range from ruminations on why Charles Dickens was among the best of writers and the worst of men to the haunting science fiction of J.G. Ballard; from the enduring legacies of Thomas Jefferson and George Orwell to the persistent agonies of anti-Semitism and jihad. Hitchens even looks at the recent financial crisis and argues for the enduring relevance of Karl Marx. The book forms a bridge between the two parallel enterprises of culture and politics. It reveals how politics justifies itself by culture, and how the latter prompts the former. In this fashion, Arguably burnishes Christopher Hitchens' credentials as (to quote Christopher Buckley) our ""greatest living essayist in the English language."""</synopsis>
                <title>Arguably: Selected Essays</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>James Herbert</author>
                <characters>Joseph Creed</characters>
                <date>Published</date>
                <genres>Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Paranormal, British Literature, Demons, Supernatural, Mystery, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>2256</id>
                <synopsis>"Sometimes horror is in the mind and sometimes it's real. Telling the difference isn't always easy. It wasn't for Joe Creed. He just photographed the unreal. Now he had to pay the price, because he always thought that demons were just a joke. But the joke was on him and it wasn't very funny. It was deadly."</synopsis>
                <title>Creed</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Brandy Purdy</author>
                <characters>Anne Boleyn, Catherine Howard, Jane Boleyn</characters>
                <date>Published</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Historical, 16th Century, Tudor Period</genres>
                <id>2257</id>
                <synopsis>"There was room for only one woman in George Boleyn's heart: his sister, the mercurial and fascinating Anne Boleyn, who was destined to change history and wear a crown. To his adoring wife, Lady Jane Rochford, he was cold and indifferent. When Anne failed to give Henry VIII the son she had promised him, and he was tiring of her tart tongue and tantrums, false charges of adultery were hastily concocted. Lady Rochford provided the crowning touch when she accused her husband and his beloved sister of incest. Both died upon the scaffold. Lady Rochford paid dearly for her treachery. She was left alone, shunned and friendless, until wild, sweet, wanton Katherine Howard danced into her life and became Henry's fifth queen. When Katherine, disgusted by the obese and impotent King's fumbling attempts to make love to her, took a lusty young lover Lady Rochford helped them meet. And when the truth came out, she was the first to betray them. As she sits in the Tower of London, being tormented by the ghosts of George and Anne Boleyn, and awaiting her own appointment with the headsman's axe, Lady Rochford takes up her pen. Vengeance Is Mine is her story."</synopsis>
                <title>Vengeance Is Mine: A Novel Of Anne Boleyn, Katherine Howard, And Lady Rochford The Woman Who Helped Destroy Them Both</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>B.N. Toler </author>
                <characters>Romance, Contemporary Romance, Contemporary, New Adult, Death, Adult, Drama, Fiction, Childrens, Family</characters>
                <date>B N Toler</date>
                <genres>1E+13</genres>
                <id>2258</id>
                <synopsis>"Paul James loved Clara Bateman. Hating her would have been easier.She was the past, and he was hell-bent on keeping her there.Or so he thought...Craigslist Ad: DESPERATELY SEEKING EPIC</synopsis>
                <title>Desperately Seeking Epic</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Valerio Massimo Manfredi</author>
                <characters>Xenofonte, Abira</characters>
                <date>Nov-07</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Historical, Fiction, Historical Romance, Fantasy, Adventure, Military Fiction, Italian Literature, Novels, Ancient History</genres>
                <id>2259</id>
                <synopsis>"Una delle più epiche avventure dell'età antica: la lunghissima marcia, attraverso incredibili pericoli e peripezie, che diecimila mercenari greci dopo la disfatta del principe persiano Ciro, sotto le cui insegne si erano battuti, contro il fratello Artaserse alle porte di Babilonia - compiono per tornare in patria. È l'impresa gloriosa e tragica documentata nel IV secolo a.C. da Senofonte nell'Anabasi, che proprio Valerio Massimo Manfredi ha studiato e tradotto negli anni '80. Ma in questo romanzo le atrocità della guerra e l'eroismo di ogni soldato, il fasto e le crudeli bizzarrie della corte persiana, le insidie di una natura selvaggia e le amicizie più indissolubili sono narrate in una prospettiva completamente inedita: dalla voce di una donna, la bellissima siriana Abira, che per amore di Xenos lascia ogni cosa e condivide il destino dei Diecimila. Attraverso gli occhi di Abira, le donne diventano le protagoniste della grande Storia."</synopsis>
                <title>L'armata perduta</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Agatha Christie</author>
                <characters>Nick Buckley, Maggie Buckley, Frederica Rice, Jim Lazarus, Commander George Challenger, Inspector Japp, Millie Croft, Arthur Hastings, Hercule Poirot, Ellen, Charles Vyse</characters>
                <date>2001</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Detective, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Audiobook, Murder Mystery, Thriller</genres>
                <id>2260</id>
                <synopsis>"An Alternate Cover Edition of this ISBN can be found here.Hercule Poirot is vacationing on the Cornish coast when he meets Nick Buckly. Nick is the young and reckless mistress of End House, an imposing structure perched on the rocky cliffs of St. Loo.Poirot has taken a particular interest in the young woman who has recently narrowly escaped a series of life-threatening accidents. Something tells the Belgian sleuth that these so-called accidents are more than just mere coincidences or a spate of bad luck. It seems all too clear to him that someone is trying to do away with poor Nick, but who? And, what is the motive? In his quest for answers, Poirot must delve into the dark history of End House. The deeper he gets into his investigation, the more certain he is that the killer will soon strike again. And, this time, Nick may not escape with her life."</synopsis>
                <title>Peril at End House</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>René Goscinny, Albert Uderzo (Illustrateur)</author>
                <characters>Asterix, Obelix, Julius Caesar, Grandimais, Assurancetourix</characters>
                <date>2007</date>
                <genres>Comics, Graphic Novels, Bande Dessinée, Fiction, Humor, France, Historical Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Childrens</genres>
                <id>2261</id>
                <synopsis>"Caligula Alavacomgetepus, préfet des Gaules veut faire forte impression à Rome et décide d’offrir à César rien moins qu’un Irréductible Gaulois !Souvent isolé dans la forêt pour exercer ses talents, que ses camarades goûtent modérément, le barde Assurancetourix fait une proie idéale. César, considérant l’offrande plutôt assourdissante, donne l’ordre de jeter le barde aux lions lors des prochains jeux du cirque. Astérix et Obélix partent pour Rome délivrer leur ami. Et si tous les chemins mènent à Rome, bonne nouvelle : avec Astérix gladiateur, les rires y sont garantis !"</synopsis>
                <title>Astérix gladiateur</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Gordon Korman</author>
                <characters>Bruno Wisitzki, Boots, Mr. Wizzle</characters>
                <date>1982</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Humor, Canada, Comedy, School, Juvenile, Contemporary, Middle Grade</genres>
                <id>2262</id>
                <synopsis>"Walter C. Wizzle and and his computer are trying to take over Macdonald Hall! Wizzle is making everyone wear a tie and is giving out demerits and detentions like they're going out of style! Bruno and boots have had enough. If The Fish (Headmaster Sturgeon) won't do anything, they will. Wizzle has got to go!The boys form a coalition with their fellow students and the girls at Miss Scrimmage's Finishing School - and the Wizzle War in on! They build a machine to simulate earthquakes, program non-existent students into Wizzle's computer, even hide all his computer paper - replacing it with paper towels. nothing works. But when they match Wizzle with the girl of his dreams things begin to change. But for the better? Nobody knows what will happen once Bruno and Boots get started!"</synopsis>
                <title>The War With Mr. Wizzle</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>William Gibson</author>
                <characters>Colin Laney</characters>
                <date>Jan-03</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Cyberpunk, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Novels, Dystopia, Fantasy, Near Future, Literature</genres>
                <id>2263</id>
                <synopsis>"Although Colin Laney (from Gibson's earlier novel Idoru) lives in a cardboard box, he has the power to change the world. Thanks to an experimental drug that he received during his youth, Colin can see ""nodal points"" in the vast streams of data that make up the worldwide computer network. Nodal points are rare but significant events in history that forever change society, even though they might not be recognizable as such when they occur. Colin isn't quite sure what's going to happen when society reaches this latest nodal point, but he knows it's going to be big. And he knows it's going to occur on the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, which has been home to a sort of SoHo-esque shantytown since an earthquake rendered it structurally unsound to carry traffic.Although All Tomorrow's Parties includes characters from two of Gibson's earlier novels, it's not a direct sequel to either. It's a stand-alone book.-Craig E. Engler"</synopsis>
                <title>All Tomorrow's Parties</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Mary O'Hara</author>
                <characters>Ken McLaughlin (Flicka), Rob McLaughlin (Flicka), Nell McLaughlin (Flicka), Howard McLaughlin (Flicka), Thunderhead (Flicka), Carey Marsh</characters>
                <date>2004</date>
                <genres>Horses, Young Adult, Fiction, Animals, Childrens, Classics, Westerns, American, Romance, Historical Fiction</genres>
                <id>2264</id>
                <synopsis>"In the third book of the ""Flicka"" trilogy, Ken discovers to his horror that Thunderhead is roaming wild, causing trouble wherever he goes. He also has trouble at home, and thinks that his dreams can never come true; but then his feelings for Carey begin to change."</synopsis>
                <title>Green Grass of Wyoming</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Anne McCaffrey</author>
                <characters>Killashandra</characters>
                <date>Dec-86</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Romance, Space Opera, Adventure, Space, Music, Novels</genres>
                <id>2265</id>
                <synopsis>"At first Killashandra Ree's ambitions to become a Crystal Singer, get rich, and forget her past, were going just as she had hoped. But after she grew wealthy, a devastating storm turned her claim to useless rock. In short order she was broke, she had crystal sickness so bad she thought she was going to die, and the only way she could be true to the man she loved was to leave him...."</synopsis>
                <title>Killashandra</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jack McDevitt</author>
                <characters>Priscilla Hutchins</characters>
                <date>Jan-02</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Space Opera, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space, Adventure, Mystery, Speculative Fiction, Fantasy, Novels</genres>
                <id>2266</id>
                <synopsis>"In the year 2204, tragedy and terror forced a scientific team to prematurely evacuate Maleiva Ill. Twenty-one years later, the opportunity for scientists to study this galactic rarity—a life-supporting planet—is about to vanish forever as a rogue gas giant has invaded the planetary system on a deadly collision course with the world they are now calling Deepsix.A superluminal pilot for the Academy of Science and Technology, Priscilla “Hutch” Hutchins is the only even remotely qualified professional within lightyears of Deepsix. With less than three weeks left before the disaster, she and a small scientific team—including Randall Nightingale a survivor of the original expedition who was made the scapegoat for its failure—must descend to the surface, and glean whatever they can about the doomed planet’s lifeforms and lost civilizations.There is more to this strange and complex world, however, than anyone could have imagined: hidden predators; stone cities under the ice; remnants of a warlike primitive society, yet with inexplicable hints of an impossible technology buried in the rubble... and in orbit around the soon to be demolished planet. The deeper Hutch and her team delve, the more puzzles are revealed within puzzles and startling discoveries lead only to greater and more perplexing questionsBut then the unthinkable occurs An earthquake destroys the explorers only means of escape As scientists and sightseers who have come to witness the spectacular end of Deepsix watch helplessly from miles above Hutch and her people must survive somehow on a hostile planet going rapidly mad. And with the clock ticking relentlessly toward an unavoidable apocalypse, they must find some way, any way to get off before Deepsix plunges like a pebble into the limitless depths of the rampaging gas giant."</synopsis>
                <title>Deepsix</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Mariano Azuela</author>
                <characters>Camila, Demetrio Macías, Luis Cervantes, Don Mónico</characters>
                <date>2007</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, Spanish Literature, Latin American, Literature, Novels, Latin American Literature, Historical, School</genres>
                <id>2267</id>
                <synopsis>"Durante la Revolución Mexicana, Mariano Azuela (1873-1952) fue médico de la facción la que comandaba Francisco Villa-, de ahí que algunas de sus más notables obras literarias estén inspiradas por aquellos hechos de armas. Entre todas ellas, Los de abajo sintetiza admirablemente lo que el ilustre escritor pensaba de la Revolución y cómo vio él mismo su furia destructora. Se trata de una historia descarnada, concebida con la sinceridad y la valentía de un hombre que nunca cedió a la tentación de adornar artificiosamente o de falsear los acontecimientos, y escrita con un lenguaje directo que aúna la belleza a la sencillez."</synopsis>
                <title>Los de Abajo</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Rosalie Ham</author>
                <characters>Myrtle (‘Tilly’) Dunnage, Teddy McSwiney, Evan Pettyman, Faith O’Brien, Reginald Blood</characters>
                <date>2000</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Historical Fiction, Australia, Romance, Historical, Audiobook, Book Club, Adult, Drama, Chick Lit</genres>
                <id>2268</id>
                <synopsis>"A darkly satirical novel of love, revenge, and 1950s haute couture—now a major motion picture starring Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth, and Hugo Weaving After twenty years spent mastering the art of dressmaking at couture houses in Paris, Tilly Dunnage returns to the small Australian town she was banished from as a child. She plans only to check on her ailing mother and leave. But Tilly decides to stay, and though she is still an outcast, her lush, exquisite dresses prove irresistible to the prim women of Dungatar. Through her fashion business, her friendship with Sergeant Farrat—the town’s only policeman, who harbors an unusual passion for fabrics—and a budding romance with Teddy, the local football star whose family is almost as reviled as hers, she finds a measure of grudging acceptance. But as her dresses begin to arouse competition and envy in town, causing old resentments to surface, it becomes clear that Tilly’s mind is set on a darker design: exacting revenge on those who wronged her, in the most spectacular fashion."</synopsis>
                <title>The Dressmaker</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Dorothy Gilman</author>
                <characters>Mrs. Emily Pollifax, John Sebastian Farrell</characters>
                <date>Dec-83</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Cozy Mystery, Adventure, Humor, Audiobook, Mystery Thriller, Thriller, Espionage, Suspense</genres>
                <id>2269</id>
                <synopsis>"Mrs. Virgil (Emily) Pollifax of New Brunswick, New Jersey, was a widow with grown children. She was tired of attending her Garden Club meetings. She wanted to do something good for her country. So, naturally, she became a CIA agent. This time, the assignment sounds as tasty as a taco. A quick trip to Mexico City is on her agenda. Unfortunately, something goes wrong, and our dear Mrs. Pollifax finds herself embroiled in quite a hot Cold War—and her country's enemies find themselves entangled with one unbelievably feisty lady."</synopsis>
                <title>The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Sharon Stewart </author>
                <characters>Marie Therese Charlotte of France</characters>
                <date>2005</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Teen, Historical, French Revolution, France, 18th Century, Classics</genres>
                <id>2270</id>
                <synopsis>"The first book in a new series that picks up where the Royal Diaries left off! Previously published as The Dark Tower, this riveting novel is written as the diary of Princess Marie Thérèse Charlotte of France, daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, who was imprisoned during the French Revolution. One by one her parents and her brother were taken from her - Louis and Marie Antoinette beheaded, her brother dead of neglect.Though she lost everything, Mousseline, as she was called,was determined to be as brave and honourable as she could be during a time of tragedy and upheaval. A gripping story about a real princess that history nearly forgot! Shortlisted for both the Red Cedar Award and the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction when it was published in 1998, this is the first book in a new series from Scholastic which will feature royal-themed books in a format made popular by the Dear Canada and Royal Diaries series."</synopsis>
                <title>The Princess in the Tower</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Victoria Holt</author>
                <characters>Wilhelmina Maddox</characters>
                <date>1977</date>
                <genres>Romance, Historical Romance, Historical Fiction, Gothic, Fiction, Mystery, Historical, Gothic Romance, Romantic Suspense, French Revolution</genres>
                <id>2271</id>
                <synopsis>"Minella Maddox grew up on a great English estate. But as the schoolmistress' daughter, her place was not, and never could be, at beautiful Derringham Manor. And that is where the trouble started, for Derringham's young heir thought he saw in Minella just the kind of wife he wanted. But a dark and cruelly handsome French count, who always got what he wanted, thought she was just the kind of mistress he had to have. Not for nothing was he called the Devil on Horseback. Yet Minella's humble heritage was to prove more precious that titles and riches, for it freed her to follow her heart, leading her into adventures and dangers she had never dreamed of. It put her directly in the path of another woman's hatred, swept her up into the deadly terrors of the French Revolution and, finally, carried her into the arms of the great and powerful man she loved."</synopsis>
                <title>The Devil On Horseback</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Michael Pryor </author>
                <characters>Aubrey Fitzwilliam, Caroline Hepworth, Dr. Mordecai Tremaine, George Doyle</characters>
                <date>2007</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Steampunk, Fiction, Magic, Adventure, Historical Fantasy, Science Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy</genres>
                <id>2272</id>
                <synopsis>"At a loss after finishing their end-of-year exams, Aubrey and George travel to the Gallian capital, Lutetia, where it so happens that the lovely Caroline is studying natural history. Aubrey wants to pursue a cure for his condition - though his family have other ideas, and he's soon burdened with a royal mystery to solve, old letters to procure, a missing ornithologist to locate and a spot of diplomatic espionage. These tasks should keep Aubrey occupied - but that would be underestimating Aubrey's sense of curiosity and uncanny knack of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Someone is stealing people's souls and turning them into mindless monsters, and the country's magical lifeline, the Heart of Gold, has been stolen, leaving the city in chaos. Aubrey, George, and a somewhat reluctant Caroline are on the case . . ."</synopsis>
                <title>Heart of Gold</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Sharon Stewart </author>
                <characters>Grigori Rasputin, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia</characters>
                <date>Published</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Childrens, Young Adult, Fiction, Classics, Russia, Historical</genres>
                <id>2273</id>
                <synopsis>"Малката Дуня бяга от родното си селце, разположено дълбоко в сибирската тайга. Тя не подозира, че една неочаквана среща ще я отведе в императорския дворец. Там Дуня се сприятелява с палавата и остроумна принцеса Анастасия. Животът им не би могъл да бъде по-прекрасен, но тъмните облаци на революцията надвисват над Русия. Дуня е изправена пред опасността да изгуби своите нови приятели и дори живота си...Канадската писателка Шарън Стюарт е родена пред 1944 г. Живее в град Торонто. Автор е на исторически книги за младите читатели. Най-голям успех постига с романа си ""Принцеса Анастация"" (1999 г.). В него тя майсторски разказва историята на младата принцеса от руското царско семейство."</synopsis>
                <title>The Last Duchess</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Nora Roberts </author>
                <characters>Adrianne al Jaquir, Philip Chamberlain</characters>
                <date>2008</date>
                <genres>Romance, Romantic Suspense, Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Contemporary, Mystery, Suspense, Chick Lit, Adult, Thriller</genres>
                <id>2274</id>
                <synopsis>"A los veinticinco años, la princesa Adrianne lleva una vida que la mayoría de la gente envidiaría. Bella y elegante, emplea los días en organizaciones benéficas y las noches volando, envuelta en glamour, de gala en gala. Pero esta pose de niña rica y consentida no es más que una estratagema, un esfuerzo calculado al milímetro para esconder una peligrosa verdad.Adrianne ha alimentado durante diez años el deseo de venganza. Cuando era niña, todo lo que vio en casa fue la crueldad que se escondía tras el matrimonio aparentemente ideal de sus padres, el reverso de un cuento de hadas. Ahora, Adrianne tiene el plan perfecto para hacer pagar a su famoso padre. Le arrebatará un objeto que él aprecia por encima de todas las cosas: el Sol y la Luna, un fabuloso collar de precio incalculable.No obstante, cuando está lista para la venganza, surge en su vida un hombre que parece adivinar hasta su último secreto. Philip Chamberlain es un tipo inteligente, encantador y enigmático que tiene sus razones para acercarse a la princesa Adrianne. Y solo cuando sea demasiado tarde Adrianne se dará cuenta del peligro que se cierne sobre ella... a la vez que se encontrará entre dos hombres imponentes: uno capaz de robarle la libertad, y otro con el poder de quitarle la vida."</synopsis>
                <title>Deseo y Venganza</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Apollonius of Rhodes, Richard L. Hunter (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Achilles (Greek hero), Athena (Greek goddess), Orpheus, Medea of Colchis, Castor, Pollux, Hylas, Atalanta, Chiron, Peleus, Pelias, Telamon, Heracles, Boreads, Philoctetes, Euphemus, Jason, the Argonaut, Aietes, Hypsipyle</characters>
                <date>1998</date>
                <genres>Classics, Mythology, Poetry, Fiction, Fantasy, Epic, Greece, Literature, Adventure, Ancient</genres>
                <id>2275</id>
                <synopsis>"The Argonautica is the dramatic story of Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece and his relations with the dangerous princess Medea. The only surviving Greek epic to bridge the gap between Homer and late antiquity, this epic poem is the crowning literary achievement of the Ptolemaic court at Alexandria, written by Appolonius of Rhodes in the third century BC. Appollonius explores many of the fundamental aspects of life in a highly original way: love, deceit, heroism, human ignorance of the divine, and the limits of science, and offers a gripping and sometimes disturbing tale in the process. This major new prose translation combines readability with accuracy and an attention to detail that will appeal to general readers and classicists alike."</synopsis>
                <title>Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica)</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Piers Anthony</author>
                <characters>Orlene</characters>
                <date>Feb-91</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal, Magic, Mythology, Supernatural, Adult</genres>
                <id>2276</id>
                <synopsis>"In Pursuit of the Ultimate GoodAfter an overwhelming succession of tragedies, life has finally, mercifully ended for Orlene, once-mortal daughter of Gaea.Joined in Afterlife by Jolie - her protector and the sometime consort of Satan himself - together they seek out a third: Vita, a very contemporary mortal with troubles, attractions, and an unsettling moral code uniquely her own.An extraordinary triumvirate, they embark on a great quest to reawaken the Incarnation of Good in a world where evil reigns - facing challenges that will test the very fiber of their beings with trials as numerous, as mysterious, and as devastating as the Incarnations themselves."</synopsis>
                <title>And Eternity</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Julianna Deering (pen name), DeAnna Julie Dodson </author>
                <characters>Drew Farthering, Carrie Holland, Nick Dennison, Madeline Parker</characters>
                <date>Aug-13</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Historical Fiction, Christian Fiction, Christian, Historical, Historical Mystery, Fiction, Romance, Cozy Mystery, Mystery Thriller</genres>
                <id>2277</id>
                <synopsis>"Drew Farthering loves a good mystery, although he generally expects to find it in the pages of a novel, not on the grounds of his country estate. When a weekend party at Farthering Place is ruined by murder and the police seem flummoxed, Drew decides to look into the crime himself. With the help of his best friend, Nick Dennison, an avid mystery reader, and Madeline Parker, a beautiful and whip-smart American debutante staying as a guest, the three try to solve the mystery as a lark, using the methods from their favorite novels.Soon, financial irregularities at Drew’s stepfather’s company come to light and it’s clear that all who remain at Farthering Place could be in danger. Trying hard to remain one step ahead of the killer–and trying harder to impress Madeline–Drew must decide how far to take this game"</synopsis>
                <title>Rules of Murder</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Agatha Christie</author>
                <characters>Miss Lemon, Parker Pyne, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple</characters>
                <date>Jun-84</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Short Stories, Fiction, Crime, Classics, British Literature, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, Detective, Cozy Mystery</genres>
                <id>2278</id>
                <synopsis>"Mr. Parker Pyne must recover a priceless diamond stolen as a dinner party trick, while Hercule Poirot proves that a crowd is the best cloak for a murder, and Miss Marple solves a baffling crime by the fireside, in an anthology of mystery tales. Reissue."</synopsis>
                <title>The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Amanda Quick , Jayne Ann Krentz </author>
                <characters>Olympia Wingfield, Jared Ryder, Viscount Chillhurst</characters>
                <date>May-94</date>
                <genres>Romance, Historical Romance, Historical, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Regency, Mystery, Regency Romance, Pirates, Adult</genres>
                <id>2279</id>
                <synopsis>"From a cozy cottage in rustic Dorset to a magnificent mansion steeped in secrets comes a dazzling tale of lost pirate gold and legendary love... Once Olympia Wingfield had been free to devote all her time to her true passion: the study of ancient legends and long-lost treasure. But now, with three hellion nephews to raise, the absentminded beauty has very little time for research. Which makes it seem all the more serendipitous when a handsome stranger strides into Olympia's library unannounced and proceeds to set her world to rights. Tall and dark, with long, windswept black hair, Jared Ryder, Viscount Chillhurst, is the embodiment of Olympia's most exotic dreams ... a daring pirate, masquerading in teacher's garb, whose plundering kisses and traveler's tales quickly win her heart. Yet all too soon innocent Olympia will discover that the enigmatic and wickedly sensual Chillhurst is no lowly tutor, but a future earl with a wealth of secrets-—the kind that will lead them both on a perilous quest for hidden fortune and a love worth more than gold."</synopsis>
                <title>Deception</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jennifer Roberson , Jim Burns (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Tiger, Del</characters>
                <date>Mar-99</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Romance, Sword and Sorcery, Epic Fantasy, Magic, High Fantasy, Own, Novels</genres>
                <id>2280</id>
                <synopsis>"TIGERLeft as an infant to die in the desert, and enslaved by the Southron tribe who found him, he had won his freedom and his name by slaying a deadly sandtiger. Now he was a legendary sword-dancer-possibly the best in the South. But his true origins were still unknown.DELBorn in the frozen North, she had seen her family brutally murdered and her youngest brother carried away to be sold into slavery. Compelled by her rage for vengeance, she had become the most deadly sword-singer in the North.In the three years since Tiger and Del's fateful meeting, these mismatched companions have become true partners, their alliance forged by blood, magic, danger, adventure...and something more.Exiled from both the North and the South, the two have now set sail to search for Tiger's homeland-but no journey is ever without complications for Tiger and Del. Shipwrecked, nearly drowned, abducted by pirates, bedeviled by magic, the Southron sword-dancer and the Northern sword-singer finally do arrive at their destination.But before the mystery of his origins can be solved, Tiger must face another truth about himself which may prove more dangerous than any sword-dance. His own personal brand of magic, long denied by Tiger, is finally manifesting. And because of its very uniqueness, Tiger's awakening power may prove his undoing."</synopsis>
                <title>Sword-Born</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>William Beckford</author>
                <characters>Vathek, Carathis, Bababalouk, Morakanabad, Nouronihar, Goulchenrouz</characters>
                <date>1999</date>
                <genres>Gothic, Classics, Horror, Fiction, Fantasy, 18th Century, Literature, Novels, Gothic Horror, British Literature</genres>
                <id>2281</id>
                <synopsis>"Beckford's Gothic novel, Vathek, an Arabian tale, was originally written in French when the author was 21. It is the story of Caliph Vathek, whose eye can kill at a glance, who makes a pact with the Devil, Eblis."</synopsis>
                <title>Vathek</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>R.L. Stine </author>
                <characters>Honey Perkins, Becka Norwood</characters>
                <date>Dec-92</date>
                <genres>Horror, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Thriller, Mystery, Teen, Mystery Thriller, Novels, Juvenile</genres>
                <id>2282</id>
                <synopsis>"Best friends…to the end!Who is Honey Perkins? She’s been telling everyone in Shadyside that she’s Becka Norwood’s best friend. But Becka’s sure she’s never met Honey before.Honey systematically moves in on Becka’s life, copying her in every way. But when Becka presumes to have more than one “best friend,” the horrible accidents begin.Does Honey just want a friend? Becka wonders. Or does she want more—much more!"</synopsis>
                <title>The Best Friend</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Paul S. Newman</author>
                <characters>Scrooge McDuck, Huey, Dewey, and Louie</characters>
                <date>1988</date>
                <genres>Picture Books, Childrens</genres>
                <id>2283</id>
                <synopsis>"Scrooge McDuck, Gyro Gearloose, and Huey, Louie, and Dewey go in a submarine to search for the lost city of Atlantis"</synopsis>
                <title>Ducktales: The Secret City Under the Sea</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Wu Cheng'en, W.J.F. Jenner (Translator)</author>
                <characters>孙悟空, 猪八戒, 沙和尚, 玄奘</characters>
                <date>1993</date>
                <genres>Classics, Fiction, Fantasy, China, Mythology, Literature, Chinese Literature, Asia, Adventure, Novels</genres>
                <id>2284</id>
                <synopsis>"First published in 1952, The Journey to the West, volume I, comprises the first twenty-five chapters of Anthony C. Yu's four-volume translation of Hsi-yu Chi, one of the most beloved classics of Chinese literature. The fantastic tale recounts the sixteen-year pilgrimage of the monk Hsüan-tsang (596-664), one of China's most illustrious religious heroes, who journeyed to India with four animal disciples in quest of Buddhist scriptures. For nearly a thousand years, his exploits were celebrated and embellished in various accounts, culminating in the hundred-chapter Journey to the West, which combines religious allegory with romance, fantasy, humor, and satire."</synopsis>
                <title>Journey to the West</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Enid Blyton, Deborah Allwright (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Amelia Jane</characters>
                <date>2001</date>
                <genres>Childrens, Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Short Stories, British Literature, Young Adult, Adventure</genres>
                <id>2285</id>
                <synopsis>"Look out! Amelia snips the tail off pink rabbit, squirts Tom the soldier with water and gets up to mischief at the beach. The other toys try to teach the terror of the toy cupboard to be well-behaved, but will they succeed?"</synopsis>
                <title>Naughty Amelia Jane!</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Dashiell Hammett</author>
                <characters>The Continental Op</characters>
                <date>2004</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Noir, Short Stories, Crime, Detective, Classics, Hard Boiled, Thriller, Mystery Thriller</genres>
                <id>2286</id>
                <synopsis>"Dashiell Hammett is the true inventor of modern detective fiction and the creator of the private eye, the isolated hero in a world where treachery is the norm. The Continental Op was his great first contribution to the genre and these seven stories, which first appeared in the magazine Black Mask, are the best examples of Hammett's early writing, in which his formidable literary and moral imagination is already operating at full strength. The Continental Op is the dispassionate fat man working for the Continental Detective Agency, modelled on the Pinkerton Agency, whose only interest is in doing his job in a world of violence, passion, desperate action and great excitement.The tenth clew.-The golden horseshoe.-The house in Turk Street.-The girl with the silver eyes.-The whosis kid.-The main death.-The farewell murder."</synopsis>
                <title>The Continental Op</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Terrance Dicks</author>
                <characters>Jo Grant, UNIT, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, The Master (Doctor Who), Captain Mike Yates, Autons, The Third Doctor, John Benton, The Doctor, The Second Master</characters>
                <date>May-75</date>
                <genres>Doctor Who, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Film, Horror</genres>
                <id>2287</id>
                <synopsis>"The evil Master leered at the Doctor, and triumphantly pointed out of the cabin window. The many-tentacled Nestene monster — spearhead of the second Auton invasion of Earth — crouched beside the radio tower!Part crab, part spider, part octopus, its single huge eye blazed with alien intelligence and deadly hatred...Can the Doctor outwit his rival Time Lord, the Master, and save the Earth from the Nestene horror?"</synopsis>
                <title>Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Alexander Cordell</author>
                <characters>Iestyn Mortymer</characters>
                <date>1998</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, British Literature, Novels, Classics, Historical</genres>
                <id>2288</id>
                <synopsis>"Set in the turbulent times of the Industrial Revolution in 19th century Wales, this famous novel begins the story of the Mortymer family and the ironmaking communities of Blaenavon and Nantyglo.It is the book which launched Alexander Cordell in 1959 as a best selling author and was translated into numerous languages to sell millions of copies throughout the world. It is an enthralling story which has now been turned into both play and musical and is regarded as the finest of this popular author’s many novels."</synopsis>
                <title>Rape of the Fair Country</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jo Beverley</author>
                <characters>Elizabeth Armitage, Lucien de Vaux</characters>
                <date>Jan-12</date>
                <genres>Historical Romance, Romance, Historical, Regency, Historical Fiction, Regency Romance, Fiction, Audiobook, Adult, Drama</genres>
                <id>2289</id>
                <synopsis>"Beth Armitage duce viata simpla pe care si-a dorit-o, caci slujba de profesoara la un pension de fete i-a oferit independenta la care a visat intotdeauna si, mai ales, libertatea de a nu fi supusa toanelor unui sot. Soarta insa i-a pregatit o surpriza neasteptata, cand afla ca originile ei nu sunt tocmai modeste, caci tata ii este ducele de Becraven. Obligata de acesta sa se marite cu Lucien de Vaux, marchiz de Arden, Beth se trezeste aruncata in lumea necunoscuta a aristocratiei pe care o dispretuieste atat de mult. Decisa sa-l urasca pe cel care i-a fost ales drept sot, Beth descopera ca are nevoie de toata puterea pentru a rezista farmecelor lui Lucien, caci, pentru prima oara in viata, inima ei pare gata sa se predea neconditionat.Romanele lui Jo Beverley s-au vandut in milioane de exemplare in intreaga lume si au fost rasplatite cu numeroase premii, printre care si cinci trofee RITA din partea Asociatiei Scriitorilor de Romane de Dragoste din America.Mireasa fara voie a castigat Premiul RITA si Premiul Golden Leaf, pentru cel mai bun roman istoric de dragoste."</synopsis>
                <title>Mireasa fara voie</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Andrzej Sapkowski</author>
                <characters>Reynevan</characters>
                <date>2006</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Polish Literature, Fiction, Audiobook, Historical, Historical Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Novels, Poland</genres>
                <id>2290</id>
                <synopsis>"Krótko po południu bombardy zamilkły. Blidy i trebusze przestały miotać pociski. Rozległ się grzmiący sygnał trąb. Załopotały rozwinięte sztandary i proporce. Rozbrzmiał bojowy wrzask. Pięć tysięcy taborytów runęło do szturmu na Plauen. Po dwóch godzinach było po wszystkim. Sforsowano po drabinach mury, rozwalono taranami bramy. Zgnieciono opór, obrońców wycięto w pień. Pardonu nie dawano. W trzeciej godzinie zdobyto zamek, wszyscy obrońcy poszli pod nóż. Krótko potem padł klasztor dominikański, ostatni punkt oporu.I wtedy zaczęła się rzeź.Reynevan, główny bohater tomów ""Narrenturm"" i ""Boży bojownicy"", nadal ma kłopoty, ciągle ktoś dybie na jego życie bądź przedstawia mu propozycję nie do odrzucenia. Prześladują go prozaiczni agenci wywiadu oraz siły nieczyste, wcale nie ukrywające swej diabelskiej proweniencji. Ale Reynevan żyje przecież w okrutnych i niebezpiecznych czasach. Na Śląsku i w Czechach, gdy przez ziemie te przetaczały się krucjaty i husyckie wyprawy odwetowe. Gdy nie znany słowa: ""Litość"" i z imieniem Boga na ustach wyrzynano tysiące niewinnych. Reinmar wierzy w religijną odnowę, staje po stronie zwolenników Husa, nawet gdy ci dokonują niewiarygodnych zbrodni. On, medyk i zielarz, idealista i bezinteresowny obrońca chorych i cierpiących, musi wcielić się w rolę husyckiego szpiega, dywersanta, zabójcy i bezlitosnego mściciela. Rozdarty pomiędzy obowiązkiem a głosem serca, stawia wszystko na jedną kartę, byle wyrwać ukochaną z rąk wrogów."</synopsis>
                <title>Lux perpetua</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Piers Anthony</author>
                <characters>Orb Kaftan, Pride of the Kingdom, Rapture of Malachite</characters>
                <date>Dec-87</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Magic, Mythology, War, Paranormal, Adventure</genres>
                <id>2291</id>
                <synopsis>"Mym falls in love with Orb, then Princess Rapture in Honeymoon Castle, but father wants to force another marriage. In berserker rage, he takes office of War. He tries to ease suffering caused by human conflicts, When demoness Lila says pretty Princess Ligeia is trapped by Satan, he has to organize a rebellion in Hell to set everyone free. Author Note 24-pg bio 1-pg."</synopsis>
                <title>Wielding a Red Sword</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Robert Kurson </author>
                <characters>John Chatterton, Richie Kohler</characters>
                <date>2004</date>
                <genres>Nonfiction, History, Adventure, Biography, Audiobook, World War II, War, Mystery, Historical, Science</genres>
                <id>2292</id>
                <synopsis>"In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a great historical mystery–and make history themselves.For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep wreck diving was more than a sport. Testing themselves against treacherous currents, braving depths that induced hallucinatory effects, navigating through wreckage as perilous as a minefield, they pushed themselves to their limits and beyond, brushing against death more than once in the rusting hulks of sunken ships.But in the fall of 1991, not even these courageous divers were prepared for what they found 230 feet below the surface, in the frigid Atlantic waters sixty miles off the coast of New Jersey: a World War II German U-boat, its ruined interior a macabre wasteland of twisted metal, tangled wires, and human bones–all buried under decades of accumulated sediment.No identifying marks were visible on the submarine or the few artifacts brought to the surface. No historian, expert, or government had a clue as to which U-boat the men had found. In fact, the official records all agreed that there simply could not be a sunken U-boat and crew at that location.Over the next six years, an elite team of divers embarked on a quest to solve the mystery. Some of them would not live to see its end. Chatterton and Kohler, at first bitter rivals, would be drawn into a friendship that deepened to an almost mystical sense of brotherhood with each other and with the drowned U-boat sailors–former enemies of their country. As the men’s marriages frayed under the pressure of a shared obsession, their dives grew more daring, and each realized that he was hunting more than the identities of a lost U-boat and its nameless crew.Author Robert Kurson’s account of this quest is at once thrilling and emotionally complex, and it is written with a vivid sense of what divers actually experience when they meet the dangers of the ocean’s underworld. The story of Shadow Divers often seems too amazing to be true, but it all happened, two hundred thirty feet down, in the deep blue sea."</synopsis>
                <title>Shadow Divers</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Orson Scott Card</author>
                <characters>Alvin Maker</characters>
                <date>2001</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Alternate History, Science Fiction Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction, Historical, Magic, Young Adult, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>2293</id>
                <synopsis>"Peggy is a Torch, able to see the fire burning in each person's heart. From the moment of Alvin Maker's birth, when the Unmaker first strove to kill him, she has protected him. Now they are married. But Alvin's destiny has taken them on separate journeys. But only one slender path exists that leads through the bloodshed, and it is Peggy's quest to set the world on that path to peace."</synopsis>
                <title>Heartfire</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Carolyn Keene</author>
                <characters>Nancy Drew, Ned Nickerson</characters>
                <date>1975</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Adventure, Juvenile, Mystery Thriller, Crime</genres>
                <id>2294</id>
                <synopsis>"Rumors of a treasure hidden long ago in a city now buried under the Nevada desert lead Nancy, Bess and George to join a college sponsored archaeological dig in search of this priceless gold. Clues from an ancient stone with petroglyphs lead Nancy to the hidden treasure. Danger from a clever thief wanting this cache almost causes Nancy and Ned to lose their lives! This book is the original text. A revised text does not exist."</synopsis>
                <title>The Secret of the Forgotten City</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Suzanne Weyn</author>
                <characters>Mfumbe Taylor, Kayla Reed</characters>
                <date>Aug-06</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fiction, Adventure, Romance, Teen, Fantasy, Futuristic, Mystery</genres>
                <id>2295</id>
                <synopsis>"Kayla has resisted getting the bar code tattoo, even though it's meant forfeiting a ""normal"" life. Without the tattoo, she's an exile. But she can't stay an exile for long. . . . For reasons she doesn't completely understand - but will soon discover - Kayla is at the center of a lethal conspiracy that will soon threaten the very notion of freedom. Kayla can either give in to the bar code, or she can join the resistance and fight it. The choice, to her, is clear:It's time to fight.They want your identity.They want your freedom.They can't have them.The bar code rebellion."</synopsis>
                <title>The Bar Code Rebellion</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Italo Calvino, Cesare Pavese (Afterword)</author>
                <characters>Pin, Lupo Rosso, Cugino, Dritto, Mancino, Giglia, Kim, Pelle</characters>
                <date>Sept-93</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Italian Literature, Italy, Novels, War, Historical Fiction, Literature, School, World War II</genres>
                <id>2296</id>
                <synopsis>"Pubblicato nel 1947, Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno è il romanzo d’esordio di Italo Calvino. Protagonista è un ragazzino, Pin, che vive in un clima di privazioni e confusione, nel periodo della Resistenza. Avendo rubato una pistola a un soldato tedesco, Pin decide di nasconderla in un sentiero sperduto, per lui quasi magico, dove i ragni fanno il nido. Il bambino entra poi in un gruppo di partigiani, ognuno con la sua storia e un indistinto, personale ideale da seguire. Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno è un romanzo di iniziazione alla vita, caratterizzato da un forte realismo, al quale s’intrecciano i fili del meraviglioso, del fantastico e del fiabesco. Una peculiarità stilistica che diventerà il tratto distintivo di Calvino negli anni della maturità."</synopsis>
                <title>Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jed Rubenfeld</author>
                <characters>Stratham Younger, Jimmy Littlemore, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung</characters>
                <date>2007</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Crime, Thriller, Historical, Psychology, Mystery Thriller, Historical Mystery, Suspense</genres>
                <id>2297</id>
                <synopsis>"In this ingenious, suspenseful historical thriller, Sigmund Freud is drawn into the mind of a sadistic killer who is savagely attacking Manhattan’s wealthiest heiresses Inspired by Sigmund Freud’s only visit to America, The Interpretation of Murder is an intricate tale of murder and the mind’s most dangerous mysteries. It unfurls on a sweltering August evening in 1909 as Freud disembarks from the steamship George Washington, accompanied by Carl Jung, his rival and protégé. Across town, in an opulent apartment high above the city, a stunning young woman is found dangling from a chandelier—whipped, mutilated, and strangled. The next day, a second beauty—a rebellious heiress who scorns both high society and her less adventurous parents—barely escapes the killer. Yet Nora Acton, suffering from hysteria, can recall nothing of her attack. Asked to help her, Dr. Stratham Younger, America’s most committed Freudian analyst, calls in his idol, the Master himself, to guide him through the challenges of analyzing this high-spirited young woman whose family past has been as complicated as his own. The Interpretation of Murder leads readers from the salons of Gramercy Park, through secret passages, to Chinatown—even far below the currents of the East River where laborers are building the Manhattan Bridge. As Freud fends off a mysterious conspiracy to destroy him, Younger is drawn into an equally thrilling adventure that takes him deep into the subterfuges of the human mind. Richly satisfying, elegantly crafted, The Interpretation of Murder marks the debut of a brilliant, spectacularly entertaining new storyteller. In 2007 The Interpretation of Murder won the prestigious Best Read of the Year award from Richard and Judy's Bookclub in the UK (comparable to Oprah Winfrey in the USA)."</synopsis>
                <title>The Interpretation of Murder</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Suzannah Dunn</author>
                <characters>Thomas Seymour, Henry VIII of England, Catherine Parr, Elizabeth I of England, Edward VI of England, Jane Grey, Mary I of England</characters>
                <date>2007</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Tudor Period, British Literature, Romance, Adult, Adult Fiction, Womens, Elizabethan Period</genres>
                <id>2298</id>
                <synopsis>"'The Sixth Wife' is a gripping novel of love, passion, betrayal and heartbreak. Catharine Parr survived Henry VIII to find true love with Thomas Seymour - only to realise that her love was based on a lie."</synopsis>
                <title>The Sixth Wife</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Agatha Christie</author>
                <characters>Jerry Burton, Joanna Burton, Megan Hunter, Aimée Griffith, Owen Griffith, Richard Symmington, Elsie Holland, Agnes Woddell, Maud Dane Calthrop, Miss Emily Barton, Mr. Pye, Florence Elford, Miss Partridge, Inspector Graves, Superintendent Nash, Mona Symmington, Miss Marple</characters>
                <date>2012</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Detective, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Audiobook, Murder Mystery, Cozy Mystery</genres>
                <id>2299</id>
                <synopsis>"The placid village of Lymstock seems the perfect place for Jerry Burton to recuperate from his accident under the care of his sister, Joanna. But soon a series of vicious poison-pen letters destroys the village's quiet charm, eventually causing one recipient to commit suicide. The vicar, the doctor, the servants—all are on the verge of accusing one another when help arrives from an unexpected quarter. The vicar's houseguest happens to be none other than Jane Marple."</synopsis>
                <title>The Moving Finger</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kirsten Miller </author>
                <characters>Haven Moore, Iain Morrow, Adam Rosier, Beau Decker</characters>
                <date>Jun-12</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal, Mystery, Teen, Magic, Young Adult Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural</genres>
                <id>2300</id>
                <synopsis>"Hace un año que Haven Moore escapó a Roma, dejando atrás a la Sociedad Ouroboros y a su diabólico líder, Adam Rosier. Ahora está de regreso en Nueva York con su amado Iain. Pero se supone que Iain está muerto. Y si Adam descubre el engaño, no les dará una segunda oportunidad. Mientras tanto, Beau Decker ha desaparecido. Su vida está en manos de Haven.Las Horae, un grupo de hermanas místicas, guardan la llave del destino de Beau. Ellas desean encerrar a Adam para siempre y Haven representa su única debilidad. Para salvar a Beau, Haven deberá seducir a Adam y conducirlo hasta la guarida de las Horae. Pero Adam Rosier siempre ha tenido una manera muy particular de seducirla. Y cuanto más cerca se encuentra Haven de su enemigo, más sucumbe a su encanto. La vida de Beau está en juego, pero esta vez Haven no puede confiar ni siquiera en ella misma. Cada decisión que tome cambiará su destino. ¿Qué tan lejos llegará por la gente que ama?"</synopsis>
                <title>Deseos</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Victoria Alexander </author>
                <characters>Felicity Melville, Nigel Cavendish</characters>
                <date>Feb-07</date>
                <genres>Historical Romance, Romance, Historical, Regency, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Regency Romance, Victorian, Adult, Victorian Romance</genres>
                <id>2301</id>
                <synopsis>"One bachelor down . . . three more to go. Four most desirable gentlemen have wagered one shilling apiece and a bottle of cognac that will go to the last unmarried man standing . . .Nigel Cavendish knows he'll marry one day, but hopefully that day is many years—and many women—in the future! Until then, the handsome, unrepentant rake intends to enjoy life's pleasures to the fullest!From the moment Lady Felicity Melville spies the adventurous scoundrel climbing from a neighbor's window—with his comely conquest's husband in hot pursuit—she knows Nigel is the answer to her prayers . . . with a little reformation, of course! Felicity craves excitement and who in all of London is more exciting than the infamous Mr. Cavendish? So what's a girl to do but hatch a scheme to win what she so fervently desires. But her plan works too well when a game of chance and an errant pistol shot abruptly make them husband and wife—but in a way neither wanted.Now Felicity has to prove to her wayward husband that she's the only woman he could ever want . . . or need!"</synopsis>
                <title>What A Lady Wants</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</author>
                <characters>Orestes, Thoas, Pylades, Arkas, Iphigeneia, princess of Argos</characters>
                <date>1986</date>
                <genres>Classics, Plays, German Literature, Drama, School, Fiction, Read For School, Mythology, Literature, 18th Century</genres>
                <id>2302</id>
                <synopsis>"Da sie Diana ihr Leben verdankt, dient Iphigenie der Göttin auf der Insel Tauris als Priesterin, obwohl sie sich schmerzlich nach ihrer Heimat Griechenland sehnt. Als ihr Bruder Orest auf die Insel kommt und der Göttin geopfert werden soll, muss Iphigenie sich zwischen Pflicht und eigenen Wünschen entscheiden. Goethes Bearbeitung des antiken Stoffs, die er 1786 endgültig abschloss, besticht durch ihre glanzvolle Komposition und psychologische Tiefe: Mit seinem Drama »Iphigenie auf Tauris« schuf er eines der großen Meisterwerke der Weimarer Klassik."</synopsis>
                <title>Iphigenie auf Tauris</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Stan Lee (Writer), Roy Thomas (Writer)</author>
                <characters>Harry Osborn, Bobby Drake, Michael Morbius, Gwen Stacy, Norman Osborn, Peter Parker</characters>
                <date>2002</date>
                <genres>Comics, Graphic Novels, Marvel, Spider Man, Superheroes, Comic Book, Fantasy, Fiction, Classics</genres>
                <id>2303</id>
                <synopsis>Amazing Spider-Man #90-113</synopsis>
                <title>Essential The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 5</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Agatha Christie</author>
                <characters>Raymond West, Sir Henry Clithering, Inspector Drewitt, Colonel Melchett, Joyce Joan Lemprière, Dr. Pender, Mr. Petherick, Colonel Bantry, Mrs. Bantry, Dr, Lloyd, Jane Helier, Miss Marple</characters>
                <date>2002</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Short Stories, Classics, Detective, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Murder Mystery, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>2304</id>
                <synopsis>The Tuesday Night Club is a venue where locals challenge Miss Marple to solve recent crimes. One Tuesday evening a group gathers at Miss Marple’s house and the conversation turns to unsolved crimes. The case of the disappearing bloodstains; the thief who committed his crime twice over; the message on the death-bed of a poisoned man which read ‘heap of fish’; the strange case of the invisible will; a spiritualist who warned that ‘Blue Geranium’ meant death. Now pit your wits against the powers of deduction of the ‘Tuesday Night Club’.</synopsis>
                <title>The Thirteen Problems</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Peter James</author>
                <characters>Michael Tennent</characters>
                <date>2006</date>
                <genres>Crime, Thriller, Horror, Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Psychiatry</genres>
                <id>2305</id>
                <synopsis>A young editor &amp; a psychiatrist are devastated by the realisation that the man they considered to be mad actually holds the most terrifying truth of all. The man believes that God does exist and what's more he has the proof.</synopsis>
                <title>Denial</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Enid Blyton</author>
                <characters>Peter (Secret Seven), Jack (Secret Seven), Janet (Secret Seven), George (Secret Seven), Pam (Secret Seven), Barbara (Secret Seven), Colin (Secret Seven)</characters>
                <date>2006</date>
                <genres>Childrens, Mystery, Adventure, Fiction, Classics, Young Adult, British Literature, Childrens Classics, Detective, Novels</genres>
                <id>2306</id>
                <synopsis>"A priceless pearl necklace has been stolen, and the Secret Seven witnessed the thief making his escape. But where has he hidden the necklace?"</synopsis>
                <title>The Secret Seven Adventure</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>J.D. Robb , Susan Ericksen (Narrator), Satu Leveelahti (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Eve Dallas, Roarke, Delia Peabody, Ryan Feeney, Charlotte Mira, Commander Jack Whitney, Mavis Freestone, Nadine Furst, Lawrence Charles Summerset, Leonardo (designer), Dickie Berenski, Dr. Morris</characters>
                <date>Sept-06</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Romance, Crime, Romantic Suspense, Fiction, Futuristic, Suspense, Science Fiction, Thriller, Mystery Thriller</genres>
                <id>2307</id>
                <synopsis>"They died with smiles on their faces. Three apparent suicides: a brilliant engineer, an infamous lawyer, and a controversial politician. Three strangers with nothing in common - and no obvious reasons for killing themselves. Lieutenant Eve Dallas found the deaths suspicious. And her instincts paid off when autopsies revealed small burns on the brains of the victims.Was it a genetic abnormality or a high-tech method of murder? Eve's investigation turned to the provocative world of virtual-reality games - where the same techniques used to create joy and desire could also prompt the mind to become the weapon of its own destruction..."</synopsis>
                <title>Rapture in Death</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Carolyn Keene</author>
                <characters>Nancy Drew, Ned Nickerson, Marty King</characters>
                <date>1974</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Juvenile, Middle Grade, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Adventure</genres>
                <id>2308</id>
                <synopsis>"When Nancy eagerly agrees to help Carson Drew solve the mystery of the glowing eye, she cannot know Ned will be kidnapped! A puzzling note in his handwriting sets Nancy, Bess and George on a hazardous search for a bizarre criminal. The young detectives follow a maze of clues to locate the kidnapper’s hideout. Nancy must not only thwart the criminal but also must contend with the high-handed methods of a woman lawyer who tries to take the glowing eye mystery away from her. This book is the original text. A revised text does not exist."</synopsis>
                <title>Mystery of the Glowing Eye</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Poul Anderson</author>
                <characters>Holger Carlsen</characters>
                <date>Dec-03</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Classics, Time Travel, Science Fiction Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, Adventure, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy</genres>
                <id>2309</id>
                <synopsis>"The gathering forces of the Dark Powers threatened the world of man. The legions of Faery, aided by trolls, demons and the Wild Hunt itself, were poised to overthrow the realms of light.And alone against the armies of Chaos stood one man, the knight of Three Hearts and Three Lions. Carlsen, a twentieth-century man snatched out of time to become again the legendary Holger Danske to fight for the world he had helped to build."</synopsis>
                <title>Three Hearts and Three Lions</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Elizabeth Edmondson, Isabel Alves (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Beatrice Malaspina, Delia Vaughan, Jessica Meldon, Dr. George Helsinger, Marjorie Swift, Lucius Wilde, Giles Slattery, Richard Meldon, Josiah Winthrop, Olivia Hawkins, Theo (The Villa in Italy), Miffy Wolfson, Elfrida</characters>
                <date>2008</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Italy, Historical, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Travel, Historical Mystery</genres>
                <id>2310</id>
                <synopsis>"Quatro pessoas aparentemente sem nada em comum vêem o seu nome mencionado no testamento de uma mulher que não conhecem. Quem foi Beatrice Malaspina e porque exige que compareçam na sua villa em Itália? Enquanto esperam pelas respostas, a magia do lugar começa a exercer os seus efeitos sobre eles: os frescos desbotados, os jardins exuberantes e a magnífica torre medieval não se assemelham a nada que já tenham visto. Aos poucos, quatro pessoas que sempre fizeram os possíveis por esconder os seus problemas descobrem que a mudança – e até mesmo a esperança – é possível. Mas a misteriosa Beatrice tem um segredo que os afectará a todos…"</synopsis>
                <title>Uma Villa em Itália</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Paul Féval père</author>
                <characters>Lagardère</characters>
                <date>2000</date>
                <genres>Classics, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Adventure, France, French Literature, Historical, Novels, Romance, Literature</genres>
                <id>2311</id>
                <synopsis>"Est-il besoin de présenter l’histoire du chevalier de Lagardère qui, pour venir en aide à la malheureuse Aurore de Nevers, privée de son père, de son nom et de sa fortune, affronte les ennemis les plus cyniques et les plus corrompus ?En faisant surgir, dans le Paris de la Régence (1715-1722), possédé par la fièvre financière du système de Law, l’inoffensif bossu qui prête son dos aux spéculateurs et aux agioteurs de tout poil, Paul Féval (1817-1887) a donné à la littérature française une de ses figures les plus populaires, avec Jean Valjean, d’Artagnan et Cyrano.Intrigues, duels, guets-apens, coups de théâtre, sur la toile de fond d’un Paris aux ruelles sordides, menaçantes, et d’une Cour étincelante et dépravée : rien ne manque dans ce ""roman de cape et d’épée"", jusqu’au moment où la terrible ""botte de Nevers"" punira le crime et fera triompher la justice..."</synopsis>
                <title>Le Bossu</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Su Walton</author>
                <characters>Adam Bound</characters>
                <date>1970</date>
                <genres>Fiction</genres>
                <id>2312</id>
                <synopsis>"As a boy, Adam Bound issues a challenge to the universe: ""I was here before Kilroy."" And, amid the jostling interests of his friends at school, his twin cousins Maeve and Beatrice, and the rest of his adoptive family, he sets out to find the reason for existence."</synopsis>
                <title>Here Before Kilroy</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>HaveYouSeenThisGirL , Jan Irene Villar (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Reah Rodriguez, Cross Sanford, Chad Jimenez</characters>
                <date>May-13</date>
                <genres>Diary, Romance, Young Adult, Comedy, Humor, Love, Contemporary, Fiction, Media Tie In, Realistic Fiction</genres>
                <id>2313</id>
                <synopsis>"Mahirap at panget si Girl tapos magnet siya ng mga poging mayayaman na boys? YES! Cliché? YES! So what makes this book special? This story has made a lot of people online laugh, as in hagalpak talaga with matching headbang pa! This is Eya's diary, a girl who believes she's ugly and will meet Cross Sandford, the most annoying nilalang ever. Samahan natin si Eya sa nakakaloka niyang adventure sa Willford Academy! A Cinderella story with a twist katatawanan! A story na pwedeng-pwede sa mga kabataan at pati na rin sa lagpas kabataan, para sa kababaihan, kalalakihan, binabae, o pusong lalaki. A very funny and kakilig story."</synopsis>
                <title>Diary ng Panget</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jeremy A. Bastian</author>
                <characters>Cursed Pirate Girl, Apollonia</characters>
                <date>2012</date>
                <genres>Graphic Novels, Comics, Fantasy, Fiction, Pirates, Adventure, Graphic Novels Comics, Young Adult, Art, Bande Dessinée</genres>
                <id>2314</id>
                <synopsis>"Adventures on and under the high seas lead a cursed pirate girl to encounter mythic creatures, gnarled and crusty pirates, and ghostly apparitions as she tries to find her lost father, one of the dreaded Pirate Captains of the mythical Omerta Seas. A whimsical swashbuckling tale of wonderland journeys and unimaginable dangers, starting in Port Elisabeth, Jamaica in the year 1728, and quickly heading across—and beneath—the waves. The first three issues of Cursed Pirate Girl are collected in this edition with an all-new epilogue."</synopsis>
                <title>Cursed Pirate Girl: The Collected Edition, Volume One</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Mark Waid (Writer), Greg Rucka (Writer), Chris Samnee  (Artist), Marco Checchetto (Artist), Khoi Pham (Artist)</author>
                <characters>Matt Murdock, Frank Castle, Tony Stark, Peter Parker</characters>
                <date>Sept-12</date>
                <genres>Comics, Graphic Novels, Marvel, Superheroes, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Fiction, Adventure, Comix, American</genres>
                <id>2315</id>
                <synopsis>"It's the meanest team-up you ever saw as Daredevil, Spider-Man and the Punisher find themselves caught up in an epic chase across Manhattan for the Omega Drive - a powerful and dangerous information source that could change the course of all their lives! Plus: It's lawyers in love as Matt Murdock finally makes some time for Assistant District Attorney Kirsten McDuffie. But when Megacrime strikes back at Daredevil, the sightless super hero finds himself imprisoned in Latveria for crimes against the state! And as the law firm of Nelson &amp; Murdock undergoes a drastic change, Matt's ""happy go lucky"" veneer at last begins to peel back, revealing darker truths that may just end his heroic career.Collecting: Daredevil 11-15, Avenging Spider-Man 6, &amp; The Punisher 10"</synopsis>
                <title>Daredevil, Volume 3</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Gordon Korman</author>
                <characters>Aiden Falconer, Meg Falconer</characters>
                <date>Jul-06</date>
                <genres>Adventure, Mystery, Realistic Fiction, Middle Grade, Fiction, Action, Childrens, Young Adult, Survival, Thriller</genres>
                <id>2316</id>
                <synopsis>"MISSING!Where is Meg Falconer?Everybody wants to know. Her brother Aiden, who saw her kidnapped and is now trying to track her down, wants to know. The FBI, led by the very serious Agent Harris, wants to know. Her parents, who fear their pasts have something to do with why Meg was taken, want to know.Even Meg's kidnappers want to know. Because catching her doesn't always mean keeping her."</synopsis>
                <title>The Search</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Miriam Elia, Ezra Elia, Radu Paraschivescu (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Edward the Hamster, Wolf the Hamster, Camilla the Hamster</characters>
                <date>2012</date>
                <genres>Humor, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Animals, Philosophy, Comedy, Comics, Graphic Novels Comics, Short Stories, Comic Book</genres>
                <id>2317</id>
                <synopsis>"Avem de-a face cu o operă extraordinară: meditaţii pro­funde cu privire la natura captivităţii şi la suflet, împletite cu banalităţi mistuitoare ale vieţii de zi cu zi, iluminează micile pagini ale documentului. Edward destramă textura blazării şi ne sileşte să discutăm despre imboldul care-l face pe oricare dintre noi să pună tocul pe hârtie. Scurta lui viaţă se înfăţişează pe de-a-ntregul aici, dar cu siguran­ţă că vocea lui va avea ecou şi în secolele care vor urma."</synopsis>
                <title>Edward. Jurnalul unui hamster. 1990-1990</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>R.A. Salvatore</author>
                <characters>Drizzt Do’Urden</characters>
                <date>Aug-94</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Forgotten Realms, Fiction, Dungeons and Dragons, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Magic, Adventure, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>2318</id>
                <synopsis>"I can find no answers in Mithril Hall....The apparent serenity of Drizzt Do'Urden, the brooding quiet, will show me nothing of the future designs of the drow. yet, for the sake of my friends, I must know those dark intentions. And so I fear that there remains only one place for me to look...The Underdark. A place of brooding darkness, where no shadows exist, and where Drizzt Do'Urden does not wish to go. The noble dark elf must return there, though, must go back to find his friends in the gnome city of Blingdenstone, and on to Menzoberranzan, the city of drow. Only then can Drizzt discern what perils might reach out from that dark place to threaten his friends in Mithril Hall.he finds allies where he least expects them and enemies he htough long gone. His scimitars slash at monsters too evil to reside under the sunlight of the surface world, while his inner strength wrestles with the tumult of emotions assaulting the noble drow when he looks once more on his dreaded homeland. All the while Drizzt must fend off the weight of guilt he carries for a dear friend lost to him forever."</synopsis>
                <title>Starless Night</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Val McDermid</author>
                <characters>Tony Hill, Carol Jordan</characters>
                <date>2009</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Crime, Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Detective, Novels, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>2319</id>
                <synopsis>"Meet Tony Hill's most twisted adversary - a killer with a shopping list of victims, a killer unmoved by youth and innocence, a killer driven by the most perverted desires ...When teenager Jennifer Maidment's murdered and mutilated body is discovered, it is clear that there is a dangerous psychopath on the loose. But it's not long before Tony and DCI Carol Jordan realise it's just the start of a brutal and ruthless campaign targeting an apparently unconnected group of young people. Their chameleon-like killer is chatting with them online, pretending to share their interests and beliefs - and then luring them to their deaths.But just when Tony should be at the heart of the hunt, he's pushed to the margins by Carol's cost-cutting boss and replaced by a dangerously inexperienced profiler. Struggling with the newly awakened ghosts of his own past and desperate for distraction in his work, Tony battles to find the answers that will give him personal and professional satisfaction in his most nerve-shattering investigation yet.Psychologically gripping and relentlessly paced, 'Fever of the Bone' is the perfect introduction for those who have not yet discovered the damaged but brilliant criminal profiler Tony Hill and DCI Carol Jordan, best known from ITV's award-winning 'Wire in the Blood'."</synopsis>
                <title>Fever of the Bone</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Henryk Sienkiewicz</author>
                <characters>Kali, Staś Tarkowski, Nel Rawlison, Mea</characters>
                <date>2003</date>
                <genres>Classics, Polish Literature, Fiction, Adventure, Childrens, School, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Poland, Africa</genres>
                <id>2320</id>
                <synopsis>"Staś Tarkowski i Nel Rawilison to dzieci inżynierów budujących Kanał Sueski w Egipcie, gdzie toczy się akurat ""święta wojna"" przeciwko kolonizatorom. Dzieci zostają porwane i od tej chwili zaczyna się ich podróż przez Afrykę, podczas której przeżywają przygodę za przygodą, jedną niebezpieczniejszą od drugiej."</synopsis>
                <title>W pustyni i w puszczy</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Susan Grant </author>
                <characters>Reef, Evie Holloway</characters>
                <date>Aug-07</date>
                <genres>Romance, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Romance, Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Fantasy, Aliens, Fiction, Futuristic, Contemporary</genres>
                <id>2321</id>
                <synopsis>"Can a single mom who's afraid to lose her heart find love with a fugitive cyborg who's forgotten he has one?Evie hasn't forgiven Reef for invading her home and terrorizing her chihuahua, but agrees to a temporary stay to help Earth avoid an alien invasion. But does the suburban mom really want to shelter the alien hit man who almost offed her sister and future brother-in-law?Reef can't understand why these humans care about him, and has no memory of his life before he was conscripted and turned into a bio-engineered super solder. But as his computers fail, the man he once was emerges, and soon he’s determined to figure out how to navigate this thing called love.Read the hot and heartwarming conclusion to the OtherWorldly Men series today!The Borderlands Series:Book #1 WARLEADERBook #2 HUNTING THE WARLORD'S DAUGHTERBook #3 RAIDER BORNThree Borderlands prequels: (The Otherworldly Men Series)Book #1 GUARDIAN ALIENBook #2 ROYAL RECRUITBook #3 CYBORG AND THE SINGLE MOM"</synopsis>
                <title>How to Lose an Extraterrestrial in 10 Days</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Gordon Korman</author>
                <characters>Aiden Falconer, Meg Falconer</characters>
                <date>May-06</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Adventure, Childrens, Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Middle Grade, Action, Young Adult, Thriller, Suspense</genres>
                <id>2322</id>
                <synopsis>"TRAPPED!It's every brother's worst fear: As Aiden and his sister, Meg, are walking home from school one day, a van pulls over and Meg is kidnapped. There's no way for Aiden to stop it from happening. He's the only witness to his sister's disappearance.Why has Meg been kidnapped? For ransom? As a vendetta against Meg and Aiden's parents? Or is there an even bigger conspiracy at work? While Meg fends off her kidnappers and plans an escape, Aiden must team up with the FBI to try to find her - tracking down clues only a brother could recognize."</synopsis>
                <title>The Abduction</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Carolyn Keene</author>
                <characters>Nancy Drew</characters>
                <date>1961</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Adventure, Mystery Thriller, Crime</genres>
                <id>2323</id>
                <synopsis>"Eloise Drew asks her niece to investigate the disappearance of her neighbor, a young university student. In New York, Nancy, Bess and George are drawn into the intrigue and danger of a smuggling ring. Nancy plans a clever ruse: George is disguised as the missing Chinese girl! The girl detective is also suspicious of an unpleasant bookstore owner and his loud, overbearing female customer. A series of clues lead the girls to Hong Kong. Ned, who is studying in Hong Kong, joins them. The amateur detectives follow more clues to the international smuggling ring. This book is the original text. A revised text does not exist."</synopsis>
                <title>The Mystery of the Fire Dragon</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Diana Wynne Jones</author>
                <characters>Christopher ""Kit"" Rodriguez, Mara, Eric Brooks, Don, Derk, Shona, Callette, Lydda, Elda, Querida, Mr. Chesney</characters>
                <date>Aug-03</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Humor, Magic, Dragons, Adventure, High Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy, Childrens</genres>
                <id>2324</id>
                <synopsis>"Everyone - wizards, soldiers, farmers, elves, dragons, kings and queens alike - is fed up with Mr Chesney's Pilgrim Parties: groups of tourists from the world next door who descend en masse every year to take the Grand Tour. What they expect are all the trappings of a grand fantasy adventure, including the Evil Enchantress, Wizard Guides, the Dark Lord, Winged Minions, and all. And every year different people are chosen to play these parts. But now they've had enough: Mr Chesney may be backed by a very powerful demon, but the Oracles have spoken. Now it's up to the Wizard Derk and his son Blade, this year's Dark Lord and Wizard Guide, not to mention Blade's griffin brothers and sisters, to save the world from Mr Chesney's depredations."</synopsis>
                <title>Dark Lord of Derkholm</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Walter Mosley</author>
                <characters>Socrates Fortlow</characters>
                <date>1997</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Short Stories, Mystery, African American, Crime, Literature, Mystery Thriller, American, Audiobook, Literary Fiction</genres>
                <id>2325</id>
                <synopsis>"In this cycle of 14 bittersweet stories, Walter Mosley breaks out of the genre-if not the setting-of his bestselling Easy Rawlins detective novels. Only eight years after serving out a prison sentence for murder, Socrates Fortlow lives in a tiny, two-room Watts apartment, where he cooks on a hot plate, scavenges for bottles, drinks and wrestles with his demons. Struggling to control a seemingly boundless rage-as well as the power of his massive ""rock-breaking"" hands-Socrates must find a way to live an honourable life as a black man on the margins of a white world, a task which takes every ounce of self-control he has.  Easy Rawlins fans might initially find themselves disappointed by the absence of a mystery to unravel. But it's a gripping inner drama that unfolds over the pages of these stories, as Socrates comes to grips with the chaos, poverty and violence around him. He tries to get and keep a job delivering groceries; takes in a young street kid named Darryl, who has his own murder to hide; and helps drive out the neighbourhood crack dealer. Throughout, Mosley captures the rhythms of Watts life in prose both lyrical and hard-edged, resulting in a haunting look at a life bounded by lust, violence, fear and a ruthlessly unsentimental moral vision."</synopsis>
                <title>Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Melanie Rawn</author>
                <characters>Sioned, Pol, Meiglan</characters>
                <date>1995</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Dragons, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Magic, Science Fiction, Epic, Adult</genres>
                <id>2326</id>
                <synopsis>"With her widely acclaimed fantasy trilogy, Dragon Prince, Melanie Rawn opened an enchanted gateway to a spellbinding universe of Sunrunner's magic and sorcerous evil, telling the tale of one man's crusade to bring peace to a land divided into often warring kingdoms. In the first two novels of the best-selling Dragon Star trilogy, the peaceful reign of High Prince Rohan was shattered by a mysterious invasion force which began a devastating campaign against the people of the Desert and the Sunrunners. And now, Skybowl brings this magnificent epic work of fantasy to its dramatic close.With High Prince Pol's wife Meiglan held prisoner by the Warlord of the enemy, and Skybowl keep purposefully abandoned to this deadly foe, Pol's mother Sioned leads a daring mission into the castle, using all her years of experience as High Princess in a cunning attempt to strike at the heart of the invasion force. And even as Sinned carries out this perilous plan, Pol and his cousin Andry, Lord of the Sunrunners of Goddess Keep, are forced into an uneasy alliance. For only if they can overcome their longtime rivalry and suspicions of one another and draw upon their combined powers of Sunrunning and Sorcery, do they stand any chance of defeating the invaders who have sworn to destroy the people of the Desert down to the last newborn child...."</synopsis>
                <title>Skybowl</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Terry Brooks </author>
                <characters>Nest Freemark, John Ross, Hawk (Shannara), Findo Gask</characters>
                <date>1999</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Magic, Horror, High Fantasy, Demons</genres>
                <id>2327</id>
                <synopsis>"Angel Fire East marks the close of Terry Brooks's Word and Void trilogy, which began with 1997's Running with the Demon. In this book, the story returns to Nest's native Hopewell, where once again Nest and John must face off against the Void. This time, the demon is the ancient Findo Gask, along with his sidekicks: a giant albino demon, a shapeless ur'droch who lives only to kill, and a self-destructive psycho named Penny Dreadful.  The story begins when John Ross shows up at Nest Freemark's door with a young boy. He reveals that the boy, who he calls Little John, is actually a gypsy morph, a creature born of wild magic and capable of enormous deeds, for good or evil. Both sides have approximately one month to unravel Little John's secrets and recruit him for their cause. Because after one month, the magic that holds him together will tear him apart, and his powers will be lost forever."</synopsis>
                <title>Angel Fire East</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Lilian Jackson Braun</author>
                <characters>Jim Qwilleran, Koko, Yum Yum</characters>
                <date>Jul-91</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Cats, Cozy Mystery, Animals, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Humor, Adult</genres>
                <id>2328</id>
                <synopsis>"The team of Koko, the brilliant Siamese cat, and Qwilleran, the reporter with the perceptive moustache, is back in action - with an adorable female Siamese, Yum Yum, added to the household.When Qwilleran decides to do a feature series on Junktown, he gets more than he bargained for. Not the dope den he anticipated, Junktown is a haven for antique dealers and collectors - as strange a lot as the crafty reporter has ever encountered. When a mysterious fall ends the career - and the life - of one of Junktown's leading citizens, Qwilleran is convinced it was no accident. But, as usual, it takes Koko to prove he's right."</synopsis>
                <title>The Cat Who Turned On and Off</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Anne McCaffrey, Mercedes Lackey</author>
                <characters>Hypatia ""Tia"" Cade</characters>
                <date>1994</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space Opera, Romance, Adult, Space, Novels, Speculative Fiction</genres>
                <id>2329</id>
                <synopsis>"A young woman becomes paralyzed and must become a brainship—and find her Brawn, her human soul mate, so that she can discover a cure for her illness.Tia Cade is a headstrong, smart, and very normal girl until she contracts a terrible illness that leaves her with the bare semblance of life. Tia's only hope: to become the oldest person ever to train to be one of the legendary star travelers, the brainships. But now that Tia is free of her ravaged body, there still remains the task of finding the right partner to be her Brawn, the human element every brainship requires. And when the disease that debilitated Tia threatens thousands more, selecting a Brawn who is her true soul mate may allow Tia to find the origin of the terrible plague—and perhaps even a cure."</synopsis>
                <title>The Ship Who Searched</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Agatha Christie</author>
                <characters>Ariadne Oliver, Mr. Goby, Hercule Poirot</characters>
                <date>2002</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Detective, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Audiobook, Murder Mystery, Thriller</genres>
                <id>2330</id>
                <synopsis>"Poirot is approached by a girl who shared a flat with two other girls in London. She is convinced she is a murderer. With rumours of weapons and blood stains and no hard evidence can Poirot determine whether she's guilty, innocent or mad?"</synopsis>
                <title>Third Girl</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Carolyn Keene</author>
                <characters>Nancy Drew, Bess Marvin, George Fayne, Bruce Fisher</characters>
                <date>1976</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Womens</genres>
                <id>2331</id>
                <synopsis>"Nancy attends Excello Flying School in the Midwest to take lessons while Bess and George perfect their horseback riding. As an amateur sleuth, Nancy becomes busy investigating a mystery involving a hijacked plane and a missing pilot as well as an elusive sky phantom and horse thief and clues involving a strange magnetic cloud. This book is the original text. A revised text does not exist."</synopsis>
                <title>The Sky Phantom</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>E.T.A. Hoffmann, Hartmut Steinecke (Contributor)</author>
                <characters>Anselmus, Veronika Paulmann, Serpentina</characters>
                <date>2004</date>
                <genres>Classics, German Literature, Fantasy, School, Fiction, 19th Century, Germany, Romanticism, Literature, Read For School</genres>
                <id>2332</id>
                <synopsis>"Der goldne Topf, Hoffmanns »Märchen aus der neuen Zeit«, spielt virtuos mit den Ebenen des Wunderbaren und des Bürgerlich-Philiströsen. Der Weg des Studenten Anselmus von Dresden nach Atlantis wird phantasievoll-humoristisch erzählt und zugleich ironisch reflektiert. Seit langem und mit Recht gilt der Märchenroman als ein Höhepunkt romantischer Erzählkunst."</synopsis>
                <title>Der goldne Topf</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Stephen King , Jean-Pierre Quijano (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Stuart Redman, Glenn Bateman, Nick Andros, Tom Cullen, Nadine Cross, Fran Goldsmith, Harold Lauder, Joe/Leo Rockway, Mother Abigail Freemantle, Randall Flagg, Trashcan Man, The Anti-Christ, Judge Farris, Larry Underwood, General William Starkey, Major Len Creighton, The Rat Man, Captain Trips, Charles D. Campion, Lucy Swann, Lloyd Henreid, Julie Lawry, Ralph Brentner, Dayna Jurgens, United States Military, American Law Enforcement, Kojak</characters>
                <date>Jun-03</date>
                <genres>Horror, Roman, Fiction, Science Fiction, American, Post Apocalyptic</genres>
                <id>2333</id>
                <synopsis>"Il a suffi que l'ordinateur d'un laboratoire ultra-secret de l'armée américaine fasse une erreur d'une nanoseconde pour que la chaîne de la mort se mette en marche. Le Fléau, inexorablement, se répand sur l'Amérique et, de New York à Los Angeles, transforme un bel été en cauchemar. Avec un taux de contamination de 99,4 %. Dans ce monde d'apocalypse émerge alors une poignée de survivants hallucinés. Ils ne se connaissent pas, pourtant chacun veut rejoindre celle que, dans leurs rêves, ils appellent Mère Abigaël : une vieille Noire de cent huit ans dont dépend leur salut commun. Mais ils savent aussi que sur cette terre dévastée rôde l'Homme sans visage, l'Homme Noir aux étranges pouvoirs, Randall Flagg. L'incarnation des fantasmes les plus diaboliques, destinée à régner sur ce monde nouveau. C'est la fin des Temps, et le dernier combat entre le Bien et le Mal peut commencer."</synopsis>
                <title>Le Fléau 1/2</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>James McGee </author>
                <characters>Matthew Hawkwood</characters>
                <date>Sept-06</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Mystery, Historical, Fiction, Historical Mystery, Crime, Adventure, British Literature, 19th Century, Steampunk</genres>
                <id>2334</id>
                <synopsis>"A gripping historical thriller introducing Bow Street Runner Matthew Hawkwood - a sexy, dangerous and fascinating hero who hunts down thieves, spies and murderers in the crime-ridden streets of Regency London. Hunting down highwaymen was not the usual preserve of a Bow Street Runner. As the most resourceful of this elite band of investigators, Matthew Hawkwood was surprised to be assigned the case - even if it did involve the murder and mutilation of a naval courier. From the squalor of St Giles Rookery, London's notorious den of thieves and cutthroats, to the brightly lit salons of the aristocracy and the heart of the British government, Hawkwood relentlessly pursues his quarry. As the case unfolds and another body is discovered on the banks of the Thames, the true agenda begins to emerge. And only Hawkwood can stop a dastardly plot that will end British mastery of the seas forever."</synopsis>
                <title>Ratcatcher</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Carolyn Keene</author>
                <characters>Nancy Drew, Carson Drew, Bess Marvin, George Fayne</characters>
                <date>1973</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Cozy Mystery</genres>
                <id>2335</id>
                <synopsis>"While vacationing in a seaside town, Nancy learns her father has been kidnapped. She and Ned rescue Carson Drew and help him investigate a cosmetic company’s suspicious operations. Meanwhile, the girl sleuth is captivated by another mystery. Stories about the eerie moans from a cave carved in the jagged wall of the bluff compel her to explore. Several frightened townspeople claim to have seen a ghost, accompanied by the mournful sound of a tolling bell just before water rushes from the cave. During her searches, Nancy discovers the true cause and reasons behind these mysterious occurrences! This book is the revised text. The plot of the original story (©1946) is similar with minor revisions."</synopsis>
                <title>Mystery of the Tolling Bell</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Vladimir Nabokov, Владимир Набоков</author>
                <characters>Aleksandr Ivanovich Luzhin, Turati, Valentinov, Ivan Luzhin</characters>
                <date>2004</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Russia, Classics, Russian Literature, Chess, Literature, Novels, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Drama</genres>
                <id>2336</id>
                <synopsis>"В книгу известного писателя Владимира Набокова (1899-1977) вошли романы ""Защита Лужина"", ""Подвиг"" и сборник ""Соглядатай"". В этих произведениях 30-х годов сошлись основные линии творчества Набокова-Сирина - прошлого и будущего и ""главная"" его тема - тема потусторонности, строящей жизнь помимо воли человека."</synopsis>
                <title>Защита Лужина</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Aaron Allston</author>
                <characters>Wedge Antilles, Warlord Zsinj</characters>
                <date>Feb-98</date>
                <genres>Star Wars, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Space Opera, Science Fiction Fantasy, Media Tie In, Space, Novels, War</genres>
                <id>2337</id>
                <synopsis>"They are the galaxy’s most elite fighting force. And as the battle against the Empire rages, the X-wing fighters risk life and machine to protect the Rebel Alliance. Now they must go on a daring undercover mission—as the crew of an Imperial warship.It is Wedge Antilles’ boldest creation: a covert-action unit of X-wing fighters, its pilots drawn from the dregs of other units, castoffs and rejects given one last chance. But before the new pilots can complete their training, the squadron’s base is attacked by former Imperial Admiral Trigit, and Wraith Squadron is forced to swing into action—taking over an Imperial warship and impersonating its crew. The mission: to gain vital intelligence about Trigit’s secret weapons, to sabotage the admiral’s plans, and to lure him into an Alliance trap. But the high-stakes gamble pits Wraith Squadron’s ragtag renegades against the Empire’s most brilliant master of guile and deception.Are they up to the challenge?If not, the penalty is instant death."</synopsis>
                <title>Wraith Squadron</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Lesley Pearse</author>
                <characters>Beth Bolton, Jack Child, Sam Bolton, Molly Bolton, Ruth Langworthy, Edward Langworthy, Theodore Cadogan</characters>
                <date>Oct-11</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Romance, Historical, Fiction, Historical Romance, Chick Lit, Drama, Adult, Contemporary, Young Adult</genres>
                <id>2338</id>
                <synopsis>"Liverpool, 1893. Os sonhos de Beth são desfeitos quando ela, o irmão Sam e a irmã mais nova, Molly, ficam órfãos. As suas vidas, até então tranquilas e seguras, sofrem uma dramática reviravolta. Para escapar a um futuro de miséria e servidão, Sam e Beth decidem arriscar tudo, atravessar o Atlântico e partir à conquista do sonho americano. Mas Molly é demasiado pequena para os acompanhar e os irmãos vêem-se obrigados a tomar uma decisão que os marcará para sempre: deixá-la em Inglaterra, a cargo de uma família adoptiva. A bordo do navio para Nova Iorque não faltam vigaristas e trapaceiros, mas o talento de Beth com o violino conquista-lhe a alcunha de Cigana, a amizade de Theo, um carismático jogador de cartas, e do perspicaz Jack. Juntos, os jovens vão começar de novo num país onde todos os sonhos são possíveis. Para a romântica Beth, esta será a maior aventura da sua vida. Conseguirá a Cigana voltar a encontrar um verdadeiro lar? Uma história de amor incondicional e coragem sem limites. Um livro irresistível, da autora de Nunca me Esqueças, Procuro-te e Segue o Coração. A Melodia do Amor de Lesley Pearse"</synopsis>
                <title>A Melodia do Amor</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Mary Higgins Clark</author>
                <characters>John Adams, Mary Ball Washington, Sally Fairfax, George William Fairfax, Martha Washington, George Washington</characters>
                <date>1968</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Romance, Historical, Mystery, Adult Fiction, Adult, Presidents, Historical Romance, Suspense</genres>
                <id>2339</id>
                <synopsis>"In Mount Vernon Love Story - famed suspense writer Mary Higgins Clark's long-out-of-print first novel - the bestselling author reveals the flesh-and-blood man who became the ""father of our country"" in a story that is charming, insightful, and immensely entertaining.  Always a lover of history, Mary Higgins Clark wrote this extensively researched biographical novel and titled it Aspire to the Heavens, after the motto of George Washington's mother. Published in 1969, the book was more recently discovered by a Washington family descendant and reissued as Mount Vernon Love Story. Dispelling the widespread belief that although George Washington married Martha Dandridge Custis, he reserved his true love for Sally Carey Fairfax, his best friend's wife, Mary Higgins Clark describes the Washington marriage as one full of tenderness and passion, as a bond between two people who shared their lives - even the bitter hardship of a winter in Valley Forge - in every way. In this author's skilled hands, the history, the love, and the man come fully and dramatically alive."</synopsis>
                <title>Mt. Vernon Love Story</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Amanda Ashley </author>
                <characters>Megan DeLacey, Rhys Costain</characters>
                <date>Oct-10</date>
                <genres>Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Romance, Vampires, Fiction, Audiobook, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Contemporary, Romantic Suspense</genres>
                <id>2340</id>
                <synopsis>"Desire Burns ForeverThe clientele at Shore's clothing store includes some of L.A.'s sexiest bachelors. But none of them affects Megan DeLacey as deeply as the dark-eyed stranger who strides into her boutique one evening - and keeps returning, night after night. Megan is drawn to Rhys Costain even as she fears him. Because his reason for being there is clear - he wants Megan, with an intensity that's both tempting and terrifying.For almost five centuries, Rhys has lived alone, using women as it pleased him and never wanting more. As Master of the West Coast vampires, it's his duty to eliminate the ancient vampire who's draining humans on his turf, putting all of their kind at risk. But Megan's lush beauty and vibrant warmth is blinding him to a danger that will soon engulf them both - and tear him from the only woman who can satisfy his darkest hunger."</synopsis>
                <title>Everlasting Desire</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Patricia Cornwell </author>
                <characters>Kay Scarpetta, Pete Marino, Lucy Farinelli, Benton Wesley, Keith Pleasants, Inspector Percy Ring</characters>
                <date>2000</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Murder Mystery, Detective, Adult, Medical</genres>
                <id>2341</id>
                <synopsis>"See alternate cover edition hereVirginia Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta has a bloody puzzle on her hands: five headless, limbless cadavers in Ireland, plus four similar victims in a landfill back home. Is a serial butcher loose in Virginia? That's what the panicked public thinks, thanks to a local TV reporter who got the leaked news from her boyfriend, Scarpetta's vile rival, Investigator Percy Ring. But the butchered bodies are so many red herrings intended to throw idiots like Ring off the track. Instead of a run-of-the-mill serial killer, we're dealing with a shadowy figure who has plans involving mutant smallpox, mass murder, and messing with Scarpetta's mind by e-mailing her gory photos of the murder scenes, along with cryptic AOL chat-room messages. The coolest innovation: Scarpetta's gorgeous genius niece, Lucy, equips her with a DataGlove and a VPL Eyephone, and she takes a creepy virtual tour of the e-mailed crime scene.Unnatural Exposure boasts brisk storytelling, crackling dialogue, evocative prose about forensic-science sleuthing, and crisp character sketches, both of familiar characters like Scarpetta's gruff partner Pete Marino and bit players like the landfill employee falsely accused by Ring. Plus, let's face it: serial killers are old hat. Cornwell's most vivid villains are highly plausible backstabbing colleagues like Ring, who plots to destroy Lucy's FBI career by outing her as a lesbian. Some readers object to the rather abrupt ending, but, hey, it's less jarring than Hannibal's, and it's the logical culmination of Cornwell's philosophy about human nature. To illuminate the novel's finale, read Cornwell's remarks on paranoia in her Amazon.com interview. -Tim Appelo"</synopsis>
                <title>Unnatural Exposure</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Sarah Langan </author>
                <characters>Lois Larkin</characters>
                <date>2007</date>
                <genres>Horror, Fiction, Zombies, Thriller, Paranormal, Supernatural, Vampires, Mystery, Suspense, Mystery Thriller</genres>
                <id>2342</id>
                <synopsis>"Something lurking in the woods threatens to destroy an entire town in Sarah Langan's brilliantly crafted second novel.Lois Larkin should never have taken her class to the woods for the field trip. Preoccupied by the betrayal of her fianc� she never even notices when little James Walker doesn't get back on the bus and suddenly the quiet, prosperous town of Corpus Christi is plunged into tragedy and united in shock."</synopsis>
                <title>Virus</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Agatha Christie</author>
                <characters>Sarah King, Mrs. Boynton, Colonel Carbury, Raymond Boynton, Lady Westholme, Carol Boynton, Lennox Boynton, Miss Pierce, Ginevra Boynton, Nadine Boynton, Hercule Poirot</characters>
                <date>2001</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Detective, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Audiobook, Murder Mystery, Thriller</genres>
                <id>2343</id>
                <synopsis>"Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed her.With only 24 hours available to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark he’d overheard back in Jerusalem: ‘You see, don’t you, that she’s got to be killed?’ Mrs Boynton was, indeed, the most detestable woman he’d ever met."</synopsis>
                <title>Appointment with Death</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Carolyn Keene</author>
                <characters>Nancy Drew</characters>
                <date>1973</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Crime</genres>
                <id>2344</id>
                <synopsis>A bird of ill omen is mysteriously left on the Drews’ front lawn. Did the person who put it there do so with the intent of jinxing Nancy and her father? This strange incident involves the girl detective in her father’s case concerning a rare bird farm threatened with destruction to make room for a high-rise apartment house complex. The use of jinxes to threaten those who oppose the construction leads Nancy to find the criminals behind the jinxing. This book is the original text. A revised text does not exist.</synopsis>
                <title>The Double Jinx Mystery</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>रणजित देसाई</author>
                <characters>Krishna, Karna</characters>
                <date>Apr-12</date>
                <genres>Marathi, Mythology, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Indian Literature, India, Classics</genres>
                <id>2345</id>
                <synopsis>"In Radheya, author Ranjeet Desai explores the eternal of question of doing what is right versus carrying out one’s duty, told through the eyes of Karna. Set against the backdrop of the Mahabharata, Desai attempts to make readers aware that although winning is usually the goal in every war, one should also be ready to face defeat.Through Radheya, readers will learn about Karna and the circumstances which earned him a memorable place in the Mahabharata. From early on, Karna was deprived of familial love. Throughout the course of his life, he suffered at the hands of others. He also felt discarded by his own mother Kunti and was also ridiculed by many because he was born in a lower class. Since Karna’s foundation years were so tumultuous, his immense strength was reduced and he often felt lonely.Nevertheless, through Radheya readers can visualize the development of Karna’s individuality and how he came to earn the title of fearless warrior. This novel is essentially a written tribute to the hero Karna who fought against his own family members while remaining loyal to his friend. Through Karna’s decisions and actions, Desai brings to life the impending dualities of life such as victory and defeat, and doing what is expected versus doing what is right. Through Karna, Desai has tried to universalize the “karma katha”."</synopsis>
                <title>राधेय</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Dacia Maraini</author>
                <characters>Marianna Ucrìa, Pietro Ucrìa, Saro, Fila, Signoretto Ucrìa</characters>
                <date>Mar-06</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Italy, Fiction, Italian Literature, Historical, Classics, Feminism, Literature, 20th Century, Read For School</genres>
                <id>2346</id>
                <synopsis>"La protagonista dell'opera è una sordomuta sposata giovanissima a uno zio. L'handicap di Marianna diventa il perno del romanzo e l'espediente che la scrittrice fa suo per esaltare i ""sensi"" intatti dell'antenata in un ambiente siciliano sordido e fastoso dove i personaggi e gli episodi raccontano un universo segnato da tragedie, amori, infedeltà.Dacia Maraini ha raccontato come una donna possa correggere e determinare il proprio destino, costi quel che costi."</synopsis>
                <title>La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Anne Golon, Serge Golon</author>
                <characters>Angélique, Louis XIV of France, Philippe du Plessis-Bellière</characters>
                <date>1950</date>
                <genres>Romance, Historical Fiction, Historical, Fiction, Historical Romance, France, Adventure, 17th Century, Novels, Russia</genres>
                <id>2347</id>
                <synopsis>"Na haar moeilijke tijd in donker Parijs, weet Angelique door te dringen tot het slot van Versailles en een beter bestaan op te bouwen aan het hof van de Zonnekoning."</synopsis>
                <title>Angelique and the King</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Christine Feehan </author>
                <characters>Kate Drake, Matt Granite</characters>
                <date>2011</date>
                <genres>Romance, Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Fantasy, Christmas, Magic, Witches, Holiday, Contemporary, Adult</genres>
                <id>2348</id>
                <synopsis>"Kate ha deciso di tornare a Sea Haven, e non è solo la sua famiglia a riportarla a casa... Anche per lei è giunto il momento di guardare il proprio destino negli occhi. È una scrittrice di successo e una grande viaggiatrice, ma ora ha bisogno di fermarsi. Un mulino abbandonato le sembra il luogo adatto per ricominciare, e così decide di trasformarlo in una libreria. L’affascinante Matt Granite si offre di aiutarla nei lavori di ristrutturazione; l’amore che cova in segreto per lei lo spingerebbe a far di tutto pur di starle accanto. C’è qualcosa che lo attira inesorabilmente, e non si tratta solo della sua voce dolce e sensuale. Quando una scossa di terremoto fa cedere le fondamenta del mulino, Kate sente che una forza maligna e centenaria è stata liberata... ed è lì per lei. Nonostante Matt la segua giorno e notte, Kate sa che questo non basterà a proteggerla, e che sarà necessario raccogliere i poteri di tutte le sorelle Drake per sconfiggere l’oscurità che minaccia di cancellare per sempre la tranquillità di Sea Haven."</synopsis>
                <title>Melodia al crepuscolo (Drake Sisters, #2)</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>K.A. Applegate, Katherine Applegate</author>
                <characters>Visser Three</characters>
                <date>Mar-98</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Young Adult, Fiction, Fantasy, Childrens, Aliens, Middle Grade, Animals, Adventure, Shapeshifters</genres>
                <id>2349</id>
                <synopsis>"Jake has made an amazing discovery: a Web site about the Yeerks. Should the Animorphs investigate? If they do, they might walk right into a trap. And if they don't, they'll never know if they're fighting their enemies alone..."</synopsis>
                <title>The Warning</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Carolyn Keene</author>
                <characters>Nancy Drew</characters>
                <date>1965</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Crime</genres>
                <id>2350</id>
                <synopsis>"Another vacation turns into a riddle for Nancy to solve while she visits a lakeside holiday area. Cecily Curtis seeks the girl sleuth’s help in solving two mysteries. One concerns her fiancé, a popular singer who believes his record company is cheating him. The other involves a hidden family treasure; the only clue is half of a gold locket. Strange circumstances provide Nancy with many opportunities to test her sleuthing skills and discover the astounding secrets of Pudding Stone Lodge. This book is the revised text. The plot of the original story (©1934) is different."</synopsis>
                <title>The Clue of the Broken Locket</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Meg Cabot </author>
                <characters>Mia Thermopolis, Helen Thermopolis, Michael Moscovitz, Phillipe Renaldo, Clarisse Renaldo, Ivan Renaldo</characters>
                <date>2015</date>
                <genres>Romance, Young Adult, Contemporary, Chick Lit, Fiction, Adult, Adult Fiction, Humor, New Adult, Contemporary Romance</genres>
                <id>2351</id>
                <synopsis>"For Princess Mia, the past five years since college graduation have been a whirlwind of activity: living in New York City, running her new teen community center, being madly in love, and attending royal engagements. And speaking of engagements. Mia's gorgeous longtime boyfriend, Michael, managed to clear both their schedules just long enough for an exotic (and very private) Caribbean island interlude where he popped the question! Of course, Mia didn't need to consult her diary to know that her answer was a royal ""oui.""But now Mia has a scandal of majestic proportions to contend with: her grandmother has leaked ""fake"" wedding plans to the press that could cause even normally calm Michael to become a runaway groom. Worse, a scheming politico is trying to force Mia's father from the throne, all because of of a royal secret that could leave Genovia without a stomach. Can Mia prove to everyone-especially herself-that she's not only ready to wed, but ready to rule as well?"</synopsis>
                <title>Royal Wedding</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>David A. McIntee</author>
                <characters>Ogrons, Frobisher, The Sixth Doctor, Sabalom Glitz, The Doctor</characters>
                <date>Jun-98</date>
                <genres>Doctor Who, Science Fiction, Fiction, Media Tie In</genres>
                <id>2352</id>
                <synopsis>"When daring criminal Jack Chance masterminds the heist of a precious national treasure from the planet Veltroch, it is the first step in a chain of events that could lead to the destruction of two civilisations...Pursued by bounty hunters, the Sixth Doctor and his shapeshifting companion Frobisher run into old acquaintances Glitz and Dibber - notorious rogues who have become involved in something big: a covert government agency on Vandor Prime is forcing the pair to turn their criminal talents to its own ends.The Doctor and Frobisher are soon drawn into the mysterious scheme themselves - but what game is truly being played by the authorities? How is the group of Ogron raiders involved? And who is so desperate to see the Doctor dead?Caught in a web of deceit and pursued by ruthless killers, the Doctor's mission - should he decide to accept it - is to join Glitz's gang and pull off the crime of the century. And failure will result in an interstellar war costing the lives of millions..."</synopsis>
                <title>Doctor Who: Mission: Impractical</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>David Peace</author>
                <characters>Peter Hunter, Philip Evans, Sir John Reed, Peter Sutcliffe</characters>
                <date>2008</date>
                <genres>Crime, Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Noir, Historical Fiction, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Literature, Novels</genres>
                <id>2353</id>
                <synopsis>The third novel in the Red Riding quartet sees Yorkshire terrorised by the Ripper while the corrupt police familiar from 1974 and 1977 continue to prosper.</synopsis>
                <title>Nineteen Eighty</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Carolyn Keene</author>
                <characters>Nancy Drew, Bess Marvin</characters>
                <date>1978</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Mystery Thriller, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Crime, Adventure</genres>
                <id>2354</id>
                <synopsis>"Nancy investigates potential poachers at Crocodile Island, a dark, swampy setting with enough reptilian foes to make the locale worthy of its name. Soon Nancy, Bess and George to realize the reptilian foes are less dangerous than some human beings inhabiting the island. The resourceful detectives work diligently to uncover a sinister racket involving many unsuspecting victims. This book is the original text. A revised text does not exist."</synopsis>
                <title>Mystery of Crocodile Island</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Laurell K. Hamilton </author>
                <characters>Anita Blake, Dolph Storr, Zerbrowski (Anita Blake series), Jean-Claude (Anita Blake series), Richard Zeeman, Edward ""Ted"" Forrester, Asher (Anita Blake series), Jason Schuyler, Nathaniel Graison, Damian (Anita Blake series), Micah Callahan</characters>
                <date>Nov-05</date>
                <genres>Urban Fantasy, Vampires, Paranormal, Fiction, Fantasy, Werewolves, Mystery, Horror, Paranormal Romance, Romance</genres>
                <id>2355</id>
                <synopsis>Omnibus edition with both Obsidian Butterfly and Narcissus in Chains.</synopsis>
                <title>Nightshade Tavern</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Mary Packard (Adapted By), Russell Hicks (Illustrator), A.A. Milne (Original Story By)</author>
                <characters>""Winnie the Pooh (Disney''s)""</characters>
                <date>1998</date>
                <genres>Childrens, Picture Books, Classics, Fiction, Animals</genres>
                <id>2356</id>
                <synopsis>"Winnie the Pooh, the honey loving silly old bear attempts to get honey from a bee tree, so after climbing the tree didn't work, he borrows Christopher Robin's balloon, dunks himself in mud and floats to the top of the honey tree incognito as a little black rain cloud."</synopsis>
                <title>Pooh Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (A Little Golden Book)</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Alan Duff</author>
                <characters>Jake Heke, Grace Heke, Nig Heke, Boogie Heke, Beth Heke</characters>
                <date>1997</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Drama, Audiobook, Adult, Novels, Family, Classics, Abuse</genres>
                <id>2357</id>
                <synopsis>"This hard-hitting novel is frank and uncompromising in its portrayal of Maoris n New Zealand society. The driving force of writing carries the reader into a world of frustration, resentment and waste. It is a raw, powerful story, in which everyone is a victim until the strength and vision of one woman transcends brutality and leads the way to a new alternative.First part of what would later become the Once Were Warriors trilogy."</synopsis>
                <title>Once Were Warriors</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Carolyn Keene</author>
                <characters>Nancy Drew, Anita Allison</characters>
                <date>1974</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Crime</genres>
                <id>2358</id>
                <synopsis>"Nancy determines whether an exquisite ivory elephant charm really protects its wearer from harm during her investigation of a circus performer who may be involved in a mysterious illegal scheme. The girl detective’s assignment becomes complicated when the elephant trainer’s young assistant seeks refuge at the Drew home from his cruel foster father. While following clues to help the boy find his real father, Nancy discovers an eerie abandoned house. As she probes, Nancy’s dangerous enemies thwart her efforts to discover a secret surrounding the unusual ivory charm. This book is the revised text. The plot of the original story (©1936) is similar with minor revisions."</synopsis>
                <title>Mystery of the Ivory Charm</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jean Racine</author>
                <characters>Thésée, Phèdre, Hippolyte, Aricie, Oenone, Théramène, Ismène, Panope</characters>
                <date>2009</date>
                <genres>Plays, Classics, France, Theatre, Drama, Fiction, French Literature, School, 17th Century, Literature</genres>
                <id>2359</id>
                <synopsis>"En 1677, Phèdre, la dernière grande tragédie de Racine, met en scène la mythique descente aux enfers d'une incomprise. Vouée au malheur par son hérédité, Phèdre aime sans espoir son beau-fils Hippolyte. Lorsque son mari, Thésée, revient, il envoie injustement son fils à la mort. On assiste alors à l'empoisonnement d'une femme à la fois innocente et coupable. Ironie tragique qui démontre à quel point l'amour peut se vivre comme une malédiction."</synopsis>
                <title>Phèdre</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Luanne Rice </author>
                <characters>Stevie Moore, Nell, Emma Lincoln, Maddie Kilvert</characters>
                <date>Published</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Romance, Chick Lit, Family, Womens Fiction, Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, Love, Adult, Christian Fiction</genres>
                <id>2360</id>
                <synopsis>"Luanne Rice is a rarity among novelists today; she's a true storyteller. Her unique ability to weave together the bonds of love and family with the challenges and rewards of everyday life has garnered her eight consecutive top-ten New York Times bestselling paperbacks. With Beach Girls, Luanne Rice returns to the place that she was born to write about-the Connecticut shore-to tell a story about a family of women whose lives encompass three generations, their histories intertwined with that of the mystic coastal town that has forever bound them to one another.Beach Girls explores the complex and contradictory territories of love, family and friendship. Luanne Rice's sensuous prose and unforgettably rich and textured characters guide us toward a truth that lies within and sometimes beyond our dreams-an enduring strength that we all must embrace to find our way home and into the hearts of those we cherish most. Beach Girls is an enthralling novel of haunting beauty that will resonate long after the final page is turned."</synopsis>
                <title>Wege im Sand</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Carolyn Keene, Mildred Benson (Ghostwriter)</author>
                <characters>Nancy Drew, Carson Drew, Bess Marvin, George Fayne, Ned Nickerson, Mortimer Bartesque, Doctor Aikerman</characters>
                <date>1972</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Mystery Thriller, Juvenile, Adventure, Teen</genres>
                <id>2361</id>
                <synopsis>"Nancy Drew is visiting Deer Mountain Lodge to help her father with a case involving jewel thieves and while there, comes across another mystery involving a haunted bridge! How Nancy solves both mysteries and competes in a golf tournament despite her injurred arm is exciting and fun reading. l"</synopsis>
                <title>The Haunted Bridge</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Louise Meriwether</author>
                <characters>Francine Coffin</characters>
                <date>1971</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, Race, Young Adult, African American, Coming Of Age, Novels, New York, Literary Fiction</genres>
                <id>2362</id>
                <synopsis>"This bittersweet and sharply observed masterpiece recounts a year in the life of twelve-year-old France Coffin. It is the summer of 1934, and nowhere are the effects of the Great Depression more apparent than in Harlem. But Harlem is also home to a community's anger, humor, and vitality, the paradoxical cradle of young Francie's innocence and dreams - just like the daily numbers game played for the small glint of hope that it boldly promises but will never fulfill."</synopsis>
                <title>Daddy Was a Number Runner</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Carolyn Keene</author>
                <characters>Nancy Drew</characters>
                <date>1975</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Juvenile, Adventure, Middle Grade, Mystery Thriller, Detective</genres>
                <id>2363</id>
                <synopsis>"When a neighbor asks Nancy to accompany her to an old uninhabited mansion, she finds a witch tree symbol that leads her to Pennsylvania Dutch country in pursuit of a cunning and ruthless thief. The friendly welcome the girl sleuth and her friends receive from the Amish people soon changes to hostility when it is rumored that Nancy is a witch! Superstition helps her enemy in his attempt to get her off his trail, but Nancy persistently uncovers one clue after another to outwit her dangerous adversary. This book is the revised text. The plot of the original story (©1955) is similar with minor revisions."</synopsis>
                <title>The Witch Tree Symbol</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Laurell K. Hamilton </author>
                <characters>Anita Blake, Dolph Storr, Zerbrowski (Anita Blake series), Jean-Claude (Anita Blake series), Richard Zeeman, Edward ""Ted"" Forrester, Malcolm (Anita Blake series), Bert Vaughn</characters>
                <date>1997</date>
                <genres>Vampires, Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, Paranormal, Horror, Fiction, Paranormal Romance, Romance, Zombies, Mystery</genres>
                <id>2364</id>
                <synopsis>"Club Vampyre brings together the first three Anita Blake novels, this collection looks at the adventures of the woman vampires call The Executioner.I'm Anita Blake, expert on creatures of the night. Vampires call me The Executioner. What I call them isn't repeatable. Ever since the Supreme Court granted the undead equal rights, most people think vampires are just ordinary folks with fangs. I know better. I carry the scars. . . In my job - I'm an animator; I raise the dead - I've seen just about everything. I've dined with shapeshifters, danced with werewolves and been wooed, but not won, by Jean-Claude, the most powerful bloodsucker in St. Louis. When a serial killer started murdering vampires, it was Jean-Claude who wanted me to find the killer. Later a rogue vamp named Alejandro hit town and wanted to make me his human servant. A war of the undead had begun. Over me. I'd have been flattered, if my life weren't at stake.Books in this collection:* Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Bk 1)* The Laughing Corpse (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Bk 2)* Circus of the Damned (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Bk 3)"</synopsis>
                <title>Club Vampyre</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Suzette Haden Elgin</author>
                <characters>Nazareth Chornyak</characters>
                <date>2000</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Feminism, Dystopia, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Language, Classics, Womens</genres>
                <id>2365</id>
                <synopsis>"Called ""fascinating"" by the New York Times upon its first publication in 1984, Native Tongue won wide critical praise and cult status, and has often been compared to the futurist fiction of Margaret Atwood. Set in the twenty-second century, the novel tells of a world where women are once again property, denied civil rights and banned from public life. Earth's wealth depends on interplanetary commerce with alien races, and linguists-a small, clannish group of families-have become the ruling elite by controlling all interplanetary communication. Their women are used to breed perfect translators for all the galaxies' languages.Nazareth Chornyak, the most talented linguist of the family, is exhausted by her constant work translating for trade organizations, supervising the children's language education, running the compound, and caring for the elderly men. She longs to retire to the Barren House, where women past childbearing age knit, chat, and wait to die. What Nazareth comes to discover is that a slow revolution is going on in the Barren Houses: there, word by word, women are creating a language of their own to free them from men's control."</synopsis>
                <title>Native Tongue</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kevin J. Anderson  (Editor), Dave Wolverton, Kathy Tyers , M. Shayne Bell, Daniel Keys Moran </author>
                <characters>Boba Fett, Dengar, Zuckuss, Bossk, IG-88, 4-LOM</characters>
                <date>Dec-96</date>
                <genres>Star Wars, Science Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories, Anthologies, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space, Space Opera, Adventure</genres>
                <id>2366</id>
                <synopsis>"In a wild and battle-scarred galaxy, assassins, pirates, smugglers, and cutthroats of every description roam at will, fearing only the professional bounty hunters--amoral adventurers who track down the scum of the universe...for a fee. When Darth Vader seeks to strike at the heart of the Rebellion by targeting Han Solo and the Millennium Falcon, he calls upon six of the most successful--and feared--hunters, including the merciless Boba Fett. They all have two things in common: lust for profit and contempt for life....Featuring original stories by Kevin J. Anderson, M. Shayne Bell, Daniel Keys Moran, Kathy Tyers, Dave Wolverton."</synopsis>
                <title>Tales of the Bounty Hunters</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Kim Vogel Sawyer </author>
                <characters>Libby Conley, Pete Leidig, Bennett Martin, Maelle Gallagher</characters>
                <date>Sept-10</date>
                <genres>Christian Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Christian, Historical, Romance, Christian Romance, Historical Romance, Inspirational, Drama</genres>
                <id>2367</id>
                <synopsis>"As three friends who grew up in the same orphanage head off to college together, they each harbor a cherished dream. Libby wishes to become a famous journalist, Pete plans to study to become a minister, and Bennett wants to join a fraternity and have as much fun as possible. But as tensions rise around the world on the brink of World War I, the friends' differing aspirations and opinions begin to divide them, as well. And when Libby makes a shocking discovery about Pete's family, will it drive a final wedge between the friends or bond them in ways they never anticipated?"</synopsis>
                <title>In Every Heartbeat</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Christian Jacq, Ebru Erbaş  (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Howard Carter</characters>
                <date>Jun-99</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Egypt, Historical, Fiction, Roman, France, Novels, Ancient History, Biography Memoir, Adventure</genres>
                <id>2368</id>
                <synopsis>"Mısır'a yerleşmiş hayvan resimleri yapan genç, parasız bir ressam, on sekiz yaşında bir arkeolog... Seyahat ve macera tutkunu milyarder bir lord... Dünyaları böylesine ayrı iki insan hangi tesadüf sonucu biraraya gelir?Söz konusu olan bir tesadüf değil, binlerce yıldır, yaşamla ölümün birbirinden ayrılamadığı, insanların hayallerini süsleyen, garip ve devasa Krallar Vadisi'nin kalbindeki el değmemiş mezarın karanlığında yatan altın maskeli bir firavundur...Arkeolog Carter ve sanata aşık Carnarvon Mısır'a ve Krallar Vadisi'ne aşık olacak, savaşa, kıskançlıklara, ihtiras kurbanlarına, çekemeyenlere rağmen Tutankamon'u unutulmuşluğundan çekip çıkaracaklar. Tutankamon Olayı gerçekleşecek.Tutkuları alevlendiren, açgözlülükleri açığa çıkaran ve polisiye romanlar, macera romanları ve geleneksel romanlar arasında gerçekleşen bir olay. Tutankamon, tamamen Carter ve Carnarvon'a borçlu olduğu bir yeniden dirilişle yetinmiyor. ""Çevresini saran lanetle, günün yıldızı ve tüm açgözlülerin hedefi haline geliyor.""Tutankamon Olayı: Herbiri bir diğerinden daha gerçek ve daha inanılmaz dramlar, çılgınlıklarla dolu bir yarım yüzyılın öyküsü. Aşk, gerçek, altın ve ölümsüzlüğün izlerine rastlanan bir epik efsane. Christian Jacq bu eşsiz hikayeyi bir tarihçinin katı tutumu ve bir hayalperestin esin duygusuyla işliyor."</synopsis>
                <title>Tutankamon Olayı</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Lawrence Block </author>
                <characters>Matthew Scudder</characters>
                <date>2000</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Crime, Fiction, Noir, Thriller, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Hard Boiled, New York, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>2369</id>
                <synopsis>"The pretty young prostitute is dead. Her alleged murderer—a minister's son—hanged himself in his jail cell. The case is closed. But the dead girl's father has come to Matthew Scudder for answers, sending the unlicensed private investigator in search of terrible truths about a life that was lived and lost in a sordid world of perversion and pleasures."</synopsis>
                <title>The Sins of the Fathers</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>M.J. Putney</author>
                <characters>Victoria Mansfield</characters>
                <date>Mar-11</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Time Travel, Magic, Romance, Historical, Paranormal, Fiction, Historical Romance</genres>
                <id>2370</id>
                <synopsis>"At sixteen, Lady Victoria Mansfield, youngest daughter of the earl and countess of Fairmount, is destined for a charmed life and her choice of mates worthy of her status. Then she makes a terrifying discovery that will ruin her life and disgrace her family forever. Tory's blood is tainted... by magic.When a shocking accident forces Tory to reveal her despised skill, she is immediately exiled to Lackland Abbey, a reform school for young men and women in her position. Tory's greatest wish is to be cured so she can return home and perhaps recover some of her shattered life.Instead, curiosity and the lure of magic lead Tory to rebel students who have pledged their talents to protect England. As she joins them in their secret studies, she discovers her full powers - and is drawn to the handsome, enigmatic young Marquis of Allarde. But Allarde'a reserve and haunting secret keep him away, though she can see equal longing in his eyes.Then Tory's pledge sweeps her and her friends into a perilous world of danger, challenge, and a triumph that saves Britain from conquest. Can danger also bring Tory and Allarde together, despite all that stands between them?"</synopsis>
                <title>Dark Mirror</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Carolyn Keene</author>
                <characters>Nancy Drew, Bess Marvin, George Fayne, Ned Nickerson, John Rorick, Mrs. Holman, Burt Eddleton, Dave Evans, Fred Jenkins</characters>
                <date>1965</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Mystery Thriller, Juvenile, Detective, Crime</genres>
                <id>2371</id>
                <synopsis>"Nancy, Bess and George visit Emerson for the university’s summer festivities. The girls are guests in a historic mansion on Pine Hill. Upon arriving, their host tells about the phantom haunting the mansion’s library. He also relates his family’s decades old saga of a lost French wedding gown and valuable gifts that went to the bottom of a nearby cove in the sinking of the Lucy Belle. Is there connection between the phantom and the old ship disaster? Nancy and her friends work diligently to solve the mystery of Pine Hill and to find the long-lost wedding treasures. This book is the original text. A revised text does not exist."</synopsis>
                <title>The Phantom of Pine Hill</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Scott Frost</author>
                <characters>Dale Cooper</characters>
                <date>1991</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Mystery, Tv, Crime, Film, Novels, Thriller, 20th Century, Contemporary, Fantasy</genres>
                <id>2372</id>
                <synopsis>"Former Eagle Scout and lifetime audio freak Dale Cooper brings us his autobiography, culled from his private collection of personal tape recordings beginning with his thirteenth birthday. Discover the secrets, never before seen on television, of Twin Peaks' most-wanted man, who scored a perfect 100 on his marksmanship test and once let a gentle, beautiful woman lead him astray. He's Dale Cooper - the man who seems too good to be true - and this is his story."</synopsis>
                <title>The Autobiography of F.B.I. Special Agent Dale Cooper: My Life, My Tapes</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>James M. Cain</author>
                <characters>Monty, Mildred, Veda, Bert</characters>
                <date>2002</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Noir, Mystery, Historical Fiction, Crime, Novels, Literature, 20th Century, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>2373</id>
                <synopsis>"Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness and determination. She used those attributes to survive a divorce in 1940s America with two children and to claw her way out of poverty, becoming a successful businesswoman. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men and an unreasoning devotion to her monstrous daughter.Out of these elements, Cain created a novel (later made into a film noir classic) of acute social observation and devastating emotional violence—and a heroine whose ambitions and sufferings are never less than recognizable."</synopsis>
                <title>Mildred Pierce</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Aziz Nesin</author>
                <characters>Zeynep, Ahmet</characters>
                <date>May-83</date>
                <genres>Turkish Literature, Turkish, Fiction, Humor, Childrens, Novels, Literature, 20th Century, Comedy, Roman</genres>
                <id>2374</id>
                <synopsis>"Şimdiki Çocuklar Harika, Aziz Nesin'in 1967'de yazdığı bir kitaptır. Bu kitapta Ahmet ve Zeynep ismlerinde iki çocuk ayrılıp mektuplaşma yoluyla birbirlerine yaşadıkları olayları anlatırlar. Ahmet ile Zeynep eskiden aynı okulda okumaktalardır, ancak Zeynep sonra Ankara'ya taşınır. Mektuplaşmaya söz vermişlerdir. Ayrıca Zeynep'in Metin, Ahmet'in ise Fatoş adında birer kardeşleri vardır. Ahmet Zeynep'e, Zeynep de Ahmet'e, okulda, evlerinde yaşadıkları olayları anlatırlar. Başlarına gelenleri, arkadaşlarını, dostluklarını gibi. Bu kitap çocukların annelerine, babalarına ve öğretmenlerini nasıl gördüklerini anlatır ve çocukların kendini nasıl savunması gerektiğini öğretir.Türkiye'nin sorunlarını eleştirmek için yazılmıştır. Eleştirdiği konuların bazıları; eğitim sistemi, ezbercilik, okulların sorunları, aile ilişkileridir. Burada anne ve babalara karşı da bazı sözler vardır."</synopsis>
                <title>Şimdiki Çocuklar Harika</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>William Makepeace Thayer</author>
                <characters>James A. Garfield</characters>
                <date>Published</date>
                <genres>Biography, Nonfiction, History</genres>
                <id>2375</id>
                <synopsis>"Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork."</synopsis>
                <title>From Log-Cabin To White House: Life of James A. Garfield, Boyhood, Youth, Manhood, Assassination</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>J.D. Robb  (Contributor), Mary Blayney (Contributor), Patricia Gaffney (Contributor), Ruth Ryan Langan (Contributor), Mary Kay McComas (Contributor)</author>
                <characters>Eve Dallas, Roarke</characters>
                <date>Oct-11</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Romance, Anthologies, Fiction, Crime, Romantic Suspense, Suspense, Futuristic, Paranormal, Science Fiction</genres>
                <id>2376</id>
                <synopsis>"features the In Death novella Chaos in DeathFive New York Timesbestselling authors-five superlative stories.From J.D. Robb:Eve and Roarke return to investigate a series of murders connected to a brilliant young surgeon in Chaos in Death.From Mary Blayney:A shopkeeper's solitude is complicated by a magic coin, a daring rogue, and dreams of her late husband, who whispers but one word...wish.From Patricia Gaffney:A lonely woman and a hotline psychic turn their astonishing connection to the other side into an unexpected romance.From Ruth Ryan Langan:The shattered soul of an angry spirit imprisoned in a Scottish manor house could be a young widow's only salvation.From Mary Kay McComas:A young ghost eases his brother's pain and guilt by inviting him into the dreams of an imaginative author of children's books."</synopsis>
                <title>The Unquiet</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Justine Korman (Adapted By), Karl Geurs, Carter Crocker</author>
                <characters>""Winnie the Pooh (Disney''s)"", ""Eeyore (Disney''s Winnie the Pooh)"", ""Rabbit (Disney''s Winnie the Pooh)"", ""Tigger (Disney''s Winnie the Pooh)"", ""Piglet (Disney''s Winnie the Pooh)""</characters>
                <date>1997</date>
                <genres>Childrens, Picture Books, Fiction, Animals, Adventure</genres>
                <id>2377</id>
                <synopsis>"When they can't find Christopher Robin, Pooh and his friends undertake a perilous search for him, and learn they're smarter, braver, and more loyal than they ever dreamed they'd be."</synopsis>
                <title>Disney's Pooh's Grand Adventure The Search for Christopher Robin (A Little Golden Book)</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Rita Falk </author>
                <characters>Franz Eberhofer</characters>
                <date>2011</date>
                <genres>Crime, Humor, German Literature, Audiobook, Mystery, Thriller, Comedy, Fiction</genres>
                <id>2378</id>
                <synopsis>"""Stirb, du Sau!"", prangt es in roter Farbe von Höpfls Haus. Der Dienststellenleiter von der PI Landshut ruft an: Realschulrektor Höpfl ist nicht zum Unterricht erschienen. Ich soll da jetzt mal hinfahren und nachsehen. ""Stirb, du Sau!"", schießt es mir durch den Kopf. Und ich ahne nix Gutes."""</synopsis>
                <title>Dampfnudelblues</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Karen Miller</author>
                <characters>Asher of Restharven, Gar (Kingmaker, Kingbreaker)</characters>
                <date>Oct-07</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Magic, High Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Novels, Adult, Romance</genres>
                <id>2379</id>
                <synopsis>"Asher has come a long way for a fisherman's son. Together with his friend Prince Gar, he has defended their kingdom against its bitterest enemy, but at great cost. Now the evil mage Morg is preparing for his most deadly assault. Desperate, trapped in a broken body, Morg has little time and fewer scruples."</synopsis>
                <title>The Awakened Mage</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Henri Troyat</author>
                <characters>Catherine the Great</characters>
                <date>2000</date>
                <genres>History, Biography, Nonfiction, Russia, Russian History, Historical, Biography Memoir, European History, 18th Century, France</genres>
                <id>2380</id>
                <synopsis>"Born a little German princess without a drop of Russian blood in her veins she came to embody Russia and as the country moved from war to war and conquest to conquest it was Catherine who became great. Those who served her throne, or her bed, were well rewarded while the serfs were condemned to ever-worsening conditions. Men were instruments of pleasure. The weak had to perish. The future belonged to men - and sometimes a man could have the outward appearance of a woman. She was proof of that. This literary tour de force paints an enthralling picture of Catherine, her seductions, her coaxings and her phenomenal devotion to politics and work, but it also brings the Russian court - with all its intrigues - brilliantly to life."</synopsis>
                <title>Catherine the Great</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Neal Asher </author>
                <characters>Scar (Neal Asher), Dragon, Gant, Skellor, Eldene, Horace Blegg, Tomalon, Apis, Fethan, John Stanton, Cento, Thorn, Aiden, Mika, Ian Cormac, Jeremiah Tombs</characters>
                <date>2004</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Space Opera, Fiction, Fantasy, Space, Cyberpunk, Aliens, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure, Hard Science Fiction</genres>
                <id>2381</id>
                <synopsis>Outlink station Miranda has been destroyed by a nanomycelium and the very nature of this sabotage suggests that the alien bioconstruct Dragon - a creature as untrustworthy as it is gigantic - is somehow involved.</synopsis>
                <title>The Line Of Polity</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Voltaire</author>
                <characters>Gordon, Mlle de Saint-Yves, ""L''Ingénu""</characters>
                <date>2003</date>
                <genres>Classics, France, Philosophy, Fiction, French Literature, 18th Century, Read For School, School, Novels, Literature</genres>
                <id>2382</id>
                <synopsis>"Un jeune Huron d’ascendance bretonne débarque à Saint-Malo en 1689. Il découvre un coin de province française, retrouve une famille, reçoit le baptême, s’illustre par un fait d’armes contre les Anglais et, pour finir, tombe amoureux de la belle et dévote Mlle de Saint-Yves. Pour obtenir sa main, il doit revenir de la Cour avec un brevet d’officier. Il gagne donc Versailles. Mais ses éclats naïfs le conduisent à la Bastille..."</synopsis>
                <title>L'Ingénu</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Carolyn Keene</author>
                <characters>Nancy Drew</characters>
                <date>1968</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Adventure, Mystery Thriller, Detective</genres>
                <id>2383</id>
                <synopsis>"During an archaeological expedition in Mexico, two professors, the senior Dr. Joshua Pitt and young Terry Scott find a clue to buried treasure. The clue was a cipher carved on a stone tablet. Before the older professor had time to translate it, he and the tablet disappeared! Terry tells Nancy of his suspicions of a Mexican couple, posing as scientists, who vanished the same night as Dr. Pitt. Nancy follows a tangled trail of clues that lead to Florida and Mexico and a secret of antiquity that can only be unlocked by three black keys. This book is the revised text. The plot of the original story (©1951) is similar with minor revisions."</synopsis>
                <title>The Clue of the Black Keys</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Philip Sugden</author>
                <characters>Jack the Ripper</characters>
                <date>2006</date>
                <genres>Nonfiction, True Crime, History, Crime, Mystery, Horror, Historical, Biography, 19th Century, British Literature</genres>
                <id>2384</id>
                <synopsis>"A comprehensive account of London's celebrated East End killer, revised and updated. The murders in London between 1888-91 attributed to Jack the Ripper constitute one of the most mysterious unsolved criminal cases. This story is the result of many years meticulous research. The author reassesses all the evidence and challenges everything we thought we knew about the Victorian serial killer and the vanished East End he terrorized."</synopsis>
                <title>The Complete History of Jack the Ripper</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Ross King</author>
                <characters>Michelangelo, Pope Julius II</characters>
                <date>2003</date>
                <genres>History, Art, Nonfiction, Biography, Italy, Art History, Historical, European History, Religion, Architecture</genres>
                <id>2385</id>
                <synopsis>"In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the newly restored Sistine Chapel. With little experience as a painter (though famed for his sculpture David), Michelangelo was reluctant to begin the massive project. Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling recounts the four extraordinary years Michelangelo spent laboring over the vast ceiling while the power politics and personal rivalries that abounded in Rome swirled around him. Battling against ill health, financial difficulties, domestic problems, the pope's impatience, and a bitter rivalry with the brilliant young painter Raphael, Michelangelo created scenes so beautiful that they are considered one of the greatest masterpieces of all time. A panorama of illustrious figures converged around the creation of this great work-from the great Dutch scholar Desiderius Erasmus to the young Martin Luther-and Ross King skillfully weaves them through his compelling historical narrative, offering uncommon insight into the intersection of art and history."</synopsis>
                <title>Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Enid Blyton</author>
                <characters>George Kirrin (Famous Five), Dick Kirrin, Timmy, Anne (Famous Five), Julian (Famous Five)</characters>
                <date>2001</date>
                <genres>Childrens, Adventure, Fiction, Mystery, Classics, Young Adult, Novels, British Literature, Childrens Classics, Teen</genres>
                <id>2386</id>
                <synopsis>"Whispering Island - another mysterious place, with a million stories sorrounding it . . . Is it haunted? The Five are intrigued, but scared, too. Are they brave enough to go there and find out . . . About The Author: Enid Blyton, 1896 - November 28, 1959 Enid Blyton was born in London in 1896. She was educated in a private school and thought that she would become a musician until she realized that writing was her passion. She attended Ipswich High School where she trained to become a kindergarten teacher and eventually opened her own school for infants. Blyton's first poem was published in 1917, entitled ""Have You-"" which appeared in Nash's Magazine. In 1922, her first book of verses was published, entitled ""Child Whispers."" In 1926 she accepted a position editing the children's magazine ""Sunny Stories"" as well as writing the column ""Teachers World."" Blyton's first full length children's book was published din 1938 and was titled ""The Secret Island."" After working on the column for years, Blyton quit ""Teachers World"" in 1945 and also ended her stint as editor of ""Sunny Stories"" seven years later. In 1953 she started her own children's magazine called ""The Edith Blyton Magazine"" which featured stories about her characters and news on the clubs formed around them. Her most famous stories were those of the ""Famous Five"" The Magazine closed in 1959. In the 50's and 60's Blyton was criticized for the language in her book, for being to simple, but some 300 are still in print today. Blyton has published over 600 books in the course of her career. Enid Blyton died in her sleep on November 28, 1968. She was 72 years old."</synopsis>
                <title>Five Have a Mystery to Solve</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Murat Menteş</author>
                <characters>Nuh Tufan, İbrahim Kurban, Rıza Silahlıpoda, Umur Samaz, Su Samaz, Habip Hobo, Ferruh Ferman, Dilara Dilemma</characters>
                <date>Apr-05</date>
                <genres>Turkish Literature, Fiction, Turkish, Novels, Roman, Adult, Royal Air Force</genres>
                <id>2387</id>
                <synopsis>"""Murat Menteş, okumacı, tartışmacı, kavgacı, yani kışkırtıcı bir yazar arkadaşım. Onunla çekişirken çiçek açarsınız. Yazarlık macerasını ben de merakla izliyorum. Peşinen söyleyeyim, fiktif, tümden hayal ürünü metinler sevmem, fakat Murat Menteş'in birbiri peşi sıra kurduğu cümlelerin gücü, benim kendimce şikayetimi kuruntuya dönüştürdü. Ben, Murat'ın yaşındayken kelimelerle kasap gibi boğuşuyordum; Murat aksine, kelimeleri kırbaçlayıp cümleler içinde düzene sokuyor ve bunu pek mahirce başarıyor. Bu yüzden Dublörün Dilemması çok canlı, renkli, inceden felsefi çığlıklarla bezeli bir kitap ve hızla yaklaşan bir yazarı işaretliyor... Böyledir, edebiyat kavgayla başlar, huzurla sona erer derler; gerçi ben görmedim, hayırlısı Murat için olsun!.."" - Nihat Genç""Çok acayip. Çok tuhaf. Müthiş!.. Böyle bir kitabın yazıldığına inanamıyorum. Okuyun, siz de inanamayacaksınız!"" - Hakan Albayrak""Dublörün Dilemması ilginç, heyecanlı, eğlenceli, derinlikli bir roman. Ama galiba en önemli özelliği, bize sözcüklerin gücünü hatırlatması. Hiperaktif bir zekanın ürünü, bu baş döndürücü macerayı okumak büyük keyif! Ben sevdim eller alsın."" - Alper Canıgüz"</synopsis>
                <title>Dublörün Dilemması</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Poul Anderson</author>
                <characters>Scafloc, valgard</characters>
                <date>Sept-02</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Fiction, Mythology, Classics, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction</genres>
                <id>2388</id>
                <synopsis>"Thor broke the sword Tyrfing to save the roots of Yggdrasil, the tree that binds earth, heaven and hell. Now the elves need the weapon for their war against the trolls. Only Scafloc, a human kidnapped and raised by elves, can hope to persuade Bolverk the ice-giant to make Tyrfing whole again. But Scafloc must also confront his shadow self, Valgard, the changeling in his place among men."</synopsis>
                <title>The Broken Sword</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Enid Blyton</author>
                <characters>George Kirrin (Famous Five), Dick Kirrin, Timmy, Tinker, Anne (Famous Five), Julian (Famous Five)</characters>
                <date>2001</date>
                <genres>Childrens, Adventure, Fiction, Mystery, Classics, Young Adult, Middle Grade, British Literature, Novels, Childrens Classics</genres>
                <id>2389</id>
                <synopsis>"There's a ruined castle on Finniston Farm, but only the dungeons remain - and nobody knows where they are! The Famous Five are determined to find them - and whatever is hidden in them - but they are not alone. Someone else wants to know, too. The question is: can the Five get there first?"</synopsis>
                <title>Five on Finniston Farm</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Nancy Atherton</author>
                <characters>Emma Porter, Derek Harris, Peter Harris, Nell Harris, Grayson Alexander</characters>
                <date>1995</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Cozy Mystery, Fiction, Romance, Paranormal, British Literature, Mystery Thriller, Fantasy, Supernatural, Adult Fiction</genres>
                <id>2390</id>
                <synopsis>"Emma Porter is forty, fat, frumpy, and a passionate amateur gardener. When her longtime lover dumps her for a younger woman, Emma escapes the cloying sympathy of family and friends by setting out on a summer-long driving tour of England's glorious gardens. A Dimity-contrived coincidence brings her to Penford Hall, a sprawling Gothic mansion in Cornwall, where she finds a duke in search of a missing lantern with extraordinary powers. Suspecting there's more than one mystery to be solved at Penford Hall, Emma accepts the duke's invitation to stay on and restore the once glorious chapel garden to its former beauty. The dark rumors surrounding a rock star and the near-death of the duke's beautiful cousin confirm Emma's suspicions, and set her-with Aunt Dimity's ghostly guidance-on the path to Penford Hall's secrets and the pleasure of unexpected love."</synopsis>
                <title>Aunt Dimity and the Duke</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Philip Reeve </author>
                <characters>Tom Natsworthy, Hester Shaw, Wren Natsworthy</characters>
                <date>2009</date>
                <genres>Young Adult, Steampunk, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Fiction, Dystopia, Adventure, Post Apocalyptic, Audiobook, Teen</genres>
                <id>2391</id>
                <synopsis>"An alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.Teenager Wren, bored and desperate for adventure in static Anchorage, is the eager dupe of limpet sub Lost Boys, and she and her stolen Tin Book are taken in turn. Her parents Tom and Hester set off to rescue her, but the journey will stir up old needs, old secrets - and send them back into perilous waters."</synopsis>
                <title>Infernal Devices</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Joan Aiken, Robin Jacques (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Dido Twite</characters>
                <date>1964</date>
                <genres>Childrens, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Adventure, Fiction, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Alternate History, Historical, Mystery</genres>
                <id>2392</id>
                <synopsis>"Simon, the foundling from the earlier book, The Wolves of Willoughy Chase, arrives in London to meet an old friend and pursue the study of painting, but he finds himself in the middle of a wicked crew's plan to overthrow good King James and the Duke and Duchess of Battersea."</synopsis>
                <title>Black Hearts in Battersea</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Nancy Atherton</author>
                <characters>Aunt Dimity Westwood, Lori Shepherd, William Willis</characters>
                <date>1993</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Cozy Mystery, Fiction, Paranormal, Romance, Ghosts, Fantasy, British Literature, Adult, Mystery Thriller</genres>
                <id>2393</id>
                <synopsis>Down-on-her-luck Lori Shepherd thought Aunt Dimity was a pretend character in her mother's bedtime stories ... until the Dickensian law firm of Willis &amp; Willis offers the possibility of large inheritance - if she can discover the secret hidden in letters between Dimity and her mother. Plus 1-pg recipe Beth's Oatmeal Cookies.</synopsis>
                <title>Aunt Dimity's Death</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Nancy Mitford, Pauline Tennant (Introduction), Roland Pym (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Fanny Wincham, Polly Hampton, Lady Montdore, Lord Montdore, Uncle Montdore, Boy Dougdale, Patricia Dougdale, Cedric Hampton, Norma Cozens, Archie., Klugge</characters>
                <date>1992</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Classics, Romance, British Literature, Humor, 20th Century, Historical Fiction, Comedy, Literary Fiction, Novels</genres>
                <id>2394</id>
                <synopsis>"No ISBNOne of Nancy Mitford’s most beloved novels, Love in a Cold Climate is a sparkling romantic comedy that vividly evokes the lost glamour of aristocratic life in England between the wars.Polly Hampton has long been groomed for the perfect marriage by her mother, the fearsome and ambitious Lady Montdore. But Polly, with her stunning good looks and impeccable connections, is bored by the monotony of her glittering debut season in London. Having just come from India, where her father served as Viceroy, she claims to have hoped that society in a colder climate would be less obsessed with love affairs. The apparently aloof and indifferent Polly has a long-held secret, however, one that leads to the shattering of her mother’s dreams and her own disinheritance. When an elderly duke begins pursuing the disgraced Polly and a callow potential heir curries favor with her parents, nothing goes as expected, but in the end all find happiness in their own unconventional ways."</synopsis>
                <title>Love in a Cold Climate</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Arthur Slade </author>
                <characters>Modo, Mr. Socrates, Octavia</characters>
                <date>2009</date>
                <genres>Steampunk, Fantasy, Young Adult, Science Fiction, Mystery, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Adventure, Historical, Teen</genres>
                <id>2395</id>
                <synopsis>"A gripping new series combines Steampunk, spying, and a fantastic Victorian London.The mysterious Mr. Socrates rescues Modo, a child in a traveling freak show. Modo is a hunchback with an amazing ability to transform his appearance, and Mr. Socrates raises him in isolation as an agent for the Permanent Association, a spy agency behind Brittania’s efforts to rule the empire. At 14, Modo is left on the streets of London to fend for himself. When he encounters Octavia Milkweed, another Association agent, the two uncover a plot by the Clockword Guild behind the murders of important men. Furthermore, a mad scientist is turning orphan children into automatons to further the goals of the Guild. Modo and Octavia journey deep into the tunnels under London and discover a terrifying plot against the British government. It’s up to them to save their country."</synopsis>
                <title>The Hunchback Assignments</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Anya Seton</author>
                <characters>Santa Fe Cameron</characters>
                <date>1973</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Romance, Historical Romance, New York, Classics, Novels</genres>
                <id>2396</id>
                <synopsis>"It is the story of a beautiful, gifted woman who leaves the magic mountains of her native New Mexico for the piratical, opulent, gaslit New York of the 1870s—only to end her search for happiness back in the high, thin air of Santa Fe. Santa Fe Cameron, named for the place of her birth, was the child of a Spanish mother and a Scotch father and inherited from both a high degree of psychic perceptivity. Natanay, an American Indian, saw this and gave the little orphan a turquoise amulet as a keepsake; this turquoise, the Indian symbol of the spirit, dominates her life.  For Santa Fe Cameron, life is made up of violent contrasts: the rough wagon of the gay young Irish medicine vendor who brings her East and the scented hansom cabs and carriages waiting before her own Fifth Avenue mansion; the glittering world of the Astors and a dreary cell in the Tombs. All the color, excitement, and rich period detail which distinguish Anya Seton’s novels are here, together with one of her most unusual heroines."</synopsis>
                <title>The Turquoise</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Carolyn Keene</author>
                <characters>Nancy Drew</characters>
                <date>1975</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Juvenile, Middle Grade, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Cozy Mystery</genres>
                <id>2397</id>
                <synopsis>"Nancy is intrigued by a magazine article offering a large reward to anyone finding a missing medieval stained-glass window. She invites Bess and George to join her on a search in Charlottesville, Virginia. During the girls' investigation of Ivy Hall, an old rundown, southern mansion, rented by a superstitious actress, they encounter a hostile ghost. Eerie sounds come from a beautiful neighboring estate that is surrounded by a high brick wall. Could these mysterious noises and the ghost at Ivy Hall be connected? This book is the revised text. The plot of the original story (©1956) is similar with minor revisions."</synopsis>
                <title>The Hidden Window Mystery</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Agatha Christie</author>
                <characters>Hercule Poirot</characters>
                <date>2002</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Crime, Short Stories, Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Detective</genres>
                <id>2398</id>
                <synopsis>"How Does Your Garden Grow?: Complete &amp; Unabridged With stories taken from ""Murder in the Mews"", each tale in this collection is entirely self-contained and features the character Hercule Poirot. Full description"</synopsis>
                <title>How Does Your Garden Grow? and Other Stories</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Chrétien de Troyes, Ruth Harwood Cline (Translator)</author>
                <characters>Sir Gawain, Sir Perceval, Blanchefleur, Le Roi Pêcheur, King Arthur</characters>
                <date>1985</date>
                <genres>Classics, Medieval, Poetry, Arthurian, France, Fiction, French Literature, Fantasy, Mythology, School</genres>
                <id>2399</id>
                <synopsis>"In this verse translation of Perceval; or, The Story of the Grail, Ruth Harwood Cline restores to life the thematically crucial Arthurian tale of the education of a knight in his search for the Holy Grail.Cline's translation, faithful to the highly synthetic, deliberately ornate nature of medieval French, follows Perceval from his home in Wales, through his rich and raucous adventures as a member of the fraternity of knights, to his climactic meeting with the Fisher King. Paralyzed by his first glimpse of the Grail, Perceval fails to save the ailing king. Distraught, the knight begins a new quest for the Grail, a journey on the road of penitence and faith. Perceval's venture, the true test of his knighthood, ends without conclusion; the death of author Chrétien de Troyes left unsaid and undetermined the success of Perceval's quest."</synopsis>
                <title>Perceval, or, The Story of the Grail</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Enid Blyton</author>
                <characters>""Pat O''Sullivan"", ""Isabel O''Sullivan"", ""Alison O''Sullivan"", Lucy Oriell</characters>
                <date>May-96</date>
                <genres>Childrens, Fiction, Classics, Young Adult, School Stories, Boarding School, School, Adventure, 20th Century, Indonesian Literature</genres>
                <id>2400</id>
                <synopsis>"An alternative cover edition for this book can be found here.It's the start of the Easter Term and Pat and Isabel are looking forward to meeting all their friends at St Clare's once more. The new girls prove to be a source of much amusement, and there is all the fun of boarding-school life as well."</synopsis>
                <title>The O'Sullivan Twins</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Gotthold Ephraim Lessing</author>
                <characters>Emilia Galotti</characters>
                <date>1986</date>
                <genres>Classics, Plays, German Literature, School, Drama, Fiction, Read For School, 18th Century, Germany, Literature</genres>
                <id>2401</id>
                <synopsis>"Mit dem 1772 erschienenen und uraufgeführten Drama Emilia Galotti schuf Gotthold Ephraim Lessing eines der bedeutendsten Beispiele für die Gattung des bürgerlichen Trauerspiels. Das Stück, das zu den Schlüsselwerken der Aufklärung und Empfindsamkeit gehört sowie als eines der ersten politischen Dramen der deutschen Literatur gilt, übt scharfe Kritik an der Willkürherrschaft des Adels. Dieser Macht kann das Bürgertums nur seine höhere Moral entgegensetzen. Die geplante Hochzeit der bürgerlichen Emilia Galotti mit dem ehrenhaften Grafen Appiani wird von Hettore Gonzaga, dem regierenden Prinzen von Guastalla, hintertrieben; nicht nur für Emilia endet die Intrige schließlich tödlich. In Emilia Galotti verzichtete Lessing – anders als noch in Miss Sara Sampson – auf allzu viel Emotionen und rührselige Elemente. Nachdenklich, nicht (nur) gerührt, soll das Publikum das Theater verlassen."</synopsis>
                <title>Emilia Galotti</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Barry Denenberg</author>
                <characters>Empress Elisabeth of Austria</characters>
                <date>Apr-03</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Historical, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Middle Grade, Diary, Romance, 19th Century, Juvenile</genres>
                <id>2402</id>
                <synopsis>"Author Barry Denenberg brings us into the whirlwind that is the life of Princess Elisabeth of Austria. A free and impetuous spirit, Elisabeth is chosen at the age of fifteen (over her older sister) to be the wife of Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria. From that moment on, she is thrown into an intimidating world of restrictions and tremendous responsibilities. Feeling lonely and alienated, Elisabeth is forced to rely upon her own personal strength, which eventually leads her down the aisle and into an uncertain future."</synopsis>
                <title>Elisabeth: The Princess Bride, Austria - Hungary, 1853</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Susan Krinard</author>
                <characters>Joelle Randall, Luke Gevaudan</characters>
                <date>Sept-94</date>
                <genres>Romance, Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Werewolves, Shapeshifters, Fantasy, Fiction, Adult, Urban Fantasy, Contemporary Romance</genres>
                <id>2403</id>
                <synopsis>"Through with running from the past, Joelle Randall has come to the rugged Canadian Rockies determined to face her pain and begin anew. All she needed was a guide to lead her through the untamed mountain wilderness to the site where her parents' plane had crashed so long ago. But the only guide Joelle could find was Luke Gevaudan, a magnetically attractive loner with the feral grace of a wolf and eyes that glittered with a savage intensity. She couldn't know that Luke was the stuff of legends, one of the last survivors of an ancient race of werewolves... a man whose passion she would not be able to resist-no matter how terrible the price."</synopsis>
                <title>Prince of Wolves</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Peter Robinson</author>
                <characters>Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, Vic Manson, Dr. Jenny Fuller, Ken Blackstone, Janet Taylor, Dennis Morrisey, Maggie Forrest</characters>
                <date>2002</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Crime, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Thriller, British Literature, Detective, Suspense, Canada, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>2404</id>
                <synopsis>"The latest Inspector Banks paperback is set to follow the success of the hardback, taking Peter Robinson into the best-seller list.One phone call from a concerned neighbor has inadvertently led police to Terence Payne, the elusive serial killer known only as ""Chameleon."" Now the fiend is in custody, perhaps dying, and a long nightmare appears to be over at last. But is it? In Acting Detective Superintendent Alan Banks's mind too many questions remain unanswered at the chamber of horrors the press will dub the ""House of Payne."" Because the darkness has not yet lifted, the casualties are still mounting...and there are still monsters loose in the world."</synopsis>
                <title>Aftermath</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>J.D. Robb </author>
                <characters>Eve Dallas, Roarke</characters>
                <date>2009</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Romance, Crime, Romantic Suspense, Fiction, Futuristic, Suspense, Science Fiction, Thriller, Mystery Thriller</genres>
                <id>2405</id>
                <synopsis>"When the newly promoted captain of the NYPSD and his wife return a day early from their vacation, they were looking forward to spending time with their bright and vivacious sixteen-year-old daughter who had stayed behind.Not even their worst nightmares could have prepared them for the crime scene that awaited them instead. Brutally murdered in her bedroom, Deena's body showed signs of trauma that horrified even the toughest of cops; including our own Lieutenant Eve Dallas, who was specifically requested by the captain to investigate.When the evidence starts to pile up, Dallas and her team think they are about to arrest their perpetrator; little do they know yet that someone has gone to great lengths to tease and taunt them by using a variety of identities. Overconfidence can lead to careless mistakes. But for Dallas, one mistake might be all she needs to bring justice."</synopsis>
                <title>Kindred in Death</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Mary Westmacott (Pseudonym), Agatha Christie</author>
                <characters>Laura Franklin, Shirley Franklin</characters>
                <date>1967</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Romance, Classics, Drama, Crime, Novels, British Literature, Gothic, Adult</genres>
                <id>2406</id>
                <synopsis>"Laura Franklin bitterly resented the arrival of her younger sister Shirley, an enchanting baby loved by all the family. But Laura's emotions towards her sister changed dramatically one night, when she vowed to protect her with all her strength and love. While young Shirley longs for freedom and romance, Laura has to learn that loving can never be a one-sided affair, and the burden of her love for her sister has a dramatic effect on both their lives. For too long she had stayed quietly in the background of her stunning sister. Now there was a man that knew that Laura could love as passionately as her beutiful sister - if only she were given the chance. A story of consequences when love turns to obsession…."</synopsis>
                <title>The Burden</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Al Dempster (Adapter)</author>
                <characters>Three Little Pigs, Big Bad Wolf</characters>
                <date>1980</date>
                <genres>Childrens, Picture Books, Classics, Fiction, Animals, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Young Adult, Kids, Short Stories</genres>
                <id>2407</id>
                <synopsis>Please don't delete. This edition doesn't have an ISBN.</synopsis>
                <title>Walt Disney's Three Little Pigs (A Little Golden Book)</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Alexei Panshin</author>
                <characters>Mia Havero, Jimmy Dentremont, Daniel Kutsov</characters>
                <date>Nov-69</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Young Adult, Coming Of Age, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Dystopia, Adventure, Space Opera</genres>
                <id>2408</id>
                <synopsis>In 2198 man lives precariously on hastily-established colony worlds and in seven giant starships. Mia Haveros ship tests its children by casting them out to live or die in a month of Trial in the hostile wilds of a colony world. Her trial is fast approaching and she must learn not only the skills that will keep her alive but the deeper courage to face herself and her world.</synopsis>
                <title>Rite of Passage</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Shirley Damsgaard </author>
                <characters>Ophelia Jensen, Tink, Dot Cameron, Ethan Clement, Abigal McDonald, Great-Aunt Mary</characters>
                <date>2010</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Paranormal, Witches, Cozy Mystery, Fantasy, Fiction, Paranormal Mystery, Urban Fantasy, Supernatural, Magic</genres>
                <id>2409</id>
                <synopsis>"This is the seventh and last installment of the enchanting mystery series featuring a small-town librarian psychic and her grandmother, and a benevolent witch.Small-town librarian and psychic Ophelia Jensen hails from a long line of wise and wonderfully gifted women. There's her grandmother, Abby, a talented witch, and her great-aunt Mary, who's about to celebrate her 100th birthday. But as Ophelia learns, when she and Abby travel to North Carolina for the centennial celebration, their family secrets aren't just magickal-they're murderous.Someone in the sweet Southern town wants Abby dead. Could it be a rogue witch in Ophelia's own family? A vengeful local witch desperate to settle a bitter feud decades in the making? Ophelia must use all her talents to save her loved ones-before the witching hour comes upon them, and bad blood turns deadly"</synopsis>
                <title>The Seventh Witch</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Enid Blyton</author>
                <characters>Timothy, George Kirrin (Famous Five), Dick Kirrin, Tinker, Anne (Famous Five), Julian (Famous Five)</characters>
                <date>2001</date>
                <genres>Childrens, Fiction, Adventure, Mystery, Classics, Young Adult, British Literature, Middle Grade, Novels, Juvenile</genres>
                <id>2410</id>
                <synopsis>"What can Uncle Quentin be up to - all alone - on Kirrin Island. He won't let anyone visit - not even George and the rest of the Famous Five. But Quentin isn't really all alone on the island - somebody is watching his every move! About The Author: Enid Blyton, 1896 - November 28, 1959 Enid Blyton was born in London in 1896. She was educated in a private school and thought that she would become a musician until she realized that writing was her passion. She attended Ipswich High School where she trained to become a kindergarten teacher and eventually opened her own school for infants. Blyton's first poem was published in 1917, entitled ""Have You-"" which appeared in Nash's Magazine. In 1922, her first book of verses was published, entitled ""Child Whispers."" In 1926 she accepted a position editing the children's magazine ""Sunny Stories"" as well as writing the column ""Teachers World."" Blyton's first full length children's book was published din 1938 and was titled ""The Secret Island."" After working on the column for years, Blyton quit ""Teachers World"" in 1945 and also ended her stint as editor of ""Sunny Stories"" seven years later. In 1953 she started her own children's magazine called ""The Edith Blyton Magazine"" which featured stories about her characters and news on the clubs formed around them. Her most famous stories were those of the ""Famous Five"" The Magazine closed in 1959. In the 50's and 60's Blyton was criticized for the language in her book, for being to simple, but some 300 are still in print today. Blyton has published over 600 books in the course of her career. Enid Blyton died in her sleep on November 28, 1968. She was 72 years old."</synopsis>
                <title>Five on Kirrin Island Again</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Norma (Adapter, Illustrator), Wilmaury (Color), Agatha Christie</author>
                <characters>Miss Marple</characters>
                <date>2008</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Graphic Novels, Crime, Fiction, Detective, Classics, Sequential Art, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>2411</id>
                <synopsis>Miss Marple's first case is adapted into the first Miss Marple comic book in this long-awaited adaptation of one of Agatha Christie's most famous novels.</synopsis>
                <title>The Murder at the Vicarage</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Enid Blyton, Sally Gregory (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Tiptap, Aunt Tabitha</characters>
                <date>Dec-89</date>
                <genres>Childrens, Fantasy, Classics, Fiction</genres>
                <id>2412</id>
                <synopsis>"One of a selection of ever-popular short stories for the younger reader, with clear text and illustrated throughout. For Ages 5+This Enid Blyton book contains the stories:The Strange UmbrellaThe Enchanted MirrorSly-One's Ice-CreamStones for a HorseRipple gets a NecklaceThe Great Big Bumble-BeeThe Little ClockwinderIt's Going to RainThe Magic Silver ThreadBlackberry PieThe Singing ShellThe Frightened Teddy-BearThe Old BootThe Rabbit that Didn't Grow UpUpadee and the DragonThe Tale of Higgle and HumThe Surprising Easter Egg"</synopsis>
                <title>The Strange Umbrella and Other Stories</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Bernard Cornwell </author>
                <characters>Richard Sharpe, Patrick Harper, Michael Hogan, Pierre Ducos, Thomas Leroy, La Marquesa</characters>
                <date>2004</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, War, Adventure, Military Fiction, Action, Audiobook, British Literature, Novels</genres>
                <id>2413</id>
                <synopsis>"The Vittoria Campaign is February to June 1813. Victory depends on the increasingly fragile alliance between Britain and Spain. Majpr Sharpe's enemy, Pierre Ducos, seizes a chance to both destroy the alliance and take revenge on Sharpe. The lovely spy, La Marquesa, traps Sharpe in a web of deadly intrigue; he is hunted by allies and enemies alike."</synopsis>
                <title>Sharpe's Honour</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Katherine Applegate</author>
                <characters>Merlin, David Levin, ""April O''Brien"", Senna Wales, Jalil, Christopher</characters>
                <date>Sept-99</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Young Adult, Mythology, Fiction, Adventure, Young Adult Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Childrens, Magic, Science Fiction</genres>
                <id>2414</id>
                <synopsis>"There is a place that shouldn’t exist. But does. And there are creatures that shouldn’t exist. But do. Welcome to a land where all of your dreams and nightmares are very real—and often deadly. Welcome to Everworld.Jalil, David, April, and Chris still haven’t found Senna. They still haven’t found their way out of Everworld. And—though they have managed to stay alive—things are starting to get worse. Because Jalil and the others are about to encounter one of the most powerful of Everworld inhabitants. He is called Merlin.Merlin is the unseen force behind much of what happens in Everworld. And there is a good chance he knows where to find Senna. But he has his own agenda. And it doesn’t necessarily include helping Jalil and the others. Now, they’re about to discover what happens when you mess with Merlin…"</synopsis>
                <title>Enter the Enchanted</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Katherine Paterson</author>
                <characters>Galadriel Hopkins, Maime Trotter, William Ernest Teague</characters>
                <date>1996</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Childrens, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Realistic Fiction, Juvenile, Classics, Fostering, Family, School</genres>
                <id>2415</id>
                <synopsis>"Watch out world!The Great Gilly Hopkins is looking for a home. She's a foster kid who's been angry, lonely, and hurting for so long that's she's always ready for a fight. Be on the lookout for her best barracuda smile, the one she saves for well-meaning social workers. Watch out for her most fearful look, a cross between Dracula and Godzilla, used especially to scare shy foster brothers. Don't be fooled by her ""Who me?"" expression, guaranteed to trick foster parents, teachers, and anyone who gets in her way.It's Gilly Hopkins vs. the world! And so far, Gilly seems to be winning. But what she doesn't realize is that every time she wins, she really loses, until she discovers a love as formidable as any enemy she's ever known."</synopsis>
                <title>The Great Gilly Hopkins</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Amanda Quick , Jayne Ann Krentz </author>
                <characters>Gabriel Banner, Earl of Wylde, Lady Phoebe Layton</characters>
                <date>Nov-92</date>
                <genres>Romance, Historical Romance, Historical, Historical Fiction, Regency, Fiction, Mystery, Regency Romance, Adult, British Literature</genres>
                <id>2416</id>
                <synopsis>"From a crumbling fairy-tale castle on the stormy Sussex coast to a dazzling, dizzying masquerade ball comes an enchanting tale of a tarnished knight, a daring maiden, and a sweet, searing storybook love... At sixteen, Phoebe Layton had imagined that Gabriel Banner was a brave and valiant knight, a noble-hearted hero born to rescue ladies in distress. Which is why, eight years later, when she desperately needed help to carry out a vital quest, she could think of no one more suited than Gabriel. But when she lures her shining knight to a lonely midnight rendezvous, Phoebe finds herself sparring with a dangerously desirable man who is nothing like the hero of her dreams. And when he sweeps her into a torrid and blatantly unchivalrous embrace, she can't help but fear that she's made a dreadful mistake. It's a kiss that will seal Phoebe's fate. For now the exacting Earl of Wylde has a quest of his own-to possess the most intriguing, impulsive, outrageous female he has ever met...even if he has to slay a dragon to do it."</synopsis>
                <title>Reckless</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Malcolm Bradbury</author>
                <characters>Howard Kirk, Flora Beniform</characters>
                <date>1984</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Humor, Novels, Comedy, Academia, Classics, British Literature, Literature, English Literature, 20th Century</genres>
                <id>2417</id>
                <synopsis>"Novel - Howard Kirk is the trendiest of radical tutors at a fashionable university campus. A self-appointed revolutionary hero, Howard always comes out on top. And Malcolm Bradbury dissects him in this savagely funny novel that has been universally acclaimed as one of the masterpieces of the decade."</synopsis>
                <title>The History Man</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Dave Wolverton</author>
                <characters>Luke Skywalker, Chewbacca, Prince Isolder, Warlord Zsinj, Teneniel Djo, Leia Organa, Han Solo</characters>
                <date>May-95</date>
                <genres>Star Wars, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space Opera, Adventure, Novels, Media Tie In</genres>
                <id>2418</id>
                <synopsis>"Seeking rich, powerful allies to bring into the Rebel Alliance and a new home planet for the refugees of her native Alderaan, Princess Leia considers a proposal that could tip the balance of power against the evil Empire. The Hapes Consortium of 63 worlds is ruled by the Queen Mother, who wants Leia to marry her son, the dashing and wealthy Prince Isolder. Han Solo has always dreamed of marrying Leia himself, and now he makes a desperate last gamble to win her back. Soon he, Isolder, Luke Skywalker and Artoo will be at the center of an adventure leading to an awesome treasure, a group of Force-trained ""witches,"" and a showdown with an invincible foe.Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years!"</synopsis>
                <title>The Courtship of Princess Leia</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Bernard Cornwell </author>
                <characters>Richard Sharpe, Patrick Harper, Michael Hogan, Philippe Leroux, Thomas Leroy, La Marquesa, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington</characters>
                <date>1994</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, War, Adventure, Military Fiction, Action, British Literature, Audiobook, Novels</genres>
                <id>2419</id>
                <synopsis>"The greatest threat to Wellington's Salamanca Campaign is not Napoleon's Army but France's deadliest assassin.  He's already failed to kill Captain Richard Sharpe once.  Now, he's getting a second chance."</synopsis>
                <title>Sharpe's Sword</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Anna Gavalda</author>
                <characters>Pierre Comte, Mathilde, Chloe</characters>
                <date>2002</date>
                <genres>Fiction, France, Romance, Novels, Contemporary, French Literature, Roman, Literature, Chick Lit, Drama</genres>
                <id>2420</id>
                <synopsis>"Le dialogue d'un homme de 65 ans et de sa belle-fille le soir dans une cuisine où pour la première fois, il se raconte et livre sa vie. Ou plutôt ce qu'il n'a pas vécu. Premier roman."</synopsis>
                <title>Je L'aimais</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Philippa Gregory , David Baldwin, Michael Jones</author>
                <characters>Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret Beaufort, Jacquetta Woodville</characters>
                <date>Published</date>
                <genres>History, Nonfiction, Biography, Historical, British Literature, Tudor Period, Medieval, 15th Century, Womens, European History</genres>
                <id>2421</id>
                <synopsis>"Elizabeth Woodville, The White Queen (2009), Margaret Beaufort, The Red Queen (2010), and Jacquetta, Lady Rivers, The Rivers Woman (2011) are the subjects of the first three novels in Philippa Gregory's Cousins' War series, and of the three biographical essays in this book. Philippa Gregory and two historians, leading experts in their field who helped Philippa to research the novels, tell the extraordinary 'true' stories of the life of these women who until now have been largely forgotten by history, their background and times, highlighting questions which are raised in the fiction and illuminating the novels. With a foreword by Philippa Gregory - in which Philippa writes revealingly about the differences between history and fiction and examines the gaps in the historical record - and beautifully illustrated with rare portraits, The Women of the Cousins' War is an exciting new addition to the Philippa Gregory oeuvre."</synopsis>
                <title>The Women of the Cousins' War: The Duchess, the Queen and the King's Mother</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Amanda Quick , Jayne Ann Krentz </author>
                <characters>Harriet Pomeroy, Gideon Westbrook, Viscount St. Justin</characters>
                <date>Dec-05</date>
                <genres>Historical Romance, Romance, Historical, Regency, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Beauty and The Beast, Mystery, Regency Romance, Adult</genres>
                <id>2422</id>
                <synopsis>"The New York Times bestselling author of Rendezvous presents a spellbinding new Regency historical destined to be a hot beach read this summer. Moving from the cozy confines of a tiny seaside village named Upper Biddleton to the glittering crush of a fashionable London soiree, Quick offers an enthralling tale of a mismatched couple poised to discover the rapture of love.There was no doubt about it. What Miss Harriet Pomeroy needed was a man. Someone powerful and clever who could help her rout the unscrupulous thieves who were using her beloved caves to hide their loot. But when Harriet summoned Gideon Westbrook, Viscount St. Justin, to her aid, she could not know that she was summoning the devil himself. . . . Dubbed the Beast of Blackthorne Hall for his scarred face and lecherous past, Gideon was strong and fierce and notoriously menacing. Yet Harriet could not find it in her heart to fear him. For in his tawny gaze she sensed a savage pain she longed to soothe . . . and a searing passion she yearned to answer. Now, caught up in the Beast’s clutches, Harriet must find a way to win his heart–and evade the deadly trap of a scheming villain who would see them parted for all time.RAVISHED is a retelling of the classic tale, Beauty and the Beast."</synopsis>
                <title>Ravished</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Boris Akunin</author>
                <characters>Nicholas Fandorin</characters>
                <date>2001</date>
                <genres>Russia, Fiction, Mystery, Detective, Historical Fiction, Crime, Russian Literature, Adventure, Audiobook, Historical</genres>
                <id>2423</id>
                <synopsis>"A Mosca, in una casa alquanto singolare, una cantina cela un tesoro favoloso. Un segreto condiviso solo da due persone, una delle quali adesso giace cadavere a pochi metri da quella raccolta inestimabile. L'altra, costretta alla fuga, ha appena il tempo di imprimersi in testa un'informazione fondamentale, da tramandare a tutti i costi... Secoli dopo, il giovane storico Nicholas Fandorin parte da Londra per recarsi finalmente in Russia, la terra dei suoi padri. Scopo del viaggio è riunire le due parti di un cimelio di famiglia: il testamento dell'avo Cornelius von Dorn - mercenario al soldo dello zar nel 1675 -, di cui lo studioso possiede la metà sinistra. Impreparato al nuovo mondo postsovietico, l'anglosassone è scioccato dall'affarismo e dalla corruzione che vi pullulano. Ma questo è nulla in confronto a quanto gli si scatena contro una volta ricostituito l'antico manoscritto: una lunga serie di fughe, inseguimenti e tentativi di omicidio. E mentre la proverbiale flemma anglosassone di Nicholas fa spazio a un inedito uomo d'azione, egli si rende conto che le enigmatiche parole che sta cercando di interpretare sono la chiave per ritrovare una leggendaria fortuna perduta - la Libereia di Ivan il Terribile -, in cui si nasconde un oggetto ancora più prezioso, dai poteri terrificanti..."</synopsis>
                <title>Алтын-Толобас</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Lawrence Block </author>
                <characters>Matthew Scudder</characters>
                <date>2000</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Crime, Fiction, Detective, Noir, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, New York, Hard Boiled, American</genres>
                <id>2424</id>
                <synopsis>"Downing a bourbon or two with a couple of cronies, Scudder witnesses a heist. The Morrisey brothers who run the joint are strangely submissive during the raid, but eager to see Scudder track down the thieves without involving the regular forces of law and order."</synopsis>
                <title>When the Sacred Ginmill Closes</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Arthur C. Clarke</author>
                <characters>Heywood Floyd, HAL 9000, Dave Bowman</characters>
                <date>Nov-97</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space, Classics, Novels, Fantasy, Adventure, Space Opera, Audiobook</genres>
                <id>2425</id>
                <synopsis>"Arthur C. Clarke, creator of one of the world's best-loved science fiction tales, revisits the most famous future ever imagined in this NEW YORK TIMES bestseller, as two expeditions into space become inextricably tangled. Heywood Floyd, survivor of two previous encounters with the mysterious monloiths, must again confront Dave Bowman, HAL, and an alien race that has decided that Mankind is to play a part in the evolution of the galaxy whether it wishes to or not. -This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title."</synopsis>
                <title>2061: Odyssey Three</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Cordwainer Smith</author>
                <characters>Rod McBan, ""C''Mell""</characters>
                <date>Jul-85</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Novels, Space Opera, Short Stories, Anthologies, Book Club</genres>
                <id>2426</id>
                <synopsis>"Rod McBan 151st farms 'stroon', the immortality drug, and is the last scion of one of the oldest and most honourable families on Norstrilia, only source of stroon. But he's also a telepathic cripple and faces the ever-present risk of being culled under the government's draconian population laws.To protect himself, he uses his not-strictly-legal computer to play the market and amass an unimaginable fortune. But after he survives an assassination attempt, McBan discovers that having enough money to literally buy the Earth is no good if you're too dead to spend it . . ."</synopsis>
                <title>Norstrilia</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>J.D. Robb </author>
                <characters>Eve Dallas, Roarke</characters>
                <date>2008</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Romance, Crime, Fiction, Romantic Suspense, Futuristic, Suspense, Science Fiction, Thriller, Mystery Thriller</genres>
                <id>2427</id>
                <synopsis>"Summer, 2059. A man wearing a cape and a top hat approaches a prostitute on a dark, New York City street. Minutes later, the woman is dead. Left at the scene is a letter addressed to Lieutenant Eve Dallas, inviting her to play his game and unveil his identity. He signs it, ""Jack."" Now Dallas is in pursuit of a murderer who knows as much about the history of serial killers as she does. He has studied the most notorious and the most vicious slayings in modern times. But he also wants to make his own mark. He has chosen his victim: Eve Dallas. And all Eve knows is that he plans to mimic the most infamous murderers of all starting with Jack the Ripper... ""Robb's energetic prose and hard-edged dialogue will keep readers engrossed."" Publishers Weekly ""Edgy and raw."" Booklist"</synopsis>
                <title>Imitation in Death</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>J.D. Robb </author>
                <characters>Eve Dallas, Roarke</characters>
                <date>2004</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Romance, Crime, Fiction, Futuristic, Romantic Suspense, Suspense, Science Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Thriller</genres>
                <id>2428</id>
                <synopsis>"A birthday bash sets the scene for a frightening reunion with a killer from Eve Dallas's past. At exactly 7:30 p.m., Walter Pettibone arrived home to over a hundred friends and family shouting, surprise! It was his birthday. Although he had known about the planned event for weeks, the real surprise was yet to come. At 8:45 p.m., a woman with emerald eyes and red hair handed him a glass of champagne. One sip of birthday bubbly, and he was dead. The woman's name is Julie Dockport. No one at the party knew who she was. But Detective Eve Dallas remembers her all too well. Eve was personally responsible for her incarceration nearly ten years ago. And now, let out on good behavior, she still has nothing but bad intentions. It appears she wants to meet Dallas again - in a reunion neither will forget."</synopsis>
                <title>Reunion in Death</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Bernard Cornwell </author>
                <characters>Richard Sharpe, Patrick Harper, Michael Hogan, Guy Loup, Pierre Ducos</characters>
                <date>1995</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, War, Adventure, Military Fiction, Action, Audiobook, 19th Century, Military History</genres>
                <id>2429</id>
                <synopsis>"Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Fuentes de Onoro, May 1811In the spring of 1811, while quartered in the crumbling Portuguese fort of San Isidro, Richard Sharpe and his men are attacked by an elite French unit commanded by the formidable Brigadier Loup, and suffer heavy losses. Sharpe has already clashed once with Loup, and the Frenchman has sworn to have his revenge. After the attack, Sharpe is faced with the ruin of his career and reputation, as the army's high command tries to blame him for the disaster. With thousands of French troops massing at a tiny village nearby, Sharpe's only hope is to redeem himself on the battlefield. To save his honour, Sharpe must lead his men to glory in the narrow streets of Fuentes de Onoro. The Complete Sharpe Collection with a new introduction by the author"</synopsis>
                <title>Sharpe's Battle</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Andre Norton</author>
                <characters>Gillan, Herrel, Hyron</characters>
                <date>1977</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Science Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Magic, High Fantasy, Romance, Epic Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Novels</genres>
                <id>2430</id>
                <synopsis>"There is a prequel called Horn Crown, http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11...Andre Norton enthralled readers for decades with thrilling tales of people challenged to the limits of their endurance in epic battles of good against evil. None are more memorable than her Witch World novels.Far from the besieged home of Simon and Jaelithe, in peaceful Norsdale, we meet Gillan, who longs to leave her dull life in a secluded country abbey. But when her wish comes true, she finds more than a little adventure. As she ventures out, not only is her life in danger, but also the power that lies within her, waiting to be discovered."</synopsis>
                <title>Year of the Unicorn</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Michael Teitelbaum, Ron Dias (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>""Ariel (Disney''s The Little Mermaid)"", ""Flounder (Disney''s The Little Mermaid)""</characters>
                <date>1989</date>
                <genres>Childrens, Picture Books, Fantasy, Classics, Fairy Tales, Fiction, Kids, Media Tie In, Mermaids, Romance</genres>
                <id>2431</id>
                <synopsis>"More than anything else, Princess Ariel longs to visit the world of humans. She even falls in love with a human named Prince Eric But will the Little Mermaid remain with the prince of her dreams without losing everything she loves?"</synopsis>
                <title>Walt Disney Pictures Presents The Little Mermaid Ariel's Underwater Adventure (A Little Golden Book)</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Sandra Hill </author>
                <characters>Raoul ""Rusty"" Lanier, Charmaine LeDeux</characters>
                <date>Jun-04</date>
                <genres>Romance, Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, Humor, Westerns, Chick Lit, Fiction, Southern, Adult, Novels</genres>
                <id>2432</id>
                <synopsis>"Charmaine LeDeux, who owns not one but two beauty salons on the Louisiana bayou, has a loan shark on her tail. As if that's not bad enough, Raoul Lanier, who she thought she divorced years ago, tells her that they're still married! Plus, they've inherited his father's rundown cattle ranch together. Raoul promises to give her an honest-to-god real divorce this time if she'll sell him her half of the ranch. But she decides that the ranch is the perfect place for her after all; i.e., the perfect hideout for a woman who needs to lie low for a while.The last thing Raoul wants is for Charmaine to live with him, but Charmaine has always been stubborn. Soon she's taken over the house, adding feminine touches everywhere and having his three ranch hands eating out of her hand. When her belly-dancing great-aunt and the rest of the LeDeux clan come over for Thanksgiving dinner, Raoul knows he's lost the fight. He might as well give in to the temptation she still rouses in him. Now if he can only keep her safe from the Dixie mafia looking for her and convince her that he's worth a second chance at love."</synopsis>
                <title>The Cajun Cowboy</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Peter David</author>
                <characters>Captain Mackenzie Calhoun</characters>
                <date>Oct-98</date>
                <genres>Star Trek, Science Fiction, Fiction, Media Tie In, Space, Science Fiction Fantasy, Tv, Novels, Collections</genres>
                <id>2433</id>
                <synopsis>"There's a bar called ""The Captain's Table,"" where those who have commanded mighty vessels of every shape and era can meet, relax, and share a friendly drink or two with others of their calling. Sometimes a brawl may break out but it's all in the family, more or less. Just remember, the first round of drinks is always paid for with a story...even in Thallonian space. Six years ago, long before he took command of the Starship Excalibur, a young Starfleet officer named Mackenzie Calhoun served as first officer aboard the U.S.S. Grissom. Then disaster struck, and Calhoun took the blame. A court-martial led to his own angry resignation from Starfleet...or so it appeared. At long last Captain Calhoun reveals the true story behind the greatest tragedy of his life."</synopsis>
                <title>Once Burned</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Frank Miller</author>
                <characters>Marv, Goldie, Dwight McCarthy, Miho, Mort, John Hartigan, Nancy Callahan, Mr. Klump, Mr. Shlubb</characters>
                <date>Aug-05</date>
                <genres>Comics, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Crime, Comic Book, Noir, Collections, Mystery, Thriller</genres>
                <id>2434</id>
                <synopsis>"This bundle contains all seven volumes of Frank Miller's landmark Sin City, the hard-boiled stories that started it all! The books that inspired the critically-acclaimed film, the now-infamous Marv, Dwight, Gail, Miho, Hartigan, Nancy, and theYellow Bastard will transport you to Sin City and show you the bloody lives they lead ... bloody by choice or by circumstance. Frank Miller's Sin City is a triumph for its fiercely independent creator, and has been honored with Eisner awards, Harvey awards, and the prestigious National Cartoonists' Award."</synopsis>
                <title>Frank Miller's Complete Sin City Library</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Matthew Woodring Stover</author>
                <characters>Jacen Solo, Vergere</characters>
                <date>2002</date>
                <genres>Star Wars, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Space Opera, Space, Science Fiction Fantasy, War, Novels, Adventure</genres>
                <id>2435</id>
                <synopsis>"From the depths of catastrophe, a glimmer of hope.After the capture of Coruscant, the mighty heart of the New Republic, a stunned galaxy fears that nothing can stop the Yuuzhan Vong. Still, that crushing defeat produces one small miracle: Jacen Solo is alive. Yet he can scarcely imagine himself in stranger circumstances.The young Jedi Knight is in the care of Vergere, a fascinating creature of mystery and power, her intentions hard to fathom, her cruelties rarely concealed. But this master of inscrutable arts has much to teach the young Jedi...for she holds the key to a new way to experience the Force, to take it to another level - dangerous, dazzling, perhaps deadly.In the wrong hands, the tremendous energies of the Force can be devastating. And there are others watching Jacen's progress closely, waiting patiently for the moment when he will be ready for their own dire purposes. Now, all is in shadows. Yet whatever happens, whether Jacen's newfound mastery unleashes light or darkness, he will never be the same Jedi again..."</synopsis>
                <title>Traitor</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Walt Disney Company, Justine Korman Fontes (Adaptor), Ron Dias (Illustrator), Bill Langley (Illustrator)</author>
                <characters>Pongo (Disney), Perdita (Disney)</characters>
                <date>Jul-91</date>
                <genres>Childrens, Picture Books, Fiction, Animals, Classics, Dogs, Adventure, Juvenile, Media Tie In, Fantasy</genres>
                <id>2436</id>
                <synopsis>There are more than 101 things to love about Disney’s 101 Dalmatians!</synopsis>
                <title>101 Dalmatians</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Jill Murphy</author>
                <characters>Enid Nightshade, Mildred Hubble, Maud Spellbody, Miss Cackle, Miss Hardbroom, Ethel Hallow, Algernon Rowan-Webb, Tabby (Worst Witch)</characters>
                <date>1994</date>
                <genres>Fantasy, Childrens, Fiction, Witches, Magic, Middle Grade, Boarding School, Audiobook, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy</genres>
                <id>2437</id>
                <synopsis>Loveable but accident-prone Mildred Hubble is possibly the worst witch ever to go to Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches... Mildred is in deep water on the school trip. This title is a story of life at a magical boarding school.</synopsis>
                <title>The Worst Witch All at Sea</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>John Saul</author>
                <characters>Philip Sturgess</characters>
                <date>Aug-86</date>
                <genres>Horror, Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Ghosts, Paranormal, Adult, Mystery Thriller, Supernatural, Novels</genres>
                <id>2438</id>
                <synopsis>"The old mill has been silent for a hundred years, its dread secrets locked from view. Still, the people of Westover, Massachusetts, remember...and whisper of that terrible day when horrifying flames claimed eleven innocent young lives The day the mill's doors slammed shut - forever.But now, the last of the once-powerful Sturgess family is about to unlock those doors again...and unleash an elemental fury. For behind the padlocks, deep within the dark, abandoned building, a terrible vengeance waits. A vengeance conceived in...HELLFIRE"</synopsis>
                <title>Hellfire</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Madeleine Wickham</author>
                <characters>Hugh Delaney, Ursula Delaney, Louise Kember, Katie Kember, Amelia Kember, Barnaby Kember</characters>
                <date>2011</date>
                <genres>Chick Lit, Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Drama, Adult, Womens Fiction, British Literature, Contemporary Romance, Roman</genres>
                <id>2439</id>
                <synopsis>"One shimmeringly hot Sunday in May, the Delaneys open their pool to the whole village for charity. Louise is there with her daughters, and while the children splash and shriek in the cool blue waters, she basks in the sunshine, attempting to ignore her estranged husband and dreaming of the new man in her life, a charismatic lawyer. The day seems perfect. Then a sudden shocking accident changes everyone's lives forever. Recriminations start to fly. Whose fault was it? Louise's new lover insists that she sue the Delaneys. Her ex-husband isn't so sure. Opinion in the village is split. Old friendships start to crumble. New ones are formed. Will the repercussions from the accident ever end?"</synopsis>
                <title>Swimming Pool Sunday</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>David Remnick</author>
                <characters>Muhammad Ali</characters>
                <date>2000</date>
                <genres>Biography, Sports, Nonfiction, History, African American, Biography Memoir, American, Politics, Memoir, The United States Of America</genres>
                <id>2440</id>
                <synopsis>"There were mythic sports figures before him-Jack Johnson, Babe Ruth, Joe Louis, Joe DiMaggio-but when Cassius Clay burst onto the sports scene from his native Louisville in the 1950s, he broke the mold. He changed the world of sports and went on to change the world itself. As Muhammad Ali, he would become the most recognized face on the planet. Ali was a transcendent athlete and entertainer, a heavyweight Fred Astaire, a rapper before rap was born. He was a mirror of his era, a dynamic figure in the racial and cultural battles of his time. This unforgettable story of his rise and self-creation, told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, places Ali in a heritage of great American originals. Cassius Clay grew up in the Jim Crow South and came of athletic age when boxers were at the mercy of the mob. From the start, Clay rebelled against everything and everyone who would keep him and his people down. He refused the old stereotypes and refused the glad hand of the mob. And, to the confusion and fury of white sportswriters, who were far more comfortable with the self-effacing Joe Louis, Clay came forward as a rebel, insistent on his political views, on his new religion, and, eventually, on a new name. His rebellion nearly cost him the chance to fight for the heavyweight championship of the world. King of the World features some of the pivotal figures of the 1960s-Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, John F. Kennedy-and its pivotal events: the civil rights movement, political assassinations, the war in Vietnam. Muhammad Ali is a great hero and a beloved figure in American life. King of the World takes us back to the days when his life was a series of battles, inside the ring and out. A master storyteller at the height of his powers, David Remnick has written a book worthy of America's most dynamic modern hero."</synopsis>
                <title>King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Danielle Steel</author>
                <characters>Faye Price</characters>
                <date>1994</date>
                <genres>Romance, Fiction, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Drama, Contemporary Romance, Adult Fiction, Novels, Family, Modern</genres>
                <id>2441</id>
                <synopsis>"Through forty years—from Hollywood's golden days in World War II to the present—Faye Price would create first a career as a legendary actress, then a family, and finally she would realize her dream of becoming one of Hollywood's first woman directors. But nothing was more precious to Faye than her five children. In a changing world, a milieu where family values are constantly challenged from without and within, the Thayers would face the greatest challenges and harshest test a family can endure, to emerge stronger, bound forever by loyalty and love. It is only when Faye is gone that they can each assess how far they have come, and how important their family album is.("</synopsis>
                <title>Family Album</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Elizabeth George </author>
                <characters>Thomas Lynley, Barbara Havers</characters>
                <date>1993</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Thriller, Detective, British Literature, Suspense, Murder Mystery, Adult</genres>
                <id>2442</id>
                <synopsis>"Deborah and Simon St. James have taken a holiday in the winter landscape of Lancashire, hoping to heal the growing rift in their marriage. But in the barren countryside awaits bleak news: the vicar of Winslough, the man they had come to see, is dead - a victim of accidental poisoning. Unsatisfied with the inquest ruling and unsettled by the close association between the investigating constable and the woman who served the deadly meal, Simon calls in his old friend Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley. Together they uncover dark, complex relationships in this rural village, relationships that bring men and women together with passion, with grief, or with the intention to kill."</synopsis>
                <title>Missing Joseph</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Bernard Cornwell </author>
                <characters>Horatio Nelson, Richard Sharpe</characters>
                <date>2000</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, War, Adventure, Military Fiction, Action, Audiobook, 19th Century, British Literature</genres>
                <id>2443</id>
                <synopsis>"It is 1805 and Ensign Richard Sharpe is on his way home from India. The voyage should be a period of rest but his ship is riven with treachery and threatened by a formidable French warship, the Revenant, which is terrorizing British shipping in the Indian Ocean. An old opponent of Sharpe's is aboard his ship, and the voyage is further disturbed by the Lady Grace Hale, apparently as unreachable as she is beautiful.Sharpe also has friends, notably a captain of the Royal Navy who is hunting the Revenant and who rescues Sharpe when all seems lost. The hunt turns into a stern chase as the French warship races home, carrying a treaty that could ignite India into a new war against the British. When the Revenant encounters the combined French and Spanish fleets off Cadiz it seems that Sharpe's enemies have found safety, even as his enemies on board appear to have him trapped.Yet over the horizon is another fleet, led by Nelson, and Sharpe's revenge will cone in a savage climax when the two armadas meet on a clam October day off Cape Trafalgar.SHARPE'S TRAFALGARCORNWELL'S NARRATION OF THIS EPIC SEA-BATTLE IS QUITE MASTERLY AND SUPREMELY WELL RESEARCHED - OBSERVERCover Illustration: David Scutt"</synopsis>
                <title>Sharpe's Trafalgar</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Dan McDaid, Jonathan Morris, Martin Geraghty (Illustrator), Ian Edginton, John Ross (Illustrator), Clayton Hickman (Commentary Introduction), Mike Collins  (Illustrator), Adrian Salmon (Illustrator), more…</author>
                <characters>Martha Jones, Sycorax, Donna Noble, The Doctor, Tenth Doctor</characters>
                <date>Oct-09</date>
                <genres>Doctor Who, Comics, Graphic Novels, Science Fiction</genres>
                <id>2444</id>
                <synopsis>"Following The Betrothal of Sontar, this is a second collection of 10th Doctor comic strips from Doctor Who Magazine and the Doctor Who Storybooks."</synopsis>
                <title>Doctor Who: The Widow's Curse</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Yaşar Kemal</author>
                <characters>Uzunca Ali, Muhtar Sefer, Ökkeş Dağkurdu, Hüsne, Recep, Fatmaca, Memidik</characters>
                <date>1966</date>
                <genres>Fiction, Turkish Literature, Turkish, Literature</genres>
                <id>2445</id>
                <synopsis>"After a particularly bad season, a group of poor cotton-pickers are unable to pay their creditor, shopkeeper Adil Effendi. Overwhelmed with shame and guilt, they wait in terror for Adil to come and demand retribution. But when he inexplicably fails to appear, Adil begins to represent an irrational and tyrannical force, growing in their minds until they become sick with apprehension and obsessed with the terrible disaster that is sure to come upon them.In their despair they turn to Tashbash, a brave, decent and loyal man, investing him with virtue, grace and miraculous power. But the cotton-pickers have no idea of the effect of their idolatry on Tashbash, with his innocent doubts and mental torment, until his fate finally befalls him and the novel draws to its apposite close. Written with deep compassion and lyrical beauty, this is a novel alive with the acute observation of human nature."</synopsis>
                <title>Yer Demir Gök Bakır</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Bernard Cornwell </author>
                <characters>Richard Sharpe, Obadiah Hakeswill, William Dodd, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington</characters>
                <date>1999</date>
                <genres>Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, War, Adventure, Military Fiction, India, Audiobook, Action, Military History</genres>
                <id>2446</id>
                <synopsis>"Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Assaye, September 1803India, 1803. Sergeant Richard Sharpe witnesses a murderous act of treachery by an English officer who has defected from the East India Company to join the mercenary army of the Mahratta Confederation. In the hunt for the renegade Englishman, penetrates deep into the enemy's territory where he faces temptations more subtle than he has ever dreamed of. And behind him, relentlessly stalking him, comes his worst enemy, the baleful, twitching Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill who is determined to break Sharpe once and for all. The paths of treachery all lead to the small village of Assaye where Sir Arthur Wellesley, with a tiny British army, faces the Mahratta horde. Outnumbered and outgunned, Wellesley decides to fight, and Sharpe is plunged into the white heat of a battle that will make Wellesley's reputation. It will make Sharpe's name to, but only if he can survive the carnage and killing frenzy, for it is at Assaye that he at last realizes his ambition and has a chance to seize it. This major new novel will follow the adventures of Richard Sharpe in India, begun so excitingly in Sharpe's Tiger and culminating in the Battle of Assaye, which Wellington considered his greatest victory."</synopsis>
                <title>Sharpe's Triumph</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>James Lee Burke</author>
                <characters>Dave Robicheaux</characters>
                <date>2005</date>
                <genres>Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Thriller, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Noir, Audiobook, Southern</genres>
                <id>2447</id>
                <synopsis>"A routine assignment transporting two death-row prisoners to their executions goes fatally wrong, leaving Dave Robicheaux brutally wounded and his partner dead. Obsessed with revenge, Dave is persuaded by the DEA to go undercover into the torrid sleepy depths of New Orleans, a volatile world of Mafia drug-running and Cajun voodoo magic. He becomes irrevocably snarled in the nightmarish web surrounding Mafia don Tony Cardo and must put himself against his own worst fears in order to survive."</synopsis>
                <title>A Morning for Flamingos</title>
            </Book>
            <Book>
                <author>Roger Zelazny, Leo Dillon (Cover Artist), Diane Dillon (Cover Artist)</author>
                <characters>Francis Sandow</characters>
                <date>Jan-69</date>
                <genres>Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Speculative Fiction, American, Religion, Novels</genres>
                <id>2448</id>
                <synopsis>"Francis Sandow is the last surviving human born in the 20th century. An early space colonist, he spent long centuries of space travel in suspended animation, and then suddenly woke in a far future world where everything had changed. Desperate for something to hold to, he sought out a mentor, who happened to be a member of a slowly dying alien race, the Pei'ans. Under this tutelage, Sandow eventually became a telepath and ""worldscaper""."</synopsis>
                <title>Isle of the Dead</title>
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 | 1001 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ib | J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré (Illustrator) | 09/28/04 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Magic, Childrens, Adventure, Audiobook, Middle Grade, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy | Sirius Black, Draco Malfoy, Ron Weasley, Petunia Dursley, Vernon Dursley, Dudley Dursley, Severus Snape, Rubeus Hagrid, Lord Voldemort, Minerva McGonagall, Neville Longbottom, Fred Weasley, George Weasley, Percy Weasley, Ginny Weasley, Colin Creevey, Filius Flitwick, Gilderoy Lockhart, Lucius Malfoy, Pomona Sprout, Arthur Weasley, Molly Weasley, Cho Chang, Cornelius Fudge, Remus Lupin, Sybil Trelawney, Stan Shunpike, Bellatrix Lestrange, Alastor Moody, Rita Skeeter, Luna Lovegood, Nymphadora Tonks, Dolores Umbridge, Dobby, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Padma Patil, Parvati Patil, Kreacher, Dean Thomas, Seamus Finnigan, Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Lavender Brown | "There is a door at the end of a silent corridor. And it’s haunting Harry Pottter’s dreams. Why else would he be waking in the middle of the night, screaming in terror?Harry has a lot on his mind for this, his fifth year at Hogwarts: a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher with a personality like poisoned honey; a big surprise on the Gryffindor Quidditch team; and the looming terror of the Ordinary Wizarding Level exams. But all these things pale next to the growing threat of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named - a threat that neither the magical government nor the authorities at Hogwarts can stop.As the grasp of darkness tightens, Harry must discover the true depth and strength of his friends, the importance of boundless loyalty, and the shocking price of unbearable sacrifice.His fate depends on them all." | 
         | 1002 | The Book Thief Opor Opor | Markus Zusak  | 03/14/06 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Young Adult, Historical, Classics, War, Holocaust, World War II, Books About Books, Audiobook | Liesel Meminger, Hans Hubermann, Rudy Steiner, Rosa Hubermann, Max Vandenburg, Tommy M�¼ller, Ilsa Hermann, Frau Holtzapfel | "Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereIt is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will be busier still.By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, left behind there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordian-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever there are books to be found.But these are dangerous times. When Liesel's foster family hides a Jew in their basement, Liesel's world is both opened up, and closed down.In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.(Note: this title was not published as YA fiction)" | 
         | 1004 | J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | 09/25/12 | Fantasy, Fiction, Classics, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Young Adult, Literature, Magic | Frodo Baggins, Gandalf, Bilbo Baggins, Gollum | "This four-volume, boxed set contains J.R.R. Tolkien's epic masterworks The Hobbit and the three volumes of The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King).In The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins is whisked away from his comfortable, unambitious life in Hobbiton by the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves. He finds himself caught up in a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon.The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo Baggins and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the wizard; the hobbits Merry, Pippin, and Sam; Gimli the dwarf; Legolas the elf; Boromir of Gondor; and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider. J.R.R. Tolkien's three volume masterpiece is at once a classic myth and a modern fairy tale—a story of high and heroic adventure set in the unforgettable landscape of Middle-earth" | 
         | 1006 | Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë, Richard J. Dunn (Editor), David Timson (Narrator), Charlotte Brontë (Commentary), Robert Heindel (Illustrator) | 10/28/02 | Classics, Fiction, Romance, Gothic, Literature, Historical Fiction, 19th Century, Novels, Classic Literature, Historical | Heathcliff, Catherine Earnshaw, Edgar Linton, Isabella Linton, Hindley Earnshaw, Ellen (Nelly) Dean, Mr. Lockwood, Hareton Earnshaw, Catherine Linton, Linton Heathcliff | "You can find the redesigned cover of this edition HERE.This best-selling Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1847 first edition of the novel. For the Fourth Edition, the editor has collated the 1847 text with several modern editions and has corrected a number of variants, including accidentals. The text is accompanied by entirely new explanatory annotations.New to the fourth Edition are twelve of Emily Bronte's letters regarding the publication of the 1847 edition of Wuthering Heights as well as the evolution of the 1850 edition, prose and poetry selections by the author, four reviews of the novel, and poetry selections by the author, four reviews of the novel, and Edward Chitham's insightful and informative chronology of the creative process behind the beloved work.Five major critical interpretations of Wuthering Heights are included, three of them new to the Fourth Edition. A Stuart Daley considers the importance of chronology in the novel. J. Hillis Miller examines Wuthering Heights's problems of genre and critical reputation. Sandra M. Gilbert assesses the role of Victorian Christianity plays in the novel, while Martha Nussbaum traces the novel's romanticism. Finally, Lin Haire-Sargeant scrutinizes the role of Heathcliff in film adaptations of Wuthering Heights. A Chronology and updated Selected Bibliography are also included." | 
         | 1008 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass | Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel (Illustrator), Martin Gardner (Introduction) | 12/01/2000 | Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Childrens, Young Adult, Literature, Adventure, Novels, 19th Century, British Literature | The Hatter (Lewis Carroll), The Queen of Hearts (Lewis Carroll), The Cheshire Cat (Lewis Carroll), The White Rabbit (Lewis Carroll), Humpty Dumpty (Lewis Carroll), Tweedledum and Tweedledee (Lewis Carroll), The Dormouse (Lewis Carroll), The Red Queen (Lewis Carroll), The White Queen (Lewis Carroll), The White Knight (Lewis Carroll), The Mock Turtle (Lewis Carroll), The Jabberwock (Lewis Carroll), The Caterpillar (Lewis Carroll), Alice (Lewis Carroll), Dinah (Lewis Carroll), The March Hare (Lewis Carroll) | """I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,"" said Alice, ""Because I'm not myself, you see.""When Alice sees a white rabbit take a watch out of its waistcoat pocket she decides to follow it, and a sequence of most unusual events is set in motion. This mini book contains the entire topsy-turvy stories of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, accompanied by practical notes and Martina Pelouso's memorable full-colour illustrations." | 
         | 1010 | Divergent | Veronica Roth  | 02/28/12 | Young Adult, Dystopia, Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Adventure, Teen, Post Apocalyptic, Action | Albert, Drew Leighton (Divergent), Eric (Divergent), Beatrice Prior, Peter, Caleb Prior, Natalie Prior, Molly Atwood, Christina, Jeanine Matthews, Marcus Eaton, Tobias Eaton | "In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is—she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are—and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her." | 
         | 1011 | Lord of the Flies | William Golding | 10/01/1999 | Classics, Fiction, Young Adult, School, Literature, Dystopia, Read For School, Novels, High School, Adventure | Ralph, Piggy, Roger, Jack Merridew, Simon | "At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate; this far from civilization the boys can do anything they want. Anything. They attempt to forge their own society, failing, however, in the face of terror, sin and evil. And as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far from reality as the hope of being rescued. Labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, even a vision of the apocalypse, Lord of the Flies is perhaps our most memorable novel about “the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart.”" | 
         | 1012 | Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine (Editor), Barbara A. Mowat (Editor), Paavo Emil Cajander (Translator) | 01/01/2004 | Classics, Plays, Fiction, Romance, School, Drama, Read For School, Literature, High School, Poetry | Romeo Montague, Juliet Capulet, Tybalt, Mercutio, Benvolio, Friar Lawrence, Paris, Escalus, Montague, Lady Montague, Abram, Balthasar, Capulet, Lady Capulet, Sampson, Friar John | "In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a violent world, in which two young people fall in love. It is not simply that their families disapprove; the Montagues and the Capulets are engaged in a blood feud.In this death-filled setting, the movement from love at first sight to the lovers’ final union in death seems almost inevitable. And yet, this play set in an extraordinary world has become the quintessential story of young love. In part because of its exquisite language, it is easy to respond as if it were about all young lovers." | 
         | 1013 | The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho , Alan R. Clarke (Translator), James Noel Smith (Illustrator) | 04/15/14 | Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Philosophy, Novels, Spirituality, Literature, Self Help, Inspirational, Adventure | Santiago, Alchemist, Melchizedek | "Paulo Coelho's enchanting novel has inspired a devoted following around the world. This story, dazzling in its powerful simplicity and soul-stirring wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried near the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest. No one knows what the treasure is, or if Santiago will be able to surmount the obstacles in his path. But what starts out as a journey to find worldly goods turns into a discovery of the treasure found within. Lush, evocative, and deeply humane, the story of Santiago is an eternal testament to the transforming power of our dreams and the importance of listening to our hearts.Illustration: Jim Tierney" | 
         | 1014 | Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky, David McDuff (Translator) | 12/31/02 | Classics, Fiction, Russia, Literature, Russian Literature, Novels, Philosophy, Crime, 19th Century, School | Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, Porfiry Petrovich, Sofia Semyonovna Marmeladova, Avdotya Romanovna Raskolnikova, Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov, Dmitri Prokofich Razumikhin, Katerina Ivanovna Marmeladova, Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin, Pulcheria Alexandrovna Raskolnikov, Semyon Zakharovich Marmeladov, Andrei Semyonovich Lebezyatnikov, Alyona Ivanovna, Lizaveta Ivanovna, Zossimov, Nastasya Petrovna (“Nastenka, ” “Nastasyushka”), Ilya Petrovich (“Gunpowder”), Alexander Grigorievich Zamyotov, Nikolai Dementiev (“Mikolka”), Polina Mikhailovna Marmeladov (“Polya, ” “Polenka, ” “Polechka”) | "Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute, can offer the chance of redemption." | 
         | 1015 | City of Bones | Cassandra Clare  | 03/27/07 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Vampires, Supernatural, Angels, Magic | Alexander ""Alec"" Lightwood, Jonathan ""Jace"" Wayland, Valentine Morgenstern, Isabelle ""Izzy"" Sophia Lightwood, Magnus Bane, Jocelyn Fray, Luke Garroway, Clarissa ""Clary"" Fray, Simon Lewis | "When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder― much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing―not even a smear of blood―to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?This is Clary's first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It's also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace's world with a vengeance when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know..." | 
         | 1016 | Ender's Game | Orson Scott Card, Stefan Rudnicki (Narrator), Harlan Ellison (Narrator) | 09/30/04 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Young Adult, Fantasy, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy, Dystopia, War, Audiobook, Adventure | Dink, Bernard, Valentine Wiggin, Peter Wiggin, Mazer Rackham, Alai, Hyrum Graff, Andrew Wiggin, Petra Arkanian, ""Bean"", Major Anderson, Bonzo, Major Imbu | "Andrew ""Ender"" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more desperate. The result of genetic experimentation, Ender may be the military genius Earth desperately needs in a war against an alien enemy seeking to destroy all human life. The only way to find out is to throw Ender into ever harsher training, to chip away and find the diamond inside, or destroy him utterly. Ender Wiggin is six years old when it begins. He will grow up fast.But Ender is not the only result of the experiment. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway almost as long. Ender's two older siblings, Peter and Valentine, are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. While Peter was too uncontrollably violent, Valentine very nearly lacks the capability for violence altogether. Neither was found suitable for the military's purpose. But they are driven by their jealousy of Ender, and by their inbred drive for power. Peter seeks to control the political process, to become a ruler. Valentine's abilities turn more toward the subtle control of the beliefs of commoner and elite alike, through powerfully convincing essays. Hiding their youth and identities behind the anonymity of the computer networks, these two begin working together to shape the destiny of Earth-an Earth that has no future at all if their brother Ender fails.Source: hatrack.com" | 
         | 1017 | Anne of Green Gables | L.M. Montgomery | 05/06/2003 | Classics, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade, Historical, Audiobook, Canada, Coming Of Age | Marilla Cuthbert, Matthew Cuthbert, Diana Barry, Gilbert Blythe, Rachel Lynde, Anne Shirley, Jane Andrews, Ruby Gillis, Josie Pye, Prissy Andrews, Mr. Phillips, Mrs. Allan | "As soon as Anne Shirley arrives at the snug white farmhouse called Green Gables, she is sure she wants to stay forever . . . but will the Cuthberts send her back to to the orphanage? Anne knows she's not what they expected—a skinny girl with fiery red hair and a temper to match. If only she can convince them to let her stay, she'll try very hard not to keep rushing headlong into scrapes and blurting out the first thing that comes to her mind. Anne is not like anyone else, the Cuthberts agree; she is special—a girl with an enormous imagination. This orphan girl dreams of the day when she can call herself Anne of Green Gables." | 
         | 1018 | Charlotte's Web | E.B. White, Garth Williams (Illustrator), Rosemary Wells (Illustrations) | 10/01/2001 | Classics, Childrens, Fiction, Young Adult, Fantasy, Animals, Middle Grade, Juvenile, School, Chapter Books | Fern, Avery, Charlotte, Wilbur, Templeton | "This beloved book by E. B. White, author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic of children's literature that is ""just about perfect."" This high-quality paperback features vibrant illustrations colorized by Rosemary Wells!Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. These are the words in Charlotte's Web, high up in Zuckerman's barn. Charlotte's spiderweb tells of her feelings for a little pig named Wilbur, who simply wants a friend. They also express the love of a girl named Fern, who saved Wilbur's life when he was born the runt of his litter.E. B. White's Newbery Honor Book is a tender novel of friendship, love, life, and death that will continue to be enjoyed by generations to come. This edition contains newly color illustrations by Garth Williams, the acclaimed illustrator of E. B. White's Stuart Little and Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series, among many other books." | 
         | 1019 | Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | 01/08/2002 | Classics, Fiction, School, Historical Fiction, Literature, Read For School, Novels, High School, American, Classic Literature | George Milton, Lennie Small, Candy, Curley, ""Curley''s Wife"", Slim, Crooks, Whit, Carlson | "The compelling story of two outsiders striving to find their place in an unforgiving world. Drifters in search of work, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie have nothing in the world except each other and a dream - a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch in California’s Salinas Valley, but their hopes are doomed as Lennie, struggling against extreme cruelty, misunderstanding and feelings of jealousy, becomes a victim of his own strength. Tackling universal themes such as the friendship of a shared vision, and giving voice to America’s lonely and dispossessed, Of Mice and Men has proved one of Steinbeck’s most popular works, achieving success as a novel, a Broadway play and three acclaimed films." | 
         | 1020 | Dracula | Bram Stoker, Nina Auerbach (Editor), David J. Skal (Editor) | 05/12/1986 | Classics, Horror, Fiction, Fantasy, Vampires, Gothic, Paranormal, Literature, Audiobook, Supernatural | Jonathan Harker, Lucy Westenra, Abraham Van Helsing, John Seward, Quincey Morris, Arthur Holmwood (later Lord Godalming), R.M. Renfield, Mina Harker, Quincey Harker, Peter Hawkins, Samuel F. Billington, Herr Leutner, Mr. Swales, Mr. Westenra, Mrs. Westenra, Lord Godalming (elder), Patrick Hennessey, Thomas Bilder, Sister Agatha (Dracula), Dr. Vincent, Thomas Snelling, Joseph Smollett, Sam Bloxam, Billington Junior, Attendant Hardy, Captain of the Demeter, Abramoff (Demeter Crew), Olgaren (Demeter Crew), Mate of the Demeter (Roumanian), Second Mate of the Demeter, Rufus Smith, Mr. Mackenzie, Mr. Steinkoff, Captain Donelson, Immanuel Hildesheim, Petrof Skinsky, Lady Godalming, Mrs. Seward, Dracula | "You can find an alternative cover edition for this ISBN here and here.A rich selection of background and source materials is provided in three areas: Contexts includes probable inspirations for Dracula in the earlier works of James Malcolm Rymer and Emily Gerard. Also included are a discussion of Stoker's working notes for the novel and ""Dracula's Guest,"" the original opening chapter to Dracula. Reviews and Reactions reprints five early reviews of the novel. ""Dramatic and Film Variations"" focuses on theater and film adaptations of Dracula, two indications of the novel's unwavering appeal. David J. Skal, Gregory A. Waller, and Nina Auerbach offer their varied perspectives. Checklists of both dramatic and film adaptations are included.Criticism collects seven theoretical interpretations of Dracula by Phyllis A. Roth, Carol A. Senf, Franco Moretti, Christopher Craft, Bram Dijkstra, Stephen D. Arata, and Talia Schaffer.A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are included." | 
         | 1021 | Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | 09/01/1998 | Classics, Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Literature, Novels, School, Fantasy, Philosophy, Science Fiction Fantasy | John (Brave New World), Bernard Marx, Lenina Crowne, Helmholtz Watson, Mustapha Mond, The Warden, Pope, Linda (Brave New World), Fanny Crowne, The Director, The Arch-Community Songster | "Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, inhabited by genetically modified citizens and an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society which is challenged by only a single individual: the story's protagonist." | 
         | 1022 | The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger | 01/30/01 | Classics, Fiction, Young Adult, Literature, School, Novels, Coming Of Age, American, High School, Read For School | Holden Caulfield, Robert Ackley, Stradlater, Phoebe Caulfield, Allie Caulfield, D.B Caulfield, Sally Hayes, Holden Caufield, Robert Ackley, Stradlater, Phoebe Caulfield, Allie Caulfield, D.B Caulfield, Sally Hayes | "The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices-but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep. J.D. Salinger's classic novel of teenage angst and rebellion was first published in 1951. The novel was included on Time's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. It was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has been frequently challenged in the court for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality and in the 1950's and 60's it was the novel that every teenage boy wants to read." | 
         | 1023 | The Princess Bride | William Goldman | 07/15/03 | Fantasy, Fiction, Classics, Romance, Humor, Young Adult, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, Comedy, Fairy Tales | Buttercup, Westley, Prince Humperdinck, Inigo Montoya, Fezzik, Vizzini, Count Rugen, Miracle Max, The Dread Pirate Roberts, Ty Cobb | "What happens when the most beautiful girl in the world marries the handsomest prince of all time and he turns out to be...well...a lot less than the man of her dreams?As a boy, William Goldman claims, he loved to hear his father read the S. Morgenstern classic, The Princess Bride. But as a grown-up he discovered that the boring parts were left out of good old Dad's recitation, and only the ""good parts"" reached his ears.Now Goldman does Dad one better. He's reconstructed the ""Good Parts Version"" to delight wise kids and wide-eyed grownups everywhere.What's it about? Fencing. Fighting. True Love. Strong Hate. Harsh Revenge. A Few Giants. Lots of Bad Men. Lots of Good Men. Five or Six Beautiful Women. Beasties Monstrous and Gentle. Some Swell Escapes and Captures. Death, Lies, Truth, Miracles, and a Little Sex.In short, it's about everything." | 
         | 1024 | The Lightning Thief | Rick Riordan  | 03/01/2006 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Mythology, Fiction, Middle Grade, Adventure, Childrens, Urban Fantasy, Greek Mythology, Magic | Annabeth Chase, Grover Underwood, Luke Castellan, Zeus (God), Dionysus (mythology), Ares (god), Hades, Poseidon (God), Chiron, Percy Jackson | "Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found herePercy Jackson is a good kid, but he can't seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse - Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him. When Percy's mom finds out, she knows it's time that he knew the truth about where he came from, and that he go to the one place he'll be safe. She sends Percy to Camp Half Blood, a summer camp for demigods (on Long Island), where he learns that the father he never knew is Poseidon, God of the Sea. Soon a mystery unfolds and together with his friends—one a satyr and the other the demigod daughter of Athena - Percy sets out on a quest across the United States to reach the gates of the Underworld (located in a recording studio in Hollywood) and prevent a catastrophic war between the gods." | 
         | 1025 | The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett | 09/01/1998 | Classics, Fiction, Childrens, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade, Literature, Fantasy, Historical, Audiobook | Mary Lennox, Colin Craven, Dickon Sowerby, Martha Sowerby, Ben Weatherstaff, Archibald Craven, Susan Sowerby, Mrs. Medlock, Dr. Craven | """One of the most delightful and enduring classics of children's literature, The Secret Garden by Victorian author Frances Hodgson Burnett has remained a firm favorite with children the world over ever since it made its first appearance. Initially published as a serial story in 1910 in The American Magazine, it was brought out in novel form in 1911.  The plot centers round Mary Lennox, a young English girl who returns to England from India, having suffered the immense trauma by losing both her parents in a cholera epidemic. However, her memories of her parents are not pleasant, as they were a selfish, neglectful and pleasure-seeking couple. Mary is given to the care of her uncle Archibald Craven, whom she has never met. She travels to his home, Misselthwaite Manor located in the gloomy Yorkshire, a vast change from the sunny and warm climate she was used to. When she arrives, she is a rude, stubborn and given to stormy temper tantrums. However, her nature undergoes a gradual transformation when she learns of the tragedies that have befallen her strict and disciplinarian uncle whom she earlier feared and despised. Once when he's away from home, Mary discovers a charming walled garden which is always kept locked. The mystery deepens when she hears sounds of sobbing from somewhere within her uncle's vast mansion. The kindly servants ignore her queries or pretend they haven't heard, spiking Mary's curiosity.  The Secret Garden appeals to both young and old alike. It has wonderful elements of mystery, spirituality, charming characters and an authentic rendering of childhood emotions and experiences. Commonsense, truth and kindness, compassion and a belief in the essential goodness of human beings lie at the heart of this unforgettable story. It is the best known of Frances Hodgson Burnett's works, though most of us have definitely heard of, if not read, her other novel Little Lord Fauntleroy.  The book has been adapted extensively on stage, film and television and translated into all the world's major languages. In 1991, a Japanese anime version was launched for television in Japan. It remains a popular and beloved story of a child's journey into maturity, and a must-read for every child, parent, teacher and anyone who would enjoy this fascinating glimpse of childhood. One of the most delightful and enduring classics of children's literature, The Secret Garden by Victorian author Frances Hodgson Burnett has remained a firm favorite with children the world over ever since it made its first appearance. Initially published as a serial story in 1910 in The American Magazine, it was brought out in novel form in 1911."" " | 
         | 1026 | A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini  | 06/01/2007 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Novels, Historical, War, Adult Fiction, Adult, Drama, Literature | Laila, Mariam, Rasheed, Tariq | "A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years—from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding—that puts the violence, fear, hope, and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a tale of two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep of war, where personal lives—the struggle to survive, raise a family, find happiness—are inextricable from the history playing out around them.Propelled by the same storytelling instinct that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once a remarkable chronicle of three decades of Afghan history and a deeply moving account of family and friendship. It is a striking, heart-wrenching novel of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love—a stunning accomplishment.-front flap" | 
         | 1027 | A Wrinkle in Time | Madeleine L'Engle | 11/07/2017 | Fantasy, Fiction, Classics, Young Adult, Science Fiction, Childrens, Middle Grade, Time Travel, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy | Meg Murry, Charles Wallace Murry, ""Calvin O''Keefe"", Dr. Kate Murry, Sandy Murry, Dennys Murry, Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, Mrs. Which | "It was a dark and stormy night.Out of this wild night, a strange visitor comes to the Murry house and beckons Meg, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe on a most dangerous and extraordinary adventure—one that will threaten their lives and our universe.Winner of the 1963 Newbery Medal, A Wrinkle in Time is the first book in Madeleine L'Engle's classic Time Quintet." | 
         | 1028 | A Game of Thrones | George R.R. Martin | 08/28/05 | Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Adventure, Dragons, Audiobook, Epic | Brandon Stark, Catelyn Stark, Tyrion Lannister, Daenerys Targaryen, Eddard Stark, Theon Greyjoy, Robb Stark, Arya Stark, Jaime Lannister, Joffrey Baratheon, Robert Baratheon, Tywin Lannister, Lysa Arryn, Petyr Baelish, Sansa Stark, Viserys Targaryen, Varys, Hodor, Beric Dondarrion, Thoros of Myr, Sandor Clegane, Samwell Tarly, Pyp, Tommen Baratheon, Stannis Baratheon, Grenn, Mace Tyrell, Septa Mordane, Jon Snow, Cersei Lannister, Jorah Mormont | "Here is the first volume in George R. R. Martin’s magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, George R. R. Martin’s stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction.A GAME OF THRONESLong ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom’s protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens.Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; and a determined woman undertakes the most treacherous of journeys. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.source: georgerrmartin.com" | 
         | 1029 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain, Guy Cardwell (Notes), John Seelye (Introduction), Walter Trier (Ilustrator) | 12/31/02 | Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literature, Young Adult, Adventure, School, Novels, Read For School, American | Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, Jim Upton, Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer, Jim Upton | "A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down the river with a runaway slave, encountering a family involved in a feud, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt who mistakes him for Tom." | 
         | 1030 | The Lovely Bones | Alice Sebold | 09/01/2006 | Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult, Contemporary, Fantasy, Crime, Adult, Adult Fiction, Drama, Novels | Susie Salmon, Clarissa, Holly, Jack Salmon, Abigail Salmon, Lindsey Salmon, Buckley Salmon, George Harvey | """My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973.""So begins the story of Susie Salmon, who is adjusting to her new home in heaven, a place that is not at all what she expected, even as she is watching life on earth continue without her - her friends trading rumors about her disappearance, her killer trying to cover his tracks, her grief-stricken family unraveling. Out of unspeakable tragedy and loss, The Lovely Bones succeeds, miraculously, in building a tale filled with hope, humor, suspense, even joy." | 
         | 1031 | Where the Wild Things Are | Maurice Sendak | 10/28/00 | Childrens, Picture Books, Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Adventure, Young Adult, Animals, Kids, Monsters | Max Cannon | "Max, a wild and naughty boy, is sent to bed without his supper by his exhausted mother. In his room, he imagines sailing far away to a land of Wild Things. Instead of eating him, the Wild Things make Max their king." | 
         | 1032 | Green Eggs and Ham | Dr. Seuss | 10/28/88 | Childrens, Picture Books, Classics, Fiction, Poetry, Fantasy, Humor, Kids, Food, Young Adult | Sam-I-Am | "“Do you like green eggs and ham?” asks Sam-I-am in this Beginner Book by Dr. Seuss. In a house or with a mouse? In a boat or with a goat? On a train or in a tree? Sam keeps asking persistently. With unmistakable characters and signature rhymes, Dr. Seuss’s beloved favorite has cemented its place as a children’s classic. In this most famous of cumulative tales, the list of places to enjoy green eggs and ham, and friends to enjoy them with, gets longer and longer. Follow Sam-I-am as he insists that this unusual treat is indeed a delectable snack to be savored everywhere and in every way. Originally created by Dr. Seuss, Beginner Books encourage children to read all by themselves, with simple words and illustrations that give clues to their meaning." | 
         | 1033 | The Odyssey | Homer, Robert Fagles (Translator), Bernard Knox (Introduction) | 11/30/06 | Classics, Fiction, Poetry, Mythology, Fantasy, School, Literature, Adventure, Read For School, Historical Fiction | Odysseus, Penelope (wife of Odysseus), Helen of Troy, Achilles (Greek hero), Telemachus, Minerva, Polyphemus, Agamemnon | "Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turnsdriven time and again off course, once he had plunderedthe hallowed heights of Troy.So begins Robert Fagles' magnificent translation of the Odyssey, which Jasper Griffin in The New York Times Review of Books hails as ""a distinguished achievement.""If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey though life. Odysseus' reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces, during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance. In the myths and legends that are retold here, Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homer's original in a bold, contemporary idiom, and given us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery.Renowned classicist Bernard Knox's superb Introduction and textual commentary provide new insights and background information for the general reader and scholar alike, intensifying the strength of Fagles' translation.This is an Odyssey to delight both the classicist and the public at large, and to captivate a new generation of Homer's students.-Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, presents us with Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem in a stunning new modern-verse translation." | 
         | 1034 | Life of Pi | Yann Martel | 08/29/06 | Fiction, Fantasy, Classics, Adventure, Contemporary, Novels, Literature, Magical Realism, India, Philosophy | Pi Patel, Richard Parker | "Life of Pi is a fantasy adventure novel by Yann Martel published in 2001. The protagonist, Piscine Molitor ""Pi"" Patel, a Tamil boy from Pondicherry, explores issues of spirituality and practicality from an early age. He survives 227 days after a shipwreck while stranded on a boat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker." | 
         | 1035 | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens, Richard Maxwell (Editor/Introduction) | 10/28/03 | Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literature, Historical, Novels, School, Classic Literature, 19th Century, British Literature | Sydney Carton, Charles Darnay, Lucie Manette, Madame Therese Defarge, Dr. Alexandre Manette | "After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror, and they soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine." | 
         | 1036 | Water for Elephants | Sara Gruen  | 05/01/2007 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance, Historical, Adult, Adult Fiction, Contemporary, Book Club, Novels, Animals | Jacob Jankowski, August (Water for Elephants), Rosie Noah, Camel, Uncle Al, Kinko/Walter, ""Marlena L''Arche"", Rosemary (Water for Elephants) | "Winner of the 2007 BookBrowse Award for Most Popular Book.An atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932, by the bestselling author of Riding Lessons. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, drifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there that he meets Marlena, the beautiful young star of the equestrian act, who is married to August, the charismatic but twisted animal trainer. He also meets Rosie, an elephant who seems untrainable until he discovers a way to reach her. Beautifully written, Water for Elephants is illuminated by a wonderful sense of time and place. It tells a story of a love between two people that overcomes incredible odds in a world in which even love is a luxury that few can afford." | 
         | 1037 | Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | 01/12/1999 | Classics, Fiction, Science Fiction, War, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels, Time Travel, American, Fantasy | Billy Pilgrim, Kilgore Trout, Eliot Rosewater, Roland Weary, Paul Lazzaro, Edgar Derby, Robert Pilgrim, Valencia Merble, Barbara Pilgrim, Howard W. Campbell Jr., Montana Wildhack, Bertam Copeland Rumfoord | "Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time, Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world's great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we fear most." | 
         | 1038 | Frankenstein: The 1818 Text | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Charlotte Gordon  (Introduction) | 03/08/2018 | Classics, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Gothic, Fantasy, School, Literature, Novels, 19th Century | Elizabeth Lavenza, William Frankenstein, Robert Walton, Henry Clerval, Alphonse Frankenstein, Caroline Beaufort Frankenstein, Ernest Frankenstein, Justine Moritz, Agatha, Felix, Victor Frankenstein, The Monster, De Lacey, Safie | "Mary Shelley's seminal novel of the scientist whose creation becomes a monsterThis edition is the original 1818 text, which preserves the hard-hitting and politically charged aspects of Shelley's original writing, as well as her unflinching wit and strong female voice. This edition also includes a new introduction and suggestions for further reading by author and Shelley expert Charlotte Gordon, literary excerpts and reviews selected by Gordon and a chronology and essay by preeminent Shelley scholar Charles E. Robinson." | 
         | 1039 | The Giver | Lois Lowry  | 01/24/06 | Young Adult, Fiction, Classics, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fantasy, School, Childrens, Middle Grade, Read For School | Rosemary (Lois Lowry), Jonas (Lois Lowry), The Giver (Lois Lowry), Gabriel (Lois Lowry), Asher (Lois Lowry), Fiona (Lois Lowry), Mother (Lois Lowry), Father (Lois Lowry), The Chief Elder (Lois Lowry), Lily (Lois Lowry) | Twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal world. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver does he begin to understand the dark secrets behind this fragile community. | 
         | 1040 | Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | 09/04/2004 | Classics, Fiction, War, Historical Fiction, Humor, Literature, Novels, Unfinished, American, Historical | Yossarian, Chaplain Tappman, Milo Minderbinder, Nately | "The novel is set during World War II, from 1942 to 1944. It mainly follows the life of Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 bombardier. Most of the events in the book occur while the fictional 256th Squadron is based on the island of Pianosa, in the Mediterranean Sea, west of Italy. The novel looks into the experiences of Yossarian and the other airmen in the camp, who attempt to maintain their sanity while fulfilling their service requirements so that they may return home." | 
         | 1041 | Dune | Frank Herbert | 10/01/2019 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space Opera, Audiobook, Novels, Adventure, Adult | Stilgar, Vladimir Harkonnen, Duncan Idaho, Leto Atreides, Paul Atreides, Alia Atreides, Lady Jessica, Shaddam IV, Gurney Halleck | "Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the “spice” melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness. Coveted across the known universe, melange is a prize worth killing for...When House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul’s family will set the boy on a journey toward a destiny greater than he could ever have imagined. And as he evolves into the mysterious man known as Muad’Dib, he will bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and unattainable dream." | 
         | 1042 | The Stand | Stephen King , Bernie Wrightson (Illustrator) | 05/01/1990 | Horror, Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Post Apocalyptic, Thriller, Dystopia, Apocalyptic, Audiobook, Classics | Stuart Redman, Glenn Bateman, Nick Andros, Tom Cullen, Nadine Cross, Fran Goldsmith, Harold Lauder, Joe/Leo Rockway, Mother Abigail Freemantle, Randall Flagg, Trashcan Man, The Anti-Christ, Judge Farris, Larry Underwood, General William Starkey, Major Len Creighton, The Rat Man, Captain Trips, Charles D. Campion, Lucy Swann, Lloyd Henreid, Julie Lawry, Ralph Brentner, Dayna Jurgens, United States Military, American Law Enforcement, Kojak | This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides - or are chosen. | 
         | 1043 | Watership Down | Richard Adams | 06/28/75 | Classics, Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult, Animals, Childrens, Adventure, Literature, Novels, Audiobook | Bigwig, Fiver, El-Ahrairah, Hazel, Pipkin, Blackberry, Dandelion, Hyzenthlay, Frith, Silver (Watership Down), Kehaar, General Woundwort | "Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition of ISBN13 9780380395866 here.Set in England's Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage and survival follows a band of very special creatures on their flight from the intrusion of man and the certain destruction of their home. Led by a stouthearted pair of friends, they journey forth from their native Sandleford Warren through the harrowing trials posed by predators and adversaries, to a mysterious promised land and a more perfect society." | 
         | 1044 | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens, Παυλίνα Παμπούδη (Translator), Marisa Sestino (Translator) | 10/28/98 | Classics, Fiction, Literature, Historical Fiction, School, Novels, 19th Century, Classic Literature, British Literature, Victorian | Miss Havisham, Philip ""Pip"" Pirrip, Joseph ""Joe"" Gargery, Abel Magwitch, Herbert Pocket, John Wemmick, Dolge Orlick, Jaggers, Estella, Compeyson | "'In what may be Dickens's best novel, humble, orphaned Pip is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman — and one day, under sudden and enigmatic circumstances, he finds himself in possession of ""great expectations."" In this gripping tale of crime and guilt, revenge and reward, the compelling characters include Magwitch, the fearful and fearsome convict; Estella, whose beauty is excelled only by her haughtiness; and the embittered Miss Havisham, an eccentric jilted bride" | 
         | 1045 | Little Women | Louisa May Alcott | 04/06/2004 | Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Romance, Historical, Literature, Childrens, Classic Literature, Novels | Marmee, Meg March, Beth March, Amy March, Laurie Laurence, Mr. Laurence, Professor Bhaer, Mr. March, Hannah Brown, Aunt March, John Brooke, Jo March | "Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcott’s most popular and enduring novel, Little Women. Here are talented tomboy and author-to-be Jo, tragically frail Beth, beautiful Meg, and romantic, spoiled Amy, united in their devotion to each other and their struggles to survive in New England during the Civil War.It is no secret that Alcott based Little Women on her own early life. While her father, the freethinking reformer and abolitionist Bronson Alcott, hobnobbed with such eminent male authors as Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne, Louisa supported herself and her sisters with ""woman’s work,” including sewing, doing laundry, and acting as a domestic servant. But she soon discovered she could make more money writing. Little Women brought her lasting fame and fortune, and far from being the ""girl’s book” her publisher requested, it explores such timeless themes as love and death, war and peace, the conflict between personal ambition and family responsibilities, and the clash of cultures between Europe and America." | 
         | 1046 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows | J.K. Rowling | 07/21/07 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Magic, Childrens, Adventure, Audiobook, Middle Grade, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy | Sirius Black, Draco Malfoy, Ron Weasley, Petunia Dursley, Vernon Dursley, Dudley Dursley, Severus Snape, Rubeus Hagrid, Lord Voldemort, Minerva McGonagall, Neville Longbottom, Fred Weasley, George Weasley, Percy Weasley, Ginny Weasley, Colin Creevey, Filius Flitwick, Lucius Malfoy, Pomona Sprout, Arthur Weasley, Molly Weasley, Cho Chang, Remus Lupin, Sybil Trelawney, Peter Pettigrew, Oliver Wood, Fleur Delacour, Viktor Krum, Bellatrix Lestrange, Alastor Moody, Bill Weasley, Luna Lovegood, Nymphadora Tonks, Dolores Umbridge, Dobby, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Padma Patil, Parvati Patil, Kreacher, Narcissa Malfoy, Horace Slughorn, Rufus Scrimgeour, Dean Thomas, Aberforth Dumbledore, James Potter, Lily Potter, Xenophilius Lovegood, Seamus Finnigan, Garrick Ollivander, Katie Bell, Griphook, James Sirius Potter, Teddy Lupin, Hugo Weasley, Albus Dumbledore, Lily Luna Potter, Albus Severus Potter, Rose Weasley, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Lavender Brown | "Harry Potter is leaving Privet Drive for the last time. But as he climbs into the sidecar of Hagrid’s motorbike and they take to the skies, he knows Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters will not be far behind.The protective charm that has kept him safe until now is broken. But the Dark Lord is breathing fear into everything he loves. And he knows he can’t keep hiding.To stop Voldemort, Harry knows he must find the remaining Horcruxes and destroy them.He will have to face his enemy in one final battle.-jkrowling.com" | 
         | 1047 | Outlander | Diana Gabaldon  | 07/26/05 | Historical Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction, Time Travel, Historical, Historical Romance, Adult, Audiobook, Scotland | Jamie Fraser, Ian Murray, Claire Randall Fraser, Jonathan Randall, Dougal MacKenzie, Colum MacKenzie, Geillis Duncan, Jenny Murray, Frank Randall, Laoghaire MacKenzie, Murtagh Fraser | "The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of Our Lord...1743. Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life, and shatter her heart. For here James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire—and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives." | 
         | 1048 | My Sister's Keeper | Jodi Picoult  | 02/01/2005 | Fiction, Contemporary, Chick Lit, Young Adult, Drama, Adult, Adult Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Family, Novels | Anna Fitzgerald, Sara Fitzgerald, Kate Fitzgerald, Brian Fitzgerald, Jesse Fitzgerald, Campbell Alexander, Julia Romana | "Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate—a life and a role that she has never challenged... until now. Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to question who she truly is. But unlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister—and so Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable, a decision that will tear her family apart and have perhaps fatal consequences for the sister she loves.A provocative novel that raises some important ethical issues, My Sister's Keeper is the story of one family's struggle for survival at all human costs and a stunning parable for all time." | 
         | 1049 | Matilda | Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illustrator) | 06/01/1998 | Childrens, Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Humor, Audiobook, Magic, Juvenile | Matilda Wormwood, Miss Honey, Miss Trunchbull | "Matilda is a little girl who is far too good to be true. At age five-and-a-half she's knocking off double-digit multiplication problems and blitz-reading Dickens. Even more remarkably, her classmates love her even though she's a super-nerd and the teacher's pet. But everything is not perfect in Matilda's world. For starters she has two of the most idiotic, self-centered parents who ever lived. Then there's the large, busty nightmare of a school principal, Miss (""The"") Trunchbull, a former hammer-throwing champion who flings children at will and is approximately as sympathetic as a bulldozer. Fortunately for Matilda, she has the inner resources to deal with such annoyances: astonishing intelligence, saintly patience, and an innate predilection for revenge.She warms up with some practical jokes aimed at her hapless parents, but the true test comes when she rallies in defense of her teacher, the sweet Miss Honey, against the diabolical Trunchbull. There is never any doubt that Matilda will carry the day. Even so, this wonderful story is far from predictable. Roald Dahl, while keeping the plot moving imaginatively, also has an unerring ear for emotional truth. The reader cares about Matilda because in addition to all her other gifts, she has real feelings." | 
         | 1050 | The Color Purple | Alice Walker | 12/10/2019 | Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Feminism, Historical, LGBT, African American, Literature, Novels, Adult | Nettie, Albert, Celie, Shug Avery, Miss Millie | "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Alice Walker's iconic modern classic is now a Penguin Book.A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance and silence. Through a series of letters spanning twenty years, first from Celie to God, then the sisters to each other despite the unknown, the novel draws readers into its rich and memorable portrayals of Celie, Nettie, Shug Avery and Sofia and their experience. The Color Purple broke the silence around domestic and sexual abuse, narrating the lives of women through their pain and struggle, companionship and growth, resilience and bravery. Deeply compassionate and beautifully imagined, Alice Walker's epic carries readers on a spirit-affirming journey towards redemption and love." | 
         | 1051 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Betty Smith | 05/30/06 | Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Coming Of Age, Historical, Literature, New York, Novels, Book Club | Francie Nolan, Neeley Nolan, Katie Nolan, Johnny Nolan, Mary Rommely, Sissy Rommely, Eva ""Evy"" Rommely Flittman, Thomas Rommely, Sergeant McShane | "The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century, Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a poignant and moving tale filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, crowded with life and people and incident. The story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet formative years in the slums of Williamsburg has enchanted and inspired millions of readers for more than sixty years. By turns overwhelming, sublime, heartbreaking, and uplifting, the daily experiences of the unforgettable Nolans are raw with honesty and tenderly threaded with family connectedness - in a work of literary art that brilliantly captures a unique time and place as well as incredibly rich moments of universal experience." | 
         | 1052 | A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess | 05/21/19 | Classics, Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Literature, Novels, Horror, Thriller, Crime, Modern Classics | Pete, Alex Jacobi, Georgie, Dim | "In Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, criminals take over after dark. Teen gang leader Alex narrates in fantastically inventive slang that echoes the violent intensity of youth rebelling against society. Dazzling and transgressive, A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom. This edition includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first edition, and Burgess’s introduction, “A Clockwork Orange Resucked.”" | 
         | 1053 | The Road | Cormac McCarthy | 10/02/2006 | Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Post Apocalyptic, Classics, Horror, Literature, Novels, Apocalyptic, Contemporary | The man, The boy | "A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece.A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation." | 
         | 1054 | The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator) | 06/14/02 | Classics, Fiction, Russia, Literature, Russian Literature, Philosophy, Novels, 19th Century, Classic Literature, Religion | Dmitri Fyodorovich Karamazov, Ivan Fyodorovich Karamazov, Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov, Pavel Smerdyakov, Agrafena Alexandrovna Svetlova, Katerina Ivanovna Verkhovtseva, Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, Father Zosima, the Elder, Ilyusha, Nikolai Krassotkin | "The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons―the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, is social and spiritual striving, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian culture.This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky remains true to the verbalinventiveness of Dostoevsky’s prose, preserving the multiple voices, the humor, and the surprising modernity of the original. It is an achievement worthy of Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel." | 
         | 1055 | Angela's Ashes | Frank McCourt | 10/03/2005 | Nonfiction, Memoir, Biography, Classics, Ireland, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, History, Irish Literature, Historical | Frank McCourt | "Imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion. This is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic.""When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood."" So begins the Pulitzer Prize winning memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank's mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank's father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages. Yet Malachy- exasperating, irresponsible and beguiling- does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story. Frank lives for his father's tales of Cuchulain, who saved Ireland, and of the Angel on the Seventh Step, who brings his mother babies. Perhaps it is story that accounts for Frank's survival. Wearing rags for diapers, begging a pig's head for Christmas dinner and gathering coal from the roadside to light a fire, Frank endures poverty, near-starvation and the casual cruelty of relatives and neighbors-yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence, exuberance and remarkable forgiveness. Angela's Ashes, imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion, is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic." | 
         | 1056 | Vampire Academy | Richelle Mead  | 08/16/07 | Young Adult, Fantasy, Vampires, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Supernatural, Paranormal Romance, Magic | Vasilisa ""Lissa"" Dragomir, Dimitri Belikov, Christian Ozera, Mason Ashford, Victor Dashkov, Mia Rinaldi, Janine Hathaway, Natalie Dashkov, Edison ""Eddie"" Castile, Ellen Kirova, Rosemarie ""Rose"" Hathaway, Camille Conta, Stan Alto, Jesse Zeklos, Tatiana Ivashkov | "ONLY A TRUE BEST FRIEND CAN PROTECT YOU FROM YOUR IMMORTAL ENEMIES...Lissa Dragomir is a Moroi princess: a mortal vampire with a rare gift for harnessing the earth's magic. She must be protected at all times from Strigoi; the fiercest vampires - the ones who never die. The powerful blend of human and vampire blood that flows through Rose Hathaway, Lissa's best friend, makes her a dhampir. Rose is dedicated to a dangerous life of protecting Lissa from the Strigoi, who are hell-bent on making Lissa one of them.After two years of freedom, Rose and Lissa are caught and dragged back to St. Vladimir's Academy, a school for vampire royalty and their guardians-to-be, hidden in the deep forests of Montana. But inside the iron gates, life is even more fraught with danger... and the Strigoi are always close by.Rose and Lissa must navigate their dangerous world, confront the temptations of forbidden love, and never once let their guard down, lest the evil undead make Lissa one of them forever..." | 
         | 1057 | The Poisonwood Bible | Barbara Kingsolver | 07/05/2005 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Africa, Classics, Historical, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels, Religion, Adult Fiction | Orleanna Price, Ruth May Price, Rachel Rebeccah Price, Leah Price, Nathan Price, Dr Bud Wharton, Adah Price, Reverend & Mrs. Underdown | "The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it - from garden seeds to Scripture - is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa." | 
         | 1058 | The Golden Compass | Philip Pullman | 04/16/96 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Adventure, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Steampunk, Middle Grade, Audiobook | Lyra Belacqua, Pantalaimon, Lord Asriel, Iorek Byrnison, Iofur Raknison, Marisa Coulter, Lee Scoresby, Roger Parslow, Serafina Pekkala, Hester, Farder Coram, John Faa, Billy Costa | "Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal-including her friend Roger. North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world.Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra: a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want-but what Lyra doesn't know is that to help one of them will be to betray the other." | 
         | 1059 | Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, John Rutherford (Translator), Roberto González Echevarría (Introduction) | 02/25/03 | Classics, Fiction, Literature, Spanish Literature, Adventure, Novels, Historical Fiction, Spain, Humor, Classic Literature | Sancho Panza, Don Quijote de la Mancha | "Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances that he determines to become a knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, his exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray—he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants—Sancho acquires cunning and a certain sagacity. Sane madman and wise fool, they roam the world together, and together they have haunted readers' imaginations for nearly four hundred years.With its experimental form and literary playfulness, Don Quixote has been generally recognized as the first modern novel. The book has been enormously influential on a host of writers, from Fielding and Sterne to Flaubert, Dickens, Melville, and Faulkner, who reread it once a year, ""just as some people read the Bible.""" | 
         | 1060 | Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff  (Introduction) | 08/01/1999 | Classics, Philosophy, Literature, Politics, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Economics, Novels, Audiobook, Fiction | Prometheus (mythology), Atlas, Dagny Taggart, John Galt, Hank Rearden, ""Francisco d''Anconia"", James Taggart | "This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world and did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators?Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies, but against those who needed him most, and his hardest battle against the woman he loved? What is the world’s motor — and the motive power of every man? You will know the answer to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the characters in this story. Tremendous in its scope, this novel presents an astounding panorama of human life — from the productive genius who becomes a worthless playboy — to the great steel industrialist who does not know that he is working for his own destruction — to the philosopher who becomes a pirate — to the composer who gives up his career on the night of his triumph — to the woman who runs a transcontinental railroad — to the lowest track worker in her Terminal tunnels. You must be prepared, when you read this novel, to check every premise at the root of your convictions.This is a mystery story, not about the murder — and rebirth — of man’s spirit. It is a philosophical revolution, told in the form of an action thriller of violent events, a ruthlessly brilliant plot structure and an irresistible suspense. Do you say this is impossible? Well, that is the first of your premises to check." | 
         | 1061 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré (Illustrator) | 05/01/2004 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Magic, Childrens, Adventure, Middle Grade, Audiobook, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy | Sirius Black, Draco Malfoy, Ron Weasley, Petunia Dursley, Vernon Dursley, Dudley Dursley, Severus Snape, Rubeus Hagrid, Minerva McGonagall, Neville Longbottom, Fred Weasley, George Weasley, Percy Weasley, Ginny Weasley, Colin Creevey, Filius Flitwick, Pomona Sprout, Arthur Weasley, Molly Weasley, Cho Chang, Marjorie Dursley, Cornelius Fudge, Remus Lupin, Sybil Trelawney, Peter Pettigrew, Poppy Pomfrey, Stan Shunpike, Oliver Wood, Cedric Diggory, Dean Thomas, Seamus Finnigan, Rolanda Hooch, Katie Bell, Ernie Prang, Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger | "Harry Potter's third year at Hogwarts is full of new dangers. A convicted murderer, Sirius Black, has broken out of Azkaban prison, and it seems he's after Harry. Now Hogwarts is being patrolled by the dementors, the Azkaban guards who are hunting Sirius. But Harry can't imagine that Sirius or, for that matter, the evil Lord Voldemort could be more frightening than the dementors themselves, who have the terrible power to fill anyone they come across with aching loneliness and despair. Meanwhile, life continues as usual at Hogwarts. A top-of-the-line broom takes Harry's success at Quidditch, the sport of the Wizarding world, to new heights. A cute fourth-year student catches his eye. And he becomes close with the new Defense of the Dark Arts teacher, who was a childhood friend of his father. Yet despite the relative safety of life at Hogwarts and the best efforts of the dementors, the threat of Sirius Black grows ever closer. But if Harry has learned anything from his education in wizardry, it is that things are often not what they seem. Tragic revelations, heartwarming surprises, and high-stakes magical adventures await the boy wizard in this funny and poignant third installment of the beloved series.-scholastic.com" | 
         | 1062 | The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway | 10/28/96 | Classics, Fiction, Literature, Novels, American, School, Adventure, Classic Literature, Literary Fiction, 20th Century | Santiago, Manolin | "Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereThis short novel, already a modern classic, is the superbly told, tragic story of a Cuban fisherman in the Gulf Stream and the giant Marlin he kills and loses — specifically referred to in the citation accompanying the author's Nobel Prize for literature in 1954." | 
         | 1063 | Winnie-the-Pooh | A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard (Illustrator) | 10/01/2001 | Classics, Childrens, Fiction, Fantasy, Animals, Picture Books, Young Adult, Audiobook, Middle Grade, Juvenile | Winnie the Pooh (A.A. Milne), Christopher Robin (A.A. Milne), Piglet (A.A. Milne), Owl (A.A. Milne), Kanga (A.A. Milne), Roo (A.A. Milne), Eeyore (A.A. Milne), Rabbit (A.A. Milne) | "The adventures of Christopher Robin and his friends in which Pooh Bear uses a balloon to get honey, Piglet meets a Heffalump, and Eeyore has a birthday." | 
         | 1064 | Interview with the Vampire | Anne Rice | 08/31/04 | Horror, Fantasy, Fiction, Vampires, Paranormal, Supernatural, Classics, Gothic, Urban Fantasy, Historical Fiction | Lestat de Lioncourt, Claudia, Daniel Molloy, Louis de Pointe du Lac | "This is the story of Louis, as told in his own words, of his journey through mortal and immortal life. Louis recounts how he became a vampire at the hands of the radiant and sinister Lestat and how he became indoctrinated, unwillingly, into the vampire way of life. His story ebbs and flows through the streets of New Orleans, defining crucial moments such as his discovery of the exquisite lost young child Claudia, wanting not to hurt but to comfort her with the last breaths of humanity he has inside. Yet, he makes Claudia a vampire, trapping her womanly passion, will, and intelligence inside the body of a small child. Louis and Claudia form a seemingly unbreakable alliance and even ""settle down"" for a while in the opulent French Quarter. Louis remembers Claudia's struggle to understand herself and the hatred they both have for Lestat that sends them halfway across the world to seek others of their kind. Louis and Claudia are desperate to find somewhere they belong, to find others who understand, and someone who knows what and why they are.Louis and Claudia travel Europe, eventually coming to Paris and the ragingly successful Theatre des Vampires-a theatre of vampires pretending to be mortals pretending to be vampires. Here they meet the magnetic and ethereal Armand, who brings them into a whole society of vampires. But Louis and Claudia find that finding others like themselves provides no easy answers and in fact presents dangers they scarcely imagined.Originally begun as a short story, the book took off as Anne wrote it, spinning the tragic and triumphant life experiences of a soul. As well as the struggles of its characters, Interview captures the political and social changes of two continents. The novel also introduces Lestat, Anne's most enduring character, a heady mixture of attraction and revulsion. The book, full of lush description, centers on the themes of immortality, change, loss, sexuality, and power.source: annerice.com" | 
         | 1065 | A Prayer for Owen Meany | John Irving  | 10/28/90 | Fiction, Classics, Contemporary, Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, Historical Fiction, Adult Fiction, Coming Of Age, American | Owen Meany, John Wheelwright | "Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen doesn't believe in accidents; he believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul is both extraordinary and terrifying. At moments a comic, self-deluded victim, but in the end the principal, tragic actor in a divine plan, Owen Meany is the most heartbreaking hero John Irving has yet created." | 
         | 1066 | Moby-Dick or, the Whale | Herman Melville, Andrew Delbanco (Introduction), Tom Quirk (Notes), Rockwell Kent (Illustrator) | 02/21/03 | Classics, Fiction, Literature, Adventure, Novels, Historical Fiction, American, Classic Literature, 19th Century, Unfinished | Elijah, Stubb, Captain Ahab, Ishmael, Queequeg, Starbuck, Tashtego, Dough-boy, Flask, Daggoo, Fedallah, Pippin (""Pip""), Moby Dick, Mapple Priest, Peleg, Bildad, Fleece, Perth, Peter Coffin, Aunt Charity, Mrs Hussey | """It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it."" So Melville wrote of his masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. In part, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopaedia of whaling lore and legend, the book can be seen as part of its author's lifelong meditation on America. Written with wonderfully redemptive humour, Moby-Dick is also a profound inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception.This edition of Moby-Dick, which reproduces the definitive text of the novel, includes invaluable explanatory notes, along with maps, illustrations, and a glossary of nautical terms." | 
         | 1067 | The Red Tent | Anita Diamant  | 10/28/97 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Religion, Book Club, Feminism, Adult, Adult Fiction, Womens, Novels | Isaac (Bible), Dinah (Bible), Jacob (Bible) | "Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that are about her father, Jacob, and his dozen sons. Told in Dinah's voice, this novel reveals the traditions and turmoils of ancient womanhood—the world of the red tent. It begins with the story of her mothers—Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah—the four wives of Jacob. They love Dinah and give her gifts that sustain her through a hard-working youth, a calling to midwifery, and a new home in a foreign land. Dinah's story reaches out from a remarkable period of early history and creates an intimate connection with the past. Deeply affecting, The Red Tent combines rich storytelling with a valuable achievement in modern fiction: a new view of biblical women's society." | 
         | 1068 | The Secret Life of Bees | Sue Monk Kidd  | 01/28/03 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Classics, Adult Fiction, Historical, Contemporary, Adult, Coming Of Age, Chick Lit | Lily Owens, Rosaleen, August Boatwright, June Boatwright, May Boatwright, T. Ray Owens | "Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted black ""stand-in mother,"" Rosaleen, insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily decides to spring them both free. They escape to Tiburon, South Carolina-a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters, Lily is introduced to their mesmerizing world of bees and honey, and the Black Madonna. This is a remarkable novel about divine female power, a story women will share and pass on to their daughters for years to come." | 
         | 1069 | Clockwork Angel | Cassandra Clare , Rita Sussekind (Translator) | 08/31/10 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Paranormal, Romance, Steampunk, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Vampires, Angels | Theresa ""Tessa"" Gray, Magnus Bane, William Herondale, James ""Jem"" Carstairs, Jessamine Lovelace, Henry Branwell, Charlotte Branwell, Nathaniel Gray, Camille Belcourt, Sophie Collins | "In a time when Shadowhunters are barely winning the fight against the forces of darkness, one battle will change the course of history forever. Welcome to the Infernal Devices trilogy, a stunning and dangerous prequel to the New York Times bestselling Mortal Instruments series.The year is 1878. Tessa Gray descends into London’s dark supernatural underworld in search of her missing brother. She soon discovers that her only allies are the demon-slaying Shadowhunters—including Will and Jem, the mysterious boys she is attracted to. Soon they find themselves up against the Pandemonium Club, a secret organization of vampires, demons, warlocks, and humans. Equipped with a magical army of unstoppable clockwork creatures, the Club is out to rule the British Empire, and only Tessa and her allies can stop them..." | 
         | 1070 | And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie | 05/03/2004 | Mystery, Classics, Fiction, Crime, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, Adult, Suspense, Novels | Justice Lawrence John Wargrave, Vera Elizabeth Claythorne, Philip Lombard, General John Gordon Macarthur, Dr Edward George Armstrong, Anthony James Marston, William Henry Blore, Mr Thomas Rogers, Mrs Ethel Rogers, Emily Caroline Brent, Isaac Morris, Fred Narracott | "First, there were ten—a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a little private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unknown to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they're unwilling to reveal—and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder. A famous nursery rhyme is framed and hung in every room of the mansion:""Ten little boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine. Nine little boys sat up very late; One overslept himself and then there were eight. Eight little boys traveling in Devon; One said he'd stay there then there were seven. Seven little boys chopping up sticks; One chopped himself in half and then there were six. Six little boys playing with a hive; A bumblebee stung one and then there were five. Five little boys going in for law; One got in Chancery and then there were four. Four little boys going out to sea; A red herring swallowed one and then there were three. Three little boys walking in the zoo; A big bear hugged one and then there were two. Two little boys sitting in the sun; One got frizzled up and then there was one. One little boy left all alone; He went out and hanged himself and then there were none.""When they realize that murders are occurring as described in the rhyme, terror mounts. One by one they fall prey. Before the weekend is out, there will be none. Who has choreographed this dastardly scheme? And who will be left to tell the tale? Only the dead are above suspicion." | 
         | 1071 | Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides | 09/16/03 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, LGBT, Literary Fiction, Novels, Classics, Literature, Queer, Adult | Calliope Stephanides, Eleutherios Stephanides, Desdemona Stephanides, Sourmelina Zizmo, Miltiades Stephanides, Theodora Stephanides, Chapter Eleven, The Obscure Object, James Zizmo, Michael Antoniou | "Middlesex tells the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides, and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family, who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City and the race riots of 1967 before moving out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret, and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic." | 
         | 1072 | The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov, Katherine Tiernan O'Connor (Translator), Ellendea Proffer (Annotations and Afterword), Diana Lewis Burgin (Translator) | 03/28/96 | Classics, Fiction, Russia, Fantasy, Russian Literature, Magical Realism, Literature, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century | Lucifer, Pontius Pilate, Caiaphas, Woland, Behemot, Jesus, Master, Margarita Nicolaevna, Ivan Bezdomny, Yeshua Ha-Nozri, David (Bible) | "The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece.An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and Pontius Pilate, The Master and Margarita is recognized as one of the essential classics of modern Russian literature. The novel's vision of Soviet life in the 1930s is so ferociously accurate that it could not be published during its author's lifetime and appeared only in a censored edition in the 1960s. Its truths are so enduring that its language has become part of the common Russian speech.One hot spring, the devil arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and an immense talking black cat with a fondness for chess and vodka. The visitors quickly wreak havoc in a city that refuses to believe in either God or Satan. But they also bring peace to two unhappy Muscovites: one is the Master, a writer pilloried for daring to write a novel about Christ and Pontius Pilate; the other is Margarita, who loves the Master so deeply that she is willing literally to go to hell for him. What ensues is a novel of inexhaustible energy, humor, and philosophical depth, a work whose nuances emerge for the first time in Diana Burgin's and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor's splendid English version.(back cover)" | 
         | 1073 | The Name of the Wind | Patrick Rothfuss  | 04/28/07 | Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Magic, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adult, Adventure, Audiobook, Epic | Bast, Denna, Ambrose, Kvothe, Simmon, Wilem, The Chandrian, Devi, Auri, Fela, Chronicler | "Told in Kvothe's own voice, this is the tale of the magically gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen. The intimate narrative of his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-ridden city, his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, and his life as a fugitive after the murder of a king form a gripping coming-of-age story unrivaled in recent literature. A high-action story written with a poet's hand, The Name of the Wind is a masterpiece that will transport readers into the body and mind of a wizard." | 
         | 1074 | The Shining | Stephen King  | 07/01/1980 | Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Classics, Fantasy, Mystery, Paranormal, Suspense, Novels, Adult | Wendy Torrance, Danny Torrance, Dick Halloran, Horace Derwent, Stuart Ullman, Albert Shockley, Delberg Grady, Watson, Bill Edmonds, Charles Grondin, Sylvia Hunter Derwent, Howard Cottrell, Larry Durkin, Jack Torrance | "Jack Torrance's new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he'll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. But as the harsh winter weather sets in, the idyllic location feels ever more remote...and more sinister. And the only one to notice the strange and terrible forces gathering around the Overlook is Danny Torrance, a uniquely gifted five-year-old." | 
         | 1075 | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain, Guy Cardwell (Annotations), John Seelye (Introduction) | 02/28/06 | Classics, Fiction, Adventure, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Literature, Childrens, School, Novels, American | Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer | "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer revolves around the youthful adventures of the novel's schoolboy protagonist, Thomas Sawyer, whose reputation precedes him for causing mischief and strife. Tom lives with his Aunt Polly, half-brother Sid, and cousin Mary in the quaint town of St. Petersburg, just off the shore of the Mississippi River. St. Petersburg is described as a typical small-town atmosphere where the Christian faith is predominant, the social network is close-knit, and familiarity resides.  Unlike his brother Sid, Tom receives ""lickings"" from his Aunt Polly; ever the mischief-maker, would rather play hooky than attend school and often sneaks out his bedroom window at night to adventure with his friend, Huckleberry Finn ­ the town's social outcast. Tom, despite his dread of schooling, is extremely clever and would normally get away with his pranks if Sid were not such a ""tattle-tale.""  As punishment for skipping school to go swimming, Aunt Polly assigns Tom the chore of whitewashing the fence surrounding the house. In a brilliant scheme, Tom is able to con the neighborhood boys into completing the chore for him, managing to convince them of the joys of whitewashing. At school, Tom is equally as flamboyant, and attracts attention by chasing other boys, yelling, and running around. With his usual antics, Tom attempts to catch the eye of Becky Thatcher, a new girl in town, and persuades her to get ""engaged"" by kissing him. But their romance collapses when she learns Tom has been ""engaged"" previously to Amy Lawrence. Shortly after Becky shuns him, he accompanies Huckleberry Finn to the graveyard at night, where they witness the murder of Dr. Robinson.Excerpt:""TOM!"" No answer. ""TOM!"" No answer. ""What's gone with that boy,  I wonder? You TOM!"" No answer. The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never looked through them for so small a thing as a boy; they were her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for ""style,"" not service—she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well. She looked perplexed for a moment, and then said, not fiercely, but still loud enough for the furniture to hear: ""Well, I lay if I get hold of you I'll—"" She did not finish, for by this time she was bending down and punching under the bed with the broom, and so she needed breath to punctuate the punches with. She resurrected nothing but the cat. ""I never did see the beat of that boy!""" | 
         | 1076 | Eragon | Christopher Paolini  | 04/28/05 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Dragons, Adventure, Magic, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy, Childrens | Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle), Saphira (The Inheritance Cycle), Roran Garrowsson, Arya (The Inheritance Cycle), Brom (The Inheritance Cycle), Orik (The Inheritance Cycle), Horst (The Inheritance Cycle), Murtagh (The Inheritance Cycle), Solembum, Queen Islanzadi, Angela the Herbalist | "An alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780375826696 can be found here.One boy...One dragon...A world of adventure. When Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy; perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter. But when the stone brings a dragon hatchling, Eragon soon realizes he has stumbled upon a legacy nearly as old as the Empire itself. Overnight his simple life is shattered, and he is thrust into a perilous new world of destiny, magic, and power. With only an ancient sword and the advice of an old storyteller for guidance, Eragon and the fledgling dragon must navigate the dangerous terrain and dark enemies of an Empire ruled by a king whose evil knows no bounds. Can Eragon take up the mantle of the legendary Dragon Riders? The fate of the Empire may rest in his hands." | 
         | 1077 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Mark Haddon | 05/18/04 | Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult, Contemporary, Novels, Classics, Psychology, Literature, Realistic Fiction, Adult Fiction | Christopher John Francis Boone, Toby, Siobhan, Mr. Jeavons, Mrs. Alexander, Ed Boone, Judy Boone, Mr. Roger Shears, Mrs. Eileen Shears, Rhodri, Wellington | "Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow.Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, for fifteen-year-old Christopher everyday interactions and admonishments have little meaning. He lives on patterns, rules, and a diagram kept in his pocket. Then one day, a neighbor's dog, Wellington, is killed and his carefully constructive universe is threatened. Christopher sets out to solve the murder in the style of his favourite (logical) detective, Sherlock Holmes. What follows makes for a novel that is funny, poignant and fascinating in its portrayal of a person whose curse and blessing are a mind that perceives the world entirely literally." | 
         | 1078 | Tuesdays with Morrie | Mitch Albom  | 10/28/00 | Nonfiction, Memoir, Biography, Inspirational, Classics, Philosophy, Self Help, Contemporary, Adult, Biography Memoir | Mitch Albom, Morrie Schwartz | "Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago.Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you? Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying of ALS - or motor neurone disease - Mitch visited Morrie in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final 'class': lessons in how to live." | 
         | 1079 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim (Translator) | 10/27/09 | Fiction, Classics, Philosophy, Literature, Novels, Czech Literature, Romance, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, 20th Century | Sabine, Franz, Tomáš, Tereza, Karenin | "In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. This magnificent novel juxtaposes geographically distant places, brilliant and playful reflections, and a variety of styles, to take its place as perhaps the major achievement of one of the world’s truly great writers." | 
         | 1081 | Where the Red Fern Grows | Wilson Rawls | 05/09/2000 | Classics, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Animals, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade, School, Realistic Fiction, Read For School | Billy Colman, Old Dan, Little Ann | "A loving threesome, they ranged the dark hills and river bottoms of Cherokee country. Old Dan had the brawn. Little Ann had the brains, and Billy had the will to make them into the finest hunting team in the valley. Glory and victory were coming to them, but sadness waited too. Where the Red Fern Grows is an exciting tale of love and adventure you'll never forget." | 
         | 1082 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré (Illustrator) | 06/02/1999 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Magic, Childrens, Middle Grade, Adventure, Audiobook, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy | Draco Malfoy, Ron Weasley, Petunia Dursley, Vernon Dursley, Dudley Dursley, Severus Snape, Rubeus Hagrid, Lord Voldemort, Minerva McGonagall, Neville Longbottom, Fred Weasley, George Weasley, Percy Weasley, Ginny Weasley, Colin Creevey, Filius Flitwick, Gilderoy Lockhart, Lucius Malfoy, Pomona Sprout, Arthur Weasley, Molly Weasley, Cornelius Fudge, Poppy Pomfrey, Oliver Wood, Dobby, Parvati Patil, Dean Thomas, James Potter, Seamus Finnigan, Rolanda Hooch, Katie Bell, Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger | "Ever since Harry Potter had come home for the summer, the Dursleys had been so mean and hideous that all Harry wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he’s packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange impish creature who says that if Harry returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike.And strike it does. For in Harry’s second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor and a spirit who haunts the girls’ bathroom. But then the real trouble begins – someone is turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possible be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects… Harry Potter himself!" | 
         | 1083 | The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas E. Connolly (Annotations), Nina Baym (Introduction) | 02/27/03 | Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, School, Literature, High School, Read For School, Historical, Classic Literature, American | Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth, Pearl Prynne | "Nathaniel Hawthorne's THE SCARLET LETTER reaches to our nation's historical and moral roots for the material of great tragedy. Set in an early New England colony, the novel shows the terrible impact a single, passionate act has on the lives of three members of the community: the defiant Hester Prynne; the fiery, tortured Reverend Dimmesdale; and the obsessed, vengeful Chillingworth.With THE SCARLET LETTER, Hawthorne became the first American novelist to forge from our Puritan heritage a universal classic, a masterful exploration of humanity's unending struggle with sin, guilt and pride." | 
         | 1084 | In Cold Blood | Truman Capote | 10/28/94 | Nonfiction, Classics, True Crime, Crime, Mystery, History, Literature, Thriller, American, Biography | Perry Edward Smith, Richard Hickock, Herb Clutter, Bonnie Clutter, Nancy Clutter, Kenyon Clutter, Alvin Dewey | "On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. At the center of his study are the amoral young killers Perry Smith and Dick Hickcock, who, vividly drawn by Capote, are shown to be reprehensible yet entirely and frighteningly human. In Cold Blood is a seminal work of modern prose, a remarkable synthesis of journalistic skill and powerfully evocative narrative." | 
         | 1085 | Fight Club | Chuck Palahniuk  | 05/01/2018 | Fiction, Contemporary, Classics, Thriller, Novels, Mystery, Adult, Literature, American, Adult Fiction | The Narrator, Tyler Durden, Marla Singer | "Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation’s most visionary satirist in this, his first book. Fight Club’s estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of Tyler Durden, an enigmatic young man who holds secret after-hours boxing matches in the basement of bars. There, two men fight ""as long as they have to."" This is a gloriously original work that exposes the darkness at the core of our modern world." | 
         | 1086 | The Five People You Meet in Heaven | Mitch Albom  | 09/23/03 | Fiction, Inspirational, Contemporary, Fantasy, Adult, Spirituality, Classics, Adult Fiction, Philosophy, Novels | Eddie, Marguerite, Tala, Blue Man, Steve Rogers, Ruby | "From the author of the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie, a novel that explores the unexpected connections of our lives, and the idea that heaven is more than a place; it's an answer. Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers. One by one, from childhood to soldier to old age, Eddie's five people revisit their connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his ""meaningless"" life, and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: ""Why was I here?""" | 
         | 1087 | Hush, Hush | Becca Fitzpatrick  | 10/13/09 | Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal, Angels, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy | Nora Grey, Jev ""Patch"" Cipriano, Vee Sky, Marcie Millar, Rixon, Elliot Saunders | "A SACRED OATHA FALLEN ANGELA FORBIDDEN LOVERomance was not part of Nora Grey's plan. She's never been particularly attracted to the boys at her school, no matter how hard her best friend, Vee, pushes them at her. Not until Patch comes along. With his easy smile and eyes that seem to see inside her, Patch draws Nora to him against her better judgment.But after a series of terrifying encounters, Nora's not sure whom to trust. Patch seems to be everywhere she is and seems to know more about her than her closest friends. She can't decide whether she should fall into his arms or run and hide. And when she tries to seek some answers, she finds herself near a truth that is way more unsettling than anything Patch makes her feel.For she is right in the middle of an ancient battle between the immortal and those that have fallen - and, when it comes to choosing sides, the wrong choice will cost Nora her life." | 
         | 1088 | The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas, Robin Buss (Translator) | 05/27/03 | Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Adventure, Literature, France, Historical, Classic Literature, Novels, Romance | Edmond Dantès, Abbé Faria, Giovanni Bertuccio, Luigi Vampa, Haydée, Mercédès Mondego, Fernand Mondego, Albert de Morcerf, Baron Danglars, Gérard de Villefort, Valentine de Villefort, Noirtier de Villefort, Héloïse de Villefort, Pierre Morrel, Maximilien Morrel, Beauchamp, ""Franz d''Épinay"", Lucien Debray, Eugénie Danglars, Hermine Danglars, Benedetto, Kadrus (tailor, neighboring) | "Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration. Dumas’ epic tale of suffering and retribution, inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, was a huge popular success when it was first serialized in the 1840s.Robin Buss’s lively English translation is complete and unabridged, and remains faithful to the style of Dumas’s original. This edition includes an introduction, explanatory notes and suggestions for further reading." | 
         | 1089 | Lonesome Dove | Larry McMurtry | 10/01/1999 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Westerns, Classics, Historical, Adventure, Novels, Literature, Audiobook, American | Captain Woodrow Call, Augustus ""Gus"" McCrae, Joshua Deets, Newt Dobbs, Pea Eye Parker, Lorena Wood | "A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize— winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the third book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness of America.Journey to the dusty little Texas town of Lonesome Dove and meet an unforgettable assortment of heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers. Richly authentic, beautifully written, always dramatic, Lonesome Dove is a book to make us laugh, weep, dream, and remember." | 
         | 1090 | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer | Patrick Süskind, John E. Woods (Translator) | 10/28/87 | Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Historical, German Literature, Novels | Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, Giuseppe Baldini, Madame Gaillard, Jeanne Bussie, Father Terrier, Grimal, The Plum Girl, Chénier, Marquis de Taillade-Espinasse, Madame Arnulfi, Dominique Druot, Antoine Richis, Laure Richis | "An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder.In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift—an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille's genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and fresh-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the ""ultimate perfume""—the scent of a beautiful young virgin. Told with dazzling narrative brilliance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity." | 
         | 1091 | Holes | Louis Sachar  | 09/02/2000 | Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Middle Grade, Realistic Fiction, Classics, Mystery, Adventure, School, Contemporary | Stanley Yelnats | "Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful lot of holes.It doesn’t take long for Stanley to realize there’s more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. But what could be buried under a dried-up lake? Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment—and redemption." | 
         | 1092 | Watchmen | Alan Moore , Dave Gibbons (Illustrator/Letterer), John Higgins (Colorist) | 10/28/05 | Graphic Novels, Comics, Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Classics, Superheroes, Dystopia | Dr. Manhattan, Rorschach, Hollis Mason, Daniel Dreiberg, Sally Jupiter, Laurel Jupiter, Adrian Veidt, Edward Blake | "This Hugo Award-winning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the concept of the super-hero is dissected as the heroes are stalked by an unknown assassin.One of the most influential graphic novels of all time and a perennial best-seller, Watchmen has been studied on college campuses across the nation and is considered a gateway title, leading readers to other graphic novels such as V for Vendetta, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and The Sandman series." | 
         | 1093 | It | Stephen King  | 10/01/1987 | Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Audiobook, Mystery, Adult, Paranormal, Classics, Novels | Dick Halloran, Pennywise the Dancing Clown, Bill Denbrough, Richie Tozier, Eddie Kaspbrak, Stan Uris, Ben Hanscom, Beverly Marsh, Mike Hanlon, Frank Dodd, Henry Bowers, Audra Phillips, George Denbrough, Adrian Mellon, Patrick Hockstetter, American Law Enforcement | "Welcome to Derry, Maine ...It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real ...They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them can withstand the force that has drawn them back to Derry to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name." | 
         | 1094 | The Last Olympian | Rick Riordan  | 05/05/2009 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Mythology, Fiction, Middle Grade, Adventure, Childrens, Greek Mythology, Urban Fantasy, Magic | Nico di Angelo, Thalia Grace, Tyson, Annabeth Chase, Demeter (Goddess), Luke Castellan, Hera, Hades, Will Solace, Percy Jackson | "All year the half-bloods have been preparing for battle against the Titans, knowing the odds of victory are grim. Kronos's army is stronger than ever, and with every god and half-blood he recruits, the evil Titan's power only grows.While the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster Typhon, Kronos begins his advance on New York City, where Mount Olympus stands virtually unguarded. Now it's up to Percy Jackson and an army of young demigods to stop the Lord of Time. In this momentous final book in the New York Times best-selling series, the long-awaited prophecy surrounding Percy's sixteenth birthday unfolds. And as the battle for Western civilization rages on the streets of Manhattan, Percy faces a terrifying suspicion that he may be fighting against his own fate." | 
         | 1095 | The Divine Comedy | Dante Alighieri, Allen Mandelbaum (Translator), Eugenio Montale (Introduction) | 08/01/1995 | Classics, Poetry, Fiction, Literature, Religion, Philosophy, Fantasy, Italian Literature, Italy, Classic Literature | Virgilio (Publius Vergilius Maro), Lucifer, Odysseus, Achilles (Greek hero), Dante Alighieri, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Brutus, Attila the Hun, Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, Cleopatra, Trajan (emperor), Cerberus, Roland, Dido of Carthage, Julius Caesar, Charon (mythology), Beatrice (Dante), Francesca da Rimini, Saul (biblical king), Judas Iscariot, Mary (mother of Jesus) | "The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and encounter with his dead love, Beatrice; and finally, his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions of faith, desire and enlightenment, the poem is a brilliantly nuanced and moving allegory of human redemption. Dante Alighieri was born in Florence in 1265 and belonged to a noble but impoverished family. His life was divided by political duties and poetry, the most of famous of which was inspired by his meeting with Bice Portinari, whom he called Beatrice,including La Vita Nuova and The Divine Comedy. He died in Ravenna in 1321." | 
         | 1096 | Peter Pan | J.M. Barrie, Michael Hague (Illustrator) | 10/01/2003 | Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Childrens, Adventure, Young Adult, Audiobook, Middle Grade, Fairy Tales, Literature | Peter Pan (J.M. Barrie), Wendy Darling (J.M. Barrie), The Twins, John Darling (J.M. Barrie), Michael Darling (J.M. Barrie), James Hook, Smee (J.M. Barrie), Nibs, Tootles, Slightly, Curly, Tinker Bell (J.M. Barrie) | "Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie Peter Pan, the mischievous boy who refuses to grow up, lands in the Darling's proper middle-class home to look for his shadow. He befriends Wendy, John and Michael and teaches them to fly (with a little help from fairy dust). He and Tinker Bell whisk them off to Never-land where they encounter the Red Indians, the Little Lost Boys, pirates and the dastardly Captain Hook." | 
         | 1097 | The Hobbit, or There and Back Again | J.R.R. Tolkien | 08/15/02 | Fantasy, Classics, Fiction, Adventure, Young Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Childrens, Epic Fantasy, Novels | Gandalf, Bilbo Baggins, Thorin Oakenshield, Smaug, Elrond Half-elven, Gollum, Dwalin, Balin, Kili, Fili, Dori, Ori, Nori, Oin, Gloin, Bifur, Bofur, Bombur, Beorn, Bard the Bowman | "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.Written for J.R.R. Tolkien’s own children, The Hobbit met with instant critical acclaim when it was first published in 1937. Now recognized as a timeless classic, this introduction to the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, the wizard Gandalf, Gollum, and the spectacular world of Middle-earth recounts of the adventures of a reluctant hero, a powerful and dangerous ring, and the cruel dragon Smaug the Magnificent. The text in this 372-page paperback edition is based on that first published in Great Britain by Collins Modern Classics (1998), and includes a note on the text by Douglas A. Anderson (2001)." | 
         | 1098 | Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel García Márquez, Edith Grossman (Translator) | 10/05/2003 | Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Romance, Magical Realism, Literature, Novels, Spanish Literature, Literary Fiction, Historical | Fermina Daza, Florentino Ariza, Juvenal Urbino, Lorenzo Daza, Aunt Escolástica, Hildebranda Sánchez, Trànsito Ariza, Leona Cassiani, América Vicuna | "In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is heartbroken, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs—yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again." | 
         | 1099 | Shadow Kiss | Richelle Mead  | 11/13/08 | Young Adult, Vampires, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Magic | Vasilisa ""Lissa"" Dragomir, Dimitri Belikov, Christian Ozera, Mason Ashford, Adrian Ivashkov, Victor Dashkov, Mia Rinaldi, Janine Hathaway, Jillian Mastrano, Edison ""Eddie"" Castile, Rosemarie ""Rose"" Hathaway, Camille Conta, Stan Alto, Jesse Zeklos, Tatiana Ivashkov, Ryan Aylesworth, Shane Reyes, Brandon Lazar, Dean Barnes | "WHAT IF FOLLOWING HER HEART MEANS ROSE COULD LOSE HER BEST FRIEND FOREVER?Lissa Dragomir is a Moroi princess: a mortal vampire with a rare gift for harnessing the earth's magic. She must be protected at all times from Strigoi; the fiercest vampires - the ones who never die. The powerful blend of human and vampire blood that flows through Rose Hathaway, Lissa's best friend, makes her a Dhampir. Rose is dedicated to a dangerous life of protecting Lissa from the Strigoi, who are hell-bent on making Lissa one of them.Rose knows it is forbidden to love another guardian. Her best friend, Lissa - the last Dragomir princess - must always come first. Unfortunately, when it comes to gorgeous Dimitri Belikov, some rules are meant to be broken...Then a strange darkness begins to grow in Rose's mind, and ghostly shadows warn of a terrible evil drawing nearer to the Academy's iron gates. The immortal undead are closing in, and they want vengeance for the lives Rose has stolen. In a heart-stopping battle to rival her worst nightmares, Rose will have to choose between life, love, and the two people who matter most... but will her choice mean that only one can survive?" | 
         | 1100 | The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | 04/28/02 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Humor, Fantasy, Classics, Comedy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure, Novels, British Literature | Zaphod Beeblebrox, Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Trillian, Marvin, the paranoid android | "At last in paperback in one complete volume, here are the five novels from Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker series. ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy""Seconds before the Earth is demolished for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is saved by Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised Guide. Together they stick out their thumbs to the stars and begin a wild journey through time and space.""The Restaurant at the End of the Universe""Facing annihilation at the hands of warmongers is a curious time to crave tea. It could only happen to the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his comrades as they hurtle across the galaxy in a desperate search for a place to eat.""Life, the Universe and Everything""The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky- so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals can avert Armageddon: mild-mannered Arthur Dent and his stalwart crew.""So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish""Back on Earth, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription conspires to thrust him back to reality. So to speak.""Mostly Harmless""Just when Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life, all hell breaks loose. Can he save the Earth from total obliteration? Can he save the Guide from a hostile alien takeover? Can he save his daughter from herself?Also includes the short story ""Young Zaphod Plays It Safe""." | 
         | 1101 | Atonement | Ian McEwan | 03/28/03 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance, Classics, Historical, War, Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Literature, Novels | Briony Tallis, Emily Tallis, Cecilia Tallis, Leon Tallis, Lola Quincey, Jackson Quincey, Pierrot Quincey, Paul Marshall, Robbie Turner | "Ian McEwan’s symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a brilliant narrative and the provocation we have come to expect from this master of English prose.On a hot summer day in 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis witnesses the flirtation between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a servant. But Briony’s incomplete grasp of adult motives and her precocious imagination bring about a crime that will change all their lives, a crime whose repercussions Atonement follows through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the twentieth century." | 
         | 1102 | The Importance of Being Earnest | Oscar Wilde | 10/28/05 | Classics, Plays, Fiction, Drama, Humor, Literature, School, Comedy, Theatre, Romance | Lane, John Worthing, Algernon Montcrieff, Cecily Cardew, Gwendolen Fairfax, Miss Prism, Rev. Canon Chasuble, Merriman, Lady Bracknell | "Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements still delights readers more than a century after its 1895 publication and premiere performance. The rapid-fire wit and eccentric characters of The Importance of Being Earnest have made it a mainstay of the high school curriculum for decades.Cecily Cardew and Gwendolen Fairfax are both in love with the same mythical suitor. Jack Worthing has wooed Gwendolen as Ernest while Algernon has also posed as Ernest to win the heart of Jack's ward, Cecily. When all four arrive at Jack's country home on the same weekend the ""rivals"" to fight for Ernest's undivided attention and the ""Ernests"" to claim their beloveds pandemonium breaks loose. Only a senile nursemaid and an old, discarded hand-bag can save the day!This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader appreciate Wilde's wry wit and elaborate plot twists." | 
         | 1103 | Eat, Pray, Love | Elizabeth Gilbert  | 02/01/2007 | Nonfiction, Memoir, Travel, Biography, Chick Lit, Romance, Spirituality, Contemporary, Biography Memoir, Autobiography | Liz Gilbert, Felipe, Richard from Texas, Wayan | "A celebrated writer's irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of life. Around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned thirty, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis. She had everything an educated, ambitious American woman was supposed to want—a husband, a house, a successful career. But instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she was consumed with panic, grief, and confusion. She went through a divorce, a crushing depression, another failed love, and the eradication of everything she ever thought she was supposed to be. To recover from all this, Gilbert took a radical step. In order to give herself the time and space to find out who she really was and what she really wanted, she got rid of her belongings, quit her job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the world—all alone. Eat, Pray, Love is the absorbing chronicle of that year. Her aim was to visit three places where she could examine one aspect of her own nature set against the backdrop of a culture that has traditionally done that one thing very well. In Rome, she studied the art of pleasure, learning to speak Italian and gaining the twenty-three happiest pounds of her life. India was for the art of devotion, and with the help of a native guru and a surprisingly wise cowboy from Texas, she embarked on four uninterrupted months of spiritual exploration. In Bali, she studied the art of balance between worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. She became the pupil of an elderly medicine man and also fell in love the best way—unexpectedly. An intensely articulate and moving memoir of self-discovery, Eat, Pray, Love is about what can happen when you claim responsibility for your own contentment and stop trying to live in imitation of society’s ideals. It is certain to touch anyone who has ever woken up to the unrelenting need for change." | 
         | 1104 | Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston | 05/30/06 | Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, School, African American, Literature, Novels, Feminism, Read For School, High School | Eleanor, Sam Watson, Shelby, Janie Starks, Pheoby Watson, Nanny, Leafy, Johnny Taylor, Logan Killicks, Jody Starks, Tea Cake, Pearl Stone, Mrs. Sumpkins, Lulu Moss, ""Mis'' Washburn"", Mr. Washburn, Miss Nellie, Mayrella | "Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person - no mean feat for a black woman in the '30s. Janie's quest for identity takes her through three marriages and into a journey back to her roots." | 
         | 1105 | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | L. Frank Baum, W.W. Denslow (Illustrator) | 10/28/95 | Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Childrens, Young Adult, Adventure, Audiobook, Middle Grade, Magic, Literature | Uncle Henry, Dorothy Gale, Tin Woodman, Scarecrow, Cowardly Lion, Wicked Witch of the West, Wizard of Oz, Toto, Aunt Em, Good Witch of the North, Wicked Witch of the East, Boq, Stork, Queen of the Field Mice, Guardian of the Gates, Soldier with the Green Whiskers, Jellia Jamb, Gayelette, Quelala, Glinda, Munchkins, Kalidahs, Winged Monkeys, Winkies, Hammer-Heads, Uncle Henry, Dorothy Gale, Tin Woodman, Scarecrow, Cowardly Lion, Wicked Witch of the West, Wizard of Oz, Toto, Aunt Em, Good Wi | "When Dorothy and her little dog Toto are caught in a tornado, they and their Kansas farmhouse are suddenly transported to Oz, where Munchkins live, monkeys fly and Wicked Witches rule. Desperate to return home, and with the Wicked Witch of the West on their trail, Dorothy and Toto - together with new friends the Tin Woodsman, Scarecrow and cowardly Lion - embark on a fantastic quest along the Yellow Brick Road in search of the Emerald City. There they hope to meet the legendary, all-powerful Wizard of Oz, who alone may hold the power to grant their every wish.Just as captivating as it was a hundred years ago, this is a story that all ages will love." | 
         | 1106 | The Lorax | Dr. Seuss | 02/24/98 | Childrens, Picture Books, Fiction, Classics, Poetry, Fantasy, Environment, Young Adult, Kids, Juvenile | Lorax, Swomee-Swans, Brown Bar-ba-loots, Humming-Fishes | """UNLESS someone like you...cares a whole awful lot...nothing is going to get better...It's not."" Long before saving the earth became a global concern, Dr. Seuss, speaking through his character the Lorax, warned against mindless progress and the danger it posed to the earth's natural beauty. His classic cautionary tale is now available in an irresistible mini-edition, perfect for backpack or briefcase, for Arbor Day, Earth Day, and every day." | 
         | 1107 | Blood Promise | Richelle Mead  | 08/25/09 | Young Adult, Vampires, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Magic | Sydney Sage, Vasilisa ""Lissa"" Dragomir, Dimitri Belikov, Christian Ozera, Adrian Ivashkov, Mia Rinaldi, Janine Hathaway, Avery Lazar, Jillian Mastrano, Abe Mazur, Rosemarie ""Rose"" Hathaway, Olena Belikov | "Bound by love, but sworn to kill...The world thought Dimitri was dead. And to a certain extent, he was. But I hadn't been able to forget a conversation he and I had once had. We'd both agreed that we'd rather be dead - truly dead - than walk the world as Strigoi. It was time to honor our words.Guardian Rose Hathaway's life will never be the same. The recent attack on St. Vladimir's Academy devastated the entire Moroi world. Many are dead. And, for the few victims carried off by Strigoi, their fates are even worse. A rare tattoo now adorns Rose's neck; a mark that says she's killed far too many Strigoi to count.But only one victim matters... Dimitri Belikov. Rose must now choose one of two very different paths: honoring her life's vow to protect Lissa—her best friend and the last surviving Dragomir princess—or, dropping out of the Academy to strike out on her own and hunt down the man she loves. She'll have to go to the ends of the earth to find Dimitri and keep the promise he begged her to make. But the question is, when the time comes, will he want to be saved?Now, with everything at stake—and worlds away from St. Vladimir's and her unguarded, vulnerable, and newly rebellious best friend—can Rose find the strength to destroy Dimitri? Or, will she sacrifice herself for a chance at eternal love?Readers who fell in love with Rose, Lissa, and Dimitri won't want to miss Blood Promise, the much-anticipated, epic fourth novel in Richelle Mead's enthralling Vampire Academy series." | 
         | 1108 | The Good Earth | Pearl S. Buck | 03/04/2009 | Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, China, Literature, Historical, Asia, Novels, School, Classic Literature | Wang Lung, O-lan | "This tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works, nurturing the land as it nurtures him and his family. Nearby, the nobles of the House of Hwang consider themselves above the land and its workers; but they will soon meet their own downfall.Hard times come upon Wang Lung and his family when flood and drought force them to seek work in the city. The working people riot, breaking into the homes of the rich and forcing them to flee. When Wang Lung shows mercy to one noble and is rewarded, he begins to rise in the world, even as the House of Hwang falls." | 
         | 1109 | Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad, Aníbal Fernandes (Translator) | 10/01/2003 | Classics, Fiction, Literature, Africa, Historical Fiction, School, Novels, Read For School, Adventure, High School | Charles Marlow, Kurtz | "Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, was originally a three-part series in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899. It is a story within a story, following a character named Charlie Marlow, who recounts his adventure to a group of men onboard an anchored ship. The story told is of his early life as a ferry boat captain. Although his job was to transport ivory downriver, Charlie develops an interest in investing an ivory procurement agent, Kurtz, who is employed by the government. Preceded by his reputation as a brilliant emissary of progress, Kurtz has now established himself as a god among the natives in “one of the darkest places on earth.” Marlow suspects something else of Kurtz: he has gone mad.A reflection on corruptive European colonialism and a journey into the nightmare psyche of one of the corrupted, Heart of Darkness is considered one of the most influential works ever written." | 
         | 1110 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine (Editor), Barbara A. Mowat (Editor), Catherine Belsey (Contributor) | 07/28/16 | Classics, Plays, Fiction, Drama, Fantasy, School, Romance, Literature, Theatre, Poetry | Robin Goodfellow, a Puck, Demetrius, Hermia, Lysander (Shakespeare), Theseus (mythology), Peaseblossom, Moth, Cobweb, Mustardseed, Oberon, Titania, Egeus, Philostrate, Peter Quince, Snug, Nick Bottom, Francis Flute, Tom Snout, Robin Starveling, Hippolyta, Hermia (Shakespeare), Helena (Shakespeare) | "Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start-Demetrius and Lysander both want Hermia but she only has eyes for Lysander. Bad news is, Hermia's father wants Demetrius for a son-in-law. On the outside is Helena, whose unreturned love burns hot for Demetrius. Hermia and Lysander plan to flee from the city under cover of darkness but are pursued by an enraged Demetrius (who is himself pursued by an enraptured Helena). In the forest, unbeknownst to the mortals, Oberon and Titania (King and Queen of the faeries) are having a spat over a servant boy. The plot twists up when Oberon's head mischief-maker, Puck, runs loose with a flower which causes people to fall in love with the first thing they see upon waking. Throw in a group of labourers preparing a play for the Duke's wedding (one of whom is given a donkey's head and Titania for a lover by Puck) and the complications become fantastically funny." | 
         | 1111 | Clockwork Princess | Cassandra Clare  | 09/05/2013 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Paranormal, Steampunk, Historical Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Angels, Fiction, Historical | Theresa ""Tessa"" Gray, Magnus Bane, William Herondale, James ""Jem"" Carstairs, Henry Branwell, Charlotte Branwell, Gideon Lightwood, Gabriel Lightwood, Sophie Collins, Cecily Herondale | "Danger and betrayal, love and loss, secrets and enchantment are woven together in the breathtaking finale to the #1 New York Times bestselling Infernal Devices Trilogy, prequel to the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series.THE INFERNAL DEVICES WILL NEVER STOP COMINGA net of shadows begins to tighten around the Shadowhunters of the London Institute. Mortmain plans to use his Infernal Devices, an army of pitiless automatons, to destroy the Shadowhunters. He needs only one last item to complete his plan: he needs Tessa Gray.Charlotte Branwell, head of the London Institute, is desperate to find Mortmain before he strikes. But when Mortmain abducts Tessa, the boys who lay equal claim to her heart, Jem and Will, will do anything to save her. For though Tessa and Jem are now engaged, Will is as much in love with her as ever.As those who love Tessa rally to rescue her from Mortmain’s clutches, Tessa realizes that the only person who can save her is herself. But can a single girl, even one who can command the power of angels, face down an entire army?Danger and betrayal, secrets and enchantment, and the tangled threads of love and loss intertwine as the Shadowhunters are pushed to the very brink of destruction in the breathtaking conclusion to the Infernal Devices trilogy." | 
         | 1112 | The Prophet | Kahlil Gibran | 01/01/2010 | Poetry, Philosophy, Classics, Fiction, Spirituality, Religion, Literature, Inspirational, Self Help, Novels | Al Mustafa, Al Mitra | "Kahlil Gibran’s masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Published in 1923, it has been translated into more than twenty languages, and the American editions alone have sold more than nine million copies.The Prophet is a collection of poetic essays that are philosophical, spiritual, and, above all, inspirational. Gibran’s musings are divided into twenty-eight chapters covering such sprawling topics as love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, housing, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death." | 
         | 1113 | The Sea of Monsters | Rick Riordan  | 04/01/2006 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Mythology, Fiction, Middle Grade, Adventure, Childrens, Urban Fantasy, Greek Mythology, Magic | Tyson, Annabeth Chase, Grover Underwood, Luke Castellan, Ares (god), Circe, Blackbeard, Chiron, Hermes, Polyphemus, Clarisse, Percy Jackson | "The heroic son of Poseidon makes an action-packed comeback in the second must-read installment of Rick Riordan's amazing young readers series. Starring Percy Jackson, a ""half blood"" whose mother is human and whose father is the God of the Sea, Riordan's series combines cliffhanger adventure and Greek mythology lessons that results in true page-turners that get better with each installment.In this episode, The Sea of Monsters, Percy sets out to retrieve the Golden Fleece before his summer camp is destroyed, surpassing the first book's drama and setting the stage for more thrills to come." | 
         | 1114 | The Joy Luck Club | Amy Tan  | 09/21/06 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, China, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Adult, Literature, Asia, Novels | Suyuan Woo, June Woo, Lindo Jong, Waverly Jong, An-Mei Hsu, Rose Hsu Jordan, Ying-Ying St. Clair, Lena St. Clair | "Four mothers, four daughters, four families, whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's telling the stories. In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Their daughters, who have never heard these stories, think their mothers' advice is irrelevant to their modern American lives – until their own inner crises reveal how much they've unknowingly inherited of their mothers' pasts. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery." | 
         | 1115 | The Call of the Wild | Jack London, Avi (Introduction) | 01/01/2001 | Classics, Fiction, Adventure, Young Adult, Animals, Historical Fiction, Literature, School, Childrens, Novels | Buck, Spitz, John Thornton, Francois (The Call of the Wild), Perrault (The Call of the Wild) | "First published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is regarded as Jack London's masterpiece. Based on London's experiences as a gold prospector in the Canadian wilderness and his ideas about nature and the struggle for existence, The Call of the Wild is a tale about unbreakable spirit and the fight for survival in the frozen Alaskan Klondike." | 
         | 1116 | Jonathan Livingston Seagull | Richard Bach , Russell Munson (Photographer) | 02/07/2006 | Fiction, Classics, Philosophy, Fantasy, Spirituality, Inspirational, Self Help, Literature, Novels, Animals | Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Chiang, Fletcher Lynd Seagull | "This is a story for people who follow their hearts and make their own rules...people who get special pleasure out of doing something well, even if only for themselves...people who know there's more to this living than meets the eye: they’ll be right there with Jonathan, flying higher and faster than ever they dreamed.Jonathan Livingston Seagull is no ordinary bird. He believes it is every gull's right to fly, to reach the ultimate freedom of challenge and discovery, finding his greatest reward in teaching younger gulls the joy of flight and the power of dreams. The special 20th anniversary release of this spiritual classic!" | 
         | 1117 | Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert, Mark Overstall (Contributor), Paul De Man (Editor), Malcolm Bowie (Introduction), Margaret Mauldon (Translator) | 10/28/04 | Classics, Fiction, France, Literature, French Literature, Romance, 19th Century, Novels, Historical Fiction, Classic Literature | Emma Bovary, Charles Bovary, Monsieur Homais, Berthe Bovary, Rodolphe Boulanger, Léon Dupuis | "'Oh, why, dear God, did I marry him?'Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment, and when real life continues to fail to live up to her romantic expectations, the consequences are devastating. Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted: 'Madame Bovary, c'est moi.'This modern translation by Flaubert's biographer, Geoffrey Wall, retains all the delicacy and precision of the French original. The edition also contains a preface by the novelist Michèle Roberts." | 
         | 1118 | The Phantom Tollbooth | Norton Juster, Jules Feiffer (Illustrator) | 10/28/96 | Fantasy, Fiction, Childrens, Classics, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Adventure, Humor, Science Fiction Fantasy, Juvenile | Tock, Humbug, Milo | "Librarian's Note: For an alternate cover edition of the same ISBN, click here.Hailed as “a classic. . . . humorous, full of warmth and real invention” (The New Yorker), this beloved story -first published more than fifty years ago- introduces readers to Milo and his adventures in the Lands Beyond. For Milo, everything’s a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he’s got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from a ticking watchdog named Tock, and even embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason! Somewhere along the way, Milo realizes something astonishing. Life is far from dull. In fact, it’s exciting beyond his wildest dreams. . . ." | 
         | 1119 | The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset | Suzanne Collins, Guillaume Fournier (Translator), Pilar Ramírez Tello  (Translator), Hanna Hörl (Illustrator), Sylke Hachmeister (Translator), Peter Klöss (Translator) | 08/24/10 | Young Adult, Fiction, Fantasy, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Romance, Adventure, Teen, Action, Novels | Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, Primrose Everdeen, Gale Hawthorne, Haymitch Abernathy, Cinna, Alma Coin, Coriolanus Snow | "The extraordinary, ground breaking New York Times bestsellers The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, along with the third book in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, are available for the first time ever in a beautiful boxset edition. Stunning, gripping, and powerful. The trilogy is now complete!" | 
         | 1120 | The Girl Who Played with Fire | Stieg Larsson, Reg Keeland (Translator) | 07/28/09 | Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Contemporary, Sweden, Adult, Audiobook | Lisbeth Salander, Mikael Blomkvist, Alexander Zalachenko, Jan Bublanski, Sonja Modig, Peter Teleborian, Erika Berger, Ronald Niedermann, Annika Giannini, Dragan Armansky, Gunnar Björck, Harriet Vanger, Holger Palmgren, Nils Bjurman, Miriam Wu | "Part blistering espionage thriller, part riveting police procedural, and part piercing exposé on social injustice, The Girl Who Played with Fire is a masterful, endlessly satisfying novel.  Mikael Blomkvist, crusading publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation. On the eve of its publication, the two reporters responsible for the article are murdered, and the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to his friend, the troubled genius hacker Lisbeth Salander. Blomkvist, convinced of Salander’s innocence, plunges into an investigation. Meanwhile, Salander herself is drawn into a murderous game of cat and mouse, which forces her to face her dark past.From the Trade Paperback edition." | 
         | 1121 | The Maze Runner | James Dashner  | 10/06/2009 | Young Adult, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Post Apocalyptic, Mystery, Teen, Audiobook | Chuck, Teresa Agnes, Minho, Alby, Gally, Thomas, Ben, Newt | "There are alternate cover editions for this ASIN here and here.If you ain’t scared, you ain’t human. When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his name. He’s surrounded by strangers—boys whose memories are also gone. Nice to meet ya, shank. Welcome to the Glade. Outside the towering stone walls that surround the Glade is a limitless, ever-changing maze. It’s the only way out—and no one’s ever made it through alive. Everything is going to change. Then a girl arrives. The first girl ever. And the message she delivers is terrifying. Remember. Survive. Run." | 
         | 1122 | The Neverending Story | Michael Ende, Ralph Manheim (Translator), Roswitha Quadflieg (Illustrator) | 10/28/97 | Fantasy, Classics, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Adventure, German Literature, Middle Grade, Science Fiction Fantasy, Books About Books | Bastian Balthazar Bux, Atreyu, Falkor, Karl Konrad Koreander, The Childlike Empress, Xayide, Gmork, Grograman, Morla, The Old Man of Wandering Mountain, Uyulala | "This epic work of the imagination has captured the hearts of millions of readers worldwide since it was first published more than a decade ago. Its special story within a story is an irresistible invitation for readers to become part of the book itself. And now this modern classic and bibliophile's dream is available in hardcover again.The story begins with a lonely boy named Bastian and the strange book that draws him into the beautiful but doomed world of Fantastica. Only a human can save this enchanted place by giving its ruler, the Childlike Empress, a new name. But the journey to her tower leads through lands of dragons, giants, monsters, and magic and once Bastian begins his quest, he may never return. As he is drawn deeper into Fantastica, he must find the courage to face unspeakable foes and the mysteries of his own heart. Readers, too, can travel to the wondrous, unforgettable world of Fantastica if they will just turn the page...-front flap" | 
         | 1123 | Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson, David W. Whitehead (Introduction), Richard S. Hartmetz  (Editor) | 09/15/01 | Classics, Fiction, Adventure, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Childrens, Literature, Pirates, Fantasy, Novels | Jim Hawkins, Billy Bones, Doctor Livesey, Captain Smollet, Squire John Trelawney, Ben Gunn, Long John Silver | """For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From the moment young Jim Hawkins first encounters the sinister Blind Pew at the Admiral Benbow Inn until the climactic battle for treasure on a tropic isle, the novel creates scenes and characters that have fired the imaginations of generations of readers. Written by a superb prose stylist, a master of both action and atmosphere, the story centers upon the conflict between good and evil - but in this case a particularly engaging form of evil. It is the villainy of that most ambiguous rogue Long John Silver that sets the tempo of this tale of treachery, greed, and daring. Designed to forever kindle a dream of high romance and distant horizons, Treasure Island is, in the words of G. K. Chesterton, 'the realization of an ideal, that which is promised in its provocative and beckoning map; a vision not only of white skeletons but also green palm trees and sapphire seas.' G. S. Fraser terms it 'an utterly original book' and goes on to write: 'There will always be a place for stories like Treasure Island that can keep boys and old men happy.'" | 
         | 1124 | A Storm of Swords | George R.R. Martin | 03/04/2003 | Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Adult, Adventure, Dragons, Audiobook, Epic | Brandon Stark, Catelyn Stark, Tyrion Lannister, Daenerys Targaryen, Robb Stark, Arya Stark, Jaime Lannister, Joffrey Baratheon, Tywin Lannister, Stannis Baratheon, Melisandre, Davos Seaworth, Lysa Arryn, Petyr Baelish, Sansa Stark, Varys, Hodor, Brienne of Tarth, Samwell Tarly, Sandor Clegane, Pyp, Grenn, Tommen Baratheon, Oswell Kettleback, Beric Dondarrion, Thoros of Myr, Jon Snow, Cersei Lannister, Jorah Mormont | "An alternate cover for this isbn can be found here.Here is the third volume in George R.R. Martin's magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Game of Thrones and A Clash of Kings. Together, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction.Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as alliances are made and broken. Joffrey sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the Seven Kingdoms. His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced, victim of the sorceress who holds him in her thrall. Young Robb still rules the North from the fortress of Riverrun. Meanwhile, making her way across a blood-drenched continent is the exiled queen, Daenerys, mistress of the only three dragons still left in the world. And as opposing forces manoeuver for the final showdown, an army of barbaric wildlings arrives from the outermost limits of civilization, accompanied by a horde of mythical Others—a supernatural army of the living dead whose animated corpses are unstoppable. As the future of the land hangs in the balance, no one will rest until the Seven Kingdoms have exploded in a veritable storm of swords..." | 
         | 1125 | A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway | 10/28/04 | Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, War, Literature, Novels, American, Romance, Classic Literature, School | Frederic Henry, Catherine Barkley, Rinaldi | "A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield - the weary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the profound struggle between loyalty and desertion—this gripping, semiautobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep. Ernest Hemingway famously said that he rewrote his ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right." | 
         | 1126 | Tote Mädchen lügen nicht | Jay Asher , Knut Krüger (Übersetzer) | 03/16/09 | Young Adult, Contemporary, Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Mystery, Mental Health, Teen, Audiobook, Romance, High School | Clay Jensen, Hannah Baker, Bryce Walker, Jessica Davis, Justin Foley, Tyler Down, Courtney Crimsen, Alex Standall, Mr. Porter, Marcus Cooley, Zach Dempsey, Ryan Shaver, Jenny Kurtz | "You can’t stop the future. You can’t rewind the past.The only way to learn the secret . . . is to press play.Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker–his classmate and crush–who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah’s voice tells him that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he’ll find out why. Clay spends the night crisscrossing his town with Hannah as his guide. He becomes a firsthand witness to Hannah’s pain, and as he follows Hannah’s recorded words throughout his town, what he discovers changes his life forever." | 
         | 1127 | Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West | Gregory Maguire, Douglas Smith (Illustrator) | 10/28/00 | Fantasy, Fiction, Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Retellings, Adult Fiction, Magic, Witches, Fairy Tales, Classics | Elphaba Thropp, Liir, Glinda Upland, Galinda Upland, Madam Morrible, Nessarose Thropp, Fiyero Tigelaar, The Wizard of Oz | "When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious Witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil?Gregory Maguire creates a fantasy world so rich and vivid that we will never look at Oz the same way again. Wicked is about a land where animals talk and strive to be treated like first-class citizens, Munchkinlanders seek the comfort of middle-class stability, and the Tin Man becomes a victim of domestic violence. And then there is the little green-skinned girl named Elphaba, who will grow up to become the infamous Wicked Witch of the West, a smart, prickly, and misunderstood creature who challenges all our preconceived notions about the nature of good and evil.An astonishingly rich re-creation of the land of Oz, this book retells the story of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, who wasn't so wicked after all. Taking readers past the yellow brick road and into a phantasmagoric world rich with imagination and allegory, Gregory Maguire just might change the reputation of one of the most sinister characters in literature." | 
         | 1128 | Shōgun | James Clavell | 02/19/09 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Japan, Historical, Classics, Adventure, Asia, Literature, Novels, Japanese Literature | John Blackthorne, Toranaga, Mariko, Jabu, Buntaró, Hiromacu, Martin Alvito, Jaemon, Išido, Ochiba | "Alternate Cover for ISBN: 0440178002A bold English adventurer. An invincible Japanese warlord. A beautiful woman torn between two ways of life. All brought together in an extraordinary saga aflame with passion, conflict, ambition, and the struggle for power.Here is the world-famous novel of Japan that is the earliest book in James Clavell’s masterly Asian saga. Set in the year 1600, it tells the story of a bold English pilot whose ship was blown ashore in Japan, where he encountered two people who were to change his life: a warlord with his own quest for power, and a beautiful interpreter torn between two ways of life and two ways of love. The principal figures are John Blackthorne, whose dream it is to be the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe, to wrest control of the trade between Japan and China from Portuguese, and to return home a man of wealth and position; Toranaga, the most powerful feudal lord in Japan, who strives and schemes to seize ultimate power by becoming Shogun—the Supreme Military Dictator—and to unite the warring samurai fiefdoms under his own masterly and farsighted leadership; and the Lady Mariko, a Catholic convert whose conflicting loyalties to the Church and her country are compounded when she falls in love with Blackthorne, the barbarian intruder. In dramatizing how a Westerner, the representative man of his time, comes to be altered by his exposure to an alien culture, Mr. Clavell provides a spellbinding depiction of a nation seething with violence and intrigue as it moves from the medieval world to the modern." | 
         | 1129 | Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | Jonathan Safran Foer  | 04/04/2006 | Fiction, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Adult, Literary Fiction, Literature, New York, Young Adult | Oskar Schell | "Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies. When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre, Oskar sets out to solve the mystery of a key he discovers in his father's closet. It is a search which leads him into the lives of strangers, through the five boroughs of New York, into history, to the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima, and on an inward journey which brings him ever closer to some kind of peace." | 
         | 1130 | Murder on the Orient Express | Agatha Christie | 06/04/2007 | Mystery, Classics, Fiction, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, Thriller, Detective, Adult, British Literature | Samuel Edward Ratchett, Hector MacQueen, Masterman, Colonel Arbuthnot, Harriet Hubbard, Count Rudolf Andrenyi, Countess Elena Andrenyi, Princess Natalia Dragomiroff, Mary Debenham, Hildegarde Schmidt, Antonio Foscarel, Greta Ohlsson, Pierre Michel, Cyrus Hardman, Dr. Constantine, M. Bouc, Hercule Poirot | "Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside.Isolated and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must identify the murderer—in case he or she decides to strike again." | 
         | 1131 | His Dark Materials | Philip Pullman | 09/23/03 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Adventure, Classics, Steampunk, Magic | Lyra Belacqua, Will Parry, Mary Malone, Pantalaimon, Lord Asriel, Iorek Byrnison, Iofur Raknison, Marisa Coulter, Lee Scoresby, Roger Parslow, Stanislaus Grumman, Serafina Pekkala | "The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass are available together in one volume perfect for any fan or newcomer to this modern fantasy classic series.These thrilling adventures tell the story of Lyra and Will—two ordinary children on a perilous journey through shimmering haunted otherworlds. They will meet witches and armored bears, fallen angels and soul-eating specters. And in the end, the fate of both the living—and the dead—will rely on them.Phillip Pullman’s spellbinding His Dark Materials trilogy has captivated readers for over twenty years and won acclaim at every turn. It will have you questioning everything you know about your world and wondering what really lies just out of reach." | 
         | 1132 | A Little Princess | Frances Hodgson Burnett, Nancy Bond (Foreword) | 02/26/02 | Classics, Fiction, Childrens, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade, Historical, Literature, Juvenile, Novels | Sara Crewe, Ralph Crewe, Maria Minchin, Ermengarde St. John, Becky, Lottie Legh, Thomas Carrisford, Ram Dass (A Little Princess) | "Sara Crewe, an exceptionally intelligent and imaginative student at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, is devastated when her adored, indulgent father dies. Now penniless and banished to a room in the attic, Sara is demeaned, abused, and forced to work as a servant. How this resourceful girl's fortunes change again is at the center of A Little Princess, one of the best-loved stories in all of children's literature. This unique and fully annotated edition appends excerpts from Frances Hodgson Burnett's original 1888 novella Sara Crewe and the stage play that preceded the novel, as well as an early story, ""Behind the White Brick,"" allowing readers to see how A Little Princess evolved. In his delightful introduction, U. C. Knoepflmacher considers the fairy-tale allusions and literary touchstones that place the book among the major works of Victorian literature, and shows it to be an exceptionally rich and resonant novel." | 
         | 1133 | Schindler's List | Thomas Keneally | 02/17/94 | History, Nonfiction, Classics, Holocaust, War, Historical, World War II, Biography, Literature, Media Tie In | Oskar Schindler, Amon Leopold Göth | "In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur, but to them he became a saviour. This is the extraordinary story of Oskar Schindler, who risked his life to protect Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland and who was transformed by the war into a man with a mission, a compassionate angel of mercy." | 
         | 1134 | Last Sacrifice | Richelle Mead  | 12/07/2010 | Young Adult, Vampires, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Magic | Sydney Sage, Vasilisa ""Lissa"" Dragomir, Dimitri Belikov, Christian Ozera, Adrian Ivashkov, Victor Dashkov, Janine Hathaway, Jillian Mastrano, Abe Mazur, Natasha Ozera, Rosemarie ""Rose"" Hathaway | "They come first.My vision was growing dimmer, the blackness and ghosts closing in. I swore it was like I could hear Robert whispering in my ear: The world of the dead won't give you up a second time. Just before the light completely vanished, I saw Dimitri's face join Lissa's. I wanted to smile. I decided then that if the two people I loved most were safe, I could leave this world.The dead could finally have me.Rose Hathaway has always played by her own rules. She broke the law when she ran away from St. Vladimir's Academy with her best friend and last surviving Dragomir princess, Lissa. She broke the law when she fell in love with her gorgeous, off-limits instructor, Dimitri. And she dared to defy Queen Tatiana, leader of the Moroi world, risking her life and reputation to protect generations of dhampir guardians to come.Now the law has finally caught up with Rose - for a crime she didn't even commit. She's in prison for the highest offense imaginable: the assassination of a monarch. She'll need help from both Dimitri and Adrian to find the one living person who can stall her execution and force the Moroi elite to acknowledge a shocking new candidate for the royal throne: Vasilisa Dragomir.But the clock on Rose's life is running out. Rose knows in her heart the world of the dead wants her back...and this time she is truly out of second chances. The big question is, when your whole life is about saving others, who will save you?Join Rose, Dimitri, Adrian, and Lissa in Last Sacrifice, the epic, unforgettable finale to Richelle Mead's international #1 bestselling Vampire Academy series." | 
         | 1135 | The Night Circus | Erin Morgenstern  | 09/13/11 | Fantasy, Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Magic, Young Adult, Magical Realism, Adult, Audiobook, Historical | Celia Bowen, Marco Alisdair, Isobel Martin, Penelope ""Poppet"" Aislin Murray, Winston ""Widget"" Aidan Murray, Bailey Clarke, Alexander H., Hector Bowen, Chandresh Christophe Lefevre, Friedrick Stefan Thiessen, Ethan Barris, Tara Burgess, Lainie Burgess, Tante Padva, Tsukiko | "The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway—a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love—a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands. True love or not, the game must play out, and the fates of everyone involved, from the cast of extraordinary circus performers to the patrons, hang in the balance, suspended as precariously as the daring acrobats overhead. Written in rich, seductive prose, this spell-casting novel is a feast for the senses and the heart." | 
         | 1136 | Fallen | Lauren Kate  | 12/08/2009 | Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal, Angels, Paranormal Romance, Fiction, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy, Teen | Lucinda Price, Daniel Grigori, Cameron ""Cam"" Briel, Arriane Alter, Pennyweather ""Penn"" Van Syckle Lockwood, Roland Sparks, ""Gabrielle ''Gabbe'' Givens"", ""Mary Margaret ''Molly'' Zane"" | "There’s something achingly familiar about Daniel Grigori.Mysterious and aloof, he captures Luce Price’s attention from the moment she sees him on her first day at the Sword & Cross boarding school in sultry Savannah, Georgia. He’s the one bright spot in a place where cell phones are forbidden, the other students are all screw-ups, and security cameras watch every move.Even though Daniel wants nothing to do with Luce—and goes out of his way to make that very clear—she can’t let it go. Drawn to him like a moth to a flame, she has to find out what Daniel is so desperate to keep secret… even if it kills her." | 
         | 1137 | The Silmarillion | J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (Editor), Ted Nasmith (Illustrator) | 11/15/04 | Fantasy, Fiction, Classics, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Mythology, Literature, Novels, Adventure | Gandalf, Saruman, Elrond Half-elven, Galadriel, Finwë, Fingolfin, Celebrian, Bregor, Beren, Túrin Turambar, Húrin Thalion, Niënor, Glaurung, Fëanor, Tuor, Lúthien, Morgoth | "A number-one New York Times bestseller when it was originally published, THE SILMARILLION is the core of J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginative writing, a work whose origins stretch back to a time long before THE HOBBIT.Tolkien considered THE SILMARILLION his most important work, and, though it was published last and posthumously, this great collection of tales and legends clearly sets the stage for all his other writing. The story of the creation of the world and of the the First Age, this is the ancient drama to which the characters in THE LORD OF THE RINGS look back and in whose events some of them, such as Elrond and Galadriel, took part. The three Silmarils were jewels created by Feanor, most gifted of the Elves. Within them was imprisoned the Light of the Two Trees of Valinor before the Trees themselves were destroyed by Morgoth, the first Dark Lord. Thereafter, the unsullied Light of Valinor lived on only in the Silmarils, but they were seized by Morgoth and set in his crown, which was guarded in the impenetrable fortress of Angband in the north of Middle-earth. THE SILMARILLION is the history of the rebellion of Feanor and his kindred against the gods, their exile from Valinor and return to Middle-earth, and their war, hopeless despite all their heroism, against the great Enemy.This second edition features a letter written by J.R.R. Tolkien describing his intentions for the book, which serves as a brilliant exposition of his conception of the earlier Ages of Middle-earth." | 
         | 1138 | The Secret Magdalene | Ki Longfellow  | 03/27/07 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Religion, Historical, Spirituality, Novels, Contemporary, Biblical Fiction, Literature, Biblical | Salome, John the Baptizer, Yeshu’a, Mary Magdalene | "Raised like sisters, Mariamne and Salome are indulged with riches, position, and learning—a rare thing for females in Jerusalem. But Mariamne has a further gift: an illness has left her with visions; she has the power of prophecy. It is her prophesying that drives the two girls to flee to Egypt, where they study philosophy, mathematics, and astronomy in the Great Library of Alexandria.After seven years they return to a Judaea where many now believe John the Baptizer is the messiah. Salome too begins to believe, but Mariamne, now called Magdalene, is drawn to his cousin, Yeshu'a, a man touched by the divine in the same way she was during her days of illness. Together they speak of sharing their direct experience of God; but Yeshu'a unexpectedly gains a reputation as a healer, and as the ill and the troubled flock to him, he and Magdalene are forced to make a terrible decision.This radical retelling of the greatest story ever told brings Mary Magdalene to life—not as a prostitute or demon-possessed—but as an educated woman who was truly the ""apostle to the apostles.""From the Hardcover edition." | 
         | 1139 | Beloved | Toni Morrison | 06/08/2004 | Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Magical Realism, Literature, African American, Historical, Novels, School, Literary Fiction | Baby Suggs, Sethe, Beloved, Paul D, Denver, Stamp Paid, Sixo, Halle, Schoolteacher | "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past.Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Meanwhile Sethe’s house has long been troubled by the angry, destructive ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.Sethe works at beating back the past, but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly in her memory and in the lives of those around her. When a mysterious teenage girl arrives, calling herself Beloved, Sethe’s terrible secret explodes into the present.Combining the visionary power of legend with the unassailable truth of history, Morrison’s unforgettable novel is one of the great and enduring works of American literature." | 
         | 1140 | A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole, Walker Percy (Foreword) | 01/28/94 | Fiction, Classics, Humor, Literature, Comedy, Novels, American, Literary Fiction, Audiobook, Contemporary | Ignatius Jacques Reilly, Myrna Minkoff, Irene Reilly, Santa Battaglia, Angelo Mancuso, Lana Lee, Burma Jones | "Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here""A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs.""Meet Ignatius J. Reilly, the hero of John Kennedy Toole's tragicomic tale, A Confederacy of Dunces. This 30-year-old medievalist lives at home with his mother in New Orleans, pens his magnum opus on Big Chief writing pads he keeps hidden under his bed, and relays to anyone who will listen the traumatic experience he once had on a Greyhound Scenicruiser bound for Baton Rouge. (""Speeding along in that bus was like hurtling into the abyss."") But Ignatius's quiet life of tyrannizing his mother and writing his endless comparative history screeches to a halt when he is almost arrested by the overeager Patrolman Mancuso-who mistakes him for a vagrant-and then involved in a car accident with his tipsy mother behind the wheel. One thing leads to another, and before he knows it, Ignatius is out pounding the pavement in search of a job.Over the next several hundred pages, our hero stumbles from one adventure to the next. His stint as a hotdog vendor is less than successful, and he soon turns his employers at the Levy Pants Company on their heads. Ignatius's path through the working world is populated by marvelous secondary characters: the stripper Darlene and her talented cockatoo; the septuagenarian secretary Miss Trixie, whose desperate attempts to retire are constantly, comically thwarted; gay blade Dorian Greene; sinister Miss Lee, proprietor of the Night of Joy nightclub; and Myrna Minkoff, the girl Ignatius loves to hate. The many subplots that weave through A Confederacy of Dunces are as complicated as anything you'll find in a Dickens novel, and just as beautifully tied together in the end. But it is Ignatius-selfish, domineering, and deluded, tragic and comic and larger than life-who carries the story. He is a modern-day Quixote beset by giants of the modern age. His fragility cracks the shell of comic bluster, revealing a deep streak of melancholy beneath the antic humor. John Kennedy Toole committed suicide in 1969 and never saw the publication of his novel. Ignatius Reilly is what he left behind, a fitting memorial to a talented and tormented life." | 
         | 1141 | The Selection | Kiera Cass  | 04/24/12 | Young Adult, Romance, Dystopia, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Audiobook, Teen, Chick Lit, Young Adult Fantasy | Aspen Leger, America Singer, Prince Maxon | "For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to escape the life laid out for them since birth. To be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and priceless jewels. To live in a palace and compete for the heart of gorgeous Prince Maxon.But for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. It means turning her back on her secret love with Aspen, who is a caste below her. Leaving her home to enter a fierce competition for a crown she doesn't want. Living in a palace that is constantly threatened by violent rebel attacks.Then America meets Prince Maxon. Gradually, she starts to question all the plans she's made for herself—and realizes that the life she's always dreamed of may not compare to a future she never imagined." | 
         | 1142 | Catching Fire | Suzanne Collins | 09/01/2009 | Young Adult, Dystopia, Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Adventure, Teen, Post Apocalyptic, Action | Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, Primrose Everdeen, Gale Hawthorne, Effie Trinket, Haymitch Abernathy, Cinna, Finnick Odair, Johanna Mason, President Coriolanus Snow, Madge Undersee, Caesar Flickerman, Twill, Cashmere, Gloss, Enobaria, Beetee, Wiress, Mags, Blight, Woof, Cecilia, Chaff, Seeder, Plutarch Heavensbee, Octavia (Hunger Games), Portia (hunger Games) | "SPARKS ARE IGNITING.FLAMES ARE SPREADING.AND THE CAPITAL WANTS REVENGE.Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. Yet nothing is the way Katniss wishes it to be. Gale holds her at an icy distance. Peeta has turned his back on her completely. And there are whispers of a rebellion against the Capitol - a rebellion that Katniss and Peeta may have helped create.Much to her shock, Katniss has fueled an unrest that she's afraid she cannot stop. And what scares her even more is that she's not entirely convinced she should try. As time draws near for Katniss and Peeta to visit the districts on the Capitol's cruel Victory Tour, the stakes are higher than ever. If they can't prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that they are lost in their love for each other, the consequences will be horrifying. Katniss is about to be tested as never before." | 
         | 1143 | The Lost Hero | Rick Riordan  | 10/12/2010 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Mythology, Fiction, Middle Grade, Adventure, Childrens, Greek Mythology, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy | Leo Valdez, Thalia Grace, Annabeth Chase, Hera, Juno, Rachel Elizabeth Dare, Jason Grace, Piper McLean, Will Solace | "JASON HAS A PROBLEM. He doesn’t remember anything before waking up in a bus full of kids on a field trip. Apparently he has a girlfriend named Piper, and his best friend is a guy named Leo. They’re all students at the Wilderness School, a boarding school for “bad kids,"" as Leo puts it. What did Jason do to end up here? And where is here, exactly? Jason doesn't know anything—except that everything seems very wrong.PIPER HAS A SECRET. Her father has been missing for three days, ever since she had that terrifying nightmare about his being in trouble. Piper doesn’t understand her dream, or why her boyfriend suddenly doesn’t recognize her. When a freak storm hits during the school trip, unleashing strange creatures and whisking her, Jason, and Leo away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood, she has a feeling she’s going to find out, whether she wants to or not.LEO HAS A WAY WITH TOOLS. When he sees his cabin at Camp Half-Blood, filled with power tools and machine parts, he feels right at home. But there’s weird stuff, too—like the curse everyone keeps talking about, and some camper who's gone missing. Weirdest of all, his bunkmates insist that each of them—including Leo—is related to a god. Does this have anything to do with Jason's amnesia, or the fact that Leo keeps seeing ghosts?Join new and old friends from Camp Half-Blood in this thrilling first book in The Heroes of Olympus series. Best-selling author Rick Riordan has pumped up the action, humor, suspense, and mystery in an epic adventure that will leave readers panting for the next installment." | 
         | 1144 | Spirit Bound | Richelle Mead  | 05/18/10 | Young Adult, Vampires, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Magic | Vasilisa ""Lissa"" Dragomir, Dimitri Belikov, Christian Ozera, Adrian Ivashkov, Victor Dashkov, Mia Rinaldi, Jillian Mastrano, Abe Mazur, Natasha Ozera, Rosemarie ""Rose"" Hathaway | "Salvation has its price . . .The words stunned Adrian for a moment, but he kept going. ""You're lying. What you're describing is impossible. There's no way to save a Strigoi. When they're gone, they're gone. They're dead. Undead. Forever.""Robert's next words weren't directed at Adrian. They were spoken to me. ""That which is dead doesn't always stay dead....""After a long and heartbreaking journey to Siberia, Dimitri’s birthplace, Rose Hathaway has finally returned to St. Vladimir’s—and to her best friend, Lissa Dragomir. It's graduation, and the girls can’t wait for their real lives outside the academy’s cold iron gates to finally begin. But even with the intrigue and excitement of court life looming, Rose’s heart still aches for Dimitri. He’s out there, somewhere.She failed to kill him when she had the chance, and now her worst fears are about to come true. Dimitri has tasted her blood, and she knows in her heart that he is hunting her. And if Rose won't join him, he won't rest until he has silenced her . . . forever.But Rose can't forget what she learned on her journey—whispers of a magic too impossible and terrifying to comprehend. A magic inextricably tied to Lissa that could hold the answer to all of Rose's prayers, but not without devastating consequences. Now Rose will have to decide what—and who—matters most to her. And in the end, is true love really worth the price?Fall in love with Rose and Dimitri all over again in Spirit Bound, the eagerly awaited fifth novel in Richelle Mead's enthralling Vampire Academy series." | 
         | 1145 | Clockwork Prince | Cassandra Clare  | 12/06/2011 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Paranormal, Steampunk, Historical Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Angels, Vampires | Theresa ""Tessa"" Gray, Magnus Bane, William Herondale, James ""Jem"" Carstairs, Jessamine Lovelace, Henry Branwell, Charlotte Branwell, Nathaniel Gray, Gideon Lightwood, Gabriel Lightwood, Sophie Collins | "In the magical underworld of Victorian London, Tessa Gray has at last found safety with the Shadowhunters. But that safety proves fleeting when rogue forces in the Clave plot to see her protector, Charlotte, replaced as head of the Institute. If Charlotte loses her position, Tessa will be out on the street—and easy prey for the mysterious Magister, who wants to use Tessa’s powers for his own dark ends.With the help of the handsome, self-destructive Will and the fiercely devoted Jem, Tessa discovers that the Magister’s war on the Shadowhunters is deeply personal. He blames them for a long-ago tragedy that shattered his life. To unravel the secrets of the past, the trio journeys from mist-shrouded Yorkshire to a manor house that holds untold horrors, from the slums of London to an enchanted ballroom where Tessa discovers that the truth of her parentage is more sinister than she had imagined. When they encounter a clockwork demon bearing a warning for Will, they realize that the Magister himself knows their every move—and that one of their own has betrayed them.Tessa finds her heart drawn more and more to Jem, but her longing for Will, despite his dark moods, continues to unsettle her. But something is changing in Will—the wall he has built around himself is crumbling. Could finding the Magister free Will from his secrets and give Tessa the answers about who she is and what she was born to do?As their dangerous search for the Magister and the truth leads the friends into peril, Tessa learns that when love and lies are mixed, they can corrupt even the purest heart." | 
         | 1146 | The Iliad/The Odyssey | Homer, Robert Fagles (Translator), Bernard Knox (Introduction) | 11/01/1999 | Classics, Fiction, Poetry, Mythology, Literature, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, School, Adventure, Historical | Odysseus, Menelaus, Hector of Troy, Achilles (Greek hero), Sarpedon (king of Lycia), Patroclus, Agamemnon | "Gripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, 'The Iliad' is the story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles. Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic. If 'The Iliad' is the world's greatest war story, then 'The Odyssey' is literature's greatest evocation of every man's journey through life. Here again, Fagles has performed the translator's task magnificently, giving us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. Each volume contains a superb introduction with textual and critical commentary by renowned classicist Bernard Knox." | 
         | 1147 | The Crucible | Arthur Miller, Christopher Bigs(Introduction) | 03/25/03 | Classics, Plays, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Drama, School, Read For School, Historical, High School, Literature | Rev. Parris, Tituba, Abigail Williams, John Proctor, Elizabeth Proctor, Giles Corey, Rebecca Towne Nurse, Mary Warren, Deputy Governor Danforth | """I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history,"" Arthur Miller wrote of his classic play about the witch-hunts and trials in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Based on historical people and real events, Miller's drama is a searing portrait of a community engulfed by hysteria. In the rigid theocracy of Salem, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town's most basic fears and suspicions; and when a young girl accuses Elizabeth Proctor of being a witch, self-righteous church leaders and townspeople insist that Elizabeth be brought to trial. The ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against neighbor brilliantly illuminates the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence.Written in 1953, The Crucible is a mirror Miller uses to reflect the anti-communist hysteria inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy's ""witch-hunts"" in the United States. Within the text itself, Miller contemplates the parallels, writing, ""Political opposition... is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.""WIth an introduction by Christopher Bigsby.(back cover)" | 
         | 1148 | Cat's Cradle | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | 10/28/99 | Fiction, Classics, Science Fiction, Humor, Literature, Novels, Dystopia, American, Fantasy, 20th Century | Bokonon, Angela Hoenikker, Emily Hoenikker, Frank Hoenikker, Newt Hoenikker, ""Papa"" Monzano, Mona Aamons Monzano, John   -- | "Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it ...Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding 'fathers' of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he's the inventor of 'ice-nine', a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's three ecentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness. Felix Hoenikker's Death Wish comes true when his last, fatal gift to humankind brings about the end, that for all of us, is nigh..." | 
         | 1149 | The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy , Claude Demanuelli (Translator), Barbara Auer (Narrator), Diana Quick (Reading), Luana Stoica (trad.), Donada Peters (Narrator), Josep Julià Ballbé (Translator) | 10/28/97 | Fiction, India, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Novels, Indian Literature, Literary Fiction, Literature, Classics, Asia | Rahel, Ammu, Mammachi, Chacko, Estha, Velutha, Baby Kochamma | "The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with chrome tailfins is stranded on the highway amid a Marxist workers' demonstration. Inside the car sit two-egg twins Rahel and Esthappen, and so begins their tale. . . .Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, they fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family-their lonely, lovely mother, Ammu (who loves by night the man her children love by day), their blind grandmother, Mammachi (who plays Handel on her violin), their beloved uncle Chacko (Rhodes scholar, pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher), their enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt), and the ghost of an imperial entomologist's moth (with unusually dense dorsal tufts).When their English cousin, Sophie Mol, and her mother, Margaret Kochamma, arrive on a Christmas visit, Esthappen and Rahel learn that Things Can Change in a Day. That lives can twist into new, ugly shapes, even cease forever, beside their river ""graygreen."" With fish in it. With the sky and trees in it. And at night, the broken yellow moon in it.The brilliantly plotted story uncoils with an agonizing sense of foreboding and inevitability. Yet nothing prepares you for what lies at the heart of it.The God of Small Things takes on the Big Themes-Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite Joy. Here is a writer who dares to break the rules. To dislocate received rhythms and create the language she requires, a language that is at once classical and unprecedented. Arundhati Roy has given us a book that is anchored to anguish, but fueled by wit and magic. -front flap" | 
         | 1150 | Girl with a Pearl Earring | Tracy Chevalier  | 10/28/05 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Classics, Art, Romance, Adult Fiction, Adult, Novels, Literature | Johannes Vermeer, Griet, Pieter van Ruijven, Catharina Bolnes, Maria Thins, Tanneke, Pieter (Girl with a pearl earring), Antonie van Leeuwenhoek | "With precisely 35 canvases to his credit, the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer represents one of the great enigmas of 17th-century art. The meager facts of his biography have been gleaned from a handful of legal documents. Yet Vermeer's extraordinary paintings of domestic life, with their subtle play of light and texture, have come to define the Dutch golden age. His portrait of the anonymous Girl with a Pearl Earring has exerted a particular fascination for centuries—and it is this magnetic painting that lies at the heart of Tracy Chevalier's second novel of the same title.Girl with a Pearl Earring centers on Vermeer's prosperous Delft household during the 1660s. When Griet, the novel's quietly perceptive heroine, is hired as a servant, turmoil follows. First, the 16-year-old narrator becomes increasingly intimate with her master. Then Vermeer employs her as his assistant—and ultimately has Griet sit for him as a model." | 
         | 1151 | The Silence of the Lambs | Thomas Harris | 10/28/02 | Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Crime, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Classics, Novels, Drama | Jack Crawford, Hannibal Lecter, Clarice Starling | Hannibal Lecter. The ultimate villain of modern fiction. Read the five-million-copy bestseller that scared the world silent. The Silence of the Lambs. A young FBI trainee. An evil genius locked away for unspeakable crimes. A plunge into the darkest chambers of a psychopath's mind-in the deadly search for a serial killer. - back cover | 
         | 1152 | Shiver | Maggie Stiefvater  | 08/01/2009 | Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal, Werewolves, Fiction, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy, Teen | Grace Brisbane, Sam  Roth, Isabel Culpeper, Jack Culpeper, Geoffrey Beck, Olivia Marx, Rachel, William Koenig | "For years, Grace has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf—her wolf—is a chilling presence she can't seem to live without.Meanwhile, Sam has lived two lives: In winter, the frozen woods, the protection of the pack, and the silent company of a fearless girl. In summer, a few precious months of being human… until the cold makes him shift back again.Now, Grace meets a yellow-eyed boy whose familiarity takes her breath away. It's her wolf. It has to be. But as winter nears, Sam must fight to stay human—or risk losing himself, and Grace, forever." | 
         | 1153 | Uglies | Scott Westerfeld  | 02/08/2005 | Young Adult, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, Teen, Adventure, Post Apocalyptic, Science Fiction Fantasy | David Strorm, Tally Youngblood, Shay, Peris, Dr. Cable | "Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. In just a few weeks she'll have the operation that will turn her from a repellent ugly into a stunning pretty. And as a pretty, she'll be catapulted into a high-tech paradise where her only job is to have fun.But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she wants to become a pretty. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world—and it isn't very pretty. The authorities offer Tally a choice: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. Tally's choice will change her world forever...." | 
         | 1154 | City of Fallen Angels | Cassandra Clare  | 04/05/2011 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Vampires, Fiction, Angels, Supernatural, Magic | Alexander ""Alec"" Lightwood, Jonathan ""Jace"" Wayland, Isabelle ""Izzy"" Sophia Lightwood, Magnus Bane, Jordan Kyle, Maia Roberts, Jocelyn Fray, Luke Garroway, Camille Belcourt, Clarissa ""Clary"" Fray, Simon Lewis | "The Mortal War is over, and sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is back home in New York, excited about all the possibilities before her. She’s training to become a Shadowhunter and to use her unique power. Her mother is getting married to the love of her life. Downworlders and Shadowhunters are at peace at last. And—most importantly of all—she can finally call Jace her boyfriend.But nothing comes without a price.Someone is murdering Shadowhunters, provoking tensions between Downworlders and Shadowhunters that could lead to a second, bloody war. Clary’s best friend, Simon, can’t help her—his mother just found out that he’s a vampire, and now he’s homeless. When Jace begins to pull away from her without explaining why, Clary is forced to delve into the heart of a mystery whose solution reveals her worst nightmare: she herself has set in motion a terrible chain of events that could lead to her losing everything she loves. Even Jace." | 
         | 1155 | The Phantom of the Opera | Gaston Leroux, Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (Translator) | 12/30/87 | Classics, Fiction, Horror, Romance, Gothic, Mystery, Historical Fiction, France, Literature, Fantasy | Erik, Christine Daaé, Madame Giry, Raoul de Chagny, La Carlotta, ""The Persian"", Count Phillippe de Chagny | "First published in French as a serial in 1909, The Phantom of the Opera is a riveting story that revolves around the young, Swedish Christine Daaé. Her father, a famous musician, dies, and she is raised in the Paris Opera House with his dying promise of a protective angel of music to guide her. After a time at the opera house, she begins hearing a voice, who eventually teaches her how to sing beautifully. All goes well until Christine's childhood friend Raoul comes to visit his parents, who are patrons of the opera, and he sees Christine when she begins successfully singing on the stage. The voice, who is the deformed, murderous 'ghost' of the opera house named Erik, however, grows violent in his terrible jealousy, until Christine suddenly disappears. The phantom is in love, but it can only spell disaster.Leroux's work, with characters ranging from the spoiled prima donna Carlotta to the mysterious Persian from Erik's past, has been immortalized by memorable adaptations. Despite this, it remains a remarkable piece of Gothic horror literature in and of itself, deeper and darker than any version that follows." | 
         | 1156 | Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog | John Grogan | 10/18/05 | Nonfiction, Animals, Memoir, Dogs, Biography, Humor, Biography Memoir, Adult, Contemporary, Autobiography | Jenny, Patrick Grogan, Marley, Conor Grogan, Colleen Grogan, Família Grogan, John Grogan | "John and Jenny were just beginning their life together. They were young and in love, with a perfect little house and not a care in the world. Then they brought home Marley, a wiggly yellow furball of a puppy. Life would never be the same.Marley quickly grew into a barreling, ninety-seven-pound streamroller of a Labrador retriever, a dog like no other. He crashed through screen doors, gouged through drywall, flung drool on guests, stole women's undergarments, and ate nearly everything he could get his mouth around, including couches and fine jewelry. Obedience school did no good—Marley was expelled. Neither did the tranquilizers the veterinarian prescribed for him with the admonishment, ""Don't hesitate to use these.""And yet Marley's heart was pure. Just as he joyfully refused any limits on his behavior, his love and loyalty were boundless, too. Marley shared the couple's joy at their first pregnancy, and their heartbreak over the miscarriage. He was there when babies finally arrived and when the screams of a seventeen-year-old stabbing victim pierced the night. Marley shut down a public beach and managed to land a role in a feature-length movie, always winning hearts as he made a mess of things. Through it all, he remained steadfast, a model of devotion, even when his family was at its wit's end. Unconditional love, they would learn, comes in many forms." | 
         | 1157 | Ella Enchanted | Gail Carson Levine  | 09/01/1998 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Romance, Fairy Tales, Childrens, Middle Grade, Retellings, Magic, Adventure | Ella Varner, Lucinda, Mandy, Prince Charmont, Areida, Hattie, Olive Abroholos Elephanta | "At birth, Ella is inadvertently cursed by an imprudent young fairy named Lucinda, who bestows on her the ""gift"" of obedience. Anything anyone tells her to do, Ella must obey. Another girl might have been cowed by this affliction, but not feisty Ella: ""Instead of making me docile, Lucinda's curse made a rebel of me. Or perhaps I was that way naturally."" When her beloved mother dies, leaving her in the care of a mostly absent and avaricious father, and later, a loathsome stepmother and two treacherous stepsisters, Ella's life and well-being seem to be in grave peril. But her intelligence and saucy nature keep her in good stead as she sets out on a quest for freedom and self-discovery as she tries to track down Lucinda to undo the curse, fending off ogres, befriending elves, and falling in love with a prince along the way. Yes, there is a pumpkin coach, a glass slipper, and a happily ever after, but this is the most remarkable, delightful, and profound version of Cinderella you'll ever read.Gail Carson Levine's examination of traditional female roles in fairy tales takes some satisfying twists and deviations from the original. Ella is bound by obedience against her will, and takes matters in her own hands with ambition and verve. Her relationship with the prince is balanced and based on humor and mutual respect; in fact, it is she who ultimately rescues him. Ella Enchanted has won many well-deserved awards, including a Newbery Honor." | 
         | 1158 | The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle | Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin (Translator) | 10/28/97 | Fiction, Magical Realism, Japan, Japanese Literature, Fantasy, Contemporary, Literature, Novels, Mystery, Asia | Toru Okada, Kumiko Okada, Noboru Wataya, Malta Kano, May Kasahara, Creta Kano, Tokutaro Mamiya, Nutmeg Akasaka, Cinnamon Akasaka, Boris Gromov, Ushikawa | "Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II.In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat. Soon he finds himself looking for his wife as well in a netherworld that lies beneath the placid surface of Tokyo. As these searches intersect, Okada encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists: a psychic prostitute; a malevolent yet mediagenic politician; a cheerfully morbid sixteen-year-old-girl; and an aging war veteran who has been permanently changed by the hideous things he witnessed during Japan's forgotten campaign in Manchuria.Gripping, prophetic, suffused with comedy and menace, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force equal in scope to the masterpieces of Mishima and Pynchon.Three books in one volume: The Thieving Magpie, Bird as Prophet, The Birdcatcher. This translation by Jay Rubin is in collaboration with the author." | 
         | 1159 | The Green Mile | Stephen King  | 09/01/1996 | Horror, Fiction, Fantasy, Thriller, Mystery, Supernatural, Paranormal, Crime, Drama, Historical Fiction | John Coffey, Paul Edgecomb, Percy Wetmore, American Law Enforcement, Brutus Howell | "When it first appeared, one volume per month, Stephen King's THE GREEN MILE was an unprecedented publishing triumph: all six volumes ended up on the New York Times bestseller lists—simultaneously—and delighted millions of fans the world over.Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Depression-worn men of E Block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk the Green Mile, keeping a date with ""Old Sparky,"" Cold Mountain's electric chair. Prison guard Paul Edgecombe has seen his share of oddities in his years working the Mile. But he's never seen anyone like John Coffey, a man with the body of a giant and the mind of a child, condemned for a crime terrifying in its violence and shocking in its depravity. In this place of ultimate retribution, Edgecombe is about to discover the terrible, wondrous truth about Coffey, a truth that will challenge his most cherished beliefes... and yours." | 
         | 1160 | A Clash of Kings | George R.R. Martin | 05/28/02 | Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Adult, Adventure, Dragons, Audiobook, Epic | Brandon Stark, Catelyn Stark, Tyrion Lannister, Daenerys Targaryen, Eddard Stark, Theon Greyjoy, Robb Stark, Arya Stark, Jaime Lannister, Joffrey Baratheon, Tywin Lannister, Stannis Baratheon, Melisandre, Davos Seaworth, Lysa Arryn, Petyr Baelish, Sansa Stark, Varys, Hodor, Brienne of Tarth, Rickon Stark, Rhaego, Gendry, Edric Storm, Lord High Captain Ser Imry Florent, Selyse Baratheon, Shireen Baratheon, Margaery Tyrell, Mace Tyrell, Ser Garlan Tyrell, Myrcella Baratheon, ""R''hllor"", Hoster Tully, Ser Brynden Tully, Jeor Mormont, Maester Cressen, Maester Pylos, PatchFace, Lord Steffon Baratheon, Cassana Baratheon, Aerys Targaryen II, Ser Harbert, Lord Gulian Swann, Ser Cortnay Penrose, Lord Selwyn the Evenstar, Beric Dondarrion, Thoros of Myr, Bryce Caron, Paxter Redwyne, Ardrian Celtigar, Monford Velaryon, Duram Bar Emmon, Salladhor Saan, Guncer Sunglass, Willem Darry, Robert Arryn, Ser Axell Florent, Syrio Forel, Lommy Greenhands, Hot Pie, Praed, ""Jaqen H''ghar"", Rorge, Reysen, Cutjack, Woth, Gerren, Urreg, Ser Ilyn Payne, Ser Arys Oakheart, Ser Boros Blount, Ser Meryn Trant, Ser Mandon Moore, Ser Preston Greenfield, Ser Gregor Clegane, Lord Gyles Rosby, Tanda Stokeworth, Lollys Stokeworth, Falyse Stokeworth, Jalabhar Xho, Ermesande Hayford, Tyrek Lannister, Ser Hobber Redwyne, Ser Horas Redwyne, Ser Balon Swann, Morros Slynt, Janos Slynt, Lothor Brune, Dontos Hollard, Ser Aron Santagar, Old Nan, Septa Mordane, Lord Bronn, Timett son of Timett, Shagga son of Dolf, Chella daughter of Cheyk, Tysha, Vardis Egen, Ser Barristan Selmy, Lancel Lannister, Captain Vylarr, Grey Wind, Nymeria, Shaggydog, Walder Frey, Little Walder Frey, Ser Stevron Frey, Black Walder Frey, Ser Emmon Frey, Red Walder Frey, Walder Rivers, White Walda, Ser Aenys Frey, Ser Rodrik Cassel, Beth Cassel, Farlen, Turnip, Maester Luwin, Septon Chayle, Hayhead, Mikken, Alebelly, Joseth, Shyra Errol, Tomard, TomToo, Jory Cassel, Qhorin Halfhand, Pypar, Todder, Othor, Ser Endrew Tarth, Conwy, Ser Alliser Thorne, Donal Noye, Thoren Smallwood, Jaremy Rykker, Waymar Royce, Ser Arnell, Dywen, Olyvar Frey, Ser Robin Ryger, Ser Cleos Frey, Genna Frey, Ser Edmure Tully, Lord Rickard Karstark, Willem Lannister, Tion Frey, Maester Vyman, Marq Piper, Karyl Vance, Jonos Bracken, Jason Mallister, Patrek Mallister, Greatjon Umber, Tytos Blackwood, Ser Desmond Grell, Burton Crakehall, Ser Amory Lorch, Ser Stafford Lannister, Daven Lannister, Allar Deem, Ser Jacelyn Bywater, Tobho Mott, Allard Seaworth, Dale Seaworth, Maric Seaworth, Matthos Seaworth, Devan Seaworth, Marya Seaworth, Septon Barre, Hubard Rambton, Yohn Royce, Balon Greyjoy, Alannys Greyjoy, Euron Greyjoy, Aeron Greyjoy, Rodrik Greyjoy, Maron Greyjoy, Lord Sawane, Goodbrother of Great Wyk, Sylas Sourmouth, Dagmer Cleftjaw, Maester Qalen, Maester Wendamyr, Rakharo, Aggo, Ko Jhogo, Doreah, Jhiqui, Rhaegal, Viserion, Drogon, Khal Pono, Mirri Maz Duur, Khal Jhaqo, Magister Illyrio, Lynesse Hightower, Lord Leyton Hightower, Gerold Hightower, Tregar Ormollen, Ryman Frey, Hosteen Frey, Pyat Pree, Xaro Xhoan Daxos, Quaithe of the Shadow, Bedwyck, Eddison Tollett, Jarman Buckwell, Ser Mallador Locke, Sheila Whent, Jeyne Poole, Maester Frenken, Podrick Payne, Ironbelly, Master Salloreon, Chataya, Alayaya, Wyman Manderly, Poxy Tym, Halys Hornwood, Daryn Hornwood, Larence Snow, Ser Wendel Manderly, Wylis Manderly, Roose Bolton, Domeric Bolton, Ramsay Snow, Reek, Mors Crowfood, Hother Umber, Robett Glover, Leobald Tallhart, Beren Tallhart, Benfred Tallhart, Ser Helman Tallhart, Howland Reed, Cley Cerwyn, Doran Martell, Trystane Martell, Elia of Dorne, Rhaenys Targaryen, Aegon Targaryen, Hallyne the Pyromancer, Meera Reed, Jojen Reed, Hallis Mollen, Jon Umber, Colen of Greenpools, Lord Estermont, Lord Mathis Rowan, Lady Oakheart, Lord Randyll Tarly, Lucas Blackwood, Ser Perwyn Frey, Jon Fossoway, Guyard Morrigen, Tanton Fossoway, Craster, Mance Rayder, Gared, Lark the Sisterman, Brown Bernarr, Sigrin the Shipwright, Otter Gimpknee, Rymolf Stormdrunk, Donnel Locke, Maester Colemon, The Tickler, Polliver, Dunsen, Mycah, Goodwife Amabel, Goodwife Harra, Weese, Quhuru Mo, Kevan Lannister, Alyn Stackspear, Whitesmile Wat, Lord Lefford, Ser Dunaver, Jodge, Harys Swyft, Maester Tothmure, Lord Vargo Hoat, Lord Lydden, Joss Stilwood, Eggon, Tobbot, Robar Royce, SER ROBERT BRAX, Lymond Vikary, Lord Jast, Martyn Lannister, Ser Parmen Crane, Emmon Cuy, Ser Gawen Wylde, Edwyn Frey, Petyr Frey, Aegon Frey, Stygg, Werlag, Urzen, Black Lorren, Gevin Harlaw, Lord Botley, Todric, Andrik the Unsmiling, Lord Drumm of Old Wyk, Qarl the Maid, Ser Addam Marbrand, Ser Lyonel Baratheon, Tuffleberry, Martyn Rivers, Rymund the Rhymer, Utherydes Wayn, Enger, Long Lew, Poul Pernford, Brandon the Shipwright, Mathos Mallarawan, Wendello Qar Deeth, Egon Emeros the Exquisite, Ser Osmund Kettleblack, Osney Kettleblack, Osfryd Kettleblack, Tygett Lannister, Alester Florent of Brightwater, Lord Meadows, Rattleshirt, Harma the Dogshead, Alfyn Crowkiller, Rickard Stark, The Weeping Man, Symon Silver Tongue, Ashara Dayne, Flement Brax, Pinkeye, Ser Cadwyn, Ben Blackthumb, Shagwell the Fool, Squint, Gariss, Gynir Rednose, Gelmarr the Grim, Squire Dalbridge, Stonesnake, Ygritte, Ethan Glover, Jeffory Mallister, Kyle Royce, Elbert Arryn, Porther, Hullen, Harridan, Ser Arneld, Strong Belwas, Arstan Whitebeard, Walton Steelshanks, Septon Utt, Qyburn, Faithful Ursywck, Elmar Frey, Ser Jared Frey, Harys Haigh, Ronel Rivers, Lord Crakehall, Philip Foote, Josmyn Peckledon, Willit, Dykk Harlaw, Endehar, Red Rolfe, Ulf the Ill, Harrag Sheepstealer, Kenned the Whale, Maester Ballabar, Ragwyle, Arthur Dayne, Dolorous Edd, Robin Flint, Lord Velaryon, Alysanne, Prince Rhaegar, Maester Aemon, King Harren, Hal Mollen, Fat Tom, Maekar Targaryens, Moon Boy, Bael the Bard, Ser Harys Swyft, Lord Rossart, Elenei, Durran Godsgrief, Azor Ahai, Lord Caswell, Chiswyck, Lord of Light, Lord Cerwyn, Lord Hornwood, Ser Mark Mullendore, Lord Celtigar, Ser Errol, Prince Tommen, Myraham, Lord Varner, King Daeron, Lady Lyanna, Lord Caron, Esgred, High Septon, Lady Selyse, Robert I Baratheon, Big Walder Frey, Donella Hornwood, SER ROBERT BRAX, Lymond Vikary, Lord Jast, Martyn Lannister, Ser Parmen Crane, Emmon Cuy, Ser Gawen Wylde, Edwyn Frey, Petyr Frey, Aegon Frey, Stygg, Werlag, Urzen, Black Lorren, Gevin Harlaw, Lord Botley, Todric, Andrik the Unsmiling, Lord Drumm of Old Wyk, Qarl the Maid, Ser Addam Marbrand, Ser Lyonel Baratheon, Tuffleberry, Martyn Rivers, Rymund the Rhymer, Utherydes Wayn, Enger, Long Lew, Poul Pernford, Brandon the Shipwright, Mathos Mallarawan, Wendello Qar Deeth, Egon Emeros the Exquisite, Ser Osmund Kettleblack, Osney Kettleblack, Osfryd Kettleblack, Tygett Lannister, Alester Florent of Brightwater, Lord Meadows, Rattleshirt, Harma the Dogshead, Alfyn Crowkiller, Rickard Stark, The Weeping Man, Symon Silver Tongue, Ashara Dayne, Flement Brax, Pinkeye, Ser Cadwyn, Ben Blackthumb, Shagwell the Fool, Squint, Gariss, Gynir Rednose, Gelmarr the Grim, Squire Dalbridge, Stonesnake, Ygritte, Ethan Glover, Jeffory Mallister, Kyle Royce, Elbert Arryn, Porther, Hullen, Harridan, Ser Arneld, Strong Belwas, Arstan Whitebeard, Walton Steelshanks, Septon Utt, Qyburn, Faithful Ursywck, Elmar Frey, Ser Jared Frey, Harys Haigh, Ronel Rivers, Lord Crakehall, Philip Foote, Josmyn Peckledon, Dykk Harlaw, Endehar, Red Rolfe, Ulf the Ill, Harrag Sheepstealer, Kenned the Whale, Maester Ballabar, Ragwyle, Arthur Dayne, Dolorous Edd, Robin Flint, Lord Velaryon, Alysanne, Prince Rhaegar, Maester Aemon, King Harren, Hal Mollen, Fat Tom, Maekar Targaryens, Moon Boy, Bael the Bard, Ser Harys Swyft, Lord Rossart, Elenei, Durran Godsgrief, Azor Ahai, Lord Caswell, Chiswyck, Lord of Light, Lord Cerwyn, Lord Hornwood, Ser Mark Mullendore, Lord Celtigar, Ser Errol, Prince Tommen, Myraham, Lord Varner, King Daeron, Lady Lyanna, Lord Caron, Esgred, High Septon, Lady Selyse, Ottyn Wythers, SER ROBERT BRAX, Lymond Vikary, Lord Jast, Martyn Lannister, Ser Parmen Crane, Emmon Cuy, Ser Gawen Wylde, Edwyn Frey, Petyr Frey, Aegon Frey, Stygg, Werlag, Urzen, Black Lorren, Gevin Harlaw, Lord Botley, Todric, Andrik the Unsmiling, Lord Drumm of Old Wyk, Qarl the Maid, Ser Addam Marbrand, Ser Lyonel Baratheon, Tuffleberry, Martyn Rivers, Rymund the Rhymer, Utherydes Wayn, Enger, Long Lew, Poul Pernford, Brandon the Shipwright, Mathos Mallarawan, Egon Emeros the Exquisite, Ser Osmund Kettleblack, Osney Kettleblack, Osfryd Kettleblack, Tygett Lannister, Alester Florent of Brightwater, Lord Meadows, Rattleshirt, Harma the Dogshead, Alfyn Crowkiller, Rickard Stark, The Weeping Man, Symon Silver Tongue, Ashara Dayne, Flement Brax, Pinkeye, Ser Cadwyn, Ben Blackthumb, Shagwell the Fool, Squint, Gariss, Gynir Rednose, Gelmarr the Grim, Squire Dalbridge, Stonesnake, Ygritte, Ethan Glover, Jeffory Mallister, Kyle Royce, Elbert Arryn, Porther, Hullen, Harridan, Ser Arneld, Strong Belwas, Arstan Whitebeard, Walton Steelshanks, Septon Utt, Qyburn, Faithful Ursywck, Elmar Frey, Ser Jared Frey, Harys Haigh, Ronel Rivers, Lord Crakehall, Philip Foote, Josmyn Peckledon, Willit, Dykk Harlaw, Endehar, Red Rolfe, Ulf the Ill, Harrag Sheepstealer, Kenned the Whale, Maester Ballabar, Ragwyle, Arthur Dayne, Dolorous Edd, Robin Flint, Lord Velaryon, Alysanne, Prince Rhaegar, Maester Aemon, King Harren, Hal Mollen, Fat Tom, Maekar Targaryens, Moon Boy, Bael the Bard, Ser Harys Swyft, Lord Rossart, Elenei, Durran Godsgrief, Azor Ahai, Lord Caswell, Chiswyck, Lord of Light, Lord Cerwyn, Lord Hornwood, Ser Mark Mullendore, Lord Celtigar, Ser Errol, Prince Tommen, Myraham, Lord Varner, King Daeron, Lady Lyanna, Lord Caron, Esgred, High Septon, Lady Selyse, Samwell Tarly, Asha Greyjoy, Sandor Clegane, Oswell Kettleback, Tommen Baratheon, Jon Snow, Cersei Lannister, Jorah Mormont | "A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. Two great leaders—Lord Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon—who hold sway over an age of enforced peace are dead, victims of royal treachery. Now, from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. It is a tale in which brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress; and wild men descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside. Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel...and the coldest hearts. For when kings clash, the whole land trembles.Here is the second volume in George R.R. Martin magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Game of Thrones and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, George R.R. Martin stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction." | 
         | 1161 | The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society | Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows | 07/10/2018 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Romance, World War II, Book Club, War, Adult, Adult Fiction, Books About Books | Sophie Kintock, Juliet Ashton, Dawsey Adams, Susan Scott, Sidney Stark, Elizabeth McKenna, Isola Pribby, Markham V. Reynolds, Jr., Kit McKenna, Adelaide Addison, Eben Ramsey, Amelia Maugery, John Booker, Christian Hellman, Will Thisbee, Clovis Fossey, Thomson Stubbins, Clara Saussey, Sally Ann Frobisher | " #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE ON NETFLIX - A remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German Occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name. ""I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers."" January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she's never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb...As Juliet and her new correspondent exchange letters, Juliet is drawn into the world of this man and his friends—and what a wonderfully eccentric world it is. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society—born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi when its members were discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island—boasts a charming, funny, deeply human cast of characters, from pig farmers to phrenologists, literature lovers all.Juliet begins a remarkable correspondence with the society's members, learning about their island, their taste in books, and the impact the recent German occupation has had on their lives. Captivated by their stories, she sets sail for Guernsey, and what she finds will change her forever.Written with warmth and humor as a series of letters, this novel is a celebration of the written word in all its guises and of finding connection in the most surprising ways." | 
         | 1162 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Hunter S. Thompson, Ralph Steadman (Illustrator) | 06/28/98 | Fiction, Classics, Humor, Journalism, Novels, American, Literature, Contemporary, Travel, Comedy | Hunter S. Thompson | "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken." | 
         | 1163 | The House of the Spirits | Isabel Allende , Magda Bogin (Translator) | 08/30/05 | Fiction, Magical Realism, Historical Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Spanish Literature, Literature, Historical, Novels, Latin American | Esteban Trueba, Clara del Valle, Férula Trueba, Blanca Trueba, Jaime Trueba, Nicolàs Trueba, Pedro Tercero Garcia, Alba Trueba, Esteban Garcia | "In one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of the twentieth century, Isabel Allende weaves a luminous tapestry of three generations of the Trueba family, revealing both triumphs and tragedies. Here is patriarch Esteban, whose wild desires and political machinations are tempered only by his love for his ethereal wife, Clara, a woman touched by an otherworldly hand. Their daughter, Blanca, whose forbidden love for a man Esteban has deemed unworthy infuriates her father, yet will produce his greatest joy: his granddaughter Alba, a beautiful, ambitious girl who will lead the family and their country into a revolutionary future.The House of the Spirits is an enthralling saga that spans decades and lives, twining the personal and the political into an epic novel of love, magic, and fate." | 
         | 1164 | Roots: The Saga of an American Family | Alex Haley | 01/01/1977 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Classics, Historical, African American, Africa, Race, Literature, Audiobook, Novels | George Lincoln Rockwell, Alex Haley, Kunta Kinte | "When he was a boy in Henning, Tennessee, Alex Haley's grandmother used to tell him stories about their family—stories that went back to her grandparents, and their grandparents, down through the generations all the way to a man she called ""the African."" She said he had lived across the ocean near what he called the ""Kamby Bolongo"" and had been out in the forest one day chopping wood to make a drum when he was set upon by four men, beaten, chained and dragged aboard a slave ship bound for Colonial America.Still vividly remembering the stories after he grew up and became a writer, Haley began to search for documentation that might authenticate the narrative. It took ten years and a half a million miles of travel across three continents to find it, but finally, in an astonishing feat of genealogical detective work, he discovered not only the name of ""the African""—Kunta Kinte—but the precise location of Juffure, the very village in The Gambia, West Africa, from which he was abducted in 1767 at the age of sixteen and taken on the Lord Ligonier to Maryland and sold to a Virginia planter.Haley has talked in Juffure with his own African sixth cousins. On September 29, 1967, he stood on the dock in Annapolis where his great-great-great-great-grandfather was taken ashore on September 29, 1767. Now he has written the monumental two-century drama of Kunta Kinte and the six generations who came after him—slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lumber mill workers and Pullman porters, lawyers and architects—and one author.But Haley has done more than recapture the history of his own family. As the first black American writer to trace his origins back to their roots, he has told the story of 25,000,000 Americans of African descent. He has rediscovered for an entire people a rich cultural heritage that slavery took away from them, along with their names and their identities. But Roots speaks, finally, not just to blacks, or to whites, but to all people and all races everywhere, for the story it tells is one of the most eloquent testimonials ever written to the indomitability of the human spirit." | 
         | 1165 | Misery | Stephen King  | 11/01/1988 | Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, Mystery, Novels, Adult, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Drama | Paul Sheldon, Annie Wilkes | "Alternate cover editions here and here.Paul Sheldon. He's a bestselling novelist who has finally met his biggest fan. Her name is Annie Wilkes and she is more than a rabid reader - she is Paul's nurse, tending his shattered body after an automobile accident. But she is also his captor, keeping him prisoner in her isolated house." | 
         | 1166 | Howl's Moving Castle | Diana Wynne Jones | 08/01/2001 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Romance, Magic, Middle Grade, Childrens, Adventure, Classics, Young Adult Fantasy | Michael (angel), Wizard Howl, Sophie Hatter, Calcifer, Witch of the Waste, Lily Angorian | "An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found hereSophie has the great misfortune of being the eldest of three daughters, destined to fail miserably should she ever leave home to seek her fate. But when she unwittingly attracts the ire of the Witch of the Waste, Sophie finds herself under a horrid spell that transforms her into an old lady. Her only chance at breaking it lies in the ever-moving castle in the hills: the Wizard Howl's castle. To untangle the enchantment, Sophie must handle the heartless Howl, strike a bargain with a fire demon, and meet the Witch of the Waste head-on. Along the way, she discovers that there's far more to Howl—and herself—than first meets the eye." | 
         | 1167 | The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest | Stieg Larsson, Reg Keeland (Translator) | 05/23/10 | Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Contemporary, Adult, Sweden, Audiobook | Lisbeth Salander, Mikael Blomkvist, Alexander Zalachenko, Jan Bublanski, Sonja Modig, Peter Teleborian, Erika Berger, Ronald Niedermann, Annika Giannini, Dragan Armansky, Monica Figuerola, Torsten Edklinth, Dr. Anders Jonasson, Gunnar Björck | "The stunning third and final novel in Stieg Larsson's internationally best-selling trilogy.Lisbeth Salander - the heart of Larsson's two previous novels - lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She's fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she'll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she will plot revenge - against the man who tried to kill her, and the corrupt government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life.Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now Salander is fighting back.~from the jacket" | 
         | 1168 | The Secret History | Donna Tartt | 04/13/04 | Fiction, Mystery, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Thriller, Classics, Adult, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Novels | Richard Papen, Camilla Macaulay, Julian Morrow, Charles Macaulay, Henry Winter, Edmund Corcoran, Francis Abernathy | "Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality they slip gradually from obsession to corruption and betrayal, and at last - inexorably - into evil." | 
         | 1169 | White Oleander | Janet Fitch  | 09/01/2001 | Fiction, Contemporary, Drama, Adult Fiction, Coming Of Age, Adult, Novels, Chick Lit, Literary Fiction, Young Adult | Astrid Magnusson, Ingrid Magnusson | "Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, White Oleander tells the unforgettable story of Ingrid, a brilliant poet imprisoned for murder, and her daughter, Astrid, whose odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes-each its own universe, with its own laws, its own dangers, its own hard lessons to be learned-becomes a redeeming and surprising journey of self-discovery." | 
         | 1170 | Delirium | Lauren Oliver  | 02/07/2012 | Young Adult, Dystopia, Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Teen, Audiobook, Love, Post Apocalyptic | Hana Tate, Magdalena ""Lena"" Ella Haloway-Tiddle, Alex Sheathes, Carol Tiddle, Grace Tiddle | "There is an alternate cover edition for this ISBN13 here.In an alternate United States, love has been declared a dangerous disease, and the government forces everyone who reaches eighteen to have a procedure called the Cure. Living with her aunt, uncle, and cousins in Portland, Maine, Lena Haloway is very much looking forward to being cured and living a safe, predictable life. She watched love destroy her mother and isn't about to make the same mistake.But with ninety-five days left until her treatment, Lena meets enigmatic Alex, a boy from the ""Wilds"" who lives under the government's radar. What will happen if they do the unthinkable and fall in love?" | 
         | 1171 | Othello | William Shakespeare | 01/01/2004 | Classics, Plays, Fiction, Drama, School, Literature, Theatre, Read For School, Poetry, Tragedy | Iago, Bianca, Othello, Miguel Cássio, Desdêmona, Emilia, Rodrigo | "In Othello, Shakespeare creates a powerful drama of a marriage that begins with fascination (between the exotic Moor Othello and the Venetian lady Desdemona), with elopement, and with intense mutual devotion and that ends precipitately with jealous rage and violent deaths. He sets this story in the romantic world of the Mediterranean, moving the action from Venice to the island of Cyprus and giving it an even more exotic coloring with stories of Othello's African past. Shakespeare builds so many differences into his hero and heroine—differences of race, of age, of cultural background—that one should not, perhaps, be surprised that the marriage ends disastrously. But most people who see or read the play feel that the love that the play presents between Othello and Desdemona is so strong that it would have overcome all these differences were it not for the words and actions of Othello's standard-bearer, Iago, who hates Othello and sets out to destroy him by destroying his love for Desdemona. As Othello succumbs to Iago's insinuations that Desdemona is unfaithful, fascination—which dominates the early acts of the play—turns to horror, especially for the audience. We are confronted by spectacles of a generous and trusting Othello in the grip of Iago's schemes; of an innocent Desdemona, who has given herself up entirely to her love for Othello only to be subjected to his horrifying verbal and physical assaults, the outcome of Othello's mistaken convictions about her faithlessness." | 
         | 1172 | Paper Towns | John Green  | 09/22/09 | Young Adult, Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, Mystery, Realistic Fiction, Teen, Coming Of Age, Adventure, Young Adult Contemporary | Margo Roth Spiegelman, Quentin  Jacobsen, Marcus ""Radar"" Lincoln, Lacey Pemberton, Ben Starling, Jason Worthington | "Who is the real Margo?Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life—dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows. After their all-nighter ends, and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues—and they're for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees the girl he thought he knew..." | 
         | 1173 | The Vampire Lestat | Anne Rice | 08/31/04 | Horror, Fantasy, Vampires, Fiction, Paranormal, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy, Gothic, Historical Fiction, Adult | Lestat de Lioncourt, Gabrielle de Lioncourt, Akasha, Marius de Romanus, Nicolas de Lenfrent, Louis de Pointe du Lac, Armand | "Lestat. The vampire hero of Anne Rice's enthralling new novel is a creature of the darkest and richest imagination. Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the demonic, shimmering 1980s, he rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his eternal, terrifying existence. His is a mesmerizing story -- passionate, complex, and thrilling." | 
         | 1174 | Speak | Laurie Halse Anderson  | 01/15/19 | Young Adult, Fiction, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Teen, Mental Health, High School, Coming Of Age, School, Abuse | Ivy Hall, Heather, Nichole Smythe Burnell, Melinda Sordino, Andy Evans, David Petrakis, Mr. Freeman, Rachel Bruin | "The first ten lies they tell you in high school.""Speak up for yourself—we want to know what you have to say."" From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether. Only her art class offers any solace, and it is through her work on an art project that she is finally able to face what really happened at that terrible party: she was raped by an upperclassman, a guy who still attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her. Her healing process has just begun when she has another violent encounter with him. But this time Melinda fights back, refuses to be silent, and thereby achieves a measure of vindication. In Laurie Halse Anderson's powerful novel, an utterly believable heroine with a bitterly ironic voice delivers a blow to the hypocritical world of high school. She speaks for many a disenfranchised teenager while demonstrating the importance of speaking up for oneself.Speak was a 1999 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature." | 
         | 1175 | The Idiot | Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Anna Brailovsky (Translator), Eva M. Martin (Translator), Constance Garnett (Translator), Martin Geeson (Narrator), Joseph Frank (Introduction) | 04/08/2003 | Classics, Fiction, Russia, Russian Literature, Literature, Novels, Philosophy, 19th Century, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction | Prince Myshkin, Nastasya Filippovna, Rogozhin | "Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women—the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia—both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya. In the end, Myshkin’s honesty, goodness, and integrity are shown to be unequal to the moral emptiness of those around him. In her revision of the Garnett translation, Anna Brailovsky has corrected inaccuracies wrought by Garnett’s drastic anglicization of the novel, restoring as much as possible the syntactical structure of the original story." | 
         | 1176 | King Lear | William Shakespeare | 01/01/2004 | Classics, Plays, Drama, Fiction, School, Literature, Theatre, Poetry, Read For School, Tragedy | Regan, Cordelia, Goneril, Leir of Britain, Fool, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Albany, Earl of Kent, Earl of Gloucester, Edgar, Edmund | "Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain that it represents. Its figures harden their hearts, engage in violence, or try to alleviate the suffering of others. Lear himself rages until his sanity cracks. What, then, keeps bringing us back to King Lear? For all the force of its language, King Lear is almost equally powerful when translated, suggesting that it is the story, in large part, that draws us to the play.The play tells us about families struggling between greed and cruelty, on the one hand, and support and consolation, on the other. Emotions are extreme, magnified to gigantic proportions. We also see old age portrayed in all its vulnerability, pride, and, perhaps, wisdom—one reason this most devastating of Shakespeare’s tragedies is also perhaps his most moving.The authoritative edition of King Lear from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes:-Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play-Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play-Scene-by-scene plot summaries-A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases-An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language-An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play-Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books-An annotated guide to further readingEssay by Susan SnyderThe Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare’s printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit Folger.edu." | 
         | 1177 | The Once and Future King | T.H. White | 06/15/87 | Fantasy, Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Arthurian, Mythology, Science Fiction Fantasy, Young Adult, Literature, Historical | Merlin, Sir Lancelot, Sir Mordred, Queen Guinevere, King Arthur | "T.H White′s masterful retelling of the Arthurian legend is an abiding classic. Here all five volumes that make up the story are published in one volume, as White himself always wished. Exquisite comedy offsets the tragedy of Arthur′s personal doom as White brings to life the major British epic of all time with brilliance, grandeur, warmth and charm." | 
         | 1178 | Neverwhere | Neil Gaiman  | 09/02/2003 | Fantasy, Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Science Fiction, Adventure, Horror, Adult, Young Adult | Richard Mayhew, Door, Marquis de Carabas, Hunter, Mr. Croup, Mr. Vandemar, Islington, Jessica Bartram, Old Bailey | "Under the streets of London there's a place most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, knights in armour and pale girls in black velvet. This is the city of the people who have fallen between the cracks.Richard Mayhew, a young businessman, is going to find out more than enough about this other London. A single act of kindness catapults him out of his workday existence and into a world that is at once eerily familiar and utterly bizarre. And a strange destiny awaits him down here, beneath his native city: Neverwhere." | 
         | 1179 | Into the Wild | Jon Krakauer  | 01/20/97 | Nonfiction, Biography, Travel, Adventure, Classics, Memoir, Nature, Biography Memoir, School, Survival | Christopher McCandless | "Librarian's Note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereIn April, 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, a party of moose hunters found his decomposed body. How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild.Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and, unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw away the maps. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild." | 
         | 1180 | Inkheart | Cornelia Funke , Anthea Bell (Translator) | 05/01/2005 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Middle Grade, Adventure, Magic, Books About Books, Young Adult Fantasy, Audiobook | Meggie Folchart, Mortimer Folchart, Elinor Loredan, Farid, Resa Folchart, Staubfinger, Capricorn | "Alternate cover edition: 9780439709101From internationally acclaimed storyteller Cornelia Funke, this bestselling, magical epic is now out in paperback!One cruel night, Meggie's father reads aloud from a book called INKHEART- and an evil ruler escapes the boundaries of fiction and lands in their living room. Suddenly, Meggie is smack in the middle of the kind of adventure she has only read about in books. Meggie must learn to harness the magic that has conjured this nightmare. For only she can change the course of the story that has changed her life forever.This is INKHEART-a timeless tale about books, about imagination, about life. Dare to read it aloud." | 
         | 1181 | Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal | Christopher Moore  | 05/25/04 | Fiction, Humor, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Religion, Comedy, Historical, Audiobook, Adult, Adult Fiction | Levi ""Biff"", Mary Magdalene, Jesus | "The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years—except Biff, the Messiah's best bud, who has been resurrected to tell the story in the divinely hilarious yet heartfelt work ""reminiscent of Vonnegut and Douglas Adams"" (Philadelphia Inquirer).Verily, the story Biff has to tell is a miraculous one, filled with remarkable journeys, magic, healings, kung fu, corpse reanimations, demons, and hot babes. Even the considerable wiles and devotion of the Savior's pal may not be enough to divert Joshua from his tragic destiny. But there's no one who loves Josh more—except maybe ""Maggie,"" Mary of Magdala—and Biff isn't about to let his extraordinary pal suffer and ascend without a fight." | 
         | 1182 | The Complete Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle | 10/01/1986 | Classics, Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Short Stories, Detective, Literature, Mystery Thriller, Historical Fiction, Thriller | Charles Baskerville, Inspector Lestrade, Henry Baskerville, Irene Adler, James Moriarty, Mrs Hudson (Conan Doyle series), John H. Watson, M.D., Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes, Dr. John Watson | "A study in scarlet -The sign of four -Adventures of Sherlock Holmes : A scandal in Bohemia ; The red-headed league ; A case of identity ; The Boscombe Valley mystery ; The five orange pips ; The man with the twisted lip ; The adventure of the blue carbuncle ; The adventure of the speckled band ; The adventure of the engineer's thumb ; The adventure of the noble bachelor ; The adventure of the beryl coronet ; The adventure of the copper beeches -Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes : Silver blaze ; The yellow face ; The stock-broker's clerk ; The ""Gloria Scott"" ; The Musgrave ritual ; The Reigate puzzle ; The crooked man ; The resident patient ; The Greek interpreter ; The naval treaty ; The final problem -The return of Sherlock Holmes : The adventure of the empty house ; The adventure of the Norwood builder ; The adventure of the dancing men ; The adventure of the solitary cyclist ; The adventure of the priory school ; The adventure of Black Peter ; The adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton ; The adventure of the six Napoleons ; The adventure of the three students ; The adventure of the golden pince-nez ; The adventure of the missing three-quarter ; The adventure of the abbey grange ; The adventure of the second stain. Volume 2. Introduction / by Loren D. Estleman -The hound of the Baskervilles -The valley of fear -His last bow : The adventure of Wisteria Lodge : The singular experience of Mr. John Scott Eccles ; The tiger of San Pedro ; The adventure of the cardboard box ; The adventure of the red circle ; The adventure of the Bruce-Partington plans ; The adventure of the dying detective ; The disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax ; The adventure of the devil's foot ; His last bow -The case-book of Sherlock Holmes : The adventure of the illustrious client ; The adventure of the blanched soldier ; The adventure of the Mazarin stone ; The adventure of the three gables ; The adventure of the Sussex vampire ; The adventure of the three Garridebs ; The problem of Thor Bridge ; The adventure of the creeping man ; The adventure of the lion's mane ; The adventure of the veiled lodger ; The adventure of Shoscombe old place ; The adventure of the retired colourman." | 
         | 1183 | Candide | Voltaire, Sara Gioacchino Corcos (Translator) | 10/28/91 | Classics, Fiction, Philosophy, France, Literature, Humor, French Literature, School, 18th Century, Novels | Pangloss, Cunegonde, Dr. Pangloss, Candide (Voltaire) | "Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in ""the best of all possible worlds."" On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the philosophical optimism that proclaims that all disaster and human suffering is part of a benevolent cosmic plan. Fast, funny, often outrageous, the French philosopher's immortal narrative takes Candide around the world to discover that - contrary to the teachings of his distinguished tutor Dr. Pangloss - all is not always for the best. Alive with wit, brilliance, and graceful storytelling, Candide has become Voltaire's most celebrated work." | 
         | 1184 | James and the Giant Peach | Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illustrator) | 09/10/2002 | Childrens, Fantasy, Fiction, Classics, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Adventure, Juvenile, Humor, Chapter Books | James Henry Trotter | "When James accidentally drops some magic crystals by the old peach tree, strange things start to happen. The peach at the top of the tree begins to grow, and before long it's as big as a house. When James discovers a secret entranceway into the fruit and crawls inside, he meets wonderful new friends-the Old-Green-Grasshopper, the dainty Ladybug, and the Centipede of the multiple boots. After years of feeling like an outsider in his aunts' house, James finally found a place where he belongs. With a snip of the stem, the peach household starts rolling away-and the adventure begins!Roald Dahl's first and most widely celebrated book for young people continues to thrill readers around the world.""This is a stunning book to be cherished for its story, a superb fantasy.""-Chicago Tribune""A beautifully written, fantastic book.""-Christian Science Monitor" | 
         | 1185 | Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart | Tim Butcher  | 01/03/2008 | Travel, Nonfiction, Africa, History, Adventure, Memoir, Biography, Politics, Travelogue, Autobiography | Henry Morton Stanley | "A compulsively readable account of a journey to the Congo — a country virtually inaccessible to the outside world — vividly told by a daring and adventurous journalist.Ever since Stanley first charted its mighty river in the 1870s, the Congo has epitomized the dark and turbulent history of a failed continent. However, its troubles only served to increase the interest of Daily Telegraph correspondent Tim Butcher, who was sent to cover Africa in 2000. Before long he became obsessed with the idea of recreating Stanley’s original expedition — but travelling alone.Despite warnings Butcher spent years poring over colonial-era maps and wooing rebel leaders before making his will and venturing to the Congo’s eastern border. He passed through once thriving cities of this country and saw the marks left behind by years of abuse and misrule. Almost, 2,500 harrowing miles later, he reached the Atlantic Ocean, a thinner and a wiser man.Butcher’s journey was a remarkable feat. But the story of the Congo, vividly told in Blood River, is more remarkable still.From the Hardcover edition." | 
         | 1186 | Paradise Lost | John Milton, John Leonard (Editor, Contributor) | 02/27/03 | Classics, Poetry, Fiction, Literature, Religion, Fantasy, Philosophy, School, Classic Literature, Epic | Michael (angel), Belial, Belzebub, Eve (Bible), Jesus, Raphael (angel), Satan, Mammon, God, Adam (Bible) | "John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The struggle rages across three worlds - heaven, hell, and earth - as Satan and his band of rebel angels plot their revenge against God. At the center of the conflict are Adam and Eve, who are motivated by all too human temptations but whose ultimate downfall is unyielding love.Marked by Milton's characteristic erudition, Paradise Lost is a work epic both in scale and, notoriously, in ambition. For nearly 350 years, it has held generation upon generation of audiences in rapt attention, and its profound influence can be seen in almost every corner of Western culture." | 
         | 1187 | All Creatures Great and Small | James Herriot | 04/15/98 | Nonfiction, Animals, Memoir, Classics, Biography, Humor, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, British Literature, Audiobook | James Herriot, Siegfried Farnon, Tristan Farnon, Helen Alderson, Mrs. Hall, Mrs. Pumphrey, Tricky Woo, Granville Bennet, Diana Brompton, Herbert Jarvis, Broom, Charlie Dent, John Skipton, Copfield | "The classic multimillion copy bestsellerDelve into the magical, unforgettable world of James Herriot, the world's most beloved veterinarian, and his menagerie of heartwarming, funny, and tragic animal patients.For over forty years, generations of readers have thrilled to Herriot's marvelous tales, deep love of life, and extraordinary storytelling abilities. For decades, Herriot roamed the remote, beautiful Yorkshire Dales, treating every patient that came his way from smallest to largest, and observing animals and humans alike with his keen, loving eye.In All Creatures Great and Small, we meet the young Herriot as he takes up his calling and discovers that the realities of veterinary practice in rural Yorkshire are very different from the sterile setting of veterinary school. Some visits are heart-wrenchingly difficult, such as one to an old man in the village whose very ill dog is his only friend and companion, some are lighthearted and fun, such as Herriot's periodic visits to the overfed and pampered Pekinese Tricki Woo who throws parties and has his own stationery, and yet others are inspirational and enlightening, such as Herriot's recollections of poor farmers who will scrape their meager earnings together to be able to get proper care for their working animals. From seeing to his patients in the depths of winter on the remotest homesteads to dealing with uncooperative owners and critically ill animals, Herriot discovers the wondrous variety and never-ending challenges of veterinary practice as his humor, compassion, and love of the animal world shine forth.James Herriot's memoirs have sold 80 million copies worldwide, and continue to delight and entertain readers of all ages" | 
         | 1188 | The Thirteenth Tale | Diane Setterfield  | 09/12/2006 | Fiction, Mystery, Historical Fiction, Gothic, Books About Books, Adult, Historical, Fantasy, Book Club, Adult Fiction | Margaret Lea, Emmeline March, Adeline March, Vida Winter, Aurelius Love | "All children mythologize their birth...So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter's collection of stories, which are as famous for the mystery of the missing thirteenth tale as they are for the delight and enchantment of the twelve that do exist. The enigmatic Winter has spent six decades creating various outlandish life histories for herself - all of them inventions that have brought her fame and fortune but have kept her violent and tragic past a secret. Now old and ailing, she at last wants to tell the truth about her extraordinary life. She summons biographer Margaret Lea, a young woman for whom the secret of her own birth, hidden by those who loved her most, remains an ever-present pain. Struck by a curious parallel between Miss Winter's story and her own, Margaret takes on the commission. As Vida disinters the life she meant to bury for good, Margaret is mesmerized. It is a tale of gothic strangeness featuring the Angelfield family, including the beautiful and willful Isabelle, the feral twins Adeline and Emmeline, a ghost, a governess, a topiary garden and a devastating fire. Margaret succumbs to the power of Vida's storytelling but remains suspicious of the author's sincerity. She demands the truth from Vida, and together they confront the ghosts that have haunted them while becoming, finally, transformed by the truth themselves. The Thirteenth Tale is a love letter to reading, a book for the feral reader in all of us, a return to that rich vein of storytelling that our parents loved and that we loved as children. Diane Setterfield will keep you guessing, make you wonder, move you to tears and laughter and, in the end, deposit you breathless yet satisfied back upon the shore of your everyday life." | 
         | 1189 | Foundation | Isaac Asimov | 06/01/2004 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Space Opera, Novels, Space, Audiobook, Speculative Fiction | Hari Seldon, Hober Mallow, Salvor Hardin | "For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future - to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire - both scientists and scholars - and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for a future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation.But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. Mankind's last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and be overrun - or fight them and be destroyed." | 
         | 1190 | Norwegian Wood | Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin (Translator) | 09/12/2000 | Fiction, Japan, Romance, Japanese Literature, Contemporary, Novels, Literature, Literary Fiction, Asia, Magical Realism | Toru Watanabe, Naoko, Midori Kobayashi, Reiko Ishida, Nagasawa | "Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. Toru begins to adapt to campus life and the loneliness and isolation he faces there, but Naoko finds the pressures and responsibilities of life unbearable. As she retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself reaching out to others and drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman.A magnificent blending of the music, the mood, and the ethos that was the sixties with the story of one college student's romantic coming of age, Norwegian Wood brilliantly recaptures a young man's first, hopeless, and heroic love." | 
         | 1191 | The Cider House Rules | John Irving  | 07/01/2000 | Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Literature, Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Novels, American, Adult Fiction, Historical | Dr. Wilbur Larch, Candy Kendall, Wally Worthington, Rose Rose, Homer Wells | "Raised from birth in the orphanage at St. Cloud's, Maine, Homer Wells has become the protege of Dr. Wilbur Larch, its physician and director. There Dr. Larch cares for the troubled mothers who seek his help, either by delivering and taking in their unwanted babies or by performing illegal abortions. Meticulously trained by Dr. Larch, Homer assists in the former, but draws the line at the latter. Then a young man brings his beautiful fiancee to Dr. Larch for an abortion, and everything about the couple beckons Homer to the wide world outside the orphanage ..." | 
         | 1192 | Kafka on the Shore | Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel (Translator) | 01/03/2006 | Fiction, Magical Realism, Japan, Fantasy, Japanese Literature, Contemporary, Novels, Literature, Literary Fiction, Asia | Kafka Tamura, Sakura, Satoru Nakata, Oshima, Miss Saeki, Hoshino | "Kafka on the Shore, a tour de force of metaphysical reality, is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom. Their odyssey, as mysterious to them as it is to us, is enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerizing events. Cats and people carry on conversations, a ghostlike pimp employs a Hegel-quoting prostitute, a forest harbors soldiers apparently unaged since World War II, and rainstorms of fish (and worse) fall from the sky. There is a brutal murder, with the identity of both victim and perpetrator a riddle—yet this, along with everything else, is eventually answered, just as the entwined destinies of Kafka and Nakata are gradually revealed, with one escaping his fate entirely and the other given a fresh start on his own." | 
         | 1193 | Heidi | Johanna Spyri, Beverly Cleary (Foreword), Angelo Rinaldi (Illustrator) | 11/15/02 | Classics, Fiction, Childrens, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade, Historical, Juvenile, Childrens Classics, 19th Century | Heidi, Clara, Peter, Uncle Alm | "Little orphan Heidi goes to live high in the Alps with her gruff grandfather and brings happiness to all who know her on the mountain. When Heidi goes to Frankfurt to work in a wealthy household, she dreams of returning to the mountains and meadows, her friend Peter, and her beloved grandfather." | 
         | 1194 | City of Lost Souls | Cassandra Clare  | 05/08/2012 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Vampires, Angels, Fiction, Supernatural, Magic | Alexander ""Alec"" Lightwood, Jonathan ""Jace"" Wayland, Isabelle ""Izzy"" Sophia Lightwood, Magnus Bane, Jordan Kyle, Maia Roberts, Jocelyn Fray, Luke Garroway, Sebastian Morgenstern, Aline Penhallow, Camille Belcourt, Clarissa ""Clary"" Fray, Jonathan Morgenstern, Simon Lewis | "The New York Times bestselling Mortal Instruments continues—and so do the thrills and danger for Jace, Clary, and Simon.What price is too high to pay, even for love? When Jace and Clary meet again, Clary is horrified to discover that the demon Lilith’s magic has bound her beloved Jace together with her evil brother Sebastian, and that Jace has become a servant of evil. The Clave is out to destroy Sebastian, but there is no way to harm one boy without destroying the other. As Alec, Magnus, Simon, and Isabelle wheedle and bargain with Seelies, demons, and the merciless Iron Sisters to try to save Jace, Clary plays a dangerous game of her own. The price of losing is not just her own life, but Jace’s soul. She’s willing to do anything for Jace, but can she still trust him? Or is he truly lost?Love. Blood. Betrayal. Revenge. Darkness threatens to claim the Shadowhunters in the harrowing fifth book of the Mortal Instruments series." | 
         | 1195 | Sophie's World | Jostein Gaarder, Paulette Møller (Translator) | 10/28/95 | Philosophy, Fiction, Classics, Young Adult, Novels, Fantasy, Literature, Contemporary, Unfinished, Scandinavian Literature | Charles Darwin, Cecilia Skotbu, Malaikat Ariel, Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, René Descartes, George Berkeley, John Locke, David Hume, St. Augustine, Baruch Spinoza, Sofie Amundsen, Jorunn, Jesus, Immanuel Kant, Socrates (philosopher), Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx | "An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found hereOne day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: ""Who are you?"" and ""Where does the world come from?"" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined." | 
         | 1196 | The Wise Man's Fear | Patrick Rothfuss  | 03/01/2011 | Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Magic, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure, Audiobook, Adult, Epic | Bast, Denna, Ambrose, Kvothe, Simmon, Wilem, The Chandrian, Maer Alveron, Felurian, Devi, Tempi, Auri, Fela, Chronicler | "“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”My name is Kvothe.I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to Gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep.You may have heard of me.So begins the tale of a hero told from his own point of view — a story unequaled in fantasy literature. Now in The Wise Man's Fear, an escalating rivalry with a powerful member of the nobility forces Kvothe to leave the University and seek his fortune abroad. Adrift, penniless, and alone, he travels to Vintas, where he quickly becomes entangled in the politics of courtly society. While attempting to curry favor with a powerful noble, Kvothe uncovers an assassination attempt, comes into conflict with a rival arcanist, and leads a group of mercenaries into the wild, in an attempt to solve the mystery of who (or what) is waylaying travelers on the King's Road.All the while, Kvothe searches for answers, attempting to uncover the truth about the mysterious Amyr, the Chandrian, and the death of his parents. Along the way, Kvothe is put on trial by the legendary Adem mercenaries, is forced to reclaim the honor of the Edema Ruh, and travels into the Fae realm. There he meets Felurian, the faerie woman no man can resist, and who no man has ever survived ... until Kvothe.In The Wise Man's Fear, Kvothe takes his first steps on the path of the hero and learns how difficult life can be when a man becomes a legend in his own time." | 
         | 1197 | The Awakening | Kate Chopin | 10/28/06 | Classics, Fiction, Feminism, School, Literature, Historical Fiction, Read For School, High School, American, 19th Century | Edna Pontellier, Léonce Pontellier, Robert Lebrun, Alcée Arobin, Adèle Ratignolle, Mademoiselle Reisz | "When first published in 1899, The Awakening shocked readers with its honest treatment of female marital infidelity. Audiences accustomed to the pieties of late Victorian romantic fiction were taken aback by Chopin's daring portrayal of a woman trapped in a stifling marriage, who seeks and finds passionate physical love outside the confines of her domestic situation.Aside from its unusually frank treatment of a then-controversial subject, the novel is widely admired today for its literary qualities. Edmund Wilson characterized it as a work ""quite uninhibited and beautifully written, which anticipates D. H. Lawrence in its treatment of infidelity."" Although the theme of marital infidelity no longer shocks, few novels have plumbed the psychology of a woman involved in an illicit relationship with the perception, artistry, and honesty that Kate Chopin brought to The Awakening." | 
         | 1198 | Sophie's Choice | William Styron | 03/03/1992 | Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Holocaust, War, Historical, World War II, Literature, Novels, Literary Fiction | Stingo, Nathan Landau, Sophie Zawistowska | Three stories are told: a young Southerner wants to become a writer; a turbulent love-hate affair between a brilliant Jew and a beautiful Polish woman; and of an awful wound in that woman's past-one that impels both Sophie and Nathan toward destruction. | 
         | 1199 | The Prince of Tides | Pat Conroy | 03/26/02 | Fiction, Classics, Southern, Romance, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Literature, Drama, Novels, Adult Fiction | Tom Wingo, Susan Lowenstein, Savannah Wingo, Luke Wingo | "PAT CONROY has created a huge, brash thunderstorm of a novel, stinging with honesty and resounding with drama. Spanning forty years, this is the story of turbulent Tom Wingo, his gifted and troubled twin sister Savannah, and their struggle to triumph over the dark and tragic legacy of the extraordinary family into which they were born.Filled with the vanishing beauty of the South Carolina low country as well as the dusty glitter of New York City, The Prince of Tides is PAT CONROY at his very best." | 
         | 1200 | Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro | 08/31/10 | Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult, Romance, Literature, British Literature | Kathy H., Ruth, Tommy | "From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human.Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants them to be. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little contact with it.Within the grounds of Hailsham, Kathy grows from schoolgirl to young woman, but it’s only when she and her friends Ruth and Tommy leave the safe grounds of the school (as they always knew they would) that they realize the full truth of what Hailsham is.Never Let Me Go breaks through the boundaries of the literary novel. It is a gripping mystery, a beautiful love story, and also a scathing critique of human arrogance and a moral examination of how we treat the vulnerable and different in our society. In exploring the themes of memory and the impact of the past, Ishiguro takes on the idea of a possible future to create his most moving and powerful book to date." | 
         | 1201 | The Son of Neptune | Rick Riordan  | 10/04/2011 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Mythology, Fiction, Middle Grade, Adventure, Greek Mythology, Urban Fantasy, Childrens, Young Adult Fantasy | Nico di Angelo, Octavian, Hera, Reyna, Juno, Hazel Levesque, Frank Zhang, Ella the Harpy, Percy Jackson | "PERCY IS CONFUSED. When he awoke from his long sleep, he didn't know much more than his name. His brain fuzz is lingering, even after the wolf Lupa told him he is a demigod and trained him to fight with the pen/sword in his pocket. Somehow Percy manages to make it to a camp for half-bloods, despite the fact that he has to keep killing monsters along the way. But the camp doesn't ring any bells with him. The only thing he can recall from his past is another name: Annabeth. HAZEL IS SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD. When she lived before, she didn't do a very good job of it. Sure, she was an obedient daughter, even when her mother was possessed by greed. But that was the problem—when the Voice took over her mother and commanded Hazel to use her ""gift"" for an evil purpose, Hazel couldn't say no. Now because of her mistake, the future of the world is at risk. Hazel wishes she could ride away from it all on the stallion that appears in her dreams.FRANK IS A KLUTZ. His grandmother says he is descended from heroes and can be anything he wants to be, but he doesn't see it. He doesn't even know who his father is. He keeps hoping Apollo will claim him, because the only thing he is good at is archery—although not good enough to win camp war games. His bulky physique makes him feel like an ox, especially in front of Hazel, his closest friend at camp. He trusts her completely—enough to share the secret he holds close to his heart.Beginning at the ""other"" camp for half-bloods and extending as far as the land beyond the gods, this breathtaking second installment of the Heroes of Olympus series introduces new demigods, revives fearsome monsters, and features other remarkable creatures, all destined to play a part in the Prophesy of Seven." | 
         | 1202 | Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe | Fannie Flagg | 05/07/2002 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, LGBT, Classics, Chick Lit, Southern, Historical, Humor, Queer, Adult Fiction | Ruth, Mrs. Ninny Threadgoode, Evelyn Couch, Idgie | "It's first the story of two women in the 1980s, of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women-of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth, who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern kind of Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder." | 
         | 1203 | Ready Player One | Ernest Cline  | 08/16/11 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Young Adult, Fantasy, Dystopia, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adult, Cyberpunk, Novels | Wade Owen Watts, Ogden Morrow, Parzival, Aech, James Donovan Halliday, Art3mis, Kira Morrow, Daito, Shoto, Nolan Sorrento | "Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereIN THE YEAR 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines, puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them. But when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win—and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape." | 
         | 1204 | Middlemarch | George Eliot, Michel Faber (Introduction) | 10/28/04 | Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literature, 19th Century, Victorian, British Literature, Novels, Romance, Classic Literature | Dorothea Brooke, Celia Brooke, Will Ladislaw, Mary Garth, Rosamond Vincy, Sir James Chettam, Tertius Lydgate, Peter Featherstone, Edward Casaubon, Caleb Garth, Camden Farebrother, Joshua Rigg, John Raffles, Nicholas Bulstrode, Harriet Bulstrode, Arthur Brooke, Fred Vincy | "Taking place in the years leading up to the First Reform Bill of 1832, Middlemarch explores nearly every subject of concern to modern life: art, religion, science, politics, self, society, human relationships. Among her characters are some of the most remarkable portraits in English literature: Dorothea Brooke, the heroine, idealistic but naive; Rosamond Vincy, beautiful and egoistic: Edward Casaubon, the dry-as-dust scholar: Tertius Lydgate, the brilliant but morally-flawed physician: the passionate artist Will Ladislaw: and Fred Vincey and Mary Garth, childhood sweethearts whose charming courtship is one of the many humorous elements in the novel's rich comic vein." | 
         | 1205 | The Monster at the End of this Book | Jon Stone, Michael J. Smollin (Illustrator) | 05/11/2004 | Picture Books, Childrens, Fiction, Humor, Classics, Monsters, Storytime, Kids, Juvenile, Fantasy | Grover | "Many adults name this book as their favorite Little Golden Book. Generations of kids have interacted with lovable, furry old Grover as he begs the reader not to turn the page—for fear of a monster at the end of the book. “Oh, I am so embarrassed,” he says on the last page . . . for, of course, the monster is Grover himself! This all-time favorite is now available as a Big Little Golden Book—perfect for lap-time reading." | 
         | 1206 | Bridget Jones's Diary | Helen Fielding , Хелен Филдинг | 06/01/1999 | Fiction, Chick Lit, Romance, Humor, Contemporary, Adult, Comedy, Adult Fiction, British Literature, Novels | Bridget Jones, Mark Darcy, Daniel Cleaver | "Meet Bridget Jones—a 30-something Singleton who is certain she would have all the answers if she could:a. lose 7 poundsb. stop smokingc. develop Inner Poise""123 lbs. (how is it possible to put on 4 pounds in the middle of the night? Could flesh have somehow solidified becoming denser and heavier? Repulsive, horrifying notion), alcohol units 4 (excellent), cigarettes 21 (poor but will give up totally tomorrow), number of correct lottery numbers 2 (better, but nevertheless useless)...""Bridget Jones' Diary is the devastatingly self-aware, laugh-out-loud daily chronicle of Bridget's permanent, doomed quest for self-improvement — a year in which she resolves to: reduce the circumference of each thigh by 1.5 inches, visit the gym three times a week not just to buy a sandwich, form a functional relationship with a responsible adult, and learn to program the VCR.Over the course of the year, Bridget loses a total of 72 pounds but gains a total of 74. She remains, however, optimistic. Through it all, Bridget will have you helpless with laughter, and — like millions of readers the world round — you'll find yourself shouting, ""Bridget Jones is me!""" | 
         | 1207 | Mrs. Dalloway | Virginia Woolf, Maureen Howard (Foreword) | 10/28/02 | Classics, Fiction, Literature, Novels, British Literature, Feminism, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, School, English Literature | Clarissa Dalloway, Septimus Warren Smith, Peter Walsh, Sally Seton | "Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's life. When we meet her, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party preparation while in her mind she is something much more than a perfect society hostess. As she readies her house, she is flooded with remembrances of faraway times. And, met with the realities of the present, Clarissa reexamines the choices that brought her there, hesitantly looking ahead to the unfamiliar work of growing old.""Mrs. Dalloway was the first novel to split the atom. If the novel before Mrs. Dalloway aspired to immensities of scope and scale, to heroic journeys across vast landscapes, with Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf insisted that it could also locate the enormous within the everyday; that a life of errands and party-giving was every bit as viable a subject as any life lived anywhere; and that should any human act in any novel seem unimportant, it has merely been inadequately observed. The novel as an art form has not been the same since.""Mrs. Dalloway also contains some of the most beautiful, complex, incisive and idiosyncratic sentences ever written in English, and that alone would be reason enough to read it. It is one of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century.""-Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours" | 
         | 1208 | Mockingjay | Suzanne Collins | 08/24/10 | Young Adult, Dystopia, Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Adventure, Teen, Post Apocalyptic, Science Fiction Fantasy | Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, Primrose Everdeen, Gale Hawthorne, Haymitch Abernathy, Finnick Odair, Johanna Mason, President Coriolanus Snow, President Coin | "The final book in the ground-breaking HUNGER GAMES trilogy, this new foiled edition of MOCKINGJAY is available for a limited period of time. Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. And what's worse, President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe either. Not Katniss's family, not her friends, not the people of District 12." | 
         | 1209 | Franny and Zooey | J.D. Salinger | 01/30/01 | Fiction, Classics, Short Stories, Literature, American, Novels, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Adult Fiction, Adult | Franny Glass, Zooey Glass, Buddy Glass, Lane Coutell, Bessie Glass | "The short story, Franny, takes place in an unnamed college town and tells the tale of an undergraduate who is becoming disenchanted with the selfishness and inauthenticity she perceives all around her.The novella, Zooey, is named for Zooey Glass, the second-youngest member of the Glass family. As his younger sister, Franny, suffers a spiritual and existential breakdown in her parents' Manhattan living room - leaving Bessie, her mother, deeply concerned - Zooey comes to her aid, offering what he thinks is brotherly love, understanding, and words of sage advice.Salinger writes of these works: ""FRANNY came out in The New Yorker in 1955, and was swiftly followed, in 1957 by ZOOEY. Both stories are early, critical entries in a narrative series I'm doing about a family of settlers in twentieth-century New York, the Glasses. It is a long-term project, patently an ambiguous one, and there is a real-enough danger, I suppose that sooner or later I'll bog down, perhaps disappear entirely, in my own methods, locutions, and mannerisms. On the whole, though, I'm very hopeful. I love working on these Glass stories, I've been waiting for them most of my life, and I think I have fairly decent, monomaniacal plans to finish them with due care and all-available skill.""" | 
         | 1210 | The Power of One | Bryce Courtenay | 09/29/96 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Africa, Classics, South Africa, Coming Of Age, Historical, Young Adult, Novels, Book Club | ""Doc"" Bradley Stanwick, Peekay, Geel Piet, Morris Levy, The Judge, Mrs. Boxall, Miss Bornstein | "In 1939, as Hitler casts his enormous, cruel shadow across the world, the seeds of apartheid take root in South Africa. There, a boy called Peekay is born. His childhood is marked by humiliation and abandonment, yet he vows to survive and conceives heroic dreams, which are nothing compared to what life actually has in store for him. He embarks on an epic journey through a land of tribal superstition and modern prejudice where he will learn the power of words, the power to transform lives and the power of one." | 
         | 1211 | The Magician's Nephew | C.S. Lewis | 05/04/2005 | Fantasy, Classics, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Adventure, Christian, Middle Grade, Christian Fiction, Magic | Polly, Aslan, Digory Kirke, Jadis, Andrew Kirke, Sarah Houplin, Letitia Ketterley | "The secret passage to the house next door leads to a fascinating adventureNARNIA...where the woods are thick and cold, where Talking Beasts are called to life...a new world where the adventure begins.Digory and Polly meet and become friends one cold, wet summer in London. Their lives burst into adventure when Digory's Uncle Andrew, who thinks he is a magician, sends them hurtling to...somewhere else. They find their way to Narnia, newborn from the Lion's song, and encounter the evil sorceress Jadis before they finally return home." | 
         | 1212 | Stardust | Neil Gaiman  | 08/29/06 | Fantasy, Fiction, Romance, Young Adult, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, Magic, Audiobook, Fairy Tales, Adult | Tristran Thorn, Yvaine, Victoria Forester, Dunstan Thorn, Madame Semele, Lady Una, Lord Primus, Lord Septimus, The Lilim, Mr. Monday | "Life moves at a leisurely pace in the tiny town of Wall—named after the imposing stone barrier which separates the town from a grassy meadow. Here, young Tristran Thorn has lost his heart to the beautiful Victoria Forester and for the coveted prize of her hand, Tristran vows to retrieve a fallen star and deliver it to his beloved. It is an oath that sends him over the ancient wall and into a world that is dangerous and strange beyond imagining..." | 
         | 1213 | Number the Stars | Lois Lowry  | 02/09/1998 | Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Fiction, Classics, Childrens, Historical, Holocaust, Middle Grade, World War II, School | Annemarie Johansen, Ellen Rosen | "Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think of life before the war. It's now 1943 and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi soldiers marching through town. When the Jews of Denmark are ""relocated,"" Ellen moves in with the Johansens and pretends to be one of the family. Soon Annemarie is asked to go on a dangerous mission to save Ellen's life." | 
         | 1214 | Allegiant | Veronica Roth  | 10/22/13 | Young Adult, Dystopia, Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, Adventure, Teen, Post Apocalyptic, Audiobook | Beatrice Prior, Peter, Caleb Prior, Christina, Marcus Eaton, Tobias Eaton | "The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered - fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories.But Tris's new reality is even more alarming than the one she left behind. Old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless. Explosive new truths change the hearts of those she loves. And once again, Tris must battle to comprehend to complexities of human nature - and of herself - while facing impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice, and love.Told from a riveting dual perspective, ALLEGIANT, by #1 New York Times best-selling author Veronica Roth, brings the DIVERGENT series to a powerful conclusion while revealing the secrets of the dystopian world that has captivated millions of readers in DIVERGENT and INSURGENT." | 
         | 1215 | Eleanor & Park | Rainbow Rowell  | 02/26/13 | Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Audiobook, Teen, Coming Of Age, Young Adult Contemporary, High School | Park Sheridan, Eleanor Douglas | "Eleanor is the new girl in town, and with her chaotic family life, her mismatched clothes and unruly red hair, she couldn't stick out more if she tried.Park is the boy at the back of the bus. Black T-shirts, headphones, head in a book - he thinks he's made himself invisible. But not to Eleanor... never to Eleanor.Slowly, steadily, through late-night conversations and an ever-growing stack of mix tapes, Eleanor and Park fall for each other. They fall in love the way you do the first time, when you're young, and you feel as if you have nothing and everything to lose." | 
         | 1216 | Me Before You | Jojo Moyes  | 07/30/13 | Romance, Fiction, Contemporary, Chick Lit, Adult, Adult Fiction, Audiobook, Drama, Realistic Fiction, Contemporary Romance | Will Traynor, Louisa ""Lou"" Clark, Camilla Traynor | "From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars, discover the love story that captured over 20 million hearts in Me Before You, After You, and Still Me.They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose . . .Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life—steady boyfriend, close family—who has barely been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex–Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after an accident. Will has always lived a huge life—big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel—and now he’s pretty sure he cannot live the way he is.Will is acerbic, moody, bossy—but Lou refuses to treat him with kid gloves, and soon his happiness means more to her than she expected. When she learns that Will has shocking plans of his own, she sets out to show him that life is still worth living.A Love Story for this generation and perfect for fans of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, Me Before You brings to life two people who couldn’t have less in common—a heartbreakingly romantic novel that asks, What do you do when making the person you love happy also means breaking your own heart?" | 
         | 1217 | The Mark of Athena | Rick Riordan  | 10/02/2012 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Mythology, Fiction, Middle Grade, Adventure, Greek Mythology, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Childrens | Leo Valdez, Nico di Angelo, Annabeth Chase, Hades, Jason Grace, Piper McLean, Hazel Levesque, Frank Zhang, Percy Jackson | "Annabeth is terrified. Just when she's about to be reunited with Percy—after six months of being apart, thanks to Hera—it looks like Camp Jupiter is preparing for war. As Annabeth and her friends Jason, Piper, and Leo fly in on the Argo II, she can't blame the Roman demigods for thinking the ship is a Greek weapon. With its steaming bronze dragon figurehead, Leo's fantastical creation doesn't appear friendly. Annabeth hopes that the sight of their praetor Jason on deck will reassure the Romans that the visitors from Camp Half-Blood are coming in peace.And that's only one of her worries. In her pocket, Annabeth carries a gift from her mother that came with an unnerving command: Follow the Mark of Athena. Avenge me. Annabeth already feels weighed down by the prophecy that will send seven demigods on a quest to find—and close—the Doors of Death. What more does Athena want from her?Annabeth's biggest fear, though, is that Percy might have changed. What if he's now attached to Roman ways? Does he still need his old friends? As the daughter of the goddess of war and wisdom, Annabeth knows she was born to be a leader—but never again does she want to be without Seaweed Brain by her sideNarrated by four different demigods, The Mark of Athena is an unforgettable journey across land and sea to Rome, where important discoveries, surprising sacrifices, and unspeakable horrors await. Climb aboard the Argo II, if you dare. . . ." | 
         | 1218 | The Art of Racing in the Rain | Garth Stein  | 05/13/08 | Fiction, Animals, Contemporary, Dogs, Adult Fiction, Audiobook, Adult, Book Club, Novels, Family | Eve, Enzo, Denny Swift, Zoë | "Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television extensively, and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race car driver.Through Denny, Enzo has gained tremendous insight into the human condition, and he sees that life, like racing, isn't simply about going fast. On the eve of his death, Enzo takes stock of his life, recalling all that he and his family have been through.A heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope, The Art of Racing in the Rain is a beautifully crafted and captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life ... as only a dog could tell it." | 
         | 1219 | The Way of Kings | Brandon Sanderson  | 08/31/10 | Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Audiobook, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adult, Epic, Magic, Adventure | Kaladin Stormblessed, Dalinar Kholin, Shallan Davar, Jasnah Kholin, Adolin Kholin, Hoid | "From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, book one of The Stormlight Archive begins an incredible new saga of epic proportion.Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter.It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and suits of armor that transform ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Men trade kingdoms for Shardblades. Wars were fought for them, and won by them.One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains. There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery. In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies fight separately against a single foe, he struggles to save his men and to fathom the leaders who consider them expendable.Brightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called The Way of Kings. Troubled by over-powering visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own sanity.Across the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to train under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic, Dalinar's niece, Jasnah. Though she genuinely loves learning, Shallan's motives are less than pure. As she plans a daring theft, her research for Jasnah hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the war.The result of over ten years of planning, writing, and world-building, The Way of Kings is but the opening movement of the Stormlight Archive, a bold masterpiece in the making.Speak again the ancient oaths:Life before death.Strength before weakness.Journey before Destination.and return to men the Shards they once bore.The Knights Radiant must stand again." | 
         | 1220 | If I Stay | Gayle Forman  | 04/02/2009 | Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Teen, Music, Death, Audiobook, Young Adult Contemporary | Teddy Hall, Kim Schein, Adam Wilde, Mia Hall | "Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.Just listen, Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel.I open my eyes wide now.I sit up as much as I can.And I listen.Stay, he says.Choices. Seventeen-year-old Mia is faced with some tough ones: Stay true to her first love—music—even if it means losing her boyfriend and leaving her family and friends behind?Then one February morning Mia goes for a drive with her family, and in an instant, everything changes. Suddenly, all the choices are gone, except one. And it's the only one that matters.If I Stay is a heartachingly beautiful book about the power of love, the true meaning of family, and the choices we all make." | 
         | 1221 | Black Beauty | Anna Sewell | 03/01/2003 | Classics, Fiction, Childrens, Animals, Young Adult, Horses, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade, Adventure, Literature | Black Beauty, Ginger | "Black Beauty spends his youth in a loving home, surrounded by friends and cared for by his owners. But when circumstances change, he learns that not all humans are so kind. Passed from hand to hand, Black Beauty witnesses love and cruelty, wealth and poverty, friendship and hardship . . . Will the handsome horse ever find a happy and lasting home? Carefully retold in clear contemporary language, and presented with delightful illustrations, these favorite classic stories capture the heart and imagination of young readers. By retelling the story in a shorter, simpler form, these books become highly engaging for children, and the color illustrations help with both comprehension and interest level. Black Beauty is part of a collectible series that has strong gift appeal." | 
         | 1222 | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce, Seamus Deane (Editor), Jim Norton (Translation), Hans Walter Gabler, Jeri Johnson (Editor), J.M. Gaffney (Editor), Ludmila Savitzky (Translator) | 03/25/03 | Classics, Fiction, Literature, Irish Literature, Ireland, Novels, 20th Century, School, Literary Fiction, Classic Literature | Stephen Dedalus, Simon Dedalus, Fr. John Conmee, Mary Dedalus | "The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce and a universal testament to the artist's 'eternal imagination'. Both an insight into Joyce's life and childhood, and a unique work of modernist fiction, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a novel of sexual awakening, religious rebellion and the essential search for voice and meaning that every nascent artist must face in order to blossom fully into themselves." | 
         | 1223 | Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift, Robert DeMaria Jr. (Editor) | 01/30/03 | Classics, Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Literature, Novels, Classic Literature, 18th Century, School, British Literature | Lemuel Gulliver | "For the last 250 years people everywhere have enjoyed reading about Lemuel Gulliver's travels in the strange countries of Lilliput and Brobdingnag. The people of these countries, with all their curiously human failings, come to life in Martin Aitchison's vivid illustrations. Here is a story to make you laugh - but to make you think, too." | 
         | 1224 | Bel Canto | Ann Patchett | 08/02/2005 | Fiction, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Book Club, Novels, Music, Adult Fiction, Literature, Adult, Romance | Katsumi Hosokawa, Roxane Coss, Gen Watanabe, Carmen Lowell | "In an unnamed South American country, a world-renowned soprano sings at a birthday party in honor of a visiting Japanese industrial titan. Alas, in the opening sequence, a ragtag band of 18 terrorists enters the vice-presidential mansion through the air conditioning ducts. Their quarry is the president, who has unfortunately stayed home to watch a favorite soap opera. And thus, from the beginning, things go awry.Among the hostages are Russian, Italian, and French diplomatic types. Swiss Red Cross negotiator Joachim Messner comes and goes, wrangling over terms and demands. Days stretch into weeks, the weeks into months. Joined by no common language except music, the 58 international hostages and their captors forge unexpected bonds. Time stands still, priorities rearrange themselves. Ultimately, of course, something has to give.Hearing opera sung live for the first time, a young priest reflects:  Never had he thought, never once, that such a woman existed, one who stood so close to God that God's own voice poured from her. How far she must have gone inside herself to call up that voice. It was as if the voice came from the center part of the earth and by the sheer effort and diligence of her will she had pulled it up through the dirt and rock and through the floorboards of the house, up into her feet, where it pulled through her, reaching, lifting, warmed by her, and then out of the white lily of her throat and straight to God in heaven. " | 
         | 1225 | American Psycho | Bret Easton Ellis | 03/28/91 | Fiction, Horror, Thriller, Classics, Crime, Contemporary, Mystery, Novels, Literature, American | Patrick Bateman, Evelyn Richards, Timothy Price, Paul Owen, Luis Carruthers, Courtney Lawrence | "Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and he works on Wall Street, he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking us to head-on collision with America's greatest dream—and its worst nightmare—American Psycho is bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognise but do not wish to confront." | 
         | 1226 | V for Vendetta | Alan Moore , David Lloyd (Illustrator) | 11/01/2005 | Graphic Novels, Comics, Fiction, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Classics, Politics, Fantasy | Evey Hammond, Adam Susan, Eric Finch, Lewis Prothero, V | """Remember, remember the fifth of November...""A frightening and powerful tale of the loss of freedom and identity in a chillingly believable totalitarian world, V for Vendetta stands as one of the highest achievements of the comics medium and a defining work for creators Alan Moore and David Lloyd.Set in an imagined future England that has given itself over to fascism, this groundbreaking story captures both the suffocating nature of life in an authoritarian police state and the redemptive power of the human spirit which rebels against it. Crafted with sterling clarity and intelligence, V for Vendetta brings an unequaled depth of characterization and verisimilitude to its unflinching account of oppression and resistance." | 
         | 1227 | The Witches | Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illustrator) | 10/28/97 | Fantasy, Childrens, Fiction, Classics, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Witches, Magic, Humor, Juvenile | Boy Narrator, The Grand High Witch, ""Boy''s Grandmother"" | "This is not a fairy-tale. This is about real witches. Real witches don't ride around on broomsticks. They don't even wear black cloaks and hats. They are vile, cunning, detestable creatures who disguise themselves as nice, ordinary ladies. So how can you tell when you're face to face with one? Well, if you don't know yet you'd better find out quickly-because there's nothing a witch loathes quite as much as children and she'll wield all kinds of terrifying powers to get rid of them." | 
         | 1228 | The Graveyard Book | Neil Gaiman , Dave McKean (Illustrator) | 09/30/08 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Horror, Paranormal, Childrens, Middle Grade, Audiobook, Ghosts, Supernatural | Nobody Owens, the man Jack, Silas, Mr. Owens, Mrs. Owens, Miss Lupescu, Scarlett Perkins, The Sleer, Liza Hempstock | "Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a perfectly normal boy. Well, he would be perfectly normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the world of the dead.There are dangers and adventures for Bod in the graveyard: the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer; a gravestone entrance to a desert that leads to the city of ghouls; friendship with a witch, and so much more.But it is in the land of the living that real danger lurks, for it is there that the man Jack lives and he has already killed Bod's family.A deliciously dark masterwork by bestselling author Neil Gaiman, with illustrations by award-winning Dave McKean." | 
         | 1229 | The Complete Novels | Jane Austen | 06/17/96 | Classics, Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Literature, Historical, Classic Literature, Novels, Regency, British Literature | Mr. Bennet, Mrs. Bennet, Jane Bennet, Elizabeth Bennet, Mary Bennet, Kitty Bennet, Lydia Bennet, Louisa Hurst, Caroline Bingley, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Georgiana Darcy, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Anne de Bourgh, Colonel Fitzwilliam, Mr. Gardiner, Mrs. Gardiner, Sir William Lucas, Lady Lucas, Charlotte Lucas, Maria Lucas, Lady Russell, Emma Woodhouse, Elinor Dashwood, Marianne Dashwood, Catherine Morland, Henry Tilney, Eleanor Tilney, General Tilney, John Thorpe, Isabella Thorpe, Fanny Price (Mansfield Park), Edmund Bertram, Henry Crawford, Mary Crawford, Sir Thomas Bertram, Lady Bertram, William Price, Tom Bertram, Maria Bertram, Julia Bertram, Mr. Rushworth, Mr. Yates, Mr. Price, Mrs. Price, Edward Ferrars, Charles Bingley, George Wickham, Mr. William Collins, George Knightley, Harriet Smith, Jane Fairfax, Frank Churchill, Henry Woodhouse, Colonel Brandon, Lady Middleton, John Middleton, Mr. Dashwood, Mrs. John Dashwood, Mrs. Dashwood, Philip Elton, Augusta Elton, Miss Bates, Isabella Woodhouse, John Knightley, Anne Elliot | "This volume contains the six major novels: ""Emma"", ""Mansfield Park"", ""Northanger Abbey"", ""Persuasion"", ""Sense and Sensibility"", ""Pride and Prejudice""." | 
         | 1230 | White Fang | Jack London, مها محمود صالح  (Translator) | 01/01/2001 | Classics, Fiction, Adventure, Animals, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Literature, Childrens, Novels, American | White Fang | "White Fang is part dog and part wolf, and the lone survivor of his family. In his lonely world, he soon learns to follow the harsh law of the North-kill or be killed. But nothing in White Fang's life can prepare him for the cruel owner who turns him into a vicious killer. Will White Fang ever know the kindness of a gentle master?" | 
         | 1231 | Beowulf | Unknown, Seamus Heaney (Translator) | 02/17/01 | Classics, Poetry, Fiction, Fantasy, School, Mythology, Literature, Medieval, Read For School, Epic | Beowulf, Grendel, Onela, Unferth, Breca, Wiglaf, Wealhtheow, Hrothgar | "Beowulf is a major epic of Anglo-Saxon literature, probably composed between the first half of the seventh century and the end of the first millennium. The poem was inspired by Germanic and Anglo-Saxon oral tradition recounting the exploits of Beowulf, the hero who gave his name to the poem. Here, it's transcribed as a verse epic, onto which are grafted Christian additions." | 
         | 1232 | Tuck Everlasting | Natalie Babbitt | 11/01/1985 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Classics, Fiction, Childrens, Middle Grade, School, Historical Fiction, Romance, Read For School | Winnie Foster, Angus Bain, Jesse Tuck, Mae Tuck, Miles Tuck | "Doomed to - or blessed with - eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can. When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tucks take her home and explain why living forever at one age is less a blessing that it might seem. Complications arise when Winnie is followed by a stranger who wants to market the spring water for a fortune." | 
         | 1233 | The Final Empire | Brandon Sanderson  | 07/25/06 | Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Magic, Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Young Adult, Adventure | Marsh, Vin, Elend Venture, Sazed, Kelsier, Dockson, Hammond, Breeze, Clubs, Spook, The Lord Ruler, Lord Renoux, Yeden, OreSeur | "For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the ""Sliver of Infinity,"" reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler's most hellish prison. Kelsier ""snapped"" and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark.Kelsier recruited the underworld's elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, each of whom shares one of his many powers, and all of whom relish a high-stakes challenge. Only then does he reveal his ultimate dream, not just the greatest heist in history, but the downfall of the divine despot.But even with the best criminal crew ever assembled, Kel's plan looks more like the ultimate long shot, until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into his life. Like him, she's a half-Skaa orphan, but she's lived a much harsher life. Vin has learned to expect betrayal from everyone she meets, and gotten it. She will have to learn to trust, if Kel is to help her master powers of which she never dreamed.This saga dares to ask a simple question: What if the hero of prophecy fails?" | 
         | 1234 | Beautiful Creatures | Kami Garcia , Margaret Stohl  | 12/01/2009 | Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Fiction, Magic, Supernatural, Witches, Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy | Ethan Wate, Lena Duchannes, Wesley ""Link"" Lincoln, Amma Treadeau, Macon Ravenwood | "Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power, and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town's oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them.In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything." | 
         | 1235 | Steppenwolf | Hermann Hesse, Basil Creighton (translator) | 10/28/99 | Fiction, Classics, Philosophy, German Literature, Literature, Novels, Germany, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Psychology | Mariecke, Harry Haller, Pablo Soler, Hermine | "Steppenwolf is a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. This Faust-like and magical story is evidence of Hesse's searching philosophy and extraordinary sense of humanity as he tells of the humanization of a middle-aged misanthrope. Yet his novel can also be seen as a plea for rigorous self-examination and an indictment of the intellectual hypocrisy of the period. As Hesse himself remarked, ""Of all my books Steppenwolf is the one that was more often and more violently misunderstood than any of the others""." | 
         | 1236 | Eldest | Christopher Paolini  | 03/13/07 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Dragons, Adventure, Magic, High Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy | Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle), Saphira (The Inheritance Cycle), Oromis (The Inheritance Cycle), Glaedr (The Inheritance Cycle), Roran Garrowsson, Hrothgar (The Inheritance Cycle), Arya (The Inheritance Cycle), Orik (The Inheritance Cycle), Horst (The Inheritance Cycle), Murtagh (The Inheritance Cycle), Solembum, Jeod Longshanks, The Twins, Nasuada, Queen Islanzadi, Jormundur, Lethrblaka, Albreich, Angela the Herbalist | "Darkness falls…despair abounds…evil reigns…Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the mighty forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire. Now Eragon must travel to Ellesmera, land of the elves, for further training in the skills of the Dragon Rider. Ages 12+.Darkness falls…despair abounds…evil reigns…Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the mighty forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire. Now Eragon must travel to Ellesmera, land of the elves, for further training in the skills of the Dragon Rider: magic and swordsmanship. Soon he is on the journey of a lifetime, his eyes open to awe-inspring new places and people, his days filled with fresh adventure. But chaos and betrayal plague him at every turn, and nothing is what it seems. Before long, Eragon doesn't know whom he can trust.Meanwhile, his cousin Roran must fight a new battle–one that might put Eragon in even graver danger.Will the king's dark hand strangle all resistance? Eragon may not escape with even his life. . . ." | 
         | 1237 | The Eye of the World | Robert Jordan | 11/15/90 | Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, Adult, Audiobook, Epic | ""Rand al''Thor"", ""Nynaeve al''Meara"", ""Egwene al''Vere"", Perrin Aybara, ""Al''Lan Mandragoran"", Matrim Cauthon, Moiraine Damodred, Loial, Thom Merrilin, Padan Fain, ""Ba''alzamon"", Elyas Machera, ""Tam al''Thor"" | "The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.When The Two Rivers is attacked by Trollocs-a savage tribe of half-men, half-beasts- five villagers flee that night into a world they barely imagined, with new dangers waiting in the shadows and in the light." | 
         | 1238 | A Separate Peace | John Knowles, David Levithan  (Afterword) | 09/30/03 | Classics, Fiction, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, School, Coming Of Age, Literature, Read For School, High School, Novels | Gene Forrester, Phineas | "An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to the second world war.Set at a boys boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world.A bestseller for more than thirty years, A Separate Peace is John Knowles crowning achievement and an undisputed American classic." | 
         | 1239 | The Complete Maus | Art Spiegelman | 10/02/2003 | Graphic Novels, Comics, Nonfiction, History, Biography, Memoir, War, Historical, Holocaust, Graphic Novels Comics | Vladek Spiegelman, Anja Spiegelman, Art Spiegelman, Mala Spiegelman | "Combined for the first time here are Maus I: A Survivor's Tale and Maus II - the complete story of Vladek Spiegelman and his wife, living and surviving in Hitler's Europe. By addressing the horror of the Holocaust through cartoons, the author captures the everyday reality of fear and is able to explore the guilt, relief and extraordinary sensation of survival - and how the children of survivors are in their own way affected by the trials of their parents. A contemporary classic of immeasurable significance." | 
         | 1240 | Mansfield Park | Jane Austen, Kathryn Sutherland (Editor) | 10/28/03 | Classics, Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Literature, 19th Century, Historical, British Literature, Classic Literature, Audiobook | Fanny Price (Mansfield Park), Edmund Bertram, Henry Crawford, Mary Crawford, Sir Thomas Bertram, Lady Bertram, William Price, Tom Bertram, Maria Bertram, Julia Bertram, Mr. Rushworth, Mr. Yates, Mr. Price, Mrs. Price, Mrs. Norris | "Adopted into the household of her uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, Fanny Price grows up a meek outsider among her cousins in the unaccustomed elegance of Mansfield Park. Soon after Sir Thomas absents himself on estate business in Antigua (the family's investment in slavery and sugar is considered in the Introduction in a new, post-colonial light), Mary Crawford and her brother Henry arrive at Mansfield, bringing with them London glamour, and the seductive taste for flirtation and theatre that precipitates a crisis. While Mansfield Park appears in some ways to continue where Pride and Prejudice left off, it is, as Kathryn Sutherland shows in her illuminating Introduction, a much darker work, which challenges 'the very values (of tradition, stability, retirement and faithfulness) it appears to endorse'. This new edition provides an accurate text based, for the first time since its original publication, on the first edition of 1814." | 
         | 1241 | The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay | Michael Chabon | 08/25/01 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Novels, Literature, Historical, Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Comics, Jewish, New York | Joe Kavalier, Sam Clay, Rosa Saks | "Joe Kavalier, a young Jewish artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdini-esque escape, has just smuggled himself out of Nazi-invaded Prague and landed in New York City. His Brooklyn cousin Sammy Clay is looking for a partner to create heroes, stories, and art for the latest novelty to hit America - the comic book. Drawing on their own fears and dreams, Kavalier and Clay create the Escapist, the Monitor, and Luna Moth, inspired by the beautiful Rosa Saks, who will become linked by powerful ties to both men. With exhilarating style and grace, Michael Chabon tells an unforgettable story about American romance and possibility." | 
         | 1242 | Brisingr | Christopher Paolini  | 09/20/08 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Dragons, Magic, Adventure, High Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy | Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle), Saphira (The Inheritance Cycle), Oromis (The Inheritance Cycle), Glaedr (The Inheritance Cycle), Roran Garrowsson, Sloan (The Inheritance Cycle), Katrina (The Inheritance Cycle), Elva (The Inheritance Cycle), Arya (The Inheritance Cycle), Orik (The Inheritance Cycle), Murtagh (The Inheritance Cycle), Nasuada, Galbatorix, Blödhgarm, Lady Lorana, Queen Islanzadi, Menoa Tree, Rhunön, King Orrin, Fadawar (The Inheritance Cycle), Jormundur, Trianna (The Inheritance Cycle), Lethrblaka, Jarsha (The Inheritance Cycle), Angela the Herbalist | "Oaths sworn... loyalties tested... forces collide.It's been only months since Eragon first uttered ""brisingr"", an ancient language term for fire. Since then, he's not only learned to create magic with words — he's been challenged to his very core. Following the colossal battle against the Empires warriors on the Burning Plains, Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have narrowly escaped with their lives. Still, there is more adventure at hand for the Rider and his dragon, as Eragon finds himself bound by a tangle of promises he may not be able to keep.First is Eragon's oath to his cousin, Roran: to help rescue Roran's beloved from King Galbatorix's clutches. But Eragon owes his loyalty to others, too. The Varden are in desperate need of his talents and strength — as are the elves and dwarves. When unrest claims the rebels and danger strikes from every corner, Eragon must make choices — choices that will take him across the Empire and beyond, choices that may lead to unimagined sacrifice.Eragon is the greatest hope to rid the land of tyranny. Can this once simple farm boy unite the rebel forces and defeat the king?" | 
         | 1243 | Stargirl | Jerry Spinelli | 09/28/02 | Young Adult, Fiction, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Romance, Middle Grade, Childrens, Teen, School, Coming Of Age | Stargirl Caraway, Leo Borlock | "A celebration of nonconformity; a tense, emotional tale about the fleeting, cruel nature of popularity-and the thrill and inspiration of first love. Ages 12+Leo Borlock follows the unspoken rule at Mica Area High School: don't stand out-under any circumstances! Then Stargirl arrives at Mica High and everything changes-for Leo and for the entire school. After 15 years of home schooling, Stargirl bursts into tenth grade in an explosion of color and a clatter of ukulele music, enchanting the Mica student body.But the delicate scales of popularity suddenly shift, and Stargirl is shunned for everything that makes her different. Somewhere in the midst of Stargirl's arrival and rise and fall, normal Leo Borlock has tumbled into love with her.In a celebration of nonconformity, Jerry Spinelli weaves a tense, emotional tale about the fleeting, cruel nature of popularity-and the thrill and inspiration of first love." | 
         | 1244 | Dear John | Nicholas Sparks  | 10/30/06 | Romance, Fiction, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Adult, Adult Fiction, Young Adult, Love, Contemporary Romance, Drama | Savannah Lynn Curtis, John Tyree | "An angry rebel, John dropped out of school and enlisted in the Army, not knowing what else to do with his life-until he meets the girl of his dreams, Savannah. Their mutual attraction quickly grows into the kind of love that leaves Savannah waiting for John to finish his tour of duty, and John wanting to settle down with the woman who has captured his heart. But 9/11 changes everything. John feels it is his duty to re-enlist. And sadly, the long separation finds Savannah falling in love with someone else. Dear John, the letter read... and with those two words, a heart was broken and two lives were changed forever. Returning home, John must come to grips with the fact that Savannah, now married, is still his true love—and face the hardest decision of his life." | 
         | 1245 | 'Salem's Lot | Stephen King  | 10/28/91 | Horror, Fiction, Vampires, Fantasy, Thriller, Paranormal, Supernatural, Audiobook, Adult, Mystery | Benjamin Mears, Susan Norton, Matt Burke, Mark Petrie, Father Donald Callahan, Mike Ryerson, Dr James Cody, Richard Throckett Straker, Danny Glick, Larry Crockett, Sonny James, Charles Boone, Loretta Starcher, Weasel Craig, Larry McLeod, Joe Crane, June Petrie, Hal Griffen, Dud Rogers, Cynthia Stowens, Buddy Bascomb, Nolly Gardener, Tookey, Miss Coogan, Royal Snow, Harriet Durham | "Thousands of miles away from the small township of 'Salem's Lot, two terrified people, a man and a boy, still share the secrets of those clapboard houses and tree-lined streets. They must return to 'Salem's Lot for a final confrontation with the unspeakable evil that lives on in the town." | 
         | 1246 | Crescendo | Becca Fitzpatrick  | 10/19/10 | Young Adult, Fantasy, Angels, Paranormal, Romance, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy | Nora Grey, Jev ""Patch"" Cipriano, Vee Sky, Marcie Millar, Rixon, Scott Parnell | "Nora Grey's life is still far from perfect. Surviving an attempt on her life wasn't pleasant, but at least she got a guardian angel out of it. A mysterious, magnetic, gorgeous guardian angel. But despite his role in her life, Patch has been acting anything but angelic. He's more elusive than ever (if that's possible) and what's worse, he seems to be spending time with Nora's archenemy, Marcie Millar.Nora would have hardly noticed Scott Parnell, an old family friend who has moved back to town, if Patch hadn't been acting so distant. Even with Scott's totally infuriating attitude, Nora finds herself drawn to him - despite her lingering feelings that he is hiding something.If that weren't enough, Nora is haunted by images of her murdered father, and comes to question whether her Nephilim bloodline has anything to do with his death. Desperate to figure out what happened, she puts herself in increasingly dangerous situations to get the answer. But maybe some things are better left buried, because the truth could destroy everything - and everyone - she trusts." | 
         | 1247 | The English Patient | Michael Ondaatje | 04/18/06 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, Romance, Historical, War, Canada, Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels | Kip, Hana, Geoffrey Clifton, Katharine Clifton, David Caravaggio, Ladislaus de Almásy, Gyges of Lydia, Candaules of Lydia | "With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning." | 
         | 1248 | East of Eden | John Steinbeck | 10/28/02 | Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels, American, Literary Fiction, Historical, Classic Literature, Adult | Mr. Edwards, Ethel, Lee, Faye, Tom Hamilton, Cyrus Trask, Mrs. Trask, Alice Trask, Adam Trask, Charles Trask, Aron Trask, Caleb Trask, Samuel Hamilton, Liza Hamilton, George Hamilton, Will Hamilton, Joe Hamilton, Lizzie Hamilton, Una Hamilton, Dessie Hamilton, Olive Hamilton, Mollie Hamilton, Cathy Ames, Abra Bacon, Joe Valery | "In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California’s Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons—whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.Adam Trask came to California from the East to farm and raise his family on the new rich land. But the birth of his twins, Cal and Aaron, brings his wife to the brink of madness, and Adam is left alone to raise his boys to manhood. One boy thrives nurtured by the love of all those around him; the other grows up in loneliness enveloped by a mysterious darkness.First published in 1952, East of Eden is the work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence. A masterpiece of Steinbeck's later years, East of Eden is a powerful and vastly ambitious novel that is at once a family saga and a modern retelling of the Book of Genesis.-jacket flap" | 
         | 1249 | Cloud Atlas | David Mitchell | 08/17/04 | Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Dystopia, Contemporary, Novels, Literary Fiction, Literature, Historical | Adam Ewing, Autua, Dr. Goose, Robert Frobisher, Rufus Sixsmith, Vyvyan Ayrs, Jocasta Ayrs, Eva van Outryve de Crommelynck, Luisa Rey, Timothy Cavendish, Sonmi~451, Zachry, Meronym, Hae-Joo Im, Mr. Meeks, Ernie Blacksmith, Nurse Noakes, Javier Gomez, Fay Li, Bill Smoke, Joe Napier, Yoona-939, Isaac Sachs, Old Georgie | "A postmodern visionary who is also a master of styles of genres, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian lore of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and Philip K. Dick. The result is brilliantly original fiction as profund as it is playful. Now in his new novel, David Mitchell explores with daring artistry fundamental questions of reality and identity.Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Along the way, Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite. . . .Abruptly, the action jumps to Belgium in 1931, where Robert Frobisher, a disinherited bisexual composer, contrives his way into the household of an infirm maestro who has a beguiling wife and a nubile daughter. . . . From there we jump to the West Coast in the 1970s and a troubled reporter named Luisa Rey, who stumbles upon a web of corporate greed and murder that threatens to claim her life. . . . And onward, with dazzling virtuosity, to an inglorious present-day England; to a Korean superstate of the near future where neocapitalism has run amok; and, finally, to a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history.But the story doesn’t end even there. The narrative then boomerangs back through centuries and space, returning by the same route, in reverse, to its starting point. Along the way, Mitchell reveals how his disparate characters connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky.As wild as a videogame, as mysterious as a Zen koan, Cloud Atlas is an unforgettable tour de force that, like its incomparable author, has transcended its cult classic status to become a worldwide phenomenon." | 
         | 1250 | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values | Robert M. Pirsig | 04/25/06 | Philosophy, Fiction, Classics, Spirituality, Travel, Psychology, Literature, Self Help, Unfinished, Religion | Phaedrus, Sylvia Sutherland, John Sutherland, Chris | "Robert M. Pirsig's Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is an examination of how we live, a meditation on how to live better set around the narration of a summer motorcycle trip across America's Northwest, undertaken by a father & his young son." | 
         | 1251 | The Martian | Andy Weir  | 02/11/2014 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Audiobook, Adventure, Space, Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Thriller, Humor, Survival | Mark Watney, Venkat Kapoor, Melissa Lewis, Rick Martinez, Beth Johanssen, Alex Vogel, Teddy Sanders, Mindy Park, Annie Montrose, Bruce Ng, Mitch Henderson, Chris Beck, Rich Purnell, Brendan Hutch | "Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there.After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he won’t have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old “human error” are much more likely to kill him first. But Mark isn’t ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills — and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit — he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?" | 
         | 1252 | The Last Song | Nicholas Sparks  | 09/08/2009 | Romance, Fiction, Young Adult, Contemporary, Chick Lit, Adult, Realistic Fiction, Adult Fiction, Drama, Love | Will Blakelee, Veronica ""Ronnie"" Miller | "Alternate Cover Edition can be found hereSeventeen-year-old Veronica 'Ronnie' Miller’s life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alienated from her parents, especially her father . . . until her mother decides it would be in everyone’s best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Ronnie’s father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church. The tale that unfolds is an unforgettable story about love in its myriad forms - first love, the love between parents and children - that demonstrates, as only a Nicholas Sparks novel can, the many ways that deeply felt relationships can break our hearts . . . and heal them." | 
         | 1253 | My Ántonia | Willa Cather | 02/20/00 | Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literature, School, American, Historical, Novels, Adult Fiction, Classic Literature | Ántonia Shimerda, Jim Burden, Josiah Burden, Emmaline Burden, Ambrosch Shimerda, Lena Lingard, Otto Fuchs, Jake Marpole, Mr. Shimerda, Mrs. Shimerda | "Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant life in the Nebraska heartland, with all its insistent bonds. Guiding the way are some of literature's most beguiling characters: the Russian brothers plagued by memories of a fateful sleigh ride, Antonia's desperately homesick father and self-indulgent mother, and the coy Lena Lingard. Holding the pastoral society's heart, of course, is the bewitching, free-spirited Antonia." | 
         | 1254 | Shatter Me | Tahereh Mafi | 11/15/11 | Young Adult, Dystopia, Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction, Paranormal, Fiction, Supernatural, Post Apocalyptic, Audiobook | Adam Kent, Juliette Ferrars, Aaron Warner Anderson, Kenji Kishimoto, Castle | "I have a curseI have a giftI am a monsterI'm more than humanMy touch is lethalMy touch is powerI am their weaponI will fight backJuliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days.The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal. As long as she doesn’t hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don’t fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color.The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war – and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she’s exactly what they need right now.Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior." | 
         | 1255 | The Amber Spyglass | Philip Pullman | 09/09/2003 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Science Fiction, Childrens, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, Steampunk, Audiobook, Magic | Lyra Belacqua, Will Parry, Mary Malone, Pantalaimon, Lord Asriel, Iorek Byrnison, Marisa Coulter, Lee Scoresby, Roger Parslow, Stanislaus Grumman, Serafina Pekkala | "Will is the bearer of the knife. Now, accompanied by angels, his task is to deliver that powerful, dangerous weapon to Lord Asriel - by the command of his dying father.But how can he go looking for Lord Asriel when Lyra is gone? Only with her help can he fathom the myriad plots and intrigues that beset him. The two great powers of the many worlds are lining up for war, and Will must find Lyra, for together they are on their way to battle, an inevitable journey that will even take them to the world of the dead..." | 
         | 1256 | Doctor Zhivago | Boris Pasternak, John Bayley (Introduction), Max Hayward (Translator), Manya Harari (Translator) | 03/18/97 | Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Russia, Russian Literature, Literature, Romance, Novels, Historical, War | Yury Andreyevich Zhivago, Alexander Alexandrovich Gromeko, Markel Shchapov, Pavel Pavlovich Antipov, Rodyon Fyodorovich Guishar, Victor Ippolitovich Komarovsky, Kologrivov, Kuprik Tiverzin, Iosif Gimazetdinovich Galiullin, Nikolay Nikolayevich Vedenyapin, Nicky Dudorov, Misha Gordon, Antonina Alexandrovna Gromeko, Anna Ivanovna Gromeko, Amalia Karlovna Guishar, Larissa Fëdorovna Antipova, Anfim Yefimovitch Samdevyatov, Nadya Kologrigova, Evgraf Andreevič Zivago, Marina (Doctor Zhivago) | "This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987. One of the results of its publication in the West was Pasternak's complete rejection by Soviet authorities; when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 he was compelled to decline it. The book quickly became an international best-seller.Dr. Yury Zhivago, Pasternak's alter ego, is a poet, philosopher, and physician whose life is disrupted by the war and by his love for Lara, the wife of a revolutionary. His artistic nature makes him vulnerable to the brutality and harshness of the Bolsheviks. The poems he writes constitute some of the most beautiful writing featured in the novel." | 
         | 1257 | The Hunchback of Notre-Dame | Victor Hugo, Walter J. Cobb (Translator) | 04/10/2001 | Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, France, Literature, French Literature, Gothic, Historical, Romance, Novels | Quasimodo (Victor Hugo), Claude Frollo, Esmeralda, Gringoire, Captain Phoebus de Chateaupers | "This extraordinary historical novel, set in Medieval Paris under the twin towers of its greatest structure and supreme symbol, the cathedral of Notre-Dame, is the haunting drama of Quasimodo, the hunchback; Esmeralda, the gypsy dancer; and Claude Frollo, the priest tortured by the specter of his own damnation. Shaped by a profound sense of tragic irony, it is a work that gives full play to Victor Hugo's brilliant historical imagination and his remarkable powers of description." | 
         | 1258 | Inferno | Dante Alighieri, Anthony M. Esolen (Translator) | 12/09/2003 | Classics, Poetry, Fiction, Literature, Religion, Fantasy, School, Italian Literature, Philosophy, Medieval | Virgilio (Publius Vergilius Maro), Odysseus, Dante Alighieri, Beatrice (diverse works), Paolo, Francesca, Charon (mythology) | "Of the great poets, Dante is one of the most elusive and therefore one of the most difficult to adequately render into English verse. In the Inferno, Dante not only judges sin but strives to understand it so that the reader can as well. With this major new translation, Anthony Esolen has succeeded brilliantly in marrying sense with sound, poetry with meaning, capturing both the poem’s line-by-line vigor and its allegorically and philosophically exacting structure, yielding an Inferno that will be as popular with general readers as with teachers and students. For, as Dante insists, without a trace of sentimentality or intellectual compromise, even Hell is a work of divine art.Esolen also provides a critical Introduction and endnotes, plus appendices containing Dante’s most important sources—from Virgil to Saint Thomas Aquinas and other Catholic theologians—that deftly illuminate the religious universe the poet inhabited." | 
         | 1259 | Like Water for Chocolate | Laura Esquivel, Thomas Christensen  (Translator), Carol Christensen (Translator) | 09/16/93 | Fiction, Romance, Magical Realism, Historical Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Food, Spanish Literature, Adult, Novels | Tita de la Garza, Gertrudis de la Garza, Rosaura de la Garza, Mamá Elena, Pedro Muzquiz, John Brown, Nacha, Chencha, Juan Alejandrez | "Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit.The number one bestseller in Mexico and America for almost two years, and subsequently a bestseller around the world, Like Water For Chocolate is a romantic, poignant tale, touched with moments of magic, graphic earthiness, bittersweet wit - and recipes. A sumptuous feast of a novel, it relates the bizarre history of the all-female De La Garza family. Tita, the youngest daughter of the house, has been forbidden to marry, condemned by Mexican tradition to look after her mother until she dies. But Tita falls in love with Pedro, and he is seduced by the magical food she cooks. In desperation, Pedro marries her sister Rosaura so that he can stay close to her, so that Tita and Pedro are forced to circle each other in unconsummated passion. Only a freakish chain of tragedies, bad luck and fate finally reunite them against all the odds." | 
         | 1260 | Dragonfly in Amber | Diana Gabaldon  | 08/07/2001 | Historical Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction, Time Travel, Historical, Historical Romance, Audiobook, Scotland, Adult | Jamie Fraser, Brianna Randall, Roger MacKenzie, Fergus Fraser, Ian Murray, Claire Randall Fraser, Jonathan Randall, Dougal MacKenzie, Colum MacKenzie, Geillis Duncan, Jenny Murray, Frank Randall, Murtagh Fraser | "From the author of Outlander... a magnificent epic that once again sweeps us back in time to the drama and passion of 18th-century Scotland...For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to Scotland's majestic mist-shrouded hills. Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it birth: about the mystery of an ancient circle of standing stones ...about a love that transcends the boundaries of time ...and about James Fraser, a Scottish warrior whose gallantry once drew a young Claire from the security of her century to the dangers of his ....Now a legacy of blood and desire will test her beautiful copper-haired daughter, Brianna, as Claire's spellbinding journey of self-discovery continues in the intrigue-ridden Paris court of Charles Stuart ...in a race to thwart a doomed Highlands uprising ...and in a desperate fight to save both the child and the man she loves...." | 
         | 1261 | Breakfast of Champions | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | 05/28/99 | Fiction, Classics, Science Fiction, Humor, Literature, Novels, American, Literary Fiction, Audiobook, Comedy | Kilgore Trout, Eliot Rosewater, Rabo Karabekian, Dwayne Hoover, Francine Pefko, Kazak, Wayne Hoobler, Cyprian Ukwende, Celia Hoover, Harry LeSabre, Bunny Hoover, Beatrice Keedlser, Bonnie MacMahon | "Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereIn Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s  most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth." | 
         | 1262 | The BFG | Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illustrator) | 10/28/01 | Fantasy, Childrens, Fiction, Classics, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Humor, Adventure, Audiobook, Juvenile | the Big Friendly Giant, Queen Elizabeth II, Sophie (the BFG), The Fleshlumpeater, The Bonecruncher, The Manhugger, The Childchewer, The Meatdripper, The Gizzardgulper, The Maidmasher, The Bloodbottler, The Butcher Boy, Mary (the BFG), Mr. Tibbs (the BFG) | "Captured by a giant! The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, the Fleshlumpeater, the Bonecruncher, or any of the other giants-rather than the BFG-she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that they are flush-bunking off in England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she must stop them once and for all. And the BFG is going to help her!" | 
         | 1263 | Six of Crows | Leigh Bardugo  | 09/29/15 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, Romance, LGBT, High Fantasy, Audiobook | Inej Ghafa, Kaz Brekker, Jesper Fahey, Wylan Van Eck, Matthias Helvar, Nina Zenik | Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price—and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can’t pull it off alone. . . .A convict with a thirst for revengeA sharpshooter who can’t walk away from a wagerA runaway with a privileged pastA spy known as the WraithA Heartrender using her magic to survive the slumsA thief with a gift for unlikely escapesKaz’s crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction—if they don’t kill each other first. | 
         | 1264 | A Fine Balance | Rohinton Mistry | 11/30/01 | Fiction, India, Historical Fiction, Canada, Indian Literature, Asia, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Historical | Maneck Kohlah, Omprakash Darji, Ishvar Darji, Dina Dalal, Rustom Dalal, Nusswan Shroff, Vasantrao Valmik, Thakur Dharamsi, Ashraf Chacha, Rajaram, Shankar, Beggar Master | "With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers-a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native village-will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment and an uncertain future. As the characters move from distrust to friendship and from friendship to love, A Fine Balance creates an enduring panorama of the human spirit in an inhuman state." | 
         | 1265 | Daughter of Smoke & Bone | Laini Taylor  | 09/27/11 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Paranormal, Angels, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Magic, Young Adult Fantasy, Supernatural | Madrigal, Karou, Akiva (Daughter of Smoke & Bone), Kazimir, Zuzana, Issa, Brimstone, Thiago, Mik, Ziri | "Around the world, black hand prints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.In a dark and dusty shop, a devil’s supply of human teeth grows dangerously low.And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherworldly war.Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real, she’s prone to disappearing on mysterious ""errands"", she speaks many languages - not all of them human - and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she’s about to find out.When beautiful, haunted Akiva fixes fiery eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself?" | 
         | 1266 | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson, Vladimir Nabokov (Introduction), Mervyn Peake (Illustrator), Théo Varlet (Translation), Patrick Horgan (Narrator), Dan Chaon  (Afterword) | 09/02/2003 | Classics, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Mystery, Gothic, Fantasy, Literature, 19th Century, School | Mr Gabriel John Utterson, Dr. Hastie Lanyon, Dr. Henry Jekyll, Mr Edward Hyde, Richard Enfield, Poole (Jekyll & Hyde) | "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novella written by the famous Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886. The work is commonly known today as The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, or simply Jekyll & Hyde. It is about a London lawyer named John Gabriel Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde." | 
         | 1267 | City of Heavenly Fire | Cassandra Clare  | 05/27/14 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Vampires, Angels, Fiction, Magic, Supernatural | Alexander ""Alec"" Lightwood, Jonathan ""Jace"" Wayland, Isabelle ""Izzy"" Sophia Lightwood, Theresa ""Tessa"" Gray, Magnus Bane, Jordan Kyle, Maia Roberts, Jocelyn Fray, Luke Garroway, Sebastian Morgenstern, Clarissa ""Clary"" Fray, Simon Lewis | "In this dazzling and long-awaited conclusion to the acclaimed Mortal Instruments series, Clary and her friends fight the greatest evil they have ever faced: Clary's own brother.Sebastian Morgenstern is on the move, systematically turning Shadowhunter against Shadowhunter. Bearing the Infernal Cup, he transforms Shadowhunters into creatures out of nightmare, tearing apart families and lovers as the ranks of his Endarkened army swell.The embattled Shadowhunters withdraw to Idris - but not even the famed demon towers of Alicante can keep Sebastian at bay. And with the Nephilim trapped in Idris, who will guard the world against demons?When one of the greatest betrayals the Nephilim have ever known is revealed, Clary, Jace, Isabelle, Simon, and Alec must flee - even if their journey takes them deep into the demon realms, where no Shadowhunter has set foot before, and from which no human being has ever returned...Love will be sacrificed and lives lost in the terrible battle for the fate of the word in the thrilling final installment of the classic urban fantasy series The Mortal Instruments!" | 
         | 1268 | Evermore | Alyson Noel  | 02/03/2009 | Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Vampires, Magic | Ever Bloom, Damen Auguste, Drina, Miles, Haven Turner | "The first book in Alyson Noël's extraordinary new Immortals series. Enter an enchanting new world, where true love never dies...After a horrible accident claims the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever Bloom can see people's auras, hear their thoughts, and know someone's entire life story by touching them. Going out of her way to avoid human contact to suppress her abilities, she has been branded a freak at her new high school—but everything changes when she meets Damen Auguste.Damen is gorgeous, exotic and wealthy. He's the only one who can silence the noise and random energy in her head—wielding a magic so intense, it's as though he can peer straight into her soul. As Ever is drawn deeper into his enticing world of secrets and mystery, she's left with more questions than answers. And she has no idea just who he really is—or what he is. The only thing she knows to be true is that she's falling deeply and helplessly in love with him." | 
         | 1269 | Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller | 03/18/94 | Plays, Classics, Fiction, Drama, School, Theatre, Literature, Read For School, High School, American | Willy Loman, Linda Loman, Happy Loman, Biff Loman, Ben Loman, Howard Wagner | "'For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine.'Willy Loman has been a salesman for 34 years. At 60, he is cast aside, his usefulness now exhausted. With no future to dream about he must face the crushing disappointments of his past. He takes one final brave action, but is he heroic at last?, or a self-deluding fool?" | 
         | 1270 | 11/22/63 | Stephen King  | 11/08/2011 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction, Time Travel, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller, Audiobook, Historical, Mystery | John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, Jake Epping, Al Templeton, Harry Dunning, Marina Oswald, Bill Titus, Sadie Dunhill, Yellow Card Man, Deacon ""Deke"" Simmons, Ellen Dockerty, George de Mohrenschildt, Richie Tozier, Beverly Marsh | "Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students—a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk.Not much later, Jake’s friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane—and insanely possible—mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake’s life—a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time." | 
         | 1271 | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | John Berendt | 06/28/99 | Nonfiction, True Crime, Mystery, Crime, History, Southern, Classics, Travel, Memoir, Audiobook | Jim Williams, Danny Hansford | "A sublime and seductive reading experience. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, this enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city has become a modern classic.Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet it is a work of nonfiction. Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case.It is a spellbinding story peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters: the well-bred society ladies of the Married Woman's Card Club; the turbulent young redneck gigolo; the hapless recluse who owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man, woman, and child in Savannah; the aging and profane Southern belle who is the ""soul of pampered self-absorption""; the uproariously funny black drag queen; the acerbic and arrogant antiques dealer; the sweet-talking, piano-playing con artist; young blacks dancing the minuet at the black debutante ball; and Minerva, the voodoo priestess who works her magic in the graveyard at midnight. These and other Savannahians act as a Greek chorus, with Berendt revealing the alliances, hostilities, and intrigues that thrive in a town where everyone knows everyone else." | 
         | 1272 | A Streetcar Named Desire | Tennessee Williams | 12/01/1952 | Plays, Classics, Drama, Fiction, School, Theatre, American, Literature, Read For School, High School | Blanche DuBois, Stanley Kowalski, Stella Kowalski, Harold Mitchel, Eunice Hubbel, Steve Hubbel, Pablo Gonzales, Negro Woman, Baby, Matron, Doctor, Mexican Woman, Young Collector | "The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman and The Crucible), and Williams’ essay “The World I Live In.”It is a very short list of 20th-century American plays that continue to have the same power and impact as when they first appeared—57 years after its Broadway premiere, Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire is one of those plays. The story famously recounts how the faded and promiscuous Blanche DuBois is pushed over the edge by her sexy and brutal brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski. Streetcar launched the careers of Marlon Brando, Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden, and solidified the position of Tennessee Williams as one of the most important young playwrights of his generation, as well as that of Elia Kazan as the greatest American stage director of the ’40s and ’50s." | 
         | 1273 | Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace | 10/28/05 | Fiction, Classics, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Humor, Unfinished, Literary Fiction, American, Philosophy | Hal Incadenza, Joelle Van Dyne, Michael Pemulis, Mario Incandenza, Ken Erdedy, Avril Incandenza, Orin Incandenza, Randy Lenz, Ortho Stice, Tiny Ewell, Poor Tony Krause, Clenette Henderson, Remy Marathe, Hugh Steeply, Pat Montesian, Ann Kittenplan, Trevor Axford, LaMont Chu, Geoffrey Day, Gerhardt Schtitt, Ted Schacht, Dr. James Orin Incandenza, Katherine Ann Gompert, Dr. Charles Tavis, Mildred L. Bonk, Harriet Bonk-Green, Jim Troelsch, Donald W. Gately, Bruce Green, Emil Minty, Lyle | "A gargantuan, mind-altering tragi-comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human—and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do." | 
         | 1274 | The Prince | Niccolò Machiavelli, Rufus Goodwin (Translator), Benjamin Martinez (Illustrator) | 06/01/2003 | Classics, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Politics, History, Political Science, Literature, Italian Literature, Italy, School | Theseus (mythology), Alexander the Great, Cesare Borgia, Francesco Sforza, Niccolò Machiavelli, Pope Alexander VI, Louis XII of France | "Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following observations, be Machiavellian as we understand the disparaging term? 1. So it is that to know the nature of a people, one need be a Prince; to know the nature of a Prince, one need to be of the people. 2. If a Prince is not given to vices that make him hated, it is unsusal for his subjects to show their affection for him. 3. Opportunity made Moses, Cyrus, Romulus, Theseus, and others; their virtue domi-nated the opportunity, making their homelands noble and happy. Armed prophets win; the disarmed lose. 4. Without faith and religion, man achieves power but not glory. 5. Prominent citizens want to command and oppress; the populace only wants to be free of oppression. 6. A Prince needs a friendly populace; otherwise in diversity there is no hope. 7. A Prince, who rules as a man of valor, avoids disasters, 8. Nations based on mercenary forces will never be solid or secure. 9. Mercenaries are dangerous because of their cowardice 10. There are two ways to fight: one with laws, the other with force. The first is rightly man’s way; the second, the way of beasts." | 
         | 1275 | Hamlet | William Shakespeare, Harold Bloom (Contributor), Rex Gibson (Editor) | 08/01/2005 | Classics, Plays, Fiction, Drama, School, Literature, Theatre, Read For School, High School, Poetry | Hamlet, Horatio, Polonius, Laertes, Gertrude, Marcellus, Rosencrantz and Guildentstern, Fortinbras, Bernardo, Francisco, Reynaldo, Osric, Voltimand, Cornelius, Claudius, Ophelia | "Among Shakespeare's plays, ""Hamlet"" is considered by many his masterpiece. Among actors, the role of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is considered the jewel in the crown of a triumphant theatrical career. Now Kenneth Branagh plays the leading role and co-directs a brillant ensemble performance. Three generations of legendary leading actors, many of whom first assembled for the Oscar-winning film ""Henry V"", gather here to perform the rarely heard complete version of the play. This clear, subtly nuanced, stunning dramatization, presented by The Renaissance Theatre Company in association with ""Bbc"" Broadcasting, features such luminaries as Sir John Gielgud, Derek Jacobi, Emma Thompson and Christopher Ravenscroft. It combines a full cast with stirring music and sound effects to bring this magnificent Shakespearen classic vividly to life. Revealing new riches with each listening, this production of ""Hamlet"" is an invaluable aid for students, teachers and all true lovers of Shakespeare - a recording to be treasured for decades to come." | 
         | 1276 | Faust, First Part | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Peter Salm (Translator) | 07/01/1988 | Classics, Fiction, Plays, Poetry, German Literature, Drama, Literature, Philosophy, School, Fantasy | Faust, Mephistopheles, Gretchen | "Wielki uczony - wciąż spragniony wiedzy o sensie istnienia - zawiera pakt z diabłem. Chce absolutnego poznania i doskonałego szczęścia - jeśli zazna chwili, o której powie „trwaj, jesteś piękna!” szatan będzie mógł wziąć jego duszę do piekła. Mefistofeles ochoczo zgadza się na to - wszak sprawdzić wiarę Fausta pozwolił mu sam Bóg.Faust to dzieło życia Goethego, dramat o możliwościach ludzkiego poznania i sensie istnienia świata." | 
         | 1277 | Anna and the French Kiss | Stephanie Perkins  | 12/02/2010 | Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary, Chick Lit, Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, Teen, Young Adult Romance | Anna Oliphant, Étienne St. Clair, Meredith Chevalier, Rashmi, Joshua Wasserstein, Ellie, Bridgette Saunderwick, Christopher, Dave Higgenbottom, Sean Oliphant, Kevin Quiggley, Amanda Spitterton-Watts, Matt, Isla Martin | "Anna is looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a great job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. Which is why she is less than thrilled about being shipped off to boarding school in Paris-until she meets Étienne St. Clair. Smart, charming, beautiful, Étienne has it all...including a serious girlfriend. But in the City of Light, wishes have a way of coming true. Will a year of romantic near-misses end with their long-awaited French kiss?" | 
         | 1278 | A Feast for Crows | George R.R. Martin | 10/28/11 | Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Adult, Adventure, Dragons, Audiobook, Epic | Arya Stark, Jaime Lannister, Petyr Baelish, Sansa Stark, Varys, Brienne of Tarth, Samwell Tarly, Arianne Martell, Victarion Greyjoy, Asha Greyjoy, Pyp, Tommen Baratheon, Thoros of Myr, Jon Snow, Cersei Lannister | "Crows will fight over a dead man's flesh, and kill each other for his eyes.Bloodthirsty, treacherous and cunning, the Lannisters are in power on the Iron Throne in the name of the boy-king Tommen. The war in the Seven Kingdoms has burned itself out, but in its bitter aftermath new conflicts spark to life.The Martells of Dorne and the Starks of Winterfell seek vengeance for their dead. Euron Crow's Eye, as black a pirate as ever raised a sail, returns from the smoking ruins of Valyria to claim the Iron Isles. From the icy north, where Others threaten the Wall, apprentice Maester Samwell Tarly brings a mysterious babe in arms to the Citadel.Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory will go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel and the coldest hearts." | 
         | 1279 | The Angel Experiment | James Patterson  | 05/05/2006 | Young Adult, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Fiction, Adventure, Paranormal, Teen, Action, Mystery, Urban Fantasy | Maximum Ride, Jeb Batchelder, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, Angel (Maximum Ride), Erasers, Fang, Ari | "Six unforgettable kids — with no families, no homes — are running for their lives. Max Ride and her best friends have the ability to fly. And that's just the beginning of their amazing powers. But they don't know where they come from, who's hunting them, why they are different from all other humans... and if they're meant to save mankind — or destroy it." | 
         | 1280 | Matched | Ally Condie  | 11/30/10 | Young Adult, Dystopia, Romance, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Teen, Audiobook, Futuristic, Post Apocalyptic | Cassia Reyes, Ky Markham, Xander Carrow | "In the Society, officials decide. Who you love. Where you work. When you die.Cassia has always trusted their choices. It’s hardly any price to pay for a long life, the perfect job, the ideal mate. So when her best friend appears on the Matching screen, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is the one…until she sees another face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. Now Cassia is faced with impossible choices: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she’s known and a path no one else has ever dared follow—between perfection and passion.Matched is a story for right now and storytelling with the resonance of a classic." | 
         | 1281 | Flowers in the Attic | V.C. Andrews | 10/28/79 | Fiction, Horror, Young Adult, Mystery, Classics, Romance, Gothic, Thriller, Drama, Adult | Cathy Dollanganger, Chris Dollanganger, Cory Dollanganger, Carrie Dollanganger, Corrine Dollanganger, Olivia Foxworth | "Such wonderful children. Such a beautiful mother. Such a lovely house. Such endless terror!It wasn't that she didn't love her children. She did. But there was a fortune at stake—a fortune that would assure their later happiness if she could keep the children a secret from her dying father.So she and her mother hid her darlings away in an unused attic.Just for a little while.But the brutal days swelled into agonizing years. Now Cathy, Chris, and the twins wait in their cramped and helpless world, stirred by adult dreams, adult desires, served a meager sustenance by an angry, superstitious grandmother who knows that the Devil works in dark and devious ways. Sometimes he sends children to do his work—children who—one by one—must be destroyed....'Way upstairs there are four secrets hidden. Blond, beautiful, innocent struggling to stay alive...." | 
         | 1282 | The Chosen | Chaim Potok | 04/12/1987 | Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Jewish, Religion, School, Literature, Judaism, Novels | Reuven Malter, Danny Saunders | "It is the now-classic story of two fathers and two sons and the pressures on all of them to pursue the religion they share in the way that is best suited to each. And as the boys grow into young men, they discover in the other a lost spiritual brother, and a link to an unexplored world that neither had ever considered before. In effect, they exchange places, and find the peace that neither will ever retreat from again. . . ." | 
         | 1283 | All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr  | 05/06/2014 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, War, World War II, Adult, Audiobook, France, Book Club, Adult Fiction | Werner Pfennig, Marie-Laure LeBlanc, Frank Volkheimer, Etienne LeBlanc, Frederick (All the Light We Cannot See), Jutta Pfennig, Madame Manec, Reinhold von Rumpel, Frau Elena, Daniel LeBlanc, Dr. Hauptmann, Walter Bernd, Bastian | "An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereFrom the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another." | 
         | 1284 | Artemis Fowl | Eoin Colfer | 04/01/2003 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Middle Grade, Childrens, Adventure, Science Fiction, Magic, Urban Fantasy, Audiobook | Artemis Fowl II, Domovoi Butler, Captain Holly Short, Commander Julius Root, Foaly, Mulch Diggums, Juliet Butler, Angeline Fowl, Captain Trouble Kelp, Briar Cudgeon, Nguyen Xuan, Corporal Grub Kelp, Professor Cumulus, Dr Jerbal Argon, Chix Verbil | "Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is a millionaire, a genius, and above all, a criminal mastermind. But even Artemis doesn't know what he's taken on when he kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. These aren't the fairies of bedtime stories—they're dangerous! Full of unexpected twists and turns, Artemis Fowl is a riveting, magical adventure." | 
         | 1285 | The Virgin Suicides | Jeffrey Eugenides | 10/28/02 | Fiction, Contemporary, Classics, Young Adult, Literary Fiction, Coming Of Age, Novels, Literature, Adult Fiction, Adult | Cecilia Lisbon, Lux Lisbon, Mary Lisbon, Therese Lisbon, Bonnie Lisbon | "The shocking thing about the girls was how nearly normal they seemed when their mother let them out for the one and only date of their lives. Twenty years on, their enigmatic personalities are embalmed in the memories of the boys who worshipped them and who now recall their shared adolescence: the brassiere draped over a crucifix belonging to the promiscuous Lux; the sisters' breathtaking appearance on the night of the dance; and the sultry, sleepy street across which they watched a family disintegrate and fragile lives disappear." | 
         | 1286 | The Reader | Bernhard Schlink, Carol Brown Janeway (Translator) | 06/26/97 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, German Literature, Classics, Holocaust, Romance, Historical, Germany, War, World War II | Michael Berg, Hanna Schmitz | "Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany.When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his lover—then she inexplicably disappears. When Michael next sees her, he is a young law student, and she is on trial for a hideous crime. As he watches her refuse to defend her innocence, Michael gradually realizes that Hanna may be guarding a secret she considers more shameful than murder." | 
         | 1287 | Nineteen Minutes | Jodi Picoult  | 03/05/2007 | Fiction, Contemporary, Chick Lit, Adult, Adult Fiction, Drama, Young Adult, Realistic Fiction, Mystery, Crime | Josie Cormier, Alex Cormier, Lacy Houghton, Lewis Houghton, Peter Houghton, Jordan McAfee, Patrick Ducharme | "In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn, color your hair, watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five....In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world, or you can just jump off it. In nineteen minutes, you can get revenge. Sterling is a small, ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens - until the day its complacency is shattered by a shocking act of violence. In the aftermath, the town's residents must not only seek justice in order to begin healing but also come to terms with the role they played in the tragedy. For them, the lines between truth and fiction, right and wrong, insider and outsider have been obscured forever. Josie Cormier, the teenage daughter of the judge sitting on the case, could be the state's best witness, but she can't remember what happened in front of her own eyes. And as the trial progresses, fault lines between the high school and the adult community begin to show, destroying the closest of friendships and families. Nineteen Minutes is New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult's most raw, honest, and important novel yet. Told with the straightforward style for which she has become known, it asks simple questions that have no easy answers: Can your own child become a mystery to you? What does it mean to be different in our society? Is it ever okay for a victim to strike back? And who - if anyone - has the right to judge someone else?" | 
         | 1288 | The House of Hades | Rick Riordan  | 10/08/2013 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Mythology, Fiction, Middle Grade, Adventure, Greek Mythology, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Magic | Nico di Angelo, Hades, Hazel Levesque, Annabeth Chase, Percy Jackson, Leo Valdez, Jason Grace, Piper McLean, Frank Zhang | "Hazel stands at a crossroads. She and the remaining crew of the Argo II could return home with the Athena Parthenos statue and try to stop Camp Half-Blood and Camp Jupiter from going to war. Or they could continue their quest to find the House of Hades, where they might be able to open the Doors of Death, rescue their friends Percy and Annabeth from Tartarus, and prevent monsters from being reincarnated in the mortal world. Whichever road they decide to take, they have to hurry, because time is running out. Gaea, the bloodthirsty Earth Mother, has set the date of August 1 for her rise to power.Annabeth and Percy are overwhelmed. How will the two of them make it through Tartarus? Starving, thirsty, and in pain, they are barely able to stumble on in the dark and poisonous landscape that holds new horrors at every turn. They have no way of locating the Doors of Death. Even if they did, a legion of Gaea's strongest monsters guards the Doors on the Tartarus side. Annabeth and Percy can't exactly launch a frontal assault.Despite the terrible odds, Hazel, Annabeth, Percy, and the other demigods of the prophecy know that there is only one choice: to attempt the impossible. Not just for themselves, but for everyone they love. Even though love can be the riskiest choice of all.Join the demigods as they face their biggest challenges yet in The House of Hades, the hair-raising penultimate book in the best-selling Heroes of Olympus series." | 
         | 1289 | Shantaram | Gregory David Roberts | 10/28/04 | Fiction, India, Travel, Adventure, Contemporary, Novels, Asia, Historical Fiction, Unfinished, Crime | Lin Ford, Karla Saraanen, Lisa, Prabaker, Abdel Khader Khan, Abdullah Taheri, Nazeer, Didier | """It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.""So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel set in the underworld of contemporary Bombay. Shantaram is narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport who flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of a city where he can disappear.Accompanied by his guide and faithful friend, Prabaker, the two enter Bombay's hidden society of beggars and gangsters, prostitutes and holy men, soldiers and actors, and Indians and exiles from other countries, who seek in this remarkable place what they cannot find elsewhere.As a hunted man without a home, family, or identity, Lin searches for love and meaning while running a clinic in one of the city's poorest slums, and serving his apprenticeship in the dark arts of the Bombay mafia. The search leads him to war, prison torture, murder, and a series of enigmatic and bloody betrayals. The keys to unlock the mysteries and intrigues that bind Lin are held by two people. The first is Khader Khan: mafia godfather, criminal-philosopher-saint, and mentor to Lin in the underworld of the Golden City. The second is Karla: elusive, dangerous, and beautiful, whose passions are driven by secrets that torment her and yet give her a terrible power.Burning slums and five-star hotels, romantic love and prison agonies, criminal wars and Bollywood films, spiritual gurus and mujaheddin guerrillas – this huge novel has the world of human experience in its reach, and a passionate love for India at its heart. Based on the life of the author, it is by any measure the debut of an extraordinary voice in literature." | 
         | 1290 | The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America | Erik Larson  | 02/11/2003 | Nonfiction, History, True Crime, Crime, Historical, Mystery, Audiobook, American History, Biography, Book Club | Daniel Burnham, H.H. Holmes | "Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with such drama that readers may find themselves checking the book's categorization to be sure that 'The Devil in the White City' is not, in fact, a highly imaginative novel. Larson tells the stories of two men: Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible for the fair's construction, and H.H. Holmes, a serial killer masquerading as a charming doctor. Burnham's challenge was immense. In a short period of time, he was forced to overcome the death of his partner and numerous other obstacles to construct the famous ""White City"" around which the fair was built. His efforts to complete the project, and the fair's incredible success, are skillfully related along with entertaining appearances by such notables as Buffalo Bill Cody, Susan B. Anthony, and Thomas Edison. The activities of the sinister Dr. Holmes, who is believed to be responsible for scores of murders around the time of the fair, are equally remarkable. He devised and erected the World's Fair Hotel, complete with crematorium and gas chamber, near the fairgrounds and used the event as well as his own charismatic personality to lure victims. Combining the stories of an architect and a killer in one book, mostly in alternating chapters, seems like an odd choice but it works. The magical appeal and horrifying dark side of 19th-century Chicago are both revealed through Larson's skillful writing. - John Moe" | 
         | 1291 | Redeeming Love | Francine Rivers  | 10/28/07 | Christian Fiction, Christian, Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Historical, Historical Romance, Adult, Faith, Christian Romance | Angel, Michael Hosea | "California’s gold country, 1850. A time when men sold their souls for a bag of gold and women sold their bodies for a place to sleep. Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. Sold into prostitution as a child, she survives by keeping her hatred alive. And what she hates most are the men who use her, leaving her empty and dead inside. Then she meets Michael Hosea. A man who seeks his Father’s heart in everything, Michael Hosea obeys God’s call to marry Angel and to love her unconditionally. Slowly, day by day, he defies Angel’s every bitter expectation until, despite her resistance her frozen heart begins to thaw. But with her unexpected softening come overwhelming feelings of unworthiness and fear. And so Angel runs. Back to the darkness, away from her husband’s pursuing love, terrified of the truth she can no longer deny: Her final healing must come from the One who loves her even more than Michael Hosea does…the One who will never let her go. A life-changing story of God’s unconditional, redemptive, all-consuming love.-back cover" | 
         | 1292 | The Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton, Maureen Howard (Introduction) | 08/26/04 | Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance, Literature, American, Historical, Novels, New York, Classic Literature | Newland Archer, May Welland, Ellen Olenska, Mrs. Manson Mingott, Mrs. Augusta Welland | "Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people “dreaded scandal more than disease.”This is Newland Archer’s world as he prepares to marry the beautiful but conventional May Welland. But when the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a disastrous marriage, Archer falls deeply in love with her. Torn between duty and passion, Archer struggles to make a decision that will either courageously define his life—or mercilessly destroy it." | 
         | 1293 | The Lost Symbol | Dan Brown  | 09/15/09 | Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Adventure, Historical Fiction, Crime, Novels, Adult | Robert Langdon, Katherine Solomon, Peter Solomon, Inoue Sato, Warren Bellamy, Zachary Solomon, Turner Simkins | "WHAT IS LOST...WILL BE FOUNDIn this stunning follow-up to the global phenomenon The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown demonstrates once again why he is the world's most popular thriller writer. The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storytelling - a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen truths...all under the watchful eye of Brown's most terrifying villain to date. Set within the hidden chambers, tunnels, and temples of Washington, DC., The Lost Symbol accelerates through a startling landscape toward an unthinkable finale.As the story opens, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned unexpectedly to deliver an evening lecture in the U.S. Capitol Building. Within minutes of his arrival, however, the night takes a bizarre turn. A disturbing object - artfully encoded with five symbols - is discovered in the Capitol Building. Langdon recognizes the object as an ancient invitation...one meant to usher its recipient into a long-lost world of esoteric wisdom.When Langdon's beloved mentor, Peter Solomon - a prominent Mason and philanthropist - is brutally kidnapped, Langdon realizes his only hope of saving Peter is to accept this mystical invitation and follow wherever it leads him. Langdon is instantly into a clandestine world of Masonic secrets, hidden history, and never-before-seen locations - all of which seem to be dragging him toward a single, inconceivable truth.As the world discovered in The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, Dan Brown's novels are brilliant tapestries of veiled histories, arcane symbols, and enigmatic codes. In this new novel, he again challenges readers with an intelligent, lightning-paced story that offers surprises at every turn. The Lost Symbol is exactly what Brown's fans have been waiting for...his most thrilling novel yet.(jacket)" | 
         | 1294 | The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | 04/10/2014 | Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels, School, American, Historical, Classic Literature, High School | Tom Joad, Rose of Sharon Joad Rivers, Ma Joad, Pa Joad, Uncle John Joad, Jim Casy, Al Joad, Ruthie Joad, Winfield Joad, Noah Joad, Grampa Joad, Granma Joad, Connie Rivers | "The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers.First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics." | 
         | 1295 | Northanger Abbey | Jane Austen, Alfred J. Mac Adam (Introduction) | 03/03/2005 | Classics, Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Gothic, Literature, 19th Century, Historical, British Literature, Classic Literature | Catherine Morland, Henry Tilney, Eleanor Tilney, General Tilney, John Thorpe, Isabella Thorpe, James Morland, Mrs. Morland, Mr. Morland, Mrs. Allen, Mr. Allen, Captain Tilney, Mrs. Thorpe | "Jane Austen's first novel—published posthumously in 1818—tells the story of Catherine Morland and her dangerously sweet nature, innocence, and sometime self-delusion. Though Austen's fallible heroine is repeatedly drawn into scrapes while vacationing at Bath and during her subsequent visit to Northanger Abbey, Catherine eventually triumphs, blossoming into a discerning woman who learns truths about love, life, and the heady power of literature. The satirical novel pokes fun at the gothic novel while earnestly emphasizing caution to the female sex." | 
         | 1296 | The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | C.S. Lewis, Pauline Baynes (Illustrator) | 09/01/2006 | Fantasy, Fiction, Classics, Young Adult, Childrens, Adventure, Christian, Middle Grade, Christian Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy | Aslan, Lucy Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie, Eustace Scrubb, Prince Caspian, Reepicheep | "The Dawn Treader will take you places you never dreamed existed. NARNIA... the world of wicked dragons and magic spells, where the very best is brought out of even the worst people, where anything can happen (and most often does)... and where the adventure begins.The Dawn Treader is the first ship Narnia has seen in centuries. King Caspian has built it for his voyage to find the seven lords, good men whom his evil uncle Miraz banished when he usurped the throne. The journey takes Edmund, Lucy, and their cousin Eustace to the Eastern Islands, beyond the Silver Sea, toward Aslan's country at the End of the World." | 
         | 1297 | Dubliners | James Joyce, Jeri Johnson (Editor, Introduction and Notes) | 03/15/01 | Classics, Fiction, Short Stories, Ireland, Literature, Irish Literature, 20th Century, School, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction | Mariecke, Bantam Lyons, John Corley, Fr. Flynn, Jimmy Doyle, Matthew Lenehan, Mrs. Mooney, Polly Mooney, Mr. Doran, Little Chandler, Ignatius Gallaher, Farrington, Tom Farrington, Joe Donnelly, Mr. Duffy, Mrs. Sinico, Charles Stewart Parnell, Mrs. Kearney, Kathleen Kearney, Mr. Kernan, Gabriel Conroy | "This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemism, reveals to the Irish their unromantic realities. Each of the 15 stories offers glimpses into the lives of ordinary Dubliners, and collectively they paint a portrait of a nation." | 
         | 1298 | A Court of Thorns and Roses | Sarah J. Maas  | 05/05/2015 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, New Adult, Retellings, Fiction, Magic, Fae, Young Adult Fantasy, Paranormal | Amarantha, Feyre Archeron, Tamlin, Lucien Vanserra, Rhysand, Nesta Archeron, Elain Archeron | "Feyre's survival rests upon her ability to hunt and kill – the forest where she lives is a cold, bleak place in the long winter months. So when she spots a deer in the forest being pursued by a wolf, she cannot resist fighting it for the flesh. But to do so, she must kill the predator and killing something so precious comes at a price ...Dragged to a magical kingdom for the murder of a faerie, Feyre discovers that her captor, his face obscured by a jewelled mask, is hiding far more than his piercing green eyes would suggest. Feyre's presence at the court is closely guarded, and as she begins to learn why, her feelings for him turn from hostility to passion and the faerie lands become an even more dangerous place. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose him forever." | 
         | 1299 | Untamed | P.C. Cast , Kristin Cast  | 09/23/08 | Young Adult, Vampires, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Fiction, Supernatural, Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy, Magic | Zoey Redbird, Nyx (House of Night), Erik Night, Stevie Rae Johnson, Neferet, Heath Luck, Aphrodite LaFont, Kalona, Sylvia Redbird, Erin Bates, Shaunee Cole, Damien Maslin, James Stark, Jack Twist, Darius Langley | "Zoey Redbird's adventures at vampyre finishing school take a wild and dangerous turn as loyalties are tested and shocking true intentions come to light, in this spellbinding fourth novel in the House of Night series." | 
         | 1300 | Everything Is Illuminated | Jonathan Safran Foer  | 04/01/2003 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Novels, Literature, Holocaust, Literary Fiction, Jewish, Magical Realism, Historical | Alexander Perchov, Jonathan Safran Foer | "With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man - also named Jonathan Safran Foer - sets out to find the woman who may or may not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war; an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior; and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape and into an unexpected past." | 
         | 1301 | Crown of Midnight | Sarah J. Maas  | 08/27/13 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Magic, Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy, New Adult, High Fantasy, Fae, Paranormal | Celaena Sardothien, Chaol Westfall, Prince Dorian Havilliard, Princess Nehemia Ytger, Archer Finn, Kaltain Rompier | """A line that should never be crossed is about to be breached.It puts this entire castle in jeopardy—and the life of your friend.""From the throne of glass rules a king with a fist of iron and a soul as black as pitch. Assassin Celaena Sardothien won a brutal contest to become his Champion. Yet Celaena is far from loyal to the crown. She hides her secret vigilantly; she knows that the man she serves is bent on evil.Keeping up the deadly charade becomes increasingly difficult when Celaena realizes she is not the only one seeking justice. As she tries to untangle the mysteries buried deep within the glass castle, her closest relationships suffer. It seems no one is above questioning her allegiances—not the Crown Prince Dorian; not Chaol, the Captain of the Guard; not even her best friend, Nehemia, a foreign princess with a rebel heart.Then one terrible night, the secrets they have all been keeping lead to an unspeakable tragedy. As Celaena's world shatters, she will be forced to give up the very thing most precious to her and decide once and for all where her true loyalties lie... and whom she is ultimately willing to fight for." | 
         | 1302 | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou | 11/28/93 | Nonfiction, Classics, Memoir, Biography, Autobiography, Poetry, Feminism, African American, Biography Memoir, Race | ""Marguerite Johnson ''Maya''"", Bailey Johnson Jr., ""Annie Henderson ''Momma''"", Uncle Willie, Bailey Johnson, Vivian Baxter | "Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local ""powhitetrash."" At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (""I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare"") will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read." | 
         | 1303 | I, Robot | Isaac Asimov | 06/28/04 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Classics, Short Stories, Science Fiction Fantasy, Robots, Fantasy, Audiobook, Novels, Speculative Fiction | Susan Calvin, Mike Donovan | "Isaac Asimov's I, Robot launches readers on an adventure into a not-so-distant future where man and machine , struggle to redefinelife, love, and consciousness—and where the stakes are nothing less than survival. Filled with unforgettable characters, mind-bending speculation, and nonstop action, I, Robot is a powerful reading experience from one of the master storytellers of our time. I, ROBOT They mustn't harm a human being, they must obey hitman orders, and they must protect their own existence...but only so long as that doesn't violate rules one and two. With these Three Laws of Robotics, humanity embarked on perhaps its greatest adventure: the invention of the first positronic man. It was a bold new era of evolution that would open up enormous possibilities—and unforeseen risks. For the scientists who invented the earliest robots weren't content that their creations should ' remain programmed helpers, companions, and semisentient worker-machines. And soon the robots themselves; aware of their own intelligence, power, and humanity, aren't either. As humans and robots struggle to survive together—and sometimes against each other—on earth and in space, the future of both hangs in the balance. Human men and women confront robots gone mad, telepathic robots, robot politicians, and vast robotic intelligences that may already secretly control the world. And both are asking the same questions: What is human? And is humanity obsolete? In l, Robot Isaac Asimov changes forever our perception of robots, and human beings and updates the timeless myth of man's dream to play god. with all its rewards—and terrors.-front flap" | 
         | 1304 | The Pearl | John Steinbeck | 01/08/2002 | Classics, Fiction, Literature, School, Historical Fiction, Novels, Read For School, American, Classic Literature, High School | Kino, Juana, Coyotito, Juan Tomas, Apolonia | "Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the kings of Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant son with meager subsistence. Then, on a day like any other, Kino emerges from the sea with a pearl as large as a sea gull’s egg, as “perfect as the moon.” With the pearl comes hope, the promise of comfort and of security…A story of classic simplicity, based on a Mexican folk tale, The Pearl explores the secrets of man’s nature, greed, the darkest depths of evil, and the luminous possibilities of love." | 
         | 1305 | The One | Kiera Cass  | 05/06/2014 | Young Adult, Romance, Dystopia, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Audiobook, Teen, Chick Lit, Young Adult Fantasy | Aspen Leger, America Singer, Prince Maxon | "The time has come for one winner to be crowned.When she was chosen to compete in the Selection, America never dreamed she would find herself anywhere close to the crown—or to Prince Maxon's heart. But as the end of the competition approaches, and the threats outside the palace walls grow more vicious, America realizes just how much she stands to lose—and how hard she'll have to fight for the future she wants." | 
         | 1306 | The Jungle | Upton Sinclair, Earl Lee  (Foreword), Kathleen DeGrave (Introduction) | 04/01/2003 | Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literature, Politics, School, Novels, Historical, Classic Literature, American | Jurgis, Ona Lukoszaite, Teta Elzbieta Lukoszaite | "For nearly a century, the original version of Upton Sinclair's classic novel has remained almost entirely unknown. When it was published in serial form in 1905, it was a full third longer than the censored, commercial edition published in book form the following year. That expurgated commercial edition edited out much of the ethnic flavor of the original, as well as some of the goriest descriptions of the meat-packing industry and much of Sinclair's most pointed social and political commentary. The text of this new edition is as it appeared in the original uncensored edition of 1905. It contains the full 36 chapters as originally published, rather than the 31 of the expurgated edition. A new foreword describes the discovery in the 1980s of the original edition and its subsequent suppression, and a new introduction places the novel in historical context by explaining the pattern of censorship in the shorter commercial edition." | 
         | 1307 | Carrie | Stephen King  | 11/01/2005 | Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Paranormal, Fantasy, Classics, Supernatural, Adult, Novels, Adult Fiction | Carrie White, Margaret White, Tommy Ross, Chris Hargensen, Sue Snell, Rita Desjardin, Billy Nolan | "A modern classic, Carrie introduced a distinctive new voice in American fiction - Stephen King. The story of misunderstood high school girl Carrie White, her extraordinary telekinetic powers, and her violent rampage of revenge, remains one of the most barrier-breaking and shocking novels of all time.Make a date with terror and live the nightmare that is...Carrie-back cover" | 
         | 1308 | Snow Falling on Cedars | David Guterson | 09/26/95 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Historical, Literature, Novels, Romance, Classics, Literary Fiction, Adult Fiction | Kabuo Miyamoto, Ishmael Chambers, Hatsue Miyamoto, Carl Heine | "Gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric—a masterpiece of suspense San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. In the course of the ensuing trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than a man's guilt. For on San Pedro, memories of a charmed love affair between a white boy and the Japanese girl who grew up to become Kabuo's wife; memories of land desired, paid for, and lost. Above all, San Piedro is haunted by the memory of what happened to its Japanese residents during World War II, when an entire community was sent into exile while its neighbors watched." | 
         | 1309 | Voyager | Diana Gabaldon  | 08/07/2001 | Historical Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction, Time Travel, Historical, Historical Romance, Adult, Audiobook, Scotland | Jamie Fraser, Brianna Randall, Roger MacKenzie, Fergus Fraser, Marsali Fraser, Ian Murray, Lord John Grey, Claire Randall Fraser, Geillis Duncan, Jenny Murray, Stephen Bonnet, Young Ian Murray, William Ransom, Laoghaire MacKenzie, Mr. Willoughby, Joan MacKimmie, Michael Murray | "From the author of the breathtaking bestsellers Outlander and Dragonfly in Amber, the extraordinary saga continues.Their passionate encounter happened long ago by whatever measurement Claire Randall took. Two decades before, she had traveled back in time and into the arms of a gallant eighteenth-century Scot named Jamie Fraser. Then she returned to her own century to bear his child, believing him dead in the tragic battle of Culloden. Yet his memory has never lessened its hold on her... and her body still cries out for him in her dreams.Then Claire discovers that Jamie survived. Torn between returning to him and staying with their daughter in her own era, Claire must choose her destiny. And as time and space come full circle, she must find the courage to face the passion and pain awaiting her...the deadly intrigues raging in a divided Scotland... and the daring voyage into the dark unknown that can reunite or forever doom her timeless love." | 
         | 1310 | I, Claudius | Robert Graves | 10/23/89 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Classics, Historical, Literature, Italy, Novels, British Literature, Audiobook, 20th Century | Nero (emperor), Caligula, Livia Drusa, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus, Agrippina the Elder, Tiberius Claudius Caesar, Augustus, Valeria Messalina | "Into the 'autobiography' of Clau-Clau-Claudius, the pitiful stammerer who was destined to become Emperor in spite of himself, Graves packs the everlasting intrigues, the depravity, the bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius, soon to culminate in the deified insanity of Caligula.I, Claudius and its sequel, Claudius the God, are among the most celebrated, as well the most gripping historical novels ever written.Cover illustration: Brian Pike" | 
         | 1311 | Heir of Fire | Sarah J. Maas  | 09/02/2014 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Magic, New Adult, Young Adult Fantasy, Fiction, Fae, High Fantasy, Paranormal | Celaena Sardothien, Chaol Westfall, Prince Dorian Havilliard, Manon Blackbeak, Rowan Whitethorn | "Celaena has survived deadly contests and shattering heartbreak-but at an unspeakable cost. Now, she must travel to a new land to confront her darkest truth . . . a truth about her heritage that could change her life-and her future-forever. Meanwhile, brutal and monstrous forces are gathering on the horizon, intent on enslaving her world. Will Celaena find the strength to not only fight her inner demons, but to take on the evil that is about to be unleashed?" | 
         | 1312 | Me Talk Pretty One Day | David Sedaris | 10/28/01 | Nonfiction, Humor, Memoir, Essays, Short Stories, Comedy, Biography, Audiobook, Biography Memoir, Autobiography | David Sedaris | "David Sedaris' move to Paris from New York inspired these hilarious pieces, including the title essay, about his attempts to learn French from a sadistic teacher who declares that every day spent with you is like having a caesarean section. His family is another inspiration. You Can't Kill the Rooster is a portrait of his brother, who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. And no one hones a finer fury in response to such modern annoyances as restaurant meals presented in ludicrous towers of food and cashiers with six-inch fingernails." | 
         | 1313 | Chosen | P.C. Cast , Kristin Cast  | 03/04/2008 | Young Adult, Vampires, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Fiction, Supernatural, Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy, Magic | Zoey Redbird, Nyx (House of Night), Erik Night, Stevie Rae Johnson, Neferet, Heath Luck, Aphrodite LaFont, Sylvia Redbird, Loren Blake, Erin Bates, Shaunee Cole, Damien Maslin, Jack Twist, Darius Langley | "Dark forces are at work at the House of Night and Zoey Redbird’s adventures at the school take a mysterious turn. Her best friend, Stevie Rae, is undead and struggling to maintain a grip on her humanity. Zoey finds herself in the very unexpected and rare situation of having three boyfriends. Mix a little bloodlust into the equation and the situation has the potential to spell social disaster. Just when it seems things couldn’t get any tougher, vampyres start turning up dead. Really dead. It looks like the People of Faith are tired of living side-by-side with vampyres. But, as Zoey and her friends so often find out, how things appear rarely affects the truth…" | 
         | 1314 | A Room with a View | E.M. Forster | 01/01/2005 | Classics, Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Literature, Italy, British Literature, 20th Century, Novels, Classic Literature | Lucy Honeychurch, Charlotte Bartlett, George Emerson, Mr. Emerson, Rev. Arthur Beebe, Eleanor Lavish, Cecil Vyse, Freddy Honeychurch, Rev. Cuthbert Eager, Miss Alan | """But you do,"" he went on, not waiting for contradiction. ""You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you, and no other word expresses it ...""Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her, until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. Her eyes are opened by the unconventional characters she meets at the Pension Bertolini: flamboyant romantic novelist Eleanor Lavish, the Cockney Signora, curious Mr Emerson and, most of all, his passionate son George.Lucy finds herself torn between the intensity of life in Italy and the repressed morals of Edwardian England, personified in her terminally dull fiancé Cecil Vyse. Will she ever learn to follow her own heart?" | 
         | 1315 | Bleak House | Charles Dickens, Nicola Bradbury (Annotations), Hablot Knight Browne (Illustrations) | 01/06/2006 | Classics, Fiction, Literature, 19th Century, Victorian, Historical Fiction, British Literature, Novels, Classic Literature, Mystery | Esther Summerson, Lady Dedlock, John Jarndyce, Sir Leicester Dedlock | "Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The obscure case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs, the romance of Esther Summerson and the secrets of her origin, the sleuthing of Detective Inspector Bucket and the fate of Jo the crossing-sweeper, these are some of the lives Dickens invokes to portray London society, rich and poor, as no other novelist has done. Bleak House, in its atmosphere, symbolism and magnificent bleak comedy, is often regarded as the best of Dickens. A 'great Victorian novel', it is so inventive in its competing plots and styles that it eludes interpretation." | 
         | 1316 | The Republic | Plato, Desmond Lee (Translator), Maria Helena da Rocha Pereira (Translator), Benjamin Jowett (Translator) | 02/25/03 | Philosophy, Classics, Nonfiction, Politics, History, School, Literature, Political Science, Ancient, College | Adeimantus, Polemarchus, Cleitophon, Socrates (philosopher) | "Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classic text is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation, other questions are raised: what is goodness?; what is reality?; and what is knowledge? The Republic also addresses the purpose of education and the role of both women and men as guardians of the people. With remarkable lucidity and deft use of allegory, Plato arrives at a depiction of a state bound by harmony and ruled by philosopher kings." | 
         | 1317 | The Last Battle | C.S. Lewis | 06/20/05 | Fantasy, Fiction, Classics, Young Adult, Childrens, Christian, Adventure, Middle Grade, Christian Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy | Aslan, Lucy Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie, Eustace Scrubb, Jill Pole, Jewel, The Anti-Christ, Puzzle, King Tirian, Digory Kirke, Peter Pevensie, Reepicheep, Shift | "This edition of Lewis's classic fantasy fiction is packaged specifically for adults. Complementing the look of the author's non-fiction books, and anticipating the forthcoming Narnia feature films, this edition contains an exclusive P.S. section about the history of the book, plus a round-up of the first six titles." | 
         | 1318 | The Exorcist | William Peter Blatty | 02/01/1994 | Horror, Fiction, Classics, Paranormal, Thriller, Supernatural, Fantasy, Religion, Audiobook, Adult | Lankester Merrin, Pazuzu, Damien Karras, Regan MacNeil, Chris MacNeil | "Four decades after it first terrified the world, William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist is back! An extraordinary classic work of horror and dark paranormal suspense. In this stunning 40th Anniversary Edition, a desperate mother and two priests fight to free the soul of a little girl from a supernatural entity of pure malevolence." | 
         | 1319 | Coraline | Neil Gaiman , Dave McKean (illustrator) | 08/29/06 | Fantasy, Horror, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Middle Grade, Audiobook, Paranormal, Adventure, Supernatural | Coraline Jones, Mrs. Jones, Mr. Jones, The Cat, The Other Mother, The Other Father, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, Mr. Bobo | "The day after they moved in, Coraline went exploring....In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close. The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own. Only it's different. At first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. The food is better. The toy box is filled with wind-up angels that flutter around the bedroom, books whose pictures writhe and crawl and shimmer, little dinosaur skulls that chatter their teeth. But there's another mother, and another father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Other children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors. Coraline is their only hope of rescue. She will have to fight with all her wits and all the tools she can find if she is to save the lost children, her ordinary life, and herself. Critically acclaimed and award-winning author Neil Gaiman will delight readers with his first novel for all ages." | 
         | 1320 | Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend | Hermann Hesse, Thomas Mann (Introduction) | 12/07/1996 | Fiction, Classics, Philosophy, Literature, German Literature, Novels, Germany, 20th Century, Coming Of Age, Spirituality | Emil Sinclair, Max Demian | "Wie alle Hauptwerke Hermann Hesses hat auch der Demian, den der damals 40jährige Autor mitten im Ersten Weltkrieg schrieb, eine ebenso ungewöhnliche wie spannende Entstehungs- und Wirkungsgeschichte. Daß dieses im Herbst 1917 vollendete Buch erst im Juni 1919, ein halbes Jahr nach Kriegsende, veröffentlicht wurde, lag an der Unbekanntheit des Verfassers. Denn Hesse hatte das Manuskript dem Verlag als das Erstlingswerk eines kranken jungen Dichters empfohlen, des zeitkritischen Poeten Emil Sinclair, der bisher nur in Zeitungen und Zeitschriften durch pazifistische Mahnrufe und Erzählungen aufgefallen war (die gleichfalls von Hesse stammten). Doch trotz des Inkognitos erlebte das Buch eine geradezu stürmische Aufnahme und wurde noch im Erscheinungsjahr mit dem Fontane-Preis für das beste Erstlingswerk eines Nachwuchsautors ausgezeichnet. Thomas Mann verglich die elektrisierende Wirkung des Buches mit der von Goethes Werther, da es »mit unheimlicher Genauigkeit den Nerv der Zeit traf und eine ganze Jugend, die wähnte aus ihrer Mitte sei ihr ein Künder ihres tiefsten Lebens entstanden, zu dankbarem Entzücken hinriß«. Bis zur Entdeckung des Pseudonyms im Mai 1920 erschienen drei Auflagen, denen dann unter Hesses eigenem Namen zu seinen Lebzeiten noch 93 weitere folgten." | 
         | 1321 | The 5th Wave | Rick Yancey | 05/07/2013 | Young Adult, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Fiction, Aliens, Fantasy, Post Apocalyptic, Romance, Audiobook, Apocalyptic | Evan Walker, Cassie Sullivan, Sammy Sullivan, Ben Parish, Colonel Alexander | "After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one.Now, it's the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth's last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie's only hope for rescuing her brother-or even saving herself. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. To give up or to get up." | 
         | 1322 | The Iron King | Julie Kagawa  | 01/19/10 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Paranormal, Fae, Fairies, Magic, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy | Meghan Chase, Puck, Grimalkin, ""Ash - Ashallayn'' Darkmyr Tallyn"", Ethan Chase, Machina The Iron King | "Meghan Chase has a secret destiny; one she could never have imagined.Something has always felt slightly off in Meghan's life, ever since her father disappeared before her eyes when she was six. She has never quite fit in at school or at home.When a dark stranger begins watching her from afar, and her prankster best friend becomes strangely protective of her, Meghan senses that everything she's known is about to change.But she could never have guessed the truth - that she is the daughter of a mythical faery king and is a pawn in a deadly war. Now Meghan will learn just how far she'll go to save someone she cares about, to stop a mysterious evil, no faery creature dare face; and to find love with a young prince who might rather see her dead than let her touch his icy heart." | 
         | 1323 | Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe | Benjamin Alire Sáenz  | 02/21/12 | Young Adult, LGBT, Contemporary, Romance, Fiction, Audiobook, Realistic Fiction, Queer, Coming Of Age, Young Adult Contemporary | Aristotle ""Ari"" Mendoza, Dante Quintana | "A lyrical novel about family and friendship from critically acclaimed author Benjamin Alire Sáenz. Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the loners start spending time together, they discover that they share a special friendship-the kind that changes lives and lasts a lifetime. And it is through this friendship that Ari and Dante will learn the most important truths about themselves and the kind of people they want to be." | 
         | 1324 | Torment | Lauren Kate  | 09/28/10 | Young Adult, Fantasy, Angels, Romance, Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Teen | Lucinda Price, Daniel Grigori, Arriane Alter, Cameron Briel, Shelby Sterris, Miles Fisher, Mary Margaret  Zane, Roland Sparks, Gabrielle Givens, Dawn Casterly, Lillith Clout | "Hell on earth.That’s what it’s like for Luce to be apart from her fallen angel boyfriend, Daniel. It took them an eternity to find one another, but now he has told her he must go away. Just long enough to hunt down the Outcasts—immortals who want to kill Luce. Daniel hides Luce at Shoreline, a school on the rocky California coast with unusually gifted students: Nephilim, the offspring of fallen angels and humans.At Shoreline, Luce learns what the Shadows are, and how she can use them as windows to her previous lives. Yet the more Luce learns, the more she suspects that Daniel hasn’t told her everything. He’s hiding something—something dangerous. What if Daniel’s version of the past isn’t actually true? What if Luce is really meant to be with someone else?" | 
         | 1325 | Bloodlines | Richelle Mead  | 08/23/11 | Young Adult, Vampires, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Magic, Supernatural, Paranormal Romance, Fiction | Sydney Sage, Dimitri Belikov, Adrian Ivashkov, Jillian Mastrano, Abe Mazur, Edison ""Eddie"" Castile, Zoe Sage | "I wasn't free of my past, not yet.Sydney's blood is special. That's because she's an alchemist - one of a group of humans who dabble in magic and serve to bridge the worlds of humans and vampires. They protect vampire secrets - and human lives. But the last encounter Sydney had with vampires got her in deep trouble with the other alchemists. And now with her allegiances in question, her future is on the line.When Sydney is torn from her bed in the middle of the night, at first she thinks she's still being punished for her complicated alliance with dhampir Rose Hathaway. But what unfolds is far worse. Jill Dragomir - the sister of Moroi Queen Lissa Dragomir - is in mortal danger, and the Moroi must send her into hiding. To avoid a civil war, Sydney is called upon to act as Jill's guardian and protector, posing as her roommate in the unlikeliest of places: a human boarding school in Palm Springs, California. The last thing Sydney wants is to be accused of sympathizing with vampires. And now she has to live with one.The Moroi court believe Jill and Sydney will be safe at Amberwood Prep, but threats, distractions, and forbidden romance lurk both outside - and within - the school grounds. Now that they're in hiding, the drama is only just beginning." | 
         | 1326 | Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray, John Carey (Editor/Introduction) | 01/30/03 | Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literature, 19th Century, British Literature, Victorian, Romance, Classic Literature, Novels | Amelia Sedley, Rebecca Sharp, William Dobbin, George Osborne, Rawdon Crawley, Jos Sedley, Sir Pitt Crawley, Matilda Crawley | "A novel that chronicles the lives of two women who could not be more different: Becky Sharp, an orphan whose only resources are her vast ambitions, her native wit, and her loose morals; and her schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a typically naive Victorian heroine, the pampered daughter of a wealthy family." | 
         | 1327 | Wizard's First Rule | Terry Goodkind | 04/14/03 | Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Magic, Adventure, Romance, Adult, Epic | Richard Cypher, Kahlan Amnell, ""Zeddicus Zu''l Zorander"", Darken Rahl | "In the aftermath of the brutal murder of his father, a mysterious woman, Kahlan Amnell, appears in Richard Cypher's forest sanctuary seeking help . . . and more. His world, his very beliefs, are shattered when ancient debts come due with thundering violence. In a dark age it takes courage to live, and more than mere courage to challenge those who hold dominion, Richard and Kahlan must take up that challenge or become the next victims. Beyond awaits a bewitching land where even the best of their hearts could betray them. Yet, Richard fears nothing so much as what secrets his sword might reveal about his own soul. Falling in love would destroy them—for reasons Richard can't imagine and Kahlan dare not say.In their darkest hour, hunted relentlessly, tormented by treachery and loss, Kahlan calls upon Richard to reach beyond his sword—to invoke within himself something more noble. Neither knows that the rules of battle have just changed . . . or that their time has run out.This is the beginning. One book. One Rule. Witness the birth of a legend." | 
         | 1328 | North and South | Elizabeth Gaskell | 01/13/94 | Classics, Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Historical, 19th Century, Victorian, Literature, British Literature, Historical Romance | Margaret Hale, Frederick Hale, Mr. Hale, Mrs. Hale, Mr. Bell, Dixon, Mrs. Hannah Thornton, Fanny Thornton, Bessy Higgins, Nicholas Higgins, John   Thornton | "When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the north of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of Milton, Margaret becomes aware of the poverty and suffering of the local mill workers and develops a passionate sense of social justice. This is intensified by her tempestuous relationship with the mill-owner and self-made man, John Thornton, as their fierce opposition over his treatment of his employees masks a deeper attraction.In North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell skillfully fuses individual feeling with social concern, and in Margaret Hale creates one of the most original heroines of Victorian literature." | 
         | 1329 | Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh | 01/30/82 | Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literature, British Literature, Novels, 20th Century, LGBT, Literary Fiction, Historical | Charles Ryder, Lord Sebastian Flyte, Lady Julia Flyte, Rex Mottram, Anthony Blanche | "The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly-disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian at Oxford, then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia, Charles comes finally to recognize only his spiritual and social distance from them." | 
         | 1330 | Of Human Bondage | W. Somerset Maugham, Benjamin DeMott (Introduction), Maeve Binchy (Afterword) | 01/02/2007 | Classics, Fiction, Literature, Novels, British Literature, Literary Fiction, Romance, 20th Century, Classic Literature, Coming Of Age | Philip Carey, Mildred Rogers, Norah Nesbit, Thorpe Athelny, Sally Athelny, Hayward, Emily Wilkinson, Louisa Carey, Dr. South, Harry Griffiths, Fanny Price (Of Human Bondage), Frederick Lawson, Cronshaw, Ruth Chalice, Dr. Tyrell, Betty Athelny | "From a tormented orphan with a clubfoot, Philip Carey grows into an impressionable young man with a voracious appetite for adventure and knowledge. His cravings take him to Paris at age eighteen to try his hand at art, then back to London to study medicine. But even so, nothing can sate his nagging hunger for experience. Then he falls obsessively in love, embarking on a disastrous relationship that will change his life forever.…Marked by countless similarities to Maugham’s own life, his masterpiece is “not an autobiography,” as the author himself once contended, “but an autobiographical novel; fact and fiction are inexorably mingled; the emotions are my own.”" | 
         | 1331 | World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War | Max Brooks  | 09/12/2006 | Horror, Fiction, Zombies, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Post Apocalyptic, Dystopia, Audiobook, Apocalyptic, War | Zombies, Kwang Jing-shu, Nury Televaldi, Stanley MacDonald, Todd Wainio, Maria Zhuganova, Jesika Hendricks, Joe Muhammad | "The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.Ranging from the now infamous village of New Dachang in the United Federation of China, where the epidemiological trail began with the twelve-year-old Patient Zero, to the unnamed northern forests where untold numbers sought a terrible and temporary refuge in the cold, to the United States of Southern Africa, where the Redeker Plan provided hope for humanity at an unspeakable price, to the west-of-the-Rockies redoubt where the North American tide finally started to turn, this invaluable chronicle reflects the full scope and duration of the Zombie War.Most of all, the book captures with haunting immediacy the human dimension of this epochal event. Facing the often raw and vivid nature of these personal accounts requires a degree of courage on the part of the reader, but the effort is invaluable because, as Mr. Brooks says in his introduction, ""By excluding the human factor, aren't we risking the kind of personal detachment from history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it? And in the end, isn't the human factor the only true difference between us and the enemy we now refer to as 'the living dead'?""Note: Some of the numerical and factual material contained in this edition was previously published under the auspices of the United Nations Postwar Commission." | 
         | 1332 | A Great and Terrible Beauty | Libba Bray  | 12/09/2003 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Paranormal, Romance, Magic, Teen, Young Adult Fantasy | Gemma Doyle, Kartik, Ann Bradshaw, Felicity Worthington, Pippa Cross | "In this debut gothic novel mysterious visions, dark family secrets and a long-lost diary thrust Gemma and her classmates back into the horrors that followed her from India. (Ages 12+)It's 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma's reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she's been followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence's most powerful girls—and their foray into the spiritual world—lead to?" | 
         | 1333 | The Witching Hour | Anne Rice | 11/04/2004 | Horror, Fantasy, Fiction, Paranormal, Witches, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy, Gothic, Magic, Adult | Rowan Mayfair, Michael James Timothy Curry, Aaron Lightner, Lasher, Deirdre Mayfair, Stella Mayfair, Mary Beth Mayfair, Antha Mayfair, Carlotta Mayfair, Ellie Mayfair, Julien Mayfair, Marie Claudette Mayfair Landry, Angélique Mayfair, Katherine Mayfair, Remy Mayfair, Graham Franklin, Lionel Mayfair, Belle Mayfair, Darcy Monahan, Sean Lacy, Petyr van Abel, Deborah Mayfair de Montcleve, Suzanne Mayfair, Lestan Mayfair, Marguerite Mayfair, Tyrone Clifford McNamara, Augustin Mayfair, Jeannette Mayfair, Cortland Mayfair, Barclay Mayfair, Garland Mayfair, Corrington Mayfair, Daniel McIntyre, Nancy Mayfair, Millie Mayfair, Amanda Grady Mayfair, Sean McIntyre, Alice Mayfair | "From the author of the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles comes a huge, hypnotic novel of witchcraft and the occult through four centuries.Demonstrating, once again, her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of legend, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of witches—a family given to poetry and to incest, to murder and to philosophy; a family that, over the ages, is itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous, and seductive being.On the veranda of a great New Orleans house, now faded, a mute and fragile woman sits rocking... and The Witching Hour begins.It begins in our time with a rescue at sea.  Rowan Mayfair, a beautiful woman, a brilliant practitioner of neurosurgery—aware that she has special powers but unaware that she comes from an ancient line of witches—finds the drowned body of a man off the coast of California and brings him to life.  He is Michael Curry, who was born in New Orleans and orphaned in childhood by fire on Christmas Eve, who pulled himself up from poverty, and who now, in his brief interval of death, has acquired a sensory power that mystifies and frightens him.As these two, fiercely drawn to each other, fall in love and—in passionate alliance—set out to solve the mystery of her past and his unwelcome gift, the novel moves backward and forward in time from today's New Orleans and San Francisco to long-ago Amsterdam and a château in the France of Louis XIV.  An intricate tale of evil unfolds—an evil unleashed in seventeenth-century Scotland, where the first ""witch,"" Suzanne of the Mayfair, conjures up the spirit she names Lasher... a creation that spells her own destruction and torments each of her descendants in turn.From the coffee plantations of Port au Prince, where the great Mayfair fortune is made and the legacy of their dark power is almost destroyed, to Civil War New Orleans, as Julien—the clan's only male to be endowed with occult powers—provides for the dynasty its foothold in America, the dark, luminous story encompasses dramas of seduction and death, episodes of tenderness and healing.  And always—through peril and escape, tension and release—there swirl around us the echoes of eternal war: innocence versus the corruption of the spirit, sanity against madness, life against death.  With a dreamlike power, the novel draws us, through circuitous, twilight paths, to the present and Rowan's increasingly inspired and risky moves in the merciless game that binds her to her heritage. And in New Orleans, on Christmas Eve, this strangest of family sagas is brought to its startling climax." | 
         | 1334 | The Summoning | Kelley Armstrong  | 07/01/2008 | Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Supernatural, Magic, Romance, Ghosts, Werewolves, Fiction | Chloe Saunders, Derek Souza, ""Victoria ''Tori'' Enright"", ""Rachelle ''Rae'' Rogers"", Simon Bae | "Chloe Saunders used to have a relatively normal life.But now she finds herself in the middle of some really strange situations because:~She suddenly starts seeing dead people.~She gets locked up in a group home for unstable teens.~The group home isn't what it seems. My name is Chloe Saunders and my life will never be the same again.All I wanted was to make friends, meet boys, and keep on being ordinary. I don't even know what that means anymore. It all started on the day that I saw my first ghost—and the ghost saw me.Now there are ghosts everywhere and they won't leave me alone. To top it all off, I somehow got myself locked up in Lyle House, a ""special home"" for troubled teens. Yet the home isn't what it seems. Don't tell anyone, but I think there might be more to my housemates than meets the eye. The question is, whose side are they on? It's up to me to figure out the dangerous secrets behind Lyle House... before its skeletons come back to haunt me." | 
         | 1335 | Cry, the Beloved Country | Alan Paton | 11/25/03 | Fiction, Classics, Africa, Historical Fiction, South Africa, Literature, School, Novels, Historical, Read For School | Stephen Kumalo, Absalom Kumalo, Msimangu, James Jarvis | "Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa’s history, was an immediate worldwide bestseller in 1948. Alan Paton’s impassioned novel about a black man’s country under white man’s law is a work of searing beauty.Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.The eminent literary critic Lewis Gannett wrote, “We have had many novels from statesmen and reformers, almost all bad; many novels from poets, almost all thin. In Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country the statesman, the poet and the novelist meet in a unique harmony.” Cry, the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son, Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its lyricism, unforgettable for character and incident, Cry, the Beloved Country is a classic work of love and hope, courage and endurance, born of the dignity of man." | 
         | 1336 | Johnny Got His Gun | Dalton Trumbo | 08/01/2000 | Fiction, Classics, War, Historical Fiction, Horror, Literature, Novels, World War I, Politics, American | Joe Bonham | "This was no ordinary war. This was a war to make the world safe for democracy. And if democracy was made safe, then nothing else mattered - not the millions of dead bodies, nor the thousands of ruined lives... This is no ordinary novel. This is a novel that never takes the easy way out: it is shocking, violent, terrifying, horrible, uncompromising, brutal, remorseless and gruesome... but so is war. Winner of the National Book Award." | 
         | 1337 | Chocolat | Joanne Harris  | 11/01/2000 | Fiction, Romance, Magical Realism, France, Fantasy, Contemporary, Food, Chick Lit, Historical Fiction, Adult | Caro Clairmont, Josephine Bonnet, Anouk Rocher, Vianne Rocher, Roux, Francis Reynaud, Armande Voizin, Paul-Marie Muscat, Luc Clairmont, Guillaume Duplessis | "A timeless novel of a straitlaced village's awakening to joy and sensuality - every page offers a description of chocolate to melt in the mouths of chocoholics, francophiles, armchair gourmets, cookbook readers, and lovers of passion everywhere.Illuminating Peter Mayle's South of France with a touch of Laura Esquivel's magic realism, Chocolat is a timeless novel of a straitlaced village's awakening to joy and sensuality. In tiny Lansquenet, where nothing much has changed in a hundred years, beautiful newcomer Vianne Rocher and her exquisite chocolate shop arrive and instantly begin to play havoc with Lenten vows. Each box of luscious bonbons comes with a free gift: Vianne's uncanny perception of its buyer's private discontents and a clever, caring cure for them. Is she a witch? Soon the parish no longer cares, as it abandons itself to temptation, happiness, and a dramatic face-off between Easter solemnity and the pagan gaiety of a chocolate festival. Chocolat's every page offers a description of chocolate to melt in the mouths of chocoholics, francophiles, armchair gourmets, cookbook readers, and lovers of passion everywhere. It's a must for anyone who craves an escapist read, and is a bewitching gift for any holiday." | 
         | 1338 | Halfway to the Grave | Jeaniene Frost  | 10/30/07 | Paranormal, Vampires, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Adult, Supernatural, Fiction, New Adult | Bones (Night Huntress series), Catherine Crawfield-Russell, Spade (Night Huntress series), Tate Bradley, Don Williams | "Flirting With The Grave…Half-vampire Catherine Crawfield is going after the undead with a vengeance, hoping that one of these deadbeats is her father – the one responsible for ruining her mother’s life. Then she’s captured by Bones, a vampire bounty hunter, and is forced into an unlikely partnership.In exchange for help finding her father, Cat agrees to train with the sexy night stalker until her battle reflexes are as sharp as his fangs. She’s amazed she doesn’t end up as his dinner – are there actually good vampires? Pretty soon Bones will have her convinced that being half-dead doesn’t have to be all bad. But before she can enjoy her status as kick-ass demon hunter, Cat and Bones are pursued by a group of killers. Now Cat will have to choose a side … and Bones is turning out to be as tempting as any man with a heartbeat." | 
         | 1339 | Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time | Greg Mortenson , David Oliver Relin | 01/30/07 | Nonfiction, Memoir, Biography, Travel, Education, Book Club, Biography Memoir, Pakistan, Inspirational, History | Greg Mortenson, Syed Abbas, Ali, Sarah Bishop | "The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban’s backyardAnyone who despairs of the individual’s power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan’s treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers and promised to build them a school. Over the next decade he built fifty-five schools—especially for girls—that offer a balanced education in one of the most isolated and dangerous regions on earth. As it chronicles Mortenson’s quest, which has brought him into conflict with both enraged Islamists and uncomprehending Americans, Three Cups of Tea combines adventure with a celebration of the humanitarian spirit." | 
         | 1340 | Perfect Chemistry | Simone Elkeles  | 12/23/08 | Romance, Young Adult, Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, High School, Fiction, New Adult, Realistic Fiction, Chick Lit, Young Adult Romance | Alex Fuentes, Brittany Ellis | "A fresh, urban twist on the classic tale of star-crossed lovers.When Brittany Ellis walks into chemistry class on the first day of senior year, she has no clue that her carefully created 'perfect' life is about to unravel before her eyes. She's forced to be lab partners with Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, and he is about to threaten everything she's worked so hard for: her flawless reputation, her relationship with her boyfriend, and the secret that her home life is anything but perfect. Alex is a bad boy and he knows it. So when he makes a bet with his friends to lure Brittany into his life, he thinks nothing of it. But soon Alex realizes Brittany is a real person with real problems, and suddenly the bet he made in arrogance turns into something much more.In a passionate story about looking beneath the surface, Simone Elkeles breaks through the stereotypes and barriers that threaten to keep Brittany and Alex apart." | 
         | 1341 | Red Queen | Victoria Aveyard  | 02/10/2015 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Dystopia, Romance, Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy, Magic, Science Fiction, Audiobook, Paranormal | Kilorn Warren, Gisa Barrow, Tiberias Calore ""Cal"" VII, Mare Molly Barrow, Maven Calore, Evangeline Samos, Diana Farley, Tiberias Calore VI, Elara Merandus, Julian Jacos, Lucas Samos | "This is a world divided by blood—red or silver. The Reds are commoners, ruled by a Silver elite in possession of god-like superpowers. And to Mare Barrow, a seventeen-year-old Red girl from the poverty-stricken Stilts, it seems like nothing will ever change. That is until she finds herself working in the Silver Palace. Here, surrounded by the people she hates the most, Mare discovers that, despite her red blood, she possesses a deadly power of her own. One that threatens to destroy the balance of power. Fearful of Mare's potential, the Silvers hide her in plain view, declaring her a long-lost Silver princess, now engaged to a Silver prince. Despite knowing that one misstep would mean her death, Mare works silently to help the Red Guard, a militant resistance group, and bring down the Silver regime. But this is a world of betrayal and lies, and Mare has entered a dangerous dance—Reds against Silvers, prince against prince, and Mare against her own heart." | 
         | 1342 | The Woman in White | Wilkie Collins, Matthew Sweet (Annotations) | 02/27/03 | Classics, Mystery, Fiction, Gothic, Horror, 19th Century, Victorian, Historical Fiction, Literature, British Literature | Walter Hartright, Marian Halcombe, Anne Catherick, Sir Percival Glyde, Count Fosco, Frederick Fairlie, Laura Fairlie, Madame Fosco, Mr. Gilmore | "'In one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop... There, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth, stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white'The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter becomes embroiled in the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his 'charming' friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons, and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors of English country houses and the madhouse, The Woman in White is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism.Matthew Sweet's introduction explores the phenomenon of Victorian 'sensation' fiction, and discusses Wilkie Collins's biographical and societal influences. Included in this edition are appendices on theatrical adaptations of the novel and its serialisation history." | 
         | 1343 | Angels & Demons | Dan Brown  | 04/01/2006 | Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Crime, Historical Fiction, Novels, Adult | Vittoria Vetra, Robert Langdon, Leonardo Vetra, Gunther Glick, Maximilian Kohler, Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca | "World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization - the Illuminati. In a desperate race to save the Vatican from a powerful time bomb, Langdon joins forces in Rome with the beautiful and mysterious scientist Vittoria Vetra. Together they embark on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, and deserted cathedrals, and into the depths of the most secretive vault on earth...the long-forgotten Illuminati lair.(back cover)" | 
         | 1344 | Just Listen | Sarah Dessen  | 04/06/2006 | Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Chick Lit, Teen, Music, Young Adult Contemporary, High School | Annabel Greene, Owen Armstrong, Whitney Greene | "Last year, Annabel was ""the girl who has everything"" — at least that's the part she played in the television commercial for Kopf's Department Store.This year, she's the girl who has nothing: no best friend because mean-but-exciting Sophie dropped her, no peace at home since her older sister became anorexic, and no one to sit with at lunch. Until she meets Owen Armstrong.Tall, dark, and music-obsessed, Owen is a reformed bad boy with a commitment to truth-telling. With Owen's help, maybe Annabel can face what happened the night she and Sophie stopped being friends." | 
         | 1345 | The Truth About Forever | Sarah Dessen  | 05/11/2004 | Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, Chick Lit, Realistic Fiction, Teen, Young Adult Contemporary, Young Adult Romance, High School | Macy Queen, Wes Baker, Monica Palmetto, Kristy Palmetto, Bert Baker, Caroline Queen, Jason Talbot, Deborah Queen | "That's what Macy has to look forward to while her boyfriend, Jason, is away at Brain Camp. Days will be spent at a boring job in the library, evenings will be filled with vocabulary drills for the SATs, and spare time will be passed with her mother, the two of them sharing a silent grief at the traumatic loss of Macy's father.But sometimes, unexpected things can happen—things such as the catering job at Wish, with its fun-loving, chaotic crew. Or her sister's project of renovating the neglected beach house, awakening long-buried memories. Things such as meeting Wes, a boy with a past, a taste for Truth-telling, and an amazing artistic talent, the kind of boy who could turn any girl's world upside down. As Macy ventures out of her shell, she begins to question her sheltered life." | 
         | 1346 | A Discovery of Witches | Deborah Harkness  | 02/28/11 | Fantasy, Fiction, Romance, Paranormal, Vampires, Witches, Magic, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural | Sarah Bishop, Sean Ryder, Diana Bishop, Matthew Clairmont, Emily Mather, Miriam Shephard, Hamish Osborne, Marcus Whitmore, Ysabeau de Clermont, Baldwin de Clairmont, Elias Ashmole, Peter Knox, Stephen Proctor, Rebecca Bishop, Juliette Durand, Agatha Wilson, Nathaniel Wilson, Gillian Chamberlain, Marthe (Vampire), Chris Roberts | "A richly inventive novel about a centuries-old vampire, a spellbound witch, and the mysterious manuscript that draws them together. Deep in the stacks of Oxford's Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in the course of her research. Descended from an old and distinguished line of witches, Diana wants nothing to do with sorcery; so after a furtive glance and a few notes, she banishes the book to the stacks. But her discovery sets a fantastical underworld stirring, and a horde of daemons, witches, and vampires soon descends upon the library. Diana has stumbled upon a coveted treasure lost for centuries-and she is the only creature who can break its spell. Debut novelist Deborah Harkness has crafted a mesmerizing and addictive read, equal parts history and magic, romance and suspense. Diana is a bold heroine who meets her equal in vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont, and gradually warms up to him as their alliance deepens into an intimacy that violates age-old taboos. This smart, sophisticated story harks back to the novels of Anne Rice, but it is as contemporary and sensual as the Twilight series-with an extra serving of historical realism." | 
         | 1347 | Unwind | Neal Shusterman  | 11/06/2007 | Young Adult, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Teen, Thriller, Adventure, Survival | Lev Calder, Connor Lassiter, Risa Ward | "Connor, Risa, and Lev are running for their lives.The Second Civil War was fought over reproductive rights. The chilling resolution: Life is inviolable from the moment of conception until age thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, parents can have their child ""unwound,"" whereby all of the child's organs are transplanted into different donors, so life doesn't technically end. Connor is too difficult for his parents to control. Risa, a ward of the state, is not enough to be kept alive. And Lev is a tithe, a child conceived and raised to be unwound. Together, they may have a chance to escape and to survive." | 
         | 1348 | Trainspotting | Irvine Welsh | 07/11/1994 | Fiction, Contemporary, Classics, Novels, Thriller, Mystery, Scotland, Crime, Drama, Dark | Mark Renton, Simon Williamson | "The bestselling novel by Irvine Welsh that provided the inspiration for Danny Boyle’s hit film Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fuckin embarrassment tae the selfish, fucked-up brats ye've produced. Choose life." | 
         | 1349 | Cannery Row | John Steinbeck | 02/05/2002 | Classics, Fiction, Literature, Historical Fiction, American, Novels, Literary Fiction, Classic Literature, 20th Century, The United States Of America | Eddie, ""Doc"" Bradley Stanwick, Dora, Lee Chong, Mack, Hughie, Gay, Hazel, Eddie, Doc, Dora, Lee Chong, Mack | "Cannery Row is a book without much of a plot. Rather, it is an attempt to capture the feeling and people of a place, the cannery district of Monterey, California, which is populated by a mix of those down on their luck and those who choose for other reasons not to live ""up the hill"" in the more respectable area of town. The flow of the main plot is frequently interrupted by short vignettes that introduce us to various denizens of the Row, most of whom are not directly connected with the central story. These vignettes are often characterized by direct or indirect reference to extreme violence: suicides, corpses, and the cruelty of the natural world.The ""story"" of Cannery Row follows the adventures of Mack and the boys, a group of unemployed yet resourceful men who inhabit a converted fish-meal shack on the edge of a vacant lot down on the Row.Sweet Thursday is the sequel to Cannery Row." | 
         | 1350 | Much Ado About Nothing | William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat (Editor), Paul Werstine (Editor), Robert Jackson (Editor), Gail Kern Paster (Contributor) | 10/28/04 | Classics, Plays, Fiction, Drama, Romance, School, Theatre, Literature, Humor, Comedy | boy, Hero (Much ado), Ursula (Shakespeare), Don Pedro, Beatrice (diverse works), Claudio, Benedick, Don John, Leonato, Dogberry, Friar Francis, Verges, Magaret, Balthazar (Much Ado About Nothing), Borachio, Conrade, A Sexton, The Watch, Innogen, Antonio | "In Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare includes two quite different stories of romantic love. Hero and Claudio fall in love almost at first sight, but an outsider, Don John, strikes out at their happiness. Beatrice and Benedick are kept apart by pride and mutual antagonism until others decide to play Cupid." | 
         | 1351 | Swann's Way | Marcel Proust, Lydia Davis (Translator) | 11/30/04 | Classics, Fiction, France, Literature, French Literature, Novels, 20th Century, Philosophy, Literary Fiction, Unfinished | Narrator/Marcel, Baron de Charlus, Mme Swann, Gilberte Swann, Cottard, Odette de Crécy, Charles Swann, Françoise de Combray, Madame Verdurin | "Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century. But since its original prewar translation there has been no completely new version in English. Now, Penguin brings Proust's masterpiece to new audiences throughout the world, beginning with Lydia Davis's internationally acclaimed translation of the first volume, Swann's Way.Swann's Way is one of the preeminent novels of childhood: a sensitive boy's impressions of his family and neighbors, all brought dazzlingly back to life years later by the taste of a madeleine. It also enfolds the short novel ""Swann in Love,"" an incomparable study of sexual jealousy that becomes a crucial part of the vast, unfolding structure of In Search of Lost Time. The first volume of the work that established Proust as one of the finest voices of the modern age — satirical, skeptical, confiding, and endlessly varied in its response to the human condition — Swann's Way also stands on its own as a perfect rendering of a life in art, of the past re-created through memory." | 
         | 1352 | Sarah's Key | Tatiana de Rosnay  | 06/28/07 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Holocaust, Historical, World War II, France, War, Book Club, Adult, Adult Fiction | Julia Jarmond, Sarah Starzynski, Zoë Tézac, Bertrand Tézac, Michel Starzynski, Wladyslaw Starzynski, Rywka Starzynski, William Rainsferd, Edouard Tézac, Jules Dufaure, Genevieve Dufaure | "Paris, July 1942: Ten-year-old Sarah is brutally arrested with her family in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, the most notorious act of French collaboration with the Nazis. but before the police come to take them, Sarah locks her younger brother, Michel, in their favorite hiding place, a cupboard in the family's apartment. She keeps the key, thinking that she will be back within a few hours.Paris, May 2002: On Vel' d'Hiv's sixtieth anniversary, Julia Jarmond, an American journalist, is asked by her Paris-based American magazine to write an article about this black day in France's past. Julia has lived in Paris for nearly twenty-five years, married a Frenchman, and she is shocked both by her ignorance about the event and the silence that still surrounds it. In the course of her investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connects her to Sarah. Julia finds herself compelled to retrace the girl's ordeal, from the terrible days spent shut in at the Vel' d'Hiv' to the camps and beyond. As she probes into Sarah's past, she begins to question her own place in France and to reevaluate her marriage and her life.Writing about the fate of her country with a pitiless clarity, Tatiana de Rosnay offers us a brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation and reveals the taboos and denial surrounding this painful episode in French history.(front flap)" | 
         | 1353 | Acheron | Sherrilyn Kenyon  | 08/05/2008 | Paranormal Romance, Paranormal, Romance, Fantasy, Vampires, Urban Fantasy, Mythology, Adult, Fiction, Demons | Styxx of Didymos, Apollymi, Strykerius, Artemis Agrotera, Soteria ""Tory"" Eleni Athena Kafieri, Ryssa of Didymos, Jaden (Acheron), Apollo (Styxx), Acheron ""Ash"" Parthenopaeus | "Eleven thousand years ago a god was born. Cursed into the body of a human, Acheron endured a lifetime of hatred. His human death unleashed an unspeakable horror that almost destroyed the earth. Brought back against his will, he became the sole defender of mankind.Only it was never that simple…For centuries, he has fought for our survival and hidden a past he never wants revealed.Now his survival, and ours, hinges on the very woman who threatens him. Old enemies reawaken and unite to kill them both.War has never been deadlier… or more fun." | 
         | 1354 | The Elite | Kiera Cass  | 04/23/13 | Young Adult, Romance, Dystopia, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Audiobook, Teen, Chick Lit, Young Adult Romance | Celeste White, Elise Whisks, Aspen Leger, America Singer, Prince Maxon, Kriss Ambers | "The Selection began with thirty-five girls. Now with the group narrowed down to the six Elite, the competition to win Prince Maxon's heart is fiercer than ever—and America is still struggling to decide where her heart truly lies. Is it with Maxon, who could make her life a fairy tale? Or with her first love, Aspen?America is desperate for more time. But the rest of the Elite know exactly what they want—and America's chance to choose is about to slip away." | 
         | 1355 | Silence | Becca Fitzpatrick  | 10/04/2011 | Young Adult, Fantasy, Angels, Paranormal, Romance, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy | Nora Grey, Jev ""Patch"" Cipriano, Vee Sky, Marcie Millar, Scott Parnell, Hank Millar, Blythe Gray | "Nora Grey can't remember the past five months of her life. After the initial shock of waking up in a cemetery and being told that she has been missing for weeks - with no one knowing where she was or who she was with - she tried to get her life back on track. Go to school, hang out with her best friend, Vee, and dodge mom's creepy new boyfriend.But there is this voice in the back of her head, an idea that she can almost reach out and touch. Visions of angel wings and unearthly creatures that have nothing to do with the life she knows.And this unshakable feeling that a part of her is missing.Then Nora crosses paths with a sexy stranger, whom she feels a mesmerizing connection to. He seems to hold all the answers...and her heart. Every minute she spends with him grows more and more intense until she realizes she could be falling in love. Again." | 
         | 1356 | Nine Stories | J.D. Salinger | 01/30/01 | Short Stories, Fiction, Classics, Literature, American, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, The United States Of America, Novels, Adult Fiction | Seymour Glass, Beatrice Glass Tannenbaum | "Nine Stories (1953) is a collection of short stories by American fiction writer J. D. Salinger published in April 1953. It includes two of his most famous short stories, ""A Perfect Day for Bananafish"" and ""For Esmé – with Love and Squalor"". (Nine Stories is the U.S. title; the book is published in many other countries as For Esmé - with Love and Squalor, and Other Stories.)The stories are:""A Perfect Day for Bananafish""""Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut""""Just Before the War with the Eskimos""""The Laughing Man""""Down at the Dinghy""""For Esmé – with Love and Squalor""""Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes""""De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period""""Teddy""" | 
         | 1357 | The Return of the King | J.R.R. Tolkien | 07/12/1974 | Fantasy, Fiction, Classics, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Literature, Novels, Magic | Frodo Baggins, Meriadoc Brandybuck, Peregrin Took, Gandalf, Aragorn, Gimli, Bilbo Baggins, Saruman, Éowyn, Éomer, Elrond Half-elven, Arwen Undómiel, Galadriel, Faramir, Gollum, Legolas, Sam Gamgee | "In the third volume of The Lord of the Rings trilogy the good and evil forces join battle, and we see that the triumph of good is not absolute. The Third Age of Middle-earth ends, and the age of the dominion of Men begins." | 
         | 1358 | All the Bright Places | Jennifer Niven  | 01/06/2015 | Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance, Fiction, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Realistic Fiction, Audiobook, Young Adult Contemporary, Teen | Theodore Finch, Violet Markey | "The Fault in Our Stars meets Eleanor and Park in this exhilarating and heart-wrenching love story about a girl who learns to live from a boy who intends to die.Soon to be a major motion picture starring Elle Fanning! Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister’s recent death. When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it’s unclear who saves whom. And when they pair up on a project to discover the “natural wonders” of their state, both Finch and Violet make more important discoveries: It’s only with Violet that Finch can be himself—a weird, funny, live-out-loud guy who’s not such a freak after all. And it’s only with Finch that Violet can forget to count away the days and start living them. But as Violet’s world grows, Finch’s begins to shrink. This is an intense, gripping novel perfect for fans of Jay Asher, Rainbow Rowell, John Green, Gayle Forman, and Jenny Downham from a talented new voice in YA, Jennifer Niven." | 
         | 1359 | Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster | Jon Krakauer  | 10/19/99 | Nonfiction, Adventure, Memoir, Travel, Biography, History, Survival, Mountaineering, Biography Memoir, Sports | Rob Hall, Jon Krakauer | "A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that ""suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down."" He was wrong. The storm, which claimed five lives and left countless more-including Krakauer's-in guilt-ridden disarray, would also provide the impetus for Into Thin Air, Krakauer's epic account of the May 1996 disaster." | 
         | 1360 | Far From the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy, Rosemarie Morgan (Editor/Introduction), Shannon Russell (Editor/Introduction) | 02/27/03 | Classics, Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, 19th Century, Literature, British Literature, Victorian, Classic Literature, Novels | Gabriel Oak, Bathsheba Everdene, William Boldwood, Francis Troy, Fanny Robin | "Far from the Madding Crowd was Thomas Hardy's first major literary success, and it edited with an introduction and notes by Rosemarie Morgan and Shannon Russell in Penguin Classics.Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues, threatening the stability of the whole community. The first of his works set in the fictional county of Wessex, Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with his evocative descriptions of rural life and landscapes, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships." | 
         | 1361 | I Am Number Four | Pittacus Lore | 08/03/2010 | Young Adult, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Fiction, Aliens, Romance, Paranormal, Adventure, Teen, Action | Henri Smith, Sarah Hart, Mark James, Sam Goode, Bernie Kosar, Mogadorians, Number 6, John Smith (Pittacus Lore) | "Nine of us came here. We look like you. We talk like you. We live among you. But we are not you. We can do things you dream of doing. We have powers you dream of having. We are stronger and faster than anything you have ever seen. We are the superheroes you worship in movies and comic books-but we are real.Our plan was to grow, and train, and become strong, and become one, and fight them. But they found us and started hunting us first. Now all of us are running. Spending our lives in shadows, in places where no one would look, blending in. We have lived among you without you knowing.But they know.They caught Number One in Malaysia.Number Two in England.And Number Three in Kenya.They killed them all.I am Number Four.I am next." | 
         | 1362 | Dead to the World | Charlaine Harris  | 04/01/2005 | Fantasy, Vampires, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Fiction, Mystery, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Adult | Sookie Stackhouse, Bill Compton, Sam Merlotte, Jason Stackhouse, Eric Northman, Tara Thornton, Pam Ravenscroft, Alcide Herveaux | "Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in Bon Temps, Louisiana. She has only a few close friends, because not everyone appreciates Sookie’s gift: she can read minds. That’s not exactly every man’s idea of date bait – unless they’re undead; vampires and the like can be tough to read. And that’s just the kind of guy Sookie’s been looking for. Maybe that’s why, when she comes across a naked vampire, she doesn’t just drive on by. He hasn’t got a clue who he is, but Sookie has: Eric looks just as scary and sexy – and dead – as ever. But now he has amnesia, he’s sweet, vulnerable, and in need of Sookie’s help – because whoever took his memory now wants his life." | 
         | 1363 | Persuasion | Jane Austen, Deidre Shauna Lynch (Introduction), James Kinsley (Editor) | 03/18/04 | Classics, Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Literature, Historical, 19th Century, British Literature, Classic Literature, Historical Romance | Lady Russell, Charles Musgrove, Admiral Croft, Elizabeth Elliot, Frederick Wentworth, Lady Russell, Mary Musgrove, Sophia Croft, Sir Walter Elliot, Louisa Musgrove, Captain James Benwick, William Elliot, Mrs. Smith, Anne Elliot, Henrietta Musgrave, Captain Harville | "Twenty-seven-year old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her friend Lady Russell that such a match is unworthy. The breakup produces in Anne a deep and long-lasting regret. When later Wentworth returns from sea a rich and successful captain, he finds Anne's family on the brink of financial ruin and his own sister a tenant in Kellynch Hall, the Elliot estate. All the tension of the novel revolves around one question: Will Anne and Wentworth be reunited in their love?Jane Austen once compared her writing to painting on a little bit of ivory, 2 inches square. Readers of Persuasion will discover that neither her skill for delicate, ironic observations on social custom, love, and marriage nor her ability to apply a sharp focus lens to English manners and morals has deserted her in her final finished work." | 
         | 1364 | Sabriel | Garth Nix  | 09/30/96 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Magic, Young Adult Fantasy, High Fantasy, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Teen | Sabriel, Touchstone, Mogget, Abhorsen, Kerrigor, Rogir | "Sent to a boarding school in Ancelstierre as a young child, Sabriel has had little experience with the random power of Free Magic or the Dead who refuse to stay dead in the Old Kingdom. But during her final semester, her father, the Abhorsen, goes missing, and Sabriel knows she must enter the Old Kingdom to find him. With Sabriel, the first installment in the Abhorsen series, Garth Nix exploded onto the fantasy scene as a rising star, in a novel that takes readers to a world where the line between the living and the dead isn't always clear—and sometimes disappears altogether." | 
         | 1365 | Cutting for Stone | Abraham Verghese  | 02/03/2009 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Africa, Book Club, Medicine, Ethiopia, Medical, Novels, Literary Fiction, Historical | Thomas Stone, Sister Mary Joseph Praise, Marion Stone, Shiva Stone | "A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel - an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home.Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother’s death in childbirth and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Yet it will be love, not politics—their passion for the same woman—that will tear them apart and force Marion, fresh out of medical school, to flee his homeland. He makes his way to America, finding refuge in his work as an intern at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. When the past catches up to him—nearly destroying him—Marion must entrust his life to the two men he thought he trusted least in the world: the surgeon father who abandoned him and the brother who betrayed him.An unforgettable journey into one man’s remarkable life, and an epic story about the power, intimacy, and curious beauty of the work of healing others.(front flap)" | 
         | 1366 | The Goose Girl | Shannon Hale  | 05/01/2005 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Fairy Tales, Romance, Fiction, Retellings, Middle Grade, Adventure, Young Adult Fantasy, Magic | Razo, Geric, Enna, Princess Anidori-Kiladra, Finn, Selia | "Mythopoeic Fantasy Award nominee for Children's Literature 2010 (The Books of Bayern series).She was born with her eyes closed and a word on her tongue, a word she could not taste. Her name was Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, and she spent the first years of her life listening to her aunt’s stories and learning the language of the birds, especially the swans. And when she was older, she watched as a colt was born, and she heard the first word on his tongue, his name, Falada.From the Grimm's fairy tale of the princess who became a goose girl before she could become queen, Shannon Hale has woven an incredible, original, and magical tale of a girl who must find her own unusual talents before she can lead the people she has made her own." | 
         | 1367 | I Capture the Castle | Dodie Smith | 03/31/98 | Classics, Fiction, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Romance, Coming Of Age, Historical, British Literature, Novels, Adult Fiction | Cassandra Mortmain, Rose Mortmain, James Mortmain, Topaz Mortmain, Thomas Mortmain, Stephen Colly, Simon Cotton, Neil Cotton, Miss Marcy, Audrey Fox-Cotton, Leda Fox-Cotton | "Through six turbulent months of 1934, 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain keeps a journal, filling three notebooks with sharply funny yet poignant entries about her home, a ruined Suffolk castle, and her eccentric and penniless family. By the time the last diary shuts, there have been great changes in the Mortmain household, not the least of which is that Cassandra is deeply, hopelessly, in love." | 
         | 1368 | The Glass Menagerie | Tennessee Williams, Robert Bray (Introduction) | 06/17/99 | Plays, Classics, Drama, Fiction, School, Theatre, Literature, Read For School, High School, American | Amanda Wingfield, Laura Wingfield, ""Jim O''Connor"", Tom Wingfield | "No play in the modern theatre has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. As Williams's first popular success, it launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career, of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, Menagaerie has been the bravura piece for great actresses from Jessica Tandy to Joanne Woodward, and is studied and performed in classrooms and theatres around the world. The Glass Menagerie (in the reading text the author preferred) is now available only in its New Directions Paperbook edition. A new introduction by the editor of The Tennessee Williams Annual Review, Robert Bray, reappraises the play more than half a century after it won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. This edition of The Glass Menagerie also includes Williams's essay on the impact of sudden fame on a struggling writer, ""The Catastrophe of Success,"" as well as a short section of Williams's own ""Production Notes."" (back cover)" | 
         | 1369 | Twelfth Night | William Shakespeare | 07/01/2004 | Classics, Plays, Drama, Fiction, School, Romance, Theatre, Literature, Poetry, Read For School | Viola, Count Orsino, Sebastian, Sir Toby Belch, Malvolio, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Feste, Sebastion, Olivia | "Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays with love and power. The Countess Olivia, a woman with her own household, attracts Duke (or Count) Orsino. Two other would-be suitors are her pretentious steward, Malvolio, and Sir Andrew Aguecheek.Onto this scene arrive the twins Viola and Sebastian; caught in a shipwreck, each thinks the other has drowned. Viola disguises herself as a male page and enters Orsino’s service. Orsino sends her as his envoy to Olivia—only to have Olivia fall in love with the messenger. The play complicates, then wonderfully untangles, these relationships." | 
         | 1370 | The Darkest Minds | Alexandra Bracken  | 12/18/12 | Young Adult, Dystopia, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Paranormal, Fiction, Adventure, Supernatural, Young Adult Fantasy | Charles ""Chubs"" Carrington Meriwether IV (The Darkest Minds), Ruby Elizabeth Daly (The Darkest Minds), Liam Stewart (The Darkest Minds), Suzume Kimura, Clancy Gray (The Darkest Minds) | "When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that gets her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government “rehabilitation camp.” She might have survived the mysterious disease that’s killed most of America’s children, but she and the others have emerged with something far worse: frightening abilities they cannot control.Now sixteen, Ruby is one of the dangerous ones.When the truth comes out, Ruby barely escapes Thurmond with her life. Now she’s on the run, desperate to find the one safe haven left for kids like her—East River. She joins a group of kids who escaped their own camp. Liam, their brave leader, is falling hard for Ruby. But no matter how much she aches for him, Ruby can’t risk getting close. Not after what happened to her parents.When they arrive at East River, nothing is as it seems, least of all its mysterious leader. But there are other forces at work, people who will stop at nothing to use Ruby in their fight against the government. Ruby will be faced with a terrible choice, one that may mean giving up her only chance at a life worth living." | 
         | 1371 | Invisible Monsters | Chuck Palahniuk  | 05/01/2018 | Fiction, Contemporary, Thriller, Mystery, Novels, Dark, Adult, Humor, Adult Fiction, Drama | Shannon McFarland, Brandy Alexander, Evie Cottrell, Manus Kelley, The Rhea Sisters | "She's a catwalk model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden motor 'accident' leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she goes from being the beautiful centre of attention to being an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists.Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from being a real woman, who will teach her that reinventing yourself means erasing your past and making up something better, and that salvation hides in the last place you'll ever want to look.The narrator must exact revenge upon Evie, her best friend and fellow model; kidnap Manus, her two-timing ex-boyfriend; and hit the road with Brandy in search of a brand-new past, present and future." | 
         | 1372 | The Hours | Michael Cunningham  | 10/28/02 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, LGBT, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, Historical, American | Clarissa Vaughan, Laura Brown, Virginia Woolf | "In 1920s London, Virginia Woolf is fighting against her rebellious spirit as she attempts to make a start on her new novel. A young wife and mother, broiling in a suburb of 1940s Los Angeles, yearns to escape and read her precious copy of Mrs Dalloway. And Clarissa Vaughan steps out of her smart Greenwich village apartment in 1990s New York to buy flowers for a party she is hosting for a dying friend.The Hours recasts the classic story of Woolf's Mrs Dalloway in a startling new light. Moving effortlessly across the decades and between England and America, this exquisite novel intertwines the worlds of three unforgettable women." | 
         | 1373 | Drums of Autumn | Diana Gabaldon  | 10/16/18 | Historical Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction, Time Travel, Historical, Historical Romance, Audiobook, Adult, Adventure | Jamie Fraser, Brianna Randall, Roger MacKenzie, Fergus Fraser, Marsali Fraser, Ian Murray, Claire Randall Fraser, Geillis Duncan, Stephen Bonnet, Young Ian Murray, Duncan Innes | "In this breathtaking novel, rich in history and adventure, #1 New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon continues the story of Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser that started with the now-classic novel Outlander and continued in Dragonfly in Amber and Voyager. Once again spanning continents and centuries, Gabaldon has created a work of sheer brilliance. What if you knew someone you loved was going to die? What if you thought you could save them? How much would you risk to try?Claire Randall has gone to find Jamie Fraser, the man she loved more than life, and has left half her heart behind with their daughter, Brianna. Claire gave up Jamie to save Brianna, and now Bree has sent her mother back to the Scottish warrior who was willing to give his life to save them both. But a chilling discovery in the pages of history suggests that Jamie and Claire's story doesn't have a happy ending.Brianna dares a terrifying leap into the unknown in search of her mother and the father she has never met, risking her own future to try to change history . . . and to save their lives. But as Brianna plunges into an uncharted wilderness, a heartbreaking encounter may strand her forever in the past . . . or root her in the place she should be, where her heart and soul belong." | 
         | 1374 | Wicked Lovely | Melissa Marr  | 06/12/2007 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Fairies, Fae, Fiction, Paranormal Romance, Magic | Aislinn, Keenan, Leslie, Irial, Evan Dennison, Jimmy, Sorcha, Rianne, Niall, Cerise Mar, Donia, Beira, Tavish, Mitchell Price, Seth (Wicked Lovely), Moira (Wicked Lovely) | "Rule #3: Don't stare at invisible faeries.Aislinn has always seen faeries. Powerful and dangerous, they walk hidden in the mortal world. Aislinn fears their cruelty - especially if they learn of her Sight - and wishes she were as blind to their presence as other teens.Rule #2: Don't speak to invisible faeries.Now faeries are stalking her. One of them, Keenan, who is equal parts terrifying and alluring, is trying to talk to her, asking questions Aislinn is afraid to answer.Rule #1: Don't ever attract their attention.But it's too late. Keenan is the Summer King, who has sought his queen for nine centuries. Without her, summer itself will perish. He is determined that Aislinn will become the Summer Queen at any cost — regardless of her plans or desires.Suddenly none of the rules that have kept Aislinn safe are working anymore, and everything is on the line: her freedom; her best friend, Seth; her life; everything.Faery intrigue, mortal love, and the clash of ancient rules and modern expectations swirl together in Melissa Marr's stunning twenty-first-century faery tale." | 
         | 1375 | P.S. I Love You | Cecelia Ahern | 01/05/2005 | Romance, Chick Lit, Fiction, Contemporary, Adult, Contemporary Romance, Love, Adult Fiction, Drama, Ireland | Holly Kennedy, Frank Kennedy, Jack Kennedy, Gerry Clark, Sharon McCarthy, Denise Hennessey, Daniel Connolly, Elizabeth Kennedy, Ciara Kennedy, Declan Kennedy, Richard Kennedy, John McCarthy, ""Tom O''Connor"" | "A novel about holding on, letting go, and learning to love again.Now in paperback, the endearing novel that captured readers' hearts and introduced a fresh new voice in women's fiction Cecelia Ahern. Holly couldn't live without her husband Gerry, until the day she had to. They were the kind of young couple who could finish each other's sentences. When Gerry succumbs to a terminal illness and dies, 30-year-old Holly is set adrift, unable to pick up the pieces. But with the help of a series of letters her husband left her before he died and a little nudging from an eccentric assortment of family and friends, she learns to laugh, overcome her fears, and discover a world she never knew existed. The kind of enchanting novel with cross-generational appeal that comes along once in a great while, PS, I Love You is a captivating love letter to the world!" | 
         | 1376 | Queen of Shadows | Sarah J. Maas  | 09/01/2015 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Magic, New Adult, Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy, Fae, High Fantasy, Paranormal | Celaena Sardothien, Chaol Westfall, Rowan Whitethorn, Dorian Havilliard, Aedion Ashryver, Aelin Ashryver Galathynius | "Everyone Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her. But she’s at last returned to the empire—for vengeance, to rescue her once-glorious kingdom, and to confront the shadows of her past…She has embraced her identity as Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen. But before she can reclaim her throne, she must fight.She will fight for her cousin, a warrior prepared to die for her. She will fight for her friend, a young man trapped in an unspeakable prison. And she will fight for her people, enslaved to a brutal king and awaiting their lost queen’s triumphant return.The fourth volume in the New York Times bestselling series continues Celaena’s epic journey and builds to a passionate, agonizing crescendo that might just shatter her world." | 
         | 1377 | Hunted | P.C. Cast , Kristin Cast  | 03/10/2009 | Young Adult, Vampires, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Fiction, Supernatural, Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy, Magic | Zoey Redbird, Nyx (House of Night), Erik Night, Stevie Rae Johnson, Neferet, Heath Luck, Aphrodite LaFont, Kalona, Sylvia Redbird, Darius Langley | "What if the hottest guy in the world was hiding a nameless evil, and all he wanted was you? At the start of this heart-pounding new installment of the bestselling House of Night series, Zoey’s friends have her back again and Stevie Rae and the red fledglings aren’t Neferet’s secrets any longer. But an unexpected danger has emerged. Neferet guards her powerful new consort, Kalona, and no one at the House of Night seems to understand the threat he poses. Kalona looks gorgeous, and he has the House of Night under his spell. A past life holds the key to breaking his rapidly spreading influence, but what if this past life shows Zoey secrets she doesn’t want to hear and truths she can’t face?" | 
         | 1378 | A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens, Joe L. Wheeler (Contributor) | 09/23/99 | Classics, Fiction, Christmas, Fantasy, Literature, Historical Fiction, Audiobook, Holiday, 19th Century, Classic Literature | Timothy Cratchit, Bob Cratchit, Jacob Marley, Ebenezer Scrooge | "'If I had my way, every idiot who goes around with Merry Christmas on his lips, would be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. Merry Christmas? Bah humbug!'Introduction and Afterword by Joe WheelerTo bitter, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, Christmas is just another day. But all that changes when the ghost of his long-dead business partner appears, warning Scrooge to change his ways before it's too late. Part of the Focus on the Family Great Stories collection, this edition features an in-depth introduction and discussion questions by Joe Wheeler to provide greater understanding for today's reader. ""A Christmas Carol"" captures the heart of the holidays like no other novel." | 
         | 1379 | The Last Unicorn | Peter S. Beagle  | 07/28/08 | Fantasy, Classics, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, Unicorns, Fairy Tales | The Last Unicorn, Mommy Fortuna, Schmendrick, Molly Grue, King Haggard, Prince Lír | "alternate cover editions can be found here, here and hereShe was magical, beautiful beyond belief—and completely alone...The unicorn had lived since before memory in a forest where death could touch nothing. Maidens who caught a glimpse of her glory were blessed by enchantment they would never forget. But outside her wondrous realm, dark whispers and rumours carried a message she could not ignore: ""Unicorns are gone from the world.""Aided by a bumbling magician and an indomitable spinster, she set out to learn the truth. but she feared even her immortal wisdom meant nothing in a world where a mad king's curse and terror incarnate lived only to stalk the last unicorn to her doom..." | 
         | 1380 | Little House in the Big Woods | Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams (Illustrator) | 01/01/2007 | Classics, Historical Fiction, Childrens, Fiction, Young Adult, Historical, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Family, Audiobook | Laura Ingalls Wilder, Caroline Quiner Ingalls, Charles Ingalls, Mary Ingalls | "Based on the real-life adventures of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House in the Big Woods is the first book in the award-winning Little House series, which has captivated generations of readers. This edition features the classic black-and-white artwork from Garth Williams.Little House in the Big Woods takes place in 1871 and introduces us to four-year-old Laura, who lives in a log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods of Wisconsin. She shares the cabin with her Pa, her Ma, her sisters Mary and Carrie, and their lovable dog, Jack.Pioneer life isn’t easy for the Ingalls family, since they must grow or catch all their own food as they get ready for the cold winter. But they make the best of every tough situation. They celebrate Christmas with homemade toys and treats, do their spring planting, bring in the harvest in the fall, and make their first trip into town. And every night, safe and warm in their little house, the sound of Pa’s fiddle lulls Laura and her sisters into sleep.The nine books in the timeless Little House series tell the story of Laura’s real childhood as an American pioneer, and are cherished by readers of all generations. They offer a unique glimpse into life on the American frontier, and tell the heartwarming, unforgettable story of a loving family." | 
         | 1381 | Hyperion | Dan Simmons, Gary Ruddell (Illustrator) | 03/28/90 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Space Opera, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Time Travel, Horror, Space, Novels | Siri, Martin Silenus, Sol Weintraub, Consul, The Shrike, Rachel Weintraub, Brawne Lamia, Fedmahn Kassad, Meina Gladstone, Melio Arundez, Tyrena Wingreen-Feif, A. Bettik, Sad King Billy, Paul Duré, Lenar Hoyt, Het Masteen, Sarai Weintraub, John Keats | "On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved riddles of their lives. Each carries a desperate hope—and a terrible secret. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands." | 
         | 1382 | No Country for Old Men | Cormac McCarthy | 07/11/2006 | Fiction, Thriller, Crime, Westerns, Mystery, Literature, Novels, Classics, Contemporary, American | Ed Tom Bell, Llewelyn Moss, Anton Chigurh, Carla Jean Moss, Dead Dawg, Carson Wells, Deputy Wendell, Loretta Bell | "In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, the setting of his famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law–in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell–can contain.As Moss tries to evade his pursuers–in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives–McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines. No Country for Old Men is a triumph." | 
         | 1383 | The Bean Trees | Barbara Kingsolver | 03/01/1989 | Fiction, Contemporary, Novels, Literary Fiction, Adult Fiction, Adult, School, Classics, Literature, Realistic Fiction | Taylor Greer, Turtle Greer, Lou Ann Ruiz, Estevan, Esperanza, Mattie | "Clear-eyed and spirited, Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away. But when she heads west with high hopes and a barely functional car, she meets the human condition head-on. By the time Taylor arrives in Tucson, Arizona, she has acquired a completely unexpected child, a three-year-old American Indian girl named Turtle, and must somehow come to terms with both motherhood and the necessity for putting down roots. Hers is a story about love and friendship, abandonment and belonging, and the discovery of surprising resources in apparently empty places." | 
         | 1384 | The Raven Boys | Maggie Stiefvater  | 09/18/12 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Paranormal, Romance, Fiction, Magic, Urban Fantasy, Audiobook, Supernatural, Young Adult Fantasy | Blue Sargent, Richard ""Dick"" Campbell Gansey III, Adam Parrish, Ronan Lynch, Noah (The Raven Cycle) | "“There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.”It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. He has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.From Maggie Stiefvater, the bestselling and acclaimed author of the Shiver trilogy and The Scorpio Races, comes a spellbinding new series where the inevitability of death and the nature of love lead us to a place we’ve never been before." | 
         | 1385 | The Bad Beginning | Lemony Snicket , Brett Helquist (Illustrator) | 09/30/99 | Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Fantasy, Middle Grade, Mystery, Adventure, Audiobook, Humor, Juvenile | Count Olaf, Klaus Baudelaire, Sunny Baudelaire, Arthur Poe, Violet Baudelaire, Justice Strauss | "Dear Reader,I'm sorry to say that the book you are holding in your hands is extremely unpleasant. It tells an unhappy tale about three very unlucky children. Even though they are charming and clever, the Baudelaire siblings lead lives filled with misery and woe. From the very first page of this book when the children are at the beach and receive terrible news, continuing on through the entire story, disaster lurks at their heels. One might say they are magnets for misfortune.In this short book alone, the three youngsters encounter a greedy and repulsive villain, itchy clothing, a disastrous fire, a plot to steal their fortune, and cold porridge for breakfast.It is my sad duty to write down these unpleasant tales, but there is nothing stopping you from putting this book down at once and reading something happy, if you prefer that sort of thing.With all due respect,Lemony Snicket" | 
         | 1386 | Cyrano de Bergerac | Edmond Rostand, Eteel Lawson (Introduction), Lowell Bair (Translation) | 08/05/2003 | Classics, Plays, Fiction, Drama, France, Romance, Theatre, School, Literature, Historical Fiction | Cyrano de Bergerac, Roxane, Christian de Neuvillette, Count de Guiche, Ragueneau, Le Bret | "This is Edmond Rostand's immortal play in which chivalry and wit, bravery and love are forever captured in the timeless spirit of romance. Set in Louis XIII's reign, it is the moving and exciting drama of one of the finest swordsmen in France, gallant soldier, brilliant wit, tragic poet-lover with the face of a clown. Rostand's extraordinary lyric powers gave birth to a universal hero-Cyrano De Bergerac-and ensured his own reputation as author of one of the best-loved plays in the literature of the stage.This translation, by the American poet Brian Hooker, is nearly as famous as the original play itself, and is generally considered to be one of the finest English verse translations ever written." | 
         | 1387 | Speaker for the Dead | Orson Scott Card | 08/15/94 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Young Adult, Audiobook, Space, Aliens, Novels, Space Opera | Andrew Wiggin | "Now available in mass market, the revised, definitive edition of the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning classic. In this second book in the saga set 3,000 years after the terrible war, Ender Wiggin is reviled by history as the Xenocide-the destroyer of the alien Buggers. Now, Ender tells the true story of the war and seeks to stop history from repeating itself. ...In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War.Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery...and the truth.Speaker for the Dead, the second novel in Orson Scott Card's Ender Quintet, is the winner of the 1986 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1987 Hugo Award for Best Novel." | 
         | 1388 | The Westing Game | Ellen Raskin | 04/12/2004 | Mystery, Young Adult, Fiction, Middle Grade, Childrens, Classics, School, Mystery Thriller, Juvenile, Realistic Fiction | Samuel W. Westing, Turtle Wexler, Flora Baumbach, Christos Theodorakis, Denton Deere, J.J. Ford, Alexander McSouthers, Grace Wexler, James Hoo, Berthe Erica Crowe, Otis Amber, Douglas Hoo, Theo Theodorakis, Sydelle Pulaski, Angela Wexler, Sandy Hoo, Jake Wexler | "A bizarre chain of events begins when sixteen unlikely people gather for the reading of Samuel W. Westing's will. And though no one knows why the eccentric, game-loving millionaire has chosen a virtual stranger—and a possible murderer—to inherit his vast fortune, one thing's for sure: Sam Westing may be dead ... but that won't stop him from playing one last game!" | 
         | 1389 | Interpreter of Maladies | Jhumpa Lahiri | 05/22/00 | Short Stories, Fiction, India, Contemporary, Literature, Literary Fiction, Indian Literature, Asia, Adult Fiction, Adult | Dev, Elliot, Miranda, Shobha, Lilia, Shukumar, Mr. Pirzada, Mr. Das, Mrs. Das, Mr. Kapasi, Boori Maa, Mrs. Dalal, Laxmi, Mrs. Sen, Sanjeev, Twinkle | "Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereNavigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In ""A Temporary Matter,"" published in The New Yorker, a young Indian-American couple faces the heartbreak of a stillborn birth while their Boston neighborhood copes with a nightly blackout. In the title story, an interpreter guides an American family through the India of their ancestors and hears an astonishing confession. Lahiri writes with deft cultural insight reminiscent of Anita Desai and a nuanced depth that recalls Mavis Gallant." | 
         | 1390 | The Red Pyramid | Rick Riordan  | 05/04/2010 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Mythology, Middle Grade, Adventure, Fiction, Childrens, Magic, Urban Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy | Bast, Isis, Anubis, Osiris, Horus (God), Carter Kane, Sadie Kane, Zia Rashid, Thoth, Khufu, Sekhmet, Julius Kane, Geb, Nut, Set, Nephthys, Serket, Sobek (Death Comes as the End), Shu, Nekhbet, Apophis, Philip II of Macedon (The albino crocodile) | "Since his mother's death six years ago, Carter Kane has been living out of a suitcase, traveling the globe with his father, the brilliant Egyptologist, Dr. Julius Kane. But while Carter's been homeschooled, his younger sister, Sadie, has been living with their grandparents in London. Sadie has just what Carter wants—school friends and a chance at a ""normal"" life. But Carter has just what Sadie longs for—time with their father. After six years of living apart, the siblings have almost nothing in common. Until now.On Christmas Eve, Sadie and Carter are reunited when their father brings them to the British Museum, with a promise that he's going to ""make things right."" But all does not go according to plan: Carter and Sadie watch as Julius summons a mysterious figure, who quickly banishes their father and causes a fiery explosion.Soon Carter and Sadie discover that the gods of Ancient Egypt are waking, and the worst of them—Set—has a frightening scheme. To save their father, they must embark on a dangerous journey—a quest that brings them ever closer to the truth about their family and its links to the House of Life, a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs." | 
         | 1391 | The Goldfinch | Donna Tartt | 10/22/13 | Fiction, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Audiobook, Art, Adult, Novels, Adult Fiction, Mystery, Literature | Boris Pavlikovsky (The Goldfinch), Theo Decker, Pippa, Hobie | "It begins with a boy. Theo Decker, a thirteen-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his unbearable longing for his mother, he clings to one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art.As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love-and at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.The Goldfinch combines vivid characters, mesmerizing language, and suspense, while plumbing with a philosopher's calm the deepest mysteries of love, identity, and art. It is an old-fashioned story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention, and the ruthless machinations of fate." | 
         | 1392 | Julius Caesar | William Shakespeare, Roma Gill | 10/17/02 | Classics, Plays, Fiction, Drama, School, Historical Fiction, Literature, Read For School, Theatre, High School | Gaius Cassius Longinus, Brutus, Calpurnia (wife of Caesar), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, Marcus Antonius, Augustus, Julius Caesar, Portia Catonis, Marcus Tullius Cicero | "The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the greatest playwright in the English language. This exclusive collection of the Bard's best works has been designed specifically for readers new to Shakespeare's rich literary legacy. Each play is presented complete and unabridged, in large print. Every book is well illustrated, and starts with a commentary and character summary. Scene synopses and character summaries clarify confusing plots, while incisive essays explore the historical context and Shakespeare's sources. Each book ends with a complete list of Shakespeare's plays and a brief chronology of the Bard's life. The detailed explanatory notes are written clearly and positioned right next to the text-no more squinting at microscopic footnotes or flipping pages back and forth in search of endnotes! The new edition of the series features new covers and new illustrations, including both new drawings and photos from recent productions of Shakespeare's plays around the globe. In addition, the notes and the introductory material have been completely revised in line with new research and in order to make them clearer and more accessible. Finally, the entire text has been redesigned and reset to enhance readability. The new edition achieves the feat of unprecedented clarity of presentation without any cuts to the original text or the detailed explanations." | 
         | 1393 | Anne of Avonlea | L.M. Montgomery | 10/06/1997 | Classics, Fiction, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Childrens, Historical, Romance, Canada, Audiobook, Middle Grade | Marilla Cuthbert, Diana Barry, Gilbert Blythe, Rachel Lynde, Anne Shirley, Davy Keith, Dora Keith, Paul Irving, Stephen Irving, Lavender Lewis, J. A. Harrison, Jane Andrews, Charlotta the Fourth, Anthony Pye | "At sixteen, Anne is grown up...almost. Her gray eyes shine like evening stars, but her red hair is still as peppery as her temper. In the years since she arrived at Green Gables as a freckle-faced orphan, she has earned the love of the people of Avonlea and a reputation for getting into scrapes. But when Anne begins her job as the new schoolteacher, the real test of her character begins. Along with teaching the three Rs, she is learning how complicated life can be when she meddles in someone else's romance, finds two new orphans at Green Gables, and wonders about the strange behaviour of the very handsome Gilbert Blythe. As Anne enters womanhood, her adventures touch the heart and the funny bone." | 
         | 1394 | A Dog's Purpose | W. Bruce Cameron  | 07/28/10 | Fiction, Animals, Dogs, Contemporary, Adult, Fantasy, Audiobook, Adult Fiction, Humor, Young Adult | Ethan, Bailey, Heather | "This is the remarkable story of one endearing dog's search for his purpose over the course of several lives. More than just another charming dog story, this touches on the universal quest for an answer to life's most basic question: Why are we here? Surprised to find himself reborn as a rambunctious golden haired puppy after a tragically short life as a stray mutt, Bailey's search for his new life's meaning leads him into the loving arms of 8 year old Ethan. During their countless adventures Bailey joyously discovers how to be a good dog. But this life as a beloved family pet is not the end of Bailey's journey. Reborn as a puppy yet again, Bailey wonders, will he ever find his purpose? Heartwarming, insightful, and often laugh out loud funny, this book is not only the emotional and hilarious story of a dog's many lives, but also a dog's eye commentary on human relationships and the unbreakable bonds between man and man's best friend. This story teaches us that love never dies, that our true friends are always with us, and that every creature on earth is born with a purpose.-front flap" | 
         | 1395 | Peace Like a River | Leif Enger | 08/07/2002 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Book Club, Adult Fiction, Adult, Literary Fiction, Novels, Contemporary, Coming Of Age, Family | Rube Land, Swede Land, Davy Land, Jeremiah Land | "Once in a great while, we encounter a novel in our voluminous reading that begs to be read aloud. Leif Enger's debut, Peace Like a River, is one such work. His richly evocative novel, narrated by an asthmatic 11-year-old named Reuben Land, is the story of Reuben's unusual family and their journey across the frozen Badlands of the Dakotas in search of his fugitive older brother. Charged with the murder of two locals who terrorized their family, Davy has fled, understanding that the scales of justice will not weigh in his favor. But Reuben, his father, Jeremiah—a man of faith so deep he has been known to produce miracles—and Reuben's little sister, Swede, follow closely behind the fleeing Davy.Affecting and dynamic, Peace Like a River is at once a tragedy, a romance, and an unflagging exploration into the spirituality and magic possible in the everyday world, and in that of the world awaiting us on the other side of life. In Enger's superb debut effort, we witness a wondrous celebration of family, faith, and spirit, the likes of which we haven't seen in a long, long time—and the birth of a classic work of literature." | 
         | 1396 | We Need to Talk About Kevin | Lionel Shriver  | 07/03/2006 | Fiction, Contemporary, Thriller, Horror, Crime, Drama, Adult, Literary Fiction, Psychology, Book Club | Eva Khatchadourian, Kevin Khatchadourian, Franklin Plaskett, Celia Khatchadourian | " The gripping international bestseller about motherhood gone awry.Eva never really wanted to be a mother - and certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher who tried to befriend him, all two days before his sixteenth birthday. Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with marriage, career, family, parenthood, and Kevin's horrific rampage in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her estranged husband, Franklin. Uneasy with the sacrifices and social demotion of motherhood from the start, Eva fears that her alarming dislike for her own son may be responsible for driving him so nihilistically off the rails. " | 
         | 1397 | A Monster Calls | Patrick Ness | 05/07/2015 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Horror, Contemporary, Middle Grade, Magical Realism, Childrens, Death, Paranormal | ""Conor O''Malley"" | "The bestselling novel about love, loss and hope from the twice Carnegie Medal-winning Patrick Ness. Conor has the same dream every night, ever since his mother first fell ill, ever since she started the treatments that don't quite seem to be working. But tonight is different. Tonight, when he wakes, there's a visitor at his window. It's ancient, elemental, a force of nature. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor. It wants the truth. Patrick Ness takes the final idea of the late, award-winning writer Siobhan Dowd and weaves an extraordinary and heartbreaking tale of mischief, healing and above all, the courage it takes to survive." | 
         | 1398 | The Wasp Factory | Iain Banks | 10/28/98 | Fiction, Horror, Thriller, Mystery, Contemporary, Dark, Drama, Suspense, Novels, Classics | Frank Cauldhame, Eric Cauldhame, Angus Cauldhame, Mrs Clamp, Diggs | "Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his father outside a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least, unconventional. Frank's mother abandoned them years ago: his elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital; and his father measures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale. Frank has turned to strange acts of violence to vent his frustrations. In the bizarre daily rituals there is some solace. But when news comes of Eric's escape from the hospital Frank has to prepare the ground for his brother's inevitable return - an event that explodes the mysteries of the past and changes Frank utterly.The Wasp Factory is a work of horrifying compulsion: horrifying, because it enters a mind whose realities are not our own, whose values of life and death are alien to our society; compulsive, because the humour and compassion of that mind reach out to us all. A novel of extraordinary originality, imagination and comic ferocity." | 
         | 1399 | Poison Study | Maria V. Snyder  | 03/01/2007 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Magic, Fiction, Paranormal, High Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy, Adventure, New Adult | Valek, Maren, Commander Ambrose, Janco, Yelena Zaltana, Ari, Rand, General Brazell | "Choose: A quick death… or slow poison...About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. She'll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace—and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia.And so Yelena chooses to become a food taster. But the chief of security, leaving nothing to chance, deliberately feeds her Butterfly's Dust—and only by appearing for her daily antidote will she delay an agonizing death from the poison.As Yelena tries to escape her new dilemma, disasters keep mounting. Rebels plot to seize Ixia and Yelena develops magical powers she can't control. Her life is threatened again and choices must be made. But this time the outcomes aren't so clear..." | 
         | 1400 | The Two Towers | J.R.R. Tolkien, Peter S. Beagle  (Introduction) | 09/05/2003 | Fantasy, Fiction, Classics, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Novels, Literature, Magic | Frodo Baggins, Meriadoc Brandybuck, Peregrin Took, Gandalf, Aragorn, Gimli, Boromir, Bilbo Baggins, Eriol, Rúmil, Treebeard, Saruman, Éowyn, Éomer, Elrond Half-elven, Arwen Undómiel, Galadriel, Faramir, Gollum, Legolas, Sam Gamgee | "The Fellowship was scattered. Some were bracing hopelessly for war against the ancient evil of Sauron. Some were contending with the treachery of the wizard Saruman. Only Frodo and Sam were left to take the accursed Ring of Power to be destroyed in Mordor–the dark Kingdom where Sauron was supreme. Their guide was Gollum, deceitful and lust-filled, slave to the corruption of the Ring. Thus continues the magnificent, bestselling tale of adventure begun in The Fellowship of the Ring, which reaches its soul-stirring climax in The Return of the King." | 
         | 1401 | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, H.T. Willetts (Translation) | 03/16/05 | Fiction, Classics, Russia, Historical Fiction, Russian Literature, Literature, Novels, Historical, 20th Century, School | Ivan Denisovich Shukhov | "The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literature. The story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, it graphically describes his struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. An unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin's forced work camps, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is one of the most extraordinary literary documents to have emerged from the Soviet Union and confirms Solzhenitsyn's stature as ""a literary genius whose talent matches that of Dosotevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy""-Harrison SalisburyThis unexpurgated 1991 translation by H. T. Willetts is the only authorized edition available, and fully captures the power and beauty of the original Russian." | 
         | 1402 | The Queen of the Damned | Anne Rice | 11/29/97 | Horror, Fantasy, Vampires, Fiction, Paranormal, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy, Gothic, Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy | Lestat de Lioncourt, Gabrielle de Lioncourt, Maharet, Akasha, Enkil, Mael, Khayman, Jesse Miriam Reeves, Marius de Romanus, Daniel Molloy, Louis de Pointe du Lac, Armand | "Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereIn 1976, a uniquely seductive world of vampires was unveiled in the now-classic Interview with the Vampire . . . in 1985, a wild and voluptous voice spoke to us, telling the story of The Vampire Lestat.  In The Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice continues her extraordinary ""Vampire Chronicles"" in a feat of mesmeric storytelling, a chillingly hypnotic entertainment in which the oldest and most powerful forces of the night are unleashed on an unsuspecting world.Three brilliantly colored narrative threads intertwine as the story unfolds:- The rock star known as Vampire Lestat, worshipped by millions of spellbound fans, prepares for a concert in San Francisco.  Among the audience-pilgrims in a blind swoon of adoration-are hundreds of vampires, creatures who see Lestat as a ""greedy fiend risking the secret prosperity of all his kind just to be loved and seen by mortals,"" fiends themselves who hate Lestat's power and who are determined to destroy him . . . - The sleep of certain men and women-vampires and mortals scattered around the world-is haunted by a vivid, mysterious dream: of twins with fiery red hair and piercing green eyes who suffer an unspeakable tragedy.  It is a dream that slowly, tauntingly reveals its meaning to the dreamers as they make their way toward each other-some to be destroyed on the journey, some to face an even more terrifying fate at journey's end . . . - Akasha-Queen of the Damned, mother of all vampires, rises after a 6,000 year sleep and puts into motion a heinous plan to ""save"" mankind from itself and make ""all myths of the world real"" by elevating herself and her chosen son/lover to the level of the gods: ""I am the fulfillment and I shall from this moment be the cause"" . . . These narrative threads wind sinuously across a vast, richly detailed tapestry of the violent, sensual world of vampirism, taking us back 6,000 years to its beginnings.  As the stories of the ""first brood"" of blood drinkers are revealed, we are swept across the ages, from Egypt to South America to the Himalayas to all the shrouded corners of the globe where vampires have left their mark. Vampires are created-mortals succumbing to the sensation of ""being enptied, of being devoured, of being nothing."" Vampires are destroyed.  Dark rituals are performed-the rituals of ancient creatures prowling the modern world.  And, finally, we are brought to a moment in the twentieth century when, in an astonishing climax, the fate of the living dead-and perhaps of the living, all the living-will be decided.From the Hardcover edition." | 
         | 1403 | Left Behind | Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins | 09/01/2000 | Fiction, Christian, Christian Fiction, Religion, Fantasy, Thriller, Christianity, Science Fiction, Apocalyptic, Spirituality | The Anti-Christ, Nicolae Carpathia, Rayford Steele, Cameron ""Buck"" Williams, Bruce Barnes | "An airborne Boeing 747 is headed to London when, without any warning, passengers mysteriously disappear from their seats. Terror and chaos slowly spread not only through the plane but also worldwide as unusual events continue to unfold. For those who have been left behind, the apocalypse has just begun..." | 
         | 1404 | The Eyre Affair | Jasper Fforde  | 02/25/03 | Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Humor, Science Fiction, Books About Books, Time Travel, Alternate History, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adult | Thursday Next, Jane Eyre, Acheron Hades, Jack Schitt, Landen Parke-Laine, Pickwick, Emma, Lady Hamilton, ""Thursday''s Dad (name unknown)"", Braxton Hicks, Mrs. Nakajima, Joffy Next, Polly Next, Wednesday Next, Spike Stoker, Mycroft Next, Edward Rochester | "Great Britain circa 1985: time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. Baconians are trying to convince the world that Francis Bacon really wrote Shakespeare, there are riots between the Surrealists and Impressionists, and thousands of men are named John Milton, an homage to the real Milton and a very confusing situation for the police. Amidst all this, Acheron Hades, Third Most Wanted Man In the World, steals the original manuscript of Martin Chuzzlewit and kills a minor character, who then disappears from every volume of the novel ever printed! But that's just a prelude . . .Hades' real target is the beloved Jane Eyre, and it's not long before he plucks her from the pages of Bronte's novel. Enter Thursday Next. She's the Special Operative's renowned literary detective, and she drives a Porsche. With the help of her uncle Mycroft's Prose Portal, Thursday enters the novel to rescue Jane Eyre from this heinous act of literary homicide. It's tricky business, all these interlopers running about Thornfield, and deceptions run rampant as their paths cross with Jane, Rochester, and Miss Fairfax. Can Thursday save Jane Eyre and Bronte's masterpiece? And what of the Crimean War? Will it ever end? And what about those annoying black holes that pop up now and again, sucking things into time-space voids . . .Suspenseful and outlandish, absorbing and fun, The Eyre Affair is a caper unlike any other and an introduction to the imagination of a most distinctive writer and his singular fictional universe." | 
         | 1405 | Inheritance | Christopher Paolini  | 11/08/2011 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Dragons, Fiction, Magic, Adventure, High Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy | Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle), Saphira (The Inheritance Cycle), Glaedr (The Inheritance Cycle), Roran Garrowsson, Sloan (The Inheritance Cycle), Katrina (The Inheritance Cycle), Elva (The Inheritance Cycle), Arya (The Inheritance Cycle), Orik (The Inheritance Cycle), Murtagh (The Inheritance Cycle), Solembum, Nasuada, Galbatorix, Blödhgarm, King Orrin, Angela the Herbalist | "It began with Eragon... It ends with Inheritance.Not so very long ago, Eragon — Shadeslayer, Dragon Rider — was nothing more than a poor farm boy, and his dragon, Saphira, only a blue stone in the forest. Now the fate of an entire civilization rests on their shoulders.Long months of training and battle have brought victories and hope, but they have also brought heartbreaking loss. And still, the real battle lies ahead: they must confront Galbatorix. When they do, they will have to be strong enough to defeat him. And if they cannot, no one can. There will be no second chance.The Rider and his dragon have come further than anyone dared to hope. But can they topple the evil king and restore justice to Alagaësia? And if so, at what cost?This is the spellbinding conclusion to Christopher Paolini's worldwide bestselling Inheritance cycle." | 
         | 1406 | Before I Fall | Lauren Oliver  | 10/25/10 | Young Adult, Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Realistic Fiction, Teen, Paranormal, Death, Audiobook | Kent McFuller, Ally Harris, Samantha Kingston, Lindsay Edgecombe, Elody, Juliet Sykes, Izzy Kingston, Rob Cokran | "For popular high school senior Samantha Kingston, February 12—""Cupid Day""—should be one big party, a day of valentines and roses and the privileges that come with being at the top of the social pyramid. And it is … until she dies in a terrible accident that night.However, she still wakes up the next morning. In fact, Sam lives the last day of her life seven times, until she realizes that by making even the slightest changes, she may hold more power than she ever imagined.Before I Fall is now a major motion picture Zoey Deutch, Halston Sage, and Kian Lawley. Named to numerous state reading lists, the novel was also recognized as a Best Book of the Year by Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, The Daily Beast, NPR, and Publishers Weekly." | 
         | 1407 | The Talisman | Stephen King , Peter Straub  | 09/15/01 | Horror, Fantasy, Fiction, Thriller, Adventure, Mystery, Supernatural, Audiobook, Paranormal, Science Fiction | Jack Sawyer | "On a brisk autumn day, a twelve-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: his father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is about to change. For he has been chosen to make a journey back across America-and into another realm.One of the most influential and heralded works of fantasy ever written, The Talisman is an extraordinary novel of loyalty, awakening, terror, and mystery. Jack Sawyer, on a desperate quest to save his mother's life, must search for a prize across an epic landscape of innocents and monsters, of incredible dangers and even more incredible truths. The prize is essential, but the journey means even more. Let the quest begin. . . ." | 
         | 1408 | Where She Went | Gayle Forman  | 04/05/2011 | Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Music, New Adult, Teen, Audiobook, Young Adult Contemporary | Teddy Hall, Kim Schein, Adam Wilde, Mia Hall | "It's been three years since the devastating accident... three years since Mia walked out of Adam's life forever.Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Juilliard's rising star and Adam is LA tabloid fodder, thanks to his new rock star status and celebrity girlfriend. When Adam gets stuck in New York by himself, chance brings the couple together again, for one last night. As they explore the city that has become Mia's home, Adam and Mia revisit the past and open their hearts to the future - and each other.Told from Adam's point of view in the spare, lyrical prose that defined If I Stay, Where She Went explores the devastation of grief, the promise of new hope, and the flame of rekindled romance." | 
         | 1409 | Prince Caspian | C.S. Lewis | 06/20/05 | Fantasy, Fiction, Classics, Young Adult, Childrens, Adventure, Christian, Middle Grade, Christian Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy | Aslan, Lucy Pevensie, Edmund Pevensie, Prince Caspian, Trumpkin, Peter Pevensie, Susan Pevensie, Reepicheep, Bacchus (god), Silenus, Nikabrik, King Miraz, Dr. Cornelius, Trufflehunter | "The four Pevensies help Caspian battle Miraz and ascend his rightful throneNARNIA... the land between the lamp-post and the castle of Cair Paravel, where animals talk, where magical things happen... and where the adventure begins.Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy are returning to boarding school when they are summoned from the dreary train station (by Susan's own magic horn) to return to the land of Narnia—the land where they had ruled as kings and queens and where their help is desperately needed." | 
         | 1410 | The Memory Keeper's Daughter | Kim Edwards  | 05/30/06 | Fiction, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Adult, Historical Fiction, Book Club, Drama, Chick Lit, Novels, Family | Phoebe, Al, Dr. David Henry, Norah Henry, Bree, Paul Henry | "On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Down's Syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split-second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret. But Caroline, the nurse, cannot leave the infant. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child herself. So begins this story that unfolds over a quarter of a century - in which these two families, ignorant of each other, are yet bound by the fateful decision made that long-ago winter night. Norah Henry, who knows only that her daughter died at birth, remains inconsolable; her grief weighs heavily on their marriage. And Paul, their son, raises himself as best he can, in a house grown cold with mourning. Meanwhile, Phoebe, the lost daughter, grows from a sunny child to a vibrant young woman whose mother loves her as fiercely as if she were her own." | 
         | 1411 | The Knife of Never Letting Go | Patrick Ness | 07/22/14 | Young Adult, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Adventure, Teen, Audiobook, Thriller, Post Apocalyptic | Ben, Aaron, Hildy, Todd Hewitt, Viola Eade, Mayor Prentiss, Cillian, Manchee (Dog), Davy Prentiss, Jr. | "Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men think, and they hear everything he thinks. Todd is just a month away from becoming a man, but in the midst of the cacophony, he knows that the town is hiding something from him - something so awful Todd is forced to flee with only his dog, whose simple, loyal voice he hears too. With hostile men from the town in pursuit, the two stumble upon a strange and eerily silent creature: a girl. Who is she? Why wasn't she killed by the germ like all the females on New World? Propelled by Todd's gritty narration, readers are in for a white-knuckle journey in which a boy on the cusp of manhood must unlearn everything he knows in order to figure out who he truly is." | 
         | 1412 | Shadowfever | Karen Marie Moning  | 01/18/11 | Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Paranormal Romance, Fae, Adult, Fiction, Magic, Supernatural | MacKayla Lane, Rowena, ""Dani O''Malley"", Jericho Barrons, ""V''lane"", Christian MacKeltar, Inspector Jayne, Ryodan, Queen Aoibheal, Darroc, Cruce, Lor | "“Evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it’s good.” — MacKayla Lane was just a child when she and her sister, Alina, were given up for adoption and banished from Ireland forever. — Twenty years later, Alina is dead and Mac has returned to the country that expelled them to hunt her sister’s murderer. But after discovering that she descends from a bloodline both gifted and cursed, Mac is plunged into a secret history: an ancient conflict between humans and immortals who have lived concealed among us for thousands of years.What follows is a shocking chain of events with devastating consequences, and now Mac struggles to cope with grief while continuing her mission to acquire and control the Sinsar Dubh - a book of dark, forbidden magic scribed by the mythical Unseelie King, containing the power to create and destroy worlds.In an epic battle between humans and Fae, the hunter becomes the hunted when the Sinsar Dubh turns on Mac and begins mowing a deadly path through those she loves.Who can she turn to? Who can she trust? Who is the woman haunting her dreams? More important, who is Mac herself and what is the destiny she glimpses in the black and crimson designs of an ancient tarot card?From the luxury of the Lord Master’s penthouse to the sordid depths of an Unseelie nightclub, from the erotic bed of her lover to the terrifying bed of the Unseelie King, Mac’s journey will force her to face the truth of her exile, and to make a choice that will either save the world . . . or destroy it." | 
         | 1413 | Gone | Michael Grant  | 06/24/08 | Young Adult, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Paranormal, Romance, Adventure, Supernatural, Teen | Sam Temple, Astrid Ellison, Caine Soren, Diana Ladris, Drake Merwin, Quinn Gaither, Lana Lazar, Little Pete | "In the blink of an eye, everyone disappears. Gone. Except for the young.There are teens, but not one single adult. Just as suddenly, there are no phones, no internet, no television. No way to get help. And no way to figure out what's happened.Hunger threatens. Bullies rule. A sinister creature lurks. Animals are mutating. And the teens themselves are changing, developing new talents—unimaginable, dangerous, deadly powers—that grow stronger by the day. It's a terrifying new world. Sides are being chosen, a fight is shaping up. Townies against rich kids. Bullies against the weak. Powerful against powerless. And time is running out: On your 15th birthday, you disappear just like everyone else..." | 
         | 1414 | Native Son | Richard Wright | 08/02/2005 | Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, African American, Literature, Race, Novels, School, American, Banned Books | Bigger Thomas, Mary Dalton, Mrs. Dalton, Henry Dalton, Jan Erlone, Boris Max, Mrs. Thomas, Buddy Thomas, Vera Thomas | "Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic.Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America." | 
         | 1415 | The Killer Angels | Michael Shaara | 08/12/1987 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Civil War, War, Historical, Military Fiction, Classics, American History, American Civil War, School | Robert E. Lee, George Pickett, James Longstreet, Joshua Chamberlain | "In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation's history, two armies fought for two dreams. One dreamed of freedom, the other of a way of life. Far more than rifles and bullets were carried into battle. There were memories. There were promises. There was love. And far more than men fell on those Pennsylvania fields. Shattered futures, forgotten innocence, and crippled beauty were also the casualties of war. The Killer Angels is unique, sweeping, unforgettable—a dramatic re-creation of the battleground for America's destiny." | 
         | 1416 | Foucault's Pendulum | Umberto Eco, William Weaver (Translator) | 03/05/2007 | Fiction, Mystery, Historical Fiction, Literature, Classics, Italian Literature, Thriller, Novels, Italy, Philosophy | Jacopo Belbo, Diotallevi, Casaubon, Signor Casaubon, Belbo, Dr. Diotallevi, Aglie, Sergei Witte, Elie de Cyon, Mary Lena, Hugues de Champagne, Artois, Gabriel Naudé, de Maistre, Theo Fox, Dufy, Abbé Barruel, Monsieur Rodin, Philippe Nizier Anselme Vachot, Péladan, Justine Glinka, Leo Fox | "Foucault's Pendulum is divided into ten segments represented by the ten Sefiroth. The novel is full of esoteric references to the Kabbalah. The title of the book refers to an actual pendulum designed by the French physicist Léon Foucault to demonstrate the rotation of the earth, which has symbolic significance within the novel.Bored with their work, and after reading too many manuscripts about occult conspiracy theories, three vanity publisher employees (Belbo, Diotallevi and Casaubon) invent their own conspiracy for fun. They call this satirical intellectual game ""The Plan,"" a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlled—a point located in Paris, France, at Foucault’s Pendulum. But in a fateful turn the joke becomes all too real.The three become increasingly obsessed with The Plan, and sometimes forget that it's just a game. Worse still, other conspiracy theorists learn about The Plan, and take it seriously. Belbo finds himself the target of a real secret society that believes he possesses the key to the lost treasure of the Knights Templar.Orchestrating these and other diverse characters into his multilayered semioticadventure, Eco has created a superb cerebral entertainment." | 
         | 1417 | The Scorch Trials | James Dashner  | 10/12/2010 | Young Adult, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Post Apocalyptic, Teen, Audiobook, Mystery | Brenda (Maze Runner), Teresa Agnes, Minho, Thomas, Newt, Aris Jones, Jorge | Solving the Maze was supposed to be the end.    Thomas was sure that escape from the Maze would mean freedom for him and the Gladers. But WICKED isn’t done yet. Phase Two has just begun. The Scorch.   There are no rules. There is no help. You either make it or you die.   The Gladers have two weeks to cross through the Scorch—the most burned-out section of the world. And WICKED has made sure to adjust the variables and stack the odds against them.   Friendships will be tested. Loyalties will be broken. All bets are off.    There are others now. Their survival depends on the Gladers’ destruction—and they’re determined to survive. | 
         | 1418 | Darkfever | Karen Marie Moning  | 10/31/06 | Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Paranormal Romance, Fae, Adult, Fiction, Supernatural, Vampires | MacKayla Lane, Rowena, Jericho Barrons, ""V''lane"", Lord Master, Malluce | """My name is MacKayla, Mac for short. I'm a sidhe-seer, one who sees the Fae, a fact I accepted only recently and very reluctantly.My philosophy is pretty simple - any day nobody's trying to kill me is a good day in my book. I haven't had many good days lately. Not since the walls between Man and Fae came down. But then, there's not a sidhe-seer alive who's had a good day since then.""When MacKayla's sister was murdered, she left a single clue to her death, a cryptic message on Mac's cell phone. Journeying to Ireland in search of answers, Mac is soon faced with an even greater challenge: staying alive long enough to master a power she had no idea she possessed - a gift that allows her to see beyond the world of man, into the dangerous realm of the Fae.As Mac delves deeper into the mystery of her sister's death, her every move is shadowed by the dark, mysterious Jericho...while at the same time, the ruthless V'lane - an alpha Fae who makes sex an addiction for human women - closes in on her. As the boundary between worlds begins to crumble, Mac's true mission becomes clear: to find the elusive Sinsar Dubh before someone else claims the all-powerful Dark Book - because whoever gets to it first holds nothing less than complete control both worlds in their hands." | 
         | 1419 | The History of Love | Nicole Krauss | 05/17/06 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Novels, Literary Fiction, Book Club, Adult Fiction, Adult, Love | Alma Singer, Leo Gursky, Zvi Litvinoff | "An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found hereFourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother's loneliness. Believing she might discover it in an old book her mother is lovingly translating, she sets out in search of its author. Across New York an old man called Leo Gursky is trying to survive a little bit longer. He spends his days dreaming of the lost love who, sixty years ago in Poland, inspired him to write a book. And although he doesn't know it yet, that book also survived: crossing oceans and generations, and changing lives..." | 
         | 1420 | Pretties | Scott Westerfeld  | 11/01/2005 | Young Adult, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, Teen, Adventure, Post Apocalyptic, Science Fiction Fantasy | David Strorm, Tally Youngblood, Shay, Dr. Cable, Andrew Simpson Smith, Peris, Zane (Uglies) | "Gorgeous. Popular. Perfect.Perfectly wrong.Tally has finally become pretty. Now her looks are beyond perfect, her clothes are awesome, her boyfriend is totally hot, and she's completely popular. It's everything she's ever wanted.But beneath all the fun - the nonstop parties, the high-tech luxury, the total freedom - is a nagging sense that something's wrong. Something important. Then a message from Tally's ugly past arrives. Reading it, Tally remembers what's wrong with pretty life, and the fun stops cold.Now she has to choose between fighting to forget what she knows and fighting for her life - because the authorities don't intend to let anyone with this information survive." | 
         | 1421 | The Bourne Identity | Robert Ludlum | 03/24/05 | Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Espionage, Adventure, Action, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Novels | Jason Bourne, Marie St. Jacques | "Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereWho is Jason Bourne? Is he an assassin, a terrorist, a thief? Why has he got four million dollars in a Swiss bank account? Why has someone tried to murder him?...Jason Bourne does not know the answer to any of these questions. Suffering from amnesia, he does not even know that he is Jason Bourne. What manner of man is he? What are his secrets? Who has he killed?" | 
         | 1422 | Words of Radiance | Brandon Sanderson  | 03/04/2014 | Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Audiobook, Magic, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic, Adult, Adventure | Kaladin Stormblessed, Dalinar Kholin, Shallan Davar, Jasnah Kholin, Eshonai, Adolin Kholin, Hoid, Lift | "Words of Radiance, Book Two of the Stormlight Archive, continues the immersive fantasy epic that The Way of Kings began.Expected by his enemies to die the miserable death of a military slave, Kaladin survived to be given command of the royal bodyguards, a controversial first for a low-status ""darkeyes."" Now he must protect the king and Dalinar from every common peril as well as the distinctly uncommon threat of the Assassin, all while secretly struggling to master remarkable new powers that are somehow linked to his honorspren, Syl.The Assassin, Szeth, is active again, murdering rulers all over the world of Roshar, using his baffling powers to thwart every bodyguard and elude all pursuers. Among his prime targets is Highprince Dalinar, widely considered the power behind the Alethi throne. His leading role in the war would seem reason enough, but the Assassin's master has much deeper motives.Brilliant but troubled Shallan strives along a parallel path. Despite being broken in ways she refuses to acknowledge, she bears a terrible burden: to somehow prevent the return of the legendary Voidbringers and the civilization-ending Desolation that will follow. The secrets she needs can be found at the Shattered Plains, but just arriving there proves more difficult than she could have imagined.Meanwhile, at the heart of the Shattered Plains, the Parshendi are making an epochal decision. Hard pressed by years of Alethi attacks, their numbers ever shrinking, they are convinced by their war leader, Eshonai, to risk everything on a desperate gamble with the very supernatural forces they once fled. The possible consequences for Parshendi and humans alike, indeed, for Roshar itself, are as dangerous as they are incalculable." | 
         | 1423 | Possession | A.S. Byatt | 10/01/1991 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance, Classics, Mystery, Historical, Literary Fiction, Literature, British Literature, Poetry | Maud Bailey, Roland Michell, Christabel LaMotte, Randolph Henry Ash, Leonora Stern, Mortimer Cropper, James Blackadder, Beatrice Nest, Val, Euan MacIntyre, Ellen Ash, Blanche Glover, Sabine de Kerkoz | "Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets. As they uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire—from spiritualist séances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany—what emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of passions and ideas.Man Booker Prize Winner (1990)" | 
         | 1424 | Gravity's Rainbow | Thomas Pynchon | 10/31/06 | Fiction, Classics, Science Fiction, Literature, Historical Fiction, Novels, American, War, Unfinished, 20th Century | Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop, Pig Bodine | "Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the 20th century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative, and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force." | 
         | 1425 | I Am Legend and Other Stories | Richard Matheson | 09/15/97 | Horror, Fiction, Science Fiction, Vampires, Short Stories, Fantasy, Post Apocalyptic, Classics, Dystopia, Zombies | Robert Neville | "Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth...but he is not alone. Every other man, woman, and child on Earth has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood.By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn.How long can one man survive in a world of vampires?I am legend -Buried talents -The near departed -Prey -Witch war -Dance of the dead -Dress of white silk -Mad house -The funeral -From shadowed places -Person to person." | 
         | 1426 | Oedipus Rex | Sophocles, J.E. Thomas (Translator) | 06/22/06 | Classics, Plays, Fiction, Drama, School, Mythology, Read For School, Theatre, Literature, High School | Oedipus, Tiresias, Creon, Jocasta (Greek Mythology), Sphinx (Greek mythology) | """...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?""Sophocles' Oedipus Rex has never been surpassed for the raw and terrible power with which its hero struggles to answer the eternal question, ""Who am I?"" The play, a story of a king who acting entirely in ignorance kills his father and marries his mother, unfolds with shattering power; we are helplessly carried along with Oedipus towards the final, horrific truth. To make Oedipus more accessible for the modern reader, our Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Classics includes a glossary of the more difficult words, as well as convenient sidebar notes to enlighten the reader on aspects that may be confusing or overlooked. We hope that the reader may, through this edition, more fully enjoy the beauty of the verse, the wisdom of the insights, and the impact of the drama." | 
         | 1427 | Scarlet | Marissa Meyer  | 02/05/2013 | Young Adult, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Dystopia, Retellings, Fiction, Fairy Tales, Audiobook, Adventure | Linh Cinder, Queen Levana, Scarlet Benoit, Ze’ev ""Wolf"" Kesley, Emperor Kai, Ran Kesley, Carswell Thorne, Iko, Aimery Park, Linh Adri, Linh Pearl, Michelle Benoit | "Cinder returns in the second thrilling installment of the New York Times-bestselling Lunar Chronicles.She’s trying to break out of prison—even though if she succeeds, she’ll be the Commonwealth’s most wanted fugitive. Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit’s grandmother is missing. It turns out there are many things Scarlet doesn’t know about her grandmother and the grave danger she has lived in her whole life. When Scarlet encounters Wolf, a street fighter who may have information as to her grandmother’s whereabouts, she has no choice but to trust him, though he clearly has a few dark secrets of his own. As Scarlet and Wolf work to unravel one mystery, they find another when they cross paths with Cinder. Together, they must stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen who will do anything to make Prince Kai her husband, her king, her prisoner." | 
         | 1428 | Alanna: The First Adventure | Tamora Pierce  | 01/01/2005 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Magic, Adventure, Young Adult Fantasy, High Fantasy, Middle Grade, Childrens, Teen | Alanna of Trebond, Thom of Trebond, Coram Smythesson, George Cooper, Jonathan of Conte, Raoul of Goldenlake, Gareth of Naxen the Second (Gary), Alex of Tirrigan, Duke Roger of Conte | "From now on I'm Alan of Trebond, the younger twin. I'll be a knight.And so young Alanna of Trebond begins the journey to knighthood. Though a girl, Alanna has always craved the adventure and daring allowed only for boys; her twin brother, Thom, yearns to learn the art of magic. So one day they decide to switch places: Thom heads for the convent to learn magic; Alanna, pretending to be a boy, is on her way to the castle of King Roald to begin her training as a page.  But the road to knighthood is not an easy one. As Alanna masters the skills necessary for battle, she must also learn to control her heart and to discern her enemies from her allies.Filled with swords and sorcery, adventure and intrigue, good and evil, Alanna's first adventure begins - one that will lead to the fulfillment of her dreams and the magical destiny that will make her a legend in her land." | 
         | 1429 | House of Sand and Fog | Andre Dubus III | 10/02/2018 | Fiction, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Adult Fiction, Novels, Literature, Book Club, Adult, Drama, Suspense | Colonel Behrani, Kathy Nicolo, Sheriff Lester Burdon | "In this “page-turner with a beating heart” (Boston Globe), a recovering alcoholic and addict down on her luck struggles to hold on to her home in California. But this becomes contested territory when a recent immigrant from the Middle East—a former colonel in the Iranian Air Force—becomes determined to restore his family’s dignity through buying the house. When the woman’s lover, a married cop, intervenes, he goes to extremes to win her love. Andre Dubus III’s unforgettable characters—people with ordinary flaws, looking for a small piece of ground to stand on—careen toward inevitable conflict. An “affecting, subtle portrait of two hostile but equally fragile camps” (The New Yorker), their tragedy paints a shockingly true picture of the country we still live in today, two decades after this book’s first publication." | 
         | 1430 | John Adams | David McCullough | 05/22/01 | History, Biography, Nonfiction, American History, Presidents, Politics, Historical, Biography Memoir, American Revolution, Audiobook | John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Dickinson, Abigail Adams, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson | "The enthralling, often surprising story of John Adams, one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived.In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot - ""the colossus of independence,"" as Thomas Jefferson called him - who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second President of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war; who was learned beyond all but a few and regarded by some as ""out of his senses""; and whose marriage to the wise and valiant Abigail Adams is one of the moving love stories in American history. Like his masterly, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Truman, David McCullough's John Adams has the sweep and vitality of a great novel. It is both a riveting portrait of an abundantly human man and a vivid evocation of his time, much of it drawn from an outstanding collection of Adams family letters and diaries. In particular, the more than one thousand surviving letters between John and Abigail Adams, nearly half of which have never been published, provide extraordinary access to their private lives and make it possible to know John Adams as no other major American of his founding era. As he has with stunning effect in his previous books, McCullough tells the story from within - from the point of view of the amazing eighteenth century and of those who, caught up in events, had no sure way of knowing how things would turn out. George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, the British spy Edward Bancroft, Madame Lafayette and Jefferson's Paris ""interest"" Maria Cosway, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, the scandalmonger James Callender, Sally Hemings, John Marshall, Talleyrand, and Aaron Burr all figure in this panoramic chronicle, as does, importantly, John Quincy Adams, the adored son whom Adams would live to see become President. Crucial to the story, as it was to history, is the relationship between Adams and Jefferson, born opposites - one a Massachusetts farmer's son, the other a Virginia aristocrat and slaveholder, one short and stout, the other tall and spare. Adams embraced conflict; Jefferson avoided it. Adams had great humor; Jefferson, very little. But they were alike in their devotion to their country. At first they were ardent co-revolutionaries, then fellow diplomats and close friends. With the advent of the two political parties, they became archrivals, even enemies, in the intense struggle for the presidency in 1800, perhaps the most vicious election in history. Then, amazingly, they became friends again, and ultimately, incredibly, they died on the same day - their day of days - July 4, in the year 1826. Much about John Adams's life will come as a surprise to many readers. His courageous voyage on the frigate Boston in the winter of 1778 and his later trek over the Pyrenees are exploits that few would have dared and that few readers will ever forget. It is a life encompassing a huge arc - Adams lived longer than any president. The story ranges from the Boston Massacre to Philadelphia in 1776 to the Versailles of Louis XVI, from Spain to Amsterdam, from the Court of St. James's, where Adams was the first American to stand before King George III as a representative of the new nation, to the raw, half-finished Capital by the Potomac, where Adams was the first President to occupy the White House. This is history on a grand scale - a book about politics and war and social issues, but also about human nature, love, religious faith, virtue, ambition, friendship and betrayal, and the far-reaching consequences of noble ideas. Above all, John Adams is an enthralling, often surprising story of one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived." | 
         | 1431 | One for the Money | Janet Evanovich  | 10/28/06 | Mystery, Fiction, Humor, Chick Lit, Romance, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Contemporary, Adult, Comedy | Ranger (Rangeman CEO), Lula, Grandma Mazur, Jimmy Alpha, Joe Morelli, Stephanie Plum | "You've lost your job as a department store lingerie buyer, your car's been repossessed, and most of your furniture and small appliances have been sold off to pay last month's rent. Now the rent is due again. And you live in New Jersey. What do you do?If you're Stephanie Plum, you become a bounty hunter. But not just a nickel-and-dime bounty hunter; you go after the big money. That means a cop gone bad. And not just any cop. She goes after Joe Morelli, a disgraced former vice cop who is also the man who took Stephanie's virginity at age 16 and then wrote details on a bathroom wall. With pride and rent money on the line, Plum plunges headlong into her first case, one that pits her against ruthless adversaries - people who'd rather kill than lose.In Stephanie Plum, Evanovich has created a resourceful and humorous character who stands apart from the pack of gritty female detectives." | 
         | 1432 | The Song of Achilles | Madeline Miller  | 09/20/11 | Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Mythology, LGBT, Romance, Historical, Retellings, Audiobook, Adult | Achilles (Greek hero), Peleus, Patroclus, Thetis (mythology) | "Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. By all rights their paths should never cross, but Achilles takes the shamed prince as his friend, and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine their bond blossoms into something deeper - despite the displeasure of Achilles' mother Thetis, a cruel sea goddess. But then word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped. Torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus journeys with Achilles to Troy, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they hold dear.Profoundly moving and breathtakingly original, this rendering of the epic Trojan War is a dazzling feat of the imagination, a devastating love story, and an almighty battle between gods and kings, peace and glory, immortal fame and the human heart." | 
         | 1433 | Champion | Marie Lu  | 11/05/2013 | Dystopia, Young Adult, Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Adventure, Action, Audiobook, Teen | June Iparis, Daniel Altan Wing | "He is a Legend.She is a Prodigy.Who will be Champion?  June and Day have sacrificed so much for the people of the Republic—and each other—and now their country is on the brink of a new existence. June is back in the good graces of the Republic, working within the government’s elite circles as Princeps-Elect, while Day has been assigned a high-level military position. But neither could have predicted the circumstances that will reunite them: just when a peace treaty is imminent, a plague outbreak causes panic in the Colonies, and war threatens the Republic’s border cities. This new strain of plague is deadlier than ever, and June is the only one who knows the key to her country’s defense. But saving the lives of thousands will mean asking the one she loves to give up everything. With heart-pounding action and suspense, Marie Lu’s bestselling trilogy draws to a stunning conclusion." | 
         | 1434 | The Haunting of Hill House | Shirley Jackson, Laura Miller (Introduction) | 11/28/06 | Horror, Classics, Fiction, Gothic, Mystery, Paranormal, Audiobook, Ghosts, Thriller, Supernatural | Dr. John Montague, Eleanor Vance, Theodora (The Haunting of Hill House), Luke Sanderson, Mrs. Montague, Arthur Parker (The Haunting of Hill House), Mrs. Dudley | "It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a ""haunting""; Theodora, the lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own." | 
         | 1435 | Assassin's Apprentice | Robin Hobb  | 03/01/1996 | Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Magic, Adventure, Adult, Audiobook, Young Adult | Verity Farseer, The Fool, Sean Galen, FitzChivalry Farseer, Burrich, Lady Patience, Shrewd, Chade Fallstar, Regal Farseer, Nighteyes, Kettricken | "In a faraway land where members of the royal family are named for the virtues they embody, one young boy will become a walking enigma.Born on the wrong side of the sheets, Fitz, son of Chivalry Farseer, is a royal bastard, cast out into the world, friendless and lonely. Only his magical link with animals - the old art known as the Wit - gives him solace and companionship. But the Wit, if used too often, is a perilous magic, and one abhorred by the nobility.So when Fitz is finally adopted into the royal household, he must give up his old ways and embrace a new life of weaponry, scribing, courtly manners; and how to kill a man secretly, as he trains to become a royal assassin." | 
         | 1436 | 1Q84 | Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin (Translator), Philip Gabriel (Translator) | 10/25/11 | Fiction, Fantasy, Magical Realism, Japan, Science Fiction, Japanese Literature, Contemporary, Literature, Novels, Dystopia | Aomame Masami, Tengo Kawana, Fuka-Eri, Komatsu | "The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that bears a question.” Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unraveled. As Aomame’s and Tengo’s narratives converge over the course of this single year, we learn of the profound and tangled connections that bind them ever closer: a beautiful, dyslexic teenage girl with a unique vision; a mysterious religious cult that instigated a shoot-out with the metropolitan police; a reclusive, wealthy dowager who runs a shelter for abused women; a hideously ugly private investigator; a mild-mannered yet ruthlessly efficient bodyguard; and a peculiarly insistent television-fee collector.A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell’s — 1Q84 is Haruki Murakami’s most ambitious undertaking yet: an instant best seller in his native Japan, and a tremendous feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers." | 
         | 1437 | The Magus | John Fowles | 01/04/2001 | Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Mystery, Literature, Novels, Literary Fiction, Greece, British Literature, Contemporary | Nicholas Urfe, Alison Kelly, Maurice Conchis, Julie Holmes, June Holmes, Lily de Seitas, Joe Harrison, Sandy Mitford, Demetriades, Joan Kemp, John Leverrier, John Briggs | "This daring literary thriller, rich with eroticism and suspense, is one of John Fowles's best-loved and bestselling novels and has contributed significantly to his international reputation as a writer of the first degree. At the center of The Magus is Nicholas Urfe, a young Englishman who accepts a teaching position on a remote Greek island, where he befriends a local millionaire. The friendship soon evolves into a deadly game, in which reality and fantasy are deliberately manipulated, and Nicholas finds that he must fight not only for his sanity but for his very survival." | 
         | 1438 | Oryx and Crake | Margaret Atwood  | 03/30/04 | Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Post Apocalyptic, Fantasy, Canada, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Novels | Snowman, Oryx, Crake | "Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey–with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake–through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride. Margaret Atwood projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining." | 
         | 1439 | Tempted | P.C. Cast , Kristin Cast  | 10/23/09 | Young Adult, Vampires, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy, Magic | Zoey Redbird, Dragon, Nyx (House of Night), Erik Night, Stevie Rae Johnson, Neferet, Heath Luck, Aphrodite LaFont, Kalona, Sylvia Redbird, Erin Bates, Shaunee Cole, Damien Maslin, James Stark, Jack Twist, Rephaim, Darius Langley | "So…you’d think after banishing an immortal being and a fallen High Priestess, saving Stark’s life, biting Heath, getting a headache from Erik, and almost dying, Zoey Redbird would catch a break. Sadly, a break is not in the House of Night school forecast for the High Priestess in training and her gang.Juggling three guys is anything but a stress reliever, especially when one of them is a sexy Warrior who is so into protecting Zoey that he can sense her emotions. Speaking of stress, the dark force lurking in the tunnels under the Tulsa Depot is spreading, and Zoey is beginning to believe Stevie Rae could be responsible for a lot more than a group of misfit red fledglings. Aphrodite’s visions warn Zoey to stay away from Kalona and his dark allure, but they also show that it is Zoey who has the power to stop the evil immortal.Soon it becomes obvious that Zoey has no choice: if she doesn’t go to Kalona he will exact a fiery vengeance on those closest to her. Will Zoey have the courage to chance losing her life, her heart, and her soul?" | 
         | 1440 | Cress | Marissa Meyer  | 02/04/2014 | Young Adult, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Retellings, Dystopia, Fiction, Fairy Tales, Audiobook, Adventure | Princess Winter, Linh Cinder, Queen Levana, Scarlet Benoit, Ze’ev ""Wolf"" Kesley, Emperor Kai, Carswell Thorne, Iko, Crescent Moon ""Cress"" Darnel, Jacin Clay, Dr. Dmitri Erland, Sybil Mira, Aimery Park, Linh Adri | "In this third book in the Lunar Chronicles, Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, now with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they're plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and her army.Their best hope lies with Cress, a girl imprisoned on a satellite since childhood who's only ever had her netscreens as company. All that screen time has made Cress an excellent hacker. Unfortunately, she's just received orders from Levana to track down Cinder and her handsome accomplice.When a daring rescue of Cress goes awry, the group is separated. Cress finally has her freedom, but it comes at a higher price. Meanwhile, Queen Levana will let nothing prevent her marriage to Emperor Kai. Cress, Scarlet, and Cinder may not have signed up to save the world, but they may be the only hope the world has." | 
         | 1441 | Inferno | Dan Brown  | 05/14/13 | Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Historical Fiction, Adventure, Novels, Crime, Adult | Robert Langdon, Sienna Brooks, Laurence Knowlton, Christoph Brüder, Elizabeth Sinskey, Bertrand Zobrist, Jonathan Ferris | "Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon awakens in an Italian hospital, disoriented and with no recollection of the past thirty-six hours, including the origin of the macabre object hidden in his belongings. With a relentless female assassin trailing them through Florence, he and his resourceful doctor, Sienna Brooks, are forced to flee. Embarking on a harrowing journey, they must unravel a series of codes, which are the work of a brilliant scientist whose obsession with the end of the world is matched only by his passion for one of the most influential masterpieces ever written, Dante Alighieri's The Inferno.  Dan Brown has raised the bar yet again, combining classical Italian art, history, and literature with cutting-edge science in this sumptuously entertaining thriller." | 
         | 1442 | A Breath of Snow and Ashes | Diana Gabaldon  | 08/29/06 | Historical Fiction, Romance, Fiction, Fantasy, Time Travel, Historical, Historical Romance, Audiobook, Adult, Adventure | Jamie Fraser, Brianna Randall, Roger MacKenzie, Jeremiah MacKenzie, Fergus Fraser, Marsali Fraser, Germain Fraser, Malva Christie, Tom Christie, Lord John Grey, Jocasta Cameron, Duncan Innes, Claire Randall Fraser, Stephen Bonnet, Young Ian Murray, William Ransom, Lizzie Wemyss, Jo Beardsley, Kezzie Beardsley | "A Breath of Snow and Ashes continues the extraordinary story of 18th-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his 20th-century wife, Claire.The year is 1772, and on the eve of the American Revolution, the long fuse of rebellion has already been lit. Men lie dead in the streets of Boston, and in the backwoods of North Carolina, isolated cabins burn in the forest.With chaos brewing, the governor calls upon Jamie Fraser to unite the backcountry and safeguard the colony for King and Crown. But from his wife Jamie knows that three years hence the shot heard round the world will be fired, and the result will be independence — with those loyal to the King either dead or in exile. And there is also the matter of a tiny clipping from The Wilmington Gazette, dated 1776, which reports Jamie’s death, along with his kin. For once, he hopes, his time-traveling family may be wrong about the future." | 
         | 1443 | Night Watch | Terry Pratchett | 10/27/11 | Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Comedy, Time Travel, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Audiobook, Novels, High Fantasy | Nobby Nobbs, Carrot Ironfoundersson, Sam Vimes, Young Sam Vimes, Havelock Vetinari, Sybil Deidre Olgivanna Ramkin, DEATH, Cheery Littlebottom, Reg Shoe, Detritus, Monks of History, Buggy Swires, Fred Colon, Lu-Tze, John Keel | "'Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come round again. That's why they're called revolutions. People die, and nothing changes.'For a policeman, there can be few things worse than a serial killer at loose in your city. Except, perhaps, a serial killer who targets coppers, and a city on the brink of bloody revolution. The people have found their voice at last, the flags and barricades are rising...And the question for a policeman, an officer of the law, a defender of the peace, is:Are you with them, or are you against them?" | 
         | 1444 | Veronika Decides to Die | Paulo Coelho , Margaret Jull Costa (Translator), Kâmuran Şipal (Translator) | 06/01/2006 | Fiction, Contemporary, Philosophy, Novels, Psychology, Romance, Drama, Mental Health, Literature, Spirituality | Boston ""Mari"" Maribu, Athena (Greek goddess), Veronika, Eduard, Dr. Igor, Zedka | "In his latest international bestseller, the celebrated author of The Alchemist addresses the fundamental questions asked by millions: What am I doing here today? and Why do I go on living?Twenty-four-year-old Veronika seems to have everything she could wish for: youth and beauty, plenty of attractive boyfriends, a fulfilling job, and a loving family. Yet something is lacking in her life. Inside her is a void so deep that nothing could possibly ever fill it. So, on the morning of November 11, 1997, Veronika decides to die. She takes a handful of sleeping pills expecting never to wake up.Naturally Veronika is stunned when she does wake up at Villete, a local mental hospital, where the staff informs her that she has, in fact, partially succeeded in achieving her goal. While the overdose didn't kill Veronika immediately, the medication has damaged her heart so severely that she has only days to live.The story follows Veronika through the intense week of self-discovery that ensues. To her surprise, Veronika finds herself drawn to the confinement of Villete and its patients, who, each in his or her individual way, reflect the heart of human experience. In the heightened state of life's final moments, Veronika discovers things she has never really allowed herself to feel before: hatred, fear, curiosity, love, and sexual awakening. She finds that every second of her existence is a choice between living and dying, and at the eleventh hour emerges more open to life than ever before.In Veronika Decides to Die, Paulo Coelho takes the reader on a distinctly modern quest to find meaning in a culture overshadowed by angst, soulless routine, and pervasive conformity. Based on events in Coelho's own life, Veronika Decides to Die questions the meaning of madness and celebrates individuals who do not fit into patterns society considers to be normal. Poignant and illuminating, it is a dazzling portrait of a young woman at the crossroads of despair and liberation, and a poetic, exuberant appreciation of each day as a renewed opportunity." | 
         | 1445 | Prodigal Summer | Barbara Kingsolver | 10/16/01 | Fiction, Contemporary, Nature, Novels, Literary Fiction, Adult, Adult Fiction, Literature, Environment, Audiobook | Deanna Wolfe, Eddie Bondo, Lusa Maluf Landowski, Garnett Walker, Nannie Rawley | "Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia.From her outpost in an isolated mountain cabin, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region. She is caught off-guard by a young hunter who invades her most private spaces and confounds her self-assured, solitary life. On a farm several miles down the mountain, Lusa Maluf Landowski, a bookish city girl turned farmer's wife, finds herself unexpectedly marooned in a strange place where she must declare or lose her attachment to the land that has become her own. And a few more miles down the road, a pair of elderly feuding neighbors tend their respective farms and wrangle about God, pesticides, and the possibilities of a future neither of them expected.Over the course of one humid summer, these characters find their connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with whom they share a place. Prodigal Summer demonstrates a balance of narrative, drama and ideas that is characteristic of Barbara Kingsolver's finest work." | 
         | 1446 | Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernières | 08/29/95 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance, Classics, War, Historical, Greece, World War II, Novels, Literature | Pelagia, Antonio Corelli, Mandras, Dr Iannis | "Captain Corelli’s Mandolin is set in the early days of the second world war, before Benito Mussolini invaded Greece. Dr Iannis practices medicine on the island of Cephalonia, accompanied by his daughter, Pelagia, to whom he imparts much of his healing art. Even when the Italians do invade, life isn’t so bad—at first anyway. The officer in command of the Italian garrison is the cultured Captain Antonio Corelli, who responds to a Nazi greeting of “Heil Hitler” with his own “Heil Puccini”, and whose most precious possession is his mandolin. It isn't long before Corelli and Pelagia are involved in a heated affair-despite her engagement to a young fisherman, Mandras, who has gone off to join Greek partisans. Love is complicated enough in wartime, even when the lovers are on the same side. And for Corelli and Pelagia, it becomes increasingly difficult to negotiate the minefield of allegiances, both personal and political, as all around them atrocities mount, former friends become enemies and the ugliness of war infects everyone it touches. British author Louis de Bernières is well known for his forays into magical realism in such novels as The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts, Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord and The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman. Here he keeps it to a minimum, though certainly the secondary characters with whom he populates his island—the drunken priest, the strongman, the fisherman who swims with dolphins—would be at home in any of his wildly imaginative Latin American fictions. Instead, de Bernières seems interested in dissecting the nature of history as he tells his ever-darkening tale from many different perspectives. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin works on many levels, as a love story, a war story and a deconstruction of just what determines the facts that make it into the history books." | 
         | 1447 | I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You | Ally Carter  | 05/01/2006 | Young Adult, Romance, Mystery, Contemporary, Fiction, Espionage, Chick Lit, Adventure, Teen, Realistic Fiction | Liz Sutton, Macey McHenry, Josh Abram, Rebecca ""Bex"" Baxter, Kim Lee, Tina Walters, Cammie Morgan | "Cammie Morgan is a student at the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women, a fairly typical all-girls school—that is, if every school taught advanced martial arts in PE and the latest in chemical warfare in science, and students received extra credit for breaking CIA codes in computer class. The Gallagher Academy might claim to be a school for geniuses, but it's really a school for spies. Even though Cammie is fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man in seven different ways, she has no idea what to do when she meets an ordinary boy who thinks she's an ordinary girl. Sure, she can tap his phone, hack into his computer, or track him through town with the skill of a real ""pavement artist""—but can she maneuver a relationship with someone who can never know the truth about her? Cammie Morgan may be an elite spy-in-training, but in her sophomore year, she's on her most dangerous mission—falling in love." | 
         | 1448 | The Fiery Cross | Diana Gabaldon , Janos Farkas (translator) | 08/30/05 | Historical Fiction, Romance, Fiction, Fantasy, Time Travel, Historical, Historical Romance, Audiobook, Adult, Adventure | Jamie Fraser, Brianna Randall, Roger MacKenzie, Jeremiah MacKenzie, Fergus Fraser, Marsali Fraser, Germain Fraser, Jocasta Cameron, Duncan Innes, Claire Randall Fraser, Stephen Bonnet, Young Ian Murray | "The year is 1771, and war is coming. Jamie Fraser’s wife tells him so. Little as he wishes to, he must believe it, for hers is a gift of dreadful prophecy—a time-traveler’s certain knowledge. Claire’s unique view of the future has brought him both danger and deliverance in the past; her knowledge of the oncoming revolution is a flickering torch that may light his way through the perilous years ahead—or ignite a conflagration that will leave their lives in ashes." | 
         | 1449 | The Magic Mountain | Thomas Mann, John E. Woods (Translator) | 10/28/96 | Fiction, Classics, German Literature, Literature, Philosophy, Novels, Germany, 20th Century, Nobel Prize, Literary Fiction | Hans Castorp, Ludovico Settembrini, Joachim Ziemssen, Hermine Kleefeld, Clavdia Chauchat, Pieter Peeperkorn | "In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devoted exclusively to sickness, as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting the first symptoms of its own terminal irrationality. The Magic Mountain is a monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, a book that pulses with life in the midst of death." | 
         | 1450 | The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants | Ann Brashares | 09/11/2001 | Young Adult, Fiction, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Romance, Teen, Realistic Fiction, Childrens, Coming Of Age, Young Adult Contemporary | Bridget Vreeland, Tibby Rollins, Carmen Lowell, Lena Kaligaris, Effie Kaligaris, Duncan Howe, Al Lowell, Eric Richman, Kostos Dounas | "Carmen got the jeans at a thrift shop. They didn’t look all that great: they were worn, dirty, and speckled with bleach. On the night before she and her friends part for the summer, Carmen decides to toss them. But Tibby says they’re great. She'd love to have them. Lena and Bridget also think they’re fabulous. Lena decides that they should all try them on. Whoever they fit best will get them. Nobody knows why, but the pants fit everyone perfectly. Even Carmen (who never thinks she looks good in anything) thinks she looks good in the pants. Over a few bags of cheese puffs, they decide to form a sisterhood and take the vow of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants . . . the next morning, they say good-bye. And then the journey of the pants — and the most memorable summer of their lives — begins." | 
         | 1451 | From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler | E.L. Konigsburg | 06/02/2003 | Fiction, Childrens, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Mystery, Classics, Realistic Fiction, Adventure, Juvenile, School | Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Claudia Kincaid, James Kincaid | "When suburban Claudia Kincaid decides to run away, she knows she doesn’t just want to run from somewhere, she wants to run to somewhere — to a place that is comfortable, beautiful, and, preferably, elegant. She chooses the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Knowing her younger brother Jamie has money and thus can help her with a serious cash-flow problem, she invites him along.Once settled into the museum, Claudia and Jamie find themselves caught up in the mystery of an angel statue that the museum purchased at auction for a bargain price of $225. The statue is possibly an early work of the Renaissance master, Michelangelo, and therefore worth millions. Is it? Or isn’t it? Claudia is determined to find out. Her quest leads her to Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, the remarkable old woman who sold the statue, and to some equally remarkable discoveries about herself." | 
         | 1452 | The Elegance of the Hedgehog | Muriel Barbery, Alison Anderson  (Translator) | 09/02/2008 | Fiction, France, Contemporary, Philosophy, Book Club, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Adult Fiction, Adult | Renée Michel, Paloma Josse, Kakuro Ozu | "A moving, funny, triumphant novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us.We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. Renée, the concierge, is witness to the lavish but vacuous lives of her numerous employers. Outwardly she conforms to every stereotype of the concierge: fat, cantankerous, addicted to television. Yet, unbeknownst to her employers, Renée is a cultured autodidact who adores art, philosophy, music, and Japanese culture. With humor and intelligence she scrutinizes the lives of the building's tenants, who for their part are barely aware of her existence. Then there's Paloma, a twelve-year-old genius. She is the daughter of a tedious parliamentarian, a talented and startlingly lucid child who has decided to end her life on the sixteenth of June, her thirteenth birthday. Until then she will continue behaving as everyone expects her to behave: a mediocre pre-teen high on adolescent subculture, a good but not an outstanding student, an obedient if obstinate daughter. Paloma and Renée hide both their true talents and their finest qualities from a world they suspect cannot or will not appreciate them. They discover their kindred souls when a wealthy Japanese man named Ozu arrives in the building. Only he is able to gain Paloma's trust and to see through Renée's timeworn disguise to the secret that haunts her. This is a moving, funny, triumphant novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us." | 
         | 1453 | The Big Sleep | Raymond Chandler | 07/12/1988 | Mystery, Fiction, Classics, Crime, Noir, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Thriller, Novels, American | Philip Marlowe, Vivian Regan, Carmen Sternwood, General Guy Sternwood, Eddie Mars, Rusty Regan, Arthur Gwynn Geiger, Owen Taylor, Agnes Lozelle, Joe Brody, Harry Jones, Mona Mars, Carol Lundgren, Lash Camino, Bernie Ohls | "Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid....He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. This is the Code of the Private Eye as defined by Raymond Chandler in his 1944 essay 'The Simple Act of Murder.' Such a man was Philip Marlowe, private eye, an educated, heroic, streetwise, rugged individualist and the hero of Chandler's first novel, The Big Sleep. This work established Chandler as the master of the 'hard-boiled' detective novel, and his articulate and literary style of writing won him a large audience, which ranged from the man in the street to the most sophisticated intellectual." | 
         | 1454 | Message in a Bottle | Nicholas Sparks  | 12/01/1999 | Romance, Fiction, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Adult, Adult Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Love, Drama, Novels | Theresa Osborne, Garrett Blake | "Shimmering with suspense and emotional intensity - takes readers on a hunt for the truth about a man and his memories, and about both the heartbreaking fragility and enormous strength of love.Nicholas Sparks is our very best chronicler of the human heart. His stunning first novel, The Notebook, has been given by friend to friend and lover to lover all over the world as a testament to the timeless power of love. But if we thought he could never again move us so deeply, he now shows us he can-in a story that renews our faith in destiny...in the ability of true lovers to find each other no matter where, no matter when... Message In A Bottle Thrown to the waves, and to fate, the bottle could have ended up anywhere. Instead, it is found just three weeks after it begins its journey. Theresa Osborne, divorced and the mother of a twelve-year-old son, picks it up during a seaside vacation from her job as a Boston newspaper columnist. Inside is a letter that opens with: My Dearest Catherine, I miss you my darling, as I always do, but today is particularly hard because the ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together... For ""Garrett,"" the man who signs the letter, the message is the only way he knows to express his undying love for a woman he has lost. For Theresa, wary of romance since her husband shattered her trust, the message raises questions that intrigue her. Who are Garrett and Catherine? Where is he now? What is his story? Challenged by the mystery, and pulled to find Garrett by emotions she does not fully understand, Theresa begins a search that takes her to a sunlit coastal town and an unexpected confrontation. Brought together by chance-or something more powerful-Theresa and Garrett are people whose lives are about to touch for a purpose, in a tale that resonates with our deepest hopes for finding that special someone and everlasting love. Shimmering with suspense and emotional intensity, Message in a Bottle takes readers on a hunt for the truth about a man and his memories, and about both the heartbreaking fragility and enormous strength of love. For those who cherished The Notebook and readers waiting to discover the magic of Nicholas Sparks's storytelling, here is his new, achingly lovely novel of happenstance, desire, and the choices that matter most..." | 
         | 1455 | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West | Dee Brown | 01/23/01 | History, Nonfiction, American History, Classics, Historical, War, Politics, Race, Native Americans, Westerns | Sitting Bull, Red Cloud, Ely Parker, Cochise, Quanah Parker, Kicking Bird, Ten Bears, Crazy Horse, Chief Joseph, Geronimo, Manuelito, Little Crow | "Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling history The New York Times called ""Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking...Impossible to put down.""Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. A national bestseller in hardcover for more than a year after its initial publication, it has sold almost four million copies and has been translated into seventeen languages. For this elegant thirtieth-anniversary edition—published in both hardcover and paperback—Brown has contributed an incisive new preface.Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown allows the great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes to tell us in their own words of the battles, massacres, and broken treaties that finally left them demoralized and defeated. A unique and disturbing narrative told with force and clarity, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee changed forever our vision of how the West was really won." | 
         | 1456 | Prodigy | Marie Lu  | 01/29/13 | Dystopia, Young Adult, Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Adventure, Teen, Action, Audiobook | June Iparis, Daniel Altan Wing | "Injured and on the run, it has been seven days since June and Day barely escaped Los Angeles and the Republic with their lives. Day is believed dead having lost his own brother to an execution squad who thought they were assassinating him. June is now the Republic's most wanted traitor. Desperate for help, they turn to the Patriots - a vigilante rebel group sworn to bring down the Republic. But can they trust them or have they unwittingly become pawns in the most terrifying of political games?" | 
         | 1457 | The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency | Alexander McCall Smith  | 02/06/2003 | Mystery, Fiction, Africa, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Botswana, Detective, Adult Fiction, Adult, Audiobook | Precious Ramotswe, Silvia Potokwani, Charlie the older apprentice, Note Mokoti, Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni, Violet Sepotho, Grace Makutsi, Fanwell the younger apprentice, Obed Ramotswe | "Precious Ramotswe has only just set up shop as Botswana's No.1 (and only) lady detective when she is hired to track down a missing husband, uncover a con man, and follow a wayward daughter. However, the case that tugs at her heart, and lands her in danger, is a missing eleven-year-old boy, who may have been snatched by witch doctors." | 
         | 1458 | Love Story | Erich Segal | 01/08/2002 | Romance, Fiction, Classics, Contemporary, Chick Lit, Novels, Love, Love Story, Adult, Drama | Oliver Barrett IV, Jennifer Cavilleri | "Oliver Barrett IV, a wealthy jock from a stuffy WASP family on his way to a Harvard degree and a career in law . . . Jenny Cavilleri, a sharp-tongued, working-class beauty studying music at Radcliffe . . .Opposites in nearly every way, Oliver and Jenny are kindred spirits from vastly different worlds. Falling deeply and powerfully, their attraction to one another defies everything they have ever believed—as they share a passion far greater than anything they dreamed possible . . . and explore the wonder of a love that must end too soon.One of the most adored novels of our time, this is the book that defined a generation—a story of uncompromising devotion, of life as it really is . . . and love that changes everything." | 
         | 1459 | Glass Houses | Rachel Caine  | 10/03/2006 | Vampires, Young Adult, Paranormal, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Paranormal Romance, Ghosts | Michael Glass, Shane Collins, Eve Rosser, Claire Danvers | "From the author of the popular Weather Warden series comes the debut of an exciting new series set in Morganville, Texas, where you would be well advised to avoid being out after dark.College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation. When Claire heads off-campus, the imposing old house where she finds a room may not be much better. Her new roommates don't show many signs of life, but they'll have Claire's back when the town's deepest secrets come crawling out, hungry for fresh blood. Will she be able to face the town's terror or will she drown like everyone else?" | 
         | 1460 | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | Jules Verne, Anthony Bonner (Translator) | 04/01/2002 | Classics, Science Fiction, Fiction, Adventure, Fantasy, France, Literature, Steampunk, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy | Pierre Aronnax, Ned Land, Captain Nemo | "When an unidentified “monster” threatens international shipping, French oceanographer Pierre Aronnax and his unflappable assistant Conseil join an expedition organized by the US Navy to hunt down and destroy the menace. After months of fruitless searching, they finally grapple with their quarry, but Aronnax, Conseil, and the brash Canadian harpooner Ned Land are thrown overboard in the attack, only to find that the “monster” is actually a futuristic submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by a shadowy, mystical, preternaturally imposing man who calls himself Captain Nemo. Thus begins a journey of 20,000 leagues—nearly 50,000 miles—that will take Captain Nemo, his crew, and these three adventurers on a journey of discovery through undersea forests, coral graveyards, miles-deep trenches, and even the sunken ruins of Atlantis. Jules Verne’s novel of undersea exploration has been captivating readers ever since its first publication in 1870, and Frederick Paul Walter’s reader-friendly, scientifically meticulous translation of this visionary science fiction classic is complete and unabridged down to the smallest substantive detail." | 
         | 1461 | Confessions of a Shopaholic | Sophie Kinsella  | 11/04/2003 | Chick Lit, Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Humor, Adult, Adult Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Comedy, Young Adult | Becky Bloomwood, Luke Brandon, Susan Cleath-Stuart, Tarquin Cleath-Stuart, Alicia Billington | "Becky Bloomwood has a fabulous flat in London’s trendiest neighborhood, a troupe of glamorous socialite friends, and a closet brimming with the season’s must-haves. The only trouble is, she can’t actually afford it—not any of it. Her job writing at Successful Saving magazine not only bores her to tears, it doesn’t pay much at all. And lately Becky’s been chased by dismal letters from the bank—letters with large red sums she can’t bear to read. She tries cutting back. But none of her efforts succeeds. Her only consolation is to buy herself something . . . just a little something. Finally a story arises that Becky actually cares about, and her front-page article catalyzes a chain of events that will transform her life—and the lives of those around her—forever." | 
         | 1462 | Odd Thomas | Dean Koontz  | 08/29/06 | Horror, Fiction, Mystery, Fantasy, Thriller, Paranormal, Suspense, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy, Mystery Thriller | Odd Thomas, Stormy Llewellyn, Chief Wyatt Porter, Robert Thomas ""Fungus Man"" Robertson, Little Ozzie | """The dead don't talk. I don't know why."" But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as an ordinary guy, if possessed of a certain measure of talent at the Pico Mundo Grill and rapturously in love with the most beautiful girl in the world, Stormy Llewellyn.Maybe he has a gift, maybe it's a curse, Odd has never been sure, but he tries to do his best by the silent souls who seek him out. Sometimes they want justice, and Odd's otherworldly tips to Pico Mundo's sympathetic police chief, Wyatt Porter, can solve a crime. Occasionally they can prevent one. But this time it's different.A mysterious man comes to town with a voracious appetite, a filing cabinet stuffed with information on the world's worst killers, and a pack of hyena-like shades following him wherever he goes. Who the man is and what he wants, not even Odd's deceased informants can tell him. His most ominous clue is a page ripped from a day-by-day calendar for August 15.Today is August 14.In less than twenty-four hours, Pico Mundo will awaken to a day of catastrophe. As evil coils under the searing desert sun, Odd travels through the shifting prisms of his world, struggling to avert a looming cataclysm with the aid of his soul mate and an unlikely community of allies that includes the King of Rock 'n' Roll. His account of two shattering days when past and present, fate and destiny converge is the stuff of our worst nightmares, and a testament by which to live: sanely if not safely, with courage, humor, and a full heart that even in the darkness must persevere." | 
         | 1463 | Ivanhoe | Walter Scott, Graham Tulloch (Editor, Introduction) | 03/30/00 | Classics, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Adventure, Literature, Historical, Romance, Classic Literature, Novels, 19th Century | Little John, Robin of Locksley, Richard I of England, Wilfred of Ivanhoe, John of England, Rebecca of York, Isaac of York, Brian de Bois-Guilbert, Reginald Front-de-Boeuf, Cedric of Rotherwood, Maurice De Bracy, Waldemar Fitzurse, Maid Marion, Black Knight, Prince John Lackland, Robert von der Normandie, Bruder Gurth, Iorlvaux, Le Noir-Fainéant, Ivanhoe | "For this novel, Scott moved far away from the setting of his own turbulent time. He went back to the late 12th century, and to England rather than the Scottish settings of all his previous novels. He connected his writing Ivanhoe with his concerns about contemporary events.Scott drew together the apparently opposing themes of historical reality and chivalric romance, social realism and high adventure, past and present." | 
         | 1464 | The Nightingale | Kristin Hannah  | 02/03/2015 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, World War II, War, Audiobook, Adult, France, Adult Fiction, Romance | Vianne Mauriac, Isabelle Rossignol | "In love we find out who we want to be.In war we find out who we are.FRANCE, 1939In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says good-bye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn’t believe that the Nazis will invade France…but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent. When a German captain requisitions Vianne’s home, she and her daughter must live with the enemy or lose everything. Without food or money or hope, as danger escalates all around them, she is forced to make one impossible choice after another to keep her family alive.Vianne’s sister, Isabelle, is a rebellious eighteen-year-old, searching for purpose with all the reckless passion of youth. While thousands of Parisians march into the unknown terrors of war, she meets Gaëtan, a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within France, and she falls in love as only the young can…completely. But when he betrays her, Isabelle joins the Resistance and never looks back, risking her life time and again to save others.With courage, grace and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of World War II and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the women’s war. The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France—a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime." | 
         | 1465 | Ender's Shadow | Orson Scott Card | 05/19/02 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Young Adult, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Adventure, Space, War, Novels | Andrew Wiggin, ""Bean"", Nikolai Delphiki, Volescu, Sister Carlotta, Poke | "Welcome to Battleschool.Growing up is never easy. But try living on the mean streets as a child begging for food and fighting like a dog with ruthless gangs of starving kids who wouldn't hesitate to pound your skull into pulp for a scrap of apple. If Bean has learned anything on the streets, it's how to survive. And not with fists. He is way too small for that. But with brains.Bean is a genius with a magician's ability to zero in on his enemy and exploit his weakness.What better quality for a future general to lead the Earth in a final climactic battle against a hostile alien race, known as Buggers. At Battleschool Bean meets and befriends another future commander - Ender Wiggins - perhaps his only true rival.Only one problem: for Bean and Ender, the future is now.Ender's Shadow is the book that launched The Shadow Series, and the parallel novel to Orson Scott Card's science fiction classic, Ender's Game." | 
         | 1466 | The Aeneid | Virgil, Robert Fitzgerald (Translator) | 06/16/90 | Classics, Poetry, Fiction, Mythology, Literature, School, Epic, Fantasy, Ancient, Classic Literature | Venus (Goddess), Jupiter (God), Aeneas, Juno, Priam, Ixion, Iris (Greek), Mercury (mythology) Marvel), Turnus (King of the Rutuli), Vulcan (God), Neoptolemus, Dido of Carthage, Misenus, Anchises, Sybil (Ancient oracle), Ascanius, Charon (mythology), Camilla (mythology), Lavinia (mythology), Pallas (son of Evander) | "The Aeneid – thrilling, terrifying and poignant in equal measure – has inspired centuries of artists, writers and musicians.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is translated by J. W. Mackail and has an afterword by Coco Stevenson.Virgil’s epic tale tells the story of Aeneas, a Trojan hero, who flees his city after its fall, with his father Anchises and his young son Ascanius – for Aeneas is destined to found Rome and father the Roman race. As Aeneas journeys closer to his goal, he must first prove his worth and attain the maturity necessary for such an illustrious task. He battles raging storms in the Mediterranean, encounters the fearsome Cyclopes, falls in love with Dido, Queen of Carthage, travels into the Underworld and wages war in Italy." | 
         | 1467 | Unravel Me | Tahereh Mafi | 02/05/2013 | Young Adult, Dystopia, Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction, Paranormal, Fiction, New Adult, Post Apocalyptic, Supernatural | Adam Kent, Juliette Ferrars, Aaron Warner Anderson, Kenji Kishimoto | "The thrilling second installment in New York Times bestselling author Tahereh Mafi’s Shatter Me series.It should have taken Juliette a single touch to kill Warner. But his mysterious immunity to her deadly power has left her shaken, wondering why her ultimate defense mechanism failed against the person she most needs protection from.She and Adam were able to escape Warner’s clutches and join up with a group of rebels, many of whom have powers of their own. Juliette will finally be able to actively fight against The Reestablishment and try to fix her broken world. And perhaps these new allies can help her shed light on the secret behind Adam’s—and Warner’s—immunity to her killer skin.Juliette’s world is packed with high-stakes action and tantalizing romance, perfect for fans of the Red Queen series by Victoria Aveyard and the Darkest Minds trilogy by Alexandra Bracken.Ransom Riggs, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, raved: ""A thrilling, high-stakes saga of self-discovery and forbidden love, the Shatter Me series is a must-read for fans of dystopian young-adult literature—or any literature!""" | 
         | 1468 | Emma | Jane Austen, Fiona Stafford (Introduction/Notes) | 05/06/2003 | Classics, Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Literature, Historical, 19th Century, Classic Literature, Audiobook, British Literature | Emma Woodhouse, George Knightley, Harriet Smith, Jane Fairfax, Frank Churchill, Henry Woodhouse, Mr. Woodhouse, Mrs. Weston, Philip Elton, Augusta Elton, Mr Weston, Mrs Anne Weston, Miss Bates, Isabella Woodhouse, John Knightley, Mr. Elton, Mrs. Elton | "An alternative cover of this ISBN can be found here.Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma organizes the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village and plays matchmaker with devastating effect." | 
         | 1469 | Angle of Repose | Wallace Stegner | 05/28/92 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, Literature, Westerns, Literary Fiction, Novels, Book Club, Historical, Audiobook | Lyman Ward, Susan Burling Ward, Oliver Ward, Rodman Ward, Frank Sargent, Ada Topham, Shelly Rasmussen, Ellen Ward | "Wallace Stegner's Pultizer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery—personal, historical, and geographical. Confined to a wheelchair, retired historian Lyman Ward sets out to write his grandparents' remarkable story, chronicling their days spent carving civilization into the surface of America's western frontier. But his research reveals even more about his own life than he's willing to admit. What emerges is an enthralling portrait of four generations in the life of an American family." | 
         | 1470 | The Shell Seekers | Rosamunde Pilcher | 04/06/2004 | Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Chick Lit, Adult Fiction, Historical, British Literature, Contemporary, Family, Novels | Penelope Keeling | "Artist's daughter Penelope Keeling can look back on a full and varied life: a Bohemian childhood in London and Cornwall, an unhappy wartime marriage, and the one man she truly loved. She has brought up three children - and learned to accept them as they are. Yet she is far too energetic and independent to settle sweetly into pensioned-off old-age. And when she discovers that her most treasured possession, her father's painting, The Shell Seekers, is now worth a small fortune, it is Penelope who must make the decisions that will determine whether her family can continue to survive as a family, or be split apart." | 
         | 1471 | The Corrections | Jonathan Franzen | 09/02/2002 | Fiction, Contemporary, Novels, Literary Fiction, Literature, American, Family, The United States Of America, Unfinished, Adult Fiction | Alfred Lambert, Enid Lambert, Gary Lambert | "Winner of the National Book Award for FictionNominated for the National Book Critics Circle AwardAn American Library Association Notable BookJonathan Franzen's third novel, The Corrections, is a great work of art and a grandly entertaining overture to our new century: a bold, comic, tragic, deeply moving family drama that stretches from the Midwest at mid-century to Wall Street and Eastern Europe in the age of greed and globalism. Franzen brings an old-time America of freight trains and civic duty, of Cub Scouts and Christmas cookies and sexual inhibitions, into brilliant collision with the modern absurdities of brain science, home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental healthcare, and the anti-gravity New Economy. With The Corrections, Franzen emerges as one of our premier interpreters of American society and the American soul.Enid Lambert is terribly, terribly anxious. Although she would never admit it to her neighbors or her three grown children, her husband, Alfred, is losing his grip on reality. Maybe it's the medication that Alfred takes for his Parkinson's disease, or maybe it's his negative attitude, but he spends his days brooding in the basement and committing shadowy, unspeakable acts. More and more often, he doesn't seem to understand a word Enid says.Trouble is also brewing in the lives of Enid's children. Her older son, Gary, a banker in Philadelphia, has turned cruel and materialistic and is trying to force his parents out of their old house and into a tiny apartment. The middle child, Chip, has suddenly and for no good reason quit his exciting job as a professor at D--- College and moved to New York City, where he seems to be pursuing a ""transgressive"" lifestyle and writing some sort of screenplay. Meanwhile the baby of the family, Denise, has escaped her disastrous marriage only to pour her youth and beauty down the drain of an affair with a married man-or so Gary hints.Enid, who loves to have fun, can still look forward to a final family Christmas and to the ten-day Nordic Pleasurelines Luxury Fall Color Cruise that she and Alfred are about to embark on. But even these few remaining joys are threatened by her husband's growing confusion and unsteadiness. As Alfred enters his final decline, the Lamberts must face the failures, secrets, and long-buried hurts that haunt them as a family if they are to make the corrections that each desperately needs." | 
         | 1472 | The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison | 09/06/2005 | Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, African American, Race, Literature, Novels, Literary Fiction, School, American | Pauline Breedlove, Cholly Breedlove, Pecola Breedlove | "The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove. Pecola prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the year the marigolds in the Breedloves' garden do not bloom. Pecola's life does change- in painful, devastating ways.What its vivid evocation of the fear and loneliness at the heart of a child's yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment. The Bluest Eye remains one of Toni Morrisons's most powerful, unforgettable novels- and a significant work of American fiction." | 
         | 1473 | Anthem | Ayn Rand | 12/01/1999 | Fiction, Classics, Philosophy, Dystopia, Science Fiction, School, Literature, Read For School, Politics, Novels | Liberty, Equality | "Anthem has long been hailed as one of Ayn Rand's classic novels, and a clear predecessor to her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. In Anthem, Rand examines a frightening future in which individuals have no name, no independence, and no values. Equality 7-2521 lives in the dark ages of the future where all decisions are made by committee, all people live in collectives, and all traces of individualism have been wiped out. Despite such a restrictive environment, the spark of individual thought and freedom still burns in him-a passion which he has been taught to call sinful. In a purely egalitarian world, Equality 7-2521 dares to stand apart from the herd-to think and choose for himself, to discover electricity, and to love the woman of his choice. Now he has been marked for death for committing the ultimate sin. In a world where the great ""we"" reign supreme, he has rediscovered the lost and holy word-""I.""" | 
         | 1474 | Under the Dome | Stephen King  | 11/10/2009 | Horror, Fiction, Science Fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Mystery, Suspense, Audiobook, Adult, Drama | Dale Barbara, Julia Shumway, James Rennie, Junior Rennie, Eric ""Rusty"" Everett, Joseph ""Scarecrow Joe"" McClatchey, Brenda Perkins, Frank DeLesseps, Carter Thibodeau, Melvin Searles, Georgia Roux, Andy Sanders, Phil ""The Chef"" Bushey, Peter Randolph, United States Military, American Law Enforcement, Dale ""Barbie"" Barbara, James ""Big Jim"" Rennie, Bill Allnut, Sarah Allnut, Mabel Alston, Private Clint Ames, Tommy Anderson, Willow Anderson, Elsa Andrews, Aidan Patrick Appleton, Alice Rachel Appleton, Marty Arsenault, Donnie Baribeau, Chaz Bender, Kayla Bevins, Harriet Bigelow, Fernald ""Fern"" Bowie, Stewart Bowie, Joe Boxer, Clayton Brassey, Freeman Brown, Gina Buffalino, Michela Burpee, Romeo ""Rommie"" Burpee, Little Walter Bushey, Phil Bushey, Sammy Bushey, Billy Cale, Jack Cale, Ernie Calvert, Joanie Calvert, Lucien Calvert, Norrie Calvert, Ed Carty, Carrie Carver, Deanna Carver, Johnny Carver, Eddie Chalmers, Pamela Chen, Henrietta Clavard, John Clavard, Reverend Lester Coggins, Cindy Collins, Hanna Compton, Mrs. Connaught, Lauren Conree, Rance Conroy, Arletta Coombs, Anderson Cooper, Mary Lou Costas, Colonel James O. Cox, Wanda Crumley, Wendell Crumley, Wanda Debec, Frederick ""Fred""  Howard Denton, Alden Dinsmore, Oliver ""Ollie"" Dinsmore, Rory Dinsmore, Shelley Dinsmore, Russ Dorr, Alva Drake, Benny Drake, Norman Drake, Coralee Dumagen, Marta Edmunds, Brendan Ellerbee, Myra Evans, Erik ""Rusty"" Everett, Janelle Everett, Judy Everett, Linda Everett, Rusty Evers, George Frederick, Lois Freeman, Will Freeman, Jack Evans, Randall Killian, Ricky Killian, Roger Killian, Leo Lamoine, George Lathrop, Reverend Piper Libby, Rupert ""Rupe"" Libby, Corrie Macintosh, Suzanne Malveaux, Toby Manning, Thurston Marshall, Angie McCain, LaDonna McCain, Mr. McCain, Claire McClatchey, Joe McClatchey, Sam McClatchey, James McMurtry, Lennie Meechum, Stacey Moggin, Tabby Morrell, Frieda Morrison, Henry Morrison, Charles ""Stubby"" Norman, Howard ""Duke"" Perkins, Major Gene Ray, Doc Rayburn, Nora Robichaud, Bob Roux, Helen Roux, Andrew ""Andy"" DeLois Sanders, Claudette Sanders, Dorothy ""Dodee""  Sanders, Sea Dogs, Melvin ""Mel"" Searles, Petra Searles, Jimmy Sirois, Carolyn Sturges, Chuck Thompson, Al Timmons, Ginny Tomlinson, Nell Toomey, Aubrey Towle, Johnny Trent, Douglas Twitchell, Miz Rose Twitchell, Jessie Vachon, Ellen Vanedestine | "On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as “the dome” comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when—or if—it will go away.Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens—town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician’s assistant at the hospital, a selectwoman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing—even murder—to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Because time isn’t just short. It’s running out.source: stephenking.com" | 
         | 1475 | Living Dead in Dallas | Charlaine Harris  | 04/01/2004 | Fantasy, Vampires, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Fiction, Mystery, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Adult | Sookie Stackhouse, Bill Compton, Sam Merlotte, Jason Stackhouse, Eric Northman, Tara Thornton, Pam Ravenscroft, Barry ""Bellboy"" Horowitz | "Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is having a streak of bad luck. First her co-worker is killed, and no one seems to care. Then she comes face to-face with a beastly creature that gives her a painful and poisonous lashing. Enter the vampires, who graciously suck the poison from her veins (like they didn't enjoy it).The point is: they saved her life. So when one of the bloodsuckers asks for a favor, she obliges - and soon Sookie's in Dallas, using her telepathic skills to search for a missing vampire. She's supposed to interview certain humans involved, but she makes one condition: the vampires must promise to behave and let the humans go unharmed. But that's easier said than done, and all it takes is one delicious blonde and one small mistake for things to turn deadly...." | 
         | 1476 | A Canticle for Leibowitz | Walter M. Miller Jr., Mary Doria Russell  (Introduction) | 05/09/2006 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Post Apocalyptic, Classics, Dystopia, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Religion, Apocalyptic, Speculative Fiction | Isaac Edward Leibowitz, Benjamin Eleazar bar Joshua | "In a nightmarish ruined world slowly awakening to the light after sleeping in darkness, the infant rediscoveries of science are secretly nourished by cloistered monks dedicated to the study and preservation of the relics and writings of the blessed Saint Isaac Leibowitz. From here the story spans centuries of ignorance, violence, and barbarism, viewing through a sharp, satirical eye the relentless progression of a human race damned by its inherent humanness to recelebrate its grand foibles and repeat its grievous mistakes." | 
         | 1477 | The Jungle Books | Rudyard Kipling, Alev Lytle Croutier (Afterword) | 05/03/2005 | Classics, Fiction, Childrens, Fantasy, Adventure, Short Stories, Literature, Animals, Young Adult, India | Mowgli (Rudyard Kipling), Bagheera (Rudyard Kipling), Hathin, Shere Khan, Baloo (Rudyard Kipling), Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Nagaina, Darzee, Messua, Akela, Kaa, Tabaqui, Nag | "The Jungle Books can be regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children. But they also constitute a complex literary work of art in which the whole of Kipling's philosophy of life is expressed in miniature. They are best known for the 'Mowgli' stories; the tale of a baby abandoned and brought up by wolves, educated in the ways and secrets of the jungle by Kaa the python, Baloo the bear, and Bagheera the black panther. The stories, a mixture of fantasy, myth, and magic, are underpinned by Kipling's abiding preoccupation with the theme of self-discovery, and the nature of the 'Law'." | 
         | 1478 | Rubinrot | Kerstin Gier | 01/06/2009 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Time Travel, Romance, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction, Fiction, Paranormal, Historical, Mystery | Grace Shepherd, Leslie Hay, Gideon de Villiers, Cynthia Dale, Gwendolyn Shepherd, Gordan Gelderman, James Augustus Peregrine Pympoole-Bothame | "Manchmal ist es ein echtes Kreuz, in einer Familie zu leben, die jede Menge Geheimnisse hat. Der Überzeugung ist zumindest die 16-jährige Gwendolyn.Bis sie sich eines Tages aus heiterem Himmel im London um die letzte Jahrhundertwende wiederfindet. Und ihr klar wird, dass ausgerechnet sie das allergrößte Geheimnis ihrer Familie ist. Was ihr dagegen nicht klar ist: Dass man sich zwischen den Zeiten möglichst nicht verlieben sollte. Denn das macht die Sache erst recht kompliziert!" | 
         | 1479 | The Story of My Life | Helen Keller | 05/01/1990 | Nonfiction, Biography, Classics, Memoir, History, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, Historical, Disability, Inspirational | Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller | "When she was 19 months old, Helen Keller (1880–1968) suffered a severe illness that left her blind and deaf. Not long after, she also became mute. Her tenacious struggle to overcome these handicaps-with the help of her inspired teacher, Anne Sullivan-is one of the great stories of human courage and dedication. In this classic autobiography, first published in 1903, Miss Keller recounts the first 22 years of her life, including the magical moment at the water pump when, recognizing the connection between the word ""water"" and the cold liquid flowing over her hand, she realized that objects had names. Subsequent experiences were equally noteworthy: her joy at eventually learning to speak, her friendships with Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edward Everett Hale and other notables, her education at Radcliffe (from which she graduated cum laude), and-underlying all-her extraordinary relationship with Miss Sullivan, who showed a remarkable genius for communicating with her eager and quick-to-learn pupil." | 
         | 1480 | Something Wicked This Way Comes | Ray Bradbury | 03/01/1998 | Horror, Fantasy, Fiction, Classics, Science Fiction, Young Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Halloween, Audiobook, Mystery | William Halloway, James Nightshade, Charles Halloway | "One of Ray Bradbury’s best-known and most popular novels, Something Wicked This Way Comes, now featuring a new introduction and material about its longstanding influence on culture and genre.For those who still dream and remember, for those yet to experience the hypnotic power of its dark poetry, step inside. The show is about to begin. Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. The carnival rolls in sometime after midnight, ushering in Halloween a week early. A calliope’s shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. Two boys will discover the secret of its smoke, mazes, and mirrors; two friends who will soon know all too well the heavy cost of wishes…and the stuff of nightmares.Few novels have endured in the heart and memory as has Ray Bradbury’s unparalleled literary masterpiece Something Wicked This Way Comes. Scary and suspenseful, it is a timeless classic in the American canon." | 
         | 1481 | Linger | Maggie Stiefvater  | 07/13/10 | Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal, Werewolves, Fiction, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy, Teen | Shelby, Grace Brisbane, Sam  Roth, Cole St. Clair, Isabel Culpeper, Jack Culpeper, Geoffrey Beck, Olivia Marx | "the longing.Once Grace and Sam have found each other, they know they must fight to stay together. For Sam, this means a reckoning with his werewolf past. For Grace, it means facing a future that is less and less certain.the loss.Into their world comes a new wolf named Cole, whose past is full of hurt and danger. He is wrestling with his own demons, embracing the life of a wolf while denying the ties of being a human.the linger.For Grace, Sam, and Cole, life a constant struggle between two forces - wolf and human - with love baring its two sides as well. It is harrowing and euphoric, freeing and entrapping, enticing and alarming. As their world falls apart, love is what lingers. But will it be enough?" | 
         | 1482 | Geek Love | Katherine Dunn | 06/11/2002 | Fiction, Horror, Fantasy, Contemporary, Novels, Literary Fiction, Dark, Adult Fiction, Adult, Literature | Olympia ""Oly"" Binewski, Arturo ""Arty"" Binewski, Al Binewski | "Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out—with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes—to breed their own exhibit of human oddities. There’s Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan . . . Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins . . . albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him the family’s most precious—and dangerous—asset.As the Binewskis take their act across the backwaters of the U.S., inspiring fanatical devotion and murderous revulsion; as its members conduct their own Machiavellian version of sibling rivalry, Geek Love throws its sulfurous light on our notions of the freakish and the normal, the beautiful and the ugly, the holy and the obscene. Family values will never be the same." | 
         | 1483 | The Portrait of a Lady | Henry James, Patricia Crick (Annotations) | 09/30/03 | Classics, Fiction, Literature, 19th Century, Novels, American, Historical Fiction, Classic Literature, Romance, Victorian | Isabel Archer, Lydia Touchett, Ralph Touchett, Lord Warburton, Gilbert Osmond, Edward Rosier, Caspar Goodwood, Pansy Osmond, Madame Merle, Henrietta Stackpole | "When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to determine her own fate, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. She then finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gilbert Osmond, who, beneath his veneer of charm and cultivation, is cruelty itself. A story of intense poignancy, Isabel's tale of love and betrayal still resonates with modern audiences." | 
         | 1484 | Because of Winn-Dixie | Kate DiCamillo  | 08/06/2001 | Fiction, Childrens, Realistic Fiction, Middle Grade, Young Adult, Animals, Classics, School, Dogs, Juvenile | Winn-Dixie, India Opal Buloni, Otis, Miss Franny Block, Gloria Dump, The Preacher, Amanda Wilkinson | "Kate DiCamillo's beloved, best-selling debut novel is now available in a paperback digest edition.Kate DiCamillo's first published novel, like Winn-Dixie himself, immediately proved to be a keeper—a New York Times bestseller, a Newbery Honor winner, the inspiration for a popular film, and most especially, a cherished classic that touches the hearts of readers of all ages. It's now available in a paperback digest format certain to bring this tale's magic to an even wider circle of fans.The summer Opal and her father, the preacher, move to Naomi, Florida, Opal goes into the Winn-Dixie supermarket—and comes out with a dog. A big, ugly, suffering dog with a sterling sense of humor. A dog she dubs Winn-Dixie. Because of Winn-Dixie, the preacher tells Opal ten things about her absent mother, one for each year Opal has been alive. Winn-Dixie is better at making friends than anyone Opal has ever known, and together they meet the local librarian, Miss Franny Block, who once fought off a bear with a copy of WAR AND PEACE. They meet Gloria Dump, who is nearly blind but sees with her heart, and Otis, an ex-con who sets the animals in his pet shop loose after hours, then lulls them with his guitar.Opal spends all that sweet summer collecting stories about her new friends and thinking about her mother. But because of Winn-Dixie or perhaps because she has grown, Opal learns to let go, just a little, and that friendship—and forgiveness—can sneak up on you like a sudden summer storm." | 
         | 1485 | Jude the Obscure | Thomas Hardy, Patricia Ingham, Dennis Taylor  (With), Jenny Sterlin (Narrator), Mark Oxford, James Oliver Smith Jr. (Editor) | 12/01/2006 | Classics, Fiction, Literature, 19th Century, Victorian, Novels, British Literature, Historical Fiction, Classic Literature, English Literature | Jude Fawley, Arabella Donn, Sue Bridehead | "Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to the town of Christminster where he finds work as a stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, freethinking 'New Woman'." | 
         | 1486 | Red Rising | Pierce Brown  | 01/28/14 | Science Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult, Dystopia, Fiction, Audiobook, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adult, Adventure, Space | Darrow, Cassius au Bellona, Mustang, Sevro au Barca, Fitchner au Barca | """I live for the dream that my children will be born free,"" she says. ""That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them.""""I live for you,"" I say sadly.Eo kisses my cheek. ""Then you must live for more.""Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations.Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children.But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity already reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and sprawling parks spread across the planet. Darrow—and Reds like him—are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class.Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow sacrifices everything to infiltrate the legendary Institute, a proving ground for the dominant Gold caste, where the next generation of humanity's overlords struggle for power. He will be forced to compete for his life and the very future of civilization against the best and most brutal of Society's ruling class. There, he will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies... even if it means he has to become one of them to do so." | 
         | 1487 | Macbeth | William Shakespeare | 07/01/2013 | Classics, Plays, Fiction, Drama, School, Literature, Read For School, Theatre, High School, Poetry | Fleance, Seyward, Young Siward, Seyton, First Witch, Second Witch, Third Witch, Lady Macduff, Lady Macbeth | "One night on the heath, the brave and respected general Macbeth encounters three witches who foretell that he will become king of Scotland. At first sceptical, he’s urged on by the ruthless, single-minded ambitions of Lady Macbeth, who suffers none of her husband’s doubt. But seeing the prophecy through to the bloody end leads them both spiralling into paranoia, tyranny, madness, and murder.This shocking tragedy - a violent caution to those seeking power for its own sake - is, to this day, one of Shakespeare’s most popular and influential masterpieces." | 
         | 1488 | The Namesake | Jhumpa Lahiri | 09/01/2004 | Fiction, India, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Novels, Indian Literature, Literature, Book Club, Adult Fiction, Adult | Ashoke Ganguli, Ashima Ganguli, Gogol/Nikhil Ganguli, Sonia/Sonali Ganguli, Maxine, Moushumi Mazoomdar | "Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation. Her stories are one of the very few debut works - and only a handful of collections - to have won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Among the many other awards and honors it received were the New Yorker Debut of the Year award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the highest critical praise for its grace, acuity, and compassion in detailing lives transported from India to America.In The Namesake, Lahiri enriches the themes that made her collection an international bestseller: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation, and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations. Here again Lahiri displays her deft touch for the perfect detail — the fleeting moment, the turn of phrase — that opens whole worlds of emotion.The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. On the heels of their arranged wedding, Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli settle together in Cambridge, Massachusetts. An engineer by training, Ashoke adapts far less warily than his wife, who resists all things American and pines for her family. When their son is born, the task of naming him betrays the vexed results of bringing old ways to the new world. Named for a Russian writer by his Indian parents in memory of a catastrophe years before, Gogol Ganguli knows only that he suffers the burden of his heritage as well as his odd, antic name. Lahiri brings great empathy to Gogol as he stumbles along the first-generation path, strewn with conflicting loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs. With penetrating insight, she reveals not only the defining power of the names and expectations bestowed upon us by our parents, but also the means by which we slowly, sometimes painfully, come to define ourselves." | 
         | 1489 | The Death Cure | James Dashner  | 10/11/2011 | Young Adult, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Post Apocalyptic, Teen, Audiobook, Action | Brenda (Maze Runner), Teresa Agnes, Minho, Gally, Thomas, Newt, Aris Jones, Jorge | "It’s the end of the line. WICKED has taken everything from Thomas: his life, his memories, and now his only friends—the Gladers. But it’s finally over. The trials are complete, after one final test. Will anyone survive? What WICKED doesn’t know is that Thomas remembers far more than they think. And it’s enough to prove that he can’t believe a word of what they say. The truth will be terrifying. Thomas beat the Maze. He survived the Scorch. He’ll risk anything to save his friends. But the truth might be what ends it all.  The time for lies is over." | 
         | 1490 | The Girl on the Train | Paula Hawkins  | 01/13/15 | Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Contemporary, Adult, Audiobook, Adult Fiction | Rachel Watson, Anna Watson, Tom Watson, Megan Hipwell, Scott Hipwell, Kamal Abdic | "An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She’s even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. “Jess and Jason,” she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy. And then she sees something shocking. It’s only a minute until the train moves on, but it’s enough. Now everything’s changed. Now Rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives she’s only watched from afar. Now they’ll see; she’s much more than just the girl on the train..." | 
         | 1491 | It's Kind of a Funny Story | Ned Vizzini, Rachel Cohn (Foreword) | 05/01/2007 | Young Adult, Fiction, Contemporary, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Realistic Fiction, Romance, Psychology, Coming Of Age, Teen | Aaron, Nia, Craig Gilner, Noelle | "Ambitious New York City teenager Craig Gilner is determined to succeed at life - which means getting into the right high school to get into the right job. But once Craig aces his way into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School, the pressure becomes unbearable. He stops eating and sleeping until, one night, he nearly kills himself.Craig's suicidal episode gets him checked into a mental hospital, where his new neighbors include a transsexual sex addict, a girl who has scarred her own face with scissors, and the self-elected President Armelio. There, Craig is finally able to confront the sources of his anxiety.Ned Vizzini, who himself spent time in a psychiatric hospital, has created a remarkably moving tale about the sometimes unexpected road to happiness." | 
         | 1492 | Fire | Kristin Cashore | 10/05/2009 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, High Fantasy, Teen, Paranormal | Brocker (Graceling Realm), Roen (Graceling Realm), Nash (Graceling Realm), Brigan (Graceling Realm), Leck (Graceling Realm), Garan (Graceling Realm), Archer (Graceling Realm), Fire (Graceling Realm) | "It is not a peaceful time in the Dells. The young King Nash clings to his throne while rebel lords in the north and south build armies to unseat him. The mountains and forests are filled with spies and thieves and lawless men.This is where Fire lives. With a wild, irresistible appearance and hair the color of flame, Fire is the last remaining human monster. Equally hated and adored, she had the unique ability to control minds, but she guards her power, unwilling to steal the secrets of innocent people. Especially when she has so many of her own.Then Prince Brigan comes to bring her to King City, The royal family needs her help to uncover the plot against the king. Far away from home, Fire begins to realize there's more to her power than she ever dreamed. Her power could save the kingdom.If only she weren't afraid of becoming the monster her father was." | 
         | 1493 | Death on the Nile | Agatha Christie | 10/28/78 | Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Audiobook, Thriller, British Literature, Egypt | Colonel Race, Simon  Doyle, Parker Pyne, Hercule Poirot, Linnet Ridgeway, Jacqueline de Bellefort, Mrs. Allerton, Tim Allerton, Dr. Carl Bessner, Miss Bowers, Jim Fanthorp, Ferguson, Salomè Otterbourne, Rosalie Otterbourne, Andrew Pennington, Cornelia Robson, Marie Van Schuyler, Joanna Southwood | "The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything - until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: 'I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.' Yet in this exotic setting, nothing is ever quite what it seems..." | 
         | 1494 | The Color of Magic | Terry Pratchett | 09/13/05 | Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Comedy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Magic, Adventure, High Fantasy, Novels | Rincewind, Twoflower, The Luggage, DEATH | "Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent, bestselling novels have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody next to the likes of Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.The Color of Magic is Terry Pratchett's maiden voyage through the now-legendary land of Discworld. This is where it all begins - with the tourist Twoflower and his wizard guide, Rincewind.On a world supported on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown), a gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out. There's an avaricious but inept wizard, a naive tourist whose luggage moves on hundreds of dear little legs, dragons who only exist if you believe in them, and of course THE EDGE of the planet..." | 
         | 1495 | The Hero of Ages | Brandon Sanderson  | 10/14/08 | Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Magic, Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Adventure, Epic | Marsh, Vin, Elend Venture, Sazed, Hammond, Breeze, Spook | "Tricked into releasing the evil spirit Ruin while attempting to close the Well of Ascension, new emperor Elend Venture and his wife, the assassin Vin, are now hard-pressed to save the world." | 
         | 1496 | The Sorrows of Young Werther | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Philippe Forget, Dr. Riaz-ul-Hassan (Translator), Edla Valdna (Translator), Hugo Flintzer (Illustrator), R. Dillon Boylan (Translation), Charles Louis De Sevelinges, Robert Graves, more… | 02/08/2005 | Classics, Fiction, German Literature, Literature, Romance, Germany, School, Novels, 18th Century, Romanticism | Werther, Albert Kestner, Charlotte Buff Kestner | "This is Goethe's first novel, published in 1774. Written in diary form, it tells the tale of an unhappy, passionate young man hopelessly in love with Charlotte, the wife of a friend - a man who he alternately admires and detests. 'The Sorrows of Young Werther' became an important part of the 'Sturm und Drang movement, and greatly influenced later 'Romanticism'. The work is semi-autobiographical - in 1772, two years before the novel was published, Goethe had passed through a similar tempestuous period, when he lost his heart to Charlotte Buff, who was at that time engaged to his friend Johann Christian Kestner." | 
         | 1497 | Still Alice | Lisa Genova  | 07/06/2007 | Fiction, Contemporary, Psychology, Book Club, Adult Fiction, Adult, Audiobook, Medical, Realistic Fiction, Drama | Alice Howland, Lydia Howland, John Howland, Anna Howland, Tom Howland, Tamara Moyer, Dr. Davis | "Still Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph. D in neuroscience from Harvard University. Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer's disease. Fiercely independent, Alice struggles to maintain her lifestyle and live in the moment, even as her sense of self is being stripped away. In turns heartbreaking, inspiring and terrifying, Still Alice captures in remarkable detail what's it's like to literally lose your mind..." | 
         | 1498 | The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress | Robert A. Heinlein | 03/14/05 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Audiobook, Politics, Space, Novels, Speculative Fiction | Manuel Garcia ""Mannie"" O''Kelly-Davis, Wyoming ""Wyoh"" Knott, Professor Bernardo de la Paz, Adam Selene, Stuart Rene ""Stu"" LaJoie, HOLMES IV | "It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of a former penal colony on the Moon against its masters on the Earth. It is a tale of a culture whose family structures are based on the presence of two men for every woman, leading to novel forms of marriage and family. It is the story of the disparate people, a computer technician, a vigorous young female agitator, and an elderly academic who become the movement's leaders, and of Mike, the supercomputer whose sentience is known only to the revolt's inner circle, who for reasons of his own is committed to the revolution's ultimate success." | 
         | 1499 | Choke | Chuck Palahniuk  | 06/28/02 | Fiction, Contemporary, Humor, Novels, Literature, Adult, American, Adult Fiction, Dark, Literary Fiction | Victor Mancini, Denny, Ida Mancini, Paige Marshall | "Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows himself to be “saved” by fellow patrons who, feeling responsible for Victor’s life, go on to send checks to support him. When he’s not pulling this stunt, Victor cruises sexual addiction recovery workshops for action, visits his addled mom, and spends his days working at a colonial theme park. His creator, Chuck Palahniuk, is the visionary we need and the satirist we deserve." | 
         | 1500 | Dandelion Wine | Ray Bradbury | 07/28/00 | Fiction, Classics, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult, Short Stories, Coming Of Age, Literature, Novels, American | Douglas Spaulding, Tom Spaulding | "The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. Of half-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandma's belly-busting dinner. It was a summer of sorrows and marvels and gold-fuzzed bees. A magical, timeless summer in the life of a twelve-year-old boy named Douglas Spaulding—remembered forever by the incomparable Ray Bradbury.Woven into the novel are the following short stories: Illumination, Dandelion Wine, Summer in the Air, Season of Sitting, The Happiness Machine, The Night, The Lawns of Summer, Season of Disbelief, The Last-the Very Last, The Green Machine, The Trolley, Statues, The Window, The Swan, The Whole Town's Sleeping, Goodbye Grandma, The Tarot Witch, Hotter Than Summer, Dinner at Dawn, The Magical Kitchen, Green Wine for Dreaming." | 
         | 1501 | Mary Poppins | P.L. Travers, Júlia Sardà (Illustrator), Mary Shepard (Illustrator) | 06/01/2006 | Classics, Fantasy, Childrens, Fiction, Middle Grade, Audiobook, Young Adult, Juvenile, Magic, Adventure | Jane Whitefield, Michael Banks, Mary  Poppins | "By P.L. Travers, the author featured in the major motion picture, Saving Mr. Banks. From the moment Mary Poppins arrives at Number Seventeen Cherry-Tree Lane, everyday life at the Banks house is forever changed. It all starts when Mary Poppins is blown by the east wind onto the doorstep of the Banks house. She becomes a most unusual nanny to Jane, Michael, and the twins. Who else but Mary Poppins can slide up banisters, pull an entire armchair out of an empty carpetbag, and make a dose of medicine taste like delicious lime-juice cordial? A day with Mary Poppins is a day of magic and make-believe come to life!" | 
         | 1502 | Finale | Becca Fitzpatrick  | 10/23/12 | Young Adult, Fantasy, Angels, Romance, Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy | Nora Grey, Jev ""Patch"" Cipriano, Vee Sky, Marcie Millar, Scott Parnell | "Nora and Patch thought their troubles were behind them. Hank is gone and they should be able to put his ugly vendetta to rest. But in Hank's absence, Nora has become the unwitting head of the Nephilim and must finish what Hank began. Which ultimately means destroying the fallen angels - destroying Patch.Nora will never let that happen, so she and Patch make a plan: lead everyone to believe they have broken up, and work the system from the inside. Nora will convince the Nephilim that they are making a mistake in fighting the fallen angels, and Patch will find out everything he can from the opposing side. They will end this war before it can even begin.But the best-laid plans often go awry. Nora is put through the paces in her new role and finds herself drawn to an addictive power she never anticipated.As the battle lines are drawn, Nora and Patch must confront the differences that have always been between them and either choose to ignore them or let them destroy the love they have always fought for." | 
         | 1503 | The Awakening | Kelley Armstrong  | 04/28/09 | Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Supernatural, Romance, Magic, Werewolves, Ghosts, Fiction | Chloe Saunders, Derek Souza, ""Victoria ''Tori'' Enright"", ""Rachelle ''Rae'' Rogers"", Simon Bae | "If you had met me a few weeks ago, you probably would have described me as an average teenage girl - someone normal. Now my life has changed forever and I’m as far away from normal as it gets. A living science experiment - not only can I see ghosts, but I was genetically altered by a sinister organization called Edison Group. What does that mean? For starters. I'm a teenage necromancer whose powers are out of control: I raise the dead without even trying. Trust me, that is not a power you want to have. Ever.Now I’m running for my life with three of my supernatural friends - a charming sorcerer, a cynical werewolf, and a disgruntled witch - and we have to find someone who can help us before the Edison Group finds us first. Or die trying." | 
         | 1504 | Survivor | Chuck Palahniuk  | 05/01/2018 | Fiction, Contemporary, Thriller, Novels, Humor, Dark, Literature, American, Audiobook, Adult | Tender Branson, Fertility Hollis, The Agent, The Caseworker, Primus | "From the author of the underground sensation Fight Club comes this wickedly incisive second novel, a mesmerizing, unnerving, and hilarious vision of cult and post-cult life.Tender Branson—last surviving member of the so-called Creedish Death Cult—is dictating his life story into the flight recorder of Flight 2039, cruising on autopilot at 39,000 feet somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. He is all alone in the airplane, which will crash shortly into the vast Australian outback. Before it does, he will unfold the tale of his journey from an obedient Creedish child and humble domestic servant to an ultra-buffed, steroid- and collagen-packed media messiah, author of a best-selling autobiography, Saved from Salvation, and the even better selling Book of Very Common Prayer (The Prayer to Delay Orgasm, The Prayer to Prevent Hair Loss, The Prayer to Silence Car Alarms). He'll reveal the truth of his tortured romance with the elusive and prescient Fertility Hollis, share his insight that ""the only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage,"" and deny responsibility for the Tender Branson Sensitive Materials Sanitary Landfill, a 20,000-acre repository for the nation's outdated pornography. Among other matters both bizarre and trenchant.Not since Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night and Jerzy Kosinski's Being There has there been as dark and telling a satire on the wages of fame and the bedrock lunacy of the modern world. Unpredictable, compelling, and unforgettable, Survivor is Chuck Palahniuk at his deadpan peak; and it cements his place as one of the most original writers in fiction today." | 
         | 1505 | Revolutionary Road | Richard Yates | 02/01/2001 | Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Novels, American, Literature, Literary Fiction, Contemporary, 20th Century, Modern Classics | Frank Wheeler, April Wheeler, Shep Campbell, Milly Campbell | "In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model American couple: bright, beautiful, talented, with two young children and a starter home in the suburbs. Perhaps they married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank's job is dull. And April never saw herself as a housewife. Yet they have always lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner. But now that certainty is now about to crumble. With heartbreaking compassion and remorseless clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April mortgage their spiritual birthright, betraying not only each other, but their best selves." | 
         | 1506 | An Abundance of Katherines | John Green  | 09/21/06 | Young Adult, Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, Realistic Fiction, Teen, Humor, Coming Of Age, Young Adult Contemporary, Audiobook | Colin Singleton, Lindsey Lee Wells, Katherine Carter, Hassan Harbish | "Katherine V thought boys were grossKatherine X just wanted to be friendsKatherine XVIII dumped him in an e-mailK-19 broke his heartWhen it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton's type happens to be girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact.On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed-up child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, Judge Judy-loving best friend riding shotgun-but no Katherines. Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship, avenge Dumpees everywhere, and finally win him the girl.Love, friendship, and a dead Austro-Hungarian archduke add up to surprising and heart-changing conclusions in this ingeniously layered comic novel about reinventing oneself." | 
         | 1507 | Antigone | Sophocles, J.E. Thomas (Translator) | 12/01/2005 | Classics, Plays, Drama, Fiction, School, Read For School, Mythology, Theatre, Literature, High School | Antigone, Ismene (sister of Antigone), Eurydice (wife of Creon), Haemon, Tiresias, Creon | "The curse placed on Oedipus lingers and haunts a younger generation in this new and brilliant translation of Sophocles' classic drama. The daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, Antigone is an unconventional heroine who pits her beliefs against the King of Thebes in a bloody test of wills that leaves few unharmed. Emotions fly as she challenges the king for the right to bury her own brother. Determined but doomed, Antigone shows her inner strength throughout the play.Antigone raises issues of law and morality that are just as relevant today as they were more than two thousand years ago. Whether this is your first reading or your twentieth, Antigone will move you as few pieces of literature can.To make this quintessential Greek drama more accessible to the modern reader, this Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary of difficult terms, a list of vocabulary words, and convenient sidebar notes. By providing these, it is our intention that readers will more fully enjoy the beauty, wisdom, and intent of the play." | 
         | 1508 | The Invention of Hugo Cabret | Brian Selznick | 03/28/07 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Graphic Novels, Middle Grade, Fantasy, Mystery, Historical, Picture Books | Hugo Cabret, George Méliès, Isabelle | "Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric, bookish girl and a bitter old man who runs a toy booth in the station, Hugo's undercover life, and his most precious secret, are put in jeopardy. A cryptic drawing, a treasured notebook, a stolen key, a mechanical man, and a hidden message from Hugo's dead father form the backbone of this intricate, tender, and spellbinding mystery." | 
         | 1509 | The Ocean at the End of the Lane | Neil Gaiman  | 06/18/13 | Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Magical Realism, Audiobook, Young Adult, Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adult Fiction, Paranormal | Lettie Hempstock, Ursula Monkton, The Nameless Boy, Ginnie Hempstock, Old Mrs. Hempstock | "Sussex, England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy.Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie—magical, comforting, wise beyond her years—promised to protect him, no matter what.A groundbreaking work from a master, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out. It is a stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark." | 
         | 1510 | Small Gods | Terry Pratchett | 08/01/2005 | Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Comedy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Religion, Science Fiction, Audiobook, Novels, High Fantasy | The Librarian, Great God Om, Brutha, Exquisitor Vorbis, Didactylos, Simony, Urn | "Just because you can't explain it, doesn't mean it's a miracle.' Religion is a controversial business in the Discworld. Everyone has their own opinion, and indeed their own gods. Who come in all shapes and sizes. In such a competitive environment, there is a pressing need to make one's presence felt. And it's certainly not remotely helpful to be reduced to be appearing in the form of a tortoise, a manifestation far below god-like status in anyone's book. In such instances, you need an acolyte, and fast. Preferably one who won't ask too many questions..." | 
         | 1511 | Tender Is the Night | F. Scott Fitzgerald, Amor Towles  (Introduction) | 07/01/1995 | Classics, Fiction, Literature, American, Novels, Romance, 20th Century, France, Literary Fiction, Modern Classics | Dick Diver, Nicole Diver, Rosemary Hoyt, Elsie Speers, Abe North, Franz Gregorovius, Baby Warren, Tommy Barban | "Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise. A profound study of the romantic concept of character, Tender Is the Night is lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative." | 
         | 1512 | Nausea | Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander (Translator), H.P. van den Aardweg (Translator), Hayden Carruth (Introduction) | 10/28/69 | Philosophy, Fiction, Classics, France, Literature, French Literature, Novels, 20th Century, Nobel Prize, Unfinished | Antoine Roquentin, ""l''Autodidacte"", Anny | "Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogues his every feeling and sensation about the world and people around him. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which ""spread at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of our time, the time of purple suspenders and broken chair seats; it is made of wide, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain."" Roquentin's efforts to try and come to terms with his life, his philosophical and psychological struggles, give Sartre the opportunity to dramatize the tenets of his Existentialist creed.The introduction for this edition of Nausea by Hayden Carruth gives background on Sartre's life and major works, a summary of the principal themes of Existentialist philosophy, and a critical analysis of the novel itself." | 
         | 1513 | The Passage | Justin Cronin , Dominique Haas (Traduction) | 06/08/2010 | Horror, Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Post Apocalyptic, Vampires, Dystopia, Thriller, Apocalyptic, Paranormal | Brad Wolgast, Lacey Antoinette Kudoto, Phil Doyle, Giles Babcock, Olson Hand, Theo Jaxon, Ida Jaxon, Sara Fisher, Mausami Patal, Caleb ""Hightop"" Jones, Amy Harper Bellafonte, Peter Jaxon, Anthony Lloyd Carter, Michael ""The Circuit"" Fisher, Hollis Wilson, Alicia Donadio, Jonas Abbott Lear | "IT HAPPENED FAST.THIRTY-TWO MINUTES FOR ONE WORLD TO DIE, ANOTHER TO BE BORN.First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. All that remains for the stunned survivors is the long fight ahead and a future ruled by fear-of darkness, of death, of a fate far worse.As civilization swiftly crumbles into a primal landscape of predators and prey, two people flee in search of sanctuary. FBI agent Brad Wolgast is a good man haunted by what he's done in the line of duty. Six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte is a refugee from the doomed scientific project that has triggered apocalypse. Wolgast is determined to protect her from the horror set loose by her captors, but for Amy, escaping the bloody fallout is only the beginning of a much longer odyssey-spanning miles and decades-toward the time an place where she must finish what should never have begun.With The Passage, award-winning author Justin Cronin has written both a relentlessly suspenseful adventure and an epic chronicle of human endurance in the face of unprecedented catastrophe and unimaginable danger. Its inventive storytelling, masterly prose, and depth of human insight mark it as a crucial and transcendent work of modern fiction.(front flap)" | 
         | 1514 | The Reckoning | Kelley Armstrong  | 04/06/2010 | Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Supernatural, Werewolves, Magic, Ghosts, Fiction | Chloe Saunders, Derek Souza, ""Victoria ''Tori'' Enright"", Simon Bae | "Chloe Saunders is fifteen and would love to be normal. Unfortunately, Chloe happens to be a genetically engineered necromancer who can raise the dead without even trying. She and her equally gifted (or should that be 'cursed'?) friends are now running for their lives from the evil corporation that created them.As if that's not enough, Chloe is struggling with her feelings for Simon, a sweet-tempered sorcerer, and his brother Derek, a not so sweet-tempered werewolf. And she has a horrible feeling she's leaning towards the werewolf...Definitely not normal." | 
         | 1515 | Starship Troopers | Robert A. Heinlein | 05/15/87 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Classics, Military Fiction, War, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space Opera, Fantasy, Space, Audiobook | Juan Rico | "The historians can’t seem to settle whether to call this one ""The Third Space War"" (or the fourth), or whether ""The First Interstellar War"" fits it better. We just call it “The Bug War."" Everything up to then and still later were ""incidents,"" ""patrols,"" or ""police actions."" However, you are just as dead if you buy the farm in an ""incident"" as you are if you buy it in a declared war...In one of Robert A. Heinlein’s most controversial bestsellers, a recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the Universe—and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry against mankind’s most alarming enemy." | 
         | 1516 | Ethan Frome | Edith Wharton | 10/28/05 | Classics, Fiction, Literature, School, Romance, Historical Fiction, American, Novels, High School, Classic Literature | Ethan Frome, Mrs. Hale, Zeena Frome, Mattie Silver, Mrs. Ned Hale, Denis Eady, Jotham Powell, Harmon Gow, Michael Eady, Lawyer Varnum, Ned Hale, Orin Silver, Andrew Hale, Aunt Martha Pierce, Mrs. Frome, Mrs. Homan, Dr. Buck, Eliza Spears, Aunt Philura Maple, Daniel Byrne, Dr. Kidder, Mrs. Varnum | "The classic novel of despair, forbidden emotions, and sexual undercurrents set against the austere New England countrysideEthan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeena's vivacious cousin enters their household as a hired girl, Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent.In one of American fiction's finest and most intense narratives, Edith Wharton moves this ill-starred trio toward their tragic destinies. Different in both tone and theme from Wharton's other works, Ethan Frome has become perhaps her most enduring and most widely read book." | 
         | 1517 | The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War | Tim Butcher  | 05/01/2014 | History, Nonfiction, World War I, War, Travel, Biography, Politics, European History, 20th Century, Biography Memoir | Gavrilo Princip | "On a summer morning in Sarajevo a hundred years ago, a teenage assassin named Gavrilo Princip fired not just the opening shots of the First World War but the starting gun for modern history, when he killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Yet the events Princip triggered were so monumental that his own story has been largely overlooked, his role garbled and motivations misrepresented.The Trigger puts this right, filling out as never before a figure who changed our world and whose legacy still has an impact on all of us today. Born a penniless backwoodsman, Princip’s life changed when he trekked through Bosnia and Serbia to attend school. As he ventured across fault lines of faith, nationalism and empire, so tightly clustered in the Balkans, radicalisation slowly transformed him from a frail farm boy into history’s most influential assassin.By retracing Princip’s journey from his highland birthplace, through the mythical valleys of Bosnia to the fortress city of Belgrade and ultimately Sarajevo, Tim Butcher illuminates our understanding both of Princip and the places that shaped him. Tim uncovers details about Princip that have eluded historians for a century and draws on his own experience, as a war reporter in the Balkans in the 1990s, to face down ghosts of conflicts past and present.The Trigger is a rich and timely work that brings to life both the moment the world first went to war and an extraordinary region with a potent hold over history." | 
         | 1518 | The Gargoyle | Andrew Davidson  | 01/01/2008 | Fiction, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Romance, Historical, Contemporary, Adult, Gothic, Paranormal, Adult Fiction | Marianne Engel | "An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time.The narrator of The Gargoyle is a very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexually adept, who dwells in the moral vacuum that is modern life. As the book opens, he is driving along a dark road when he is distracted by what seems to be a flight of arrows. He crashes into a ravine and suffers horrible burns over much of his body. As he recovers in a burn ward, undergoing the tortures of the damned, he awaits the day when he can leave the hospital and commit carefully planned suicide—for he is now a monster in appearance as well as in soul. A beautiful and compelling, but clearly unhinged, sculptress of gargoyles by the name of Marianne Engel appears at the foot of his bed and insists that they were once lovers in medieval Germany. In her telling, he was a badly injured mercenary and she was a nun and scribe in the famed monastery of Engelthal who nursed him back to health. As she spins their tale in Scheherazade fashion and relates equally mesmerizing stories of deathless love in Japan, Iceland, Italy, and England, he finds himself drawn back to life—and, finally, in love. He is released into Marianne's care and takes up residence in her huge stone house. But all is not well. For one thing, the pull of his past sins becomes ever more powerful as the morphine he is prescribed becomes ever more addictive. For another, Marianne receives word from God that she has only twenty-seven sculptures left to complete—and her time on earth will be finished. Already an international literary sensation, the Gargoyle is an Inferno for our time. It will have you believing in the impossible." | 
         | 1519 | Forrest Gump | Winston Groom | 10/01/2002 | Fiction, Humor, Historical Fiction, Classics, Media Tie In, Novels, Drama, Adventure, Contemporary, Historical | Forrest Gump, Lieutenant Dan Taylor, Forrest Gump Jnr, Jenny Curran | "At 6'6"" and 240lbs, Forrest Gump is difficult to ignore. This satire follows him from the football dynasties of Bear Bryant to Vietnam, and from encounters with Presidents Johnson and Nixon to pow-wows with Chairman Mao. It also takes in Harvard University, a Hollywood set, and a NASA mission.""Forrest Gump is line bred out of Voltaire and Huck Finn; its humour is wild and coarse, a satire right on the money. It is not the less honest for being so funny, for bringing the woebegone archangels of our culture and history to judgement. Anyone who doesn't read this book deserves to spend the winter in North Dakota"" (Jim Harrison)""A superbly controlled satire"" (The Washington Post)""Rollicking, bawdy... A good time... Poking fun at everything"" (People)""Winston Groom has created the ideal citizen for the modern world - a perfect idiot"" (P.J. O'Rourke)""Joyously madcap"" (Publishers Weekly)" | 
         | 1520 | The Sparrow | Mary Doria Russell  | 09/08/1997 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Religion, Science Fiction Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Aliens, Adult, Book Club, Novels | Emilio Sandoz, Jimmy Quinn, Vincenzo Giuliani, John Candotti, Johannes Voelker, Edward Behr, Sofia Mendez, Anne Edwards, George Edwards, Alan Pace, Felipe Reyes, D.W. Yarbrough, Marc Robichaux, Supaari, Askama, Hlavin Kitheri | "In 2019, humanity finally finds proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post in Puerto Rico picks up exquisite singing from a planet that will come to be known as Rakhat. While United Nations diplomats endlessly debate a possible first contact mission, the Society of Jesus quietly organizes an eight-person scientific expedition of its own. What the Jesuits find is a world so beyond comprehension that it will lead them to question what it means to be ""human""." | 
         | 1521 | I Am the Messenger | Markus Zusak , Emmanuel Pailler | 05/09/2006 | Young Adult, Fiction, Mystery, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Teen, Audiobook, Australia, Adult, Coming Of Age | Audrey, Ed Kennedy, Milla Johnson, Marvin Harris, Ritchie Sánchez | "protect the diamondssurvive the clubsdig deep through the spadesfeel the heartsEd Kennedy is an underage cabdriver without much of a future. He's pathetic at playing cards, hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey, and utterly devoted to his coffee-drinking dog, the Doorman. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery.That's when the first ace arrives in the mail.That's when Ed becomes the messenger.Chosen to care, he makes his way through town helping and hurting (when necessary) until only one question remains: Who's behind Ed's mission?" | 
         | 1522 | The Hate U Give | Angie Thomas  | 02/28/17 | Young Adult, Fiction, Contemporary, Audiobook, Realistic Fiction, Race, Social Justice, Teen, Young Adult Contemporary, African American | Khalil, Starr, Seven | "An alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780062498533 can be found here.Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr.But what Starr does—or does not—say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life.Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, this is a powerful and gripping YA novel about one girl's struggle for justice." | 
         | 1523 | Walking Disaster | Jamie McGuire  | 04/02/2013 | Romance, New Adult, Contemporary, Young Adult, Contemporary Romance, College, Fiction, Chick Lit, Fighters, Love | Abby Abernathy, Travis Maddox | "How much is too much to love? Travis Maddox learned two things from his mother before she died: Love hard. Fight harder.Finally, the highly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Beautiful Disaster.Can you love someone too much?Travis Maddox learned two things from his mother before she died: Love hard. Fight harder.In Walking Disaster, the life of Travis is full of fast women, underground gambling, and violence. But just when he thinks he is invincible, Abby Abernathy brings him to his knees.Every story has two sides. In Beautiful Disaster, Abby had her say. Now it’s time to see the story through Travis’s eyes." | 
         | 1524 | Dreamfever | Karen Marie Moning  | 08/18/09 | Fantasy, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal Romance, Fae, Adult, Fiction, Magic, Supernatural | MacKayla Lane, Rowena, ""Dani O''Malley"", Jericho Barrons, ""V''lane"", Lord Master, ""Derek O''Bannion"", Christian MacKeltar, Ryodan, Darroc | "MacKayla Lane lies naked on the cold stone floor of a church, at the mercy of the erotic Fae master she once swore to kill. Far from home, unable to control her sexual hungers, MacKayla is now fully under the Lord Master’s spell.…In New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning’s stunning new novel, the walls between human and Fae worlds have come crashing down. And as Mac fights for survival on Dublin’s battle-scarred streets, she will embark on the darkest—and most erotically charged—adventure of her life.He has stolen her past, but MacKayla will never allow her sister’s murderer to take her future. Yet even the uniquely gifted sidhe-seer is no match for the Lord Master, who has unleashed an insatiable sexual craving that consumes Mac’s every thought—and thrusts her into the seductive realm of two very dangerous men, both of whom she desires but dares not trust. As the enigmatic Jericho Barrons and the sensual Fae prince V’lane vie for her body and soul, as cryptic entries from her sister’s diary mysteriously appear and the power of the Dark Book weaves its annihilating path through the city, Mac’s greatest enemy delivers a final challenge.…It’s an invitation Mac cannot refuse, one that sends her racing home to Georgia, where an even darker threat awaits. With her parents missing and the lives of her loved ones under siege, Mac is about to come face-to-face with a soul-shattering truth—about herself and her sister, about Jericho Barrons…and about the world she thought she knew." | 
         | 1525 | Around the World in Eighty Days | Jules Verne, Michael Glencross (Translator, Annotations), Brian W. Aldiss (Introduction) | 02/26/04 | Classics, Fiction, Adventure, Science Fiction, France, Travel, Fantasy, Literature, Historical Fiction, Novels | Fix, Phileas Fogg, Jean Passepartout, Aouda | "One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passepartout. Passing through exotic lands and dangerous locations, they seize whatever transportation is at hand—whether train or elephant—overcoming set-backs and always racing against the clock." | 
         | 1526 | The Hotel New Hampshire | John Irving  | 10/22/82 | Fiction, Contemporary, Literature, Novels, Literary Fiction, Classics, American, Humor, The United States Of America, Adult Fiction | John Berry, Franny Berry, Frank Berry, Win Berry, Lilly Berry | "“The first of my father’s illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels.” So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they “dream on” in a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel by the remarkable author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and Last Night in Twisted River." | 
         | 1527 | On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft | Stephen King  | 07/28/02 | Nonfiction, Writing, Memoir, Biography, Reference, Autobiography, Audiobook, Biography Memoir, Books About Books, Horror | Stephen King | """Long live the King"" hailed Entertainment Weekly upon the publication of Stephen King's On Writing. Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer's craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have. King's advice is grounded in his vivid memories from childhood through his emergence as a writer, from his struggling early career to his widely reported near-fatal accident in 1999 - and how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery. Brilliantly structured, friendly and inspiring, On Writing will empower and entertain everyone who reads it - fans, writers, and anyone who loves a great story well told.(back cover)" | 
         | 1528 | The Forgotten Garden | Kate Morton  | 06/01/2008 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Historical, Australia, Romance, Adult Fiction, Adult, British Literature, Book Club | Cassandra Ryan, ""Nell O''Connor"", Eliza Makepeace, Rose Mountrachet | "A foundling, an old book of dark fairy tales, a secret garden, an aristocratic family, a love denied, and a mystery. The Forgotten Garden is a captivating, atmospheric and compulsively readable story of the past, secrets, family and memory from the international best-selling author Kate Morton.Cassandra is lost, alone and grieving. Her much loved grandmother, Nell, has just died and Cassandra, her life already shaken by a tragic accident ten years ago, feels like she has lost everything dear to her. But an unexpected and mysterious bequest from Nell turns Cassandra’s life upside down and ends up challenging everything she thought she knew about herself and her family.Inheriting a book of dark and intriguing fairytales written by Eliza Makepeace—the Victorian authoress who disappeared mysteriously in the early twentieth century—Cassandra takes her courage in both hands to follow in the footsteps of Nell on a quest to find out the truth about their history, their family and their past; little knowing that in the process, she will also discover a new life for herself." | 
         | 1529 | The Bridges of Madison County | Robert James Waller | 09/01/1995 | Fiction, Romance, Classics, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Novels, Adult Fiction, Adult, Love, Drama | Robert Kincaid, Francesca Johnson | "The story of Robert Kincaid, the photographer and free spirit searching for the covered bridges of Madison County, and Francesca Johnson, the farm wife waiting for the fulfillment of a girlhood dream, THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY gives voice to the longings of men and women everywhere-and shows us what it is to love and be loved so intensely that life is never the same again." | 
         | 1530 | Kane and Abel | Jeffrey Archer | 03/13/04 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Thriller, Drama, Classics, Novels, Historical, Mystery, Contemporary, Mystery Thriller | William Kane, Abel Rosnovski | "Born on the same day near the turn of the century on opposite sides of the world, both men are brought together by fate and the quest of a dream. These two men - ambitious, powerful, ruthless - are locked in a relentless struggle to build an empire, fuelled by their all-consuming hatred. Over 60 years and three generations, through war, marriage, fortune, and disaster, Kane and Abel battle for the success and triumph that only one man can have." | 
         | 1531 | Specials | Scott Westerfeld  | 05/09/2006 | Young Adult, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, Teen, Adventure, Post Apocalyptic, Futuristic | David Strorm, Tally Youngblood, Shay, Dr. Cable, Andrew Simpson Smith, Peris, Zane (Uglies) | """Special Circumstances"": The words have sent chills down Tally's spine since her days as a repellent, rebellious ugly. Back then Specials were a sinister rumor - frighteningly beautiful, dangerously strong, breathtakingly fast. Ordinary pretties might live their whole lives without meeting a Special. But Tally's never been ordinary.And now she's been turned into one of them: a superamped fighting machine, engineered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid.The strength, the speed, and the clarity and focus of her thinking feel better than anything Tally can remember. Most of the time. One tiny corner of her heart still remembers something more.Still, it's easy to tune that out - until Tally's offered a chance to stamp out the rebels of the New Smoke permanently. It all comes down to one last choice: listen to that tiny, faint heartbeat, or carry out the mission she's programmed to complete. Either way, Tally's world will never be the same." | 
         | 1532 | Absalom, Absalom! | William Faulkner | 11/30/90 | Classics, Fiction, Literature, American, Novels, Historical Fiction, Southern, Southern Gothic, 20th Century, Literary Fiction | Quentin Compson III, Thomas Sutpen, Jason Compson III, Shreve, Rosa Coldfield, Ellen Coldfield, Henry Sutpen, Judith Sutpen, Charles Bon, Wash Jones, Jim Bond | "Published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! is considered by many to be William Faulkner's masterpiece. Although the novel's complex and fragmented structure poses considerable difficulty to readers, the book's literary merits place it squarely in the ranks of America's finest novels. The story concerns Thomas Sutpen, a poor man who finds wealth and then marries into a respectable family. His ambition and extreme need for control bring about his ruin and the ruin of his family. Sutpen's story is told by several narrators, allowing the reader to observe variations in the saga as it is recounted by different speakers. This unusual technique spotlights one of the novel's central questions: To what extent can people know the truth about the past?" | 
         | 1533 | Shutter Island | Dennis Lehane  | 04/27/04 | Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Horror, Suspense, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Novels, Psychological Thriller, Adult Fiction | Teddy Daniels, Chuck Aule, Dr. John Cawley, Dr. Jeremiah Naehring | "The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this remote and barren island, despite having been kept in a locked cell under constant surveillance. As a killer hurricane relentlessly bears down on them, a strange case takes on even darker, more sinister shades—with hints of radical experimentation, horrifying surgeries, and lethal countermoves made in the cause of a covert shadow war. No one is going to escape Shutter Island unscathed, because nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. But then neither is Teddy Daniels." | 
         | 1534 | Mort | Terry Pratchett | 02/06/2001 | Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Comedy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Magic, Novels, Death, Science Fiction | Albert, DEATH, Mort, Ysabel, Keli | "Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestseller in England, where they have catapulted him into the highest echelons of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.In this Discworld installment, Death comes to Mort with an offer he can't refuse - especially since being, well, dead isn't compulsory. As Death's apprentice, he'll have free board and lodging, use of the company horse, and he won't need time off for family funerals. The position is everything Mort thought he'd ever wanted, until he discovers that this perfect job can be a killer on his love life." | 
         | 1535 | The Golden Lily | Richelle Mead  | 06/12/2012 | Young Adult, Vampires, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Magic, Supernatural, Paranormal Romance, Fiction | Sydney Sage, Dimitri Belikov, Adrian Ivashkov, Jillian Mastrano, Edison ""Eddie"" Castile, Angeline Dawes, Sonya Karp, Keith Darnell, Tom Darnell | "Sydney Sage is an Alchemist, one of a group of humans who dabble in magic and serve to bridge the worlds of humans and vampires. Alchemists protect vampire secrets - and human lives.Sydney would love to go to college, but instead, she's been sent into hiding at a posh boarding school in Palm Springs, California - tasked with protecting Moroi princess Jill Dragomir from assassins who want to throw the Moroi court into civil war. Formerly in disgrace, Sydney is now praised for her loyalty and obedience, and held up as the model of an exemplary Alchemist.But the closer she grows to Jill, Eddie, and especially Adrian, the more she finds herself questioning her age-old Alchemist beliefs, her idea of family, and her sense of what it means to truly belong. Her world becomes even more complicated when magical experiments show Sydney may hold the key to prevent becoming Strigoi - the fiercest vampires, the ones who don't die. But it's her fear of being just that - special, magical, powerful - that scares her more than anything. Equally daunting is her new romance with Braydon, a cute, brainy guy who seems to be her match in every way. Yet, as perfect as he seems, Sydney finds herself being drawn to someone else - someone forbidden to her.When a shocking secret threatens to tear the vampire world apart, Sydney's loyalties are suddenly tested more than ever before. She wonders how she's supposed to strike a balance between the principles and dogmas she's been taught, and what her instincts are now telling her.Should she trust the Alchemists - or her heart?" | 
         | 1536 | One Foot in the Grave | Jeaniene Frost  | 04/29/08 | Vampires, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Romance, Fantasy, Adult, Supernatural, Fiction, Audiobook | Denise MacGregor, Bones (Night Huntress series), Catherine Crawfield-Russell, Spade (Night Huntress series), Mencheres, Tate Bradley, Don Williams, Ian Flannery, Annette De Witt, Maximus (Night Huntress series) | "You can run from the grave, but you can’t hide…Half-vampire Cat Crawfield is now Special Agent Cat Crawfield, working for the government to rid the world of the rogue undead. She’s still using everything Bones, her sexy and dangerous ex, taught her, but when Cat is targeted for assassination, the only man who can help her is the vampire she left behind.Being around Bones awakens all her emotions, from the adrenaline rush of slaying vamps side by side to the reckless passion that consumed them. But a price on her head – wanted: dead or half-alive – means her survival depends on teaming up with Bones. And no matter how hard Cat tries to keep things professional between them, she’ll find that desire lasts forever … and Bones won’t let her get away again." | 
         | 1537 | A Million Little Pieces | James Frey | 09/22/05 | Fiction, Contemporary, Psychology, Biography Memoir, Adult, Book Club, Novels, Mental Health, Adult Fiction, Drama | James Frey | "Intense, unpredictable, and instantly engaging, this is a story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation as it has never been told before. It is also the introduction of a bold and talented literary voice. Before considering reading this book, please see the BookBrowse note on the book jacket/review page.BookBrowse Note: January 9th 2006: An article in the Smoking Gun claimed that James Frey (author of A Million Little Pieces and My Friend Leonard) fabricated key parts of his books. They cited police records, court documents and interviews with law enforcement agents which belie a number of Frey's claims regarding criminal charges against him, jail terms and his fugitive status.In an interview with the Smoking Gun, Frey admitted that he had 'embellished central details' in A Million Little Pieces and backtracked on claims he made in the book.January 26th 2006. Frey's publisher stated that while it initially stood by him, after further questioning of the author, the house has ""sadly come to the realization that a number of facts have been altered and incidents embellished."" It will be adding a a publisher's note and author's note to all future editions of A Million Little Pieces." | 
         | 1538 | Mystic River | Dennis Lehane  | 02/01/2001 | Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Drama, Novels, Adult, Contemporary | Dave Boyle, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus | "Boston, 1975. East Buckingham è un quartiere in cui tutti conoscono tutti. Nessuno dei suoi abitanti se ne mai andato, se non quei ragazzi che la guerra ha strappato dalle proprie case per non restituirli più. Crescere in una periferia come questa non è certo il modo migliore per dare alla propria vita grandi prospettive. Ma è qui che Sean, Jimmy e Dave sono nati, e la loro esistenza sarebbe stata uguale a quella di tanti altri se non fosse arrivata quella dannata mattina. La mattina in cui Dave, con i suoi occhi spenti pieni di lacrime è salito sul sedile posteriore di quella macchina. Ed è scomparso per quattro, terribili giorni. Venticinque anni dopo, la violenza torna a segnare la vita di Dave. Questa volta però gli sguardi che si posano su di lui non sono compassionevoli, ma carichi d'odio e disprezzo. Reazione più che naturale di fronte all'omicidio di una ragazza di diciannove anni di cui Dave è accusato. E, quasi che il destino volesse rinsaldare un tragico legame, la vittima è la figlia di Jimmy, mentre Sean, diventato poliziotto, è incaricato delle indagini." | 
         | 1539 | The Blood of Olympus | Rick Riordan  | 10/07/2014 | Fantasy, Mythology, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Fiction, Adventure, Greek Mythology, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Childrens | Leo Valdez, Nico di Angelo, Thalia Grace, Annabeth Chase, Demeter (Goddess), Grover Underwood, Hera, Hades, Reyna, Juno, Rachel Elizabeth Dare, Jason Grace, Piper McLean, Hazel Levesque, Frank Zhang, Will Solace, Percy Jackson | "Nico had warned them. Going through the House of Hades would stir the demigods' worst memories. Their ghosts would become restless. Nico may actually become a ghost if he has to shadow-travel with Reyna and Coach Hedge one more time. But that might be better than the alternative: allowing someone else to die, as Hades foretold.Jason's ghost is his mother, who abandoned him when he was little. He may not know how he is going to prove himself as a leader, but he does know that he will not break promises like she did. He will complete his line of the prophecy: To storm or fire the world must fall.Reyna fears the ghosts of her ancestors, who radiate anger. But she can't allow them to distract her from getting the Athena Parthenos to Camp Half-Blood before war breaks out between the Romans and Greeks. Will she have enough strength to succeed, especially with a deadly hunter on her trail?Leo fears that his plan won't work, that his friends might interfere. But there is no other way. All of them know that one of the Seven has to die in order to defeat Gaea, the Earth Mother.Piper must learn to give herself over to fear. Only then will she be able to do her part at the end: utter a single word.Heroes, gods, and monsters all have a role to play in the climactic fulfillment of the prophecy in The Blood of Olympus, the electrifying finale of the best-selling Heroes of Olympus series." | 
         | 1540 | The City of Ember | Jeanne DuPrau | 2003 | Young Adult, Dystopia, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Fiction, Middle Grade, Childrens, Adventure, Post Apocalyptic, Teen | Lina Mayfleet, Doon Harrow | "An alternate cover edition can be found here.Many hundreds of years ago, the city of Ember was created by the Builders to contain everything needed for human survival. It worked…but now the storerooms are almost out of food, crops are blighted, corruption is spreading through the city and worst of all—the lights are failing. Soon Ember could be engulfed by darkness…But when two children, Lina and Doon, discover fragments of an ancient parchment, they begin to wonder if there could be a way out of Ember. Can they decipher the words from long ago and find a new future for everyone? Will the people of Ember listen to them?" | 
         | 1541 | The Agony and the Ecstasy | Irving Stone | 1961 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Art, Classics, Italy, Historical, Art History, Literature, Biography Memoir, Novels | ""Lorenzo de'' Medici"", Michelangelo, Pope Clement VII, Francesco Granacci, Pietro Torrigiani, Pope Julius II, Leonardo da Vinci | "Celebrating the 500th anniversary of Michelangelo’s David, New American Library releases a special edition of Irving Stone’s classic biographical novel—in which both the artist and the man are brought to life in full. A masterpiece in its own right, this novel offers a compelling portrait of Michelangelo’s dangerous, impassioned loves, and the God-driven fury from which he wrested the greatest art the world has ever known." | 
         | 1542 | We | Yevgeny Zamyatin, Clarence Brown (Translator, Introduction) | 1993 | Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Classics, Russia, Russian Literature, Literature, Novels, 20th Century, Science Fiction Fantasy | D-503, I-330, S-4711, O-90, R-13 | "The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet RussiaYevgeny Zamyatin's We is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand. In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the all-powerful 'Benefactor', the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState live out lives devoid of passion and creativity - until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: he has an individual soul. Set in the twenty-sixth century AD, We is the classic dystopian novel and was the forerunner of works such as George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. It was suppressed for many years in Russia and remains a resounding cry for individual freedom, yet is also a powerful, exciting and vivid work of science fiction. Clarence Brown's brilliant translation is based on the corrected text of the novel, first published in Russia in 1988 after more than sixty years' suppression." | 
         | 1543 | Deception Point | Dan Brown  | Dec-02 | Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Crime, Novels, Science Fiction, Action | Rachel Sexton, Michael Tolland, Thomas Sedgewick Sexton, Corky Marlinson, Zachary Herney, William Pickering, Gabrielle Ashe, Marjorie Tench, Lawrence Ekstrom | "A shocking scientific discovery. A conspiracy of staggering brilliance. A thriller unlike any you've ever read....When a NASA satellite discovers an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory—a victory with profound implications for NASA policy and the impending presidential election. To verify the authenticity of the find, the White House calls upon the skills of intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton. Accompanied by a team of experts, including the charismatic scholar Michael Tolland, Rachel travels to the Arctic and uncovers the unthinkable: evidence of scientific trickery—a bold deception that threatens to plunge the world into controversy. But before she can warn the President, Rachel and Michael are ambushed by a deadly team of assassins. Fleeing for their lives across a desolate and lethal landscape, their only hope for survival is to discover who is behind this masterful plot. The truth, they will learn, is the most shocking deception of all." | 
         | 1544 | Wizard and Glass | Stephen King , Dave McKean (Illustrator) | Oct-03 | Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Westerns, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Post Apocalyptic, Novels | Eddie Dean, Jake Chambers, Roland Deschain, Alain Johns, Susannah Dean (The Dark Tower), Cuthbert Allgood, The Crimson King, Susan Delgado, Captain Trips | "Roland, Eddie, Susannah, Jake, and Jake’s pet bumbler survive Blaine the Mono’s final crash, only to find themselves stranded in an alternate version of Topeka, Kansas, one that has been ravaged by the superflu virus. While following the deserted I-70 toward a distant glass palace, they hear the atonal squalling of a thinny, a place where the fabric of existence has almost entirely worn away. While camping near the edge of the thinny, Roland tells his ka-tet a story about another thinny, one that he encountered when he was little more than a boy. Over the course of one long magical night, Roland transports us to the Mid-World of long-ago and a seaside town called Hambry, where Roland fell in love with a girl named Susan Delgado, and where he and his old tet-mates Alain and Cuthbert battled the forces of John Farson, the harrier who—with a little help from a seeing sphere called Maerlyn’s Grapefruit—ignited Mid-World’s final war." | 
         | 1545 | The Bhagavad Gita | Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Simon Brodbeck (Introduction), Juan Mascaró (Translator) | 2003 | Religion, Philosophy, Classics, Spirituality, Nonfiction, Poetry, India, Hinduism, Mythology, History | Arjuna, Krishna, Sanjaya, King Dhrtarastra, Dhrstadyumna, Dronacharya | "The Bhagavad Gita is an early epic poem that recounts the conversation between Arjuna the warrior and his charioteer Krishna, the manifestation of God. In the moments before a great battle, the dialogue sets out the important lessons Arjuna must learn to change the outcome of the war he is to fight, and culminates in Krishna revealing to the warrior his true cosmic form, counselling him to search for the universal perfection of life. Ranging from instructions on yoga postures to dense moral discussion, the Gita is one of the most important Hindu texts, as well as serving as a practical guide to living well." | 
         | 1546 | The Man Without Qualities | Robert Musil, Burton Pike (Editor), Sophie Wilkins (Translator) | 1995 | Fiction, Classics, Philosophy, Literature, German Literature, Novels, 20th Century, Historical Fiction, Germany, Literary Fiction | Ulrich, Franz Joseph I of Austria, Dr. Paul Arnheim | "Set in Vienna on the eve of World War I, this great novel of ideas tells the story of Ulrich, ex-soldier and scientist, seducer and skeptic, who finds himself drafted into the grandiose plans for the 70th jubilee of the Emperor Franz Josef. This new translation - published in two elegant volumes - is the first to present Musil's complete text, including material that remained unpublished during his lifetime." | 
         | 1547 | Eleven Minutes | Paulo Coelho , Margaret Jull Costa (Translator) | 2003 | Fiction, Romance, Novels, Contemporary, Philosophy, Literature, Adult, Spirituality, Drama, Brazil | Mariecke, Ralph | "Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that “love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer. . . .” A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune.Maria’s despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome young painter. In this odyssey of self-discovery, Maria has to choose between pursuing a path of darkness—sexual pleasure for its own sake—or risking everything to find her own “inner light” and the possibility of sacred sex, sex in the context of love." | 
         | 1548 | Invisible Cities | Italo Calvino, William Weaver (Translator) | 1974 | Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Short Stories, Magical Realism, Italian Literature, Literature, Italy, Architecture, Novels | Marco Polo, Kublai Khan | """Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, but the emperor of the Tartars does continue listening to the young Venetian with greater attention and curiosity than he shows any other messenger or explorer of his."" So begins Italo Calvino's compilation of fragmentary urban images. As Marco tells the khan about Armilla, which ""has nothing that makes it seem a city, except the water pipes that rise vertically where the houses should be and spread out horizontally where the floors should be,"" the spider-web city of Octavia, and other marvelous burgs, it may be that he is creating them all out of his imagination, or perhaps he is recreating fine details of his native Venice over and over again, or perhaps he is simply recounting some of the myriad possible forms a city might take." | 
         | 1549 | Maus: Un survivant raconte, tome 1: Mon père saigne l'histoire | Art Spiegelman | Jun-18 | Graphic Novels, Comics, History, Nonfiction, Memoir, Holocaust, Biography, Historical, War, Graphic Novels Comics | Vladek Spiegelman, Anja Spiegelman, Art Spiegelman, Mala Spiegelman | "Maus raconte la vie de Vladek Spiegelman, rescapé juif des camps nazis, et de son fils, auteur de bandes dessinées, qui cherche un terrain de réconciliation avec son père, sa terrifiante histoire et l'Histoire. Des portes d'Auschwitz aux trottoirs de New York se déroule en deux temps (les années 30 et les années 70) le récit d'une double survie : celle du père, mais aussi celle du fils, qui se débat pour survivre au survivant. Ici, les Nazis sont des chats et les Juifs des souris." | 
         | 1550 | The Tin Drum | Günter Grass, Ralph Manheim (Translator) | 2005 | Fiction, Classics, German Literature, Historical Fiction, Literature, Germany, Magical Realism, Novels, Nobel Prize, War | Oskar Matzerath | On his third birthday Oskar decides to stop growing. Haunted by the deaths of his parents and wielding his tin drum Oskar recounts the events of his extraordinary life; from the long nightmare of the Nazi era to his anarchic adventures in post-war Germany. | 
         | 1551 | A Town Like Alice | Nevil Shute | 2000 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, Australia, Romance, War, Historical, World War II, Literature, Novels | Jean Paget, Joe Harman | "Nevil Shute's most beloved novel, a tale of love and war, follows its enterprising heroine from the Malayan jungle during World War II to the rugged Australian outback.Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman living in Malaya, is captured by the invading Japanese and forced on a brutal seven-month death march with dozens of other women and children. A few years after the war, Jean is back in England, the nightmare behind her. However, an unexpected inheritance inspires her to return to Malaya to give something back to the villagers who saved her life. Jean's travels leads her to a desolate Australian outpost called Willstown, where she finds a challenge that will draw on all the resourcefulness and spirit that carried her through her war-time ordeals." | 
         | 1552 | The Turn of the Screw | Henry James | 1994 | Classics, Horror, Fiction, Gothic, Mystery, Literature, 19th Century, Ghosts, Audiobook, Paranormal | Flora (Turn of the Screw), Miles (Turn of the Screw), Mrs. Grose, Peter Quint, Miss Jessel | "A very young woman's first job: governess for two weirdly beautiful, strangely distant, oddly silent children, Miles and Flora, at a forlorn estate...An estate haunted by a beckoning evil.Half-seen figures who glare from dark towers and dusty windows- silent, foul phantoms who, day by day, night by night, come closer, ever closer. With growing horror, the helpless governess realizes the fiendish creatures want the children, seeking to corrupt their bodies, possess their minds, own their souls...But worse-much worse- the governess discovers that Miles and Flora have no terror of the lurking evil.For they want the walking dead as badly as the dead want them." | 
         | 1553 | Nights in Rodanthe | Nicholas Sparks  | Aug-04 | Romance, Fiction, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Adult, Adult Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Love, Drama, Novels | Adrienne Willis, Paul Flanner | "From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks comes a tender story of hope and joy; of sacrifice and forgiveness - a moving reminder that love is possible at any age, at any time, and often comes when we least expect it. At forty-five, Adrienne Willis must rethink her entire life when her husband abandons her for a younger woman. Reeling with heartache and in search of a respite, she flees to the small coastal town of Rodanthe, North Carolina to tend to a friend's inn for the weekend. But when a major storm starts moving in, it appears that Adrienne's perfect getaway will be ruined - until a guest named Paul Flanner arrives. At fifty-four, Paul has just sold his medical practice and come to Rodanthe to escape his own shattered past. Now, with the storm closing in, two wounded people will turn to each other for comfort - and in one weekend set in motion feelings that will resonate throughout the rest of their lives.Did You Know?--The main characters' names were Christmas presents to Nicholas's in-laws (Paul and Adrienne)?This was Nicholas's first book to debut at #1?" | 
         | 1554 | Hearts in Atlantis | Stephen King  | 2001 | Horror, Fiction, Fantasy, Short Stories, Thriller, Suspense, Supernatural, Mystery, War, Historical Fiction | The Crimson King, American Law Enforcement, Ted Brautigan, Bobby Garfield, Liz Garfield, Carol Gerber, John Sullivan, Peter Riley, Willie Shearman, Ronnie Malenfant | "Five interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War.Stephen King, whose first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974, the year before the last U.S. troops withdrew from Vietnam, is the first hugely popular writer of the TV generation. Images from that war - and the protests against it - had flooded America's living rooms for a decade. Hearts in Atlantis, King's newest fiction, is composed of five interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War. In Part One, ""Low Men in Yellow Coats,"" eleven-year-old Bobby Garfield discovers a world of predatory malice in his own neighborhood. He also discovers that adults are sometimes not rescuers but at the heart of the terror. In the title story, a bunch of college kids get hooked on a card game, discover the possibility of protest...and confront their own collective heart of darkness, where laughter may be no more than the thinly disguised cry of the beast. In ""Blind Willie"" and ""Why We're in Vietnam,"" two men who grew up with Bobby in suburban Connecticut try to fill the emptiness of the post-Vietnam era in an America which sometimes seems as hollow - and as haunted - as their own lives. And in ""Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling,"" this remarkable book's denouement, Bobby returns to his hometown where one final secret, the hope of redemption, and his heart's desire may await him. Full of danger, full of suspense, most of all full of heart, Stephen King's new book will take some readers to a place they have never been...and others to a place they have never been able to completely leave." | 
         | 1556 | The Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane | 2006 | Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, War, Civil War, Literature, Historical, School, Young Adult, American | Henry Fleming | "Henry Fleming has joined the Union army because of his romantic ideas of military life, but soon finds himself in the middle of a battle against a regiment of Confederate soldiers. Terrified, Henry deserts his comrades. Upon returning to his regiment, he struggles with his shame as he tries to redeem himself and prove his courage.The Red Badge of Courage is Stephen Crane’s second book, notable for its realism and the fact that Crane had never personally experienced battle. Crane drew heavy inspiration from Century Magazine, a periodical known for its articles about the American Civil War. However, he criticized the articles for their lack of emotional depth and decided to write a war novel of his own. The manuscript was first serialized in December 1894 by The Philadelphia Press and quickly won Crane international acclaim before he died in June 1900 at the age of 28." | 
         | 1557 | Needful Things | Stephen King  | 1992 | Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Supernatural, Mystery, Paranormal, Suspense, Adult, Novels | Leland Gaunt, Brian Rusk, Cora Rusk, Polly Chalmers, Alan Pangborn, Norris Ridgewick, Danforth Keeton, Netitia Cobb, Wilma Jerzyck, Sally Ratcliffe, Lester Pratt, Frank Jewett, Ace Merrill, Sean Rusk, Myrtle Keeton, George T. Nelson, Hugh Priest, Seaton Thomas, Henry Payton, Slopey Dodd, Henry Beaufort | "Leland Gaunt opens a new shop in Castle Rock called Needful Things. Anyone who enters his store finds the object of his or her lifelong dreams and desires: a prized baseball card, a healing amulet. In addition to a token payment, Gaunt requests that each person perform a little ""deed,"" usually a seemingly innocent prank played on someone else from town. These practical jokes cascade out of control and soon the entire town is doing battle with itself. Only Sheriff Alan Pangborn suspects that Gaunt is behind the population's increasingly violent behavior." | 
         | 1558 | Batman: The Dark Knight Returns | Frank Miller, Klaus Janson (Illustrator), Lynn Varley (Illustrator) | Nov-12 | Comics, Graphic Novels, Batman, Fiction, Comic Book, Graphic Novels Comics, Dc Comics, Superheroes, Fantasy, Classics | Oliver Queen, Harvey Dent, Alfred Pennyworth, Carrie Kelley, James Gordon, Selina Kyle, Bruce Wayne, Joker, Superman | "This masterpiece of modern comics storytelling brings to vivid life a dark world and an even darker man. Together with inker Klaus Janson and colorist Lynn Varley, writer/artist Frank Miller completely reinvents the legend of Batman in his saga of a near-future Gotham City gone to rot, ten years after the Dark Knight's retirement. Crime runs rampant in the streets, and the man who was Batman is still tortured by the memories of his parents' murders. As civil society crumbles around him, Bruce Wayne's long-suppressed vigilante side finally breaks free of its self-imposed shackles. The Dark Knight returns in a blaze of fury, taking on a whole new generation of criminals and matching their level of violence. He is soon joined by this generation's Robin—a girl named Carrie Kelley, who proves to be just as invaluable as her predecessors.But can Batman and Robin deal with the threat posed by their deadliest enemies, after years of incarceration have made them into perfect psychopaths? And more important, can anyone survive the coming fallout of an undeclared war between the superpowers—or a clash of what were once the world's greatest superheroes?Over fifteen years after its debut, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns remains an undisputed classic and one of the most influential stories ever told in the comics medium.Collecting Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #1-4" | 
         | 1559 | Alias Grace | Margaret Atwood  | Dec-96 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Mystery, Historical, Canada, Classics, Literary Fiction, Crime, Literature, Novels | Grace Marks | "It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders.An up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens to her story while bringing her closer and closer to the day she cannot remember. What will he find in attempting to unlock her memories?Captivating and disturbing, Alias Grace showcases best-selling, Booker Prize-winning author Margaret Atwood at the peak of her powers." | 
         | 1560 | The Red and the Black | Stendhal, Roger Gard (Translator) | 2002 | Classics, Fiction, France, French Literature, Literature, 19th Century, Novels, Historical Fiction, Romance, Classic Literature | Julien Sorel, Mathilde de la Mole, Valenod, Pirard, Chélan, Fouqué, Elisa, Madame de Rênal, Marquis de la Mole | "Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon realizing that success can only be achieved by adopting the subtle code of hypocrisy by which society operates, he begins to achieve advancement through deceit and self-interest. His triumphant career takes him into the heart of glamorous Parisian society, along the way conquering the gentle, married Madame de Rênal, and the haughty Mathilde. But then Julien commits an unexpected, devastating crime - and brings about his own downfall. The Red and the Black is a lively, satirical portrayal of French society after Waterloo, riddled with corruption, greed, and ennui, and Julien - the cold exploiter whose Machiavellian campaign is undercut by his own emotions - is one of the most intriguing characters in European literature." | 
         | 1561 | The Dead Zone | Stephen King  | Aug-80 | Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Mystery, Suspense, Paranormal, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Novels | Johnny Smith, Greg Stillson, Frank Dodd, American Law Enforcement | "Johnny, the small boy who skated at breakneck speed into an accident that for one horrifying moment plunged him into The Dead Zone. Johnny Smith, the small-town schoolteacher who spun the wheel of fortune and won a four-and-a-half-year trip into The Dead Zone. John Smith, who awakened from an interminable coma with an accursed power—the power to see the future and the terrible fate awaiting mankind in The Dead Zone.~" | 
         | 1562 | Stoner | John Williams, John McGahern (Contributor) | 2006 | Fiction, Classics, Literature, Novels, American, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, The United States Of America, 20th Century, Americana | William Stoner | "William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a “proper” family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied; his wife and daughter turn coldly away from him; a transforming experience of new love ends under threat of scandal. Driven ever deeper within himself, Stoner rediscovers the stoic silence of his forebears and confronts an essential solitude.John Williams’s luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world." | 
         | 1563 | The Gormenghast Novels | Mervyn Peake, Anthony Burgess (Introduction), Quentin Crisp (Introduction) | Dec-95 | Fantasy, Fiction, Classics, Gothic, Novels, Literature, Science Fiction Fantasy, Horror, 20th Century, Science Fiction | Titus Groan, Steerpike, Dr. Alfred Prunesquallor, Lord Sepulchrave, Mr. Flay, Abiatha Swelter, Gertrude Groan, Fuchsia Groan, Keda, Nannie Slagg, Cora Groan, Clarice Groan | "A doomed lord, an emergent hero, and a dazzling array of bizarre creatures inhabit the magical world of the Gormenghast novels which, along with Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, reign as one of the undisputed fantasy classics of all time. At the center of it all is the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, who stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that form Gormenghast Castle and its kingdom, unless the conniving Steerpike, who is determined to rise above his menial position and control the House of Groan, has his way.In these extraordinary novels, Peake has created a world where all is like a dream - lush, fantastical, and vivid. Accompanying the text are Peake's own drawings, illustrating the whole assembly of strange and marvelous creatures that inhabit Gormenghast.Also featuring:Introductory essays by Anthony Burgess and Quentin CrispTwelve critical essays, curated by Peake scholar Peter G. WinningtonFragment of the unpublished novel, Titus Awakes" | 
         | 1564 | The French Lieutenant's Woman | John Fowles | 2009 | Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Romance, Historical, Literature, British Literature, Novels, Literary Fiction, 20th Century | Sarah Woodruff, Charles Smithson, Ernestina Freeman, Sam Farrow, Dr Grogan | "The scene is the village of Lyme Regis on Dorset's Lyme Bay...""the largest bite from the underside of England's out-stretched southwestern leg."" The major characters in the love-intrigue triangle are Charles Smithson, 32, a gentleman of independent means & vaguely scientific bent; his fiancée, Ernestina Freeman, a pretty heiress daughter of a wealthy & pompous dry goods merchant; & Sarah Woodruff, mysterious & fascinating...deserted after a brief affair with a French naval officer a short time before the story begins. Obsessed with an irresistible fascination for the enigmatic Sarah, Charles is hurtled by a moment of consummated lust to the brink of the existential void. Duty dictates that his engagement to Tina must be broken as he goes forth once again to seek the woman who has captured his Victorian soul & gentleman's heart." | 
         | 1565 | Quo Vadis | Henryk Sienkiewicz, W.S. Kuniczak (Translator) | 2006 | Classics, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Polish Literature, Historical, Literature, Religion, Romance, Christian, Novels | Nero (emperor), Lygia, Marcus Vinicius, Paul of Tarsus, Ursus, Petronius, Chilo Chilonides, Simon Peter | "This glorious saga unfolds against the backdrop of ancient Rome-from the Forum to the Coliseum, from banquet halls to summer retreats in Naples, from the luxurious houses of the nobility to the hovels of the poor, Quo Vadis richly depicts a place and time still captivating to the modern imagination. This radiant translation by W.S. Kuniczak restores the original glory and richness of master storyteller Henryk Sienkiewicz's epic tale.Set at a turning point in history (A.D. 54-68), as Christianity replaces the era of corruption and immorality that marked Nero's Rome, Quo Vadis abounds with compelling characters, including:Vinicius, the proud centurion who has fallen deeply in love with a mysterious young woman who disappears the night they meet;Ligia, the elusive beauty. Vinicius will not easily win her love, for she is a Christian, one of the group of dedicated believers led by the apostle Peter. Christians are rare in pagan, hedonistic Rome, and suffer great persecution;Petronius, uncle to Vinicius, an elegant, witty courtier who scoffs at love and religion but finds his nephew's passion charming; andNero himself, enemy of all Christians, a despotic emperor who plunges Rome deeper and deeper into depravity. The decadence of his banquets is staggering; and even worse, his mad laughter is heard echoing in the amphitheater as gladiators duel to the death.As Nero's appalling plans for the Christians become ever clearer, time appears to be running out for the young lovers. Vinicius must come to understand the true meaning of Ligia's religion before it is too late.Grand in scope and ambition, Quo Vadis explores the themes of love, desire and profound moral courage. Lavish descriptions, vivid dialogue and brilliantly drawn characters make this one of the world's greatest epics. Beloved by children and adults the world over, Quo Vadis has been the subject of five films, two of them in English." | 
         | 1566 | Guards! Guards! | Terry Pratchett | Aug-01 | Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Comedy, Dragons, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Magic, Novels, High Fantasy | Nobby Nobbs, Carrot Ironfoundersson, Sam Vimes, Cut Me Own Throat Dibbler, Havelock Vetinari, Sybil Deidre Olgivanna Ramkin, DEATH, The Librarian, Lupine Wonse, Fred Colon | "This is where the dragons went. They lie ... not dead, not asleep, but ... dormant. And although the space they occupy isn't like normal space, nevertheless they are packed in tightly. They could put you in mind of a can of sardines, if you thought sardines were huge and scaly. And presumably, somewhere, there's a key...GUARDS! GUARDS! is the eighth Discworld novel - and after this, dragons will never be the same again!" | 
         | 1567 | Perdido Street Station | China Miéville  | Aug-03 | Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Steampunk, Urban Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction Fantasy, New Weird, Weird Fiction, Speculative Fiction | Lin, Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin, Yagharek, Mr. Motley, Derkhan Blueday, Lemuel Pigeon, Bentham Rudgutter, Construct Council | "Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies the city of New Crobuzon, where the unsavory deal is stranger to no one-not even to Isaac, a gifted and eccentric scientist who has spent a lifetime quietly carrying out his unique research. But when a half-bird, half-human creature known as the Garuda comes to him from afar, Isaac is faced with challenges he has never before encountered. Though the Garuda's request is scientifically daunting, Isaac is sparked by his own curiosity and an uncanny reverence for this curious stranger. Soon an eerie metamorphosis will occur that will permeate every fiber of New Crobuzon-and not even the Ambassador of Hell will challenge the malignant terror it evokes." | 
         | 1568 | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New (Editor), Christopher Ricks (Introduction) | 2003 | Classics, Fiction, Literature, 18th Century, Humor, Novels, British Literature, English Literature, Classic Literature, Irish Literature | Tristram Shandy, Uncle Toby, Trim, Yorick, Mr. Shandy, Mrs. Shandy | "No one description will fit this strange, eccentric, endlessly complex masterpiece. It is a fiction about fiction-writing in which the invented world is as much infused with wit and genius as the theme of inventing it. It is a joyful celebration of the infinite possibilities of the art of fiction, and a wry demonstration of its limitations. This Penguin Classic contains Christopher Ricks's introductory essay, itself a classic of English literary criticism, together with a new introduction on the recent critical history and influence of Tristram Shandy by Melvyn New. The text and notes are based on the acclaimed Florida Edition, making the scholarship of the Florida editors readily available for the first time." | 
         | 1569 | The House of the Scorpion | Nancy Farmer  | May-04 | Young Adult, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Fiction, Fantasy, Teen, Adventure, School, Middle Grade, Childrens | El Patron, Tam Lin, Maria Mendoza, Chacho, Fidelito, Ton-Ton | "With undertones of vampires, Frankenstein, dragons' hoards, and killing fields, Matt's story turns out to be an inspiring tale of friendship, survival, hope, and transcendence. A must-read for teenage fantasy fans.At his coming-of-age party, Matteo Alacrán asks El Patrón's bodyguard, ""How old am I?...I know I don't have a birthday like humans, but I was born."" ""You were harvested,"" Tam Lin reminds him. ""You were grown in that poor cow for nine months and then you were cut out of her."" To most people around him, Matt is not a boy, but a beast. A room full of chicken litter with roaches for friends and old chicken bones for toys is considered good enough for him. But for El Patrón, lord of a country called Opium—a strip of poppy fields lying between the U.S. and what was once called Mexico—Matt is a guarantee of eternal life. El Patrón loves Matt as he loves himself for Matt is himself. They share identical DNA." | 
         | 1570 | Darkness at Noon | Arthur Koestler, Daphne Hardy (Translator) | Mar-84 | Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Politics, Russia, Literature, Novels, Dystopia, 20th Century, Thriller | Nicolas Salmanovitch Rubashov | "Darkness at Noon (from the German: Sonnenfinsternis) is a novel by the Hungarian-born British novelist Arthur Koestler, first published in 1940. His best-known work tells the tale of Rubashov, a Bolshevik 1917 revolutionary who is cast out, imprisoned and tried for treason by the Soviet government he'd helped create.Darkness at Noon stands as an unequaled fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an aging revolutionary, imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the Party to which he has dedicated his life. As the pressure to confess preposterous crimes increases, he relives a career that embodies the terrible ironies and human betrayals of a totalitarian movement masking itself as an instrument of deliverance. Almost unbearably vivid in its depiction of one man's solitary agony, it asks questions about ends and means that have relevance not only for the past but for the perilous present. It is —- as the Times Literary Supplement has declared —- ""A remarkable book, a grimly fascinating interpretation of the logic of the Russian Revolution, indeed of all revolutionary dictatorships, and at the same time a tense and subtly intellectualized drama.""" | 
         | 1571 | The White Tiger | Aravind Adiga | 2008 | Fiction, India, Contemporary, Indian Literature, Novels, Literature, Literary Fiction, Asia, Book Club, Crime | Balram Halwai, Ashok, Kishan, Kusum, Stork | "Introducing a major literary talent, The White Tiger offers a story of coruscating wit, blistering suspense, and questionable morality, told by the most volatile, captivating, and utterly inimitable narrator that this millennium has yet seen. Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells us the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life—having nothing but his own wits to help him along. Born in the dark heart of India, Balram gets a break when he is hired as a driver for his village's wealthiest man, two house Pomeranians (Puddles and Cuddles), and the rich man's (very unlucky) son. From behind the wheel of their Honda City car, Balram's new world is a revelation. While his peers flip through the pages of Murder Weekly (""Love - Rape - Revenge!""), barter for girls, drink liquor (Thunderbolt), and perpetuate the Great Rooster Coop of Indian society, Balram watches his employers bribe foreign ministers for tax breaks, barter for girls, drink liquor (single-malt whiskey), and play their own role in the Rooster Coop. Balram learns how to siphon gas, deal with corrupt mechanics, and refill and resell Johnnie Walker Black Label bottles (all but one). He also finds a way out of the Coop that no one else inside it can perceive. Balram's eyes penetrate India as few outsiders can: the cockroaches and the call centers; the prostitutes and the worshippers; the ancient and Internet cultures; the water buffalo and, trapped in so many kinds of cages that escape is (almost) impossible, the white tiger. And with a charisma as undeniable as it is unexpected, Balram teaches us that religion doesn't create virtue, and money doesn't solve every problem - but decency can still be found in a corrupt world, and you can get what you want out of life if you eavesdrop on the right conversations. The White Tiger recalls The Death of Vishnu and Bangkok 8 in ambition, scope, and narrative genius, with a mischief and personality all its own. Amoral, irreverent, deeply endearing, and utterly contemporary, this novel is an international publishing sensation —and a startling, provocative debut." | 
         | 1572 | If Tomorrow Comes | Sidney Sheldon | 1985 | Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Romance, Suspense, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Drama, Contemporary, Novels | Tracy Whitney, Maximilian, Don Orsatti, Joe Romano | "This is a story of intrigue and revenge. Tracy Whitney is young, beautiful and intelligent - and about to marry into wealth and glamour. Until, suddenly, she is betrayed, framed by a ruthless Mafia gang, abandoned by the man she loves. Only her ingenuity saves her and helps her fight back." | 
         | 1573 | The Sword of Shannara | Terry Brooks  | Apr-99 | Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, Young Adult, Adult, Audiobook | Shea Ohmsford, Flick, Allanon, Menion, Balinor, Hendel, Durin, Dayel | "Living in peaceful Shady Vale, Shea Ohmsford knew little of the troubles that plagued the rest of the world. Then the giant, forbidding Allanon revealed that the supposedly dead Warlock Lord was plotting to destroy the world. The sole weapon against this Power of Darkness was the Sword of Shannara, which could only be used by a true heir of Shannara-Shea being the last of the bloodline, upon whom all hope rested. Soon a Skull Bearer, dread minion of Evil, flew into the Vale, seeking to destroy Shea. To save the Vale, Shea fled, drawing the Skull Bearer after him...." | 
         | 1574 | The Day of the Jackal | Frederick Forsyth | Sept-79 | Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Crime, Espionage, Suspense, Historical Fiction, Drama, Mystery Thriller, Novels | the Jackal, Claude Lebel, Victor Kowalski, Jacqueline Dumas | "Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.The Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with opaque, gray eyes. A killer at the top of his profession. A man unknown to any secret service in the  world. An assassin with a contract to kill the world's most heavily guarded man.One  man with a rifle who can change the course of history. One man whose mission is so secretive not even his employers know his name. And as the minutes count down to the final act of execution, it seems that there is no power on earth that can stop the Jackal." | 
         | 1575 | About a Boy | Nick Hornby | 2000 | Fiction, Contemporary, Humor, British Literature, Novels, Adult Fiction, Adult, Comedy, Literature, Coming Of Age | Will Burrows, Fiona Waters, Ellie | "'How cool was Will Freeman?'Too cool! At thirty-six, he's as hip as a teenager. He's single, child-free, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He's also found a great way to score with women: attend single parents' groups full of available (and grateful) mothers, all hoping to meet a Nice Guy.Which is how Will meets Marcus, the oldest twelve-year-old on the planet. Marcus is a bit strange: he listens to Joni Mitchell and Mozart, looks after his mum and has never owned a pair of trainers. But Marcus latches on to Will - and won't let go. Can Will teach Marcus how to grow up cool? And can Marcus help Will just to grow up?" | 
         | 1576 | Master of the Game | Sidney Sheldon | 1993 | Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Romance, Drama, Novels, Crime, Historical Fiction | Eve, Alexandra Jones, Anthony ""Tony"" Blackwell, Kate Blackwell, David Blackwell, Jamie Mcgregor, Salomon van der Merwe, Margaret van der Merwe, Dr. Peter Templeton | "One of Sidney Sheldon's most popular and bestselling titles, repackaged and reissued for a new generation of fans. Kate Blackwell is one of the richest and most powerful women in the world. She is an enigma, a woman surrounded by a thousand unanswered questions. Her father was a diamond prospector who struck it rich beyond his wildest dreams. Her mother was the daughter of a crooked Afrikaaner merchant. Her conception was itself an act of hate-filled vengeance. At the extravagent celebrations of her ninetieth birthday, there are toasts from a Supreme Court Judge and a telegram from the White House. And for Kate there are ghosts, ghosts of absent friends and of enemies. Ghosts from a life of blackmail and murder. Ghosts from an empire spawned by naked ambition! Sidney Sheldon is one of the most popular storytellers in the world. This is one of his best-loved novels, a compulsively readable thriller, packed with suspense, intrigue and passion. It will recruit a new generation of fans to his writing." | 
         | 1577 | The Wee Free Men | Terry Pratchett | 2004 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Humor, Comedy, Magic, Science Fiction Fantasy, Childrens, Adventure, Audiobook | Nanny Ogg, Tiffany Aching, Nac Mac Feegle, Granny Weatherwax | "Librarian's Note: For an alternate cover edition of the same ISBN, click here.""Another world is colliding with this one,"" said the toad. ""All the monsters are coming back.""""Why?"" said Tiffany.""There's no one to stop them.""There was silence for a moment.Then Tiffany said, ""There's me.""Armed only with a frying pan and her common sense, Tiffany Aching, a young witch-to-be, is all that stands between the monsters of Fairyland and the warm, green Chalk country that is her home. Forced into Fairyland to seek her kidnapped brother, Tiffany allies herself with the Chalk's local Nac Mac Feegle - aka the Wee Free Men - a clan of sheep-stealing, sword-wielding, six-inch-high blue men who are as fierce as they are funny. Together they battle through an eerie and ever-shifting landscape, fighting brutal flying fairies, dream-spinning dromes, and grimhounds - black dogs with eyes of fire and teeth of razors - before ultimately confronting the Queen of the Elves, absolute ruler of a world in which reality intertwines with nightmare. And in the final showdown, Tiffany must face her cruel power alone...In a riveting narrative that is equal parts suspense and humor, Carnegie Medalist Terry Pratchett returns to his internationally popular Discworld with a breathtaking tale certain to leave fans, new and old, enthralled." | 
         | 1578 | Lord of Misrule | Rachel Caine  | Jan-09 | Vampires, Young Adult, Paranormal, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Paranormal Romance, Teen | Michael Glass, Shane Collins, Eve Rosser, Claire Danvers | "In the college town of Morganville, vampires and humans coexist in (relatively) bloodless harmony. Then comes Bishop, the master vampire who threatens to abolish all order, revive the forces of the evil dead, and let chaos rule. But Bishop isn't the only threat. Violent black cyclone clouds hover, promising a storm of devastating proportions as student Claire Danvers and her friends prepare to defend Morganville against elements both natural and unnatural." | 
         | 1579 | The Illuminatus! Trilogy | Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson | Dec-83 | Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Humor, Philosophy, Conspiracy Theories, Novels, Occult, Politics, Science Fiction Fantasy | George Dorn, Joseph Malik, Hagbard Celine, Saul Goodman, Barney Muldoon, Simon Moon, Stella Maris, John Dillinger | "It was a deadly mistake. Joseph Malik, editor of a radical magazine, had snooped into rumors about an ancient secret society that was still alive and kicking. Now his offices have been bombed, he's missing, and the case has landed in the lap of a tough, cynical, streetwise New York detective. Saul Goodman knows he's stumbled onto something big—but even he can't guess how far into the pinnacles of power this conspiracy of evil has penetrated.Filled with sex and violence—in and out of time and space—the three books of The Illuminatus! Trilogy are only partly works of the imagination. They tackle all the cover-ups of our time—from who really shot the Kennedys to why there's a pyramid on a one-dollar bill—and suggest a mind-blowing truth." | 
         | 1580 | Animal Dreams | Barbara Kingsolver | 1991 | Fiction, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Adult, Literature, Realistic Fiction, Womens, Romance | Cosima ""Codi"" Noline, Homer Noline, Halimeda ""Hallie"" Noline, Emelina Domingo, Loyd Peregrina, J.T. Domingo | """Animals dream about the things they do in the day time just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life."" So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher. But when Codi Noline returns to her hometown, Loyd's advice is painfully out of her reach. Dreamless and at the end of her rope, Codi comes back to Grace, Arizona to confront her past and face her ailing, distant father. What she finds is a town threatened by a silent environmental catastrophe, some startling clues to her own identity, and a man whose view of the world could change the course of her life. Blending flashbacks, dreams, and Native American legends, Animal Dreams is a suspenseful love story and a moving exploration of life's largest commitments. With this work, the acclaimed author of The Bean Trees and Homeland and Other Stories sustains her familiar voice while giving readers her most remarkable book yet." | 
         | 1581 | Out of Africa | Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen | 1992 | Nonfiction, Africa, Classics, Memoir, Biography, Travel, History, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, Kenya | Gustav Mohr, Isak Dinesen | "Out of Africa is Isak Dinesen's memoir of her years in Africa, from 1914 to 1931, on a four-thousand-acre coffee plantation in the hills near Nairobi. She had come to Kenya from Denmark with her husband, and when they separated she stayed on to manage the farm by herself, visited frequently by her lover, the big-game hunter Denys Finch-Hatton, for whom she would make up stories ""like Scheherazade."" In Africa, ""I learned how to tell tales,"" she recalled many years later. ""The natives have an ear still. I told stories constantly to them, all kinds."" Her account of her African adventures, written after she had lost her beloved farm and returned to Denmark, is that of a master storyteller, a woman whom John Updike called ""one of the most picturesque and flamboyant literary personalities of the century.""" | 
         | 1582 | The Bridge on the Drina | Ivo Andrić, Lovett F. Edwards (Translator), William H. McNeill (Introduction) | 1977 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, Literature, Historical, Novels, Nobel Prize, War, 20th Century, Serbian Literature | Franz Ferdinand, Karađorđe Petrović, Sokollu Mehmed Pasha, Abidaga, Fata Avdagina, Radisav, Alihodja Mutevelić, Osman Effendi Karamanli, the man from Plvelje, Pop Nikola, Mula Ibrahim, Arif Beg, Shemsibeg Branković, Milan Glasinčanin, Lotte Apfelmaier, Gregor Fedun, Janko Stiković, Fehim Bhatijarević, Nikola Glasičanin, Zorka | "A vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late sixteenth century to the beginning of World War I, The Bridge on the Drina earned Ivo Andric the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961. A great stone bridge built three centuries ago in the heart of the Balkans by a Grand Vezir of the Ottoman Empire dominates the setting of Andric's stunning novel. Spanning generations, nationalities, and creeds, the bridge stands witness to the countless lives played out upon it: Radisav, the workman, who tries to hinder its construction and is impaled on its highest point; to the lovely Fata, who throws herself from its parapet to escape a loveless marriage; to Milan, the gambler, who risks everything in one last game on the bridge with the devil his opponent; to Fedun, the young soldier, who pays for a moment of spring forgetfulness with his life. War finally destroys the span, and with it the last descendant of that family to which the Grand Vezir confided the care of his pious bequest - the bridge." | 
         | 1583 | Suttree | Cormac McCarthy | May-92 | Fiction, Literature, Southern Gothic, Novels, Classics, American, Southern, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Gothic | Cornelius Suttree, Gene Harrogate | "This compelling novel has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living alone and in exile in a disintegrating houseboat on the wrong side of the Tennessee River close by Knoxville. He stays at the edge of an outcast community inhabited by eccentrics, criminals and the poverty-stricken. Rising above the physical and human squalor around him, his detachment and wry humour enable him to survive dereliction and destitution with dignity." | 
         | 1584 | The Forest of Hands and Teeth | Carrie Ryan  | Jul-09 | Young Adult, Zombies, Horror, Dystopia, Fantasy, Fiction, Post Apocalyptic, Romance, Paranormal, Science Fiction | Mary, Travis, Harry Adams, Cass, Jed | "In Mary's world there are simple truths. The Sisterhood always knows best. The Guardians will protect and serve. The Unconsecrated will never relent. And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the fence that protects the village from the Forest of Hands and Teeth. But, slowly, Mary’s truths are failing her. She’s learning things she never wanted to know about the Sisterhood and its secrets, and the Guardians and their power, and about the Unconsecrated and their relentlessness. When the fence is breached and her world is thrown into chaos, she must choose between her village and her future—between the one she loves and the one who loves her. And she must face the truth about the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Could there be life outside a world surrounded by so much death?" | 
         | 1585 | Tatiana and Alexander | Paullina Simons | 2008 | Historical Fiction, Romance, Historical, Historical Romance, Fiction, Russia, War, Adult, World War II, Love | Tatiana Metanova, Alexander Barrington | "Tatiana is eighteen years old, pregnant, and widowed when she escapes war-torn Leningrad to find a new life in America. But the ghosts of her past do not rest easily. She becomes consumed by the belief that her husband, Red Army officer Alexander Belov, is still alive and needs her desperately.Meanwhile, oceans and continents away in the Soviet Union, Alexander barely escapes execution, and is forced to lead a battalion of soldiers considered expendable by the Soviet high command. Yet Alexander is determined to take his men through the ruins of Europe in one last desperate bid to escape Stalin's death machine and somehow find his way to Tatiana once again." | 
         | 1586 | The Cat in the Hat Comes Back | Dr. Seuss | 2000 | Childrens, Picture Books, Fiction, Classics, Poetry, Humor, Fantasy, Cats, Animals, Juvenile | Sally, The Cat in the Hat | "The Cat in the Hat returns for more out-of-control fun in this wintry Beginner Book by Dr. Seuss. It’s a snowy day and Dick and Sally are stuck shovelling . . . until the Cat in the Hat arrives to liven things up (to say the least!). Featuring the Cat’s helpers Little Cat A, Little Cat B, and so on through the alphabet, and ending with a gigantic Voom, 'The Cat in the Hat Comes Back' is a riotous, fun-filled follow-up to Dr. Seuss’s classic 'The Cat in the Hat.'." | 
         | 1587 | O Pioneers! | Willa Cather | 1992 | Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literature, American, Historical, Novels, Westerns, 20th Century, Classic Literature | Alexandra Bergson | "O Pioneers! (1913) was Willa Cather's first great novel, and to many it remains her unchallenged masterpiece. No other work of fiction so faithfully conveys both the sharp physical realities and the mythic sweep of the transformation of the American frontier—and the transformation of the people who settled it. Cather's heroine is Alexandra Bergson, who arrives on the wind-blasted prairie of Hanover, Nebraska, as a girl and grows up to make it a prosperous farm. But this archetypal success story is darkened by loss, and Alexandra's devotion to the land may come at the cost of love itself.At once a sophisticated pastoral and a prototype for later feminist novels, O Pioneers! is a work in which triumph is inextricably enmeshed with tragedy, a story of people who do not claim a land so much as they submit to it and, in the process, become greater than they were." | 
         | 1588 | A Wind in the Door | Madeleine L'Engle | Mar-76 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Science Fiction, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure, Audiobook | Meg Murry, Charles Wallace Murry, ""Calvin O''Keefe"", Echthroi, Mrs. Murry, Proginoskes | "Every time a star goes out, another Echthros has won a battle.Just before Meg Murry's little brother, Charles Wallace, falls deathly ill, he sees dragons in the vegetable garden. The dragons turn out to be Proginoskes, a cherubim composed out wings and eyes, wind and flame. It is up to Meg and Proginoskes, along with Meg's friend Calvin, to save Charles Wallace's life. To do so, they must travel deep within Charles Wallace to attempt to defeat the Echthroi—those who hate—and restore brilliant harmony and joy to the rhythm of creation, the song of the universe." | 
         | 1589 | The Earthsea Trilogy | Ursula K. Le Guin | 1979 | Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Classics, Epic Fantasy, Magic, Dragons, Speculative Fiction | Lebannen, Ged | "As long ago as forever and as far away as Selidor, there lived the dragonlord and Archmage, Sparrowhawk, the greatest of the great wizards - he who, when still a youth, met with the evil shadow-beast; he who later brought back the Ring of Erreth-Akbe from the Tombs of Atuan; and he who, as an old man, rode the mighty dragon Kalessin back from the land of the dead. And then, the legends say, Sparrowhawk entered his boat, Lookfar, turned his back on land, and without wind or sail or oar moved westward over the sea and out of sight.Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore - Ursula Le Guin's brilliant and magical trilogy.Cover Illustration: Jonathan Field" | 
         | 1590 | Twilight | Meg Cabot  | 2006 | Young Adult, Paranormal, Fantasy, Romance, Ghosts, Supernatural, Fiction, Teen, Chick Lit, Mystery | Hector de Silva (Jesse), Susannah ""Suze"" Simon, Paul Slater, Kelly Prescott, Father Dominic, Jake Ackerman (Sleepy), Brad Ackerman (Dopey), David Ackerman (Doc), Sister Ernestine | "This time it's life or death.Suze has gotten used to ghosts. She's a mediator, after all, and communicating with the dead is all in a day's work. So she certainly never expected to fall in love with one: Jesse, a nineteenth-century hottie. But when she discovers that she has the power to determine who becomes a ghost in the first place, Suze begins to freak. It means she can alter the course of history... and prevent Jesse's murder, keeping him from ever becoming a ghost - and from ever meeting Suze.Will Jesse choose to live without her, or die to love her?" | 
         | 1591 | The Fall of Hyperion | Dan Simmons | Dec-95 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Space Opera, Science Fiction Fantasy, Time Travel, Audiobook, Space, Speculative Fiction, Horror | Martin Silenus, Sol Weintraub, Consul, The Shrike, Rachel Weintraub, Brawne Lamia, Fedmahn Kassad, Meina Gladstone, Melio Arundez, Tyrena Wingreen-Feif, John Keats | "In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention. On the world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secrets they contain mean that nothing-nothing anywhere in the universe-will ever be the same." | 
         | 1592 | Ship of Magic | Robin Hobb  | Mar-99 | Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure, Dragons, Magic, Adult, Pirates | Althea Vestrit, Ephron Vestrit, Ronica Vestrit, Keffria Vestrit, Kyle Haven, Wintrow Vestrit, Malta Vestrit, Vivacia, Paragon, Brashen Trell, Amber (Liveship Traders), Kennit | "Wizardwood, a sentient wood.The most precious commodity in the world.Like many other legendary wares, it comes only from the Rain River Wilds.But how can one trade with the Rain Wilders, when only a liveship fashioned from wizardwood can negotiate the perilous waters of the Rain River? Rare and valuable a liveship will quicken only when three members, from successive generations, have died on board. The liveship Vivacia is about to undergo her quickening as Althea Vestrit’s father is carried on deck in his death-throes. Althea waits for the ship that she loves more than anything else in the world to awaken. Only to discover that the Vivacia has been signed away in her father’s will to her brutal brother-in-law, Kyle Haven...Others plot to win or steal a liveship. The Paragon, known by many as the Pariah, went mad, turned turtle, and drowned his crew. Now he lies blind, lonely, and broken on a deserted beach. But greedy men have designs to restore him, to sail the waters of the Rain Wild River once more.Cover illustration by John Howe" | 
         | 1593 | Os Maias | Eça de Queirós, Ester de Lemos (Introdução) | Apr-03 | Classics, Portuguese Literature, Fiction, Romance, Portugal, School, Literature, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Novels | Carlos da Maia, João da Ega, Maria Eduarda, Afonso da Maia, Maria Monforte, Eusébiozinho, Alencar, Conde de Gouvarinho, Sousa Neto, Palma Cavalão, Dâmaso Salcede, Steinbroken, Cohen, Craft, Condessa de Gouvarinho, Cruges, Tancredo, Sr. Guimarães, Rufino | "Biblioteca Ulisseia de Autores Portugueses #15Os Maias é uma das obras mais conhecidas do escritor português Eça de Queiroz. O livro foi publicado no Porto em 1888. A acção de Os Maias passa-se em Lisboa, na segunda metade do século XIX, e apresenta-nos a história de três gerações da família Maia. A acção inicia-se no Outono de 1875, quando Afonso da Maia, nobre e pobre proprietário, se instala no Ramalhete com o neto recém formado em Medicina. Neste momento faz-se uma longa descrição da casa - ""O Ramalhete,"" cujo nome tem origem num painel de azulejos com um ramo de girassóis, e não em algo fresco ou campestre, tal como o nome nos remete a pensar. Afonso da Maia era o personagem mais simpático do romance e aquele que o autor mais valorizou, pois não se lhe conhecem defeitos. É um homem de carácter, culto e requintado nos gostos. Em jovem aderiu aos ideais do Liberalismo e foi obrigado, por seu pai, a sair de casa e a instalar-se em Inglaterra. Após o pai falecer regressa a Lisboa para casar com Maria Eduarda Runa, mas pouco tempo depois escolhe o exílio por razões de ordem política. Há em Os Maias um retrato da Lisboa da epóca. Carlos, que mora na Rua das Janelas Verdes, caminha com frequência até ao Rossio (embora, por vezes, vá a cavalo ou de carruagem). Algumas das lojas citadas no livro ainda existem - a Casa Havaneza, no Chiado, por exemplo. É possível seguir os diferentes percursos de Carlos ou do Ega pelas suas da Baixa lisboeta, ainda que algumas tenham mudado de nome. No final do livro, quando Carlos volta a Lisboa muitos anos depois, somos levados a ver as novidades - a Avenida da Liberdade, que substituiu o Passeio Público, e que é descrita como uma coisa nova, e feia pela sua novidade, exactamente como nos anos 70 se falava das casas de emigrante. O romance veicula sobre o país uma perspectiva muito derrotista, muito pessimista. Tirando a natureza (o Tejo, Sintra, Santa Olávia...), é tudo uma choldra ignóbil. Predomina uma visão de estrangeirado, de quem só valoriza as civilizações superiores - da França e Inglaterra, principalmente. Os políticos são mesquinhos, ignorantes ou corruptos (Gouvarinho, Sousa Neto...); os homens das Letras sao boémios e dissolutos, retrógrados ou distantes da realidade concreta (Alencar, Ega...: lembre-se o que se passou no Sarau do Teatro da Trindade); os jornalistas boémios e venais (Palma...); os homens do desporto não conseguem organizar uma corrida de cavalos, pois não há hipódromo à altura, nem cavalos, nem cavaleiros, as pessoas não vestem como o evento exigia, as senhoras traziam vestidos de missa. Para cúmulo de tudo isto, os protagonistas acabam vencidos da vida. Apesar de ser isto referido no fim do livro, pode-se ver que ainda há alguma esperanca implícita, nas passagens em que Carlos da Maia e João da Ega dizem que o apetite humano é a causa de todos os seus problemas e que portanto nunca mais terão apetites, mas logo a seguir dizem que lhes está a apetecer um ""prato de paio com ervilhas,"" ou quando dizem que a pressa não leva a nada e que a vida deve ser levada com calma mas começam a correr para apanhar o americano (eléctrico). Mais do que crítica de costumes, o romance mostra-nos um país - sobretudo Lisboa - que se dissolve, incapaz de se regenerar. Quando o autor escreve mais tarde A Cidade e as Serras, expõe uma atitude muito mais construtiva: o protagonista regenera-se pela descoberta das raízes rurais ancestrais não atingidas pela degradação da civilização, num movimento inverso ao que predomina n'Os Maias." | 
         | 1594 | Bag of Bones | Stephen King  | Jun-99 | Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Fantasy, Paranormal, Suspense, Supernatural, Ghosts, Adult | Mike Noonan, Mattie Devore, Kyra Devore, Max Devore, Jo Noonan, Sara Tidwell | "Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write, and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he calls Sara Laughs, Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside getaway. There, he finds his beloved Yankee town held in the grip of a powerful millionaire, Max Devore, whose vindictive purpose is to take his three-year-old granddaughter, Kyra, away from her widowed young mother, Mattie. As Mike is drawn into Mattie and Kyra's struggle, as he falls in love with both of them, he is also drawn into the mystery of Sara Laughs, now the site of ghostly visitations and escalating terrors. What are the forces that have been unleashed here—and what do they want of Mike Noonan?It is no secret that King is one of our most mesmerizing storytellers. In Bag of Bones, he proves to be one of our most moving as well.(back cover)" | 
         | 1595 | Tales of the City | Armistead Maupin | 1989 | Fiction, LGBT, Queer, Humor, Gay, Classics, Contemporary, Novels, American, Literature | Mary Ann Singleton, Michael Tolliver, Anna  Madrigal, Mona Ramsey, Brian Hawkins | "San Francisco, 1976. A naïve young secretary, fresh out of Cleveland, tumbles headlong into a brave new world of laundromat Lotharios, pot-growing landladies, cut throat debutantes, and Jockey Shorts dance contests. The saga that ensues is manic, romantic, tawdry, touching, and outrageous—unmistakably the handiwork of Armistead Maupin." | 
         | 1596 | Shadowland | Meg Cabot , Jenny Carroll | 2005 | Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Ghosts, Fiction, Supernatural, Mystery, Chick Lit, Teen | Susannah ""Suze"" Simon, Hector de Silva (Jesse), Father Dominic, Andy Ackerman, Jake Ackerman (Sleepy), Brad Ackerman (Dopey), David Ackerman (Doc), Adam McTavish, CeeCee Webb, Bryce Martinson, Gina Augustin | "Suze is a mediator - a liaison between the living and the dead. In other words, she sees dead people. And they won't leave her alone until she helps them resolve their unfinished business with the living. But Jesse, the hot ghost haunting her bedroom, doesn't seem to need her help. Which is a relief, because Suze has just moved to sunny California and plans to start fresh, with trips to the mall instead of the cemetery, and surfing instead of spectral visitations. But the very first day at her new school, Suze realizes it's not that easy. There's a ghost with revenge on her mind ... and Suze happens to be in the way." | 
         | 1597 | Brida | Paulo Coelho , Montserrat Mira (Translator) | 2006 | Fiction, Fantasy, Philosophy, Novels, Romance, Spirituality, Inspirational, Literature, Magical Realism, Contemporary | Brida | "O livro conta a história de Brida O' Fern, uma irlandesa de 21 anos em busca da magia e dos poderes ocultos. Durante sua busca, Brida conhece um mago, Mago de Folk, que promete ensiná-la através da Tradição do Sol, que explica tudo através da natureza e de suas manifestações divinas. Mas Brida toma, na verdade, como mestra, Wicca, uma bela mulher que lhe ensina através da Tradição da Lua, a antiga Tradição das Bruxas, que explica o Universo através da Sabedoria e do Tempo. Sua evolução espiritual e sua busca pela Outra Parte (a famosa alma gêmea) estão retratadas neste livro emocionante e tão interessante quanto os outros livros do autor - segue contudo, o estilo altamente ""místico"" como ""O Diário de um Mago"" e ""O Alquimista""." | 
         | 1598 | Prey | Michael Crichton | 2006 | Fiction, Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror, Suspense, Mystery, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure, Novels, Audiobook | Jack Forman, Julia Forman | "In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles - micro-robots - has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive.It has been programmed as a predator. It is evolving swiftly, becoming more deadly with each passing hour.Every attempt to destroy it has failed.And we are the prey." | 
         | 1599 | Last Exit to Brooklyn | Hubert SelJr., Gilbert Sorrentino (Editor) | 2000 | Fiction, Classics, Thriller, Contemporary, Dark, New York, American, Crime, Novels, Mystery | Harry Black | "Few novels have caused as much debate as Hubert Selby Jr.'s notorious masterpiece, Last Exit to Brooklyn, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.Described by various reviewers as hellish and obscene, Last Exit to Brooklyn tells the stories of New Yorkers who at every turn confront the worst excesses in human nature. Yet there are moments of exquisite tenderness in these troubled lives. Georgette, the transvestite who falls in love with a callous hoodlum; Tralala, the conniving prostitute who plumbs the depths of sexual degradation; and Harry, the strike leader who hides his true desires behind a boorish masculinity, are unforgettable creations. Last Exit to Brooklyn was banned by British courts in 1967, a decision that was reversed the following year with the help of a number of writers and critics including Anthony Burgess and Frank Kermode.Hubert Selby, Jr. (1928-2004) was born in Brooklyn, New York. At the age of 15, he dropped out of school and went to sea with the merchant marines. While at sea he was diagnosed with lung disease. With no other way to make a living, he decided to try writing: 'I knew the alphabet. Maybe I could be a writer.' In 1964 he completed his first book, Last Exit to Brooklyn, which has since become a cult classic. In 1966, it was the subject of an obscenity trial in the UK. His other books include The Room, The Demon, Requiem for a Dream, The Willow Tree and Waiting Period. In 2000, Requiem for a Dream was adapted into a film starring Jared Leto and Ellen Burstyn, and directed by Darren Aronofsky.'Last Exit to Brooklyn will explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America, and still be eagerly read in 100 years'Allen Ginsberg'An urgent tickertape from hell'Spectator" | 
         | 1600 | Marina | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | 1999 | Fiction, Young Adult, Mystery, Fantasy, Horror, Gothic, Historical Fiction, Spanish Literature, Spain, Romance | Marina Marchetti, German Blau, Oscar Drai | "Quince años mas tarde, la memoria de aquel dia ha vuelto a mi. He visto a aquel muchacho vagando entre las brumas de la estacion de Francia y el nombre de Marina se ha encendido de nuevo como una herida fresca. Todos tenemos un secreto encerrado bajo llave en el atico del alma. este es el mio.En la Barcelona de 1980 Oscar Drai suena despierto, deslumbrado por los placeres mocernistas cercanos al internado en el que estudia. En una de sus escapadas conoce a Marina, una chica audaz que comparte con oscar la aventura de adentrarse en un enigma doloroso del pasado de la ciudad. Un misterioso personaje de la posguerra se propuso el mayor desafio imaginable, pero su ambicion lo arrastro por sendas siniestras cucyas consecuencias debe pagar alguien todavia hoy." | 
         | 1601 | The Tale of the Body Thief | Anne Rice | 2005 | Horror, Fantasy, Vampires, Fiction, Paranormal, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy, Gothic, Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy | Lestat de Lioncourt, David Talbot | "In a gripping feat of storytelling, Anne Rice continues the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles that began with the now-classic Interview with the Vampire. For centuries, Lestat—vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals—has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living dead. Now he is alone. And in his overwhelming need to destroy his doubts and his loneliness, Lestat embarks on the most dangerous enterprise he has undertaken in all the years of his haunted existence. Praise for The Tale of the Body Thief  “Tinged with mystery, full of drama . . . The story is involving, the twists surprising.”—People   “Rice is our modern messenger of the occult, whose nicely updated dark-side passion plays twist and turn in true Gothic form.”—San Francisco Chronicle  “Fast-paced . . . . mesmerizing . . . silkenly sensuous . . . No one writing today matches her deftness with the erotic.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution  “Hypnotic . . . masterful.”—CosmopolitanFrom the Paperback edition." | 
         | 1602 | Duma Key | Stephen King  | Jan-08 | Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Supernatural, Mystery, Audiobook, Suspense, Paranormal, Novels | Edgar Freemantle, Jerome Wireman, Elizabeth Eastlake, Dr. Xander Kamen, Jack Cantori, Perse (Duma Key), Candy Brown, Mary Ire, Pam Freemantle, Ilse Freemantle | "From the Flap:NO MORE THAN A DARK PENCIL LINE ON A BLANK PAGE. A HORIZON LINE, MAYBE, BUT ALSO A SLOT FOR BLACKNESS TO POUR THROUGH . . . A terrible construction site accident takes Edgar Freemantle's right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. A marriage that produced two lovely daughters suddenly ends, and Edgar begins to wish he hadn't survived the injuries that could have killed him. He wants out. His psychologist, Dr. Kamen, suggests a ""geographic cure,"" a new life distant from the Twin Cities and the building business Edgar grew from scratch. And Kamen suggests something else. ""Edgar does anything make you happy?"" ""I used to sketch."" ""Take it up again. You need hedges . . . hedges against the night.""Edgar leaves Minnesota for a rented house on Duma Key, a stunningly beautiful, eerily undeveloped splinter of the Florida coast. The sun setting into the Gulf of Mexico and the tidal rattling of shells on the beach call out to him, and Edgar draws. A visit from Ilse, the daughter he dotes on, starts his movement out of solitude. He meets a kindred spirit in Wireman, a man reluctant to reveal his own wounds, and then Elizabeth Eastlake, a sick old woman whose roots are tangled deep in Duma Key. Now Edgar paints, sometimes feverishly, his exploding talent both a wonder and a weapon. Many of his paintings have a power that cannot be controlled. When Elizabeth's past unfolds and the ghosts of her childhood begin to appear, the damage of which they are capable is truly devastating.The tenacity of love, the perils of creativity, the mysteries of memory and the nature of the supernatural-Stephen King gives us a novel as fascinating as it is gripping and terrifying." | 
         | 1603 | The Woman in the Dunes | Kōbō Abe, E. Dale Saunders (Translator) | 1991 | Fiction, Japan, Japanese Literature, Classics, Literature, Novels, Asia, Magical Realism, Literary Fiction, Asian Literature | Niki Jumpei | "The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, suspense and the existential novel. After missing the last bus home following a day trip to the seashore, an amateur entomologist is offered lodging for the night at the bottom of a vast sand pit. But when he attempts to leave the next morning, he quickly discovers that the locals have other plans. Held captive with seemingly no chance of escape, he is tasked with shoveling back the ever-advancing sand dunes that threaten to destroy the village. His only companion is an odd young woman, and together their fates become intertwined as they work side by side through this Sisyphean of tasks." | 
         | 1604 | From Hell | Alan Moore , Eddie Campbell (illustrator), Pete Mullins (illustrator) | 2007 | Graphic Novels, Comics, Horror, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Crime, Comic Book, Mystery, Historical | Aleister Crowley, Oscar Wilde, Jack the Ripper, William Morris, Frederick George Abberline, Joseph Merrick, Queen Victoria | """I shall tell you where we are. We're in the most extreme and utter region of the human mind. A dim, subconscious underworld. A radiant abyss where men meet themselves. Hell, Netley. We're in Hell."" Having proved himself peerless in the arena of reinterpreting superheroes, Alan Moore turned his ever-incisive eye to the squalid, enigmatic world of Jack the Ripper and the Whitechapel murders of 1888. Weighing in at 576 pages, From Hell is certainly the most epic of Moore's works and remarkably and is possibly his finest effort yet in a career punctuated by such glorious highlights as Watchmen and V for Vendetta. Going beyond the myriad existing theories, which range from the sublime to the ridiculous, Moore presents an ingenious take on the slaughter. His Ripper's brutal activities are the epicentre of a conspiracy involving the very heart of the British Establishment, including the Freemasons and The Royal Family. A popular claim, which is transformed through Moore's exquisite and thoroughly gripping vision, of the Ripper crimes being the womb from which the 20th century, so enmeshed in the celebrity culture of violence, received its shocking, visceral birth. Bolstered by meticulous research that encompasses a wide spectrum of Ripper studies and myths and coupled with his ability to evoke sympathies in such monstrous characters, Moore has created perhaps the finest examination of the Ripper legacy, observing far beyond society's obsessive need to expose Evil's visage. Ultimately, as Moore observes, Jack's identity and his actions are inconsequential to the manner in which society embraced the Fear: ""It's about us. It's about our minds and how they dance. Jack mirrors our hysterias. Faceless, he is the receptacle for each new social panic."" Eddie Campbell's stunning black and white artwork, replete with a scratchy, dirty sheen, is perfectly matched to the often-unshakeable intensity of Moore's writing. Between them, each murder is rendered in horrifying detail, providing the book's most unnerving scenes, made more so in uncomfortable, yet lyrical moments as when the villain embraces an eviscerated corpse, craving understanding; pleading that they ""are wed in legend, inextricable within eternity"". Though technically a comic, the term hardly begins to describe From Hell's inimitable grandeur and finesse, as it takes the medium to fresh heights of ingenuity and craftsmanship. Moore and Campbell's autopsy on the emaciated corpse of the Ripper myth has divulged a deeply disturbing yet undeniably captivating masterpiece. —Danny Graydon" | 
         | 1605 | Blackwood Farm | Anne Rice | 2003 | Vampires, Horror, Fantasy, Fiction, Paranormal, Supernatural, Witches, Urban Fantasy, Gothic, Adult | Lestat de Lioncourt, Quinn Tyrrell, Mona Mayfair | "Lestat is back, saviour and demon, presiding over a gothic story of family greed and hatred through generations, a terrifying drama of blood lust and betrayal, possession and matricide. Blackwood Farm with its grand Southern mansion, set among dark cypress swamps in Louisiana, harbours terrible blood-stained secrets and family ghosts. Heir to them all is Quinn Blackwood, young, rash and beautiful, himself a 'bloodhunter' whom Lestat takes under his wing. But Quinn is in thrall not only to the past and his own appetites but, even more dangerously, to a companion spirit, a 'goblin' succubus who could destroy him and others. Only the unearthly power of Lestat combined with the earthly powers of the Mayfair clan could hope to save Quinn from himself and his ghosts, or to rescue the doomed girl Quinn loves from her own mortality. Shocking, savage and richly erotic, this novel with the deceptively gentle title bring us Anne Rice at her most powerfully disturbing. Here are vampires and witches, men and women, demons and a doppelganger, caught up in a maelstrom of death and destruction, blood and fire, cruelty and fate." | 
         | 1606 | Tithe | Holly Black  | Apr-04 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal, Fiction, Fairies, Romance, Fae, Young Adult Fantasy, Magic | Kaye Fierch, Ellen Fierch, Cornelius Stone, Rath Roiben Rye, Janet Stone | "Welcome to the realm of very scary faeries!Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and independent, she travels from city to city with her mother's rock band until an ominous attack forces Kaye back to her childhood home. There, amid the industrial, blue-collar New Jersey backdrop, Kaye soon finds herself an unwilling pawn in an ancient power struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms - a struggle that could very well mean her death." | 
         | 1607 | Pandora | Anne Rice | May-01 | Vampires, Horror, Fantasy, Fiction, Paranormal, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Gothic, Historical | Marius de Romanus, David Talbot, Pandora | "Anne Rice, creator of the Vampire Lestat, the Mayfair witches and the amazing worlds they inhabit, now gives us the first in a new series of novels linked together by the fledgling vampire David Talbot, who has set out to become a chronicler of his fellow Undead.The novel opens in present-day Paris in a crowded café, where David meets Pandora. She is two thousand years old, a Child of the Millennia, the first vampire ever made by the great Marius. David persuades her to tell the story of her life. Pandora begins, reluctantly at first and then with increasing passion, to recount her mesmerizing tale, which takes us through the ages, from Imperial Rome to eighteenth-century France to twentieth-century Paris and New Orleans. She carries us back to her mortal girlhood in the world of Caesar Augustus, a world chronicled by Ovid and Petronius. This is where Pandora meets and falls in love with the handsome, charismatic, lighthearted, still-mortal Marius. This is the Rome she is forced to flee in fear of assassination by conspirators plotting to take over the city. And we follow her to the exotic port of Antioch, where she is destined to be reunited with Marius, now immortal and haunted by his vampire nature, who will bestow on her the Dark Gift as they set out on the fraught and fantastic adventure of their two turbulent centuries together." | 
         | 1608 | Tortilla Flat | John Steinbeck | Jul-01 | Fiction, Classics, Literature, Novels, American, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, The United States Of America, Classic Literature | Danny, Pablo Soler, Pilon, Jesus Maria Corcoran, Pirate, Torelli | """Steinbeck is an artist; and he tells the stories of these lovable thieves and adulterers with a gentle and poetic purity of heart and of prose."" - New York Herald TribuneAdopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, Steinbeck created a ""Camelot"" on a shabby hillside above the town of Monterey,California and peopled it with a colorful band of knights. At the center of the tale is Danny, whose house, like Arthur's castle, becomes a gathering place for men looking for adventure, camaraderie, and a sense of belonging. These ""knights"" are paisanos, men of mixed heritage, whose ancestors settled California hundreds of years before. Free of ties to jobs and other complications of the American way of life, they fiercely resist the corrupting tide of honest toil in the surrounding ocean of civil rectitude.As Steinbeck chronicles their deeds-their multiple loves, their wonderful brawls, their Rabelaisian wine-drinking-he spins a tale as compelling and ultimately as touched by sorrow as the famous legends of the Round Table, which inspired him." | 
         | 1609 | The Garden of Eden | Ernest Hemingway | 2003 | Classics, Fiction, Literature, Novels, American, Romance, France, Literary Fiction, 20th Century, Classic Literature | David Bourne, Catherine Bourne, Marita | "A sensational bestseller when it appeared in 1986, The Garden of Eden is the last uncompleted novel of Ernest Hemingway, which he worked on intermittently from 1946 until his death in 1961. Set on the Côte d'Azur in the 1920s, it is the story of a young American writer, David Bourne, his glamorous wife, Catherine, and the dangerous, erotic game they play when they fall in love with the same woman. ""A lean, sensuous narrative...taut, chic, and strangely contemporary,"" The Garden of Eden represents vintage Hemingway, the master ""doing what nobody did better"" (R. Z. Sheppard, Time)." | 
         | 1610 | Thief of Time | Terry Pratchett | 2008 | Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Comedy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Time Travel, Science Fiction, High Fantasy, Novels | The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Nanny Ogg, DEATH, Susan Sto Helit, Death of Rats, The Auditors, Ronny Soak, Monks of History, Lu-Tze | "Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed.And on Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where it's wasted (like underwater - how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities, where there's never enough time.But the construction of the world's first truly accurate clock starts a race against, well, time, for Lu Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd. Because it will stop time. And that will only be the start of everyone's problems.Thief of Time comes complete with a full supporting cast of heroes and villains, yetis, martial artists and Ronnie, the fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse (who left before they became famous)." | 
         | 1611 | The Trumpet of the Swan 50th Anniversary | E.B. White, Fred Marcellino (Illustrator) | 2000 | Classics, Childrens, Fiction, Animals, Fantasy, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Chapter Books, School | Serena, Sam Beaver, Louis the swan | "Swan SongLike the rest of his family, Louis is a trumpeter swan. But unlike his four brothers and sisters, Louis can't trumpet joyfully. In fact, he can't even make a sound. And since he can't trumpet his love, the beautiful swan Serena pays absolutely no attention to him.Louis tries everything he can think of to win Serena's affection—he even goes to school to learn to read and write. But nothing seems to work. Then his father steals him a real brass trumpet. Is a musical instrument the key to winning Louis his love?" | 
         | 1612 | Rooftops of Tehran | Mahbod Seraji  | 2009 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Iran, Romance, Historical, Cultural, Novels, Asia, Coming Of Age, Drama | Pasha Shahed, Zari, Ahmed, Faheemeh | "From ""a striking new talent""(Sandra Dallas, author of Tallgrass) comes an unforgettable debut novel of young love and coming of age in an Iran headed toward revolution. In this poignant, eye-opening and emotionally vivid novel, Mahbod Seraji lays bare the beauty and brutality of the centuries-old Persian culture, while reaffirming the human experiences we all share. In a middle-class neighborhood of Iran's sprawling capital city, 17-year-old Pasha Shahed spends the summer of 1973 on his rooftop with his best friend Ahmed, joking around one minute and asking burning questions about life the next. He also hides a secret love for his beautiful neighbor Zari, who has been betrothed since birth to another man. But the bliss of Pasha and Zari's stolen time together is shattered when Pasha unwittingly acts as a beacon for the Shah's secret police. The violent consequences awaken him to the reality of living under a powerful despot, and lead Zari to make a shocking choice..." | 
         | 1613 | Tell Me Your Dreams | Sidney Sheldon | Aug-99 | Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Novels, Romance, Drama, Psychology | Alette Peters, Ashley Patterson, Toni Prescott, Steven Patterson, David Singer, Sandra Singer, Jesse Quiller, Gilbert Keller, Emily Quiller, Joseph Kincaid, Jim Cleary, Samuel Blake, Richard Melton | "She had read about stalkers, but they belonged in a different, faraway world. She had no idea who it could be, who would want to harm her. She was trying desperately not to panic, but lately her sleep had been filled with nightmares, and she had awakened each morning with a feeling of impending doom.Thus begins Sidney Sheldon's chilling new novel, Tell Me Your Dreams. Three beautiful young women are suspected of committing a series of brutal murders. The police make an arrest that leads to one of the most bizarre murder trials of the century. Based on actual events, Sheldon's novel races from London to Rome to the city of Quebec to San Francisco, with a climax that will leave the reader stunned." | 
         | 1614 | Fifth Business | Robertson Davies | 2002 | Fiction, Canada, Classics, Historical Fiction, Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, Canadian Literature, School, Historical | Dunstan Ramsay, Boy Staunton | "Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross and destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and myth collide. As Ramsay tells his story, it begins to seem that from boyhood, he has exerted a perhaps mystical, perhaps pernicious, influence on those around him. His apparently innocent involvement in such innocuous events as the throwing of a snowball or the teaching of card tricks to a small boy in the end prove neither innocent nor innocuous. Fifth Business stands alone as a remarkable story told by a rational man who discovers that the marvelous is only another aspect of the real." | 
         | 1615 | The Winter Sea | Susanna Kearsley  | 2010 | Historical Fiction, Romance, Fiction, Historical, Time Travel, Scotland, Historical Romance, Fantasy, Contemporary, Adult | Carrie McClelland, Sophia Paterson, John Moray, Graham Keith | "In the spring of 1708, an invading Jacobite fleet of French and Scottish soldiers nearly succeeded in landing the exiled James Stewart in Scotland to reclaim his crown.Now, Carrie McClelland hopes to turn that story into her next bestselling novel. Settling herself in the shadow of Slains Castle, she creates a heroine named for one of her own ancestors and starts to write.But when she discovers her novel is more fact than fiction, Carrie wonders if she might be dealing with ancestral memory, making her the only living person who knows the truth—the ultimate betrayal—that happened all those years ago, and that knowledge comes very close to destroying her.…" | 
         | 1616 | Firestarter | Stephen King  | 1998 | Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Paranormal, Supernatural, Suspense, Adult, Audiobook | Charlene ""Charlie""  McGee, Andrew ""Andy""  McGee, John Rainbird, Captain James ""Cap"" Hollester, Vicky Tomlinson, Patrick Hockstetter, Irv Manders, Norma Manders, Doctor Joseph Wanless, Doctor Herman Pynchot, Albert Steinowitz, Orv  ""OJ"" Jamieson, Orville Bates | "The Department of Scientific Intelligence (aka ""The Shop"") never anticipated that two participants in their research program would marry and have a child. Charlie McGee inherited pyrokinetic powers from her parents, who had been given a low-grade hallucinogen called ""Lot Six"" while at college. Now the government is trying to capture young Charlie and harness her powerful firestarting skills as a weapon.-stephenking.com" | 
         | 1617 | The Feast of the Goat | Mario Vargas Llosa, Edith Grossman (Translator) | 2003 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Novels, Spanish Literature, Latin American, Literature, Nobel Prize, Latin American Literature, Historical, Politics | Urania Cabral, Agustín Cabral, Rafael Trujillo, Johnny Abbes García, Ramfis Trujillo, Joaquín Balaguer, Antonio Imbert Barrera, Antonio de la Maza | "Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic - and finds herself reliving the events of 1961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a nation of three million people. Rafael Trujillo, the depraved ailing dictator whom Dominicans call the Goat, controls his inner circle with a combination of violence and blackmail. In Trujillo's gaudy palace, treachery and cowardice have become the way of life. But Trujillo's grasp is slipping away. There is a conspiracy against him, and a Machiavellian revolution already underway that will have bloody consequences of its own. In this 'masterpiece of Latin American and world literature, and one of the finest political novels ever written' (""Bookforum""), Mario Vargas Llosa recounts the end of a regime and the birth of a terrible democracy, giving voice to the historical Trujillo and the victims, both innocent and complicit, drawn into his deadly orbit." | 
         | 1618 | Unaccustomed Earth | Jhumpa Lahiri | 2008 | Fiction, Short Stories, India, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Literature, Indian Literature, Book Club, Adult Fiction, Adult | Ruma | "Eight stories—longer and more emotionally complex than any Lahiri has yet written—that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they enter the lives of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers.From the internationally best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction: eight stories—longer and more emotionally complex than any she has yet written—that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they enter the lives of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers.In the stunning title story, Ruma, a young mother in a new city, is visited by her father, who carefully tends the earth of her garden, where he and his grandson form a special bond. But he’s harboring a secret from his daughter, a love affair he’s keeping all to himself. In “A Choice of Accommodations,” a husband’s attempt to turn an old friend’s wedding into a romantic getaway weekend with his wife takes a dark, revealing turn as the party lasts deep into the night. In “Only Goodness,” a sister eager to give her younger brother the perfect childhood she never had is overwhelmed by guilt, anguish, and anger when his alcoholism threatens her family. And in “Hema and Kaushik,” a trio of linked stories—a luminous, intensely compelling elegy of life, death, love, and fate—we follow the lives of a girl and boy who, one winter, share a house in Massachusetts. They travel from innocence to experience on separate, sometimes painful paths, until destiny brings them together again years later in Rome. Unaccustomed Earth is rich with Jhumpa Lahiri’s signature gifts: exquisite prose, emotional wisdom, and subtle renderings of the most intricate workings of the heart and mind. It is a masterful, dazzling work of a writer at the peak of her powers." | 
         | 1619 | Miecz przeznaczenia | Andrzej Sapkowski | 1994 | Fantasy, Fiction, Short Stories, Polish Literature, Audiobook, High Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, Adult, Epic Fantasy | Dandelion, Yennefer, Ciri (Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon), Visenna, Eithné, Braenn, Essi Daven, Geralt of Rivia | "„Miecz przeznaczenia” jest zbiorem opowiadań stanowiących swoistą kontynuację przygód Geralta ze zbioru „Ostatnie życzenie”, a zarazem poprzedza historię opisaną w „Sadze o wiedźminie”. Generalnie opowiadania składające się na omawiany zbiór nie różnią się niczym od napisanych wcześniej. Geralt dzięki swojej sile, odwadze i inteligencji walczy z potworami bądź w inny sposób stara się pomagać ludziom. Świat, w którym rozgrywa się akcja, jest przedstawiony w sposób niezwykle plastyczny, co sprawia, iż można go sobie bez większych problemów wyobrazić. Książka przesiąknięta jest emocjami, marzeniami i wartościami. Na kartach opowiadań widzimy miłość, poświęcenie, honor, determinację spowodowaną zamiarem udzielenia pomocy ukochanemu, przywiązanie do własnej ziemi." | 
         | 1620 | A Swiftly Tilting Planet | Madeleine L'Engle | Jan-81 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Science Fiction, Childrens, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy, Time Travel, Middle Grade, Adventure | Meg Murry, Charles Wallace Murry, ""Mrs. O''Keefe"", Mad Dog Branzillo, Gaudior, Echthroi, Harcels, Madoc Gywnedd, Brandon Llawcae, Matthew Maddox, Chuck Maddox, Sandy Murry, Dennys Murry | "In this companion volume to A Wrinkle In Time (Newbery Award winner) and A Wind In The Door fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace and the unicorn Gaudior undertake a perilous journey through time in a desperate attempt to stop the destruction of the world by the mad dictator Madog Branzillo. They are not alone in their quest. Charles Wallace's sister, Meg - grown and expecting her first child, but still able to enter her brother's thoughts and emotions by ""kything"" - goes with him in spirit." | 
         | 1621 | The Warrior's Apprentice | Lois McMaster Bujold  | 2003 | Science Fiction, Space Opera, Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Adventure, Military Fiction, Space, Speculative Fiction | Miles Vorkosigan | "Between the seemingly impossible tasks of living up to his warrior-father's legend and surmounting his own physical limitations, Miles Vorkosigan faces some truly daunting challenges. Shortly after his arrival on Beta Colony, Miles unexpectedly finds himself the owner of an obsolete freighter and in more debt than he ever thought possible. Propelled by his manic ""forward momentum,"" the ever-inventive Miles creates a new identity for himself as the commander of his own mercenary fleet to obtain a lucrative cargo; a shipment of weapons destined for a dangerous warzone." | 
         | 1622 | Remember Me? | Sophie Kinsella  | 2008 | Chick Lit, Romance, Fiction, Contemporary, Adult, Humor, Contemporary Romance, Adult Fiction, Audiobook, British Literature | Eric Ross, Jon, Lexi Smart, sister Amy, Fi | "When twenty-eight-year-old Lexi Smart wakes up in a London hospital, she’s in for a big surprise. Her teeth are perfect. Her body is toned. Her handbag is Vuitton. Having survived a car accident—in a Mercedes no less—Lexi has lost a big chunk of her memory, three years to be exact, and she’s about to find out just how much things have changed.Somehow Lexi went from a twenty-five-year-old working girl to a corporate big shot with a sleek new loft, a personal assistant, a carb-free diet, and a set of glamorous new friends. And who is this gorgeous husband—who also happens to be a multimillionaire? With her mind still stuck three years in reverse, Lexi greets this brave new world determined to be the person she…well, seems to be. That is, until an adorably disheveled architect drops the biggest bombshell of all.Suddenly Lexi is scrambling to catch her balance. Her new life, it turns out, comes complete with secrets, schemes, and intrigue. How on earth did all this happen? Will she ever remember? And what will happen when she does?With the same wicked humor and delicious charm that have won her millions of devoted fans, Sophie Kinsella, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Shopaholic & Baby, returns with an irresistible new novel and a fresh new heroine who finds herself in a life-changing and utterly hilarious predicament…" | 
         | 1623 | The Tortilla Curtain | T. Coraghessan Boyle  | 1995 | Fiction, Contemporary, Book Club, School, Literature, Novels, Literary Fiction, American, Audiobook, Adult Fiction | Delany Mossbacher, Candido Rincon, America Rincon | "Topanga Canyon is home to two couples on a collision course. Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher lead an ordered sushi-and-recycling existence in a newly gated hilltop community: he a sensitive nature writer, she an obsessive realtor. Mexican illegals Cándido and América Rincón desperately cling to their vision of the American Dream as they fight off starvation in a makeshift camp deep in the ravine. And from the moment a freak accident brings Cándido and Delaney into intimate contact, these four and their opposing worlds gradually intersect in what becomes a tragicomedy of error and misunderstanding." | 
         | 1624 | Maskerade | Terry Pratchett | 1995 | Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Comedy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Witches, Audiobook, Magic, High Fantasy, Comic Fantasy | Nobby Nobbs, Nanny Ogg, DEATH, Agnes Nitt, The Librarian, Death of Rats, Detritus, Granny Weatherwax | "The Ghost in the bone-white mask who haunts theAnkh-Morpork Opera House was always considered a benign presence - some would even say lucky - until he started killing people. The sudden rash of bizarre backstage deaths now threatens to mar the operatic debut of country girl Perdita X. (nee Agnes) Nitt, she of the ample body and ampler voice.Perdita's expected to hide in the chorus and sing arias out loud while a more petitely presentable soprano mouths the notes. But at least it's an escape from scheming Nanny Ogg and old Granny Weatherwax back home, who want her to join their witchy ranks.Once Granny sets her mind on something, however, it's difficult - and often hazardous - to dissuade her. And no opera-prowling phantom fiend is going to keep a pair of determined hags down on the farm after they've seen Ankh-Morpork." | 
         | 1625 | The Merchant of Death | D.J. MacHale  | Sept-02 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Science Fiction, Adventure, Middle Grade, Childrens, Young Adult Fantasy, Teen, Magic | Bobby Pendragon, Andy Mitchell, Press Tilton, Shannon Pendragon, Courtney Chetwynde, Mark Dimond, Saint Dane, Traveler Alder | "Librarian Note: Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereDENDURONBOBBY PENDRAGON is a seemingly normal fourteen-year-old boy. He has a family, a home, and even Marley, his beloved dog. But there is something very special about Bobby.He is going to save the world.And not just Earth as we know it. Bobby is slowly starting to realize that life in the cosmos isn't quite what he thought it was. And before he can object, he is swept off to an alternate dimension known as Denduron, a territory inhabited by strange beings, ruled by a magical tyrant, and plagued by dangerous revolution.If Bobby wants to see his family again, he's going to have to accept his role as savior, and accept it wholeheartedly. Because, as he is about to discover, Denduron is only the beginning....Cover illustration by Victor Lee" | 
         | 1626 | The Other Side of Midnight | Sidney Sheldon | 1975 | Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Romance, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Novels, Crime, Drama, Contemporary | Noelle Page, Lawrence ""Larry"" Douglas, Catherine Alexander, Constantin ""Costa"" Demiris, Napoleon Chotas | "Paris...Washington...a peaceful Midwestern campus...a fabulous villa in Greece...all part of a terrifying web of intrigue and treachery as a ruthless trio of human beings - an incredibly beautiful film star, a legendary Greek tycoon, a womanizing international adventurer- use an innocent American girl as a bewildered, horror-stricken pawn in a desperate game of vengeance and betrayal, love and lust, life and death..." | 
         | 1627 | The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury | Bill Watterson | Sept-88 | Comics, Humor, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Comedy, Childrens, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Comic Strips, Classics | Calvin, Hobbes | "Perhaps the most brilliant comic strip ever created, Calvin and Hobbes continues to entertain with dazzling cartooning and tremendous humor.Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes has been a worldwide favorite since its introduction in 1985. The strip follows the richly imaginative adventures of Calvin and his trusty tiger, Hobbes. Whether a poignant look at serious family issues or a round of time-travel (with the aid of a well-labeled cardboard box), Calvin and Hobbes will astound and delight you.Beginning with the day Hobbes sprang into Calvin's tuna fish trap, the first two Calvin and Hobbes collections, Calvin and Hobbes and Something Under The Bed Is Drooling, are brought together in this treasury. Including black-and-white dailies and color Sundays, The Essential Calvin and Hobbes also features an original full-color 16-page story." | 
         | 1628 | Knife of Dreams | Robert Jordan | Dec-06 | Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic, Adventure, Audiobook, Magic, Adult | ""Rand al''Thor"", ""Nynaeve al''Meara"", ""Egwene al''Vere"", Perrin Aybara, ""Al''Lan Mandragoran"", Matrim Cauthon, Min Farshaw, Elayne Trakand, Aviendha, Siuan Sanche | "The dead are walking, men die impossible deaths, and it seems as though reality itself has become unstable: All are signs of the imminence of Tarmon Gai'don, the Last Battle, when Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, must confront the Dark One as humanity's only hope. But Rand dares not fight until he possesses all the surviving seals on the Dark One's prison and has dealt with the Seanchan, who threaten to overrun all nations this side of the Aryth Ocean and increasingly seem too entrenched to be fought off. But his attempt to make a truce with the Seanchan is shadowed by treachery that may cost him everything. Whatever the price, though, he must have that truce. And he faces other dangers.The winds of time have become a storm, and things that everyone believes are fixed in place forever are changing before their eyes. Even the White Tower itself is no longer a place of safety. Now Rand, Perrin and Mat, Egwene and Elayne, Nynaeve and Lan, and even Loial, must ride those storm winds, or the Dark One will triumph." | 
         | 1629 | Lord Foul's Bane | Stephen R. Donaldson | Nov-89 | Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction, Adventure, High Fantasy, Epic, Unfinished, Young Adult | Thomas Covenant | "He called himself Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever because he dared not believe in the strange alternate world in which he suddenly found himself.Yet the Land tempted him. He had been sick; now he seemed better than ever before. Through no fault of his own, he had been outcast, unclean, a pariah. Now he was regarded as a reincarnation of the Land's greatest hero-Berek Halfhand-armed with the mystic power of White Gold. That power alone could protect the Lords of the Land from the ancient evil of Despiser, Lord Foul. Only...Covenant had no idea of how the power could be used!Thus begins one of the most remarkable epic fantasies ever written..." | 
         | 1630 | Ghost Town | Rachel Caine  | Nov-10 | Vampires, Young Adult, Paranormal, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Romance, Supernatural, Paranormal Romance, Fiction, Teen | Claire Danvers, Monica Morrell, Michael Glass, Eve Rosser | "Deep in the heart of Texas, Morganville is a small college town full of laid-back students and eccentric townies, not to mention the sort of creatures you wouldn't want to run into after dark. Despite their obvious differences, the human and vampire residents of Morganville have learned to coexist, but that doesn't stop genius student Claire Danvers from keeping up her guard. Because in Morganville, nothing is as it seems...While developing a new system to maintain the town's defenses, Claire discovers a way to use the vampires' powers to help keep outsiders from spreading news of Morganville's ""unique"" situation once they've crossed the city limits.But the new system has an unexpected and possibly deadly consequence: People inside the town start forgetting who and what they are - even the vampires. And when Claire's boyfriend, Shane, and her best friend, Eve, start treating her like a perfect stranger, Claire realizes she has to figure out a way to pull the plug on her experiment - before she forgets how to save herself... and Morganville." | 
         | 1631 | Calvin and Hobbes | Bill Watterson, G.B. Trudeau (Foreword) | May-87 | Comics, Humor, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Childrens, Comedy, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Classics, Comic Strips | Calvin, Hobbes | "This is the first collection of the popular comic strip that features Calvin, a rambunctious 6-year-old boy, and his stuffed tiger, Hobbes, who comes charmingly to life." | 
         | 1632 | La catedral del mar | Ildefonso Falcones | Mar-06 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Spain, Spanish Literature, Medieval, Roman, Novels, Romance, Audiobook | Joan, Arnau, Guillem, Aladis, Mar (Ildefonso Falcones) | "Siglo XIV. La ciudad de Barcelona se encuentra en su momento de mayor prosperidad; ha crecido hacia la Ribera, el humilde barrio de los pescadores, cuyos habitantes deciden construir, con el dinero de unos y el esfuerzo de otros, el mayor templo mariano jamás conocido: Santa María de la Mar.Una construcción que es paralela a la azarosa historia de Arnau, un siervo de la tierra que huye de los abusos de su señor feudal y se refugia en Barcelona, donde se convierte en ciudadano y, con ello, en hombre libre.El joven Arnau trabaja como palafrenero, estibador, soldado y cambista. Una vida extenuante, siempre al amparo de la catedral de la mar, que le iba a llevar de la miseria del fugitivo a la nobleza y la riqueza. Pero con esta posición privilegiada también le llega la envidia de sus pares, que urden una sórdida conjura que pone su vida en manos de la Inquisición...""La catedral del mar"" es una trama en la que se entrecruzan lealtad y venganza, traición y amor, guerra y peste, en un mundo marcado por la intolerancia religiosa, la ambición material y la segregación social. Todo ello convierte esta obra no sólo en una novela absorbente, sino también en la más fascinante y ambiciosa recreación de las luces y sombras de la época feudal." | 
         | 1633 | Revolution | Jennifer Donnelly  | 2011 | Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Historical, Fiction, Time Travel, Fantasy, Contemporary, Romance, Teen, France | Andi Alpers, Alexandrine Paradis | "BROOKLYN: Andi Alpers is on the edge. She’s angry at her father for leaving, angry at her mother for not being able to cope, and heartbroken by the loss of her younger brother, Truman. Rage and grief are destroying her. And she’s about to be expelled from Brooklyn Heights’ most prestigious private school when her father intervenes. Now Andi must accompany him to Paris for winter break.PARIS: Alexandrine Paradis lived over two centuries ago. She dreamed of making her mark on the Paris stage, but a fateful encounter with a doomed prince of France cast her in a tragic role she didn’t want—and couldn’t escape. Two girls, two centuries apart. One never knowing the other. But when Andi finds Alexandrine’s diary, she recognizes something in her words and is moved to the point of obsession. There’s comfort and distraction for Andi in the journal’s antique pages—until, on a midnight journey through the catacombs of Paris, Alexandrine’s words transcend paper and time, and the past becomes suddenly, terrifyingly present." | 
         | 1634 | Farewell, My Lovely | Raymond Chandler | Aug-92 | Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Noir, Classics, Detective, Mystery Thriller, American, Thriller, Novels | Moose Malloy, Philip Marlowe, Lindsay Marriott, Jessie Florian, Anne Riordan, Mrs. Lewin Lockridge Grayle, Jules Amthor, Laire Brunette, Dr. Sonderborg, Lewin Lockridge Grayle, Detective-Lieutenant Carl Randall, Nulty, Chief John Wax | "Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, another murder, a fortune-teller, a couple more murders, and more corruption than your average graveyard." | 
         | 1635 | Genghis: Birth of an Empire | Conn Iggulden | Mar-08 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Fantasy, Asia, War, Adventure, Audiobook, Military Fiction, Action | Genghis Khan, Börte Üjin, Yesugei, Bekter, Khasar, Kachiun, Temüge, Hoelun | "From the author of the bestselling ""The Dangerous Book for Boys"" He was born Temujin, the son of a khan, raised in a clan of hunters migrating across the rugged steppe. Temujin's young life was shaped by a series of brutal acts: the betrayal of his father by a neighboring tribe and the abandonment of his entire family, cruelly left to die on the harsh plain. But Temujin endured-and from that moment on, he was driven by a singular fury: to survive in the face of death, to kill before being killed, and to conquer enemies who could come without warning from beyond the horizon.  Through a series of courageous raids against the Tartars, Temujin's legend grew. And so did the challenges he faced-from the machinations of a Chinese ambassador to the brutal abduction of his young wife, Borte. Blessed with ferocious courage, it was the young warrior's ability to learn, to imagine, and to judge the hearts of others that propelled him to greater and greater power. Until Temujin was chasing a vision: to unite many tribes into one, to make the earth tremble under the hoofbeats of a thousand warhorses, to subject unknown nations and even empires to his will. ""From the Hardcover edition.""" | 
         | 1636 | Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began | Art Spiegelman | Sept-92 | Graphic Novels, Comics, Nonfiction, History, Memoir, Holocaust, Biography, Historical, War, Graphic Novels Comics | Vladek Spiegelman, Anja Spiegelman, Art Spiegelman, Mala Spiegelman | "Acclaimed as a quiet triumph and a brutally moving work of art, the first volume of Art Spieglman's Maus introduced readers to Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story, and History itself. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), succeeds perfectly in shocking us out of any lingering sense of familiararity with the events described, approaching, as it does, the unspeakable through the diminutive.This second volume, subtitled And Here My Troubles Began, moves us from the barracks of Auschwitz to the bungalows of the Catskills. Genuinely tragic and comic by turns, it attains a complexity of theme and a precision of thought new to comics and rare in any medium. Maus ties together two powerful stories: Vladek's harrowing tale of survival against all odds, delineating the paradox of daily life in the death camps, and the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. At every level this is the ultimate survivor's tale - and that too of the children who somehow survive even the survivors." | 
         | 1637 | Persona normal | Benito Taibo | Destino | 9.78607E+12 | Young Adult, Contemporary, Spanish Literature, Fiction, Coming Of Age, Drama | "Una grandiosa e increíble aventura para ser todo... excepto normal.  | 
         | 1638 | 'Tis | Frank McCourt | 1999 | Nonfiction, Memoir, Biography, Autobiography, Ireland, Biography Memoir, Irish Literature, History, Historical, New York | Frank McCourt | "The sequel to Frank McCourt's memoir of his Irish Catholic boyhood, Angela's Ashes, picks up the story in October 1949, upon his arrival in America. Though he was born in New York, the family had returned to Ireland due to poor prospects in the United States. Now back on American soil, this awkward 19-year-old, with his ""pimply face, sore eyes, and bad teeth,"" has little in common with the healthy, self-assured college students he sees on the subway and dreams of joining in the classroom. Initially, his American experience is as harrowing as his impoverished youth in Ireland, including two of the grimmest Christmases ever described in literature. McCourt views the U.S. through the same sharp eye and with the same dark humor that distinguished his first memoir: race prejudice, casual cruelty, and dead-end jobs weigh on his spirits as he searches for a way out. A glimpse of hope comes from the army, where he acquires some white-collar skills, and from New York University, which admits him without a high school diploma. But the journey toward his position teaching creative writing at Stuyvesant High School is neither quick nor easy. Fortunately, McCourt's openness to every variety of human emotion and longing remains exceptional; even the most damaged, difficult people he encounters are richly rendered individuals with whom the reader can't help but feel uncomfortable kinship. The magical prose, with its singing Irish cadences, brings grandeur and beauty to the most sorrowful events, including the final scene, set in a Limerick graveyard. -Wendy Smith" | 
         | 1639 | Reunion | Jenny Carroll, Meg Cabot  | 2005 | Young Adult, Paranormal, Fantasy, Romance, Ghosts, Supernatural, Fiction, Teen, Mystery, Chick Lit | Susannah ""Suze"" Simon, Hector de Silva (Jesse), Father Dominic, Jake Ackerman (Sleepy), Brad Ackerman (Dopey), CeeCee Webb, Gina Augustin, David Ackerman (Doc), Kelly Prescott, Scott Turner, Adam McTavish | "Accidents happen. With ghostly consequences, if you're Susannah Simon.The RLS Angels are out for blood, and only Suze can stop them - since she's the only one who can see them. The four ghostly teenagers died in a terrible car accident, for which they blame Suze's classmate Michael... and they'll stop at nothing until he's joined them in the realm of the dead.As Suze desperately fends off each attempt on Michael's life, she finds she can relate to the Angels' fury. Because their deaths turn out not to have been accidental at all. And their killer is only too willing to strike again." | 
         | 1640 | In the Time of the Butterflies | Julia Alvarez  | Aug-95 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, School, Classics, Novels, Adult Fiction, Book Club, Latin American, Adult | Patria Mirabal de Gonzalez, Minerva Mirabal de Tavarez, Maria Teresa Mirabal de Guzman, Bélgica Adela Mirabal de Reyes | "Set during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic in 1960, this extraordinary novel tells the story of the Mirabal sisters, three young wives and mothers who are assassinated after visiting their jailed husbands. From the author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents comes this tale of courage and sisterhood set in the Dominican Republic during the rise of the Trujillo dictatorship. A skillful blend of fact and fiction, In the Time of the Butterflies is inspired by the true story of the three Mirabal sisters who, in 1960, were murdered for their part in an underground plot to overthrow the government. Alvarez breathes life into these historical figures-known as ""las mariposas,"" or ""the butterflies,"" in the underground-as she imagines their teenage years, their gradual involvement with the revolution, and their terror as their dissentience is uncovered.  Alvarez's controlled writing perfectly captures the mounting tension as ""the butterflies"" near their horrific end. The novel begins with the recollections of Dede, the fourth and surviving sister, who fears abandoning her routines and her husband to join the movement. Alvarez also offers the perspectives of the other sisters: brave and outspoken Minerva, the family's political ringleader; pious Patria, who forsakes her faith to join her sisters after witnessing the atrocities of the tyranny; and the baby sister, sensitive Maria Teresa, who, in a series of diaries, chronicles her allegiance to Minerva and the physical and spiritual anguish of prison life.  In the Time of the Butterflies is an American Library Association Notable Book and a 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award nominee." | 
         | 1641 | Pyramids | Terry Pratchett | 2008 | Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Comedy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Magic, Novels, Science Fiction, High Fantasy | Teppic, Dios, Ptraci, Maldito Bastardo, Mericet, Broncalo, Ptaclusp, Koomi, Teppicamon XVII | "It's bad enough being new on the job, but Teppic hasn't a clue as to what a pharaoh is supposed to do. After all, he's been trained at Ankh-Morpork's famed assassins' school, across the sea from the Kingdom of the Sun. First, there's the monumental task of building a suitable resting place for Dad - a pyramid to end all pyramids. Then there are the myriad administrative duties, such as dealing with mad priests, sacred crocodiles, and marching mummies. And to top it all off, the adolescent pharaoh discovers deceit, betrayal - not to mention a headstrong handmaiden - at the heart of his realm." | 
         | 1642 | Haunted | Meg Cabot  | 2005 | Young Adult, Paranormal, Fantasy, Romance, Ghosts, Supernatural, Fiction, Teen, Chick Lit, Mystery | Hector de Silva (Jesse), Father Dominic, Susannah ""Suze"" Simon, Paul Slater, Kelly Prescott, Rick Slater, Andy Ackerman, Jake Ackerman (Sleepy), Brad Ackerman (Dopey), David Ackerman (Doc), Neil Jankow | "Is it possible to be haunted by someone who isn't even dead?Suze is used to trouble, but this time she's in deep: Ghostly Jesse has her heart, but Paul Slater, a real flesh-and-blood guy, is warm for her form. And mediator Paul knows how to send Jesse to the Great Beyond. For good.Paul claims he won't do anything to Jesse as long as Suze will go out with him. Fearing she'll lose Jesse forever, Suze agrees. But even if Suze can get Jesse to admit his true feelings for her, what kind of future can she have with a guy who's already dead?" | 
         | 1643 | The White Dragon | Anne McCaffrey | Jul-86 | Fantasy, Science Fiction, Dragons, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Young Adult, High Fantasy, Adult, Speculative Fiction, Adventure | Jaxom, Ruth (The White Dragon) | "Jaxom, a rebellious young aristocrat, and Ruth, his white dragon, fly into another time to retrieve the queen's stolen egg, thereby averting a dragonrider war, and find their planet threatened once again by a Threadfall." | 
         | 1644 | Six Days of the Condor | James Grady  | May-74 | Thriller, Fiction, Mystery, Drama, Crime, Suspense, Espionage, Novels, Mystery Thriller, Adult Fiction | Ronald Malcolm | "CIA operative Malcolm, code-named Condor, discovers his colleagues butchered in a blood-spattered office, he realizes that only an oversight by the assassins has saved his life. He contacts CIA headquarters for help but when an attempted rendezvous goes wrong, it quickly becomes clear that no one can be trusted. Malcolm disappears into the streets of Washington, hoping to evade the killers long enough to unravel the conspiracy—but will that be enough to save his life?" | 
         | 1645 | Ninth Key | Jenny Carroll, Meg Cabot  | 2005 | Young Adult, Paranormal, Fantasy, Romance, Ghosts, Supernatural, Fiction, Mystery, Teen, Chick Lit | Susannah ""Suze"" Simon, Hector de Silva (Jesse), Father Dominic, CeeCee Webb, Tad Beaumont, Andy Ackerman, Jake Ackerman (Sleepy), Brad Ackerman (Dopey), David Ackerman (Doc) | "Ghosts ruin everything. Especially your love life.Everything is going great for Suze. Her new life in California is a whirlwind of parties and excellent hair days. Tad Beaumont, the hottest boy in town, has even asked Suze out on her very first date. Suze is so excited that she's willing to ignore her misgivings about Tad... particularly the fact that he's not Jesse, whose ghostly status - not to mention apparent disinterest in her - make him unattainable.What Suze can't ignore, however, is the ghost of a murdered woman whose death seems directly connected to dark secrets hidden in none other than Tad Beaumont's past." | 
         | 1646 | Naruto, Vol. 01: Uzumaki Naruto | Masashi Kishimoto, Katy Bridges (Translator) | Feb-14 | Manga, Fantasy, Comics, Graphic Novels, Young Adult, Fiction, Adventure, Comics Manga, Anime, Action | Sasuke Uchiha, Kakashi Hatake, Iruka, Hiruzen Saratobi, Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno | "Naruto is a ninja-in-training with an incorrigible knack for mischief. His wild antics amuse his teammates, but Naruto is completely serious about one thing: becoming the world's greatest ninja! UZUMAKI NARUTO Twelve years ago the Village Hidden in the Leaves was attacked by a fearsome threat. A nine-tailed fox spirit claimed the life of the village leader, the Hokage, and many others. Today, the village is at peace, and a troublemaking kid named Naruto is struggling to graduate from Ninja Academy. His goal may be to become Hokage, but his true destiny will be much more complicated. The adventure begins now!" | 
         | 1647 | Luck in the Shadows | Lynn Flewelling  | Sept-96 | Fantasy, LGBT, M M Romance, Fiction, Romance, High Fantasy, Queer, Magic, Adventure, Gay | Alec í Amasa of Kerry, Seregil í Korit Solun Meringil Bôkthersa | "When young Alec of Kerry is taken prisoner for a crime he didn’t commit, he is certain that his life is at an end. But one thing he never expected was his cellmate. Spy, rogue, thief, and noble, Seregil of Rhiminee is many things–none of them predictable. And when he offers to take on Alec as his apprentice, things may never be the same for either of them. Soon Alec is traveling roads he never knew existed, toward a war he never suspected was brewing. Before long he and Seregil are embroiled in a sinister plot that runs deeper than either can imagine, and that may cost them far more than their lives if they fail. But fortune is as unpredictable as Alec’s new mentor, and this time there just might be…Luck in the Shadows." | 
         | 1648 | Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim | David Sedaris | 2004 | Humor, Nonfiction, Memoir, Essays, Short Stories, Comedy, Audiobook, Biography, Biography Memoir, Autobiography | David Sedaris | "David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother’s wedding. He mops his sister’s floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn’t it? In his newest collection of essays, David Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface. His world is alive with obscure desires and hidden motives — a world where forgiveness is automatic and an argument can be the highest form of love. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim is another unforgettable collection from one of the wittiest and most original writers at work today.-davidsedarisbooks.com" | 
         | 1649 | Gardens of the Moon | Steven Erikson  | Jan-05 | Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Epic, Science Fiction Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Magic, Adult, Audiobook | Kalam Mekhar, Quick Ben, Raest, Kruppe, Baruk, Anomander Rake, Whiskeyjack, Crokus, Sorry | "The Malazan Empire simmers with discontent, bled dry by interminable warfare, bitter infighting and bloody confrontations with the formidable Anomander Rake and his Tiste Andii, ancient and implacable sorcerers. Even the imperial legions, long inured to the bloodshed, yearn for some respite. Yet Empress Laseen's rule remains absolute, enforced by her dread Claw assassins.For Sergeant Whiskeyjack and his squad of Bridgeburners, and for Tattersail, surviving cadre mage of the Second Legion, the aftermath of the siege of Pale should have been a time to mourn the many dead. But Darujhistan, last of the Free Cities of Genabackis, yet holds out. It is to this ancient citadel that Laseen turns her predatory gaze.However, it would appear that the Empire is not alone in this great game. Sinister, shadowbound forces are gathering as the gods themselves prepare to play their hand...Conceived and written on a panoramic scale, Gardens of the Moon is epic fantasy of the highest order-an enthralling adventure by an outstanding new voice." | 
         | 1650 | Golden Fool | Robin Hobb  | Dec-03 | Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, Dragons, Epic, Adult | The Fool, FitzChivalry Farseer, Chade Fallstar, Kettricken, Dutiful Farseer, Thick | "The acclaimed Farseer and Liveship Traders trilogies established Robin Hobb as one of the most splendidly imaginative practitioners of world-class fantasy. Now, in Book 2 of her most stunning trilogy yet, Hobb continues the soul-shattering tale of FitzChivalry Farseer. With rich characters, breathtaking magic, and sweeping action, Golden Fool brings the reluctant adventurer further into the fray in an epic of sacrifice, salvation, and untold treachery.Golden FoolPrince Dutiful has been rescued from his Piebald kidnappers and the court has resumed its normal rhythms. But for FitzChivalry Farseer, a return to isolation is impossible. Though gutted by the loss of his wolf bondmate, Nighteyes, Fitz must take up residence at Buckkeep and resume his tasks as Chade’s apprentice assassin. Posing as Tom Badgerlock, bodyguard to Lord Golden, FitzChivalry becomes the eyes and ears behind the walls. And with his old mentor failing visibly, Fitz is forced to take on more burdens as he attempts to guide a kingdom straying closer to civil strife each day.The problems are legion. Prince Dutiful’s betrothal to the Narcheska Elliania of the Out Islands is fraught with tension, and the Narcheska herself appears to be hiding an array of secrets. Then, amid Piebald threats and the increasing persecution of the Witted, FitzChivalry must ensure that no one betrays the Prince’s secret—a secret that could topple the Farseer throne: that he, like Fitz, possesses the dread “beast magic.”Meanwhile, FitzChivalry must impart to the Prince his limited knowledge of the Skill: the hereditary and addictive magic of the Farseers. In the process, they discover within Buckkeep one who has a wild and powerful talent for it, and whose enmity for Fitz may have disastrous consequences for all.Only Fitz’s enduring friendship with the Fool brings him any solace. But even that is shattered when unexpected visitors from Bingtown reveal devastating secrets from the Fool’s past. Now, bereft of support and adrift in intrigue, Fitz’s biggest challenge may be simply to survive the inescapable and violent path that fate has laid out for him.From the Hardcover edition." | 
         | 1651 | Laskar Pelangi | Andrea Hirata | 2008 | Novels, Fiction, Indonesian Literature, Childrens, Asia, Young Adult, Education, Literature, Adventure, Inspirational | A Ling, Lintang, Ikal, Muslimah Hafsari, Harfan Effendy Noor, Floriana, Mahar | "Begitu banyak hal menakjubkan yang terjadi dalam masa kecil para anggota Laskar Pelangi. Sebelas orang anak Melayu Belitong yang luar biasa ini tak menyerah walau keadaan tak bersimpati pada mereka. Tengoklah Lintang, seorang kuli kopra cilik yang genius dan dengan senang hati bersepeda 80 kilometer pulang pergi untuk memuaskan dahaganya akan ilmu—bahkan terkadang hanya untuk menyanyikan Padamu Negeri di akhir jam sekolah. Atau Mahar, seorang pesuruh tukang parut kelapa sekaligus seniman dadakan yang imajinatif, tak logis, kreatif, dan sering diremehkan sahabat-sahabatnya, namun berhasil mengangkat derajat sekolah kampung mereka dalam karnaval 17 Agustus. Dan juga sembilan orang Laskar Pelangi lain yang begitu bersemangat dalam menjalani hidup dan berjuang meraih cita-cita. Selami ironisnya kehidupan mereka, kejujuran pemikiran mereka, indahnya petualangan mereka, dan temukan diri Anda tertawa, menangis, dan tersentuh saat membaca setiap lembarnya. Buku ini dipersembahkan buat mereka yang meyakini the magic of childhood memories, dan khususnya juga buat siapa saja yang masih meyakini adanya pintu keajaiban lain untuk mengubah dunia: pendidikan." | 
         | 1652 | The Bourne Supremacy | Robert Ludlum | 2004 | Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Espionage, Action, Adventure, Drama, Crime, Mystery Thriller | Jason Bourne | "A killer with no face, no identity and a name the world wanted to forget:Jason BourneReenter the shadowy world of Jason Bourne, an expert assassin still plagued by the splintered nightmares of his former life. This time the stakes are higher than ever. For someone else has taken on the Bourne identity—a ruthless killer who must be stopped or the world will pay a devastating price. To succeed, the real Jason Bourne must maneuver through the dangerous labyrinth of international espionage—an exotic world filled with CIA plots, turncoat agents, and ever-shifting alliances—all the while hoping to find the truth behind his haunted memories and the answers to his own fragmented past. This time there are two Bournes—and one must die." | 
         | 1653 | Memories, Dreams, Reflections | C.G. Jung, Aniela Jaffé (Editor), Richard Winston (Translator), Clara Winston (Translator) | Apr-89 | Psychology, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Biography, Memoir, Autobiography, Spirituality, Psychoanalysis, Science, History | Carl Gustav Jung | "In the spring of 1957, when he was eighty-one years old, C. G. Jung undertook the telling of his life story. At regular intervals he had conversations with his colleague and friend Aniela Jaffé, and collaborated with her in the preparation of the text based on these talks. On occasion, he was moved to write entire chapters of the book in his own hand, and he continued to work on the final stages of the manuscript until shortly before his death on June 6, 1961." | 
         | 1654 | The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch | Philip K. Dick | 2010 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Novels, Speculative Fiction, Dystopia, American, Classics, Religion, Fantasy | Palmer Eldritch | "Dick at his wildest and strangest - a mystifying but brilliant book - SF: 100 Best NovelsIn the overcrowded world and cramped space colonies of the late 21st century, tedium can be endured through the drug Can-D, which enables users to inhabit a shared illusory world. When industrialist Palmer Eldritch returns from an interstellar trip, he brings with him a new drug, Chew-Z. It is far more potent than Can-D, but threatens to plunge the world into a permanent state of drugged illusion controlled by the mysterious Eldritch.Cover illustration: Chris Moore" | 
         | 1655 | A Spell for Chameleon | Piers Anthony | Sept-77 | Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Science Fiction Fantasy, Young Adult, Magic, Adventure, Science Fiction, High Fantasy, Comedy | Sabrina, Cherie, Martha, Bink, Chester, Crombie, Beauregard, Chameleon, Chilk, Donald The Shade, Gap Dragon, Hastings, Hermin the Hermit, Humfrey, Jama, Justin Tree, Manticora, Munly, Numbo, Potipher, Spring of Life, Storm King, Zink, Iris (Piers Anthony), Millie, Trent, Bigfoot, Roland, Bianca, Sally | "Xanth was the enchanted land where magic ruled - where every citizen had a special spell only he could cast. It was a land of centaurs and dragons and basilisks.For Bink of North Village, however, Xanth was no fairy tale. He alone had no magic. And unless he got some - and got some fast! - he would be exiled. Forever!But the Good Magician Humfrey was convinced that Bink did indeed have magic. In fact, both Beauregard the genie and the magic wall chart insisted that Bink had magic. Magic as powerful as any possessed by the King or by Good Magician Humfrey - or even by the Evil Magician TrentBe that as it may, no one could fathom the nature of Bink's very special magic. Bink was in despair. This was even worse than having no magic at all..and he would still be exiled!" | 
         | 1656 | To Have and Have Not | Ernest Hemingway | 1999 | Fiction, Classics, Literature, Novels, American, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Classic Literature, The United States Of America, Modern Classics | Harry Morgan | "To Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him into the world of the wealthy and dissipated yachtsmen who throng the region, and involve him in a strange and unlikely love affair.Harshly realistic, yet with one of the most subtle and moving relationships in the Hemingway oeuvre, To Have and Have Not is literary high adventure at its finest." | 
         | 1657 | Chrzest ognia | Andrzej Sapkowski | 1996 | Fantasy, Fiction, Polish Literature, Audiobook, High Fantasy, Adventure, Epic Fantasy, Adult, Magic, Science Fiction Fantasy | Dandelion, Yennefer, Triss Merigold, Ciri (Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon), Francesca Findabair, Geralt of Rivia, Philippa Eilhart, Milva, Zoltan Chivay, Percival Schuttenbach, Emiel Regis Rohellec Terzieff-Godefroy, Cahir Mawr Dyffryn aep Ceallach, Assire var Anahid, Fringilla Vigo | "Cztery królestwa ogarnia wojenne szaleństwo.Piękna Filippa Eilhart powołuje tajną lożę czarodziejek.Wiedźmina dręczą sny.Andrzej Sapkowski, arcymistrz świtowej fantasy, po raz kolejny zaprasza do swej krainy Nigdy-Nigdy i przedstawia trzeci tom wychwalanej przez krytykę i uwielbianej przez czytelników wiedźmińskiej sagi.Geralt, wyleczony przez driady z ran odniesionych w czasie nieudanego puczu na wyspie Thanedd, wyrusza na poszukiwanie przeznaczonego mu Dziecka Niespodzianki. Oprócz nieodłącznego Jaskra, trubadura i domorosłego filozofa, do kompanii wiedźmina przystępują: pełna temperamentu łuczniczka Milva, nilfgaardzki rycerz - koszmar ze snów Ciri, którego poszukująnajlepsi szpiedzy Cesarstwa, sprytny gnom zwiadowca, pięciu rubasznych krasnoludów oraz noszący się staroświecko i pachnący intensywnie ziołami cyrulik - osobnik jakby nie z tej bajki." | 
         | 1658 | And Quiet Flows the Don | Mikhail Sholokhov | 1996 | Fiction, Classics, Russia, Russian Literature, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels, War, Nobel Prize, 20th Century | Grigore Pantelejevic Melehov, Aksinja Astahova, Natalija Mironovna | "And Quiet Flows the Don or Quietly Flows the Don (Тихий Дон, lit. ""The Quiet Don"") is 4-volume epic novel by Russian writer Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov. The 1st three volumes were written from 1925 to '32 & published in the Soviet magazine October in 1928–32. The 4th volume was finished in 1940. The English translation of the 1st three volumes appeared under this title in 1934. The novel is considered one of the most significant works of Russian literature in the 20th century. It depicts the lives & struggles of Don Cossacks during WWI, the Russian Revolution & Russian Civil War. In 1965, Sholokhov was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for this novel. The authorship of the novel is contested by some literary critics & historians, who believe it wasn't entirely written by Sholokhov." | 
         | 1659 | Pattern Recognition | William Gibson | Feb-05 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Cyberpunk, Mystery, Thriller, Science Fiction Fantasy, Novels, Speculative Fiction, Espionage, Literature | Hubertus Bigend, Cayce Pollard | "Cayce Pollard is an expensive, spookily intuitive market-research consultant. In London on a job, she is offered a secret assignment: to investigate some intriguing snippets of video that have been appearing on the Internet. An entire subculture of people is obsessed with these bits of footage, and anybody who can create that kind of brand loyalty would be a gold mine for Cayce's client. But when her borrowed apartment is burgled and her computer hacked, she realizes there's more to this project than she had expected.Still, Cayce is her father's daughter, and the danger makes her stubborn. Win Pollard, ex-security expert, probably ex-CIA, took a taxi in the direction of the World Trade Center on September 11 one year ago, and is presumed dead. Win taught Cayce a bit about the way agents work. She is still numb at his loss, and, as much for him as for any other reason, she refuses to give up this newly weird job, which will take her to Tokyo and on to Russia. With help and betrayal from equally unlikely quarters, Cayce will follow the trail of the mysterious film to its source, and in the process will learn something about her father's life and death." | 
         | 1660 | Nine Princes in Amber | Roger Zelazny, Tim White (illustrator) | Mar-86 | Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Classics, Adventure, High Fantasy, Audiobook, Magic | Random of Amber, Brand of Amber, Corwin of Amber, Eric of Amber, Benedict of Amber, Caine of Amber, Bleys of Amber, Julian of Amber, Gérard of Amber, Florimel of Amber, Deirdre of Amber, Fiona of Amber, Llewella of Amber | "Amber, the one real world, wherein all others, including our own Earth, are but Shadows. Amber burns in Corwin's blood. Exiled on Shadow Earth for centuries, the prince is about to return to Amber to make a mad and desperate rush upon the throne. From Arden to the blood-slippery Stairway into the Sea, the air is electrified with the powers of Eric, Random, Bleys, Caine, and all the princes of Amber whom Corwin must overcome. Yet, his savage path is blocked and guarded by eerie structures beyond imagining; impossible realities forged by demonic assassins and staggering horrors to challenge the might of Corwin's superhuman fury.' to 'Awakening in an Earth hospital unable to remember who he is or where he came from, Corwin is amazed to learn that he is one of the sons of Oberon, King of Amber, and is the rightful successor to the crown in a parallel world." | 
         | 1661 | Thorn Queen | Richelle Mead  | 2009 | Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, Paranormal, Fae, Paranormal Romance, Romance, Adult, Magic, Supernatural, Fiction | Eugenie Markham, Dorian, Kiyo Marquez, Volusian, Jasmine Delaney, Maiwenn | "Eugenie Markham is a shaman for hire. She's paidto bind and banish creatures from theOtherworld.But something happened after her last battle. She became queen of the Thorn Land. With her kingdom in tatters, her love life in chaos, and eager to avoid the prophecy about her firstborn destroying mankind, the job's really not all it's cracked up to be.Now young girls are disappearing from the Otherworld, and no one seems willing to find out why. Or to put an end to it. Not that Eugenie's fazed by spilling fey blood, but this enemy is shrewd, subtle, and dangerous - and nursing a very personal grudge.Eugenie must venture deep into the Otherworld and trust in a power she can barely control. She may be a reluctant queen, but she's vowed to do her duty, even if it means facing the darkest and deadliest side of her nature." | 
         | 1662 | Brimstone | Douglas Preston , Lincoln Child | May-05 | Mystery, Thriller, Fiction, Horror, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Adventure, Audiobook, Novels | Aloysius X.L. Pendergast, Constance Greene, Diogenes Pendergast, Laura Hayward, Viola Maskelene, Count Isidor Fosco, Locke Bullard, Jeremy Grove, Nigel Cutforth, Bryce Harriman, Rev. Wayne P. Buck, Lady Evelyn Milbanke, ""Vincent D''Agosta"" | "Art critic Jeremy Grove is found dead, his face frozen in a mask of terror. His body temperature is grotesquely high; he is discovered in a room barricaded from the inside; the smell of brimstone is everywhere... and the unmistakable imprint of a claw is burned into the wall. As more bodies are discovered - their only connection the bizarre but identical manner of death - the world begins to wonder if the Devil has, in fact, come to collect his due.Teaming with Police Officer Vincent D'Agosta (The Relic), Agent Pendergast is determined to solve this case that appears to defy everything except supernatural logic.©2004 Douglas Preston (P)2011 Hachette" | 
         | 1663 | Raven's Gate | Anthony Horowitz  | Oct-06 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Horror, Fiction, Paranormal, Adventure, Supernatural, Mystery, Magic, Thriller | Richard Cole, Matt Freeman, Jayne Deverill | "He always knew he was different.First there were the dreams.Then the deaths began. When Matt Freeman gets into trouble with the police, he's sent to be fostered in Yorkshire. It's not long before he senses there's something wrong with his guardian; with the whole village. Then Matt learns about the Old Ones and begins to understand just how he is different. But no one will believe him; no one can help. There is no proof. There is no logic. There is just the Gate." | 
         | 1664 | The People of Sparks | Jeanne DuPrau | 2004 | Young Adult, Dystopia, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Middle Grade, Post Apocalyptic, Childrens, Adventure, Teen | Lina Mayfleet, Doon Harrow | "An alternate cover can be found here.The sequel to the critically acclaimed The City of Ember continues the story of Lina and Doon, who have emerged from the underground city to the exciting new world above. When anonymous acts of vandalism push them toward violence, it's up to Lina and Doon to discover who's behind the vandalism and why." | 
         | 1665 | أحببتك أكثر مما ينبغي | أثير عبدالله النشمي  | 2009 | Novels, Romance, Fiction, Romantic, Love, Unfinished, Drama, Literature | جمان, عبد العزيز | """أجلس اليوم إلى جوارك، أندب أحلامي الحمقى.. غارقة في حبي لك ولا قدرة لي على انتشال بقايا أحلامي من بين حطامك..""، ""أحببتك أكثر مما ينبغي، وأحببتني أقل مما أستحق!""تبدأ الكاتبة السعودية روايتها بنفس المقطع الذي تنتهي به، لتروي بينهما قصة ""جمانة"" و""عزيز"" التي ""لن تنتهي!"".تبوح المرأة بتفاصيل مشاعرها تجاه الرجل الذي تحب، والأهم أنها تحاول التعبير عن حالتها الذهنية في تناقضها الحتمي مع حالة الحب الذي تكنّ. فالشرخ الذي يولّد عذابات جمة لا دواء لها، لا بد قائم بين عقلها وقوة مشاعرها، وعطائها الذي لا حدود له للمحبوب: ""كنت على استعداد لأن أصغر فتكبر..لأن أفشل لتنجح، لأن أخبو لتلمع..""، ونوعية حبها الذي لا يقدره بل يتجاهله أو يقوم باستغلاله لصالح أهداف أقل أهمية منه بكثير، وأقل قيمة. ""ما زلت لا أدرك، لا أدرك كيف يتلاعب رجل بامرأة تحبه من دون أن يخاف للحظة مما يفعله نحوها!""في كل مرة و""بعد كل خيبة أمل.. بعد كل محنة وكل نزوة.. كنت أحاول لملمة أجزائي لنفتح مجدداً صفحة بيضاء أخرى..""، لكن ""البدايات الجديدة ما هي إلا كذبة"".تستعيد الكاتبة ذكرياتها معه منذ البداية في مقهى خارج الوطن الذي غادرته للدراسة: ""الوطن الذي لو لم أغادره لما حدث كل هذا.. أتكون أنت عقابي على مغادرة وطن أحبني!..""، وفكرة العقاب والثواب التي يسخر منها عزيز، تؤمن هي بها: ""مؤمنة أنا بيوم الحساب أكثر من أي شيء،"" لأنها تأمل عبرها أن ينال عزيز عقابه على ما اقترفه بحقها.قالت لهما العجوز الهندية غريبة الأطوار، دون سابق معرفة: ""هي متعبة منك..منك فقط..وأنت متعب من كل شيء..""، وقالت لها ""هيفاء"" صديقتها الكويتية التي تتخاصم دائما وعزيز، بأنه لا يستحقها، وتقول جمانة له اليوم ""حبي لك كان أعمى يا عزيز..وأن هيفاء رأت فيك ما لم أره..""، رأت الكذب المتسلسل والخيانة والإنكار الذي يشكك الآخر بنفسه وبعقله وإحساسه، وهي صفات تتجاهلها المرأة التي تحب رجلاً يحبها لكنه غير قادر على الالتزام بها. قال لها بصراحة: ""اسمعي.. أنا رجل لعوب.. أشرب وأعربد وأعاشر النساء.. لكنني أعود إليك في كل مرة..""، وكانت تتحمل الأذى: ""تؤذينني عمداً وكأنك تفرغ في نفسي أحقادك وأوجاعك وأمراضك، تؤذيني عمداً باسم الحبّ.."". وهي بالرغم من كل الحقائق والوقائع تعترف: ""لم أبكِ بحرقة إلا بسببك ولم أضحك من أعماقي إلا معك.. أليست بمعادلة صعبة..؟ يحلل لها زياد صديقهما المشترك الوضع: ""أحببته لدرجة أخافته!.. لم يكن قادراً على ضمك لقائمة نسائه ولم يتمكن من الابتعاد عنك.. أحبك لدرجة أنه كان يخشى عليك من نفسه.. كما كان يخشى منك في الوقت ذاته..""كيف يلتقيان، وهو يؤمن بأن الغاية تبرر الوسيلة، وهي تؤمن ""بأن الوسيلة أحياناً أهم من الغاية!""؟""قلت لي يوماً بأن حكايات الحبّ الشرقية غالباً ما تنتهي بمأساة. واليوم أعرف بأنك كنت محقاً في هذا..""تنقل الرواية بصدق عميق ما يدور في أعماق المرأة في حالة حب،ّ من أحاسيس وأفكار وتناقضات، إذ تظن أن الخيار الصعب إلى أقسى مداه يكمن في الحفاظ على مشاعر الحبّ الجياشة واستمرارها، على حساب التنكّر للذات الواعية والمدركة لتلاعب الطرف الآخر بها، لكنها بأي حال، وحتى في حال دفع الحساب، لن تحصل على مبتغاها." | 
         | 1666 | The Enemy | Charlie Higson | 2010 | Zombies, Horror, Young Adult, Dystopia, Post Apocalyptic, Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Thriller, Apocalyptic | Deke, Lewis, Ollie, Achilleus (From The Enemy), Callum, David King, Jester, Maxie, Blue, Arran, Small Sam, Whitney, Freak | "Charlie Higson's The Enemy is the first in a jaw-dropping zombie horror series for teens. Everyone over the age of fourteen has succumbed to a deadly zombie virus and now the kids must keep themselves alive.When the sickness came, every parent, police officer, politician - every adult fell ill. The lucky ones died. The others are crazed, confused and hungry. Only children under fourteen remain, and they're fighting to survive.Now there are rumours of a safe place to hide. And so a gang of children begin their quest across London, where all through the city - down alleyways, in deserted houses, underground - the grown-ups lie in wait.But can they make it there - alive?This edition contains the first chapter of the second book The Dead." | 
         | 1667 | Antony and Cleopatra | William Shakespeare, Cynthia Marshall (Essay), Barbara A. Mowat (Editor), Paul Werstine (Editor) | 2005 | Classics, Plays, Drama, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Theatre, Literature, Romance, Poetry, School | Cleopatra, Marcus Antonius | "A romantic tragedy about the relationship between Mark Antony and the Queen of Egypt, including notes and critical commentary." | 
         | 1668 | Seventh Son | Orson Scott Card | Apr-88 | Fantasy, Fiction, Alternate History, Science Fiction, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Young Adult, Historical, Magic, Speculative Fiction | Alvin Maker, Taleswapper, Reverend Thrower, Alvin Miller, Faith Miller | "In an alternate version of frontier America, young Alvin is the seventh son of a seventh son, and such a birth is powerful magic. Yet even in the loving safety of his home, dark forces reach out to destroy him." | 
         | 1669 | The Canterville Ghost | Oscar Wilde, Inga Moore (Illustrator), Giada Riondino (Translator) | 1997 | Classics, Fiction, Short Stories, Fantasy, Horror, Humor, Gothic, Ghosts, Paranormal, 19th Century | Minister Mr Otis, Lord Canterville, Rev. Augustus Dampier, Duke of Cheshire | "This is Oscar Wilde's tale of the American family moved into a British mansion, Canterville Chase, much to the annoyance of its tired ghost. The family - which refuses to believe in him - is in Wilde's way a commentary on the British nobility of the day - and on the Americans, too. The tale, like many of Wilde's, is rich with allusion, but ends as sentimental romance..." | 
         | 1670 | Academ's Fury | Jim Butcher  | Feb-10 | Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Magic, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure, Audiobook, Epic, Young Adult | Bernard, Amara, Miles, Isana, Gaius Sextus, Fidelius, Doroga, Tavi, Lady Aquataine | "For centuries, the people of Alera have relied on the power of the furies to protect them from outside invaders. But the gravest threat might be closer than they think.Tavi has escaped the Calderon Valley and the mysterious attack of the Marat on his homeland. But he is far from safe, as trying to keep up the illusion of being a student while secretly training as one of the First Lord's spies is a dangerous game. And he has not yet learned to use the furies, making him especially vulnerable.When the attack comes it's on two fronts. A sudden strike threatens the First Lord's life and threatens to plunge the land into civil war. While in the Calderon Valley, the threat faced from the Marat is dwarfed by an ancient menace. And Tavi must learn to harness the furies if he has any chance of fighting the greatest threat Alera has ever known . . ." | 
         | 1671 | George's Marvellous Medicine | Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illustrator) | 2003 | Childrens, Fiction, Fantasy, Classics, Middle Grade, Young Adult, Humor, Novels, Chapter Books, Audiobook | George Kranky, Grandma, Mrs. Kranky, Mr. Killy Kranky | "George's Grandma is a grizzly, grumpy, selfish old woman with pale brown teeth and a small puckered up mouth like a dog's bottom. Four times a day she takes a large spoonful of medicine, but it doesn't seem to do her any good. She's always just as poisonous after she's taken it as she was before. When George is left to look after her one morning, it's just the chance he needs . . ." | 
         | 1672 | Rose Madder | Stephen King  | 1995 | Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Supernatural, Suspense, Paranormal, Mystery, Audiobook, Adult | Rose McClendon Daniels, Norman Daniels, American Law Enforcement | "Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereRoused by a single drop of blood, Rosie Daniels wakes up to the chilling realisation that her husband is going to kill her. And she takes flight - with his credit card. Alone in a strange city, Rosie begins to build a new life: she meets Bill Steiner and she finds an odd junk shop painting, 'Rose Madder', which strangely seems to want her as much as she wants it. But it's hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder. Rose-maddened and on the rampage, Norman is a corrupt cop with a dog's instinct for tracking people. And he's getting close. Rosie can feel just how close he's getting..." | 
         | 1673 | The Six Wives of Henry VIII | Alison Weir | 1992 | History, Nonfiction, Biography, Historical, Tudor Period, British Literature, Biography Memoir, European History, Audiobook, 16th Century | Anne Boleyn, Thomas More, Catherine of Aragon, Jane Seymour, Catherine Howard, Anne of Cleves, Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Francis I of France, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas Wolsey, Henry VIII of England, George Boleyn, Jane Boleyn, Catherine Parr | "Weir has tirelessly made her way through the entire labyrinth of Tudor history to tell the collective story of the six wives of Henry VIII-a vivid, full-blooded portrait of six very different women-in a work of sound and brilliant scholarship. Illustrations." | 
         | 1674 | The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes | Bill Watterson | 1992 | Comics, Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels, Childrens, Comedy, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Comic Strips, Cartoon | Calvin, Hobbes | "They're back: Calvin, the six-year-old dirty tricksmeister and master of indignation and his warm, cuddly philosopher sidekick, Hobbes. A tiger whose idea of adventure is to lie on his back by the fire and have his stomach rubbed. In six short years this unlikely duo has captured the hearts, the minds, and, most of all, the funny bones of America. They are the most phenomenal success story in syndication - and publishing - history. In only six years, they appear in more than 2,100 newspapers worldwide, and Calvin and Hobbes wins as many readership polls as Calvin has excesses. All seven of Bill Watterson's collections have sold a million copies within a year of publication. This treasury collection contains a never-before-published full-color section, as well as the cartoons appearing in 'The Revenge of the Baby-Sat' and 'Scientific Progress Goes ""Boink.""' All Sunday cartoons are presented full-page and full-color." | 
         | 1675 | Q & A | Vikas Swarup | 2005 | Fiction, India, Contemporary, Asia, Novels, Drama, Audiobook, Romance, Indian Literature, Adult Fiction | Ram Mohammad Thomas | "Vikas Swarup's spectacular debut novel opens in a jail cell in Mumbai, India, where Ram Mohammad Thomas is being held after correctly answering all twelve questions on India's biggest quiz show, Who Will Win a Billion? It is hard to believe that a poor orphan who has never read a newspaper or gone to school could win such a contest. But through a series of exhilarating tales Ram explains to his lawyer how episodes in his life gave him the answer to each question.Ram takes us on an amazing review of his own history - from the day he was found as a baby in the clothes donation box of a Delhi church to his employment by a faded Bollywood star to his adventure with a security-crazed Australian army colonel to his career as an overly creative tour guide at the Taj Mahal.Vikas Swarup's Q & A is a beguiling blend of high comedy, drama, and romance that reveals how we know what we know - not just about trivia, but about life itself. Cutting across humanity in all its squalor and glory, Vikas Swarup presents a kaleidoscopic vision of the struggle between good and evil - and what happens when one boy has no other choice in life but to survive." | 
         | 1676 | Çalıkuşu | Reşat Nuri Güntekin | 1992 | Turkish Literature, Classics, Turkish, Fiction, Romance, Novels, Roman, Historical Fiction, Literature, Drama | Kamran, Feride | "Reşat Nuri Güntekin'in 1922 yılında ilk kez Vakit gazetesinde tefrika edilen en tanınmış eseridir. Fransız Lisesi mezunu gencecik, delişmen bir kız olan Feride'nin serüveni yaşadığı derin bir hayal kırıklığı sonrasında nişanlısını, ailesini İstanbul'da bırakarak Anadolu'nun küçük bir köyüne öğretmen olmasıyla başlar. Daha sonra bu köyü diğer kasabalar, şehirler izler. Önceleri her gittiği yerde Kurtuluş Savaşı'nın etkileri görülür, güç koşulların, sefaletin izlerine rastlanır. Sonraları farklı kültürden gelen genç, yalnız ve bağımsız bir kızın toplumsal yaşamdaki zorlukları, çatışan değer yargıları, karşısına dikilen çıkar ilişkileri, Feride'nin iç dünyasındaki fırtınalar ve derin yalnızlıkla iç içe geçerek okurun karşısına çıkar. Çalıkuşu, gerçekçi yönelimin ilk dönemlerinden olan bir başyapıttır." | 
         | 1677 | The Man in the Brown Suit | Agatha Christie | 2002 | Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Mystery Thriller, Detective, British Literature, Romance, Adventure, Thriller | Anne Beddingfeld, Colonel Race, The Honourable Mrs Suzanne Blair, Sir Eustace Pedler, MP, Guy Pagett, Arthur Minks, Henry Flemming, Mrs Flemming, Lord Nasby, Mrs Caroline James, Harry Rayburn, Rev. Edward Chichester, Nadina (The man in the Brown Suit) | "Newly-orphaned Anne Beddingfeld is a nice English girl looking for a bit of adventure in London. But she stumbles upon more than she bargained for! Anne is on the platform at Hyde Park Corner tube station when a man falls onto the live track, dying instantly. A doctor examines the man, pronounces him dead, and leaves, dropping a note on his way. Anne picks up the note, which reads ""17.1 22 Kilmorden Castle"". The next day the newspapers report that a beautiful ballet dancer has been found dead there- brutally strangled. A fabulous fortune in diamonds has vanished. And now, aboard the luxury liner Kilmorden Castle, mysterious strangers pillage her cabin and try to strangle her. What are they looking for? Why should they want her dead? Lovely Anne is the last person on earth suited to solve this mystery... and the only one who can! Anne's journey to unravel the mystery takes her as far afield as Africa and the tension mounts with every step... and Anne finds herself struggling to unmask a faceless killer known only as 'The Colonel'...." | 
         | 1678 | Tutunamayanlar | Oğuz Atay | Jan-84 | Turkish Literature, Turkish, Fiction, Novels, Literature, Roman, Classics, Unfinished, Literary Fiction, Audiobook | Selim Işık, Turgut Özben | "Türk edebiyatının en önemli eserlerinden biri olan Tutunamayanlar'ı Berna Moran, ""hem söyledikleri hem de söyleyiş biçimiyle bir başkaldırı"" olarak niteler. Moran'a göre ""Oğuz Atay'ın mizah gücü, duyarlılığı ve kullandığı teknik incelikler, Tutunamayanlar'ı büyük bir yeteneğin ürünü yapmış, yapıttaki bu yetkinlik Türk romanını çağdaş roman anlayışıyla aynı hizaya getirmiş ve ona çok şey kazandırmıştır."" Küçük burjuva dünyasını zekice alaya alan Atay ""saldırısını, tutunanların anlamayacağı, reddedeceği türden bir romanla yapar."" Tutunamayanlar, 1970 TRT Roman Ödülü'nü kazanmıştı." | 
         | 1679 | The Chamber | John Grisham  | Jan-06 | Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Legal Thriller, Crime, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Law, Drama, Novels | Adam Hall, Sam Cayhall | "In the corridors of Chicago's top law firm: Twenty -six-year-old Adam Hall stands on the brink of a brilliant legal career. Now he is risking it all for a death-row killer and an impossible case.Maximum Security Unit, Mississippi State Prison: Sam Cayhall is a former Klansman and unrepentant racist now facing the death penalty for a fatal bombing in 1967. He has run out of chances - except for one: the young, liberal Chicago lawyer who just happens to be his grandson.While the executioners prepare the gas chamber, while the protesters gather and the TV cameras wait, Adam has only days, hours, minutes to save his client. For between the two men is a chasm of shame, family lies, and secrets - including the one secret that could save Sam Cayhall's life... or cost Adam his.-back cover" | 
         | 1680 | Airman | Eoin Colfer | 2008 | Young Adult, Fantasy, Steampunk, Historical Fiction, Adventure, Fiction, Science Fiction, Historical, Teen, Action | Conor Broekhart, Isabella Trudeau, Declan Broekhart, Catherine Broekhart, Linus Wynter, Nicholas Trudeau, Hugo Bonvilain | "In the 1890s Conor and his family live on the sovereign Saltee Islands, off the Irish coast. Conor spends his days studying the science of flight with his tutor and exploring the castle with the king’s daughter, Princess Isabella. But the boy’s idyllic life changes forever the day he discovers a deadly conspiracy against the king. When Conor tries to intervene, he is branded a traitor and thrown into jail on the prison island of Little Saltee. There, he has to fight for his life, as he and the other prisoners are forced to mine for diamonds in inhumane conditions.There is only one way to escape Little Saltee, and that is to fly. So Conor passes the solitary months by scratching drawings of flying machines on the prison walls. The months turn into years; but eventually the day comes when Conor must find the courage to trust his revolutionary designs and take to the air." | 
         | 1681 | I Too Had a Love Story | Ravinder Singh | 2011 | Romance, Fiction, Love, Indian Literature, Love Story, Romantic, Novels, India, Contemporary, Young Adult | Ravinder Singh, Khushi | "Do love stories ever die?. . . How would you react when a beautiful person comes into your life, and then goes away from you . . . forever?Not all love stories are meant to have a perfect ending. I Too Had a Love Story is one such saga. It is the tender and heartfelt tale of Ravin and Khushi—two people who found each other on a matrimonial site and fell in love . . . until life put their love to the ultimate test.Romantic, emotional and sincere, this heartbreaking true life story has already touched a million hearts. This bestselling novel is a must-read for anyone who believes in the magic of love . . ." | 
         | 1682 | The Pigman | Paul Zindel | 2005 | Fiction, Young Adult, Classics, School, Realistic Fiction, Read For School, Teen, Childrens, High School, Contemporary | John Conlan, Lorraine Jensen, Angelo ""Pigman"" Pignati | "Librarian note: an alternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereWhen sophomores John and Lorraine played a practical joke a few months ago on a stranger named Angelo Pignati, they had no idea what they were starting. Virtually overnight, almost against their will, the two befriended the lonely old man; it wasn't long before they were more comfortable in his house than their own. But now Mr. Pignati is dead. And for John and Lorraine, the only way to find peace is to write down their friend's story - the story of the Pigman." | 
         | 1683 | The Second Summer of the Sisterhood | Ann Brashares | Dec-04 | Young Adult, Fiction, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Romance, Teen, Realistic Fiction, Childrens, Coming Of Age, Young Adult Contemporary | Bridget Vreeland, Tibby Rollins, Carmen Lowell, Lena Kaligaris | "With a bit of last summer's sand in the pockets, the Traveling Pants and the Sisterhood that wears them embark on their second summer together.Bridget: Impulsively sets off for Alabama, wanting to both confront and avoid her demons... but she can't keep the truth from the Pants.Carmen: Is concerned that her mother is making a fool of herself over a man. When she discovers that her mom borrowed the Pants to wear on a date, she's certain of it.Tibby: Makes a movie she'd like to be proud of... while the Pants keep alive the memory of a friend who could see beyond appearances.Lena: Has spent months hiding from love... only to find that she's at last ready to put on the Pants and let them lead her where they will." | 
         | 1684 | La vida es sueño | Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Ciriaco Morón Arroyo (Editor) | 2001 | Plays, Classics, Drama, Spanish Literature, Theatre, Fiction, School, Spain, Poetry, Literature | Segismundo, Rosaura, Basílio | "He aquí la creación más lograda y de carácter más universal de Calderón. La vida es sueño es, en síntesis, la plasmación barroca de la idea de la fugacidad de la vida con todos los aditamentos geniales de construcción, caracteres y estilo que el autor supo imprimirle. Con este pesimismo radical sobre el valor de la vida humana se interfiere el libre albedrío como afirmación personal de Segismundo —“¿y teniendo yo más vida / tengo menos libertad?”—. Estos dos principios combinados crean una riqueza enorme de sentidos, que en esta edición son desmenuzados críticamente por Ciriaco Morón Arroyo." | 
         | 1685 | Annie on My Mind | Nancy Garden | 1992 | LGBT, Young Adult, Romance, Fiction, Queer, Lesbian, Contemporary, Classics, Realistic Fiction, Coming Of Age | Liza Winthrop, Annie Kenyon, Ms. Stevenson, Ms. Widmer, Mrs. Poindexter, Ms. Baxter, Chad Winthrop, Sally Jarrell, Jennifer Piccolo | "This groundbreaking book is the story of two teenage girls whose friendship blossoms into love and who, despite pressures from family and school that threaten their relationship, promise to be true to each other and their feelings. The book has been banned from many school libraries and publicly burned in Kansas City. Of the author and the book, the Margaret A. Edwards Award committee said, “Using a fluid, readable style, Garden opens a window through which readers can find courage to be true to themselves.”" | 
         | 1686 | The Paul Street Boys | Ferenc Molnár | 1998 | Classics, Fiction, Hungarian Literature, Childrens, Hungary, School, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels | Nemecsek Ernő, Boka János, Geréb Dezső, Áts Feri | "The war between two groups of Hungarian boys living in Budapest. One with Hungarian national colours (red, white, green) is defending the square from redshirts (from Garibaldi's redshirts), who want to occupy the square." | 
         | 1687 | Daniel Deronda | George Eliot, Edmund White (Introduction) | 2002 | Classics, Fiction, 19th Century, Victorian, British Literature, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels, Romance, Jewish | Daniel Deronda, Gwendolen Harleth, Mirah Lapidoth, Sir Hugo Mallinger, Henleigh Mallinger Grandcourt | "A beautiful young woman stands poised over the gambling tables in an expensive hotel. She is aware of, and resents, the gaze of an unusual young man, a stranger, who seems to judge her, and find her wanting. The encounter will change her life.The strange young man is Daniel Deronda, brought up with his own origins shrouded in mystery, searching for a compelling outlet for his singular talents and remarkable capacity for empathy. Deronda's destiny will change the lives of many." | 
         | 1688 | Night Fall | Nelson DeMille  | Nov-05 | Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Drama, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Novels, Adult Fiction, Action | John Corey | "Based on true events, but unlike anything you've ever read before, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille has created what may be his finest work to date.It is dusk on July 17, 1996. A man and a woman who are married-but not to each other-make love on a Long Island beach as a video camera records their pleasure...and something more. Out over the ocean, TWA Flight 800 suddenly explodes with 230 victims on board, the terrible blast illuminating the sky. The government's verdict is mechanical failure. But the videotape may tell another story-if it can be found.Now on the fifth anniversary of the crash, two members of the Federal Anti-Terrorist Task Force set out to reopen the case; John Corey, an ex-NYPD detective, and his wife, Kate Mayfield, a career FBI agent. Together, they hunt for the crucial video...and race towed an elusive truth even more horrifying than the crash itself.-back cover" | 
         | 1689 | The Inheritance of Loss | Kiran Desai | 2005 | Fiction, India, Historical Fiction, Indian Literature, Novels, Asia, Literary Fiction, Literature, Contemporary, Book Club | Jemubhai Patel | "In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas lives an embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace, when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. The judge’s cook watches over her distractedly, for his thoughts are often on his son, Biju, who is hopscotching from one gritty New York restaurant to another. Kiran Desai’s brilliant novel, published to huge acclaim, is a story of joy and despair. Her characters face numerous choices that majestically illuminate the consequences of colonialism as it collides with the modern world." | 
         | 1690 | High Five | Janet Evanovich  | Jun-00 | Mystery, Fiction, Humor, Chick Lit, Romance, Crime, Comedy, Contemporary, Mystery Thriller, Adult | Ranger (Rangeman CEO), Lula, Randy Briggs, Joe Morelli, Stephanie Plum, Tank | "Stephanie Plum has a whole lot of trouble on her doorstep.Her Uncle Fred has disappeared and Grandma Mazur is convinced he's been abducted by aliens.Meanwhile, Cousin Vinnie has asked her to bring in the vertically challenged Randy Briggs who's jumped bail. But instead of coming quietly, he has taken up residence in Stephanie's closet. The mysterious man called Bunchy is trailing Stephanie in the hope of tracking down Fred. And Benito Ramirez is back from jail, quoting Scripture and vowing to introduce Stephanie to God - face to face.Thankfully Joe Morelli, the irresistible cop, is still around to give her the odd sleepless night - though now he faces tough competition from the enigmatic Ranger..." | 
         | 1691 | The House of Sleep | Jonathan Coe  | May-99 | Fiction, Contemporary, British Literature, Novels, Literature, Romance, Literary Fiction, Psychology, Drama, Adult Fiction | Sarah, Robert, Terry, Gregory | "Like a surreal and highly caffeinated version of The Big Chill, Jonathan Coe's new novel follows four students who knew each other in college in the eighties. Sarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real events. Robert has his life changed forever by the misunderstandings that arise from her condition. Terry spends his wakeful nights fueling his obsession with movies. And an increasingly unstable doctor, Gregory, sees sleep as a life-shortening disease which he must eradicate.But after ten years of fretful slumber and dreams gone bad, the four reunite in their college town to confront their disorders. In a Gothic cliffside manor being used as a clinic for sleep disorders, they discover that neither love, nor lunacy, nor obsession ever rests." | 
         | 1692 | The Dice Man | Luke Rhinehart | 1999 | Fiction, Psychology, Novels, Thriller, Contemporary, Classics, American, Philosophy, Literature, Humor | Luke Rhinehart | "The cult classic that can still change your life...Let the dice decide! This is the philosophy that changes the life of bored psychiatrist Luke Rhinehart - and in some ways changes the world as well. Because once you hand over your life to the dice, anything can happen. Entertaining, humorous, scary, shocking, subversive, The Dice Man is one of the cult bestsellers of our time." | 
         | 1693 | Percy Jackson and the Sword of Hades | Rick Riordan  | Feb-09 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Mythology, Fiction, Adventure, Short Stories, Middle Grade, Greek Mythology, Childrens, Novella | Nico di Angelo, Thalia Grace, Persephone (Goddess), Hades, Percy Jackson | "The goddess Persephone has summoned Percy, Thalia, and Nico to the Underworld in order to retrieve Hades' powerful sword before it falls into the wrong hands. Flip the book over for lots more ancient Greek fun with Terry Deary's 'Groovy Greeks' - it's history with the nasty bits left in!""" | 
         | 1694 | Czas pogardy | Andrzej Sapkowski | 1995 | Fantasy, Fiction, Polish Literature, Audiobook, High Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, Epic Fantasy, Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy | Dandelion, Yennefer, Triss Merigold, Ciri (Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon), Iskra, Skomlik, Aplegatt, Francesca Findabair, Geralt of Rivia, Emhyr var Emreis, Sigismund Dijkstra, Philippa Eilhart, Margarita Laux–Antille, Tessaia de Vries, Codringher, Fenn, Vilgefortz, Giselher, Mistle, Kayleigh | "Czas pogardy - tom drugi sagi o wiedźminie. Nastał czas pogardy, czas miecza i topora, czas wilczej zamieci. Wśród wojennej zawieruchy znaleźli się Geralt, Yennefer i Ciri, ale każde z nich gdzie indziej. Ciri czuje się porzucona, zapomniana, musi sama borykać się z trudami wędrówki..." | 
         | 1695 | Flashman | George MacDonald Fraser, Gino D'Achille (Illustrator) | 1999 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Humor, Historical, Adventure, Comedy, War, Classics, Novels, India | Harry Paget Flashman | "Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world.Can a man be all bad? When Harry Flashman’s adventures as the reluctant secret agent in Afghanistan lead him to join the exclusive company of Lord Cardigan’s Hussars and play a part in the disastrous Retreat from Kabul, it culminates in the rascal’s finest – and most dishonest – turn." | 
         | 1696 | Guardians of the West | David Eddings | Mar-88 | Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Adventure, Young Adult, Magic, Epic, Audiobook | Garion, Polgara, Belgarath, Layla, ""Ce''Nedra"", Silk, Barak, Fulrach, Anheg, Rhodar, Cho-Hag, Islena, Porenn, Silar, Hettar, Durnik, Lellodrin, Mandorallen, Arianaa, Nerinaa, Ran Borune XXIII, Sadi, Aldur, Beltira, Belkira, Beldin, Gorim, Relg, Yarbleck, Greldik, Merel, Poledra, Korodullin, Drosta lek Thun, Morin, Javelina, Varana, Errand | "Garion has slain the evil God Torak and been crowned King of Riva. The Prophecy was fulfilled—or so it seemed. While the strange child Errand was growing up in the Vale of Aldur with Polgara and Durnik, showing only occasional flashes of inexplicable knowledge and power, Garion was learning to rule and to be the husband of his fiery little Queen Ce’Nedra. Eleven years passed.Then suddenly the Voice of Prophecy cried out a warning: “Beware Zandramas!” Not even Belgarath the Sorcerer knew who or what Zandramas was. But Garion discovered hints in a previously obscured part of the Mrin Codex. Worse, he learned that the Dark Prophecy was still waging its ancient struggle against the Prophecy of Light. Again, great evil was brewing in the East. And again, Garion found himself a pawn, caught between the two ancient Prophecies, with the fate of the world somehow resting on him." | 
         | 1697 | Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance | Barack Obama | 2004 | Nonfiction, Biography, Memoir, Politics, Autobiography, History, Biography Memoir, Audiobook, Race, African American | Barack Obama | "In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey—first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother’s family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father’s life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance." | 
         | 1698 | Point Blank | Anthony Horowitz  | 2001 | Young Adult, Adventure, Fiction, Mystery, Action, Espionage, Thriller, Childrens, Teen, Realistic Fiction | Alex Rider, Alan Blunt, Jack Starbright, Smithers, Dr Grief, Mrs Jones | "MI6 assigns Alex Rider, 14, undercover at an elite prep school for teen rebels after two fathers are assassinated. Principal Dr Grief and vicious cigar-smoking Mrs Stellenbosch are the only teachers. All the students act studious, perfect - and identical. When Alex finds the plot, the villains find him, and the mountain peak has only a black ski run escape." | 
         | 1699 | Pani Jeziora | Andrzej Sapkowski | 2001 | Fantasy, Fiction, Polish Literature, Adventure, High Fantasy, Audiobook, Epic Fantasy, Magic, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adult | Dandelion, Yennefer, Triss Merigold, Ciri (Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon), Geralt of Rivia, Emhyr var Emreis, Sigismund Dijkstra, Vilgefortz, Milva, Zoltan Chivay, Emiel Regis Rohellec Terzieff-Godefroy, Cahir Mawr Dyffryn aep Ceallach, Fringilla Vigo, Leo Bonhart, Angouleme, Jarre, Nimue, Condwiramurs, Galhad, ""Avallac''h"", Eredin, Oberon Muircetach, Boreas Mun, Isengrim Faoiltiarna, Milo Vanderbeck, Iola the Second, Shani, Marti Sodergren, Julia Abatemarco, Yarpen Zigrin, Anna Henrietta of Toussaint | "Length: 20 hours and 18 minutesThe Witcher returns in this action-packed sequel to The Tower of Swallows, in the New York Times best-selling series that inspired The Witcher video games.After walking through the portal in the Tower of Swallows while narrowly escaping death, Ciri finds herself in a completely different world...an Elven world. She is trapped, with no way out. Time does not seem to exist, and there are no obvious borders or portals to cross back into her home world.But this is Ciri, the child of prophecy, and she will not be defeated. She knows she must escape to finally rejoin the Witcher, Geralt, and his companions - and also to try to conquer her worst nightmare. Leo Bonhart, the man who chased, wounded, and tortured Ciri, is still on her trail. And the world is still at war.Translated from the original Polish by David French." | 
         | 1700 | The Last Command | Timothy Zahn  | Feb-94 | Star Wars, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Space Opera, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Adventure, Novels, Space | Luke Skywalker, Jacen Solo, Mara Jade, Thrawn, Jaina Solo, Gilad Pellaeon, Wedge Antilles, Talon Karrde, Mon Mothma, Khabarakh, ""Joruus C''baoth"", ""Borsk Fey''lya"", Garm Bel Iblis | "The embattled Republic reels from the attacks of Grand Admiral Thrawn, who has marshaled the remnants of the Imperial forces and driven the Rebels back with an abominable technology recovered from the Emperor's secret fortress: clone soldiers. As Thrawn mounts his final siege, Han and Chewbacca struggle to form a coalition of smugglers for a last-ditch attack against the empire, while Leia holds the Alliance together and prepares for the birth of her Jedi twins. Overwhelmed by the ships and clones at Thrawn's command, the Republic has one last hope-sending a small force, led by Luke Skywalker, into the very stronghold that houses Thrawn's terrible cloning machines. There a final danger awaits, as the Dark Jedi C'baoth directs the battle against the Rebels and builds his strength to finish what he had already started: the destruction of Luke Skywalker.Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years!" | 
         | 1701 | Princess in the Spotlight | Meg Cabot  | 2006 | Young Adult, Romance, Chick Lit, Fiction, Contemporary, Teen, Childrens, Humor, Realistic Fiction, High School | Mia Thermopolis, Lilly Moscovitz, Helen Thermopolis, Frank Gianini, Michael Moscovitz, ""Grandmère"" Clarisse Renaldo | "No one ever said being a princess was easy.Just when Mia thought she had the whole princess thing under control, things get out of hand, fast. First, there's an unexpected announcement from her mother. Then Grandmère arranges a national primetime interview for the brand-new crown princess of Genovia. On top of that, intriguing, exasperating letters from a secret admirer begin to arrive.Before she even has the chance to wonder who those letters are from, Mia is swept up in a whirlwind of royal intrigue the likes of which haven't been seen since volume I of The Princess Diaries." | 
         | 1702 | Poseidon’s Children | Michael West  | Mar-12 | Fantasy, Horror, Mythology, Urban Fantasy, Mermaids, Fiction, Greek Mythology, Paranormal, Thriller, Monsters | Preacher, Earl L. Preston Jr., Carol Miyagi, Dante ""The Horror Show"" Vianello, Roger Hays, Larry Neuhaus, Peggy Hern, Alan Everson, Barbara DeParle, Karl Tellstrom, Christine DeParle | "Man no longer worships the old gods; forgotten and forsaken, they have become nothing more than myth and legend. But all that is about to change. After the ruins of a vast, ancient civilization are discovered on the ocean floor, Coast Guard officers find a series of derelict ships drifting in the current—high-priced yachts and leaking fishing boats, all ransacked, splattered in blood, their crews missing and presumed dead. And that's just the beginning. Vacationing artist Larry Neuhaus has just witnessed a gruesome shark attack, a young couple torn apart right before his eyes....at least, he thinks it was a shark. And when one of these victims turns out to be the only son of Roger Hays, the most powerful man in the country, things go from bad to worse. Now, to stop the carnage, Larry and his new-found friends must work together to unravel a mystery as old as time, and face an enemy as dark as the ocean depths." | 
         | 1703 | Presumed Innocent | Scott Turow  | 1988 | Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Crime, Legal Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Law, Audiobook, Novels | Rusty Sabich, Alejandro ""Sandy"" Stern | "Hailed as the most suspenseful and compelling novel in decades. Presumed Innocent brings to life our worst nightmare: that of an ordinary citizen facing conviction for the most terrible of all crimes. It's the stunning portrayal of one man's all-too-human, all-consuming fatal attraction for a passionate woman who is not his wife, and the story of how his obsession puts everything he loves and values on trial—including his own life. It's a book that lays bare a shocking world of betrayal and murder, as well as the hidden depths of the human heart. And it will hold you and haunt you ... long after you have reached its shattering conclusion." | 
         | 1704 | The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45 | Władysław Szpilman, Anthea Bell (Translator) | 1999 | Nonfiction, History, Holocaust, Biography, War, Memoir, World War II, Historical, Poland, Classics | Władysław Szpilman, Władysław Szpilman | "The last live broadcast on Polish Radio, on September 23, 1939, was Chopin's Nocturne in C# Minor, played by a young pianist named Wladyslaw Szpilman, until his playing was interrupted by German shelling. It was the same piece and the same pianist, when broadcasting was resumed six years later. The Pianist is Szpilman's account of the years inbetween, of the death and cruelty inflicted on the Jews of Warsaw and on Warsaw itself, related with a dispassionate restraint borne of shock. Szpilman, now 88, has not looked at his description since he wrote it in 1946 (the same time as Primo Levi's If This Is A Man?; it is too personally painful. The rest of us have no such excuse.  Szpilman's family were deported to Treblinka, where they were exterminated; he survived only because a music-loving policeman recognised him. This was only the first in a series of fatefully lucky escapes that littered his life as he hid among the rubble and corpses of the Warsaw Ghetto, growing thinner and hungrier, yet condemned to live. Ironically it was a German officer, Wilm Hosenfeld, who saved Szpilman's life by bringing food and an eiderdown to the derelict ruin where he discovered him. Hosenfeld died seven years later in a Stalingrad labour camp, but portions of his diary, reprinted here, tell of his outraged incomprehension of the madness and evil he witnessed, thereby establishing an effective counterpoint to ground the nightmarish vision of the pianist in a desperate reality. Szpilman originally published his account in Poland in 1946, but it was almost immediately withdrawn by Stalin's Polish minions as it unashamedly described collaborations by Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Poles and Jews with the Nazis. In 1997 it was published in Germany after Szpilman's son found it on his father's bookcase. This admirably robust translation by Anthea Bell is the first in the English language. There were 3,500,000 Jews in Poland before the Nazi occupation; after it there were 240,000. Wladyslaw Szpilman's extraordinary account of his own miraculous survival offers a voice across the years for the faceless millions who lost their lives. -David Vincent" | 
         | 1705 | The Buried Giant | Kazuo Ishiguro | Mar-15 | Fantasy, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Audiobook, Novels, Historical, Literature, British Literature, Magical Realism | Sir Gawain, Beatrice (diverse works), Axl, Wistan, Edwin, Querig, Ivor, Father Jonus, Lord Brennus | """You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's a journey we must go on, and no more delay...""The Buried Giant begins as a couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years.Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in nearly a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge, and war." | 
         | 1706 | Two for the Dough | Janet Evanovich  | Jun-96 | Mystery, Fiction, Humor, Chick Lit, Romance, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Comedy, Contemporary, Adult | Ranger (Rangeman CEO), Lula, Grandma Mazur, Kenny Mancuso, Joyce Bernhardt, Joe Morelli, Stephanie Plum, Spiro Stiva | "This one's double the fun!Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is still learning the ropes at her cousin Vinnie's bail bond office, so when she sets out on the trail of Kenny Mancuso - a suspiciously wealthy, working class Trenton boy who has just shot his best friend - the stakes are higher than ever. That Mancuso is distantly related to vice cop Joe Morelli - who is trying to beat Stephanie to the punch - only makes the hunt more thrilling...Taking pointers from her bounty hunter pal, Ranger, and using her pistol packing Grandma Mazur as a decoy, Stephanie is soon closing in on her mark. But Morelli and his libido are worthy foes. And a more sinister kind of enemy has made his first move... and his next move might be Stephanie's last." | 
         | 1707 | Mahabharata | C. Rajagopalachari (Translator) | 1951 | Classics, Mythology, Religion, Fiction, India, Philosophy, Epic, Poetry, Spirituality, Indian Literature | Dushashana, Bhimasena, Bhurisravas, Yayati, Jarasandha, Yudhisthira, Dhrstadyumna, King Dhrtarastra, Shikhandhi, Bhigna, Ghatotkacha, Vyasadeva, Kripa, Rukma, Sanjaya, Panchali, Yavakrida, Kicaka, Vaisampayana, Sauti, Thirisoolam, Good Yudhishthir, Takshaka, Abhimanyu, Dronacharya, Dhritarashtra, Gadura, Vasuki, Matsya, Pandu, Dhritarastra, Brahmanas, Drona, Kacha, Dhananjaya, Hastina, Rakshasa, Kunti, Dwaipayana, Dushmanta, Ashvatthama, Sisupala, Duhsasan, Dwarka, Gandhari, Sindhu, Aswapati, Chedi, Shakuni, Aswatthama, Dhrtarastra, Duhsasana, Jayadratha, Vidura, Devayani, Dhristadyumna, Dharmaputra, Sikhandin, Dushashana, Bhimasena, Bhurisravas, Yayati, Jarasandha, Yudhisthira, Dhrstadyumna, King Dhrtarastra, Shikhandhi, Bhigna, Ghatotkacha, Vyasadeva, Kripa, Rukma, Sanjaya, Panchali, Yavakrida, Kicaka, Hastinapura, Subhadra, Hidimbi, Matali, Kuvera, Kritavarma, Visnu, Drorta, Virata, Dmna, Droha, Duhiasana | "Originally published in the year 1951, the huge popularity of the book has resulted in the book being re-printed several times. Centuries ago, it was proclaimed of the Mahabharata: ""What is not in it, is nowhere."" But even now, we can use the same words about it. He who knows it not, knows not the heights and depths of the soul; he misses the trials and tragedy and the beauty and grandeur of life. The Mahabharata is not a mere epic; it is a romance telling the tale of heroic men and women, and of some who were divine. It is a whole literature in itself, containing a code of life, a philosophy of social and ethical relations, and speculative thought on human problems that is hard to rival." | 
         | 1708 | Valiant | Holly Black  | Oct-06 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Urban Fantasy, Fairies, Paranormal, Fiction, Romance, Fae, Magic, Young Adult Fantasy | Kaye Fierch, Ellen Fierch, Janet Stone, Cornelius Stone, Rath Roiben Rye | "When seventeen-year-old Valerie runs away to New York City, she's trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city's labyrinthine subway system. But there's something eerily beguiling about Val's new friends. And when one talks Val into tracking down the lair of a mysterious creature with whom they are all involved, Val finds herself torn between her newfound affection for an honorable monster and her fear of what her new friends are becoming." | 
         | 1709 | The Unconsoled | Kazuo Ishiguro | 1995 | Fiction, Literature, Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Novels, British Literature, Fantasy, Unfinished, Japan, 20th Century | Sophie, Mr. Ryder, Gustav, Leo Brodsky, Miss Collins, Miss Stratmann, Mr. Hoffman, Stephan Hoffman, Boris | "Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. But then as he traverses a landscape by turns eerie and comical – and always strangely malleable, as a dream might be - he comes steadily to realise he is facing the most crucial performance of his life.Ishiguro's extraordinary and original study of a man whose life has accelerated beyond his control was met on publication by consternation, vilification – and the highest praise." | 
         | 1710 | Call It Sleep | Henry Roth, Alfred Kazin (Introduction), Hana Wirth-Nesher (Afterword) | 1994 | Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Jewish, New York, Novels, American, Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction | David Schearl | "When Henry Roth published Call It Sleep, his first novel, in 1934, it was greeted with critical acclaim. But in that dark Depression year, books were hard to sell, and the novel quickly dropped out of sight, as did its twenty-eight-year-old author. Only with its paperback publication in 1964 did the novel receive the recognition it deserves. Call It Sleep was the first paperback ever to be reviewed on the front page of The New York Times Book Review, and it proceeded to sell millions of copies both in the United States and around the world. Call It Sleep is the magnificent story of David Schearl, the “dangerously imaginative” child coming of age in the slums of New York." | 
         | 1711 | Mistress of Rome | Kate Quinn  | Dec-19 | Historical Fiction, Historical, Romance, Fiction, Historical Romance, Italy, Adult, Ancient History, Drama, Roman | Titus Flavius Domitianus, Vibia Sabina, Lepida Pollia | "The first in an unforgettable historical saga from the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Alice Network. First-century Rome: A ruthless emperor watches over all-and fixes his gaze on one young woman... Thea is a slave girl from Judaea, purchased as a toy for the spiteful heiress Lepida Pollia. Now she has infuriated her mistress by capturing the attention of Rome's newest and most savage gladiator-and though his love brings Thea the first happiness of her life, their affair ends quickly when a jealous Lepida tears them apart.Remaking herself as a singer for Rome's aristocrats, Thea unwittingly attracts another admirer: the charismatic Emperor of Rome. But the passions of an all-powerful man come with a heavy price, and Thea finds herself fighting for both her soul and her sanity. Many have tried to destroy the Emperor: a vengeful gladiator, an upright senator, a tormented soldier, a Vestal Virgin. But in the end, the life of Domitian lies in the hands of one woman: the Emperor's mistress." | 
         | 1712 | Eric | Terry Pratchett | Jul-08 | Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Comedy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Magic, Adventure, Adult, Science Fiction | Rincewind, The Luggage, Eric | "Discworld's only demonology hacker, Eric, is about to make life very difficult for the rest of Ankh-Morpork's denizens. This would-be Faust is very bad...at his work, that is. All he wants is to fulfill three little wishes:to live forever, to be master of the universe, and to have a stylin' hot babe.But Eric isn't even good at getting his own way. Instead of a powerful demon, he conjures, well, Rincewind, a wizard whose incompetence is matched only by Eric's. And as if that wasn't bad enough, that lovable travel accessory the Luggage has arrived, too. Accompanied by his best friends, there's only one thing Eric wishes now - that he'd never been born!" | 
         | 1713 | The Hidden Staircase | Carolyn Keene, Mildred Benson (Ghostwriter) | 1996 | Mystery, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Mystery Thriller, Juvenile, Adventure, Crime | Nancy Drew, Carson Drew, Hannah Gruen, Helen Corning, Allison Horner, Abigail Rowen, Nathan Gombet, Rosemary Turnbull, Floretta Turnbull | "Nancy Drew is alarmed when Nathan Gombet threatens her father. Gombet sold a piece of land for a railroad bridge through Carson Drew and now believes that he was cheated. Meanwhile, valuable objects are disappearing from rooms in the Turnbull mansion even while the Turnbull sisters, Rosemary and Florette, are at home in their locked house. Having heard about her reputation for solving mysteries, the sisters invite Nancy Drew to stay in the mansion and discover the thief. In seeking to solve the mysterious happenings in an old stone mansion, Nancy uses her courage and powers of deduction and tackles a situation that would have appalled a far older person." | 
         | 1714 | Regeneration | Pat Barker | Published | Historical Fiction, Fiction, War, Historical, World War I, British Literature, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels, 20th Century | Robert Graves, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Billy Prior, Dr. William Rivers, Sarah Lumb, David Burns, Dr. Lewis Yealland | "Regeneration, one in Pat Barker's series of novels confronting the psychological effects of World War I, focuses on treatment methods during the war and the story of a decorated English officer sent to a military hospital after publicly declaring he will no longer fight. Yet the novel is much more. Written in sparse prose that is shockingly clear—the descriptions of electronic treatments are particularly harrowing—it combines real-life characters and events with fictional ones in a work that examines the insanity of war like no other. Barker also weaves in issues of class and politics in this compactly powerful book. Other books in the series include The Eye in the Door and the Booker Award winner The Ghost Road." | 
         | 1715 | Cities of the Plain | Cormac McCarthy | Jul-99 | Fiction, Westerns, Literature, Novels, Historical Fiction, American, Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Classics, Adventure | John Grady Cole, Billy Parham | "The concluding volume of the Border trilogy. In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award-winning author of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing fashions a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier. It is 1952 and John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands in New Mexico, not far from the proving grounds of Alamogordo and the cities of El Paso and Juarez. Their life is made up of trail drives and horse auctions and stories told by campfire light. They value that life all the more because they know it is about to change forever.The change comes when John Grady falls in love with a beautiful, ill-starred Mexican prostitute and sets in motion a chain of events as violent as they are unstoppable. Haunting in its beauty, filled with sorrow, humor, and awe, Cities of the Plain is a genuine American epic." | 
         | 1716 | From Russia With Love | Ian Fleming | 2002 | Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Espionage, Adventure, Crime, Suspense, Drama, Novels, Classics | James Bond | "Ian Fleming’s fifth James Bond novel.James Bond is marked for death by the Soviet counterintelligence agency SMERSH in Ian Fleming’s masterful spy thriller, and the novel that President John F. Kennedy named one of his favourite books of all time.SMERSH stands for ‘Death to Spies’ and there’s no secret agent they’d like to disgrace and destroy more than 007, James Bond. But ensnaring the British Secret Service’s most lethal operative will require a lure so tempting even he can’t resist. Enter Tatiana Romanova, a ravishing Russian spy whose ‘defection’ springs a trap designed with clockwork precision.Her mission: seduce Bond, then flee to the West on the Orient Express. Waiting in the shadows are two of Ian Fleming’s most vividly drawn villains: Red Grant, SMERSH’s deadliest assassin, and the sinister operations chief Rosa Klebb-five feet four inches of pure killing power.Bursting with action and intrigue, From Russia with Love is one of the best-loved books in the Bond canon-an instant classic that set the standard for sophisticated literary spycraft for decades to come." | 
         | 1717 | Le Petit Nicolas | René Goscinny, Jean-Jacques Sempé | 1988 | France, Fiction, Childrens, Classics, Humor, French Literature, Short Stories, School, Young Adult, Middle Grade | Nicolas | "La maîtresse est inquiète, le photographe s'éponge le front, le Bouillon devient tout rouge, les mamans ont mauvaise mine, les papas font les guignols, le directeur part à la retraite, quant à l'inspecteur, il est reparti aussi vite qu'il était venu. Pourtant, à l'école ou en famille, Geoffroy, Agnan, Eudes, Rufus, Clotaire, Maixent, Alceste, Joachim... et le Petit Nicolas sont - presque - toujours sages." | 
         | 1718 | Kim | Rudyard Kipling, Edward W. Said (Editor) | 1981 | Classics, Fiction, India, Historical Fiction, Adventure, Literature, Novels, British Literature, Historical, Asia | ""Kimball O''Hara (Kim)"", Teshoo Lama | "Kim is set in an imperialistic world; a world strikingly masculine, dominated by travel, trade and adventure, a world in which there is no question of the division between white and non-white.Two men - a boy who grows into early manhood and an old ascetic priest, the lama - are at the center of the novel. A quest faces them both. Born in India, Kim is nevertheless white, a sahib. While he wants to play the Great Game of Imperialism, he is also spiritually bound to the lama. His aim, as he moves chameleon-like through the two cultures, is to reconcile these opposing strands, while the lama searches for redemption from the Wheel of Life. A celebration of their friendship in a beautiful but often hostile environment, 'Kim' captures the opulence of India's exotic landscape, overlaid by the uneasy presence of the British Raj." | 
         | 1719 | Player Piano | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | Sept-06 | Fiction, Science Fiction, Classics, Dystopia, Literature, Novels, American, Humor, Science Fiction Fantasy, Literary Fiction | Paul Proteus | "Kurt Vonnegut’s first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines. Paul’s rebellion is vintage Vonnegut—wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality.Alternate cover edition here" | 
         | 1720 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts | Douglas Adams | 1992 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Humor, Fantasy, Comedy, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure, British Literature, Novels | Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect | "Charting the whole of Arthur Dent's odyssey through space are:THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY.One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, this seems already to be more than he can cope with. Sadly, however, the weekend has only just begun, and the Galaxy is a very very very large and startling place.THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE.When all questions of space, time, matter and the nature of being have been resolved, only one question remains -- ""Where shall we have dinner?"" The Restaurant at the End of the Universe provides the ultimate gastronomic experience, and for once there is no morning after to worry about.LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING.In consequence of a number of stunning catastrophes, Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a hideously miserable cave on prehistoric Earth. However, just as he thinks that things cannot possibly get any worse, they suddenly do. He discovers that the Galaxy is not only mind-boggling big and bewildering but also that most of the things that happen in it are staggeringly unfair.SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH.Just as Arthur Dent's sense of reality is in its dickiest state he suddenly finds the girl of his dreams. He finds her in the last place in the Universe in which he would expect to find anything at all, but which 3,976,000 people will find oddly familiar. They go in search of God's Final Message to His Creation and, in a dramatic break with tradition, actually find it." | 
         | 1721 | Dark Force Rising | Timothy Zahn  | Apr-93 | Star Wars, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Space Opera, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Adventure, Novels, Space | Luke Skywalker, Lando Calrissian, Mara Jade, Thrawn, Gilad Pellaeon, Wedge Antilles, Talon Karrde, Leia Organa, Khabarakh, ""Joruus C''baoth"", ""Borsk Fey''lya"", Garm Bel Iblis, Han Solo | "The dying Empire's most cunning and ruthless warlord—Grand Admiral Thrawn—has taken command of the remnants of the Imperial fleet and launched a massive campaign aimed at the New Republic's destruction. Meanwhile, Han and Lando Calrissian race against time to find proof of treason inside the highest Republic Council—only to discover instead a ghostly fleet of warships that could bring doom to their friends and victory to their enemies.Yet most dangerous of all is a new Dark Jedi, risen from the ashes of a shrouded past, consumed by bitterness… and scheming to corrupt Luke Skywalker to the Dark Side." | 
         | 1722 | Somewhere In Time | Richard Matheson | Jan-99 | Time Travel, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical, Classics, Historical Romance, Adult | Richard Collier, Elise McKenna | "Somewhere in Time is the powerful story of a love that transcends time and space, written by one of the Grand Masters of modern fantasy.Matheson's classic novel tells the moving, romantic story of a modern man whose love for a woman he has never met draws him back in time to a luxury hotel in San Diego in 1896, where he finds his soul mate in the form of a celebrated actress of the previous century. Somewhere in Time won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and the 1980 movie version, starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour, remains a cult classic whose fans continue to hold yearly conventions to this day. " | 
         | 1723 | Déjà Dead | Kathy Reichs  | Jun-98 | Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Drama, Adult, Adult Fiction, Novels | Temperance Brennan, Andrew Ryan, Luc Claudel, Pierre LaManche | "Her life is devoted to justice; for those she never even knew. In the year since Temperance Brennan left behind a shaky marriage in North Carolina, work has often preempted her weekend plans to explore Quebec. When a female corpse is discovered meticulously dismembered and stashed in trash bags, Temperance detects an alarming pattern and she plunges into a harrowing search for a killer. But her investigation is about to place those closest to her, her best friend and her own daughter, in mortal danger..." | 
         | 1724 | If This Is a Man • The Truce | Primo Levi, Stuart J. Woolf (Translator), Paul Bailey (Introduction) | 1987 | Nonfiction, History, Biography, Holocaust, Classics, Memoir, War, Italian Literature, World War II, Autobiography | Primo Levi, Alberto (If this is a man), Charles (If this is a man), Arthur (If this is a man), Jean ""Pikolo"", Lorenzo Perrone | "'With the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, dutiful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was profoundly in touch with the minutest workings of the most endearing human events and with the most contemptible. What has survived in Levi's writing isn't just his memory of the unbearable, but also, in The Periodic Table and The Wrench, his delight in what made the world exquisite to him. He was himself a magically endearing man, the most delicately forceful enchanter I've ever known' - Philip Roth." | 
         | 1725 | Nana | Émile Zola, Gerhard Krüger (Translator) | 2002 | Classics, Fiction, France, French Literature, 19th Century, Literature, Historical Fiction, Novels, Romance, Roman | Nana Coupeau, Philippe Hugon, Count Muffat | "Wenn die üppige blonde Nana auf der Bühne des Pariser Varietétheaters steht, spürt jeder: sie hat keinen Funken Talent. Doch das macht nichts, denn sie hat etwas anderes ... Nana, das Kind aus der Gosse, Tochter einer Wäscherin, ausgestattet mit großen sinnlichen Reizen, steigt auf zur begehrtesten Kurtisane der Pariser Gesellschaft. Sie wird zum Idol, dem sich die Männer zu Füßen werfen. Bankiers bringen ihr ein ganzes Vermögen zum Opfer, Aristokraten ihre Würde, Jünglinge nehmen sich ihretwegen das Leben. Nana in ihrer grenzenlosen Gier und Verschwendungssucht schreitet ungerührt über sie hinweg, schön wie eine Sumpfblüte, Sinnbild einer untergehenden Ära." | 
         | 1726 | Dombey and Son | Charles Dickens, Jonathan Lethem (Introduction) | 2003 | Classics, Fiction, Literature, 19th Century, Victorian, British Literature, Audiobook, Classic Literature, Novels, Historical Fiction | Mr. Dombey, Paul Dombey, Florence Dombey, Miss Tox | "Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens’s story of a powerful man whose callous neglect of his family triggers his professional and personal downfall, showcases the author’s gift for vivid characterization and unfailingly realistic description. As Jonathan Lethem contends in his Introduction, Dickens’s “genius . . . is at one with the genius of the form of the novel itself: Dickens willed into existence the most capacious and elastic and versatile kind of novel that could be, one big enough for his vast sentimental yearnings and for every impulse and fear and hesitation in him that countervailed those yearnings too. Never parsimonious and frequently contradictory, he always gives us everything he can, everything he’s planned to give, and then more.” This Modern Library Paperback Classic was set from the 1867 “Charles Dickens” edition." | 
         | 1727 | Windmills of the Gods | Sidney Sheldon | 1994 | Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Romance, Novels, Crime, Contemporary, Drama | Mary Ashley, Mike Slade, Louis Desforges | This classic best-selling thriller races from the White House to the romance of Paris and the shady menace of Cold War Bucharest as a young woman ambessador faces unseen and powerful enemies plotting her and her children's destruction. | 
         | 1728 | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | Unknown, Burton Raffel (Translator), Neil D. Isaacs (Afterword) | Nov-01 | Classics, Poetry, Fantasy, Fiction, Medieval, Arthurian, School, Mythology, Literature, Read For School | Morgan le Fay, Sir Gawain, Sir Bertilak de Haute Desert, King Arthur | "Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's masterworks and of the great Old English poems, including ""Beowulf."" This edition includes a Preface by Raffel and a new Introduction. Revised reissue." | 
         | 1729 | Born of Night | Sherrilyn Kenyon  | Oct-09 | Romance, Paranormal Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Paranormal, Aliens, Adult, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Futuristic | Caillen Dagan, Syn Wade, Nykyrian Quiakides, Kiara Zamir, Jayne, Pitala, Askel Quiakides, Arast Quiakides, Hauk, Keifer Zamir | "In the Ichidian Universe, The League and their ruthless assassins rule all. Expertly trained and highly valued, the League Assassins are the backbone of the government. But not even the League is immune to corruption . . .Command Assassin Nykyrian Quikiades once turned his back on the League—and has been hunted by them ever since. Though many have tried, none can kill him or stop him from completing his current mission: to protect Kiara Zamir, a woman whose father’s political alliance has made her a target. As her world becomes even deadlier, Kiara must entrust her life to the same kind of beast who once killed her mother and left her for dead. Old enemies and new threaten them both and the only way they can survive is to overcome their suspicions and learn to trust in the very ones who threaten them the most: each other." | 
         | 1730 | Every Boy's Got One | Meg Cabot  | 2005 | Chick Lit, Romance, Fiction, Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, Adult, Humor, Young Adult, Adult Fiction, Comedy | Jane Harris, Cal Langdon | "Cartoonist Jane Harris is delighted by the prospect of her first-ever trip to Europe. But it's hate at first sight for Jane and Cal Langdon, and neither is too happy at the prospect of sharing a villa with one another for a week-not even in the beautiful and picturesque Marches countryside. But when Holly and Mark's wedding plans hit a major snag that only Jane and Cal can repair, the two find themselves having to put aside their mutual dislike for one another in order to get their best friends on the road to wedded bliss-and end up on a road themselves ... one neither of them ever expected." | 
         | 1731 | A House for Mr Biswas | V.S. Naipaul | 2003 | Fiction, Classics, Literature, India, Novels, Nobel Prize, Literary Fiction, Indian Literature, 20th Century, Contemporary | Mohun Biswas, Shama | "Mohun Biswas has spent his 46 years of life striving for independence. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning of his father, he yearns for a place he can call home. He marries into the Tulsi family, on whom he becomes dependent, but rebels and takes on a succession of occupations in a struggle to weaken their hold over him." | 
         | 1732 | Queen of Sorcery | David Eddings | Nov-82 | Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, Young Adult, Audiobook, Epic | Garion, Polgara, Belgarath, ""Ce''Nedra"", Silk, Issa, Barak, Asharak, Hettar, Durnik, Lellodrin, Mandorallen, Arianaa, Brill, Nerinaa, Ran Borune XXIII, Sadi, Salmissra, Mayaserana | "The Trail of Prophecy...Legends told of how the evil God Torak had coveted the power of the Orb of Aldur, until defeated in a final battle. But prophecy spoke of a time when he would awake and again seek dominance over the world. Now the Orb has been stolen by a priest of Torak, and that time was at hand. The master Sorcerer Belgarath and his daughter Polgara the arch-Sorceress were on the trail of the Orb, seeking to regain it before the final disaster. And with them went Garion, a simple farm boy only months before, but now the focus of the struggle. He has never believed in sorcery and wanted no part of it. Yet with every league they traveled, the power grew in him, forcing him to acts of wizardry he could not accept. This continues the magnificent epic of The Belgariad, began in Pawn of Prophecy, set among strange lands against a background of a war of men, Kings, and Gods that had spanned seven thousand years - a novel of strange fate and a prophecy that must come true!" | 
         | 1733 | Lord of the Shadows | Darren Shan  | May-06 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Horror, Vampires, Paranormal, Fiction, Supernatural, Adventure, Urban Fantasy, Middle Grade | Darren Shan | "Book 11 of The Saga Of Darren Shan. Darren's going home. Back to where everything started. The town's changed a lot in the years that he's been away - but then, so has Darren.Plagued by nightmares of what the future seems to hold, Darren feels uneasy revisiting the place where he was re-born as a child of the night, as though the universe (as though destiny) is plotting to throw something very nasty at him on the streets of his old home." | 
         | 1734 | Castle of Wizardry | David Eddings | May-84 | Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, Young Adult, Epic, Audiobook | Garion, Polgara, Belgarath, Layla, ""Ce''Nedra"", Silk, Barak, Fulrach, Anheg, Rhodar, Cho-Hag, Islena, Porenn, Silar, Hettar, Durnik, Lellodrin, Mandorallen, Arianaa, Ran Borune XXIII, Sadi, Gorim, Relg, Taur Urgas, Taiba, Greldik, Brand, Merel, Joran, Poledra, Beldaran, Olban, Vordai, Korodullin, Morin | "A magnificent epic set against a history of seven thousand years of the struggles of Gods and Kings and men - of strange lands and events - of fate and a prophecy that must be fulfilled!THE BELGARIADIt had all begun with the theft of the Orb that had so long protected the West from the evil God Torak. Before that, Garion had been a simple farm boy. Afterward, he discovered that his aunt was really the Sorceress Polgara and his grandfather was Belgarath, the Eternal Man. Then, on the long quest to recover the Orb, Garion found to his dismay that he, too, was a sorcerer.Now, at last, the Orb was regained and the quest was nearing its end. Of course, the questors still had to escape from this crumbling enemy fortress and flee across a desert filled with Murgo soldiers searching for them, while Grolim Hierarchs strove to destroy them with dark magic. Then, somehow, they must manage to be in Riva with the Orb by Erastide.After that, however, Garion was sure that his part in these great events would be finished.But the Prophecy still held future surprises for Garion - and for the little Princess Ce'Nedra!THUS CONTINUES BOOK FOUR OF THE BELGARIAD" | 
         | 1735 | This Thing of Darkness | Harry Thompson | 2005 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Adventure, Literary Fiction, Travel, Literature, Historical Romance, Evolution, Modern | Charles Darwin, Robert Fitzroy, Bartholomew James Sulivan, Orundellico | "1828 - Brilliant young naval officer Robert FitzRoy is given the captaincy of HMS Beagle, surveying the wilds of Tierra del Fuego, aged just twenty-three. He takes a passenger: a young trainee cleric and amateur geologist named Charles Darwin. This is the story of a deep friendship between two men, and the twin obsessions that tore it apart, leading one to triumph and the other to disaster..." | 
         | 1736 | Dawn | Octavia E. Butler | Apr-97 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Aliens, Post Apocalyptic, Speculative Fiction, Dystopia, Horror, Adult | Lilith lyapo, Ahajas, Dichaan, Tediin, Nikanj, Kahguyaht, Peter Van Weerden, Jean Pelerin, Gabriel Rinaldi, Curt Loehr, Celene Ivers, Ray Ordway, Victor Dominic, Beatrice Dwyer, Allison Zeigler, Hillary Ballard, Jdahya, Tate | "Lilith Iyapo has just lost her husband and son when atomic fire consumes Earth—the last stage of the planet’s final war. Hundreds of years later Lilith awakes, deep in the hold of a massive alien spacecraft piloted by the Oankali—who arrived just in time to save humanity from extinction. They have kept Lilith and other survivors asleep for centuries, as they learned whatever they could about Earth. Now it is time for Lilith to lead them back to her home world, but life among the Oankali on the newly resettled planet will be nothing like it was before.The Oankali survive by genetically merging with primitive civilizations—whether their new hosts like it or not. For the first time since the nuclear holocaust, Earth will be inhabited. Grass will grow, animals will run, and people will learn to survive the planet’s untamed wilderness. But their children will not be human. Not exactly." | 
         | 1737 | A Time to Love and a Time to Die | Erich Maria Remarque, Denver Lindley (translator) | 1954 | Classics, Fiction, War, Historical Fiction, German Literature, Germany, Novels, Romance, World War II, Literature | Ernst Graeber, Elisabeth Kruse, Prof. Pohlmann, Alfons Binding | "In de kou en omgeven door alle verschrikkingen van het oostfront verheugt Ernst Graeber zich op niets meer dan zijn verlof. Thuis, in Duitsland, zal het leven wel weer goed zijn.Maar als de jonge soldaat terugkomt is zijn ouderlijk huis gebombardeerd en blijken zijn ouders vermist. Graeber gaat naar hen op zoek, terwijl op hetzelfde moment de Endsieg verkondigd wordt door de nazi’s – en vooral door zijn schoolvriend Binding, inmiddels een belangrijk man bij de Gestapo en verantwoordelijk voor talloze arrestaties van ‘joodse verraders’. Verbijsterd ziet hij dat ook aan het ‘thuisfront’ wanhoop, overlevingsdrift en geweld het laatste restje medemenselijkheid aan het opvreten zijn. Op een avond komt hij tussen de puinhopen van de verwoeste en ontredderde stad Elisabeth tegen, de dochter van de huisarts. Samen beleven de soldaat en de jonge vrouw midden in de chaos een paar dagen geluk, en voor enkele momenten lukt het Graeber om de gedachte dat hij weer terug moet naar het front opzij te duwen.Terug aan het front verzet hij zich voor het eerst en op zijn manier tegen het nazi-credo van de Untermenschen en laat enkele Russische gevangenen ontsnappen. Maar zij reageren daarop heel anders dan hij verwacht en gehoorzamen aan de logica van deze en iedere oorlog: oog om oog, tand om tand." | 
         | 1738 | Wieża Jaskółki | Andrzej Sapkowski | 2001 | Fantasy, Fiction, Polish Literature, High Fantasy, Audiobook, Adventure, Epic Fantasy, Magic, Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy | Dandelion, Yennefer, Triss Merigold, Ciri (Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon), Iskra, Geralt of Rivia, Rience, Sigismund Dijkstra, Vilgefortz, Giselher, Mistle, Milva, Emiel Regis Rohellec Terzieff-Godefroy, Cahir Mawr Dyffryn aep Ceallach, Vysogota of Corvo, Leo Bonhart, Stefan ""Tawny Owl"" Skellen, Angouleme, Esterad Thyssen, Crach an Craite, Joanna ""Kenna"" Selborne, Schirrù | "Ciri staje przed swoim przeznaczeniem. Drakkar wiozący Yennefer trafia w oko czarodziejskiego cyklonu. Czy wśród przyjaciół wiedźmina ukrywa się zdrajca? Czwarta, przedostatnia odłona epopei o świecie wiedźmina i wojnach, jakie nim wstrząsają. W zagubionej wśród bagien chacie pustelnika ciężko ranna Ciri powraca do zdrowia. Jej tropem podążają bezlitośni zabójcy z Nilfgaardu. Tymczasem drużyna Geralta, unikając coraz to nowych niebezpieczeństw, dociera wreszcie do ukrywjących się druidów. Czy wiedźminowi uda się odnaleźć Ciri? Jaką rolę odegra osnuta legendą Wieża Jaskółki?" | 
         | 1739 | Morning Glory | LaVyrle Spencer | 1991 | Romance, Historical Romance, Historical, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Westerns, World War II, Contemporary, Adult, Western Romance | Will Parker, Eleanor Dinsmore | "LOVE IN A STRANGER'S EYES...ELLYIn town, they called her ""Crazy Widow Dinsmore."" But Elly was no stranger to their ridicule-she had been an outsider all her life, growing up in a boarded-up old house under the strict eye of her eccentric grandparents. Now she was all alone, with two little boys to raise, and a third child on the way.WILLHe drifted into Whitney, Georgia, one lazy afternoon in the summer of 1941, hoping to put his lonely past behind him. He yearned for the tenderness he had never known, the home he'd never had. All he needed was for someone to give him a chance.Then he saw her classified ad: WANTED-A husband. When he stepped across Elly Dinsmore's cluttered yard, Will Parker knew he had come home at last ..." | 
         | 1740 | Sourcery | Terry Pratchett | Apr-08 | Fantasy, Fiction, Humor, Comedy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Magic, Audiobook, Adventure, High Fantasy, Science Fiction | Rincewind, The Luggage, Havelock Vetinari, DEATH, The Librarian, Nijel the Destroyer, Conina | "When last seen, the singularly inept wizard Rincewind had fallen off the edge of the world. Now magically, he's turned up again, and this time he's brought the Luggage.But that's not all....Once upon a time, there was an eighth son of an eighth son who was, of course, a wizard. As if that wasn't complicated enough, said wizard then had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son - a wizard squared (that's all the math, really). Who of course, was a source of magic - a sourcerer." | 
         | 1741 | The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary | Simon Winchester | 2005 | Nonfiction, History, Biography, Language, Books About Books, Historical, True Crime, Audiobook, Biography Memoir, Linguistics | Dr. William Chester Minor, Sir James Murray | "The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary - and literary history. The compilation of the OED, begun in 1857, was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected, the overseeing committee, led by Professor James Murray, discovered that one man, Dr. W. C. Minor, had submitted more than ten thousand. When the committee insisted on honoring him, a shocking truth came to light: Dr. Minor, an American Civil War veteran, was also an inmate at an asylum for the criminally insane." | 
         | 1742 | Princess in Love | Meg Cabot  | 2006 | Young Adult, Romance, Chick Lit, Fiction, Contemporary, Teen, Childrens, Humor, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult Contemporary | Mia Thermopolis, Kenny Showalter, Lilly Moscovitz, Helen Thermopolis, Frank Gianini, Michael Moscovitz, Boris Pelkowski, ""Grandmère"" Clarisse Renaldo, Sebastiano, Tina Hakim Baba | "Princess Mia may seem like the luckiest girl ever.But the truth is, Mia spends all her time doing one of three things: preparing for her nerve-racking entrée into Genovian society, slogging through the congestion unique to Manhattan in December, and avoiding further smooching from her hapless boyfriend, Kenny.For Mia, being princess is not the fairy tale it's supposed to be . . . or is it?" | 
         | 1743 | Ghost World | Daniel Clowes | Apr-01 | Comics, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Young Adult, Comic Book, Coming Of Age, Comix, Contemporary, American | Enid Coleslaw, Rebecca Doppelmeyer | "Ghost World has become a cultural and generational touchstone, and continues to enthrall and inspire readers over a decade after its original release as a graphic novel. Originally serialized in the pages of the seminal comic book Eightball throughout the mid-1990s, this quasi-autobiographical story (the name of one of the protagonists is famously an anagram of the author's name) follows the adventures of two teenage girls, Enid and Becky, two best friends facing the prospect of growing up, and more importantly, apart. Daniel Clowes is one of the most respected cartoonists of his generation, and Ghost World is his magnum opus. Adapted into a major motion picture directed by Terry Zwigoff (director of the acclaimed documentary Crumb), which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. This graphic novel is a must for any self-respecting comics fan's library." | 
         | 1744 | The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate | Jacqueline Kelly  | 2009 | Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Fiction, Middle Grade, Historical, Childrens, Juvenile, Coming Of Age, Family, Realistic Fiction | Calpurnia Virginia Tate, Granddaddy Walter Tate | "Calpurnia Virginia Tate is eleven years old in 1899 when she wonders why the yellow grasshoppers in her Texas backyard are so much bigger than the green ones. With a little help from her notoriously cantankerous grandfather, an avid naturalist, she figures out that the green grasshoppers are easier to see against the yellow grass, so they are eaten before they can get any larger.As Callie explores the natural world around her, she develops a close relationship with her grandfather, navigates the dangers of living with six brothers, and comes up against just what it means to be a girl at the turn of the century.Debut author Jacqueline Kelly deftly brings Callie and her family to life, capturing a year of growing up with unique sensitivity and a wry wit." | 
         | 1745 | Spring Snow | Yukio Mishima, Michael Gallagher  (Translator) | Nov-00 | Fiction, Japan, Japanese Literature, Historical Fiction, Classics, Literature, Asia, Novels, Romance, Asian Literature | Kiyoaki Matsugae, Satoko Ayakura, Shigekuni Honda, Shigeyuki Iinuma | "Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - rich provincial families, a new and powerful political and social elite.Kiyoaki has been raised among the elegant Ayakura family - members of the waning aristocracy - but he is not one of them. Coming of age, he is caught up in the tensions between the old and the new, and his feelings for the exquisite, spirited Satoko, observed from the sidelines by his devoted friend Honda. When Satoko is engaged to a royal prince, Kiyoaki realises the magnitude of his passion." | 
         | 1746 | Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings | Abolqasem Ferdowsi, Dick Davis (Translator), جلال خالقی مطلق (Editor), Azar Nafisi  (Foreword) | 2006 | Poetry, Classics, History, Iran, Mythology, Literature, Epic, Medieval, Historical, Nonfiction | Sohrab, Rostam, Esfandiar, Simorgh &... | "Among the great works of world literature, perhaps one of the least familiar to English readers is the ""Shahnameh: ThePersian Book of Kings,"" the national epic of Persia. This prodigious narrative, composed by the poet Ferdowsi between the years 980 and 1010, tells the story of pre- Islamic Iran, beginning in the mythic time of Creation and continuing forward to the Arab invasion in the seventh century. As a window on the world, ""Shahnameh"" belongs in the company of such literary masterpieces as Dante's ""Divine Comedy,"" the plays of Shakespeare, the epics of Homer- classics whose reach and range bring whole cultures into view. In its pages are unforgettable moments of national triumph and failure, human courage and cruelty, blissful love and bitter grief.In tracing the roots of Iran, ""Shahnameh"" initially draws on the depths of legend and then carries its story into historical times, when ancient Persia was swept into an expanding Islamic empire. Now Dick Davis, the greatest modern translator of Persian poetry, has revisited that poem, turning the finest stories of Ferdowsi's original into an elegant combination of prose and verse. For the first time in English, in the most complete form possible, readers can experience ""Shahnameh"" in the same way that Iranian storytellers have lovingly conveyed it in Persian for the past thousand years." | 
         | 1747 | Riddle-Master | Patricia A. McKillip | Mar-99 | Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, Classics, Speculative Fiction | Morgon, Prince of Hed, Raederle of An, Deth, Eliard of Hed, Tristan of Hed, Mathom of An, Duac of An, Rood of An, Heureu of Ymris, Eriel, Astrin of Ymris, The Morgol, Lyra of Herun, Har the Wolf-King, Danan of Isig, Ghisteslwchlohm, Yrth, Aloil, Nun, Iff of the Unpronounceable Name, Suth, Talies, Ohm, Tel | "For over twenty years, Patricia A. McKillip has captured the hearts and imaginations of thousands of readers. And although her renowned Riddle-Master trilogy-The Riddle-Master of Hed, Heir of Sea and Fire, and Harpist in the Wind-has been long out of print, it is considered her most enduring and beloved work. Now it is collected in one volume for the first time-the epic journeys of a young prince in a strange land, where wizards have long since vanished...but where magic is waiting to be reborn." | 
         | 1748 | The Big Four | Agatha Christie | 2002 | Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Thriller, Audiobook, British Literature, Novels | John Ingles, Arthur Hastings, Hercule Poirot, Abe Ryland, Inspector Japp, Li Chang Yen, Dr. Ridgeway, An unexpected guest, Number Four, Countess Rossakoff, Madame Olivier, Achille Poirot | "Framed in the doorway of Poirot’s bedroom stood an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The man’s gaunt face stared for a moment, then he swayed and fell. Who was he? Was he suffering from shock or just exhaustion? Above all, what was the significance of the figure 4, scribbled over and over again on a sheet of paper? Poirot finds himself plunged into a world of international intrigue, risking his life to uncover the truth about ‘Number Four’." | 
         | 1749 | Puhdistus | Sofi Oksanen  | 2008 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Finnish Literature, Historical, Contemporary, Scandinavian Literature, Novels, Literary Fiction, Literature, Crime | Aliide Truu, Zara Pekk, Hans Eerikinpoika Pekk, Ingel | "Ikääntynyt Aliide Truu asuu yksin taloaan Viron maaseudulla. Maa on itsenäistynyt edellisenä vuonna ja maareformi on alkanut. Vanhan naisen arjen katkaisee pihalle pyörtynyt parikymppinen Zara. Tultuaan tajuihinsa Zara kertoo pakenevansa väkivaltaista miestään. Kohtaaminen nostaa Aliiden mieleen repivät muistot nuoruuden traagisesta rakkaudesta ja valinnoista, jotka sinetöivät hänen lähimpiensä kohtalon. Omiin epätoivoisiin ratkaisuihinsa pakotetun Zaran tilanne puolestaan osoittaa, että vaikka aika on toinen, vaino ei ole loppunut, muuttanut vain muotoaan.Puhdistuksen syvintä ydintä on petos, johon epätoivoiset tunteet ajavat. Romaani avaa myös Viron vaiettua lähihistoriaa yhden suvun kokemusten kautta.Kirja antaa äänen sodan, kommunismin ja sorron uhreille. 1940-luvulla koettujen nöyryytysten ohella teoksessa nousee esiin nykynaisiin epävakaissa yhteiskunnallisissa olosuhteissa kohdistuva hyväksikäyttö." | 
         | 1750 | Annie's Song | Catherine Anderson  | Jan-96 | Historical Romance, Romance, Historical, Westerns, Historical Fiction, Adult, Disability, Western Romance, Abuse, Fiction | Alex Montgomery, Annie Trimble | "Annie Trimble lives in a solitary world that no one enters or understands. As delicate and beautiful as the tender blossoms of the Oregon spring, she is shunned by a town that misinterprets her affliction. But cruelty cannot destroy the love Annie holds in her heart. Alex Montgomery is horrified to learn his wild younger brother forced himself on a helpless ""idiot girl."" Tormented by guilt, Alex agrees to marry her and raise the baby she carries as his own. But he never dreams he will grow to cherish his lovely, mute, and misjudged Annie; her childlike innocence, her womanly charms and the wondrous way she views her world. He becomes determined to break through the wall of silence surrounding her; to heal... and to be healed by Annie's sweet song of love." | 
         | 1751 | Death du Jour | Kathy Reichs  | May-06 | Mystery, Crime, Fiction, Thriller, Drama, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Novels, Murder Mystery, Dark | Temperance Brennan, Andrew Ryan | "Assaulted by the bitter cold of a Montreal winter, the American-born Dr. Temperance Breman, Forensic Anthropologist for the Province of Quebec, digs for a corpse where Sister Elisabeth Nicolet, dead over a century and now a candidate for sainthood, should lie in her grave. A strange, small coffin, buried in the recesses of a decaying church, holds the first clue to the cloistered nun's fate. The puzzle surrounding Sister Elisabeth's life and death provides a welcome contrast to discoveries at a burning chalet, where scorched and twisted bodies await Tempe's professional expertise. Who were these people? What brought them to this gruesome fate? Homicide Detective Andrew Ryan, with whom Tempe has a combustive history, joins her in the arson investigation. From the fire scene they are drawn into the worlds of an enigmatic and controversial professor, a mysterious commune, and a primate colony on a Carolina island." | 
         | 1752 | Microserfs | Douglas Coupland  | 1995 | Fiction, Humor, Contemporary, Canada, Novels, Literature, Technology, Geek, Literary Fiction, Computers | Daniel Underwood | "Narrated in the form of a Powerbook entry by Dan Underwood, a computer programmer for Microsoft, this state-of-the-art novel about life in the '90s follows the adventures of six code-crunching computer whizzes. Known as ""microserfs,"" they spend upward of 16 hours a day ""coding"" (writing software) as they eat ""flat"" foods (such as Kraft singles, which can be passed underneath closed doors) and fearfully scan the company email to see what the great Bill might be thinking and whether he is going to ""flame"" one of them. Seizing the chance to be innovators instead of cogs in the Microsoft machine, this intrepid bunch strike out on their own to form a high-tech start-up company named Oop! in Silicon Valley. Living together in a sort of digital flophouse -""Our House of Wayward Mobility"" - they desperately try to cultivate well-rounded lives and find love amid the dislocated, subhuman whir and buzz of their computer-driven world.Funny, illuminating and ultimately touching, Microserfs is the story of one generation's very strange and claustrophobic coming of age." | 
         | 1753 | Jhereg | Steven Brust , Olaf Schenk (Übersetzer) | 2005 | Fantasy, Fiction, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Dragons, Science Fiction, Adventure, Epic Fantasy, Magic, Mystery | Vlad Taltos, Aliera, Morollan, Mellar, Loiosh | "Vlad Taltos ist ein Hexer, freiberuflicher Attentäter, lebt als Ostländer (also Mensch) unter Dragaeranern und nennt einen reptilischen Vertrauten mit beissendem Humor sein Eigen. Und er ist in Schwierigkeiten, denn er muss einen Krieg verhindern, in dem sich seine besten Freunde und daneben auch die großen Familien von Dragaera gegenseitig auslöschen würden...The first to be published, this is actually the fourth novel in the timeline of the VLAD TALTOS series. The books recount the adventures of the wisecracking hired killer Vlad, a human on a planet mainly inhabited by the long-lived, extremely tall sorcerers known as the Dragaerans. One of the most powerful bosses in the Jhereg-Dragaera's premier criminal organization-hires Vlad, one of their guild members, to assassinate Mellar, who stole millions from the Jhereg leadership and fled. Unfortunately, this thief turns out to be protected in a way that makes it difficult for Vlad to do his job without gaining the permanent enmity of a friend. The reader also learns more about Vlad's past in this, and in other, lives." | 
         | 1754 | Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü | Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar | 2005 | Turkish Literature, Fiction, Turkish, Classics, Literature, Roman, Novels, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Modern Classics | Hayri İrdal, Halit Ayarcı, Dr. Ramiz, Muvakkit Nuri Efendi, Seyit Lûtfullah, Abdüsselam Bey, Aristidi Efendi, Yangeldi Asaf Bey, Topal İsmail | "Şiirlerinde sembolist bir dil kullanan Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar romanlarında gerçekçi ve sosyal sorunlara eğilen bir tarzı tercih etmiştir.Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü Türk insanının doğu ve batı arasında bocalamasını irdeleyen bir başucu romanıdır.Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü, içeriğini ve konusunu romanın karakterlerinden Nuri Efendi (Saat Ustası), Mübarek (Ayaklı ve yaşlı bir İngiliz yapımı duvar saati), Halit Ayarcı ve saat-zaman-insan ilişkilerinden almaktadır.Anlatım, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’ın kendine has simgeci anlatımıyla birleşip, zaman zaman gelişen olaylarla birlikte başkalaşmaktadır. İnsanların popülerliğe ve paraya verdiği önemin, insanların nasıl bir anda yüz değiştirebileceğinin altı çizilmektedir.İki uygarlık arasında bocalayan toplumumuzun yanlış tutumlarını, davranışlarını alaya alan eleştirel bir romandır. Yapıt çocukluğu II. Abdülhamit döneminde geçen, Meşrutiyet ve Cumhuriyet dönemlerinde de yaşayan Hayri İrdal'ın anıları şeklinde kurgulanmıştır. Roman dört bölümden oluşmaktadır: Büyük Ümitler, Küçük Hakikatler, Sabaha Doğru, Her Mevsimin Bir Sonu Vardır." | 
         | 1755 | Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot | Patricia C. Wrede , Caroline Stevermer  | 2004 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Romance, Historical, Magic, Mystery, Regency, Historical Fantasy | Cecelia Rushton, Katherine Talgarth, James Tarleton, Thomas Schofield, Miranda Tanistry, Dorothea Griscomb, Sir Hilary Bedrick, Georgina Talgarth, Oliver Rushton, Sylvia Schofield | "A great deal is happening in London and the country this season.For starters, there's the witch who tried to poison Kate at the Royal College of Wizards. There's also the man who seems to be spying on Cecelia. (Though he's not doing a very good job of it-so just what are his intentions?) And then there's Oliver. Ever since he was turned into a tree, he hasn't bothered to tell anyone where he is.Clearly, magic is a deadly and dangerous business. And the girls might be in fear for their lives . . . if only they weren't having so much fun!" | 
         | 1756 | Shanna | Kathleen E. Woodiwiss | 2000 | Romance, Historical Romance, Historical, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Adult, Pirates, Adventure, Chick Lit, British Literature | Shanna Trahern, Ruark Beauchamp | "an alternate cover edition can be found hereBehind the foreboding walls of Newgate Prison, a pact is sealed in secret - as a dashing and doomed criminal consents to wed a beautiful heiress . . . in return for one night of unparalleled pleasure.In the fading echoes of hollow wedding vows, a promise is broken - as a sensuous free-spirit flees to a lush Caribbean paradise, abandoning the handsome stranger she married to the gallows. But Ruark Beauchamp's destiny is now eternally intertwined with his exquisite, tempestuous Shanna's. And no iron ever forged can imprison his magnificent passion . . . and no hangman's noose will deny him the ecstasy that is rightfully his." | 
         | 1757 | A Fórmula de Deus | José Rodrigues dos Santos | 2006 | Fiction, Thriller, Romance, Portuguese Literature, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Portugal, Roman, Religion, Novels | Tomás Noronha | """Nas escadarias do Museu Egípcio, em pleno Cairo, Tomás Noronha é abordado por uma desconhecida. Chama-se Ariana Pakravan, é iraniana e traz consigo a cópia de um documento inédito, um velho manuscrito com um estranho título e um poema enigmático.O inesperado encontro lança Tomás numa empolgante aventura, colocando-o na rota da crise nuclear com o Irão e da mais importante descoberta jamais efectuada por Albert Einstein, um achado que o conduz ao maior de todos os mistérios. A prova científica da existência de Deus.Uma história de amor, uma intriga de traição, uma perseguição implacável, uma busca espiritual que nos leva à mais espantosa revelação mística de todos os tempos.Baseada nas últimas e mais avançadas descobertas científicas nos campos da física, da cosmologia e da matemática, A Fórmula de Deus transporta-nos numa surpreendente viagem até às origens do tempo, à essência do universo e ao sentido da vida.""" | 
         | 1758 | The Go-Between | L.P. Hartley, Colm Tóibín (Introduction) | 2002 | Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, British Literature, 20th Century, Coming Of Age, Novels, Literary Fiction, Literature, Modern Classics | Leo Colston, Marcus Maudsley, Marian Maudsley, Ted Burgess, Hugh Trimingham, Denys Maudsley | """The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.""Summering with a fellow schoolboy on a great English estate, Leo, the hero of L. P. Hartley's finest novel, encounters a world of unimagined luxury. But when his friend's beautiful older sister enlists him as the unwitting messenger in her illicit love affair, the aftershocks will be felt for years. The inspiration for the brilliant Joseph Losey/Harold Pinter film starring Julie Christie and Alan Bates, The Go-Between is a masterpiece—a richly layered, spellbinding story about past and present, naiveté and knowledge, and the mysteries of the human heart. This volume includes, for the first time ever in North America, Hartley's own introduction to the novel." | 
         | 1759 | The Silver Kiss | Annette Curtis Klause | Oct-92 | Young Adult, Vampires, Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal, Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Horror | Zoë, Simon | "Zoe is wary when, in the dead of night, the beautiful yet frightening Simon comes to her house. Simon seems to understand the pain of loneliness and death and Zoe's brooding thoughts of her dying mother.Simon is one of the undead, a vampire, seeking revenge for the gruesome death of his mother three hundred years before. Does Simon dare ask Zoe to help free him from this lifeless chase and its insufferable loneliness?" | 
         | 1760 | Magician: Master | Raymond E. Feist | Jan-93 | Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Magic, Adventure, Epic, Science Fiction, Adult | Pug, Tomas Megarson, Kulgan, Dolgan, Borric conDoin, Arutha conDoin, Carline conDoin, Martin Longbow, Laurie of Tyr-Sog, Kasumi Shinzawai, Aglaranna of Elvandar, Macros the Black, Ashen-Shugar, Ichindar | "He held the fate of two worlds in his hands... Once he was an orphan called Pug, apprenticed to a sorcerer of the enchanted land of Midkemia.. Then he was captured and enslaved by the Tsurani, a strange, warlike race of invaders from another world.There, in the exotic Empire of Kelewan, he earned a new name-Milamber. He learned to tame the unnimagined powers that lay withing him. And he took his place in an ancient struggle against an evil Enemy older than time itself." | 
         | 1761 | The Passion of Artemisia | Susan Vreeland | Jan-03 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Art, Italy, Historical, Art History, Womens, 17th Century, Adult Fiction, Novels | Galileo Galilei, Artemisia Gentileschi, ""Cosimo II de'' Medici"", Palmira Stiattesi, Pierantonio Stiattesi, Orazio Gentileschi, Graziella, Renata | "From extraordinary highs - patronage by the Medicis, friendship with Galileo and, most importantly of all, beautiful and outstandingly original paintings - to rape by her father's colleague, torture by the Inquisition, life-long struggles for acceptance by the artistic Establishment, and betrayal by the men she loved, Artemisia was a bold and brilliant woman who lived as she wanted, and paid a high price." | 
         | 1762 | Theatre | W. Somerset Maugham | 2001 | Classics, Fiction, British Literature, 20th Century, Romance, Novels, English Literature, Literature, Theatre, Classic Literature | Julia Lambert, Michael Gosselyn, Thomas Fennell, Jimmie Langdon | "In Theatre, W. Somerset Maugham–the author of the classic novels Of Human Bondage and Up at the Villa–introduces us to Julia Lambert, a woman of breathtaking poise and talent whose looks have stood by her forty-six years. She is a star stage actress England–so good, in fact, that perhaps she never stops acting.It seems that noting can ruffle her satin feathers, until a quiet stranger who challenges Julia's very sense of self. As a result, she will endure rejection for the first time, her capacity as a mother will be affronted, and her ability to put on whatever face she desired for her public will prove limited. In Theatre, Maugham subtly exposes the tensions and triumphs that occur when acting and reality blend together, and–for Julia–ultimately reverse." | 
         | 1763 | The Best Laid Plans | Sidney Sheldon | 1998 | Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Romance, Novels, Crime, Drama, Adult | Dana Evans, Oliver Russell, Leslie Stewart, Peter Tager, Senator Todd Davis, Henry Chambers, Jan Davis | "He wanted power. Oliver Russell is fated to rise to the pinnacle of power, President of the United States. She wanted revenge. Leslie Stewart is his betrayed fiancee. Amassing her own media empire, on her fortieth birthday, she looks back. What went wrong?" | 
         | 1764 | Dissolution | C.J. Sansom | 2004 | Historical Fiction, Mystery, Fiction, Historical, Crime, Historical Mystery, British Literature, Tudor Period, Mystery Thriller, Thriller | Matthew Shardlake, Mark Poer, Thomas Cromwell, Abbot Fabian, Brother Edwig, Brother Gabriel of Ashford, Brother Guy of Malton, Brother Hugh, Brother Jude, Brother Mortimus of Kelso, Joan Woode, Robin Singleton, Alice Fewterer, Simon Whelplay, Ralph Spenlay, Master Bugge, Jerome Wentworth, Lawrence Goodhaps, Brother Athelstan, Gilbert Copynger, Joan Stumpe, Orphan Stonegarden, Thomas Oldknoll, Master Hodges | "Henry VIII has ordered the dissolution of the monasteries and England is full of informers. At the monastery of Scarnsea, events have spiralled out of control with the murder of Commissioner Robin Singleton. Matthew Shardlake, a lawyer, and his assistant are sent to investigate." | 
         | 1765 | Snakehead | Anthony Horowitz  | 2007 | Young Adult, Adventure, Fiction, Espionage, Action, Mystery, Thriller, Childrens, Teen, Middle Grade | Alex Rider, Alan Blunt, Jack Starbright, Smithers, Mrs Jones | No sooner has Alex splashed down off the coast of Australia than he finds himself sucked into another adventure. This time he's working for ASIS - the Australian Secret Service - and his target is the criminal underworld of South-East Asia: the ruthless world of the Snakehead. | 
         | 1766 | Monster | Frank E. Peretti | Oct-06 | Fiction, Christian Fiction, Christian, Horror, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Adult | Reed Shelton, Beck Shelton | "Something's out there... Reed Shelton organized this survival weekend. Hired the best guide in the region. Meticulously trained, studied, and packed while encouraging his wife, Beck, to do the same. But little did they know that surviving the elements would become the least of their worries. During their first night of camping, an unearthly wail pierces the calm of the forest. Then someone—no, something—emerges from the dense woods and begins pursuing them. Everything that follows is a blur to Reed—except for the unforgettable image of a huge creature carrying his wife into the darkness. Dependant on the efforts of a small town and a band of friends, Reed knows they have little time to find Beck. Even more important, he soon realizes that they aren't the only ones doing the hunting. Something much faster, more relentless—and definitely not human—has begun to hunt them." | 
         | 1767 | The Lottery | Shirley Jackson | 1990 | Short Stories, Classics, Horror, Fiction, Dystopia, School, Read For School, Science Fiction, Literature, Adult | Tessie Hutchinson, Bill Hutchinson, Mr. Summers, Mr. Graves | "Shirley Jackson's ""The Lottery"" is a memorable and terrifying masterpiece, fueled by a tension that creeps up on you slowly without any clear indication of why. This is just a townful of people, after all, choosing their numbers for the annual lottery. What's there to be scared of?" | 
         | 1768 | Black Water | D.J. MacHale  | Aug-04 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Science Fiction, Adventure, Childrens, Middle Grade, Young Adult Fantasy, Teen, Time Travel | Bobby Pendragon, Aja Killian, Tom Dorney, Courtney Chetwynde, Mark Dimond, Saint Dane | "Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here and hereBREAKING THE RULESJust when fifteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon thinks he understands his purpose as a Traveler - to protect the territories of Halla from the evil Saint Dane - he is faced with an impossible choice. The inhabitants of Eelong are in danger of being wiped out by a mysterious plague. The only way Bobby can stop it is to bring the antidote from another territory. Since moving items between territories is forbidden by the Traveler rules, if Bobby chooses to save Eelong he could endanger himself, his friends, and the future of every other being in Halla." | 
         | 1769 | Tracy's Tiger | William Saroyan | 1989 | Fiction, Classics, American, Short Stories, 20th Century, Novels, Czech Literature, Mine, The United States Of America, Magical Realism | Tiger, Laura, Tracy | The story of Tracy's Tiger was adapted into an original musical in two acts for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2007 season. The Saroyan story was transplanted from New York to 1950s San Francisco for the musical. | 
         | 1770 | Memory | Lois McMaster Bujold  | 2005 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Space Opera, Mystery, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Space, Audiobook, Adventure, Military Fiction | Ivan VorPatril, Simon Illyan, Gregor Vorbarra, Alys Vorpatril, Miles Vorkosigan | "Forced to abandon his undercover role as leader of the Dendarii Mercenaries, Miles Vorkosigan persuades Emperor Gregor to appoint him Imperial Auditor so he can penetrate Barrayar’s intelligence and security operations (ImpSec). Simon Illyan, head of ImpSec and Miles’ former boss, is failing physically and mentally, and Miles sets out to find out why - and who, if anyone, is behind Illyan’s rapid decline. Library Journal calls Miles “one of the genre’s most enterprising and engaging heroes”. A Hugo and Nebula Award finalist." | 
         | 1771 | The Last Templar | Raymond Khoury  | Dec-06 | Fiction, Thriller, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Adventure, Historical, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Action, Crime | Sean Reilly, Tess Chaykin, William Vance, Monsignor de Angelis | """It has served us well, this myth of Christ.""Pope Leo X, 16th CenturyIn a hail of fire and flashing sword, as the burning city of Acre falls from the hands of the West in 1291, The Last Templar opens with a young Templar knight, his mentor, and a handful of others escaping to the sea carrying a mysterious chest entrusted to them by the Order's dying Grand Master. The ship vanishes without a trace.In present day Manhattan, four masked horsemen dressed as Templar Knights emerge from Central Park and ride up the Fifth Avenue steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art during the blacktie opening of a Treasures of the Vatican exhibit. Storming through the crowds, the horsemen brutally attack anyone standing between them and their prize. Attending the gala, archaeologist Tess Chaykin watches in silent terror as the leader of the horsemen hones in on one piece in particular, a strange geared device. He utters a few cryptic Latin words as he takes hold of it with reverence before leading the horsemen out and disappearing into the night.In the aftermath, an FBI investigation is led by anti-terrorist specialist Sean Reilly. Soon, he and Tess are drawn into the dark, hidden history of the crusading Knights, plunging them into a deadly game of cat and mouse with ruthless killers as they race across three continents to recover the lost secret of the Templars." | 
         | 1772 | The Last Book in the Universe | Rodman Philbrick | 2000 | Young Adult, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Fiction, Adventure, Post Apocalyptic, Fantasy, Middle Grade, Teen, Childrens | Spaz, Ryter | "This fast-paced action novel is set in a future where the world has been almost destroyed. Like the award-winning novel Freak the Mighty, this is Philbrick at his very best.It's the story of an epileptic teenager nicknamed Spaz, who begins the heroic fight to bring human intelligence back to the planet. In a world where most people are plugged into brain-drain entertainment systems, Spaz is the rare human being who can see life as it really is. When he meets an old man called Ryter, he begins to learn about Earth and its past. With Ryter as his companion, Spaz sets off an unlikely quest to save his dying sister - and in the process, perhaps the world." | 
         | 1773 | Icefire | Chris d'Lacey | Jul-07 | Fantasy, Dragons, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Magic, Middle Grade, Adventure, Urban Fantasy, Juvenile | David Rain, Elizabeth Pennykettle, Lucy Pennykettle | "Secrets will be revealed when fire and ice collide...In the exciting sequel to The Fire Within, David must uncover the truth behind the mysterious clay dragons. David's quest is to discover the link between the fire of the last known dragon on Earth and the icy regions of the Arctic. It's a journey that will change his life forever, a journey that will bring him to the very heart of the legend of dragons and the mysterious, ancient secret of the icefire..." | 
         | 1774 | A Monstrous Regiment of Women | Laurie R. King , Martina Petranović (Translator) | 2000 | Mystery, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Crime, Historical Mystery, Historical, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, Detective, Adult | Mary Russell, Inspector Lestrade, Margery Childe, Veronica Beaconsfield, Mrs Hudson (Conan Doyle series), Sherlock Holmes (Russell & Holmes series), Dr. John Watson | "A Monstrous Regiment of Women continues Mary Russell's adventures as a worthy student of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and as an ever more skilled sleuth in her own right. Looking for respite in London after a stupefying visit from relatives, Mary encounters a friend from Oxford. The young woman introduces Mary to her current enthusiasm, a strange and enigmatic woman named Margery Childe, who leads something called ""The New Temple of God."" It seems to be a charismatic sect involved in the post-World War I suffrage movement, with a feminist slant on Christianity. Mary is curious about the woman, and intrigued. Is the New Temple a front for something more sinister? When a series of murders claims members of the movement's wealthy young female volunteers and principal contributors, Mary, with Holmes in the background, begins to investigate. Things become more desperate than either of them expected as Mary's search plunges her into the worst danger she has yet faced." | 
         | 1775 | The Masterharper of Pern | Anne McCaffrey | 1999 | Fantasy, Science Fiction, Dragons, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adult, Young Adult, Music, Adventure, High Fantasy | Lessa, ""F''lar"", Masterharper Robinton, ""F''nor"", Sebell, ""F''lor"", Petiron, Merelan, Gennell, Fax | "MasterSinger Merelan and Harper Petiron were a brilliant and devoted couple. Merelan was the most outstanding soprano ever heard on Pern, and was often the only one who could master Petiron's technically accomplished compositions. When, after a long and difficult birth, Robinton was born to them, it should have been the culmination of a unique partnership.But Petiron, almost from the first day, had no time for his son, refusing to see the incredible talent the boy possessed, ignoring his achievements and maintaining a strict and disapproving vigilance over him at all times.Carefully, secretly, the Harper Hall took over, training the greatest talent Pern had ever seen - a talent that was more than just musical, for Robinton was able to talk to the dragons of Pern.As constant sadness beset his personal life, so a startling career sent him like a meteor through the Holds and Weyrs of Pern until, as MasterHarper, he became part of the great plan to rescue Lessa from the brutal rule of Holder Fax - Lessa, who was to be the saviour of the dragons of Pern." | 
         | 1776 | Henderson the Rain King | Saul Bellow, Luciano Bianciardi (Translator) | 1996 | Fiction, Classics, Literature, Africa, Novels, American, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Nobel Prize, The United States Of America | Eugene Henderson, Romilayu, King Dahfu | "Henderson has come to Africa on a spiritual safari, a quest for the truth. His feats of strength, his passion for life, and, most importantly, his inadvertant success in bringing rain have made him a god-like figure among the tribes." | 
         | 1777 | Locke & Key, Volume 1: Welcome to Lovecraft | Joe Hill , Gabriel Rodríguez (Artist) | Feb-13 | Graphic Novels, Comics, Horror, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Mystery, Paranormal, Supernatural | Tyler Locke, Kinsey Locke, Bode Locke | "Locke & Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them. Home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all..." | 
         | 1778 | París | Florencia Bonelli  | Dec-10 | Romance, Contemporary Romance, Contemporary, France, Adult, Historical Fiction, Action, Medical, Drama, Spanish Literature | Eliah Al-Saud, Matilde Martínez | "Matilde Martínez es una pediatra decidida a cambiar el mundo. Eliah Al-Saud es un soldado profesional, demasiado cínico para creer que es posible cambiarlo. Sin embargo, cuando Eliah y Matilde se conocen, la atracción es innegable, y, pese a sus diferencias, caen rendidos ante la pasión que los domina. Su romance se convertirá en una aventura peligrosa, con el conflicto palestino-israelí y una amenaza atómica como telones de fondo. Una adictiva novela contemporánea en la que dos personajes intensos y cautivadores lucharán por sus vidas y las de sus seres queridos, pero ¿conseguirán también salvar su amor?" | 
         | 1779 | The Postman | David Brin  | Dec-97 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Post Apocalyptic, Dystopia, Apocalyptic, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Adventure, War | Gordon Krantz | "This is the story of a lie that became the most powerful kind of truth. A timeless novel as urgently compelling as War Day or Alas, Babylon, David Brin's The Postman is the dramatically moving saga of a man who rekindled the spirit of America through the power of a dream, from a modern master of science fiction.He was a survivor-a wanderer who traded tales for food and shelter in the dark and savage aftermath of a devastating war. Fate touches him one chill winter's day when he borrows the jacket of a long-dead postal worker to protect himself from the cold. The old, worn uniform still has power as a symbol of hope, and with it he begins to weave his greatest tale, of a nation on the road to recovery." | 
         | 1780 | Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media | Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky | 2002 | Politics, Nonfiction, History, Philosophy, Sociology, Economics, Journalism, Political Science, Society, Psychology | Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Saddam Hussein, Matt Taibbi | "In this pathbreaking work, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political agendas of the privileged groups that dominate domestic society, the state, and the global order.Based on a series of case studies—including the media’s dichotomous treatment of “worthy” versus “unworthy” victims, “legitimizing” and “meaningless” Third World elections, and devastating critiques of media coverage of the U.S. wars against Indochina—Herman and Chomsky draw on decades of criticism and research to propose a Propaganda Model to explain the media’s behavior and performance. Their new introduction updates the Propaganda Model and the earlier case studies, and it discusses several other applications. These include the manner in which the media covered the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement and subsequent Mexican financial meltdown of 1994-1995, the media’s handling of the protests against the World Trade Organization, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund in 1999 and 2000, and the media’s treatment of the chemical industry and its regulation. What emerges from this work is a powerful assessment of how propagandistic the U.S. mass media are, how they systematically fail to live up to their self-image as providers of the kind of information that people need to make sense of the world, and how we can understand their function in a radically new way." | 
         | 1781 | The Fire Within | Chris d'Lacey | Mar-07 | Fantasy, Dragons, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Middle Grade, Magic, Urban Fantasy, Adventure, Juvenile | David Rain, Elizabeth Pennykettle, Lucy Pennykettle | "A magical adventure about the power of dragons...When David moves in with Elizabeth Pennykettle and her eleven-year-old daughter, Lucy, he discovers a collection of clay dragons that come to life. David's own special dragon inspires him to write a story, which reveals the secrets behind a mystery. In order to solve the mystery and save his dragon, David must master the magic of the fire within - not only with his hands but also with his heart." | 
         | 1782 | The Last Herald-Mage | Mercedes Lackey | 1990 | Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Magic, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, LGBT, Romance, Young Adult, Gay | Vanyel Ashkevron, Yfandes, Savil Ashkevron, Tylendel Frelennye | "The Last Herald-Mage contains Magic's Pawn, Magic's Promise and Magic's Price." | 
         | 1783 | The Innocent Mage | Karen Miller | Sept-07 | Fantasy, Fiction, Magic, High Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure, Adult, Young Adult, Audiobook | Asher of Restharven, Gar (Kingmaker, Kingbreaker) | "Enter the kingdom of Lur, where to use magic unlawfully means death. The Doranen have ruled Lur with magic since arriving as refugees centuries ago. Theirs was a desperate flight to escape the wrath of a powerful mage who started a bitter war in their homeland. To keep Lur safe, the native Olken inhabitants agreed to abandon their own magic. Magic is now forbidden to them, and any who break this law are executed. Asher left his coastal village to make his fortune. Employed in the royal stables, he soon finds himself befriended by Prince Gar and given more money and power than he'd ever dreamed possible. But the Olken have a secret; a prophecy. The Innocent Mage will save Lur from destruction and members of The Circle have dedicated themselves to preserving Olken magic until this day arrives. Unbeknownst to Asher, he has been watched closely. As the Final Days approach, his life takes a new and unexpected turn ..." | 
         | 1784 | Magician's Gambit | David Eddings | Jun-83 | Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Adventure, Young Adult, Magic, Epic, Audiobook | Garion, Polgara, Belgarath, ""Ce''Nedra"", Silk, Barak, Hettar, Durnik, Mandorallen, Brill, Mara, Aldur, Beltira, Belkira, Beldin, Gorim, Relg, Ul, Yarbleck, Taur Urgas, Taiba, Poledra, Errand | "Ce'Nedra, Imperial Princess of Tolnedra, is confused. Everyone knows the tales of the Orb protecting the West from the evil god Torak are just silly legends. But here she is, forced to join a dangerous quest to recover that stolen Orb. No one believes in sorcery, but Garion's aunt and grandfather seem to be the fabled sorcerers Polgara and Belgarath, who would have to be thousands of years old.Even young Garion is learning to do sorcery. He's just a farm boy, totally unsuitable for an Imperial Princess. Yet for some reason, she has the urge to teach him, brush back his tangled hair, and comfort him. But he is going to a strange tower in the center of all he believes evil, to face some horrible, powerful magician, and she can't be there to watch over him. She may never see him again!Thus continues The Belgariad, an epic prophecy still unfolding." | 
         | 1785 | Absolute Power | David Baldacci  | 2003 | Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, Politics, Action, Novels | Luther Whitney, Kate Whitney, President Alan Richmond, Christy Sullivan, Walter Sullivan, Bill Burton, Tim Collin, Gloria Russell, Seth Frank, Sandy Lord, Jack Graham, Jennifer Ryce Baldwin | "A grizzled professional cat burglar gets trapped inside the bedroom closet of one of the world's richest men, only to witness, through a one-way mirror, two Secret Service agents kill the billionaire's trampy young wife as she tries to fight off the drunken sexual advances of the nation's chief executive. Running for his life, but not before he picks up a bloodstained letter opener that puts the president at the scene of the crime, the burglar becomes the target of a clandestine manhunt orchestrated by leading members of the executive branch.Meanwhile, Jack Graham, once a public defender and now a high-powered corporate attorney, gets drawn into the case because the on-the-lam burglar just happens to be the father of his former financee, a crusading Virginia prosecutor. Embroidering the narrative through assorted plot whorls are the hero's broken romance; his conflict over selling out for financial success; the prosecutor's confused love-hate for her burglar father; the relentless investigation by a northern Virginia career cop; the dilemma of government agents trapped in a moral catch-22; the amoral ambitions of a sexy White House Chief of Staff; and the old burglar's determination to bring down the ruthless president. Meanwhile, lurking at the novel's center like a venomous spider is the sociopathic president." | 
         | 1786 | Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys | Kate Brian | Oct-06 | Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary, Chick Lit, High School, Teen, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult Romance, Fiction, Young Adult Contemporary | Megan Meade, Evan McGowan, Finn McGowan, Doug McGowan, Miller McGowan, Hailie | "When she was nine, Megan Meade met a group of terrible, mean, Popsicle-goo-covered boys, the sons of her father's friend - the McGowan boys. Now, seven years later, Megan's army doctor parents are shipping off to Korea and Megan is being sent to live with the little monsters, who are older now and quite different than she remembered them.  Living in a house with seven boys will give Megan, who has never even been kissed, the perfect opportunity to learn everything there is to know about boys. And she'll send all her notes to her best friend, Tracy, in...  Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys  Observation #1: Being an army brat sucks. Except that this is definitely a better alternative to moving to Korea.  Observation #2: Forget evil, laughing, little monsters. These guys have been touched by the Abercrombie gods. They are a blur of toned, suntanned perfection.  Observation #3: I need a lock on my door. STAT.  Observation #4: Three words: six-pack abs.  Observation #5: Do not even get me started on the state of the bathroom. I'm thinking of calling in a hazmat team. Seriously.  Observation #6: These boys know how to make enemies. Big time.  Megan Meade will have to juggle a new school, a new family, a new crush - on the boy next door, as in next bedroom door - and a new life. Will she survive the McGowan boys?" | 
         | 1787 | Whispers of the Dead | Simon Beckett | Jan-10 | Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Audiobook, German Literature, British Literature, Adult | David Hunter | "In plain black letters were the words Anthropological Research Facility,' but it was better known but another, less formal name. Most people just called it The Body Farm.The victim has been bound and torturer, the body decomposed beyond recognition...A second body is found.In America to escape the violence that nearly killed him, forensics expert David Hunter needs to know whether he is still up to the job of confronting death in all its strange and terrible forms.Then a body is found in a remote cabin out in the woods. And then another...Pushed deep into the heart of a terrifying manhunt, Hunter begins to wonder if they're on the trail of a maniac who simply cannot be stopped.Shocking, cunning and heart-stoppingly exciting, here is the new crime thriller from a No. 1 intentional bestselling storyteller.(back cover)" | 
         | 1788 | The Moomins and the Great Flood | Tove Jansson, David McDuff (Translator) | 2006 | Fantasy, Childrens, Fiction, Classics, Finnish Literature, Scandinavian Literature, Swedish Literature, Adventure, Middle Grade, Picture Books | Moomintroll, Moominmamma, Sniff, Tulippa, Moominpappa | "The Moomins and the Great Flood is the first book about the Moomins, originally published in 1945. It´s the story about Moominmamma and Moomintroll´s search for the missing Moominpappa and how they found their way to the Moominvalley." | 
         | 1789 | The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness | Simon Wiesenthal | 1998 | Nonfiction, Holocaust, Philosophy, History, Religion, Memoir, World War II, Spirituality, Biography, School | Simon Wiesenthal, Karl S. | "While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying SS man. Haunted by the crimes in which he'd participated, the soldier wanted to confess to-& obtain absolution from-a Jew. Faced with the choice between compassion & justice, silence & truth, Wiesenthal said nothing. But even years after the war had ended, he wondered: Had he done the right thing? What would you have done in his place?In this important book, 53 distinguished men & women respond to Wiesenthal's questions. They are theologians, political leaders, writers, jurists, psychiatrists, human rights activists, Holocaust survivors & victims of attempted genocides in Bosnia, Cambodia, China & Tibet. Their responses, as varied as their experiences of the world, remind us that Wiesenthal's questions are not limited to events of the past. Often surprising, always thought provoking, The Sunflower will challenge you to define your beliefs about justice, compassion & responsibility." | 
         | 1790 | Kuyucaklı Yusuf | Sabahattin Ali | Jan-99 | Turkish Literature, Fiction, Turkish, Classics, Roman, Novels, Literature, 20th Century, Audiobook, Read For School | Kuyucaklı Yusuf, Kaymakam Selahattin Bey, Muazzez | """Bu manasız ve yabancı hayatta bir tek şeye hakikaten sarılmış, hakikaten inanır gibi olmuştu. Bu da karısı idi. Muazzez'in varlığı Yusuf için büyük, boşlukları dolduracak mahiyette bir şey değildi, fakat onun yokluğu müthişti. Onun bu kadar sebepsiz yere, bu kadar insafsızca Yusuf'un hayatından koparılması çıldırtacak kadar acı idi. Hayatında asıl aradığı şeyin Muazzez olmadığını biliyordu, fakat Muazzez olmadan bunu aramaya muktedir olamayacağını sanıyordu.""Kuyucaklı Yusuf, Türk edebiyatının belki de en romantik kahramanıdır. Hayatın ve insanların zalimliği karşısındaki naif duruşu ile bir yandan trajik bir sona ilerlerken, bir yandan da yaşadığı lirik aşk hikayesinin kahramanı olarak edebiyat tarihinde yerini almıştır.Sabahattin Ali büyük romanı Kuyucaklı Yusuf'ta lirik ve romantik bir kahramanın yanı sıra, zalim ve ağulu bir taşra portresini bütün aktörleriyle gözümüzde canlandırır." | 
         | 1791 | Captains and the Kings | Taylor Caldwell | Apr-89 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Romance, Classics, Novels, Historical Romance, Drama, American, Literature | Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh, Harry Zieff, Bernadette Hennessey Armagh, Elizabeth Healey Hennessey, Charles Desmond, Rory Armagh, Mary Armag, Marjorie Chisholm, Ed Healey, Sean Armagh, Courtney Wickersham, Tom Hennessey, Katherine Hennessey, Kevin Armagh, Honora Houlihan, Miss Emmy, Claudia, Martinique | "This is a great surging novel about the amassing of a colossal fortune, the political power that comes with it, and the operation of a curse laid on an Irish-American dynasty and the ruthless driving man who founded it.Joseph Francis Xavier Armagh was thirteen years old when he first saw America through a dirty porthole on the steerage deck of The Irish Queen. It was the early 1850's and he was a penniless immigrant, an orphan cast on a hostile shore to make a home for himself and his younger brother and infant sister. Some seventy years later, from his deathbed, Joseph Armagh last glimpsed his adopted land from the gleaming windows of a palatial estate. A multi-millionaire, one of the most powerful and feared men, Joseph Armagh had indeed found a home. CAPTAINS AND KINGS is the story of the price that was paid for it in the consuming, single-minded determination of a man clawing his way to the top; in the bitter-sweet bliss of the love of a beautiful woman; in the almost too-late enjoyment of extraordinary children; and in the curse which used the hand of fate to strike in the very face of success itself.Once again, Taylor Caldwell has looked into America's roistering past as a setting for a drama of the consequences of savage ambition - and its meaning then and now." | 
         | 1792 | Griffin and Sabine | Nick Bantock | 2001 | Fiction, Art, Fantasy, Romance, Graphic Novels, Mystery, Magical Realism, Adult Fiction, Adult, Contemporary | Griffin Moss, Sabine Strohem | "It all started with a mysterious and seemingly innocent postcard, but from that point nothing was to remain the same in the life of Griffin Moss, a quiet, solitary artist living in London. His logical, methodical world was suddenly turned upside down by a strangely exotic woman living on a tropical island thousands of miles away. Who is Sabine? How can she ""see"" what Griffin is painting when they have never met? Is she a long-lost twin? A clairvoyant? Or a malevolent angel? Are we witnessing the flowering of a magical relationship or a descent into madness?This stunning visual novel unfolds in a series of postcards and letters, all brilliantly illustrated with whimsical designs, bizarre creatures, and darkly imagined landscapes. Inside the book, Griffin and Sabine's letters are to be found nestling in their envelopes, permitting the reader to examine the intimate correspondence of these inexplicably linked strangers. This truly innovative novel combines a strangely fascinating story with lush artwork in an altogether original format." | 
         | 1793 | A Darkness At Sethanon | Raymond E. Feist | 1987 | Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Magic, Adventure, Epic, Science Fiction, Adult | Pug, Tomas Megarson, Arutha conDoin, Martin Longbow, Laurie of Tyr-Sog, Macros the Black, Ashen-Shugar, Jimmy the Hand, Murmandamus, Baru the Serpentslayer, Roald of Tyr-Sog, Guy du Bas-Tyra | "A Darkness at Sethanon is the stunning climax to Raymond E. Feist's brilliant epic fantasy trilogy, the Riftwar Saga. Here be dragons and sorcery, swordplay, quests, pursuits, intrigues, stratagems, journeys to the darkest realms of the dead and titanic battles between the forces of good and darkest evil. Here is the final dramatic confrontation between Arutha and Murmandamus - and the perilous quest of Pug the magician and Tomas the warrior for Macros the Black. A Darkness at Sethanon is heroic fantasy of the highest excitement and on the grandest scale, a magnificent conclusion to one of the great fantasy sagas of our time." | 
         | 1794 | The Rivers of Zadaa | D.J. MacHale  | Jun-06 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Science Fiction, Fiction, Adventure, Childrens, Middle Grade, Teen, Young Adult Fantasy, Time Travel | Bobby Pendragon, Traveler Loor, Andy Mitchell, Saangi, Bokka, Courtney Chetwynde, Mark Dimond, Saint Dane, Traveler Alder | "THE BATTLE CONTINUES.THE STRUGGLE OF GOOD VERSUS EVIL continues as Bobby Pendragon follows Saint Dane to the territory of Zadaa. Saint Dane's influence has fueled the fire of discontent between two warring tribes: the Rokador and the Batu. This is also the territory where the Traveler Loor lives as a member of the Batu. Together she and Bobby must work to thwart Saint Dane's efforts to destroy Zadaa.But as Bobby pursues Saint Dane, he begins to notice changes in himself. He is no longer a flip kid looking for excitement. He is a young man beginning to see this quest as more than a series of adventures. He is also learning that as a Traveler, he has powers no normal human should have.Cover illustration by Victor Lee" | 
         | 1795 | The Subterraneans | Jack Kerouac | 1994 | Fiction, Classics, Literature, Novels, American, The United States Of America, 20th Century, Americana, Romance, Literary Fiction | Leo Percepied, Julian Alexander, Frank Carmody, Sam Vedder | "Jack Kerouac, one of the great voices of the Beat generation and author of the classic On the Road, here continues his peregrinations in postwar, underground San Francisco. ""The subterraneans"" come alive at night, travel along dark alleyways, and live in a world filled with paint, poetry, music, smoke, and sex. Simmering in the center of it all is the brief affair between Leo Percepied, a writer, and Mardou Fox, a black woman ten years younger. Just at the moment when she is coolly leaving him, Leo realizes his passion for passion, his inability to function without it, and the puzzling futility of seeking redemption and fulfillment through writing." | 
         | 1796 | Ferien auf Saltkrokan | Astrid Lindgren | 2007 | Childrens, Fiction, Classics, Swedish Literature, Scandinavian Literature, Sweden, Middle Grade, 20th Century, German Literature, Adventure | Tjorven Grankvist, Pelle Melkersson, Malin Melkersson, Melker Melkersson, Johan Melkersson, Niklas Melkersson, Nisse Grankvist, Marta Grankvist, Teddy Grankvist, Freddy Grankvist, Stina | "Ferien auf Saltkrokan! Pelle, seine große Schwester Malin und seine beiden Brüder entdecken auf der kleinen Insel die unberührte Natur der schwedischen Schären. Sie baden im Meer, fangen Fische, sammeln Pfifferlinge und feiern Mittsommer. Nichts aber ist schöner für Pelle, als gemeinsam mit Tjorven, dem Inselmädchen, und ihrem großen Bernhardinerhund Bootsmann über die Felsen und durch den Wald zu streifen und dabei von einem Abenteuer ins nächste zu stolpern." | 
         | 1797 | An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness | Kay Redfield Jamison  | Oct-96 | Psychology, Nonfiction, Memoir, Mental Health, Biography, Mental Illness, Biography Memoir, Autobiography, Science, Health | Kay Redfield Jamison | The personal memoir of a manic depressive and an authority on the subject describes the onset of the illness during her teenage years and her determined journey through the realm of available treatments. | 
         | 1798 | Endless Night | Agatha Christie | 2007 | Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Mystery Thriller, Thriller, Audiobook, Detective, British Literature, Novels | Michael Rogers, Fenella Goodman, Greta Andersen | "Gipsy’s Acre was a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea – and in Michael Rogers it stirred a child-like fantasy. There, amongst the dark fir trees, he planned to build a house, find a girl and live happily ever after. Yet, as he left the village, a shadow of menace hung over the land. For this was the place where accidents happened. Perhaps Michael should have heeded the locals’ warnings: ‘There’s no luck for them as meddles with Gipsy’s Acre.’ Michael Rogers is a man who is about to learn the true meaning of the old saying ‘In my end is my beginning.’The title Endless Night was taken from William Blake’s Auguries of Innocence and describes Christie’s favourite theme in the novel: a “twisted” character, who always chooses evil over good.Christie finished Endless Night in six weeks, as opposed to the three-four months that most of her other novels took. Despite being in her seventies while writing it, she told an interviewer that being Michael, the twenty-something narrator, “wasn’t difficult. After all, you hear people like him talking all the time.”The book is dedicated to Christie's relative ""Nora Prichard from whom I first heard the legend of Gipsy's Acre."" Gipsy's Acre was a field on the Welsh moors." | 
         | 1799 | Ain't She Sweet? | Susan Elizabeth Phillips  | 2006 | Romance, Contemporary Romance, Contemporary, Chick Lit, Fiction, Humor, Adult, Audiobook, Southern, Adult Fiction | Sugar Beth Carey, Colin Byrne | "In high school Sugar Carey had reigned supreme. She alone had decided what or who was cool. Her spiral perm had been the perm against which all others were measured, and her opinion on which boys were acceptable to date the only one that counted. A beautiful, blonde - if not always benevolent - dictator, she had a reputation for being the wild child in her home town, the girl most likely to set the world on fire, and leave a trail of destruction in her wake. When she left home she swore she'd never return. Only now, fifteen years and several husbands later, she's run out of money, luck and options...But Sugar arrives back home to discover that everyone else is living her life. Her half sister is married to Sugar's high school sweetheart, the teacher she schemed to get fired is now a successful novelist and owns her old house. She also discovers that people have long memories - especially where Sugar is concerned..." | 
         | 1800 | The Cradle Will Fall | Mary Higgins Clark | 2003 | Mystery, Fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Adult, Adult Fiction, Romance, Contemporary | Katie | This hospital-based horror tale features abduction and a research project that violates every principle of modern medicine. This is a reissue of a novel by a popular author often described as the 'Queen of Suspense'. | 
         | 1801 | Till The Last Breath | Durjoy Datta  | Sept-12 | Romance, Fiction, Indian Literature, India, Love, Romantic, Young Adult, Love Story, Contemporary, Novels | Arman Kashyup, Kajal Khurana, Pihu Malhotra, Dushyant Roy, Zarah Mirza | "On a lazy Sunday morning, two young people are wheeled into Room No. 509 of GKL super specialty hospital.A brilliant nineteen year old medical student, suffering from an incurable, fatal disease hurtling her at a slow, painful, uncertain death.A wasteful twenty five year old drug addict, with no appreciation of life, with every organ system of his body slowly shutting down.Two prodigious doctors, fighting their own demons from the past, try to keep these two patients alive, putting their medical licenses at risk.Death looms in the tiny 12X13 foot room as they fight for every breath of their lives, even as the doctors put them through unapproved experimental treatments to prolong their lives.How will the last month of pain and struggle change their lives? How will it transform the doctors who work steadfastly to make them live a little longer?" | 
         | 1802 | The Minds of Billy Milligan | Daniel Keyes | Oct-81 | Nonfiction, Psychology, Biography, True Crime, Crime, American, Thriller, Mental Illness, Mental Health, True Story | Billy Milligan | "Billy Milligan can be anyone he wants to be . . . except himself. Out of control of his actions, Billy Milligan was a man tormented by twenty-four distinct personalities battling for supremacy over his body—a battle that culminated when he awoke in jail, arrested for the kidnap and rape of three women. In a landmark trial, Billy was acquitted of his crimes by reason of insanity caused by multiple personality—the first such court decision in history—bringing to public light the most remarkable and harrowing case of multiple personality ever recorded.Twenty-four people live inside Billy Milligan. Philip, a petty criminal; Kevin, who dealt drugs and masterminded a drugstore robbery; April, whose only ambition was to kill Billy's stepfather; Adalana, the shy, lonely, affection-starved lesbian who “used” Billy's body in the rapes that led to his arrest; David, the eight-year-old “keeper of pain”; and all of the others, including men, women, several children, both boys and girls, and the Teacher, the only one who can put them all together. You will meet each in this often shocking true story. And you will be drawn deeply into the mind of this tortured young man and his splintered, terrifying world." | 
         | 1803 | Congo | Florencia Bonelli  | Aug-11 | Romance, Contemporary Romance, Historical Fiction, Africa, Contemporary, Action | Eliah Al-Saud | """Él es un señor de la guerra. Ella, una luchadora por la paz.""La cirujana pediátrica Matilde Martínez viaja desde París con destino al Congo guiada por una ilusión: aliviar el sufrimiento de los nifios castigados por la violencia y el hambre que imperan en ese país africano. Ha dejado atrás una historia de amor difícil, que no consigue olvidar.Por su parte, el soldado profesional Eliah Al-Saud llega al Congo movido por una ambición: hacerse de una mina de coltán, el mineral más codiciado por los fabricantes de teléfonos móviles, que le redituará grandes beneficios económicos. Pero sobre todo llega al Congo para recuperar a Matilde, a quien considera la razón de su vida.Los traumas y secretos que los distanciaron en París siguen latentes y, rodeados por un contexto cruel e injusto, la reconciliación parece imposible.En el marco de la Segunda Guerra del Congo, más conocida como Guerra del Coltán, y amenazados por grupos guerrilleros de mucho poder, Matilde y Eliah intentarán por todos los medios que triunfe el amor sobre la guerra." | 
         | 1804 | La ciudad de los prodigios | Eduardo Mendoza | 1987 | Fiction, Spanish Literature, Spain, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels, Humor, Roman, Contemporary, Drama | Onofre Bouvila | "En 1887, Onofre Bouvila, un joven campesino arruinado, llega a la gran ciudad que todavía no lo es, Barcelona, y encuentra su primer trabajo como repartidor de panfletos anarquistas entre los obreros que trabajan en la Exposición Universal del ańo siguiente. El lector deberá seguir la espectacular historia del ascenso de Bouvila, que lo llevará a convertirse en uno de los hombres más ricos e influyentes del país con métodos no del todo ortodoxos." | 
         | 1805 | Ballet Shoes | Noel Streatfeild, Diane Goode (Illustrator) | Sept-03 | Childrens, Classics, Fiction, Middle Grade, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Childrens Classics, Juvenile, British Literature, Realistic Fiction | Pauline Fossil, Petrova Fossil, Posy Fossil | "An alternate cover edition for this ISBN from 1993 can be found herePauline, Petrova and Posy are orphans determined to help out their family by attending the Children's Academy of Dancing and Stage Training. But when they vow to make a name for themselves, they have no idea it's going to be such hard work! They launch themselves into the world of show business, complete with working papers, the glare of the spotlight, and practice, practice, practice! Pauline is destined for the movies. Posy is a born dancer. But practical Petrova finds she'd rather pilot a plane than perform a pirouette. Each girl must find the courage to follow her dream." | 
         | 1806 | قمر على سمرقند | محمد المنسي قنديل , Mohamed Mansi Qandil | Jun-11 | Novels, Fiction, Literature, Egypt, Historical Fiction, Unfinished, Contemporary, Egyptian Literature, Asia, Audiobook | نور الله, علي, طيف, لطف الله, سيد قطب, Timur, Gamal Abdel Nasser | عندما يقوم «علي» الطبيب المصري الشاب برحلة إلى مدينة «سمرقند»، بحثًا عن سر قديم ويتقابل مع رجل أسطوري هو «نور الله» الذي يقود سيارته ويوجه مصيره، ويخوضان معًا مغامرة في أماكن مدهشة.. وتأخذ الرحلة أيضًا بعدها في الزمان فتستكشف بعضًا من ماضي هذه الأرض الغضة والغنية بالتاريخ والأساطير، وتخوض في تعقيدات الحاضر بكل ما فيه من مؤامرات وعنف وجنس. إنها رواية تستكشف أرضًا جديدة وتخوض في تضاريس لم تصل إليها الرواية العربية من قبل، وتطرح أسئلة تتعلق بالهوية والذات والمصير الإنساني | 
         | 1807 | Kruistocht in spijkerbroek | Thea Beckman | 1974 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Historical, Fantasy, Dutch Literature, Time Travel, Adventure, Classics | Mariecke, Rudolf Wega, Fibonacci | "De zestienjarige Dolf uit Amstelveen geeft zich op als proefkonijn: hij zal door een materie-transmitter teruggeflitst worden naar de Middeleeuwen om daar één middag een kijkje te nemen. Maar door een foute berekening komt hij in het jaar 1212 terecht in een Kinderkruistocht die net uit Keulen is vertrokken en niet op het riddertoernooi in Montgivray in Midden-Frankrijk dat hij zo graag wilde bijwonen.Verbijsterd ziet hij duizenden gelovige – en vooral goedgelovige – kinderen, aan wie wonderen zijn beloofd, zingend aan hem voorbijtrekken. Zij zijn van plan met hun blote handen het Heilige Land van de Saracenen te bevrijden.Om vijf uur diezelfde middag moet Dolf weer op de afgesproken plek staan om teruggeflitst te worden naar de twintigste eeuw – tenminste, als er niets fout gaat…Lengte: 11 uur 26 minuten" | 
         | 1808 | Tailchaser's Song | Tad Williams  | Dec-00 | Fantasy, Fiction, Animals, Cats, Young Adult, Science Fiction Fantasy, Animal Fiction, Adventure, Adult, Novels | Fritti Tailchaser, Pouncequick, Roofshadow | "Meet Fritti Tailchaser, a ginger tom cat of rare courage and curiosity, a born survivor in a world of heroes and villains, of powerful feline gods and whiskery legends about those strange furless, erect creatures called M’an.“The hour of Unfolding Dark had begun, and the rooftop where Tailchaser lay was smothered in shadow. He was deep in a dream of leaping and flying when he felt an unusual tingling in his whiskers. Fritti Tailchaser, hunterchild of the Folk, came suddenly awake and sniffed the air. Ears pricked and whiskers flared straight, he sifted the evening breeze. Nothing unusual. Then what had awakened him? Pondering, he splayed his claws and began a spine-limbering stretch that finally ended at the tip of his reddish tail.”Join Tailchaser on his magical quest to rescue his catfriend Hushpad on a quest that will take him all the way to cat hell and beyond." | 
         | 1809 | The Bride Collector | Ted Dekker  | 2010 | Christian, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, Fiction, Christian Fiction, Mystery, Adult Fiction, Romance, Detective | Brad Raines, Nikki Holden, Paradise, Quinton Gauld | A string of exquisite young women have been murdered by a single individual who leaves his signature with each body: a pristine bridal veil. FBI agent Brad Raines must turn to a most unusual source for help. | 
         | 1810 | İnce Memed 1 | Yaşar Kemal | Jan-04 | Fiction, Turkish Literature, Turkish, Classics, Literature, Historical Fiction, Novels, Roman, 20th Century, Adventure | İnce Memed, Abdi Ağa | "Otuz iki yıllık bir zaman diliminde yazılan İnce Memed dörtlüsü düzene başkaldıran Memed'in ve insan ilişkileri, doğası ve renkleriyle Çukurova'nın öyküsüdür. Yaşar Kemal'in söyleyişiyle ""içinde başkaldırma kurduyla doğmuş"" bir insanın, ""mecbur adam""ın romanı.Abdi Ağa'nın zulmüyle köyünü terk etmek zorunda kalan Memed, Ağa'nın yeğeniyle evlendirilmek üzere olan Hatçe'yi kaçırır. Abdi Ağa'yı yaralayan, yeğenini de öldüren Memed eşkıya Deli Durdu'ya katılır, ancak kıyıcılığına katlanamadığı Deli Durdu'dan iki arkadaşıyla birlikte ayrılır. Memed, sıradan bir köy çocuğuyken, zulmedenler için eşkıyaya, köylüler içinse bir kurtarıcıya dönüşür. ""Bir yaşam biçimini bir halkın portresi olarak böylesine veren bu romandan daha iyisi yazılamazdı."" - The New York Times Book Review, (A.B.D.) ""Şaşırtıcı, orijinal bir kitap."" - Sunday Times, (İngiltere) ""Epik boyutlara ulaşan ve muhteşem bir sona ulaşmak için hız kazanan öyküye kendinizi kaptırıyorsunuz."" - Sunday Times, (İngiltere) ""Yaşar Kemal, şaşılacak ölçüde yaratıcı.""- The Bookseller, (İngiltere)""Yaşar Kemal, karakterlerini unutulmaz, seçkin ve gerçek hayattan daha da gerçekçi kılan detay zenginliği ile Rus edebiyatının kalitesine ulaşıyor.""- Sunday Telegraph, (İngiltere)" | 
         | 1811 | The Gift | Vladimir Nabokov, Michael Scammell (Translator), Dmitri Nabokov (Translator) | 2017 | Fiction, Russia, Classics, Russian Literature, Literature, Novels, 20th Century, Germany, Literary Fiction, Modern Classics | Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, Elizaveta Pavlovna, Zina Mertz | "The Gift is the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his native Russian and the crowning achievement of that period in his literary career.  It is also his ode to Russian literature, evoking the works of Pushkin, Gogol, and others in the course of its narrative:  the story of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished émigré poet living in Berlin, who dreams of the book he will someday write-a book very much like The Gift itself." | 
         | 1812 | The Edible Woman | Margaret Atwood  | Jun-98 | Fiction, Feminism, Canada, Classics, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Canadian Literature, Womens | Marian McAlpin, Ainsley Tewce, Peter Wollander | "Marian is determined to be ordinary. She lays her head gently on the shoulder of her serious fiancé and quietly awaits marriage. But she didn't count on an inner rebellion that would rock her stable routine, and her digestion. Marriage à la mode, Marian discovers, is something she literally can't stomach... The Edible Woman is a funny, engaging novel about emotional cannibalism, men and women, and the desire to be consumed." | 
         | 1813 | Goodbye Tsugumi | Banana Yoshimoto, Giorgio Amitrano (Translator), Michael Emmerich (Translator) | 2002 | Fiction, Japan, Japanese Literature, Contemporary, Asia, Asian Literature, Novels, Literature, Young Adult, Adult | Shirakawa Maria, Yamamoto Tsugumi, Yamamoto Yoko, Kyoichi | "Banana Yoshimoto's novels of young life in Japan have made her an international sensation. Goodbye Tsugumi is an offbeat story of a deep and complicated friendship between two female cousins that ranks among her best work. Maria is the only daughter of an unmarried woman. She has grown up at the seaside alongside her cousin Tsugumi, a lifelong invalid, charismatic, spoiled, and occasionally cruel. Now Maria's father is finally able to bring Maria and her mother to Tokyo, ushering Maria into a world of university, impending adulthood, and a ""normal"" family. When Tsugumi invites Maria to spend a last summer by the sea, a restful idyll becomes a time of dramatic growth as Tsugumi finds love and Maria learns the true meaning of home and family. She also has to confront both Tsugumi's inner strength and the real possibility of losing her. Goodbye Tsugumi is a beguiling, resonant novel from one of the world's finest young writers." | 
         | 1814 | Jakob von Gunten | Robert Walser, Christopher Middleton (Translator, Introduction) | 1999 | Fiction, German Literature, Classics, Literature, Novels, 20th Century, Germany, Literary Fiction, Short Stories, Modern Classics | Jakob von Gunten, Herr Benjamenta | "The Swiss writer Robert Walser is one of the quiet geniuses of twentieth-century literature. Largely self-taught and altogether indifferent to worldly success, Walser wrote a range of short stories, essays and four novels, of which Jakob von Gunten is widely recognized as the finest. It tells the story of a seventeen-year-old runaway from an old family who enrolls in a school for servants. The Institute, run by the domineering Herr Benjamenta and his beautiful but ailing sister, is a deeply mysterious place: the faculty lies asleep in a single room. The students though subject to fierce discipline, come and go at will. Jakob, an irrepressibly subversive presence, keeps a journal in which he records his quirky impressions of the school as well as his own quickly changing enthusiasms and uncertainties, deliberations and dreams. And in the end, as the Institute itself dissolves around him like a dream, he steps out boldly to explore still-unimagined worlds." | 
         | 1815 | Bluebeard | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | 2011 | Fiction, Classics, Humor, Literature, Novels, Science Fiction, American, Art, Literary Fiction, Contemporary | Rabo Karabekian | "Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy-one, wants to be left alone on his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked inside his potato barn. But then a voluptuous young widow badgers Rabo into telling his life story—and Vonnegut in turn tells us the plain, heart-hammering truth about man’s careless fancy to create or destroy what he loves." | 
         | 1816 | The Loved One | Evelyn Waugh | Nov-01 | Fiction, Classics, Humor, Literature, British Literature, Novels, Death, 20th Century, Comedy, Literary Fiction | Dennis Barlow, Aimée Thanatogenos, Mr. Joyboy, Francis Hinsley, Sir Ambrose Abercrombie | "Following the death of a friend, British poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering the artificial Hollywood paradise of the Whispering Glades Memorial Park. Within its golden gates, death, American-style, is wrapped up and sold like a package holiday. There, Dennis enters the fragile and bizarre world of Aimée, the naïve Californian corpse beautician, and Mr Joyboy, the master of the embalmer's art...A dark and savage satire on the Anglo-American cultural divide, The Loved One depicts a world where love, reputation, and death cost a very great deal.This is an alternate cover edition: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...." | 
         | 1817 | The Gates of Rome | Conn Iggulden | Feb-04 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, War, Fantasy, Roman, Adventure, Italy, Novels, Action | Brutus, Gaius Marius, Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Julius Caesar | "Rarely, if ever, does a new writer dazzle us with such a vivid imagination and storytelling, flawlessly capturing the essence of a land, a people, a legend. Conn Iggulden is just such a writer, bringing to vivid life one of the most fascinating eras in human history. In a true masterpiece of historical fiction, Iggulden takes us on a breathtaking journey through ancient Rome, sweeping us into a realm of tyrants and slaves, of dark intrigues and seething passions. What emerges is both a grand romantic tale of coming-of-age in the Roman Empire and a vibrant portrait of the early years of a man who would become the most powerful ruler on earth: Julius Caesar. On the lush Italian peninsula, a new empire is taking shape. At its heart is the city of Rome, a place of glory and decadence, beauty and bloodshed. Against this vivid backdrop, two boys are growing to manhood, dreaming of battles, fame, and glory in service of the mightiest empire the world has ever known. One is the son of a senator, a boy of privilege and ambition to whom much has been given and from whom much is expected. The other is a bastard child, a boy of strength and cunning, whose love for his adoptive family-and his adoptive brother-will be the most powerful force in his life. As young Gaius and Marcus are trained in the art of combat-under the tutelage of one of Rome's most fearsome gladiators-Rome itself is being rocked by the art of treachery and ambition, caught in a tug-of-war as two rival generals, Marius and Sulla, push the empire toward civil war. For Marcus, a bloody campaign in Greece will become a young soldier's proving ground. For Gaius, the equally deadly infighting of the Roman Senate will be the battlefield where he hones his courage and skill. And for both, the love of an extraordinary slave girl will be an honor each will covet but only one will win. The two friends are forced to walk different paths, and by the time they meet again everything will have changed. Both will have known love, loss, and violence. And the land where they were once innocent will be thrust into the grip of bitter conflict-a conflict that will set Roman against Roman...and put their friendship to the ultimate test. Brilliantly interweaving history and adventure, Conn Iggulden conjures a stunning array of contrasts-from the bloody stench of a battlefield to the opulence of the greatest city in history, from the tenderness of a lover to the treachery of an assassin. Superbly rendered, grippingly told, Emperor, The Gates of Rome is a work of vaulting imagination from a powerful new voice in historical fiction. ""From the Hardcover edition.""" | 
         | 1818 | Ellana | Pierre Bottero | Dec-06 | Fantasy, France, Young Adult, Roman, Fiction, Childrens, Novels, Adventure, Middle Grade, Sci Fi Fantasy | Ellana Caldin | "Seule survivante d'un groupe de pionniers après l'attaque de leur caravane par des Raïs, au nord de l'Empire, une fillette est recueillie par le peuple des Petits. Elle grandit dans la Forêt Maison à l'écart des hommes et décide, à l'adolescence, de partir en quête de ses origines. En chemin, sous le nom d'Ellana, elle croise le plus grand des marchombres, le maître Jilano Alhuïn, qui la prend pour élève et l'initie aux secrets de sa guilde. Un apprentissage semé d'embûches, de rencontres et d'inimitiés…" | 
         | 1819 | Fire Star | Chris d'Lacey | Mar-07 | Fantasy, Dragons, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Middle Grade, Magic, Adventure, Urban Fantasy, Mystery | David Rain, Suzanna Martindale, Elizabeth Pennykettle, Lucy Pennykettle | "There is a fire star coming, signaling a time of new beginnings. A time for dragons to rise again...A research trip to the Arctic and a contract for a new book - life can't get much better for David Rain. But as soon as David finds himself in the icy climes, he begins to write his legend of bears, dragons, and the mmysterious fire star. Soon he realizes that his tale is starting to mirror real life, and that an old enemy is on her way to meet him.Can David thwart her terrible master plan? Or will his world be destroyed forever?" | 
         | 1820 | Deadeye Dick | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | 2010 | Fiction, Humor, Classics, Literature, Science Fiction, American, Novels, Contemporary, Horror, Literary Fiction | Rudy Waltz | "Deadeye Dick is Kurt Vonnegut’s funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrors—a double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation, an annihilation of a city by a neutron bomb—Rudy Waltz, aka Deadeye Dick, takes us along on a zany search for absolution and happiness. Here is a tale of crime and punishment that makes us rethink what we believe . . . and who we say we are." | 
         | 1821 | Under Milk Wood | Dylan Thomas | 1954 | Poetry, Plays, Classics, Drama, Fiction, Theatre, Literature, British Literature, 20th Century, Audiobook | Dylan Thomas, Dai Bread, Polly Garter, Nogood Boyo, Gossamer Beynon, Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard, Captain Cat | "A moving and hilarious account of a spring day in a small Welsh coastal town, Under Milk Wood is ""lyrical, impassioned and funny, an Our Town given universality"" (The New Statesman and Nation)." | 
         | 1822 | Monster Hunter International | Larry Correia | 2009 | Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Horror, Fiction, Paranormal, Vampires, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Action, Audiobook | Owen Zastava Pitt | "Five days after Owen Zastava Pitt pushed his insufferable boss out of a fourteenth story window, he woke up in the hospital with a scarred face, an unbelievable memory, and a job offer. It turns out that monsters are real. All the things from myth, legend, and B-movies are out there, waiting in the shadows. Officially secret, some of them are evil, and some are just hungry. On the other side are the people who kill monsters for a living. Monster Hunter International is the premier eradication company in the business. And now Owen is their newest recruit. It’s actually a pretty sweet gig, except for one little problem. An ancient entity known as the Cursed One has returned to settle a centuries old vendetta. Should the Cursed One succeed, it means the end of the world, and MHI is the only thing standing in his way. With the clock ticking towards Armageddon, Owen finds himself trapped between legions of undead minions, belligerent federal agents, a cryptic ghost who has taken up residence inside his head, and the cursed family of the woman he loves. Business is good... Welcome to Monster Hunter International." | 
         | 1823 | Big Fish | Daniel Wallace | 2004 | Fiction, Fantasy, Magical Realism, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Humor, Adult, Media Tie In, Novels, Literature | William Bloom, Edward Bloom, Sandra Kay Templeton, Jenny Hill | "He could outrun anybody, and he never missed a day of school. He saved lives, tamed giants. Animals loved him. People loved him. Women loved him (and he loved them back). And he knew more jokes than any man alive.Now, as he lies dying, Edward Bloom can't seem to stop telling jokes -or the tall tales that have made him, in his son's eyes, an extraordinary man. Big Fish is the story of this man's life, told as a series of legends and myths inspired by the few facts his son, William, knows. Through these tales -hilarious and wrenching, tender and outrageous- William begins to understand his elusive father's great feats, and his great failings." | 
         | 1824 | The Naked Sun | Isaac Asimov | 1996 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Mystery, Robots, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy, Crime, Novels, Detective, Fantasy | Elijah Baley, R. Daneel Olivaw, Gladia Delmarre | "A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot servants. To this strange and provocative planet comes Detective Elijah Baley, sent from the streets of New York with his positronic partner, the robot R. Daneel Olivaw, to solve an incredible murder that has rocked Solaria to its foundations. The victim had been so reclusive that he appeared to his associates only through holographic projection. Yet someone had gotten close enough to bludgeon him to death while robots looked on. Now Baley and Olivaw are faced with two clear impossibilities: Either the Solarian was killed by one of his robots - unthinkable under the laws of Robotics - or he was killed by the woman who loved him so much that she never came into his presence!" | 
         | 1825 | Silverthorn | Raymond E. Feist | 1986 | Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Magic, Adventure, Epic, Science Fiction, Novels | Pug, Arutha conDoin, Martin Longbow, Laurie of Tyr-Sog, Jimmy the Hand, Anita of Krondor, Murmandamus, Brother Dominic of Sarth, Baru the Serpentslayer, Roald of Tyr-Sog | "A poisoned bolt has struck down the Princess Anita on the day of her wedding to Prince Arutha of Krondor.To save his beloved, Arutha sets out in search of the mystic herb called Silverthorn that only grows in the dark and forbidding land of the Spellweavers.Accompanied by a mercenary, a minstrel, and a clever young thief, he will confront an ancient evil and do battle with the dark powers that threaten the enchanted realm of Midkemia." | 
         | 1826 | Korkma Ben Varım | Murat Menteş | Nov-09 | Turkish Literature, Turkish, Roman, Fiction, Novels | Şebnem Şibumi, Enver Paşa, Hayati Tehlike, Mr. Spock, Abdülcabbar, Ruhiye Hanım, Müntekim Gıcırbey, papağan Huduni, cin Jajha, Atom Bombacıyan, Uçan Kız, Abidin Dandini, Leyla Kalahari | "“Öldürdüğüm insanlarla iyi arkadaşolacağımızı düşünmüşümdür hep.”Dublörün Dilemması’nın yazarından komik, hızlı, şoke edici bir roman daha.Gönül İşleri Bakanlığı’nda basın müşaviri dövüş ustası Fu.Başkalarının intikamını alarak hayatını kazanan Gıcırbey.Tarih öğretmeni dilber Şebnem Şibumi.Padişah yorganları satıcısı Enver Paşa.Dul gangster Hayati Tehlike.Mr. Spock, Abdülcabbar, Ruhiye Hanım, papağan Huduni, cin Jajha, Atom Bombacıyan, Uçan Kız, Abidin Dandini, Leyla Kalahari ve diğerleri..." | 
         | 1827 | Pudd'nhead Wilson | Mark Twain | 1984 | Classics, Fiction, Literature, Humor, Historical Fiction, American, Mystery, 19th Century, School, Novels | Roxana Langley, ""David Pudd''nhead Wilson"", Roxanne | "At the beginning of Pudd'nhead Wilson a young slave woman, fearing for her infant's son's life, exchanges her light-skinned child with her master's.  From this rather simple premise Mark Twain fashioned one of his most entertaining, funny, yet biting novels.  On its surface, Pudd'nhead Wilson possesses all the elements of an engrossing nineteenth-century mystery:  reversed identities, a horrible crime, an eccentric detective, a suspenseful courtroom drama, and a surprising, unusual solution.  Yet it is not a mystery novel.  Seething with the undercurrents of antebellum southern culture, the book is a savage indictment in which the real criminal is society, and racial prejudice and slavery are the crimes.  Written in 1894, Pudd'nhead Wilson glistens with characteristic Twain humor, with suspense, and with pointed irony:  a gem among the author's later works." | 
         | 1828 | Daughters of Darkness | L.J. Smith  | Aug-96 | Young Adult, Vampires, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Supernatural, Paranormal Romance, Witches | Rowan Redfern, Ash Redfern, Kestrel Redfern, Mary-Lynnette Carter, John Quinn, Jade Redfern, Mark Carter, Jeremy Lovett, Bunny Marten, Vic Kimble, Todd Akers | "Unearthly Beauty There's something strange about the new girls in town. Briar Creek, Oregon, has never seen anything like the supernatural grace of Rowan, Kestrel, and Jade, three sisters who move into the dilapidated old house next to Mark and Mary-Lynnette Carter. Mark is obsessed with Jade- but she and her sisters have a secret. And when Mark and Mary-Lynnette follow them into the woods one night, they are plunged into a nightmare beyond their imagination. Because the sisters are fugitives from the Night World, and their brother Ash is hot on the trail behind them. He's ruthless, gorgeous, and he has orders to bring the girls back at all costs. And when he sees Mary-Lynette, he decides to take her too..." | 
         | 1829 | Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed | Patricia Cornwell  | Nov-03 | Nonfiction, True Crime, History, Crime, Mystery, Biography, Historical, Thriller, Horror, British Literature | Jack the Ripper | "Now updated with new material that brings the killer's picture into clearer focus.In the fall of 1888, all of London was held in the grip of unspeakable terror.  An elusive madman calling himself Jack the Ripper was brutally butchering women in the slums of London’s East End.  Police seemed powerless to stop the killer, who delighted in taunting them and whose crimes were clearly escalating in violence from victim to victim.  And then the Ripper’s violent spree seemingly ended as abruptly as it had begun.  He had struck out of nowhere and then vanished from the scene.  Decades passed, then fifty years, then a hundred, and the Ripper’s bloody sexual crimes became anemic and impotent fodder for puzzles, mystery weekends, crime conventions, and so-called “Ripper Walks” that end with pints of ale in the pubs of Whitechapel.  But to number-one New York Times bestselling novelist Patricia Cornwell, the Ripper murders are not cute little mysteries to be transformed into parlor games or movies but rather a series of terrible crimes that no one should get away with, even after death.  Now Cornwell applies her trademark skills for meticulous research and scientific expertise to dig deeper into the Ripper case than any detective before her—and reveal the true identity of this fabled Victorian killer.In Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper, Case Closed, Cornwell combines the rigorous discipline of twenty-first century police investigation with forensic techniques undreamed of during the late Victorian era to solve one of the most infamous and difficult serial murder cases in history.  Drawing on unparalleled access to original Ripper evidence, documents, and records, as well as archival, academic, and law-enforcement resources, FBI profilers, and top forensic scientists, Cornwell reveals that Jack the Ripper was none other than a respected painter of his day, an artist now collected by some of the world’s finest museums: Walter Richard Sickert.It has been said of Cornwell that no one depicts the human capability for evil better than she.   Adding layer after layer of circumstantial evidence to the physical evidence discovered by modern forensic science and expert minds, Cornwell shows that Sickert, who died peacefully in his bed in 1942, at the age of 81, was not only one of Great Britain’s greatest painters but also a serial killer, a damaged diabolical man driven by megalomania and hate.  She exposes Sickert as the author of the infamous Ripper letters that were written to the Metropolitan Police and the press.  Her detailed analysis of his paintings shows that his art continually depicted his horrific mutilation of his victims, and her examination of this man’s birth defects, the consequent genital surgical interventions, and their effects on his upbringing present a casebook example of how a psychopathic killer is created.New information and startling revelations detailed in Portrait of a Killer include:- How a year-long battery of more than 100 DNA tests—on samples drawn by Cornwell’s forensics team in September 2001 from original Ripper letters and Sickert documents—yielded the first shadows of the 75- to 114 year-old genetic evid..." | 
         | 1830 | Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day | Winifred Watson | 2000 | Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Humor, Romance, British Literature, Historical, Chick Lit, Audiobook, 20th Century | Guinevere Pettigrew, Delysia Langford | "Miss Pettigrew, an approaching-middle-age governess, was accustomed to a household of unruly English children. When her employment agency sends her to the wrong address, her life takes an unexpected turn. The alluring nightclub singer, Delysia LaFosse, becomes her new employer, and Miss Pettigrew encounters a kind of glamour that she had only met before at the movies. Over the course of a single day, both women are changed forever." | 
         | 1831 | Cosmopolis | Don DeLillo | 2003 | Fiction, Contemporary, Novels, American, Literature, Literary Fiction, New York, Americana, The United States Of America, 21st Century | Eric Packer, Elise Shifrin, Benno Levin, Torval | "It is a stunningly eventful day in the life of Eric Packer, a multi-billionaire who has recently married the heiress of a vast European fortune. A violent protest is being staged by anti-globalist groups and Eric fears that he may be a target. He is very much the target, but not by the protestors." | 
         | 1832 | A Letter of Mary | Laurie R. King  | 2001 | Mystery, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical, Historical Mystery, Crime, British Literature, Detective, Audiobook, Mystery Thriller | Mary Russell, Inspector Lestrade, Dorothy Ruskin, Colonel Dennis Edwards, Erica Rogers, Mrs Hudson (Conan Doyle series), Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes (Russell & Holmes series) | "The year is 1923 and Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell receive a visit from Dorothy Ruskin, an amateur archaeologist. She shows them a scrap of ancient writing that is supposedly Mary Magdalene's. Soon afterwards she is murdered — but why?" | 
         | 1833 | Borstal Boy | Brendan Behan, Benedict Kiely (Afterword) | Published | Irish Literature, Ireland, Memoir, Biography, Nonfiction, Autobiography, Classics, History, Banned Books, 20th Century | Brendan Behan | "This miracle of autobiography and prison literature begins: ""Friday, in the evening, the landlady shouted up the stairs: 'Oh God, oh Jesus, oh Sacred Heart, Boy, there's two gentlemen here to see you.' I knew by the screeches of her that the gentlemen were not calling to inquire after my health . . . I grabbed my suitcase, containing Pot. Chlor., Sulph Ac, gelignite, detonators, electrical and ignition, and the rest of my Sinn Fein conjurer's outfit, and carried it to the window . . ."" The men were, of course, the police, and seventeen-year-old Behan. He spent three years as a prisoner in England, primarily in Borstal (reform school), and was then expelled to his homeland, a changed but hardly defeated rebel. Once banned in the Irish Republic, Borstal Boy is both a riveting self-portrait and a clear look into the problems, passions, and heartbreak of Ireland." | 
         | 1834 | The Big Nowhere | James Ellroy | 1994 | Crime, Fiction, Mystery, Noir, Thriller, Detective, Historical Fiction, Hard Boiled, Mystery Thriller, Suspense | Deputy Danny Upshaw, Turner ""Buzz"" Meeks, lieutenant Malcolm Considine | "1950s Los Angeles: The City of Angels has become the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hunts and insanely violent killings are terrorising the community. Three men are plunged into a maelstrom of violence and deceit when their lives become inextricably linked as each one confronts his own personal darkness. Told with Ellroy's characteristically forceful and relentless style, The Big Nowhere is the link between the Black Dahlia and LA Confidential in his masterwork, The LA Quartet. It is as powerful and thrilling as crime fiction gets." | 
         | 1835 | Five Go to Smuggler's Top | Enid Blyton | 2001 | Childrens, Adventure, Mystery, Fiction, Classics, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Novels, British Literature, Childrens Classics | George Kirrin (Famous Five), Dick Kirrin, Timmy, Anne (Famous Five), Julian (Famous Five) | "The Five find adventure, when they spend Easter vacation at Mr. Lenoir's sinister house Smuggler's Top. Set high above an eerie marsh, the house is honeycombed with hidden staircases and tunnels that once served as a hideaway for smugglers. When strange lights begin to appear, the Five suspect that the tunnels are once more in use." | 
         | 1836 | Twenty Years After | Alexandre Dumas, David Coward (Editor), Auguste Maquet (Co-Author) | 1993 | Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Adventure, France, Historical, French Literature, Literature, 19th Century, Novels | ""D''Artagnan"", Athos, Porthos, Aramis, Oliver Cromwell, Anne of Austria, Cardinal Mazarino, Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland | "'At this game, whoever does not kill is killed.'Twenty Years After (1845), the sequel to The Three Musketeers, is a supreme creation of suspense and heroic adventure.Two decades have passed since the musketeers triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady. Time has weakened their resolve, and dispersed their loyalties. But treasons and stratagems still cry out for justice: civil war endangers the throne of France, while in England Cromwell threatens to send Charles I to the scaffold. Dumas brings his immortal quartet out of retirement to cross swords with time, the malevolence of men, and the forces of history. But their greatest test is a titanic struggle with the son of Milady, who wears the face of Evil." | 
         | 1837 | Assassination Vacation | Sarah Vowell | 2006 | Nonfiction, History, Humor, Travel, Essays, Audiobook, Memoir, American History, Politics, Historical | Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth, Edwin Booth, Theodore Roosevelt, William McKinley, James A. Garfield, Charles Guiteau, Leon Czolgosz, Robert Todd Lincoln | "Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit, probity, and an irreverent sense of humor. With Assassination Vacation, she takes us on a road trip like no other—a journey to the pit stops of American political murder and through the myriad ways they have been used for fun and profit, for political and cultural advantage.From Buffalo to Alaska, Washington to the Dry Tortugas, Vowell visits locations immortalized and influenced by the spilling of politically important blood, reporting as she goes with her trademark blend of wisecracking humor, remarkable honesty, and thought-provoking criticism. We learn about the jinx that was Robert Todd Lincoln (present at the assassinations of Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley) and witness the politicking that went into the making of the Lincoln Memorial. The resulting narrative is much more than an entertaining and informative travelogue—it is the disturbing and fascinating story of how American death has been manipulated by popular culture, including literature, architecture, sculpture, and—the author's favorite— historical tourism. Though the themes of loss and violence are explored and we make detours to see how the Republican Party became the Republican Party, there are all kinds of lighter diversions along the way into the lives of the three presidents and their assassins, including mummies, show tunes, mean-spirited totem poles, and a nineteenth-century biblical sex cult." | 
         | 1838 | The Black Arrow | Robert Louis Stevenson | 2001 | Classics, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Adventure, Historical, Literature, Young Adult, British Literature, Romance, 19th Century | Richard III of England, Richard ""Dick"" Shelton, Joanna Sedley | "From the beloved author of Treasure Island Originally serialized in a periodical of boys' adventure fiction, The Black Arrow is a swashbuckling portrait of a young man's journey to discover the heroism within himself. Young Dick Shelton, caught in the midst of England's War of the Roses, finds his loyalties torn between the guardian who will ultimately betray him and the leader of a secret fellowship, The Black Arrow. As Shelton is drawn deeper into this conspiracy, he must distinguish friend from foe and confront war, shipwreck, revenge, murder, and forbidden love, as England's crown threatens to topple around him." | 
         | 1839 | The Doomsday Conspiracy | Sidney Sheldon | 1991 | Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Science Fiction, Novels, Crime, Contemporary, Romance | Robert Bellamy | "OPERATION DOOMSDAY ... ACTIVE ... Commander Robert Bellamy of US Naval Intelligence is dispatched on a top secret mission. A weather balloon carrying sensitive military information has crashed in Switzerland. Bellamy must locate the ten witnesses to the incident so that they can be sworn to secrecy. But as he conducts his search Bellamy begins to suspect that he, too, is being hunted, by an unknown lethal force, that what he was told about the balloon was only one part of an almost unbelievable happening... From Washington to Zurich, Rome and Paris, the story unfolds to reveal Bellamy's past: why the women he loves the most cannot return his love, why his friends become his deadly enemies, and why the world must never learn the incredible secret hidden on the Swiss Alps... " | 
         | 1840 | Vengeance in Death | J.D. Robb  | 2004 | Mystery, Romance, Crime, Romantic Suspense, Fiction, Futuristic, Suspense, Science Fiction, Thriller, Mystery Thriller | Eve Dallas, Roarke, Delia Peabody, Ryan Feeney, Charlotte Mira, Ian McNab, Commander Jack Whitney, Mavis Freestone, Nadine Furst, Lawrence Charles Summerset, Chief Harrison Tibble, Brian Kelly | "He is an expert with the latest technology...a madman with the mind of a genius and the heart of a killer. He quietly stalks his prey. Then he haunts the police with cryptic riddles about the crimes he is about to commit-always solved moments too late to save his victims' lives.Police lieutenant Eve Dallas found the first victim butchered in his own home. The second lost his life in a vacant luxury apartment. The two men had little in common. Both suffered unspeakable torture before their deaths. And both had ties to an ugly secret of ten years past-a secret shared by none other than Eve's new husband, Roarke." | 
         | 1841 | Born in Sin | Kinley MacGregor | 2003 | Historical Romance, Romance, Historical, Medieval, Scotland, Historical Fiction, Medieval Romance, Fiction, Adult, Beauty and The Beast | Caledonia MacNeely (Callie), Sin MacAllister | "Stunning Caledonia MacNeely fights an unfamiliar shiver when she is offered in marriage to the infamous ′Lord Sin′. Though Callie fears this mysterious knight - less for the dark whispers that damn him than for the burning desire he invokes - she is under order of the English King. And with the fate of her troubled clan hanging in the balance, she has little recourse." | 
         | 1842 | Something Under the Bed is Drooling | Bill Watterson, Pat Oliphant (Foreword) | 1988 | Comics, Humor, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Comic Strips, Graphic Novels Comics, Comedy, Comic Book, Childrens, Cartoon | Calvin, Hobbes | "Calvin is a rambunctious six-year-old whose manic antics threaten world peace. Hobbes is his stuffed tiger who comes alive when adults aren't around. The saga of their daily exploits won cartoonist Bill Watterson the coveted Reuben Award for ""Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year."" Something Under the Bed Is Drooling is a jewel." | 
         | 1843 | Notwendige Streitgenossen | Georg Miggel  | 2009 | Crime, Fiction | Theo Lindner | "Lieber Herr Miggel,Streitgenossen habe ich genossen über den 1. Mai, sehr gut wie Familienumfeld und Charakter zusammen kommen, die Rivalitäten innerhalb und zwischen den Kanzleien, die Komik der präzisen Erfassung der steuerlichen Problematik des Lösegeldes, alles um nur nicht auf den Punkt zu kommen, glaubhaft wie größte jurisitische Rationalität bemüht wird um höchste Irratonalität anzugehen. Das steigert sich alles schön bis zur Mitte, dann treten die Streitgenossen und mit ihnen die Story auf der Stelle. Auch das überraschende Ende ist nicht ganz so überraschend, man hat irgendso eine zweite ebene erwartet, wenn auch nicht diese.Das schwächt den pay-off (Hornberger Schiessen). Sicher gute Vorlage für einen TV Krimi/Gesellschaftsdrama, allerdings in USA eher als bei uns; ich höre die Anwaltsserien haben hier wenig Zuspruch, bin da ber kein Spezialist.Jedenfalls eine empfehlenswerte Lektüre.KomplimentIhrVolker SchlöndorffIt only seems to start Theo Lindner, an internationally active law firm partner and father, an ordinary working day: In an unexpected meeting scheduled, he learns that his colleague Joachim Peters has been the victim of a kidnapping - the 20 million euro ransom to the members of the Board of their private pay. Within the firm a thrilling tug of war starts at the adequate handling of the emergency, on the one hand, anyone can associate a potential victim of the kidnap victims to identify the other hand, see all their material well-being threatened for years to come. The situation is alarming and, as encrypted, the second sign of life references to Peters' whereabouts, and he seems to contain Theo Lindner, with whom he privately nothing extraordinary, explicitly send out greetings. A breathtaking, exciting thriller in the legal environment, authentic and psychologically brilliant.Nur scheinbar beginnt für Theo Lindner, Partner einer international agierenden Anwaltskanzlei und Familienvater, ein ganz normaler Arbeitstag in Berlin: In einer unvorhergesehen anberaumten Sitzung erfährt er, dass sein Kollege Joachim Peters Opfer einer Entführung geworden ist – die 25 Millionen DM Lösegeld sollen die Mitglieder der Sozietät aus ihrem Privatvermögen berappen. Innerhalb der Sozietät beginnt ein nervenaufreibendes Tauziehen um den adäquaten Umgang mit der Notlage, denn einerseits kann sich jeder Teilhaber als potenzielles Opfer mit dem Entführten identifizieren, andererseits empfinden alle ihr materielles Wohlergehen auf Jahre hinaus bedroht.Die Lage spitzt sich zu, als das zweite Lebenszeichen verschlüsselte Hinweise auf Peters’ Aufenthaltsort zu enthalten scheint und er Theo Lindner, mit dem ihn privat nichts außergewöhnlich verbindet, explizit Grüße zukommen lässt …Ein atemberaubend spannender Krimi im Juristen-Milieu, authentisch und psychologisch brillant." | 
         | 1844 | Das Lächeln der Fortuna | Rebecca Gablé | May-01 | Historical Fiction, Historical, German Literature, Fiction, Audiobook, British Literature, Medieval, Fantasy, Roman, Drama | Isaac, Robin, Agnes, Conrad, Maria, Stephen, Geoffrrey Dermond, Mortimer, Leofric | "Nach dem Tod seines Vaters, des ehemaligen Earl of Walsingham, reißt der zwölfjährige Robin aus der Klosterschule aus und verdingt sich als Stallknecht auf dem Gut, das einst seiner Familie gehörte. Als Sohn eines angeblichen Hochverräters zählt er zu den Besitzlosen und ist der Willkür der Obrigkeit ausgesetzt. Besonders Mortimer, der Sohn des neuen Earl, schikaniert Robert, wo er kann. Zwischen den Jungen wächst eine tödliche Feindschaft. Aber Robin geht seinen Weg, der ihn schließlich zurück in die Welt von Hof, Adel und Ritterschaft führt. An der Seite des charismatischen Duke of Lancaster erlebt er Feldzüge, Aufstände und politische Triumphe - begegnet Frauen, die ebenso schön wie gefährlich sind. Doch das Rad der Fortuna dreht sich unaufhörlich, und während ein junger, unfähiger König England ins Verderben zu reißen droht, steht Robin plötzlich wieder seinem alten Todfeind gegenüber." | 
         | 1845 | House of Suns | Alastair Reynolds | 2010 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Space Opera, Audiobook, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Space, Hard Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Mystery | Purslane, Abigail Gentian, Hesperus, Madame Kleinfelter | "Six million years ago, at the dawn of the star-faring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones, which she called shatterlings. But now, someone is eliminating the Gentian line. Campion and Purslane—two shatterlings who have fallen in love and shared forbidden experiences—must determine exactly who, or what, their enemy is, before they are wiped out of existence." | 
         | 1846 | Pather Panchali: Song of the Road | Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay | Sept-75 | Fiction, Classics, India, Novels, Indian Literature, Drama, Literary Fiction, Asia, Family, Literature | Apu, Sarbajaya, Durga | "Pather Panchali deals with the life of the Roy family, consisting of Harihar, Sarbajaya, Apu and Durga, both in their ancestral village Nishchindipur in rural Bengal and later when they move to Varanasi in search of a better life, as well as the anguish and loss they face during their travels.It first appeared as a serial in a Calcutta periodical in 1928 and was published as a book the next year; it was the first published novel written by the author. It was followed in 1932 by a sequel Aparajito, which was later also adapted into a film of the same name by Satyajit Ray." | 
         | 1847 | Fortune's Favorites | Colleen McCullough | 1994 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Roman, Ancient History, Italy, Novels, Ancient, War, Literature | Spartacus, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Marcus Licinius Crassus, Julius Caesar, Marcus Tullius Cicero | "They were blessed by the gods at birth with wealth and privilege. In a time of cataclysmic upheaval, a bold new generation of Romans vied for greatness amid the disintegrating remnants of their beloved Republic. But there was one who towered above them all - a brilliant and beautiful boy whose ambition was unequaled, whose love was legend and whose glory was Rome's. A boy they would one day call ""Caesar.""" | 
         | 1848 | Independence Day | Richard Ford | 2003 | Fiction, Novels, Literature, American, Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Classics, Americana, The United States Of America | Frank Bascombe | "A visionary account of American life-and the long-awaited sequel to one of the most celebrated novels of the past decade-Independence Day reveals a man and our country with unflinching comedy and the specter of hope and even permanence, all of which Richard Ford evokes with a keen intelligence, perfect emotional pitch, and a voice invested with absolute authority." | 
         | 1849 | Catapult Soul | Brian Celio | Mar-09 | Counter Culture, Fiction | Luke Adams, Teodora Vallano, Vincent Vallano, Ivy Pineda, Zach Pessini, Teresa Cazzata, Dr. Rosenbaum, Rick Vallano, Aunt Stella, Uncle Alfonse, Eddie Hughes, Dante Zielinski, Jeremiah O’Malley, Anthony Durkin, Father Carr, Edward Pineda, Sandy Pineda, Holly Pineda, Jack McArdle, Abigail McArdle, Brian Seaver, Andrea No-Last-Name, Agent Ralphie, Hi-I’m-Thai Chick, Anson, Jackson Price, Eli Perez, Wes Parsons, Renee Baughman, Zia Filomena, Steve O’Malley, Kelly O’Malley, Big Joe, Sandino Camilleri, Glenn the Racist, Bob Fontana, Niki Fontana, Roland le Maître D, Billy Modo, Ron Adams, Grace Adams, Milvio, Gennaro, Razzle, Screwy Squirrel, ""The Ol'' Warhorse"", Quorra Vallano, Jean-Pierre | "Some consider this a serious story about love, art, and the madness in embracing both. Others consider it a tortured artist satire in disguise." | 
         | 1850 | La Confusion des sentiments | Stefan Zweig, Olivier Bournac (Translator), جواد شیخ‌الاسلامی (Translator), Alzir Hella (Translator) | Oct-08 | Fiction, Classics, German Literature, Literature, 20th Century, Novels, LGBT, Germany, Novella, Short Stories | Roland | "Au soir de sa vie, un vieux professeur se souvient de l'aventure qui, plus que les honneurs et la réussite de sa carrière, a marqué sa vie. A dix-neuf ans, il a été fasciné par la personnalité d'un de ses professeurs ; l'admiration et la recherche inconsciente d'un Père font alors naître en lui un sentiment mêlé d'idolâtrie, de soumission et d'un amour presque morbide. Freud a salué la finesse et la vérité avec laquelle l'auteur d'Amok et du Joueur d'échecs restituait le trouble d'une passion et le malaise qu'elle engendre chez celui qui en est l'objet. Paru en 1926, ce récit bref et profond connut un succès fulgurant, en raison de la nouveauté audacieuse du sujet. Il demeure assurément l'un des chefs-d'œuvre du grand écrivain autrichien." | 
         | 1851 | The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books I-II | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Thomas P. Whitney (Translator), Georgi Plekhanov (Quoted), Leon Trotsky (Quoted) | 1974 | History, Nonfiction, Russia, Classics, Politics, Biography, Russian Literature, Literature, Memoir, Philosophy | Joseph Stalin, Mikhail Ryumin, Viktor Abakumov | "Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society" | 
         | 1852 | Sister of My Heart | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni  | 2000 | Fiction, India, Contemporary, Book Club, Indian Literature, Novels, Asia, Adult, Cultural, Historical Fiction | Anju & Sudha, Gouri, Pishi, and Nalini | "Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family; her cousin Sudha is the daughter of the black sheep of the family. Sudha is as beautiful, tenderhearted, and serious as Anju is plain, whip-smart, and defiant. yet since the day they were born, Sudha and Anju have been bonded in ways even their mothers cannot comprehend.The cousins' bond is shattered, however, when Sudha learns a dark family secret. Urged into arranged marriages, their lives take sudden, opposite turns: Sudha becomes the dutiful daughter-in-law of a rigid small-town household, while Anju goes to America with her new husband and learns to live her own life of secrets. Then tragedy strikes them both, and the women discover that, despite the distance that has grown between them, they have only each other to turn to. Set in the two worlds of India and America, this is an exceptionally moving novel of love, friendship, and compelling courage." | 
         | 1853 | A Cidade e as Serras | Eça de Queirós, Carlos Reis (Introdução) | 1992 | Classics, Fiction, Portuguese Literature, Portugal, Literature, Romance, Novels, School, Adult, 19th Century | Jacinto, José Fernandes, Jacinto Galião, Cintinho, Grilo, Joaninha | "Biblioteca Ulisseia de Autores Portugueses #5José Maria de Eça de Queiroz (Póvoa de Varzim, 25 de novembro de 1845 — Neuilly-sur-Seine, 16 de agosto de 1900), escritor e ensaísta, foi um dos nomes mais importantes da literatura portuguesa. De nome completo José Maria de Eça de Queirós nasceu a Novembro de 1845, numa casa na Praça do Almada, em Póvoa de Varzim. O seu pai, José Maria de Almeida de Teixeira de Queirós, nascido no Brasil e vindo para Portugal com um ano de idade, provinha de uma família de magistrados perseguidos pelos seus ideais liberais que defendiam uma doutrina constitucional. Eça foi internado no Colégio da Lapa, no Porto, de onde saiu em 1861, com dezasseis anos, para a Universidade de Coimbra, onde estudou Direito. Num ambiente boémio da cidade universitária de Coimbra estes jovens reuniam-se para trocar ideias, livros e formas para renovar a vida política e cultural portuguesa, que estava a viver uma autêntica revolução social com a introdução dos novos meios de transportes ferroviários que traziam, todos os dias, novidades do centro da Europa, influenciando esta geração para novas ideologias e valores. Foi nesse grupo que Eça conheceu os futuros escritores e poetas, Teófilo Braga, Ramalho Ortigão, Guerra Junqueiro, Guilherme de Azevedo, Oliveira Martins, entre outros; mas sobretudo, foi aí que travou amizade com Antero de Quental, um jovem carismático a quem os membros do grupo chamavam de líder e que incentivou os restantes a seguir e a difundir as então recentes correntes ideológicas e literárias europeias: o Positivismo, o Socialismo e o Realismo-Naturalismo. Notabilizou-se pela originalidade e riqueza do seu estilo e linguagem, nomeadamente pelo realismo descritivo e pela crítica social constantes nos seus romances mas, tal como o crítico literário, Jacinto Prado Coelho disse: ""foi mais analista social do que psicólogo; ironizou Portugal porque muito o amava e o queria melhor.""" | 
         | 1854 | Heaven to Betsy | Maud Hart Lovelace, Vera Neville (Illustrator) | 1980 | Classics, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Historical, Juvenile, Childrens Classics, Middle Grade, Family | Betsy Ray, Tacy Kelly | "High School is Heaven! It's Betsy Ray's freshman year at Deep Valley High School, and she and her best childhood chum, Tacy Kelly, are loving every minute. Betsy and Tacy find themselves in the midst of a new crowd of friends, with studies aplenty (including Latin and-ugh-algebra), parties and picnics galore, Sunday night lunches at home-and boys!There's Cab Edwards, the jolly boy next door; handsome Herbert Humphreys; and the mysteriously unfriendly, but maddeningly attractive, Joe Willard. Betsy likes them all, but no boy in particular catches her fancy until she meets the new boy in town, Tony Markham . . . the one she and Tacy call the Tall Dark Handsome Stranger. He's sophisticated, funny, and dashing-and treats Betsy just like a sister. Can Betsy turn him into a beau?An entertaining picture of school clubs, fudge parties, sings around the piano, and Sunday-night suppers in Betsy's hospitable home.' 'Chicago Tribune." | 
         | 1855 | Een schitterend gebrek | Arthur Japin | 2006 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Dutch Literature, Literature, Roman, Novels, School, Read For School, Italy, Historical | Giacomo Casanova | "In zijn memoires vermeldt Casanova terloops dat Lucia een van de weinige vrouwen is die hij ooit onrecht heeft aangedaan. Maar hoe? Wat is er werkelijk gebeurd? Waarom deed Lucia afstand van haar geluk? ""Een schitterend gebrek"" is haar verhaal, het verslag van een uitzonderlijk leven." | 
         | 1856 | Negeri 5 Menara | Ahmad Fuadi  | Aug-09 | Novels, Fiction, Indonesian Literature, Islam, Inspirational, Religion, Drama, Unfinished, Adventure, True Story | Alif, Raja, Atang, Said, Dulmajid, Baso, Randai, Sarah, Amak, Kiai Rais, Ustad Salman, Tyson | "Alif lahir di pinggir Danau Maninjau dan tidak pernah menginjak tanah di luar ranah Minangkabau. Masa kecilnya adalah berburu durian runtuh di rimba Bukit Barisan, bermain bola di sawah berlumpur dan tentu mandi berkecipak di air biru Danau Maninjau.Tiba-tiba saja dia harus naik bus tiga hari tiga malam melintasi punggung Sumatera dan Jawa menuju sebuah desa di pelosok Jawa Timur. Ibunya ingin dia menjadi Buya Hamka walau Alif ingin menjadi Habibie. Dengan setengah hati dia mengikuti perintah Ibunya: belajar di pondok.Di kelas hari pertamanya di Pondok Madani (PM), Alif terkesima dengan “mantera” sakti man jadda wajada. Siapa yang bersungguh-sungguh pasti sukses.Dia terheran-heran mendengar komentator sepakbola berbahasa Arab, anak menggigau dalam bahasa Inggris, merinding mendengar ribuan orang melagukan Syair Abu Nawas dan terkesan melihat pondoknya setiap pagi seperti melayang di udara.Dipersatukan oleh hukuman jewer berantai, Alif berteman dekat dengan Raja dari Medan, Said dari Surabaya, Dulmajid dari Sumenep, Atang dari Bandung dan Baso dari Gowa. Di bawah menara masjid yang menjulang, mereka berenam kerap menunggu maghrib sambil menatap awan lembayung yang berarak pulang ke ufuk. Di mata belia mereka, awan-awan itu menjelma menjadi negara dan benua impian masing-masing. Kemana impian jiwa muda ini membawa mereka? Mereka tidak tahu. Yang mereka tahu adalah: Jangan pernah remehkan impian, walau setinggi apa pun. Tuhan sungguh Maha Mendengar.Bagaimana perjalanan mereka ke ujung dunia ini dimulai? Siapa horor nomor satu mereka? Apa pengalaman mendebarkan di tengah malam buta di sebelah sungai tempat jin buang anak? Bagaimana sampai ada yang kasak-kusuk menjadi mata-mata misterius? Siapa Princess of Madani yang mereka kejar-kejar? Kenapa mereka harus botak berkilat-kilat? Bagaimana sampai Icuk Sugiarto, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ibnu Rusyd, bahkan Maradona sampai akhirnya ikut campur? Ikuti perjalanan hidup yang inspiratif ini langsung dari mata para pelakunya. Negeri Lima Menara adalah buku pertama dari sebuah trilogi." | 
         | 1857 | The Sky is Falling | Sidney Sheldon | Jul-01 | Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Novels, Romance, Drama, Contemporary | Jack Stone, Kemal, Dana Evans, Richard Melton, Jeff Connors, Matt Baker, Taylor Winthrop, Gary Winthrop, Julie Winthrop, Joan Sinisi, Howard Wharton, Dorothy Wharton, Elliot Cromwell, Roger Hudson, Pamela Hudson, Marcel Falcon | "Washington TV anchorwoman Dana Evans (from Best Laid Plans) suspects the accidents befalling the rich Winthrop family, killing all five members, were murders. Like Chicken Little and the sky falling, she chases clues across the world to unravel an international conspiracy. The inheritance goes to charity, so money is not the motive. Her Sarajevo ward Kemal gets expelled, a prosthetic arm, then often naps afternoons under care of kindly new housekeeper. Unseen agents follow her, bug hotel rooms, while an evil mastermind voice overhears taped conversations and supervises regular secret auctions, inviting armed wealthy customers. Witnesses and informants die before, and after meetings. Friends become foes, nobody can be trusted." | 
         | 1858 | The Abortion | Richard Brautigan | Jan-73 | Fiction, Novels, Romance, Literature, American, Books About Books, 20th Century, Humor, Literary Fiction, Adult Fiction | Vida | "A reclusive young man works in a San Francisco library for unpublishable books. Life's losers, an astonishing number of whom seem to be writers, can bring their manuscripts to the library, where they will be welcomed, registered and shelved. They will not be read, but they will be cherished. In comes Vida, with her manuscript. Her book is about her gorgeous body, in which she feels uncomfortable. The librarian makes her feel comfortable, and together they live in the back of the library until the trip to Tijuana changes them in ways neither of them had ever expected." | 
         | 1859 | Diamonds Are Forever | Ian Fleming | 2003 | Fiction, Thriller, Espionage, Mystery, Adventure, Classics, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Action, Spy Thriller | James Bond, M, Tiffany Case, Felix Leiter | """Listen, Bond,"" said Tiffany Case. ""It’d take more than Crabmeat Ravigotte to get me into bed with a man. In any event, since it’s your check, I’m going to have caviar, and what the English call 'cutlets,' and some pink champagne. I don’t often date a good-looking Englishman and the dinner’s going to live up to the occasion.""Meet Tiffany Case, a cold, gorgeous, devil-may-care blonde; the kind of girl you could get into a lot of trouble with—if you wanted. She stands between James Bond and the leaders of a diamond-smuggling ring that stretches from Africa via London to the States. Bond uses her to infiltrate this gang, but once in America the hunter becomes the hunted. Bond is in real danger until help comes from an unlikely quarter, the ice-maiden herself …" | 
         | 1860 | The Seventh Dwarf | Eoin Colfer | 2004 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Science Fiction, Adventure, Childrens, Short Stories, Urban Fantasy, Magic, Middle Grade | Artemis Fowl II, Domovoi Butler, Foaly, Mulch Diggums | "Mulch Diggums, a dwarf on the run from the Lower Elements Police, is trying to get his hands on the priceless Fei Fei tiara. But stealing it seems too easy. That's because it is too easy. Artemis Fowl, the legendary twelve-year-old criminal mastermind, has set him up. He needs Mulch's help...This is an Eoin Colfer's fantastic new Artemis adventure especially for World Book Day." | 
         | 1861 | Bilangan Fu | Ayu Utami | Jun-08 | Novels, Indonesian Literature, Fiction, Literature, Romance, Adult, Philosophy, Spirituality, Historical, Unfinished | Parang Jati, Sandi Yuda | "Yuda, ""si iblis"", seorang pemanjat tebing dan petaruh yang melecehkan nilai-nilai masyarakat. Parang Jati, ""si malaikat"", seorang pemuda berjari duabelas yang dibentuk oleh ayah angkatnya untuk menanggung duka dunia. Marja, ""si manusia"", seorang gadis bertubuh kuda feji dan berjiwa matahari.Mereka terlibat dalam segitiga cinta yang lembut, di antara pengalaman-pengalaman keras yang berawal dari sebuah kejadian aneh- orang mati yang bangkit dari kubur- menuju penyelamatan perbukitan gamping di selatan Jawa.Di antara semua itu, Bilangan Fu sayup-sayup menyingkapkan diri.Pengarang menamai nafas novelnya ""spiritualisme kritis"". Yaitu, yang mengangkat wacana spiritual- keagamaan, kebatinan, maupun mistik- ke dalam kerangka yang menghormatinya sekaligus bersikap kritis kepadanya, yang mengangkat wacana keberimanan, tanpa terjebak dalam dakwah hitam dan putih.Novel ini adalah manifesto Ayu Utami tentang sebuah sikap yang dianggap perlu diutamakan di zaman ini: sikap religius ataupun spiritual, yang kritis." | 
         | 1862 | Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History | Giles Milton | 2005 | History, Nonfiction, Food, Travel, Adventure, Asia, Historical, Biography, World History, 17th Century | Nathaniel Courthope, Captain of the Swan | "The tiny island of Run is an insignificant speck in the middle of the Indonesian archipelago-remote, tranquil, and now largely ignored. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, however, Run's harvest of nutmeg turned it into the most lucrative of the Spice Islands, precipitating a fierce and bloody battle between the all-powerful Dutch East India Company and a small band of ragtag British adventurers led by the intrepid Nathaniel Courthope. The outcome of the fighting was one of the most spectacular deals in history: Britain ceded Run to Holland, but in return was given another small island, Manhattan. A brilliant adventure story of unthinkable hardship and savagery, the navigation of uncharted waters, and the exploitation of new worlds, Nathaniel's Nutmeg is a remarkable chapter in the history of the colonial powers." | 
         | 1863 | Castelli di rabbia | Alessandro Baricco | Oct-97 | Fiction, Italian Literature, Novels, Italy, Contemporary, Roman, Unfinished, 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction | Dann Rail, Jun Rail, Hector Horeau, Pekish, Pehnt, Mormy | "Il primo libro di narrativa di Baricco: il romanzo è ambientato nell'Ottocento, in una cittadina immaginaria, Quinnipak; è generoso nel presentare storie e personaggi, ciascuno con i suoi sogni e caratteri. E tra questi ci sono il signore e la signora Rail, che si amano di un amore tutto loro, e il bambino Penth con il suo amico Pekisch, e due bande che partono dagli estremi del paese per incontrarsi. La narrazione è costruita come un montaggio cinematografico e orchestrata come una partitura musicale." | 
         | 1864 | Godless: The Church of Liberalism | Ann Coulter | 2006 | Politics, Nonfiction, Humor, Audiobook, Religion, Political Science, Cultural, History, Evolution, Womens | Mumia Abu-Jamal, Alger Hiss | """If a martian landed in America and set out to determine the nation's official state religion, he would have to conclude it is liberalism, while Christianity and Judaism are prohibited by law. Many Americans are outraged by liberal hostility to traditional religion. But as Ann Coulter reveals in this, her most explosive book yet, to focus solely on the Left's attacks on our Judeo-Christian tradition is to miss a larger point: liberalism ""is"" a religion-a godless one. And it is now entrenched as the state religion of this county. Though liberalism rejects the idea of God and reviles people of faith, it bears all the attributes of a religion. In ""Godless,"" Coulter throws open the doors of the Church of Liberalism, showing us its sacraments (abortion), its holy writ (""Roe v. Wade""), its martyrs (from Soviet spy Alger Hiss to cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal), its clergy (public school teachers), its churches (government schools, where prayer is prohibited but condoms are free), its doctrine of infallibility (as manifest in the ""absolute moral authority"" of spokesmen from Cindy Sheehan to Max Cleland), and its cosmology (in which mankind is an inconsequential accident). Then, of course, there's the liberal creation myth: Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. For liberals, evolution is the touchstone that separates the enlightened from the benighted. But Coulter neatly reverses the pretense that liberals are rationalists guided by the ideals of free inquiry and the scientific method. She exposes the essential truth about Darwinian evolution that liberals refuse to confront: ""it is bogus science."" Writing with a keen appreciation for genuine science, Coulter reveals that the so-called gaps in the theory of evolution are all there is-Darwinism is nothing but a gap. After 150 years of dedicated searching into the fossil record, evolution's proponents have failed utterly to substantiate its claims. And a long line of supposed evidence, from the infamous Piltdown Man to the ""evolving"" peppered moths of England, has been exposed as hoaxes. Still, liberals treat those who question evolution as religious heretics and prohibit students from hearing about real science when it contradicts Darwinism. And these are the people who say they want to keep faith out of the classroom? Liberals' absolute devotion to Darwinism, Coulter shows, has nothing to do with evolution's scientific validity and everything to do with its refusal to admit the possibility of God as a guiding force. They will brook no challenges to the official religion. Fearlessly confronting the high priests of the Church of Liberalism and ringing with Coulter's razor-sharp wit, ""Godless"" is the most important and riveting book yet from one of today's most lively and impassioned conservative voices. ""Liberals love to boast that they are not 'religious, ' which is what one would expect to hear from the state-sanctioned religion. Of course liberalism is a religion. It has its own cosmology, its own miracles, its own beliefs in the supernatural, its own churches, its own high priests, its own saints, its own total worldview, and its own explanation of the existence of the universe. In other words, liberalism contains all the attributes of what is generally known as 'religion.'"" -From Godless" | 
         | 1865 | Mistress of Mellyn | Victoria Holt | 1960 | Romance, Gothic, Mystery, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical Romance, Gothic Romance, Historical, Suspense, Romantic Suspense | Gilly, Martha Leigh, Connan TreMellyn, Alvean TreMellyn, Mrs. Polgrey, Celestine Nansellock, Peter Nansellock, Linda Treslyn, Alice TreMellyn | "Mount Mellyn stood as proud and magnificent as she had envisioned... But what about its master-Connan TreMellyn? Was Martha Leigh's new employer as romantic as his name sounded? As she approached the sprawling mansion towering above the cliffs of Cornwall, an odd chill of apprehension overcame her. TreMellyn's young daugher, Alvean, proved as spoiled and difficult as the three governesses before Martha had discovered. But it was the girl's father whose cool, arrogant demeanor unleashed unfamiliar sensations and turmoil-even as whispers of past tragedy and present danger begin to insinuate themselves into Martha's life. Powerless against her growing desire for the enigmatic Connan, she is drawn deeper into family secrets-as passion overpowers reason, sending her head and heart spinning. But though evil lurks in the shadows, so does love-and the freedom to find a golden promise forever..." | 
         | 1866 | The Ghost Writer | Philip Roth | 2005 | Fiction, Novels, Literary Fiction, Literature, American, Jewish, Classics, Contemporary, 20th Century, Americana | Nathan Zuckerman, E.I. Lonoff, Hope Lonoff, Amy Bellette, Felix Abravanel | "When talented young writer Nathan Zuckerman makes his pilgrimage to sit at the feet of his hero, the reclusive master of American Literature, E. I. Lonoff, he soon finds himself enmeshed in the great Jewish writer's domestic life, with all its complexity, artifice and drive for artistic truth. As Nathan sits in breathlessly awkward conversation with his idol, a glimpse of a dark-haired beauty through a closing doorway leaves him reeling. He soon learns that the entrancing vision is Amy Bellette, but her position in the Lonoff household - student? mistress? - remains tantalisingly unclear. Over a disturbed and confusing dinner, Nathan gleans snippets of Amy's haunting Jewish background, and begins to draw his own fantastical conclusions..." | 
         | 1867 | The Atrocity Archives | Charles Stross  | Jan-06 | Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Humor, Lovecraftian, Thriller, Science Fiction Fantasy, Paranormal | Bob Howard, Dominique ""Mo"" O''Brien | "NEVER VOLUNTEER FOR ACTIVE DUTY ...Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob's under a desk restoring lost data. His world was dull and safe - but then he went and got Noticed. Now, Bob is up to his neck in spycraft, parallel universes, dimension-hopping terrorists, monstrous elder gods and the end of the world. Only one thing is certain: it will take more than a full system reboot to sort this mess out ...This is the first novel in the Laundry Files." | 
         | 1868 | Bodas de sangre | Federico García Lorca, Allen Josephs (Editor), Juan Caballero (Editor) | 2005 | Plays, Classics, Spanish Literature, Drama, Theatre, Spain, Poetry, School, Fiction, Literature | La Madre, La Novia, La Suegra, La Mujer de Leonardo, La Criada, Leonardo, La Luna, La Muerte (como Mendiga) | "El tema de esta obra surgio a raiz de una noticia aparecida en prensa: dos amantes se fugan en la vispera de la boda de la mujer con otro hombre. Garia Lorca convierte la realidad en poesia. En su obra hay ansias de libertad, andalucismo, simbolismo y muerte, pero por encima de todo, poesia dramatica. Bodas de sangre es, pues, una obra teatral donde las desgarradas pasiones de sus protagonistas se desatan ante la atenta mirada de la luna, personificacion hermosa y terrible de la muerte." | 
         | 1869 | Absent in the Spring | Mary Westmacott (Pseudonym), Agatha Christie | Apr-97 | Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Classics, Drama, Crime, British Literature, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Audiobook | Kate Dawson, Joan Scudamore, Rodney Scudamore, Blanche Haggard, Tony Scudamore, Averil Harrison-Wilmott, Barbara Wray, William Wray, Myrna Randolph, Michael Callaway, Nobby Reid, Charles Edward Sherston, Leslie Adeline Sherston, Edward Harrison-Wilmott, Agnes | "Returning from a visit to her daughter in Iraq, Joan Scudamore finds herself unexpectedly alone and stranded in an isolated rest house by flooding of the railway tracks. This sudden solitude compels Joan to assess her life for the first time ever and face up to many of the truths about herself. Looking back over the years, Joan painfully re-examines her attitudes, relationships and actions and becomes increasingly uneasy about the person who is revealed to her." | 
         | 1870 | The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Prince | Cassandra Clare , Hye-Kyung Baek (Illustrator) | Sept-13 | Graphic Novels, Fantasy, Manga, Young Adult, Romance, Steampunk, Paranormal, Historical Fiction, Vampires, Comics | Theresa ""Tessa"" Gray, William Herondale, James ""Jem"" Carstairs | "A prequel to Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments series, The Infernal Devices is the story of Tessa Gray, a sixteen-year-old American girl traveling alone to Victorian London who runs afoul of the city’s sordid supernatural underworld. Rescued by the Shadowhunters of the London Institute, Tessa quickly finds herself caught up in an intrigue that may very well destroy her new friends – including the two enigmatic young men, Jem and Will, who have taken her under their wing…" | 
         | 1871 | Splitterherz | Bettina Belitz | 2010 | Fantasy, Young Adult, German Literature, Romance, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Young Adult Fantasy, Fiction, Audiobook | Elisabeth Sturm, Colin Jerimiah Blackburn, Leopold Sturm, Tilmann Schütz, Tessa | "Es gibt genau einen Grund, warum Elisabeth Sturm nicht mit fliegenden Fahnen vom platten Land zurück nach Köln geht, und dieser Grund heißt Colin. Der arrogante, unnahbare, aber leider auch äußerst faszinierende Colin gibt Ellie ein Rätsel nach dem anderen auf, und obwohl sie sich mit aller Macht dagegen wehrt, kann sie sich seiner Ausstrahlung nicht entziehen.Bald muss Ellie einsehen, dass Colin viel mehr mit ihrer Familie verbindet, als sie sich je vorstellen könnte. Ihr Vater Leo verbirgt ein Geheimnis, das ihn und Colin zu erbitterten Gegnern macht – und das Ellie in tödliche Gefahr bringt. Dass sie mit ihren seltsamen nächtlichen Träumen den Schlüssel zu dem Rätsel in der Hand hält, begreift Ellie erst, als ihre Gefühle für Colin alles zu zerstören drohen, was sie liebt." | 
         | 1872 | The Loop | Nicholas Evans | 1999 | Fiction, Romance, Animals, Drama, Contemporary, Nature, Wolves, Adult Fiction, Mystery, Adult | Helen Ross, Luke Calder, Buck Calder | "Helen Ross is a 29-year-old biologist, sent into a hostile place to protect the wolves from those who seek to destroy them. She struggles for survival and for self-esteem, embarking on a love affair with the 18-year-old son of her most powerful opponent, brutal and charismatic rancher, Buck Calder." | 
         | 1873 | Frelseren | Jo Nesbø  | 2007 | Crime, Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Scandinavian Literature, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Nordic Noir, Audiobook, Suspense | Harry Hole | "A 14-year old girl is raped at one of the Salvation Army summer camps. Twelve years later, at a Christmas concert in a square in Oslo, a Salvation Army soldier is executed by a man in the crowd. A press photographer has caught a suspect on one of the photos of the concert. Beate Lønn, the identification expert, is confused by how the face can change from one photo to the next. Inspector Harry Hole’s search for the faceless man takes place on the seamy side of the city, among those who seek eternal – or just momentary – redemption. And the gunman has not yet completed his mission." | 
         | 1874 | Ozma of Oz | L. Frank Baum | 1907 | Fantasy, Classics, Fiction, Childrens, Young Adult, Adventure, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Audiobook, Magic | Uncle Henry, Dorothy Gale, Tin Woodman, Scarecrow, Cowardly Lion, Tik-Tok, Billina, Princess Ozma, Nome King, Jack Pumpkinhead, Soldier with the Green Whiskers, Jellia Jamb, Glinda, Jinjur, Princess Langwidere, Hungry Tiger, Kaliko, Queen of Ev, Evring, Evardo, The Saw-Horse | "Readers of all ages will welcome the chance to be reunited with Dorothy Gale and such beloved characters as the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Cowardly Lion, as well as to meet new favorites such as the Hungry Tiger, whose appetite is never satisfied; Princess Langwidere, who has thirty heads; Billina, a talking chicken; and Tiktok, a mechanical man.Blown overboard while sailing with her uncle, Dorothy finds herself in the fairy realm of Ev. She sets out with her friends to rescue the Queen of Ev and her ten children, who have been imprisoned by the cruel Nome King. But even Ozma, the wise Ruler of Oz, is no match for the clever king, and it's up to Dorothy to save everyone from terrible danger. But will the Nome King's enchantments be too much even for the plucky little girl from Kansas?" | 
         | 1875 | The Sandman: The Dream Hunters | Neil Gaiman , Yoshitaka Amano (Illustrator) | 2000 | Graphic Novels, Fantasy, Comics, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Mythology, Comic Book, Horror, Japan, Art | Dream of the Endless, Matthew the Raven, Cain (DC Comics), Abel (DC Comics), Mildred (Hecatae), Mordred/Morganna (Hecatae), Cynthia (Hecatae) | "Sandman fans should feel lucky that master fantasy writer Neil Gaiman discovered the mythical world of Japanese fables while researching his translation of Hayao Miyazaki's film Princess Mononoke. At the same time, while preparing for the Sandman 10th anniversary, he met Yoshitaka Amano, his artist for the 11th Sandman book. Amano is the famed designer of the Final Fantasy game series. The product of Gaiman's immersion in Japanese art, culture, and history, Sandman: Dream Hunters is a classic Japanese tale (adapted from ""The Fox, the Monk, and the Mikado of All Night's Dreaming"") that he has subtly morphed into his Sandman universe.Like most fables, the story begins with a wager between two jealous animals, a fox and a badger: which of them can drive a young monk from his solitary temple? The winner will make the temple into a new fox or badger home. But as the fox adopts the form of a woman to woo the monk from his hermitage, she falls in love with him. Meanwhile, in far away Kyoto, the wealthy Master of Yin-Yang, the onmyoji, is plagued by his fears and seeks tranquility in his command of sorcery. He learns of the monk and his inner peace; he dispatches demons to plague the monk in his dreams and eventually kill him to bring his peace to the onmyoji. The fox overhears the demons on their way to the monk and begins her struggle to save the man whom at first she so envied.Dream Hunters is a beautiful package. From the ink-brush painted endpapers to the luminous page layouts-including Amano's gate-fold painting of Morpheus in a sea of reds, oranges, and violets-this book has been crafted for a sensuous reading experience. Gaiman has developed as a prose stylist in the last several years with novels and stories such as Neverwhere and Stardust, and his narrative rings with a sense of timelessness and magic that gently sustains this adult fairy tale. The only disappointment here is that the book is so brief. One could imagine this creative team being even better suited to a longer story of more epic proportions. On the final page of Dream Hunters, in fact, Amano suggest that he will collaborate further with Mr. Gaiman in the future. Readers of Dream Hunters will hope that Amano's dream comes true. -Patrick O'Kelley" | 
         | 1876 | The White Plague | Frank Herbert | Dec-83 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Post Apocalyptic, Horror, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Dystopia, Thriller, Speculative Fiction, Apocalyptic | ""John Roe O''Neill"" | "The White Plague, a marvelous and terrifyingly plausible blend of fiction and visionary theme, tells of one man who is pushed over the edge of sanity by the senseless murder of his family and who, reappearing several months later as the so-called Madman, unleashes a terrible plague upon the human race—one that zeros in, unerringly and fatally, on women." | 
         | 1877 | A Man Lay Dead | Ngaio Marsh | 2000 | Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Detective, Classics, British Literature, Historical, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, Murder Mystery | Nigel Bathgate, Sir Hubert Handesley, Charles Rankin, Arthur Wilde, Angela North, Marjorie Wilde, Rosamund Grant, Doctor Foma Tokareff, Vassily Ivanovitch, Mr. Sumiloff, Detective-Sergeant Bailey, Roderick Alleyn | "At Sir Hubert Handesley's country house party, five guests have gathered for the uproarious parlor game of ""Murder."" Yet no one is laughing when the lights come up on an actual corpse, the good-looking and mysterious Charles Rankin. Scotland Yard's Inspector Roderick Alleyn arrives to find a complete collection of alibis, a missing butler, and an intricate puzzle of betrayal and sedition in the search for the key player in this deadly game." | 
         | 1878 | One Hundred Names | Cecelia Ahern | 2013 | Fiction, Chick Lit, Romance, Contemporary, Audiobook, Adult Fiction, Adult, Ireland, Irish Literature, Novels | Steve, Kitty Logan, Constance & Bob | "Internationally bestselling author Cecelia Ahern delivers her biggest and most compelling book yet—a tale of secrets, second chances, and the hidden connections that unite our livesScandal has derailed journalist Kitty Logan's career, a setback that is soon compounded by an even more devastating loss. Constance, the woman who taught Kitty everything she knew, is dying. At her mentor's bedside, Kitty asks her, ""What is the one story you always wanted to write?""The answer lies in a single sheet of paper buried in Constance's office—a list of one hundred names—with no notes or explanation. But before Kitty can ask her friend, it is too late.Determined to unlock the mystery and rebuild her own shaky confidence, Kitty throws herself into the investigation, tracking down each of the names on the list and uncovering their connection. Meeting these ordinary people and learning their stories, Kitty begins to piece together an unexpected portrait of Constance's life... and starts to understand her own." | 
         | 1879 | Nutuk | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Zeynep Korkmaz (Editor) | 1991 | History, Turkish Literature, Turkish, Politics, Nonfiction, Classics, Biography, Education, Historical, Literature | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | "Atatürk`ün kendi kaleminden çıkan bu eser, yine Atatürk tarafından Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi`nin 15-20 Ekim 1927 tarihleri arasında Ankara`da toplanan ikinci kurultayında 36,5 saat süren ve altı günde okunarak tarihi bir hitabeye dayandığı için NUTUK adını almıştır.1919 senesi Mayısının 19. günü Samsun'a çıktım. Vaziyet ve manzara-i umumiye: Osmanlı Devleti'nin dahil bulunduğu grup, Harb-i Umumide mağlup olmuş, Osmanlı ordusu her tarafta zedelenmiş, şeriaiti ağır bir mütarekename imzalanmış. Büyük harbin uzun seneleri zarfında, millet, yorgun ve fakir bir halde. Millet ve memleketi Harb-i Umumiye sevk edenler, kendi hayatları endişesine düşerek, memleketten firar etmişler. Saltanat ve hilafet mevkiini işgal eden Vahdettin, mütereddi, şahsını ve yalnız tahtını temin edebileceğini tahayyül ettiği deni tedbirler araştırmakta. Damat Ferit Paşa'nın riyasetindeki kabine; aciz, haysiyetsiz, cebin, yalnız Padişah'ın iradesine tabi ve onunla beraber şahıslarını vikaye edebilecek herhangi bir vaziyete razı.Ordu'nun elinden esliha ve cephanesi alınmış ve alınmakta...İtilaf Devletleri, mütareke ahkamına rivayete lüzum görmüyorlar. Birer vesile ile, İtilaf donanmaları ve askerleri İstanbul'da. Adana vilayeti Fransızlar; Urfa, Maraş, Ayıntap İngilizler tarafından işgal edilmiş. Antalya ve Konya'da, İtalyan kıtaat-ı askeriyesi; Merzifon ve Samsun'da İngiliz askerleri bulunuyor. Her tarafta, ecnebi zabit ve memurları ve hususi adamları faaliyette. Nihayet, mebde-i kelam kabul ettiğimiz tarihten dört gün evvel, 15 Mayıs 1919'da İtilaf Devletleri'nin muvafakatiyle Yunan ordusu İzmir'e ihraç ediliyor.(Kitabın İçinden)" | 
         | 1880 | Ramona Quimby, Age 8 | Beverly Cleary | Jan-82 | Childrens, Fiction, Middle Grade, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult, Classics, Chapter Books, Juvenile, Humor, Kids | Ramona Quimby, Beezus Quimby | "Mr. Quimby's going to college, Mrs. Quimby's going to work. Now that Ramona is eight, she can go to a new school with a new teacher and ride the bus all by herself. But after school she has to stay with Grandmother Kemp and be nice to that bratty little Willa Jean until Beezus�who's tempermental enough to ruin anyone's day�comes to take her home. Life isn't as easy for Ramona as it used to be. All the Quimbys have to adjust, and Ramona gets her chance to prove that she's ""big enough for her family to depend on.""" | 
         | 1881 | Weirdos from Another Planet! | Bill Watterson | 1990 | Comics, Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels, Comic Strips, Comic Book, Comedy, Graphic Novels Comics, Childrens, Cartoon | Calvin, Hobbes | "In Calvin and Hobbes book Weirdos From Another Planet!, this power-packed extravaganza of creative energy and imagination feature the childhood fun and fantasy that was a Watterson trademark. Weirdos From Another Planet! is out of this world!" | 
         | 1882 | Belle | Lesley Pearse | Feb-11 | Historical Fiction, Romance, Fiction, Historical Romance, Chick Lit, Adult, Drama, Mystery, Contemporary, Crime | Belle Brooks | "London 1910Fifteen year-old Belle has lived in a brothel in Seven Dials all her life, with no understanding of what happens in the rooms upstairs. But her innocence is shattered when she witnesses the murder of one of the girls and, subsequently snatched from the streets by the killer, she is sold into prostitution in Paris.No longer mistress of her own fate, Belle is blown across the globe to sensuous New Orleans where she comes of age and learns to enjoy life as a courtesan. Yet thoughts of home - and the knowledge her status as golden girl cannot last - compel her to break out of her gilded cage.But Belle finds escaping tougher than she imagined, for her life is threatened by desperate men who crave her beauty and attention. Armed only with resourcefulness and spirit, she has a long and dangerous journey ahead of her.Will courage be enough to sustain her? Can she make it back to her family and friends and find her chance at true happiness?" | 
         | 1883 | La vuelta del ranquel | Florencia Bonelli  | Sept-08 | Romance, Historical Romance, Historical Fiction, Historical, Adult Fiction | Laura Escalante, Nahueltruz Guor | "Dicen que los indios jamás olvidan una ofensa, que la venganza entre ellos es cosa sagrada y que todo lo que tienen de agradecidos y humanitarios lo tienen de rencorosos y vengativos. Y aunque Lorenzo Rosas vista a la última moda parisina y hable tres lenguas, en su fuero íntimo sigue siendo Nahueltruz Guor, el ranquel que seis años atrás juro destruir a la culpable de su desdicha: Laura Escalante.En la sociedad porteña ella es conocida corno la viuda de Riglos, una mujer hermosa, rica, inalcanzable. Dueña de una editorial, se mide ideológicamente con figuras de la talla de Sarmiento y MansÜla y escribe un folletín que mantiene en vilo a muchas lectoras. Se le atribuyen, además, varios affaires, el más resonante con el general Julio Roca, quien se apresta para su conquista del indio. Pero lo cierto es que, detrás de esa imagen de mujer fatal, Laura esconde un alma sensible y un corazón destrozado.El rencor de Nahueltruz parece tan profundo como el amor que ella siente por él. En medio de esta lucha de voluntades poderosas, los fantasmas del pasado reaparecen para complicar la situación y se interponen nuevos obstáculos y malentendidos. ¿Podrá Nahueltruz vencer el odio que lo domina y perdonarla?" | 
         | 1884 | The Gold Bug Variations | Richard Powers | 1991 | Fiction, Literature, Music, Novels, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, American, Romance, Unfinished, 20th Century | Stuart Ressler, Jeanette Koss | "A national bestseller, voted by Time as the #1 novel of 1991, selected as one of the ""Best Books of 1991"" by Publishers Weekly, and nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award-a magnificent story that probes the meaning of love, science, music, and art, by the brilliant author of Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance." | 
         | 1885 | Indias blancas | Florencia Bonelli  | Mar-10 | Romance, Historical Romance, Historical Fiction, Historical, Adult | Laura Escalante, Nahueltruz Guor, Blanca Montes, Mariano Rosas | "Un relato de amor apasionado, donde indios, blancos y mujeres cautivas entretejen una trama que perdura para siempre en la mente del oyente. Corre el año 1873 y la sociedad portea se consolida alrededor de las familias con apellidos ilustres. Laura Escalante, hija de un general de la Nación, es una joven bellísima con ideas claras y convicciones fuertes. Cuando viaja a Córdoba para atender a su hermano enfermo, conoce al indio ranquel Nahueltruz Guor y su vida cambia para siempre. Un amor irrefrenable, enfrentado a todos y a todo, incluso a ellos mismos, los hace transitar momentos dolorosos, llenos de aventuras, desencuentros y acción, en el marco de la pica lucha entre indios y blancos que ha definido a nuestro país desde entonces.Florencia Bonelli, con maestra narrativa y un profundo conocimiento de la historia argentina, ofrece en Indias blancas un relato de amor apasionado, donde indios, blancos, y mujeres cautivas entretejen una trama que perdura para siempre en la mente del oyente.  Please note: This audiobook is in Castilian Spanish." | 
         | 1886 | Madeline | Ludwig Bemelmans | 1989 | Picture Books, Childrens, Classics, Fiction, France, Kids, Poetry, Realistic Fiction, Juvenile, Young Adult | Madeline, Miss Clavel, Doctor Cohn | "Madeline is one of the best-loved characters in children's literature. Set in picturesque Paris, this tale of a brave little girl's trip to the hospital was a Caldecott Honor Book in 1940 and has as much appeal today as it did then. The combination of a spirited heroine, timelessly appealing art, cheerful humor, and rhythmic text makes Madeline a perennial favorite with children of all ages." | 
         | 1887 | The Revenge of the Baby-Sat | Bill Watterson | 1991 | Humor, Comics, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Strips, Comic Book, Comedy, Childrens, Cartoon | Calvin, Hobbes | "The praise and popularity of Calvin and Hobbes continue to escalate as the hottest comic strip around reaches its fifth birthday. With keen insight, Bill Watterson depicts life through the eyes of a child, and the limits of our imaginations are challenged as we accompany Calvin and Hobbes while they stir up trouble, travel through time, transmogrify themselves-and just have fun in everything they do." | 
         | 1888 | A Knight of the Word | Terry Brooks  | Aug-99 | Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Magic, Epic Fantasy, Demons, Horror, Epic | Nest Freemark, John Ross | "Eight centuries ago the first Knight of the Word was commissioned to combat the demonic evil of the Void. Now that daunting legacy has passed to John Ross - along with powerful magic and the knowledge that his actions are all that stand between a living hell and humanity's future.Then, after decades of service to the Word, an unspeakable act of violence shatters John Ross's weary faith. Haunted by guilt, he turns his back on his dread gift, settling down to build a normal life, untroubled by demons and nightmares.But a fallen Knight makes a tempting prize for the Void, which could bend the Knight's magic to its own evil ends. And once the demons on Ross's trail track him to Seattle, neither he nor anyone close to him will be safe. His only hope is Nest Freemark, a college student who wields an extraordinary magic all her own. Five years earlier, Ross had aided Nest when the future of humanity rested upon her choice between Word and Void. Now Nest must return the favor. She must restore Ross's faith, or his life - and hers - will be forfeit..." | 
         | 1889 | The Field of Swords | Conn Iggulden | Jan-06 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, War, Roman, Fantasy, Military Fiction, Action, Adventure, Novels | Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, Brutus, Marcus Licinius Crassus, Vercingetorix, Marcus Antonius, Augustus, Julius Caesar | "From the author of the bestselling The Dangerous Book for Boys With his acclaimed Emperor novels, author Conn Iggulden brings a dazzling world to life–the rich, complex world of ancient Rome as seen through the eyes of one extraordinary man: Julius Caesar. Now Iggulden returns to the story of Julius Caesar and a realm that stretches from the sands of North Africa to the coast of Britain. Against this magnificent backdrop, Caesar, his first victories under his belt and a series of key alliances in place, makes his move toward power and glory–and commands his famous legions on one of history’s bloodiest and most daring military campaigns. It is the heart of the first century B.C. For Julius Caesar, the time has come to enter the treacherous political battleground that has become Rome. Having proved his valor in the slaves’ revolt, Caesar is strengthened by the love and vision of a beautiful older woman, and by the sword of his loyal friend, Marcus Brutus. And when he is appointed to a new position of power, Caesar manages to do what none of the other great figures of his time could: capture the hearts of the Roman people themselves. Crushing a rebellion, bringing order to the teeming city, Caesar then makes the move that will change history. He leaves Rome for the foothills of the Alps. And with an army made in his own image, he begins a daring charge through Gaul, across the English Channel, and to the wilds of tribal Britain. Here, in a series of cataclysmic clashes, the legend of Julius Caesar will be forged. And while Caesar and Brutus pit their lives–and those of their men–against the armies of the wilderness, their political adversaries in Rome grow at once more fearful and more formidable. So when the fighting at the dominion’s edge is over, the greatest danger to Julius Caesar will await him on the Tiber–with a man who wants Rome himself. From the clash of armies to the heat of a woman’s seduction, from the thunder of battle to the orgies of pleasure and plunder that follow in a warrior’s wake, Emperor: The Field of Swords captures in riveting detail a world being shaped by a brilliant civilization. And in this extraordinary novel, the fate of Rome is being driven by the ambitions of a single man. A man with an unmatched genius for power.From the Hardcover edition." | 
         | 1890 | The Gods of War | Conn Iggulden | Apr-07 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, War, Fantasy, Roman, Adventure, Action, Novels, Ancient | Brutus, Cleopatra, Augustus, Julius Caesar | "The year is 53 B.C. Fresh from victory in Gaul, Julius Caesar leads battle-hardened legions across the Rubicon river–threatening Rome herself. Even the master strategist Pompey is caught unprepared by the strike, and forced to abandon his city. The armies of Rome will face each other at last in civil war, led by the two greatest generals ever to walk the seven hills. Thus begins Conn Iggulden’s towering saga of Julius Caesar as he approaches his final destiny—a destiny that will be decided not by legions but by his friend Brutus and an Egyptian queen named Cleopatra, who will bear his only son....For Caesar, the campaign against Pompey will test his military genius and his appetite for glory to their limits, as the greatest fighting machine the world has ever seen divides against itself in a bloody conflict that will set brother against brother until victory or death. But for Caesar, another kingdom beckons—a world of ancient mysteries and languid sensuality, where a beautiful, bewitching woman waits to snare his heart. The Gods of War follows Julius Caesar through politics and passion, ruthless ambition and private grief, and into the corruption of power itself. Those he has loved will play a part in his triumphs—as will the jealousy and hatred of his enemies.From the spectacles of the arena to the whispered lies of conspirators, Conn Iggulden brings to life a world of monumental drama. And at its heart is one extraordinary friendship—marked by fierce loyalty and bitter betrayal, with dark events shrouded in noble ideals.From the Hardcover edition." | 
         | 1891 | The Gap Into Conflict: The Real Story | Stephen R. Donaldson | Jul-92 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Space Opera, Science Fiction Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Space, Adventure, Thriller, Audiobook | Angus Thermopyle, Nick Succorso, Morn Hyland, Davies Hyland | "Author of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, one of the most acclaimed fantasy series of all time, master storyteller Stephen R. Donaldson returns with this exciting and long-awaited new series that takes us into a stunningly imagined future to tell a timeless story of adventure and the implacable conflict of good and evil within each of us.Angus Thermopyle was an ore pirate and a murderer; even the most disreputable asteroid pilots of Delta Sector stayed locked out of his way.  Those who didn't ended up in the lockup-or dead.  But when Thermopyle arrived at Mallory's Bar & Sleep with a gorgeous woman by his side the regulars had to take notice.  Her name was Morn Hyland, and she had been a police officer-until she met up with Thermopyle.But one person in Mallory's Bar wasn't intimidated.  Nick Succorso had his own reputation as a bold pirate and he had a sleek frigate fitted for deep space.  Everyone knew that Thermopyle and Succorso were on a collision course.  What nobody expected was how quickly it would be over-or how devastating victory would be.  It was common enough example of rivalry and revenge-or so everyone thought.  The REAL story was something entirely different.In The Real Story, Stephen R. Donaldson takes us to a remarkably detailed world of faster-than-light travel, politics, betrayal, and a shadowy presence just outside our view to tell the fiercest, most profound story he has ever written." | 
         | 1892 | The Shrinking Man | Richard Matheson | 2002 | Science Fiction, Horror, Fiction, Fantasy, Classics, American, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy, Family, Adventure | Scott Carey | "While on holiday, Scott Carey is exposed to a cloud of radioactive spray shortly after he accidentally ingests insecticide. The radioactivity acts as a catalyst for the bug spray, causing his body to shrink at a rate of approximately 1/7 of an inch per day. A few weeks later, Carey can no longer deny the truth: not only is he losing weight, he is also shorter than he was and deduces, to his dismay, that his body will continue to shrink." | 
         | 1893 | The Flame and the Flower | Kathleen E. Woodiwiss | Apr-72 | Romance, Historical Romance, Historical, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Adult, Chick Lit, Regency, Classics, Pirates | Heather Simmons, Brandon Birmingham | "Doomed to a life of unending toil, Heather Simmons fears for her innocence — until a shocking, desperate act forces her to flee... and to seek refuge in the arms of a virile and dangerous stranger.A lusty adventurer married to the sea, Captain Brandon Birmingham courts scorn and peril when he abducts the beautiful fugitive from the tumultuous London dockside. But no power on Earth can compel him to relinquish his exquisite prize. For he is determined to make the sapphire-eyed lovely his woman... and to carry her off to far, uncharted realms of sensuous, passionate love." | 
         | 1894 | Gone Tomorrow | Lee Child  | Apr-09 | Thriller, Fiction, Mystery, Crime, Suspense, Action, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, Adventure, Terrorism | Jacob ""Jake"" Mark, Susan Mark, Theresa Lee, John Sansom, Jack Reacher | "Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of tell-tale signs. Mostly because they're nervous. By definition they're all first-timers.There are twelve things to look for: No one who has worked in law enforcement will ever forget them.New York City. The subway, two o'clock in the morning. Jack Reacher studies his fellow passengers. Four are OK. The fifth isn't.The train brakes for Grand Central Station. Will Reacher intervene, and save lives? Or is he wrong? Will his intervention cost lives - including his own?" | 
         | 1895 | The Angel of Darkness | Caleb Carr  | 1997 | Mystery, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Crime, Thriller, Historical, Mystery Thriller, Historical Mystery, Suspense, Horror | Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, Stevie Taggert, Cyrus Montrose, Sara Howard, John Schuyler Moore, Marcus Isaacson, Lucius Isaacson, Elspeth Hunter | "In The Angel of Darkness, Caleb Carr brings back the vivid world of his bestselling The Alienist but with a twist: this story is told by the former street urchin Stevie Taggert, whose rough life has given him wisdom beyond his years. Thus New York City, and the groundbreaking alienist Dr. Kreizler himself, are seen anew. It is June 1897. A year has passed since Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a pioneer in forensic psychiatry, tracked down the brutal serial killer John Beecham with the help of a team of trusted companions and a revolutionary application of the principles of his discipline. Kreizler and his friends-high-living crime reporter John Schuyler Moore; indomitable, derringer-toting Sara Howard; the brilliant (and bickering) detective brothers Marcus and Lucius Isaacson; powerful and compassionate Cyrus Montrose; and Stevie Taggert, the boy Kreizler saved from a life of street crime-have returned to their former pursuits and tried to forget the horror of the Beecham case. But when the distraught wife of a Spanish diplomat begs Sara's aid, the team reunites to help find her kidnapped infant daughter. It is a case fraught with danger, since Spain and the United States are on the verge of war. Once again, Caleb Carr proves his brilliant ability to re-create the past, both high life and low. As the horror unfolds, Delmonico's still serves up wondrous meals, and a summer trip to the elegant gambling parlors of Saratoga provides precious keys to the murderer's past. At the same time, we go on revealing journeys into Stevie's New York, a place where poor and neglected children-then as now-turn to crime and drugs at shockingly early ages. Peppered throughout are characters taken from real life and rendered with historical vigor, including suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton; painter Albert Pinkham Ryder; and Clarence Darrow, who thunders for the defense in a tense courtroom drama during which the sanctity of American motherhood itself is put on trial. Fast-paced and chilling, The Angel of Darkness is a tour de force, a novel of modern evil in old New York." | 
         | 1896 | راوية الأفلام | Hernán Rivera Letelier, صالح علماني (Translator) | 2011 | Novels, Fiction, Audiobook, Latin American Literature, Literature, Historical Fiction, Roman, Novella, Latin American, Contemporary | María Margarita | «ماريا مارجريتا » فتاة يافعة من إحدى القرى الصغيرة بتشيلي اشتهرت بقدرتها العجيبة على إعادة سرد قصص الأفلام ببراعة. فكلما عُرِض فيلم جديد في سينما القرية، جمع السكان لها النقود لكي تشاهده، أيا كان نوعه، سواء كان هذا الفيلم أحدث أفلام مارلين منرو، أو جاري كوبر، أو حتى فيلمًا غنائيًّا من المكسيك، فتشاهد الفتاة الفيلم، ثم تعود بدورها لتحكيه لهم بطريقتها الجذابة. يسرد لنا إيرنان ريبيرا لتيلير بأسلوبه السحري الرقيق والمؤثر قصة يسترجع فيها ذكريات دور السينما في أوج مجدها بأمريكا اللاتينية. | 
         | 1897 | The White Road | John Connolly  | Mar-04 | Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Fiction, Horror, Mystery Thriller, Supernatural, Suspense, Paranormal, Detective | Charlie Parker | "John Connolly thrilled readers with his bestselling novels, ""Every Dead Thing, Dark Hollow,"" and ""The Killing Kind."" Now he delivers spellbinding suspense as Charlie Parker races to unravel a brutal crime committed in the Deep South. After years of suffering unfathomable pain and guilt over the murders of his wife and daughter, private detective Charlie Parker has finally found some measure of peace. As he and his lover, Rachel, are awaiting the birth of their first child and settling into an old farmhouse in rural Maine, Parker has found the kind of solace often lost to those who have been touched by true evil.But darkness soon descends when Parker gets a call from Elliot Norton, an old friend from his days as a detective with the NYPD. Now practicing law in Charleston, South Carolina, Elliot is defending a young black man accused of raping and killing his white girlfriend, the daughter of a powerful Southern millionaire. Reluctantly, Parker agrees to help Elliot and by doing so ventures into a living nightmare, a bloody dreamscape haunted by the specter of a hooded woman and a black car waiting for a passenger who never arrives. Beginning as an investigation into a young woman's death, it is a fast-moving descent into an abyss where forces conspire to destroy all that Parker holds dear.Hailed as a ""master storyteller"" ""(The London Express)"" by critics stateside and abroad, Connolly has once again delivered a riveting and suspenseful story that draws readers toward the horrifying crossroads of the past and present, of the living and the dead. ""We are trapped not only by our own history but by the histories of all those with whom we choose to share our lives,"" hewrites. As chillingly as it is beautifully rendered, ""The White Road"" is sure to tread a frightening path for even the most world-weary crime fiction fan." | 
         | 1898 | Mona Lisa Overdrive | William Gibson | Dec-89 | Science Fiction, Cyberpunk, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Dystopia, Novels, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Canada, Medical | Molly Millions | "William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date... The Mona Lisa Overdrive. Enter Gibson's unique world - lyric and mechanical, erotic and violent, sobering and exciting - where multinational corporations and high tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into the computer-generated universe known as cyberspace. Into this world comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with internationally famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell. Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspace without a computer. Now, from inside cyberspace, a kidnapping plot is masterminded by a phantom entity who has plans for Mona, Angie, and all humanity, plans that cannot be controlled... or even known. And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy Yakuza, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes... or so they think." | 
         | 1899 | Secret Vampire | L.J. Smith  | Jun-96 | Young Adult, Vampires, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Fiction, Witches | Thea Sophia Harman, Poppy North, Ash Redfern, James Rasmussen, Blaise Harman, Thierry Descouedres, Phillip North, Cliff Hilgard, Jasper R. Rasmussen, Owen Franklin | "The diagnosis for Poppy was death. there was no hope-until James, her best friend and secret love, appeared in the hospital. But this was a James she didn't know. He offered Poppy eternal life. Only he could open the door to the Night World. They're soulmates-but can she follow him into death and beyond?" | 
         | 1900 | The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan | Nancy Springer  | 2008 | Mystery, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Historical, Fiction, Middle Grade, Childrens, Adventure, Juvenile, British Literature | Enola Holmes | "When Enola Holmes encounters her friend Lady Cecily hiding behind a pink fan, she finds it peculiar. Cecily is being held hostage in an abysmal orphanage, forced into a miserable marriage. Enola joins forces with the much older famous brother Sherlock who she has fought desperately to elude, and risks her own freedom to rescue her friend." | 
         | 1901 | The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets | Nancy Springer , Peter Ferguson (Cover Illustrator) | 2008 | Mystery, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Historical, Fiction, Middle Grade, Childrens, Adventure, Juvenile, British Literature | Enola Holmes, Mrs. Mary Watson, Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes | "Everyone knows Dr. Watson is Sherlock Holmes' right-hand man - so when he goes missing, it's a shock. Even Sherlock hasn't, well, the slightest clue as to where he could be. Enola is intrigued, but weary; she's still hiding from her older brothers - and getting involved could be disastrous. But when a bizarre bouquet shows up at the Watson residence, full of convolvulus, hawthorn, and white poppies, Enola must act. She dons her most discerning disguise yet to find the sender - and quickly, for Enola knows the blossoms symbolize death!Hold your breath, because Enola's about to take it away. The stakes are higher and the mystery deeper than ever before in this third installment of this Edgar Award nominated, critically acclaimed series." | 
         | 1902 | The Death of Kings | Conn Iggulden | Feb-05 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Roman, Fantasy, War, Adventure, Novels, Italy, Action | Brutus, Julius Caesar | "The acclaimed author of Emperor: The Gates of Rome returns to the extraordinary life of Julius Caesar in a new novel that takes us further down the path to glory . . . as Caesar comes into his own as a man, warrior, senator, husband, and leader.In a sparsely settles region of North Africa, a band of disheveled soldiers turn their eyes toward one man among them: their leader, Julius Caesar. The soldiers are Roman legionaries. And their quarry is a band of pirates who dared to kidnap Julius Caesar for ransom. Now, as Caesar exacts his revenge and builds a legend far from Rome, his friend Marcus Brutus is fighting battles of another sort, rising to power in the wake of the assassination of a dictator. Once Brutus and Caesar were as close as brothers, devoted to the same ideals and attracted to the same forbidden women. Now they will be united again by a shock wave from the north, where a gladiator named Spartacus is building an army of seventy thousand slaves—to fight a cataclysmic battle against Rome itself." | 
         | 1903 | Scientific Progress Goes Boink | Bill Watterson | 1991 | Comics, Humor, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Comic Book, Graphic Novels Comics, Comedy, Comic Strips, Childrens, Cartoon | Calvin, Hobbes | "In this collection, Calvin and his tiger-striped sidekick Hobbes are hilarious whether the two are simply lounging around philosophizing about the future of mankind or plotting their latest money-making scheme. Chock-full of the familiar adventures of Spaceman Spiff, findings of Dad's popularity poll, and time travel to the Jurassic Age, Scientific Progress Goes ""Boink"" is guaranteed to set scientific inquiry back an eon—and advance the reading pleasure of all Calvin and Hobbes fans." | 
         | 1904 | A Morbid Taste for Bones | Ellis Peters | 1994 | Mystery, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Crime, Historical Mystery, Medieval, Mystery Thriller, Detective, British Literature | Brother Cadfael, Brother Jerome, Prior Robert Pennant, Abbot Heribert, Brother John, Brother Columbanus, Father Huw, Rhisiart, Sioned, Engelard, Peredur, Bened, Annest | "Ellis Peters' introduction to the murderous medieval world of Brother Cadfael...A Morbid Taste for BonesIn the remote Welsh mountain village of Gwytherin lies the grave of Saint Winifred. Now, in 1137, the ambitious head of Shrewsbury Abbey has decided to acquire the sacred remains for his Benedictine order. Native Welshman Brother Cadfael is sent on the expedition to translate and finds the rustic villagers of Gwytherin passionately divided by the Benedictine's offer for the saint's relics. Canny, wise, and all too wordly, he isn't surprised when this taste for bones leads to bloody murder.The leading opponent to moving the grave has been shot dead with a mysterious arrow, and some say Winifred herself held the bow. Brother Cadfael knows a carnal hand did the killing. But he doesn't know that his plan to unearth a murderer may dig up a case of love and justice...where the wages of sin may be scandal or Cadfael's own ruin." | 
         | 1905 | The Fry Chronicles | Stephen Fry | 2010 | Nonfiction, Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, Humor, Audiobook, Biography Memoir, Comedy, British Literature, LGBT | Douglas Adams, Hugh Laurie, Alastair Cooke, Emma Thompson, Stephen Fry, Rowan Atkinson, Ben Elton, Simon Gray | "Thirteen years ago, Moab Is My Washpot, Stephen Fry's autobiography of his early years, was published to rave reviews and was a huge best seller. In the years since, Stephen Fry has moved into a completely new stratosphere, both as a public figure, and a private man. Now he is not just a multi-award-winning comedian and actor, but also an author, director, and presenter." | 
         | 1906 | The Bar Code Tattoo | Suzanne Weyn | Sept-04 | Young Adult, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Teen, Mystery, Adventure, Futuristic | Kayla Reed | "The bar code tattoo. Everybody's getting it. It will make your life easier, they say. It will hook you in. It will become your identity.But what if you say no? What if you don't want to become a code? For Kayla, this one choice changes everything. She becomes an outcast in her high school. Dangerous things happen to her family. There's no option but to run . . . for her life.Individuality vs. conformity.Identity vs. access.Freedom vs. control.The bar code tattoo." | 
         | 1907 | The Professor | Charlotte Brontë | May-99 | Classics, Fiction, Romance, 19th Century, Victorian, Literature, Historical Fiction, British Literature, Classic Literature, Novels | William Crimsworth | "The Professor was the first novel by Charlotte Brontë. It was originally written before Jane Eyre and rejected by many publishing houses, but was eventually published posthumously in 1857. The book is the story of a young man, William Crimsworth. It describes his maturation, his loves and his eventual career as a professor at an all-girl's school. The story is based upon Charlotte Brontë's experiences in Brussels, where she studied as a language student in 1842." | 
         | 1908 | The Long Ships | Frans G. Bengtsson, Michael Meyer (Translator) | 1994 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Adventure, Classics, Historical, Sweden, Fantasy, Swedish Literature, Scandinavian Literature, Novels | Orm Tostesson | "The book is set in the late 10th century & follows the adventures of Orm (""serpent""), called ""Red"" for his hair & his temper, a native of Scania. The story portrays the political situation of Europe in the later Viking Age, Andalusia under Al-Mansur Ibn Abi Aamir, Denmark under Harold Bluetooth, followed by the struggle between Eric the Victorious & Sweyn Forkbeard of Denmark, Ireland under Brian Boru, England under Ethelred the Unready, the Battle of Maldon, all before the backdrop of the gradual Christianisation of Scandinavia, contrasting the pragmatic Norse pagan outlook with Islam & Christianity." | 
         | 1909 | The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side | Agatha Christie | 2002 | Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Mystery Thriller, Detective, British Literature, Murder Mystery, Adult, Cozy Mystery | Chief Inspector Dermot Craddock, Dr. Haydock, Dolly Bantry, Miss Marple, Marina Gregg, Jason Rudd, Lola Brewster, Ardwyck Fenn, ""Giuseppe (The Mirror Crack''d from Side to Side)"", Ella Zielinsky, Dr. Maurice Gilchrist, Hailey Preston, Margot Bence, William Tiddler, Councillor Allcock and Mrs. Allcock, Cherry Baker, Gladys Dixon, ""Heather Babcock (The Mirror Crack''d from Side to Side)"" | "One minute, silly Heather Badcock had been gabbling on at her movie idol, the glamorous Marina Gregg. The next, Heather suffered a massive seizure. But for whom was the deadly poison really intended?Marina’s frozen expression suggested she had witnessed something horrific. But, while others searched for material evidence, Jane Marple conducted a very different investigation – into human nature." | 
         | 1910 | The Twenty-One Balloons | William Pène du Bois | 1986 | Fiction, Childrens, Fantasy, Classics, Adventure, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade, Juvenile, School | William Waterman Sherman, Mr. F | "Professor William Waterman Sherman intends to fly across the Pacific Ocean. But through a twist of fate, he lands on the secret island of Krakatoa where he discovers a world of unimaginable wealth, eccentric inhabitants, and incredible balloon inventions. Winner of the 1948 Newbery Medal, this classic fantasy-adventure is a joy for all ages." | 
         | 1911 | Heretic | Bernard Cornwell  | Sept-04 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Medieval, Fantasy, Adventure, War, France, British Literature, Military Fiction | Thomas of Hookton, Guy Vexille | "From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the sequel to The Archer’s Tale and Vagabond—the spellbinding tale of a young man, a fearless archer, who sets out wanting to avenge his family’s honor and winds up on a quest for the Holy Grail.Already a seasoned veteran of King Edward's army, young Thomas of Hookton possesses the fearlessness of a born leader and an uncanny prowess with the longbow. Now, at the head of a small but able band of soldiers, he has been dispatched to capture the castle of Astarac. But more than duty to his liege has brought him to Gascony, home of his forebears and the hated black knight who brutally slew Thomas's father. It is also the last place where the Holy Grail was reported seen. Here, also, a beautiful and innocent, if not pious, woman is to be burned as a heretic. Saving the lady, Genevieve, from her dread fate will brand Thomas an infidel, forcing them to flee together across a landscape of blood and fire. And what looms ahead is a battle to the death that could ultimately shape the future of Christendom." | 
         | 1912 | The Hollow | Agatha Christie | 2002 | Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Detective, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Audiobook, Murder Mystery, Adult | Hercule Poirot, Lady Lucy Angkatell, Sir Henry Angkatell, Dr John Christow, Gerda Christow, Henrietta Savernake, Inspector Grange, Veronica Cray, Midge Hardcastle, David Angkatell, Gudgeon | "Lady Angkatell, intrigued by the criminal mind, has invited Hercule Poirot to her estate for a weekend house party. The Belgian detective's arrival at the Hollow is met with an elaborate tableau staged for his amusement: a doctor lies in a puddle of red paint, his timid wife stands over his body with a gun while the other guests look suitably shocked. But this is no charade. The paint is blood and the corpse real!" | 
         | 1913 | The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant | Stephen R. Donaldson | 1994 | Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, American, Adventure, High Fantasy | Thomas Covenant | "The magnificent saga of Thomas Covenant continues in Stephen Donaldson's highly acclaimed second epic fantasy trilogy, together in one volume." | 
         | 1914 | Match Me If You Can | Susan Elizabeth Phillips  | Aug-06 | Romance, Contemporary Romance, Contemporary, Chick Lit, Sports, Sports Romance, Fiction, Humor, Adult, Audiobook | Heath Champion, Annabelle Granger, Portia Powers, Bodie Gray | "You met quarterback Kevin Tucker in This Heart of Mine. Now get ready to meet his shark of an agent, Heath Champion, and Annabelle Granger, the girl least likely to succeed.Annabelle's endured dead-end jobs, a broken engagement . . . even her hair's a mess! But that's going to change now that she's taken over her late grandmother's matchmaking business. All Annabelle has to do is land the Windy City's hottest bachelor as her client, and she'll be the most sought-after matchmaker in town.Why does the wealthy, driven, and gorgeous sports agent Heath Champion need a matchmaker, especially a red-haired screw-up like Annabelle Granger? True, she's entertaining, and she does have a certain quirky appeal. But Heath is searching for the ultimate symbol of success - the perfect wife. And to make an extraordinary match, he needs an extraordinary matchmaker, right?Soon everyone in Chicago has a stake in the outcome, and a very big question: When the determined matchmaker promised she'd do anything to keep her star client happy . . . did she mean anything? If Annabelle isn't careful, she just might find herself going heart-to-heart with the toughest negotiator in town." | 
         | 1915 | Cast in Silence | Michelle Sagara | Aug-09 | Fantasy, Magic, Dragons, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Paranormal, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Mystery, Young Adult | Kaylin Neya, Severn, Tiamaris, Lord Nightshade | "Don't ask. Don't tell. Stay alive.A member of the elite Hawk force that protects the City of Elantra, Kaylin Neya has sacrificed much to earn the respect of the winged Aerians and immortal Barrani she works alongside. But the mean streets she escaped as a child aren't the ones she's vowed to give her life guarding. Those were much darker…Kaylin's moved on with her life—and is keeping silent about the shameful things she's done to stay alive. But when the city's oracles warn of brewing unrest in the outer fiefdoms, a mysterious visitor from Kaylin's past casts her under a cloud of suspicion. Thankfully, if she's anything, she's a survivor…" | 
         | 1916 | Death in the Clouds | Agatha Christie | 2001 | Mystery, Crime, Fiction, Classics, Detective, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Audiobook, Murder Mystery, Thriller | Inspector Japp, Hercule Poirot, Jane Grey, Madame Angéligue Giselle, James Ryder, Monsieur Armand Dupont, Daniel Clancy, Doctor Bryant, Norman Gale, Countess of Horbury, Venetia Kerr, Jean Dupont | "A woman is killed by a poisoned dart in the enclosed confines of a commercial passenger plane…From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp.What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind him, in seat No.2, sat the slumped, lifeless body of a woman." | 
         | 1917 | A Great Deliverance | Elizabeth George  | Jun-89 | Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Thriller, Detective, British Literature, Adult, Suspense, Audiobook | Thomas Lynley, Barbara Havers, Lady Helen Clyde, Simon St. James, Deborah St. James | "To this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldale's lush green valleys. Three hundred years ago, as legend goes, the frightened Yorkshire villagers smothered a crying babe in Keldale Abbey, where they'd hidden to escape the ravages of Cromwell's raiders.Now into Keldale's pastoral web of old houses and older secrets comes Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton. Along with the redoubtable Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, Lynley has been sent to solve a savage murder that has stunned the peaceful countryside. For fat, unlovely Roberta Teys has been found in her best dress, an axe in her lap, seated in the old stone barn beside her father's headless corpse. Her first and last words were ""I did it. And I'm not sorry.""Yet as Lynley and Havers wind their way through Keldale's dark labyrinth of secret scandals and appalling crimes, they uncover a shattering series of revelations that will reverberate through this tranquil English valley—and in their own lives as well." | 
         | 1918 | Sadako will leben | Karl Bruckner | 2006 | Fiction, Childrens, Historical Fiction, Classics, Young Adult, Historical, German Literature, School, War, Novels | Sadako Sasaki | "6. August 1945, 8 Uhr 15 Minuten - die kleine Sadako Sasaki erlebt den Atombombenabwurf über Hiroshima scheinbar unbeschadet. 10 Jahre später: Sadako, eine begeisterte Radfahrerin, wird bei einem Rennen von einer plötzlichen Schwäche befallen und es stellt sich heraus, dass sie an der Strahlenkrankheit leidet. Einer japanischen Tradition zufolge wird jedem, der tausend Papierkraniche faltet, ein sehnlicher Wunsch in Erfüllung gehen. Sadako klammert sich an diese Legende und an das Leben, selbst als die Ärzte sie aufgegeben haben. Unbeirrt arbeitet sie an den Kranichen, doch beim 990. versagen ihre Kräfte ..." | 
         | 1919 | Justice Hall | Laurie R. King  | 2003 | Mystery, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Historical Mystery, Crime, British Literature, Detective, Adult, Mystery Thriller | Mary Russell, Ali Hazr, Mahmoud Hazr, Sherlock Holmes | "Hours after Holmes and Russell return from solving the murky riddle of The Moor, a bloodied but oddly familiar stranger pounds desperately on their front door, pleading for their help. When he recovers, he lays before them the story of the enigmatic Marsh Hughenfort, younger brother of the Duke of Beauville, returned to England upon his brother's death, determined to learn the truth about the untimely death of the hall's expected heir — a puzzle he is convinced only Holmes and Russell can solve. It's a mystery that begins during the Great War of 1918, when young Gabriel Hughenfort, the late Duke's only son, died amidst scandalous rumors that have haunted the family ever since. While Holmes heads to London to uncover the truth of Gabriel's war record, Russell joins an ill-fated shooting party. A missing diary, a purloined bundle of letters, and a trail of ominous clues comprise a mystery that will call for Holmes's cleverest disguises and Russell's most daring journeys into the unknown, from an English hamlet to the city of Paris to the wild prairie of the New World. The trap is set, the game is afoot, but can they catch an elusive villain in the act of murder before they become his next victims?" | 
         | 1920 | An Inspector Calls | J.B. Priestley | 1987 | Plays, Classics, School, Fiction, Mystery, Drama, Crime, Read For School, Theatre, Historical | Arthur Birling, Sheila Birling, Eric Birling, Edna, Gerald Croft, Inspector Goole | "The action of the play occurs in an English industrial city, where a young girl commits suicide and an eminently respectable British family is subject to a routine inquiry in connection with the death. An inspector calls to interrogate the family, and during the course of his questioning, all members of the group are implicated lightly or deeply in the girl's undoing. The family, closely knit and friendly at the beginning of the evening, is shown up as selfish, self-centered or cowardly, its good humor turning to acid, and good fellowship to dislike, before the evening is over. The surprising revelation, however, is in the inspector..." | 
         | 1921 | The Mysterious Mr. Quin | Agatha Christie | 2003 | Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Short Stories, Classics, British Literature, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Fantasy, Audiobook | Harley Quin, ""Mr. Satterthwaite (Dead Man''s Mirror)"" | "Harley Quin is an enigma. Even his friend Mr Satterthwaite is unable to understand how the man seems to appear and disappear almost like a trick of the light - and when he does appear it's usually in the sparkle of sunshine, or surrounded by a spectrum of coloured light pouring through a stained glass window...In fact, the only consistent thing about the Mysterious Mr Quin is that his presence is always a harbinger of love ... or death." | 
         | 1922 | Mao II | Don DeLillo | 1992 | Fiction, Novels, Literature, American, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, The United States Of America, 20th Century, American Fiction, United States | Bill Gray, Karen Janney, George Haddad | """One of the most intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America"" (The New York Times), Don DeLillo presents an extraordinary new novel about words and images, novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch-individualist. At the heart of the book is Bill Gray, a famous reclusive writer who escapes the failed novel he has been working on for many years and enters the world of political violence, a nightscape of Semtex explosives and hostages locked in basement rooms. Bill's dangerous passage leaves two people stranded: his brilliant, fixated assistant, Scott, and the strange young woman who is Scott's lover—and Bill's." | 
         | 1923 | Greenwitch | Susan Cooper  | 1997 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Middle Grade, Arthurian, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, Magic, Classics | Will Stanton, Simon Drew, Merry Lyon, Jane Drew, Barnabas Drew | "Simon, Jane, and Barney, enlisted by their mysterious great-uncle, arrive in a small coastal town to recover a priceless golden grail stolen by the forces of evil - Dark. They are not at first aware of the strange powers of another boy brought to help, Will Stanton - nor of the sinister significance of the Greenwitch, an image of leaves and branches that for centuries has been cast into the sea for good luck in fishing and harvest. Their search for the grail sets into motion a series of distubing, sometimes dangerous events that, at their climax, bring forth a gift that, for a time at least, will keep the Dark from rising." | 
         | 1924 | শঙ্কু সমগ্র | Satyajit Ray (Author & Illustrator), সমীর সরকার (Illustrator) | Jan-03 | Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller, Childrens, Classics, Short Stories, Humor | Newton, Professor Shonku | "প্রফেসর শঙ্কু কে? তিনি এখন কোথায়? এটুকু জানা গেছে যে তিনি একজন বৈজ্ঞানিক। কেউ কেউ বলে তিনি নাকি একটা ভীষণ পরীক্ষা করতে গিয়ে প্রাণ হারিয়েছেন। আবার এও শোনা যায় যে তিনি কোনো অজ্ঞাত অঞ্চলে গা ঢাকা দিয়ে নিজের কাজ করে যাচ্ছেন, সময় হলেই আত্মপ্রকাশ করবেন।প্রফেসর শঙ্কুর প্রতিটি ডায়েরিতে কিছু না কিছু আশ্চর্য অভিজ্ঞতার বিবরণ আছে। কাহিনীগুলো সত্য কি মিথ্যা, সম্ভব কি অসম্ভব, সে বিচার পাঠকরা করবেন!" | 
         | 1925 | The Gate to Women's Country | Sheri S. Tepper | 1999 | Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Dystopia, Feminism, Post Apocalyptic, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Womens, Gender | Sylvia, Stavia, Chernon, Morgot, Jerby, Dawid, Beneda, Myra Morgotdoughter | "Tepper's finest novel to date is set in a post-holocaust feminist dystopia that offers only two political alternatives: a repressive polygamist sect that is slowly self-destructing through inbreeding and the matriarchal dictatorship called Women's Country. Here, in a desperate effort to prevent another world war, the women have segregated most men into closed military garrisons and have taken on themselves every other function of government, industry, agriculture, science and learning.The resulting manifold responsibilities are seen through the life of Stavia, from a dreaming 10-year-old to maturity as doctor, mother and member of the Marthatown Women's Council. As in Tepper's Awakeners series books, the rigid social systems are tempered by the voices of individual experience and, here, by an imaginative reworking of The Trojan Woman that runs through the text. A rewarding and challenging novel that is to be valued for its provocative ideas." | 
         | 1926 | A Fan's Notes | Frederick Exley | Sept-88 | Fiction, Sports, Novels, Literature, American, Football, Literary Fiction, Classics, 20th Century, Drinking | Fred Exley, Bunny Sue Allorgee, Earl Exley, Mrs. Exley, ""Mr. Blue (A Fan''s Notes)"", Patience Exley, Christopher Plumpton | "This fictional memoir, the first of an autobiographical trilogy, traces a self professed failure's nightmarish decent into the underside of American life and his resurrection to the wisdom that emerges from despair." | 
         | 1927 | Nothing Can Keep Us Together | Cecily von Ziegesar | May-05 | Young Adult, Chick Lit, Fiction, Contemporary, Romance, Teen, High School, Drama, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult Contemporary | Serena van der Woodsen, Blair Waldorf, Nate Archibald, Charles ""Chuck"" Bass, Dan Humphrey, Jenny Humphrey, Vanessa Abrams | "Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where my friends and I are the princes and princesses of private school, and graduation is just an excuse to throw a fabulous party - as if we need a reason.Enter the world of Gossip Girl- a world where jealousy and betrayal are always in fashion.We're nearly done with high school - forever! - but before we head off to the Ivy of our choice we've got plenty to keep us busy: B found S kissing N in the shower. Steamy! Even B can see that S and N would make the hottest couple ever, right? Wrong. B's about to strut down the revenge runway, and I have a front row seat. We'll see if this catfight looks good on the catwalk. Time to hide behind my oversized Chanel sunglasses to watch the show . . . .You know you love me,gossip girl" | 
         | 1928 | One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War | Michael Dobbs  | Feb-08 | History, Nonfiction, Politics, American History, War, Russia, Military Fiction, Military History, Historical, Presidents | John F. Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev | "In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict over the placement of missiles in Cuba. Veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs has pored over previously untapped American, Soviet, and Cuban sources to produce the most authoritative book yet on the Cuban missile crisis. In his hour-by-hour chronicle of those near-fatal days, Dobbs reveals some startling new incidents that illustrate how close we really did come to Armageddon. Here, for the first time, are gripping accounts of Khrushchev's plan to destroy the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo; the accidental overflight of the Soviet Union by an American spy plane; the movement of Soviet nuclear warheads around Cuba during the tensest days of the crisis; the activities of CIA agents inside Cuba; and the crash landing of an American F-106 jet with a live nuclear weapon on board. Dobbs takes us inside the White House and the Kremlin as Kennedy and Khrushchev-rational, intelligent men separated by an ocean of ideological suspicion-agonize over the possibility of war. He shows how these two leaders recognized the terrifying realities of the nuclear age while Castro-never swayed by conventional political considerations-demonstrated the messianic ambition of a man selected by history for a unique mission. As the story unfolds, Dobbs brings us onto the decks of American ships patrolling Cuba; inside sweltering Soviet submarines and missile units as they ready their warheads; and onto the streets of Miami, where anti-Castro exiles plot the dictator's overthrow. Based on exhaustive new research and told in breathtaking prose, here is ariveting account of history's most dangerous hours, full of lessons for our time." | 
         | 1929 | Dangerous Lady | Martina Cole | 2005 | Crime, Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Drama, Contemporary, Modern, British Literature, Contemporary Romance | Maura Ryan, Michael Ryan | "No one thinks a seventeen-year-old girl can take on the hard men of London's gangland, but it's a mistake to underestimate Maura Ryan: she's tough, clever and beautiful —and she's determined that nothing will stand in her way. Which makes her one very dangerous lady.Together, she and her brother Michael are unbeatable: the Queen and King of organised crime, they run the pubs and clubs, the prostitutes and pimps of the West End. With Maura masterminding it, they pull off an audicious gold bullion robbery and have much of the Establishment in their pockets.But notoriety has its price. The police are determined to put Maura away once and for all —and not everyone in the family thinks that's such a bad idea. When it comes to the crunch, Maura has to face the pain of lost love in her past —and the dangerous lady discovers her heart is not made entirely of stone." | 
         | 1930 | King Ottokar's Sceptre | Hergé, Michael Turner (Translator), Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper (Translator) | 1997 | Comics, Graphic Novels, Bande Dessinée, Adventure, Fiction, Childrens, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, France, Mystery | Tintin, Thomson & Thompson, Bianca Castafiore, Professor Hector Alembick, Snowy | "Tintin finds a lost briefcase and returns it to the owner, Professor Hector Alembick, who is a sigilographer, an expert on seals. He shows Tintin his collection of seals, including one which belonged to the Syldavian King Ottokar IV. Tintin then discovers that he and Alembick are under surveillance by some strange men. Tintin's flat is even bombed in an attempt to kill him. Suspecting a Syldavian connection, Tintin offers to accompany Alembick to Syldavia for research.On the plane Tintin begins to suspect his companion. The Alembick travelling with him doesn't smoke and doesn't seem to need the spectacles he wears, while the Alembick he first met smoked heavily and had very poor eyesight. During a layover, Tintin fakes a fall and grabs Alembick's beard, thinking it is false and Alembick is an imposter. However, it is (for Alembick) painfully real. Tintin decides to let the matter drop but then, while flying over Syldavia, it is the pilot of the plane who opens a trap door and Tintin drops out, landing in a haywagon.Tintin has a hunch that a plot is afoot to steal the sceptre of King Ottokar IV. In Syldavia, the reigning King must possess the sceptre to rule or he will be forced to abdicate. Every year he rides in a parade during St. Vladimir's Day carrying it, while the people sing the national anthem. Tintin succeeds in warning the reigning King, Muskar XII, despite the efforts of the conspirators. He and the King rush to the royal treasure room to find Alembick, the royal photographer and some guards unconscious and the sceptre missing.Tintin's friends Thomson and Thompson are summoned to investigate but their theory on how the sceptre was stolen proves bad and painful for them. Later on, Tintin notices a spring cannon in a toy shop and this gives him the clue. Professor Alembick had asked for some photographs to be taken of the sceptre, but the camera was a spring cannon in disguise, which allowed him to catapult it out of the castle into a nearby forest.Searching the forest, Tintin spots the sceptre being found by agents of the neighbouring country, Borduria. Following them all the way to the border, he wrests the sceptre from them. In the wallet of one of the thieves he discovers papers that show that the theft of the sceptre was just part of a major plan for the taking over of Syldavia by their long-time political rival, Borduria.Tintin steals a Me-109 from a Bordurian airfield (whose squadron is being kept ready to take part in the envisioned ""Anschluss"" of Syldavia) to fly it back to the King in time. He is shot down by the Syldavians who have naturally opened fire on an enemy aircraft violating their airspace. He manages to make the rest of the journey by foot.Meanwhile the Interior Minister informs the King that rumours have been spreading that the sceptre has been stolen and that there have been riots against local Bordurian businesses, acts which would justify a Bordurian takeover of the country. The King is about to abdicate when Snowy runs in with the sceptre (which had fallen out of Tintin's pocket).Tintin then gives the King the papers he took from the man who stole the sceptre. They prove that the plot was masterminded by Müsstler, leader of the Iron Guard, a local political party. The King takes action by having Müsstler and his associates arrested and the army mobilised along the Bordurian frontier. In response, the Bordurian leader pulls his own troops back from the border, though he stresses his own country's ""desire for peace"" and criticises Syldavia's ""strange"" behaviour.The next day is St. Vladimir's Day and Tintin is made a Knight of the Order of the Golden Pelican, the first non-Syldavian to receive such an honour. Further inquiries by the authorities reveal that, in a classic Ruritanian plot device, Professor Alembick is one of a pair of identical twins: Hector Alembick was kidnapped and replaced with his brother Alfred who left for Syldavia in his place.Tintin and Snowy return home by a flying boat with Thomson and Thompson, who suffer momentary panic when the aircraft appears to be falling into the sea at the end of the flight. The reader is treated to a rare ""wink to the camera"" from Tintin, who points out their error, and they laugh about it so much that they do indeed fall into the sea as they disembark." | 
         | 1931 | Switch Bitch | Roald Dahl | 1987 | Short Stories, Fiction, Humor, Classics, Adult, British Literature, Fantasy, Literature, Comedy, Contemporary | Uncle Oswald Hendryks Cornelius | "In Switch Bitch four tales of seduction and suspense are told by the grand master of the short story, Roald Dahl.Topping and tailing this collection are The Visitor and Bitch, stories featuring Dahl's notorious hedonist Oswald Hendryks Cornelius (or plain old Uncle Oswald) whose exploits are frequently as extraordinary as they are scandalous. In the middle, meanwhile, are The Great Switcheroo and The Last Act, two stories exploring a darker side of desire and pleasure.In the black comedies of Switch Bitch Roald Dahl brilliantly captures the ins and outs, highs and lows of sex.'Dahl is too good a storyteller to become predictable' Daily TelegraphRoald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today." | 
         | 1932 | Death in the Andes | Mario Vargas Llosa, Edith Grossman (Translator) | 1996 | Fiction, Latin American, Novels, Literature, Spanish Literature, Mystery, Nobel Prize, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Crime | Tomás Carreño, Corporal Lituma | "In an isolated community in the Peruvian Andes, a series of mysterious disappearances has occurred. Army corporal Lituma and his deputy Tom�s believe the Shining Path guerrillas are responsible, but the townspeople have their own ideas about the forces that claimed the bodies of the missing men. This riveting novel is filled with unforgettable characters, among them disenfranchised Indians, eccentric local folk, and a couple performing strange cannibalistic sacrifices. As the investigation moves forward, Tom�s entertains Lituma with the surreal tale of a precarious love affair.Death in the Andes is both a fascinating detective novel and an insightful political allegory. Mario Vargas Llosa offers a panoramic view of Peruvian society, from the recent social upheaval to the cultural influences in its past." | 
         | 1933 | Prisoners of the Sun | Hergé | 2002 | Comics, Graphic Novels, Bande Dessinée, Adventure, Fiction, Childrens, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, France, Mystery | Tintin, Captain Archibald Haddock, Zorrino, Thomson & Thompson, Snowy, Professor Calculus | "After The Seven Crystal Balls set the eerie stage, Tintin and his friends continue their adventures in Peru. There Tintin rescues an orange-seller named Zorrino from being bullied, and the young man becomes their guide in their quest to find the Temple of the Sun. But they find more than they bargained for and end up in a hot spot. The perils of this engaging two-part adventure are especially harrowing in their combination of the supernatural and the real, although the resolution is a little too deus ex machina. Calculus and the Thompsons provide their usual comic relief." | 
         | 1934 | The Monkey's Raincoat | Robert Crais | 1999 | Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Suspense, Action, Audiobook, Noir | Elvis Cole, Joe Pike, Ellen Lang, Lou Poitras, Lt. Baishe | "Taking the mystery community by storm, this Elvis Cole novel was nominated for the Edgar, Anthony, Shamus, and Macavity awards and won both the Anthony and Macavity for Best Novel of the Year.When Ellen Lang's husband disappears with their son, she hires Elvis Cole to track him down. A quiet and seemingly submissive wife, Ellen can't even write a check without him. All she wants is to get him and her son back—no questions asked. The search for Ellen's errant husband leads Elvis into the seamier side of Hollywood. He soon learns that Mort Lang is a down-on-his-luck talent agent who associates with a schlocky movie producer, and the last place he was spotted was at a party thrown by a famous and very well-connected ex-Matador. But no one has seen him since—including his B-movie girlfriend.At the same time the police find Mort in his parked car with four gunshots in his chest —and no kid in sight—Ellen disappears. Now nothing is what it seems, and the heat is on. It's up to Elvis Cole and his partner Joe Pike to find the connection between sleazy Hollywood players and an ex-Matador." | 
         | 1935 | ആടുജീവിതം | Aatujeevitham | Benyamin | Aug-08 | Fiction, India, Novels, Indian Literature, Literature, Classics, Asia, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Asian Literature | Hakim, Najeeb, Hamid | "ലക്ഷകണക്കിനു മലയാളികള്‍ ഗള്‍ഫില്‍ ജീവിക്കുന്നു, ലക്ഷങ്ങള്‍ ജീവിച്ചു തിരിച്ചു പോയിരിക്കുന്നു. ഇതില്‍ എത്ര പേര്‍ മരുഭൂമിയുടെ തീക്ഷ്‌ണത സത്യമായും അനുഭവിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്. ആ തീക്ഷ്ണത തൊട്ടറിഞ്ഞ, അഥവാ മണല്‍‌പരപ്പിലെ ജീവിതം ചുട്ടുപൊള്ളിച്ച നജീബ് എന്നയാളുടെ അനുഭവമാണ് ആടുജീവിതത്തിനു പ്രേരണയായതെന്ന് നോവലിസ്‌റ്റ് ബെന്യാമിന്‍ പറയുന്നു. പ്രവാസജീവിതത്തിലെ തികച്ചും വ്യത്യസ്‌തമായ ഒരേട്." | 
         | 1936 | Kayıp Gül | Serdar Özkan | 2012 | Turkish Literature, Fiction, Turkish, Fantasy, Novels, Literature, Philosophy, Mystery, Roman, Spirituality | Diana (goddess) | "29 DİLDE, 40’TAN FAZLA ÜLKEDE BASILAN ULUSLARARASI BİR BESTSELLERKanada’dan Japonya’ya, Brezilya’dan Endonezya’ya yüzbinlerce okurun gönlünde taht kuran KAYIP GÜL genç Türk romancı Serdar Özkan’ın ilk romanı.Tüm zamanların en çok okunan ve sevilen kitaplarından St. Exupéry'nin Küçük Prens'i, Richard Bach'ın Martı'sı ve Paulo Coelho'nun Simyacı'sına denk tutulan Kayıp Gül, bugüne kadar 29 dile çevrildi, birçok ülkede haftalarca bestseller listelerinde yeraldı.Kayıp Gül'ün kahramanı Diana'nın peşine takılan okur, başta Türk kültürüne olmak üzere, Yunan mitolojisinden Yunus Emre'ye; William Blake'ten Sokrates'e; doğu mistisizminden Küçük Prens'e; Meryem Ana'dan Nasrettin Hoca'ya; modern yaşantıdan metafiziğe; gerçek dünyadan güllerin ve düşlerin dünyasına gizemli bir yolculuğa çıkıyor.“Çağdas bir fabl, derin ve bilgece - St. Exupéry'nin başyapıtı Küçük Prens'in tadında.” DPA - ALMANYA“Muhteşem bir öykü. Bu romanın yaptığı muhteşem. Denilebilir ki, bu romanın bizi birleştirmeye gücü var.” TVA Televizyonu - KANADA“Türklerin Küçük Prens’i tüm dünyayı büyülüyor.” Helsinki Sanomat - FİNLANDİYA“Gerçek mutluluğu aramak üzerine ilham verici harikulade bir öykü.” Magazin 2000plus – ALMANYA“Büyük bir global başarı. Simyacı, Küçük Prens ve Martı'yı sevenlerin mutlaka okuması gereken bir kitap.” Air Beletrina - SLOVENYA“Kayıp Gül Doğu ile Batı arasında bir köprü.” Vijesti - SIRBİSTAN ve KARADAĞ“Kayıp Gül hayatımda okuduğum en güzel öykülerden biri. Kitabı bitirdiğiniz zaman, kendinizi bir hediye almış gibi hissediyorsunuz. Ben öyle hissettim.” Christine Michaud, TVA Televizyonu - KANADA""Çok başarılı, masalsı bir roman."" Prof. Talât Sait Halman - Bilkent Üni. Edebiyat Fakültesi Dekanı""Serdar Özkan genç ve yetenekli bir romancı, onun adını önümüzdeki yıllarda sık sık duyacağınıza sizi temin edebilirim."" İskender Pala – Kasım 2003" | 
         | 1937 | The Silent Cry | Kenzaburō Ōe, John Bester (translator) | 1998 | Fiction, Japan, Japanese Literature, Literature, Asia, Novels, Classics, Nobel Prize, Asian Literature, 20th Century | Mitsusaburo Nedokoro, Takashi Nedokoro | "Two brothers, Takashi and Mitsu, return from Tokyo to the village of their childhood. The selling of their family home leads them to an inescapable confrontation with their family history. Their attempt to escape the influence of the city ends in failure as they realize that its tentacles extend to everything in the countryside, including their own relationship. In 1994, Kenzaburo Oe was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Signalling out The Silent Cry, the Nobel Committee stated that his poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament.  Kenzaburo Oe is one of the great writers of the century and The Silent Cry is his masterpiece." | 
         | 1938 | Zombie Apocalypse! | Stephen Jones (Editor), Pat Cadigan , Paul McAuley , Robert Hood , Michael Marshall Smith , Tim Lebbon , Christopher Fowler, Paul Finch , more… | 2010 | Zombies, Horror, Fiction, Post Apocalyptic, Science Fiction, Anthologies, Fantasy, Apocalyptic, Short Stories, Dystopia | Zombies | "In the near future, a desperate and ever-more controlling UK government attempts to restore a sense of national pride with a New Festival of Britain. But construction work on the site of an old church in south London releases a centuries-old plague that turns its victims into flesh-hungry ghouls whose bite or scratch passes the contagion - a supernatural virus which has the power to revive the dead - on to others.'The Death' soon sweeps across London and the whole country descends into chaos. When a drastic attempt to eradicate the outbreak at source fails, the plague spreads quickly to mainland Europe and then across the rest of the world.Told through a series of interconnected eyewitness narratives - text messages, e-mails, blogs, letters, diaries and transcripts - this is an epic story of a world plunged into chaos as the dead battle the living for total domination." | 
         | 1939 | Timbuktu | Paul Auster | May-00 | Fiction, Dogs, Animals, Novels, Contemporary, American, Literature, The United States Of America, Literary Fiction, 20th Century | Mr. Bones, Willy G Christmas | "Mr. Bones, the canine hero of Paul Auster's astonishing new book, is the sidekick and confidant of Willy G. Christmas, a brilliant and troubled homeless man from Brooklyn. As Willy's body slowly expires, he sets off with Mr. Bones for Baltimore in search of his high school English teacher and a new home for his companion. Mr. Bones is our witness during their journey, and out of his thoughts, Paul Auster has spun one of the richest, most compelling tales in American fiction." | 
         | 1940 | Hangover Square | Patrick Hamilton | 2006 | Fiction, Classics, British Literature, Mystery, Crime, Modern Classics, Novels, Literature, Noir, 20th Century | George Harvey Bone, Netta Longdon, Peter (Hangover Square), Mickey (Hangover Square), Johnnie Littlejohn, Eddie Carstairs | "Hamilton captures the edgy, obsessive and eventually murderous mindset of a romantically frustrated British man in this WWII-era novel. London 1939, and in the grimy publands of Earls Court, George Harvey Bone is pursuing a helpless infatuation with Netta who is cool, contemptuous and hopelessly desirable to George. George is adrift in hell, until something goes click in his head and he realizes that he must kill her." | 
         | 1941 | სამოსელი პირველი | Guram Dochanashvili | 2011 | Georgian, Fiction, Magical Realism | დომენიკო, მიჩინიო, მარშალი ბეტანკური, მენდეს მესიელი, ალექსანდრო, გვეგვე, ტერეზა, დულიო, მამიდა არიადნა, კონჩეტინა, ჯულიო, ჟოაო აბადო, მოხუცი სანტოსი, დონ დიეგო, ზე მორეირა, მანუელო კოსტა, პოლოვნიკი სეზარი, ჩიჩიო, ოთო ექიმი | "თანამედროვე ქართველი კლასიკოსი მწერალის გურამ დოჩანაშვილის ყველაზე ცნობილი ნაწარმოები. ""სამოსელი პირველის"" სიუჟეტი თავგადასავლის მაძიებელი ჭაბუკის დომენიკოს ტიპური ამბავია, რომელზეც დიდად იმოქმედა იდუმალებით მოცული კაცის - ლტოლვილის ნაამბობმა. დომენიკო ტოვებს მშობლიურ სახლ-კარს, მამას და მიდის ""ლამაზ ქალაქში"". თანდათან მრავალი ადამიანთან ურთიერთობისას, იგი მიხვდება, თუ რა არის მეგობრობა, სიყვარული, სიკეთე, ბოროტება, გულწფელობა, პატიოსნება. ეს არის წიგნი სიკეთისა და ბოროტების შეცნობაზე, მას თამამად შეიძლება ვუწოდოთ ""ცხოვრების წიგნი""." | 
         | 1942 | Lucian | Isabel Abedi | 2009 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Romance, Paranormal, Angels, German Literature, Contemporary, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Paranormal Romance | Lucian, Faye, Rebecca Wolff, Marjanne Wolff, Suse Rossmann, Sebastian (Isabel Abedi), Alec Reed, Mr. Tyger | "Es fühlt sich an wie ein Riss. Ein hauchfeiner Riss, tief in Rebeccas Innerem. Als ob ihr jemand mit der Pinzette ein Härchen ausgerupft hätte. Was bleibt: ein sonderbares Gefühl von Leere und der Angst. Doch dann taucht Lucian auf, wie aus dem Nichts. Ein Junge ohne Vergangenheit, jemand, der sich nicht erinnern kann, wer er ist oder wo er herkommt. Aber Lucian gibt Rebecca mit einem Mal das Gefühl, dass sie nicht mehr allein ist." | 
         | 1943 | Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia | Brandon Sanderson  | Oct-09 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Middle Grade, Humor, Childrens, Adventure, Audiobook, Urban Fantasy, Science Fiction | Alcatraz Smedry | "When Alcatraz and Grandpa Smedry make a pilgrimage to the Free Kingdom city of Crystallia, the Smedry home base, Alcatraz is shocked to see that he is, in fact, a legend. When he was a baby he was stolen by the Evil Librarians, and his mother, a Librarian herself, was behind the whole scheme. Now, with his estranged father, who is acting indeed strange, Bastille, who has been stripped of her armor, and Grandpa Smedry, who is, as always, late to everything (that's his Talent), Alcatraz tries to save a city under siege. From who? Why, the Librarians of course!" | 
         | 1944 | Young Stalin | Simon Sebag Montefiore  | 2007 | History, Biography, Nonfiction, Russia, Politics, Russian History, Biography Memoir, Historical, European History, War | Joseph Stalin | "Based on ten years' astonishing new research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic, dangerous boy became a student priest, romantic poet, gangster mastermind, prolific lover, murderous revolutionary, and the merciless politician who shaped the Soviet Empire in his own brutal image: How Stalin became Stalin." | 
         | 1945 | Diplomatic Immunity | Lois McMaster Bujold  | 2003 | Science Fiction, Space Opera, Fiction, Mystery, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space, Audiobook, Military Fiction, Adventure | Lady Ekaterin Vorkosigan, Bel Thorne, Miles Vorkosigan | "A rich Komarran merchant fleet has been impounded at Graf Station, in distant Quaddiespace, after a bloody incident on the station docks involving a security officer from the convoy's Barrayaran military escort. Lord Miles Vorkosigan of Barrayar and his wife, Lady Ekaterin, have other things on their minds, such as getting home in time to attend the long-awaited births of their first children. But when duty calls in the voice of Barrayar's Emperor Gregor, Miles, Gregor's youngest Imperial Auditor (a special high-level troubleshooter) has no choice but to answer.Waiting on Graf Station are diplomatic snarls, tangled loyalties, old friends, new enemies, racial tensions, lies and deceptions, mysterious disappearances, and a lethal secret with wider consequences than even Miles anticipates: a race with time for life against death in horrifying new forms.The downside of being a troubleshooter comes when trouble starts shooting back . . ." | 
         | 1946 | Locke & Key, Vol. 4: Keys to the Kingdom | Joe Hill , Gabriel Rodríguez (Artist) | Feb-13 | Graphic Novels, Comics, Horror, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Supernatural, Paranormal, Adult | Tyler Locke, Kinsey Locke, Bode Locke | "Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez's Locke & Key unwinds into its fourth volume in Keys to the Kingdom. With more keys making themselves known, and the depths of the Locke family's mystery ever-expanding, Dodge's desperation to end his shadowy quest drives the inhabitants of Keyhouse ever closer to a revealing conclusion." | 
         | 1947 | Locke & Key, Vol. 3: Crown of Shadows | Joe Hill , Gabriel Rodríguez (Artist) | Feb-13 | Graphic Novels, Comics, Horror, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Mystery, Paranormal, Supernatural | Tyler Locke, Kinsey Locke, Bode Locke | "The dead plot against the living, the darkness closes in on Keyhouse, and a woman is shattered beyond repair, in the third storyline of the Eisner-nominated series, Locke & Key! Dodge continues his relentless quest to find the key to the black door, and raises an army of shadows to wipe out anyone who might get in his way. Surrounded and outnumbered, the Locke children find themselves fighting a desperate battle, all alone, in a world where the night itself has become their enemy." | 
         | 1948 | Handling the Undead | John Ajvide Lindqvist | 2009 | Horror, Zombies, Fiction, Fantasy, Swedish Literature, Paranormal, Supernatural, Sweden, Scandinavian Literature, Novels | Gustav Mahler, David Zetterberg | "Something very peculiar is happening in Stockholm. There's a heatwave on and people cannot turn their lights out or switch their appliances off. Then the terrible news breaks. In the city morgue, the dead are waking up..." | 
         | 1949 | Granny Dan | Danielle Steel | 2000 | Romance, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical, Chick Lit, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Romance, Russia, Adult | Danina ""Granny Dan"" Petroskova | Op 17-jarige leeftijd is Danina Petroskova prima ballerina geworden. Maar gebeurtenissen zowel dichtbij als ver weg slaan de grond onder haar dansende voeten weg… Deze roman verscheen eerder onder de titel Oma Danina. | 
         | 1950 | Spieltrieb | Juli Zeh | Mar-06 | Fiction, German Literature, Contemporary, Roman, Germany, Novels, Literature, Thriller, Young Adult, Literary Fiction | Ada, Alev El Quamar, Szymon Smutek | "Ada ist mit 12 Jahren auf erschreckende Weise erwachsen geworden. Vor zwei Jahren nämlich hat die hochintelligente Schülerin, neu am Bonner Ernst-Bloch-Gymnasium und im Unterricht gern in die Rolle der Lehrerin schlüpfend, beschlossen, alles als „gleich gültig“ anzusehen. Nur der Sport- und Deutschlehrer Smutek und Höfi, der Geschichtslehrer, können ihr Paroli bieten. Aber dann kommt der ebenso attraktive wie kluge Halbägypter Alev ins Spiel, dem alle „Prinzessinnen“ der Schule zu Füßen liegen. Ada und Alev scheinen wie geschaffen für ein Experiment jenseits moralischer Konventionen, bei dem es vor allem um die gleichberechtigten Startanlagen der Teilnehmer geht. Das intellektuelle Kräftemessen beginnt - und weitet sich bald zu einer Obsession. Aber wer hält die Fäden in der Hand? Wie kann man Realität und Fiktion auseinanderhalten? Und: Gibt es eine Möglichkeit auszusteigen? Ada, so hieß schon einmal die (12-jährige) Heldin eines Buchs, in dem es um Spieltriebe in Internatsumgebung ging: um erotische Spiele, aber auch um solche mit Form und Inhalt. Ada oder Das Verlangen heißt dieses Buch, und der Meister adoleszenter Erotik, Vladmir Nabokov, hat es Ende der sechziger Jahre geschrieben. Ada erscheint darin als „anmutiger Computer“, dem der „Wortzirkus“ das größte Vergnügen bereitet. Und tatsächlich ist ADA ja auch der Name einer raffinierten, zur Strukturprüfung anderer Programme verwendeten Programmiersprache: unbewusst durchschauend und „intelligent dumm“ wie die Protagonistin von Zehs Spieltrieb eben. Auf beide Traditionen spielt Zehs Roman mehr als deutlich an: auch dies Teil einer intertextuellen Strategie, die das Buch um eine weitere Nuance bereichert. All diese Ebenen hat Zeh auf eine faszinierend konsequente, atmosphärisch überaus dichte Weise zu einer philosophischen Pubertätsgeschichte mit Liebes- und Krimielementen miteinander verwoben. Und sie hat dies so spielerisch leicht getan, das ihr faszinierender Roman auf hohem Niveau bestens, teils sogar vergnüglich lesbar geblieben ist. -Thomas Köster" | 
         | 1951 | The Gods of Mars | Edgar Rice Burroughs, Michael Whelan (Illustrator) | Jan-63 | Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Classics, Adventure, Pulp, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Sword and Planet, Aliens | Dejah Thoris, John Carter, Tars Tarkas, Carthoris | "After the long exile on Earth, John Carter finally returned to his beloved Mars. But beautiful Dejah Thoris, the woman he loved, had vanished. Now he was trapped in the legendary Eden of Mars - an Eden from which none ever escaped alive." | 
         | 1952 | Hades' Disciples | Michael West  | May-14 | Horror, Fantasy, Mythology, Yeti, Paranormal, Science Fiction, Monsters, Dragons, Aliens, Werewolves | Preacher, Benedict, Earl L. Preston Jr., Carol Miyagi, Dante ""The Horror Show"" Vianello, Alan Everson, Vivian Song, Kari Hannigan, Chud, Dr. Graeme King, Uzuri ""Zuri"" Shujaa, Agent Andrews, Dr. Kathy Ward, Detective Roy Perry | "Terrifying creatures exist all around us, hiding in plain sight. Ancient. Deadly. They gather in secret, conspiring, dreaming of nothing less than humanity's destruction, and their numbers are growing.Earl Preston knows the danger all too well. After tangling with a horde of mythological sea monsters in Colonial Bay, he has been tasked with finding these beasts and exposing their plans whatever they may be. But Earl is not the only one with a mystery on their hands. At the very top of the world, Carol Miyagi has stumbled onto an artifact from Earth's past, something magnificent held captive in a prison of ice and snow. Now, Carol and Earl must work quickly to decipher the will of the gods-a plot that defies imagination-and to stop their followers from carrying it out.They thought the nightmare was over, but they are about to discover that the horror has only just begun." | 
         | 1953 | Le Malade imaginaire | Molière | 1998 | Classics, Plays, France, Theatre, Fiction, Drama, French Literature, School, Humor, 17th Century | Angélique, Argan, Béline, Louison, Béralde, Cléante, Monsieur Diafoirus, Thomas Diafoirus, Monsieur Purgon, Monsieur Fleurant | "Le Malade imaginaire est la dernière comédie et en même temps la dernière pièce écrite par Molière. Il s'agit d'une comédie-ballet en trois actes.Dans la satire outrageante de Molière sur la médecine et ses praticiens on peut dire que le riche Argan “jouit” d'une mauvaise santé. Les laxatifs, suppositoires, saignées, et les opinions deuxième et troisième des charlatans éminents sont à l'ordre du jour et l’enfer de Toinette, sa servante qui ose lui contredire. Sa fille Angélique est amoureuse de Cléante, mais Argan veut la marier à Thomas Diafoirus, un médecin qui ne vaut rien, qui peut assurer à son beau-père des soins de santé pour la durée de sa vie. Cléante se déguise en professeur de musique pour pouvoir voir son amour, mais Béline, la deuxième épouse d’Argan, menace de les dénoncer. Une Toinette déguisée, des sages conseils de son frère Béralde, et une scène de mort truquée, vont enfin montrer à Argan qui il peut faire confiance." | 
         | 1954 | Rise of the Wolf | Curtis Jobling  | 2011 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Werewolves, Middle Grade, Adventure, Paranormal, Fiction, Shapeshifters, Childrens, Supernatural | Hector of Troy, Drew Ferran, Prince Lucas, Lady Gretchen, Whitley | "Imagine a world ruled by Werelords - men and women who can shift at will into bears, lions, and serpents. When Drew suddenly discovers he's not only a werewolf but the long-lost heir to the murdered Wolf King's throne, he must use his wits and newfound powers to survive in a land suddenly full of enemies. Drew's the only one who can unite the kingdom in a massive uprising against its tyrant ruler, Leopold the Lion. But the king is hot on Drew's tail and won't rest until he's got the rebel Wolf's head." | 
         | 1955 | The History of the Siege of Lisbon | José Saramago, Giovanni Pontiero (Translator) | 2000 | Fiction, Portugal, Historical Fiction, Portuguese Literature, Literature, Novels, Nobel Prize, Romance, Classics, 20th Century | Raimundo Silva, Dom Afonso Henriques | """If proofreaders were given their freedom and did not have their hands and feet tied by a mass of prohibitions more binding than the penal code, they would soon transform the face of the world, establish the kingdom of universal happiness, giving drink to the thirsty, food to the famished, peace to those who live in turmoil, joy to the sorrowful ... for they would be able to do all these things simply by changing the words ..."" The power of the word is evident in Portuguese author José Saramago's novel, The History of the Siege of Lisbon. His protagonist, a proofreader named Raimundo Silva, adds a key word to a history of Portugal and thus rewrites not only the past, but also his own life.  Brilliantly translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero, The History of the Siege of Lisbon is a meditation on the differences between historiography, historical fiction, and ""stories inserted into history."" The novel is really two stories in one: the reimagined history of the 1147 siege of Lisbon that Raimundo feels compelled to write and the story of Raimundo's life, including his unexpected love affair with the editor, Maria Sara. In Saramago's masterful hands, the strands of this complex tale weave together to create a satisfying whole." | 
         | 1956 | محال | يوسف زيدان , Youssef Ziedan | 2013 | Novels, Literature, Fiction, Egyptian Literature, Politics, Egypt, Unfinished | شاب سودانى, نورا | «وأما الأخبار التى بأيدينا الآن، فإنما نتَّبع فيها غالب الظن، لا العلم المحقق» – ابن النفيسبطل هذه الرواية شاب مصري سوداني يتسم بالبراءة والتدين، ويعمل كمرشد سياحي في الأقصر وأسوان. كانت أقصى أحلام هذا الشاب هي الزواج من فتاة نوبية جميلة ليبدأ حياة سعيدة هانئة، ولكن نظام حياته المسالم والممل ينقلب رأسا على عقب بعد مقابلة مع أسامة بن لادن في السودان في أوائل التسعينيات.تأسرنا الرواية بإيقاعها المتسارع لنتتبع مصير بطلها من الأقصر للخليج لأوزبكستان ثم أفغانستان ومعتقل جوانتانامو. لغة يوسف زيدان الشعرية تجعلنا نعيش تجربة إنسانية فريدة، حيث يختلط الواقع بالخيال وننطلق مع البطل في رحلة لنكتشف خبايا النفس والعالم | 
         | 1957 | The Shooting Star | Hergé | 2002 | Comics, Graphic Novels, Bande Dessinée, Adventure, Fiction, Childrens, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, France, Mystery | Tintin, Captain Archibald Haddock, Snowy, Philippulus the Prophet, Professor Decimus Phostle, Captain Chester | "A huge fireball comes hurtling towards Earth from space! Tintin sets sail with Captain Haddock to find the meteorite in the stormy Arctic Ocean, but a valuable metal is contained in the meteorite and Tintin's attempts to reach it are met with relentless sabotage." | 
         | 1958 | The Sound of Waves | Yukio Mishima, Meredith Weather(Translator) | 2000 | Fiction, Japan, Japanese Literature, Classics, Romance, Literature, Asia, Novels, Asian Literature, 20th Century | Shinji Kubo, Terukichi Miyata, Chiyoko, Yasuo Kawamoto | "Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. It tells of Shinji, a young fisherman and Hatsue, the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. Shinji is entranced at the sight of Hatsue in the twilight on the beach and they fall in love. When the villagers' gossip threatens to divide them, Shinji must risk his life to prove his worth." | 
         | 1959 | The Courts of Chaos | Roger Zelazny, Tim White (illustrator) | Published | Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Audiobook, High Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, Speculative Fiction | Random of Amber, Brand of Amber, Corwin of Amber, Benedict of Amber, Bleys of Amber, Fiona of Amber, King Oberon of Amber, Merlin of Amber | "Amber, the one real world of which all others – including our own Earth – are but Shadows...For untold millennia, the cosmic Pattern sustained order in Amber and all the known worlds. But now the forces of Chaos have succeeded in disrupting the Pattern, unleashing destructive forces beyond measure... forces meant to reshape the universe.To save Amber, Corwin, prince of the blood, champion of the perfect realm, must undertake the most perilous journey of his life. A journey that will take him through all the terrors of Shadows to the enemy's last stonghold. A journey beyond the very edge of existence... to the Courts of Chaos." | 
         | 1960 | Who's That Girl? | Alexandra Potter  | 2009 | Chick Lit, Romance, Fiction, Contemporary, Magic, Adult, Time Travel, Contemporary Romance, Humor, British Literature | Charlotte Merryweather | "At age thirty-one, American Charlotte Merryweather has spent ten years in London pursuing personal and professional perfection. Yet her present-day success- heading her own PR company, owning a gorgeous apartment, planning a future with her devoted boyfriend- only heightens the shock of a visit from the past.  ""Lottie,"" Charlotte's twenty-one-year-old self, drives onto the scene at the wheel of a rusty, orange Volkswagen Beetle identical to Charlotte's first UK ride. Charlotte pursues a friendship aimed to bestow upon Lottie a decade of wisdom. Yet Charlotte's prosperous polish proves a pale substitute for Lottie's innate, youthful graces- openness, passion, and kindness. Will the student become the teacher in this witty turnabout?" | 
         | 1961 | The Fourth Protocol | Frederick Forsyth | 1996 | Fiction, Thriller, Espionage, Mystery, Suspense, Spy Thriller, Novels, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Action | Harold Philby, John Preston, Jim Rawlings, George Berenson, Jan Marais, Sir Nigel Irvine | "Professional thief Jim Rawlings breaks into the apartment of a senior civil servant, and unintentionally discovers stolen top secret documents. Although one of the most notorious thieves in London, he is enough of a patriot to anonymously send the documents to MI5 so that they might locate the traitor. In Moscow, British defector Kim Philby drafts a memorandum for the Soviet General Secretary stating that, if the Labour Party wins the next general election in the United Kingdom (scheduled for sometime in the subsequent eighteen months), the ""hard left"" of the party will oust the moderate populist Neil Kinnock in favour of a radical new leader who will adopt a true Marxist-Leninist manifesto, including the expulsion of all American forces from the United Kingdom and the country's withdrawal from and repudiation of NATO. In conjunction with a GRU general, an academic named Krilov, and a master strategist, Philby devises ""Plan Aurora"" to ensure a Labour victory by exploiting the party's support for unilateral disarmament - although it is noted that the strategist, a nuclear physicist and chess Grand Master, has come up with most of the plan's strategy." | 
         | 1962 | Way Station | Clifford D. Simak | 1992 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Hugo Awards, Classics, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Aliens, Speculative Fiction, Audiobook, Space | Mary, Enoch Wallace, Lucy Fisher, Winslowe | "Enoch Wallace is an ageless hermit, striding across his untended farm as he has done for over a century, still carrying the gun with which he had served in the Civil War. But what his neighbors must never know is that, inside his unchanging house, he meets with a host of unimaginable friends from the farthest stars.More than a hundred years before, an alien named Ulysses had recruited Enoch as the keeper of Earth's only galactic transfer station. Now, as Enoch studies the progress of Earth and tends the tanks where the aliens appear, the charts he made indicate his world is doomed to destruction. His alien friends can only offer help that seems worse than the dreaded disaster. Then he discovers the horror that lies across the galaxy..." | 
         | 1963 | Robots and Empire | Isaac Asimov | 1996 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Robots, Mystery, Classics, Novels, Fantasy, Space Opera, Detective | R. Daneel Olivaw, Keldon Amadiro, Gladia Delmarre, R. Giskard Reventlov | "Long after his humiliating defeat at the hands of Earthman Elijah Baley, Keldon Amadiro embarked on a plan to destroy planet Earth. But even after his death, Baley's vision continued to guide his robot partner, R. Daneel Olivaw, who had the wisdom of a great man behind him and an indestructable will to win...." | 
         | 1964 | Die rote Zora und ihre Bande | Kurt Held | 2003 | Childrens, German Literature, Classics, Fiction, Young Adult, Adventure, Middle Grade, Roman, Kids, Germany | Zora, Branko | "Eine Stadt am Adriatischen Meer ist Schauplatz dieses Romans. Branco, der Sohn eines fahrenden Geigers und einer Tabakarbeiterin, verliert seine Mutter. Er hat kein Zuhause mehr. Bald verdächtigt man ihn des Diebstahls und sperrt ihn ein. Doch Zora, das Mädchen mit den roten Haaren, befreit ihn, und er wird in die Bande der jungen Uskoken aufgenommen, die in der alten Burg hausen. Nicht Romantik, sondern Hunger und Not haben sie zusammengetrieben. Sie kämpfen ums tägliche Brot, gegen Entbehrungen und Verfolgung. So Ernst die Lage der Kinder oft ist, so herrlich sind die Einfälle, mit denen sie ihren Widersachern begegnen, und um so selbstloser wird ihre Kameradschaft. Mögen die Erwachsenen sich auch von ihnen abwenden: sie finden aneinander Halt, und ein eigenes Ehrgefühl bewahrt sie vor Schlechtem. Ihre wilden Streiche bringen jedoch die Bürgerschaft gegen sie auf, und es droht das Gefängnis. Da weiß aber ihr Beschützer, ein alter Fischer, die Stadtväter zu überzeugen, dass es zum Besten aller ist, sich der Kinder anzunehmen. So finden die Rote Zora und ihre Bande endlich Arbeit und ein Zuhause." | 
         | 1965 | The Knight Templar | Jan Guillou | 2010 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Swedish Literature, Scandinavian Literature, Medieval, Adventure, War, Novels, Sweden | Richard I of England, Heraclius, Saladin, Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, Arn Magnusson, Birger Brosa, Canute I of Sweden, Wilfred of Ivanhoe, Guy of Lusignan, Arnold of Torroja, Roger de Moulins, Raynald of Châtillon, Gerard de Ridefort, Raymond III of Tripoli, Cecilia Johansdotter of Sweden, Magnus Minniskiöld | "Tempelriddaren är den spännande fortsättningen på Vägen till Jerusalem. Arn är 27 år och redan en ärrad veteran bland korsfararna i Det heliga landet. Mycket har han hunnit lära sig under de tio år som gått sedan han red bort från Arnäs i Västergötland för sin tjugoåriga botgöringstjänst i Palestina. Den trosvissa övertygelse om uppdragets rättfärdighet som den 17-årige rekryten hade vid sin ankomst till korsfararriket har fått sig många törnar. Och nu, som borgherre i garnisonen i Gaza och med uppdraget att upprätthålla lag och ordning i trakten, får han allt oftare erfara att han har mera besvär med de nyanlända korsfararna - som antingen styrs av överdrivet kristet nit eller alltför ohöljd plundringslust - än med landets luttrade urinvånare. Hemma i Sverige har under tiden Cecilia, Arns ungdomskärlek som till straff för deras älskog sattes i det stränga Gudhems kloster, fött deras barn, en gosse som växer upp hos Arns farbror Birger Brosa. Cecilia ber om undret att Arn måtte komma åter, och även Birger som manövrerar slugt i de svenska maktstriderna hoppas på Arns återkomst." | 
         | 1966 | Thousand Cranes | Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator) | 1996 | Japan, Fiction, Japanese Literature, Classics, Asia, Literature, Novels, Asian Literature, Nobel Prize, Romance | Kikuji, Mrs. Ota, Fumiko | "An alternate cover of this ISBN can be found here.Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s Thousand Cranes is a luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead.   While attending a traditional tea ceremony in the aftermath of his parents’ deaths, Kikuji encounters his father’s former mistress, Mrs. Ota. At first Kikuji is appalled by her indelicate nature, but it is not long before he succumbs to passion—a passion with tragic and unforeseen consequences, not just for the two lovers, but also for Mrs. Ota’s daughter, to whom Kikuji’s attachments soon extend. Death, jealousy, and attraction convene around the delicate art of the tea ceremony, where every gesture is imbued with profound meaning." | 
         | 1967 | The Seven Dials Mystery | Agatha Christie | 2001 | Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Mystery Thriller, Detective, British Literature, Thriller, Murder Mystery, Adult | Superintendent Battle, Lady Eileen Brent, Bill Eversleigh, George Lomax, Tredwell, Clement Edward Alistair Brent, Lord Caterham, Jimmy Thesinger, Sir Oswald Coote, Lady Maria Coote, Rupert Bateman, Gerald Wade, Lorraine Wade, Herr Eberhard, Countess Anna Radzky, Mr. Mosgorovsky, John Bauer, Ronny Devereux | "Gerry Wade é por todos conhecido como um inveterado dorminhoco. Aquando de uma festa organizada em Chimneys, o seu grupo de amigos decide pregar-lhe uma partida memorável. Na cidade vizinha compram oito relógios despertadores, com os quais estão decididos a sobressaltá-lo durante o sono. A noite passa mas as suas expectativas saem goradas quando o atroador toque dos relógios não exerce qualquer efeito sobre Gerry. Tinham razão ao esperar um efeito surpreendente, mas não podiam imaginar que fosse tão trágico. Poderá o relógio desaparecido explicar tão fatal mistério?" | 
         | 1968 | Die Räuber | Friedrich Schiller, Jaan Kärner (-Translator) | 1986 | Classics, Plays, German Literature, Drama, Fiction, School, 18th Century, Germany, Literature, Theatre | Daniel Foster, Franz Moor, Karl Moor, Maximilian Moor, Amalia von Edelreich, Spiegelberg, Schweizer, Schufterle, Roller, Grimm, Razmann, Kosinsky, Schwarz, Pastor Moser, Hermann | Mit seinem 1781 erschienenen leidenschaftlichen Drama der Selbtstzerstörung einer Familie machte Schiller bei der Uraufführung am Mannheimer Nationaltheater 1782 Sensation. Fortan galt er den Zeitgenossen als ein deutscher Shakespeare. Die Themen und Motive des Sturm-und-Drang-Stücks blieben für Schiller bis zu seinen letzen klassischen Werken verbindlich und haben bis heute nichts von ihrer Faszination verloren. | 
         | 1969 | The Blue Djinn of Babylon | P.B. Kerr | 2006 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Adventure, Middle Grade, Childrens, Magic, Mythology, Young Adult Fantasy, Novels | Nimrod, John Gaunt, Philippa Gaunt | "Sequel to the NY TIMES Bestseller, The Akhenaten Adventure. John and Phillipa Gaunt, 12 year old twins who recently discovered themselves to be descended from a long line of djinn (which are commonly called genies) and who are now in possession of great magical powers, have only just returned from their adventures battling an evil djinn in Cairo and London. Now the mystery surrounding a powerful book of djinn magic lures the twins straight into their next extraordinary adventure. 8.5 x 5.25 x 1.2""" | 
         | 1970 | Die dunkle Seite des Mondes | Martin Suter | Dec-01 | Fiction, German Literature, Contemporary, Roman, Novels, School, Thriller, Crime, Drama, Literary Fiction | Urs Blank | "Starwirtschaftsanwalt Urs Blank, fünfundvierzig, Fachmann für Fusionsverhandlungen, hat seine Gefühle im Griff. Doch dann gerät sein Leben aus den Fugen. Ein Trip mit halluzinogenen Pilzen führt zu einer gefährlichen Persönlichkeitsveränderung, aus der ihn niemand zurückzuholen vermag. Blank flieht in den Wald. Bis er endlich begreift: Es gibt nur einen Weg, um sich aus diesem Alptraum zu befreien." | 
         | 1971 | Playing for the Ashes | Elizabeth George  | 1994 | Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Detective, British Literature, Murder Mystery, Suspense, Contemporary | Thomas Lynley, Barbara Havers, Lady Helen Clyde, Winston Nkata, Kenneth Fleming, Miriam Whitelaw, Olivia Whitelaw, Jean Cooper, Jimmy Cooper, Chris Faraday, Isabelle Ardery | """The story begins with my father, actually, and the fact that I'm the one who's answerable for his death.  It was not my first crime, as you will see, but it is the one my mother couldn't forgive.""In her astonishing New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Elizabeth George reveals the even darker truth behind this startling confession. Playing for the Ashes is a rich tale of passion, murder and love in which Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers once again find themselves embroiled in a case where nothing—and no one—is really what it seems.  Intense, suspenseful and brilliantly written, Playing for theAshes will make readers ""search out the sleuthing pair's first six adventures...a treasure,"" as Cosmopolitan predicted in their review." | 
         | 1972 | The Blue Lotus | Hergé | 2002 | Comics, Graphic Novels, Bande Dessinée, Adventure, Fiction, France, Graphic Novels Comics, Childrens, Comic Book, Mystery | Tintin, Thomson & Thompson, Roberto Rastapopoulos, Snowy, Mitsuhirato, Chang | "Tintin och Milou fortsätter sin asiatiska resa till Shanghai i Kina, för att försöka lösa mysteriet med farao Kih-Oskhs cigarrer. Tintin räddar den lille pojken Tchang Tchong-Jen från att drunkna, och de blir goda vänner. Jakten på narkotikaligan leder dem till tillhållet Blå lotus, där det står klart att skumma saker försiggår ... Hergé träffade Tchang på riktigt under sitt arbete med ""Blå lotus"" och deras vänskap kom att betyda mycket för honom; den öppnade hans ögon på flera sätt och gav honom ökad respekt för andra kulturer. Tintin som tidigare varit en representant för gängse uppfattningar börjar nu aktivt bekämpa fördomar. Detta visar sig tydligt i kommande böcker, där Hergé också varit medveten om vikten av noggrann research!" | 
         | 1973 | The Wave | Todd Strasser , Morton Rhue | Mar-05 | Young Adult, Fiction, School, Classics, Historical Fiction, Read For School, Contemporary, Psychology, Realistic Fiction, Historical | David Collins, Laurie Saunders, Amy Smith, Ben Ross, Robert Billings, Christy Ross | "The Wave is based on a true incident that occurred in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969.The powerful forces of group pressure that pervaded many historic movements such as Nazism are recreated in the classroom when history teacher Burt Ross introduces a ""new"" system to his students. And before long The Wave, with its rules of ""strength through discipline, community, and action"", sweeps from the classroom through the entire school. And as most of the students join the movement, Laurie Saunders and David Collins recognize the frightening momentum of The Wave and realize they must stop it before it's too late." | 
         | 1975 | Five Go Adventuring Again | Enid Blyton | 2001 | Childrens, Fiction, Adventure, Mystery, Classics, Young Adult, Middle Grade, British Literature, Novels, Juvenile | Timothy, George Kirrin (Famous Five), Dick Kirrin, Anne (Famous Five), Julian (Famous Five) | "There's a thief at Kirrin Cottage! The Famous Five think they know who it is, but they need to prove it! Where can they find evidence? The discovery of an old map and very unusual hiding place is all they need to get to the bottom of this mystery and uncover the true culprit!" | 
         | 1976 | Mackenzie's Mission | Linda Howard | Jul-00 | Romance, Contemporary Romance, Contemporary, Romantic Suspense, Military Fiction, Suspense, Fiction, Chick Lit, Adult, Mystery | Caroline Evans, Joe ""Breed"" Mackenzie | "Night Wing — the revolutionary test plane with a top secret weapons system — was Colonel Joe ""Breed"" Mackenzie's number-one priority. And weapons expert Caroline Evans was his number-one distraction. True, the stubborn blonde was giving him the cold shoulder, but Joe hadn't become the best of the best by giving up. Then he discovered someone on the inside was sabotaging Night Wing, and with her late hours and specialized expertise, Caroline seemed the obvious choice. Now Joe had to choose between allegiance to his country and love for his prime suspect..." | 
         | 1977 | Jembatan Musim Gugur | Takashi Matsuoka, Ary Nilandari  (Translator) | 2005 | Japan, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Historical, Fiction, Japanese Literature, Novels, Romance, Asian Literature, Indonesian Literature | Genji Okumichi, Lady Shizuka, Emily Gibson | "Mengetahui masa depan dan mengetahui masa lampau adalah dua hal yang bermakna sama. Apa bedanya mengetahui hal yang tak terelakkan dengan mengetahui apa yang telah terjadi?Aki-no-Hashi(1311)Sesosok wanita hadir, mengiris keheningan menara tertinggi Kastel Awan Burung Gereja. Kecantikannya memukau, kelembutannya menghanyutkan, dan keanggunannya menebarkan pesona. Tetapi, kemunculannya selalu berselubung misteri. Benarkah dia Lady Shizuka, sang putri sihir dari masa lampau? Benarkah dia penentu sejarah klan Okumichi? Dan mengapa dia juga muncul di hadapan Emily Gibson, wanita asing yang bukan keturunannya?Samurai: Jembatan Musim Gugur menguak kelanjutan kisah hidup Genji Okumichi, sang Daimyo Akaoka dalam Samurai: Kastel Awan Burung Gereja. Kisah ini pun menyibak kekuatan cinta yang mampu menjungkirbalikkan dunia, perpaduan kekuatan ragawi dan kehalusan pekerti, dan mengedepankan ketulusan sejati dalam menyikapi takdir, meskipun akhir hidup sudah di depan mata." | 
         | 1978 | Tuesday's Child | Louise Bagshawe  | Published | Chick Lit, Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Adult, Womens Fiction, New Adult, Humor | Lucy Evans, Oliver McCleod, Victoria Cobham, Todd Mayle | "The heroine this novel is a tomboy. She loves her Doc Martens, heavy metal, and hanging out with her best friend, Ollie. She may have been born on a Tuesday, but graceful she isn't. However, Grace's world is about to change. Ollie gets engaged, and her new boss wants her to smarten up. Grace tries to turn herself into the kind of girl she thinks they want her to be - with hilarious and unexpected results." | 
         | 1979 | Locke & Key, Vol. 5: Clockworks | Joe Hill , Gabriel Rodríguez (Artist) | Jul-13 | Graphic Novels, Horror, Comics, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Paranormal, Supernatural, Adult | Tyler Locke, Kinsey Locke, Bode Locke, Zack Wells | "Locke & Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them.... and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all...! After the gruesome murder of their father, the Locke kids, Tyler, Kinsey and Bode move with their mother Nina to the ancestral family home, Keyhouse. They soon discover that the house is full of secrets when they start finding magical keys which hold impossible powers such as turning people into ghosts, or being able to erase someone's memories. They are not the only ones who know of the keys; a demonic creature known as Dodge is also after the keys, with the goal of opening the Black Door, which will allow the demons of hell to enter our world. The sprawling tale of the Locke family and their mastery of the 'whispering steel' thunders to new heights as the true history of the family is revealed to Tyler and Kinsey. Zack Wells assumes a new form, Tyler and Kinsey travel through time.Tyler and Kinsey Locke have no idea that their now-deceased nemesis, Lucas ""Dodge"" Caravaggio, has taken over the body of their younger brother, Bode. With unrestricted access to Keyhouse, Dodge's ruthless quest to find the Omega Key and open the Black Door is almost complete. But Tyler and Kinsey have a dangerous key of their own — one that can unlock all the secrets of Keyhouse by opening a gateway to the past. The time has come for the Lockes to face theri own legacy and the darkness behind the Black Door. Because if they don't learn from their family history, they may be doomed to repeat it, and time is running out!Colonel Adam Crais's minutemen are literally trapped between a rock and a hard place; in the first days of the Revolutionary War, they find themselves hiding beneath 120 feet of New England stone, with a full regiment of redcoats waiting for them in the daylight... and a door into hell in the cavern below. The black door is open, and it's up to a 16-year-old smith named Ben Locke to find a way to close it. The biggest mysteries of the Locke & Key series are resolved as Clockworks opens, not with a bang, but with the thunderous crash of English cannons.Contents:Clockworks [Locke & Key • 5] / graphic format novella by Joe Hill; interior artwork by Gabriel Rodriguez and Jay Fotos 1 The Locksmith's Son 2 SMASH! 3 The Tamers of the Tempest 4 The Whispering Iron 5 Grown-Ups 6 CurtainThe Known Keys (Clockworks) [Locke & Key • 5.5] [Excerpts from the Diary of Benjamin Pierce Locke, 1757-1799] / shortfiction by Joe Hill; interior artwork by Gabriel Rodriguez...to be concluded in Locke & Key: OMEGAStorytellers: Joe Hill, author, Gabriel Rodriguez, Illustrator. Series edited by Chris Ryall. Collection edited by Justin Eisinger.." | 
         | 1980 | Kinderen van Moeder Aarde | Thea Beckman | 2003 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Childrens, Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Post Apocalyptic, 20th Century, Dutch Literature, Historical Fiction | Christian, Thura, Kunz, Kolbe, Hannah-Dottir, Armina-Dottir, Rajo, Anouk | "Zes eeuwen na de Derde Wereldoorlog. De aarde is door een kernoorlog gekanteld en bijna verwoest. Het ijs op het vroegere Groenland, dat nu Thule heet, is gesmolten en het land heeft een heerlijk klimaat. De mensen leven in harmonie met de natuur. Het land wordt door vrouwen geregeerd, zonder leger, zonder wapens.Op een dag verschijnt er een onbekend schip in de fjord. Algauw blijkt dat de opvarenden van het schip, afkomstig uit het Badense Rijk, van plan zijn Thule te veroveren. Bij een land zonder wapens, geregeerd door vrouwen, moet dat toch niet moeilijk zijn! De Badeners stuiten echter op onverwachte tegenstand.Kinderen van Moeder Aarde is deel 1 in de Thule-trilogie." | 
         | 1981 | South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 | Ernest Shackleton, Peter King (Editor), Frank Hurley (Illustrator) | Nov-99 | History, Nonfiction, Adventure, Biography, Travel, Memoir, Historical, Survival, Classics, Autobiography | Ernest Shackleton | "In 1914, as the shadow of war falls across Europe, a party led by veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton sets out to become the first to traverse the Antarctic continent. Their initial optimism is short-lived, however, as the ice field slowly thickens, encasing the ship Endurance in a death-grip, crushing their craft, and marooning 28 men on a polar ice floe.In an epic struggle of man versus the elements, Shackleton leads his team on a harrowing quest for survival over some of the most unforgiving terrain in the world. Icy, tempestuous seas full of gargantuan waves, mountainous glaciers and icebergs, unending brutal cold, and ever-looming starvation are their mortal foes as Shackleton and his men struggle to stay alive.What happened to those brave men forever stands as a testament to their strength of will and the power of human endurance.This is their story, as told by the man who led them." | 
         | 1982 | Complicity | Iain Banks | 2003 | Fiction, Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Contemporary, Scotland, Novels, British Literature, Science Fiction, Modern | Cameron Colley | "A few spliffs, a spot of milkd S&M, phone through the copy of tomorrow's front page, catch up with the latest from your mystery source - could be big, could be very big - in fact, just a regular day at the office for free-wheeling, substance abusing Cameron Colley, a fully paid-up Gonzo hack on an Edinburgh newspaper. The source is pretty thin, but Cameron senses a scoop and checks out a series of bizarre deaths from a few years ago - only to find that the police are checking out a series of bizarre deaths that are happening right now. And Cameron just might know more about it that he'd care to admit..." | 
         | 1983 | The Illearth War | Stephen R. Donaldson | Nov-89 | Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction, Adventure, Epic, High Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Dark Fantasy | Thomas Covenant | "After scant days in his ""real"" world, Thomas Covenant found himself again summoned to the Land. There forty bitter years had passed, while Lord Foul, immortal enemy of the Land, moved to fulfill his prophecy of doom.The Council of Lords found their spells useless, now that Foul the Despiser held the Illearth Stone, ancient source of evil power, High Lord Elena turned in desperation to Covenant and the legendary white hold magic of his ring. And nobody knew how to use the white hold-least of all, Thomas Covenant.Thus continues one of the most remarkable epic fantasies ever written..." | 
         | 1984 | Harpist in the Wind | Patricia A. McKillip | 1979 | Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Magic, Young Adult, Science Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Adventure, Adult | Morgon, Prince of Hed, Raederle of An | "In the midst of conflict and unrest the Prince of Hed solves the puzzle of his future when he learns to harp the wind, discovers who the shape changers are, and understands his own relationship to Deth, harpist of the wizard Ohm." | 
         | 1985 | The Devil's Right Hand | Lilith Saintcrow  | 2007 | Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, Paranormal, Demons, Fiction, Paranormal Romance, Romance, Magic, Supernatural, Adult | Eddie, Dante Valentine, Gabriel ""Gabe"" Anderson, Japhrimel, Lucas Villalobos | "Dante Valentine, Necromancer and bounty hunter, just wants to be left alone. But the Devil has other ideas. The Prince wants Dante. And he wants her now. And Dante and her lover, Japhrimel, have no choice but to answer the Prince's summons. And to fulfill a seemingly simple task: become the Devil's Right Hand, hunt down four demons that have escaped from Hell, and earn His gratitude. It's a shame that nothing is ever easy when it comes to the Devil. Because of course, he doesn't tell Dante the whole truth: there is a rebellion brewing in Hell. And there is a good chance that Lucifer is about to be pushed off the throne. But Dante is getting really tired of being pushed around. And this time, she might be angry enough to take on the Devil himself..." | 
         | 1986 | East of the Sun | Julia Gregson  | Jun-08 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, India, Romance, Historical, Asia, Travel, Chick Lit, British Literature, Novels | Rose, Victoria Kitchen, Guy, Viva | "Autumn 1928. The Kaiser-i-Hind is en route to Bombay. In Cabin D38, Viva Hollowat, an inexperienced chaperone, is worried she's made a terrible mistake. Her advert in The Lady has resulted in three unsettling charges to be escorted to India.Rose, a beautiful, dangerously naive English girl, is about to be married to the cavalry officer she has met only a handful of times.Victoria, the bridesmaid, is determined to lose her virginity on the journey before finding a husband of her own in India. And overshadowing all three of them, the malevolent presence of Guy Glover, a strange and disturbed schoolboy.Three potential Memsahibs with a myriad of reasons for leaving England, but the cargo of hopes and secrets they carry has done little to prepare them for what lies ahead.From the parties of the wealthy Bombay socialites to the poverty of the orphans on Tamarind Street, East of the Sun is everything a historical novel should be: alive with glorious detail, fascinating characters and masterful storytelling." | 
         | 1987 | The Greek Myths | Robert Graves | 1992 | Mythology, Classics, Nonfiction, History, Reference, Religion, Greece, Greek Mythology, Literature, Philosophy | Oedipus, Artemis (Goddess), Demeter (Goddess), Theseus (mythology), Ajax (Greek hero), Odysseus, Penelope (wife of Odysseus), Helen of Troy, Menelaus, Paris, Hector of Troy, Achilles (Greek hero), Pandora (mythology), Orestes, Zeus (God), Dionysus (mythology), Ares (god), Eris, Perseus, Prometheus (mythology), Athena (Greek goddess), Hera, Atlas, Persephone (Goddess), Hades, Hephaestus, Eros, Eurydice, Orpheus, Medusa, Aeneas, Osiris, Asclepius, Electra, Poseidon (God), Medea of Colchis, Chiron, Sarpedon (king of Lycia), Priam, Daedalus, Thoth, Arachne (mythology), Erinyes, Cassandra (of Troy), Ganymede (mythology), Boreas, Cadmus (mythology), Europa, Hermaphroditus, Ixion, Leto (mythology), Minos, Narcissus, Niobe (mythology), Pan (Greek), Pegasus, Scylla, Tiresias, Hermes, Silenus, Rhea (Greek), Heracles, Cerberus, Aphrodite, Creon, Iris (Greek), Minotaur, Sisyphus, Hydra of Lerna, Cronos (Greek), Hestia (Goddess), Atropos (mythology), Gaia (Greek), Antiope (mythology), Hecate (mythology), Apollo (Greek god), Clytemnestra (wife of Agamemnon), Pygmalion (Greek), Uranus (Greek), Oceanus (Greek), Charon (mythology), Sphinx (Greek mythology), Hyperion (mythology), Selene (mythology), Eos (mythology), Helius (mythology), Styx (Goddess), Icarus (mythology), Thetis (mythology), Galatea (mythology), Echo (mythology), Tantalus, Adonis (mythology), Myrrha, Euterpe (mythology), Ariadne (mythology), Priapus, Procrustes (mythology), Agamemnon | "Combines in a single volume the complete text of the definitive two-volume classic, citing all the ancient myths. For a full appreciation of literature or visual art, knowledge of the Greek myths is crucial. In this much-loved collection, poet and scholar Robert Graves retells the immortal stories of the Greek myths. Demeter mourning her daughter Persephone, Icarus flying too close to the sun, Theseus and the Minotaur … all are captured here with the author’s characteristic erudition and flair.The Greek Myths is the culmination of years of research and careful observation, however what makes this collection extraordinary is the imaginative and poetic style of the retelling. Drawing on his experience as a novelist and poet, Graves tells the fantastic stories of Ancient Greece in a style that is both absorbing and easy for the general reader to understand. Each story is accompanied by Graves’ interpretation of the origins and deeper meaning of the story, giving a reader an unparalleled insight into the customs and development of the Greek world." | 
         | 1988 | The Pursuit of Love | Nancy Mitford | 1999 | Fiction, Classics, Romance, Historical Fiction, British Literature, Humor, 20th Century, Historical, Novels, Modern Classics | Linda Radlett, Matthew Radlett, Fanny Wincham, Aunt Emily, David Warbeck, Lord Merlin, Sadie Radlett, Jassy, Matt, Robin and Vicki Radlett, Louisa Radlett, The Bolter, Tony Kroesig, Christian Talbot, Fabrice Sauveterre, Alfred Wincham, Lavender Davis | "Few aristocratic English families of the twentieth century enjoyed the glamorous notoriety of the infamous Mitford sisters. Nancy Mitford's most famous novel, The Pursuit of Love satirizes British aristocracy in the twenties and thirties through the amorous adventures of the Radletts, an exuberantly unconventional family closely modelled on Mitford's own.The Radletts of Alconleigh occupy the heights of genteel eccentricity, from terrifying Lord Alconleigh (who, like Mitford's father, used to hunt his children with bloodhounds when foxes were not available), to his gentle wife, Sadie, their wayward daughter Linda, and the other six lively Radlett children. Mitford's wickedly funny prose follows these characters through misguided marriages and dramatic love affairs, as the shadow of World War II begins to close in on their rapidly vanishing world." | 
         | 1989 | Don't Look Now | Daphne du Maurier | 1971 | Short Stories, Horror, Fiction, Classics, Gothic, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, British Literature, 20th Century | John Baxter, Laura Baxter | The title novella of this collection features John and Laura who are on holiday in Venice. But it is a dangerous place for them as they are being followed by two old sisters and there is a killer on the loose. | 
         | 1990 | The Initiation | L.J. Smith  | 1992 | Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Witches, Romance, Magic, Supernatural, Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance | Nick Armstrong, Cassie Blake, Faye Chamberlain, Diana Meade, Adam Conant, Laurel Quincey, Melanie Glaser, Deborah Armstrong, Chris Henderson, Doug Henderson, Susan Whitler | Cassie is initiated into her hometown's coven of witches but her love for the coven leader's boyfriend could prove deadly. | 
         | 1991 | The Mystery of Edwin Drood | Charles Dickens, David Paroissien (Annotations) | 2002 | Classics, Fiction, Mystery, 19th Century, Literature, Victorian, British Literature, Gothic, Historical Fiction, Novels | Edwin Drood, Edwin Drood, Rosa Bud, Dick Datchery, John Jasper, Neville Landless, Rev. Septimus Crisparkle, Dupin, Pater Brown, Marlowe, Helena Landless, Hiram Grewgious, Miss Twinkleton, Luke Honeythunder, Mr. Tartar, Thomas Sapsea, Hercule Poirot, Jules Maigret, Charles Dickens, Sherlock Holmes | "Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel, and one that has puzzled readers and inspired writers since its publication, The Mystery of Edwin Drood is edited with an introduction by David Paroissien in Penguin Classics.Edwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa Bud when he comes of age, but when they find that duty has gradually replaced affection, they agree to break off the engagement. Shortly afterwards, in the middle of a storm on Christmas Eve, Edwin disappears, leaving nothing behind but some personal belongings and the suspicion that his jealous uncle John Jasper, madly in love with Rosa, is the killer. And beyond this presumed crime there are further intrigues: the dark opium dens of the sleepy cathedral town of Cloisterham, and the sinister double life of Choirmaster Jasper, whose drug-fuelled fantasy life belies his respectable appearance. Dickens died before completing The Mystery of Edwin Drood, leaving its tantalising mystery unsolved and encouraging successive generations of readers to turn detective.This edition contains an introduction by David Paroissien, discussing the novel's ending, with a chronology, notes, original illustrations by Samuel Luke Fildes, appendices on opium use in the nineteenth century, the 'Sapsea Fragment' and Dickens's plans for the story's conclusion.Charles Dickens is one of the best-loved novelists in the English language, whose 200th anniversary was celebrated in 2012. His most famous books, including Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield and The Pickwick Papers, have been adapted for stage and screen and read by millions.If you enjoyed The Mystery of Edwin Drood, you might like Dickens's Little Dorrit, also available in Penguin Classics." | 
         | 1992 | Five Go Off in a Caravan | Enid Blyton | 2001 | Childrens, Adventure, Fiction, Mystery, Classics, Young Adult, Middle Grade, British Literature, Juvenile, Novels | George Kirrin (Famous Five), Dick Kirrin, Timmy, Tinker, Anne (Famous Five), Julian (Famous Five) | "A caravan holiday for the Famous Five is bound to be an adventure! And when they stumble across a circus troupe, the gang are thrilled. But some of the circus people have more sinister plans than just clowning around..." | 
         | 1993 | Marathon Man | William Goldman | 1976 | Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Espionage, Novels, Classics, Adventure | Henry""Doc"" Levy, Thomas ""Babe"" Levy, Dr. Christian Szell, Peter Janeway, Elsa Opel | "Tom ""Babe"" Levy is a runner in every sense: racing tirelessly toward his goals of athletic and academic excellence-and endlessly away from the specter of his famous father's scandal-driven suicide. But an unexpected visit from his beloved older brother will set in motion a chain of events that plunge Babe into a vortex of terror, treachery, and murder-and force him into a race for his life . . . and for the answer to the fateful question, ""Is it safe?""" | 
         | 1994 | Oğullar ve Rencide Ruhlar | Alper Canıgüz | 2004 | Turkish Literature, Turkish, Fiction, Roman, Novels, Contemporary, Detective, Literature, Mystery | Alper Kamu, Onur Çalışkan, Metin Bilgin | """Beş yaş insanın en olgun çağıdır; sonra çürüme başlar.Ben Alper Kamu, birkaç ay önce beş yaşına bastım. Doğum günüm yaklaşırken vaktimin büyük kısmını pencerenin önünde, dışarıdaki insanları izleyerek geçiriyordum. Hızlanarak, yavaşlayarak, türlü sesler çıkararak ve bir yerlere bakarak yaşayıp gidiyorlardı. Bür gün onlardan biri haline geleceğimi düşünmek beni hasta ediyordu. Ne yazık ki bundan kaçış yoktu. Zaman acımasızdı ve ben hızla yaşlanıyordum. Hayatımdaki tek iyi şey artık anaokuluna gitmek zorunda olmayışımdı. Zarardan kar. Uzun süre annem ile babama anaokulunun bana göre bir yer olmadığını anlatmaya çalışmıştım aslında. Bütün rasyonel dayanaklarıyla. Hiçbir işe yaramamıştı maalesef. İlla ki uykumda kan ter içinde tepinmek, servis minibüsü kapıya geldiğinde küçük çaplı bir sinir krizi geçirmek gibi yöntemlere başvurmam gerekecekti derdimi anlamaları için. Kepazelik. İnsanı kendinden utandırıyorlardı.""Alper Canıgüz, kıvrak ve sürükleyici diliyle, beş yaşındaki bir çocuğun içine düştüğü bir hikayeyi anlatıyor. Yaşının avantajıyla her yere girip çıkan, hem filozof hem fırlama bir oğlan... Hikayeyi ve ""karakteri"" çevreleyen semt hayatı ve mahalle atmosferi de, bizzat karakter kazanıyor anlatıda...Polisiye, fantastik ve mizahi edebiyatın tatlarını ustaca kaynaştıran, olağanüstü özgün, çok iddialı bir kitap." | 
         | 1995 | Bizim Büyük Çaresizliğimiz | Barış Bıçakçı | 2004 | Turkish Literature, Turkish, Fiction, Novels, Roman, Literature, Literary Fiction, Contemporary | Ender Eşik, Çetin Aras, Nihal | "Sıkı bir dostluk... Aslında hikâye onların hikâyesi, Ender’in ve Çetin’in... Günün birinde hayatlarına bir genç kız girer. Şimdi düşünme, hatırlama ve kendini didikleme zamanıdır.“Nihal’e başından beri olduğumuzdan farklı göründük. Böyle gerekmişti. Koruyucu, kollayıcı, soğukkanlı, ne yapması gerektiğini bilen, Nihal düzgün yürüsün, üniversiteyi uzatmadan bitirsin, yaşadığı felaketten makul adımlarla uzaklaşsın diye asfalt döşeyen iki orta yaşlı, deneyimli erkek. Biri göbekli, diğeri kel.”Barış Bıçakçı, bu çağa özgü lâf kalabalığından; dil, duygu, düşünce kirliliğinden paçalarına tek damla çamur bulaştırmadan çıkabilen, şaşırtıcı bir içışığı cömertçe yayan bir yazar. Nefes alır gibi, su içer gibi yazıyor." | 
         | 1996 | The Baker's Boy | J.V. Jones | 1997 | Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, High Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, Epic, Young Adult, Speculative Fiction | Melliandra, Tawl, Prince Kylock | "THE BOOK OF WORDS is a thrilling new fantasy adventure series, where the lethal conspiracies and deadly intrigues of the mighty can be countered only by the power of magic.At vast Castle Harvell, Where King Lesketh lies dying, two fates collide. In her regal suite, young Melliandra, the daughter of an influential lord, rebels against her forced betrothal to the sinister Prince Kylock. In the kitchens, an apprentice named Jack is terrified by his sudden, uncontrolled power to work miracles. Together they flee the castle, stalked by a sorcer who has connived for decades to control the crown, committing supernatural murder to advance his schemes.Meanwhile, a young knight begins a quest leaving behind his home and family to seek out the treacherous Isle of Larn, where lies a clue to his desperate search for the truth.And a wondrous epic of darkness and beauty begins..." | 
         | 1997 | Spellbinder | L.J. Smith  | Oct-96 | Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Vampires, Romance, Witches, Urban Fantasy, Magic, Fiction, Supernatural | Thea Sophia Harman, Eric Ross, Blaise Harman, Edgith Harman, Dani Naete Mella Abforth, Vivienne Morrigan, Selene Lucna, Kevin Imamura, Pilar Osorio, Rosamund Ross, Luke Price, Alaric Breedlove, Rendy Marik, Kishi Hirata, Claire Blessingway, Nathaniel Long, Lawai Dcua, Chang Xi, Nana Buruku | "Blaise's black magic is powerful. The only way Thea can fight back is to use her own white magic, to bewitch Eric herself as a bluff. But soon Thea finds herself getting too close to Eric, feeling forbidden emotions, breaking Night World laws by falling in love. As halloween and the Night of the Witch draw closer, can Thea save Eric and herself from Blaise's revenge?" | 
         | 1998 | Soulmate | L.J. Smith  | Apr-97 | Young Adult, Vampires, Paranormal, Fantasy, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Supernatural, Paranormal Romance, Fiction, Witches | Maya, Thea Sophia Harman, Ash Redfern, Hannah Snow, Thierry Descouedres, Paul Win-field, Chris Grady, Catherine Clovis, Lupe Acevedo, Gillian Lennox, John Quinn, David Blackburn, Rashel Jordan, Eric Ross, James Rasmussen, Poppy North | "Eternal Love Hannah Snow's life was so together. Friends, terrific grades, dreams of a career in paleontology. Everything was perfect... until the notes started appearing. Notes in her own handwriting, warning her of the danger that was coming. Dead Before Seventeen.The psychiatrist was supposed to help. But what came out of the age regressions were memories of another time, another life. And of a stranger who tore her world apart... a vampire who killed a village in his rage. Until, in the eyes of a dying human girl, he recognized his soulmate.Now the stranger is back. He has searched for Hannah throughout the years, trying to make amends, waiting for her to be born. Now he is Thierry, the Lord of the Night World- and nothing in heaven or hell will keep him from his soulmate again. But if her destiny is death, can even Theirry's love protect her?" | 
         | 1999 | Cat and Mouse | Günter Grass, Ralph Manheim (Translator) | 1997 | Fiction, German Literature, Classics, Germany, Literature, Historical Fiction, Nobel Prize, Novels, War, 20th Century | Oskar Matzerath, Joachim Mahlke | "An alternate cover for this isbn can be found here.To compensate for his unusually large Adam’s apple—source of both discomfort and distress—fourteen year old Joachim Mahlke turns himself into athlete and ace diver. Soon he is known to his peers and his nation as “The Great Mahlke”. But to his enemies, he remains a target. He is different and doomed in a country scarred by the war.Cat and Mouse was first published in 1961, two years after Gunter Grass’ controversial and applauded masterpiece, The Tin Drum. Once again Grass turns his attention on Danzig. With a subtle blend of humour and power, Cat and Mouse ostensibly relates the rise of Mahlke from clown to hero. But Mahlke’s outlandish antics hide the darkness at the heart of a nation torn by Nazi violence, the war, and its aftermath." | 
         | 2000 | The Fisherman's Lady | George MacDonald, Michael R. Phillips (editor) | 1991 | Fiction, Christian Fiction, Historical Fiction, Christian, Classics, Historical, Romance, Adult Fiction, 19th Century, Mystery | Malcolm MacPhail | "The discovery of a woman's body in an old house overlooking the sea leads to revelations concerning Malcolm MacPhail, a Scottish fisherman." | 
         | 2001 | London Fields | Martin Amis | Feb-03 | Fiction, Mystery, Novels, British Literature, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, Crime | Samson Young, Guy Clinch, Keith Talent, Nicola Six | "London Fields is Amis's murder story for the end of the millennium. The murderee is Nicola Six, a ""black hole"" of sex and self-loathing intent on orchestrating her own extinction. The murderer may be Keith Talent, a violent lowlife whose only passions are pornography and darts. Or is the killer the rich, honorable, and dimly romantic Guy Clinch?" | 
         | 2002 | Bonita Avenue | Peter Buwalda | Sept-10 | Fiction, Dutch Literature, Literature, Roman, Novels, Contemporary, Thriller, 21st Century, School, Adult | Joni Sigerius, Aaron Bever, Siem Sigerius | "Joni Sigerius, de dochter van de rector magnificus van de Twentse universiteit, drijft samen met haar vriend Aaron een handeltje dat ze maar liever voor haar krachtige en briljante vader verborgen houdt. Het is in het jaar van de vuurwerkramp dat ook in het gezin de boel explodeert. Niet alleen lopen Joni en Aaron tegen de lamp, die zomer komt ook de enige en echte zoon van Sigerius vrij uit de Scheveningse gevangenis. Acht jaar later pas – Joni verdient inmiddels miljoenen in Los Angeles – verneemt Aaron wat er zich in 2000 werkelijk heeft afgespeeld." | 
         | 2003 | The Next Accident | Lisa Gardner  | 2001 | Mystery, Thriller, Suspense, Fiction, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Romantic Suspense, Murder Mystery, Romance, Audiobook | Pierce Quincy, Rainie Conner | "FBI Agent Pierce Quincy is haunted by his daughter's death in a drunk-driving accident. Pierce knew about his daughter's problem with alcohol, and about her loneliness. And so, he is sure, did the man who killed her. Rainie Conner is an ex-cop with a past overshadowed by violence. She was once involved with Pierce in a harrowing case that brought them together personally and professionally. Then, he came to her rescue. Now it is time for her to help him. This killer is different. He has an insatiable hunger for revenge - and for fear. He isn't satisfied with taking his victims' lives - he wants to get inside their minds and strip them of every defence. And his target is Quincy's surviving daughter. Rainie believes that the only way to stop him is to put herself directly into the killer's murderous path and herself become - the next accident." | 
         | 2004 | Hersenschimmen | J. Bernlef | 1985 | Dutch Literature, Fiction, Literature, School, Classics, Roman, Contemporary, Read For School, Adult, Novels | Maarten Klein, Vera Klein | "Maarten Klein verliest langzaam maar zeker zijn greep op de werkelijkheid. Hij kan heden en verleden niet meer onderscheiden, wil plotseling weer naar zijn werk en ziet zijn echtgenote voor een vreemde aan. 'Achter me in de deuropening staat een vrouw. Haar bruine haar valt met een lok schuin naar rechts over haar voorhoofd. [...] Ze houdt me in de gaten.' Meer nog dan een verhaal over dementie is Hersenschimmen een liefdesgeschiedenis, met een overmijdelijk tragisch einde." | 
         | 2005 | Witchlight | L.J. Smith  | Jan-98 | Young Adult, Fantasy, Vampires, Paranormal, Romance, Witches, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Paranormal Romance | Galen Drache, Raksha Keller, Iliana Harman, Winfrith Arlin, Nissa Johnson | "Keller is a black panther. A least when she's not being a tough, no-nonsense seventeen-year-old girl. She's a shapeshifter who grew up on the streets and will do whatever it takes to survive. But when Circle Daybreak hires her to protect a new Wild Power, Keller meets her match." | 
         | 2006 | I Heard That Song Before | Mary Higgins Clark | 2007 | Mystery, Fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Romance, Adult, Murder Mystery, Adult Fiction | Kay Lansing, Grace Carrington, Peter Carrington, Susan Althorp | "When Kay Lansing marries wealthy widower Peter Carrington, she is well aware of the rumours surrounding the mysterious death of Peter's first wife Grace, who was found floating in the family pool ten years ago, pregnant at the time. Kay also discovers that Peter is a chronic sleepwalker who suffers from periodic nightmares. When the police arrive at her doorstep with a warrant for Peter's arrest in connection with another murder - that of a woman Peter had escorted to a high school senior prom twenty-two years ago - Kay begins to fear that she has married a sleepwalking murderer, and she resolves to find out the truth behind the puzzling deaths. But are the two deaths linked? And why does a melody that Kay cannot identify keep playing in her head every time she approaches the family chapel?" | 
         | 2007 | A Sea of Troubles | Donna Leon | 2002 | Mystery, Crime, Italy, Fiction, Audiobook, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Thriller, Contemporary, Police | Commissario Guido Brunetti, Ispettore Vianello, Vice-Questore Patta | "The murder of two clam fishermen off the island of Pellestrina, south of the Lido on the Venetian lagoon, draws Commissario Brunetti into the close-knit community of the island, bound together by a code of loyalty and a suspicion of outsiders worthy of the Mafia. When the boss' secretary Signorina Elettra volunteers to visit the island, where she has relatives, Brunetti finds himself torn between his duty to solve the murders, concerns for Elettra's safety, and his not entirely straightforward feelings for her ..." | 
         | 2008 | The Guns of Avalon | Roger Zelazny | Apr-86 | Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Audiobook, High Fantasy, Adventure, Magic, Urban Fantasy | Random of Amber, Brand of Amber, Corwin of Amber, Eric of Amber, Benedict of Amber, Caine of Amber, Bleys of Amber, Julian of Amber, Gérard of Amber, Florimel of Amber, Deirdre of Amber, Fiona of Amber, Llewella of Amber | "Across the worlds of Shadow, Corwin, prince of blood royal, heir to the throne of Amber, gathers his forces for an assault that will yield up to him the crown that is rightfully his. But, a growing darkness of his own doing threatens his plans, an evil that stretches to the heart of the perfect kingdom itself where the demonic forces of Chaos mass to annihilate Amber and all who would rule there.One of the most revered names in sf and fantasy, the incomparable Roger Zelazny was honored with numerous prizes—including six Hugo and three Nebula Awards—over the course of his legendary career. Among his more than fifty books, arguably Zelazny’s most popular literary creations were his extraordinary Amber novels. The Guns of Avalon is the second book of The Chronicles of Amber." | 
         | 2009 | Benjamin Franklin: An American Life | Walter Isaacson  | Jun-04 | Biography, History, Nonfiction, American History, Biography Memoir, Politics, American Revolution, Audiobook, Historical, Business | Benjamin Franklin | "Benjamin Franklin is the Founding Father who winks at us. An ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings, he seems made of flesh rather than of marble. In bestselling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin seems to turn to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle from behind his new-fangled spectacles. By bringing Franklin to life, Isaacson shows how he helped to define both his own time and ours.He was, during his 84-year life, America's best scientist, inventor, diplomat, writer, and business strategist, and he was also one of its most practical—though not most profound—political thinkers. He proved by flying a kite that lightning was electricity, and he invented a rod to tame it. He sought practical ways to make stoves less smoky and commonwealths less corrupt. He organized neighborhood constabularies and international alliances, local lending libraries and national legislatures. He combined two types of lenses to create bifocals and two concepts of representation to foster the nation's federal compromise. He was the only man who shaped all the founding documents of America: the Albany Plan of Union, the Declaration of Independence, the treaty of alliance with France, the peace treaty with England, and the Constitution. And he helped invent America's unique style of homespun humor, democratic values, and philosophical pragmatism.But the most interesting thing that Franklin invented, and continually reinvented, was himself. America's first great publicist, he was, in his life and in his writings, consciously trying to create a new American archetype. In the process, he carefully crafted his own persona, portrayed it in public, and polished it for posterity.Through it all, he trusted the hearts and minds of his fellow ""leather-aprons"" more than he did those of any inbred elite. He saw middle-class values as a source of social strength, not as something to be derided. His guiding principle was a ""dislike of everything that tended to debase the spirit of the common people."" Few of his fellow founders felt this comfort with democracy so fully, and none so intuitively.In this colorful and intimate narrative, Isaacson provides the full sweep of Franklin's amazing life, from his days as a runaway printer to his triumphs as a statesman, scientist, and Founding Father. He chronicles Franklin's tumultuous relationship with his illegitimate son and grandson, his practical marriage, and his flirtations with the ladies of Paris. He also shows how Franklin helped to create the American character and why he has a particular resonance in the twenty-first century." | 
         | 2010 | With a Tangled Skein | Piers Anthony | Oct-86 | Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Mythology, Magic, Paranormal, Adventure, Supernatural | Orb Kaftan, Parry, Niobe Kaftan, Luna Kaftan, Magician Kaftan, Cedric Kaftan, Pacian Kaftan | "THE WOMAN WHO WANTED REVENGEWhen the man Niobe loved was shot, she learned that she had been the target, in a devious plot of the Devil's. Hoping for revenge, Niobe accepted a position as one of the three Aspects of Fate, only to find that Satan's plots were tangled into the very Tapestry of Fate. Now the Evil One was laying a trap to ruin Niobe's granddaughter Luna, who threatened his plans—and he had tricked her son into Hell.Niobe's only chance to save her son and Luna was to accept a challenge by the Prince of Deceit—a challenge to be decided in Hell and in a maze of Satan's devising." | 
         | 2011 | The Anonymous Venetian | Donna Leon | 1995 | Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Italy, Detective, Audiobook, Mystery Thriller, Thriller, Contemporary, Murder Mystery | Commissario Guido Brunetti | The Anonymous Venetian | 
         | 2012 | Reforming a Rake | Suzanne Enoch | Mar-00 | Historical Romance, Romance, Historical, Regency, Regency Romance, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Adult, British Literature, Humor | Alexandra Gallant, Lucien Balfour | "Lessons In LoveA governess must never be alone with a man. Her reputation mustn't have even a hint of scandal. She must never reveal personal emotions. No matter how strong the provocation by her employer. A governess never questions her employer's commands. Even when he's tempting her to forsake respectability for desire? She must never, ever, fall in love with someone above her station. Especially a rake—no matter how devastating his kisses may be.Alexandra Gallant is a governess extraordinaire—and if it weren't for that unfortunate incident at her last position, she wouldn't now be forced into the employ of Lucien Balfour, the most notorious rake in London. Though the sinfully attractive earl hired her to teach his young cousin, his seductive whispers and toe-curling kisses suggest he has something far less respectable in mind...and that will never happen. For although Lucien seems determined to teach her about pleasure, she has a few lessons to teach him about love!" | 
         | 2013 | The Secret Place | Tana French  | Aug-19 | Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Thriller, Ireland, Audiobook, Adult, Suspense, Irish Literature | Frank Mackey, Holly Mackey, Antoinette Conway, Stephen Moran | "An alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.A year ago a boy was found murdered at a girlsʼ boarding school, and the case was never solved. Detective Stephen Moran has been waiting for his chance to join Dublin’s Murder Squad when sixteen-year-old Holly Mackey arrives in his office with a photo of the boy with the caption: “I KNOW WHO KILLED HIM.” Stephen joins with Detective Antoinette Conway to reopen the case—beneath the watchful eye of Holly’s father, fellow detective Frank Mackey. With the clues leading back to Holly’s close-knit group of friends, to their rival clique, and to the tangle of relationships that bound them all to the murdered boy, the private underworld of teenage girls turns out to be more mysterious and more dangerous than the detectives imagined." | 
         | 2014 | Search for Senna | Katherine Applegate | Jul-99 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Mythology, Fiction, Adventure, Childrens, Young Adult Fantasy, Science Fiction, Teen, Urban Fantasy | David Levin, ""April O''Brien"", Senna Wales, Jalil, Christopher | "There is a place that shouldn’t exist. But does. And there are creatures that shouldn’t exist. But do. Welcome to a land where all of your dreams and nightmares are very real—and often deadly. Welcome to Everworld.David’s life was pretty normal. School. Friends. Girlfriend. Actually, Senna was probably the oddest aspect of his life. She was beautiful. Smart. But there was something very different about her. Something strange.And on the day it began, everything happened so quickly. One moment, Senna was with him. The next, she was swallowed up by the earth, her screams echoing from far, far away. David couldn’t just let her go. Neither could the others. His friends—and hers. So, they followed. And found themselves in a world they could have never imagined. Now they have to find Senna and get home without losing their lives. Or their minds. Or both…" | 
         | 2015 | Boy Overboard | Morris Gleitzman | 2004 | Childrens, Fiction, School, Young Adult, Read For School, Adventure, Middle Grade, War, Australia, Family | Jamal | "Jamal and Bibi have a dream: To lead Australia to football glory in the next World Cup. But first they must face pirates, storms, and assassins. Can Jamal and his family survive their incredible journey and get to Australia?" | 
         | 2016 | Rogue Squadron | Michael A. Stackpole  | Feb-96 | Star Wars, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Space Opera, Science Fiction Fantasy, Novels, Media Tie In, Adventure, Space | Corran Horn, Wedge Antilles, Ysanne Isard, Kirtan Loor, Ooryl Qrygg | "They are sleek, swift, and deadly. They are the X-wing fighters. And as the struggle rages across the vastness of space, the fearless men and women who pilot them risk both their lives and their machines. Their mission: to defend the Rebel Alliance against a still-powerful and battle-hardened Imperial foe in a last-ditch effort to control the stars!Its very name strikes fear into enemy hearts. So when Rebel hero Wedge Antilles rebuilds the legendary Rogue Squadron, he seeks out only the best - the most skilled, the most daring X-wing pilots. Through arduous training and dangerous missions, he weeds out the weak from the strong, assembling a group of hard-bitten warriors willing to fight, ready to die. Antilles knows the grim truth: that even with the best X-wing jockeys in the galaxy, many will not survive their near-suicidal missions. But when Rogue Squadron is ordered to assist in the assault on the heavily fortified Imperial stronghold of Black Moon, even the bravest must wonder if any at all will survive. . . . " | 
         | 2017 | Giant Days, Vol. 1 | John Allison , Lissa Treiman (Illustrator), Whitney Cogar (Colors) | Dec-15 | Graphic Novels, Comics, Young Adult, Contemporary, Graphic Novels Comics, Fiction, Humor, LGBT, New Adult, Realistic Fiction | Susan Ptolemy, Nadia, Daisy Wooton, Esther de Groot, Ed Gemmell, Graham McGraw | "Susan, Esther, and Daisy started at university three weeks ago and became fast friends. Now, away from home for the first time, all three want to reinvent themselves. But in the face of handwringing boys, “personal experimentation,” influenza, mystery-mold, nu-chauvinism, and the willful, unwanted intrusion of “academia,” they may be lucky just to make it to spring alive. Going off to university is always a time of change and growth, but for Esther, Susan, and Daisy, things are about to get a little weird.Collects issues #1-4." | 
         | 2018 | Il talismano del potere | Licia Troisi | Apr-05 | Fantasy, Young Adult, High Fantasy, Magic, Dragons, Fiction, Adventure, Young Adult Fantasy, Romance, Italian Literature | Sennar, Nihal, mezzelfo | "Mentre l'esercito delle Terre ancora libere dal potere del Tiranno crolla sotto l'avanzata delle truppe nemiche e degli agghiaccianti schieramenti dei fantasmi, Nihal, l'ultimo mezzelfo del Mondo Emerso, è in viaggio con il giovane mago Sennar per una missione disperata: recuperare le otto pietre di un talismano dai poteri infiniti, capace di porre fine alla guerra. Ciascuna delle otto Terre del Mondo Emerso nasconde all'interno di un santuario una delle pietre dedicate agli Spiriti della natura: Acqua, Luce, Mare, Tempo, Fuoco, Terra, Oscurità, Aria. Se Nihal riuscirà a raggiungere tutti i santuari e a riunire le pietre del talismano, potrà chiamare a raccolta gli Spiriti e annullare ogni forma di magia, comprese le terribili armi del Tiranno. Nella Terra dell'Acqua, intanto, il maestro di Nihal, lo gnomo Ido, scopre di avere un nuovo e terribile nemico che rischia di trascinarlo verso un passato da cui sembra impossibile riscattarsi. " | 
         | 2019 | La missione di Sennar | Licia Troisi | Oct-04 | Fantasy, Young Adult, High Fantasy, Dragons, Magic, Fiction, Adventure, Young Adult Fantasy, Romance, Childrens | Sennar, Nihal, mezzelfo | "Proseguono le avventure della giovane guerriera Nihal, l'ultimo mezzoelfo esistente nel Mondo Emerso, e dell'inseparabile amico mago Sennar. Insieme combattono contro le forze del Tiranno deciso a conquistare le Terre libere e ad assoggettarne tutti gli abitanti per mezzo della stregoneria. Adesso Nihal è alle prese con il mistero della Lacrima, una pietra che sembra dotata di enormi poteri, mentre Sennar è partito alla ricerca delle Terre Sommerse, un continente di cui i secoli hanno cancellato le tracce. Per ritrovarlo, Sennar è costretto a imbarcarsi su una nave pirata e combattere contro i mostri del mare." | 
         | 2020 | Dead Witches Tell No Tales (The Hollows, #3-4) | Kim Harrison  | Jul-06 | Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, Paranormal, Vampires, Fiction, Witches, Romance, Mystery, Paranormal Romance, Werewolves | Rachel Morgan, Ivy Tamwood, Jenks | "Even in the Holllows - Cincinnati's home to all supernatural folk - vampires and werewolves can make strange bedfellows. Just ask Rachel Morgan, private investigator and witch. First her never-do-well boyfriend disappears into the night. Then the hunky protege of vampire crimelord Piscary starts eyeing her curves... not to mention her throat. Throw in a demon or two keen to singe her hide - or take her soul - and you'd think she was the poster child for doom instead of one savvy spellcaster. Luckily she shares her business and the deconsecrated church she calls home with roomies Ivy, lithe living vampire, and Jenks, the world's crankiest pixie. For it'll take more than boots to grind down the hell-magic and mayhem that surround her. EVERY WHICH WAY BUT DEAD finds Rachel in a battle of wits and spells, going head to head with nemesis Trent Kalamack and the dark magic he's long ago forged in becoming a drug lord. Who would have guessed Rachel's own father had been his partner? But as she reels from tis blistering truth, arch-demon Algaliarept returns to claim her as his familiar, a bargain she'd struck in exchange for his testifying against Piscary. The price of failing to comply? Her soul whisked off to the darkest ever-after... In A FISTFUL OF CHARMS, Rachel's former boyfriend, Nick, has stolen the focus, a cursed Were statue able to create new Weres through biting rather than birthing. The statue is the stuff of legend - and ultimate power. for it would give Weres dominion over vampires ... and spark all-out war. To stop a bloodbath no one wants, Rachel will pull out every stop, spell and incantation to save the day. -- from book's dustjacket" | 
         | 2021 | Mecanoscrit del segon origen | Manuel de Pedrolo, Jordi Fornas i Martínez (Illustrator) | Feb-95 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Young Adult, Classics, School, Dystopia, Childrens, Novels, High School, Drama | Alba, Dídac | "Amb el títol de ""Mecanoscrit del segon origen"" és conegut, l'any 7138 de la nova era, el llibre que més de quatre mil anys enrere havia estat rescatat de l'oblit i que ocasionà fins i tot serioses discussions entre els entesos d'aquell temps. ¿Obra de ciència-ficció, com pretén l'erudit Eli Raures, o memòries autèntiques d'un dels pocs sobrevivents de la catàstrofe que destruí la civilització, com opina el marxant d'antiguitats Olguen Dalmasas? ¿És l'Alba, la seva protagonista, un personatge de novel·la o bé la mare de la humanitat que s'ha refet gairebé a partir de zero? Aquesta noia de catorze anys, ""verge i bruna"", com diu ella mateixa, es dreça del text amb un poder de suggestió tan extraordinari que costa de creure que algú, ni que sigui Manuel de Pedrolo, pugui haver-la inventada. D'on l'ha treta? D'on li ha vingut, el mecanoscrit?" | 
         | 2022 | The Case of the Left-Handed Lady | Nancy Springer , Peter Ferguson (Cover Illustrator ) | 2007 | Mystery, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Historical, Fiction, Middle Grade, Childrens, Adventure, Juvenile, Historical Mystery | Enola Holmes, Sherlock Holmes, Dr. John Watson | "Enola's name backwards spells ""alone,"" and alone she is, in the world's biggest, darkest, dirtiest city. She is being hunted down by the world's most famous detective - her own brother, Sherlock Holmes. For the sake of freedom she must elude him, but what can she do to ease her loneliness?When she discovers a hidden cache of brilliant charcoal drawings, she feels as if she's a soul mate to the girl who drew them - but that girl, young Lady Cecily, has disappeared without a trace. Braving midnight streets where murderers roam, Enola must unravel the clues - a leaning ladder, a shifty-eyed sales clerk, political pamphlets - to find the left-handed lady, but in order to save Lady Cecily from a powerful villain, Enola risks revealing more than she should. Will her own lonely heart betray her?In this second installment of the acclaimed Enola Holmes Mysteries, two-time Edgar Award winner Nancy Springer brings us all the danger and intrigue of Victorian London as she continues the adventures of one of the wittiest and most exciting new heroines in today's literature." | 
         | 2023 | N or M? | Agatha Christie | 2001 | Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Detective, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Thriller, Adult, Novels | Tommy Beresford, ""Tuppence"" Beresford, Albert Batt | "The final words of the dying man...the code names of Hitler's most dangerous agents...the mysterious clue that sends Tommy and Tuppence to a seaside resort on a mission of wartime intelligence. But not as husband and wife. As strangers, meeting by chance, setting an elaborate trap for an elusive killer." | 
         | 2024 | Absolutely Normal Chaos | Sharon Creech | 2004 | Young Adult, Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Middle Grade, Childrens, Contemporary, Family, Romance, Humor, Coming Of Age | Finnie family, Carl Ray, Alex Cheevey, Furtz Family, ""Mary Lou''s Friends"", Mary Lou Finney | "Mary Lou Finney is less than excited about her assignment to keep a journal over the summer. Boring! Then cousin Carl Ray comes to stay with her family, and what starts out as the dull dog days of summer quickly turns into the wildest roller coaster ride of all time. A wonderful story of contemporary teen life." | 
         | 2025 | Busman's Honeymoon | Dorothy L. Sayers | Feb-06 | Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Romance, Classics, British Literature, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Historical Fiction, Audiobook | Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey, Mervyn Bunter, Harriet Vane, Gerald, Duke of Denver, Helen, Duchess of Denver, Chief Inspector Charles Parker, Gerald ""Saint-George"" Wimsey, William Noakes, Martha Ruddle, Frank Crutchley, Bert Ruddle, Joseph Sellon, Agnes Twitterton, The Reverend Simon Goodacre, Superintendent Kirk, Mrs. Goodacre, ""Franklin, the lady''s maid"", Honoria Lucasta, Dowager Duchess of Denver | "Lord Peter Wimsey and his bride, mystery writer Harriet Vane, start their honeymoon with murder. The former owner of Talboys estate is dead in the cellar with a misspelled ""notise"" to the milkman, not a spot of blood on his smashed skull, and £600 in his pocket." | 
         | 2026 | The Lilies of the Field | William Edmund Barrett | Feb-95 | Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Christian, Religion, Christian Fiction, Media Tie In, Novels, Faith, Catholic | Homer Smith | "One of the most beloved of modern classics returns with a beautiful new cover. The enchanting story of two unlikely friends, a black ex-GI and the head of a group of German nuns, The Lilies of the Field tells the story of their impossible dream-to build a chapel in the desert." | 
         | 2027 | The Promise | Danielle Steel | 1999 | Romance, Fiction, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, Novels, Adult, Drama, Love, Adult Fiction | Micheal Hillyard, Nancy McAllister | "Young architect Micheal Hillyard and artist Nancy McAllister are determined to get married despite his wealthy mother's disapproval. Then minutes before their wedding, a terrifying accident and a cruel deception separate Micheal and Nancy-perhaps forever. Each pursues a new life-Nancy in California, Micheal in New York. But eventually nothing-and no one-can keep them apart as they keep their vow never to say good-bye." | 
         | 2028 | The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man | Mark Hodder  | Mar-11 | Steampunk, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Alternate History, Fiction, Mystery, Time Travel, Historical Fiction, Historical, Adventure | Sir Richard Francis Burton, Algernon Charles Swinburne | "It is 1862, though not the 1862 it should be. . . . Time has been altered, and Sir Richard Francis Burton, the king’s agent, is one of the few people who know that the world is now careening along a very different course from that which Destiny intended. When a clockwork-powered man of brass is found abandoned in Trafalgar Square, Burton and his assistant, the wayward poet Algernon Swinburne, find themselves on the trail of the stolen Garnier Collection—black diamonds rumored to be fragments of the Lemurian Eye of Naga, a meteorite that fell to Earth in prehistoric times. His investigation leads to involvement with the media sensation of the age: the Tichborne Claimant, a man who insists that he’s the long lost heir to the cursed Tichborne estate. Monstrous, bloated, and monosyllabic, he’s not the aristocratic Sir Roger Tichborne known to everyone, yet the working classes come out in force to support him. They are soon rioting through the streets of London, as mysterious steam wraiths incite all-out class warfare. From a haunted mansion to the Bedlam madhouse, from South America to Australia, from séances to a secret labyrinth, Burton struggles with shadowy opponents and his own inner demons, meeting along the way the philosopher Herbert Spencer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Florence Nightingale, and Charles Doyle (father of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle). Can the king’s agent expose a plot that threatens to rip the British Empire apart, leading to an international conflict the like of which the world has never seen? And what part does the clockwork man have to play? Burton and Swinburne’s second adventure—The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man—is filled with eccentric steam-driven technology, grotesque characters, and a deepening mystery that pushes forward the three-volume story arc begun in The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack." | 
         | 2029 | Five Go to Mystery Moor | Enid Blyton | 2001 | Childrens, Adventure, Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult, Classics, Middle Grade, British Literature, Childrens Classics, Novels | George Kirrin (Famous Five), Dick Kirrin, Timmy, Anne (Famous Five), Anne, Julian (Famous Five), Julian, Dick, George, Timmy | "Bleak and eerie, Mystery Moor is well-known for its spooky atmosphere, but is there something really scary out there? The Famous Five are intrigued, but the unfriendly travellers camped on the moor aren't letting on. The gang risk treacherous conditions to follow them over the moor - but what danger will they find at the end of their trail?Cover illustration: Richard Jones" | 
         | 2030 | Five Go Off to Camp | Enid Blyton | 2001 | Childrens, Adventure, Fiction, Mystery, Classics, Young Adult, British Literature, Juvenile, Middle Grade, Childrens Classics | George Kirrin (Famous Five), Dick Kirrin, Timmy, Tinker, Anne (Famous Five), Julian (Famous Five) | "Spook trains in the dead of night! And they seem to vanish into thin air - but where do they go? The Famous Five are on to it! But discovery of an unusual underground tunnel system, and a secret train-service, has them puzzled. If they follow the tracks, will they solve the mystery?" | 
         | 2031 | Poirot Investigates | Agatha Christie | 2001 | Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Short Stories, Classics, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, British Literature, Murder Mystery | Hercule Poirot | "The very first collection of superb short stories featuring Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings…First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond… then came the ‘suicide’ that was murder… the mystery of the absurdly cheap flat… a suspicious death in a locked gun-room… a million dollar bond robbery… the curse of a pharaoh’s tomb… a jewel robbery by the sea… the abduction of a Prime Minister… the disappearance of a banker… a phone call from a dying man… and, finally, the mystery of the missing will.What links these fascinating cases? Only the brilliant deductive powers of Hercule Poirot!1. The Adventure of The Western Star2. The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor3. The Adventure of The Cheap Flat4. The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge5. The Million Dollar Bond Robbery6. The Adventure of The Egyptian Tomb7. The Jewel Robbery at The Grand Metropolitan8. The Kidnapped Prime Minister9. The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim10. The Adventure of The Italian Nobleman11. The Case of The Missing Will" | 
         | 2032 | The House of Silk | Anthony Horowitz  | Nov-11 | Mystery, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Crime, Historical, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, Thriller, Historical Mystery | Inspector Lestrade, James Moriarty, Edmund Carstairs, Tobias Finch, Cornelius Stillman, Bill McParland, Catherine Carstairs, Mr. Kirby, Margaret Kirby, Patrick the nephew, Eliza Carstairs, Wiggins, a Baker Street Irregular, Ross Dixon, Sally Dixon, Lord Alec Ravenshaw, Isaiah Creer, Constable Stanley Perkins, Inspector J. Harriman, Lord Horace Blackwater, Dr. Thomas Ackland, Dr. Percy Trevalayan, Mr. Hawkins, Rivers, ""Keelan O''Donaghue"", Dr. Asmodeus Silkin, Reverend Charles Fitzsimmons, Joanna Fitzsimmons, ""Rourke O''Donaghue"", Jason Bratby, Mrs Hudson (Conan Doyle series), Mary Morstan, Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes, Dr. John Watson | "For the first time in its one-hundred-and-twenty-five-year history, the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate has authorized a new Sherlock Holmes novel.Once again, THE GAME’S AFOOT…London, 1890. 221B Baker St. A fine art dealer named Edmund Carstairs visits Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson to beg for their help. He is being menaced by a strange man in a flat cap – a wanted criminal who seems to have followed him all the way from America. In the days that follow, his home is robbed, his family is threatened. And then the first murder takes place.Almost unwillingly, Holmes and Watson find themselves being drawn ever deeper into an international conspiracy connected to the teeming criminal underworld of Boston, the gaslit streets of London, opium dens and much, much more. And as they dig, they begin to hear the whispered phrase-the House of Silk-a mysterious entity that connects the highest levels of government to the deepest depths of criminality. Holmes begins to fear that he has uncovered a conspiracy that threatens to tear apart the very fabric of society.The Arthur Conan Doyle Estate chose the celebrated, #1 New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz to write The House of Silk because of his proven ability to tell a transfixing story and for his passion for all things Holmes. Destined to become an instant classic, The House of Silk brings Sherlock Holmes back with all the nuance, pacing, and almost superhuman powers of analysis and deduction that made him the world’s greatest detective, in a case depicting events too shocking, too monstrous to ever appear in print…until now.(front flap)" | 
         | 2033 | Earthfall | Orson Scott Card | Jan-96 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adult, Audiobook, Religion, Novels, Space, Speculative Fiction | Nafai ""Nyef"", Volemak ""Volya"", Elemak ""Elya"", Mebbekew ""Meb"", Issib ""Issya"", Luet ""Lutya"", Hushidh ""Shuya"", Eiadh ""Edhya"", (Lady) Rasa, Shedemei ""Shedya"", Zdorab ""Zodya"" | "Earthfall, the fourth volume in Orson Scott Card's space opera Homecoming seriesThe Oversoul of the colony planet Harmony selected the family of Wetchik to carry it back to long-lost Earth. Now grown to a tribe in the years of their journey to Harmony's hidden starport, they are ready at last to take a ship to the stars. But from the beginning there has been bitter dispute between Nafai and Elemak, Wetchick's youngest son and his oldest.On board the starship Bailica, the children of the tribe will become pawns in the struggle. Two factions are each making secret plans to awaken the children, and themselves, early from the cold-sleep capsules in which they will pass the long decades of the journey. Each side hopes to gain years of influence on the minds of the children, winning their loyalty in the struggle for control of reclaimed Earth.But the Oversoul is truly in control of this journey. It has downloaded a complete copy of itself to the Ship's computers. And only Nafai, who wears the Cloak of the Starmaster by the Oversoul's command, really understand what this will mean to all their plans for the future.Homecoming seriesThe Memory of EarthThe Call of EarthThe Ships of EarthEarthfallEarthborn" | 
         | 2034 | Yukon Ho! | Bill Watterson | Mar-89 | Comics, Humor, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Comic Strips, Comic Book, Comedy, Graphic Novels Comics, Childrens, Cartoon | Calvin, Hobbes | "The spirit of childhood leaps to life again with boundless energy and magic in Yukon Ho!, a collection of adventures featuring rambunctious six-year-old Calvin and his co-conspirator tiger-chum, Hobbes. Picking up where The Essential Calvin and Hobbes left off, Yukon Ho! is a delight!" | 
         | 2035 | Bring on the Empty Horses | David Niven | 1976 | Biography, Nonfiction, Memoir, Autobiography, Film, Humor, History, Media Tie In, Biography Memoir, British Literature | David Niven | "David Niven recalls his time in Hollywood during its heyday. He recounts stories and anecdotes of the stars, producers, directors, tycoons and oddballs, many of whom were his friends." | 
         | 2036 | Five Go to Billycock Hill | Enid Blyton | 2001 | Childrens, Adventure, Fiction, Mystery, Classics, Young Adult, Middle Grade, British Literature, Childrens Classics, Novels | George Kirrin (Famous Five), Dick Kirrin, Timmy, Tinker, Anne (Famous Five), Julian (Famous Five) | Features a contemporary cover treatment that brings The Famous Five into the 21st Century. | 
         | 2037 | Thornyhold | Mary Stewart | 1988 | Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Gothic, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Historical, Romantic Suspense, British Literature, Suspense | Gilly | "The story is about a lonely child who is made to see the world through her cousin's unusual eyes. When the child becomes a young woman, she inherits her dead cousin's house as well as her reputation among the local community as a witch. However, as she finds out, this is no normal community, and worries quickly present themselves." | 
         | 2038 | The Story of B | Daniel Quinn | Dec-97 | Fiction, Philosophy, Spirituality, Environment, Novels, Religion, Literature, Anthropology, Adult Fiction, Classics | Jared Osborne | "An Adventure of the Mind and SpiritFather Jared Osborne has received an extraordinary assignment from his superiors: Investigate an itinerant preacher stirring up deep trouble in central Europe. His followers all him B, but his enemies say he’s something else: the Antichrist. However, the man Osborne tracks across a landscape of bars, cabarets, and seedy meeting halls is no blasphemous monster—though an earlier era would undoubtedly have rushed him to the burning stake. For B claims to be enunciating a gospel written not on any stone or parchment but in our very genes, opening up a spiritual direction for humanity that would have been unimaginable to any of the prophets or saviors of traditional religion. Pressed by his superiors for a judgment, Osborne is driven to penetrate B’s inner circle, where he soon finds himself an anguished collaborator in the dismantling of his own religious foundations. More than a masterful novel of adventure and suspense, The Story of B is a rich source of compelling ideas from an author who challenges us to rethink our most cherished beliefs." | 
         | 2039 | Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain | Charles R. Cross | 2001 | Music, Biography, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Memoir, Audiobook, Rock N Roll, Pop Culture, Autobiography, The United States Of America | Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic, Dave Grohl, Nirvana, Courtney Love | "The art of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain was all about his private life, but written in a code as obscure as T.S. Eliot's. Now Charles Cross has cracked the code in the definitive biography Heavier Than Heaven, an all-access pass to Cobain's heart and mind. It reveals many secrets, thanks to 400-plus interviews, and even quotes Cobain's diaries and suicide notes and reveals an unreleased Nirvana masterpiece. At last we know how he created, how lies helped him die, how his family and love life entwined his art-plus, what the heck ""Smells Like Teen Spirit"" really means. (It was graffiti by Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna after a double date with Dave Grohl, Cobain, and the ""over-bored and self-assured"" Tobi Vail, who wore Teen Spirit perfume; Hanna wrote it to taunt the emotionally clingy Cobain for wearing Vail's scent after sex-a violation of the no-strings-attached dating ethos of the Olympia, Washington, ""outcast teen"" underground. Cobain's stomach-churning passion for Vail erupted in six or so hit tunes like ""Aneurysm"" and ""Drain You."")  Cross uncovers plenty of news, mostly grim and gripping. As a teen, Cobain said he had ""suicide genes,"" and his clan was peculiarly defiant: one of his suicidal relatives stabbed his own belly in front of his family, then ripped apart the wound in the hospital. Cobain was contradictory: a sweet, popular teen athlete and sinister berserker, a kid who rescued injured pigeons and laughingly killed a cat, a talented yet astoundingly morbid visual artist. He grew up to be a millionaire who slept in cars (and stole one), a fiercely loyal man who ruthlessly screwed his oldest, best friends. In fact, his essence was contradictions barely contained. Cross, the coauthor of Nevermind: Nirvana, the definitive book about the making of the classic album, puts numerous Cobain-generated myths to rest. (Cobain never lived under a bridge-that Aberdeen bridge immortalized in the 12th song on Nevermind was a tidal slough, so nobody could sleep under it.) He gives the fullest account yet of what it was like to be, or love, Kurt Cobain. Heavier Than Heaven outshines the also indispensable Come As You Are. It's the deepest book about pop's darkest falling star. -Tim Appelo " | 
         | 2040 | The Complete Adventures of Feluda, Vol. 1 | Satyajit Ray, Gopa Majumdar (Translator) | 2000 | Mystery, Fiction, Detective, Short Stories, India, Thriller, Crime, Classics, Adventure, Indian Literature | Pradosh C. Mitter-Feluda | "Between 1965 and 1992, Satyajit Ray wrote a total of 35 Feluda stories, featuring the master sleuth Pradosh C. Mitter, AKA Feluda. The plots involve murder, mystery and adventure, most of the times in exotic locations, narrated in a racy, humorous style by the detective's cousin-cum-assistant Topeshranjan Mitter AKA Topshe, and in most cases, accompanied by the funny Lalmohan Ganguly AKA Jatayu, who himself was a famous crime writer. All of this makes for enormously entertaining fare - and it is no wonder that each Feluda book has been a best-seller. All the stories are now available together in this two volume omnibus. For the first time ever, the stories are arranged in chronological order of composition, and one can note Feluda's development from an unknown amateur detective to a famous investigator. This first volume contains some of the best Feluda stories ever written." | 
         | 2041 | A Conspiracy of Paper | David Liss  | 2001 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Mystery, Historical, Historical Mystery, 18th Century, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Crime | Benjamin Weaver | "Benjamin Weaver, a Jew and an ex-boxer, is an outsider in eighteenth-century London, tracking down debtors and felons for aristocratic clients. The son of a wealthy stock trader, he lives estranged from his family - until he is asked to investigate his father’s sudden death. Thus Weaver descends into the deceptive world of the English stock jobbers, gliding between coffee houses and gaming houses, drawing rooms and bordellos. The more Weaver uncovers, the darker the truth becomes, until he realizes that he is following too closely in his father’s footsteps - and they just might lead him to his own grave. An enthralling historical thriller, A Conspiracy of Paper will leave readers wondering just how much has changed in the stock market in the last three hundred years ..." | 
         | 2042 | The Neon Rain | James Lee Burke | 2005 | Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Noir, Audiobook, Suspense, Southern | Dave Robicheaux | "Detective Dave Robicheaux has fought too many battles: in Vietnam, with killers and hustlers, with police brass, and with the bottle. Lost without his wife's love, Robicheaux's haunted soul mirrors the intensity and dusky mystery of New Orleans' French Quarter - the place he calls home, and the place that nearly destroys him when he becomes involved in the case of a young prostitute whose body is found in a bayou. Thrust into the world of drug lords and arms smugglers, Robicheaux must face down a subterranean criminal world and come to terms with his own bruised heart in order to survive." | 
         | 2043 | Texas! Lucky | Sandra Brown  | Feb-91 | Romance, Contemporary Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, Chick Lit, Audiobook, Mystery, Adult, Westerns, Western Romance | Lucky Tyler, Devon Haines | "Lucky Tyler attracted trouble-and women-like a lightning rod. But the night he stepped in to rescue a mysterious redhead in a seedy bar, he got more than he bargained for!The lady excited him, challenged him, drove him wild with desire-then vanished without a trace. Lucky was desperate to find her, to brand her with his heat-and when the police were called in to investigate a suspicious fire at Tyler Drilling, his family business, he needed her for an alibi!Torn between anguish and ecstasy, Devon Haines tried to refuse Lucky's pleas for help, but the reckless blue-eyed devil wouldn't take no as an answer from her... not when his touch could make her burn, could make her his.Framed by old enemies, Lucky knew his only hope to clear himself rested on solving the crime, but Devon feared when his innocence was proved, she would lose the handsome cowboy who possessed her heart and soul Would the tragic vow that made their love forbidden cost her forever in his arms?" | 
         | 2044 | The Bell | Iris Murdoch, A.S. Byatt (Introduction) | 2001 | Fiction, Classics, British Literature, Literature, Novels, Religion, Literary Fiction, Philosophy, LGBT, 20th Century | Dora Greenfield, Paul Greenfield, Peter Topglass, Toby Gashe, Catherine Fawley, Nick Fawley, James Tayper Pace, Mark Stafford, Margaret Stafford, Patchway, Father Bob Joyce, Sister Ursula, Mother Clare, Noel Spens, Michael Meade | "A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns. A new bell, legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. Dora Greenfield, erring wife, returns to her husband. Michael Mead, leader of the community, is confronted by Nick Fawley, with whom he had disastrous homosexual relations, while the wise old Abbess watches and prays and exercises discreet authority. And everyone, or almost everyone, hopes to be saved, whatever that may mean....Iris Murdoch's funny and sad novel has themes of religion, the fight between good and evil, and the terrible accidents of human frailty." | 
         | 2045 | Maid to Match | Deeanne Gist  | 2010 | Historical Fiction, Romance, Christian Fiction, Historical, Historical Romance, Christian, Fiction, Christian Romance, Christian Historical Fiction, Chick Lit | Tillie Reese, Mack Danvers, Mackenzie Danver, Ora Lou Danvers, Mrs Winters, Lucy Lewers, Dixie Brown, Edith Stuyvesant Dresser Vanderbilt, Earl Danver, George Washington Vanderbilt III, Forbus Sloop, Mrs Sloop, Captain Hovious, Mr. Tarwater, Doc Kuppenheimer, Artie Alsup, Aaron James, Pilkerton, Allan Reese, Daphne Devine, Ora Lou Danver, Mrs. Reese, Mary Pamela DePriest, Leonard Vaughan, Ikey, Herbert Reese, Irene Martin, Louis Blomberg, Mr. Sterling, Tolene, Alice Breeding, Homer Nash, Bubby | "From the day she arrives at the Biltmore, Tillie Reese is dazzled—by the riches of the Vanderbilts and by Mack Danvers, a mountain man turned footman. When Tillie is enlisted to help tame Mack's rugged behavior by tutoring him in the ways of refined society, the resulting sparks threaten Tillie's efforts to be chosen as Edith Vanderbilt's lady's maid. But the stakes rise even higher when Mack and Tillie become entangled in a cover-up at the town orphanage. They could both lose their jobs...and their hearts." | 
         | 2046 | ব্যোমকেশ সমগ্র | Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay | May-95 | Detective, Mystery, Thriller, Fiction, Classics, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Novels, Collections, Young Adult | ব্যোমকেশ বক্সী | "Byomkesh Bakshi (Bengali: ব্যোমকেশ বক্সী) is a fictional detective in Bengali literature created by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay. He is one of the most famous detective characters in Bengali literature. This book contains all of his stories in one volume, including one incomplete story. শরদিন্দু অমনিবাস (প্রথম-দ্বাদশ খণ্ড) গ্রন্থে সঙ্কলিত শরদিন্দু বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়ের যাবতীয় রচনা বিষয় অনুসারে এক একটি খণ্ডে বিন্যস্ত করার নব পরিকল্পনা অনুযায়ী লেখকের সমুদয় গোয়েন্দা কাহিনী একত্রে ব্যোমকেশ সমগ্র নামে প্রকাশ করা হল। শরদিন্দু অমনিবাস-এর প্রথম, দ্বিতীয় ও দ্বাদশ খণ্ডে বিধৃত ব্যোমকেশ সংক্রান্ত অন্যান্য রচনাগুলিও যেমন, সুকুমার সেনের 'ব্যোমকেশ উপন্যাস', প্রতুলচন্দ্র গুপ্তের 'ব্যোমকেশ, সত্যবতী, সত্যবতীর গাড়ি' ও 'ব্যোমকেশ ও সত্যবতীর প্রস্থান' এবং পার্থ চট্টোপাধ্যায়ের 'ব্যোমকেশের সঙ্গে সাক্ষাৎকার' এই গ্রন্থে (শেষোক্ত দুটি দ্বিতীয় সংস্করণে) যুক্ত করা হয়েছে।শরদিন্দু বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায় ব্যোমকেশ চরিত্রটি নিয়ে ৩৩টি কাহিনী রচনা করেছেন। এর মাঝে ১টি অসম্পূর্ণ। এই কাহিনীগুলি হলঃসত্যান্বেষী, পথের কাঁটা, সীমান্ত-হীরা,মাকড়সার রস, অর্থমনর্থম্‌, চোরাবালি, অগ্নিবাণ, উপসংহার, রক্তমুখী নীলা, ব্যোমকেশ ও বরদা, চিত্রচোর, দুর্গরহস্য, চিড়িয়াখানা, আদিম রিপু, বহ্নি-পতঙ্গ, রক্তের দাগ, মণিমন্ডন, অমৃতের মৃত্যু, শৈলরহস্য, অচিন পাখি, কহেন কবি কালিদাস, অদৃশ্য ত্রিকোণ, খুঁজি খুঁজি নারি, অদ্বিতীয়, মগ্নমৈনাক, দুষ্টচক্র, হেঁয়ালির ছন্দ, রুম নম্বর দুই, ছলনার ছন্দ, শজারুর কাঁটা, বেণীসংহার, লোহার বিস্কুট, বিশুপাল বধ (অসমাপ্ত) ।" | 
         | 2047 | Runaway | Alice Munro | Nov-05 | Short Stories, Fiction, Canada, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Literature, Nobel Prize, Canadian Literature, Womens, Book Club | Juliet | "The incomparable Alice Munro’s bestselling and rapturously acclaimed Runaway is a book of extraordinary stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises, from the title story about a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable of leaving her husband, to three stories about a woman named Juliet and the emotions that complicate the luster of her intimate relationships. In Munro’s hands, the people she writes about–women of all ages and circumstances, and their friends, lovers, parents, and children–become as vivid as our own neighbors. It is her miraculous gift to make these stories as real and unforgettable as our own. (back cover)RunawayChanceSoonSilencePassionTrespassesTricks" | 
         | 2048 | Dark Fire | Chris d'Lacey | 2009 | Fantasy, Dragons, Young Adult, Fiction, Middle Grade, Magic, Childrens, Adventure, Science Fiction, Juvenile | David Rain, Elizabeth Pennykettle, Lucy Pennykettle, Suzanna Martindale, Alexa Martindale, Christopher Apak | "With the Earth on the brink of recolonisation by dragons, David Rain is sent on an important mission: to seek out and destroy a trace of dark fire, the deadliest force in the universe. But with success could come a terrible price, the sacrifice of a beloved clay dragon. How much does the life of one small dragon count?" | 
         | 2049 | The Dying Earth | Jack Vance | Mar-77 | Fantasy, Science Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy, Dying Earth, Post Apocalyptic, Speculative Fiction, High Fantasy | Guyal, Liane, Turjan, ""T''sais"", Ulan Dhor, Pandelume, ""T''sain"" | "Seekers of wisdom and beauty include lovely lost women, eccentric wizards and man-eating melancholy deodands. Twk-men ride dragonflies and trade information for salt. There are monsters and demons. Each being is morally ambiguous: the evil are charming, the good are dangerous." | 
         | 2050 | Bearing an Hourglass | Piers Anthony | Oct-84 | Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Time Travel, Magic, Mythology, Adventure, Paranormal | Parry, Orlene, Norton | "THE MAN WHO LIVED BACKWARDWhen life seemed pointless to Norton, he accepted the position as the Incarnation of Time, even though it meant living backward from present to past. The other seemingly all-powerful incantations of Immortality—Death, Fate, War, and Nature—made him welcome. Even Satan greeted him with gifts. But he soon discovered that the gifts were cunning traps and he had become enmeshed in a complex scheme of the Evil One to destroy all that was good.In the end, armed only with the Hourglass, Norton was forced to confront the immense power of Satan directly. And though Satan banished him to Hell, he was resolved to fight on." | 
         | 2051 | Dark of the Moon | Rachel Hawthorne | 2009 | Young Adult, Paranormal, Werewolves, Romance, Fantasy, Shapeshifters, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Teen, Fiction | Daniel Foster, Rafe Lowell, Lindsey Lancaster, Brittany Reed, Mason Keane, Dr. Keane, Lucas Wilde, Connor McCandless, Kayla Madison | "I've loved him forever, but he can never be mine.Brittany is determined to prove herself to the Dark Guardians. And yet she's been keeping a devastating secret: She hasn't experienced any of the intense, early signs of change that mark a Dark Guardian's transformation. The only intense feelings she has are for Connor - and she's kept that a secret, too. But she knows she'll never truly have Connor's love if she's not a Shifter like him.At the first full moon after her birthday, her greatest fear is realized: She doesn't transform. Brittany is so desperate to become a wolf that she'll go to extremes she never thought possible... and put all the Dark Guardians in incredible danger." | 
         | 2052 | Five Have a Wonderful Time | Enid Blyton | Sept-01 | Childrens, Adventure, Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult, Classics, Middle Grade, Childrens Classics, Novels, British Literature | Jo, Timothy, George Kirrin (Famous Five), Dick Kirrin, Tinker, Anne (Famous Five), Julian (Famous Five) | "The Famous Five are having a brilliant time - on holiday in horse-drawn caravans - and they've discovered a ruined castle nearby! The castle looked deserted from a distance - but is that a face at the window? Or is it a trick of the light? The Famous Five just have to find out! Just who is hiding in the castle? About The Author: Enid Blyton, 1896 - November 28, 1959 Enid Blyton was born in London in 1896. She was educated in a private school and thought that she would become a musician until she realized that writing was her passion. She attended Ipswich High School where she trained to become a kindergarten teacher and eventually opened her own school for infants. Blyton's first poem was published in 1917, entitled ""Have You-"" which appeared in Nash's Magazine. In 1922, her first book of verses was published, entitled ""Child Whispers."" In 1926 she accepted a position editing the children's magazine ""Sunny Stories"" as well as writing the column ""Teachers World."" Blyton's first full length children's book was published din 1938 and was titled ""The Secret Island."" After working on the column for years, Blyton quit ""Teachers World"" in 1945 and also ended her stint as editor of ""Sunny Stories"" seven years later. In 1953 she started her own children's magazine called ""The Edith Blyton Magazine"" which featured stories about her characters and news on the clubs formed around them. Her most famous stories were those of the ""Famous Five"" The Magazine closed in 1959. In the 50's and 60's Blyton was criticized for the language in her book, for being to simple, but some 300 are still in print today. Blyton has published over 600 books in the course of her career. Enid Blyton died in her sleep on November 28, 1968. She was 72 years old." | 
         | 2053 | Understood Betsy | Dorothy Canfield Fisher | 1996 | Classics, Fiction, Childrens, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade, Young Adult, Juvenile, Historical, Literature, School | Elizabeth Ann, Aunt Harriet, Cousin Frances, Abigail Putney, Henry Putney, Ann Putney | "For all of her nine years, fragile Elizabeth Ann has heard her Aunt Frances refer in whispers to her ""horrid Putney cousins."" But when her aunt can no longer care for her, Elizabeth Ann must leave her sheltered life to live in the wilds of Vermont with those distant relatives.In the beginning, Elizabeth Ann is shocked by country living-pets are allowed to sleep in the house and children are expected to do chores! But with country living comes independence and responsibility, and in time, Elizabeth Ann finds herself making friends and enjoying her new family. When the year is up and Aunt Frances comes to get her niece, she finds a healthier, prouder girl with a new name-Betsy-and a new outlook on life.Understood Betsy has delighted generations of young readers since it was first published by Henry Holt and Company in 1917." | 
         | 2054 | 13 Secrets | Michelle Harrison  | Feb-11 | Fantasy, Middle Grade, Young Adult, Fiction, Adventure, Fairies, Mystery, Magic, Childrens, Paranormal | Raven, Amos, Tanya, Fabian, Rowan, Warwick, Gredin, Mad Morag, Florence | "Red is now living at Elvesden Manor under her real name, Rowan, and trying to put the past behind her. But staying on the straight and narrow isn’t as easy as she had hoped . . . Hounded by those who would like her to participate once more in the changeling trade, Rowan is also haunted by dreams of the Hedgewitch’s cottage and the chained-up Eldritch, who swore revenge when she left him there.Her past is about to catch up with her, but can she, Tanya and Fabian prevent it consuming her altogether?" | 
         | 2055 | The White Mountains | John Christopher | Apr-03 | Science Fiction, Young Adult, Fiction, Dystopia, Fantasy, Childrens, Post Apocalyptic, Adventure, Aliens, Science Fiction Fantasy | Will, Henry, Beanpole | "Long ago, the Tripods—huge, three-legged machines—descended upon Earth and took control. Now people unquestioningly accept the Tripods' power. They have no control over their thoughts or their lives.But for a brief time in each person's life—in childhood—he is not a slave. For Will, his time of freedom is about to end—unless he can escape to the White Mountains, where the possibility of freedom still exists." | 
         | 2056 | The Last Mermaid | Shana Abe  | May-08 | Romance, Fantasy, Mermaids, Paranormal Romance, Paranormal, Fiction, Historical Romance, Historical, Fantasy Romance, Magic | Aedan of Kelmere, Ronan MacMhuirich, Ruri Kell, Iain MacInnes, Ione of Kell, Leila de Sant Severe | "Shana Abe has entranced countless readers with her passion-filled novels of adventure, intrigue, and romance. Now the author of The Secret Swan delivers a gift from the sea: three hauntingly beautiful tales connected by a legend, a locket, and a love beyond time. 531 a.d.: The tiny island of Kell is said to be enchanted, inhabited by an extraordinary creature who comforts shipwrecked sailors passing into the next world. Prince Aedan of the Isles believes in no such nonsense until he awakens on Kell itself and meets the sensuous siren who rescued him from the sea. 1721: Ronan MacMhuirich, Earl of Kell, is the target of an unlikely assassin: Leila, a mysterious woman from an exotic land. But his irresistibly beautiful would-be slayer is in just as much danger as Ronan when she falls for this man with a magic of his own. 2004: What do you do when you inherit a Scottish island you never knew existed and find yourself pursued by a handsome stranger who wants to buy it from you? That's what happens to Ruri Kell when she accepts Iain MacInness' invitation to visit her birthright, and listens to a proposition as sinfully tempting as everything else about him. Three seductive love stories, three passionate couples, all linked by one of the most romantic myths of all." | 
         | 2057 | Dead Souls | Ian Rankin  | 1999 | Crime, Mystery, Fiction, Scotland, Thriller, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Murder Mystery, Noir, Novels | Inspector John Rebus | "A call from an old friend brings back memories and more than a little guilt for DI John Rebus of the Lothian and Borders police. Suddenly it seems Edinburgh’s streets are crowded with the lost and forgotten.Stalking a poisoner at the local zoo, Rebus hits upon a freed paedophile, camera in hand. Outing the man rouses the vigilantes and leaves Rebus with mixed feelings and another weight on his conscience. But the straw that looks like breaking Rebus’s back comes courtesy of the US government. Feted by the tabloid press and put under Rebus’s watchful eye, a convicted murderer is looking to play games with Rebus as his pawn..." | 
         | 2058 | The Hanging Garden | Ian Rankin  | 2005 | Crime, Mystery, Fiction, Scotland, Thriller, Detective, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Murder Mystery, Police | Inspector John Rebus | "Tough and complex, Detective John Rebus gets personally involved in a case when he rescues a young Bosnian girl forced into prostitution. Add to that the hunt for an elderly Nazi accused of slaughtering a French village, and Rebus wonders just how evil humans can be. But when his daughter is mortally injured, he just might make a deal with the devil to find the culprit. Rankin won critical acclaim for his novel ""Black and Blue."" Optioned for a BBC film series. Martin's Press.The Hanging Gardens of Babylon... The hanging of four French villagers in World War II... The hanging of an old man in a Scottish cemetary... Seemingly random facts linked to one man... Detective Inspector John Rebus is buried under a pile of paperwork generated by his investigations into a suspected war criminal, and his immediate supervisors are more than happy to have him tucked away in a quiet backwater for several months. However, the escalating dispute between upstart Tommy Telford and Big Ger Cafferty's gang soon gives Rebus an escape clause. Telford is known to have close ties to a man nicknamed Mr. Pink Eyes, a brutal gangster running a lucrative business bringing Chechen refugees into Britain to work as prostitutes. And when Rebus takes under his wing a distraught Bosnian call girl, it gives him a personal reason to make sure Telford takes the high road out of town. Within days, Rebus's daughter is the victim of an all-too-professional hit-and-run, and Rebus knows that there's nothing he won't do to bring down prime suspect Tommy Telford-even if it means cutting a deal with the devil. A chilling glimpse into the darkest extremes of human cruelty, a page-turning literary thriller, this ninth entry in Ian Rankin's award-winning series confirms his reputation as a writer of rare and lasting gifts.top" | 
         | 2059 | Exit Music | Ian Rankin  | 2007 | Mystery, Crime, Fiction, Scotland, Thriller, Detective, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Novels, Murder Mystery | Siobhan Clarke, ""Big Ger"" Cafferty, Inspector John Rebus | Free Delivery if order value from the seller is greater than 399. Used Book in good condition. No missing/ torn pages. No stains. Note: The above used product classification has been solely undertaken by the seller. Amazon shall neither be liable nor responsible for any used product classification undertaken by the seller. A-to-Z Guarantee not applicable on used products. | 
         | 2060 | The Naming of the Dead | Ian Rankin  | 2007 | Crime, Mystery, Fiction, Scotland, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Novels, Audiobook, Police | Inspector John Rebus | "The sixteenth Inspector Rebus novel from 'Britain's No.1 crime writer' DAILY MIRROR.A murder has been committed - but as the victim was a rapist, recently released from prison, no one is too concerned about the crime. That is, until Detective Inspector John Rebus and DS Siobhan Clarke uncover evidence that a serial killer is on the loose ...When Rebus also starts looking into the apparent suicide of an MP, he is abruptly warned off the case, not least because the G8 leaders have gathered in Scotland, and Rebus's bosses want him well out of the way. But Rebus has never been one to stick to the rules, and when Siobhan has a very personal reason for hunting down a riot cop, it looks as though both Rebus and Clarke may be up against their own side ..." | 
         | 2061 | Seduction in Death | J.D. Robb  | 2004 | Mystery, Romance, Crime, Fiction, Romantic Suspense, Futuristic, Suspense, Science Fiction, Audiobook, Thriller | Eve Dallas, Roarke, Nyle Sumner, Ezra Trent, Delia Peabody, Ryan Feeney, Charlotte Mira, Ian McNab, Louise Dimatto, Charles Monroe | "Dante had been courting his victim in cyberspace for weeks before meeting her in person. A few sips of wine and a few hours later, she was dead. The murder weapon: a rare, usually undetectable date-rape drug with a street value of a quarter million dollars. Lieutenant Eve Dallas is playing and replaying the clues in her mind. The candlelight, the music, the rose petals strewn across the bed - a seduction meant for his benefit, not hers. He hadn't intended to kill her. But now that he has, he is left with only two choices: to either hole up in fear and guilt or start hunting again. . ." | 
         | 2062 | Tooth and Nail | Ian Rankin  | 1998 | Crime, Mystery, Fiction, Scotland, Thriller, Detective, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Audiobook, Novels | Inspector John Rebus | "Drafted down to the Big Smoke thanks to a supposed expertise in the modus operandi of serial killers, Inspector John Rebus is on a train south from Edinburgh. His Scotland Yard opposite number, George Flight, isn’t too happy at yet more interference. It’s bad enough having several Chief Inspectors on your back without being hounded at every turn by an upstart Jock. Rebus is going to have to deal with racial prejudice as well as the predations of a violent maniac. When he’s offered a serial killer profile of the Wolfman by an attractive lady psychologist, it’s too good an opportunity to turn down. But in finding an ally, he may have given his enemies an easy means of attack." | 
         | 2063 | The Old Capital | Yasunari Kawabata, J. Martin Holman (Translator), Vanja Lantz (Translator) | 2006 | Japan, Fiction, Japanese Literature, Historical Fiction, Classics, Asia, Nobel Prize, Literature, Novels, Asian Literature | Chieko, Shige, Takichiro | "The Old Capital is one of the three novels cited specifically by the Nobel Committee when they awarded Kawabata the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. With the ethereal tone and aesthetic styling characteristic of Kawabata's prose, The Old Capital tells the story of Chieko, the adopted daughter of a Kyoto kimono designer, Takichiro, and his wife, Shige.Set in the traditional city of Kyoto, Japan, this deeply poetic story revolves around Chieko who becomes bewildered and troubled as she discovers the true facets of her past. With the harmony and time-honored customs of a Japanese backdrop, the story becomes poignant as Chieko’s longing and confusion develops." | 
         | 2064 | The Haunted Showboat | Carolyn Keene | 1957 | Mystery, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Cozy Mystery | Nancy Drew, Bess Marvin, George Fayne | "Nancy, Bess and George visit New Orleans for Mardi Gras. While on vacation for the festivities, the three friends become involved with pirates, ghosts, and investigating an old showboat, rumored to be haunted, that must be restored in time for the gala celebrations. This book is the original text. A revised text does not exist." | 
         | 2065 | Endgame | Samuel Beckett | 1989 | Plays, Drama, Classics, Fiction, Theatre, Irish Literature, Literature, France, 20th Century, School | Nell, Hamm, Clov, Nagg | "Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories, and poetry has earned him an uncontested place as one of the greatest writers of our time. Endgame, originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett himself, is now considered by many critics to be his greatest single work. A pinnacle of Beckett's characteristic raw minimalism, it is a pure and devastating distillation of the human essence in the face of approaching death." | 
         | 2066 | Sharpe's Tiger | Bernard Cornwell  | 2003 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, War, Adventure, Military Fiction, India, Audiobook, Action, British Literature | Richard Sharpe, Obadiah Hakeswill, William Lawford, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | "The prequel to the series, describing Sharpe's experiences in India. Sharpe’s Tiger describes the adventures of the raw young private soldier Richard Sharpe in India, before the Peninsular War.Sharpe and the rest of his battalion, along with the rising star of the general staff Arthur Wellesley, are about to embark upon the siege of Seringapatam, island citadel of the Tippoo of Mysore. The British must remove this potentate from his tiger throne, but he has gone to extraordinary lengths to defend his city from attack. And always he is surrounded by tigers, both living and ornamental…any prisoner of the Tippoo can expect a savage end.When a senior British officer is captured by the Tippoo's forces Sharpe is offered a chance to attempt a rescue, a chance he snatched in order to escape from the tyrannical Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill. But in fleeing Hakeswill he enters the confusing, exotic and dangerous world of the Tippoo and Sharpe will need all his wits just to stay alive, let alone save the British army from catastrophe.With the same meticulous research and attention to detail that distinguishes the rest of the bestselling series of Sharpe novels, Bernard Cornwell has recreated the I 799 campaign against Seringapatam which made the British masters of southern India, a campaign that pitted brutalized soldiers against an ancient and splendid civilization. Set against a background of dazzling wealth, ruinous poverty, gorgeous palaces, sudden cruelty and pitiless battles, Sharpe’s Tiger is his greatest adventure yet." | 
         | 2067 | Henry VIII: The King and His Court | Alison Weir | 2008 | History, Nonfiction, Biography, Tudor Period, Historical, British Literature, 16th Century, Biography Memoir, European History, Medieval | Anne Boleyn, Thomas More, Catherine of Aragon, Jane Seymour, Catherine Howard, Anne of Cleves, Henry VII of England, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas Cranmer, Thomas Wolsey, Henry VIII of England, Catherine Parr, Elizabeth I of England, Edward VI of England, Mary I of England | "Henry VIII, renowned for his command of power and celebrated for his intellect, presided over one of the most magnificent–and dangerous–courts in Renaissance Europe. Never before has a detailed, personal biography of this charismatic monarch been set against the cultural, social, and political background of his glittering court. Now Alison Weir, author of the finest royal chronicles of our time, brings to vibrant life the turbulent, complex figure of the King. Packed with colorful description, meticulous in historical detail, rich in pageantry, intrigue, passion, and luxury, Weir brilliantly renders King Henry VIII, his court, and the fascinating men and women who vied for its pleasures and rewards. The result is an absolutely spellbinding read." | 
         | 2068 | Standing in Another Man's Grave | Ian Rankin  | Published | Mystery, Crime, Fiction, Scotland, Thriller, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Contemporary, Murder Mystery, Suspense | Detective John Rebus | "John Rebus returns to investigate the disappearances of three women from the same road over ten years.  For the last decade, Nina Hazlitt has been ready to hear the worst about her daughter's disappearance. But with no sightings, no body, and no suspect, the police investigation ground to a halt long ago, and Nina's pleas to the cold case department have led her nowhere.  Until she meets the newest member of the team: former Detective John Rebus.  Rebus has never shied away from lost causes - one of the many ways he managed to antagonize his bosses when he was on the force. Now he's back as a retired civilian, reviewing abandoned files. Necessary work, but it's not exactly scratching the itch he feels to be in the heart of the action.  Two more women have gone missing from the same road where Sally Hazlitt was last seen. Unlike his skeptical colleagues, Rebus can sense a connection - but pursuing it leads him into the crosshairs of adversaries both old and new.  Rebus may have missed the thrill of the hunt, but he's up against a powerful enemy who's got even less to lose.  On the twentieth anniversary of Ian Rankin's first American publication comes a novel bursting with the vitality and suspense that made its author one of crime fiction's most dazzling stars. Standing in Another Man's Grave is the triumphant return of John Rebus, and a riveting story of sin, redemption, and revenge." | 
         | 2069 | The Truth | Zizou Corder | 2006 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Adventure, Fiction, Childrens, Animals, Middle Grade, Science Fiction, Mystery, Cats | Sergei, Charlie Ashanti, Ninu, Raja Boris, Rafi Sadler | "At the end of LIONBOY: THE CHASE Charlie Ashanti has restored the lions to their home in the wilds of Morocco and been reunited in the port town of Essaouira with his parents, Magdalen and Aneba. But just as Charlie is beginning to think that his adventures might be over, who should reappear but the nasty lion-tamer Maccomo and the raffish Rafi. Before he knows it, Charlie has been kidnapped once again and is in the hold of a ship bound he knows not where. All is not lost, however. Eventually the entire cast of the LIONBOY trilogy find themselves on a Caribbean island, the home of the sinister Corporacy. Can Charlie bring the story to a triumphant conclusion by vanquishing the Corporacy and ridding the world of its nefarious schemes?" | 
         | 2070 | The Clue of the Leaning Chimney | Carolyn Keene | 1967 | Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Detective | Nancy Drew, Bess Marvin, George Fayne, Hannah Gruen, Dick Milton, Officer Murphy, Mr. Soong, Mrs. Wendell | "A rare and valuable Chinese vase is stolen from a pottery shop and Dick Milton, the owner, asks Nancy for help. The young sleuth is tasked to find the thief, the missing ornament and to locate a leaning chimney. This chimney marks a discovery that will solve Dick’s financial problems. During her investigations, Nancy finds the leaning chimney, but it only leads her into more puzzles. Are there connections between the theft of the rare vase, a number of similar crimes and the strange disappearance of a Chinese pottery expert and his daughter? This book is the revised text. The plot of the original story (©1949) is similar with minor revisions." | 
         | 2071 | Five Have Plenty of Fun | Enid Blyton | Oct-01 | Childrens, Adventure, Fiction, Mystery, Classics, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Childrens Classics, British Literature, Mystery Thriller | George Kirrin (Famous Five), Dick Kirrin, Tinker, Julian (Famous Five) | "New and contemporary cover treatment brings The Famous Five into the 21st Century, and to a whole new generation of readers!" | 
         | 2072 | Bedknob and Broomstick | Mary Norton | 1983 | Fantasy, Childrens, Classics, Fiction, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Adventure, Magic, Juvenile, Time Travel | Charles Wilson , Carey Wilson, Eglantine Price, Emelius Jones, Paul Wilson | "In The Magic Bedknob, Carey, Charles and Paul 6 find prim Miss Price injured by falling off her broomstick. For their silence, she bespells a bedknob to carry them where-ever and when-ever. In Bonfires and Broomsticks two years later, they bring necromancer Emelius Jones to visit. But his neighbors want to burn him at the stake for disappearing in the Great Fire of London." | 
         | 2073 | The Clue in the Crossword Cipher | Carolyn Keene | 1967 | Mystery, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Adventure | Nancy Drew | "Lovely young Carla Ponce, a resident of Peru, invites Nancy, Bess and George to visit her and solve a mystery that promises to lead to a fabulous treasure. A clue is carved on an intriguing wooden plaque belonging to Carla’s family. When a notorious gang headed by El Gato steals the priceless relic, Nancy quickly recovers the old plaque. Through clever deductions, perseverance, and dangerous adventures, Nancy and her friends help to capture a ring of vicious smugglers and make an astounding archaeological discovery. This book is the original text. A revised text does not exist." | 
         | 2074 | Lessico famigliare | Natalia Ginzburg, Cesare Garboli (Contributor) | 1999 | Fiction, Italian Literature, Italy, Classics, Novels, Literature, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Audiobook, Womens | Natalia Ginzburg | "Lessico famigliare è la storia di una famiglia ebrea, quella della stessa scrittrice, che si svolge a Torino fra gli anni Trenta e Cinquanta. Natalia, l'ultima dei cinque figli Levi, è la voce narrante. Con assoluto rispetto della verità, e, per certi versi, mantenendo l'incanto della fanciullezza, l'autrice non solo ripercorre con la memoria le vicende dei suoi cari, ma ne fissa per sempre anche il linguaggio (che, come sappiamo, è unico per ogni nucleo famigliare), i motti, le abitudini radicate." | 
         | 2075 | U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money | John Dos Passos, Daniel Aaron (Editor), Townsend Ludington (Editor) | 1996 | Fiction, Classics, Literature, American, Novels, Historical Fiction, Politics, 20th Century, The United States Of America, United States | Mac Smith, Janey Williams, J. Ward Moorehouse, Eleanor Stoddard, Charley Anderson, Joe Williams, Richard Ellsworth Savage, Eveline Hutchins, Daughter, Ben Compton, Mary French, Margo Dowling | "In the novels that make up the U.S.A.trilogy—The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money—Dos Passos creates an unforgettable collective portrait of America, shot through with sardonic comedy and brilliant social observation. He interweaves the careers of his characters and the events of their time with a narrative verve and breathtaking technical skill that make U.S.A. among the most compulsively readable of modern classics.A startling range of experimental devices captures the textures and background noises of 20th-century life: ""Newsreels"" with blaring headlines; autobiographical ""Camera Eye"" sections with poetic stream-of-consciousness; ""biographies"" evoking emblematic historical figures like J.P. Morgan, Henry Ford, John Reed, Frank Lloyd Wright, Thorstein Veblen, and the Unknown Soldier. Holding everything together is sheer storytelling power, tracing dozens of characters from the Spanish-American War to the onset of the Depression.The U.S.A. trilogy is filled with American speech: labor radicals and advertising executives, sailors and stenographers, interior decorators and movie stars. Their crisscrossing destinies take in wars and revolutions, desperate love affairs and harrowing family crises, corrupt public triumphs and private catastrophes, in settings that include the trenches of World War I, insurgent Mexico, Hollywood studios in the silent era, Wall Street boardrooms, and the tumultuous streets of Boston just before the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti." | 
         | 2076 | Rites of Passage | William Golding | 2001 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, Nobel Prize, Historical, Literary Fiction, British Literature, Literature, Australia, 20th Century | Edmund Talbot, Reverend Colley, Zenobia Brocklebank, Captain Anderson, Miss Granham, Deverel, Cumbershum, Wheeler, Summers, Billy Rogers, Mr. Prettiman | "The first volume of William Golding's Sea Trilogy.Sailing to Australia in the early years of the nineteenth century, Edmund Talbot keeps a journal to amuse his godfather back in England. Full of wit and disdain, he records the mounting tensions on the ancient, stinking warship where officers, sailors, soldiers and emigrants jostle in the cramped spaces below decks. Then a single passenger, the obsequious Reverend Colley, attracts the animosity of the sailors, and in the seclusion of the fo'castle something happens to bring him into a 'hell of degradation', where shame is a force deadlier than the sea itself." | 
         | 2077 | Doctor Who: The Face of the Enemy | David A. McIntee | Jan-98 | Doctor Who, Science Fiction, Fiction, Media Tie In | Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, The Master (Doctor Who), Harry Sullivan, The Second Master | "The Doctor and Jo have gone off in the TARDIS, leaving the Brigadier and UNIT facing a deadly mystery - and a moral dilemma...Robbery and murder are on the increase in Britain as disputes between underworld gangs escalate into open warfare on the streets. The Master seems inextricably linked to the chaos - despite the fact he is safely under lock and key.Meanwhile UNIT is called in when a plane missing in strange circumstances is rediscovered - contaminated with radiation and particle damage that cannot possibly have occurred on Earth.As the mystery deepens, what little light they can shed on the matter leads the Brigadier to believe that with the Doctor away, Earth's only hope may lie with its greatest enemy..." | 
         | 2078 | The Scent of Water | Elizabeth Goudge | 1963 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, Christian Fiction, Christian, British Literature, Novels, Adult, Adult Fiction, Historical | Mary Lindsay | "Mary Lindsay met her little niece and namesake only once, but she saw in the quiet, imaginative child a kindred spirit to inherit her ancient house. Fifty years later her niece inherited the house with no knowledge of it beyond her indelible childhood memories, and no experience at all of living in the country.Mary Lindsay is a born and bred Londoner who has enjoyed her city life-a prestigious job, and friends with whom she takes in the city pleasures of theatre, art and…As a retired businesswoman living in a rural house inherited from her aunt finds consolation for a failed romance with a married blind man by learning more about her aunt and herself." | 
         | 2079 | Death Note: L, Change the WorLd | M, Takami Nieda (Translator) | Jan-16 | Manga, Mystery, Fiction, Light Novel, Fantasy, Thriller, Crime, Novels, Young Adult, Comics | L Lawliet | "In an alternative continuity in the Death Note setting, ace detective L's name has been written in a Death Note. He has twenty-three days to bring a terrorist group to justice, or they will use a deadly new virus to change the world—by killing off most of humanity." | 
         | 2080 | Burned Alive | Souad | 2005 | Nonfiction, Biography, Memoir, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, Feminism, Islam, Religion, True Story, Womens | Souad, Ayah, Ibu, Kainat, Noura, Assad, Hussein, Faiez, Marwan, Jacqueline, Hassan, Edmond Kaiser, Antonio, Laetitia, Nadia | "When Souad was seventeen she fell in love. In her village, as in so many others, sex before marriage was considered a grave dishonour to one's family and was punishable by death. This was her crime. Her brother-in-law was given the task of arranging her punishment. One morning while Souad was washing the family's clothes, he crept up on her, poured petrol over her and set her alight.In the eyes of their community he was a hero. An execution for a 'crime of honour' was a respectable duty unlikely to bring about condemnation from others. It certainly would not have provoked calls for his prosecution. More than five thousand cases of such honour killings are reported around the world each year and many more take place that we hear nothing about.Miraculously, Souad survived rescued by the women of her village, who put out the flames and took her to a local hospital. Horrifically burned, and abandoned by her family and community, it was only the intervention of a European aid worker that enabled Souad to receive the care and sanctuary she so desperately needed and to start her life again. She has now decided to tell her story and uncover the barbarity of honour killings, a practice which continues to this day.Burned Alive is a shocking testimony, a true story of almost unbelievable cruelty. It speaks of amazing courage and fortitude and of one woman's determination to survive. It is also a call to break the taboo of silence that surrounds this most brutal of practices and which ignores the plight of so many other women who are also victims of traditional violence." | 
         | 2081 | The Malay Dilemma | Mahathir Mohamad, مهاتير محمد | 1996 | Nonfiction, Politics, History, Asia, Research, Political Science | Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad, Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad, Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, Mahathir bin Mohamad, Mahathir Mohamad, Tun Mahathir Mohamad, Tun Mahathir bin Mohamad, Tun Mahathir, Tun Dr. Mahathir, Tun Dr Mahathir, Chedet, ""Che'' Det"", Che Det, Dr M, Tun M, C.H.E. Det | "In The Malay Dilemma, former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad examines and analyses the make-up of the Malays and the problem of racial harmony in Malaysia. First published in 1970, the book seeks to explain the causes for the 13 May 1969 riots in Kuala Lumpur.Dr Mahathir sets out his view as to why the Malays are economically backward and why they feel they must insist upon immigrants becoming real Malaysians speaking in due course nothing but Malay, as do immigrants to America or Australia speak nothing but the language of what the author calls ""the definitive people"". He argues that the Malays are the rightful owners of Malaya. He also argues that immigrants are guests until properly absorbed, and that they are not properly absorbed until they have abandoned the language and culture of their past." | 
         | 2082 | 斜陽 [Shayō] | Osamu Dazai | May-03 | Japan, Fiction, Japanese Literature, Classics, Literature, Asia, Novels, 20th Century, Historical Fiction, Asian Literature | Kazuko, ""Kazuko''s mother"", Naoji, Uehara, Wada | 敗戦後、元華族の母と離婚した“私”は財産を失い、伊豆の別荘へ行った。最後の貴婦人である母と、復員してきた麻薬中毒の弟・直治、無頼の作家上原、そして新しい恋に生きようとする29歳の私は、没落の途を、滅びるものなら、華麗に滅びたいと進んでいく。戦後の太宰治の代表作品。語註や著名人の「鑑賞」もついて感想文に最適。 | 
         | 2083 | Spring in London | Ilana Tan | Feb-10 | Romance, Indonesian Literature, Novels, Fiction, Young Adult, Contemporary, Chick Lit, Adult, Drama, Collections | Naomi Ishida, Danny Jo (Jo In-Ho), Miho Nakajima, Christopher Scott, Julie Hathaway, Anna Jo, Bobby Shin, Kim Dong-Min | "Gadis itu tidak menyukainya. Kenapa? Astaga, ia—Danny Jo—adalah orang yang baik. Sungguh! Ia selalu bersikap ramah, sopan dan menyenangkan. Lalu kenapa Naomi Ishida menjauhinya seperti wabah penyakit? Bagaimana mereka bisa bekerja sama dalam pembuatan video musik ini kalau gadis itu mengacuhkannya setiap saat? Kesalahan apa yang sudah dia lakukan? Bagaimanapun juga Danny bukan orang yang gampang menyerah. Ia akan mencoba mendekati Naomi untuk mencari tahu alasan gadis itu memusuhinya. Tetapi ada dua hal yang tidak diperhitungkan Danny. Yang pertama adalah kemungkinan ia akan jatuh cinta pada Naomi Ishida yang dingin, misterius, dan penuh rahasia itu. Dan yang kedua adalah kemungkinan ia akan menguak rahasia gelap yang bisa menghancurkan mereka berdua dan orang-orang yang mereka sayangi." | 
         | 2084 | Tegenspel | Floortje Zwigtman | 2007 | Young Adult, Historical Fiction, LGBT, Historical, Fiction, Gay, Queer, M M Romance, Romance, Literature | Adrian Mayfield | Het spannende en romantische vervolg op 'Schijnbewegingen'. Het voert de lezer opnieuw mee naar het opwindende en rebelse Londen van het fin de siècle. | 
         | 2085 | Odd John | Olaf Stapledon | Mar-12 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Classics, Science Fiction Fantasy, Novels, British Literature, Fantasy, Philosophy, 20th Century, Literature | John Wainwright | "Odd John is the story of a mutated superman - a young man who must accept that he is different, and decide what to do with his gifts." | 
         | 2086 | A Study in Scarlet & The Sign of the Four | Arthur Conan Doyle, David Stuart Davies  (Introduction) | 2004 | Mystery, Classics, Fiction, Crime, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Literature, 19th Century, Victorian, British Literature | Mordecai Smith, Brother Bartholomew, Morstan, Mrs. Bemstone, Bartholomew Sholto | "'Doctor Watson, Mr Sherlock Holmes' - The most famous introduction in the history of crime fiction takes place in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet, bringing together Sherlock Holmes, the master of science detection, and John H. Watson, the great detective's faithful chronicler. This novel not only establishes the magic of the Holmes myth but also provides the reader with a dramatic adventure yarn which ranges from the foggy, gas-lit streets of London to the burning plains of Utah.The Sign of the Four, the second Holmes novel, presents the detective with one of his greatest challenges. The theft of the Agna treasure in India forms a catalyst for treachery, deceit and murder.With these two classic novels, A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four, you have the brilliant foundation of the Sherlock Holmes canon. Reading pleasure rarely comes any finer." | 
         | 2087 | Die hässliche Herzogin Margarete Maultasch | Lion Feuchtwanger | Dec-76 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, German Literature, Classics, Historical, Literature | Duchess Margarete of Tyrol | "Die Meisterin der Intrigen Margarete, Herzogin von Tirol, ist eine wichtige Figur auf dem Schachbrett der europäischen Geschichte. Sicher im Urteil und rasch im Handeln, zwingt sie selbst ihren Gegnern Achtung ab. Doch ihre groteske Hässlichkeit macht sie zum Gespött der Leute. Auf grausame Weise sucht sie zu erlangen, was der Schönheit von selbst zufällt: Macht und Liebe." | 
         | 2088 | Imzadi | Peter David | Jul-93 | Star Trek, Science Fiction, Fiction, Romance, Star Trek The Next Generation, Science Fiction Fantasy, Media Tie In, Time Travel, Fantasy, Space Opera | Deanna Troi, Data, Wesley Crusher, William Thomas Riker | "Years before they served together on board the ""U.S.S. Enterprise."" Commander William Riker and ship's counselor Deanna Troi had a tempestuous love affair on her home planet of Betazed. Now, their passions have cooled and they serve together as friends. Yet the memories of that time linger and Riker and Troi remain ""Imzadi"" - a powerful Betazoid term that describes the enduring bond they still share. During delicate negotiations with an aggressive race called the Sindareen. Deanna Troi mysteriously falls ill...and dies. But her death is only the beginning of the adventure for Commander Riker - an adventure that will take him across time, pit him against one of his closest friends, and force him to choose between Starfleet's strictest rule and the one he calls ""Imzadi.""" | 
         | 2089 | Inne Pieśni | Jacek Dukaj | 2003 | Fantasy, Polish Literature, Science Fiction, Fiction, Poland, Novels, Philosophy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Steampunk | Hieronim Berbelek | "Starogrecki świat pięciu żywiołów pod władzą formy w opowieści o sile ludzkiego ducha i o tym, co nieopisywalne." | 
         | 2090 | De dood van Maarten Koning | J.J. Voskuil | 2000 | Fiction, Literature, Dutch Literature, Roman, Humor | Maarten Koning, Nicolien Koning | "In dit laatste deel van Het Bureau ziet Maarten Koning zich al op de eerste dag na zijn afscheid gesteld voor de vraag wat hij met zijn leven moet aanvangen. Hij begint met kleine klusjes in huis, merkt dat hij daarbij Nicolien in de weg loopt die het ontwend is om de hele dag met zijn tweeën te zijn, loopt een blokje om, pakt de fiets en gaat een keer bij het Bureau langs om de drukproeven terug te brengen van het Bulletin, waarvoor hij tot het eind van het jaar nog de verantwoordelijkheid heeft.Geleidelijk vindt hij een evenwicht, waarin gevoelens van onbestemdheid afgewisseld worden door die van gelukzaligheid en vrijheid. Af en toe bezoekt hij het Bureau, waar hij plaatsneemt aan het bureau van Beerta, op de zolderkamer die men hem als een pied à terre gelaten heeft om het werk af te ronden voor de commissies waarvan hij nog deel uitmaakt zolang zijn opvolger niet is aangewezen en ingewerkt.Als die opvolger eenmaal is aangetreden, sluipt gaandeweg een gevoel van vervreemding binnen. Het gedrag van zijn vroegere medewerkers begint geleidelijk te veranderen. En als op een dag zijn zolderkamer ontruimd blijkt te zijn, ontwikkelen de gebeurtenissen, die leiden tot het onthutsende slot, waarop de titel van dit deel de lezer al enigszins heeft voorbereid, zich snel." | 
         | 2091 | Blaze of Glory | Michael Pryor  | 2006 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Steampunk, Fiction, Magic, Adventure, Science Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy, Mystery, Urban Fantasy | Aubrey Fitzwilliam, Caroline Hepworth, Dr. Mordecai Tremaine, George Doyle | "Aubrey Fitzwilliam is the son of a prominent ex-prime minister. He's also brilliant at magic, but he's stuck at military school. At least he has his best friend, George, there to back him up. George would follow Aubrey anywhere - and with Aubrey's talent for thinking up impulsive and daring schemes that will get them both in trouble, that's no easy thing to do. At a weekend shooting party at Prince Albert's country estate, the boys find themselves in a hotbed of intrigue and politics. They discover a golem, a magical creature built to perform one task: to kill Prince Albert. Aubrey and George are hailed as heroes for foiling the attempt on the prince's life - but who sent the golem, and why? Aubrey is far too curious to let the authorities handle this one, and he and George start investigating." | 
         | 2092 | After the Storm | Lauren Brooke | Jun-00 | Horses, Young Adult, Childrens, Fiction, Animals, Contemporary, Middle Grade, Realistic Fiction, Juvenile, Coming Of Age | Amy Fleming, Jack Bartlett, Lou Fleming, Ty Baldwin, Matt Trewin, Scott Trewin, Val Grant, Carl Anderson, Larry Boswell, Max Satchwell, Nancy Satchwell, Melanie Satchwell, Hannah Boswell, Shelley Boswell, Ashley Grant | "Heartland is a horse farm nestled in the hills of Virginia, but it's much more than that. Heartland is like no other place - it's a place where the scars of the past can be healed, a place where frightened and abused horses learn to trust again.Amy hasn't seen Spartan since the accident - that stormy night that changed their lives forever. Now Spartan is coming to Heartland. He's not the same horse. He's filled with an anger that seems directed at Amy. At the sight of her, he lashes out - teeth bared, hooves flailing. Amy has so much healing to do on her own, it seems she's the last person who could help Spartan. But she might also be the only one." | 
         | 2093 | Das Jesus-Video | Andreas Eschbach | 2000 | Thriller, Science Fiction, Fiction, German Literature, Fantasy, Time Travel, Religion, Mystery, Adventure, Contemporary | Jesus, Peter Eisenhardt | "Kurz vor der Jahrtausendwende läßt uns Andreas Eschbach einen Blick in die Zukunft werfen. Er dreht aber die Uhren zurück: Wie kommt die Bedienungsanleitung für eine Videokamera in ein 2000 Jahre altes Grab in Israel?Der Entdecker Stephen Foxx hat nur eine Erklärung: Jemand muß versucht haben, Videoaufnahmen von Jesus Christus zu machen! Der Tote im Grab ist demnach ein Mann der Zukunft, der in die Vergangenheit reiste, um sich dort ein Bild von der Wahrheit zu machen: Lebte Jesus wirklich?Mit dieser Frage begibt sich der Leser auf eine äußerst turbulente Zeitreise. Das Geheimnis, soviel sei verraten, wird schließlich gelüftet - aber ganz anders, als alle Beteiligten erwarten." | 
         | 2094 | Schilf | Juli Zeh | May-09 | Fiction, Germany, Mystery, German Literature, Crime, Thriller, Contemporary, Novels, Science Fiction, Literature | Sebastian, Oskar, Maike, Liam, Dabbeling, Rita Skura, Schilf | "Ein liebender Kommissar, ein tödliches Missverständnis und die verflixte Beschaffenheit der Welt.Sebastian kann mit seinem Leben mehr als zufrieden sein. Vielleicht hat er ein bisschen zu viel von seinem physikalischen Talent zugunsten seiner Familie aufgegeben. Sein alter Freund Oskar, auch er ein Genie der theoretischen Physik, erinnert ihn zuweilen daran. Als Sebastian seinen Sohn in ein Ferienlager fahren will, findet er sich unversehens in einem Alptraum wieder. Der Sohn wird entführt, und er bekommt ihn erst wieder, wenn er einen Mord begeht …" | 
         | 2095 | Darkness Falls | Cate Tiernan | Oct-12 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Paranormal, Romance, Magic, Urban Fantasy, Supernatural, Paranormal Romance, Fiction, Teen | Nastasya Crowe, Reyn | "You can run from your past, but it will always catch up.Nastasya has lived for hundreds of years, but for some reason it never seems to get any easier. She’s left behind her days of debauchery to find peace and forgiveness at River’s Edge, a safe haven for wayward immortals. There she’s uncovered her family’s epic history, reclaimed her magickal powers, and met Reyn, whom she dubs “the Viking god.” Just as she settles into her new life, Nastasya learns that her old friends might be in town....Reuniting with her gorgeous and dangerous ex-best-friend, Innocencio, Nas wonders if she’ll ever be truly free of her dark legacy. Is Incy dangerous, power-hungry, and wicked? Or is he the only one who truly understands Nas’s darkness? Either way, Nas is desperate to find out who she really is-even if the answer kills her." | 
         | 2096 | Point of Origin | Patricia Cornwell  | 2000 | Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Murder Mystery, Detective, Adult, Adult Fiction | Kay Scarpetta, Pete Marino, Lucy Farinelli, Benton Wesley, T.N. McGovern, Kenneth Sparkes, Betty Foster – Kenneth Sparkes horse trainer, based in Beaverdam | "A farmhouse destroyed by fireA body amongst the ruinsDr Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner and consulting pathologist for the federal law enforcement agency ATF, is called out to a farmhouse in Virginia which has been destroyed by fire. In the ruins of the house she finds a body which tells a story of a violent and grisly murder.The fire has come at the same time as another even more incendiary horror: Carrie Grethen, a killer who nearly destroyed the lives of Scarpetta and those closest to her, has escaped from a forensic psychiatric hospital. Her whereabouts is unknown, but her ultimate destination is not, for Carrie has begun to communicate with Scarpetta, conveying her deadly - if cryptic - plans for revenge.Chillingly mesmeric in tone, labyrinthine in structure, Point of Origin is Patricia Cornwell at her most dazzling." | 
         | 2097 | Mrs. Jeffries on the Trail | Emily Brightwell | 1995 | Mystery, Cozy Mystery, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Historical Mystery, Crime, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Audiobook | Mrs Hepzibah Jeffries, Inspector Gerald Witherspoon | "Inspector Witherspoon of Scotland Yard resorts once again to his housekeeping super-sleuth, Mrs. Jeffries, when a girl flower-peddler is killed on a foggy night in Victorian London." | 
         | 2098 | The Redbreast | Jo Nesbø  | 2009 | Mystery, Crime, Fiction, Thriller, Scandinavian Literature, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Nordic Noir, Audiobook, Historical Fiction | Harry Hole, Ellen Gjelten, Ståle Aune, Tom Waaler, Rakel Fauke, Sindre Fauke, Even Juul, Daniel Gudeson, Gudbrand Johansen, Edvard Mosken | "Als der norwegische Staatsschutz Hinweise auf ein geplantes Attentat auf den Thronfolger erhält, beginnt für Harry Hole ein Alptraum aus Lügen und Verrat. Die Spur der Verdächtigen führt in das dunkelste Kapitel norwegischer Vergangenheit: Eine Gruppe von Nazikollaborateuren hat im Untergrund ihr verhängnisvolles Netz gewoben und Harry sieht sich mit einem mörderischen Filz von Intrigen und Verblendung konfrontiert." | 
         | 2099 | La obra maestra desconocida | Honoré de Balzac, Francisco Calvo Serraller (contributor), Nglalil Rudin (Translator), Ana Iribas (Translator) | 2001 | Fiction, Classics, Art, France, Literature, French Literature, 19th Century, Short Stories, Novels, Novella | Nicolas Poussin | "A New York Review Books Original One of Honore de Balzac's most celebrated tales, ""The Unknown Masterpiece"" is the story of a painter who, depending on one's perspective, is either an abject failure or a transcendental genius-or both. The story, which has served as an inspiration to artists as various as Cezanne, Henry James, Picasso, and New Wave director Jacques Rivette, is, in critic Dore Ashton's words, a ""fable of modern art."" Published here in a new translation by poet Richard Howard, ""The Unknown Masterpiece"" appears, as Balzac intended, with ""Gambara,"" a grotesque and tragic novella about a musician undone by his dreams.Discurso artístico #5" | 
         | 2100 | A Traveller in Time | Alison Uttley | 1997 | Time Travel, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Childrens, Fiction, Historical, Young Adult, Science Fiction, Classics, Middle Grade | Penelope Taberner Cameron | "While visiting Thackers Manor in 1934, dreamy Penelope becomes involved in a 16th century plot to rescue Mary, Queen of Scots. A beloved time travel story that has endured for generations." | 
         | 2101 | Doctor Who: No Future | Paul Cornell  | Feb-94 | Doctor Who, Science Fiction, Fiction | The Seventh Doctor, Ace, Bernice Summerfield, UNIT, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, The Monk, Vardan, The Doctor | "'This time, anarchy's real. There are power cuts and Wilson's resignation, a great upheaval of unease. But now there's real fear too. Real panic. And that's not how it's supposed to be.'Somebody has been toying with the Doctor's past, testing him, threatening him, leading him on a chase that has brought the TARDIS to London in 1976 - where reality has been altered once again.Black Star terrorists foment riots in the streets. The Queen barely escapes assassination. A fearful tension is rising. Something is going to happen. Something bad.Meanwhile, Benny's the lead singer in a punk band. Ace can't talk to her or the Doctor without an argument starting, so she's made murderous plans of her own. The Doctor's alone - he doesn't know who his enemy is, and even the Brigadier has disowned him.As usual, it's up to the Doctor to protect the world. And he can't even protect himself." | 
         | 2102 | The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrún | J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (Editor) | May-09 | Fantasy, Poetry, Fiction, Mythology, Classics, Literature, Historical Fiction, Medieval, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic | Sigurd, Gudrún | "Many years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien composed his own version, now published for the first time, of the great legend of Northern antiquity, in two closely related poems to which he gave the titles The New Lay of the Völsungs and The New Lay of Gudrún.In the ""Lay of the Völsungs"" is told the ancestry of the great hero Sigurd, the slayer of Fáfnir most celebrated of dragons, whose treasure he took for his own; of his awakening of the Valkyrie Brynhild, who slept surrounded by a wall of fire, and of their betrothal; and of his coming to the court of the great princes who were named the Niflungs (or Nibelungs), with whom he entered into blood-brotherhood. In that court there sprang great love but also great hate, brought about by the power of the enchantress of the Niflungs, skilled in the arts of magic, of shape-changing and potions of forgetfulness.In scenes of dramatic intensity, of confusion of identity, thwarted passion, jealousy, and bitter strife, the tragedy of Sigurd and Brynhild, of Gunnar the Niflung and Gudrún his sister, mounts to its end in the murder of Sigurd at the hands of his blood-brothers, the suicide of Brynhild, and the despair of Gudrún. In the ""Lay of Gudrún"" her fate after the death of Sigurd is told, her marriage against her will to the mighty Atli, ruler of the Huns (the Attila of history), his murder of her brothers the Niflung lords, and her hideous revenge.Deriving his version primarily from his close study of the ancient poetry of Norway and Iceland known as the Poetic Edda (and where no old poetry exists, from the later prose work Völsunga Saga), J.R.R. Tolkien employed a verse-form of short stanzas whose lines embody in English the exacting alliterative rhythms and the concentrated energy of the poems of the Edda." | 
         | 2103 | The Blood of Others | Simone de Beauvoir | 1964 | Fiction, Philosophy, Classics, France, French Literature, Literature, Novels, Feminism, Historical Fiction, 20th Century | Suzon, Jean Blomart, Mm. Blomart, M. Blomart, Marcel Ledru, Jacques Ledru, Perrun, Martin (The Blood Of Others), Helene (The Blood Of Others), Laurent (The Blood Of Others), Louise (The Blood Of Others), Madeleine (The Blood Of Others), Elisabeth (The Blood Of Others), Denise (The Blood Of Others) | "Jean Blomart, patriot leader against the German forces of occupation, waits throughout an endless night for his lover, Helene, to die. He is the one who sent her on the mission that led to her death, and before morning, he must ultimately decide how many others to send to a similar fate." | 
         | 2104 | Emil i Lönneberga | Astrid Lindgren | 1975 | Childrens, Classics, Fiction, Swedish Literature, Scandinavian Literature, Sweden, Humor, Adventure, Young Adult, 20th Century | Emil, Ida | "Emil i Lönneberga hette en pojke som bodde i Lönneberga. Det var en liten besvärlig en, inte riktigt så snäll som du. Fast såg snäll ut, det gjorde han visst det. När han inte skrek. Han hade runda blå ögon och ett runt rödblommigt ansikte och ljust, ulligt hår. Alltihop såg snällt ut på något sätt, så man kunde tro att Emil var en riktig liten ängel. men det skulle man bara inte inbilla sig." | 
         | 2105 | The Windflower | Laura London, Sharon Curtis, Tom Curtis | 2003 | Romance, Historical Romance, Historical, Pirates, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Adventure, Adult, Regency, Audiobook | Merri Wilding, Devon Crandall | "SHE LONGED FOR A PIRATE'S KISSES, FOR A GOLDEN ROGUE'S CARESS...Every lady of breeding knows. No one has a good time on a pirate ship. No one, that is, but the pirates. Yet there she was, Merry Wilding - kidnapped in error, taken from a ship bound from New York to England, spirited away in a barrel and swept aboard the infamous Black Joke....There she was, trembling with pleasure in the arms of her achingly handsome, sensationally sensual, golden-haired captor - Devon. From the storm-tossed Atlantic to the languid waters of the Gulf Stream, from a smuggler's den to a gilded mansion, Merry struggled to escape...to escape the prison of her own reckless passions, the bondage of sweet, bold desire..." | 
         | 2106 | Der 77. Grad | Bill Napier | 2007 | Thriller, Fiction, Mystery, Adventure, Historical Fiction, Suspense, Crime, Historical, Mystery Thriller | Harry Blake, Zola Khan | "As an antique map dealer in a small English town, Harry Blake appreciates the quiet life. But when a local landowner asks him to value a 400 year old journal and twelve hours later he is brutally murdered, Harry's peace of mind is shattered. What does the dusty journal contain that is a matter of life or death? Why is someone prepared to pay Harry a fortune to steal it? He turns to marine historian Zola Khan to uncover the mysteries. The trail of the journal leads him into a world of deadly Elizabethan conspiracies, and the thread of history takes him through a thousand years of religious intrigue back to the blood-soaked Crusades. And he finally learns that at stake are millions of dollars and a plan to trigger nothing less than war..." | 
         | 2107 | Huzur | Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar | Sept-14 | Turkish Literature, Fiction, Turkish, Classics, Novels, Roman, Literature, Historical Fiction, Unfinished, The World | Mümtaz, Nuran, İhsan, Suat | "Tanpınar, kültürümüzü bir ""iç âlem medeniyeti""nin tezahürü olarak görür. Bu medeniyeti, belirli bir ahlâkı taşıyan ""mânevi vazifelerine inanmış, muayyen bir ruh nizamından geçmiş, nefislerini terbiye etmiş"" insanlar meydana getirmiştir.Huzur'un kahramanlarından Mümtaz, roman boyunca kendisini ""huzur""a kavuşturacak bir ""iç nizam""ı aramaktadır. Eserde hastalık, ölüm, tabiat, kozmik unsurlar, medeniyet, sosyal meseleler, çeşitli ruh halleri ve estetik fikirler iç içe verilir. Ancak bütün bunların üzerinde romana hâkim olan Mümtaz'la Nuran'ın aşklarıdır. İstanbul, bu aşkın yaşandığı çevre olmaktan çıkarak, âdeta bir roman kahramanı gibi ele alınır.Huzur için, belli bir dünya görüşüne, bir hayat nizamına kavuşamamış Cumhuriyet aydınlarının ""huzursuzlukları""nı dile getiriyor denebilir." | 
         | 2108 | Barefoot in the Head | Brian W. Aldiss | 2001 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Post Apocalyptic, Novels, Literature, Surreal, Poetry, Dystopia, British Literature | Colin Charteris | "When an undeclared Acid Head War breaks out, Britain is the first to be devastated by Psycho-Chemical Aerosols-tasteless, odourless, colourless psychedelic drugs, which distort the minds of thousands of civilians into extreme terror or extreme joy. When the warped citizens of Europe proclaim Colin Charteris their hero, he finds himself leading an unfathomable crusade in a devastated world. Perhaps Aldiss's most experimental work, this first appeared in several parts as the 'Acid Head War' series in New Worlds. Set in a Europe some years after a flare-up in the Middle East led to Europe being attacked with bombs releasing huge quantities of long-lived hallucinogenic drugs. Into an England with a population barely maintaining a grip on reality comes a young Serb, who himself starts coming under the influence of the ambient aerosols & finds himself leading a messianic crusade. The narration & dialog reflects the shattering of language under the influence of the drugs, in mutating phrases & puns & allusions, in a deliberate echo of Finnegans Wake.-Wikipedia" | 
         | 2109 | The Vanished Ones | Donato Carrisi, Howard Curtis (translator) | 2015 | Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Italy, Italian Literature, Suspense, Detective, France | Mila Vasquez | "Set in the world of his record-breaking, prize-winning debut, The Whisperer, The Vanished Ones is the new literary thriller from Donato Carrisi - intelligent, exhilarating and incredibly compelling." | 
         | 2110 | Hasse Simonsdochter | Thea Beckman | 1989 | Historical Fiction, Childrens, Fiction, Historical, Young Adult, Adventure, Dutch Literature, Romance, Novels, 20th Century | Hasse Simonsdochter, Jan van Schaffelaar, Gerrit van Wou | "In de tijd van de Hoekse en Kabeljauwse twisten is Kampen een belangrijke handelsstad, maar Hasse, dochter van een mandenvlechter, vindt het er maar druk en benauwd. Ze trekt er liever op uit met haar zelfgemaakte pijl en boog om langs de IJssel te zwerven. Haar ouders willen heel graag dat ze gaat trouwen, maar Hasse neemt haar eigen beslissingen. Ze 'verbidt' Jan van Schaffelaar, dat wil zeggen, ze redt hem van het schavot door met hem te trouwen. Samen trekken ze naar de Veluwe, waar hij als aanvoerder van een troep huurlingen de belangen van de hertog van Gelre behartigt. Hasse geniet van het vrije ongebonden leven. Als jongen verkleed doet ze mee met de overvallen en als boogschutter weet ze het respect van de mannen af te dwingen. Als de compagnie in Barneveld in het nauw wordt gedreven vraagt Hasse zich angstig af hoe ze de belegering zullen overleven." | 
         | 2111 | Hipólito | Euripides, J.B. Mello e Souza (Translator) | 2006 | Plays, Classics, Drama, Fiction, Mythology, Theatre, Tragedy, Greece, Ancient, Poetry | Artemis (Goddess), Theseus (mythology), Hippolytus, Phaedra, Aphrodite | "Na leitura de 'Hipólito', o leitor moderno talvez se surpreenda com o que lhe parecerá ser uma inversão de valores: uma deusa castigar duramente um jovem que delibera e age dentro da mais estrita correção! No entanto, sob a perspectiva da religiosidade grega, a altivez do jovem é também sua fonte de hýbris, isto é, de descomedimento, pois ao reverenciar apenas Ártemis, a deusa da vida selvagem, e se recusar a cultuar Afrodite, a deusa do amor, Hipólito desconsidera o princípio básico da piedade grega, que é o de prestar honras a todos os deuses." | 
         | 2112 | Damiano's Lute | R.A. MacAvoy | Jun-85 | Fantasy, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Historical, Historical Fantasy, Angels, Alternate History, Supernatural, Italy | Damiano Delstrego, Saara, Gaspare | "This novel is a sequel to Damiano. Set against the turbulent backdrop of the Italian Renaissance this alternate history takes place in a world where real faith-based magic exists. Our hero is Damiano Dalstrego. He is a wizard's son, an alchemist and the heir to dark magics. Shattered by the demonic fury of his dark powers, Damiano Delstrego has forsaken his magical heritage to live as a mortal man. Accompanied only by the guidance of the Archanagel Raphael, the chidings of a brash young rogue, and the memory of a beautiful pagan witch, Damiano journeys across a plague-ridden French countryside in search of peace. But the Father of Lies reaches out once again to grasp him. And to avert the hellish destiny awaiting him, Damiano must challenge the greatest forces of darkness, armed only with the power of his love and the music of his lute. The final volume of this story is Raphael." | 
         | 2113 | Rule 34 | Charles Stross  | 2011 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Cyberpunk, Mystery, Crime, Near Future, Scotland, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook | Liz Kavanaugh, Anwar Hussein, Stuart Jackson, Dorothy | "DI Liz Kavanaugh: You realise policing internet porn is your life and your career went down the pan five years ago. But when a fetishist dies on your watch, the Rule 34 Squad moves from low priority to worryingly high profile. Anwar: As an ex-con, you'd like to think your identity fraud days are over. Especially as you've landed a legit job (through a shady mate). Although now that you're Consul for a shiny new Eastern European Republic, you've no idea what comes next. The Toymaker: Your meds are wearing off and people are stalking you through Edinburgh's undergrowth. But that's ok, because as a distraction, you're project manager of a sophisticated criminal operation. But who's killing off potential recruits? So how do bizarre domestic fatalities, dodgy downloads and a European spamming network fit together? The more DI Kavanaugh learns, the less she wants to find out." | 
         | 2114 | Taking Chances | Lauren Brooke | Feb-01 | Horses, Young Adult, Childrens, Animals, Fiction, Middle Grade, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Juvenile, Teen | Amy Fleming, Jack Bartlett, Lou Fleming, Ty Baldwin, Soraya Martin, Matt Trewin, Scott Trewin, Val Grant, Ashley Grant, Ben Stillman, Claire Whitely, Mrs. Whitely | "Heartland is a horse farm nestled in the hills of Virginia, but it's much more than that. Heartland is like no other place - it's a place where the scars of the past can be healed, a place where frightened and abused horses learn to trust again.Amy knows that Ty is important to Heartland - and to her. Ty is the only other person who truly understands the meaning of Heartland, who is as dedicated to rescuing and curing horses as she is. But their friendship is thrown off balance when Ben, the new stable hand, arrives. And by the time Amy realizes she's pushed Ty away, he may have decided to leave Heartland forever." | 
         | 2115 | Family Affairs | Jen Calonita  | May-08 | Young Adult, Romance, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Fiction, Teen, High School, Middle Grade, Young Adult Contemporary | Kaitlin Burke, Sky Mackenzie, Austin Meyers, Nadine Cobb, Alexis Holden, Meg Burke, Matthew Burke, Liz Mendes, Rodney (SOMHL), Laney Peters, Heidi Caldwell, Maria Meadow, Tom Pullman | "The filming for sure-to-be-blockbuster movie Pretty Young Assassins has wrapped, and teen movie star Kaitlin Burke returns to life on the set of prime-time drama Family Affair. After ten seasons of filming the hit favorite TV show, Kaitlin would have thought that she could see any curveballs coming, but with a plotting new actress on set, all bets are off. The new diva, Alexis, makes even Kaitlin's long-time nemesis Sky seem like a puppy in comparison. Can Kaitlin keep her sane boyfriend, her insane job, and her composure in the face of this new star power?" | 
         | 2116 | En Familia | Hector Malot | 1996 | Classics, Fiction, Childrens, France, Novels, Young Adult, Classic Literature, Adventure, Historical, Literature | Perrine | "A los 12 años, Perrine se encuentra huérfana, sola y pobre en París. Antes de morir, su madre le dice que debe buscar a su abuelo que vive en un pueblo distante. Pero este ignora la existencia de la nieta…" | 
         | 2117 | Un Asunto Tenebroso | Honoré de Balzac, Carlos Pujol (Prólogo), Pedro Darnell (Traductor) | 2008 | Classics, France, French Literature, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Literature, Novels, 19th Century, Unfinished | Joseph Fouché, Henri de Marsay, Laurence de Cinq-Cygne, Paul-Marie Simeuse, Marie-Paul Simeuse, Michon | "«De un Asunto tenebroso, que se publicó en forma de folletín entre enero y febrero de 1841, suele decirse que fue la primera novela policíaca del mundo. Rigurosamente coetánea es otra gran pieza fundacional del género, Los asesinatos de la calle Morgue , del americano Poe, aparecida este mismo año, pero se trata de un relato breve que no hace más que establecer las clásicas reglas de la investigación como desafío al ingenio. La obra de Balzac tiene una amplitud mucho mayor, y no sólo por el número de páginas; vemos como la ficción invade la Historia con mayúscula para servirse de ella, pero también para explicarla, y como el enigma llega a adquirir luego secretas resonancias casi inconfesables. »Balzac trabaja con situaciones que no admiten ningún grado de asepsia: sentimientos humanos por una parte; por otra, altos intereses políticos. Novela policíaca, desde luego, pero de ningún modo inocente; todo lo contrario, cargada de complejísimos supuestos de todo orden que hacen que éste sea un relato detectivesco heterodoxo, impuro, como dicen los teóricos, pero gracias a ello novela en el sentido propio de la palabra.» Del prólogo de Carlos Pujol." | 
         | 2118 | Dshamilja | Chingiz Aitmatov, Hartmut Herboth (Übersetzer) | 2004 | Fiction, Classics, Russia, Romance, Asia, Russian Literature, Historical Fiction, Novels, Literature, Short Stories | Dshamilja, Danijar, Seït | "Der 15-jährige Said erzählt die Geschichte seiner jungen, verheirateten Schwägerin Dshamilja. Während ihr ungeliebter Ehemann an der Front steht, lernt die selbstbewusste, lebensfrohe Dshamilja den scheuen, träumerischen Danijar kennen und lieben. Der junge Said erzählt mit den Augen eines Kindes, das zu verstehen beginnt, welch eine Macht die Liebe sein kann. Denn Dshamilja sagt sich von ihrem Heimatort und den alten Traditionen los und zieht in die Ferne." | 
         | 2119 | The Wailing | M.R. Graham  | Oct-12 | Fantasy, Paranormal, Horror, Historical Fiction, Historical | Rowan, Daniel Leland, Signe | "With Nazi bombs falling from the sky and fires consuming London, reluctant immortal Daniel Leland finds himself in an uncomfortable position. As a halfhearted employee of the British government, blackmailed into submission, he is forced to use his peculiar talent for murder in the service of the Crown. But as the assignments become impossibly challenging, the limits of that talent are tested. The Luftwaffe is not the most explosive thing to menace Great Britain, and even dead things can die again. There is more at stake than the questionable life of a lone agent, more at stake than Daniel Leland would care to admit." | 
         | 2120 | Zwiebelchen (Alex Taschenbücher, #33) | Gianni Rodari, Raul Verdini (Illustrator), Pan Rova (Translator) | 1978 | Childrens, Fiction, Italian Literature, Classics, Fantasy, Russia, Italy, Adventure, Fairy Tales, Dystopia | Cipollino | "Als Zwiebelchen seinen Vater besucht, der vom Statthalter Zitrone ins Gefängnis geworfen wurde, gibt ihm der Alte zum Abschied einen Rat: Pack deine Siebensachen, zieh in die Welt hinaus und studiere die Schurken! Noch weiß Zwiebelchen nicht, wobei ihm ein solches Studium helfen könnte. Doch eins schwört er: Den Vater und all die anderen unschuldig Eingekerkerten wird er eines Tages befreien.Die Geschichte von Zwiebelchen und seinen Freunden, die mutig gegen Ungerechtigkeit und Grausamkeit kämpfen, ist vielen Lesern bereits zu einem Lieblingsbuch geworden." | 
         | 2121 | Devlet Ana | Kemal Tahir | Mar-16 | Turkish Literature, Turkish, Roman, Literature, Classics, Novels, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical | Osman Gazi, Orhan Gazi, Kerimcan, Bacıbey, Mavro, Aslıhan, Pir Elvan, Kel Derviş, Kaplan Çavuş, Şeyh Edebali, Akçakoca | "'Devlet Ana', Osmanlı kurulmadan önceki Anadolu'nun görünümünü ve Anadolu insanının özlemlerini anlatırken, onların güçlü, güvenli, adaletli bir devlete duyduğu ihtiyacı da açığa çıkarmaktadır. Kemal Tahir'in en önemli romanı olarak gösterilen 'Devlet Ana', onun düşünce yapısını da en iyi yansıtan eserlerinden biri sayılmaktadır.""Kemal Tahir, tarihi ve toplumu hakkındaki orijinal ve sağlam görüşlerinden hareket ettiği için hem 'mahalli ağızları', hem Türkçe'nin küçümsenmiş ve unutulmuş nesir dilini hem de yeni imkanlarını kaynaştırarak ve aşarak kullanabilmiştir. Eserlerindeki eşsiz dil ve üslup güzelliğinin kaynağı bu davranıştadır. Daha önceki romanlarında da görülen bu özellik 'Devlet Ana'da en yüce noktasına erişmiştir. Türkçe'nin unutulmuş olan dehası bütün boyutları, zenginliği ve haslığıyla ilk olarak Kemal Tahir'in eserlerinde kendini göstermektedir.""- Selahattin Hilav-" | 
         | 2122 | Schlafes Bruder | Robert Schneider | 2004 | Fiction, Classics, German Literature, Novels, School, Historical Fiction, Historical, Roman, Drama, Music | Johannes Elias Alder | " Robert Schneider siedelt seinen Roman über das verkannte musikalische Genie Johannes Elias Alder in dem rauhen, vorarlbergischen Bergdorf Eschberg an, dessen Einwohner nur über alltägliche Dinge sprechen, sich ansonsten in Andeutungen ergehen und im Zweifelsfall lieber schweigen als reden. Elias, der von Geburt an anders ist als die Bauern, wird von diesen Menschen gemieden und von seiner eigenen Mutter abgelehnt. So wie die drei Feuer, die das Dorf nach und nach auslöschen, so löscht die Enttäuschung über drei wichtige Menschen (Mutter, Vater und die unerwiderte Liebe zu Elsbeth) schließlich das Leben des zweiundzwanzigjährigen Elias aus. Dieser Roman, der vordergründig sehr nüchtern, ja fast wie eine Chronik erzählt ist, bezieht seine Atmosphäre aus winzigen Details - der Hut des Vaters als einziger Trost für den kleinen Jungen, die sparsame, aber umso deutlicher entsetzte Reaktion des jugendlichen Elias, als er sieht wie sein Vater einen Menschen umbringt. Das Buch hat mich von Anfang bis zum Ende in seinen Bann gezogen. Ich habe es nicht - wie Elias Canetti schrieb - mit Freude gelesen, sondern mit einer großen Beklemmung und gleichzeitiger Begeisterung für den einzigartigen Stil Schneiders. Die Geschichte des Musikers Johannes Elias Alder wird mich sicher immer begleiten. -Cornelia Rediger " | 
         | 2123 | The Rainbow Fish | Marcus Pfister | 1992 | Picture Books, Childrens, Fiction, Animals, Classics, Fantasy, Kids, Storytime, Juvenile, School | Rainbow Fish | "The Rainbow Fish is an international bestseller and a modern classic. Eye-catching foilstamping, glittering on every page, offers instant child-appeal, but it is the universal message at the heart of this simple story about a beautiful fish, who learns to make friends by sharing his most prized possessions, that gives the book its lasting value." | 
         | 2124 | The Andalite Chronicles | K.A. Applegate, Katherine Applegate | Dec-97 | Science Fiction, Young Adult, Fiction, Fantasy, Childrens, Aliens, Middle Grade, Adventure, Animals, War | Elfangor | "Relates the story of Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul, the Andalite war-prince responsible for creating the human animorphs on Earth." | 
         | 2125 | Silent in the Sanctuary | Deanna Raybourn  | 2008 | Mystery, Historical Fiction, Historical, Romance, Historical Mystery, Fiction, Historical Romance, Victorian, British Literature, Mystery Thriller | Lady Julia Grey, Nicholas Brisbane, Portia, Lady Bettiscombe, Lord March, Morag, Magda, Eglamour ""Plum"" March, Lysander March, Violante, Alessandro Fornacci, Charlotte King, Lucy, Emma Phipps, Aunt Dorcas, Sir Cedric Eastley, Henry Ludlow, Lucian Snow | "Fresh from a six-month sojourn in Italy, Lady Julia returns home to Sussex to find her father's estate crowded with family and friends— but dark deeds are afoot at the deconsecrated abbey, and a murderer roams the ancient cloisters. Much to her surprise, the one man she had hoped to forget—the enigmatic and compelling Nicholas Brisbane—is among her father's houseguests… and he is not alone. Not to be outdone, Julia shows him that two can play at flirtation and promptly introduces him to her devoted, younger, titled Italian count.But the homecoming celebrations quickly take a ghastly turn when one of the guests is found brutally murdered in the chapel, and a member of Lady Julia's own family confesses to the crime. Certain of her cousin's innocence, Lady Julia resumes her unlikely and deliciously intriguing partnership with Nicholas Brisbane, setting out to unravel a tangle of deceit before the killer can strike again. When a sudden snowstorm blankets the abbey like a shroud, it falls to Lady Julia and Nicholas Brisbane to answer the shriek of murder most foul." | 
         | 2126 | Martin Misunderstood | Karin Slaughter , Walter Lewis (Narrator) | Jul-08 | Thriller, Fiction, Crime, Mystery, Audiobook, Short Stories, Humor, Suspense, Adult, Mystery Thriller | Martin Reed, Detective Anther Albada | "Crime fiction obsessive Martin Reed is the proverbial butt of everyone's jokes. Working as a glorified accountant at Southern Toilet Supply and still living with his cantankerous mother, he has become resigned to the world in which he lives." | 
         | 2127 | Breaking Free | Lauren Brooke | Oct-00 | Horses, Young Adult, Childrens, Fiction, Animals, Middle Grade, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Juvenile, Teen | Amy Fleming, Jack Bartlett, Lou Fleming, Ty Baldwin, Soraya Martin, Matt Trewin, Scott Trewin, Val Grant, Ashley Grant, Lisa Stillman, Ben Stillman, Eliza Chittick | "Heartland is a horse farm nestled in the hills of Virginia, but it's much more than that. Heartland is like no other place - it's a place where the scars of the past can be healed, a place where frightened and abused horses learn to trust again.Pegasus is all Amy has left of her past, but he's steadily growing weaker. Amy's trying to care for him and hold Heartland together. She's trying to do just what her mother would have done, but everything is beginning to unravel. It will take all Amy's courage to let go of her mother's legacy, but it is the only way she will break free and find her own." | 
         | 2128 | A Rose for Virtue | Norah Lofts | 1971 | Historical Fiction, Historical, France, Fiction, Romance | Hortense de Beauharnais | "Hortense Beauharnais finds herself rubbing shoulders with royalty as her mother remarries to become Napoleon Bonaparte's wife. As Napoleon struggles for power on the battlefields of Europe, so Hortense charts her way through the French court - a chessboard world where the motives are jealousy and greed and the prizes are thrones of conquered countries. Despite attempts to retain her individuality, Hortense finds herself married to Napoleon's brother Louis, but her heart is with Charles de Flahaut, a gallant young officer. Unwilling to cross her stepfather, Hortense must wait and see if time will take her to her lover." | 
         | 2129 | The Gemel Ring | Betty Neels | Jul-02 | Romance, Fiction, British Literature, Contemporary Romance, Harlequin Romance | Abigail Trent, Dominic van Wijkelen, Charity Dawson, Everard van Tijlen | "Sister Charity Dawson loved her job but there was one problem. Like the other humble members of St. Simon's nursing staff, she had to put up with the arrogant Dr. Everard van Tijlen. When Charity apparently discovered that the distinguished doctor's exorbitant fees funded a playboy lifestyle, she hit the roof. Everard might well have an engaging boyish smile, but he needed to be taken down a peg or two. And Charity knew just how to do it." | 
         | 2130 | The Glamour | Christopher Priest | 2005 | Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Contemporary, British Literature, Literature, Mystery, Thriller, Novels | Richard Grey, Susan Kewley | "Cameraman Richard Grey's memory has blanked out the few weeks before he was injured in a car bomb explosion. When he is visited by a girl who seems to have been his lover, his attempts to recall the forgotten period produce an odyssey through France and conflicting accounts of what happened. When Susan Kewley speaks to him of that time, he finds himself glimpsing a terrible twilight world - the world of the glamour." | 
         | 2131 | The World of Ptavvs | Larry Niven | Apr-00 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Space Opera, Science Fiction Fantasy, Hard Science Fiction, Aliens, Classics, Speculative Fiction, Novels, Space | Larry Greenberg | "Larry Greenberg's telepathic tendencies had been trained and developed to a critical level. The trouble was that if these psychic interchanges were strong enough, a man could end up not knowing who he really was. And when Larry's mind is taken over by a sinister alien force, he has to fight to retain his sanity - and divert a disaster that threatens all mankind...""Snappy, ingenious, and upbeat."" - GalaxyMade the 1st ballot for the 1967 Nebula" | 
         | 2132 | Promethea: Book One | Alan Moore , J.H. Williams III, Mick Gray | Published | Comics, Graphic Novels, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Mythology, Superheroes, Comix, Magic | Promethea | "The first graphic novel from America's Best Comics, like all titles from ABC, is written and created by Alan Moore, writer of Watchmen, the classic Swamp Thing, and V for Vendetta. Boasting some of Moore's most powerful writing in years, this volume introduces Promethea, a powerful figure who appeared in Victorian children's stories and turn-of-the-century comic strips and gains new life through Sophie Bangs, a college student in alternate-reality New York City. But as this exotic heroine leaps into battle, will Sophie's personality be able to reemerge when the battle is over?" | 
         | 2133 | The Book of Night with Moon | Diane Duane , Kathryn Parise (Designed by) | Mar-99 | Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult, Cats, Animals, Urban Fantasy, Magic, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Contemporary | Rhiow, Saash, Urruah, Arhu | "Rhiow seems a perfectly ordinary New York City cat. Or so her humans think - but she is much more than she appears. With her partners Saash and Urruah, she collaborates with human wizards to protect the earth from dark forces and maintain the network of magical gateways that connect to different realities. But amid this amazing secret animal world lies a danger that threatens not only the cats of the world, but humans as well." | 
         | 2134 | La décima sinfonía | Joseph Gelinek | 2008 | Thriller, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Mystery, Music, Crime | Daniel Paniagua | "Svet klasične muzike potresa prava revolucija kada poznati dirigent Ronald Tomas izvede na privatnom koncertu navodnu rekonstrukciju prvog stava mitske Desete simfonije Ludviga van Betovena. Jedan od gostiju na tom događaju, mladi muzikolog Danijel Panijagva, počinje da sumnja: Možda Betovenova Deseta simfonija zaista postoji i sada se nalazi u Tomasovim rukama? Možda je genije iz Bona pobedio „prokletstvo desete simfonije“, po kojem svi kompozitori umiru kada je jednom napišu?Nakon okrutnog ubistva, počinje opasna igra u koju su pored Danijela upleteni i jedna žena sudija, lukavi detektiv za ubistva i razne moćne organizacije čiji su članovi uticajni biznismeni i Napoleonovi potomci. Svi oni bore se da pronadu sveti gral klasične muzike. Niko od njih ne zna da je odgovor na njihova pitanja u kontroverznoj Betovenovoj prošlosti i njegovoj zabranjenoj ljubavi koja je sve do danas ostala neotkrivena..." | 
         | 2135 | The Endearment | LaVyrle Spencer | 1995 | Romance, Historical Romance, Historical, Westerns, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Western Romance, Adult, Chick Lit, 19th Century | Anna Reardon, Karl Lindstrom | "From the streets of 19th-century Boston to the harsh frontier-she wove a web of deception to ensnare her man!Lovely, fiery-tempered Anna Reardon was forced to lie to get out of the street urchin's life that shamed her ... to become Karl Lindstrom's mail-order bride in the beautiful, treacherous Minnesota wilderness.Karl forgave Anna for her deceptions-but there was still one shameful, burning secret that she had to hide from him, knowing its revelation would destroy the love that had become her very life!" | 
         | 2136 | Panzram: A Journal of Murder | Thomas E. Gaddis, James O. Long | Jun-02 | True Crime, Nonfiction, Biography, Psychology, Crime, History, Memoir, Biography Memoir, Autobiography, Dark | Carl Panzram | """In my lifetime I have murdered 21 human beings, I have committed thousands of burglaries, robberies, larcenies, arsons and last but not least I have committed sodomy on more than 1,000 male human beings. For all of these things I am not the least bit sorry. I have no conscience so that does not worry me. I don't believe in man, God nor Devil. I hate the whole damn human race including myself.""Carl Panzram, who called himself the ""world's worst murderer,"" wrote these words in a full autobiography and confession he prepared for the one friend in his life-a young prison guard named Henry Lesser. PANZRAM: A JOURNAL OF MURDER, combines these brutally forthright memoirs with the commentary of authors Gaddis and Long, into a compelling chronicle of the forces that engender hate. The authors provide a historical and sociological framework for Panzram's own words, using this uniquely detailed self-analysis by a mass murderer to depict what happens when an intelligent and unbreakable personality that has been interminably and unmercifully abused strikes back in vengeance.  PANZRAM arrives as a gripping warning from America's recent past to our newly repressive era of prison-industrial complex, death penalty abuse, and unprecedentedly high rates of incarceration from a man who walked the halls of Death Row with a blindingly clear vision. Introduction by Harold Schechter, author of Deranged and Deviant.(ISBN 1-878923-14-5)(ISBN 13: 9781878923141)NOTE: There are 2 different versions of this book with the same ISBN numbers. Different cover and amount of pages." | 
         | 2137 | What's Left? | Nick Cohen | 2007 | Politics, Nonfiction, Philosophy, History, Journalism, Society, War, Sociology, Essays, Jewish | George W. Bush, Paul Wolfowitz, Tony Blair, Noam Chomsky, Slobodan Milošević, Christopher Hitchens, Martin Amis, Saddam Hussein, Edward Said, George Galloway, Nick Cohen, Eric Hobsbawm, Harold Pinter, Robert Fisk, Azar Nafisi, Margaret Thatcher, Virginia Woolf | "From the witty and excoriating voice of journalist Nick Cohen, a powerful and irreverent dissection of the agonies, idiocies and compromises of mainstream liberal thought. He comes from the Left. When he was a child, his mother would search supermarket shelves for politically reputable citrus fruit, and despair. Aged 13, when he learned his kind and thoughtful English teacher voted Conservative, he nearly fell off his chair: 'To be good, you had to be on the Left.' Today he's no less confused. When he looks around him, in the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq, he sees a community of Left-leaning liberals standing on their heads. Why do apologies for a militant Islam standing for everything the liberal-Left is against come from a section of it? After the US/UK wars in Bosnia and Kosovo against Milosevic's ethnic cleansers, why were some on the Left denying the existence of Serb concentration camps? Why is Palestine a cause for the liberal-Left, but not, for instance, China, the Sudan, Zimbabwe or North Korea? Why can't those who say they support the Palestinian cause tell you what type of Palestine they'd like to see? After the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington DC, why were you as likely to read that a conspiracy of Jews controlled US or UK foreign policy in a liberal literary journal as in a neo-Nazi rag? It's easy to know what the Left is fighting against-the evils of Bush and corporations-but what and who are they fighting for? As he tours the follies of the Left, he asks us to reconsider what it means to be liberal today. With the angry satire of Swift, he reclaims the values of democracy and solidarity that united the movement against fascism, asking: What's Left?." | 
         | 2138 | Who Fears The Devil? | Manly Wade Wellman | Feb-80 | Fantasy, Horror, Short Stories, Fiction, Weird Fiction, Pulp, Science Fiction Fantasy, Collections, Science Fiction, Adventure | Silver John | "There's a traveling man the Carolina mountain folk call Silver John for the silver strings strung on his guitar. In his wanderings, John encounters a parade of benighted forest creatures, mountain spirits, and shapeless horrors from the void of history with only his enduring spirit, playful wit, and the magic of his guitar to preserve him. Manly Wade Wellman's Silver John is one of the most beloved figures in fantasy, a true American folk hero of the literary age. For the first time the ""Planet Stories"" edition of ""Who Fears the Devil?"" collects all of John's adventures published throughout Wellman's life, including two stories about John before he got his silver-stringed guitar that have never previously appeared in a Silver John collection. Lost, out of print, or buried in expensive hardcover editions, the seminal, unforgettable tales of ""Who Fears the Devil?"" stand ready for a new generation ready to continue the folk tradition of Silver John!" | 
         | 2139 | Roboter-Visionen | Isaac Asimov, Ralph McQuarrie (Illustrator), Marcel Bieger (Translator), Ingrid Herrmann (Translator), Fredy Köpsell (Translator) | 1994 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories, Robots, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Anthologies, Fantasy, Audiobook, Collections | R. Daneel Olivaw, Lije Bailey, Susan Calvin | "From Isaac Asimov, the Hugo Award-winning Grand Master of Science Fiction whose name is synonymous with the science of robotics, comes five decades of robot visions: thirty-four landmark stories and essays—including three rare tales—gathered together in one volume. Meet all of Asimov’s most famous creations including: Robbie, the very first robot that his imagination brought to life; Susan Calvin, the original robot psychologist; Stephen Byerley, the humanoid robot; and the famous human/robot detective team of Lije Bailey and R. Daneel Olivaw, who have appeared in such bestselling novels as The Robots of Dawn and Robots and Empire.Let the master himself guide you through the key moments in the fictional history of robot-human relations—from the most primitive computers and mobile machines to the first robot to become a man.(back cover)Contents: Robot Visions • cover and interior artwork by Ralph McQuarrie Introduction: The Robot Chronicles • essay by Isaac Asimov Robot Visions / short story by Isaac Asimov Too Bad! (1989) / short story by Isaac Asimov Robbie (1940) / short story by Isaac Asimov (variant of Strange Playfellow) Reason [Mike Donovan] (1941) / short story by Isaac Asimov Liar! [Susan Calvin] (1941) / short story by Isaac Asimov Runaround [Mike Donovan] (1942) / novelette by Isaac Asimov Evidence [Susan Calvin] (1946) / novelette by Isaac Asimov Little Lost Robot [Susan Calvin] (1947) / novelette by Isaac Asimov The Evitable Conflict [Susan Calvin] (1950) / novelette by Isaac Asimov Feminine Intuition [Susan Calvin] (1969) / novelette by Isaac Asimov The Bicentennial Man (1976) / novelette by Isaac Asimov Someday (1956) / short story by Isaac Asimov Think! (1977) / short story by Isaac Asimov Segregationist (1967) / short story by Isaac Asimov Mirror Image [Elijah Bailey/R. Daneel Olivaw] (1972) / short story by Isaac Asimov Lenny [Susan Calvin] (1958) / short story by Isaac Asimov Galley Slave [Susan Calvin] (1957) / novelette by Isaac Asimov Christmas Without Rodney (1988) / short story by Isaac Asimov Essays by Isaac Asimov: Robots I Have Known (1954); The New Teachers (1976); Whatever You Wish (1977); The Friends We Make (1977); Our Intelligent Tools (1977); The Laws of Robotics (1979); Future Fantastic (1989); The Machine and the Robot (1978); The New Profession (1979); The Robot As Enemy? (1979); Intelligences Together (1979); My Robots (1987); The Laws of Humanics (1987); Cybernetic Organism (1987); The Sense of Humor (1988); Robots in Combination (1988).The volume features many black-and-white illustrations by Ralph McQuarrie." | 
         | 2140 | La espada de la oscuridad | Kinley MacGregor | 2007 | Romance, Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Paranormal, Historical Romance, Historical, Time Travel, Magic, Adult, Fantasy Romance | Kerrigan, Seren of York, Merlin, Liam the God, Morgen le Fey, Blaise, Elaine, Alethea | "El nuevo rey de Camelot ya no luce una brillante armadura: Arturo y sus caballeros han caído y gobierna un nuevo monarca. En el bosque más oscuro, un joven terrorífico se ha convertido en el hombre más poderoso del mundo. Despiadado y desenfrenado, Karrigan ha dejado de ser humano hace tiempo. Entretanto, en el corazón de Londres, una joven y energética campesina llamada Seren sueña con ser libre, pero aún no imagina que huyendo de su destino acabará por encontrarlo." | 
         | 2141 | Five Run Away Together | Enid Blyton | 2001 | Childrens, Adventure, Fiction, Mystery, Classics, Young Adult, Middle Grade, British Literature, Novels, Juvenile | George Kirrin (Famous Five), Dick Kirrin, Timmy, Tinker, Anne (Famous Five), Julian (Famous Five) | "Julian, Dick and Anne arrive in Kirrin Cottage to stay with George (real name Georgina) for the holidays. They plan to spend time exploring Kirrin Island but their happiness is spoilt when Aunt Fanny falls ill and has to leave with Uncle Quentin to be treated in a far-off hospital. They are cared for by Aunt Fanny's temporary cook, Mrs Stick, who is accompanied by her husband and their ghastly son Edgar. The Sticks and the four children come to hate each other. Mrs Stick repeatedly tries to poison George's dog Timmy, prompting George to hatch a secret plan to run away to Kirrin Island. When Julian catches her leaving, she decides to allow the other children to go with her.The children find evidence of other people visiting the island and suspect smugglers. The discovery of a young girl's toys and clothes point to something sinister going on." | 
         | 2142 | Die Revolution entlässt ihre Kinder | Wolfgang Leonhard | 2005 | Biography, German Literature, Nonfiction, Russia, Autobiography, History | Wolfgang Leonhard, Wilhelm Pieck, Walter Ulbricht, Susanne Leonhard, Paul Wandel, Rudolf Herrnstadt, Alfred Kurella, Ernő Gerő, Fritz Erpenbeck, Anton Ackermann, Otto Grotewohl | " Wolfgang Leonhards 1954 erstmals erschienenes Buch Die Revolution entläßt ihre Kinder, ist längst zu einem Klassiker der Kommunismusforschung avanciert. Zu Recht, denn auch nach 45 Jahren hat es nichts von seiner Aktualität und Brillanz verloren. Wer die inneren Funktionsmechanismen des Stalinismus verstehen will, kommt an Leonhards Buch nicht vorbei. Doch was macht das Besondere seiner Arbeit aus? Der Autor genießt einen entscheidenden Vorteil bei der Analyse des Stalinismus: Die Erfahrungen eines zehnjährigen Lebens in der Sowjetunion und der vierjährigen Tätigkeit als Funktionär im zentralen Apparat der SED-Führung. 1935 nach Moskau emigriert, erlebte Leonhard die große stalinistische Säuberung der Jahre 1936 bis 1938 und wurde ab 1942 auf der Schule der Kommunistischen Internationale zum Funktionär ausgebildet. Im Mai 1945 kehrte er zusammen mit Walter Ulbricht nach Deutschland zurück. Bis zu seiner überraschenden Flucht nach Jugoslawien im März 1949 war er im Zentralkomitee der KPD/SED mit der ideologischen Schulung der Parteifunktionäre betraut. In dieser Funktion lernte Leonhard viele der damaligen Repräsentanten der sowjetischen Besatzungszone und der späteren DDR persönlich kennen. Es ist diese intime Kenntnis der inneren Mechanismen des Systems: Die Möglichkeit, sich in die Menschen der kommunistischen Welt hineinzudenken und die Fähigkeit, die für viele so rätselhafte ideologische Wortklauberei entziffern zu können, die sein Werk auszeichnen. Vieles, was dem Außenstehenden oft so unwahrscheinlich anmutet, erscheint dem früheren Funktionär ""von drüben"" wie ein offenes Buch. Diese Kenntnisse befähigen Leonhard, die Entwicklungen in der kommunistischen Welt objektiv zu analysieren. ""Gleichermaßen entfernt von primitivem Antikommunismus und den Haßgefühlen, aber auch von Schönfärberei und Illusionen"", wie er 1990 anläßlich der Neuauflage von Die Revolution entläßt ihre Kinder schrieb. Es ist dieser unverfälschte Blick eines Insiders, der dem Buch jenes Maß an Authentizität und Glaubwürdigkeit verleiht, das es bis heute auszeichnet. -Stephan Fingerle" | 
         | 2143 | The Moonspinners | Mary Stewart | 1996 | Mystery, Fiction, Romance, Suspense, Romantic Suspense, Gothic, Greece, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Historical Fiction | Nicola Ferris | "Young, beautiful, and adventurous Nicola Ferris loves her life as a secretary at the British Embassy on Greece. On leave from her job as a secretary in Athens, has been looking forward to a quiet week's holiday in the lush island of Crete, enjoying the wild flowers and the company of her cousin Frances. Then on her day off, her impulse led her on a little-used path into the foreboding White Mountains. She links up with two hiking companions who have inadvertently stumbled upon a scene of blood vengeance, that involving a young Englishman and a group of people tied together by blood and the bonds of greed.For the first time in her life Nicola meets a man and a situation she cannot deal with... A man in hiding - for reasons he could not explain. Warned to stay away, Nicola was unable to obey. And before she realized what she had uncovered, she found herself thrust into the midst of an alarming plot in which she would become the prey... And suddenly the life Nicola adores is in danger of coming to an abrupt, brutal, and terrifying end...." | 
         | 2144 | Don Quijote de la Mancha II: Segunda Parte del Ingenioso Caballero Don Quijote de la Mancha | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, G. Roux (Illustrator), John Jay Allen (Editor) | 2016 | Classics, Fiction, Spanish Literature, Literature, Novels, Spain, Humor, Adventure, College, Fantasy | Sancho Panza, Don Quijote de la Mancha, Dulcinea | "Hace más de un cuarto de siglo que Ediciones Cátedra publicó por primera vez una edición del ""Quijote"" en la colección Letras Hispánicas, a cargo del profesor John Jay Allen. En 1986, el profesor Allen modificó en parte la introducción a la luz de algunos estudios que habían ido apareciendo después de la primera edición. Posteriormente el texto también fue revisado teniendo en cuenta las nuevas lecturas y enmiendas que la crítica erudita y los investigadores han ido incorporando durante los últimos años. Coincidiendo con el cuarto centenario de la publicación del Quijote, Ediciones Cátedra, y una vez más el cuidado del profesor Allen, ofrece una edición renovada y puesta al día de la obra maestra de Cervantes.Here are the adventures of that bumbling, infinitely compassionate knight, Don Quijote, and his shrewdly simple squire, Sancho Panza. Part parody and part cautionary tale, Don Quijote is one of the world's great literary works." | 
         | 2145 | Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog | Dylan Thomas | 1968 | Short Stories, Fiction, Poetry, Literature, British Literature, Classics, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Biography Memoir, Irish Literature | Dylan Thomas | "The 'Young Dog' of the title is of course Thomas himself, & this volume of autobiographical stories by the great modern poet, who shows his waggish humor at its best, his exuberance & verbal magic in spectacular display. It also shows him a spinner of tales & a creator of memorable characters.The peachesA visit to Grandpa'sPatricia, Edith & ArnoldThe fightExtraordinary little coughJust like little dogsWhere Tawe flowsWho do you wish was with usOld GarboOne warm Saturday" | 
         | 2146 | Conspiracy Game | Christine Feehan  | Nov-06 | Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Romance, Fantasy, Romantic Suspense, Military Fiction, Contemporary, Suspense, Urban Fantasy, Adult | Ken Norton, Briony Jenkins, Jack Norton | "Jack Norton is a GhostWalker, a genetically enhanced sniper with a merciless sense of justice, a phantom welcomed by the anonymity of the night. But a mission to rescue his brother in the jungle has left him vulnerable to rebel forces. His only salvation is his power of telepathy. Then he meets Briony, an unusual beauty on a mission of her own. But they share more than the sweltering heat ... Briony shares the GhostWalker powers. Yet she's different. She doesn't know what she is, or what she's capable of. But her enemies do. And Jack and Briony's flight will take them into frightening conspiracy of mind and body - across the globe and into the heart of darkness, where the shocking truth is something neither of them could have foreseen - or can escape..." | 
         | 2147 | The Rest of the Robots | Isaac Asimov | 1968 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories, Classics, Robots, Anthologies, Fantasy, Collections, Science Fiction Fantasy, Short Story Collection | Susan Calvin, Mike Donovan | "The Rest of the Robots is the third timeless, amazing and amusing volume of Isaac Asimov's robot stories, offering golden insights into robot thought processes. Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics have since been programmed into real computers the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and used as the outline for a legal robotic charter in Korea. ROBOT TONY is the first robot designed to perform domestic duties by the US Robots and Mechanical Men Corporation. Is it Tony's fault that the lady of the house where he's field tested falls in love with him?ROBOT AL was intended for shipment to a mining outfit on the moon. Instead, he's loose in the mountains of Virginia...building from scraps of junk his very own, very dangerous disintegrator.ROBOT LENNY answers workaday questions in babytalk. So why is Dr Susan Calvin, the world's top robopsychologist, fascinated by this messed up specimen of an industrial robot?" | 
         | 2148 | Core of Evil | Nigel McCrery | 2009 | Mystery, Fiction, Crime, British Literature, Murder Mystery, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Novels | Mark Lapslie | "A visceral thriller from the creator of the hit BBC drama Silent Witness, introducing synaesthetic detective DCI Mark Lapslie. I've looked into the eyes of women who have banged nine-inch nails into the skulls of their victims with hammers ... we evaluate them, trying to determine whether they have actually changed, or whether there's still a core of evil within them...Before his diagnosis, DCI Mark Lapslie thought everyone was like him. Now he knows he suffers from synaethesthesia - a rare neurological condition that has cross-wired his senses. The sickening clamour of sounds he can taste has smothered his marriage and stifled his career. At the scene of a fatal traffic accident, Lapslie's interest isn't in the recently deceased driver, rather the desiccated corpse found lying next to him. Something about the body stirs a fleeting recollection at the back of Lapslie's mind... he can't quite put his finger on it, but he can almost taste it... Memories haunt Violet Chambers. Taking tea with her friend Daisy, she knows it's time to move on. As Daisy falls to the floor, eyes streaming, face burning, Violet calmly waits. Black hellebore is remarkably potent. It won't be long now. Discover the other books in the DCI Mark Lapslie series: Tooth and Claw, Scream, Thirteenth Coffin and Flesh and Blood." | 
         | 2149 | The Mystery of the Invisible Thief | Enid Blyton | May-91 | Mystery, Childrens, Adventure, Fiction, Crime, Novels, Young Adult, Female Authors, Classics, Teen | ""Philip ''Pip'' Hilton"", ""Margaret ''Daisy'' Dakin"", Buster the Dog, ""Laurence ''Larry'' Daykin"", ""Frederick Algernon ''Fatty'' Trotteville"", ""Elizabeth ''Bets'' Hilton"" | "Larry, Daisy, Fatty, Pip, Bets and Buster are immediately on the trail when two robberies take place in the village, and though the thief has left enormous footprints, it seems as if he is able to enter houses without being seen." | 
         | 2150 | The Mysterious Mannequin | Carolyn Keene | 1970 | Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Adventure | Nancy Drew | "When Carson Drew’s Turkish client vanishes, Nancy is determined to decipher the clues woven into the decorative border of an Oriental rug. The coded message starts her on a quest for a missing mannequin. What happened to the attractive figure that was displayed in the large window of his rug shop? Who is trying to keep Nancy from finding it—and why? Tracking down the intricate trail of clues to solve this mystery, Nancy and her friends travel to Turkey. This book is the original text. A revised text does not exist." | 
         | 2151 | The Taming of a Wild Child | Kimberly Lang  | Mar-13 | Romance, Contemporary Romance, Contemporary, Harlequin, Category Romance, New Adult, Chick Lit | Lorelei LaBlanc, Donovan St. James | "Waking up in a stranger's bed is not how socialite Lorelei LaBlanc planned on spending the morning after the night before.From now on…:A) No more secret hookups with Donovan St. James—he's the last man on earth she'd want to share a room with, never mind a king-size bed.B) Maintain a professional persona at all times. After all, he's a hard-hitting journalist who's always on the lookout for the latest scoop …and she's perfect tabloid fodder.C) Keep friends close but enemies closer. Donovan may look like the ultimate poster boy but his intentions are anything but PG rated…." | 
         | 2152 | Meneer Beerta | J.J. Voskuil | Apr-97 | Fiction, Literature, Dutch Literature, Roman, 20th Century, Classics, Humor, Novels | Maarten Koning, Nicolien Koning | "Meneer Beerta is het eerste deel van Het Bureau, een roman in zeven delen, die de menselijke verhoudingen op en rondom een wetenschappelijk instituut tussen de jaren 1957 en 1987 tot onderwerp heeft. Hoofdpersoon is Maarten Koning, die ook in Bij nader inzien - het debuut van J.J. Voskuil uit 1963 - centraal stond.Maarten Koning ervaart de maatschappij waarin hij een plaats moet vinden als bedreigend en past zich moeilijk aan. Dat scherpt zijn blik voor zijn eigen tekortkomingen en die van zijn collega’s. In zijn ogen is de wereld waarin zij leven een schijnwereld, waarin mensen hun behoefte aan aandacht, erkenning of macht verbergen achter, schijnbaar zinvolle, maar in werkelijkheid zinloze werkzaamheden. Deze verborgen behoeften van mensen die elkaar niet hebben uitgezocht maar wel dag in dag uit met elkaar moeten verkeren, zijn aanleiding tot talloze wrijvingen en spanningen, een enkele maal met een tragische afloop, maar meestal komisch.Meneer Beerta beschrijft de jaren tussen 1957 en 1965 en eindigt met de pensionering van Beerta als directeur. Maarten heeft hem in zijn studietijd leren kennen als een beminnelijke scepticus en dat trekt hem aan. Van het geïdealiseerde beeld dat hij van hem heeft zal in de loop van het boek weinig overblijven, al verliest hij zijn sympathie niet. Tegelijkertijd is de lezer getuige van zijn vergeefse pogingen bondgenoten te zoeken in zijn afkeer van de in zijn ogen loze pretenties van de mensen waartussen hij terecht is gekomen." | 
         | 2153 | La Duchesse De Langeais | Honoré de Balzac | 1998 | France, Classics, Fiction, French Literature, Literature, 19th Century, Romance, Roman, Novels | Henri de Marsay, Armand de Montriveau, Antoinette de Langeais, Marquis de Roquenrolles | "A l'égal de la princesse de Clèves et de la Sanseverina, la duchesse de Langeais est l'une des grandes divinités féminines de notre littérature. Elle réunit en sa personne le triple prestige de la beauté, de la naissance et du malheur. Issue d'un sang illustre, Antoinette de Navarreins voit le jour en 1794, sous la Terreur, une bien sombre étoile qui sera pour elle la marque du destin. Quelque vingt ans plus tard, séparée de son mari abhorré que lui avait imposé un père indifférent, c'est l'une des gloires mondaines du Faubourg Saint-Germain. Mais que dissimule la coquetterie glacée de cette aristocratique Célimène ? Et par quel étrange sortilège l'incandescente passion d'Armand de Montriveau va-t-elle à son tour la consumer ? Comme tout vrai chef-d'œuvre, ce "" roman noir "" - primitivement intitulé "" Ne touchez pas à la hache "" - est pour partie une autobiographie sublimée, c'est-à-dire le contraire d'un roman à clefs. "" Moi seul sais ce qu'il y a d'horrible dans La Duchesse de Langeais "", confiait Balzac à l'un de ses proches. C'est pourquoi l'œuvre conserve, depuis plus d'un siècle et demi, son mystère et sa force de séduction." | 
         | 2154 | Special Friendships | Roger Peyrefitte, Edward Hyams (Translator) | 1968 | France, LGBT, Fiction, Gay, French Literature, Queer, Classics, Novels, Roman | Lucien Rouvière, Georges de Sarre, Alexandre Motier | "Special Friendships is a 1943 novel by French writer Roger Peyrefitte, probably his best known work today, which won the coveted prix Renaudot. Largely autobiographical, it deals with an intimate relationship between two boys at a Roman Catholic boarding school and how it is destroyed by a priest's will to protect them from homosexuality." | 
         | 2155 | The Ugly Duckling | Iris Johansen  | Dec-96 | Mystery, Thriller, Fiction, Suspense, Romance, Romantic Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Contemporary, Adult | Nell Calder, Nicholas Tanek, Paul Maritz, Philippe Gardeaux, Jamie Reardon, Tania Vlados | "If fate suddenly made you more beautiful than you ever dreamed possible, would it be the beginning of a fairy tale, or your worst nightmare?The brutal attack should have killed anybody, but Nell Calder did more than survive. She emerged a woman transformed, with an exquisite beauty found only in fairy tales. Nell Calder deserved a happy ending. Instead, her descent into terror has just begun.Her attacker is still on the hunt, determined to finish what he's started. And Nell, protected by a new face, is just as determined to fight back and take her revenge. But to catch her prey, she will have to expose herself—even if it makes her a killer's prime target." | 
         | 2156 | The Lost Clue | Mrs. O.F. Walton | Published | Fiction, Mystery, Christian Fiction, Classics, Romance, Christian, Childrens, Historical Fiction | Kenneth Fortescue, Marjorie Douglas | "In this intriguing mystery, Captain Fortesque finds himself torn between two loyalties. Having been educated in the finest schools of England, he enjoyed acceptance in high society, but kept his true upbringing a secret. Then the day came that changed the course of his life. It all started with the mysterious note that could only be read after his father’s death. Will he be able to endure the dramatic challenges he will now face?In the meantime, everything in Daisy Bank seemed crooked and out of shape. Across stretches of dark stagnant water, Marjorie wandered over the wilderness of ashes, wondering how anything could grow in such poor and barren soil. But she learns that even in the midst of that bleak, coal-mining region, she can be ‘a tree of the Lord’s planting,’ bringing sunshine and growth to the dark, dreary world in which she finds herself." | 
         | 2157 | Fausto / Werther | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 1998 | Classics, German Literature, Theatre, Historical Fiction, Fiction | Faust, Mephistopheles, Werther, Gretchen | "Goethe es el alemán de fama perpetua, grande entre los grandes de todos los tiempos. Universal por su genio, no se le resistió ningún género literario: fue poeta, novelista, pensador, autor dramático y hombre de ciencia de fecundas instituciones. El libro imperecedero de Goethe es Fausto, obra inconmensurable, a la vez drama, misterio, poema simbólico y filosófico. Más de seis décadas de la vida de Goethe laboraron en la composición de Fausto, tragedia que ha sido denominada ""la segunda Biblia de los alemanes"". Fausto es la obra capital de Goethe. La idea v la realización palpitaron en el pecho del poeta desde su inquieta infancia hasta los días apacibles y melancólicos de su vejez. Puede decirse que Fausto es Goethe. El genial alemán estuvo siempre obsesionado por la búsqueda de la Verdad y éste es asimismo el gran drama de Fausto. Werther, esa célebre novela romántica de Goethe, tuvo su origen, como tantas poesías del autor, en un asunto amoroso." | 
         | 2158 | Yssa il buono | John le Carré | 2009 | Fiction, Thriller, Espionage, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Spy Thriller, Suspense, Crime, Terrorism, Germany | Issa, Annabel, Tommy Brue | "Chi è lo sconosciuto gracile e male in arnese, avvolto in un cappottone nero, in cui Melik, immigrato turco di seconda generazione nato ad Amburgo, continua a imbattersi? Dopo l'11 settembre la vita del giovane, devoto musulmano e promessa della boxe, soffre di equilibri precari, e lui farebbe di tutto pur di non cacciarsi nei guai. Ma sua madre, che considera un dovere prestare aiuto a un compagno di fede, decide di dare ospitalità allo straniero. Lo strano ragazzo, che dice di chiamarsi Yssa Karpov, rivela di essere un profugo ceceno fuggito da un carcere russo e di essere entrato in Germania clandestinamente con l'intenzione di studiare medicina, grazie anche all'aiuto che gli verrà fornito da Tommy Brue. Peccato che Brue non abbia idea di chi lui sia. Il ceceno, però, è in possesso di una misteriosa parola d'ordine capace di ridestare improvvisamente il passato: ""lipizzano"". Quando Brue sente questo termine per bocca di Annabel Richter, avvocato specializzato nell'assistenza agli immigrati a cui Yssa si è rivolto, sa che non si riferisce alla nobile razza di cavalli di origine slovena. Lipizzano è la parola in codice con cui suo padre indicava ingenti e loschi capitali travasati dall'Unione Sovietica nelle casse della sua banca. John le Carré torna con una storia che si confronta con gli aspetti più ambigui della contemporaneità, ponendo l'accento sulle contraddizioni delle democrazie occidentali e sull'arroganza del potere nei confronti dei più deboli." | 
         | 2159 | Piç | Hakan Günday | Oct-07 | Turkish Literature, Turkish, Novels, Fiction | Afgan, Barbaros, Cenk, Hakan | "Piçlerin çocukları olmaz.Piçler, aşık oldukları kadınların kendilerini kurtaracaklarını düşünür. Oysa hiçbir kadın dünyaya bir piçi kurtarmak için gelmemiştir.Piçlere sır verilebilir. Ölümleriyle son bulan sırdaşlıkları vardır.Piçlerin cinsel hayatı düzensizdir.Piçlerin bedenleri ve akılları, diğer insanlarınkilerin aksine nasırlaşmaz. Onların nasırlaşan tek yerleri ruhlarıdır.Piçler sadece kendi aşklarına saygı duyarlar. En yakın dostlarının kadınlarına dil ve el uzatabilirler. Bu durumda piç tabii ki suçlu, ancak piçlik meşrudur. Piçler düzensiz hayatlarında düzenli olarak içki içerler. Belli sayıdaki kadehten sonra sarhoş olup sızarlar. Sızdıkları yerin adı huzurdur.Piçlerin babalarıyla olan ilişkileri mezar taşı kadar soğuk, yeni dökülmüş kan kadar sıcaktır.Piçler insan öldüremedikleri, ağır suçlar işleyemedikleri, korkak ve hain oldukları için yaşadıkları yerleri zorunlu kalmadıkça terk edemezler.Piçin davranış ve tercihlerini sadece bir başka piç kabul edilebilir olarak değerlendirir ve ""Neden?"" diye sormaz. ""Neden"" sorusu piçliği yok eder." | 
         | 2160 | Broken Harbor | Tana French  | 2012 | Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Ireland, Thriller, Audiobook, Suspense, Adult, Contemporary | Michael Kennedy, Detective Quigley, ""Superintendent O''Kelly"", Richie Curran, Dina Kennedy | "Mick “Scorcherˮ Kennedy is the star of the Dublin Murder Squad. He plays by the books and plays hard, and thatʼs how the biggest case of the year ends up in his hands. On one of the half-abandoned “luxuryˮ developments that litter Ireland, Patrick Spain and his two young children have been murdered. His wife, Jenny, is in intensive care. At first, Scorcher thinks itʼs going to be an easy solve, but too many small things canʼt be explained: the half-dozen baby monitors pointed at holes smashed in the Spainsʼ walls, the files erased from the familyʼs computer, the story Jenny told her sister about a shadowy intruder slipping past the houseʼs locks. And this neighborhood—once called Broken Harbor—holds memories for Scorcher and his troubled sister, Dina: childhood memories that Scorcher thought he had tightly under control." | 
         | 2161 | American Power and the New Mandarins: Historical and Political Essays | Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn (Introduction) | 2002 | Politics, History, Nonfiction, Essays, Political Science, Philosophy, The United States Of America, War, American, United States | Dwight D. Eisenhower, ""Conor Cruise O''Brien"", Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Lyndon B. Johnson, Samuel P. Huntington, Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King, Karl Marx | "American Power and the New Mandarins is Noam Chomsky’s first political book, widely considered to be among the most cogent and powerful statements against the American war in Vietnam. Long out of print, this collection of early, seminal essays helped to establish Chomsky as a leading critic of United States foreign policy. These pages mount a scathing critique of the contradictions of the war, and an indictment of the mainstream, liberal intellectuals—the “new mandarins”—who furnished what Chomsky argued was the necessary ideological cover for the horrors visited on the Vietnamese people.As America’s foreign entanglements deepen by the month, Chomsky’s lucid analysis is a sobering reminder of the perils of imperial diplomacy. With a new foreword by Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States, American Power and the New Mandarins is a renewed call for independent analysis of America’s role in the world." | 
         | 2162 | Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories | Agatha Christie | 1997 | Mystery, Short Stories, Fiction, Classics, Crime, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Detective, Anthologies, Murder Mystery | Miss Marple | "Elderly Miss Jane Marple from St Mary's Mead village applies skills of observation and deduction to mysteries, usually to murder from books Tuesday Club, Regatta, Three Blind Mice.Tuesday Club1 Tuesday Night Club2 Idol House of Astarte3 Ingots of Gold4 Bloodstained Pavement5 Motive v Opportunity6 Thumbmark of St Peter7 Blue Geranium8 Companion9 Four Suspects10 Christmas Tragedy11 Herb of Death12 Affair at the Bungalow13 Death by DrowningRegatta14 Miss Marple Tells a StoryThree Blind Mice15 Strange Jest16 Tape Measure17 Perfect Maid18 CaretakerDouble Sin19 Greenshaw's Folly20 Sanctuary" | 
         | 2163 | Doctor Who: Dust Breeding | Mike Tucker | Jun-01 | Doctor Who, Science Fiction, Audiobook, Fiction, Plays, Media Tie In, British Literature, Time Travel | The Seventh Doctor, Ace, The Master (Doctor Who), Bev Tarrant, The Doctor, The Third Master | "On nineteenth Century Earth artist Edvard Munch hears an infinite scream pass through nature. Centuries later his painting of that Scream hangs in a gallery on the barren dust world Duchamp 331.Why is there a colony of artists on a planet that is little more than a glorified garage? What is the event that the passengers of the huge, opulent pleasure cruiser 'Gallery' are hoping to see? And what is hidden in the crates that litter the cargo hold?The Doctor's diary indicates that the painting is about to be destroyed in 'mysterious circumstances', and when he and Ace arrive on Duchamp 331, those circumstances are well underway." | 
         | 2164 | Ice Station | Matthew Reilly | 2000 | Thriller, Fiction, Action, Adventure, Military Fiction, Suspense, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Science Fiction, Audiobook | Shane Schofield, Elizabeth Gant, Gena Newman, Sarah Hensleigh, Kirsty Hensleigh, James Renshaw, Trevor Barnaby, Andrew Trent, Abby Sinclair | "At a remote US ice station in Antarctica, a team of scientists has made an amazing discovery. They found something unbelievable buried deep below the surface - trapped inside a layer of ice 400 million years old.Something made of metal...something which shouldn't be there...it's the discovery of a lifetime, a discovery of immeasurable value. And a discovery men will kill for.Led by the enigmatic Lieutenant Shane Schofield, a crack team of US Marines is rushed to the ice station to secure this bizarre discovery for their nation. Meanwhile other countries have developed the same ideas, and are ready to pursue it swiftly and ruthlessly. Fortunately, Schofield's men are a tough unit, all set to follow their leader into hell.They soon discover they just did..." | 
         | 2165 | Die Kinder Von Eden | Ken Follett  | Nov-01 | Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Crime, Historical Fiction, Audiobook, Action | Judy Madox | "Ein kleines, verschwiegenes Tal in Kalifornien. Hier lebt seit den sechziger Jahren eine Hippie-Kommune. Nun aber soll ihr Dorf einem Stausee weichen. Doch die ""Kinder von Eden"" wollen sich nicht aus ihrem Paradies vertreiben lassen und greifen in ihrer Not zu einem wahnwitzigen Plan: Sie drohen der Regierung, ein Erdbeben stattfinden zu lassen, das entsetzliche Folgen haben wird. Niemand nimmt ihre Ankündigung ernst. Nur die junge FBI-Agentin Judy Maddox , die bereits auf der Abschußliste ihrer Vorgesetzten steht, hat ihre Zweifel und versucht, die Katastrophe zu verhindern. Aber dann überschlagen sich die Ereignisse ... (Amazon.de)" | 
         | 2166 | Sign of the Unicorn | Roger Zelazny | Nov-86 | Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Audiobook, Magic, Adventure, Epic | Random of Amber, Brand of Amber, Corwin of Amber, Benedict of Amber, Julian of Amber, Gérard of Amber, Deirdre of Amber, Fiona of Amber, Flora of Amber | "He who rules Amber rules the one true world. He who thwarts Amber invites the wrath of Amber betrayed. An unseen enemy of immense strength has seized a Prince of the Blood, and now threatens the perfect kingdom by striking at the very core of its power - the secret knowledge of Shadow.When Corwin summons forces to defend the throne, he finds himself challenged by royal conspirators, hideous demons, supernatural patterns and the ominous unknown that suddenly transcends all he ever suspected about the true nature of Amber.One of the most revered names in sf and fantasy, the incomparable Roger Zelazny was honored with numerous prizes—including six Hugo and three Nebula Awards—over the course of his legendary career. Among his more than fifty books, arguably Zelazny’s most popular literary creations were his extraordinary Amber novels." | 
         | 2167 | The Downfall of a Good Girl | Kimberly Lang  | Feb-13 | Romance, Contemporary Romance, Harlequin, Contemporary, Chick Lit, Adult, Category Romance, Harlequin Romance | Vivienne LaBlanc, Connor Mansfield | "Southern debutante Vivienne LaBlanc can't believe bad-boy rock star Connor Mansfield is back in town for the New Orleans annual Saints and Sinners pageant. He has a reputation as wicked as his devilish smile, and Vivi has no intention of becoming one of his latest groupies! He once crushed her high school heart, so playing the saint to Connor's sinner should be easy. But how can Vivi get those less-than-angelic thoughts out of her head-especially when Connor's so good at tempting her to be bad?" | 
         | 2168 | The Family Fang | Kevin Wilson  | Aug-11 | Fiction, Humor, Contemporary, Art, Adult Fiction, Novels, Family, Literary Fiction, Adult, Book Club | Caleb Fang, Camille Fang, Annie Fang, Buster Fang | "Mr. and Mrs. Fang called it art.Their children called it mischief.Performance artists Caleb and Camille Fang dedicated themselves to making great art. But when an artist’s work lies in subverting normality, it can be difficult to raise well-adjusted children. Just ask Buster and Annie Fang. For as long as they can remember, they starred (unwillingly) in their parents’ madcap pieces. But now that they are grown up, the chaos of their childhood has made it difficult to cope with life outside the fishbowl of their parents’ strange world.When the lives they’ve built come crashing down, brother and sister have nowhere to go but home, where they discover that Caleb and Camille are planning one last performance -– their magnum opus -– whether the kids agree to participate or not. Soon, ambition breeds conflict, bringing the Fangs to face the difficult decision about what’s ultimately more important: their family or their art." | 
         | 2169 | Darkness, Take My Hand | Dennis Lehane  | 1997 | Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Noir, Suspense, Audiobook, Adult | Angie Gennaro, Patrick Kenzie, Bubba Rogowski | "Pat Kenzie riceve da una nota psichiatra l'incarico di proteggere il figlio perseguitato da minacce e messaggi anonimi. Sembra un caso di facile soluzione. È l'inizio di un incubo. Una serie di terrificanti omicidi, apparentemente senza legame, lo riporta di prepotenza nel passato, agli anni dell'adolescenza, vissuti nel quartiere degradato di Dorchester a Boston. Le vittime, su cui l'assassino ha infierito orribilmente, crocifiggendole e mutilandole, sono tutte persone che Pat Kenzie ha conosciuto. Nel corso di una frenetica caccia all'uomo, condotta anche con l'aiuto di Angie Gennaro e del fedele Bubba Rogowski, Pat si rende conto che il prossimo bersaglio potrebbe essere lui..." | 
         | 2170 | Серпико | Peter Maas, Питър Маас, Явор Въжаров (Translator) | 1990 | Biography, Nonfiction, True Crime, Crime, History, New York, Biography Memoir, Media Tie In, Memoir, American History | American Law Enforcement, Frank Serpico | "В своя художествено документален роман „Серпико“ известният американски журналист и писател Питър Маас представя детайлна картина на полицейския апарат в САЩ. В книгата, силно въздействуваща преди всичко с фактите и особено популярна благодарение на екранизацията й (с Ал Пачино в главната роля), се изобличава безпринципността на тези, чийто дълг е да преследват закононарушителите, разкрива се покварата сред т.нар. „пазители на реда“. С реални факти, данни, дати, цифри и имена са описани ред скандални афери на висши и нисши полицейски служители. Франк Серпико, героят на тази достоверна история, се опълчва срещу бездушието и подкупността на своите колеги. Тъжна е равносметката на този самотен бунтар, когато на тридесет и шест години — пенсиониран и инвалид за цял живот — той е изправен пред въпроса: „А сега накъде?…“" | 
         | 2171 | Os Sertões | Euclides da Cunha | 2005 | History, Brazil, Classics, Nonfiction, War, Literature, Portuguese Literature, Politics, Latin American, 20th Century | Antônio Conselheiro | "Este livro é dividido em três partes:A Terra é uma descrição detalhada feita pelo cientista Euclides da Cunha, mostrando todas as características do lugar, o clima, as secas, a terra, enfim.O Homem é uma descrição feita pelo sociólogo e antropólogo Euclides da Cunha, que mostra o habitante do lugar, sua relação com o meio, sua gênese etnológica, seu comportamento, crença e costume; mas depois se fixa na figura de Antônio Conselheiro, o líder de Canudos. Apresenta se caráter, seu passado e relatos de como era a vida e os costumes de Canudos, como relatados por visitantes e habitantes capturados. Estas duas partes são essencialmente descritivas, pois na verdade “armam o palco” e “introduzem os personagens” para a verdadeira história, a Guerra de Canudos, relatada na terceira parte,A Luta é uma descrição feita pelo jornalista e ser humano Euclides da Cunha, relatando as quatro expedições a Canudos, criando o retrato real só possível pela testemunha ocular da fome, da peste, da miséria, da violência e da insanidade da guerra. Retratando minuciosamente movimento de tropas, o autor constantemente se prende à individualidade das ações e mostra casos isolados marcantes que demonstram bem o absurdo de um massacre que começou por um motivo tolo – Antônio Conselheiro reclamando um estoque de madeira não entregue – escalou para um conflito onde havia paranóia nacional pois suspeitava-se que os “monarquistas” de Canudos, liderados pelo “famigerado e bárbaro Bom Jesus Conselheiro” tinham apoio externo. No final, foi apenas um massacre violento onde estavam todos errados e o lado mais fraco resistiu até o fim com seus derradeiros defensores – um velho, dois adultos e uma criança." | 
         | 2172 | Risiko | Steffen Kopetzky | Oct-16 | German Literature, Historical, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Novels | Karl Dönitz, Wilhelm Souchon, Sebastian Stichnote, Lucien Camus, Oskar von Niedermayer, Max von Oppenheim | "Geheimexpedition des Deutschen Reichs an den Hindukusch: Nach einem Plan des Orientkenners Freiherr Max von Oppenheim ziehen sechzig Mann mit der Bagdadbahn, zu Pferd und auf Kamelen durch Wüsten und Gebirge. Das Ziel: den Emir von Afghanistan und die Stämme der Paschtunen im Namen des Islam zum Angriff auf Britisch-Indien zu bewegen. Der junge Marinefunker Sebastian Stichnote liegt mit seinem Schiff vor der Küste Albaniens. Aus der Enge der Giesinger Gerberei seiner Brüder hat ihn das Fernweh hinaus auf See und zur vielstimmigen Funktechnik gezogen. Diese gibt ihm das Gefühl, mit dem ganzen Kosmos in Kontakt zu stehen. Als der Erste Weltkrieg beginnt, muss die unterlegene deutsche Flotte durchs Mittelmeer nach Konstantinopel fliehen. Stichnote hat es nach den ersten Seegefechten eilig, sein Schiff so schnell wie möglich zu verlassen und schließt sich als Funkoffizier einer geheimen Expedition nach Kabul an. Ihre Reise führt sie nach Syrien, Bagdad, Teheran, Isfahan und schließlich durch die persische Wüste. Am Ende hängt der Erfolg der Expedition von Stichnote ab, der mit allem brechen muss, was ihm einst heilig war." | 
         | 2173 | Notes from an Exhibition | Patrick Gale | 2008 | Fiction, Contemporary, Art, Literary Fiction, Mental Health, British Literature, Book Club, Novels, Family, Mental Illness | Garfield, Morwenna, Hedley, Rachel Kelly, Antony | "When troubled artist Rachel Kelly dies painting obsessively in her attic studio in Penzance, her saintly husband and adult children have more than the usual mess to clear up. She leaves behind an extraordinary and acclaimed body of work - but she also leaves a legacy of secrets and emotional damage that will take months to unravel." | 
         | 2174 | Deadly Relations: Bester Ascendant | Greg Keyes | Mar-99 | Science Fiction, Babylon 5, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Tv, Space Opera, Fantasy, Media Tie In | Alfred Bester | "The child of their greatest heroes-he was destined to become their darkest enemy . . .In the twenty-second century, the discovery of human telepaths led to terror and bloodshed, and to the creation of the Psi Corps-a government agency of elite telepaths who were used to control their own kind. Under the command of a power-mad politician, the Corps became a ruthless tool of oppression, and the telepath underground was formed. Matthew and Fiona Dexter led the resistance to its greatest victories. But when they were martyred for the cause, their only child was claimed by the very forces they had died opposing.Raised from infancy within the Psi Corps, Alfred Bester was a telepath of exceptional ability, determined to make his mark by transforming himself into a master of deceit. Schooled in hate but tormented by shards of conscience, he wrestled with the seductiveness of the sinister cause he served. But slowly stripped of humanity by the war between decency and betrayal, he surrendered his soul-and rose to become the most dreaded figure of his time . . . Book Two in the gripping new epic trilogy that uncovers the secret history of the Psi Corps." | 
         | 2175 | The Hand of Oberon | Roger Zelazny | Jun-77 | Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Audiobook, Adventure, Magic, Epic | Random of Amber, Brand of Amber, Corwin of Amber, Ganelon | "Across the mysterious Black Road, demons swarm into Shadow. The ancient, secret source of the royal family's power is revealed, & an unholy pact between a prince of the realm & the forces of Chaos threaten all the known worlds with absolute obliteration. The hour of battle is at hand. Now Corwin and the remaining princes of Amber must call upon all their superhuman powers to defeat their brother-turned-traitor before he can walk the magical Pattern that created Amber and remake the universe in his own image." | 
         | 2176 | Still Life | A.S. Byatt | 1996 | Fiction, British Literature, Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Contemporary, Historical, Modern, 20th Century | Frederica Potter | "From the author of The New York Times bestseller Possession, comes a highly acclaimed novel which captures in brilliant detail the life of one extended English family-and illuminates the choices they must make between domesticity and ambition, life and art. Toni Morrison, author of Beloved, writes of Byatt: ""When it comes to probing characters her scalpel is sure but gentle. She is a loving surgeon""." | 
         | 2177 | Scoop | Evelyn Waugh | 2003 | Fiction, Classics, Humor, Novels, British Literature, Journalism, Literature, Comedy, 20th Century, Africa | William Boot, John Courtney Boot, Mr Salter | "Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the ""Daily Beast"", has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another. Acting on a dinner-party tip from Mrs Algernon Smith, he feels convinced that he has hit on just the chap to cover a promising little war in the African Republic of Ishmaelia. One of Waugh's most exuberant comedies, ""Scoop"" is a brilliantly irreverent satire of ""Fleet Street"" and its hectic pursuit of hot news." | 
         | 2178 | Pandora Hearts, Volume 6 | Jun Mochizuki | Jul-11 | Manga, Fantasy, Graphic Novels, Mystery, Comics, Shonen, Comics Manga, Supernatural, Young Adult, Action | Oz Vessalius, Xerxes Break, Alice, Gilbert Nightray, Ada Vessalius, Sharon Rainsworth | "Though Oz’s sudden appearance in the midst of Pandora wreaks havoc, the initially chilly reception to the prison-breaker runs more than warm when Jack Vessalius, hero of the tragedy of Sablier and the man from Alice’s memories, manifests in Oz’s body. Sensing Oz’s resultant inner turmoil, Uncle Oscar drags Oz and company on a “mission” to Lutwidge Academy, where Oz’s little sister, Ada, is a student. But some carefree fun and a tearful reunion ten years in the making is not all for which Oz must prepare himself: crimson-cloaked foes are lying in wait to torture him for answers about the events of a hundred years ago…" | 
         | 2179 | Quando il diavolo ti accarezza | Luca Tarenzi | Feb-11 | Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Italian Literature | Azazel (Demon), Eleonora, Arioch, Khaled, Cesare, Sofia, Anna, Hadraniel, Caethel, Il Filosofo | "In una Milano buia e sferzata dalla pioggia, Lena sta inseguendo la sua amica Sofia, misteriosamente caduta in uno stato di trance. Davanti alla mole imponente della stazione Centrale, tra i marmi dievolmente illuminati dalla luce dei lampioni, la giovane assiste a un incredibile duello: un'immensa creatura di fuoco sta per annientare un ragazzo nudo e coperto di sangue. D'istinto Lena interviene e permette al giovane di approfittare di un attimo di distrazione dell'avversario per rovesciare le sorti della battaglia e decapitarlo con la sua stessa spada. Solo che l'assalitore era un angelo e il giovane, Arioch, un demone appena evocato per uccidere Sofia. Lena è determinata, coraggiosa, testarda e per salvare la sua migliore amica è disposta a tutto, anche a mettersi contro un demone. Arioch è antico come il mondo, violento, sanguinario e ha una missione cui è vincolato. E, purtroppo per Lena, ha anche due occhi penetranti e stregati..." | 
         | 2180 | جريمة في بغداد | Agatha Christie | 2011 | Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Thriller, British Literature, Adventure, Novels | Victoria Jones, Edward Goring, Henry Carmichael, Richard Baker, Mr. & Mrs. Clayton, Marcus Tio, Sir Rupert Crofton Lee, Lionel Shrivenham, Anna Scheele, Mr. Dakin, Dr. Pauncefoot Jones, Mr. & Mrs. Hamilton Clipp, Mrs. Cardew Trench, Dr. Rathbone, Captain Crosbie | "تم اختيار بغداد كموقع لعقد قمة سرية بين القوتين العظميين. ولكن الخبر تسرب للأسف, وهناك منظمة سرية في الشرق الأوسط تخطط لإفساد الاجتماع. وفي قلب هذا الموقف الملتهب؛ سقطت فيكتوريا جونز, وهي فتاة محبة للمغامرات لكنها تجد نفسها في موقف لاتحسد عليه عندما يقتحم عميل سري جريح الغرفة التي تنزل فيها بأحد الفنادق ثم يخر صريعاً, وتحاول فيكتوريا أن تجد معنى للكلمات التي نطق بها : "" ... الشيطان... البصرة... ليفارج...""." | 
         | 2181 | The Tomb of Hercules | Andy McDermott | 2008 | Adventure, Thriller, Fiction, Action, Mystery, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Suspense, Archaeology, Romance | Nina Wilde, Eddie Chase, Lady Sophia Blackwood, Richard Yuen Xuan, Victor Dalton, René Corvus, Hector Amoros | "An ancient warriorFor archaeologist Nina Wilde it's the opportunity of a lifetime. Her studies of an ancient text have convinced her that a tomb containing the remains of legendary warrior Hercules may actually exist. If she can locate it, it will be the most important historical find ever to be unearthed.An incredible treasureAs Nina and Eddie Chase, her ex-SAS bodyguard, begin their search it's clear that others want to find the tomb - and the unimaginable riches contained within. Then Chase's attention is diverted by the re-appearance of a face from his past...A lethal enemyNina and Chase are soon following a violent trail of corruption and conspiracy around the globe. From Switzerland to Shanghai, Botswana to London, it's a race against time to find the Tomb of Hercules before it falls into the most evil of hands..." | 
         | 2182 | Green Mars | Kim Stanley Robinson | May-93 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Hugo Awards, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space, Speculative Fiction, Space Opera, Hard Science Fiction, Politics, Fantasy | Maya Toitovna, Hiroko Ai, Simon Frasier, Sax Russell, Peter Clayborne, Arthur Randolph | "In the Nebula Award winning Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson began his critically acclaimed epic saga of the colonization of Mars, Now the Hugo Award winning Green Mars continues the thrilling and timeless tale of humanity's struggle to survive at its farthest frontier.Nearly a generation has passed since the first pioneers landed, but the transformation of Mars to an Earthlike planet has just begun. The plan is opposed by those determined to preserve the planet's hostile, barren beauty. Led by rebels like Peter Clayborne, these young people are the first generation of children born on Mars. They will be joined by original settlers Maya Toitovna, Simon Frasier, and Sax Russell. Against this cosmic backdrop, passions, rivalries, and friendships explode in a story as spectacular as the planet itself." | 
         | 2183 | The Europeans | Henry James, Patricia Crick, Tony Tanner | 1996 | Classics, Fiction, American, 19th Century, Novels, Literature, Historical Fiction, The United States Of America, American Classics, Classic Literature | Eugenia, the Baroness Munster, Felix Young, Gertrude Wentworth, Charlotte Wentworth, Clifford Wentworth, Robert Acton | "Eugenia, the daughter of American expatriates, is the morganatic wife of a German prince, who is being urged to divorce her in favor of a state marriage. She and her artist brother, Felix, travel to Boston to meet distant cousins relatives, partially in hopes of making a wealthy marriage.  Its wit, gaiety, and what Rebecca West calls its ""clear sunlit charm"" have made this masterly short novel one of the most popular of James's novels." | 
         | 2184 | Bleed for Me | Michael Robotham  | 2010 | Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Audiobook, British Literature, Adult, Psychological Thriller | Joseph O’Loughlin | "Ray Hegarty, a highly respected former detective, lies dead in his daughter Sienna's bedroom. She is found covered in his blood. Everything points to her guilt, but psychologist Joe O'Loughlin isn't convinced.Fourteen-year-old Sienna is the best friend of Joe's daughter, and he has watched her grow up and seen the troubled look in her eyes. Against the advice of the police, he launches his own investigation, embarking upon a hunt that will lead him to a predatory schoolteacher, a conspiracy of silence and a race-hate trial that is captivating the nation." | 
         | 2185 | Wszystko czerwone | Joanna Chmielewska | Feb-09 | Polish Literature, Crime, Mystery, Humor, Fiction, Detective, Poland, Comedy, Womens, Contemporary | Joanna | "Bohaterka, Joanna, architekt zatrudniony w pracowni projektowej, zostaje każdorazowo wplątana w niezwykłe intrygi kryminalne (odrębne w każdym tomie), których odgałęzienia sięgają Danii, Francji, Brazylii i innych krajów. Dzięki zastosowaniu niekonwencjonalnych metod prywatnego śledztwa Joanna, otoczona przyjaciółmi, zwłaszcza związanymi z Danią, rozwiązuje tajemnice licznych morderstw i kradzieży. Każdy tom stanowi całkowicie odrębną całość o cyklu można w tym przypadku mówić dzięki tożsamości głównej bohaterki oraz kilku innych postaci przewijających się przez kolejne, fabularnie niezależne, tomy. Książka w dwóch wersjach kolorystycznych okładki białej lub czerwonej." | 
         | 2186 | The Affinity Bridge | George Mann | 2008 | Mystery, Fiction, Science Fiction, Historical Fiction, Steampunk, Alternate History, Zombies, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure | Veronica Hobbes, Sir Maurice Newbury, Sir Charles Bainbridge | "Welcome to the bizarre and dangerous world of Victorian London, a city teetering on the edge of revolution. Its people are ushering in a new era of technology, dazzled each day by new inventions. Airships soar in the skies over the city, whilst ground trains rumble through the streets and clockwork automatons are programmed to carry out menial tasks in the offices of lawyers, policemen and journalists. But beneath this shiny veneer of progress lurks a sinister side. For this is also a world where ghostly policemen haunt the fog-laden alleyways of Whitechapel, where cadavers can rise from the dead and where Sir Maurice Newbury, Gentleman Investigator for the Crown, works tirelessly to protect the Empire from her foes. When an airship crashes in mysterious circumstances, Sir Maurice and his recently appointed assistant Miss Veronica Hobbes are called in to investigate. Meanwhile, Scotland Yard is baffled by a spate of grisly murders and a terrifying plague is ravaging the slums of the city. So begins an adventure quite unlike any other, a thrilling steampunk mystery and the first in the series of ""Newbury & Hobbes"" investigations." | 
         | 2187 | Fleshmarket Close | Ian Rankin  | 2005 | Crime, Mystery, Fiction, Scotland, Detective, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Audiobook, Murder Mystery | Inspector John Rebus | "An illegal immigrant is found murdered in an Edinburgh housing scheme: a racist attack, or something else entirely? Rebus is drawn into the case, but has other problems: his old police station has closed for business, and his masters would rather he retire than stick around. But Rebus is that most stubborn of creatures. As Rebus investigates, he must visit an asylum seekers' detention centre, deal with the sleazy Edinburgh underworld, and maybe even fall in love... Siobhan meanwhile has problems of her own. A teenager has disappeared from home and Siobhan is drawn into helping the family, which will mean travelling closer than is healthy towards the web of a convicted rapist. Then there's the small matter of the two skeletons - a woman and an infant - found buried beneath a concrete cellar floor in Fleshmarket Close. The scene begins to look like an elaborate stunt - but whose, and for what purpose? And how can it tie to the murder on the unforgiving housing-scheme known as Knoxland?" | 
         | 2188 | The Covenant of Genesis | Andy McDermott | 2009 | Adventure, Thriller, Fiction, Action, Mystery, Historical Fiction, Suspense, Audiobook, Mystery Thriller, Romance | Nina Wilde, Eddie Chase, Lady Sophia Blackwood, Victor Dalton | "An incredible discoveryArchaeologist Nina Wilde has unearthed an amazing find: a dive site containing evidence of a settlement that existed over a hundred thousand years before any previously known culture. Could a completely undiscovered civilisation have once ruled the earth?A merciless foeBefore Nina can consider the evidence further, her research boat is attacked and her proof stolen. Determined to solve the mystery, Nina and Eddie Chase, her fiance, embarked on a quest for answers. But at every step they are hunted by a clandestine religious group, the Covenant of Genesis.A shocking revelationThe Covenant, representatives from three of the world's most powerful religions, will stop at nothing to keep Nina's discovery secret. But why? Such a discovery would contradict the creation mythology they share.. but could it be that they are also seek to claim for themselves the most valuable archaeological prize of all time?" | 
         | 2189 | El modelo Pickman | H.P. Lovecraft, Mariana Enríquez (Prologue) | Jun-10 | Horror, Short Stories, Fiction, Lovecraftian, Classics, Fantasy, Weird Fiction, Gothic, Supernatural, Audiobook | Richard Upton Pickman | "El modelo de Pickman es uno de los mejores cuentos de Howard Phillips Lovecraft. La historia gira en torno de Richard Upton Pickman, un desaparecido pintor, cuyos cuadros han cruzado la frontera de lo excéntrico para entrar en lo perversamente grotesco.Pero el suspenso y el horror del relato no están directamente ligados a los vívidos lienzos del artista, sino al modelo en el que fueron inspirados.Es una obra extraña para Lovecraft, cercana a ciertos clásicos de Poe, en la que convierte a toda la ciudad de Boston en un laberinto de pasadizos subterráneos que conectan el cementerio con el mar; túneles y sótanos donde se arrastran y susurran horrores sin nombre. Varios críticos consideran que el final de este relato es uno de los mejores y más escalofriantes de la literatura de terror." | 
         | 2190 | A Long Long Way | Sebastian Barry | Oct-05 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Ireland, War, Irish Literature, World War I, Historical, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels | Willie Dunne | "Irish author and playwright Sebastian Barry has created a powerful new novel about divided loyalties and the realities of war.In 1914, Willie Dunne, barely eighteen years old, leaves behind Dublin, his family, and the girl he plans to marry in order to enlist in the Allied forces and face the Germans on the Western Front. Once there, he encounters a horror of violence and gore he could not have imagined and sustains his spirit with only the words on the pages from home and the camaraderie of the mud-covered Irish boys who fight and die by his side.  Dimly aware of the political tensions that have grown in Ireland in his absence, Willie returns on leave to find a world split and ravaged by forces closer to home. Despite the comfort he finds with his family, he knows he must rejoin his regiment and fight until the end. With grace and power, Sebastian Barry vividly renders Willie’s personal struggle as well as the overwhelming consequences of war." | 
         | 2191 | Ne dites pas à ma mère que je suis voyante, elle me croit libraire à Vancouver | Eileen Cook , Maryvonne Ssossé (Traduction) | Nov-09 | Chick Lit, Romance, Fiction, Contemporary, Humor, Contemporary Romance, Canada, Adult, Adult Fiction, Novels | Sophie Kintock, Nick McKenna, Doug Chase | "On dit souvent que l'amour rend aveugle. Pas dans le cas de Sophie Kintock, qui, après une rupture, se découvre un don de double vue jusque-là insoupçonné !Quand Doug la quitte après six ans de vie commune, Sophie, libraire à Vancouver, est prête à tout pour le récupérer. C'est pourquoi, lorsqu'elle apprend que sa nouvelle petite amie, la pulpeuse Melanie, s'intéresse au paranormal, elle a une idée aussi folle que diabolique : proposer à sa rivale une fausse consultation de voyance destinée à faire rompre les tourtereaux. Mais rien ne va se passer comme prévu, car Sophie se retrouve vite dépassée par le succès inattendu de ses nouveaux talents... Eileen Cook signe une comédie désopilante portée par une héroïne au caractère bien trempé, maladroite et attachante à souhait." | 
         | 2192 | Vineland | Thomas Pynchon | Jun-95 | Fiction, Literature, Novels, American, Literary Fiction, 20th Century, The United States Of America, Classics, Humor, Contemporary | Zoyd Wheeler, Brock Vond, Hector Zuñiga, Prairie, Frenesi Gates | "A group of Americans in Northern California in 1984 are struggling with the consequences of their lives in the sixties, still run by the passions of those times - sexual and political - which have refused to die. Among them is Zoyd Wheeler who is preparing for his annual act of televised insanity (for which he receives a government stipend) when an unwelcome face appears from out of his past.An old nemesis, federal prosecutor Brock Vond, storms into Vineland at the head of a heavily armed strike force. Soon Zoyd and his daughter, Prairie, go into hiding while Vond begins a relationship with Zoyd's ex-wife and uses Prairie as a pawn against the mother she never knew she had.Part daytime drama, part political thriller, Vineland is a strange evocation of a twentieth-century America headed for a less than harmonic future." | 
         | 2193 | Bad Men | John Connolly  | May-05 | Thriller, Horror, Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Supernatural, Fantasy, Paranormal | Marianne Elliott, Joe Dupree, Edward Molloch, Willard, Sharon Macy | "New York Times bestselling author John Connolly masterfully intertwines mystery, emotion, violence, and the supernatural in this raw and gripping thriller.He has been told the girl's last words, and he feels unaccountably afraid. The dead ones. They were dead, but they had lights. Why do the dead need light?Three hundred years ago, the settlers on the small Maine island of Sanctuary were betrayed to their enemies and slaughtered. Since then, the island has known peace. Until now. A gang of four men are descending on Sanctuary, intent on committing a brutal and relentless massacre. All that stands in their way are rookie police officer Sharon Macie and the strange, troubled officer Joe Dupree.But Joe is no ordinary policeman. He knows the island has been steeped in blood once and that it will never again tolerate the shedding of innocent blood. The band of killers who are set to desecrate Sanctuary will unleash the fury of its ghosts upon themselves and all who stand by them. On Sanctuary, all hell is about to break loose ..." | 
         | 2194 | K-PAX The Trilogy | Gene Brewer | 2004 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Psychology, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Humor, Space, Novels, Philosophy | Prot, Gene | "When a man who claims to be from outer space is brought into the Manhattan Institute, the mental ward seems to be just the place for him. Clever, inscrutable and utterly charismatic, Robert Porter calls himself 'prot' and has no traceable background - but he claims that he is an inhabitant of the planet K-PAX, a perfect world without wars." | 
         | 2195 | The Sinister Sign Post | Franklin W. Dixon | 1968 | Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Adventure, Classics, Detective, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Novels | Frank Hardy, Mr. Morton, Chet Morton, Iola Morton, Joe Hardy, Fenton Hardy, Mrs. Morton, Laura Hardy, Keith Alden, Roger Alden | "Racing cars! Mystery! Adventure! These elements combine to give Frank and Joe Hardy one of the most dangerous and intriguing cases of their careers.It all starts when their father, Fenton Hardy, is engaged by an experimental race car and motor designer to investigate a series of mysterious accidents. Three of his drivers have crashed because the windshields of their cars were suddenly crazed, thus cutting off forward vision. Frank and Joe uncover one slim clue. Each of the drivers had seen a signpost marked DANGER shortly before the accident. The young detectives investigate, only to discover that the signposts have vanished. What happened to them? And what sinister purpose did they serve?The attempted theft of a secret experimental motor and the kidnapping of a famous race horse are part of this thrilling case, which proves to be as sinister as the signposts themselves." | 
         | 2196 | Night of the Hawk | Dale Brown  | 1993 | Fiction, Military Fiction, Thriller, Action, War, Adventure, Aviation, Science Fiction, Drama, Novels | Patrick McLanahan, Brad Elliott, ""Harold ''Hal'' Briggs"" | "In 1988, after a breathtaking raid into Soviet territory, Flt Lt David Luger sacrificed himself to save his friends. They escaped to safety, and Luger was left for dead in deepest Siberia. Four years later it is discovered that Luger survived, so a rescue mission is launched." | 
         | 2197 | Walt Disney's Mickey and the Beanstalk | Dina Anastasio (Adaptation), Sharon Ross (Illustrator) | 1988 | Childrens, Picture Books, Fiction, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Classics, Animals | ""Mickey Mouse (Disney''s)"" | "Retells the traditional tale of Jack and the beanstalk with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy playing major roles." | 
         | 2198 | The Fortune of the Rougons | Émile Zola | Sept-85 | Classics, Fiction, France, French Literature, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels, Roman, Historical | Gervaise Macquart, Eugène Rougon | "La fortuna de los Rougon (1871) es la primera novela de la serie Les Rougon Macquart, de Émile Zola.La historia comienza con Adelaida Touque, hija de campesinos acomodados, que vive en una ciudad de la región de Provenza llamada Plassans (trasunto de Aix-en-Provence y de Lorgues). Adelaida se casa con un jardinero empleado de la familia, Rougon, con quien tiene un hijo, Pierre. Viuda muy joven, se convierte (ante la incredulidad y el rechazo de la sociedad de su entorno) en la amante de un cazador furtivo y contrabandista, Macquart, con el que tendrá dos hijos bastardos, Úrsula y Antonio. A la muerte de su amante, Adelaida caerá en una especie de abandono y semilocura. El hijo mayor de Adelaida, Pierre, que va a personificar la ambición y el ansia de poder, reniega de su condición de campesino y se convierte en un pequeño comerciante burgués gracias al matrimonio interesado con Felicidad Puech. Ambos conspirarán para hacerse con el poder en Plassans con ocasión del golpe de Estado de Napoleón III que acaba con la I República francesa e instaura el llamado II Imperio." | 
         | 2199 | The Secret of Excalibur | Andy McDermott | 2008 | Adventure, Thriller, Fiction, Action, Mystery, Historical Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Fantasy, Audiobook, Archaeology | Nina Wilde, Eddie Chase, Victor Dalton, Hector Amoros, Bernd Rust, Jack Mitchell | "The third brilliant adventure thriller featuring archaeologist Nina Wilde, in which Nina must find Excalibur, King Arthur's beloved sword. Said to make whoever holds it unstoppable in battle, the sword Excalibur has been coveted across the ages, and thought lost for over a thousand years. With a cryptic message to archaeologist Nina Wilde, this may be about to change. Historian Bernd Rust believes he can locate Excalibur...and that the sword is the key to harnessing an incredible source of energy. Nina is sceptical - until she and Rust are attacked by mercenaries determined to steal his research. Nina and her boyfriend, ex-SAS soldier Eddie Chase, are soon propelled into a deadly race to find Excalibur. From the deserts ofSyria to the arctic wastes of Russia, Nina and Chase must battle a merciless enemy who plans to use the sword's powers to plunge the world into a new era of war..." | 
         | 2200 | Forbidden | Amy Miles  | 2011 | Vampires, Paranormal, Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Amazon | Roseline Enescue, Gabriel Marston, Sadie Hughes, William Hughes, Nicolae Dalma, Vladimir Enescue, Lucien Enescue, Sorin Funar, Fane Dalca | "Roseline Enescue didn't ask to become an Immortal, to have all of the guests at her wedding slaughtered, or be forced into marriage with a man whose lust for blood would one day ignite the vampire legend. Willing to risk everything for a chance at a normal life, Roseline escapes to America. Terrified her husband Vladimir will find her, Roseline enrolls as a senior in Chicago's elite Rosewood Prep school. Mingling with humans is the last place he would look for her. But her transition into the human world isn't easy. Mortal men flock after her while cutthroat girls plot her demise. Yet Roseline remains relatively unfazed by the petty hysteria until she falters into the arms of Gabriel Marston, reluctant MVP quarterback, unwilling ladies man, and sensitive artist in hiding. Troubled by the bond that pulls her towards the mortal boy, Roseline tries to ignore him, but Gabriel is persistent. As their lives entwine, Roseline begins to realize that Gabriel is much more than he appears. His ability to toss a football the entire length of the field and grind concrete into dust pales in comparison to the glowing blue cross tattoo that mysteriously appears on his forearms. Despite the forbidden bond between them, Roseline can't help wondering what Gabriel is: He's not human. He's not Immortal. So just what is he?" | 
         | 2201 | De legende en de heldhaftige vroolijke en roemrijke daden van Uilenspiegel en Lamme Goedzak in Vlaanderenland en elders | Charles de Coster | 2005 | Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, Belgian, Historical, 19th Century, Belgium, Literature, France, Roman | Thyl Ulenspiegel, Lamme Goedzak | "Tijl Uilenspiegel is de legendarische grappige held, het prototype van de rondzwervende vagebond. Zijn naam duikt voor het eerst op in Middeleeuwse teksten. Oorspronkelijk waren de Uilenspiegelverhalen alleen bedoeld als volksvermaak en is de Tijl die erin wordt opgevoerd op slechts één ding uit: grappen maken ten koste van alles en iedereen, over alle rangen en standen heen.In 1867 geeft schrijver Charles de Coster die figuur echter een heldhaftiger tintje: in een historische roman smeedt hij Tijl Uilenspiegel om tot een Vlaamse vrijheidsheld die vecht tegen de Spaanse overheersing in de 16de eeuw. Charles de Coster laat Uilenspiegel in Damme geboren worden op hetzelfde ogenblik dat in Spanje de zoon van Keizer Karel het levenslicht ziet. Na een conflict met de pastoor moet Uilenspiegel een boetereis naar Rome ondernemen. Bij zijn thuiskomst in Damme vindt hij zijn vader, Klaas, op de brandstapel omdat die onderdak heeft gegeven aan een ketter. In een droom krijgen Tijl en zijn vriendin Nele het bevel op zoek te gaan naar ""de Zeven"" en ""de Gordel"". Samen met zijn vriend, Lamme Goedzak, gaat Uilenspiegel op stap..." | 
         | 2202 | Palomino | Danielle Steel | Dec-82 | Romance, Fiction, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, Drama, Novels, Adult Fiction, Horses, Animals | Samantha Taylor, Tate Jordan | "Samantha Taylor is shattered when her husband leaves her for another woman. She puts her advertising career on hold and seeks refuge at a friend's California ranch, where she loses herself in the daily labor of ranch life. Here, she discovers the healing powers of trusted friends, simple joys, and hard work. She also meets Tate Jordan, the ranch foreman, and a tumultuous relationship ensues. When Tate disappears and a fall from a horse changes Samantha's life forever, she is confined to a wheelchair and must look deep inside herself to finds the courage to begin again. Now, fighting the battles of the handicapped, she finds new challenges, new loves, and even the adopted child she's always longed for.From the Paperback edition." | 
         | 2203 | Savage Season | Joe R. Lansdale | 2001 | Mystery, Crime, Fiction, Thriller, Noir, Humor, Mystery Thriller, Horror, Suspense, The United States Of America | Hap Collins, Leonard Pine | "Here comes Trudy back into Hap's life, thirty-six but looking ten years younger, with long blonde hair and legs that begin under her chin, and the kind of walk that'll make a man run his car off the road. Here comes trouble, says Leonard, and he's right. She was always trouble, but she had this laugh when she was happy in bed that could win Hap over every time. Trudy has a proposition: an easy two hundred thousand dollars, tax-free. It's just a simple matter of digging it up ...Hap Collins and Leonard Pine, white and black, straight and gay, are the unlikeliest duo in crime fiction. Savage Season is their debut." | 
         | 2204 | The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters | Enid Blyton | 2003 | Mystery, Childrens, Fiction, Adventure, Classics, Detective, British Literature, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Mystery Thriller | ""Philip ''Pip'' Hilton"", ""Margaret ''Daisy'' Dakin"", Buster the Dog, ""Laurence ''Larry'' Daykin"", ""Frederick Algernon ''Fatty'' Trotteville"", ""Elizabeth ''Bets'' Hilton"" | "An adventure for the Five Find-Outers and their dog. Fatty, Larry, Daisy, Pip, Bets and Buster become involved in a very peculiar situation when a series of unsigned letters are sent to various people in Peterswood." | 
         | 2205 | Fires of Winter | Johanna Lindsey | Sept-80 | Historical Romance, Romance, Historical, Historical Fiction, Medieval, Fiction, Adult, Medieval Romance, Viking Romance, M F Romance | Garrick Haardrad, Brenna Carmarham | "NEVER A VIKING'S CAPTIVELovely and dauntless, abducted by invaders from across an icy sea, Lady Brenna vowed vengeance - swearing no Viking brute would be her master...no barbarian would enslave her noble Celtic heart.FOREVER A VIKING'S LOVEYet Garrick Haardrad, the proud and powerful son of a ruthless Viking chieftan, claims her with a primitive abandon that leaves her breathless, igniting fires of passion that blaze through the cold Nordic nights and forge the unbreakable bonds of a fiery, eternal love." | 
         | 2206 | Whit | Iain Banks | 1995 | Fiction, Contemporary, Religion, Novels, Scotland, Modern, Literature, British Literature, Coming Of Age, Literary Fiction | Isis Whit | "Isis Whit is no ordinary teenager. An innocent in the ways of the world, an ingenue when it comes to fashion, she does however rejoice in some neat healing powers, a way with animals and the exalted status of Elect of God of the Luskentyrian Sect. Part of the 1995 Scottish Book Fortnight promotion." | 
         | 2207 | Rock Star | Jackie Collins | 1988 | Fiction, Romance, Chick Lit, Contemporary Romance, Novels, Adult Fiction, Contemporary, Womens Fiction, Drama, Amazon | Sharleen, Kris Phoenix, Bobby Mondella, Rafealla LeSerre, Cybil Wilde, Marcus Citroen, Nova Citroen, Buzz Darke, Odile Ronet, Rupert Egerton, Rasta Stanley, Ollie Stoltz, Rocket Fabrizzi, Nichols Kline | "Music was their business - pleasure was their game.Rock Star blows the lid off the hard-driving lifestyles of today's music superstars.Kris Phoenix - The legendary and wildly sexy guitar hero,Bobby Mondella - Black soul superstar with a past,Rafealla - An exotically beautiful girl who comes between them with a vengeance.Rock Star takes you on a dangerous trip through the jungle of broken dreams and blackmail, hit records and hit men...a jungle of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll.Rock Star is a love story that burns.Feel the heat..." | 
         | 2208 | The Departure | K.A. Applegate, Katherine Applegate | Jul-98 | Science Fiction, Young Adult, Fiction, Fantasy, Aliens, Childrens, Middle Grade, Animals, Adventure, War | Visser Three | "Cassie's had it. After the last mission, she realizes she's getting tired of missions. Tired of battles. Tired of being an Animorph. She decides that she just can't do it anymore. So she quits." | 
         | 2209 | Mission of Gravity | Hal Clement | Oct-74 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Hard Science Fiction, Aliens, Speculative Fiction, Space Opera, 20th Century, Space, Adventure | Barlennnan, Charles Lackland | "Cover Artist: Ed EmshwillerMission of Gravity is an sf novel by Hal Clement. The title is a play on words, one meaning ""the force which pulls"" & the other being ""extremely serious or important"". It was serialized in Astounding Science Fiction, 4–7/53. Its 1st cloth publication was in '54. It was 1st published in paper in '58. Along with the novel itself, many editions (& most recent editions) of the book also include Whirligig World, an essay on creating the planet Mesklin that was published in the 6/53 Astounding. He published two sequels, a '70 novel called Star Light & a '73 short story called Lecture Demonstration. Mission of Gravity was nominated for a Retro Hugo Award for '54.For a profit & adventure Barlennan would sail thousands of miles across uncharted waters, into regions where gravity played strange tricks. He'd dare the perils of strange tribes & stranger creatures-even dicker with those aliens from beyond the skies, though the concept of another world was unknown to the inhabitants of the planet of Mesklin. But in spite of the incredible technology of the strangers & without regard for their enormous size, Barlennan had the notion of turning the deal to an unsuspected advantage for himself-a considerable enterprise for a being very much resembling a 15"" caterpillar!" | 
         | 2210 | The Fugitive Factor | Gordon Korman | Jun-05 | Adventure, Mystery, Fiction, Middle Grade, Childrens, Young Adult, Thriller, Action, Realistic Fiction, Survival | Aiden Falconer, Meg Falconer | "NOWHERE TO HIDE.Aiden and Meg Falconer are out to find the evidence that will free their parents from a life sentence in prison. But in order to do that, they have to live undercover. Ever since they broke out of a juvenile detention facility, they've been chased by the FBI... and by a strange killer they've nicknamed Hairless Joe. Now their story has hit the airwaves, and suddenly everyone is looking for them. They think they can hide with an old family friend... but when Meg is thrown in jail, the danger and adventure only increase.EVERYWHERE TO RUN." | 
         | 2211 | Het lot van de familie Meijer | Charles Lewinsky, Elly Schippers (Translator) | Jan-09 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Roman, Literature, Historical, Novels, Jewish, Judaism, German Literature, World War II | Salomon Meijer, Janki Meijer, Golde Meijer, Mimi Meijer, Chanele Meijer, Pinchas Pomeranz, Zalman Kamionker, Hinda Meijer, Alfred Meijer, Ruben Kamionker, Désirée Pomeranz, François Meijer, Arthur Meijer, Mina Kahn, Joni Leibowitz, Rachel Kamionker, Lea Kamionker, Felix Grün, Hillel Rosenthal, Rosa Recha Meijer | "Als op een nacht in 1871 een ver familielid bij de deur van de Meijers aanklopt, kan niemand vermoeden dat hun leven vanaf dat moment radicaal zal veranderen. Hun wereld in het dorp Endingen is op dat moment klein, maar nog intact. Dan duikt wervelwind Janki op, een ver familielid, al weet niemand er het fijne van. Een jaar later heeft hij een bruid de aangenomen dochter annex dienstmeid Chanele, een vrouw die op vele momenten een beslissende rol gaat spelen in het leven van de Meijers en een stoffenwinkel in Baden. Vijf generaties beslaat de geschiedenis van de Meijers, een geschiedenis vol liefdesgeluk en levensdroefenis, en vol strijd om succes en acceptatie. Van de kleine, gave wereld van Endingen, waar veehandelaar Salomon Meijer zijn altijd opgevouwen paraplu tot een symbool van zijn betrouwbaarheid heeft gemaakt, gaat het naar het mooiste warenhuis van Zürich, en voorbij de landsgrenzen. En steeds raakt de wereld een stukje meer uit zijn voegen." | 
         | 2212 | Jerusalem: The Biography | Simon Sebag Montefiore  | 2011 | History, Nonfiction, Religion, Israel, Biography, Politics, Travel, Historical, Jewish, Islam | Wilhelm II, German Emperor, T.E. Lawrence, Herod the Great, Pontius Pilate, Richard I of England, Saladin, Conrad of Montferrat, Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, Baldwin V of Jerusalem, Sibylla of Jerusalem, Herod Antipas, Yasser Arafat, Muhammad, Yitzhak Rabin, Al-Adil I, Godfrey of Bouillon, Baldwin I, Baldwin II, King of Jerusalem, Melisende, Fulk, King of Jerusalem, Baldwin III, Amalric I, Guy of Lusignan, Isabella I of Jerusalem, Henry II, Count of Champagne, Herod Agrippa, Jesus, Winston Churchill | "Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today’s clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel–Palestine conflict, this is the epic history of 3,000 years of faith, slaughter, fanaticism and coexistence.How did this small, remote town become the Holy City, the ‘centre of the world’ and now the key to peace in the Middle East? In a dazzling narrative, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals this ever-changing city in its many incarnations, bringing every epoch and character blazingly to life. Jerusalem’s biography is told through the wars, love affairs and revelations of the men and women – kings, empresses, prophets, poets, saints, conquerors and whores – who created, destroyed, chronicled and believed in Jerusalem. As well as the many ordinary Jerusalemites who have left their mark on the city, its cast varies from Solomon, Saladin and Suleiman the Magnificent to Cleopatra, Caligula and Churchill; from Abraham to Jesus and Muhammad; from the ancient city of Jezebel, Nebuchadnezzar, Herod and Nero to the modern times of the Kaiser, Disraeli, Mark Twain, Rasputin and Lawrence of Arabia.Drawing on new archives, current scholarship, his own family papers and a lifetime’s study, Montefiore illuminates the essence of sanctity and mysticism, identity and empire in a unique chronicle of the city that is believed will be the setting for the Apocalypse. This is how Jerusalem became Jerusalem, and the only city that exists twice – in heaven and on earth." | 
         | 2213 | A Maze of Death | Philip K. Dick | Jun-94 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Novels, Speculative Fiction, Religion, Science Fiction Fantasy, Mystery, American, 20th Century, Philosophy | Ben Tallchief, Seth Morley, Mary Morley | "Fourteen strangers come to Delmak-O. Thirteen of them were transferred by the usual authorities. One got there by praying. But once they arrived on that treacherous planet, whose very atmosphere seemed to induce paranoia and psychosis, the newcomers tound that even prayer was useless. For on Delmak-O, God is either absent or intent on destroying His creations. At once a wrenching metaphysical thriller and an ingenious meditation on the nature of divinity, A Maze of Death is Philip K. Dick at his most dizzyingly provocative." | 
         | 2214 | Byomkesh Bakshi Stories | Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, Monimala Dhar (Translator) | Jan-03 | Mystery, Crime, Detective, India, Short Stories, Fiction, Classics, Indian Literature, Suspense, Thriller | ব্যোমকেশ বক্সী | "In the early 30s, a detective by the name of Byomkesh Bakshi made an entry into the world of Bengali fiction. This book contains seven of his most entertaining adventures, competently translated. At each reading, one can only marvel at the writer's genius." | 
         | 2215 | Il fantasma | Danielle Steel, Maria Grazia Griffini (Translator) | 2007 | Romance, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Chick Lit, Paranormal, Historical, Historical Romance, Mystery, Contemporary Romance | Charles Waterson | "Una promozione richiama a New York l'architetto Charles Waterstone, che lascia Londra oppresso dalla malinconia per la fine del suo matrimonio. Ma un'imprevista, e magica, vacanza nel New England gli cambierà la vita. Nel castello che prende in affitto aleggia infatti il fantasma di una donna temeraria e passionale che, a distanza di due secoli, può ancora infondere speranza e coraggio a chi è disposto ad ascoltarla. Ed è grazie a lei che Charles ritrova la voglia di aprirsi al futuro d'amore che lo attende." | 
         | 2216 | Mutineers' Moon | David Weber | Oct-91 | Science Fiction, Space Opera, Fiction, Military Fiction, Military Science Fiction, Fantasy, Space, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, War | Dahak | "For Lt. Commander Colin Maclntyre, it began as a routine training flight over the Moon. For Dahak, a self-aware Imperial battleship, it began millennia ago when that powerful artificial intelligence underwent a mutiny in the face of the enemy. The mutiny was never resolved-Dahak was forced to maroon not just the mutineers but the entire crew on prehistoric Earth. Dahak has been helplessly waiting as the descendants of the loyal crew regressed while the mutineers maintained control of technology that kept them alive as the millennia passed. But now Dahak's sensors indicate that the enemy that devastated the Imperium so long ago has returned-and Earth is in their path. For the sake of the planet, Dahak must mobilize its defenses. And that it cannot do until the mutineers are put down. So Dahak has picked Colin Maclntyre to be its new captain. Now Maclntyre must mobilize humanity to destroy the mutineers once and for all-or Earth will become a cinder in the path of galactic conquest." | 
         | 2217 | Loves Music, Loves to Dance | Mary Higgins Clark | Mar-92 | Mystery, Fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Adult, Romance, Adult Fiction, Murder Mystery | Darcy Scott, Erin Kelley, Nona Roberts, ""Vince D''Ambrosio"", Chris Sheridan, Michael Nash, Jay Stratton, Doug Fox, Gus Boxer, Len Parker | "A serial killer leaves one dancing shoe on a foot of the victims who answer his personal ads. When Erin dies, her best friend places ads to entice the villain already targeting her next. New York police detective Vince D'Ambrosio takes a personal interest. New boyfriend Dr Michael Nash is supportive. A stalker may surprise everyone." | 
         | 2218 | The Monarch of the Glen | Compton Mackenzie | 2000 | Fiction, Scotland, Historical Fiction, Classics, Humor, Comedy, Literature, British Literature | Donald MacDonald of Ben Nevis | "The ancient clan spirit is not yet dead in the Scottish highlands, with Donald MacDonald of Ben Nevis ruling the roost at wild, craggy Glenbogle Castle. Woe betide those who trespass on this Chieftain's kingdom... So when a hapless bunch of Sassenach hikers invades the glens, camping on Ben Nevis's beloved land and disturbing his prized grouse, they are in for the shock of a lifetime, as the MacDonald clan prepare to do battle with the unfortunate travelers. Kilt swinging and sporran flying, fortified with whisky, with his two stout daughters at his side and the welcome support of American millionaire Chester Royde, Ben Nevis wages war on the hikers in the ancient manner of his ancestors (which involves roasting and dungeons among other dubious punishments), with hilarious results...." | 
         | 2219 | Preying For Mercy | Patricia Briggs | Jun-08 | Urban Fantasy, Paranormal, Fantasy, Vampires, Werewolves, Paranormal Romance, Shapeshifters, Romance, Adult, Magic | Adam Hauptman, Zee (Siebold Adelbertsmiter), Mercy Thompson | "Omnibus edition of Moon Called, Blood Bound ANDIron Kissed." | 
         | 2220 | The Gates | John Connolly  | 2009 | Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult, Horror, Humor, Supernatural, Paranormal, Science Fiction, Demons, Urban Fantasy | Mrs Abernathy, The Great Malevolence, Samuel Johnson (John Connolly) | "Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund, Boswell, are trying to show initiative by trick-or-treating a full three days before Halloween which is how they come to witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Road. The Abernathys don't mean any harm by their flirtation with the underworld, but when they unknowingly call forth Satan himself, they create a gap in the universe. A gap in which a pair of enormous gates is visible. The gates to Hell. And there are some pretty terrifying beings just itching to get out...Can one small boy defeat evil? Can he harness the power of science, faith, and love to save the world as we know it?Bursting with imagination, The Gates is about the pull between good and evil, physics and fantasy. It is about a quirky and eccentric boy who is impossible not to love, and the unlikely cast of characters who give him the strength to stand up to a demonic power.John Connolly manages to re-create the magical and scary world of childhood that we've all left behind but so love to visit. And for those of you who thought you knew everything you could about particle physics and the universe, think again. This novel makes anything seem possible." | 
         | 2221 | The Mystery of the Secret Room | Enid Blyton | 2002 | Mystery, Childrens, Fiction, Adventure, Middle Grade, Detective, Young Adult, British Literature, Juvenile, Whodunit | ""Philip ''Pip'' Hilton"", ""Margaret ''Daisy'' Dakin"", Buster the Dog, ""Laurence ''Larry'' Daykin"", Inspector Jenks, ""Frederick Algernon ''Fatty'' Trotteville"", ""Elizabeth ''Bets'' Hilton"" | "In the cold and foggy Christmas holidays, it doesn't seem as though the Five Find-Outers and Dog will have anything exciting to investigate. Fatty's got some wonderful new disguises, but there doesn't seem to be any mystery for them at all this time. Then Pip stumbles on a single furnished room in an otherwise deserted house. They try to find out whom the house belongs to, but they're not making much progress - until Fatty decides to go to the house to see what he can uncover. Suddenly trapped by the men inside, he writes a note to his friends, apparently innocuous enough, but with another secret message hidden beneath it. Mr Goon has tried investigating the house too, but only ends up locked in the coal cellar and covered in dust. The rest of the Find-Outers call Inspector Jenks to help Fatty, and find the house has been a place for storing stolen goods and the men inside are wanted criminals. Another mystery safely solved!" | 
         | 2222 | Two Women | Martina Cole | Published | Crime, Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Abuse, Drama, Audiobook, Modern, Contemporary | Sue Dalston, Matilda Enderby | "Danger and violence have always been part of Sue Dalston's East End upbringing. Unloved by her mother, abused by her father, and brutalised throughout her entire marriage, she smashed her husband's skull in a final act of desperation. All that keeps her sane is knowing that she's done it to protect her four children. At last, they are safe from harm. When she is celled up with murderess Matilda Enderby, their fates become inextricably linked. And no one - least of all Sue - could have predicted the consequences..." | 
         | 2223 | Il ciclo di Retief vol.1 | Keith Laumer | Fanucci | 1E+13 | Science Fiction | "I Classici della Fantascienza e della Fantasy 5I VolumeRaccolta completa di tutte le avventure di Retief, scritte da Keith Laumer. Il volume contiene: Racconti:-Il gigante assassino | 
         | 2224 | Debt of Bones | Terry Goodkind | Nov-04 | Fantasy, Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Magic, Adventure, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic, Adult, American | Mariska, Abby, ""Zeddicus Zu''l Zorander"", Jana, Delora, Mother Confessor, Panis Rahl, Anargo, Helsa, Erilyn, Thomas (Terry Goodkind) | "A milestone of storytelling set in the world of The Sword of Truth, Debt of Bones is the story of young Abby's struggle to win the aid of the wizard Zedd Zorander, the most important man alive. Abby is trapped, not only between both sides of the war, but in a mortal conflict between two powerful men. For Zedd, who commands power most men can only imagine, granting Abby's request would mean forsaking his sacred duty. With the storm of the final battle about to break, both Abby and Zedd are caught in a desperate fight to save the life of a child....but neither can escape the shadow of an ancient betrayal. With time running out, their only choice may be a debt of bones. The world-for Zedd, for Abby,for everyone-will never again be the same." | 
         | 2225 | In Their Footsteps | Tess Gerritsen  | 2004 | Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Fiction, Romance, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, Romantic Suspense, Harlequin, American | Jordan Tavistock, Beryl Tavistock, Richard Wolf, Hugh Tavistock, Claude Daumier | "Old secrets die hard....The quiet scandal surrounding her parents' deaths twenty years ago has always haunted Beryl Tavistock. Now she's decided that the only way to exorcise the ghosts of the past is to search for the truth. Beryl starts asking dangerous questions, and the answers are proving that old secrets die hard. Caught in what's become a deadly game of cat-and-mouse, her quest takes her from the rain-slick streets of Paris to the sun-drenched isles of Greece. And as she gets pulled into a world of espionage, Beryl quickly discovers that she needs help. Richard Wolf, an ex-CIA agent and a man she's only just met, is her only hope. But in a world where trust is a double-edged sword, friends become enemies, and enemies become killers . . ." | 
         | 2226 | Surrender Bay | Denise Hunter  | Oct-07 | Christian Fiction, Romance, Christian, Contemporary, Fiction, Christian Romance, Contemporary Romance, Chick Lit, Inspirational, Clean Romance | Samantha Owen, Landon Reed | "On the beautiful island of Nantucket, salt and roses scent the air, waves sparkle over hidden currents, and a storm-tossed soul seeks safe harbor.When Samantha Owen's estranged stepfather dies, she inherits his cottage in Nantucket-a place she left years ago, never planning to return. As a single mom, Sam can't afford to pass up on a financial windfall like ocean-front property. So she travels home to fix up the house and sell it . . . never suspecting that Landon Reed still lives two doors down. As their long-dormant romance begins to bud again, Sam must face the fact that Landon still doesn't know why she left the island. Will the secrets she's hidden all these years tear them apart . . . or is Landon's love really as unconditional as he claims?Denise Hunter weaves a heart-tugging tale of shattered trust and enduring love . . . all in a romantic seaside setting." | 
         | 2227 | Paradise News | David Lodge | 1993 | Fiction, Humor, Novels, British Literature, Contemporary, Literature, Comedy, 20th Century, English Literature, Travel | Bernard Walsh | "Paradise, tourist style. It's a very long way from home.Bernard Walsh is in Hawaii on family business, escorting his querulous father to the bedside of a long-forgotten aunt. His mission transports him from quiet obscurity in Rummridge, England, to a lush tropical playground, from cloistered solitude into the unfamiliar company of package tourists: honeymooners; young women looking for Mr. Nice; families nuclear and fissile. But it is the island itself that holds the most astonishing surprises, as an accidental encounter opens up to Bernard possibilities of life, and love, never dreamed of in his normally overcast habitat. Paradise News is an enchanting-and very funny-portrait of the late flowering of an honest man." | 
         | 2228 | Singapur, czwarta rano | Marcin Bruczkowski | Nov-05 | Polish Literature, Travel, Asia, Nonfiction | Pawel | "Autor Bezsenności w Tokio tym razem zabiera Czytelników do Singapuru - nie tylko o czwartej rano... Bohaterami powieści są Paweł - polski perkusista-hobbysta, jego przyjaciele z zespołu i ich dziewczyny. Różnią ich kolory skóry, języki, religie, temperamenty, łączy wspólna pasja: muzyka. Jak potoczy się kariera Pawła i Highway 69?Dowcipnie, zaskakująco i przewrotnie Autor pokazuje realia życia w Singapurze. Posługuje się potocznym językiem muzyków, a jednocześnie bezpiecznie przeprowadza przez zawiłości Singlish. Dla smakoszy - nie zabraknie opowieści o miejscowych przysmakach i przepisów kulinarnych." | 
         | 2229 | The Black Angel | John Connolly  | Feb-06 | Thriller, Mystery, Crime, Horror, Fiction, Supernatural, Paranormal, Mystery Thriller, Fantasy, Suspense | Rachel Honeybourne (Beauty), Angel, Charlie Parker, Louis, Brightwell | "When a young woman disappears from the streets of New York City, ties of friendship and blood inevitably draw ingenious, tortured detective Charlie Parker into the search. Soon he discovers links to a church of bones in Eastern Europe, a 1944 slaughter at a French monastery, and to the myth of an object known as the Black Angel - considered by evil men to be beyond priceless. But the Black Angel is not a legend. It is real. It lives. It dreams. And the mystery of its existence may contain the secret of Parker's own origins." | 
         | 2230 | Hunting for Hidden Gold | Franklin W. Dixon | Jun-03 | Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Adventure, Classics, Detective, Juvenile, Audiobook, Middle Grade | Frank Hardy, Chet Morton, Joe Hardy, Fenton Hardy, Aunt Gertrude, Biff Hooper, Tony Prito, Mike Onslow, George Haskins, Lenny Haskins, Hank Shale, John Coulson, James Coulson, Bart Dawson, Bob Dodge, Ben Tinker, Jim Burke, Sheriff Kenner, Big Al, Slim, Ira Kleeder, Hopkins, Zeke, Robby, Nick, Whitlow | "Timber wolves, a Rocky Mountain blizzard, and a mine cave-in are only a few of the perils Frank and Joe Hardy encounter during their search for the principal members of a notorious gang responsible for a payroll robbery. In the old Montana mining camp of Lucky Lode, the young detectives puzzle over a series of mysterious events. A piano-playing ghost haunts the long-abandoned dance hall. Eerie blue lights flash from the hilltop cemetery in the dark of night. Strange men arrange a meeting at Shadow the Bear. A suspect disappears through a curtain of frozen ice. How are these events related to the men who kidnapped the boys in Chicago? Who booby-trapped the helicopter which flew the young detectives to the ghost town? And what ever happened to Bart Dawson who seemingly deserted his gold-mining partners twenty-five years ago? Clue by clue, Frank and Joe cleverly fit into place the scattered pieces of this dangerous puzzle and come up with the astonishing solution." | 
         | 2231 | Garden of the Purple Dragon | Carole Wilkinson | 2007 | Fantasy, Dragons, Young Adult, Adventure, Fiction, Childrens, Historical Fiction, Magic, Middle Grade, Historical | Ping, Long Kai Duan, Hua | "Book jacket: In the time of the Han Dynasty in ancient China, a young orphan struggles to fulfill her destiny. Ping has survived her days as a slave at Huangling Palace, but new challenges await her in the desolate mountains of Tai Shan. The wise dragon, Danzi, is no longer around to guide her, and now it is up to Ping to take care of the baby dragon, Kai. Food is scarce, and she must constantly be on the lookout for enemies. Things seem to get better when fate leads them back to the Imperial Palace, to the Garden of the Purple Dragon. Yet even within these hallowed walls, Ping and Kai are not as they believe." | 
         | 2232 | Winnie-the-Pooh Meets Gopher (Little Golden Book) | A.A. Milne, George Desantis (Adaptor) | 1974 | Childrens, Picture Books, Fiction, Animals | ""Gopher (Disney''s Winnie the Pooh)"", ""Winnie the Pooh (Disney''s)"", ""Rabbit (Disney''s Winnie the Pooh)"", ""Christopher Robin (Disney''s Winnie the Pooh)"" | Please don't delete. This edition doesn't have an ISBN. | 
         | 2233 | The Difference Engine | William Gibson, Bruce Sterling | Feb-92 | Steampunk, Science Fiction, Fiction, Alternate History, Cyberpunk, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Novels | Charles Babbage, Sybil Gerard, Edward ""Leviathan"" Mallory, Laurence Oliphant | "1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. And three extraordinary characters race toward a rendezvous with history - and the future: Sybil Gerard - dishonored woman and daughter of a Luddite agitator; Edward ""Leviathan"" Mallory - explorer and paleontologist; Laurence Oliphant - diplomat and spy. Their adventure begins with the discovery of a box of punched Engine cards of unknown origin and purpose. Cards someone wants badly enough to kill for...Part detective story, part historical thriller, The Difference Engine is the first collaborative novel by two of the most brilliant and controversial science fiction authors of our time. Provocative, compelling, intensely imagined, it is a startling extension of Gibson's and Sterling's unique visions - in a new and totally unexpected direction!" | 
         | 2234 | The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck | Beatrix Potter | 2002 | Childrens, Picture Books, Classics, Fiction, Animals, Fantasy, Juvenile, British Literature, Short Stories, Childrens Classics | Jemima Puddle-Duck | "The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck is an original classic by Beatrix Potter.Poor Jemima. All she wants to do is lay her eggs in peace, and be allowed to hatch them herself. At last she flies off and finds the perfect place. Little does the silly duck realise that the charming gentleman who has lent her his woodshed is busily planning a delicious meal of . . . roast duck!Jemima was a real duck belonging to Beatrix Potter, who lived at her farm, Hill Top. The story also features Beatrix's own sheepdog, Kep, who thankfully manages to save Jemima from a nasty fate!Beatrix Potter is regarded as one of the world's best-loved children's authors of all time. From her first book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, published by Frederick Warne in 1902, she went on to create a series of stories based around animal characters including Mrs. Tiggy-winkle, Benjamin Bunny, Jemima Puddle-duck, Mr. Jeremy Fisher and Tom Kitten.Her humorous, lively tales and beautiful illustrations have become a natural part of childhood. With revenue from the sales of her books, Beatrix Potter bought a farm - Hill Top - in the English Lake District, where she later became a farmer and prize-winning sheep breeder. She launched the now vast merchandise programme by patenting the very first Peter Rabbit doll in 1903. The product range continues to grow today with licences around the world including baby clothing and bedding, nursery decor products and collectables. Upon her death, Beatrix Potter left 14 farms and over 4000 acres of Lake District farmland to the National Trust so that the place that she loved would remain undeveloped and protected for future generations to enjoy.Today Beatrix Potter's original 23 tales are still published by Frederick Warne, alongside a wide range of other formats including baby books, activity books and gift and sound books.The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck is number nine in Beatrix Potter's series of 23 little books. Look out for the rest!1 The Tale of Peter Rabbit2 The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin3 The Tailor of Gloucester4 The Tale of Benjamin Bunny5 The Tale of Two Bad Mice6 The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle7 The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher8 The Tale of Tom Kitten9 The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck10 The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies11 The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse12 The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes13 The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse 14 The Tale of Mr. Tod15 The Tale of Pigling Bland16 The Tale of Samuel Whiskers17 The Tale of The Pie and the Patty-Pan18 The Tale of Ginger and Pickles19 The Tale of Little Pig Robinson20 The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit21 The Story of Miss Moppet22 Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes23 Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes" | 
         | 2235 | Un homme heureux | Arto Paasilinna | Feb-07 | Fiction, Humor, Finnish Literature, Novels, Comedy, European Literature, Roman | Akseli Jaatinen, Irene Koponen | "L'ingénieur Akseli Jaatinen a été chargé de construire un nouveau pont dans le village de Kuusmäki, à l'endroit même où, pendant la guerre civile de 1918, une sanglante bataille a opposé blancs et rouges – épisode dont la mémoire continue de diviser les habitants de la commune, par ailleurs peu enclins à se laisser bousculer dans leur train-train.Dans ce milieu fermé, Jaatinen aura vite fait de s'attirer des inimitiés par ses méthodes peu conformistes. De bisbilles en provocations, les relations se tendent entre les notables locaux et le nouveau venu, qui se fait non seulement rosser et humilier, mais aussi finalement renvoyer de son poste d'ingénieur. Mais Jaatinen n'est pas homme à se laisser faire. Méthodiquement, il met en œuvre une diabolique vengeance dont ses persécuteurs se mordront amèrement les doigts...Les ponts que construit l'ingénieur Jaatinen sont une métaphore puissante de la solidarité entre les hommes, et sa quête du bonheur laisse entrevoir ce que pourrait être une humanité ouverte et soucieuse d'autrui." | 
         | 2236 | Tanrı Daima Tebdil-i Kıyafet Gezer | Laurent Gounelle, Işık Ergüden (Translator) | Jun-12 | Fiction, Psychology, Contemporary, France, Self Help, Roman, French Literature, Literature, Personal Development, Novels | Audrey, Catherine, Alan Greenmor, Yves Dubreuil | "Mutluluğun kapını çalmasını bekleme, sen ona gitHayatını değiştirecek roman bu işte!Bir düşünün. İntihar etmek üzeresiniz. Bir adam hayatınızı kurtarıyor, ama karşılığında sizinle bir anlaşma yapıyor. Bundan sonra o ne söylerse sorgusuz sualsiz yapacaksınız. Kendi iyiliğiniz için... Çaresiz, kabul ediyorsunuz ve hayatınızın iplerini tıpkı bir kukla gibi başkasının ellerine bırakıyorsunuz. Ve hayatınız eskisinden çok daha güzel oluyor. Yine de şüpheleriniz var: Bu adam aslında kim? Çevresindeki gizemli kişilerin sırrı ne? Sizden aslında ne istiyor?Tanrı Daima Tebdil-i Kıyafet Gezer, kendi kendimize koyduğumuz engelleri, korkularımızı ve önyargılarımızı nasıl aşacağımızın, kaderimiz sandığımız mutsuz bir yaşamı, bizi mutluluğa götüren bir yolculuğa nasıl dönüştüreceğimizin hikâyesi.""Laurent Gounelle bir mutluluk fabrikatörü... Eğer mutluluğun bir reçetesi varsa, Gounelle o reçeteyi biliyor olmalı.""Le Figaro""Yeni Coelho.""L'Express""İnsanın kendini arayışı ve başkasını anlaması hakkındaki bu benzersiz roman, kendine güven ve özgürlük üzerine işe yarar tavsiyeler veriyor.""France Soir""Sürükleyici ve kolay okunan bir kitap. Hem iyi bir kişisel gelişim kitabı hem de güzel bir roman. Bayıldım!""Critiques Libres""Sonuna kadar gizemini koruyan, mizahi ve şiirsel bir roman.""L'est-éclair" | 
         | 2237 | Beneath a Silent Moon | Tracy Grant  | 2003 | Mystery, Historical Fiction, Romance, Historical, Historical Mystery, Fiction, Regency, Espionage, Historical Romance, Suspense | Simon Tanner, Malcolm Rannoch Charles Fraser | "June-July 1817 The task had taken shape thanks to the inconvenient way secrets had of bubbling to the surface. It went without saying that it was going to be difficult. But then, murder always was…  The London docks.  Beneath a silent moon, a mysterious exile slips back into the city to complete a nefarious mission that began decades before.  On that same night, London's titled, wealthy and beautiful waltz the night away at Glenister House. Among the guests aristocratic Charles Fraser, a former spy recently returned from the Napoleonic Wars, and his bride Mélanie, who has charmed London society but hides her own secrets. In the brilliance of Mayfair, a visitor from their past pulls Charles and Mélanie back into the world of danger and espionage they thought they had left behind. But this time, the intrigues are rooted in Charles's complex and troubled family. Melanie and Charles Fraser have traded the moment-to-moment dangers of the war-ravaged Continent for the glittering world of the British ton. But beneath the shimmering veneer of London society, they discover an establishment that is rotten to its very core. An assassination and a trail of clues that lead back to the French Revolution itself plunge Charles and Melanie once more into the danger that has always been the common ground in their marriage. As they search for the truth, they find that the answers cut shockingly close to their own friends and family - including the seemingly perfect Honoria Talbot.  A secret society, and the dangerous liaisons of the Fraser family lead Charles and Mélanie from the glittering ballrooms and shadowy streets of London to the Fraser estate on the Scottish coast. This is a deadly game that could shake the fate of nations: but for Charles, the stakes are the lives of those he holds most dear, and the love of the enigmatic woman who shares his name...and his bed. " | 
         | 2238 | The Blue Umbrella | Ruskin Bond | Published | Fiction, India, Short Stories, Childrens, Indian Literature, Novella, Classics, Asian Literature, Novels, Adventure | Binya, Bijju, Ram Bharosa | "'The umbrella was like a flower, a great blue flower that had sprung up on the dry brown hillside.'In exchange for her lucky leopard's claw pendant, Binya acquires a beautiful blue umbrella that makes her the envy of everyone in the village, especially Ram Bharosa, the shopkeeper. It is the prettiest umbrella in the whole village and she carries it everywhere she goes. The Blue Umbrella is a short and humorous novella set in the hills of Garhwal. Written in simple yet witty language, it captures life in a village - where ordinary characters become heroic, and others find opportunities to redeem themselves." | 
         | 2239 | Night Train | Martin Amis | 1999 | Fiction, Mystery, Crime, Novels, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, British Literature, Detective, Noir, Literature | Mike Hoolihan, Jennifer Rockwell, Tom Rockwell, Trader Faulkner | "Detective Mike Hoolihan has seen it all. A fifteen-year veteran of the force, she's gone from walking a beat, to robbery, to homicide. But one case-this case-has gotten under her skin.When Jennifer Rockwell, darling of the community and daughter of a respected career cop-now top brass-takes her own life, no one is prepared to believe it. Especially her father, Colonel Tom. Homicide Detective Mike Hoolihan, longtime colleague and friend of Colonel Tom, is ready to ""put the case down."" Suicide. Closed. Until Colonel Tom asks her to do the one thing any grieving father would ask: take a second look.Not since his celebrated novel Money has Amis turned his focus on America to such remarkable effect. Fusing brilliant wordplay with all the elements of the classic whodunit, Amis exposes a world where surfaces are suspect (no matter how perfect), where paranoia is justified (no matter how pervasive), and where power and pride are brought low by the hidden recesses of our humanity." | 
         | 2240 | The Wicked Girls | Alex Marwood | Jun-12 | Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Audiobook, British Literature, Adult Fiction, Adult | Jade Walker, Annabel Oldacre, Amber Gordon, Kirsty Lindsay, Chloe Francis, Jackie Jacobs, Martin Bagshawe | "One summer morning, three little girls meet for the first time. By the end of the day, two will be charged with murder. Twenty-five years later, journalist Kirsty Lindsay is reporting on a series of sickening attacks on young female tourists in a seaside town when her investigation leads her to interview funfair cleaner Amber Gordon. For Kirsty and Amber, it's the first time they've seen each other since that dark day when they were just children. But with new lives - and families - to protect, will they really be able to keep their wicked secret hidden?" | 
         | 2241 | Le Ventre de l'Atlantique | Fatou Diome | 2006 | Fiction, Africa, France, School, Senegal, French Literature, Novels, Read For School, Contemporary, African Literature | Salie | "Salie vit en France. Son frère, Madické, rêve de l'y rejoindre et compte sur elle. Mais comment lui expliquer la face cachée de l'immigration, lui qui voit la France comme une terre promise où réussissent les footballeurs sénégalais, où vont se réfugier ceux qui, comme Sankèle, fuient leur destin tragique ? Comment empêcher Madické et ses camarades de laisser courir leur imagination, quand l'homme de Barbès, de retour au pays, gagne en notabilité, escamote sa véritable vie d'émigré et les abreuve de récits où la France passe pour la mythique Arcadie ? Les relations entre Madické et Salie nous dévoilent l'inconfortable situation des "" venus de France "", écrasés par les attentes démesurées de ceux qui sont restés au pays et confrontés à la difficulté d'être l'autre partout. Distillant leurre et espoir, Le Ventre de l'Atlantique charrie entre l'Europe et l'Afrique des destins contrastés, saisis dans le tourbillon des sentiments contraires, suscités par l'irrésistible appel de l'Ailleurs. Car, même si la souffrance de ceux qui restent est indicible, il s'agit de partir, voguer, libre comme une algue de l'Atlantique. Ce premier roman, sans concession, est servi par une écriture pleine de souffle et d'humour." | 
         | 2242 | The Adventures of Holly Hobbie | Richard S. Dubelman | Published | Fiction, Childrens, Young Adult | Liz Dutton, Holly Hobbie, Danny Sutton, John Dutton, Agatha Dutton, Melville Dutton | "Not a trace is found of celebrated arcaeologist Melville Dutton, who mysteriously vanished in the trackless jungles of Central America. His quest-the greatest of Maya ruins-the lost Jaguar City. Hope for the survival of the charismatic explorer is eventually abandoned. Only his daughter, Liz, tormented by a recurring nightmare, steadfastly believes that her father is alive.On a snowy Thanksgiving in her grandparents' New England farmhouse, Liz is entranced by a portrait of her ancestor-a breathtakingly beautiful teen-age girl. The haunting picture, painted in 1803, seems to glow with an indefinable magic. Flames dance wildly in the old stone fireplace... heatwaves shimmer... definition is obscurred... then--Holly Hobbie. Is this intelligent, graceful young girl in colonial dress another of Liz's dreams? Or the portrait come to life?The author takes us along with Holly and Liz on a fascinating odyssey triggered by scattered clues-the snarling jaguar pendant, Dutton's last jungle diaries, cryptic Maya inscriptions-all crucial in linking their destiny with that of Mel Dutton.-Excerpt of book jacket description." | 
         | 2243 | The Secret of Chimneys | Agatha Christie | 2001 | Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Detective, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Audiobook, Thriller, Murder Mystery | Superintendent Battle, Lady Eileen Brent, Bill Eversleigh, George Lomax, Tredwell, Clement Edward Alistair Brent, Lord Caterham, Anthony Cade, Virginia Revel | "A bit of adventure and quick cash is all that good-natured drifter Anthony Cade is looking for when he accepts a messenger job from an old friend. It sounds so simple: deliver the provocative memoirs of a recently deceased European count to a London publisher. Little did Anthony suspect that a simple errand to deliver the manuscript on behalf of his friend would drop him right in the middle of an international conspiracy, and he begins to realize that it has placed him in serious danger. Why were Count Stylptich's memoirs so important? And what was ""King Victor"" really after? The parcel holds ore than scandalous royal secrets - because it contains a stash of letters that suggest blackmail. Someone would stop at nothing to prevent the monarchy being restored in faraway Herzoslovakia.Wherever ravishing Virginia Revel went, death seemed sure to follow. First her husband died. The next to perish was a foreign prince whose ruthless power was matched by his scandalous passions. Then a bungling blackmailer followed them into the grave. Murder, blackmail, stolen letters, and a fabulous missing jewel: all under the not always co-operative eyes of Scotland Yard and the Surete. All threads lead to Chimneys, one of England's historic country house estates, where a master murderer mingled with the aristocratic guests. Virginia could turn to only one person to prove her innocence and end her nightmare, and she could only pray that she had not put her life into the hands of the man who was out to take it...." | 
         | 2244 | Beyoğlu'nun En Güzel Abisi | Ahmet Ümit | Oct-13 | Turkish Literature, Roman, Turkish, Fiction, Crime, Mystery, Novels, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Thriller | Başkomiser Nevzat, Komiser Ali, Nizam Kara, Kriminolog Zeynep, İhsan Yıldızeli, Engin Akça | """Aşk, yaşamı; cinayet, ölümü sıradanlıktan kurtarır."" Yılbaşı gecesi işlenen bir cinayet... Tarlabaşı’nın arka sokaklarında bulunan bir erkek cesedi. Öldürülmüş erkeklerin en yakışıklısı, belki de en kötüsü. Karanlık sırların ortaya çıkardığı utanç verici bir gerçek. Gururlarının kurbanı olmuş erkekler, onların hayatlarını yaşamak zorunda olan kadınlar. Bu cinayetler yatağında, bu kötülükler bahçesinde, bu insan eti satılan can pazarında masumiyetini korumaya çalışan bir adam. Bir zamanlar İstanbul’un en gözde yeri olan Beyoğlu’nun hazin hikâyesi. Karanlık...  Soğuk havayla iyice ağırlaşan bir karanlık. Uzaklardan şarkılar geliyor kulağına, neşeli kadın çığlıkları, ayarını yitirmiş sarhoş naraları, biri küfrediyor belki ana avrat, belki ağlıyor biri hıçkıra hıçkıra, belki biri sessizce ölüyor bu gürültünün, bu hengâmenin ortasında. Umurunda değil. Hepsinden sıyrılmış, sadece öfke...  Nereye gittiğini bilmeden yürüyor, nefret tarafından kuşatılmış olarak. Kıskançlık denen o canavar, çelikten pençesine almış yüreğini, habire sıkıyor. “Kadınlar,” diyor bir ses zihninin derinliklerinden...  “Kadınlar, onlarla oynayamazsın... Oynadığını zannedersin ama bir de bakmışsın, asıl oyuncak sen olmuşsun.” Hayatına giren kadınların yüzleri beliriyor sokağın zemininde. Birer birer düşüyor görüntüleri ayaklarının dibine. Hepsinin boynu bükük, hepsinin gözlerinde keder. Hepsi üzgün... Aldırmıyor, bir su birikintisiymiş gibi basıp geçiyor üzerlerinden ama yeniden düşüyor görüntüler zemine. “Kadınlar,” diyor o ses yine, “Kadınlardan asla kurtulamazsın, hayaletleri hayatın boyunca seni takip eder.”" | 
         | 2245 | Changing Places | David Lodge | 1979 | Fiction, Humor, Novels, Literature, British Literature, Academia, Comedy, Contemporary, 20th Century, Literary Fiction | Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp | "Anyone intrigued by differences between American and British academic institutions will find this an amusing and accurate send-up. David Lodge, portraying two American and British professors who replace one another at their respective institutions, gives greed, pettiness, and pretense full rein." | 
         | 2246 | Załatwiaczka | Milena Wójtowicz | Jan-07 | Fantasy, Polish Literature, Urban Fantasy, Vampires | Małgorzata Brzeska | "(notka z tylnej okładki)Potrzebujesz tony humoru, funta zagadek kryminalnych przyprawionych słodko-gorzkimi perypetiami bohaterki? Sięgnij po ""Załatwiaczkę"" i załatwione!Małgorzata wyjeżdża na studia do Anglii. Nie spodziewa się, że w spadku po życzliwej staruszce dostanie dom i ekscentryczne zajęcie. Nie przypuszcza, że na dziesięć lat wciągnie ją w swe tryby Korporacja... Załatwiaczy. Poznaj wampira - uwodziciela, czarodzieja - działacza społecznego, przedsiębiorczego czytacza marzeń czy wróżkę z wyrokiem w zawieszeniu...A tak na marginesie - znajomi nie znaleźli Ci jeszcze roboty w Anglii? Zadzwoń do ZAŁATWIACZKI" | 
         | 2247 | The Secret of the Old Mill | Franklin W. Dixon | 2002 | Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Adventure, Detective, Middle Grade, Mystery Thriller, Juvenile | Frank Hardy, Mr. Morton, Chet Morton, Iola Morton, Callie Shaw, Joe Hardy, Fenton Hardy, Aunt Gertrude, Roberts, Ken Blake, Oscar Smuff, Mr. Reed, Ezra Collig, Miss Benson, Mrs. Morton, Tony Prito, Mr. Markel, Mr. Evans, Mr. Docker, Mrs. Smith, Paul Blum, Laura Hardy | "Determined to learn the secret of the old mill, Frank and Joe employ a clever ruse to gain entrance and become trapped. There they unravel two mysteries, one involving a counterfeiting case and the other, a national security case their father is working on." | 
         | 2248 | Cassidy | Lee Nelson | Published | Westerns, Historical, Adventure, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Lds Fiction, Novels, Lds, Young Adult | Butch Cassidy | "The story of the Mormon farm boy from Southern Utah who put together the longest string of successful bank and train robberies in the history of the American West. Unlike most cowboy outlaws of his day, Butch Cassidy defended the poor and oppressed, refused to shoot people, and shared his stolen wealth with those in need.  Early in his outlaw career, Butch discovered true love. Her name was Mary, and the love they shared lasted for decades. However, Pinkerton agents, law officers, bank detectives and bounty hunters chased Cassidy relentlessly, making it impossible for him to leave the outlaw life, eventually pushing him to seek refugein Argentina and Bolivia. But in the end Butch outsmarted them all." | 
         | 2249 | The Invitation | Jude Deveraux | 1994 | Romance, Historical Romance, Historical, Fiction, Anthologies, Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, Historical Fiction, Adult, Short Stories | Kane Taggert, Cole Hunter, ""Jackie O''Neill"", William Montgomery, Cale Anderson, Dorie Lathan | "original cover of the paperback edition of Jude Deveraux's The Invitation with ISBN 0-671-74458-5Jackie O'Neill was a daredevil pilot and a true American heroine...a woman so beautiful men stopped in their tracks to watch her walk down the street, her long confident strides eating up the earth. After years of nonstop excitement - of traveling around the globe in a chaotic rags-to-riches-to-rags whirl with her late husband, Charley - Jackie had returned to Eternity, Colorado, near her hometown of Chandler. She wanted to put down roots, start a business, maybe someday fall in love again. But she never dreamed that the man who might make all her wishes come true was William Montgomery...little Billy, the lovesick boy who dogged her every step when she was a teenager...little Billy, who was now definitely a man, handsome, sexy, rich, and still madly in love with Jackie O'Neill....In THE INVITATION, MATCHMAKERS, and A PERFECT ARRANGEMENT, Jude Deveraux brings us three novellas destined to delight us with her special brand of whimsy, while touching our hearts with the delicious romance that only comes from the imagination of America's most beloved storyteller." | 
         | 2250 | Death Note: Black Edition, Vol. 2 | Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata, Yuki Kowalsky (translator) | 2009 | Graphic Novels, Comics, Fantasy, Manga, Young Adult, Horror, Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Crime | Light Yagami, Ryuk | "Intégrale regroupant les tomes 3 et 4Tome 3 :La résidence de Light est placée sous surveillance vidéo. L et Light se livrent un duel silencieux relayé par les caméras cachées dans la maison du jeune homme. Grâce à un habile stratagème, Light parvient à établir la preuve de son innocence. Cela n'empêche pas L d'avoir des soupçons de plus en plus forts et de passer à l'action. Parviendra-t-il à démasquer le mystérieux Kira ?Tome 4Un second Kira, dont les méthodes diffèrent de celles de Light, a fait son apparition. Au quartier général d'enquête, L contacte Light afin de lui demander sa collaboration. Ce dernier découvre alors le sens cahé du message envoyé par l'autre Kira ! Light décide de préparer une rencontre? !" | 
         | 2251 | Death Note: Black Edition, Vol. 2 | Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata, Yuki Kowalsky (translator) | 2009 | Graphic Novels, Comics, Fantasy, Manga, Young Adult, Horror, Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Crime | Light Yagami, Ryuk | "Intégrale regroupant les tomes 3 et 4Tome 3 :La résidence de Light est placée sous surveillance vidéo. L et Light se livrent un duel silencieux relayé par les caméras cachées dans la maison du jeune homme. Grâce à un habile stratagème, Light parvient à établir la preuve de son innocence. Cela n'empêche pas L d'avoir des soupçons de plus en plus forts et de passer à l'action. Parviendra-t-il à démasquer le mystérieux Kira ?Tome 4Un second Kira, dont les méthodes diffèrent de celles de Light, a fait son apparition. Au quartier général d'enquête, L contacte Light afin de lui demander sa collaboration. Ce dernier découvre alors le sens cahé du message envoyé par l'autre Kira ! Light décide de préparer une rencontre? !" | 
         | 2252 | Nightmares and Dreamscapes | Stephen King  | 1994 | Horror, Short Stories, Fiction, Fantasy, Thriller, Anthologies, Mystery, Supernatural, Collections, Suspense | Matt Knaide, Candy Kane, Andy Estes, Ryan Stretton, Ramu, Oliver Stanley, Peoria Smith, Robbie Delray, Sissy Thomas, Orrin Campbell, Selida McCammon, Jagger Barney, Ron St. Pierre, Richard Rubinstein, Katie Weiderman, Constable Vette, Maddie Sullivan, Samuel D. Landry, Mrs. Hemphill, Vernon Klein, Andy Kingsbury, Lady Hull, Carlton Cagnon, Polly Weiderman, Johnny Brinkmayer, Gary Martin Paulson, Fred Moore, Burt Dorfman, John Squales, Graf Dracula, Ryan Iarrobino, Clive Banning, Lewis Evans, Doris Freeman, Merton Morrison, Briggs Sheridan, Tim Flanders, Mr. Jefferies, Jory Hull, La Plata, Clem Upshaw, Suzanne Holding, Matt Arsenault, Casey Kinney, Mrs. Scooter, Bedelia Aaronson, Cora Leonard, Phil Budreau, Douglas Keefer, Claire Bowie, Ray Sarch, General Mercantile, Peter Rosewall, Duke Rhineman, Phil Tarbox, Ezra Hannon, Boxcar Willie, Johnny Rosewall, Georgie Ronkler, Carlton Gagnon, Carl Stowe, Lord Albert Hull, Alden Osgood, George Sullivan, William Weiderman, Janet Brightwood, Reverend Chadband, Lou Reed, Mr. Lathrop, Clark Willingham, Old Clut, Violet Mitla, Mrs. Dattlebaum, Amigo Bill, Ching-Ling Soong, Henry Eden, Lenny Partridge, Joe Wilcox, Lester Olson, Cameron Stevens, Paul Jannings, Matt Hoyt, Mike Wentworth, Miss Rotrock, Candi Pulsifer, Kate Weiderman, Reverend Johnson, Mr. Slattery, Lonnie Freeman, Harris Burdick, Nick Trzaskos, Frank Daggett, Mama Delorme, Gloria Demmick, Richard Bachman, ""Officer O''Bannion"", Richard Dees, Dennis Feeney, Mr. Oliver Stanley, Dave King, Mr. Reggie, Cal Partridge, Jeff Carson, Clivey, Buck Kendall, Harley McKissick, Maddie Pace, Jason Auger, Ardis McGill, William I. Hogan, Mr. Dolan, Gary Paulson, ""O''Bannion"", Arthur Dorr, Jerry Tarkanian, Ellen Sarch, Tim Pollack, Milly Cousins, Elise Graham, Alex Trebek, Sonny Dotson, Mrs. Hemphills, Ted Vetter, Bill Hogan, Dwight Frye, Josh Jamieson, Matt Francke, Bobby Daggett, Peter Jefferies, Dan Bouchard, Mike Greenwells, Norman Rockwell, Albert Hull, Mr. Bryan Adams, Dwight Renfield, Buddy Jenkins, Timothy Urich, Thomas Wolfe, Darcy Sagamore, John Clutterbuck, J. J. Fiddler, Martha Rosewall, George Banning, Harvey Blocker, Lucy Doucette, Humphrey Dagbolt, Kevin Rochefort, Mike Pelkey, Jack Pace, Hyde Park, Alvin Coy, Dudley Rhinemann, Bill DeHorne, Rick Nelson, Stanley Sturgis, Owen King, Evvie, Trent Bradbury, Neil Waterman, Mike Tardif, Cappy MacFarland, Octavia Kinsolving, Bob Daggett, Norma Kamali, Stephen Hull, Mr. Jory Hull, Joe Newall, Howard Mitla, John Tell, Herb Yellin, Libby Grannit, Brandon Pearson, Roger Clemens, Mr. Hanning, Miss Sidley, Bill Tuggle, Mike Arnold, Ross Macdonald, Moira Richardson, Robert Farnham, Laura Stanton, Ryan Fernald, Paul Corliss, Dana Roy, Mary Willingham, Benny Ellis, Robert Fornoy, Dave Eamons, Mrs. Krutchmer, Sheila Farnham, Dave Mansfield, Mrs. Crossen, Matt Kinney, Leonard Freeman, Brian Bradbury, Billy Beck, Matt Knaide, Candy Kane, Andy Estes, Ryan Stretton, Ramu, Oliver Stanley, Peoria Smith, Robbie Delray, Sissy Thomas, Orrin Campbell, Selida McCammon, Jagger Barney, Ron St. Pierre, Richard Rubinstein, Catherine Evans, Katie Weiderman, Constable Vette, Maddie Sullivan, Samuel D. Landry, Mrs. Hemphill, Vernon Klein, Andy Kingsbury, Lady Hull, Carlton Cagnon, Polly Weiderman, Johnny Brinkmayer, Gary Martin Paulson, Burt Dorfman, John Squales, Graf Dracula, Ryan Iarrobino, Clive Banning, Lewis Evans, Doris Freeman, Merton Morrison, Briggs Sheridan, Tim Flanders, Mr. Jefferies, Jory Hull, La Plata, Clem Upshaw, Suzanne Holding, Matt Arsenault, Casey Kinney, Mrs. Scooter, Bedelia Aaronson, Cora Leonard, Phil Budreau, Douglas Keefer, Claire Bowie, Ray Sarch, General Mercantile, Peter Rosewall, Duke Rhineman, Phil Tarbox, Ezra Hannon, Boxcar Willie, Johnny Rosewall, Georgie Ronkler, Carlton Gagnon, Carl Stowe, Lord Albert Hull, Alden Osgood, George Sullivan, William Weiderman, Janet Brightwood, Reverend Chadband, Lou Reed, Mr. Lathrop, Clark Willingham, Old Clut, Violet Mitla, Mrs. Dattlebaum, Amigo Bill, Ching-Ling Soong, Henry Eden, Lenny Partridge, Joe Wilcox, Lester Olson, Cameron Stevens, Paul Jannings, Matt Hoyt, Mike Wentworth, Miss Rotrock, Candi Pulsifer, Kate Weiderman, Frank Davis, Reverend Johnson, Mr. Slattery, Lonnie Freeman, Harris Burdick, Nick Trzaskos, Frank Daggett, Mama Delorme, Gloria Demmick, Richard Bachman, ""Officer O''Bannion"", Richard Dees, Dennis Feeney, Mr. Oliver Stanley, Dave King, Mr. Reggie, Cal Partridge, Jeff Carson, Clivey, Buck Kendall, Harley McKissick, Maddie Pace, Jason Auger, Ardis McGill, Mr. Dolan, Gary Paulson, ""O''Bannion"", Arthur Dorr, Jerry Tarkanian, Ellen Sarch, Tim Pollack, Milly Cousins, Elise Graham, Alex Trebek, Sonny Dotson, Mrs. Hemphills, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, Ted Vetter, Bill Hogan, Dwight Frye, Josh Jamieson, Matt Francke, Bobby Daggett, Peter Jefferies, Dan Bouchard, Mike Greenwells, Cora Leonard Newall, Catherine Bradbury, Norman Rockwell, Albert Hull, Mr. Bryan Adams, Dwight Renfield, Buddy Jenkins, Timothy Urich, Thomas Wolfe, Darcy Sagamore, John Clutterbuck, J. J. Fiddler, Martha Rosewall, George Banning, Clyde Umney, Harvey Blocker, Lucy Doucette, Humphrey Dagbolt, Kevin Rochefort, Mike Pelkey, Jack Pace, Hyde Park, Alvin Coy, Dudley Rhinemann, Bill DeHorne, Rick Nelson, Stanley Sturgis, Owen King, Evvie, Trent Bradbury, Neil Waterman, Mike Tardif, Cappy MacFarland, Octavia Kinsolving, Bob Daggett, Norma Kamali, Stephen Hull, Mr. Jory Hull, Joe Newall, Howard Mitla, John Tell, Herb Yellin, Libby Grannit, Brandon Pearson, Roger Clemens, Mr. Hanning, Miss Sidley, Bill Tuggle, Mike Arnold, Ross Macdonald, Moira Richardson, Robert Farnham, Laura Stanton, Ryan Fernald, Paul Corliss, Dana Roy, Mary Willingham, Catherine Evans, Mavis Weld | "A solitary finger pokes out of a drain. Novelty teeth turn predatory. Flies settle and die on an old pair of sneakers in New York, and the Nevada desert swallows a Cadillac. Meanwhile the legend of Castle Rock returns... and grows on you. What does it all mean? What else could it mean? First there was Night Shift (1978), then Skeleton Crew (1985), and now Stephen King is back with a third collection of stories - a vast, many-chambered cave of a volume, with passages leading every which way to hell... and a few to glory.The long reach of Stephen King's imagination and the no-holds-barred force of his storytelling have never been so richly demonstrated. There's something here for readers of every stripe and predilection - classic tales of the macabre and the monstrous, cutting-edge explorations of the borderlands between good and evil, brilliant pastiches of Chandler and Conan Doyle, even a teleplay and a non-fiction bonus, a heartfelt piece of Little League baseball that first appeared in The New Yorker.In story after story, several published here for the first time, he will take you to places you've never been before, places that are both dark and vividly illuminated. Fair warning: You will lose a good deal of sleep. But Stephen King, writing to beat the devil, will do your dreaming for you.Can you believe? Then come..." | 
         | 2253 | Tegengif | Judith Visser | 2006 | Thriller, Fiction | Kimberley Franklin | "Wanneer de negentienjarige Kim ontdekt dat haar grote liefde Edwin haar bedrogen heeft neemt ze een drastische beslissing: dit zal haar nooit meer gebeuren. Zij besluit zich te wapenen tegen toekomstig hartzeer en stort zich in de prostitutie alwaar zij op zoek gaat naar een walging zo sterk, dat hij altijd werkzaam zal blijven als tegengif tegen de liefde. Wat volgt is een ontluisterende tocht door de wereld van de betaalde seks in Rotterdam, waarbij de avonturen en gevoelens van Kim in een meeslepende en niets verhullende stijl beschreven worden." | 
         | 2254 | Reaping Me Softly | Kate Evangelista  | Oct-12 | Paranormal, Young Adult, Romance, Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Ghosts, Supernatural, Death, Fiction, Urban Fantasy | Arianne Wilson (Reaping Me Softly), Benjamin Freeman (Reaping Me Softly), Nikolas Clark (Reaping Me Softly) | "Ever since a near-death-experience on the operating table, seventeen-year-old Arianne Wilson can see dead people. Just as she’s learned to accept her new-found talents, she discovers that the boy she’s had a crush on since freshman year, Niko Clark, is a Reaper.At last they have something in common, but that doesn’t mean life is getting any easier. All while facing merciless bullying from the most powerful girl in school, Arianne’s world is turned upside down after Niko accidentally reaps the soul of someone she loves. This sends them both into a spiral that threatens to end Arianne’s life. But will Niko break his own Reaper’s code to save her? And what would the consequences be if he did?" | 
         | 2255 | Arguably: Selected Essays | Christopher Hitchens | 2011 | Nonfiction, Essays, Politics, Philosophy, History, Religion, Atheism, Journalism, Literature, Audiobook | Idi Amin, Alexander II of Russia, Konrad Adenauer, Gertrude Bell, Saul Bellow, Gore Vidal, James Baldwin, Martin Amis, Jessica Mitford, Henry Adams, Joseph Alsop, Perry Anderson, Don Bachardy, Arthur Balfour, Julian Barnes, Walter Benjamin, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Salvador Allende, Anwar al-Awlaki, Benazir Bhutto, C.L.R. James, John Buchan, Allen Drury, Timothy Garton Ash, Arthur Koestler, Edward Said, Hector Hugh Munro, Victor Serge, Upton Sinclair, Edward Upward, W. Somerset Maugham, Horatio Alger, Jr, Charles, Prince of Wales, Diana, Princess of Wales, Kofi Annan, Hans Christian Andersen, Sami al-Araji, Peter Arnett, Raymond Aron, James Baker, James Bennet, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Charles Baudelaire, Karen Armstrong, David Aaronovitch, Walter Bagehot, Rebecca West, Hilary Mantel, Stephen Spender, J.K. Rowling, Stieg Larsson, André Malraux, Isabel Allende, Victor Klemperer, W.G. Sebald, Pope Benedict XVI, Joyce Cary, Karen Hughes, Mohamed Bouazizi, Kaspar Utz, Henry VIII of England, Peter Singer, Lancelot Andrewes, Ban Ki-moon, Ferhat Abbas, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Abbas Abdi, Abdullah Abdullah, James Abercrombie, Adunis, Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Jane Akello, Abdul Rahman al-Amoudi, Richard Aldington, Alexander I of Serbia, Alexander I of Yugoslavia, Haj Amin al-Husseini, Lorraine Ali, Monica Ali, Brooke Allen, Abu Hamza al-Masri, Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Azzam Alwash, Christiane Amanpour, Eric Ambler, Julian Amery, Henry Maxwell Andrews, Maya Angelou, James Jesus Angleton, Alfred Appel, Edward Victor Appleton, Benigno Aquino III, John Arlott, Nadeem Aslam, Rose Atim, Stefan Aust, Ayub Khan, Isaak Babel, David Baldacci, Katherine Balderston, Reza Baraheni, Francis Barber, Yetta Barshevsky, Nechervan Idris Barzani, Gary J. Bass, Walter Jackson Bate, James Bays, Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, Antony Beevor, Daniel Bell, Hilaire Belloc, James C. Bennett, Jeremy Bentham, Humphry Berkeley, Sandra Bernhard, John Berryman, Carlos Bertha, Michael Beschloss, Aneurin Bevan, Isaiah Berlin, Charles Dickens | "The first new book of essays by Christopher Hitchens since 2004, Arguably offers an indispensable key to understanding the passionate and skeptical spirit of one of our most dazzling writers, widely admired for the clarity of his style, a result of his disciplined and candid thinking. Topics range from ruminations on why Charles Dickens was among the best of writers and the worst of men to the haunting science fiction of J.G. Ballard; from the enduring legacies of Thomas Jefferson and George Orwell to the persistent agonies of anti-Semitism and jihad. Hitchens even looks at the recent financial crisis and argues for the enduring relevance of Karl Marx. The book forms a bridge between the two parallel enterprises of culture and politics. It reveals how politics justifies itself by culture, and how the latter prompts the former. In this fashion, Arguably burnishes Christopher Hitchens' credentials as (to quote Christopher Buckley) our ""greatest living essayist in the English language.""" | 
         | 2256 | Creed | James Herbert | Published | Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Paranormal, British Literature, Demons, Supernatural, Mystery, Audiobook | Joseph Creed | "Sometimes horror is in the mind and sometimes it's real. Telling the difference isn't always easy. It wasn't for Joe Creed. He just photographed the unreal. Now he had to pay the price, because he always thought that demons were just a joke. But the joke was on him and it wasn't very funny. It was deadly." | 
         | 2257 | Vengeance Is Mine: A Novel Of Anne Boleyn, Katherine Howard, And Lady Rochford The Woman Who Helped Destroy Them Both | Brandy Purdy | Published | Historical Fiction, Historical, 16th Century, Tudor Period | Anne Boleyn, Catherine Howard, Jane Boleyn | "There was room for only one woman in George Boleyn's heart: his sister, the mercurial and fascinating Anne Boleyn, who was destined to change history and wear a crown. To his adoring wife, Lady Jane Rochford, he was cold and indifferent. When Anne failed to give Henry VIII the son she had promised him, and he was tiring of her tart tongue and tantrums, false charges of adultery were hastily concocted. Lady Rochford provided the crowning touch when she accused her husband and his beloved sister of incest. Both died upon the scaffold. Lady Rochford paid dearly for her treachery. She was left alone, shunned and friendless, until wild, sweet, wanton Katherine Howard danced into her life and became Henry's fifth queen. When Katherine, disgusted by the obese and impotent King's fumbling attempts to make love to her, took a lusty young lover Lady Rochford helped them meet. And when the truth came out, she was the first to betray them. As she sits in the Tower of London, being tormented by the ghosts of George and Anne Boleyn, and awaiting her own appointment with the headsman's axe, Lady Rochford takes up her pen. Vengeance Is Mine is her story." | 
         | 2258 | Desperately Seeking Epic | B.N. Toler  | B N Toler | 1E+13 | Romance, Contemporary Romance, Contemporary, New Adult, Death, Adult, Drama, Fiction, Childrens, Family | "Paul James loved Clara Bateman. Hating her would have been easier.She was the past, and he was hell-bent on keeping her there.Or so he thought...Craigslist Ad: DESPERATELY SEEKING EPIC | 
         | 2259 | L'armata perduta | Valerio Massimo Manfredi | Nov-07 | Historical Fiction, Historical, Fiction, Historical Romance, Fantasy, Adventure, Military Fiction, Italian Literature, Novels, Ancient History | Xenofonte, Abira | "Una delle più epiche avventure dell'età antica: la lunghissima marcia, attraverso incredibili pericoli e peripezie, che diecimila mercenari greci dopo la disfatta del principe persiano Ciro, sotto le cui insegne si erano battuti, contro il fratello Artaserse alle porte di Babilonia - compiono per tornare in patria. È l'impresa gloriosa e tragica documentata nel IV secolo a.C. da Senofonte nell'Anabasi, che proprio Valerio Massimo Manfredi ha studiato e tradotto negli anni '80. Ma in questo romanzo le atrocità della guerra e l'eroismo di ogni soldato, il fasto e le crudeli bizzarrie della corte persiana, le insidie di una natura selvaggia e le amicizie più indissolubili sono narrate in una prospettiva completamente inedita: dalla voce di una donna, la bellissima siriana Abira, che per amore di Xenos lascia ogni cosa e condivide il destino dei Diecimila. Attraverso gli occhi di Abira, le donne diventano le protagoniste della grande Storia." | 
         | 2260 | Peril at End House | Agatha Christie | 2001 | Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Detective, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Audiobook, Murder Mystery, Thriller | Nick Buckley, Maggie Buckley, Frederica Rice, Jim Lazarus, Commander George Challenger, Inspector Japp, Millie Croft, Arthur Hastings, Hercule Poirot, Ellen, Charles Vyse | "An Alternate Cover Edition of this ISBN can be found here.Hercule Poirot is vacationing on the Cornish coast when he meets Nick Buckly. Nick is the young and reckless mistress of End House, an imposing structure perched on the rocky cliffs of St. Loo.Poirot has taken a particular interest in the young woman who has recently narrowly escaped a series of life-threatening accidents. Something tells the Belgian sleuth that these so-called accidents are more than just mere coincidences or a spate of bad luck. It seems all too clear to him that someone is trying to do away with poor Nick, but who? And, what is the motive? In his quest for answers, Poirot must delve into the dark history of End House. The deeper he gets into his investigation, the more certain he is that the killer will soon strike again. And, this time, Nick may not escape with her life." | 
         | 2261 | Astérix gladiateur | René Goscinny, Albert Uderzo (Illustrateur) | 2007 | Comics, Graphic Novels, Bande Dessinée, Fiction, Humor, France, Historical Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Childrens | Asterix, Obelix, Julius Caesar, Grandimais, Assurancetourix | "Caligula Alavacomgetepus, préfet des Gaules veut faire forte impression à Rome et décide d’offrir à César rien moins qu’un Irréductible Gaulois !Souvent isolé dans la forêt pour exercer ses talents, que ses camarades goûtent modérément, le barde Assurancetourix fait une proie idéale. César, considérant l’offrande plutôt assourdissante, donne l’ordre de jeter le barde aux lions lors des prochains jeux du cirque. Astérix et Obélix partent pour Rome délivrer leur ami. Et si tous les chemins mènent à Rome, bonne nouvelle : avec Astérix gladiateur, les rires y sont garantis !" | 
         | 2262 | The War With Mr. Wizzle | Gordon Korman | 1982 | Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Humor, Canada, Comedy, School, Juvenile, Contemporary, Middle Grade | Bruno Wisitzki, Boots, Mr. Wizzle | "Walter C. Wizzle and and his computer are trying to take over Macdonald Hall! Wizzle is making everyone wear a tie and is giving out demerits and detentions like they're going out of style! Bruno and boots have had enough. If The Fish (Headmaster Sturgeon) won't do anything, they will. Wizzle has got to go!The boys form a coalition with their fellow students and the girls at Miss Scrimmage's Finishing School - and the Wizzle War in on! They build a machine to simulate earthquakes, program non-existent students into Wizzle's computer, even hide all his computer paper - replacing it with paper towels. nothing works. But when they match Wizzle with the girl of his dreams things begin to change. But for the better? Nobody knows what will happen once Bruno and Boots get started!" | 
         | 2263 | All Tomorrow's Parties | William Gibson | Jan-03 | Science Fiction, Cyberpunk, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Novels, Dystopia, Fantasy, Near Future, Literature | Colin Laney | "Although Colin Laney (from Gibson's earlier novel Idoru) lives in a cardboard box, he has the power to change the world. Thanks to an experimental drug that he received during his youth, Colin can see ""nodal points"" in the vast streams of data that make up the worldwide computer network. Nodal points are rare but significant events in history that forever change society, even though they might not be recognizable as such when they occur. Colin isn't quite sure what's going to happen when society reaches this latest nodal point, but he knows it's going to be big. And he knows it's going to occur on the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, which has been home to a sort of SoHo-esque shantytown since an earthquake rendered it structurally unsound to carry traffic.Although All Tomorrow's Parties includes characters from two of Gibson's earlier novels, it's not a direct sequel to either. It's a stand-alone book.-Craig E. Engler" | 
         | 2264 | Green Grass of Wyoming | Mary O'Hara | 2004 | Horses, Young Adult, Fiction, Animals, Childrens, Classics, Westerns, American, Romance, Historical Fiction | Ken McLaughlin (Flicka), Rob McLaughlin (Flicka), Nell McLaughlin (Flicka), Howard McLaughlin (Flicka), Thunderhead (Flicka), Carey Marsh | "In the third book of the ""Flicka"" trilogy, Ken discovers to his horror that Thunderhead is roaming wild, causing trouble wherever he goes. He also has trouble at home, and thinks that his dreams can never come true; but then his feelings for Carey begin to change." | 
         | 2265 | Killashandra | Anne McCaffrey | Dec-86 | Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Romance, Space Opera, Adventure, Space, Music, Novels | Killashandra | "At first Killashandra Ree's ambitions to become a Crystal Singer, get rich, and forget her past, were going just as she had hoped. But after she grew wealthy, a devastating storm turned her claim to useless rock. In short order she was broke, she had crystal sickness so bad she thought she was going to die, and the only way she could be true to the man she loved was to leave him...." | 
         | 2266 | Deepsix | Jack McDevitt | Jan-02 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Space Opera, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space, Adventure, Mystery, Speculative Fiction, Fantasy, Novels | Priscilla Hutchins | "In the year 2204, tragedy and terror forced a scientific team to prematurely evacuate Maleiva Ill. Twenty-one years later, the opportunity for scientists to study this galactic rarity—a life-supporting planet—is about to vanish forever as a rogue gas giant has invaded the planetary system on a deadly collision course with the world they are now calling Deepsix.A superluminal pilot for the Academy of Science and Technology, Priscilla “Hutch” Hutchins is the only even remotely qualified professional within lightyears of Deepsix. With less than three weeks left before the disaster, she and a small scientific team—including Randall Nightingale a survivor of the original expedition who was made the scapegoat for its failure—must descend to the surface, and glean whatever they can about the doomed planet’s lifeforms and lost civilizations.There is more to this strange and complex world, however, than anyone could have imagined: hidden predators; stone cities under the ice; remnants of a warlike primitive society, yet with inexplicable hints of an impossible technology buried in the rubble... and in orbit around the soon to be demolished planet. The deeper Hutch and her team delve, the more puzzles are revealed within puzzles and startling discoveries lead only to greater and more perplexing questionsBut then the unthinkable occurs An earthquake destroys the explorers only means of escape As scientists and sightseers who have come to witness the spectacular end of Deepsix watch helplessly from miles above Hutch and her people must survive somehow on a hostile planet going rapidly mad. And with the clock ticking relentlessly toward an unavoidable apocalypse, they must find some way, any way to get off before Deepsix plunges like a pebble into the limitless depths of the rampaging gas giant." | 
         | 2267 | Los de Abajo | Mariano Azuela | 2007 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, Spanish Literature, Latin American, Literature, Novels, Latin American Literature, Historical, School | Camila, Demetrio Macías, Luis Cervantes, Don Mónico | "Durante la Revolución Mexicana, Mariano Azuela (1873-1952) fue médico de la facción la que comandaba Francisco Villa-, de ahí que algunas de sus más notables obras literarias estén inspiradas por aquellos hechos de armas. Entre todas ellas, Los de abajo sintetiza admirablemente lo que el ilustre escritor pensaba de la Revolución y cómo vio él mismo su furia destructora. Se trata de una historia descarnada, concebida con la sinceridad y la valentía de un hombre que nunca cedió a la tentación de adornar artificiosamente o de falsear los acontecimientos, y escrita con un lenguaje directo que aúna la belleza a la sencillez." | 
         | 2268 | The Dressmaker | Rosalie Ham | 2000 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Australia, Romance, Historical, Audiobook, Book Club, Adult, Drama, Chick Lit | Myrtle (‘Tilly’) Dunnage, Teddy McSwiney, Evan Pettyman, Faith O’Brien, Reginald Blood | "A darkly satirical novel of love, revenge, and 1950s haute couture—now a major motion picture starring Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth, and Hugo Weaving After twenty years spent mastering the art of dressmaking at couture houses in Paris, Tilly Dunnage returns to the small Australian town she was banished from as a child. She plans only to check on her ailing mother and leave. But Tilly decides to stay, and though she is still an outcast, her lush, exquisite dresses prove irresistible to the prim women of Dungatar. Through her fashion business, her friendship with Sergeant Farrat—the town’s only policeman, who harbors an unusual passion for fabrics—and a budding romance with Teddy, the local football star whose family is almost as reviled as hers, she finds a measure of grudging acceptance. But as her dresses begin to arouse competition and envy in town, causing old resentments to surface, it becomes clear that Tilly’s mind is set on a darker design: exacting revenge on those who wronged her, in the most spectacular fashion." | 
         | 2269 | The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax | Dorothy Gilman | Dec-83 | Mystery, Fiction, Cozy Mystery, Adventure, Humor, Audiobook, Mystery Thriller, Thriller, Espionage, Suspense | Mrs. Emily Pollifax, John Sebastian Farrell | "Mrs. Virgil (Emily) Pollifax of New Brunswick, New Jersey, was a widow with grown children. She was tired of attending her Garden Club meetings. She wanted to do something good for her country. So, naturally, she became a CIA agent. This time, the assignment sounds as tasty as a taco. A quick trip to Mexico City is on her agenda. Unfortunately, something goes wrong, and our dear Mrs. Pollifax finds herself embroiled in quite a hot Cold War—and her country's enemies find themselves entangled with one unbelievably feisty lady." | 
         | 2270 | The Princess in the Tower | Sharon Stewart  | 2005 | Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Teen, Historical, French Revolution, France, 18th Century, Classics | Marie Therese Charlotte of France | "The first book in a new series that picks up where the Royal Diaries left off! Previously published as The Dark Tower, this riveting novel is written as the diary of Princess Marie Thérèse Charlotte of France, daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, who was imprisoned during the French Revolution. One by one her parents and her brother were taken from her - Louis and Marie Antoinette beheaded, her brother dead of neglect.Though she lost everything, Mousseline, as she was called,was determined to be as brave and honourable as she could be during a time of tragedy and upheaval. A gripping story about a real princess that history nearly forgot! Shortlisted for both the Red Cedar Award and the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction when it was published in 1998, this is the first book in a new series from Scholastic which will feature royal-themed books in a format made popular by the Dear Canada and Royal Diaries series." | 
         | 2271 | The Devil On Horseback | Victoria Holt | 1977 | Romance, Historical Romance, Historical Fiction, Gothic, Fiction, Mystery, Historical, Gothic Romance, Romantic Suspense, French Revolution | Wilhelmina Maddox | "Minella Maddox grew up on a great English estate. But as the schoolmistress' daughter, her place was not, and never could be, at beautiful Derringham Manor. And that is where the trouble started, for Derringham's young heir thought he saw in Minella just the kind of wife he wanted. But a dark and cruelly handsome French count, who always got what he wanted, thought she was just the kind of mistress he had to have. Not for nothing was he called the Devil on Horseback. Yet Minella's humble heritage was to prove more precious that titles and riches, for it freed her to follow her heart, leading her into adventures and dangers she had never dreamed of. It put her directly in the path of another woman's hatred, swept her up into the deadly terrors of the French Revolution and, finally, carried her into the arms of the great and powerful man she loved." | 
         | 2272 | Heart of Gold | Michael Pryor  | 2007 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Steampunk, Fiction, Magic, Adventure, Historical Fantasy, Science Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy | Aubrey Fitzwilliam, Caroline Hepworth, Dr. Mordecai Tremaine, George Doyle | "At a loss after finishing their end-of-year exams, Aubrey and George travel to the Gallian capital, Lutetia, where it so happens that the lovely Caroline is studying natural history. Aubrey wants to pursue a cure for his condition - though his family have other ideas, and he's soon burdened with a royal mystery to solve, old letters to procure, a missing ornithologist to locate and a spot of diplomatic espionage. These tasks should keep Aubrey occupied - but that would be underestimating Aubrey's sense of curiosity and uncanny knack of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Someone is stealing people's souls and turning them into mindless monsters, and the country's magical lifeline, the Heart of Gold, has been stolen, leaving the city in chaos. Aubrey, George, and a somewhat reluctant Caroline are on the case . . ." | 
         | 2273 | The Last Duchess | Sharon Stewart  | Published | Historical Fiction, Childrens, Young Adult, Fiction, Classics, Russia, Historical | Grigori Rasputin, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia | "Малката Дуня бяга от родното си селце, разположено дълбоко в сибирската тайга. Тя не подозира, че една неочаквана среща ще я отведе в императорския дворец. Там Дуня се сприятелява с палавата и остроумна принцеса Анастасия. Животът им не би могъл да бъде по-прекрасен, но тъмните облаци на революцията надвисват над Русия. Дуня е изправена пред опасността да изгуби своите нови приятели и дори живота си...Канадската писателка Шарън Стюарт е родена пред 1944 г. Живее в град Торонто. Автор е на исторически книги за младите читатели. Най-голям успех постига с романа си ""Принцеса Анастация"" (1999 г.). В него тя майсторски разказва историята на младата принцеса от руското царско семейство." | 
         | 2274 | Deseo y Venganza | Nora Roberts  | 2008 | Romance, Romantic Suspense, Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Contemporary, Mystery, Suspense, Chick Lit, Adult, Thriller | Adrianne al Jaquir, Philip Chamberlain | "A los veinticinco años, la princesa Adrianne lleva una vida que la mayoría de la gente envidiaría. Bella y elegante, emplea los días en organizaciones benéficas y las noches volando, envuelta en glamour, de gala en gala. Pero esta pose de niña rica y consentida no es más que una estratagema, un esfuerzo calculado al milímetro para esconder una peligrosa verdad.Adrianne ha alimentado durante diez años el deseo de venganza. Cuando era niña, todo lo que vio en casa fue la crueldad que se escondía tras el matrimonio aparentemente ideal de sus padres, el reverso de un cuento de hadas. Ahora, Adrianne tiene el plan perfecto para hacer pagar a su famoso padre. Le arrebatará un objeto que él aprecia por encima de todas las cosas: el Sol y la Luna, un fabuloso collar de precio incalculable.No obstante, cuando está lista para la venganza, surge en su vida un hombre que parece adivinar hasta su último secreto. Philip Chamberlain es un tipo inteligente, encantador y enigmático que tiene sus razones para acercarse a la princesa Adrianne. Y solo cuando sea demasiado tarde Adrianne se dará cuenta del peligro que se cierne sobre ella... a la vez que se encontrará entre dos hombres imponentes: uno capaz de robarle la libertad, y otro con el poder de quitarle la vida." | 
         | 2275 | Jason and the Golden Fleece (The Argonautica) | Apollonius of Rhodes, Richard L. Hunter (Translator) | 1998 | Classics, Mythology, Poetry, Fiction, Fantasy, Epic, Greece, Literature, Adventure, Ancient | Achilles (Greek hero), Athena (Greek goddess), Orpheus, Medea of Colchis, Castor, Pollux, Hylas, Atalanta, Chiron, Peleus, Pelias, Telamon, Heracles, Boreads, Philoctetes, Euphemus, Jason, the Argonaut, Aietes, Hypsipyle | "The Argonautica is the dramatic story of Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece and his relations with the dangerous princess Medea. The only surviving Greek epic to bridge the gap between Homer and late antiquity, this epic poem is the crowning literary achievement of the Ptolemaic court at Alexandria, written by Appolonius of Rhodes in the third century BC. Appollonius explores many of the fundamental aspects of life in a highly original way: love, deceit, heroism, human ignorance of the divine, and the limits of science, and offers a gripping and sometimes disturbing tale in the process. This major new prose translation combines readability with accuracy and an attention to detail that will appeal to general readers and classicists alike." | 
         | 2276 | And Eternity | Piers Anthony | Feb-91 | Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal, Magic, Mythology, Supernatural, Adult | Orlene | "In Pursuit of the Ultimate GoodAfter an overwhelming succession of tragedies, life has finally, mercifully ended for Orlene, once-mortal daughter of Gaea.Joined in Afterlife by Jolie - her protector and the sometime consort of Satan himself - together they seek out a third: Vita, a very contemporary mortal with troubles, attractions, and an unsettling moral code uniquely her own.An extraordinary triumvirate, they embark on a great quest to reawaken the Incarnation of Good in a world where evil reigns - facing challenges that will test the very fiber of their beings with trials as numerous, as mysterious, and as devastating as the Incarnations themselves." | 
         | 2277 | Rules of Murder | Julianna Deering (pen name), DeAnna Julie Dodson  | Aug-13 | Mystery, Historical Fiction, Christian Fiction, Christian, Historical, Historical Mystery, Fiction, Romance, Cozy Mystery, Mystery Thriller | Drew Farthering, Carrie Holland, Nick Dennison, Madeline Parker | "Drew Farthering loves a good mystery, although he generally expects to find it in the pages of a novel, not on the grounds of his country estate. When a weekend party at Farthering Place is ruined by murder and the police seem flummoxed, Drew decides to look into the crime himself. With the help of his best friend, Nick Dennison, an avid mystery reader, and Madeline Parker, a beautiful and whip-smart American debutante staying as a guest, the three try to solve the mystery as a lark, using the methods from their favorite novels.Soon, financial irregularities at Drew’s stepfather’s company come to light and it’s clear that all who remain at Farthering Place could be in danger. Trying hard to remain one step ahead of the killer–and trying harder to impress Madeline–Drew must decide how far to take this game" | 
         | 2278 | The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories | Agatha Christie | Jun-84 | Mystery, Short Stories, Fiction, Crime, Classics, British Literature, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, Detective, Cozy Mystery | Miss Lemon, Parker Pyne, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple | "Mr. Parker Pyne must recover a priceless diamond stolen as a dinner party trick, while Hercule Poirot proves that a crowd is the best cloak for a murder, and Miss Marple solves a baffling crime by the fireside, in an anthology of mystery tales. Reissue." | 
         | 2279 | Deception | Amanda Quick , Jayne Ann Krentz  | May-94 | Romance, Historical Romance, Historical, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Regency, Mystery, Regency Romance, Pirates, Adult | Olympia Wingfield, Jared Ryder, Viscount Chillhurst | "From a cozy cottage in rustic Dorset to a magnificent mansion steeped in secrets comes a dazzling tale of lost pirate gold and legendary love... Once Olympia Wingfield had been free to devote all her time to her true passion: the study of ancient legends and long-lost treasure. But now, with three hellion nephews to raise, the absentminded beauty has very little time for research. Which makes it seem all the more serendipitous when a handsome stranger strides into Olympia's library unannounced and proceeds to set her world to rights. Tall and dark, with long, windswept black hair, Jared Ryder, Viscount Chillhurst, is the embodiment of Olympia's most exotic dreams ... a daring pirate, masquerading in teacher's garb, whose plundering kisses and traveler's tales quickly win her heart. Yet all too soon innocent Olympia will discover that the enigmatic and wickedly sensual Chillhurst is no lowly tutor, but a future earl with a wealth of secrets-—the kind that will lead them both on a perilous quest for hidden fortune and a love worth more than gold." | 
         | 2280 | Sword-Born | Jennifer Roberson , Jim Burns (Illustrator) | Mar-99 | Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Romance, Sword and Sorcery, Epic Fantasy, Magic, High Fantasy, Own, Novels | Tiger, Del | "TIGERLeft as an infant to die in the desert, and enslaved by the Southron tribe who found him, he had won his freedom and his name by slaying a deadly sandtiger. Now he was a legendary sword-dancer-possibly the best in the South. But his true origins were still unknown.DELBorn in the frozen North, she had seen her family brutally murdered and her youngest brother carried away to be sold into slavery. Compelled by her rage for vengeance, she had become the most deadly sword-singer in the North.In the three years since Tiger and Del's fateful meeting, these mismatched companions have become true partners, their alliance forged by blood, magic, danger, adventure...and something more.Exiled from both the North and the South, the two have now set sail to search for Tiger's homeland-but no journey is ever without complications for Tiger and Del. Shipwrecked, nearly drowned, abducted by pirates, bedeviled by magic, the Southron sword-dancer and the Northern sword-singer finally do arrive at their destination.But before the mystery of his origins can be solved, Tiger must face another truth about himself which may prove more dangerous than any sword-dance. His own personal brand of magic, long denied by Tiger, is finally manifesting. And because of its very uniqueness, Tiger's awakening power may prove his undoing." | 
         | 2281 | Vathek | William Beckford | 1999 | Gothic, Classics, Horror, Fiction, Fantasy, 18th Century, Literature, Novels, Gothic Horror, British Literature | Vathek, Carathis, Bababalouk, Morakanabad, Nouronihar, Goulchenrouz | "Beckford's Gothic novel, Vathek, an Arabian tale, was originally written in French when the author was 21. It is the story of Caliph Vathek, whose eye can kill at a glance, who makes a pact with the Devil, Eblis." | 
         | 2282 | The Best Friend | R.L. Stine  | Dec-92 | Horror, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Thriller, Mystery, Teen, Mystery Thriller, Novels, Juvenile | Honey Perkins, Becka Norwood | "Best friends…to the end!Who is Honey Perkins? She’s been telling everyone in Shadyside that she’s Becka Norwood’s best friend. But Becka’s sure she’s never met Honey before.Honey systematically moves in on Becka’s life, copying her in every way. But when Becka presumes to have more than one “best friend,” the horrible accidents begin.Does Honey just want a friend? Becka wonders. Or does she want more—much more!" | 
         | 2283 | Ducktales: The Secret City Under the Sea | Paul S. Newman | 1988 | Picture Books, Childrens | Scrooge McDuck, Huey, Dewey, and Louie | "Scrooge McDuck, Gyro Gearloose, and Huey, Louie, and Dewey go in a submarine to search for the lost city of Atlantis" | 
         | 2284 | Journey to the West | Wu Cheng'en, W.J.F. Jenner (Translator) | 1993 | Classics, Fiction, Fantasy, China, Mythology, Literature, Chinese Literature, Asia, Adventure, Novels | 孙悟空, 猪八戒, 沙和尚, 玄奘 | "First published in 1952, The Journey to the West, volume I, comprises the first twenty-five chapters of Anthony C. Yu's four-volume translation of Hsi-yu Chi, one of the most beloved classics of Chinese literature. The fantastic tale recounts the sixteen-year pilgrimage of the monk Hsüan-tsang (596-664), one of China's most illustrious religious heroes, who journeyed to India with four animal disciples in quest of Buddhist scriptures. For nearly a thousand years, his exploits were celebrated and embellished in various accounts, culminating in the hundred-chapter Journey to the West, which combines religious allegory with romance, fantasy, humor, and satire." | 
         | 2285 | Naughty Amelia Jane! | Enid Blyton, Deborah Allwright (Illustrator) | 2001 | Childrens, Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Short Stories, British Literature, Young Adult, Adventure | Amelia Jane | "Look out! Amelia snips the tail off pink rabbit, squirts Tom the soldier with water and gets up to mischief at the beach. The other toys try to teach the terror of the toy cupboard to be well-behaved, but will they succeed?" | 
         | 2286 | The Continental Op | Dashiell Hammett | 2004 | Mystery, Fiction, Noir, Short Stories, Crime, Detective, Classics, Hard Boiled, Thriller, Mystery Thriller | The Continental Op | "Dashiell Hammett is the true inventor of modern detective fiction and the creator of the private eye, the isolated hero in a world where treachery is the norm. The Continental Op was his great first contribution to the genre and these seven stories, which first appeared in the magazine Black Mask, are the best examples of Hammett's early writing, in which his formidable literary and moral imagination is already operating at full strength. The Continental Op is the dispassionate fat man working for the Continental Detective Agency, modelled on the Pinkerton Agency, whose only interest is in doing his job in a world of violence, passion, desperate action and great excitement.The tenth clew.-The golden horseshoe.-The house in Turk Street.-The girl with the silver eyes.-The whosis kid.-The main death.-The farewell murder." | 
         | 2287 | Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons | Terrance Dicks | May-75 | Doctor Who, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Film, Horror | Jo Grant, UNIT, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, The Master (Doctor Who), Captain Mike Yates, Autons, The Third Doctor, John Benton, The Doctor, The Second Master | "The evil Master leered at the Doctor, and triumphantly pointed out of the cabin window. The many-tentacled Nestene monster — spearhead of the second Auton invasion of Earth — crouched beside the radio tower!Part crab, part spider, part octopus, its single huge eye blazed with alien intelligence and deadly hatred...Can the Doctor outwit his rival Time Lord, the Master, and save the Earth from the Nestene horror?" | 
         | 2288 | Rape of the Fair Country | Alexander Cordell | 1998 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, British Literature, Novels, Classics, Historical | Iestyn Mortymer | "Set in the turbulent times of the Industrial Revolution in 19th century Wales, this famous novel begins the story of the Mortymer family and the ironmaking communities of Blaenavon and Nantyglo.It is the book which launched Alexander Cordell in 1959 as a best selling author and was translated into numerous languages to sell millions of copies throughout the world. It is an enthralling story which has now been turned into both play and musical and is regarded as the finest of this popular author’s many novels." | 
         | 2289 | Mireasa fara voie | Jo Beverley | Jan-12 | Historical Romance, Romance, Historical, Regency, Historical Fiction, Regency Romance, Fiction, Audiobook, Adult, Drama | Elizabeth Armitage, Lucien de Vaux | "Beth Armitage duce viata simpla pe care si-a dorit-o, caci slujba de profesoara la un pension de fete i-a oferit independenta la care a visat intotdeauna si, mai ales, libertatea de a nu fi supusa toanelor unui sot. Soarta insa i-a pregatit o surpriza neasteptata, cand afla ca originile ei nu sunt tocmai modeste, caci tata ii este ducele de Becraven. Obligata de acesta sa se marite cu Lucien de Vaux, marchiz de Arden, Beth se trezeste aruncata in lumea necunoscuta a aristocratiei pe care o dispretuieste atat de mult. Decisa sa-l urasca pe cel care i-a fost ales drept sot, Beth descopera ca are nevoie de toata puterea pentru a rezista farmecelor lui Lucien, caci, pentru prima oara in viata, inima ei pare gata sa se predea neconditionat.Romanele lui Jo Beverley s-au vandut in milioane de exemplare in intreaga lume si au fost rasplatite cu numeroase premii, printre care si cinci trofee RITA din partea Asociatiei Scriitorilor de Romane de Dragoste din America.Mireasa fara voie a castigat Premiul RITA si Premiul Golden Leaf, pentru cel mai bun roman istoric de dragoste." | 
         | 2290 | Lux perpetua | Andrzej Sapkowski | 2006 | Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Polish Literature, Fiction, Audiobook, Historical, Historical Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Novels, Poland | Reynevan | "Krótko po południu bombardy zamilkły. Blidy i trebusze przestały miotać pociski. Rozległ się grzmiący sygnał trąb. Załopotały rozwinięte sztandary i proporce. Rozbrzmiał bojowy wrzask. Pięć tysięcy taborytów runęło do szturmu na Plauen. Po dwóch godzinach było po wszystkim. Sforsowano po drabinach mury, rozwalono taranami bramy. Zgnieciono opór, obrońców wycięto w pień. Pardonu nie dawano. W trzeciej godzinie zdobyto zamek, wszyscy obrońcy poszli pod nóż. Krótko potem padł klasztor dominikański, ostatni punkt oporu.I wtedy zaczęła się rzeź.Reynevan, główny bohater tomów ""Narrenturm"" i ""Boży bojownicy"", nadal ma kłopoty, ciągle ktoś dybie na jego życie bądź przedstawia mu propozycję nie do odrzucenia. Prześladują go prozaiczni agenci wywiadu oraz siły nieczyste, wcale nie ukrywające swej diabelskiej proweniencji. Ale Reynevan żyje przecież w okrutnych i niebezpiecznych czasach. Na Śląsku i w Czechach, gdy przez ziemie te przetaczały się krucjaty i husyckie wyprawy odwetowe. Gdy nie znany słowa: ""Litość"" i z imieniem Boga na ustach wyrzynano tysiące niewinnych. Reinmar wierzy w religijną odnowę, staje po stronie zwolenników Husa, nawet gdy ci dokonują niewiarygodnych zbrodni. On, medyk i zielarz, idealista i bezinteresowny obrońca chorych i cierpiących, musi wcielić się w rolę husyckiego szpiega, dywersanta, zabójcy i bezlitosnego mściciela. Rozdarty pomiędzy obowiązkiem a głosem serca, stawia wszystko na jedną kartę, byle wyrwać ukochaną z rąk wrogów." | 
         | 2291 | Wielding a Red Sword | Piers Anthony | Dec-87 | Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Magic, Mythology, War, Paranormal, Adventure | Orb Kaftan, Pride of the Kingdom, Rapture of Malachite | "Mym falls in love with Orb, then Princess Rapture in Honeymoon Castle, but father wants to force another marriage. In berserker rage, he takes office of War. He tries to ease suffering caused by human conflicts, When demoness Lila says pretty Princess Ligeia is trapped by Satan, he has to organize a rebellion in Hell to set everyone free. Author Note 24-pg bio 1-pg." | 
         | 2292 | Shadow Divers | Robert Kurson  | 2004 | Nonfiction, History, Adventure, Biography, Audiobook, World War II, War, Mystery, Historical, Science | John Chatterton, Richie Kohler | "In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a great historical mystery–and make history themselves.For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep wreck diving was more than a sport. Testing themselves against treacherous currents, braving depths that induced hallucinatory effects, navigating through wreckage as perilous as a minefield, they pushed themselves to their limits and beyond, brushing against death more than once in the rusting hulks of sunken ships.But in the fall of 1991, not even these courageous divers were prepared for what they found 230 feet below the surface, in the frigid Atlantic waters sixty miles off the coast of New Jersey: a World War II German U-boat, its ruined interior a macabre wasteland of twisted metal, tangled wires, and human bones–all buried under decades of accumulated sediment.No identifying marks were visible on the submarine or the few artifacts brought to the surface. No historian, expert, or government had a clue as to which U-boat the men had found. In fact, the official records all agreed that there simply could not be a sunken U-boat and crew at that location.Over the next six years, an elite team of divers embarked on a quest to solve the mystery. Some of them would not live to see its end. Chatterton and Kohler, at first bitter rivals, would be drawn into a friendship that deepened to an almost mystical sense of brotherhood with each other and with the drowned U-boat sailors–former enemies of their country. As the men’s marriages frayed under the pressure of a shared obsession, their dives grew more daring, and each realized that he was hunting more than the identities of a lost U-boat and its nameless crew.Author Robert Kurson’s account of this quest is at once thrilling and emotionally complex, and it is written with a vivid sense of what divers actually experience when they meet the dangers of the ocean’s underworld. The story of Shadow Divers often seems too amazing to be true, but it all happened, two hundred thirty feet down, in the deep blue sea." | 
         | 2293 | Heartfire | Orson Scott Card | 2001 | Fantasy, Fiction, Alternate History, Science Fiction Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction, Historical, Magic, Young Adult, Audiobook | Alvin Maker | "Peggy is a Torch, able to see the fire burning in each person's heart. From the moment of Alvin Maker's birth, when the Unmaker first strove to kill him, she has protected him. Now they are married. But Alvin's destiny has taken them on separate journeys. But only one slender path exists that leads through the bloodshed, and it is Peggy's quest to set the world on that path to peace." | 
         | 2294 | The Secret of the Forgotten City | Carolyn Keene | 1975 | Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Adventure, Juvenile, Mystery Thriller, Crime | Nancy Drew, Ned Nickerson | "Rumors of a treasure hidden long ago in a city now buried under the Nevada desert lead Nancy, Bess and George to join a college sponsored archaeological dig in search of this priceless gold. Clues from an ancient stone with petroglyphs lead Nancy to the hidden treasure. Danger from a clever thief wanting this cache almost causes Nancy and Ned to lose their lives! This book is the original text. A revised text does not exist." | 
         | 2295 | The Bar Code Rebellion | Suzanne Weyn | Aug-06 | Young Adult, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fiction, Adventure, Romance, Teen, Fantasy, Futuristic, Mystery | Mfumbe Taylor, Kayla Reed | "Kayla has resisted getting the bar code tattoo, even though it's meant forfeiting a ""normal"" life. Without the tattoo, she's an exile. But she can't stay an exile for long. . . . For reasons she doesn't completely understand - but will soon discover - Kayla is at the center of a lethal conspiracy that will soon threaten the very notion of freedom. Kayla can either give in to the bar code, or she can join the resistance and fight it. The choice, to her, is clear:It's time to fight.They want your identity.They want your freedom.They can't have them.The bar code rebellion." | 
         | 2296 | Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno | Italo Calvino, Cesare Pavese (Afterword) | Sept-93 | Fiction, Classics, Italian Literature, Italy, Novels, War, Historical Fiction, Literature, School, World War II | Pin, Lupo Rosso, Cugino, Dritto, Mancino, Giglia, Kim, Pelle | "Pubblicato nel 1947, Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno è il romanzo d’esordio di Italo Calvino. Protagonista è un ragazzino, Pin, che vive in un clima di privazioni e confusione, nel periodo della Resistenza. Avendo rubato una pistola a un soldato tedesco, Pin decide di nasconderla in un sentiero sperduto, per lui quasi magico, dove i ragni fanno il nido. Il bambino entra poi in un gruppo di partigiani, ognuno con la sua storia e un indistinto, personale ideale da seguire. Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno è un romanzo di iniziazione alla vita, caratterizzato da un forte realismo, al quale s’intrecciano i fili del meraviglioso, del fantastico e del fiabesco. Una peculiarità stilistica che diventerà il tratto distintivo di Calvino negli anni della maturità." | 
         | 2297 | The Interpretation of Murder | Jed Rubenfeld | 2007 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Crime, Thriller, Historical, Psychology, Mystery Thriller, Historical Mystery, Suspense | Stratham Younger, Jimmy Littlemore, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung | "In this ingenious, suspenseful historical thriller, Sigmund Freud is drawn into the mind of a sadistic killer who is savagely attacking Manhattan’s wealthiest heiresses Inspired by Sigmund Freud’s only visit to America, The Interpretation of Murder is an intricate tale of murder and the mind’s most dangerous mysteries. It unfurls on a sweltering August evening in 1909 as Freud disembarks from the steamship George Washington, accompanied by Carl Jung, his rival and protégé. Across town, in an opulent apartment high above the city, a stunning young woman is found dangling from a chandelier—whipped, mutilated, and strangled. The next day, a second beauty—a rebellious heiress who scorns both high society and her less adventurous parents—barely escapes the killer. Yet Nora Acton, suffering from hysteria, can recall nothing of her attack. Asked to help her, Dr. Stratham Younger, America’s most committed Freudian analyst, calls in his idol, the Master himself, to guide him through the challenges of analyzing this high-spirited young woman whose family past has been as complicated as his own. The Interpretation of Murder leads readers from the salons of Gramercy Park, through secret passages, to Chinatown—even far below the currents of the East River where laborers are building the Manhattan Bridge. As Freud fends off a mysterious conspiracy to destroy him, Younger is drawn into an equally thrilling adventure that takes him deep into the subterfuges of the human mind. Richly satisfying, elegantly crafted, The Interpretation of Murder marks the debut of a brilliant, spectacularly entertaining new storyteller. In 2007 The Interpretation of Murder won the prestigious Best Read of the Year award from Richard and Judy's Bookclub in the UK (comparable to Oprah Winfrey in the USA)." | 
         | 2298 | The Sixth Wife | Suzannah Dunn | 2007 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Tudor Period, British Literature, Romance, Adult, Adult Fiction, Womens, Elizabethan Period | Thomas Seymour, Henry VIII of England, Catherine Parr, Elizabeth I of England, Edward VI of England, Jane Grey, Mary I of England | "'The Sixth Wife' is a gripping novel of love, passion, betrayal and heartbreak. Catharine Parr survived Henry VIII to find true love with Thomas Seymour - only to realise that her love was based on a lie." | 
         | 2299 | The Moving Finger | Agatha Christie | 2012 | Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Detective, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Audiobook, Murder Mystery, Cozy Mystery | Jerry Burton, Joanna Burton, Megan Hunter, Aimée Griffith, Owen Griffith, Richard Symmington, Elsie Holland, Agnes Woddell, Maud Dane Calthrop, Miss Emily Barton, Mr. Pye, Florence Elford, Miss Partridge, Inspector Graves, Superintendent Nash, Mona Symmington, Miss Marple | "The placid village of Lymstock seems the perfect place for Jerry Burton to recuperate from his accident under the care of his sister, Joanna. But soon a series of vicious poison-pen letters destroys the village's quiet charm, eventually causing one recipient to commit suicide. The vicar, the doctor, the servants—all are on the verge of accusing one another when help arrives from an unexpected quarter. The vicar's houseguest happens to be none other than Jane Marple." | 
         | 2300 | Deseos | Kirsten Miller  | Jun-12 | Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal, Mystery, Teen, Magic, Young Adult Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Supernatural | Haven Moore, Iain Morrow, Adam Rosier, Beau Decker | "Hace un año que Haven Moore escapó a Roma, dejando atrás a la Sociedad Ouroboros y a su diabólico líder, Adam Rosier. Ahora está de regreso en Nueva York con su amado Iain. Pero se supone que Iain está muerto. Y si Adam descubre el engaño, no les dará una segunda oportunidad. Mientras tanto, Beau Decker ha desaparecido. Su vida está en manos de Haven.Las Horae, un grupo de hermanas místicas, guardan la llave del destino de Beau. Ellas desean encerrar a Adam para siempre y Haven representa su única debilidad. Para salvar a Beau, Haven deberá seducir a Adam y conducirlo hasta la guarida de las Horae. Pero Adam Rosier siempre ha tenido una manera muy particular de seducirla. Y cuanto más cerca se encuentra Haven de su enemigo, más sucumbe a su encanto. La vida de Beau está en juego, pero esta vez Haven no puede confiar ni siquiera en ella misma. Cada decisión que tome cambiará su destino. ¿Qué tan lejos llegará por la gente que ama?" | 
         | 2301 | What A Lady Wants | Victoria Alexander  | Feb-07 | Historical Romance, Romance, Historical, Regency, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Regency Romance, Victorian, Adult, Victorian Romance | Felicity Melville, Nigel Cavendish | "One bachelor down . . . three more to go. Four most desirable gentlemen have wagered one shilling apiece and a bottle of cognac that will go to the last unmarried man standing . . .Nigel Cavendish knows he'll marry one day, but hopefully that day is many years—and many women—in the future! Until then, the handsome, unrepentant rake intends to enjoy life's pleasures to the fullest!From the moment Lady Felicity Melville spies the adventurous scoundrel climbing from a neighbor's window—with his comely conquest's husband in hot pursuit—she knows Nigel is the answer to her prayers . . . with a little reformation, of course! Felicity craves excitement and who in all of London is more exciting than the infamous Mr. Cavendish? So what's a girl to do but hatch a scheme to win what she so fervently desires. But her plan works too well when a game of chance and an errant pistol shot abruptly make them husband and wife—but in a way neither wanted.Now Felicity has to prove to her wayward husband that she's the only woman he could ever want . . . or need!" | 
         | 2302 | Iphigenie auf Tauris | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 1986 | Classics, Plays, German Literature, Drama, School, Fiction, Read For School, Mythology, Literature, 18th Century | Orestes, Thoas, Pylades, Arkas, Iphigeneia, princess of Argos | "Da sie Diana ihr Leben verdankt, dient Iphigenie der Göttin auf der Insel Tauris als Priesterin, obwohl sie sich schmerzlich nach ihrer Heimat Griechenland sehnt. Als ihr Bruder Orest auf die Insel kommt und der Göttin geopfert werden soll, muss Iphigenie sich zwischen Pflicht und eigenen Wünschen entscheiden. Goethes Bearbeitung des antiken Stoffs, die er 1786 endgültig abschloss, besticht durch ihre glanzvolle Komposition und psychologische Tiefe: Mit seinem Drama »Iphigenie auf Tauris« schuf er eines der großen Meisterwerke der Weimarer Klassik." | 
         | 2303 | Essential The Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 5 | Stan Lee (Writer), Roy Thomas (Writer) | 2002 | Comics, Graphic Novels, Marvel, Spider Man, Superheroes, Comic Book, Fantasy, Fiction, Classics | Harry Osborn, Bobby Drake, Michael Morbius, Gwen Stacy, Norman Osborn, Peter Parker | Amazing Spider-Man #90-113 | 
         | 2304 | The Thirteen Problems | Agatha Christie | 2002 | Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Short Stories, Classics, Detective, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Murder Mystery, Audiobook | Raymond West, Sir Henry Clithering, Inspector Drewitt, Colonel Melchett, Joyce Joan Lemprière, Dr. Pender, Mr. Petherick, Colonel Bantry, Mrs. Bantry, Dr, Lloyd, Jane Helier, Miss Marple | The Tuesday Night Club is a venue where locals challenge Miss Marple to solve recent crimes. One Tuesday evening a group gathers at Miss Marple’s house and the conversation turns to unsolved crimes. The case of the disappearing bloodstains; the thief who committed his crime twice over; the message on the death-bed of a poisoned man which read ‘heap of fish’; the strange case of the invisible will; a spiritualist who warned that ‘Blue Geranium’ meant death. Now pit your wits against the powers of deduction of the ‘Tuesday Night Club’. | 
         | 2305 | Denial | Peter James | 2006 | Crime, Thriller, Horror, Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Psychiatry | Michael Tennent | A young editor & a psychiatrist are devastated by the realisation that the man they considered to be mad actually holds the most terrifying truth of all. The man believes that God does exist and what's more he has the proof. | 
         | 2306 | The Secret Seven Adventure | Enid Blyton | 2006 | Childrens, Mystery, Adventure, Fiction, Classics, Young Adult, British Literature, Childrens Classics, Detective, Novels | Peter (Secret Seven), Jack (Secret Seven), Janet (Secret Seven), George (Secret Seven), Pam (Secret Seven), Barbara (Secret Seven), Colin (Secret Seven) | "A priceless pearl necklace has been stolen, and the Secret Seven witnessed the thief making his escape. But where has he hidden the necklace?" | 
         | 2307 | Rapture in Death | J.D. Robb , Susan Ericksen (Narrator), Satu Leveelahti (Translator) | Sept-06 | Mystery, Romance, Crime, Romantic Suspense, Fiction, Futuristic, Suspense, Science Fiction, Thriller, Mystery Thriller | Eve Dallas, Roarke, Delia Peabody, Ryan Feeney, Charlotte Mira, Commander Jack Whitney, Mavis Freestone, Nadine Furst, Lawrence Charles Summerset, Leonardo (designer), Dickie Berenski, Dr. Morris | "They died with smiles on their faces. Three apparent suicides: a brilliant engineer, an infamous lawyer, and a controversial politician. Three strangers with nothing in common - and no obvious reasons for killing themselves. Lieutenant Eve Dallas found the deaths suspicious. And her instincts paid off when autopsies revealed small burns on the brains of the victims.Was it a genetic abnormality or a high-tech method of murder? Eve's investigation turned to the provocative world of virtual-reality games - where the same techniques used to create joy and desire could also prompt the mind to become the weapon of its own destruction..." | 
         | 2308 | Mystery of the Glowing Eye | Carolyn Keene | 1974 | Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Juvenile, Middle Grade, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Adventure | Nancy Drew, Ned Nickerson, Marty King | "When Nancy eagerly agrees to help Carson Drew solve the mystery of the glowing eye, she cannot know Ned will be kidnapped! A puzzling note in his handwriting sets Nancy, Bess and George on a hazardous search for a bizarre criminal. The young detectives follow a maze of clues to locate the kidnapper’s hideout. Nancy must not only thwart the criminal but also must contend with the high-handed methods of a woman lawyer who tries to take the glowing eye mystery away from her. This book is the original text. A revised text does not exist." | 
         | 2309 | Three Hearts and Three Lions | Poul Anderson | Dec-03 | Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Classics, Time Travel, Science Fiction Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, Adventure, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy | Holger Carlsen | "The gathering forces of the Dark Powers threatened the world of man. The legions of Faery, aided by trolls, demons and the Wild Hunt itself, were poised to overthrow the realms of light.And alone against the armies of Chaos stood one man, the knight of Three Hearts and Three Lions. Carlsen, a twentieth-century man snatched out of time to become again the legendary Holger Danske to fight for the world he had helped to build." | 
         | 2310 | Uma Villa em Itália | Elizabeth Edmondson, Isabel Alves (Translator) | 2008 | Mystery, Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Italy, Historical, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Travel, Historical Mystery | Beatrice Malaspina, Delia Vaughan, Jessica Meldon, Dr. George Helsinger, Marjorie Swift, Lucius Wilde, Giles Slattery, Richard Meldon, Josiah Winthrop, Olivia Hawkins, Theo (The Villa in Italy), Miffy Wolfson, Elfrida | "Quatro pessoas aparentemente sem nada em comum vêem o seu nome mencionado no testamento de uma mulher que não conhecem. Quem foi Beatrice Malaspina e porque exige que compareçam na sua villa em Itália? Enquanto esperam pelas respostas, a magia do lugar começa a exercer os seus efeitos sobre eles: os frescos desbotados, os jardins exuberantes e a magnífica torre medieval não se assemelham a nada que já tenham visto. Aos poucos, quatro pessoas que sempre fizeram os possíveis por esconder os seus problemas descobrem que a mudança – e até mesmo a esperança – é possível. Mas a misteriosa Beatrice tem um segredo que os afectará a todos…" | 
         | 2311 | Le Bossu | Paul Féval père | 2000 | Classics, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Adventure, France, French Literature, Historical, Novels, Romance, Literature | Lagardère | "Est-il besoin de présenter l’histoire du chevalier de Lagardère qui, pour venir en aide à la malheureuse Aurore de Nevers, privée de son père, de son nom et de sa fortune, affronte les ennemis les plus cyniques et les plus corrompus ?En faisant surgir, dans le Paris de la Régence (1715-1722), possédé par la fièvre financière du système de Law, l’inoffensif bossu qui prête son dos aux spéculateurs et aux agioteurs de tout poil, Paul Féval (1817-1887) a donné à la littérature française une de ses figures les plus populaires, avec Jean Valjean, d’Artagnan et Cyrano.Intrigues, duels, guets-apens, coups de théâtre, sur la toile de fond d’un Paris aux ruelles sordides, menaçantes, et d’une Cour étincelante et dépravée : rien ne manque dans ce ""roman de cape et d’épée"", jusqu’au moment où la terrible ""botte de Nevers"" punira le crime et fera triompher la justice..." | 
         | 2312 | Here Before Kilroy | Su Walton | 1970 | Fiction | Adam Bound | "As a boy, Adam Bound issues a challenge to the universe: ""I was here before Kilroy."" And, amid the jostling interests of his friends at school, his twin cousins Maeve and Beatrice, and the rest of his adoptive family, he sets out to find the reason for existence." | 
         | 2313 | Diary ng Panget | HaveYouSeenThisGirL , Jan Irene Villar (Illustrator) | May-13 | Diary, Romance, Young Adult, Comedy, Humor, Love, Contemporary, Fiction, Media Tie In, Realistic Fiction | Reah Rodriguez, Cross Sanford, Chad Jimenez | "Mahirap at panget si Girl tapos magnet siya ng mga poging mayayaman na boys? YES! Cliché? YES! So what makes this book special? This story has made a lot of people online laugh, as in hagalpak talaga with matching headbang pa! This is Eya's diary, a girl who believes she's ugly and will meet Cross Sandford, the most annoying nilalang ever. Samahan natin si Eya sa nakakaloka niyang adventure sa Willford Academy! A Cinderella story with a twist katatawanan! A story na pwedeng-pwede sa mga kabataan at pati na rin sa lagpas kabataan, para sa kababaihan, kalalakihan, binabae, o pusong lalaki. A very funny and kakilig story." | 
         | 2314 | Cursed Pirate Girl: The Collected Edition, Volume One | Jeremy A. Bastian | 2012 | Graphic Novels, Comics, Fantasy, Fiction, Pirates, Adventure, Graphic Novels Comics, Young Adult, Art, Bande Dessinée | Cursed Pirate Girl, Apollonia | "Adventures on and under the high seas lead a cursed pirate girl to encounter mythic creatures, gnarled and crusty pirates, and ghostly apparitions as she tries to find her lost father, one of the dreaded Pirate Captains of the mythical Omerta Seas. A whimsical swashbuckling tale of wonderland journeys and unimaginable dangers, starting in Port Elisabeth, Jamaica in the year 1728, and quickly heading across—and beneath—the waves. The first three issues of Cursed Pirate Girl are collected in this edition with an all-new epilogue." | 
         | 2315 | Daredevil, Volume 3 | Mark Waid (Writer), Greg Rucka (Writer), Chris Samnee  (Artist), Marco Checchetto (Artist), Khoi Pham (Artist) | Sept-12 | Comics, Graphic Novels, Marvel, Superheroes, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Fiction, Adventure, Comix, American | Matt Murdock, Frank Castle, Tony Stark, Peter Parker | "It's the meanest team-up you ever saw as Daredevil, Spider-Man and the Punisher find themselves caught up in an epic chase across Manhattan for the Omega Drive - a powerful and dangerous information source that could change the course of all their lives! Plus: It's lawyers in love as Matt Murdock finally makes some time for Assistant District Attorney Kirsten McDuffie. But when Megacrime strikes back at Daredevil, the sightless super hero finds himself imprisoned in Latveria for crimes against the state! And as the law firm of Nelson & Murdock undergoes a drastic change, Matt's ""happy go lucky"" veneer at last begins to peel back, revealing darker truths that may just end his heroic career.Collecting: Daredevil 11-15, Avenging Spider-Man 6, & The Punisher 10" | 
         | 2316 | The Search | Gordon Korman | Jul-06 | Adventure, Mystery, Realistic Fiction, Middle Grade, Fiction, Action, Childrens, Young Adult, Survival, Thriller | Aiden Falconer, Meg Falconer | "MISSING!Where is Meg Falconer?Everybody wants to know. Her brother Aiden, who saw her kidnapped and is now trying to track her down, wants to know. The FBI, led by the very serious Agent Harris, wants to know. Her parents, who fear their pasts have something to do with why Meg was taken, want to know.Even Meg's kidnappers want to know. Because catching her doesn't always mean keeping her." | 
         | 2317 | Edward. Jurnalul unui hamster. 1990-1990 | Miriam Elia, Ezra Elia, Radu Paraschivescu (Translator) | 2012 | Humor, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Animals, Philosophy, Comedy, Comics, Graphic Novels Comics, Short Stories, Comic Book | Edward the Hamster, Wolf the Hamster, Camilla the Hamster | "Avem de-a face cu o operă extraordinară: meditaţii pro­funde cu privire la natura captivităţii şi la suflet, împletite cu banalităţi mistuitoare ale vieţii de zi cu zi, iluminează micile pagini ale documentului. Edward destramă textura blazării şi ne sileşte să discutăm despre imboldul care-l face pe oricare dintre noi să pună tocul pe hârtie. Scurta lui viaţă se înfăţişează pe de-a-ntregul aici, dar cu siguran­ţă că vocea lui va avea ecou şi în secolele care vor urma." | 
         | 2318 | Starless Night | R.A. Salvatore | Aug-94 | Fantasy, Forgotten Realms, Fiction, Dungeons and Dragons, High Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Magic, Adventure, Audiobook | Drizzt Do’Urden | "I can find no answers in Mithril Hall....The apparent serenity of Drizzt Do'Urden, the brooding quiet, will show me nothing of the future designs of the drow. yet, for the sake of my friends, I must know those dark intentions. And so I fear that there remains only one place for me to look...The Underdark. A place of brooding darkness, where no shadows exist, and where Drizzt Do'Urden does not wish to go. The noble dark elf must return there, though, must go back to find his friends in the gnome city of Blingdenstone, and on to Menzoberranzan, the city of drow. Only then can Drizzt discern what perils might reach out from that dark place to threaten his friends in Mithril Hall.he finds allies where he least expects them and enemies he htough long gone. His scimitars slash at monsters too evil to reside under the sunlight of the surface world, while his inner strength wrestles with the tumult of emotions assaulting the noble drow when he looks once more on his dreaded homeland. All the while Drizzt must fend off the weight of guilt he carries for a dear friend lost to him forever." | 
         | 2319 | Fever of the Bone | Val McDermid | 2009 | Mystery, Crime, Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Detective, Novels, Audiobook | Tony Hill, Carol Jordan | "Meet Tony Hill's most twisted adversary - a killer with a shopping list of victims, a killer unmoved by youth and innocence, a killer driven by the most perverted desires ...When teenager Jennifer Maidment's murdered and mutilated body is discovered, it is clear that there is a dangerous psychopath on the loose. But it's not long before Tony and DCI Carol Jordan realise it's just the start of a brutal and ruthless campaign targeting an apparently unconnected group of young people. Their chameleon-like killer is chatting with them online, pretending to share their interests and beliefs - and then luring them to their deaths.But just when Tony should be at the heart of the hunt, he's pushed to the margins by Carol's cost-cutting boss and replaced by a dangerously inexperienced profiler. Struggling with the newly awakened ghosts of his own past and desperate for distraction in his work, Tony battles to find the answers that will give him personal and professional satisfaction in his most nerve-shattering investigation yet.Psychologically gripping and relentlessly paced, 'Fever of the Bone' is the perfect introduction for those who have not yet discovered the damaged but brilliant criminal profiler Tony Hill and DCI Carol Jordan, best known from ITV's award-winning 'Wire in the Blood'." | 
         | 2320 | W pustyni i w puszczy | Henryk Sienkiewicz | 2003 | Classics, Polish Literature, Fiction, Adventure, Childrens, School, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Poland, Africa | Kali, Staś Tarkowski, Nel Rawlison, Mea | "Staś Tarkowski i Nel Rawilison to dzieci inżynierów budujących Kanał Sueski w Egipcie, gdzie toczy się akurat ""święta wojna"" przeciwko kolonizatorom. Dzieci zostają porwane i od tej chwili zaczyna się ich podróż przez Afrykę, podczas której przeżywają przygodę za przygodą, jedną niebezpieczniejszą od drugiej." | 
         | 2321 | How to Lose an Extraterrestrial in 10 Days | Susan Grant  | Aug-07 | Romance, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Romance, Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Fantasy, Aliens, Fiction, Futuristic, Contemporary | Reef, Evie Holloway | "Can a single mom who's afraid to lose her heart find love with a fugitive cyborg who's forgotten he has one?Evie hasn't forgiven Reef for invading her home and terrorizing her chihuahua, but agrees to a temporary stay to help Earth avoid an alien invasion. But does the suburban mom really want to shelter the alien hit man who almost offed her sister and future brother-in-law?Reef can't understand why these humans care about him, and has no memory of his life before he was conscripted and turned into a bio-engineered super solder. But as his computers fail, the man he once was emerges, and soon he’s determined to figure out how to navigate this thing called love.Read the hot and heartwarming conclusion to the OtherWorldly Men series today!The Borderlands Series:Book #1 WARLEADERBook #2 HUNTING THE WARLORD'S DAUGHTERBook #3 RAIDER BORNThree Borderlands prequels: (The Otherworldly Men Series)Book #1 GUARDIAN ALIENBook #2 ROYAL RECRUITBook #3 CYBORG AND THE SINGLE MOM" | 
         | 2322 | The Abduction | Gordon Korman | May-06 | Mystery, Adventure, Childrens, Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Middle Grade, Action, Young Adult, Thriller, Suspense | Aiden Falconer, Meg Falconer | "TRAPPED!It's every brother's worst fear: As Aiden and his sister, Meg, are walking home from school one day, a van pulls over and Meg is kidnapped. There's no way for Aiden to stop it from happening. He's the only witness to his sister's disappearance.Why has Meg been kidnapped? For ransom? As a vendetta against Meg and Aiden's parents? Or is there an even bigger conspiracy at work? While Meg fends off her kidnappers and plans an escape, Aiden must team up with the FBI to try to find her - tracking down clues only a brother could recognize." | 
         | 2323 | The Mystery of the Fire Dragon | Carolyn Keene | 1961 | Mystery, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Adventure, Mystery Thriller, Crime | Nancy Drew | "Eloise Drew asks her niece to investigate the disappearance of her neighbor, a young university student. In New York, Nancy, Bess and George are drawn into the intrigue and danger of a smuggling ring. Nancy plans a clever ruse: George is disguised as the missing Chinese girl! The girl detective is also suspicious of an unpleasant bookstore owner and his loud, overbearing female customer. A series of clues lead the girls to Hong Kong. Ned, who is studying in Hong Kong, joins them. The amateur detectives follow more clues to the international smuggling ring. This book is the original text. A revised text does not exist." | 
         | 2324 | Dark Lord of Derkholm | Diana Wynne Jones | Aug-03 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Humor, Magic, Dragons, Adventure, High Fantasy, Young Adult Fantasy, Childrens | Christopher ""Kit"" Rodriguez, Mara, Eric Brooks, Don, Derk, Shona, Callette, Lydda, Elda, Querida, Mr. Chesney | "Everyone - wizards, soldiers, farmers, elves, dragons, kings and queens alike - is fed up with Mr Chesney's Pilgrim Parties: groups of tourists from the world next door who descend en masse every year to take the Grand Tour. What they expect are all the trappings of a grand fantasy adventure, including the Evil Enchantress, Wizard Guides, the Dark Lord, Winged Minions, and all. And every year different people are chosen to play these parts. But now they've had enough: Mr Chesney may be backed by a very powerful demon, but the Oracles have spoken. Now it's up to the Wizard Derk and his son Blade, this year's Dark Lord and Wizard Guide, not to mention Blade's griffin brothers and sisters, to save the world from Mr Chesney's depredations." | 
         | 2325 | Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned | Walter Mosley | 1997 | Fiction, Short Stories, Mystery, African American, Crime, Literature, Mystery Thriller, American, Audiobook, Literary Fiction | Socrates Fortlow | "In this cycle of 14 bittersweet stories, Walter Mosley breaks out of the genre-if not the setting-of his bestselling Easy Rawlins detective novels. Only eight years after serving out a prison sentence for murder, Socrates Fortlow lives in a tiny, two-room Watts apartment, where he cooks on a hot plate, scavenges for bottles, drinks and wrestles with his demons. Struggling to control a seemingly boundless rage-as well as the power of his massive ""rock-breaking"" hands-Socrates must find a way to live an honourable life as a black man on the margins of a white world, a task which takes every ounce of self-control he has.  Easy Rawlins fans might initially find themselves disappointed by the absence of a mystery to unravel. But it's a gripping inner drama that unfolds over the pages of these stories, as Socrates comes to grips with the chaos, poverty and violence around him. He tries to get and keep a job delivering groceries; takes in a young street kid named Darryl, who has his own murder to hide; and helps drive out the neighbourhood crack dealer. Throughout, Mosley captures the rhythms of Watts life in prose both lyrical and hard-edged, resulting in a haunting look at a life bounded by lust, violence, fear and a ruthlessly unsentimental moral vision." | 
         | 2326 | Skybowl | Melanie Rawn | 1995 | Fantasy, Dragons, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Magic, Science Fiction, Epic, Adult | Sioned, Pol, Meiglan | "With her widely acclaimed fantasy trilogy, Dragon Prince, Melanie Rawn opened an enchanted gateway to a spellbinding universe of Sunrunner's magic and sorcerous evil, telling the tale of one man's crusade to bring peace to a land divided into often warring kingdoms. In the first two novels of the best-selling Dragon Star trilogy, the peaceful reign of High Prince Rohan was shattered by a mysterious invasion force which began a devastating campaign against the people of the Desert and the Sunrunners. And now, Skybowl brings this magnificent epic work of fantasy to its dramatic close.With High Prince Pol's wife Meiglan held prisoner by the Warlord of the enemy, and Skybowl keep purposefully abandoned to this deadly foe, Pol's mother Sioned leads a daring mission into the castle, using all her years of experience as High Princess in a cunning attempt to strike at the heart of the invasion force. And even as Sinned carries out this perilous plan, Pol and his cousin Andry, Lord of the Sunrunners of Goddess Keep, are forced into an uneasy alliance. For only if they can overcome their longtime rivalry and suspicions of one another and draw upon their combined powers of Sunrunning and Sorcery, do they stand any chance of defeating the invaders who have sworn to destroy the people of the Desert down to the last newborn child...." | 
         | 2327 | Angel Fire East | Terry Brooks  | 1999 | Fantasy, Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Epic Fantasy, Magic, Horror, High Fantasy, Demons | Nest Freemark, John Ross, Hawk (Shannara), Findo Gask | "Angel Fire East marks the close of Terry Brooks's Word and Void trilogy, which began with 1997's Running with the Demon. In this book, the story returns to Nest's native Hopewell, where once again Nest and John must face off against the Void. This time, the demon is the ancient Findo Gask, along with his sidekicks: a giant albino demon, a shapeless ur'droch who lives only to kill, and a self-destructive psycho named Penny Dreadful.  The story begins when John Ross shows up at Nest Freemark's door with a young boy. He reveals that the boy, who he calls Little John, is actually a gypsy morph, a creature born of wild magic and capable of enormous deeds, for good or evil. Both sides have approximately one month to unravel Little John's secrets and recruit him for their cause. Because after one month, the magic that holds him together will tear him apart, and his powers will be lost forever." | 
         | 2328 | The Cat Who Turned On and Off | Lilian Jackson Braun | Jul-91 | Mystery, Fiction, Cats, Cozy Mystery, Animals, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Humor, Adult | Jim Qwilleran, Koko, Yum Yum | "The team of Koko, the brilliant Siamese cat, and Qwilleran, the reporter with the perceptive moustache, is back in action - with an adorable female Siamese, Yum Yum, added to the household.When Qwilleran decides to do a feature series on Junktown, he gets more than he bargained for. Not the dope den he anticipated, Junktown is a haven for antique dealers and collectors - as strange a lot as the crafty reporter has ever encountered. When a mysterious fall ends the career - and the life - of one of Junktown's leading citizens, Qwilleran is convinced it was no accident. But, as usual, it takes Koko to prove he's right." | 
         | 2329 | The Ship Who Searched | Anne McCaffrey, Mercedes Lackey | 1994 | Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space Opera, Romance, Adult, Space, Novels, Speculative Fiction | Hypatia ""Tia"" Cade | "A young woman becomes paralyzed and must become a brainship—and find her Brawn, her human soul mate, so that she can discover a cure for her illness.Tia Cade is a headstrong, smart, and very normal girl until she contracts a terrible illness that leaves her with the bare semblance of life. Tia's only hope: to become the oldest person ever to train to be one of the legendary star travelers, the brainships. But now that Tia is free of her ravaged body, there still remains the task of finding the right partner to be her Brawn, the human element every brainship requires. And when the disease that debilitated Tia threatens thousands more, selecting a Brawn who is her true soul mate may allow Tia to find the origin of the terrible plague—and perhaps even a cure." | 
         | 2330 | Third Girl | Agatha Christie | 2002 | Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Detective, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Audiobook, Murder Mystery, Thriller | Ariadne Oliver, Mr. Goby, Hercule Poirot | "Poirot is approached by a girl who shared a flat with two other girls in London. She is convinced she is a murderer. With rumours of weapons and blood stains and no hard evidence can Poirot determine whether she's guilty, innocent or mad?" | 
         | 2331 | The Sky Phantom | Carolyn Keene | 1976 | Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Womens | Nancy Drew, Bess Marvin, George Fayne, Bruce Fisher | "Nancy attends Excello Flying School in the Midwest to take lessons while Bess and George perfect their horseback riding. As an amateur sleuth, Nancy becomes busy investigating a mystery involving a hijacked plane and a missing pilot as well as an elusive sky phantom and horse thief and clues involving a strange magnetic cloud. This book is the original text. A revised text does not exist." | 
         | 2332 | Der goldne Topf | E.T.A. Hoffmann, Hartmut Steinecke (Contributor) | 2004 | Classics, German Literature, Fantasy, School, Fiction, 19th Century, Germany, Romanticism, Literature, Read For School | Anselmus, Veronika Paulmann, Serpentina | "Der goldne Topf, Hoffmanns »Märchen aus der neuen Zeit«, spielt virtuos mit den Ebenen des Wunderbaren und des Bürgerlich-Philiströsen. Der Weg des Studenten Anselmus von Dresden nach Atlantis wird phantasievoll-humoristisch erzählt und zugleich ironisch reflektiert. Seit langem und mit Recht gilt der Märchenroman als ein Höhepunkt romantischer Erzählkunst." | 
         | 2333 | Le Fléau 1/2 | Stephen King , Jean-Pierre Quijano (Translator) | Jun-03 | Horror, Roman, Fiction, Science Fiction, American, Post Apocalyptic | Stuart Redman, Glenn Bateman, Nick Andros, Tom Cullen, Nadine Cross, Fran Goldsmith, Harold Lauder, Joe/Leo Rockway, Mother Abigail Freemantle, Randall Flagg, Trashcan Man, The Anti-Christ, Judge Farris, Larry Underwood, General William Starkey, Major Len Creighton, The Rat Man, Captain Trips, Charles D. Campion, Lucy Swann, Lloyd Henreid, Julie Lawry, Ralph Brentner, Dayna Jurgens, United States Military, American Law Enforcement, Kojak | "Il a suffi que l'ordinateur d'un laboratoire ultra-secret de l'armée américaine fasse une erreur d'une nanoseconde pour que la chaîne de la mort se mette en marche. Le Fléau, inexorablement, se répand sur l'Amérique et, de New York à Los Angeles, transforme un bel été en cauchemar. Avec un taux de contamination de 99,4 %. Dans ce monde d'apocalypse émerge alors une poignée de survivants hallucinés. Ils ne se connaissent pas, pourtant chacun veut rejoindre celle que, dans leurs rêves, ils appellent Mère Abigaël : une vieille Noire de cent huit ans dont dépend leur salut commun. Mais ils savent aussi que sur cette terre dévastée rôde l'Homme sans visage, l'Homme Noir aux étranges pouvoirs, Randall Flagg. L'incarnation des fantasmes les plus diaboliques, destinée à régner sur ce monde nouveau. C'est la fin des Temps, et le dernier combat entre le Bien et le Mal peut commencer." | 
         | 2334 | Ratcatcher | James McGee  | Sept-06 | Historical Fiction, Mystery, Historical, Fiction, Historical Mystery, Crime, Adventure, British Literature, 19th Century, Steampunk | Matthew Hawkwood | "A gripping historical thriller introducing Bow Street Runner Matthew Hawkwood - a sexy, dangerous and fascinating hero who hunts down thieves, spies and murderers in the crime-ridden streets of Regency London. Hunting down highwaymen was not the usual preserve of a Bow Street Runner. As the most resourceful of this elite band of investigators, Matthew Hawkwood was surprised to be assigned the case - even if it did involve the murder and mutilation of a naval courier. From the squalor of St Giles Rookery, London's notorious den of thieves and cutthroats, to the brightly lit salons of the aristocracy and the heart of the British government, Hawkwood relentlessly pursues his quarry. As the case unfolds and another body is discovered on the banks of the Thames, the true agenda begins to emerge. And only Hawkwood can stop a dastardly plot that will end British mastery of the seas forever." | 
         | 2335 | Mystery of the Tolling Bell | Carolyn Keene | 1973 | Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Cozy Mystery | Nancy Drew, Carson Drew, Bess Marvin, George Fayne | "While vacationing in a seaside town, Nancy learns her father has been kidnapped. She and Ned rescue Carson Drew and help him investigate a cosmetic company’s suspicious operations. Meanwhile, the girl sleuth is captivated by another mystery. Stories about the eerie moans from a cave carved in the jagged wall of the bluff compel her to explore. Several frightened townspeople claim to have seen a ghost, accompanied by the mournful sound of a tolling bell just before water rushes from the cave. During her searches, Nancy discovers the true cause and reasons behind these mysterious occurrences! This book is the revised text. The plot of the original story (©1946) is similar with minor revisions." | 
         | 2336 | Защита Лужина | Vladimir Nabokov, Владимир Набоков | 2004 | Fiction, Russia, Classics, Russian Literature, Chess, Literature, Novels, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Drama | Aleksandr Ivanovich Luzhin, Turati, Valentinov, Ivan Luzhin | "В книгу известного писателя Владимира Набокова (1899-1977) вошли романы ""Защита Лужина"", ""Подвиг"" и сборник ""Соглядатай"". В этих произведениях 30-х годов сошлись основные линии творчества Набокова-Сирина - прошлого и будущего и ""главная"" его тема - тема потусторонности, строящей жизнь помимо воли человека." | 
         | 2337 | Wraith Squadron | Aaron Allston | Feb-98 | Star Wars, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Space Opera, Science Fiction Fantasy, Media Tie In, Space, Novels, War | Wedge Antilles, Warlord Zsinj | "They are the galaxy’s most elite fighting force. And as the battle against the Empire rages, the X-wing fighters risk life and machine to protect the Rebel Alliance. Now they must go on a daring undercover mission—as the crew of an Imperial warship.It is Wedge Antilles’ boldest creation: a covert-action unit of X-wing fighters, its pilots drawn from the dregs of other units, castoffs and rejects given one last chance. But before the new pilots can complete their training, the squadron’s base is attacked by former Imperial Admiral Trigit, and Wraith Squadron is forced to swing into action—taking over an Imperial warship and impersonating its crew. The mission: to gain vital intelligence about Trigit’s secret weapons, to sabotage the admiral’s plans, and to lure him into an Alliance trap. But the high-stakes gamble pits Wraith Squadron’s ragtag renegades against the Empire’s most brilliant master of guile and deception.Are they up to the challenge?If not, the penalty is instant death." | 
         | 2338 | A Melodia do Amor | Lesley Pearse | Oct-11 | Historical Fiction, Romance, Historical, Fiction, Historical Romance, Chick Lit, Drama, Adult, Contemporary, Young Adult | Beth Bolton, Jack Child, Sam Bolton, Molly Bolton, Ruth Langworthy, Edward Langworthy, Theodore Cadogan | "Liverpool, 1893. Os sonhos de Beth são desfeitos quando ela, o irmão Sam e a irmã mais nova, Molly, ficam órfãos. As suas vidas, até então tranquilas e seguras, sofrem uma dramática reviravolta. Para escapar a um futuro de miséria e servidão, Sam e Beth decidem arriscar tudo, atravessar o Atlântico e partir à conquista do sonho americano. Mas Molly é demasiado pequena para os acompanhar e os irmãos vêem-se obrigados a tomar uma decisão que os marcará para sempre: deixá-la em Inglaterra, a cargo de uma família adoptiva. A bordo do navio para Nova Iorque não faltam vigaristas e trapaceiros, mas o talento de Beth com o violino conquista-lhe a alcunha de Cigana, a amizade de Theo, um carismático jogador de cartas, e do perspicaz Jack. Juntos, os jovens vão começar de novo num país onde todos os sonhos são possíveis. Para a romântica Beth, esta será a maior aventura da sua vida. Conseguirá a Cigana voltar a encontrar um verdadeiro lar? Uma história de amor incondicional e coragem sem limites. Um livro irresistível, da autora de Nunca me Esqueças, Procuro-te e Segue o Coração. A Melodia do Amor de Lesley Pearse" | 
         | 2339 | Mt. Vernon Love Story | Mary Higgins Clark | 1968 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Romance, Historical, Mystery, Adult Fiction, Adult, Presidents, Historical Romance, Suspense | John Adams, Mary Ball Washington, Sally Fairfax, George William Fairfax, Martha Washington, George Washington | "In Mount Vernon Love Story - famed suspense writer Mary Higgins Clark's long-out-of-print first novel - the bestselling author reveals the flesh-and-blood man who became the ""father of our country"" in a story that is charming, insightful, and immensely entertaining.  Always a lover of history, Mary Higgins Clark wrote this extensively researched biographical novel and titled it Aspire to the Heavens, after the motto of George Washington's mother. Published in 1969, the book was more recently discovered by a Washington family descendant and reissued as Mount Vernon Love Story. Dispelling the widespread belief that although George Washington married Martha Dandridge Custis, he reserved his true love for Sally Carey Fairfax, his best friend's wife, Mary Higgins Clark describes the Washington marriage as one full of tenderness and passion, as a bond between two people who shared their lives - even the bitter hardship of a winter in Valley Forge - in every way. In this author's skilled hands, the history, the love, and the man come fully and dramatically alive." | 
         | 2340 | Everlasting Desire | Amanda Ashley  | Oct-10 | Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Romance, Vampires, Fiction, Audiobook, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Contemporary, Romantic Suspense | Megan DeLacey, Rhys Costain | "Desire Burns ForeverThe clientele at Shore's clothing store includes some of L.A.'s sexiest bachelors. But none of them affects Megan DeLacey as deeply as the dark-eyed stranger who strides into her boutique one evening - and keeps returning, night after night. Megan is drawn to Rhys Costain even as she fears him. Because his reason for being there is clear - he wants Megan, with an intensity that's both tempting and terrifying.For almost five centuries, Rhys has lived alone, using women as it pleased him and never wanting more. As Master of the West Coast vampires, it's his duty to eliminate the ancient vampire who's draining humans on his turf, putting all of their kind at risk. But Megan's lush beauty and vibrant warmth is blinding him to a danger that will soon engulf them both - and tear him from the only woman who can satisfy his darkest hunger." | 
         | 2341 | Unnatural Exposure | Patricia Cornwell  | 2000 | Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Murder Mystery, Detective, Adult, Medical | Kay Scarpetta, Pete Marino, Lucy Farinelli, Benton Wesley, Keith Pleasants, Inspector Percy Ring | "See alternate cover edition hereVirginia Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta has a bloody puzzle on her hands: five headless, limbless cadavers in Ireland, plus four similar victims in a landfill back home. Is a serial butcher loose in Virginia? That's what the panicked public thinks, thanks to a local TV reporter who got the leaked news from her boyfriend, Scarpetta's vile rival, Investigator Percy Ring. But the butchered bodies are so many red herrings intended to throw idiots like Ring off the track. Instead of a run-of-the-mill serial killer, we're dealing with a shadowy figure who has plans involving mutant smallpox, mass murder, and messing with Scarpetta's mind by e-mailing her gory photos of the murder scenes, along with cryptic AOL chat-room messages. The coolest innovation: Scarpetta's gorgeous genius niece, Lucy, equips her with a DataGlove and a VPL Eyephone, and she takes a creepy virtual tour of the e-mailed crime scene.Unnatural Exposure boasts brisk storytelling, crackling dialogue, evocative prose about forensic-science sleuthing, and crisp character sketches, both of familiar characters like Scarpetta's gruff partner Pete Marino and bit players like the landfill employee falsely accused by Ring. Plus, let's face it: serial killers are old hat. Cornwell's most vivid villains are highly plausible backstabbing colleagues like Ring, who plots to destroy Lucy's FBI career by outing her as a lesbian. Some readers object to the rather abrupt ending, but, hey, it's less jarring than Hannibal's, and it's the logical culmination of Cornwell's philosophy about human nature. To illuminate the novel's finale, read Cornwell's remarks on paranoia in her Amazon.com interview. -Tim Appelo" | 
         | 2342 | Virus | Sarah Langan  | 2007 | Horror, Fiction, Zombies, Thriller, Paranormal, Supernatural, Vampires, Mystery, Suspense, Mystery Thriller | Lois Larkin | "Something lurking in the woods threatens to destroy an entire town in Sarah Langan's brilliantly crafted second novel.Lois Larkin should never have taken her class to the woods for the field trip. Preoccupied by the betrayal of her fianc� she never even notices when little James Walker doesn't get back on the bus and suddenly the quiet, prosperous town of Corpus Christi is plunged into tragedy and united in shock." | 
         | 2343 | Appointment with Death | Agatha Christie | 2001 | Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Classics, Detective, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Audiobook, Murder Mystery, Thriller | Sarah King, Mrs. Boynton, Colonel Carbury, Raymond Boynton, Lady Westholme, Carol Boynton, Lennox Boynton, Miss Pierce, Ginevra Boynton, Nadine Boynton, Hercule Poirot | "Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had killed her.With only 24 hours available to solve the mystery, Hercule Poirot recalled a chance remark he’d overheard back in Jerusalem: ‘You see, don’t you, that she’s got to be killed?’ Mrs Boynton was, indeed, the most detestable woman he’d ever met." | 
         | 2344 | The Double Jinx Mystery | Carolyn Keene | 1973 | Mystery, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Crime | Nancy Drew | A bird of ill omen is mysteriously left on the Drews’ front lawn. Did the person who put it there do so with the intent of jinxing Nancy and her father? This strange incident involves the girl detective in her father’s case concerning a rare bird farm threatened with destruction to make room for a high-rise apartment house complex. The use of jinxes to threaten those who oppose the construction leads Nancy to find the criminals behind the jinxing. This book is the original text. A revised text does not exist. | 
         | 2345 | राधेय | रणजित देसाई | Apr-12 | Marathi, Mythology, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Indian Literature, India, Classics | Krishna, Karna | "In Radheya, author Ranjeet Desai explores the eternal of question of doing what is right versus carrying out one’s duty, told through the eyes of Karna. Set against the backdrop of the Mahabharata, Desai attempts to make readers aware that although winning is usually the goal in every war, one should also be ready to face defeat.Through Radheya, readers will learn about Karna and the circumstances which earned him a memorable place in the Mahabharata. From early on, Karna was deprived of familial love. Throughout the course of his life, he suffered at the hands of others. He also felt discarded by his own mother Kunti and was also ridiculed by many because he was born in a lower class. Since Karna’s foundation years were so tumultuous, his immense strength was reduced and he often felt lonely.Nevertheless, through Radheya readers can visualize the development of Karna’s individuality and how he came to earn the title of fearless warrior. This novel is essentially a written tribute to the hero Karna who fought against his own family members while remaining loyal to his friend. Through Karna’s decisions and actions, Desai brings to life the impending dualities of life such as victory and defeat, and doing what is expected versus doing what is right. Through Karna, Desai has tried to universalize the “karma katha”." | 
         | 2346 | La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa | Dacia Maraini | Mar-06 | Historical Fiction, Italy, Fiction, Italian Literature, Historical, Classics, Feminism, Literature, 20th Century, Read For School | Marianna Ucrìa, Pietro Ucrìa, Saro, Fila, Signoretto Ucrìa | "La protagonista dell'opera è una sordomuta sposata giovanissima a uno zio. L'handicap di Marianna diventa il perno del romanzo e l'espediente che la scrittrice fa suo per esaltare i ""sensi"" intatti dell'antenata in un ambiente siciliano sordido e fastoso dove i personaggi e gli episodi raccontano un universo segnato da tragedie, amori, infedeltà.Dacia Maraini ha raccontato come una donna possa correggere e determinare il proprio destino, costi quel che costi." | 
         | 2347 | Angelique and the King | Anne Golon, Serge Golon | 1950 | Romance, Historical Fiction, Historical, Fiction, Historical Romance, France, Adventure, 17th Century, Novels, Russia | Angélique, Louis XIV of France, Philippe du Plessis-Bellière | "Na haar moeilijke tijd in donker Parijs, weet Angelique door te dringen tot het slot van Versailles en een beter bestaan op te bouwen aan het hof van de Zonnekoning." | 
         | 2348 | Melodia al crepuscolo (Drake Sisters, #2) | Christine Feehan  | 2011 | Romance, Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Fantasy, Christmas, Magic, Witches, Holiday, Contemporary, Adult | Kate Drake, Matt Granite | "Kate ha deciso di tornare a Sea Haven, e non è solo la sua famiglia a riportarla a casa... Anche per lei è giunto il momento di guardare il proprio destino negli occhi. È una scrittrice di successo e una grande viaggiatrice, ma ora ha bisogno di fermarsi. Un mulino abbandonato le sembra il luogo adatto per ricominciare, e così decide di trasformarlo in una libreria. L’affascinante Matt Granite si offre di aiutarla nei lavori di ristrutturazione; l’amore che cova in segreto per lei lo spingerebbe a far di tutto pur di starle accanto. C’è qualcosa che lo attira inesorabilmente, e non si tratta solo della sua voce dolce e sensuale. Quando una scossa di terremoto fa cedere le fondamenta del mulino, Kate sente che una forza maligna e centenaria è stata liberata... ed è lì per lei. Nonostante Matt la segua giorno e notte, Kate sa che questo non basterà a proteggerla, e che sarà necessario raccogliere i poteri di tutte le sorelle Drake per sconfiggere l’oscurità che minaccia di cancellare per sempre la tranquillità di Sea Haven." | 
         | 2349 | The Warning | K.A. Applegate, Katherine Applegate | Mar-98 | Science Fiction, Young Adult, Fiction, Fantasy, Childrens, Aliens, Middle Grade, Animals, Adventure, Shapeshifters | Visser Three | "Jake has made an amazing discovery: a Web site about the Yeerks. Should the Animorphs investigate? If they do, they might walk right into a trap. And if they don't, they'll never know if they're fighting their enemies alone..." | 
         | 2350 | The Clue of the Broken Locket | Carolyn Keene | 1965 | Mystery, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Crime | Nancy Drew | "Another vacation turns into a riddle for Nancy to solve while she visits a lakeside holiday area. Cecily Curtis seeks the girl sleuth’s help in solving two mysteries. One concerns her fiancé, a popular singer who believes his record company is cheating him. The other involves a hidden family treasure; the only clue is half of a gold locket. Strange circumstances provide Nancy with many opportunities to test her sleuthing skills and discover the astounding secrets of Pudding Stone Lodge. This book is the revised text. The plot of the original story (©1934) is different." | 
         | 2351 | Royal Wedding | Meg Cabot  | 2015 | Romance, Young Adult, Contemporary, Chick Lit, Fiction, Adult, Adult Fiction, Humor, New Adult, Contemporary Romance | Mia Thermopolis, Helen Thermopolis, Michael Moscovitz, Phillipe Renaldo, Clarisse Renaldo, Ivan Renaldo | "For Princess Mia, the past five years since college graduation have been a whirlwind of activity: living in New York City, running her new teen community center, being madly in love, and attending royal engagements. And speaking of engagements. Mia's gorgeous longtime boyfriend, Michael, managed to clear both their schedules just long enough for an exotic (and very private) Caribbean island interlude where he popped the question! Of course, Mia didn't need to consult her diary to know that her answer was a royal ""oui.""But now Mia has a scandal of majestic proportions to contend with: her grandmother has leaked ""fake"" wedding plans to the press that could cause even normally calm Michael to become a runaway groom. Worse, a scheming politico is trying to force Mia's father from the throne, all because of of a royal secret that could leave Genovia without a stomach. Can Mia prove to everyone-especially herself-that she's not only ready to wed, but ready to rule as well?" | 
         | 2352 | Doctor Who: Mission: Impractical | David A. McIntee | Jun-98 | Doctor Who, Science Fiction, Fiction, Media Tie In | Ogrons, Frobisher, The Sixth Doctor, Sabalom Glitz, The Doctor | "When daring criminal Jack Chance masterminds the heist of a precious national treasure from the planet Veltroch, it is the first step in a chain of events that could lead to the destruction of two civilisations...Pursued by bounty hunters, the Sixth Doctor and his shapeshifting companion Frobisher run into old acquaintances Glitz and Dibber - notorious rogues who have become involved in something big: a covert government agency on Vandor Prime is forcing the pair to turn their criminal talents to its own ends.The Doctor and Frobisher are soon drawn into the mysterious scheme themselves - but what game is truly being played by the authorities? How is the group of Ogron raiders involved? And who is so desperate to see the Doctor dead?Caught in a web of deceit and pursued by ruthless killers, the Doctor's mission - should he decide to accept it - is to join Glitz's gang and pull off the crime of the century. And failure will result in an interstellar war costing the lives of millions..." | 
         | 2353 | Nineteen Eighty | David Peace | 2008 | Crime, Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Noir, Historical Fiction, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Literature, Novels | Peter Hunter, Philip Evans, Sir John Reed, Peter Sutcliffe | The third novel in the Red Riding quartet sees Yorkshire terrorised by the Ripper while the corrupt police familiar from 1974 and 1977 continue to prosper. | 
         | 2354 | Mystery of Crocodile Island | Carolyn Keene | 1978 | Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Mystery Thriller, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Crime, Adventure | Nancy Drew, Bess Marvin | "Nancy investigates potential poachers at Crocodile Island, a dark, swampy setting with enough reptilian foes to make the locale worthy of its name. Soon Nancy, Bess and George to realize the reptilian foes are less dangerous than some human beings inhabiting the island. The resourceful detectives work diligently to uncover a sinister racket involving many unsuspecting victims. This book is the original text. A revised text does not exist." | 
         | 2355 | Nightshade Tavern | Laurell K. Hamilton  | Nov-05 | Urban Fantasy, Vampires, Paranormal, Fiction, Fantasy, Werewolves, Mystery, Horror, Paranormal Romance, Romance | Anita Blake, Dolph Storr, Zerbrowski (Anita Blake series), Jean-Claude (Anita Blake series), Richard Zeeman, Edward ""Ted"" Forrester, Asher (Anita Blake series), Jason Schuyler, Nathaniel Graison, Damian (Anita Blake series), Micah Callahan | Omnibus edition with both Obsidian Butterfly and Narcissus in Chains. | 
         | 2356 | Pooh Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (A Little Golden Book) | Mary Packard (Adapted By), Russell Hicks (Illustrator), A.A. Milne (Original Story By) | 1998 | Childrens, Picture Books, Classics, Fiction, Animals | ""Winnie the Pooh (Disney''s)"" | "Winnie the Pooh, the honey loving silly old bear attempts to get honey from a bee tree, so after climbing the tree didn't work, he borrows Christopher Robin's balloon, dunks himself in mud and floats to the top of the honey tree incognito as a little black rain cloud." | 
         | 2357 | Once Were Warriors | Alan Duff | 1997 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Drama, Audiobook, Adult, Novels, Family, Classics, Abuse | Jake Heke, Grace Heke, Nig Heke, Boogie Heke, Beth Heke | "This hard-hitting novel is frank and uncompromising in its portrayal of Maoris n New Zealand society. The driving force of writing carries the reader into a world of frustration, resentment and waste. It is a raw, powerful story, in which everyone is a victim until the strength and vision of one woman transcends brutality and leads the way to a new alternative.First part of what would later become the Once Were Warriors trilogy." | 
         | 2358 | Mystery of the Ivory Charm | Carolyn Keene | 1974 | Mystery, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Crime | Nancy Drew, Anita Allison | "Nancy determines whether an exquisite ivory elephant charm really protects its wearer from harm during her investigation of a circus performer who may be involved in a mysterious illegal scheme. The girl detective’s assignment becomes complicated when the elephant trainer’s young assistant seeks refuge at the Drew home from his cruel foster father. While following clues to help the boy find his real father, Nancy discovers an eerie abandoned house. As she probes, Nancy’s dangerous enemies thwart her efforts to discover a secret surrounding the unusual ivory charm. This book is the revised text. The plot of the original story (©1936) is similar with minor revisions." | 
         | 2359 | Phèdre | Jean Racine | 2009 | Plays, Classics, France, Theatre, Drama, Fiction, French Literature, School, 17th Century, Literature | Thésée, Phèdre, Hippolyte, Aricie, Oenone, Théramène, Ismène, Panope | "En 1677, Phèdre, la dernière grande tragédie de Racine, met en scène la mythique descente aux enfers d'une incomprise. Vouée au malheur par son hérédité, Phèdre aime sans espoir son beau-fils Hippolyte. Lorsque son mari, Thésée, revient, il envoie injustement son fils à la mort. On assiste alors à l'empoisonnement d'une femme à la fois innocente et coupable. Ironie tragique qui démontre à quel point l'amour peut se vivre comme une malédiction." | 
         | 2360 | Wege im Sand | Luanne Rice  | Published | Fiction, Romance, Chick Lit, Family, Womens Fiction, Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, Love, Adult, Christian Fiction | Stevie Moore, Nell, Emma Lincoln, Maddie Kilvert | "Luanne Rice is a rarity among novelists today; she's a true storyteller. Her unique ability to weave together the bonds of love and family with the challenges and rewards of everyday life has garnered her eight consecutive top-ten New York Times bestselling paperbacks. With Beach Girls, Luanne Rice returns to the place that she was born to write about-the Connecticut shore-to tell a story about a family of women whose lives encompass three generations, their histories intertwined with that of the mystic coastal town that has forever bound them to one another.Beach Girls explores the complex and contradictory territories of love, family and friendship. Luanne Rice's sensuous prose and unforgettably rich and textured characters guide us toward a truth that lies within and sometimes beyond our dreams-an enduring strength that we all must embrace to find our way home and into the hearts of those we cherish most. Beach Girls is an enthralling novel of haunting beauty that will resonate long after the final page is turned." | 
         | 2361 | The Haunted Bridge | Carolyn Keene, Mildred Benson (Ghostwriter) | 1972 | Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Mystery Thriller, Juvenile, Adventure, Teen | Nancy Drew, Carson Drew, Bess Marvin, George Fayne, Ned Nickerson, Mortimer Bartesque, Doctor Aikerman | "Nancy Drew is visiting Deer Mountain Lodge to help her father with a case involving jewel thieves and while there, comes across another mystery involving a haunted bridge! How Nancy solves both mysteries and competes in a golf tournament despite her injurred arm is exciting and fun reading. l" | 
         | 2362 | Daddy Was a Number Runner | Louise Meriwether | 1971 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, Race, Young Adult, African American, Coming Of Age, Novels, New York, Literary Fiction | Francine Coffin | "This bittersweet and sharply observed masterpiece recounts a year in the life of twelve-year-old France Coffin. It is the summer of 1934, and nowhere are the effects of the Great Depression more apparent than in Harlem. But Harlem is also home to a community's anger, humor, and vitality, the paradoxical cradle of young Francie's innocence and dreams - just like the daily numbers game played for the small glint of hope that it boldly promises but will never fulfill." | 
         | 2363 | The Witch Tree Symbol | Carolyn Keene | 1975 | Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Juvenile, Adventure, Middle Grade, Mystery Thriller, Detective | Nancy Drew | "When a neighbor asks Nancy to accompany her to an old uninhabited mansion, she finds a witch tree symbol that leads her to Pennsylvania Dutch country in pursuit of a cunning and ruthless thief. The friendly welcome the girl sleuth and her friends receive from the Amish people soon changes to hostility when it is rumored that Nancy is a witch! Superstition helps her enemy in his attempt to get her off his trail, but Nancy persistently uncovers one clue after another to outwit her dangerous adversary. This book is the revised text. The plot of the original story (©1955) is similar with minor revisions." | 
         | 2364 | Club Vampyre | Laurell K. Hamilton  | 1997 | Vampires, Urban Fantasy, Fantasy, Paranormal, Horror, Fiction, Paranormal Romance, Romance, Zombies, Mystery | Anita Blake, Dolph Storr, Zerbrowski (Anita Blake series), Jean-Claude (Anita Blake series), Richard Zeeman, Edward ""Ted"" Forrester, Malcolm (Anita Blake series), Bert Vaughn | "Club Vampyre brings together the first three Anita Blake novels, this collection looks at the adventures of the woman vampires call The Executioner.I'm Anita Blake, expert on creatures of the night. Vampires call me The Executioner. What I call them isn't repeatable. Ever since the Supreme Court granted the undead equal rights, most people think vampires are just ordinary folks with fangs. I know better. I carry the scars. . . In my job - I'm an animator; I raise the dead - I've seen just about everything. I've dined with shapeshifters, danced with werewolves and been wooed, but not won, by Jean-Claude, the most powerful bloodsucker in St. Louis. When a serial killer started murdering vampires, it was Jean-Claude who wanted me to find the killer. Later a rogue vamp named Alejandro hit town and wanted to make me his human servant. A war of the undead had begun. Over me. I'd have been flattered, if my life weren't at stake.Books in this collection:* Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Bk 1)* The Laughing Corpse (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Bk 2)* Circus of the Damned (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Bk 3)" | 
         | 2365 | Native Tongue | Suzette Haden Elgin | 2000 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Feminism, Dystopia, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Language, Classics, Womens | Nazareth Chornyak | "Called ""fascinating"" by the New York Times upon its first publication in 1984, Native Tongue won wide critical praise and cult status, and has often been compared to the futurist fiction of Margaret Atwood. Set in the twenty-second century, the novel tells of a world where women are once again property, denied civil rights and banned from public life. Earth's wealth depends on interplanetary commerce with alien races, and linguists-a small, clannish group of families-have become the ruling elite by controlling all interplanetary communication. Their women are used to breed perfect translators for all the galaxies' languages.Nazareth Chornyak, the most talented linguist of the family, is exhausted by her constant work translating for trade organizations, supervising the children's language education, running the compound, and caring for the elderly men. She longs to retire to the Barren House, where women past childbearing age knit, chat, and wait to die. What Nazareth comes to discover is that a slow revolution is going on in the Barren Houses: there, word by word, women are creating a language of their own to free them from men's control." | 
         | 2366 | Tales of the Bounty Hunters | Kevin J. Anderson  (Editor), Dave Wolverton, Kathy Tyers , M. Shayne Bell, Daniel Keys Moran  | Dec-96 | Star Wars, Science Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories, Anthologies, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space, Space Opera, Adventure | Boba Fett, Dengar, Zuckuss, Bossk, IG-88, 4-LOM | "In a wild and battle-scarred galaxy, assassins, pirates, smugglers, and cutthroats of every description roam at will, fearing only the professional bounty hunters--amoral adventurers who track down the scum of the universe...for a fee. When Darth Vader seeks to strike at the heart of the Rebellion by targeting Han Solo and the Millennium Falcon, he calls upon six of the most successful--and feared--hunters, including the merciless Boba Fett. They all have two things in common: lust for profit and contempt for life....Featuring original stories by Kevin J. Anderson, M. Shayne Bell, Daniel Keys Moran, Kathy Tyers, Dave Wolverton." | 
         | 2367 | In Every Heartbeat | Kim Vogel Sawyer  | Sept-10 | Christian Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Christian, Historical, Romance, Christian Romance, Historical Romance, Inspirational, Drama | Libby Conley, Pete Leidig, Bennett Martin, Maelle Gallagher | "As three friends who grew up in the same orphanage head off to college together, they each harbor a cherished dream. Libby wishes to become a famous journalist, Pete plans to study to become a minister, and Bennett wants to join a fraternity and have as much fun as possible. But as tensions rise around the world on the brink of World War I, the friends' differing aspirations and opinions begin to divide them, as well. And when Libby makes a shocking discovery about Pete's family, will it drive a final wedge between the friends or bond them in ways they never anticipated?" | 
         | 2368 | Tutankamon Olayı | Christian Jacq, Ebru Erbaş  (Translator) | Jun-99 | Historical Fiction, Egypt, Historical, Fiction, Roman, France, Novels, Ancient History, Biography Memoir, Adventure | Howard Carter | "Mısır'a yerleşmiş hayvan resimleri yapan genç, parasız bir ressam, on sekiz yaşında bir arkeolog... Seyahat ve macera tutkunu milyarder bir lord... Dünyaları böylesine ayrı iki insan hangi tesadüf sonucu biraraya gelir?Söz konusu olan bir tesadüf değil, binlerce yıldır, yaşamla ölümün birbirinden ayrılamadığı, insanların hayallerini süsleyen, garip ve devasa Krallar Vadisi'nin kalbindeki el değmemiş mezarın karanlığında yatan altın maskeli bir firavundur...Arkeolog Carter ve sanata aşık Carnarvon Mısır'a ve Krallar Vadisi'ne aşık olacak, savaşa, kıskançlıklara, ihtiras kurbanlarına, çekemeyenlere rağmen Tutankamon'u unutulmuşluğundan çekip çıkaracaklar. Tutankamon Olayı gerçekleşecek.Tutkuları alevlendiren, açgözlülükleri açığa çıkaran ve polisiye romanlar, macera romanları ve geleneksel romanlar arasında gerçekleşen bir olay. Tutankamon, tamamen Carter ve Carnarvon'a borçlu olduğu bir yeniden dirilişle yetinmiyor. ""Çevresini saran lanetle, günün yıldızı ve tüm açgözlülerin hedefi haline geliyor.""Tutankamon Olayı: Herbiri bir diğerinden daha gerçek ve daha inanılmaz dramlar, çılgınlıklarla dolu bir yarım yüzyılın öyküsü. Aşk, gerçek, altın ve ölümsüzlüğün izlerine rastlanan bir epik efsane. Christian Jacq bu eşsiz hikayeyi bir tarihçinin katı tutumu ve bir hayalperestin esin duygusuyla işliyor." | 
         | 2369 | The Sins of the Fathers | Lawrence Block  | 2000 | Mystery, Crime, Fiction, Noir, Thriller, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Hard Boiled, New York, Audiobook | Matthew Scudder | "The pretty young prostitute is dead. Her alleged murderer—a minister's son—hanged himself in his jail cell. The case is closed. But the dead girl's father has come to Matthew Scudder for answers, sending the unlicensed private investigator in search of terrible truths about a life that was lived and lost in a sordid world of perversion and pleasures." | 
         | 2370 | Dark Mirror | M.J. Putney | Mar-11 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Time Travel, Magic, Romance, Historical, Paranormal, Fiction, Historical Romance | Victoria Mansfield | "At sixteen, Lady Victoria Mansfield, youngest daughter of the earl and countess of Fairmount, is destined for a charmed life and her choice of mates worthy of her status. Then she makes a terrifying discovery that will ruin her life and disgrace her family forever. Tory's blood is tainted... by magic.When a shocking accident forces Tory to reveal her despised skill, she is immediately exiled to Lackland Abbey, a reform school for young men and women in her position. Tory's greatest wish is to be cured so she can return home and perhaps recover some of her shattered life.Instead, curiosity and the lure of magic lead Tory to rebel students who have pledged their talents to protect England. As she joins them in their secret studies, she discovers her full powers - and is drawn to the handsome, enigmatic young Marquis of Allarde. But Allarde'a reserve and haunting secret keep him away, though she can see equal longing in his eyes.Then Tory's pledge sweeps her and her friends into a perilous world of danger, challenge, and a triumph that saves Britain from conquest. Can danger also bring Tory and Allarde together, despite all that stands between them?" | 
         | 2371 | The Phantom of Pine Hill | Carolyn Keene | 1965 | Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Mystery Thriller, Juvenile, Detective, Crime | Nancy Drew, Bess Marvin, George Fayne, Ned Nickerson, John Rorick, Mrs. Holman, Burt Eddleton, Dave Evans, Fred Jenkins | "Nancy, Bess and George visit Emerson for the university’s summer festivities. The girls are guests in a historic mansion on Pine Hill. Upon arriving, their host tells about the phantom haunting the mansion’s library. He also relates his family’s decades old saga of a lost French wedding gown and valuable gifts that went to the bottom of a nearby cove in the sinking of the Lucy Belle. Is there connection between the phantom and the old ship disaster? Nancy and her friends work diligently to solve the mystery of Pine Hill and to find the long-lost wedding treasures. This book is the original text. A revised text does not exist." | 
         | 2372 | The Autobiography of F.B.I. Special Agent Dale Cooper: My Life, My Tapes | Scott Frost | 1991 | Fiction, Mystery, Tv, Crime, Film, Novels, Thriller, 20th Century, Contemporary, Fantasy | Dale Cooper | "Former Eagle Scout and lifetime audio freak Dale Cooper brings us his autobiography, culled from his private collection of personal tape recordings beginning with his thirteenth birthday. Discover the secrets, never before seen on television, of Twin Peaks' most-wanted man, who scored a perfect 100 on his marksmanship test and once let a gentle, beautiful woman lead him astray. He's Dale Cooper - the man who seems too good to be true - and this is his story." | 
         | 2373 | Mildred Pierce | James M. Cain | 2002 | Fiction, Classics, Noir, Mystery, Historical Fiction, Crime, Novels, Literature, 20th Century, Audiobook | Monty, Mildred, Veda, Bert | "Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness and determination. She used those attributes to survive a divorce in 1940s America with two children and to claw her way out of poverty, becoming a successful businesswoman. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men and an unreasoning devotion to her monstrous daughter.Out of these elements, Cain created a novel (later made into a film noir classic) of acute social observation and devastating emotional violence—and a heroine whose ambitions and sufferings are never less than recognizable." | 
         | 2374 | Şimdiki Çocuklar Harika | Aziz Nesin | May-83 | Turkish Literature, Turkish, Fiction, Humor, Childrens, Novels, Literature, 20th Century, Comedy, Roman | Zeynep, Ahmet | "Şimdiki Çocuklar Harika, Aziz Nesin'in 1967'de yazdığı bir kitaptır. Bu kitapta Ahmet ve Zeynep ismlerinde iki çocuk ayrılıp mektuplaşma yoluyla birbirlerine yaşadıkları olayları anlatırlar. Ahmet ile Zeynep eskiden aynı okulda okumaktalardır, ancak Zeynep sonra Ankara'ya taşınır. Mektuplaşmaya söz vermişlerdir. Ayrıca Zeynep'in Metin, Ahmet'in ise Fatoş adında birer kardeşleri vardır. Ahmet Zeynep'e, Zeynep de Ahmet'e, okulda, evlerinde yaşadıkları olayları anlatırlar. Başlarına gelenleri, arkadaşlarını, dostluklarını gibi. Bu kitap çocukların annelerine, babalarına ve öğretmenlerini nasıl gördüklerini anlatır ve çocukların kendini nasıl savunması gerektiğini öğretir.Türkiye'nin sorunlarını eleştirmek için yazılmıştır. Eleştirdiği konuların bazıları; eğitim sistemi, ezbercilik, okulların sorunları, aile ilişkileridir. Burada anne ve babalara karşı da bazı sözler vardır." | 
         | 2375 | From Log-Cabin To White House: Life of James A. Garfield, Boyhood, Youth, Manhood, Assassination | William Makepeace Thayer | Published | Biography, Nonfiction, History | James A. Garfield | "Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork." | 
         | 2376 | The Unquiet | J.D. Robb  (Contributor), Mary Blayney (Contributor), Patricia Gaffney (Contributor), Ruth Ryan Langan (Contributor), Mary Kay McComas (Contributor) | Oct-11 | Mystery, Romance, Anthologies, Fiction, Crime, Romantic Suspense, Suspense, Futuristic, Paranormal, Science Fiction | Eve Dallas, Roarke | "features the In Death novella Chaos in DeathFive New York Timesbestselling authors-five superlative stories.From J.D. Robb:Eve and Roarke return to investigate a series of murders connected to a brilliant young surgeon in Chaos in Death.From Mary Blayney:A shopkeeper's solitude is complicated by a magic coin, a daring rogue, and dreams of her late husband, who whispers but one word...wish.From Patricia Gaffney:A lonely woman and a hotline psychic turn their astonishing connection to the other side into an unexpected romance.From Ruth Ryan Langan:The shattered soul of an angry spirit imprisoned in a Scottish manor house could be a young widow's only salvation.From Mary Kay McComas:A young ghost eases his brother's pain and guilt by inviting him into the dreams of an imaginative author of children's books." | 
         | 2377 | Disney's Pooh's Grand Adventure The Search for Christopher Robin (A Little Golden Book) | Justine Korman (Adapted By), Karl Geurs, Carter Crocker | 1997 | Childrens, Picture Books, Fiction, Animals, Adventure | ""Winnie the Pooh (Disney''s)"", ""Eeyore (Disney''s Winnie the Pooh)"", ""Rabbit (Disney''s Winnie the Pooh)"", ""Tigger (Disney''s Winnie the Pooh)"", ""Piglet (Disney''s Winnie the Pooh)"" | "When they can't find Christopher Robin, Pooh and his friends undertake a perilous search for him, and learn they're smarter, braver, and more loyal than they ever dreamed they'd be." | 
         | 2378 | Dampfnudelblues | Rita Falk  | 2011 | Crime, Humor, German Literature, Audiobook, Mystery, Thriller, Comedy, Fiction | Franz Eberhofer | """Stirb, du Sau!"", prangt es in roter Farbe von Höpfls Haus. Der Dienststellenleiter von der PI Landshut ruft an: Realschulrektor Höpfl ist nicht zum Unterricht erschienen. Ich soll da jetzt mal hinfahren und nachsehen. ""Stirb, du Sau!"", schießt es mir durch den Kopf. Und ich ahne nix Gutes.""" | 
         | 2379 | The Awakened Mage | Karen Miller | Oct-07 | Fantasy, Fiction, Magic, High Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Novels, Adult, Romance | Asher of Restharven, Gar (Kingmaker, Kingbreaker) | "Asher has come a long way for a fisherman's son. Together with his friend Prince Gar, he has defended their kingdom against its bitterest enemy, but at great cost. Now the evil mage Morg is preparing for his most deadly assault. Desperate, trapped in a broken body, Morg has little time and fewer scruples." | 
         | 2380 | Catherine the Great | Henri Troyat | 2000 | History, Biography, Nonfiction, Russia, Russian History, Historical, Biography Memoir, European History, 18th Century, France | Catherine the Great | "Born a little German princess without a drop of Russian blood in her veins she came to embody Russia and as the country moved from war to war and conquest to conquest it was Catherine who became great. Those who served her throne, or her bed, were well rewarded while the serfs were condemned to ever-worsening conditions. Men were instruments of pleasure. The weak had to perish. The future belonged to men - and sometimes a man could have the outward appearance of a woman. She was proof of that. This literary tour de force paints an enthralling picture of Catherine, her seductions, her coaxings and her phenomenal devotion to politics and work, but it also brings the Russian court - with all its intrigues - brilliantly to life." | 
         | 2381 | The Line Of Polity | Neal Asher  | 2004 | Science Fiction, Space Opera, Fiction, Fantasy, Space, Cyberpunk, Aliens, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adventure, Hard Science Fiction | Scar (Neal Asher), Dragon, Gant, Skellor, Eldene, Horace Blegg, Tomalon, Apis, Fethan, John Stanton, Cento, Thorn, Aiden, Mika, Ian Cormac, Jeremiah Tombs | Outlink station Miranda has been destroyed by a nanomycelium and the very nature of this sabotage suggests that the alien bioconstruct Dragon - a creature as untrustworthy as it is gigantic - is somehow involved. | 
         | 2382 | L'Ingénu | Voltaire | 2003 | Classics, France, Philosophy, Fiction, French Literature, 18th Century, Read For School, School, Novels, Literature | Gordon, Mlle de Saint-Yves, ""L''Ingénu"" | "Un jeune Huron d’ascendance bretonne débarque à Saint-Malo en 1689. Il découvre un coin de province française, retrouve une famille, reçoit le baptême, s’illustre par un fait d’armes contre les Anglais et, pour finir, tombe amoureux de la belle et dévote Mlle de Saint-Yves. Pour obtenir sa main, il doit revenir de la Cour avec un brevet d’officier. Il gagne donc Versailles. Mais ses éclats naïfs le conduisent à la Bastille..." | 
         | 2383 | The Clue of the Black Keys | Carolyn Keene | 1968 | Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Middle Grade, Juvenile, Adventure, Mystery Thriller, Detective | Nancy Drew | "During an archaeological expedition in Mexico, two professors, the senior Dr. Joshua Pitt and young Terry Scott find a clue to buried treasure. The clue was a cipher carved on a stone tablet. Before the older professor had time to translate it, he and the tablet disappeared! Terry tells Nancy of his suspicions of a Mexican couple, posing as scientists, who vanished the same night as Dr. Pitt. Nancy follows a tangled trail of clues that lead to Florida and Mexico and a secret of antiquity that can only be unlocked by three black keys. This book is the revised text. The plot of the original story (©1951) is similar with minor revisions." | 
         | 2384 | The Complete History of Jack the Ripper | Philip Sugden | 2006 | Nonfiction, True Crime, History, Crime, Mystery, Horror, Historical, Biography, 19th Century, British Literature | Jack the Ripper | "A comprehensive account of London's celebrated East End killer, revised and updated. The murders in London between 1888-91 attributed to Jack the Ripper constitute one of the most mysterious unsolved criminal cases. This story is the result of many years meticulous research. The author reassesses all the evidence and challenges everything we thought we knew about the Victorian serial killer and the vanished East End he terrorized." | 
         | 2385 | Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling | Ross King | 2003 | History, Art, Nonfiction, Biography, Italy, Art History, Historical, European History, Religion, Architecture | Michelangelo, Pope Julius II | "In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the newly restored Sistine Chapel. With little experience as a painter (though famed for his sculpture David), Michelangelo was reluctant to begin the massive project. Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling recounts the four extraordinary years Michelangelo spent laboring over the vast ceiling while the power politics and personal rivalries that abounded in Rome swirled around him. Battling against ill health, financial difficulties, domestic problems, the pope's impatience, and a bitter rivalry with the brilliant young painter Raphael, Michelangelo created scenes so beautiful that they are considered one of the greatest masterpieces of all time. A panorama of illustrious figures converged around the creation of this great work-from the great Dutch scholar Desiderius Erasmus to the young Martin Luther-and Ross King skillfully weaves them through his compelling historical narrative, offering uncommon insight into the intersection of art and history." | 
         | 2386 | Five Have a Mystery to Solve | Enid Blyton | 2001 | Childrens, Adventure, Fiction, Mystery, Classics, Young Adult, Novels, British Literature, Childrens Classics, Teen | George Kirrin (Famous Five), Dick Kirrin, Timmy, Anne (Famous Five), Julian (Famous Five) | "Whispering Island - another mysterious place, with a million stories sorrounding it . . . Is it haunted? The Five are intrigued, but scared, too. Are they brave enough to go there and find out . . . About The Author: Enid Blyton, 1896 - November 28, 1959 Enid Blyton was born in London in 1896. She was educated in a private school and thought that she would become a musician until she realized that writing was her passion. She attended Ipswich High School where she trained to become a kindergarten teacher and eventually opened her own school for infants. Blyton's first poem was published in 1917, entitled ""Have You-"" which appeared in Nash's Magazine. In 1922, her first book of verses was published, entitled ""Child Whispers."" In 1926 she accepted a position editing the children's magazine ""Sunny Stories"" as well as writing the column ""Teachers World."" Blyton's first full length children's book was published din 1938 and was titled ""The Secret Island."" After working on the column for years, Blyton quit ""Teachers World"" in 1945 and also ended her stint as editor of ""Sunny Stories"" seven years later. In 1953 she started her own children's magazine called ""The Edith Blyton Magazine"" which featured stories about her characters and news on the clubs formed around them. Her most famous stories were those of the ""Famous Five"" The Magazine closed in 1959. In the 50's and 60's Blyton was criticized for the language in her book, for being to simple, but some 300 are still in print today. Blyton has published over 600 books in the course of her career. Enid Blyton died in her sleep on November 28, 1968. She was 72 years old." | 
         | 2387 | Dublörün Dilemması | Murat Menteş | Apr-05 | Turkish Literature, Fiction, Turkish, Novels, Roman, Adult, Royal Air Force | Nuh Tufan, İbrahim Kurban, Rıza Silahlıpoda, Umur Samaz, Su Samaz, Habip Hobo, Ferruh Ferman, Dilara Dilemma | """Murat Menteş, okumacı, tartışmacı, kavgacı, yani kışkırtıcı bir yazar arkadaşım. Onunla çekişirken çiçek açarsınız. Yazarlık macerasını ben de merakla izliyorum. Peşinen söyleyeyim, fiktif, tümden hayal ürünü metinler sevmem, fakat Murat Menteş'in birbiri peşi sıra kurduğu cümlelerin gücü, benim kendimce şikayetimi kuruntuya dönüştürdü. Ben, Murat'ın yaşındayken kelimelerle kasap gibi boğuşuyordum; Murat aksine, kelimeleri kırbaçlayıp cümleler içinde düzene sokuyor ve bunu pek mahirce başarıyor. Bu yüzden Dublörün Dilemması çok canlı, renkli, inceden felsefi çığlıklarla bezeli bir kitap ve hızla yaklaşan bir yazarı işaretliyor... Böyledir, edebiyat kavgayla başlar, huzurla sona erer derler; gerçi ben görmedim, hayırlısı Murat için olsun!.."" - Nihat Genç""Çok acayip. Çok tuhaf. Müthiş!.. Böyle bir kitabın yazıldığına inanamıyorum. Okuyun, siz de inanamayacaksınız!"" - Hakan Albayrak""Dublörün Dilemması ilginç, heyecanlı, eğlenceli, derinlikli bir roman. Ama galiba en önemli özelliği, bize sözcüklerin gücünü hatırlatması. Hiperaktif bir zekanın ürünü, bu baş döndürücü macerayı okumak büyük keyif! Ben sevdim eller alsın."" - Alper Canıgüz" | 
         | 2388 | The Broken Sword | Poul Anderson | Sept-02 | Fantasy, Fiction, Mythology, Classics, Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction | Scafloc, valgard | "Thor broke the sword Tyrfing to save the roots of Yggdrasil, the tree that binds earth, heaven and hell. Now the elves need the weapon for their war against the trolls. Only Scafloc, a human kidnapped and raised by elves, can hope to persuade Bolverk the ice-giant to make Tyrfing whole again. But Scafloc must also confront his shadow self, Valgard, the changeling in his place among men." | 
         | 2389 | Five on Finniston Farm | Enid Blyton | 2001 | Childrens, Adventure, Fiction, Mystery, Classics, Young Adult, Middle Grade, British Literature, Novels, Childrens Classics | George Kirrin (Famous Five), Dick Kirrin, Timmy, Tinker, Anne (Famous Five), Julian (Famous Five) | "There's a ruined castle on Finniston Farm, but only the dungeons remain - and nobody knows where they are! The Famous Five are determined to find them - and whatever is hidden in them - but they are not alone. Someone else wants to know, too. The question is: can the Five get there first?" | 
         | 2390 | Aunt Dimity and the Duke | Nancy Atherton | 1995 | Mystery, Cozy Mystery, Fiction, Romance, Paranormal, British Literature, Mystery Thriller, Fantasy, Supernatural, Adult Fiction | Emma Porter, Derek Harris, Peter Harris, Nell Harris, Grayson Alexander | "Emma Porter is forty, fat, frumpy, and a passionate amateur gardener. When her longtime lover dumps her for a younger woman, Emma escapes the cloying sympathy of family and friends by setting out on a summer-long driving tour of England's glorious gardens. A Dimity-contrived coincidence brings her to Penford Hall, a sprawling Gothic mansion in Cornwall, where she finds a duke in search of a missing lantern with extraordinary powers. Suspecting there's more than one mystery to be solved at Penford Hall, Emma accepts the duke's invitation to stay on and restore the once glorious chapel garden to its former beauty. The dark rumors surrounding a rock star and the near-death of the duke's beautiful cousin confirm Emma's suspicions, and set her-with Aunt Dimity's ghostly guidance-on the path to Penford Hall's secrets and the pleasure of unexpected love." | 
         | 2391 | Infernal Devices | Philip Reeve  | 2009 | Young Adult, Steampunk, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Fiction, Dystopia, Adventure, Post Apocalyptic, Audiobook, Teen | Tom Natsworthy, Hester Shaw, Wren Natsworthy | "An alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.Teenager Wren, bored and desperate for adventure in static Anchorage, is the eager dupe of limpet sub Lost Boys, and she and her stolen Tin Book are taken in turn. Her parents Tom and Hester set off to rescue her, but the journey will stir up old needs, old secrets - and send them back into perilous waters." | 
         | 2392 | Black Hearts in Battersea | Joan Aiken, Robin Jacques (Illustrator) | 1964 | Childrens, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Adventure, Fiction, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Alternate History, Historical, Mystery | Dido Twite | "Simon, the foundling from the earlier book, The Wolves of Willoughy Chase, arrives in London to meet an old friend and pursue the study of painting, but he finds himself in the middle of a wicked crew's plan to overthrow good King James and the Duke and Duchess of Battersea." | 
         | 2393 | Aunt Dimity's Death | Nancy Atherton | 1993 | Mystery, Cozy Mystery, Fiction, Paranormal, Romance, Ghosts, Fantasy, British Literature, Adult, Mystery Thriller | Aunt Dimity Westwood, Lori Shepherd, William Willis | Down-on-her-luck Lori Shepherd thought Aunt Dimity was a pretend character in her mother's bedtime stories ... until the Dickensian law firm of Willis & Willis offers the possibility of large inheritance - if she can discover the secret hidden in letters between Dimity and her mother. Plus 1-pg recipe Beth's Oatmeal Cookies. | 
         | 2394 | Love in a Cold Climate | Nancy Mitford, Pauline Tennant (Introduction), Roland Pym (Illustrator) | 1992 | Fiction, Classics, Romance, British Literature, Humor, 20th Century, Historical Fiction, Comedy, Literary Fiction, Novels | Fanny Wincham, Polly Hampton, Lady Montdore, Lord Montdore, Uncle Montdore, Boy Dougdale, Patricia Dougdale, Cedric Hampton, Norma Cozens, Archie., Klugge | "No ISBNOne of Nancy Mitford’s most beloved novels, Love in a Cold Climate is a sparkling romantic comedy that vividly evokes the lost glamour of aristocratic life in England between the wars.Polly Hampton has long been groomed for the perfect marriage by her mother, the fearsome and ambitious Lady Montdore. But Polly, with her stunning good looks and impeccable connections, is bored by the monotony of her glittering debut season in London. Having just come from India, where her father served as Viceroy, she claims to have hoped that society in a colder climate would be less obsessed with love affairs. The apparently aloof and indifferent Polly has a long-held secret, however, one that leads to the shattering of her mother’s dreams and her own disinheritance. When an elderly duke begins pursuing the disgraced Polly and a callow potential heir curries favor with her parents, nothing goes as expected, but in the end all find happiness in their own unconventional ways." | 
         | 2395 | The Hunchback Assignments | Arthur Slade  | 2009 | Steampunk, Fantasy, Young Adult, Science Fiction, Mystery, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Adventure, Historical, Teen | Modo, Mr. Socrates, Octavia | "A gripping new series combines Steampunk, spying, and a fantastic Victorian London.The mysterious Mr. Socrates rescues Modo, a child in a traveling freak show. Modo is a hunchback with an amazing ability to transform his appearance, and Mr. Socrates raises him in isolation as an agent for the Permanent Association, a spy agency behind Brittania’s efforts to rule the empire. At 14, Modo is left on the streets of London to fend for himself. When he encounters Octavia Milkweed, another Association agent, the two uncover a plot by the Clockword Guild behind the murders of important men. Furthermore, a mad scientist is turning orphan children into automatons to further the goals of the Guild. Modo and Octavia journey deep into the tunnels under London and discover a terrifying plot against the British government. It’s up to them to save their country." | 
         | 2396 | The Turquoise | Anya Seton | 1973 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Romance, Historical Romance, New York, Classics, Novels | Santa Fe Cameron | "It is the story of a beautiful, gifted woman who leaves the magic mountains of her native New Mexico for the piratical, opulent, gaslit New York of the 1870s—only to end her search for happiness back in the high, thin air of Santa Fe. Santa Fe Cameron, named for the place of her birth, was the child of a Spanish mother and a Scotch father and inherited from both a high degree of psychic perceptivity. Natanay, an American Indian, saw this and gave the little orphan a turquoise amulet as a keepsake; this turquoise, the Indian symbol of the spirit, dominates her life.  For Santa Fe Cameron, life is made up of violent contrasts: the rough wagon of the gay young Irish medicine vendor who brings her East and the scented hansom cabs and carriages waiting before her own Fifth Avenue mansion; the glittering world of the Astors and a dreary cell in the Tombs. All the color, excitement, and rich period detail which distinguish Anya Seton’s novels are here, together with one of her most unusual heroines." | 
         | 2397 | The Hidden Window Mystery | Carolyn Keene | 1975 | Mystery, Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Classics, Juvenile, Middle Grade, Mystery Thriller, Adventure, Cozy Mystery | Nancy Drew | "Nancy is intrigued by a magazine article offering a large reward to anyone finding a missing medieval stained-glass window. She invites Bess and George to join her on a search in Charlottesville, Virginia. During the girls' investigation of Ivy Hall, an old rundown, southern mansion, rented by a superstitious actress, they encounter a hostile ghost. Eerie sounds come from a beautiful neighboring estate that is surrounded by a high brick wall. Could these mysterious noises and the ghost at Ivy Hall be connected? This book is the revised text. The plot of the original story (©1956) is similar with minor revisions." | 
         | 2398 | How Does Your Garden Grow? and Other Stories | Agatha Christie | 2002 | Mystery, Crime, Short Stories, Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Detective | Hercule Poirot | "How Does Your Garden Grow?: Complete & Unabridged With stories taken from ""Murder in the Mews"", each tale in this collection is entirely self-contained and features the character Hercule Poirot. Full description" | 
         | 2399 | Perceval, or, The Story of the Grail | Chrétien de Troyes, Ruth Harwood Cline (Translator) | 1985 | Classics, Medieval, Poetry, Arthurian, France, Fiction, French Literature, Fantasy, Mythology, School | Sir Gawain, Sir Perceval, Blanchefleur, Le Roi Pêcheur, King Arthur | "In this verse translation of Perceval; or, The Story of the Grail, Ruth Harwood Cline restores to life the thematically crucial Arthurian tale of the education of a knight in his search for the Holy Grail.Cline's translation, faithful to the highly synthetic, deliberately ornate nature of medieval French, follows Perceval from his home in Wales, through his rich and raucous adventures as a member of the fraternity of knights, to his climactic meeting with the Fisher King. Paralyzed by his first glimpse of the Grail, Perceval fails to save the ailing king. Distraught, the knight begins a new quest for the Grail, a journey on the road of penitence and faith. Perceval's venture, the true test of his knighthood, ends without conclusion; the death of author Chrétien de Troyes left unsaid and undetermined the success of Perceval's quest." | 
         | 2400 | The O'Sullivan Twins | Enid Blyton | May-96 | Childrens, Fiction, Classics, Young Adult, School Stories, Boarding School, School, Adventure, 20th Century, Indonesian Literature | ""Pat O''Sullivan"", ""Isabel O''Sullivan"", ""Alison O''Sullivan"", Lucy Oriell | "An alternative cover edition for this book can be found here.It's the start of the Easter Term and Pat and Isabel are looking forward to meeting all their friends at St Clare's once more. The new girls prove to be a source of much amusement, and there is all the fun of boarding-school life as well." | 
         | 2401 | Emilia Galotti | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | 1986 | Classics, Plays, German Literature, School, Drama, Fiction, Read For School, 18th Century, Germany, Literature | Emilia Galotti | "Mit dem 1772 erschienenen und uraufgeführten Drama Emilia Galotti schuf Gotthold Ephraim Lessing eines der bedeutendsten Beispiele für die Gattung des bürgerlichen Trauerspiels. Das Stück, das zu den Schlüsselwerken der Aufklärung und Empfindsamkeit gehört sowie als eines der ersten politischen Dramen der deutschen Literatur gilt, übt scharfe Kritik an der Willkürherrschaft des Adels. Dieser Macht kann das Bürgertums nur seine höhere Moral entgegensetzen. Die geplante Hochzeit der bürgerlichen Emilia Galotti mit dem ehrenhaften Grafen Appiani wird von Hettore Gonzaga, dem regierenden Prinzen von Guastalla, hintertrieben; nicht nur für Emilia endet die Intrige schließlich tödlich. In Emilia Galotti verzichtete Lessing – anders als noch in Miss Sara Sampson – auf allzu viel Emotionen und rührselige Elemente. Nachdenklich, nicht (nur) gerührt, soll das Publikum das Theater verlassen." | 
         | 2402 | Elisabeth: The Princess Bride, Austria - Hungary, 1853 | Barry Denenberg | Apr-03 | Historical Fiction, Historical, Young Adult, Fiction, Childrens, Middle Grade, Diary, Romance, 19th Century, Juvenile | Empress Elisabeth of Austria | "Author Barry Denenberg brings us into the whirlwind that is the life of Princess Elisabeth of Austria. A free and impetuous spirit, Elisabeth is chosen at the age of fifteen (over her older sister) to be the wife of Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria. From that moment on, she is thrown into an intimidating world of restrictions and tremendous responsibilities. Feeling lonely and alienated, Elisabeth is forced to rely upon her own personal strength, which eventually leads her down the aisle and into an uncertain future." | 
         | 2403 | Prince of Wolves | Susan Krinard | Sept-94 | Romance, Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Werewolves, Shapeshifters, Fantasy, Fiction, Adult, Urban Fantasy, Contemporary Romance | Joelle Randall, Luke Gevaudan | "Through with running from the past, Joelle Randall has come to the rugged Canadian Rockies determined to face her pain and begin anew. All she needed was a guide to lead her through the untamed mountain wilderness to the site where her parents' plane had crashed so long ago. But the only guide Joelle could find was Luke Gevaudan, a magnetically attractive loner with the feral grace of a wolf and eyes that glittered with a savage intensity. She couldn't know that Luke was the stuff of legends, one of the last survivors of an ancient race of werewolves... a man whose passion she would not be able to resist-no matter how terrible the price." | 
         | 2404 | Aftermath | Peter Robinson | 2002 | Mystery, Crime, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Thriller, British Literature, Detective, Suspense, Canada, Audiobook | Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, Vic Manson, Dr. Jenny Fuller, Ken Blackstone, Janet Taylor, Dennis Morrisey, Maggie Forrest | "The latest Inspector Banks paperback is set to follow the success of the hardback, taking Peter Robinson into the best-seller list.One phone call from a concerned neighbor has inadvertently led police to Terence Payne, the elusive serial killer known only as ""Chameleon."" Now the fiend is in custody, perhaps dying, and a long nightmare appears to be over at last. But is it? In Acting Detective Superintendent Alan Banks's mind too many questions remain unanswered at the chamber of horrors the press will dub the ""House of Payne."" Because the darkness has not yet lifted, the casualties are still mounting...and there are still monsters loose in the world." | 
         | 2405 | Kindred in Death | J.D. Robb  | 2009 | Mystery, Romance, Crime, Romantic Suspense, Fiction, Futuristic, Suspense, Science Fiction, Thriller, Mystery Thriller | Eve Dallas, Roarke | "When the newly promoted captain of the NYPSD and his wife return a day early from their vacation, they were looking forward to spending time with their bright and vivacious sixteen-year-old daughter who had stayed behind.Not even their worst nightmares could have prepared them for the crime scene that awaited them instead. Brutally murdered in her bedroom, Deena's body showed signs of trauma that horrified even the toughest of cops; including our own Lieutenant Eve Dallas, who was specifically requested by the captain to investigate.When the evidence starts to pile up, Dallas and her team think they are about to arrest their perpetrator; little do they know yet that someone has gone to great lengths to tease and taunt them by using a variety of identities. Overconfidence can lead to careless mistakes. But for Dallas, one mistake might be all she needs to bring justice." | 
         | 2406 | The Burden | Mary Westmacott (Pseudonym), Agatha Christie | 1967 | Mystery, Fiction, Romance, Classics, Drama, Crime, Novels, British Literature, Gothic, Adult | Laura Franklin, Shirley Franklin | "Laura Franklin bitterly resented the arrival of her younger sister Shirley, an enchanting baby loved by all the family. But Laura's emotions towards her sister changed dramatically one night, when she vowed to protect her with all her strength and love. While young Shirley longs for freedom and romance, Laura has to learn that loving can never be a one-sided affair, and the burden of her love for her sister has a dramatic effect on both their lives. For too long she had stayed quietly in the background of her stunning sister. Now there was a man that knew that Laura could love as passionately as her beutiful sister - if only she were given the chance. A story of consequences when love turns to obsession…." | 
         | 2407 | Walt Disney's Three Little Pigs (A Little Golden Book) | Al Dempster (Adapter) | 1980 | Childrens, Picture Books, Classics, Fiction, Animals, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Young Adult, Kids, Short Stories | Three Little Pigs, Big Bad Wolf | Please don't delete. This edition doesn't have an ISBN. | 
         | 2408 | Rite of Passage | Alexei Panshin | Nov-69 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Young Adult, Coming Of Age, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Dystopia, Adventure, Space Opera | Mia Havero, Jimmy Dentremont, Daniel Kutsov | In 2198 man lives precariously on hastily-established colony worlds and in seven giant starships. Mia Haveros ship tests its children by casting them out to live or die in a month of Trial in the hostile wilds of a colony world. Her trial is fast approaching and she must learn not only the skills that will keep her alive but the deeper courage to face herself and her world. | 
         | 2409 | The Seventh Witch | Shirley Damsgaard  | 2010 | Mystery, Paranormal, Witches, Cozy Mystery, Fantasy, Fiction, Paranormal Mystery, Urban Fantasy, Supernatural, Magic | Ophelia Jensen, Tink, Dot Cameron, Ethan Clement, Abigal McDonald, Great-Aunt Mary | "This is the seventh and last installment of the enchanting mystery series featuring a small-town librarian psychic and her grandmother, and a benevolent witch.Small-town librarian and psychic Ophelia Jensen hails from a long line of wise and wonderfully gifted women. There's her grandmother, Abby, a talented witch, and her great-aunt Mary, who's about to celebrate her 100th birthday. But as Ophelia learns, when she and Abby travel to North Carolina for the centennial celebration, their family secrets aren't just magickal-they're murderous.Someone in the sweet Southern town wants Abby dead. Could it be a rogue witch in Ophelia's own family? A vengeful local witch desperate to settle a bitter feud decades in the making? Ophelia must use all her talents to save her loved ones-before the witching hour comes upon them, and bad blood turns deadly" | 
         | 2410 | Five on Kirrin Island Again | Enid Blyton | 2001 | Childrens, Fiction, Adventure, Mystery, Classics, Young Adult, British Literature, Middle Grade, Novels, Juvenile | Timothy, George Kirrin (Famous Five), Dick Kirrin, Tinker, Anne (Famous Five), Julian (Famous Five) | "What can Uncle Quentin be up to - all alone - on Kirrin Island. He won't let anyone visit - not even George and the rest of the Famous Five. But Quentin isn't really all alone on the island - somebody is watching his every move! About The Author: Enid Blyton, 1896 - November 28, 1959 Enid Blyton was born in London in 1896. She was educated in a private school and thought that she would become a musician until she realized that writing was her passion. She attended Ipswich High School where she trained to become a kindergarten teacher and eventually opened her own school for infants. Blyton's first poem was published in 1917, entitled ""Have You-"" which appeared in Nash's Magazine. In 1922, her first book of verses was published, entitled ""Child Whispers."" In 1926 she accepted a position editing the children's magazine ""Sunny Stories"" as well as writing the column ""Teachers World."" Blyton's first full length children's book was published din 1938 and was titled ""The Secret Island."" After working on the column for years, Blyton quit ""Teachers World"" in 1945 and also ended her stint as editor of ""Sunny Stories"" seven years later. In 1953 she started her own children's magazine called ""The Edith Blyton Magazine"" which featured stories about her characters and news on the clubs formed around them. Her most famous stories were those of the ""Famous Five"" The Magazine closed in 1959. In the 50's and 60's Blyton was criticized for the language in her book, for being to simple, but some 300 are still in print today. Blyton has published over 600 books in the course of her career. Enid Blyton died in her sleep on November 28, 1968. She was 72 years old." | 
         | 2411 | The Murder at the Vicarage | Norma (Adapter, Illustrator), Wilmaury (Color), Agatha Christie | 2008 | Mystery, Graphic Novels, Crime, Fiction, Detective, Classics, Sequential Art, Audiobook | Miss Marple | Miss Marple's first case is adapted into the first Miss Marple comic book in this long-awaited adaptation of one of Agatha Christie's most famous novels. | 
         | 2412 | The Strange Umbrella and Other Stories | Enid Blyton, Sally Gregory (Illustrator) | Dec-89 | Childrens, Fantasy, Classics, Fiction | Tiptap, Aunt Tabitha | "One of a selection of ever-popular short stories for the younger reader, with clear text and illustrated throughout. For Ages 5+This Enid Blyton book contains the stories:The Strange UmbrellaThe Enchanted MirrorSly-One's Ice-CreamStones for a HorseRipple gets a NecklaceThe Great Big Bumble-BeeThe Little ClockwinderIt's Going to RainThe Magic Silver ThreadBlackberry PieThe Singing ShellThe Frightened Teddy-BearThe Old BootThe Rabbit that Didn't Grow UpUpadee and the DragonThe Tale of Higgle and HumThe Surprising Easter Egg" | 
         | 2413 | Sharpe's Honour | Bernard Cornwell  | 2004 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, War, Adventure, Military Fiction, Action, Audiobook, British Literature, Novels | Richard Sharpe, Patrick Harper, Michael Hogan, Pierre Ducos, Thomas Leroy, La Marquesa | "The Vittoria Campaign is February to June 1813. Victory depends on the increasingly fragile alliance between Britain and Spain. Majpr Sharpe's enemy, Pierre Ducos, seizes a chance to both destroy the alliance and take revenge on Sharpe. The lovely spy, La Marquesa, traps Sharpe in a web of deadly intrigue; he is hunted by allies and enemies alike." | 
         | 2414 | Enter the Enchanted | Katherine Applegate | Sept-99 | Fantasy, Young Adult, Mythology, Fiction, Adventure, Young Adult Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Childrens, Magic, Science Fiction | Merlin, David Levin, ""April O''Brien"", Senna Wales, Jalil, Christopher | "There is a place that shouldn’t exist. But does. And there are creatures that shouldn’t exist. But do. Welcome to a land where all of your dreams and nightmares are very real—and often deadly. Welcome to Everworld.Jalil, David, April, and Chris still haven’t found Senna. They still haven’t found their way out of Everworld. And—though they have managed to stay alive—things are starting to get worse. Because Jalil and the others are about to encounter one of the most powerful of Everworld inhabitants. He is called Merlin.Merlin is the unseen force behind much of what happens in Everworld. And there is a good chance he knows where to find Senna. But he has his own agenda. And it doesn’t necessarily include helping Jalil and the others. Now, they’re about to discover what happens when you mess with Merlin…" | 
         | 2415 | The Great Gilly Hopkins | Katherine Paterson | 1996 | Fiction, Childrens, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Realistic Fiction, Juvenile, Classics, Fostering, Family, School | Galadriel Hopkins, Maime Trotter, William Ernest Teague | "Watch out world!The Great Gilly Hopkins is looking for a home. She's a foster kid who's been angry, lonely, and hurting for so long that's she's always ready for a fight. Be on the lookout for her best barracuda smile, the one she saves for well-meaning social workers. Watch out for her most fearful look, a cross between Dracula and Godzilla, used especially to scare shy foster brothers. Don't be fooled by her ""Who me?"" expression, guaranteed to trick foster parents, teachers, and anyone who gets in her way.It's Gilly Hopkins vs. the world! And so far, Gilly seems to be winning. But what she doesn't realize is that every time she wins, she really loses, until she discovers a love as formidable as any enemy she's ever known." | 
         | 2416 | Reckless | Amanda Quick , Jayne Ann Krentz  | Nov-92 | Romance, Historical Romance, Historical, Historical Fiction, Regency, Fiction, Mystery, Regency Romance, Adult, British Literature | Gabriel Banner, Earl of Wylde, Lady Phoebe Layton | "From a crumbling fairy-tale castle on the stormy Sussex coast to a dazzling, dizzying masquerade ball comes an enchanting tale of a tarnished knight, a daring maiden, and a sweet, searing storybook love... At sixteen, Phoebe Layton had imagined that Gabriel Banner was a brave and valiant knight, a noble-hearted hero born to rescue ladies in distress. Which is why, eight years later, when she desperately needed help to carry out a vital quest, she could think of no one more suited than Gabriel. But when she lures her shining knight to a lonely midnight rendezvous, Phoebe finds herself sparring with a dangerously desirable man who is nothing like the hero of her dreams. And when he sweeps her into a torrid and blatantly unchivalrous embrace, she can't help but fear that she's made a dreadful mistake. It's a kiss that will seal Phoebe's fate. For now the exacting Earl of Wylde has a quest of his own-to possess the most intriguing, impulsive, outrageous female he has ever met...even if he has to slay a dragon to do it." | 
         | 2417 | The History Man | Malcolm Bradbury | 1984 | Fiction, Humor, Novels, Comedy, Academia, Classics, British Literature, Literature, English Literature, 20th Century | Howard Kirk, Flora Beniform | "Novel - Howard Kirk is the trendiest of radical tutors at a fashionable university campus. A self-appointed revolutionary hero, Howard always comes out on top. And Malcolm Bradbury dissects him in this savagely funny novel that has been universally acclaimed as one of the masterpieces of the decade." | 
         | 2418 | The Courtship of Princess Leia | Dave Wolverton | May-95 | Star Wars, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space Opera, Adventure, Novels, Media Tie In | Luke Skywalker, Chewbacca, Prince Isolder, Warlord Zsinj, Teneniel Djo, Leia Organa, Han Solo | "Seeking rich, powerful allies to bring into the Rebel Alliance and a new home planet for the refugees of her native Alderaan, Princess Leia considers a proposal that could tip the balance of power against the evil Empire. The Hapes Consortium of 63 worlds is ruled by the Queen Mother, who wants Leia to marry her son, the dashing and wealthy Prince Isolder. Han Solo has always dreamed of marrying Leia himself, and now he makes a desperate last gamble to win her back. Soon he, Isolder, Luke Skywalker and Artoo will be at the center of an adventure leading to an awesome treasure, a group of Force-trained ""witches,"" and a showdown with an invincible foe.Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years!" | 
         | 2419 | Sharpe's Sword | Bernard Cornwell  | 1994 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, War, Adventure, Military Fiction, Action, British Literature, Audiobook, Novels | Richard Sharpe, Patrick Harper, Michael Hogan, Philippe Leroux, Thomas Leroy, La Marquesa, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | "The greatest threat to Wellington's Salamanca Campaign is not Napoleon's Army but France's deadliest assassin.  He's already failed to kill Captain Richard Sharpe once.  Now, he's getting a second chance." | 
         | 2420 | Je L'aimais | Anna Gavalda | 2002 | Fiction, France, Romance, Novels, Contemporary, French Literature, Roman, Literature, Chick Lit, Drama | Pierre Comte, Mathilde, Chloe | "Le dialogue d'un homme de 65 ans et de sa belle-fille le soir dans une cuisine où pour la première fois, il se raconte et livre sa vie. Ou plutôt ce qu'il n'a pas vécu. Premier roman." | 
         | 2421 | The Women of the Cousins' War: The Duchess, the Queen and the King's Mother | Philippa Gregory , David Baldwin, Michael Jones | Published | History, Nonfiction, Biography, Historical, British Literature, Tudor Period, Medieval, 15th Century, Womens, European History | Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret Beaufort, Jacquetta Woodville | "Elizabeth Woodville, The White Queen (2009), Margaret Beaufort, The Red Queen (2010), and Jacquetta, Lady Rivers, The Rivers Woman (2011) are the subjects of the first three novels in Philippa Gregory's Cousins' War series, and of the three biographical essays in this book. Philippa Gregory and two historians, leading experts in their field who helped Philippa to research the novels, tell the extraordinary 'true' stories of the life of these women who until now have been largely forgotten by history, their background and times, highlighting questions which are raised in the fiction and illuminating the novels. With a foreword by Philippa Gregory - in which Philippa writes revealingly about the differences between history and fiction and examines the gaps in the historical record - and beautifully illustrated with rare portraits, The Women of the Cousins' War is an exciting new addition to the Philippa Gregory oeuvre." | 
         | 2422 | Ravished | Amanda Quick , Jayne Ann Krentz  | Dec-05 | Historical Romance, Romance, Historical, Regency, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Beauty and The Beast, Mystery, Regency Romance, Adult | Harriet Pomeroy, Gideon Westbrook, Viscount St. Justin | "The New York Times bestselling author of Rendezvous presents a spellbinding new Regency historical destined to be a hot beach read this summer. Moving from the cozy confines of a tiny seaside village named Upper Biddleton to the glittering crush of a fashionable London soiree, Quick offers an enthralling tale of a mismatched couple poised to discover the rapture of love.There was no doubt about it. What Miss Harriet Pomeroy needed was a man. Someone powerful and clever who could help her rout the unscrupulous thieves who were using her beloved caves to hide their loot. But when Harriet summoned Gideon Westbrook, Viscount St. Justin, to her aid, she could not know that she was summoning the devil himself. . . . Dubbed the Beast of Blackthorne Hall for his scarred face and lecherous past, Gideon was strong and fierce and notoriously menacing. Yet Harriet could not find it in her heart to fear him. For in his tawny gaze she sensed a savage pain she longed to soothe . . . and a searing passion she yearned to answer. Now, caught up in the Beast’s clutches, Harriet must find a way to win his heart–and evade the deadly trap of a scheming villain who would see them parted for all time.RAVISHED is a retelling of the classic tale, Beauty and the Beast." | 
         | 2423 | Алтын-Толобас | Boris Akunin | 2001 | Russia, Fiction, Mystery, Detective, Historical Fiction, Crime, Russian Literature, Adventure, Audiobook, Historical | Nicholas Fandorin | "A Mosca, in una casa alquanto singolare, una cantina cela un tesoro favoloso. Un segreto condiviso solo da due persone, una delle quali adesso giace cadavere a pochi metri da quella raccolta inestimabile. L'altra, costretta alla fuga, ha appena il tempo di imprimersi in testa un'informazione fondamentale, da tramandare a tutti i costi... Secoli dopo, il giovane storico Nicholas Fandorin parte da Londra per recarsi finalmente in Russia, la terra dei suoi padri. Scopo del viaggio è riunire le due parti di un cimelio di famiglia: il testamento dell'avo Cornelius von Dorn - mercenario al soldo dello zar nel 1675 -, di cui lo studioso possiede la metà sinistra. Impreparato al nuovo mondo postsovietico, l'anglosassone è scioccato dall'affarismo e dalla corruzione che vi pullulano. Ma questo è nulla in confronto a quanto gli si scatena contro una volta ricostituito l'antico manoscritto: una lunga serie di fughe, inseguimenti e tentativi di omicidio. E mentre la proverbiale flemma anglosassone di Nicholas fa spazio a un inedito uomo d'azione, egli si rende conto che le enigmatiche parole che sta cercando di interpretare sono la chiave per ritrovare una leggendaria fortuna perduta - la Libereia di Ivan il Terribile -, in cui si nasconde un oggetto ancora più prezioso, dai poteri terrificanti..." | 
         | 2424 | When the Sacred Ginmill Closes | Lawrence Block  | 2000 | Mystery, Crime, Fiction, Detective, Noir, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, New York, Hard Boiled, American | Matthew Scudder | "Downing a bourbon or two with a couple of cronies, Scudder witnesses a heist. The Morrisey brothers who run the joint are strangely submissive during the raid, but eager to see Scudder track down the thieves without involving the regular forces of law and order." | 
         | 2425 | 2061: Odyssey Three | Arthur C. Clarke | Nov-97 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space, Classics, Novels, Fantasy, Adventure, Space Opera, Audiobook | Heywood Floyd, HAL 9000, Dave Bowman | "Arthur C. Clarke, creator of one of the world's best-loved science fiction tales, revisits the most famous future ever imagined in this NEW YORK TIMES bestseller, as two expeditions into space become inextricably tangled. Heywood Floyd, survivor of two previous encounters with the mysterious monloiths, must again confront Dave Bowman, HAL, and an alien race that has decided that Mankind is to play a part in the evolution of the galaxy whether it wishes to or not. -This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title." | 
         | 2426 | Norstrilia | Cordwainer Smith | Jul-85 | Science Fiction, Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Novels, Space Opera, Short Stories, Anthologies, Book Club | Rod McBan, ""C''Mell"" | "Rod McBan 151st farms 'stroon', the immortality drug, and is the last scion of one of the oldest and most honourable families on Norstrilia, only source of stroon. But he's also a telepathic cripple and faces the ever-present risk of being culled under the government's draconian population laws.To protect himself, he uses his not-strictly-legal computer to play the market and amass an unimaginable fortune. But after he survives an assassination attempt, McBan discovers that having enough money to literally buy the Earth is no good if you're too dead to spend it . . ." | 
         | 2427 | Imitation in Death | J.D. Robb  | 2008 | Mystery, Romance, Crime, Fiction, Romantic Suspense, Futuristic, Suspense, Science Fiction, Thriller, Mystery Thriller | Eve Dallas, Roarke | "Summer, 2059. A man wearing a cape and a top hat approaches a prostitute on a dark, New York City street. Minutes later, the woman is dead. Left at the scene is a letter addressed to Lieutenant Eve Dallas, inviting her to play his game and unveil his identity. He signs it, ""Jack."" Now Dallas is in pursuit of a murderer who knows as much about the history of serial killers as she does. He has studied the most notorious and the most vicious slayings in modern times. But he also wants to make his own mark. He has chosen his victim: Eve Dallas. And all Eve knows is that he plans to mimic the most infamous murderers of all starting with Jack the Ripper... ""Robb's energetic prose and hard-edged dialogue will keep readers engrossed."" Publishers Weekly ""Edgy and raw."" Booklist" | 
         | 2428 | Reunion in Death | J.D. Robb  | 2004 | Mystery, Romance, Crime, Fiction, Futuristic, Romantic Suspense, Suspense, Science Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Thriller | Eve Dallas, Roarke | "A birthday bash sets the scene for a frightening reunion with a killer from Eve Dallas's past. At exactly 7:30 p.m., Walter Pettibone arrived home to over a hundred friends and family shouting, surprise! It was his birthday. Although he had known about the planned event for weeks, the real surprise was yet to come. At 8:45 p.m., a woman with emerald eyes and red hair handed him a glass of champagne. One sip of birthday bubbly, and he was dead. The woman's name is Julie Dockport. No one at the party knew who she was. But Detective Eve Dallas remembers her all too well. Eve was personally responsible for her incarceration nearly ten years ago. And now, let out on good behavior, she still has nothing but bad intentions. It appears she wants to meet Dallas again - in a reunion neither will forget." | 
         | 2429 | Sharpe's Battle | Bernard Cornwell  | 1995 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, War, Adventure, Military Fiction, Action, Audiobook, 19th Century, Military History | Richard Sharpe, Patrick Harper, Michael Hogan, Guy Loup, Pierre Ducos | "Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Fuentes de Onoro, May 1811In the spring of 1811, while quartered in the crumbling Portuguese fort of San Isidro, Richard Sharpe and his men are attacked by an elite French unit commanded by the formidable Brigadier Loup, and suffer heavy losses. Sharpe has already clashed once with Loup, and the Frenchman has sworn to have his revenge. After the attack, Sharpe is faced with the ruin of his career and reputation, as the army's high command tries to blame him for the disaster. With thousands of French troops massing at a tiny village nearby, Sharpe's only hope is to redeem himself on the battlefield. To save his honour, Sharpe must lead his men to glory in the narrow streets of Fuentes de Onoro. The Complete Sharpe Collection with a new introduction by the author" | 
         | 2430 | Year of the Unicorn | Andre Norton | 1977 | Fantasy, Science Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Magic, High Fantasy, Romance, Epic Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Novels | Gillan, Herrel, Hyron | "There is a prequel called Horn Crown, http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11...Andre Norton enthralled readers for decades with thrilling tales of people challenged to the limits of their endurance in epic battles of good against evil. None are more memorable than her Witch World novels.Far from the besieged home of Simon and Jaelithe, in peaceful Norsdale, we meet Gillan, who longs to leave her dull life in a secluded country abbey. But when her wish comes true, she finds more than a little adventure. As she ventures out, not only is her life in danger, but also the power that lies within her, waiting to be discovered." | 
         | 2431 | Walt Disney Pictures Presents The Little Mermaid Ariel's Underwater Adventure (A Little Golden Book) | Michael Teitelbaum, Ron Dias (Illustrator) | 1989 | Childrens, Picture Books, Fantasy, Classics, Fairy Tales, Fiction, Kids, Media Tie In, Mermaids, Romance | ""Ariel (Disney''s The Little Mermaid)"", ""Flounder (Disney''s The Little Mermaid)"" | "More than anything else, Princess Ariel longs to visit the world of humans. She even falls in love with a human named Prince Eric But will the Little Mermaid remain with the prince of her dreams without losing everything she loves?" | 
         | 2432 | The Cajun Cowboy | Sandra Hill  | Jun-04 | Romance, Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, Humor, Westerns, Chick Lit, Fiction, Southern, Adult, Novels | Raoul ""Rusty"" Lanier, Charmaine LeDeux | "Charmaine LeDeux, who owns not one but two beauty salons on the Louisiana bayou, has a loan shark on her tail. As if that's not bad enough, Raoul Lanier, who she thought she divorced years ago, tells her that they're still married! Plus, they've inherited his father's rundown cattle ranch together. Raoul promises to give her an honest-to-god real divorce this time if she'll sell him her half of the ranch. But she decides that the ranch is the perfect place for her after all; i.e., the perfect hideout for a woman who needs to lie low for a while.The last thing Raoul wants is for Charmaine to live with him, but Charmaine has always been stubborn. Soon she's taken over the house, adding feminine touches everywhere and having his three ranch hands eating out of her hand. When her belly-dancing great-aunt and the rest of the LeDeux clan come over for Thanksgiving dinner, Raoul knows he's lost the fight. He might as well give in to the temptation she still rouses in him. Now if he can only keep her safe from the Dixie mafia looking for her and convince her that he's worth a second chance at love." | 
         | 2433 | Once Burned | Peter David | Oct-98 | Star Trek, Science Fiction, Fiction, Media Tie In, Space, Science Fiction Fantasy, Tv, Novels, Collections | Captain Mackenzie Calhoun | "There's a bar called ""The Captain's Table,"" where those who have commanded mighty vessels of every shape and era can meet, relax, and share a friendly drink or two with others of their calling. Sometimes a brawl may break out but it's all in the family, more or less. Just remember, the first round of drinks is always paid for with a story...even in Thallonian space. Six years ago, long before he took command of the Starship Excalibur, a young Starfleet officer named Mackenzie Calhoun served as first officer aboard the U.S.S. Grissom. Then disaster struck, and Calhoun took the blame. A court-martial led to his own angry resignation from Starfleet...or so it appeared. At long last Captain Calhoun reveals the true story behind the greatest tragedy of his life." | 
         | 2434 | Frank Miller's Complete Sin City Library | Frank Miller | Aug-05 | Comics, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Crime, Comic Book, Noir, Collections, Mystery, Thriller | Marv, Goldie, Dwight McCarthy, Miho, Mort, John Hartigan, Nancy Callahan, Mr. Klump, Mr. Shlubb | "This bundle contains all seven volumes of Frank Miller's landmark Sin City, the hard-boiled stories that started it all! The books that inspired the critically-acclaimed film, the now-infamous Marv, Dwight, Gail, Miho, Hartigan, Nancy, and theYellow Bastard will transport you to Sin City and show you the bloody lives they lead ... bloody by choice or by circumstance. Frank Miller's Sin City is a triumph for its fiercely independent creator, and has been honored with Eisner awards, Harvey awards, and the prestigious National Cartoonists' Award." | 
         | 2435 | Traitor | Matthew Woodring Stover | 2002 | Star Wars, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Space Opera, Space, Science Fiction Fantasy, War, Novels, Adventure | Jacen Solo, Vergere | "From the depths of catastrophe, a glimmer of hope.After the capture of Coruscant, the mighty heart of the New Republic, a stunned galaxy fears that nothing can stop the Yuuzhan Vong. Still, that crushing defeat produces one small miracle: Jacen Solo is alive. Yet he can scarcely imagine himself in stranger circumstances.The young Jedi Knight is in the care of Vergere, a fascinating creature of mystery and power, her intentions hard to fathom, her cruelties rarely concealed. But this master of inscrutable arts has much to teach the young Jedi...for she holds the key to a new way to experience the Force, to take it to another level - dangerous, dazzling, perhaps deadly.In the wrong hands, the tremendous energies of the Force can be devastating. And there are others watching Jacen's progress closely, waiting patiently for the moment when he will be ready for their own dire purposes. Now, all is in shadows. Yet whatever happens, whether Jacen's newfound mastery unleashes light or darkness, he will never be the same Jedi again..." | 
         | 2436 | 101 Dalmatians | Walt Disney Company, Justine Korman Fontes (Adaptor), Ron Dias (Illustrator), Bill Langley (Illustrator) | Jul-91 | Childrens, Picture Books, Fiction, Animals, Classics, Dogs, Adventure, Juvenile, Media Tie In, Fantasy | Pongo (Disney), Perdita (Disney) | There are more than 101 things to love about Disney’s 101 Dalmatians! | 
         | 2437 | The Worst Witch All at Sea | Jill Murphy | 1994 | Fantasy, Childrens, Fiction, Witches, Magic, Middle Grade, Boarding School, Audiobook, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy | Enid Nightshade, Mildred Hubble, Maud Spellbody, Miss Cackle, Miss Hardbroom, Ethel Hallow, Algernon Rowan-Webb, Tabby (Worst Witch) | Loveable but accident-prone Mildred Hubble is possibly the worst witch ever to go to Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches... Mildred is in deep water on the school trip. This title is a story of life at a magical boarding school. | 
         | 2438 | Hellfire | John Saul | Aug-86 | Horror, Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Ghosts, Paranormal, Adult, Mystery Thriller, Supernatural, Novels | Philip Sturgess | "The old mill has been silent for a hundred years, its dread secrets locked from view. Still, the people of Westover, Massachusetts, remember...and whisper of that terrible day when horrifying flames claimed eleven innocent young lives The day the mill's doors slammed shut - forever.But now, the last of the once-powerful Sturgess family is about to unlock those doors again...and unleash an elemental fury. For behind the padlocks, deep within the dark, abandoned building, a terrible vengeance waits. A vengeance conceived in...HELLFIRE" | 
         | 2439 | Swimming Pool Sunday | Madeleine Wickham | 2011 | Chick Lit, Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Drama, Adult, Womens Fiction, British Literature, Contemporary Romance, Roman | Hugh Delaney, Ursula Delaney, Louise Kember, Katie Kember, Amelia Kember, Barnaby Kember | "One shimmeringly hot Sunday in May, the Delaneys open their pool to the whole village for charity. Louise is there with her daughters, and while the children splash and shriek in the cool blue waters, she basks in the sunshine, attempting to ignore her estranged husband and dreaming of the new man in her life, a charismatic lawyer. The day seems perfect. Then a sudden shocking accident changes everyone's lives forever. Recriminations start to fly. Whose fault was it? Louise's new lover insists that she sue the Delaneys. Her ex-husband isn't so sure. Opinion in the village is split. Old friendships start to crumble. New ones are formed. Will the repercussions from the accident ever end?" | 
         | 2440 | King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero | David Remnick | 2000 | Biography, Sports, Nonfiction, History, African American, Biography Memoir, American, Politics, Memoir, The United States Of America | Muhammad Ali | "There were mythic sports figures before him-Jack Johnson, Babe Ruth, Joe Louis, Joe DiMaggio-but when Cassius Clay burst onto the sports scene from his native Louisville in the 1950s, he broke the mold. He changed the world of sports and went on to change the world itself. As Muhammad Ali, he would become the most recognized face on the planet. Ali was a transcendent athlete and entertainer, a heavyweight Fred Astaire, a rapper before rap was born. He was a mirror of his era, a dynamic figure in the racial and cultural battles of his time. This unforgettable story of his rise and self-creation, told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, places Ali in a heritage of great American originals. Cassius Clay grew up in the Jim Crow South and came of athletic age when boxers were at the mercy of the mob. From the start, Clay rebelled against everything and everyone who would keep him and his people down. He refused the old stereotypes and refused the glad hand of the mob. And, to the confusion and fury of white sportswriters, who were far more comfortable with the self-effacing Joe Louis, Clay came forward as a rebel, insistent on his political views, on his new religion, and, eventually, on a new name. His rebellion nearly cost him the chance to fight for the heavyweight championship of the world. King of the World features some of the pivotal figures of the 1960s-Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, John F. Kennedy-and its pivotal events: the civil rights movement, political assassinations, the war in Vietnam. Muhammad Ali is a great hero and a beloved figure in American life. King of the World takes us back to the days when his life was a series of battles, inside the ring and out. A master storyteller at the height of his powers, David Remnick has written a book worthy of America's most dynamic modern hero." | 
         | 2441 | Family Album | Danielle Steel | 1994 | Romance, Fiction, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Drama, Contemporary Romance, Adult Fiction, Novels, Family, Modern | Faye Price | "Through forty years—from Hollywood's golden days in World War II to the present—Faye Price would create first a career as a legendary actress, then a family, and finally she would realize her dream of becoming one of Hollywood's first woman directors. But nothing was more precious to Faye than her five children. In a changing world, a milieu where family values are constantly challenged from without and within, the Thayers would face the greatest challenges and harshest test a family can endure, to emerge stronger, bound forever by loyalty and love. It is only when Faye is gone that they can each assess how far they have come, and how important their family album is.(" | 
         | 2442 | Missing Joseph | Elizabeth George  | 1993 | Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Thriller, Detective, British Literature, Suspense, Murder Mystery, Adult | Thomas Lynley, Barbara Havers | "Deborah and Simon St. James have taken a holiday in the winter landscape of Lancashire, hoping to heal the growing rift in their marriage. But in the barren countryside awaits bleak news: the vicar of Winslough, the man they had come to see, is dead - a victim of accidental poisoning. Unsatisfied with the inquest ruling and unsettled by the close association between the investigating constable and the woman who served the deadly meal, Simon calls in his old friend Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley. Together they uncover dark, complex relationships in this rural village, relationships that bring men and women together with passion, with grief, or with the intention to kill." | 
         | 2443 | Sharpe's Trafalgar | Bernard Cornwell  | 2000 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, War, Adventure, Military Fiction, Action, Audiobook, 19th Century, British Literature | Horatio Nelson, Richard Sharpe | "It is 1805 and Ensign Richard Sharpe is on his way home from India. The voyage should be a period of rest but his ship is riven with treachery and threatened by a formidable French warship, the Revenant, which is terrorizing British shipping in the Indian Ocean. An old opponent of Sharpe's is aboard his ship, and the voyage is further disturbed by the Lady Grace Hale, apparently as unreachable as she is beautiful.Sharpe also has friends, notably a captain of the Royal Navy who is hunting the Revenant and who rescues Sharpe when all seems lost. The hunt turns into a stern chase as the French warship races home, carrying a treaty that could ignite India into a new war against the British. When the Revenant encounters the combined French and Spanish fleets off Cadiz it seems that Sharpe's enemies have found safety, even as his enemies on board appear to have him trapped.Yet over the horizon is another fleet, led by Nelson, and Sharpe's revenge will cone in a savage climax when the two armadas meet on a clam October day off Cape Trafalgar.SHARPE'S TRAFALGARCORNWELL'S NARRATION OF THIS EPIC SEA-BATTLE IS QUITE MASTERLY AND SUPREMELY WELL RESEARCHED - OBSERVERCover Illustration: David Scutt" | 
         | 2444 | Doctor Who: The Widow's Curse | Dan McDaid, Jonathan Morris, Martin Geraghty (Illustrator), Ian Edginton, John Ross (Illustrator), Clayton Hickman (Commentary Introduction), Mike Collins  (Illustrator), Adrian Salmon (Illustrator), more… | Oct-09 | Doctor Who, Comics, Graphic Novels, Science Fiction | Martha Jones, Sycorax, Donna Noble, The Doctor, Tenth Doctor | "Following The Betrothal of Sontar, this is a second collection of 10th Doctor comic strips from Doctor Who Magazine and the Doctor Who Storybooks." | 
         | 2445 | Yer Demir Gök Bakır | Yaşar Kemal | 1966 | Fiction, Turkish Literature, Turkish, Literature | Uzunca Ali, Muhtar Sefer, Ökkeş Dağkurdu, Hüsne, Recep, Fatmaca, Memidik | "After a particularly bad season, a group of poor cotton-pickers are unable to pay their creditor, shopkeeper Adil Effendi. Overwhelmed with shame and guilt, they wait in terror for Adil to come and demand retribution. But when he inexplicably fails to appear, Adil begins to represent an irrational and tyrannical force, growing in their minds until they become sick with apprehension and obsessed with the terrible disaster that is sure to come upon them.In their despair they turn to Tashbash, a brave, decent and loyal man, investing him with virtue, grace and miraculous power. But the cotton-pickers have no idea of the effect of their idolatry on Tashbash, with his innocent doubts and mental torment, until his fate finally befalls him and the novel draws to its apposite close. Written with deep compassion and lyrical beauty, this is a novel alive with the acute observation of human nature." | 
         | 2446 | Sharpe's Triumph | Bernard Cornwell  | 1999 | Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, War, Adventure, Military Fiction, India, Audiobook, Action, Military History | Richard Sharpe, Obadiah Hakeswill, William Dodd, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | "Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Assaye, September 1803India, 1803. Sergeant Richard Sharpe witnesses a murderous act of treachery by an English officer who has defected from the East India Company to join the mercenary army of the Mahratta Confederation. In the hunt for the renegade Englishman, penetrates deep into the enemy's territory where he faces temptations more subtle than he has ever dreamed of. And behind him, relentlessly stalking him, comes his worst enemy, the baleful, twitching Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill who is determined to break Sharpe once and for all. The paths of treachery all lead to the small village of Assaye where Sir Arthur Wellesley, with a tiny British army, faces the Mahratta horde. Outnumbered and outgunned, Wellesley decides to fight, and Sharpe is plunged into the white heat of a battle that will make Wellesley's reputation. It will make Sharpe's name to, but only if he can survive the carnage and killing frenzy, for it is at Assaye that he at last realizes his ambition and has a chance to seize it. This major new novel will follow the adventures of Richard Sharpe in India, begun so excitingly in Sharpe's Tiger and culminating in the Battle of Assaye, which Wellington considered his greatest victory." | 
         | 2447 | A Morning for Flamingos | James Lee Burke | 2005 | Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Thriller, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Suspense, Noir, Audiobook, Southern | Dave Robicheaux | "A routine assignment transporting two death-row prisoners to their executions goes fatally wrong, leaving Dave Robicheaux brutally wounded and his partner dead. Obsessed with revenge, Dave is persuaded by the DEA to go undercover into the torrid sleepy depths of New Orleans, a volatile world of Mafia drug-running and Cajun voodoo magic. He becomes irrevocably snarled in the nightmarish web surrounding Mafia don Tony Cardo and must put himself against his own worst fears in order to survive." | 
         | 2448 | Isle of the Dead | Roger Zelazny, Leo Dillon (Cover Artist), Diane Dillon (Cover Artist) | Jan-69 | Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Speculative Fiction, American, Religion, Novels | Francis Sandow | "Francis Sandow is the last surviving human born in the 20th century. An early space colonist, he spent long centuries of space travel in suspended animation, and then suddenly woke in a far future world where everything had changed. Desperate for something to hold to, he sought out a mentor, who happened to be a member of a slowly dying alien race, the Pei'ans. Under this tutelage, Sandow eventually became a telepath and ""worldscaper""." | 
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